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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Alma Heckman\, The Sultan's Communists
DESCRIPTION:Alma Rachel Heckman is the Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies and an Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She specializes in modern Jewish history of North Africa and the Middle East with an interest in citizenship\, political transformations\, transnationalism\, and empire. Her first book is The Sultan’s Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging (Stanford University Press\, 2021). Additionally\, she is working on a co-edited volume examining Jews in radical politics in a comparative framework. She has held fellowships with Fulbright\, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, and the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and has published her work in a number of journals and edited volumes. \n \n“The Sultan’s Communists uncovers the history of Jewish radical involvement in Morocco’s national liberation project and examines how Moroccan Jews envisioned themselves participating as citizens in a newly-independent Morocco. Closely following the lives of five prominent Moroccan Jewish Communists (Léon René Sultan\, Edmond Amran El Maleh\, Abraham Serfaty\, Simon Lévy\, and Sion Assidon)\, Alma Rachel Heckman describes how Moroccan Communist Jews fit within the story of mass Jewish exodus from Morocco in the 1950s and ‘60s\, and how they survived oppressive post-independence authoritarian rule under the Moroccan monarchy to ultimately become heroic emblems of state-sponsored Muslim-Jewish tolerance. The figures at the center of Heckman’s narrative stood at the intersection of colonialism\, Arab nationalism\, and Zionism. Their stories unfolded in a country that\, upon independence\, from France and Spain in 1956\, allied itself with the United States (and\, more quietly\, with Israel) during the Cold War\, while attempting to claim a place for itself within the fraught politics of the post-independence Arab world. The Sultan’s Communists contributes to the growing literature on Jews in the modern Middle East and provides a new history of twentieth-century Jewish Morocco.”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-talk-alma-heckman-the-sultans-communists/
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SUMMARY:Yarimar Bonilla -  An Unthinkable State: Puerto Rico\, the United States and the Aporias of U.S. Empire
DESCRIPTION:In the wake of Hurricane Maria\, unprecedented attention turned to the unincorporated territory of Puerto Rico and its enduring colonial relationship with the United States. This presentation will examine the rising popularity and shifting strategies of the Puerto Rican statehood movement\, with a focus on how and why annexation has come to be imagined as a form of anti-colonial politics. Over the last decades the statehood movement has grown steadily as the Puerto Rican territory has experienced an unprecedented economic crisis\, with failing infrastructure\, a seemingly unpayable public debt\, and historic levels of out-migration. Within this context many residents envision annexation as the only way of safeguarding what is currently viewed as a precarious and unguaranteed place within the nation. In this talk\, I offer an ethnographic analysis of how statehood is imagined and defended by its supporters and show how this movement uniquely articulates the very contradictions and power asymmetries that structure Puerto Rico’s relationship to the US. \nYarimar Bonilla is a Professor in the Department of Africana\, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Hunter College and the Ph.D. Program in Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment(2015); co-editor of Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm (2019); and a founder of the Puerto Rico Syllabus Project. Bonilla also writes a monthly column in the Puerto Rican newspaper El Nuevo Día and is a regular contributor to The Washington Post\, The Nation\, Jacobin\, and The New Yorker\, and a frequent guest on National Public Radio’s Democracy Now! Her current research—for which she was named a 2018-2020 Carnegie Fellow —examines the politics of recovery in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria and the forms of political and social trauma that the storm revealed. \n \nRSVP by 11 AM (PST) on Wednesday\, January 13th; you will receive Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \nThis colloquium is co-sponsored by Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES)\, the Research Center for the Americas (RCA)\, and the Anthropology Department. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather online at 12:10 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff 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/cultural-studies-colloqium-yarimar-bonilla-hunter-college/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210114T170000
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SUMMARY:An evening with Jennifer Brea and Megan Moodie - Talking about chronic illness\, care\, and Covid
DESCRIPTION:Join Sundance Award winning Filmmaker Jennifer Brea and anthropologist and writer Megan Moodie for an evening of conversation and reflection on chronic illness\, the global crisis of care\, and Covid-19. \nAs the numbers of the chronically ill grow rapidly worldwide due to what is being called “long Covid\,” there is much to be learned from the experience of those who were grappling with the effects of difficult-to-diagnose\, understudied\, and invisibilzed diseases long before the appearance of the novel coronavirus. What do the experiences of the chronically ill teach us about how to survive – not just physically\, but emotionally and socially – in the face of huge knowledge gaps and medical disbelief? How can patients separated by vast distances and often unable to engage in traditional political organizing join together to demand answers and treatment? What do patient voices tell us about how the organization of medicine needs to change in order to better serve the well-being of us all? \n \nRegistrants will receive a link to pre-screen Brea’s 2017 film “Unrest” at no cost (the film is also available to view on Netflix and Amazon Prime)\, as well as be invited to pre-submit questions to these two medical justice advocates. Please email thi@ucsc.edu for the no cost link to screen the film. Audience members will also be invited to submit questions and participate in the discussion in real time during the event. \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 Fellow. \n“Unrest\,” 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 is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz where she teaches about feminist theory\, disability studies\, and creative ethnography. A writer of essay\, fiction\, film criticism\, and drama\, Moodie’s work has appeared in publications such as The Los Angeles Review of Books\, Film Quarterly\, and the Chicago Quarterly Review. 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. \nRead more: \n\nFeature article on “Unrest” from The Los Angeles Times: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-jennifer-brea-unrest-documentary-20170929-story.html\nMoodie’s July 2020 essay on the aftermath of “Unrest” and the challenges of relapsing/remitting illness here: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/when-the-chronically-ill-re-mission-filmmaker-jennifer-breas-life-after-unrest/\n\nPresented by the Humanities Institute’s Body\, (Anti)Narrative\, and Corporeal Creative Practices Research Cluster and the Institute for Social Transformation. \n\nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact the The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by January 4\, 2021. The event will include closed captioning and ASL translation.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/an-evening-with-jennifer-brea-and-megan-moodie-talking-about-chronic-illness-care-and-covid/
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Sofia Samatar
DESCRIPTION:Sofia Samatar is the author of the novels A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged Histories\, the short story collection\, Tender\, and Monster Portraits\, a collaboration with her brother\, the artist Del Samatar. Her work has received several honors\, including the World Fantasy Award. She teaches Arabic literature\, African literature\, and speculative fiction at James Madison University in Virginia.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-sofia-samatar/
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SUMMARY:Migrant Futures: South Asia and The Middle East (I) Sound into Form
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa. Featuring Lawrence Abu Hamdan (Artist) and Kareem Khubchandani (Mellon Bridge Assistant Professor\, Tufts University).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/migrant-futures-south-asia-and-the-middle-east-i-sound-into-form/
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