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SUMMARY:Jerome Morgan and jackie sumell - Abolition and Healing
DESCRIPTION:This event is limited to the campus community and not open to the public. \nWe invite students\, staff\, and faculty to join us for a live conversation about incarceration\, harm\, and healing with Jerome Morgan and jackie sumell. \nJerome Morgan was wrongfully incarcerated at the age of 17 in Angola State Penitentiary for 20 years before he was fully exonerated in 2016. He is an entrepreneurship and organizer\, mobilizing communities to confront systems of oppression and to create spaces to heal from the traumas caused by the criminal legal system. jackie sumell is an artist and abolitionist organizer. Her public art and garden project\, Solitary Garden\, a collaboration with Tim Young\, who is currently on Death Row in San Quentin\, is on view at UC Santa Cruz. Jerome and jackie will discuss their individual approaches to mutual aid and organizing against carceral systems. They will speak about their shared work with New Orleans youth at the Ngombo Café and Sanctuary\, a café and healing space created by exonerees\, artists\, and activists which aims to “provide plant based products grown in tandem with incarcerated individuals to facilitate healing for the communities they have been accused of harming. It is through this unique collaboration that we envision a world without prisons.” \nThis event is collaboratively produced and sponsored by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, the Dean of Humanities\, The Humanities Institute\, and the Education Department at UC Santa Cruz. \nOf interest articles and writings by Jerome Morgan and collaborator:\n“Education is Improvisation: Improvisation is Art”\n“Go To Jail: Confronting a System of Oppression” \nJerome Morgan is a native New Orleanian who was wrongfully incarcerated at the age of 17 in Angola State Penitentiary for 20 years before he was fully exonerated in 2016. He is the Co-Founder/Programs Director of Free-Dem Foundations\, Owner/Trauma Counselor with Jerome 4 Justice\, LLC\, Graphic Designer/Writer with Park Roots Productions\, LLC\, Real Estate Developer/Investor with J & A Justice Holdings\, Inc\, Social Justice Co-Facilitator/Community Activist with Students At the Center (SAC)\, Panelist for Criminal versus Gentlemen: What Defines The Black Male Image 1 & 2\, co-author of “Unbreakable Resolve: Triumphant Stories of 3 True Gentlemen”\, published in 2017 and “Go To Jail: Confronting a System of Oppression”\, published 2021 and has conducted workshops at universities all over the country about how he overcame injustice. Morgan is a pioneer in Formerly Incarcerated Person (FIP) entrepreneurship\, community-based business models\, FIP peer mentoring\, FIP youth advocacy and FIP literary works. \njackie sumell works at the intersection of abolition\, social practice\, and contemplative studies. She has spent the last 2-decades working directly with incarcerated folx\, most notably\, her elders Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe. She has been the recipient of multiple residencies and fellowships including\, but not limited to\, an A Blade of Grass Fellowship\, Creative Capital\, Art 4 Justice\, Robert Rauschenberg Artist-as-Activist Fellowship\, Soros Justice Fellowship\, Eyebeam Project Fellowship and a Schloss Solitude Residency Fellowship. sumell’s work invites us to imagine a landscape without prisons. She is based in New Orleans\, Louisiana where she continues to work on Herman’s House\, Solitary Gardens\, The Prisoner’s Apothecary PLUS and several other community generated\, advocacy based projects.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jerome-morgan-and-jackie-sumell-abolition-and-healing/
LOCATION:DARC 108\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Michelle Obama
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to announce that UC Santa Cruz has been invited to participate in a special event with Michelle Obama on Tuesday\, November 9th\, 2021\, at Prince George’s Community College in Largo\, Maryland. This event will feature Mrs. Obama in conversation with a moderator and selected students from a small group of participating colleges\, including ours. \nOur campus community will have remote access to the free event and an opportunity to receive a free copy of Mrs. Obama’s book Becoming. \nWe will nominate one UC Santa Cruz undergraduate student to meet Mrs. Obama and participate in the in-person event at Prince George’s Community College in Largo\, Maryland. The conversation will be based on themes from her 2018 memoir\, Becoming\, with a particular emphasis on issues that are most resonant for college students. The Humanities Institute will sponsor the student’s travel and accommodation in Washington\, D.C. Applications for this opportunity were accepted until Thursday\, October 21\, at 11:59 p.m. PT. \nJoin this special conversation online by registering with your ucsc.edu email address! Please note the registration is free and is open until Friday\, November 5\, at 8:59 p.m. PT. \n \nThe Humanities Institute was thrilled to be able to offer 500 free copies of Becoming to members of the UC Santa Cruz community. At this time\, the books have all been claimed. \n  \n\nThis event is part of The Humanities Institute’s yearlong series on Imagination.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-conversation-with-michelle-obama/
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SUMMARY:Precarity and Belonging Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Dr. Camilla Hawthorne\, this webinar will celebrate UCSC professors and their recent publication of Precarity and Belonging: Labor\, Migration\, and Noncitizenship (Rutgers University Press\, 2021). Precarity and Belonging looks at mobility through space and society. It examines how the movement of people and their incorporation\, marginalization\, and exclusion\, under epochal conditions of labor and social precarity\, have challenged older notions of citizenship and alienage. This book brings precarity and mobility together to explore the points of contact and friction\, and\, thus\, the spaces for a possible politics of commonality\, between citizens and noncitizens.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/precarity-and-belonging-book-launch/
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Preparing the Teaching Statement and the Teaching Portfolio
DESCRIPTION:Gain tools and tips for effectively writing a teaching statement\, a common document in faculty hiring and review processes and an opportunity to reflect on how your teaching supports student learning. We’ll also review how to select teaching portfolio materials that tell a compelling story of who you are as an educator. This workshop will be led by Kendra Dority\, Ph.D. (Associate Director for Graduate Programs\, Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning). \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on the “Preparing the Teaching Statement and the Teaching Portfolio” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2021-2022 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. 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. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-preparing-the-teaching-statement-and-the-teaching-portfolio/
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SUMMARY:Lital Levy - World Literature\, Translation\, and Diaspora: The Intimately Global Journey of Grace Aguilar’s The Vale of Cedars
DESCRIPTION:This talk follows the translation history of the Anglo-Jewish author Grace Aguilar’s 1850 novel The Vale of Cedars from Victorian England to Mainz\, Warsaw\, Vilna\, Calcutta\, and Tunis. A case study for Levy’s broader project on “Global Haskalah\,” it brings together Sephardic studies\, world literature and translation studies\, transnational literary history\, and Jewish literary studies. Through this project\, Levy argues for two interventions: a rethinking of the nation-centered model of world literature\, and a revision of the Eurocentric narrative of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment). The novel’s history begins with a work of minor literature by a Sephardic Englishwoman about a quintessential minority topic: crypto-Jews in the Spanish Inquisition. Originally intended as a refutation of English conversionists\, by the end of the century the novel had appeared in multiple free translations into Hebrew\, Yiddish\, and Judeo-Arabic\, refashioned to instill their readers with pride in historical Jewish nobility and martyrdom. In addition to mapping the book’s journey and elucidating the cultural markers of its myriad translations\, the talk will foreground the Calcutta Judeo-Arabic edition and its social-historical context. \n \nLital Levy is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University\, where she teaches comparative literature and theory\, Hebrew literature\, Arabic literature\, and Jewish studies. Her work integrates literary and cultural studies with intellectual history and religious thought. She is the author of Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine (Princeton University Press\, 2014)\, which won the MLA Prize for a First Book and awards from the AAJR and AJS. She is currently completing The Jewish Nahda\, an intellectual history of Arab Jews and modernity. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nFor Fall 2021\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. Those who attend in person must adhere to the campus mask mandate for all indoor activities and must complete UCSC’s symptom-check form before coming to campus. In person attendees are asked to please arrive at 12pm so that the event coordinators can verify the symptom check has been completed. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Fall colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (pmilton@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lital-levy-world-literature-translation-and-diaspora-the-intimately-global-journey-of-grace-aguilars-the-vale-of-cedars/
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