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SUMMARY:Visualizing Abolition: Film Screening "Lessons of the Hour"
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with McEvoy Foundation for the Arts\, we are pleased to present a limited online screening of Isaac Julien Lessons of the Hour as a part of the Visualizing Abolition series. The ten-screen immersive film installation exploring the life of Frederick Douglass is on view at McEvoy Arts Oct 14\, 2020–Mar 13\, 2021. \n \nA link to the screening will be sent out November 30 at 4 pm to everyone who is registered for the event with Isaac Julien and Robin Kelley. To register for the event (and receive the link)\, please click the button above. \nLessons of the Hour\, a ten-screen film installation by British filmmaker and installation artist Isaac Julien\, is on view at the McEvoy Foundation of the Arts October 2020-March 2021. A limited online version of the immersive exploration of the life of the visionary African American writer\, abolitionist\, statesman\, and freed slave Frederick Douglass will be available for a limited online viewing. Incorporating excerpts from Douglass’ speeches and dramatizations of his private and public milieus\, the film offers a contemplative\, poetic journey into Douglass’ zeitgeist and a forceful suggestion that the lessons of the abolitionist’s hour have yet to be learned. \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/visualizing-abolition-film-screening-lessons-of-the-hour/
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SUMMARY:Visualizing Abolition: Abolition Then and Now w/ Isaac Julien and Robin D.G. Kelley
DESCRIPTION:Abolition Then & Now with historian and cultural theorist Robin D. G. Kelley and artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien\, co-presented with McEvoy Foundation for the Arts\, is the next event in Visualizing Abolition. \n \nAbolition Then & Now features Robin Kelley and Isaac Julien in conversation about the anti-slavery movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and current abolitionist uprisings against racist police brutality and the prison industrial complex. This event coincides with the presentation of Julien’s Lessons of the Hour\, 2019\, a ten-screen film installation that explores the legacy of Frederick Douglass and his vision for abolition in relationship to contemporaneity\, at McEvoy Foundation for the Arts in San Francisco. A composite version of that moving and monumental artwork will be screened for 24-hours online prior to the event. \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 Gina 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/52619/
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SUMMARY:In Vitro: Film Screening and Conversation
DESCRIPTION:IN VITRO | Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind\, 2019 (TRAILER) from Spike Island – Productions on Vimeo. \nJoin the Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium for a special screening of the film\, In Vitro\, after which Peter Limbrick (UCSC professor of Film and Digital Media) will moderate a discussion with filmmakers Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind. \nIn Vitro is a 2-channel Arabic-language sci-fi film filmed in black and white. It is set in the aftermath of an eco-disaster. An abandoned nuclear reactor under the biblical town of Bethlehem has been converted into an enormous orchard. Using heirloom seeds collected in the final days before the apocalypse\, a group of scientists are preparing to replant the soil above. \nIn the hospital wing of the underground compound\, the orchard’s ailing founder\, 70-year-old Alia\, played by Hiam Abbass\, is lying in her deathbed\, as 30-year-old Alia\, played by Maisa Abd Elhadi\, comes to visit her. Alia is born underground as part of a comprehensive cloning program and has never seen the town she’s destined to rebuild. \nThe talk between the two scientists soon evolves into an intimate dialogue about memory\, exile and nostalgia. Central to their discussion is the intricate relationship between past\, present and future\, with the Bethlehem setting providing a narratively\, politically and symbolically charged backdrop. \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, December 2nd to receive Zoom link and password. \n \n______________________________________________________________________________________________ \nLarissa Sansour was born in 1973 in East Jerusalem\, Palestine\, and studied fine arts in London\, New York and Copenhagen. Central to her work is the dialectics between myth and historical narrative. In her recent works\, she uses science fiction to address social and political issues. Working mainly with film\, Sansour also produces installations\, photos and sculptures. \nSansour’s work is shown in film festivals and museums worldwide. In 2019\, she represented Denmark at the 58th Venice Biennial. She has shown her work at Tate Modern\, MoMA\, Centre Pompidou and the Istanbul Biennial. Recent solo exhibitions include Copenhagen Contemporary in Denmark\, Bluecoat in Liverpool\, Bildmuseet in Umeå and Dar El-Nimer in Beirut. Sansour currently lives and works in London\, UK. \nSoren Lind (b. 1970) is a Danish author\, artist\, director and scriptwriter. With a background in philosophy\, Lind wrote books on mind\, language and understanding before turning to art\, film and fiction. He has published novels\, shorts story collections and several children’s books. \nLind screens and exhibits his films at museums\, galleries and film festivals worldwide. His work was shown at the Danish Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennial. Other recent venues and festivals include Copenhagen Contemporary (DK)\, MoMA (US)\, Barbican (UK)\, Nikolaj Kunsthal (DK)\, Berlinale (D)\, International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL) and BFI London Film Festival (UK). He lives and works in London. \nThis event is part of The Humanities Institute’s yearlong series on Memory. \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-7/
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:LIVING 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-student-reading/
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SUMMARY:Adrian Staub - Word frequency and predictability effects in reading: Some outstanding puzzles
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Adrian Staub of the University of Massachusetts speaking on word frequency and predictability effects in reading: some outstanding puzzles \nAbstract:  \nA word’s context-independent frequency and its context-dependent predictability both influence eye fixation durations in reading. In this talk I’ll discuss recent work investigating some questions about relationship between these two effects. One question is why manipulations of the two variables demonstrate strictly additive effects on fixation duration measures. A possibility is that they influence separate processing stages; predictability may facilitate early visual and orthographic processing\, while frequency influences a later stage of lexical retrieval. If so\, the two effects should show different patterns of interaction with effects of stimulus degradation\, e.g.\, visual contrast. However\, two large experiments show that frequency and predictability demonstrate similar patterns of near additivity with effects of visual contrast and font difficulty\, providing no support for the two-stage hypothesis. A second question is whether there is a correlation\, at the level of individual readers\, between the size of frequency and predictability effects. Evaluating correlations between by-subject slopes in Bayesian mixed-effects models reveals that the answer is scale-dependent: Effects of the two variables on raw gaze duration show a positive correlation\, but effects on log gaze duration do not. This is probably because the correlation is due primarily to a relationship between reading speed and effect size\, which is neutralized by the log transformation. I’ll discuss how these results constrain our understanding of how the two variables influence lexical processing. \n\nAdrian Staub works in psycholinguistics\, which focuses on the cognitive processes involved in language comprehension and production. He is interested in how we analyze the grammatical structure of sentences in the course of language comprehension\, how we recognize words\, and how these processes work together. In many of his experiments\, participants’ eye movements are monitored as they read sentences in which syntactic structure has been manipulated; he directs the UMass Eyetracking Laboratory. His personal web page\, including a list of publications\, is here. \nZoom information will be emailed on Thursday\, December 3\, 2020.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/adrian-staub-word-frequency-and-predictability-effects-in-reading-some-outstanding-puzzles/
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SUMMARY:Ezra Klein and Will Davies: Living in a Frayed Democracy
DESCRIPTION:The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture – Ezra Klein and Will Davies: Living in Frayed Democracy \nWe’re all impacted by this deeply polarized moment. How do we navigate life while political and cultural divisions are dangerously amplified and the world’s oldest democracies are under threat? \nThe Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz is honored to announce a trans-Atlantic political dialogue for this year’s Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture. We’ve invited two of our top cultural and political thinkers—Ezra Klein and William Davies—to help us grapple with how we got here\, why we live in such fraught times\, ways the US and UK are analogues in this fractious moment\, and where we might go from here. \nRegister \n  \nZoom link provided upon registration \n\nEzra Klein is the editor-at-large and founder of Vox\, the host of the award-winning podcast\, The Ezra Klein Show\, and the author of the best-selling book\, Why We’re Polarized. Before that\, he was columnist and editor at the Washington Post\, a policy analyst at MSNBC\, and a contributor to Bloomberg. He’s written for the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books\, and (most importantly) is a UC Santa Cruz alumnus. \nWilliam Davies is Professor of Political Economy at Goldsmiths\, University of London. He is author of several books\, most recently This Is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain and Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books and The Guardian\, and has also written for The New York Times\, New Republic and The Atlantic. \nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture is made possible through the generous support of the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Studies in Ethics.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ezra-klein-and-will-davies-living-in-frayed-democracy/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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