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SUMMARY:Dean Mathiowetz – Luxuriating as a Political Structure of Feeling
DESCRIPTION:According to premodern elites\, the luxurious appetites of the poor were not only feminine and exotic but also the greatest threat to social order. Popular demands for better wages\, sustenance\, more festival days\, or any improvement in the conditions of ordinary folk were denounced as “luxury.” But scholarship about this discourse has been misdirected by premodern sumptuary laws\, focusing on luxury as a class of things. I focus on the act of luxuriating instead\, drawing out its embodied\, affective\, and tactical dimensions as a “structure of feeling.” I argue that a focus on luxuriating opens our thought to the political potential in the physical\, sensory\, and lived experience of the poor as they lay claim to enjoyment and abundance. \n \nDean Mathiowetz is Associate Professor of Politics\, currently working on a book manuscript Luxuriating in Democracy\, Abundance\, and the Enjoyment of Bodies Politic. He is the author of Appeals to Interest: Language and the Shaping of Political Agency and the editor of and contributor to Hanna Fenichel Pitkin: Politics\, Justice\, and Action. His other writings have appeared in journals including Political Theory\, Theory and Event\, Political Research Quarterly\, The New Political Science\, and The Arrow. \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/dean-mathiowetz-luxuriating-as-a-political-structure-of-feeling/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230118T190000
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SUMMARY:Jane Smiley - A Dangerous Business
DESCRIPTION:Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley (A Thousand Acres) will visit Bookshop to read and sign copies of her new novel A Dangerous Business—a rollicking murder mystery set in Monterey in the 1850’s\, in which two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. Roxane Gay says\, “The forthcoming Jane Smiley novel\, A Dangerous Business\, is so outstanding. Her sentences are sublime.” This event is co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute. \n \n“A remarkable story of the California gold rush and a pair of sex worker sleuths . . . The vivid historical details and vibrant characters bring Smiley’s setting to glorious life. This seductive entertainment is not to be missed.”—Publishers Weekly \nMonterey\, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight\, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life\, at least at first. The madam\, Mrs. Parks\, is kind\, the men are (relatively) well behaved\, and Eliza has attained what few women have: financial security. But when the dead bodies of young women start appearing outside of town\, a darkness descends that she can’t resist confronting. Side by side with her friend Jean\, and inspired by her reading\, especially by Edgar Allan Poe’s detective Dupin\, Eliza pieces together an array of clues to try to catch the killer\, all the while juggling clients who begin to seem more and more suspicious. \nEliza and Jean are determined not just to survive\, but to find their way in a lawless town on the fringes of the Wild West–a bewitching combination of beauty and danger–as what will become the Civil War looms on the horizon. As Mrs. Parks says\, Everyone knows that this is a dangerous business\, but between you and me\, being a woman is a dangerous business\, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise … \nJane Smiley is the author of numerous novels\, including A Thousand Acres\, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize\, and the Last Hundred Years Trilogy: Some Luck\, Early Warning\, and Golden Age. She is the author as well of several works of nonfiction and books for young adults. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, she has also received the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. She lives in Northern California.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jane-smiley-a-dangerous-business/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bay of Life: From Wind to Whales Exhibition Opening
DESCRIPTION:Bay of Life: From Wind to Whales is an exhibition by Frans Lanting and Chris Eckstrom that brings land and sea together for a unified view of Monterey Bay and its natural abundance. The Bay of Life is a unique confluence of land and sea\, energized by the sun\, shaped by the forces of fog and fire\, and influenced by the actions of people. \n“We know of no other place in the world where land and sea connect in such an extraordinary way.”    –Frans Lanting and Chris Eckstrom \nMonterey Bay is the hottest hot spot for biodiversity in all of North America\, according to The Nature Conservancy. It is a place of giants\, from redwood forests on land to forests of kelp offshore. Monterey Bay supports iconic wildlife from secretive mountain lions to majestic blue whales. All survive in a region where far-flung migrants mix with rare local species that live nowhere else in the world. \nThis exhibition brings land and sea together for a unified view of Monterey Bay and its natural abundance. That richness is due to a unique mix of physical features and microclimates\, shaped by the powerful influence of the ocean—and by the actions of people. After the Gold Rush began\, a great demand for natural resources stripped the land of trees and depleted the sea of marine mammals and fish. But that ecological collapse has been reversed in our time. \nBay of Life celebrates a remarkable recovery which shows that damaged ecosystems can be restored when people care and take action together. That may offer a model for other places at a time when we need such stories of hope as we face new challenges of resource stewardship\, habitat connectivity\, and impacts from climate change. \nThis exhibition will run from January 19–April 30\, 2023 and is co-sponsored by Bay Photo Lab and the Humanities Institute. \nFor full exhibition information please visit: https://www.santacruzmah.org/exhibitions/bay-of-life \nProject Core Collaborators: Land Trust of Santa Cruz County\, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary\, Santa Cruz County Office of Education\, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History\, Seymour Marine Discovery Center\, Watsonville Wetlands Watch \nHeader Image: Humpback Whales\, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary\, photo by Frans Lanting.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bay-of-life-from-wind-to-whales-exhibition-opening/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
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SUMMARY:Living Writers - Jaime Cortez
DESCRIPTION:Jaime Cortez is a writer and visual artist based in Watsonville\, California\, and the San Francisco Bay Area. His fiction\, essays\, and drawings have appeared in diverse publications that include “Kindergarde: Experimental Writing For Children” (edited 2013 by Dana Teen Lomax for Black Radish Press)\, “No Straight Lines\,” a 40-year compendium of LGBT comics (edited 2012 by Justin Hall for Fantagraphics Press)\, “Street Art San Francisco” (edited 2009 by Annice Jacoby for Abrams Press)\, and “Infinite Cities\,” an experimental atlas of San Francisco (edited 2010 by Rebecca Solnit for UC Berkeley Press). He wrote and illustrated the graphic novel “Sexile” for AIDS Project Los Angeles in 2003. \nCortez often combines humor and tragedy to tell stories of resilient survivors who exist on the margins of the economy\, the law\, and social acceptability. “Gordo” is Jaime’s debut collection of short stories. Black Cat\, an imprint of Grove Atlantic Press\, is the publisher of the book. \nCortez spent his early years in San Juan Bautista and Watsonville\, two California farm towns where the stories are set. He received his B.A. in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania\, and his fine art MFA at UC Berkeley. His website is www.jaimecortez.org. \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-jaime-cortez/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Divya Cherian – Caste and Time: Notes from Early Modern India
DESCRIPTION:“Caste and Time” is a part of the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies 2022-2023 lecture series\, Futures. Guests can register to attend the virtual event here. \nSpeaker: \nProfessor Divya Cherian\, Princeton University
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/divya-cherian-caste-and-time-notes-from-early-modern-india/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Linguistics Colloquia: Fernanda Ferreira\, UC Davis
DESCRIPTION:Fernanda Ferreira\, UC Davis \nOver the course of 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/linguistics-colloquia-fernanda-ferreira-uc-davis/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Liora R. Halperin - The Oldest Guard: Landowners\, Local Memory\, and the Making of the Zionist Settler Past
DESCRIPTION:Professor Halperin will discuss the practice and politics of Zionist memory in and around the private Jewish agricultural colonies (moshavot) that were established in late 19th-century Ottoman Palestine. These colonies emerged prior to the founding of the Zionist movement and the rise to dominance of its Labor Zionist stream\, but was later integrated\, albeit ambivalently\, into the Zionist narrative of settlement as the First Aliyah. Treating the First Aliyah as a symbol created and deployed only in retrospect\, and drawing connections to memory practices in other settler societies\, she considers how private agriculturalists and their advocates forged the First Aliyah past as a model of private ownership\, political moderature\, and harmonius relations with hired rural Palestinian labor. In so doing\, she sheds light on the politics and erasures of Zionist celebrations of “firstness.” \n \nLiora R. Halperin is Professor of International Studies and History\, and Distinguished Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies\, at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her recent book is The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past (Stanford\, 2021). She is also the author of Babel in Zion: Jews\, Nationalism\, and Language Diversity in Palestine 1920-1948 (Yale\, 2015). \n  \nThis event is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies and Center for Middle East and North Africa.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/liora-r-halperin-the-oldest-guard-landowners-local-memory-and-the-making-of-the-zionist-settler-past/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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