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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Elizabeth Povinelli - The Axioms of Catastrophe: Coming and Ancestral Tactics
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines four axioms of existence that have emerged and expanded in recent years across a large segment of critical theory; the stakes of understanding the historical conditions of these axioms; and their power to provide a foundation for remolding political concepts in the wake of geontopower. From one perspective the emergence of these axioms can be correlated to the current catastrophe of climatic and environmental collapse and industrial toxicity. This talks ask what sorts of catastrophes are foregrounded or occluded depending on how one understands the order and sources of these axioms and if one understands them as a coming catastrophe (l’catastrophe à venir) or as an ancestral one (l’catastrophe ancestral/histoire)? \nElizabeth A. Povinelli is an anthropologist and filmmaker. She is Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University\, New York; Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy for the Humanities; and one of the founding members of the Karrabing Film Collective. Povinelli’s writing has focused on developing a critical theory of late liberalism that would support an anthropology of the otherwise. This potential theory has unfolded primarily from within a sustained relationship with Indigenous colleagues in north Australia and across five books\, numerous essays\, and six films with the Karrabing Film Collective. Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism was the 2017 recipient of the Lionel Trilling Book Award. Karrabing films were awarded the 2015 Visible Award and the 2015 Cinema Nova Award Best Short Fiction Film\, Melbourne International Film Festival and have shown internationally including in the Berlinale\, Sydney Biennale; MIFF\, the Tate Modern\, documenta-14\, the Contour Biennale; MoMA-PS and numerous others. \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/elizabeth-povinelli/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:UPDATE: "Unrest" Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:2/19/2020: Please note that due to unfortunate health issues\, Jennifer Brea will no longer be in attendance at the event. The screening is still taking place and Professor Moodie will still be in attendance for the introduction.  \nJennifer Brea’s Sundance award-winning documentary\, Unrest\, is a personal journey from patient to advocate to storyteller. Jennifer is twenty-eight years-old\, working on her PhD at Harvard\, and months away from marrying the love of her life when a mysterious fever leaves her bedridden. When doctors tell her it’s “all in her head\,” she picks up her camera as an act of defiance and brings us into a hidden world of millions that medicine abandoned. \nIn this story of love and loss\, newlyweds Jennifer and Omar search for answers as they face unexpected obstacles with great heart. Often confined by her illness to the private space of her bed\, Jennifer connects with others around the globe. Like a modern-day Odysseus\, she travels by Skype into a forgotten community\, crafting intimate portraits of four other families suffering similarly. Jennifer Brea’s wonderfully honest and humane portrayal asks us to rethink the stigma around an illness that affects millions. Unrest is a vulnerable and eloquent personal documentary that is sure to hit closer to home than many could imagine. \nFree and open to the public – RSVP appreciated. Seating is first come\, first served. \nDoors open at 6:30\, film begins at 7:00pm \n \n\n \n\n  \nJennifer Brea is an independent documentary filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She has an AB from Princeton University and was a PhD student at Harvard until sudden illness left her bedridden. In the aftermath\, she rediscovered her first love\, film. Her Sundance award-winning feature documentary\, Unrest\, has screened in over 30 countries and had its US national broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens. She is also co-creator of Unrest VR\, winner of the Sheffield Doc/Fest Alternate Realities Award. An activist for people with disabilities and chronic illness\, she co-founded a global advocacy network\, #MEAction and is a TED Talker. \nUnrest\, her film debut\, was awarded a Special Jury Prize at the Paley Center for Media’s DocPitch competition and is supported by the Harnisch Foundation\, Chicken & Egg Pictures\, BRITDOC’s Good Pitch\, the Tribeca Film Institute\, the Fledgling Fund and the Sundance Institute. You can read more about her at jenbrea.com or @jenbrea on twitter \nMegan Moodie\, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California\,Santa Cruz\, is a cultural anthropologist\, writer\, performer\, and film critic who works at the intersection of arts\, humanities\, and social sciences. Trained as a specialist in feminist political and legal anthropology\, her early work explored the intersection of gender and indigeneity in South Asia. More recently\, she has been investigating how anthropologists can use embodied and arts-based ethnographic methods\, such as performance and film\, to illuminate non-normative experiences of the body\, such as chronic pain and illness\, in the service of greater disability and medical justice. Megan regularly communicates with broad audiences in and beyond anthropology; her writing on topics such as disability\, genetic illness\, motherhood\, film\, art\, and daily strategies for survival has appeared in MUTHA Magazine\, Film Quarterly\, SAPIENS\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books\, among others\, and her 2018 essay “Birthright” (Chicago Quarterly Review (26)) was named a “Notable Essay of the Year” by Best American Essays 2019.\n \nPresented by the Humanities Institute’s Body\, (Anti)Narrative\, and Corporeal Creative Practices Research Cluster \n\nDirections and Parking:\nThe Del Mar Theater is located at 1124 Pacific Ave #4415\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95060. Click here for directions and parking at the Del Mar Theater. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact the The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by February 14\, 2020. Information about the Del Mar’s accessibility equipment can be found here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-unrest/
LOCATION:Del Mar Theatre
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Jennifer Tseng
DESCRIPTION:Poet and fiction writer Jennifer Tseng was born in Indiana and raised in California by a first generation Chinese engineer and a third generation German American microbiologist. Her flash fiction collection\, The Passion of Woo & Isolde (Rose Metal Press 2017)\, was a Firecracker Award finalist and winner of an Eric Hoffer Book Award; and her novel\, Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness (Europa Editions 2015)\, was shortlisted for the PEN American Center’s Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and the New England Book Award; it’s available in English\, Italian\, and Danish. She’s also the author of three award-winning books of poetry\, The Man With My Face (AAWW 2005); the bilingual Red Flower\, White Flower (Marick Press 2013) featuring Chinese translations by Mengying Han and Aaron Crippen; and Not so dear Jenny (Bateau Press 2017)\, poems made with her Chinese father’s English letters. \nMore information about Jennifer Tseng is available here
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-jennifer-tseng/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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