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SUMMARY:#StopCVE: Challenging State Surveillance of Muslims in the Biden/Harris Era\, with Fatema Ahmad
DESCRIPTION:In 2014\, the Obama administration launched Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)\, a grant program that funneled federal money to police\, universities\, and nonprofit organizations in the name of combating terrorism. Although CVE and other “anti-radicalization” programs target Muslims and political activists\, they have enjoyed support from some liberals who view anti-radicalization as a softer\, more humane form of policing. Revised and expanded during the Trump years under the Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention program\, such surveillance initiatives are embedded in at least nineteen municipal police departments across the United States. In this conversation with Fatema Ahmad of the Muslim Justice League\, we will discuss the history and impacts of CVE and consider the prospects for such programs under the Biden/Harris administration. \n \nFatema Ahmad (she/hers) is the Executive Director at Muslim Justice League\, where she leads MJL’s efforts to dismantle the criminalization and policing of marginalized communities under national security pretexts. She joined as Deputy Director in 2017 and increased MJL’s focus on organizing within and collaborating across impacted communities to resist and subvert surveillance. That included growing the Building Muslim Power collective\, a group that shifts power through creative actions. Fatema also leads the national StopCVE network\, spearheads MJL’s research\, and is a leader in the Donor Advised Funds campaign of the Public Good Coalition. \nIn conversation with Neel Ahuja\, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies \nPresented by the Center for Racial Justice and co-sponsored by UCSC Department of Feminist Studies and the Humanities Institute Memory of Forgotten Wars Cluster
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/54833/
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SUMMARY:Neferti Tadiar — A Physics Lesson: Notes on a Cultural Genealogy of Human Mediatic Forms
DESCRIPTION:This talk proposes a cultural genealogy of contemporary human mediatic forms – that is\, the use of humans as the media of other humans. Beginning with a reading of José Rizal’s 1891 novel\, El Filibusterismo\, and its encapsulation of a political moment of transformation of natives (naturales) into nationals\, indios into free citizen-subjects\, Tadiar explores practices and relations of humans as media in Philippine cultures and the transformation of such persistent forms of life into vital components of today’s global capitalist platform economy. \nNeferti X. M. Tadiar is Professor of Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College\, Columbia University. She is the author of Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization (2009) and Fantasy-Production: Sexual Economies and Other Philippine Consequences for the New World Order (2004). Her current book\, Remaindered Life\, a meditation on the disposability and surplus of life-making under contemporary conditions of global empire\, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. \n \nRSVP by 11 AM (PST) on Wednesday\, February 17th; 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-colloquium-neferti-tadiar-barnard-college/
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SUMMARY:The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies\, a Conversation with Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Alma Heckman as they discuss Professor Stein’s book Family Papers: a Conversation about a Sephardi Jewish Family\, Lived History\, and Personal Letters. \n \nStein will discuss her recent\, award winning book\, Family Papers\, which traces the story of the Levy family of Salonica through the arc of the 20th century and the breadth of the globe. Through this one family\, across multiple generations\, Stein offers a glimpse into the global history of Sephardic Jews marked by the end of empire\, the Holocaust\, and diaspora. \nThe Levys wrote to share grief and to reveal secrets\, to propose marriage and to plan for divorce\, to maintain connection. They wrote because they were family. And years after they frayed\, Stein discovers\, what remains solid is the fragile tissue that once held them together: neither blood nor belief\, but papers. With meticulous research and care\, Stein uses the Levys’ letters to tell not only their history\, but the history of Sephardic Jews in the twentieth century. \nThis event is a part of The Humanities Insitute’s yearlong exploration of the theme Memory\, we’ll ask: What can a family’s letters\, photographs\, and fragments tell us about the history of nations that don’t exist and families that have migrated to many continents? What is the relationship between individual memory\, collective memory\, and history? \nPlease join us for a thought-provoking conversation about lived history\, memory\, and family. \nSarah Abrevaya Stein is Professor of History\, Viterbi Family Chair in Mediterranean Jewish Studies at UCLA\, and Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of UCLA’s Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies.  A former Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature\, she is the author or editor of nine books\, many of them award-winning.  Stein’s most recent book\, Family Papers:  a Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century (Farrar\, Straus\, and Giroux\, 2019)\, was named a Best Book of 2019 by The Economist and Mosaic Magazine\, a New York Times Editors’ Choice Book\, and was a National Jewish Book Award Finalist. \n  \nAlma 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). \n  \n  \nPresented by the Center for Jewish Studies and made possible by the Helen and Sanford Diller Family Endowment for Jewish Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/family-papers-a-conversation-about-a-sephardi-jewish-family-lived-history-and-personal-letters-with-professor-sarah-abrevaya-stein/
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SUMMARY:Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain\, of MTL / Decolonize This Place: Beyond the End of the World Sawyer Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present Beyond the End of the World Lecture Series. \n \nNatasha Dhillon and Amin Husain\, are MTL\, a collaboration that joins research\, aesthetics\, organizing and action in practice. Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain are co-founders of Anemones and Tidal: Occupy Theory\, Occupy Strategy\, both movement-generated theory magazines; Global Ultra Luxury Faction\, known as the direct-action wing of Gulf Labor Coalition; Direct Action Front for Palestine; and\, most recently\, Decolonize This Place\, an action-oriented movement and decolonial formation in New York City and beyond. MTL has published in Alternet\, Creative Time Reports\, eflux\, Hyperallergic\, Jadaliyya\, and October Magazine. Currently they are directing and producing Unsettling\, an experimental documentary film about land\, life and liberation in occupied Palestine. \nBeyond the End of the World 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/nitasha-dhillon-and-amin-husain-of-mtl-decolonize-this-place-beyond-the-end-of-the-world-sawyer-seminar-series/
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SUMMARY:The Annual Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture with Tanya Marie Luhrmann
DESCRIPTION:Merrill College Presents The Noel Q King Memorial Lecture: Voices of God\, Voices of Madness \nFollowing Prof. Luhrmann’s talk\, she will be joined in conversation by award-winning author Laurie R. King. \nTanya Marie Luhrmann is the Watkins University Professor in the Stanford Anthropology Department. Her work focuses on the edge of experience: on voices\, visions\, the world of the supernatural and the world of psychosis. Using both ethnographic and experimental methods\, she has done fieldwork on the streets of Chicago\, in Chennai\, Accra\, and the South Bay; with evangelical Christians\, Zoroastrians\, and people who practice magic. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003 and received a John Guggenheim Fellowship award in 2007; she served as a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. When God Talks Back was named a NYT Notable Book of the Year and a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year. Her new book\, Our Most Troubling Madness: Case Studies in Schizophrenia Across Cultures\, was published by the University of California Press in 2016. \nLaurie R. King is the New York Times bestselling author of 27 novels and other works\, including the Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes stories (from The Beekeeper’s Apprentice\, named one of the 20th century’s best crime novels by the IMBA\, to 2018’s Island of the Mad). She has won an alphabet of prizes from Agatha to Wolfe\, been chosen as guest of honor at several crime conventions\, and is probably the only writer to have both an Edgar and an honorary doctorate in theology. She was inducted into the Baker Street Irregulars in 2010\, as “The Red Circle.” \n\nNoel Q. King was a “founding father” of Merrill College. Born in India and educated in England\, he spent 14 years in Africa heading departments of religious studies before being hired to do the same at UC Santa Cruz\, where he was a prominent and beloved figure until his death in 2009. The Noel Q. King Memorial Lectures help keep religious studies\, and Noel King’s idiosyncratic spirit\, alive at UCSC. \n  \nSponsored by The family of Noel Q. King and by Dennis (Oakes ’77) and Barbara Diessner and Co-Sponsored by the Humanities Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/merrill-college-presents-fifth-annual-noel-q-king-memorial-lecture-with-tanya-marie-luhrmann/
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SUMMARY:Ethan Katz: Jews and Antisemites - The Unlikely Alliance That Paved the Way for Operation Torch
DESCRIPTION:Ethan Katz\, Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of California-Berkeley\, will speak in HIS 185O on “Jews and Antisemites – The Unlikely Alliance That Paved the Way for Operation Torch.” Among Jewish resistance movements in World War II\, none had the strategic impact of the Algiers underground. This talk will explore the forces and factors that shaped this brief but consequential cooperation between Jewish shock troops and arch-conservative businessmen and military brass. Together\, they played a crucial role in the Allied landing in North Africa. As an historical event\, their story forces us to re-center the history of Jewish resistance in World War II and to interrogate the meaning of resistance itself. \n \nEthan Katz was educated at Amherst College (B.A.\, History & French\, 2002) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (M.A.\, History\, 2005; PhD\, History\, 2009). He is currently Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of California-Berkeley\, where he has taught since the fall of 2018. \nAs a scholar\, Dr. Katz’s work has focused on the Jewish experience in modern Europe and the Middle East\, especially in France and the Francophone world. Much of his scholarship examines Jewish belonging and exclusion\, Jewish-Muslim relations\, the Holocaust\, Islamophobia\, and colonialism and its legacies. His book The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France (Harvard\, 2015) received five prizes\, including a National Jewish Book Award and two awards for the best book of the year in French history. In addition\, Katz has published co-edited volumes on Antisemitism and Islamophobia in France\, Colonialism and Jewish History\, and Secularism and Jewish life. Katz’s work has been supported by a number of prestigious fellowships\, including a year-long fellowship at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at UPenn\, and a Lady Davis visiting professorship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently at work on a book about the Algiers underground of 1940-1943 and the meaning of resistance\, entitled Freeing the Empire: The Uprising of Jews and Antisemites That Helped Win World War II. \nDr. Katz speaks regularly in universities and Jewish community spaces across the U.S.\, Europe\, and Israel. In addition to scholarly publications\, he writes and speaks about contemporary questions in historical context and has authored or co-authored pieces in venues like the Atlantic\, CNN\, Marginalia Review of Books\, and Jewish Review of Books. \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/ethan-katz-jews-and-antisemites-the-unlikely-alliance-that-paved-the-way-for-operation-torch/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210218T172000
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SUMMARY:Deep Read Salon: The Writing Craft of There There
DESCRIPTION:Creative Writing professors Micah Perks and Jennifer Tseng will lead a conversation about the techniques at play in Tommy Orange’s novel\, There There.  \nThis salon is for Deep Read Community members and will be held over Zoom. RSVP to get the Zoom link:\nRSVP \nAbout The Deep Read\nThis salon is part of The Humanities Institute’s Deep Read Program that invites curious minds to think deeply about literature\, art\, and the most pressing issues of our day. We read books from a wide range of genres\, exploring their implications on our politics\, inner lives\, and communities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deep-read-salon-the-writing-craft-of-there-there/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210219
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SUMMARY:Writing for Living: Helene Moglen Conference in Feminism and the Humanities
DESCRIPTION:Writing for Living:\nHelene Moglen Conference in Feminism and the Humanities\nFebruary 19-20\, 2021\nPlease register for Zoom connections \nFriday\, 3:30-5 PST:\nhttps://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApcO2upzkrHNXJIpeessjoejEbdjqIQ3UF \nSaturday\, 11:00-12:30 and 12:50-2:20 PST:\nhttps://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrceyhrz0jGNPQA9pd9-MXOQhZ205ABiK3 \nEmphasizing her relationship to writing as a practice that makes living possible\, this conference honors the work of Distinguished Professor Emerita Helene Moglen (1936-2018). She contributed richly to feminist and psychoanalytic theory in literature\, feminist institution building\, teaching and mentoring graduate and undergraduate students\, and teaching writing in and out of the university. Her generative vitality and creative critical thinking touched everyone who knew her. \nWriting grounded Helene’s deep optimism and vitality. She wrote every morning—by hand\, in notebooks. She encouraged writers\, whether in poetry\, scholarship\, cultural and political analysis\, or fiction; and she responded in detail and with immense generosity to the drafts of her colleagues\, whether they were in her field or not\, into her last summer. \nProfessor Moglen’s academic home was the Literature Department. Her monographs include The Trauma of Gender (2001)\, Sexual and Gender Harassment in the Academy (1981)\, The Philosophical Irony of Laurence Sterne (1976)\, and Charlotte Bronte: The Self Conceived (1975). She also co-edited five collections that explored the intersection of literature\, psychoanalysis\, race\, and feminism\, including (with Elizabeth Abel and Barbara Christian)\, Female Subjects in Black and White: Race\, Psychoanalysis\, Feminism (1997) and (with Nancy Chen and in conjunction with the Institute for Advanced Feminist Research) Bodies in the Making (2006). \nAt the time of her death\, Helene Moglen was working on the effects of social media on the formation of subjects and the possibilities for face-to-face democracy. She probed the intimate and public consequences of personal data harvesting\, surveillance practices\, business models\, and the allure of screens over embodied presence. She would have appreciated the irony of holding this conference on Zoom! \nFull conference schedule and more information at: https://humanities.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/helene-moglen-conference.html \nSponsored by the Humanities Division and the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/54624/
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Kwaito Bodies by Xavier Livermon
DESCRIPTION:Join us on February 19 for a Feminist Studies Book Talk celebrating the publication of Associate Professor Xavier Livermon’s new book: Kwaito Bodies. Xavier will be joined by respondents Marcia Ochoa\, Associate Professor\, Feminist Studies and Savannah Shange\, Assistant Professor\, Anthropology. \n \nKwaito Bodies\, Xavier Livermon examines the cultural politics of the youthful black body in South Africa through the performance\, representation\, and consumption of kwaito\, a style of electronic dance music that emerged following the end of apartheid. Drawing on fieldwork in Johannesburg’s nightclubs and analyses of musical performances and recordings\, Livermon applies a black queer and black feminist studies framework to kwaito. He shows how kwaito culture operates as an alternative politics that challenges the dominant constructions of gender and sexuality. Artists such as Lebo Mathosa and Mandoza rescripted notions of acceptable femininity and masculinity\, while groups like Boom Shaka enunciated an Afrodiasporic politics. In these ways\, kwaito culture recontextualizes practices and notions of freedom within the social constraints that the legacies of colonialism\, apartheid\, and economic inequality place on young South Africans. At the same time\, kwaito speaks to the ways in which these legacies reverberate between cosmopolitan Johannesburg and the diaspora. In foregrounding this dynamic\, Livermon demonstrates that kwaito culture operates as a site for understanding the triumphs\, challenges\, and politics of post-apartheid South Africa.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-talk-kwaito-bodies-by-xavier-livermon/
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