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SUMMARY:Pamela Z - Seminar in Composition
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Monday\, January 24\, at 4:00 PM\, for our keynote event in Pamela Z’s 2022 UC Santa Cruz residency\, jointly funded by the University Library\, the Humanities Institute\, and the Institute for Arts and Sciences’ Surge: Afrofuturism Festival. Pamela Z’s residency begins with her January 24 seminar on composition\, and culminates with a May 14 concert undertaken in collaboration with the Institute of Arts and Sciences\, and UC Santa Cruz graduate students. \nThe January lecture-seminar\, delivered remotely via Zoom\, will address a range of issues arising in her approach to composition\, including but not limited to interactions of fixed media and ‘real-time’ elements in performance\, and approaches to composition with voice and text. The lecture portion will be followed by presentations by UC Santa Cruz composers Alexander Wand and Seth Glickman\, on their new works-in-progress\, and finally by discussion and dialogue among the participants. \n  \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pamela-z-seminar-in-composition/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Xavier Livermon - Safe Houses? Queerness\, Performance\, and the Land Question in South Africa
DESCRIPTION:During the height of COVID restrictions in 2020\, a group of Black queer artists in Cape Town occupied a ritzy home that had been converted into an Air B and B. They intended to overstay their original booking in order to bring attention to the issue of inequitable housing policy in South Africa\, and the particular ways that the continuation of apartheid urban planning created disproportionate vulnerabilities for Black queer folk in Cape Town. In this talk\, I will consider the political implications of joining queerness with the land question in post-apartheid South Africa through direct political action and performance. \n \nXavier Livermon is Associate Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UCSC \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 Winter 2022\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format\, in which some events are fully remote and others have the option of in-person attendance. 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 Winter colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (cult@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/xavier-livermon-safe-houses-queerness-performance-and-the-land-question-in-south-africa/
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Karen Tei Yamashita and Eric Wat
DESCRIPTION:After a long period of sheltering in place and an even longer period of restricting our daily movements\, many of us are ready for change. This winter’s living writers all have stories of radical transformation to tell. TC Tolbert searches for a language to enact his transition from being Melissa to being TC; Jane Wong struggles to reconcile her American present with the transnational ghosts of her past; Yuri Herrera’s heroine embarks on a journey across the Mexican American border; Karen Tei Yamashita tells tales of ever changing demographics & invisible histories; Eric Wat’s protagonist remakes himself as he navigates drug abuse\, sexuality\, death and family dynamics; the speaker in Sandra Lim’s book of poems transforms not her life but the way she sees her life. All six writers remind us of the power of literature to transform us. They remind us that when we open a book\, often what we’re really saying is: change me. \nThe Living Writer Series is sponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz. \n \nKaren Tei Yamashita is an award-winning writer who was born in Oakland\, California. For many years she was Professor of Literature at University of California\, Santa Cruz. Her works\, several of which contain elements of magic realism\, include novels I Hotel (2010)\, Circle K Cycles (2001)\, Tropic of Orange (1997)\, Brazil-Maru (1992)\, and Through the Arc of the Rain Forest (1990). Yamashita’s novels emphasize the necessity of polyglot\, multicultural communities in an increasingly globalized age\, even as they destabilize orthodox notions of borders and national/ethnic identity. She has also written a number of plays\, including Hannah Kusoh\, Noh Bozos and O-Men which was produced by the Asian American theatre group\, East West Players. Her most recent book is the story collection\, Sansei and Sensibility (2020). Karen Tei Yamashita: The Complete Works is now available from Coffeehouse Press. In 2021\, Yamashita was named the recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. \nEric Wat’s first book\, The Making of a Gay Asian Community (2002)\, has been described as a “foundational text in queer Asian American historiography.” Almost twenty years later\, he wrote a follow-up about AIDS activism in the Asian American community\, Love Your Asian Body (2021). But his first love was fiction. In 2016\, after his grandmother passed away\, he quit the best job in the world to write his novel\, Swim (2019). He wrote Swim for queer folks whose main concern in life isn’t coming out\, for people who are dealing with addiction (or know loved ones who are)\, and for adult children who are struggling to take care of their aging parents (and in so doing are confronted by their imperfect relationships). Wat lives and writes in Los Angeles.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-tei-yamashita-and-eric-wat/
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SUMMARY:The Kapany Collection–Sikh Art in America
DESCRIPTION:The Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery brings you a remarkable collection of Sikh art from Narinder S. and Satinder K. Kapany. Narinder S. Kapany established an endowed chair in entrepreneurship\, the Narinder Kapany Professorship in Entrepreneurship\, based initially at UCSC’s Baskin School of Engineering in support of the school’s leadership in the establishment of a comprehensive entrepreneurship program for the campus. This was the second endowed chair funded by Kapany\, who was a Regents Professor at UC Santa Cruz from 1977 to 1983 as well as a UC Santa Cruz Foundation Trustee. In 1999\, he endowed the Narinder Singh Kapany Chair in Optoelectronics at the Baskin School of Engineering. Kapany\, a Sikh\, was a research scientist\, entrepreneur\, art collector and philanthropist\, he is widely acknowledged as the father of fiber optics. \nThis unique exhibit introduces both Sikh art and ethos as well as a historical look at the Sikh migration and history from Punjab to America\, and more specifically California. It is our objective to enlighten the audience as to what and who the Sikh religion and people represent and their relevance\, not just here\, but around the world. \nThe main gallery displays a rare collection of both antique and contemporary art which does well to establish the history of the Sikh religion beginning with the spiritual teachings of Guru Nanak\, the first Guru (1469–1539)\, and of the nine Sikh gurus who succeeded him. Works reflect the gurus\, gurdwaras\, the Golden Temple–preeminent spiritual site of Sikhism\, rituals and religious communities. Three phulkaris\, loosely translated as  ”flower work”\, (large embroidered textiles in silk and cotton) draw inspiration from the wheat\, corn and barley farmed in much of Punjab. Lastly\, a set of intricately painted miniatures\, portraits on bone and ivory of the court and family\, often given to visiting dignitaries.\nThe Ann Dizikes Annex features a graphic timeline depicting the migration of the Sikhs in the late 1800’s to the present day. It presents a rich story of the important events and people that brought to life the current Sikh population we see today with its gurdwaras\, community\, agricultural and scientific contributions. \nThis is an exhibit not to be missed. We encourage all to come enjoy the magnificent art and the interesting\, rich culture and history of the Sikh people and their religion.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-kapany-collection-sikh-art-in-america/
LOCATION:Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, Cowell College\, Cowell College‎ 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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