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SUMMARY:Poetry and Protest: Writing Amidst Chaos with poet Alan Pelaez Lopez
DESCRIPTION:In this poetry reading and community conversation\, Alan Pelaez Lopez will reflect on what it means to create art in the middle of legal and political violence. They’ll read from their book\, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien\, and a manuscript-in-progress tentatively titled trans*imagination in the hope that the work can invite questions about abolition\, migrant futures\, and the radical trans imaginary. \n \nAlan Pelaez Lopez is an AfroIndigenous poet\, installation and adornment artist from Oaxaca\, México. Their work attends to the quotidian realities of undocumented migrants in the United States\, the Black condition in Latin America\, and the intimate kinship units that trans and nonbinary people build in the face of violence. Their debut visual poetry collection\, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien\, was a finalist for the 2020 International Latino Book Award. They are also the author of the chapbook\, to love and mourn in the age of displacement. \nThis event is organized by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Racial Justice.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/poetry-and-protest-writing-amidst-chaos-with-poet-alan-pelaez-lopez/
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SUMMARY:From the Margins: Dante 701 Years Later – Dante’s Mediterranean Awakening
DESCRIPTION:During Dante’s lifetime\, the maritime city-states of northern Italy consolidated their position at the center of Mediterranean transit and trade. Thanks to broader trends in the centuries before his birth – the Crusades\, increasing trade in essential foods and luxury goods\, and swift advances in naval architecture and financial supports for trade\, for instance – Genoa and Venice became important hubs for trade and travel between western Europe and the greater Mediterranean world. Florence grew dramatically during the thirteenth century\, but it wasn’t yet the dynamic financial and artistic center that it would become after Dante’s death. Dante’s exile exposed him to cultural trends and technologies reaching northern Italy from the broader Mediterranean world that were still little known in Florence. The works he wrote after his exile – especially the Commedia – reveal his fascination with the technological and intellectual innovations that he learned about as he traveled through northern Italy. This talk addresses Dante’s discovery of the material culture of the Mediterranean – like the shipyards in Venice\, which he may or may not have visited in person; paper and watermarks; dice and dice games; and carpets from the east – and intellectual trends\, like Islamic teachings and legends about the afterlife\, after his exile from Florence. \n \n  \nKarla Mallette is Professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and Professor of Mediterranean Studies in the Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Kingdom of Sicily\, 1100-1250: A Literary History (2005) and European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean (2010); she co-edited A Sea of Languages: Rethinking the Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History (2013). Her most recent book\, Lives of the Great Languages: Latin and Arabic in the Medieval Mediterranean\, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2021. She has directed the Global Islamic Studies Center and the Center for European Studies and is currently chair of the Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan. \nThis event is presented by The Humanities Institute and sponsored by the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Literature Department\, Cowell College\, Italian Studies\, and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa at Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/from-the-margins-dante-701-years-later-dantes-mediterranean-awakening/
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SUMMARY:Engseng Ho - Dubai and Singapore: Asian Diasporics\, Global Logistics\, Company Rule
DESCRIPTION:Dubai and Singapore are emblematic of the contemporary global moment\, embodying dizzying success\, frenetic excess\, spectacular crash. Are they global cities or port-states? Are they Asian nations or corporations descended from the East India Companies that became colonial governments? Their iconic status today as global cities is not simply a function of globalization\, but can be understood in terms of dynamic currents that shape and reshape places in the Indian Ocean\, the original Asian venue of an international economy. Dubai and Singapore are two tiny places that have seen success because they have understood those currents\, and acted in accordance with changes in their dynamics. What are these dynamics – their constants over the long term\, and their recent shifts? \n \nEngseng Ho is a professor of Anthropology and History at Duke University. He is also the Muhammad Alagil Distinguished Visiting Professor of Arabia Asia Studies at the Asia Research Institute\, National University of Singapore. He is a leading scholar of transnational anthropology\, history and Muslim societies\, Arab diasporas\, and the Indian Ocean. His research expertise is in Arabia\, coastal South Asia and maritime Southeast Asia\, and he maintains active collaborations with scholars in these regions. He is co-editor of the Asian Connections book series at Cambridge University Press\, and serves on the editorial boards of journals such as American Anthropologist\, Comparative Studies in Society and History\, History and Anthropology. He has previously worked as Professor of Anthropology\, Harvard University; Senior Scholar\, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; Country and Profile Writer\, the Economist Group; International Economist\, Government of Singapore Investment Corporation/Monetary Authority of Singapore; Director\, Middle East Institute\, National University of Singapore. He was educated at the Penang Free School\, Stanford University\, and the University of Chicago. \nThis event is co-sponsored by SEACoast (Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions) \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. \nTo 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). \nPlease note: this event will be fully remote\, with no in-person attendance. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/engseng-ho-dubai-and-singapore-asian-diasporics-global-logistics-company-rule/
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SUMMARY:University Forum: Beyond the Middle Passage: Slave Trading within the Americas\, 1619-1807
DESCRIPTION:During the American slave trade\, more than 12 million enslaved African people endured the infamous Middle Passage across the Atlantic. For many\, the forced migration didn’t end when they reached an American port. Demand for enslaved labor was so rampant in the Americas that speculators purchased many arriving people only to ship them from colony to colony for resale. This phase of the slave trade within the Americas not only added to enslaved people’s traumatic journeys\, it also reveals the centrality of slavery to early American life. Black History Month\, celebrated each year during February\, is a chance for Americans to learn details of their nation’s history that are far too often neglected and pushed to the wayside. This month’s University Forum is a difficult\, yet crucial\, conversation about the spread of the slave trade within the Americas and how slavery became an American institution. Join this University Forum with Professor Greg O’Malley\, moderated by Professor Vilashini Cooppan\, and followed by a question and answer period led by Professor Gina Dent and Professor Cooppan.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/university-forum-beyond-the-middle-passage-slave-trading-within-the-americas-1619-1807/
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Yuri Herrera
DESCRIPTION:Yuri Herrera’s first novel to appear in English\, Signs Preceding the End of the World\, received great critical acclaim in 2015 and was included in many Best-of-Year lists. Yuri is a political scientist\, editor and contemporary Mexican writer who teaches at Tulane University in New Orleans. His prose was described as “stunning” and his novel as an entrance “to the golden gate of Mexican literature” by Elena Poniatowska. Born in Acopan\, Mexico\, Yuri resides in New Orleans\, Louisiana. \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. \nThis event is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nSee the full list of Living Writers Series Events on the Creative Writing Program page.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-yuri-herrera/
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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 3: February 24th\, 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. \nRegister for all sessions here. \nThe Santa Cruz Shakespeare Playbill for King John may be found 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-3/
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SUMMARY:Bettina Aptheker\, Julie Olsen Edwards and Dena Taylor - "Red Diaper Babies: Growing Up During the HUAC Years of the 1950s"
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! \nGrowing up closer to home than the London scenes depicted in “Red Letter Days\,” three “red diaper babies” discuss how their lives were impacted by the McCarthy era and the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). They will share some of the lessons learned that they have carried into the present. \nBettina Aptheker: Distinguished Professor Emerita\, Feminist Studies Department\, UCSC. Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red\, Fought for Free Speech and Became a Feminist Rebel (2006) and The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis (2nd edition\, 1999). My book to be published in 2023 is called Communists in Closets; Queering the History\, 1930-1990s. \nJulie Olsen Edwards: Cabrillo College Early Childhood faculty (retired)\, writer\, Anti Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves (NAEYC)\, consultant\, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). \nDena Taylor: Cabrillo College Program Manager (retired)\, author\, poet. Dena’s most recent books are Tell Me the Number Before Infinity: the story of a girl with a quirky mind\, an eccentric family\, and oh yes\, a disability (co-authored with Becky Taylor) and Exclamation Points: collected poems. \n \nThis event is hosted by the Friends of the Aptos Library as part of their 2022 season of “Our Community Reads.”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bettina-aptheker-julie-olsen-edwards-and-dena-taylor-red-diaper-babies-growing-up-during-the-huac-years-of-the-1950s/
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SUMMARY:Meena Kandasamy - Caste Fanaticism and Misogyny: The Hate Politics of Internet Hindutva
DESCRIPTION:Meena Kandasamy (b. 1984) is an anti-caste activist\, poet\, novelist and translator. Her writing aims to deconstruct trauma and violence\, while spotlighting the militant resistance against caste\, gender\, and ethnic oppressions. She explores this in her poetry and prose\, most notably in her books of poems such as Touch (2006) and Ms. Militancy (2010)\, as well as her three novels\, The Gypsy Goddess (2014)\, When I Hit You (2017)\, and Exquisite Cadavers (2019). Her latest work is a collection of essays\, The Orders Were to Rape You: Tamil Tigresses in the Eelam Struggle (Navayana\, 2021). Activism is at the heart of her literary work; she has translated several political texts from Tamil to English including the works of Dravidian ideologue Periyar and Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi leader Dr.Thol.Thirumavalavan\, and previously held an editorial role at The Dalit\, an alternative magazine documenting caste-related brutality and the anti-caste resistance in India. Her novels have been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction\, the International Dylan Thomas Prize\, the Jhalak Prize and the Hindu Lit Prize. She holds a PhD in sociolinguistics\, and was Gallatin Global Faculty in Residence at New York University (NYU) in Fall 2018 where she co-taught a course on feminist writers from the neo-colonial world. Her op-eds and essays have appeared in The White Review\, Guernica\, The Guardian and The New York Times. \n \nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored by Stanford University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/meena-kandasamy-caste-fanaticism-and-misogyny-the-hate-politics-of-internet-hindutva/
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