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SUMMARY:Visualizing Abolition: A Conversation with Angela Y. Davis and Gina Dent
DESCRIPTION:Join Angela Y. Davis and Gina Dent\, noted antiprison activists\, scholars\, and educators\, for an online conversation about critical issues in the arts\, visual culture\, and abolition. This is the first in a series of events that questions what it means to think of abolitionism as a vision—one that challenges the social\, economic\, and political worldviews that prisons promote. \n \nAngela Y. Davis\, Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies\, UCSC\, is a renowned activist and scholar. For decades\, Dr. Davis has been at the forefront in our nation’s quest for economic\, racial\, and gender equality and social justice. She is the author of nine books\, including her most recent book of essays called The Meaning of Freedom. \nGina Dent\, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies\, History of Consciousness\, and Legal Studies\, UCSC is a committed activist\, scholar\, and educator\, Dent’s current book project\, Prison as a Border and Other Essays\, grows out of her work as an advocate for human rights and prison abolition. She is the editor of Black Popular Culture\, and author of numerous articles on race\, feminism\, popular culture\, and visual art. \nThis event is part of The Humanities Institute’s yearlong series on Memory. \nFor the 2020/21 academic year\, UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, in collaboration with Professor Dent\, feminist studies\, has organized a year-long series of online events featuring artists\, activists\, scholars\, and others united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition. \nThe events of Visualizing Abolition accompany Barring Freedom\, a bi-coastal exhibition of art featuring Sonya Clark\, American Artist\, Dread Scott\, Deana Lawson\, Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun\, Sharon Daniel\, Sanford Biggers\, and other artists whose practices creatively confront the failure of many to see the racist biases within the criminal justice system or to comprehend the economic and social problems that the system serves to obscure. Barring Freedom will be on view at San José Museum of Art late October 2020-March 21\, 2021. \nVisualizing Abolition is organized by UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences in collaboration with San José Museum of Art and Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. The series has been generously funded by the Nion McEvoy Family Trust\, Ford Foundation\, Future Justice Fund\, Wanda Kownacki\, Peter Coha\, James L. Gunderson\, Rowland and Pat Rebele\, Porter College\, UCSC Foundation\, and annual donors to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. \nPartners include: Howard University School of Law\, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts\, Jessica Silverman Gallery\, Indexical\, The Humanities Institute\, University Library\, University Relations\, Institute for Social Transformation\, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, Porter College\, the Center for Cultural Studies\, the Center for Creative Ecologies\, and Media and Society\, Kresge College.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-visualizing-abolition-a-conversation-with-angela-y-davis-and-gina-dent/
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SUMMARY:Gerald Casel - Not About Race Dance
DESCRIPTION:During this “talk\,” the artists/collaborators and Gerald Casel will share their recent recent choreographic explorations during COVID-19 based on their latest work\, Not About Race Dance. \nNot About Race Dance is a collaborative\, choreographic response to the homoraciality that haunts US American postmodern dance. The work’s title reflects its primary impetus\, Neil Greenberg’s Not About AIDS Dance (1994)\, which discursively refused the project’s central focus to underscore its appeal for public acknowledgment of the lived experiences and losses of the AIDS crisis. Not About Race Dance employs this central paradox to call attention to how whiteness historically formed the structures\, experiences\, and experiments of postmodern choreographers; whiteness is the “not race” that Not About Race Dance exposes as a durable history and dominant social structure perpetuated through modern and contemporary dance practices. \nNot About Race Dance further contests the structural endurance of white postmodernity by disidentifying with the white cube activated by Trisha Brown’s Locus (1975). The dance’s adaptations of Greenberg and Brown’s choreographic devices are intended to raise questions around the racial politics of mimesis\, or what Homi Bhabha refers to as “colonial mimicry.” Moving beyond the politics of representation\, Not About Race Dance thus poses a common conundrum faced by artists of color whose work is often positioned in opposition to or on the margins of the dominant through a false binary that simultaneously reclaims the sanctity of the center. By deliberately occupying a space that has historically been defined by white artists\, this dance asks if and how difference can be made visible through choreographic structures and processes that do not necessarily make space for brown and black bodies. \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, October 21st to receive Zoom link and password. \n \nGerald Casel is a dance artist\, performance maker\, cultural activator\, and educator. As a queer\, immigrant\, artist of color\, he is proud to be a first-generation college graduate. He serves as the Provost of Porter College and is an Associate Professor of Dance at UC Santa Cruz. Casel is the artistic director of GERALDCASELDANCE. His choreographic research and social practice converge to complicate and provoke questions surrounding colonialism\, collective cultural amnesia\, whiteness and privilege\, and the tensions between the invisible/perceived/obvious structures of power. He and his collaborators imagine alternative futures beyond the one that is being determined by our current economy and social structures of inequity. A graduate of The Juilliard School with an MFA from UW-Milwaukee\, Casel received a Bessie award for dancing in the companies of Michael Clark\, Stephen Petronio\, Zvi Gotheiner\, and Stanley Love. His choreography has been presented by Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church\, Dance Theater Workshop\, The Yard\, ODC Theater\, YBCA\, Dancebase Edinburgh\, Kuan Du Arts Festival Taiwan\, and has been developed in residencies at The Bogliasco Foundation\, The National Center for Choreography-Akron\, ODC Theater\, and CHIME. Dancing Around Race\, a community engagement process that interrogates racial inequity in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond continues to grow under his leadership. Casel’s Not About Race Dance has been awarded a National Dance Project grant\, which will be in residence at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography and will premiere at CounterPulse in 2021 with a forthcoming tour.  www.geraldcasel.com \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. \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-cultural-studies-colloquium-3/
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Public Speaking
DESCRIPTION:Learn about warmups\, crafting your talk\, audience engagement\, and presenting online using Zoom with the owner and coach of Activate to Captivate\, Bri McWhorter. The Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Public Speaking” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2020-2021 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the fifth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n*Note that all 2020-2021 PhD+ workshops will be held virtually until further notice. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-public-speaking/
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Frances Richard
DESCRIPTION:Frances Richard is the author of Gordon Matta-Clark: Physical Poetics (University of California Press\, 2019)\, and co-author\, with Jeffrey Kastner and Sina Najafi\, of Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Fake Estates” (Cabinet Books\, 2005); she is the editor of I Stand in My Place With My Own Day Here: Site-Specific Art at The New School (The New School/Duke University Press\, 2019)\, and Joan Jonas is on our mind\, a volume of essays on the artist (Wattis Institute\, 2017). Her books of poems include Anarch. (Futurepoem\, 2012)\, The Phonemes (Les Figues Press\, 2012) and See Through (Four Way Books\, 2003). She is senior editor at Places journal and lives in Oakland CA. \n \n\nLIVING WRITERS FALL 2020: SEEING RED—RAGE\, WRITING\, ART features contemporary poets\, cultural critics\, performance and visual artists interrogating rage\, its call and possibilities\, rendered across an array of works (text\, installation\, and performance) exploring rage’s circumstances\, effects\, and configurations through poetry\, prose\, and interdisciplinary modes.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-frances-richard/
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Grants and Fellowships
DESCRIPTION:Learn about locating fellowship opportunities\, framing your research for different funding organizations\, and acquiring grants with Nathaniel Deutsch\, Irena Polić\, Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (The Humanities Institute)\, Holly Unruh (Arts Research Institute)\, and Matthew Tedford. We’ll share advice about different types of awards and strategies for making your proposal stand out. Bring your ideas and questions for an important conversation on securing funding for humanities and arts research and projects. \n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the fifth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. The workshop series is open to University of California faculty\, staff\, and students. *Note that all 2020-2021 PhD+ workshops will be held virtually until further notice. \n  \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-grants-and-fellowships/
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SUMMARY:Lily Balloffet\, Argentina in the Global Middle East
DESCRIPTION:Lily Pearl Balloffet (Latin American and Latino Studies\, UC Santa Cruz) will discuss her recent book\, Argentina in the Global Middle East\, in conversation with Devi Mays (University of Michigan). \nArgentina in the Global Middle East connects modern Latin American and Middle Eastern history through their shared links to global migration systems. By following the mobile lives of individuals with roots in the Levantine Middle East\, Lily Pearl Balloffet sheds light on the intersections of ethnicity\, migrant–homeland ties\, and international relations \n \nLily Pearl Balloffet is a scholar of migration\, mobility\, and inter-American relations in historical context. Her current book project\, American Venom: Snakes & Our Interconnected Hemisphere bridges environmental\, medical\, and labor histories of moving people and animals in the Caribbean Basin. She has also published articles in the Journal of Latin American Studies\, Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of North African & Middle East Migration Studies\, Latin American Studies Association Forum\, and The Latin Americanist. Other research and teaching interests include contemporary Latin American hip hop\, and social revolutions. \nDevi Mays is Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. (PhD\, History and Jewish Studies at Indiana University\, Bloomington). Dr. Mays researches transnational Jewish networks in the Mediterranean and global contexts\, with a focus on Sephardic Jews. She is the author of Forging Ties\, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora (Stanford University Press\, 2020) – a history of migration and nation-building from the vantage point of those who lived between states. \nCo-sponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies Department.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-lily-ballofet/
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