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SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED - Blossoms into Gold: The Croatians in the Pajaro Valley
DESCRIPTION:** This event has been rescheduled for July 24th ** \nOf all the immigrant groups who flocked to California in the last two hundred years\, probably the least known are the Croatians of the Dalmatian Coast. Often identified as Austrians\, Slavonians\, or Dalmatians\, they came from a glorious background of international traders\, sailors\, and political thinkers few people in America knew about\, and brought with them knowledge that would change the way the United States did business. At the same time\, they transported their customs and beliefs to their new home and established a way of life that was vibrant and rich in traditional folkways. Join the authors of Blossoms into Gold for a discussion of this community’s fabled past and economic innovations in the Pajaro Valley. \nDonna F. Mekis holds degrees in both Anthropology and Education from UC Santa Cruz. She had a forty-year career in higher education\, working at both UC Santa Cruz and Cabrillo College. At Cabrillo\, Donna developed and directed both the Transfer Center and the Honors Transfer Program. Recently\, she served as the President of UCSC’s Alumni Association and is currently a Trustee on the UC Santa Cruz Foundation Board. \nKathryn Mekis Miller did her undergraduate and graduate work at UC Berkeley. She and her husband Marshall Miller opened their first retail store in Santa Cruz in 1971. They have developed a number of successful businesses under the umbrella name Sun Shops\, which has now become a second-generation Santa Cruz business. In 2009\, Sun Shops were honored as the Business of the Year by the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce. \nFor more information\, please visit Blossoms into Gold. \nFree with museum admission. Sponsored by UC Santa Cruz University Library and The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/blossoms-into-gold-the-croatians-in-the-pajaro-valley/
LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mieko Kawakami in Conversation with Ruth Ozeki
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Mieko Kawakami\, bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs\, for an online discussion of her new\, extraordinary novel—All the Lovers in the Night\, in which she demonstrates yet again why she is one of today’s most uncategorizable\, insightful\, and talented novelists. Kawakami will be in conversation with acclaimed author Ruth Ozeki at this special event presented by Europa Editions. \n“Her most accomplished novel yet… A contemporary Japanese master continues her meteoric rise into our literary firmament.” —Oprah Daily (A Most Anticipated Book of 2022) \nVisit https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/mieko-kawakami for more information. \n \nMieko Kawakami is the author of the internationally best-selling novel Breasts and Eggs\, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and one of TIME’s Best 10 Books of 2020; and the highly-acclaimed Heaven\, her second novel to be translated and published in English\, which Oprah Daily described as written “with jagged\, visceral beauty.” Born in Osaka\, Japan\, Kawakami made her literary debut as a poet in 2006\, and in 2007 published her first novella\, My Ego\, My Teeth\, and the World. Known for their poetic qualities\, their insights into the female body\, and their preoccupation with ethics and modern society\, her books have been translated into over twenty languages. Kawakami’s literary awards include the Akutagawa Prize\, the Tanizaki Prize\, and the Murasaki Shikibu Prize. She lives in Tokyo\, Japan. \nRuth Ozeki is a novelist\, filmmaker\, and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the best-selling author of four novels: The Book of Form and Emptiness\, longlisted for the UK Women’s Prize for Fiction; My Year of Meats; All Over Creation; and A Tale for the Time Being\, winner of the LA Times Book Prize and finalist for the 2013 Booker Prize and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award. Her nonfiction work includes a memoir\, The Face: A Time Code\, and the documentary film\, Halving the Bones. A longtime Buddhist practitioner\, Ruth is affiliated with the Brooklyn Zen Center and the Everyday Zen Foun­dation. She is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities at Smith College. \nTICKETING INFORMATION: \nChoose from several ticket options! \nentry-only ticket: $5 (no book included)\nentry + book ticket package: $32—$62 (book included\, with signed bookplate while supplies last)\nFor entry + book\, select IN-STORE PICKUP or have the book SHIPPED to you either in the U.S. or internationally. \nEVENT ACCESS: \nThe link to join the virtual event will be sent to the email address you register upon purchase. It will also be available for ticketholders here on Eventbrite.\nCan’t make the event? A replay will be available to customers afterwards! \nThis event is presented by Europa Editions and Bookshop Santa Cruz and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mieko-kawakami-in-conversation-with-ruth-ozeki/
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SUMMARY:Filippo Gianferrari - Dante and Boccaccio vs. Medieval Education: A Lesson in Cross-Cultural Pastoral
DESCRIPTION:Readers have always been fascinated by Dante’s distinctive habit of placing episodes from Scripture side by side with ancient pagan myths\, as though the latter had a comparable authority. As my reading shows\, a popular medieval school text\, known as the Eclogue of Theodulus (Ecloga Theoduli)\, supplied a fitting precedent and model for this practice and might have suggested some specific series of examples that Dante stages in his Purgatorio. By constructing a system of parallel mythological and biblical examples\, the Ecloga Theoduli featured a syncretic account of universal history that suggested mythology was a prefiguration of the events recounted in the Bible. Whereas the Ecloga depicts a clash between Christian and pagan cultures\, however\, dismissing the latter as a lie\, Dante harmonizes the two traditions\, providing a syncretic program for the moral instruction of the Christian reader. Although the Purgatorio’s syncretic discourse constituted a remarkable innovation\, which exerted long-lasting influence on later authors\, it nonetheless retained some of the cultural limitations imposed by the Ecloga—as\, for instance\, in the representation of Virgil’s inability to cross the river Lethe in Eden. The chapter goes on to argue that first in Paradiso 19 and then in his last work\, the second Egloga to Giovanni del Virgilio\, Dante obliquely criticizes the Ecloga Theoduli’s condemnation of ancient poetic wisdom. The case of the Ecloga\, therefore\, well encapsulates Dante’s conflicting attitude toward his own education. The paper ends by showing that Boccaccio’s eclogue Olympia (Buccolicum Carmen 14) provides a sophisticated parody and refutation of the Ecloga Theoduli that takes as its model and interlocutor Dante’s wrestling with the same text in his own oeuvre. \n \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 Spring 2022\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format\, with the option of in-person or virtual attendance. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. 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 Spring 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/filippo-gianferrari-dante-and-bocaccio-vs-medieval-education-a-lesson-in-cross-cultural-pastoral/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Deep Read 2022 Faculty Salon
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion with campus faculty and the Deep Read community at the 2022 Deep Read Salon where we’ll discuss Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom. UCSC Chancellor Cynthia Larive—an accomplished bioanalytical chemist—will be joined by Vilashini Coopan (Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies) and Gina Athena Ulysse (Feminist Studies)\, for an evening of discussion and depth. \nCommunity members in Santa Cruz are encouraged to join us in person at the Hay Barn. Everyone else will be able to participate remotely over Zoom. \n \n\n\nSalon Faculty Lineup\nChancellor Cynthia Larive not only leads our campus\, but also is an accomplished bioanalytical chemist and first-generation college graduate. Her academic experience closely tracks to the professional story arc of the novel’s narrator-protagonist. \nVilashini Cooppan is Professor of Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She’ll bring her scholarly approach to comparative and world literature\, postcolonial studies\, memory studies\, affect theory\, and genre theory to our reading and understanding of Transcendent Kingdom. \nGina Athena Ulysse is an artist-scholar and Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz.  She will focus on how the novel negotiates the narrator’s cultural divide as a young Ghanian-born immigrant to the US\, discussing  howshe is seeking to self-actualize from a Black feminist standpoint.   \nAbout The Deep Read\nThis salon is part of The Humanities Institute’s Deep Read Program that invites curious minds to think deeply about literature\, art\, and the most pressing issues of our day. We read books from a wide range of genres\, exploring their implications on our politics\, inner lives\, and communities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deep-read-salon-at-the-cowell-hay-barn/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Harjeet Grewal - Janamsakhis and Sikh Epistemology
DESCRIPTION:The Sikh tradition produced some of the earliest vernacular prose narratives beginning in the mid-sixteenth century known as Janamsakhis. These accounts of Guru Nanak Sahib’s life remain central to the lives of Sikhs across the globe today. This talk reviews scholarly debates about Janamsakhi’s and argues that examining the Janamsakhis from a critical literary perspective helps better determine their role in Sikh intellectual and ethical life. Their longevity and continuing importance\, Grewal argues\, is better understood from such a perspective. \nJoin Zoom here. \nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/harjeet-grewal-janamsakhis-and-sikh-epistemology/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia:  Katy Carlson
DESCRIPTION:About eight times each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lingustics-colloquia-katy-carlson/
LOCATION:TBD\, CA\, United States
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