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SUMMARY:Speculative Futures of Labor: New Feminist and Critical Race Approaches Symposium
DESCRIPTION:This symposium features emergent approaches to labor in light of the surge of interest in technological socioeconomic transformations (including robotics\, AI\, and app-based on demand services).This symposium\, held on March 2-3\, is part of the UC Speculative Futures Collective (UCSD\, UCR\, UCI\, UCSC) that over a period of two years will feature events which will bring together scholars and others in the field of Speculative Futures to envision more sustainable worlds and futures. \nView the full program schedule by clicking here. \nParticipants include:\nCurtis Marez (UCSD); Jennifer Rhee (VCU); Xiao Liu (McGill); Erin McElroy (NYU); Heather Berg (Wustl); Julietta Hua (SDSU); Kasturi Ray (SDSU) \nWith Responses from:\nFelicity Schaeffer; Savannah Shange; Neel Ahuja; Nick Mitchell; and Carla Freccero \n\nJennifer Rhee is an associate professor of new media in the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. She’s written about robotics and artificial intelligence in technology\, visual and performance art\, literature\, and film in her book The Robotic Imaginary: The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor (University of Minnesota Press\, 2018). Her work can also be found in journals including Camera Obscura\, Conigurations\,ASAP/Journal\, and Science Fiction Studies. Supported by an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship\, she’s currently working on her next book on counting technologies and race\, from nineteenth-century statistics to contemporary big data. \n  \nHeather Berg is assistant professor of Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Her first book\, Porn Work\, is forthcoming from UNC press (2021). Her writing on sex work and political economy appears in Signs\, WSQ\, Feminist Studies\, and Porn Studies\, among others. \n  \n  \nJulietta Hua has a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies and is the author of Trafficking Women’s Rights (2011)\, which examines U.S. anti-trafficking laws and policies\, has also published research on chimpanzee sanctuaries\, and the “limits of rights” framework. Dr. Hua\, in conjunction with Dr. Kasturi Ray\, is researching political organizing around intimate labors. WGS courses taught include immigration\, human rights\, and law and politics. \n  \n  \nKasturi Ray works on issues of gendered labor\, secularism\, marxism\, and colonialism. She has published on plantation labor\, domestic labor\, and service labor. She is currently at work on a book with Julietta Hua entitled Taxi Drivers in the Age of Uber. \n  \n  \n  \nXiao Liu is the author of the book Information Fantasies: Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China (University of Minnesota Press\, 2019). The book provides a hitherto unheard prehistory of China’s involvement in the global circulation of information technologies and discourses in the post-Mao 1980s\, and reveals the historical and ideological entanglement between the global rise of futurist fantasies of a coming information society and the advent of postsocialist politics. Her essays on digital culture\, socialist and postsocialist culture\, and information technology have appeared in journals such as Grey Room\, Social Identities\, Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. She is currently a McGill University Fellow at the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution of the World Economic Forum. \n  \nErin McElroy is a postdoctoral researcher at New York University’s interdisciplinary AI Now Institute\, researching the intersections of property\, technology\, dispossession\, and race. Erin is also cofounder of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project\, a data visualization\, critical cartography\, and multi-media collective documenting dispossession and resistance struggles upon gentrifying landscapes. Erin earned a doctoral degree in Feminist Studies from the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, with a focus on the politics of space\, race\, and technology in Romania and Silicon Valley. \n  \nFull program schedule coming soon. \nPresented by the UC Speculative Futures Collective\, co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, the Center for Racial Justice\, and the Peggy & Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in Feminist Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/speculative-futures-of-labor-new-feminist-and-critical-race-approaches-symposium/
LOCATION:Dream Inn Santa Cruz\, 175 W Cliff Dr\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T190000
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SUMMARY:Dávila Santiago and Robles Gutiérrez - Puerto Rico: Filming Resistance and Survival
DESCRIPTION:For the last four years\, Puerto Ricans have experienced challenges that will leave an indelible mark on their collective memory and history. In 2016\, the U.S. government started to implement extreme austerity measures on the island and in 2017\, the island experienced one of the most devastating hurricanes from the past 100 years. In 2019\, weeks of massive street protests resulted in the successful ouster of former governor Ricardo Rosselló\, the first governor to ever resign in Puerto Rico’s history. Over the course of this period\, filmmaker Juan C. Dávila has been traveling back-and-forth to Puerto Rico to film these historic moments in Puerto Rican history. This event will showcase his most important work from this time. \nAs part of the program\, we will screen a short film as well as a work-in-progress about his new upcoming long-form film project\, which follows the resistance movement #SeAcabaronLasPromesas (The Promises Are Over)\, a movement that was born in 2016 in opposition to the new colonial measures imposed by the U.S. Congress over Puerto Rico. Dávila explores the organization of the movement as they occupy the streets\, and engage in the necessary community work that is part of any social movement uprising. The films capture the voices of the young and unemployed\, the elderly without pensions\, the peasants without land\, the communities without schools\, and the survivors of over 500 years of colonialism. \nPost-screening Q&A facilitated by Prof. B. Ruby Rich with film director Juan C. Dávila and activist Marisel Robles Gutierrez. \nEvent is free and open to the public with advance registration required. \nCo-Sponsored by the Research Center for the Americas and The Humanities Institute\, Colleges Nine and Ten\, Environmental Studies Pepper-Giberson Endowed Chair\, Film and Digital Media Department\, Kresge College\, Latin American and Latino Studies Department\, Oakes College\, Politics Department\, Sociology Department\, and The Institute for Social Transformation. \n  \nJuan C. Dávila Santiago is an award-winning documentary filmmaker\, multi-media journalist\, and PhD student of Latin American and Latinx Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Dávila Santiago has directed two feature documentary films: Compañeros de lucha (2012) and Vieques: una batalla inconclusa (2016). Dávila Santiago currently works as a correspondent for Democracy Now! and his work has also been featured in TeleSur\, the Huffington Post\, and The Washington Post. He holds a Bachelor in Arts of Communication from Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in Puerto Rico (2011) and a Master of Arts in Social Documentation from UC Santa Cruz (2015). Currently\, he is the artist in residence of Agitarte\, a cultural organization of working-class artists based in Puerto Rico\, whose work focuses on supporting grassroots social movements\, and agitating for liberation. \n  \nMarisel Robles Gutiérrez is an activist and organizer from the movement “Jornada se acabaron las promesas.” She was born and raised in Río Piedras\, Puerto Rico. During her undergraduate studies at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez\, she actively participatied in the student strike of 2010. Robles Gutiérrez began her radical political formation with the International Socialist Organization (OSI in Spanish)\, and became a central figure in developing “Jornada Se Acabaron Las Promesas\,” which became the main force of opposition to a Fiscal Control Board instituted by the US Congress to push austerity measures in Puerto Rico. She currently works as a coordinator in the Mutual Aid Center “Olla Común” and supports the project of “Comedores Sociales de Puerto Rico.”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/davila-santiago-and-robles-gutierrez-puerto-rico-filming-resistance-and-survival/
LOCATION:DNA Comedy Lab\, 155 S. River St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Joseph Blankholm - The Rituals of Secular Purification: Four Ways to Purify Religious Pollution
DESCRIPTION:Being secular means not being religious\, but it also means participating in a religion-like tradition. This paradox shapes the everyday lives of secular people\, as well as institutions that depend on categories like secular\, spiritual\, religious\, and superstitious. Relying on years of ethnographic research among very secular people\, this lecture describes four ways of producing the secular by purifying it of religious pollution. This approach shows how secular people become less religious and how religion and spirituality can be transformed and enabled to circulate in spaces that would otherwise prohibit them. \nJoseph Blankholm is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. His teaching and interdisciplinary research focus primarily on American religion\, secularism\, and secular people. Most recently\, he has published on Karl Marx’s forgotten secularism\, Saba Mahmood’s contribution to the study of religion\, and the contradictory ways in which American law understands nonbelievers. He is currently finishing a manuscript on secular people’s religious ambivalence. \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/joseph-blankholm/
LOCATION:CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200304T190000
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SUMMARY:Radical Futurisms Film Series: Part I
DESCRIPTION:How are artists envisioning radical futures? This free film series assembles a diverse group of visionaries whose films offer points of light in a dark world. Get Tickets Here >>  \nFeaturing films by Black Audio Film Collective\, Kahlil Joseph\, Black Quantum Futurism\, Danis Goulet\, and Woodbine Collective. \nFor more information on the Beyond the World’s End exhibition and to see what films will be shown each day visit the MAH’s website. \n\nWednesday\, March 4th | View the Films >>\nWednesday\, March 11th | View the Films >>\nWednesday\, March 18th | View the Films >>\n\nThis film series is part of\, Beyond the End of the World\, a year-long research and exhibition project and public lecture series\, directed by T. J. Demos of UCSC’s Center for Creative Ecologies. The project brings leading international thinkers and cultural practitioners to UC Santa Cruz to discuss what lies beyond dystopian catastrophism\, and asks how we can cultivate radical futures of social justice and ecological flourishing. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture and administered by The Humanities Institute. For more information visit BEYOND.UCSC.EDU.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/radical-futurisms-film-series-part-1/
LOCATION:Del Mar Theatre
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200305T173000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Living Writers: Konrad Steiner
DESCRIPTION:Please note that this Thursday’s Living Writers reader\, Konrad Steiner\, wanted to respect the graduate student strike and not cross the picket lines. His reading/performance will be rescheduled for next year.  \nKonrad Steiner is a San Francisco based experimental filmmaker. He has been making 16mm films since 1981\, and since 2004 has been working with musicians and poets on live cinema. From 2004-2006 he was a curator at SF Cinematheque and from 2007-2009 co-produced the Kino21 film series which specialized in documentary and performative cinema. From 1999 to 2012 he made a collaborative film with Leslie Scalapino\, creating a feature length film cycle from her reading her book-length poem\, “way\,” which was the soundtrack. Between 2003 thru 2017 he worked with writers to produce a series of events in SF\, Oakland\, Santa Cruz\, LA\, NY\, Chicago\, Detroit\, Seattle\, and Providence RI around the practice of live film narration\, or “neobenshi” or “the new talkies” or “cinema cabaret.” This is a practice exemplified by the Japanese tradition of the benshi\, or live-narrator to silent films. He will discuss the many braids of this tradition moving off in different forms\, and demonstrate a live method of taking over modern films with the sound turned off using only language. \nMore information about Konrad Steiner is available here
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-konrad-steiner/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200306
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200307
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SUMMARY:Beyond the World’s End Exhibition at Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History
DESCRIPTION:In our current moment\, apocalyptic narratives are all around us. They tempt us with their catastrophic fatalism and seemingly inescapable dystopias. Against that danger\, it’s crucial to ask how we might imagine a more socially just and ecologically sustainable future? \nBut is the disaster ahead of us or behind us? Many people around the world–including Indigenous peoples and African-Americans surviving colonialism\, genocides\, and the transatlantic slave trade—consider themselves to be already living in a post-apocalyptic present. \nAddressing this complexity of connecting past\, present\, and future\, this exhibition features art and ideas from the end of the world. It invites us to reflect on the injustices that have brought us to our current moment and asks us to consider options for how to proceed. \nFrom a proposal for a Cross-Border Environmental Commons and time machines to queer indigenous hauntings and Afrofuturist montages\, the artworks in this exhibition draw out the intersectional roots of our crisis and seek to think through and visualize\, struggle against and overcome the social and environmental injustices we face. \nThis exhibition and its associated programming addresses competing urgencies and future threats that are a result of past and present injustices. It brings into focus various proposals for imagining emancipatory futures informed by cultivating worlds of justice and equality. \nThe exhibition is part of Beyond the End of the World which comprises a year-long research and exhibition project and public lecture series\, directed by T. J. Demos of UCSC’s Center for Creative Ecologies. The project brings leading international thinkers and cultural practitioners to UC Santa Cruz to discuss what lies beyond dystopian catastrophism\, and asks how we can cultivate radical futures of social justice and ecological flourishing. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture and administered by The Humanities Institute. For more information visit BEYOND.UCSC.EDU. 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/beyond-the-worlds-end-exhibition-at-santa-cruz-museum-of-art-history/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200306T193000
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SUMMARY:Considering Matthew Shepard
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Shepard was a young gay man\, beaten\, tied to a fence\, and left to die in the Wyoming countryside\, 22 years ago. His death catalyzed a generation of poets\, musicians and playwrights to change our attitudes about being different\, and to embrace “the other.” This beautiful masterpiece has been called the first important major musical work of the 21st century. It is based on Matthew’s life\, the hate crime of his death\, and the national outpouring of compassion which followed. It is an emotionally powerful and uplifting work and speaks with a fresh and bold voice. It ultimately calls each of us to live with kindness\, compassion\, and love. Experiencing this fully staged major choral work is a journey that transcends tragedy to lead us toward beauty and forgiveness. It will move and inspire you. \nFree tickets available for UCSC staff\, faculty and students. Email thi@ucsc.edu for more information.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/considering-matthew-shepard-2/
LOCATION:Cabrillo College Crocker Theater\, 6500 Soquel Dr.\, Aptos\, CA\, 95003\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200307T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200307T173000
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SUMMARY:Caribbean Shores: Networks and Materalities\, From Slavery to Freedom
DESCRIPTION:The past few decades have witnessed the rapid growth in interest by both historians and archaeologists\, in the everyday lives of enslaved Africans in Caribbean colonial settings. At the same time\, however\, scholars in these closely related fields find few opportunities to interact and learn from one another. In light of this emerging demand for intellectual cross fertilization\, we are hosting a one-day conference to bring scholars of Slavery and the African Diaspora from the UC Campus and beyond into dialogue with one another. A joint collaboration between UCSC’s Center for World History and Archaeological Research Center\, Caribbean Shores will invite scholars in archaeology\, history\, and other related fields to explore the interrelated concepts of networks and materiality\, resistance and marronage\, and sovereignty after slavery\,  to understand the lived experience of enslaved peoples in the Caribbean and its broader littoral. \nView the full program schedule by clicking here. \nOrganized by Greg O’Malley and J. Cameron Monroe\, and co-sponsored by The UC Humanities Research Institute\, the Center for World History\, the Archaeological Research Center\, and The Humanities Institute \n\nKeynote Speakers \nVincent Brown: “The Path to Rebel’s Barricade: Tacky’s Revolt and the Martial Geography of Atlantic Slavery” \nVincent Brown is Charles Warren Professor of American History\, Professor of African and African-American Studies\, and Founding Director of the History Design Studio at Harvard University. His research\, writing\, teaching\, and other creative endeavors are focused on the political dimensions of cultural practice in the African Diaspora\, with a particular emphasis on the early modern Atlantic world. Brown is the author of numerous articles and reviews in scholarly journals\, he is Principal Investigator and Curator for the animated thematic map Slave Revolt in Jamaica\, 1760-1761: A Cartographic Narrative (2013)\, and he was Producer and Director of Research for the award-wining television documentary Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness (2009)\, broadcast nationally on season 11 of the PBS series Independent Lens. His first book\, The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery (2008)\, was co-winner of the 2009 Merle Curti Award and received the 2009 James A. Rawley Prize and the 2008-09 Louis Gottschalk Prize. His most recent book is Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War\, published by Belknap Press in January 2020. \n \nTheresa Singleton: “The Current State of African Diaspora Archaeology” \nTheresa Singleton’s areas of interest include historical archaeology\, African Diasporas\, Museums\, North America\, and the Caribbean. Throughout her career as an archaeologist\, she has combined her research interests with developing museum collections\, exhibitions\, lectures\, workshops\, and publications geared toward general audiences. She is particularly interested in comparative studies of slave societies in the Americas. She began her study of slavery in coastal Georgia where African-Americans descended from the former slave population are known as the Gullah-Geechee. (Gullah refers to both the creole language they speak as well as to the people themselves). Since that time\, she has conducted research\, contributed to exhibitions\, and published on various aspects of African-American life in United States. More recently\, she has undertaken archeological research on slavery in Cuba\, and in 2015\, she published\, Slavery Behind The Wall: An Archaeology of a Cuban Coffee Plantation (University Press of Florida\, Gainesville). She is also working on another book publication focusing on comparing plantation life in the Caribbean and the United States.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/caribbean-shores-networks-and-materalities-from-slavery-to-freedom/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Veterans Hall Post Room\, 846 Front St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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