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SUMMARY:Savannah Shange - Abolition as Method: Anti-blackness\, Anthropology and Ethics
DESCRIPTION:This talk draws on Savannah Shange’s recently published book\, Progressive Dystopia\, in which she argues that San Francisco is a site of social apocalypse for Black communities. Given the momentum ‘abolition’ has as a political critique of prisons and policing\, what does it offer us as scholars trying to apprehend the broad set of violences that compose the current moment? Put another way\, what does abolition demand of us? \nSavannah Shange is an urban anthropologist who works at the intersections of race\, place\, sexuality\, and the state. She is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz with research interests in circulated and lived forms of blackness\, ethnographic ethics\, Afro-pessimism\, and queer of color critique. \n\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/savannah-shange-anthropology/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Urmi Engineer Willoughby -  Cultivating Malaria in the Gulf South\, 1718-1860
DESCRIPTION:The Thom Gentle Environmental History Lecture \nIn this talk\, Urmi Willoughby will present her research on agriculture\, development\, and the growth of endemic fevers in lower Louisiana. She will explore why fevers spread in the borderlands of the Gulf South and lower Mississippi Valley in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries\, and show how economic and agricultural systems associated with white settlement and plantation slavery fostered the spread of malaria and yellow fever. Malaria grew endemic in new settlements and plantations as newcomers cleared forests\, drained swamps\, and grew rice and maize. Yellow fever caused seasonal epidemics in the built environment of New Orleans\, as a result of ecological changes caused by sugar plantations and urban construction. Studying these processes in a global framework\, this project considers the Gulf South region as a representation of global patterns of development and ecological change in fostering the growth of malaria and yellow fever in diverse geographical and historical contexts. \nUrmi Engineer Willoughby is the current Molina Fellow in the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences at the Huntington Library and the author of Yellow Fever\, Race\, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans (LSU Press\, 2017). She completed her Ph.D. in History at UCSC. \n  \nThis lecture is made possible by the generosity of Thom Gentle (Cowell ’69\, History)\, a pioneer class alumnus who established The Thom Gentle Endowment for History to support student awards in environmental history as well as lectures of distinguished speakers with an environmental emphasis.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/urmi-engineer-willoughby-cultivating-malaria-in-the-gulf-south-1718-1860/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Stop #disserhating\, Start Writing
DESCRIPTION:Not sure how to begin your dissertation work? Having a hard time fitting writing in amidst other obligations? Stuck in the middle of your process? Huh\, what process? 8th-year PhD candidate struggling to finish? In this interactive workshop\, PhD students at all stages will have the opportunity to anonymously submit questions and concerns about the dissertation process\, share experiences and strategies\, and learn concrete practices (time management\, a writing practice\, accountability exercises\, and self care) for success in completing the PhD. We will frame the dissertation as a professional and personal growth tool for becoming the kind of scholars\, writers\, thinkers\, and people we want to be in the world. Whether you plan to pursue a career in academia or not\, you will leave this workshop knowing what you need to do to make dissertating work for the unique circumstances of your life. \n  \nAmanda M. Smith is an assistant professor of Latin American literature. Her research focuses on cultural production from and about the Amazonian region of South America\, taking up questions of spatiality\, ecology\, Indigeneity\, and extractivism. Using many of the strategies that she will share in this workshop\, she writes about 150 pages a year on these topics while also teaching\, carrying out university service commitments\, doing a lot of hiking in the redwoods\, and chasing her twin 4-year-olds around. \n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the fourth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Humanities Institute. We meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nLunch will be served. \nPlease RSVP below:\nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-stop-disserhating-start-writing/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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