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SUMMARY:Teaching in Tense Times: A Workshop on Academic Freedom\, Inclusive Classrooms\, and Some Challenges in College Teaching Today
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning and the Humanities Institute invite you to a workshop on academic freedom in the classroom environment with visiting scholars Andrea Brenner and Lara Schwartz. This hands-on workshop is open to faculty and graduate students from all fields who teach or plan to teach in higher education settings. \nOverview: In this workshop\, visiting scholars Lara Schwartz and Andrea Brenner will help us think through some of the most urgent ethical\, pedagogical\, and legal challenges facing college level instructors in the current era: \n• How do we balance free speech and sensitive subjects in a classroom inclusive to all students?\n• How does academic freedom apply in classroom environments\, course learning objectives\, and syllabi?\n• How do we enable our students to communicate across difference while focusing on strategies for managing hot moments\, interrupting bias\, handling microaggressions\, and facilitating de-escalation? \nPlease RSVP here to help us plan for event size\, accessibility\, and catering purposes. \nLara Schwartz\, JD teaches at American University School of Public Affairs\, where she founded and directs the Project on Civil Discourse. She specializes in civil discourse and campus speech\, constitutional law\, civil rights\, politics\, communications\, and policy. Drawing on her extensive experience as a legislative lawyer\, lobbyist\, and communications strategist in leading civil rights organizations\, Lara brings an advocate’s-eye view to her work as she emphasizes collaborative learning and universal design in her teaching. She has been honored with a School of Public Affairs teaching award and serves as a Faculty Fellow in the Center for Teaching\, Research\, and Learning. \nAndrea Malkin Brenner\, PhD is a sociologist\, speaker\, and an independent consultant who works with students\, faculty\, and staff on challenges related to college transitions. She is the creator of the nationally-recognized American University Experience (AUx)\, the mandatory full year first-year transition course at American University. Previous to that\, Dr. Brenner served as a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at American University for 20 years\, teaching classes on inequality\, social problems\, and the life course. Dr. Brenner has received multiple awards for her teaching and program design. She also directed AU’s University College program\, the university’s oldest and largest living-learning community for first-year students. \nLara and Andrea are the co-authors of How to College: What to Know Before You Go (and When You’re There) (Macmillan\, St. Martin’s Press\, 2019) and serve as 2019-2020 fellows at the University of California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement. They are working on their second book about productive discourse in the college classroom. \nCo-Sponsored by The Humanities Institute \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/teaching-in-tense-times/
LOCATION:Alumni Room\, University Center\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Questions That Matter: Reporting the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa present: \nQuestions That Matter: Reporting the Middle East and the Future of Investigative Journalism \nVeteran NPR journalists Hannah Allam & Leila Fadel\, in conversation with Jennifer Derr Associate Professor of History at UCSC\, discuss their careers in journalism in the Middle East and their current work on culture\, diversity\, race\, and extremism in the United States. This event celebrates the launch of the new Center for the Middle East and North Africa with an evening of consequential conversation about the region. \nJoin us as we consider these questions and more: What did journalists reporting the Middle East experience during the American invasion of Iraq and the Arab Spring? What is it like to report from the United States when the field of journalism is under attack? How should journalists tackle fragmented and fabricated realities in the future? \nReception 6pm – Event begins 7pm\nTickets $15 \n \nA conversation with: \nJennifer Derr\nAssociate Professor of History\, Director of the Center for Middle East and North Africa \nHannah Allam\nNPR National Security Correspondent \nLeila Fadel\nNPR National Correspondent \nDirections and Parking:\n\nKuumbwa Jazz Center located at 320 Cedar St # 2\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95060. Click here for directions and parking at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by January 31\, 2020. \nA limited number of free tickets were available to UCSC students\, which have already been given out. We hope to be able to provide more opportunities in the future.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/questions-that-matter-reporting-the-middle-east/
LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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SUMMARY:Lukas Rieppel - Locating the Central Asiatic Expedition
DESCRIPTION:During the 1920s\, researchers from the New York natural history museum led by Roy Chapman Andrews spent nearly a decade exploring the Gobi Desert in Central Asia. But they were expelled from their base of operations in northern China when the Guomindang party created a new state in Nanjing. Whereas Chinese intellectuals accused American paleontologists of plundering their national heritage\, Andrews argued that because dinosaur fossils predated the creation of China\, they belonged equally to all mankind. Rieppel hopes to use the ensuing controversy to motivate a critical discussion about knowledge production in a global context. \nLukas Rieppel is a historian of science and capitalism at Brown University. He works at the intersection of the history of science and the history of capitalism\, focusing especially on the life\, earth\, and environmental sciences in nineteenth and early twentieth century North America. His recently published book\, Assembling the Dinosaur\, traces how dinosaurs became a symbol of American economic might and power during the Long Gilded Age and he is starting a new project\, tentatively entitled “The Ice Age: A Global History.” Rieppel also co-edited a recent issue of the journal Osiris (with Eugenia Lean & William Deringer) on the theme of “Science & Capitalism: Entangled Histories\,” and he has written several essays about fossils\, museums\, and markets. \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/lukas-rieppel/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Student Meet and Greet with Leila Fadel and Hannah Allam
DESCRIPTION:Join us to meet and talk with the award-winning NPR journalists Leila Fadel and Hannah Allam. The journalists have covered a wide range of questions concerning the Middle East\, Islam in America\, race\, culture\, and American extremism. Coffee and light refreshments will be provided. \n  \nLeila Fadel is currently a national correspondent for NPR\, covering issues of culture\, diversity\, and race in America. Previously\, Fadel worked as a journalist in the Middle East. She covered the Iraq War for nearly five years working for Knight Ridder\, McClatchy Newspapers\, and later the Washington Post. She also covered the uprisings that comprised the Arab Spring as the Cairo bureau chief for the Washington Post and as an international correspondent for NPR. She has won numerous awards for her reporting\, including the Lowell Thomas Award from the Overseas Press Club\, a Gracie award\, and the George. R. Polk award. In 2016\, she was the Council on Foreign Relations Edward R. Murrow fellow. \nHannah Allam is a national security correspondent for NPR\, focusing on homegrown extremism. Before joining NPR\, she was a national correspondent at BuzzFeed News\, covering U.S. Muslims and other issues of race\, religion and culture. Allam previously reported for McClatchy\, spending a decade overseas as bureau chief in Baghdad during the Iraq war and in Cairo during the Arab Spring rebellions. Her coverage of Islam in the United States won three national religion reporting awards in 2018 and 2019. Allam was part of McClatchy teams that won an Overseas Press Club award for exposing death squads in Iraq and a Polk Award for reporting on the Syrian conflict. She was a 2009 Nieman fellow at Harvard. \nPlease RSVP here:\nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/questions-that-matter-coffee-with-leila-fadel-and-hannah-allam/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:Marc Herbst - "Culture Beside Itself: On Common Sociality and its Relation to More Law-Like Cultural and Governmental Forms"
DESCRIPTION:Marc Herbst will be presenting a talk titled “Culture Beside Itself: On common sociality and its relation to more law-like cultural and governmental forms\,” based on his ongoing research on social movements and eco-social planning and his part in the collective efforts of the 11th issue of the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest. \nThese efforts are to attune creative activist/artistic attention towards the realm where social reproduction necessarily occurs\, in order to strengthen ways in which cosmopolitically progressive thought and production (as culture and law) can better inform common life towards its autonomous ends. The work is grounded in Herbst’s research within the Barcelona based-Plataforma De Afectados por La Hipoteca (the PAH) housing rights movement\, his recent eco-social work as a teacher/editor for the Berlin based Nachbarschaftsakademie and his current residency at Oakland’s Pro Art and Commons. \nThe talk will highlight concepts related to the upcoming Issue 11 of the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest\, which looks at common sociality outside and beyond formal being (that is\, more concretised cultural and governmental forms) in the light of the related challenges of climate change and resurgent fascism. Besides the particular of the project\, the conversation engages autonomist Marxist\, queer and de-colonial theory/praxis\, either as an expression of ongoing praxis and theoretical work. \n\nMarc Herbst is a co-founder of the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest\, an interdisciplinary journal and weirdo collective founded in Los Angeles in 2001. He recently completed a PhD at Goldsmiths Centre for Cultural Studies in London with a study titled\, A cultural policy for the multitude in the time of climate change; with an understanding that the multitude has no policy. Marc’s collective and individual efforts are also interdisciplinary (between engagements with the formal art world\, DIY networks and relatively autonomous political projects) and he works between publishing\, social practice and illustration. As a publisher/editor\, he works with Aesthetics & Protest and also has recently been collaborating with Minor Compositions/Autonomedia\, Pluto Press and Canary Press. \nWith the Aesthetics & Protest editorial collective\, he is currently editing an issue working with anti-fascist and avant garde art collectives on situated practice outside of but in awareness of the mediating practices of political and cultural structures. He also helped publish recent books on precarious labor with the UK-based Precarious Workers Brigade\, and (related to his PhD) a book on housing rights activism and transversal urban organizing by Ada Colau and Adria Alemany. In addition to other work\, he is currently co-editing with Michelle Teran a book based on situated\, cosmopolitical and eco-social learning through the coming 99 years of climate based in the Prinzessinnengarten in Berlin. \nIssue 11: Culture Beside Itself\nPro-arts and Common Residency\nNachbarschaftsakademie\, Growing in the Midst of our Collective Disaster \n  \nPresented by: The History of Consciousness Department and the Center for Creative Ecologies
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/marc-herbst-culture-beside-itself-on-common-sociality-and-its-relation-to-more-law-like-cultural-and-governmental-forms/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200206T133000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Nikos Angelopoulos
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease see the Linguistics Department website for more information.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-nikos-angelopoulos/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Can We Talk? What Makes Campus Conversations So Tough\, And How To Do Better
DESCRIPTION:In the classroom and other campus spaces\, scorn and indignation for people we disagree with are preventing productive discussion on contested issues. On especially hot-button topics\, there’s even a growing tendency to remain silent rather than risk rebuke. We’ve got to do better. But how? \nJoin us for a presentation by and collaborative discussion with Lara Schwartz and Andrea Malkin Brenner\, 2019-20 Fellows at the University California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement. In their current research\, Brenner and Schwartz develop a paradigm shift favoring robust inquiry on campus that transcends disagreement and debate. “Can we Talk?” is part of the Fellows’ week-long residency at UC Santa Cruz. \nIn addition to their scholarly work and innovative teaching at AU\, together they are authors of the hugely successful book How to College; What to Know Before You Go (and When You’re There). They are currently under contract with Macmillan to produce a new book tentatively titled A Guide to Productive and Inclusive Discourse on Campus\, for which they will be conducting research during their weeklong UCSC residency. \n\nAndrea Malkin Brenner\, Ph.D. is a sociologist\, speaker and an independent consultant who works with students\, faculty\, and staff on challenges related to college transitions. \nLara Schwartz\, J.D. teaches at American University School of Public Affairs in Washington DC\, where she founded and directs the Project on Social Discourse. \nSponsored by: The Center for Public Philosophy and The Community Studies Program \nFor more information and accommodation requests\, contact pudup@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/can-we-talk-what-makes-campus-conversations-so-tough-and-how-to-do-better/
LOCATION:University Center\, Bhojwani Room\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint
DESCRIPTION:Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint was born in Yangon\, Myanmar and grew up in Bangkok\, Thailand and San José\, California. She is the author of the lyric novel The End of Peril\, the End of Enmity\, the End of Strife\, a Haven (Noemi Press\, 2018) and the family history project Zat Lun\, which won the 2018 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and is forthcoming in early 2021. Her work has appeared in Black Warrior Review\, TriQuarterly\, and Kenyon Review Online\, among others\, and has been translated into Burmese and Lithuanian. She is the recipient of a Fulbright grant to Spain\, residencies at Hedgebrook and Millay Colony\, and fellowships from Tin House and Summer Literary Seminars. She holds a B.A. in literary arts from Brown University and an M.F.A. in prose from the University of Notre Dame. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in creative writing at the University of Denver\, the associate editor of the Denver Quarterly\, and an instructor at Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop. \nMore information about Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint is available here
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-thirii-myo-kyaw-myint/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jeffrey Wasserstrom - Hong Kong on the Brink
DESCRIPTION:This talk will focus on patterns of protest and the tightening of political controls in Hong Kong during the last few decades\, paying particular attention to the 2014 Umbrella Movement and the dramatic events of 2019. \nJeff Wasserstrom\, a historian of China who has been visiting Hong Kong regularly since 1987\, will draw on his work as a specialist in the history of anti-authoritarian movements in various parts of the world and his work on global cities of Asia. The presentation will showcase ideas in his new short book Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink\, which publishes February 11\, 2020\, in the Columbia Global Reports series. Books will be available ahead of the official publication date. \nDetails on the book are here \nJeffrey Wasserstrom (UCSC History B.A.\, 1982) is Chancellor’s Professor of History at UC Irvine. \nSponsored by the History Department and East Asian Studies
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hong-kong-on-the-brink-a-talk-by-jeffrey-wasserstrom/
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:Bia Labate: Dilemmas of Ayahuasca Globalization in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:The use of the psychedelic plant brew ayahuasca has expanded significantly during the last 50 years. Once only known to Amazonian communities\, ayahuasca is now used in diverse social and cultural contexts across the world. The Brazilian ayahuasca religions\, originating with the Santo Daime in Brazil founded in the 1930s\, are now internationally recognised and established. An ayahuasca industry servicing Western clientele in search of shamanic healing is booming in the Amazon. A plethora of informal ayahuasca circles\, ceremonies and communities have also arisen catering to a huge variety of social groups and needs. Indeed\, ayahuasca has apparently become the glorified medicina of spiritual seekers\, religious followers\, and business entrepreneurs alike. Drawing on long-term fieldwork and first-hand experience participating in ayahuasca communities both in the Global South and the Global North\, we ask: what challenges does the globalisation of ayahuasca present? We explore key issues such as: economic implications; legal dilemmas; sustainability problems; safety issues including sexual abuse and fatalities; authenticity and cultural appropriation. We argue that the development of ayahuasca shamanism through cross-cultural relations\, involving cultural hybridisation and transculturation is not a perversion of “tradition” but represents continuity with its historical process of formation and original synthesis between different indigenous ethnic traditions and Christian elements. It is no longer possible to consider the local formation of the curanderos apart from their interactions with foreigners\, or these articulations between the local and the global. \nPresented by the THI Drug Histories and Futures Cluster \n  \nDr. Beatriz Caiuby Labate (Bia Labate) is a queer Brazilian anthropologist who immigrated to the U.S. in 2017. She has a Ph.D. in social anthropology from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP)\, Brazil. Her main areas of interest are the study of plant medicines\, drug policy\, shamanism\, ritual\, and religion. She is Executive Director of the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines\, an organization that provides public education about psychedelic plant medicines and promotes a bridge between the ceremonial use of sacred plants and psychedelic science. She is Adjunct Faculty at the East-West Psychology Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco\, and Visiting Professor at the Center for Research and Post Graduate Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Guadalajara. She is also Public Education and Culture Specialist at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). She is co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Group for Psychoactive Studies (NEIP) in Brazil\, and editor of NEIP’s website\, as well as editor of the Mexican blog Drugs\, Politics\, and Culture. She is author\, co-author\, and co-editor of twenty-one books\, one special-edition journal\, and several peer-reviewed articles.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bia-labate-dilemmas-of-ayahuasca-globalization-in-the-21st-century/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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