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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181023T190000
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SUMMARY:Micah Perks Book Launch: True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute welcomes local author Micah Perks to celebrate the publication of her new book\, True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape. \nMagical and funny\, profound and seductive\, the linked stories in True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape explore the life-bending power of love. In these interwoven lives\, ardent desire meets a keen sense of reality deep in the heart of progressive California. When Sadie opens a funky bookstore in Santa Cruz\, she is swept off her feet by Daniel\, a true-blue romantic–athletic\, bookish\, from Santiago\, Chile. Their connection is heady and erotic\, and it echoes through the love lives around them: from Harry Houdini’s first encounter with the widow Winchester to the threatening intimacy between a wife and her brother to a grumpy teenager who inspires her divorced parents. Years later\, when Sadie and Daniel take an overdue trip to Paris\, their blended family doesn’t blend so well\, sending them back to rediscover their roots. In these interconnected lives\, the desire for passion is as strong as the desire to escape\, and the terror of claustrophobic connection competes with the deepest human yearning. A funny\, intoxicating look at the complexity and simplicity of embracing and running from love. By the award-winning author of What Becomes Us. \nMicah Perks is the author of What Becomes Us\, a novel; We Are Gathered Here\, a novel; Pagan Time\, a memoir; and a long personal essay from Shebooks\, Alone In The Woods. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, The Toast\, OZY and The Rumpus\, amongst many journals and anthologies. She has won an NEA\, five Pushcart Prize nominations\, and the New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. More info and work at micahperks.com. \nRead more about Perks and her teaching in a recent interview by UCSC Literature PhD Student\, Thais Miller. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. \nIf you have any ADA accomodation requests\, please contact bookshopevents@gmail.com by October 22nd.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/micah-perks-book-launch-true-love-dreams-miraculous-escape/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181024T120000
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Cultural Studies Colloquium with Ashwini Tambe
DESCRIPTION:“Tropical Exceptions – Racial Logics in Twentieth Century Intergovernmental Age of Consent Debates” Legal age standards for sexual maturity are challenging enough to devise at the state or national level\, but they are especially contentious at the intergovernmental level. Efforts at setting common standards have often been marked by imperial logics on the part of those proposing common standards and misgivings on the part of those most affected. Dr. Tambe’s talk traces how intergovernmental efforts at setting common age standards for sexual consent and marriage occasioned elaborate posturing and coding of racial difference. In the two cases Tambe discusses —League of Nations conventions on trafficking in the 1920s and United Nations conventions on marriage in the 1950s— she show how the proceedings staged contests between competing imperialisms and foregrounded moral differences between parts of the world. In effect\, seemingly neutral age categories became a means to express geopolitical hierarchies and undercut formal liberal relationships of equivalence. \nAshwini Tambe studies how societies regulate sexual practices\, and why sexual practices are freighted with political meaning. Her previous work has engaged the history of sex trade regulation in Bombay. Her forthcoming book focuses on age standards for sexual consent and the legal paradoxes in defining girlhood in India. She is also writing a book on academic feminism and the #MeToo movement\, and co-editing a volume on the history and future of transnational feminist theory. She is the editorial director of Feminist Studies\, the oldest US journal of feminist interdisciplinary scholarship. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ashwini-tambe-cultural-studies-colloquium/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181025T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181025T185500
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SUMMARY:VENUE CHANGE: Living Writers - Khary Polk
DESCRIPTION:Khary Polk is an Assistant Professor of Black Studies & Sexuality\, Women’s and Gender Studies at Amherst College. He attended Oberlin College as an undergraduate\, where he majored in English with a concentration in Creative Writing\, and received his Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University. Polk has written for the Studio Museum of Harlem\, The Journal of Negro History\, Women’s Studies Quarterly\, Gawker\, the journal Biography\, and has contributed essays to a number of queer of color anthologies\, including Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity Objectification\, and the Desire to Conform\, If We Have To Take Tomorrow\, Corpus\, and Think Again. His forthcoming book\, We Don’t Need Another Hero: Race\, Sexuality\, and Black Military Workers Abroad\, will be published by University of North Carolina Press in Fall 2019. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Fall 2018: Sentence & Sentience: Forms \nThis series features seven contemporary poets\, critics\, and artists who each render\, albeit in differing forms and across a diversity of experiences\, the unit of the sentence for powerfully sentient effects. Whether through poetic argument\, the fictive line\, or the scholarly imagination\, each of these authors explore questions of race\, gender\, sexuality\, nature\, and nation in their respective practices and forms. \n*Note: All Readings\, except for the Morton Marcus Reading\, featuring Gary Snyder\, will take place from 5:20-6:55 in the Humanities Lecture Hall on the dates listed below.  The Gary Snyder Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading will be held in the Music Recital Hall on November 15th from 6-8:00 PM.  \nAll events are free and open to the public.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-khary-polk/
LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181025T190000
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SUMMARY:Markus Zusak: Book Discussion and Signing - Bridge of Clay
DESCRIPTION:Markus Zusak\, award-winning and internationally best-selling author of The Book Thief and I Am the Messenger\, will celebrate the release of his highly-anticipated new book\, Bridge of Clay\, at an offsite and ticketed event. An unforgettable and sweeping family saga\, written in powerfully inventive language and bursting with heart\, as signature Zusak. Tickets for this celebration and book signing event are on sale at Bookshop Santa Cruz and at https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/markus-zusak. This event is co-sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz and KAZU. \nThis offsite book discussion and signing event will be held at: Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building\, 846 Front St.\, Downtown Santa Cruz \nTICKET PACKAGES: Ticket packages are $30.00\, include one copy of Bridge of Clay and one ticket to the event. One companion ticket may be purchased for $10.00. (No book included. Limit one per full price ticket.) \nThe publication date of Bridge of Clay is October 9th\, 2018. Ticket packages purchased before that date will include a voucher redeemable for one copy of Bridge of Clay (at Bookshop Santa Cruz on and after October 9th\, or at the venue on the night of the event). \nThe breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world\, they discover the moving secret behind their father’s disappearance. \nAt the center of the Dunbar family is Clay\, a boy who will build a bridge–for his family\, for his past\, for greatness\, for his sins\, for a miracle. \nThe question is\, how far is Clay willing to go? And how much can he overcome? \nMarkus Zusak is the author of the extraordinary international bestseller The Book Thief and I Am the Messenger\, an LA Times Book Award Finalist and Printz Award Honor book. He lives in Sydney\, Australia\, with his wife and children.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/markus-zusak-book-discussion-signing-bridge-clay/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Veterans Hall Auditorium
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181026T180000
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SUMMARY:Sanctuary & Subjectivity Practices Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \n10:00 am – 12:00 pm  \nSession 1: Chair: Prof. Megan Thomas \n“Re-rooting ‘We Refugees’: Lessons on the Conditions of Displacement from Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil” – Dr. Scott Ritner \n“Sites of Emancipation: Contributions from a Rancièrian Perspective” – Hannes Glück \n“Humanitarian Subjects in Neoliberal Times” – Veronika Zablotsky \n12:00-1:30 pm: Lunch Break \n1:30-3:30 pm \nSession 2: Chair: Prof. Max Tomba \n“Borders and Crossings:  Lessons of the 1980s Central American Solidarity Movement for 2010s Sanctuary Practices” – Prof. Susan Coutin (skype) \n“History\, Sense\, Sanctuary: The Time-Lapse Politics of Church Asylum” – Key MacFarland \n“Hotspot Geopolitics versus Geosocial Solidarity: Contending Constructions of Safe Space for Migrants in Europe” – Prof. Katharyne Mitchell and Prof. Matthew Sparke \n3:30-4:00 pm: Coffee break \n4:00-6:00pm  \nSession 3: Keynote Address\n“Time\, Sanctuary\, and Decoloniality: Notes from Manus Island Prison” – Prof. Anne McNevin \n6:00-8:00 pm  \nDinner at the Cowell Provost’s House
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sanctuary-subjectivity-practices-workshop/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181026T160000
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SUMMARY:DATE CHANGE - Anne McNevin - "Time\, Sanctuary and Decoloniality: Notes from Manus Island Prison"
DESCRIPTION:Please note that this event date has changed and will now be on Friday\, October 26th\, 2018  \nEvent Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nAnne McNevin is Associate Professor of Politics at The New School and is spending 2018-19 as a member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton. Her work focuses on the transformation of political belonging\, the regulation of borders and migration\, and spatiality and temporality in world politics. She is author of Contesting Citizenship: Irregular Migrants and New Frontiers of the Political (Columbia UP\, 2011) and co-editor of Citizenship Studies. Her current research explores contemporary social movements that enliven a politics of membership and mobility beyond the terms of open/closed borders and citizen/migrant subjects. \nCo-sponsored by: The After Neo-Liberalism Research Cluster and University of California Office of the President Multi-campus Research Programs and Initiative Funding
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anne-mcnevin/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181027T090000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Semantics-Pragmatics Workshop
DESCRIPTION:More info at: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/conferences/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-semantics-pragmatics-workshop/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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