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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-3/
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SUMMARY:Saidiya Hartman: The Afterlife of Slavery
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is honored to welcome esteemed Professor Saidiya Hartman for a free\, live\, online conversation about her relationship to the archives of Black life\, the intersections between history and literature\, and the politics of memory. \nConfronting slavery and its long\, unfinished aftermath\, Hartman’s work is a brave\, imaginative\, genre-bending exercise in historical resurrection. Through a hybrid of documentary research and informed speculation\, Hartman gives us back the stories of those enslaved and struggling for freedom. \nIn the interdisciplinary spirit of innovative scholar and historian Hayden White\, Professor Hartman will engage in a public conversation with two leading UC Santa Cruz humanities scholars\, literary critic Vilashini Cooppan and historian Greg O’Malley. \nRegister \n  \nThis event is the Inaugural Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture and kicks off UC Santa Cruz’s 2021 Alumni Week April 19 – 25. Check the schedule for more events and ways to connect with the campus community. \nThe Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture Series is made possible by the generous support of the Thomas H. and Josephine Baird Memorial Fund\, via an endowment that supports yearly lectures relevant to historical and cultural theory\, and to ensure that Hayden White’s legacy and intellectual spirit is honored and sustained. \n\nSaidiya Hartman is the author of Wayward Lives\, Beautiful Experiments\, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route\, and Scenes of Subjection. A MacArthur “Genius” Fellow\, she has been a Guggenheim Fellow\, Cullman Fellow\, and Fulbright Scholar. She has published articles in journals such as South Atlantic Quarterly\, Brick\, Small Axe\, Callaloo\, The New Yorker and The Paris Review. She is a professor at Columbia University and lives in New York. \nVilashini Cooppan is professor of literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz\, where she teaches comparative and world literature\, with an emphasis on postcolonial theory\, genre theory\, memory studies\, and affect theory. She has published extensively on world literature\, and on memory and trauma. She is the author of Worlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing and is completing a book titled The World at Large: Memoryscapes in World Literature. \nGreg O’Malley is associate professor of history at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His first book\, Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America\, 1619-1807\, received four awards: The American Historical Association’s Forkosch Prize for British history; the AHA’s Rawley Prize for Atlantic history; The Owsley Award from the Southern Historical Association; and the Goveia Prize from the Association of Caribbean Historians. He is currently writing a new book\, The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom in the Revolutionary Era. \n  \n*Homepage Photo: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saidiya-hartman-the-afterlife-of-slavery/
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SUMMARY:(Re)Enacting Revolution: Dread Scott and Erin Gray
DESCRIPTION:Dread Scott’s recent large-scale art project\, Slave Rebellion Reenactment\, was a community-engaged performance reenacting the largest rebellion of enslaved people in U.S. history. Prof. Gray\, UC Davis\, will join him in conversation about art\, revolution\, and reenactments. This is the next event in Visualizing Abolition\, an online program featuring artists\, activists\, scholars\, and others united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition. \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\nDread Scott makes revolutionary art to propel history forward. His work is exhibited across the US and internationally. In 1989\, his art became the center of national controversy over its transgressive use of the American flag\, while he was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. President G.H.W. Bush called his art “disgraceful” and the entire US Senate denounced and outlawed this work. Dread became part of a landmark Supreme Court case when he and others defied the new law by burning flags on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Dread’s studio is now based in Brooklyn. \nDr. Erin Gray is a writer\, educator\, and activist currently living in occupied Huichin (Oakland\, California). Erin is an assistant professor of Black Literary and Cultural Studies in the English department at UC Davis\, where she writes and teaches at the intersections of critical theory and visual and performance studies to interrogate the aesthetic production of racist and anti-racist thought. Erin’s current book project\, The Moving Image of Lynching: Liberalizing Racial Terror in the Long Photographic Century\, theorizes the co-emergence and continuing imbrication of lynch law and racial liberalism as constitutive elements of U.S imperial power. Her co-edited anthology\, The Black Radical Tradition in the United States\, is forthcoming from Verso Press in 2021. She has published essays in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies\, Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory\, The International Feminist Journal of Politics\, Truthout\, and Viewpoint. \n\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/reenacting-revolution-dread-scott-and-erin-gray/
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SUMMARY:Susan Lepselter — Left-Standing
DESCRIPTION:Left-Standing is a performance of written and video poems. The video does not illustrate the writing; rather the two media become an interconnected poetics. Together\, these forms of poetry engage visual\, aural\, and affective dimensions of ordinary human encounters with the nonhuman world. The overall scenario presents encounters both with animals who wander a suburban neighborhood after a woods has been razed and developed\, and with the trees\, grasses\, waters\, and crops in the leftover woods and its surrounding farmlands. Lepselter’s presentation evokes a world at a moment of ecological\, social\, and epistemological precarity and continuity. \n \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, April 21st; you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \nSusan Lepselter is Associate Professor of American Studies\, and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology\, Cultural Studies and Folklore\, at Indiana University Bloomington. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to narrative and poetics in the United States\, and has published work on UFO stories\, conspiracy theories\, dream narratives\, and hoarding shows. She is currently completing a multimedia book of poetry supported by a New Frontiers award from Indiana University. Her book The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics\, Power\, Captivity and UFOs in the American Uncanny (University of Michigan Press\, 2016) won the 2017 Society for Cultural Anthropology Bateson Prize. \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/susan-lepselter-left-standing/
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SUMMARY:Lunchtime chat with Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Humanities Division’s newest Dean\, Jasmine Alinder\, to hear her thoughts on her first year as Dean as well as her inspirational vision for the growth and development of the Humanities Division. A brief talk on these topics will be followed by a casual question and answer period. All are welcome!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lunchtime-chat-with-humanities-dean-jasmine-alinder/
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Anthony Cody
DESCRIPTION:Anthony Cody is the author of Borderland Apocrypha\, winner of the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Prize selected by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge\, and finalist for a 2020 National Book Award. He is a CantoMundo fellow from Fresno\, California. His poetry has appeared in Gulf Coast\, Ninth Letter\, The Boiler\, ctrl+v journal\, among others. Anthony is a member of the Hmong American Writers’ Circle and co-edited How Do I Begin? A Hmong American Literary Anthology. He is a recent MFA-Creative Writing graduate from Fresno State where he continues to collaborate with Juan Felipe Herrera and the Laureate Lab Visual Wordist Studio. Anthony has received fellowships from CantoMundo\, Community of Writers\, and Desert Nights\, Rising Stars Conference. He provides communication support to CantoMundo\, and serves as an associate poetry editor for Noemi Press.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-anthony-cody/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210423T090000
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SUMMARY:Michelle Sheehan Linguistics Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:For more information\, please see the Linguistics Department Colloquia page.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/michelle-sheehan-linguistics-colloquium/
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SUMMARY:Conflict and Revolutionary Possibility in North Africa: Sudan\, Algeria\, and the Western Sahara
DESCRIPTION:In the past several years\, moments of political opposition and revolutionary possibility have continued to unfold across North Africa. In 2018\, protest erupted in Sudan. Algeria followed when in 2019\, President Bouteflika announced his intention to seek a fifth term. In the Western Sahara\, the Polisario Front resumed its armed struggle in 2020 after the end of a twenty-nine year-long UN mediated cease-fire. Featuring Khalid Medani (McGill University)\, Vivian Solana (Carleton University)\, and Farida Souiah (Aix-Marseille University)\, this event will explore the evolution of revolutionary politics in contemporary North Africa\, which has received relatively less attention in the media than the protests that\, a decade ago\, comprised the “Arab Spring.” Our panelists will shed light on the underlying causes of resistance in each national context as well as its broader implications for regional politics\, including questions of pacification\, peace\, and the politicization of undocumented migration in the region. This event is presented by THI’s Center for the Middle East and North Africa. \n \nVivian Solana is an Assistant Professor at Carleton University’s Department of Sociology & Anthropology in Ottawa\, Canada.Based on long-term ethnographic research in Sahrawi refugee camps located in Southern Algeria\, her work studies the social regeneration of the political struggle for the decolonisation of Western Sahara. With a focus on women and youth\, she examines everyday forms of political labor that sustain and regeneratethe Sahrawi movement for national independence within the sovereign spaces of other nation-states. \nFarida Souiah holds a PhD (Cum Laude) in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris and is currently a research associate at Aix-Marseille University\, France\, in the Centre méditerrannéen de sociologie\, de science politique et d’Histoire. Farida studies migration\, international mobility and protest. She is particularly attentive to symbolic constructions\, social imaginaries and the politicization of migration. \nKhalid Mustafa Medani is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University\, where he is also Chair of the African Studies Program. He is the recipient of a Carnegie Scholar on Islam award between 2007-2009. His book\, entitled“Black Markets and Militants: Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa\,” is forthcoming later this year from Cambridge University Press.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/conflict-and-revolutionary-possibility-in-north-africa-sudan-algeria-and-the-western-sahara/
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