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SUMMARY:Prisons and Poetics: Reginald Dwayne Betts and Craig Haney
DESCRIPTION:The Institute of the Arts and Sciences and The Humanities Institute are pleased to present a poetry reading and conversation with award-winning American poet Reginald Dwayne Betts and renowned social psychologist Craig Haney\, moderated by Professor Gina Dent. The event is part of the IAS Visualizing Abolition Series and The Humanities Institute’s yearlong series on Memory. \n \nVisualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized in collaboration with Professor Gina Dent and featuring artists\, activists\, and scholars united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition. Originally\, Visualizing Abolition was being planned as an in-person symposium. Due to the ongoing pandemic\, the panels\, artist talks\, film screenings\, and other events will instead take place online. The events accompany Barring Freedom\, an exhibition of contemporary art on view at San José Museum of Art October 30\, 2020-March 21\, 2021. To accompany the exhibition\, Solitary Garden\, a public art project about mass incarceration and solitary confinement is on view at UC Santa Cruz. Barring Freedom travels to NYC John Jay College of Criminal Justice April 28-July 15\, 2021. \n\nReginald Dwayne Betts is an American poet\, memoirist\, and teacher. His work in public defense\, his years of advocacy\, and Betts’s own experiences as a teenager in maximum security prisons uniquely positions him to speak to the failures of the current criminal justice system and present encouraging ideas for change. Betts often gives talks about his own experience\, detailing his journey from incarceration to Yale Law School and the role that perseverance and literature played in his success. In addition\, he has given lectures on topics ranging from mass incarceration to contemporary poetry and the intersection of literature and advocacy. \nCraig Haney is a social psychologist and a professor at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, noted for his work on the study of capital punishment and the psychological impact of imprisonment and prison isolation. Haney has published five books\, numerous research articles\, entries in law reviews\, and articles for the Huffington Post about the psychological impacts of incarceration\, advocating for prison reform. He has served as an expert witness in several influential United States Federal Court cases related to the prison environment and punishment. Moreover\, Haney’s work was influential in the United States Supreme Court 5-4 ruling of Brown v. Plata (2011)\, which upheld a lower court ruling that the California prison population be reduced. \n\nThis event is part of The Humanities Institute’s yearlong series on Memory. \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/prisons-and-poetics-reginald-dwayne-betts/
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SUMMARY:Aomar Boum: Seeing as Memory - Graphic Memoir as Historical Ethnography
DESCRIPTION:Aomar Boum (UCLA) will speak in HIS 185O about his upcoming graphic novel collaboration recounting the story of European Jewish refugees in Morocco during the Second World War. In the last decade\, graphic memoirs and novels have emerged as a significant form of historical (re)writing of past narratives and events. The medium of comics and its use of chronologically ordered panels allows the reader to create meanings through the combination of image and text. I argue for the use of graphic memoirs to reconstruct the history of Saharan Vichy camps. I contend that in the larger context of an anthropology of genocide and the Holocaust\, graphic memoirs could be seen retroactive ethnographic accounts where witnessing takes place through seeing guided by the archive. In this talk I present a collaborative graphic narrative based on a unique style of art highlighting the impact of WWII outside of Europe through the story of a German refugee in North Africa. Hans\, the main character\, is a composite representing the experiences of several historical figures. I note that the use of images as a form of Holocaust writing\, starting with Maus\, is a call to seeing and therefore remembering through witnessing the trauma of detainees of labor and internment Vichy camps in the Sahara between 1940 and 1945. \nAomar Boum is associate professor in the Department of anthropology at the University of California\, Los Angeles. He is the author of Memories of Absence: How\nMuslims Remember Jews in Morocco and co-editor of The Holocaust and North Africa. \n \nHIS 185O “The Holocaust And The Arab World” examines World War II in North Africa and the Middle East. Through primary and secondary sources\, films\, and novels\, students consider WWII and the Holocaust as they intersect with colonial and Jewish histories in the Arab world. \nThis course is supported by the Humanities Institute\, the Center for Jewish Studies\, and The Neufeld Levin Chair in Holocaust Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/his-185o-with-aomar-boum/
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SUMMARY:Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan – The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip Hop and Gendered Aspirations in Urban India
DESCRIPTION:In the last decade\, access to digital communication technologies has created opportunities for young people on the margins of the national imaginary in India to take part in transnational media worlds. In his recently published book\, Dattatreyan uses the ‘globally familiar’ as an analytic to engage with the recursive effects of online media consumption\, production\, and circulation amongst young migrant men in Delhi who invest their energies in the Black aesthetics of hip hop. In this talk\, he reflects on how\, eight years after he first started fieldwork with these young men\, the social and economic opportunities that have emerged for them as a result of their online/offline hip hop play continue to shape their gendered aspirations in and through circuits of late capitalism. \nEthiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths\, University of London. His research engages with the ways in which digital media consumption\, production\, and circulation shape understandings of migration\, gender\, race\, and urban space. His first book\, The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip-Hop\, Masculinity\, and Urban Space in Delhi\, was published by Duke University Press in 2020. \n \nRSVP by 11 AM (PST) on Wednesday\, January 27th; you will receive Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \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-e-gabriel-dattatreyan-goldsmiths-college-university-of-london/
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SUMMARY:C. Nadia Seremetakis: The Senses Still
DESCRIPTION:The THI Sense Memory Cluster presents on Thursday\, January 28\, 10-12\, Professor C. Nadia Seremetakis\, author of The Last Word\, The Senses Still\, and Sensing the Everyday. She will discuss her practice of sensory ethnography\, her theory of sense memory\, and “the third stream of anamnesis” in the contemporary spread of little memorials in Greek urban space. \n \nProfessor C. Nadia Seremetakis is a cultural anthropologist and author of several books in both English and Greek\, including poetry. She is best known for The Senses Still: Perception and Memory as Material Culture in Modernity (Univ. of Chicago Press)\, The Last Word: Women\, Death and Divination (Univ. of Chicago Press)\, and Sensing the Everyday (Routledge). She has lived and taught in New York for more than two decades\, conducted fieldwork in various parts of the world\, served as advisor at the Hellenic Ministry of Health and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture\, and taught at the University of the Peloponnese\, in her native area\, for the past ten years. Full bio: www.seremetakis.com \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/c-nadia-seremetakis-the-senses-still/
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: K-Ming Chang
DESCRIPTION:K-Ming Chang / 張欣明 is a Kundiman fellow\, a Lambda Literary Award finalist\, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the debut novel BESTIARY (One World/Random House\, 2020). More of her writing can be found online at kmingchang.com.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-k-ming-chang/
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SUMMARY:“Coded Bias” Film Screening and Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:The award winning documentary Coded Bias explores how machine-learning algorithms can perpetuate society’s existing class-\, race-\, and gender-based inequities. \nWhile working on an assignment involving facial-recognition software\, the M.I.T. Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini found that the algorithm couldn’t detect her face — until she put on a white mask. As she recounts in the documentary “Coded Bias\,” Buolamwini soon discovered that most such artificial-intelligence programs are trained to identify patterns based on data sets that skew light-skinned and male. “When you think of A.I.\, it’s forward-looking\,” she says. “But A.I. is based on data\, and data is a reflection of our history.” “Coded Bias” tackles its sprawling subject by zeroing in empathetically on the human costs. \n“Coded Bias” examines algorithmic bias as a modern civil rights issue\, and sheds light on privacy and equity issues related to increasing reliance on artificial intelligence. \n \nRegistration required. A link to view the film will be sent out starting 1/25 which will be available to view anytime until 1/28. \nPanelists Bios: \nProfessor Neda Atanasoski of the Humanities Institute Center for Racial Justice \nProfessor A.M. Darke of Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) \nProfessor Jody Greene of Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL) \nWatch the trailer: https://www.codedbias.com/about \nFilm screening (1h 30m) and panel discussion sponsored by UCSC’s Privacy Office and Office for Diversity Equity and Inclusion.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/54595/
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