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SUMMARY:Historias de acción: Acción comunitaria frente al racismo en América Latina con Natalia Barrera Francis
DESCRIPTION:*Charla en español* “Historias de acción: Acción comunitaria frente al racismo en América Latina con Natalia Barrera Francis.” \nThe Dolores Huerta Research Center of America is proud to welcome and sponsor two talks by Natalia Barrera-Francis\, an award-winning journalist and anti-racist activist from Lima\, Perú. She will deliver two talks at UCSC on Nov. 1st  and 2nd\, one in Spanish and one in English\, respectively\, to share her experiences as a youth activist and inspire the audience to take action against racism in Latin America. \nLight refreshments will be served. \n \nNatalia Barrera Francis is an Afro-Peruvian publicist\, audiovisual producer\, model and journalist. She has more than five years of experience creating content on social media\, thanks to an antiracist audiovisual project called “Una Chica Afroperuana” (An Afro-Peruvian girl)\, in which she began documenting her experiences as a Black woman in Peru and addressing topics that affect Afro-Peruvian youth. “Una Chica Afroperuana” was the only digital space to have an Afro-Peruvian woman as content creator and protagonist\, and the first to regularly produce content about racial themes in Peru. Some of her videos have received more than half a million visits and have been widely shared\, generating constant interactions on digital platforms like Instagram\, Facebook\, and YouTube. Her work as a journalist began with the AJ+ documentary series\, “Descoloniza” (Decolonize)\, a series that reflects on inequalities not only by highlighting colonial violence and racism\, but that also aims to provide context and elevate the stories of people who are taking measures to challenge structural oppresion and historical erasure\, as well as visions of the world that colonialism imposed on Latin America. Recently\, her work has been recognized by brands such as H&M\, Converse\, Natura and in the last campaign of “Life Is Not a Spectator Sport” from Reebok Peru as well as organizations such as the United Nations\, Black Woman Disrupt\, and Lifetime\, among others. Currently\, she is finishing a bachelor’s degree in digital marketing. \n  \nCosponsors: Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, Literature Department\, Porter College\, Feminist Studies Department\, Jack & Peggy Baskin Endowed Chair in Feminist Studies\, the Center for Racial Justice\, LALS\, The Humanities Institute\, Spanish Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/historias-de-accion-accion-comunitaria-frente-al-racismo-en-america-latina-con-natalia-barrera-francis/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Ching Kwan Lee - Hong Kong: Global China’s Restive Frontier
DESCRIPTION:How did Hong Kong transform itself from a “shoppers’ and capitalists’ paradise” into a “city of protests” at the frontline of an anti-China global backlash in 2019? Most analysts interpret the recent turmoil in Hong Kong as a political and ideological struggle between a liberal\, capitalist democratizing city and its Communist authoritarian sovereign. This talk broadens the plane of analysis to argue that the Hong Kong saga is part of a larger phenomenon called “global China\,” conceptualized as a double movement. On the one hand\, Beijing deploys a bundle of power mechanisms — economic statecraft\, patron- clientelism and symbolic domination – around the world\, including Hong Kong. On the other\, this Chinese power project triggers a variety of countermovements from Asia to Africa\, ranging from acquiescence and adaptation to appropriation and resistance. \n \nChing Kwan Lee is a professor of sociology at UCLA. She is the author of three award-winning monographs on contemporary China’s turn to capitalism: Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women (1998)\, Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt  (2007)\, and The Specter of Global China: Politics\, Labor and Foreign Investment in Africa (2017). Her latest publication is Hong Kong: Global China’s Restive Frontier (2022)\, an open access book from Cambridge University Press. She is working on an ethnographic and historical monograph about Hong Kong’s decolonization struggle\, with a particular focus on the 2019 uprising.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hong-kong-global-chinas-restive-frontier/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz - “The Idea ‘Asia’ in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Philippine Political Thought and Action”
DESCRIPTION:This talk will excavate the Philippine nation’s cosmopolitan and transnational Asian intellectual moorings\, in order to reconnect Philippine history to that of Southeast Asia\, from which it has been historiographically separated. It argues that turn-of-the-twentieth-century Philippine Asianism was crucial to the concept of the Filipino nation that the ilustrados (educated elite) constructed\, to the ilustrado-led Propaganda Movement’s political argumentation against Spain\, and to the political mobilization and organizing of the Katipunan and the First Philippine Republic. It incorporates the “periphery” into our understanding of Pan-Asianism to correct our exclusively intellectual historical and Northeast-Asia-centric understandings of Pan-Asianism. It shows that the revolutionary First Philippine Republic’s foreign collaboration represents the first instance of fellow Pan-Asianists lending material aid toward anti-colonial revolution against a Western power (rather than overthrow of a domestic dynasty) and harnessing transnational Pan-Asian networks of support\, activism\, and association toward doing so. \nOriginally from the Philippines\, Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz is a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge\, in the UK\, and the Executive Director of the Toynbee Prize Foundation. Prior to Cambridge\, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. She earned her Ph.D. in Southeast Asian and International History at Yale University. Her first book\, Asian Place\, Filipino Nation: A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution\, 1887-1912\, published by Columbia University Press in June 2020\, charts the emplotment of ‘place’ in the proto-national thought and revolutionary organising of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Filipino thinkers. Her broad research interests center on global intellectual history and Southeast Asian environmental\, cultural\, and social history. \nFree and open to the campus community and the public. This event is presented by the Center for World History.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nicole-cuunjieng-aboitiz-the-idea-asia-in-turn-of-the-twentieth-century-philippine-political-thought-and-action/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:George Saunders\, Liberation Day
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to welcome award-winning writer George Saunders for an event to celebrate the release of his new book\, Liberation Day: Stories—a masterful collection that explores ideas of power\, ethics\, and justice\, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. \nThis event is cosponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz and KAZU 90.3 and will take place at the Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building\, 846 Front Street\, Santa Cruz. \nGuests can purchase tickets here. Each ticket includes admission to the event plus one signed hardcover copy of Liberation Day. \nGeorge Saunders is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eleven books\, including A Swim in a Pond in the Rain; Lincoln in the Bardo\, which won the Booker Prize; Congratulations\, by the Way; Tenth of December\, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the inaugural Folio Award; The Braindead Megaphone; and the critically acclaimed collections CivilWarLand in Bad Decline\, Pastoralia\, and In Persuasion Nation. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/george-saunders-liberation-day/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Veterans Memorial Building\, 846 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, 95061
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Interviewing and Negotiating the Job Offer
DESCRIPTION:Learn interviewing strategies to land the job offer. Then learn how to negotiate the best salary and benefits package when you receive the job offer. This class offers strategies that apply to both academic and alternative-to-academic job applications and negotiations. The negotiation strategies also apply to asking for raises\, job reclassifications\, and title and responsibilities changes. \nVeronica Heiskell has worked for over twelve years in diversity and career centers in a variety of higher education institutions and currently serves as associate director of experiential learning at Career Success. Her goal is to remove as many barriers as possible for all students to pursue meaningful experiential learning opportunities. She completed her bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in LGBT studies at UCLA\, her master’s degree in counseling and guidance in higher education at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo\, and her doctoral degree in higher education administration at UT Austin. Her dissertation research focused on sense of belonging for exploratory students. \nRegister by October 25th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/interviewing-and-negotiating-the-job-offer/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221102T121500
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SUMMARY:Charne Lavery – Vertical Indian Ocean: A Cultural History of the Southern Submarine
DESCRIPTION:This talk describes a new book project\, an exploration of deep sea culture centered on the Indian Ocean as an ‘ocean of the south’. Drawn by the alternative histories and geography of the world of the Indian Ocean at the surface—the topic of my first book\, Writing Ocean Worlds—the new book explores what possibilities exist\, in this ancient and south-centered oceanic world\, for apprehending\, narrating and imagining what lies beneath. It aims to do so by taking as a structuring framework the ocean’s five vertical zones—the sunlight\, the twilight\, the midnight\, the abyss\, and the trenches—in the context of warming planetary seas. \nCharne Lavery is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Pretoria and Research Associate based at WISER\, University of the Witwatersrand\, South Africa. She explores ocean writing of the global South in a time of environmental change. Her first monograph\, Writing Ocean Worlds: Indian Ocean Fiction in English\, appeared in 2021. With Isabel Hofmeyr\, she co-directs the Oceanic Humanities for the Global South \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \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. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/charne_lavery/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Tamiment Book Talk with Bettina Aptheker
DESCRIPTION:Presented by NYU Libraries – Join scholar activists Bettina Aptheker and Judith Smith as they discuss Aptheker’s most recent book Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s. \n \nCommunists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s explores the history of gay\, lesbian\, and non-heterosexual people in the Communist Party in the United States. \nThe Communist Party banned lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, and transgender (LGBT) people from membership beginning in 1938 when it cast them off as “degenerates.” It persisted in this policy until 1991. During this 60-year ban\, gays and lesbians who did join the Communist Party were deeply closeted within it\, as well as in their public lives as both queer and Communist. By the late 1930s\, the Communist Party had a membership approaching 100\,000 and tens of thousands more people moved in its orbit through the Popular Front against fascism\, anti-racist organizing\, especially in the south\, and its widely read cultural magazine\, The New Masses. Based on a decade of archival research\, correspondence\, and interviews\, Bettina Aptheker explores this history\, also pulling from her own experience as a closeted lesbian in the Communist Party in the 1960s and ‘70s. Ironically\, and in spite of this homophobia\, individual Communists laid some of the political and theoretical foundations for lesbian and gay liberation and women’s liberation\, and contributed significantly to peace\, social justice\, civil rights\, and Black and Latinx liberation movements. \nBettina Aptheker is Distinguished Professor Emerita\, Feminist Studies\, University of California\, Santa Cruz where she taught for more than 40 years\, and had over 17\,000 students in the course of her career. An activist-scholar she co-led the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley in 1964\, and the National Student Mobilization Committee To End the War in Vietnam. She was a member of the Communist Party from 1962-1981. She has been part of the LGBT movement since the late 1970s\, She has published several books including\, The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis\, Tapestries of Life: Women’s Work\, Women’s Consciousness and the Meaning of Daily Experience\, and a memoir\, Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red\, Fought for Free Speech & Became A Feminist Rebel that was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in 2006. She and her wife\, Kate Miller\, have been together since 1979. They live in Santa Cruz. \nJudith Smith is Professor of American Studies Emerita at University of Massachusetts Boston\, where she taught cultural history since 1945 and history of media and film. She is the author of Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist\, Public Radical (2014) and Visions of Belonging: Family Stories\, Popular Culture\, and Postwar Democracy\, 1940-1960 (2004). Her published essays explored how writers on the left addressed popular audiences on radio in the 1930s and 1940s\, live television drama in the 1950s\, and in film from the mid 1940s to the mid 1960s. She served as researcher/consultant for the recent documentary\, Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart: Lorraine Hansberry (2018). \nLive closed captioning will be available.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/62746/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Christian Sorace: Steppe Immunity
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department is pleased present their upcoming speaker series this fall quarter and invites you to join them. These will be hybrid events\, hosted in-person in Humanities 1 Room 420 & virtually via Zoom\, except for the talk on October 25th which will only be on Zoom. The Zoom link for all talks is the same\, and can be accessed by clicking the “Join” button below. The November 2nd “Steppe Immunity” talk will be given by Christian Sorace from Colorado College. \n \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christian-sorace-steppe-immunity/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221102T160000
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SUMMARY:Alberto Ortiz-Díaz – Carceral Care: Health Professionals and the Living Dead in Colonial Puerto Rico’s Sanitary City\, 1920s-1940s
DESCRIPTION:Using an array of primary sources\, this talk explores the early history of the Río Piedras sanitary city or medical corridor\, a transnationally and imperially inspired built environment and complex of welfare institutions (a tuberculosis hospital\, an insane asylum\, and a penitentiary) constructed and consolidated on the margins of San Juan by Puerto Rico’s colonial-populist state between the 1920s and 40s. Within and across these institutional spaces\, health professionals contributed to the production of medicalized scientific knowledge and cared for and socially regulated racialized\, pathologized Puerto Ricans. Penitentiary “living dead” (incarcerated people)\, in particular\, were subjected to research and received treatment\, but also provided health labor that put them at risk while powering the sanitary city and nurturing its inhabitants. Crucially\, however\, some prisoners managed to exploit the unthinkable openness of the complex\, revealing in the process that the living dead could only be buried alive for so long. \n \nThis talk is part of the Sawyer Seminar “Race\, Empire\, and Environments of Biomedicine.” Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute. \nThe talk will occur virtually and guests can register to join the Zoom conference ahead of the event. \nAlberto Ortiz Díaz is assistant professor of history at the University of Texas\, Arlington\, and currently a Larson Fellow at the Kluge Center\, Library of Congress. His first book\, Raising the Living Dead: Rehabilitative Corrections in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean\, is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press in March 2023. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alberto-ortiz-diaz-carceral-care-health-professionals-and-the-living-dead-in-colonial-puerto-ricos-sanitary-city-1920s-1940s/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Stories of Action: Community Activism in the Face of Racism in Latin America with Natalia Barrera Francis
DESCRIPTION:“Stories of Action: Community Activism in the Face of Racism in Latin America with Natalia Barrera Francis.” \nThe Dolores Huerta Research Center of America is proud to welcome and sponsor two talks by Natalia Barrera-Francis\, an award-winning journalist and anti-racist activist from Lima\, Perú. She will deliver two talks at UCSC on Nov. 1st  and 2nd\, one in Spanish and one in English\, respectively\, to share her experiences as a youth activist and inspire the audience to take action against racism in Latin America. \nLight refreshments will be served. \n \nNatalia Barrera Francis is an Afro-Peruvian publicist\, audiovisual producer\, model and journalist. She has more than five years of experience creating content on social media\, thanks to an antiracist audiovisual project called “Una Chica Afroperuana” (An Afro-Peruvian girl)\, in which she began documenting her experiences as a Black woman in Peru and addressing topics that affect Afro-Peruvian youth. “Una Chica Afroperuana” was the only digital space to have an Afro-Peruvian woman as content creator and protagonist\, and the first to regularly produce content about racial themes in Peru. Some of her videos have received more than half a million visits and have been widely shared\, generating constant interactions on digital platforms like Instagram\, Facebook\, and YouTube. Her work as a journalist began with the AJ+ documentary series\, “Descoloniza” (Decolonize)\, a series that reflects on inequalities not only by highlighting colonial violence and racism\, but that also aims to provide context and elevate the stories of people who are taking measures to challenge structural oppresion and historical erasure\, as well as visions of the world that colonialism imposed on Latin America. Recently\, her work has been recognized by brands such as H&M\, Converse\, Natura and in the last campaign of “Life Is Not a Spectator Sport” from Reebok Peru as well as organizations such as the United Nations\, Black Woman Disrupt\, and Lifetime\, among others. Currently\, she is finishing a bachelor’s degree in digital marketing. \n  \nCosponsors: Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, Literature Department\, Porter College\, Feminist Studies Department\, Jack & Peggy Baskin Endowed Chair in Feminist Studies\, the Center for Racial Justice\, LALS\, The Humanities Institute\, Spanish Studies. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stories-of-action-community-activism-in-the-face-of-racism-in-latin-america-with-natalia-barrera-francis/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - WordPress Website Design
DESCRIPTION:Professional websites can boost your reputation and aid your networking and job search. UCSC provides free access to WordPress (with several design templates) to faculty\, postdoctoral scholars\, and graduate students. Get design tips from Jason and get started using WordPress to make a blog or static website to showcase your graduate work! \nJason Chafin graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 1993 with a bachelor’s in environmental studies. He earned his master of environmental studies from The Evergreen State College in Olympia\, WA\, and spent over a decade as an environmental planner. He switched gears in 2010 and became a web developer\, working primarily with WordPress. He’s been with University Relations as the senior web developer in the Communications and Marketing Department since 2017. \nRegister by October 26th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided for in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/wordpress-website-design/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221103T180000
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SUMMARY:Natasha Trethewey – Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 13th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading\, featuring honored guest Natasha Trethewey. Poet Gary Young will host the program\, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1\,000 prize). \n \nSeating will be first come\, first served. Registration required. \nNatasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014). She is the author of five collections of poetry\, Monument (2018)\, which was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award; Thrall (2012); Native Guard (2006)\, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize\, Bellocq’s Ophelia (2002); and Domestic Work (2000)\, which was selected by Rita Dove as the winner of the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African American poet and won both the 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize and the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry. She is also the author of the memoir Memorial Drive (2020). Her book of nonfiction\, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast\, appeared in 2010. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, the Rockefeller Foundation\, the Beinecke Library at Yale\, and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. At Northwestern University she is a Board of Trustees Professor of English in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. In 2012 she was named Poet Laureate of the State of Mississippi and and in 2013 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nGary Young is the author of several collections of poetry. His most recent books are That’s What I Thought\, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award from Persea Books\, and Precious Mirror\, translations from the Japanese. His other books include Even So: New and Selected Poems; Pleasure; No Other Life\, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award; Braver Deeds\, winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize; Days; The Dream of a Moral Life\, which won the James D. Phelan Award; and Hands. He has received a Pushcart Prize\, and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the California Arts Council\, and the Vogelstein Foundation\, among others. In 2009 he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Young was the first Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County\, and in 2012 he was named Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year. Since 1975 he has designed\, illustrated\, and printed limited edition letterpress books and broadsides at his Greenhouse Review Press. His fine print work is represented in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art\, the Victoria and Albert Museum\, The Getty Museum\, and special collection libraries throughout the U.S. and Europe. He teaches creative writing and directs the Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz. \nThis event is a part of Conversations: Power Forged\, the Fall UCSC Living Writers course\, which features poets\, novelists\, academics\, curators\, and artists in conversation with one another\, in person\, across genre and media. \nParking information: The Merrill Cultural Center is located in Merrill College\, in the northeast corner of the campus core. Those walking or arriving by Metro bus or campus shuttle can take the steep path heading northeast from the Crown/Merrill bus stop. \nFor those driving from the Main Entrance\, stay on Coolidge Drive. Shortly after Coolidge turns left and becomes McLaughlin Drive\, turn right at the sign for Merrill College. At the top of the hill\, veer right. There are ParkMobile parking spaces along the left side of the lot\, and parking for “A\,” “B\,” and “C” permits along the right. There are two accessible parking spaces if you turn left at the top of the hill and two more if you turn right. Parking attendants will be on site to sell parking permits to event attendees. \nPurchase both poets works at: www.bookshopsantacruz.com \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors poet\, teacher\, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009). Marcus was the 1999 Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year and a recipient of the 2007 Gail Rich Award. Among his published works are eleven volumes of poetry\, including The Santa Cruz Mountain Poems\, Pages from a Scrapbook of Immigrants\, Moments Without Names\, Shouting Down the Silence\, Pursuing the Dream Bone and The Dark Figure In The Doorway; a novel\, The Brezhnev Memo; and a literary memoir\, Striking Through the Masks. He taught English and Film at Cabrillo College for thirty years\, was the co-host of the radio program\, The Poetry Show\, and was the co-host of the television film review show\, Cinema Scene. Learn more at: www.mortonmarcus.com \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Archive can be found at UCSC Special Collections. Mort’s personal papers\, manuscripts\, and recordings reflect his legacy as a poet and educator\, and his collection of poetry books\, broadsides\, literary magazines and correspondence with other poets and writers illuminate his deep involvement in\, and passion for\, the literary art of poetry. \nOrganizing Committee: Danusha Laméris\, Donna Mekis\, Mark Ong\, Maggie Paul\, Catherine Segurson\, David Sullivan\, Irena Polić\, Teresa Mora\, and Gary Young. \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Contest: phren-Z\, an online literary magazine\, whose mission is to celebrate the Santa Cruz literary community\, has established a national poetry contest\, The Morton Marcus Poetry Prize\, in honor of Morton Marcus\, “whose life and work inspired the writing of many students\, friends\, and emerging poets.” This years contest will be judged by Farnaz Fatemi. For more information visit: http://phren-z.org/poetry_contest.html \nSupport Poetry in Santa Cruz: The Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading continues to be offered free to the public. Please consider donating to the Morton Marcus Poetry Reading at thi.ucsc.edu/projects/morton-marcus-poetry-reading. \nThis community event is presented by the The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by: \nBookshop Santa Cruz\nCabrillo College English Department\nCowell College\nLiving Writers Series\nOw Family Properties\nPoetry Santa Cruz\nPorter Hitchcock Modern Poetry Fund\nPorter College\nSanta Cruz Writes\nSpecial Collections & Archives \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by October 27th\, 2022.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/natasha-trethewey-morton-marcus-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Madhavi Murty Reading Group - Stories That Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India
DESCRIPTION:The THI research cluster “Vernaculars of Travel in South Asia and the Middle East” presents a reading group on Madhavi Murty’s new book “Stories That Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India.” Madhavi Murty will be in conversation with Radhika Prasad. \nStories that Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India examines the assertion of authoritarian nationalism and neoliberalism; both backed by the authority of the state and argues that contemporary India should be understood as the intersection of the two. More importantly\, the book reveals\, through its focus on India and its complex media landscape that this intersection has a narrative form\, which author\, Madhavi Murty labels spectacular realism. The book shows that the intersection of neoliberalism with authoritarian nationalism is strengthened by the circulation of stories about “emergence\,” “renewal\,” “development\,” and “mobility” of the nation and its people. It studies stories told through film\, journalism\, and popular non-fiction along with the stories narrated by political and corporate leaders to argue that Hindu nationalism and neoliberalism are conjoined in popular culture and that consent for this political economic project is crucially won in the domain of popular culture. \nMoving between mediascapes to create an archive of popular culture\, Murty advances our understanding of political economy through material that is often seen as inconsequential\, namely the popular cultural story. These stories stoke our desires (e.g. for wealth)\, scaffold our instincts (e.g. for a strong leadership) and shape our values. \nLunch will be provided. Please RSVP by emailing: VernacularsUCSC@gmail.com. \n“Vernaculars of Travel in South Asia and the Middle East” is a THI Cluster that focuses on questions of movement (both conceptual and physical) across regions. It seeks to re-imagine the vocabularies\, concepts\, and history of travel from the Global South\, centering south-south relationships and non-European languages as vessels for reflecting on the political ramifications of mobility and fixity. Co-PIs: Muriam Davis and Nidhi Mahajan. \nMadhavi Murty is associate professor in the Feminist Studies department and an affiliate of CRES and Digital Arts and New Media at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Her research and teaching interests center on popular media\, nationalism\, globalization\, feminism\, postcolonial theory\, cultural theory\, and modalities of difference such as race\, caste\, and gender. \nRadhika Prasad is a PhD candidate in the Literature Department\, with a Directed Emphasis in Feminist Studies. Her work analyzes language politics in post-independence India\, by exploring the embedment of cultural imaginaries in languages. Her dissertation contextualizes the establishment of Hindi as an official language in India within Indian nation-formation and the India-Pakistan Partition\, and examines the incommensurability of the official and literary idioms of the language.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/madhavi-murty-reading-group-stories-that-bind-political-economy-and-culture-in-new-india/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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