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SUMMARY:How to Live Like Shakespeare
DESCRIPTION:This series of noontime conversations will feature key passages by Shakespeare\, selected for what they reveal about life and living. What are the virtues or capacities that Shakespeare took to be essential to social\, spiritual\, and civic happiness? How do Shakespeare’s speakers think out loud about values and ends\, and how does Shakespeare think in and through his characters about matters of meaning? What images did Shakespeare offer and what words did he choose to make these themes tangible to his actors and audiences and worthy of sharing with others? \n \nCo-hosted by Julia Lupton (UC Irvine) and Sean Keilen (UC Santa Cruz) \nMondays at noon\, April 5\, 12\, 19\, 26\, May 3\, 10\, 17\, 24 \nThemes addressed will include Imagination\, Friendship\, Fortitude\, Empathy\, Justice\, Forgiveness\, Hope\, and Courage. \nJulia Reinhard Lupton is professor of English at UC Irvine and the co-director of the New Swan Shakespeare Center. She is the author or co-author of five books on Shakespeare and the editor or co-editor of many volumes and journal issues. Recent works include Shakespeare Dwelling: Designs for the Theater of Life and Face to Face in Shakespearean Drama\, co-edited with Matthew Smith. Professor Lupton is a Guggenheim laureate and a former Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America. Her current projects address Shakespeare\, virtue\, and wisdom literature. She is an award-winning teacher and community educator. \nSean Keilen is Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz and the Director of UCSC Shakespeare Workshop. He is the author of Vulgar Eloquence: On the Renaissance Invention of English Literature and an editor of many volumes of criticism\, most recently The Routledge Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature (with Nick Moschovakis). He is writing a book about scholars in Shakespeare’s plays and what the modern humanities might learn from them. Professor Keilen is a Guggenheim laureate and an award-winning teacher and community educator. Since 2013\, he has worked closely with Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, a professional theater company in Northern California. \nFor information\, contact Julia Lupton\, jrlupton@uci.edu. \nCo-sponsored by UCI’s New Swan Shakespeare Center and THI’s Shakespeare Workshop.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/how-to-live-like-shakespeare-2/
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SUMMARY:Lulu Miller\, Why Fish Don't Exist
DESCRIPTION:NPR science reporter Lulu Miller will discuss her fantastic nonfiction debut Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss. Love\, and the Hidden Order of Life (available in paperback on April 6th). This riveting book\, begins with an account of biologist David Starr Jordan\, and then goes down a rabbit hole of history\, morality\, and scientific adventure. Mary Roach calls it\, “Perfect\, just perfect\,” and Sy Montgomery says\, “This book will capture your heart\, seize your imagination\, smash your preconceptions\, and rock your world.” This event is presented by Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n \nThis is a free event. The featured book may be purchased here. \nWhy Fish Don’t Exist tells the strange tale of 19th-century taxonomist David Starr Jordan\, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time\, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in his day. But the more of the hidden blueprint of life he uncovered\, the harder the universe seemed to try to thwart him. His specimen collections were demolished by lightening\, by fire\, and eventually by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake—which sent over a thousand of his discoveries\, housed in fragile glass jars\, plummeting to the floor. In an instant\, his life’s work was shattered. \nMiller digs into this obscure moment in science history to take us on a remarkable journey that explores some of the biggest questions of our lives: the nature of persistence\, of life’s purpose\, and how we strive to make sense of a chaotic world. Like Susan Orlean peeled back layers in The Orchid Thief\, Miller takes us from the desecration of David Starr Jordan’s specimen collection to a possible murder\, and from a colony of victims of eugenics to her own love life—interweaving biography\, memoir\, and the latest science\, psychology\, and philosophy to investigate what it takes to live a life of resilience. \nWhy Fish Don’t Exist is an astonishing and category-defying work\, by turns harrowing and life-affirming. Part biography\, part memoir\, part scientific adventure\, it’s a story for anyone who has ever found themselves lost amidst the chaos of life\, and reminds us how we—like David Starr Jordan—can find the courage to stand up again in the wreckage. \nLulu Miller is the co-founder of the NPR program Invisibilia\, a series about the unseen forces that control human behavior. Before creating Invisibilia\, she produced Radiolab for five years and was a reporter on the NPR Science Desk. She received a MFA from the University of Virginia on a Poe-Faulkner Fellowship. She is currently the co-host of NPR’s Radiolab.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lulu-miller-why-fish-dont-exist/
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SUMMARY:Abolition from the Inside Out w/ jackie sumell\, Albert Woodfox\, and Tim Young
DESCRIPTION:The Institute of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to partner with the Legal Studies Program to present jackie sumell\, Albert Woodfox\, and Tim Young. Award-winning artist jackie sumell works collaboratively with people incarcerated across the U.S. to promote abolition. Albert Woodfox is an activist and author who spent decades in solitary confinement at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Tim Young is a poet and activist currently on San Quentin’s Death Row and sumell’s collaborator on UC Santa Cruz’s Solitary Garden. Together\, they will discuss the activism and collaborations taking place between people inside and outside of prisons to\, as sumell puts it\, “imagine a landscape without prisons. \n \nFeatured Music Performance – Elena Pinderhughes \nVisualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized by Dr. Rachel Nelson\, Director\, Institute of the Arts and Sciences and Professor Gina Dent\, Feminist Studies. The events feature 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. \njackie sumell is a multidisciplinary artist inspired by the lives of everyday people. Her work speaks to both traditional artist communities and those historically marginalized by structural racism. sumell’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout the US and Europe. Her residencies and awards include 2017 Blade of Grass-David Rockefeller Fund Joint Fellow in Criminal Justice\, 2016 Robert Rauschenberg Artist-As-Activist Fellowship\, 2015 Eyebeam Project Fellowship\, and 2008 Akademie Solitude Fellowship. An ardent public speaker and prison abolitionist\, sumell has lectured in Colleges and Universities around the US including UC Berkeley (BAMPFA)\, RISD\, ZKM Karlsruhe\, and as keynote for the National Prisoner Advocacy Conference 2014. sumell began the Solitary Gardens project to honor the legacy of political prisoner Herman Wallace\, who was held in solitary confinement for over 40 years and with whom jackie corresponded and collaborated for 12 years. Her collaborative work with Herman Wallace\, The House That Herman Built\, is the subject of the Emmy Award Winning documentary Herman’s House\, screened to a national audience on PBS in 2013. sumell’s work explores the intersection of creative practices\, mindfulness studies\, social sculpture\, and the principles of The Black Panther Party for Self Defense. \nAlbert Woodfox is an activist and the author of “Solitary\,” a 2019 National Book Award finalist. Known as one of the Angola Three\, along with Robert King and Herman Wallace\, Woodfox served nearly 44 years in solitary confinement at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. He was released in 2016. Woodfox was a committed activist in prison\, he remains so today\, speaking to a wide array of audiences\, including the Innocence Project\, Harvard\, Yale\, and other universities\, the National Lawyers Guild\, as well as at Amnesty International events in London\, Paris\, Denmark\, Sweden\, and Belgium. \nTimothy James Young is a writer\, activist\, and a wrongfully convicted prisoner on Death Row. He was arrested in April of 1999 for a crime that he did not commit and was subsequently sentenced to Death Row in April of 2006. He is now partaking in the Appellate process as a means of proving his innocence and regaining his freedom. Tim is a collaborator in Solitary Garden\, a participatory public sculpture and garden project by award-winning artist jackie sumell. The sculpture follows the blueprint of a 6’x9’ U.S. solitary confinement cell similar to the one that Tim has been confined to for twenty-one years. The cell is surrounded by a garden which Tim designed via letters and drawings to students and volunteers\, who cultivate it as his proxies.Tim’s writings have been featured in the San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper. \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/abolition-from-the-inside-out-w-jackie-sumell-albert-woodfox-and-tim-young/
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Hernandez — Categories\, Identities\, and Objects: Naming Native Art
DESCRIPTION:This presentation will examine the inherent complexities in the academic study and public representation of American Indian culture(s)\, and how the categorization and defining of Native American objects aids in the construction of American Indian identity. \n \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, April 14th; you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \nRebecca Hernandez is currently the Director of the American Indian Resource Center at UC Santa Cruz\, where she is focused on the retention of Native students and developing programs that promote a better understanding of American Indian culture(s) and lifeways at UCSC. She has worked in university administration for 15 years and taught courses in universities and community colleges. Her PhD is in American Studies with a concentration in Native American Studies and Visual Culture. She also holds an MFA in Exhibition Design and Museum Studies. \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/rebecca-hernandez-categories-identities-and-objects-naming-native-art/
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SUMMARY:Reparations for Black Americans:  The Road to Racial Equality in California and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:In 2020\, California established the nation’s first state task force to study and make recommendations on reparations for the institution of slavery\, the atrocities that followed the end of slavery\, and the discrimination against freed slaves and their descendants from the end of the Civil War to the present. Although the movement for reparations extends to the eighteenth century\, it has gained new momentum in recent years. Join us for a conversation with some of the country’s leading experts and advocates for reparations\, to discuss these questions and more: \n\nHow does the movement for reparations fit into efforts to close the racial wealth gap and promote racial equity?\nWhy study and discuss reparations in California?\nWhat are the connections between the California task force and national debates about reparations?\nWhat might reparations for Black Americans at a federal level look like in the 21st century?\n\n\nLimited number of FREE books available to event registrants (priority will be given to UCSC students). \nCo-sponsored by: The Institute for Social Transformation\, Center for Racial Justice\, and Office for Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion at UC Santa Cruz. \nWilliam A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen are co-authors of the 2020 book\, From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century\, which makes a powerful case for Black reparations and offers a detailed roadmap for an effective reparations program. \nWilliam A. Darity Jr. is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy\, African and African American Studies\, Economics and Business\, and Director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. Darity’s research includes a focus on inequality by race\, class and ethnicity\, stratification economics\, the economics of reparations\, the Atlantic slave trade and the Industrial Revolution. He is a past president of the National Economic Association and the Southern Economic Association. \nA. Kirsten Mullen is a folklorist and the founder of Artefactual\, an arts-consulting practice\, and Carolina Circuit Writers\, a literary consortium that brings expressive writers of color to the Carolinas. Mullen’s research focuses on race\, art\, history and politics. She was a member of the Freelon Adjaye Bond concept development team that was awarded the Smithsonian Institution’s commission to design the National Museum of African American History and Culture. She is a past president of the North Carolina Folklife Institute. \nAnne Price is the first woman President of the Insight Center for Community Economic Development. She has worked in the public sector on a wide range of issues including child welfare\, hunger\, workforce development\, community development and higher education. Anne was one of the first national leaders to examine narratives about race and wealth. Her work has been featured in the New York Times\, The Nation\, The Washington Post\, The Mercury News\, The Wall Street Journal\, Citylab\, O Magazine\, and other publications. Anne holds a BA in Economics from Hampton University and a Master’s Degree in Urban Affairs and Public Policy from the Milano School of Management and Urban Policy in New York City. \nCongresswoman Barbara Lee was born in segregated El Paso\, Texas. As a single mother raising two sons\, she attended Mills College in Oakland\, and later received her Master’s in Social Work from the University of California\, Berkeley. In 1998\, she was elected to serve California’s 9th congressional district (now the 13th) in a special election. Currently\, Congresswoman Lee is a member of the House Appropriations Committee and Chair of the subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations. She serves as Co-Chair of the Steering & Policy Committee\, former Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus\, Chair Emeritus of the Progressive Caucus\, Co-Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Health Task Force\, and Co-Chair of the Pro-Choice Caucus. As Co-Chair\, Rep. Lee works to ensure that committees reflect the diversity\, dynamism\, and integrity of the Democratic Caucus. As a member of the House Democratic Leadership\, she is the highest ranking African American woman in the U.S. Congress. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/reparations-for-black-americans-the-road-to-racial-equality-in-california-and-beyond/
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