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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-7/
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SUMMARY:Gregg Mitman - Empire of Rubber: Scenes from Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
DESCRIPTION:Thom Gentle Environmental History Lecture \nEmpire of Rubber: Scenes from Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia \nIn the early 1920s\, Americans owned 80 percent of the world’s automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world’s rubber. But only one percent of the world’s rubber grew under the U.S. flag\, creating a bottleneck that hampered the nation’s explosive economic expansion. To solve its conundrum\, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company turned to a tiny West African nation\, Liberia\, founded in 1847 as a free Black republic. \nEmpire of Rubber tells a riveting story of of ecology and disease\, of commerce and science\, and of racial politics and political maneuvering\, as Firestone sought to transform Liberia into America’s rubber empire. Drawing upon excerpts from Mitman’s forthcoming book\, this talk illuminates how Black activists\, writers\, scientists\, diplomats\, and businesspeople across the African diaspora rallied to support or oppose the experiment that was Firestone in Liberia. It also offers an intimate portrait of how industrial ecologies\, born of racial capitalism\, shaped the relationships among people\, trees\, chemicals\, machines\, and parasites on what became a Jim Crow corporate enclave on African soil. \n \nGregg Mitman is the Vilas Research and William Coleman Professor of History\, Medical History\, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His latest book\, Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia\, will be published by The New Press in the fall of 2021. \n  \nThis lecture is made possible by the generosity of Thom Gentle (Cowell ’69\, History)\, a pioneer class alumnus who established The Thom Gentle Endowment for History to support student awards in environmental history as well as lectures of distinguished speakers with an environmental emphasis. Presented by the UC Santa Cruz Center for World History.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gregg-mitman-thom-gentle-environmental-history-lecture/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210518T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210518T173000
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SUMMARY:Music for Abolition: Artist Panel w/ Curator Terri Lyne Carrington and Guests
DESCRIPTION:Music for Abolition\, directed and curated by Terri Lyne Carrington\, is a project bringing together musicians across a variety of genres to create a soundtrack—and provide a heartbeat—to our shared struggle for abolition. Expressing grief\, rage\, exhaustion\, and resolution in the face of the U.S. history of racism and oppression\, the music resonates with calls of freedom. \nJoin us May 18 for a conversation about the role of sound and music in the struggle for prison abolition with the participating musicians\, including Lisa Fischer\, Kris Davis\, Val Jeanty\, Lily Finnegan\, Maimouna Youssef aka “Mumu Fresh”\, Queen Cora Coleman\, Nicholas Payton\, Jason Moran\, Malcolm Jamal-Warner\, Cécile McLorin Salvant\, Nicole Mitchell\, Sarah Elizabeth Charles\, Dianne Reeves\, Camila Cortina Bello\, Elena Pinderhughes\, Orrin Evans\, Eric Revis\, Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science. \n \nMusic for Abolition videos can be found here. \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- June\, 2021. To accompany the exhibition\, Solitary Garden\, a public art project about mass incarceration and solitary confinement is on view at UC Santa Cruz. \nThree-time GRAMMY® award-winning drummer\, producer\, educator and activist\, Terri Lyne Carrington started her professional career as a “kid wonder” while studying under a full scholarship at Berklee College of Music in Boston. In the mid ’80’s she worked as an in-demand drummer in New York before gaining national recognition on late night TV as the house drummer for both the Arsenio Hall Show and Quincy Jones’ VIBE TV show. \nIn 1989\, Ms. Carrington released a GRAMMY®-nominated debut CD on Verve Forecast\, Real Life Story\, and toured extensively with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock\, among others. In 2011 she released the GRAMMY®Award-winning album\, The Mosaic Project\, featuring a cast of all-star women instrumentalists and vocalists\, and in 2013 she released Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue\, which also earned a GRAMMY®Award\, establishing her as the first woman ever to win in the Best Jazz Instrumental Album category. \nTo date Ms. Carrington has performed on over 100 recordings and has worked extensively with luminary artists such as Al Jarreau\, Stan Getz\, Woody Shaw\, Clark Terry\, Cassandra Wilson\, Dianne Reeves\, James Moody\, Yellowjackets\, Esperanza Spalding\, and many more. Additionally\, Ms. Carrington is an honorary doctorate recipient from Berklee\, and currently serves as Founder and Artistic Director for the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice. \nIn 2019 Ms. Carrington was granted the Doris Duke Artist Award\, a prestigious acknowledgement in recognition of her past and ongoing contributions to jazz music. Her current band project\, Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science (a collaboration with Aaron Parks and Matthew Stevens)\, released their debut album\, Waiting Game\, in November\, 2019 on Motema Music.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/music-for-abolition-artist-panel-w-curator-terri-lyne-carrington-and-guests/
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SUMMARY:Aarti Sethi & Navyug Gill — Dissent: Farmers\, Protests\, India
DESCRIPTION:The farmers protests in India have ignited a widespread resistance movement globally. Focused initially on repressive farm laws enacted by the Indian state\, the protests have now expanded to include broader environmental\, social and political concerns impacting the livelihood\, independence and sustenance of working people. What was first seen as an agrarian protest movement has become a rallying call for much-needed debates on dissent\, casteism\, gender\, and economic justice. \n \nThis colloquium is a joint event with the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS).  \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, May 19th; you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \nAarthi Sethi is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. Her primary research interests are in agrarian anthropology\, political-economy and the study of South Asia. She holds degrees in political science\, and cinema and cultural studies\, from Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University\, New Delhi. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University in 2017\, and before joining Berkeley\, she had postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard and Brown universities. She has previously published on\, and has ongoing research and teaching interests in\, urban ethnography\, and cinematic\, media and visual cultures. \n \nNavyug Gill is a scholar of modern South Asia and global history. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at William Paterson University. He received a Ph.D. from Emory University\, and a B.A. from the University of Toronto. His research explores questions of agrarian change\, labor history\, caste politics\, postcolonial critique and global capitalism. Currently he is completing a book on the emergence of the peasant and the rule of capital in colonial Panjab. His academic and popular writings have appeared in venues such as the Journal of Asian Studies\, Economic and Political Weekly\, Outlook\, Al Jazeera\, Law and Political Economy Project\, Borderlines and Trolley Times. \n \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/aarti-sethi-navyug-gill-dissent-farmers-protests-india/
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SUMMARY:A Fortress in Brooklyn\, Michael Casper and Nathaniel Deutsch
DESCRIPTION:Join authors Michael Casper and Nathaniel Deutsch in conversation with Lila Corwin Berman about Casper and Deutsch’s new book A Fortress in Brooklyn. \nThe Hasidic community in Williamsburg\, Brooklyn is famously one of the most separatist\, intensely religious\, and politically savvy groups in the entire United States. A Fortress in Brooklyn tells the remarkable story of how the community survived in one of the toughest parts of New York City during an era of steep decline\, only to later resist and also participate in the unprecedented gentrification of the neighborhood. Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper unravel the fascinating history of how a group of determined Holocaust survivors encountered\, shaped\, and sometimes fiercely opposed the urban processes that transformed their gritty neighborhood\, from white flight and the construction of public housing to rising crime\, divestment of city services\, and\, ultimately\, extreme gentrification. By showing how Williamsburg’s Hasidim rejected assimilation while still undergoing distinctive forms of Americanization and racialization\, A Fortress in Brooklyn presents both a provocative counter-history of American Jewry and a novel look at how race\, real estate\, and religion intersected in the creation of a quintessential\, and yet deeply misunderstood\, New York neighborhood. \n \nMichael Casper received his Ph.D. in history from UCLA and has contributed to American Jewish History and the New York Review of Books. \nNathaniel Deutsch is a professor of history at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where he holds the Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and is the Faculty Director of The Humanities Institute and the Director of the Center for Jewish Studies. Among his other books are Inventing America’s “Worst” Family: Eugenics\, Islam\, and the Fall and Rise of the Tribe of Ishmael and The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement\, for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. \nLila Corwin Berman is Professor of History at Temple University\, where she holds the Murray Friedman Chair of American Jewish History and directs the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History. She is author of The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution\, as well as Metropolitan Jews: Politics\, Race\, and Religion in Postwar Detroit\, and Speaking of Jews: Rabbis\, Intellectuals\, and the Creation of an American Public Identity. Her articles have appeared in the Washington Post\, the Forward\, as well as several scholarly journals.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/56157/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Jonas Staal: Deep Future Propagandas
DESCRIPTION:Propaganda manufactures consent and establishes normativity; it constructs reality and makes worlds. The propagandas of our present produce the futureless futures of dystopian normativity: the libertarian geoengineering of drowned worlds\, Flat Earth dark-age anti-globes\, and eco-fascist genocide. But these are not the only options available. From popular mass movements to new planetary unions and transnational party-forms\, the art of counter-power organizing is struggling for the means of production of the future\, to ensure meaningful survival in interspecies comradeship and a biosphere for all. At the intersection of political and artistic imagination\, between organizing work and utopian activism\, this presentation will sketch the morphologies of a deep future propaganda. \n \nModerated by T. J. Demos and Martabel Wasserman \nJonas Staal is a visual artist whose work deals with the relation between art\, propaganda\, and democracy. He is the founder of the artistic and political organization New World Summit (2012–ongoing) and the campaign New Unions (2016–2019). With BAK\, basis voor actuele kunst\, Utrecht\, he co-founded the New World Academy (2013-16); with Florian Malzacher he is currently directing the utopian training camp Training for the Future (2018-ongoing); and with Laure Prouvost he is co-administrator of the Obscure Union. His exhibition-projects include: Art of the Stateless State (Moderna Galerija\, Ljubljana\, 2015)\, After Europe (State of Concept\, Athens\, 2016)\, The Scottish-European Parliament (CCA\, Glasgow\, 2018) and Museum as Parliament (with the Democratic Federation of North Syria\, Van Abbemuseum\, Eindhoven\, 2018-ongoing). With a PhD research on propaganda art at Leiden University in the Netherlands\, Staal’s most recent book is Propaganda Art in the 21st Century (The MIT Press\, 2019). \nBeyond the End of the World comprises a year-long research and exhibition project and public lecture series\, directed by T. J. Demos of the Center for Creative Ecologies\, bringing leading international thinkers and cultural practitioners to UC Santa Cruz. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture. For more information visit beyond.ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deep-future-propagandas/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Joan Naviyuk Kane
DESCRIPTION:Joan Naviyuk Kane is Inupiaq with family from Ugiuvak (King Island) and Qawiaraq (Mary’s Igloo). The author of eight collections of poetry and prose\, she teaches poetry and creative nonfiction at Harvard\, is a lecturer in the Department of Studies in Race\, Colonialism and Diaspora at Tufts\, and was founding faculty of the graduate creative writing program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She’s currently a Visiting Fellow of Race and Ethnicity at The Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University\, and the 2021 Mary Routt Endowed Chair of Creative Writing and Journalism at Scripps College. Her second book\, Hyperboreal (winner of the 2012 Donald Hall Prize)\, will be published in translation by Editions Caractères this summer\, and a collection of new poems\, Dark Traffic\, will be published in the Pitt Poetry Series in September. She raises her sons in Cambridge\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-joan-naviyuk-kane/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T123000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: PhD+ Publishing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.   \nAs co-editors of the recently published special issue of Critical Ethnic Studies on Borderland Regimes and Resistance in Global Perspective\, we invite you to join us for a workshop focused on academic journal article publishing. We will cover: adapting elements from your dissertation into journal articles; creating your own publication pipeline; navigating the journal submission\, review\, and publishing process; and dealing with rejections. We will also discuss the process of submitting to journal special issues\, such as ours–including how to pitch your work to a special issue\, how to work with editors on your piece during revise-and-resubmit\, and how to propose a guest-edited special issue. \n \nPanelists: \n\nJenny Kelly (UCSC)\nCamilla Hawthorne (UCSC)\n\nPresented by The Humanities Institute’s Border Regimes and Resistance in Global Perspective Cluster \n  \n\nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the fifth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-publishing-workshop/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Migrant Futures: South Asia and The Middle East (II) Jagged Environments
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa. Featured speakers: Amita Baviskar (Professor\, Sociology-Anthropology and Environmental Studies\, Ashoka University) and Gökçe Günel (Assistant Professor\, Antropology Rice University).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/migrant-futures-jaggedenvironments/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Roumyana Pancheva Linguistics Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:For more information\, please see the Linguistics Department Colloquia page.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/roumyana-pancheva-linguistics-colloquium/
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