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SUMMARY:From the Margins: Dante 701 Years Later - Reading Dante\, Seeking Freedom\, Fleeing Racism
DESCRIPTION:African American culture has been attentive to Dante Alighieri\, the man and his writing\, since the mid-19th century. Dante’s Divine Comedy has proved to be an effective primer on issues of justice for the broader community. This talk will present the work of African American authors from the 19th century to today who have turned to Dante and amplified his voice that speaks truth to power\, that calls out for justice without compromise\, that seeks a better community for us all. \n \n  \nDennis Looney served as director of the Office of Programs and director of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages at the Modern Language Association from 2014-2021. From 1986 to 2013\, he taught Italian at the University of Pittsburgh\, with secondary appointments in Classics and Philosophy. He was chair of the Department of French and Italian for eleven years and assistant dean of humanities for three years at Pitt. Publications include Compromising the Classics: Romance Epic Narrative in the Italian Renaissance (Wayne State UP\, 1996)\, which received honorable mention\, MLA Marraro-Scaglione Award in Italian Literary Studies\, 1996-97; and Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy (U Notre Dame P\, 2011)\, which received the American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize (general category) in 2011. He co-edited and co-translated Ludovico Ariosto’s Latin Poetry (Harvard UP\, 2018) with D. Mark Possanza. \n  \nSponsored by the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Literature Department\, The Humanities Institute\, Cowell College\, Italian Studies\, and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/from-the-margins-dante-701-years-later-reading-dante-seeking-freedom-fleeing-racism/
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SUMMARY:Isebill Gruhn\, "From McCarthyism to Today: Demagoguery Then and Now"
DESCRIPTION:The 2022 season of Our Community Reads from the Friends of the Aptos Library is featuring a series of special events related to themes in Red Letter Days by Sarah-Jane Stratford. All events aim to create a shared experience that will increase appreciation for our community libraries and for our local bookstores; foster pride in the varied experiences that our area offers; and the enrichment –– culturally\, intellectually\, and emotionally –– that comes from the joy of reading! \nSetting the stage for the era in which Red Letter Days takes place\, Professor Emerita “Ronnie” Gruhn will describe world events during the 1950’s and developments leading up to current day. She will define the various “isms”(authoritarianism\, socialism\, etc) that are often misused in today’s political discussions and explore the similarities\, if any\, of the McCarthy era to today. \nProfessor Gruhn arrived at UC Santa Cruz in 1969 as a member of the Political Science department and an affiliate of Stevenson College. Gruhn served in diverse capacities at UC Santa Cruz over the past four decades. She twice chaired the Political Science department (1973-1975 and 1980-1981) among other accomplishments\, and today is a regular lecturer for the Osher Lifelong Learner Institute. \n \nThis event is hosted by the Friends of the Aptos Library as part of their 2022 season of “Our Community Reads” and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/isebill-gruhn-from-mccarthyism-to-today-demagoguery-then-and-now/
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SUMMARY:Jorgge Menna Barreto - Voicescapes for the Landless
DESCRIPTION:This project expands traditional oral history methodologies by recording the voices of farmers of the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST) embedded in the soundscapes of the food forests they cultivate. The resulting situated multispecies voicescapes will be used in the creation of pedagogical material for students in rural schools and beyond. \n \nJorgge Menna Barreto\, Ph.D. is a Brazilian artist and educator\, whose practice and research have been dedicated to site-specific art for over 20 years. In 2014\, he worked on a postdoctoral research project at Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina\, Brazil\, where he collaborated with a biologist and an agronomist to study relations between site-specific art and agroecology\, centring around agroforestry. In 2020 he completed a second postdoctoral research at Liverpool John Moores University\, England\, which led to the work presented at the Liverpool Biennial in 2021. Menna Barreto approaches site-specificity from a critical and South American perspective\, having taught\, lectured\, and written on the subject. He has translated authors from English into Brazilian Portuguese\, including Miwon Kwon\, Rosalyn Deutsche\, Hito Steyerl and Anna Tsing. Menna Barreto has participated in art residencies\, projects and exhibitions worldwide. In 2016\, he took part in the 32nd São Paulo Biennial with his award-winning project Restauro: a restaurant set up to work as a system of environmental restoration in collaboration with settlements of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement [MST]. The project travelled to the Serpentine Galleries in London in 2017\, where the artist worked with a wild edibles expert\, a botanical illustrator and local organic growers. In 2020\, as a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academie\, Netherlands\, he launched a periodical called Enzyme in collaboration with artist Joélson Buggilla. In Geneva\, Switzerland\, he has collaborated on the MFA in Socially Engaged Art at HEAD – Haute École d’Arts Appliqués\, where he is working on a research project focused on ecopedagogy. In 2021\, Menna Barreto joined the Art Department of University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where he also teaches at the new MFA in Environmental Art and Social Practice. \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/jorgge-menna-barreto-dehydrated-landscapes/
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: TC Tolbert
DESCRIPTION:TC Tolbert (he/him/hey grrrl) is a trans and genderqueer monkey-goat who never ceases to experience a simultaneous grief and deep love any time s/he pays attention to the world. S/he writes poems\, works with wood\, learns\, teaches\, and wanders. In 2019\, TC was awarded an Academy of American Poets’ Laureate Fellowship for his work with trans\, non-binary\, and queer folks as Tucson’s Poet Laureate. Publications include Gephyromania (originally published by Ahsahta Press in 2014\, to be re-released by Nightboat Books in 2022) and five chapbooks. TC is also co-editor (along with Trace Peterson) of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books 2013). TC lives in Tucson\, AZ where s/he is the current Poet Laureate. www.tctolbert.com \n \nChange Me: Stories of Radical Transformation – A Living Writers Series \nAfter 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. \nSee the full list of Living Writers Series events on the Creative Writing Program page.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-tc-tolbert/
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Life and Death of King John
DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute\, as we launch Undiscovered Shakespeare: King John\, the third installment of our annual virtual Shakespeare program. Over the course of three sessions (February 10\, 17\, and 24)\, we will immerse ourselves in another rarely performed play and reflect on it both as a point of departure for Shakespeare’s career and as a mirror for the times in which we live. \nSession 1: February 10th\, 2022 6:30pm-8:30pm\nWe begin with a dramatic reading of The Life and Death of King John\, before turning to a presentation by Jesse Lander\, Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame\, and an open discussion with Professor Lander\, director Charles Pasternak\, and the cast of the production. \nSubsequent sessions are held on Feb 17 and Feb 24\, 2022. Register for all three sessions here. \n \nKing John\, Full Play Synopsis:\nFrance threatens England with war\, claiming that King John has usurped the throne from its rightful claimant\, his nephew Arthur. Armies from both France and England seek support from the town of Angers which proposes that John’s niece marry the dauphin of France to solve the issue. The parties agree\, but the wedding and proposed peace are interrupted by the arrival of an emissary of the Pope who\, angry at John for his treatment of the church in France\, rekindles the war. France invades England and John plots to have Arthur murdered. When Arthur falls from a wall and dies\, the English lords\, convinced that John is responsible\, abandon his cause and join France. John tries to reconcile with the Church to forestall his defeat by the French\, but the Dauphin refuses to back down. The English lords\, however\, learning that the French mean to kill them after the victory\, change sides again. France sues for peace\, but the news comes too late to John\, who dies\, poisoned by a monk. \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced. King John is one of only two plays by Shakespeare written entirely in verse (along with Richard II). In it\, Shakespeare explores the use of political rhetoric to cloak self-serving ambitions during the reign of the king that saw the birth of the Magna Carta. \n  \nSean Keilen is Professor of Literature and former Provost of Porter College at UC Santa Cruz\, where he directs Shakespeare Workshop\, a research center of The Humanities Institute that uses Shakespeare’s writing to bring the campus and the community together in conversation about topics of shared concern. He studies Shakespeare and the history of criticism\, and is the author or editor of books and essays about early British literature and the classical tradition in England. He was educated at Williams College\, Cambridge\, and Stanford University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-the-life-and-death-of-king-john/
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