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SUMMARY:Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts XVI-XX
DESCRIPTION:Join Professor Karen Hattaway (San Jacinto College) for a series of discussions about the book that stunned Conrad and Dostoevsky.  \nOur Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens \nSept. 25\, Oct. 23\, Nov. 27\, and Jan. 22 at 1:00-3:00 PM (PDT) | Virtual Events \nCharles Dickens published Our Mutual Friend in twenty monthly parts from May 1864 to November 1865. It was the fourteenth and final novel in his vast corpus of novels\, only to be followed by The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)\, which remained unfinished at the time of his death. \nMurder\, Money\, Marriage\, and Mounds… of dust\, of human refuse\, of cultural debris\, of industrial by-production. These are the grand themes and objects this novel’s world spawns\, with such horrible inevitability you will think its Thames river-mud could foster spontaneous generation. For the world of Our Mutual Friend is a dirtied and cynical place. Here\, even literacy and education–the “power of knowledge” that give heart and decency to Pip and Biddy in Great Expectations–may become\, in the wrong hands\, mechanical instruments for self-aggrandizement. And the good may need all the wiles of the bad to manufacture a happy ending. \nReading Schedule \n\n\n\nSep. 25\nBook the First: The Cup and the Lip – Chapters 1-17\, Parts I-V\n\n\n\nOct. 23\nBook the Second: Birds of a Feather – Chapters 1-16\, Parts VI-X\n\n\n\nNov. 27\nBook the Third: A Long Lane – Chapters 1-17\, Parts XI-XV\n\n\n\nJan. 22\nBook the Fourth: A Turning – Chapters 1-16\, Parts XVI-XX\n\n\n\n\nThis series of discussions is presented by the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club / Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship with support from the Santa Cruz Public Libraries. \nMore information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/pickwick-club/index.html \nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpf-mppjsuHd3RdY9mqMeH-FloGyFbM-MQ
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/our-mutual-friend-discussion-series-parts-xvi-xx/
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SUMMARY:Concrete Utopianism with Gary Wilder
DESCRIPTION:A discussion of excerpts from Wilder’s Concrete Utopianism: The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity. In his book\, Wilder insists that we place solidarity and temporality at the center of our political thinking. He develops a critique of Left realism\, Left culturalism\, and Left pessimism from the standpoint of heterodox Marxism and Black radicalism. Concrete Utopianism makes a bold case for embracing what Wilder calls a politics of the possible-impossible. \nAttentive to the non-identical character of places\, periods\, and subjects\, insisting that axes of political alignment and contestation are neither self-evident nor unchanging\, reworking Lenin’s call to “transform the imperial war into a civil war\,” he invites Left thinkers see beyond inherited distinctions between here and there\, now and then\, us and them. Guided by the spirit of Marx’s call for revolutionaries to draw their poetry from a future they cannot fathom yet must nevertheless invent\, he calls for practices of anticipation that envision and enact\, call for and call forth\, seemingly impossible ways of being together. \nFormat: In-person in Hum1 Room 420 & Zoom\nZoom link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/98082358956?pwd=b2kxZEgvSU9wNGtlaEROTDdKQjJqQT09#success  \nGary Wilder is Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York. He has a joint degree in Anthropology and History from the University of Chicago and works on the French empire\, colonial states\, historical anthropology and social/political theory\, with a focus on western Africa\, the Antilles\, and Europe. He is the author of Freedom Time. Negritude\, Decolonization\, and the Future of the World (Duke University Press Durham and London 2015). \nPresented by the History of Consciousness Department. To download the excerpts in discussion and for information on upcoming lectures\, please visit The History of Consciousness website.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/concrete-utopianism-with-gary-wilder/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Monique Allewaert – Ground Has Eye: Anansi and Animist Multinaturalism
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on an archive of nearly three hundred Anansi tales collected between 1814 and 1935\, this talk documents the animist multinaturalism at stake in Jamaican Anansi tales. This form of multinaturalism contests colonial conceptions of nature as well as the ideas about language that follow on colonial nature. Using the power of puns\, metaphors\, rhyme\, and performance\, Anansi and other insect avatars convert colonial nature into abolition ecologies. More broadly\, the constellation of problems and powers associated with West Indian bugs (imperceptibility\, smallness\, shapeshifting\, co-metabolism\, environmental change)\, informs a situated decolonial knowledge inspired by insects’ navigation of their environments. \nMonique Allewaert is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She works at the intersections of eighteenth and nineteenth-century hemispheric American colonialisms\, the environmental humanities\, literary and cultural studies\, and science studies. She is the author of Ariel’s Ecology: Plantations\, Personhood\, and Colonialism in the American Tropics (2013). Her current book project Luminescence follows insect avatars through eighteenth-century Caribbean natural history\, story\, riddles\, song\, and poetry to elaborate counter-plantation knowledges and aesthetics.  \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/monique-allewaert-ground-has-eye-anansi-and-animist-multinaturalism/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Morton - Moving Up Without Losing Your Way
DESCRIPTION:Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class\, low-income\, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work\, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromises such students have to make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own. Measuring the true cost of higher education for those from disadvantaged backgrounds\, Jennifer Morton looks at the ethical dilemmas of upward mobility—the broken ties with family and friends\, the severed connections with former communities\, and the loss of identity—faced by students as they strive to accomplish their educational goals. \nThis event is presented by The Humanities Institute and the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning\, and will take place at the University Center\, Bhojwani Room on Wednesday\, January 25\, 2023 from 4:00pm to 5:30pm with a reception to follow from 5:30-6:30pm. \n \nIn-Person attendance \n \nVirtual attendance \nJennifer Morton is Presidential Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and a senior fellow at the Center for Ethics and Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her areas of research are philosophy of action\, moral philosophy\, philosophy of education\, and political philosophy\, and her work has been featured in The Atlantic\, Inside Higher Education\, The Chronicle of Higher Education\, The Nation\, New York Daily News\, Times Higher Education\, Princeton Alumni Weekly\, Public Books \, and Vox. Her book Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility (Princeton University Press\, 2020) was awarded the Frederic W. Ness Book Award by the Association of American Colleges\, and Universities. \nJody Greene is the founding Director of the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)\, UCSC’s first Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning\, as well as Special Advisor to the CP/EVC for Educational Equity and Academic Success. Their research interests include seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature; non-dualist Western philosophy\, especially the work of Spivak\, Derrida\, and Nancy; human rights and international law; queer studies; and the history of literary discourse and literary institutions. They have served as Professor of Literature\, Feminist Studies\, and the History of Consciousness at UCSC. They are the recipient of the UCSC Humanities Division John Dizikes Teaching Award (2008)\, the Disability Resource Center Champion of Change Award (2018)\, and\, twice\, of the UCSC Academic Senate Excellence in Teaching Award (2001\, 2014).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jennifer-morton-moving-up-without-losing-your-way/
LOCATION:University Center\, Bhojwani Room\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tobera Project Talk Story: 1930 Anti-Filipino Watsonville Race Riots
DESCRIPTION:January 19th marks the 93rd Anniversary of the Anti-Filipino Watsonville Race Riots. We invite you to join us for a Talk Story to honor the history of Fermin Tobera and Filipino Farmworkers. \nThis Talk Story will be facilitated by Professor Steve Mckay and feature Poet Shirley Ancheta and acclaimed author Karen Tei Yamashita.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tobera-project-talk-story-1930-anti-filipino-watsonville-race-riots/
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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 Teresa and get started using WordPress to make a blog or static website to showcase your graduate work! \nTeresa Hardy is the founder of New Media-Designs\, an online marketing agency specializing in solutions for small and medium technology companies. She has over 30 years of experience in engineering and marketing in high tech companies and has worked as a web developer and multimedia artist since 2005. She holds a B.S. in engineering and a master’s in multimedia arts. Her current work focuses on HTML\, CSS\, JavaScript\, PHP\, WordPress\, and overall online find-ability (SEO and SMM) for clients. Ms. Hardy has taught web design\, branding\, usability\, gaming\, and web development at several universities in the San Francisco Bay area and is the current program chair of Web Development Specialization at UCSC Extension Silicon Valley. \nRegister for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary 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/phd-workshop-wordpress-website-design/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Kaushik Sunder Rajan Reading Group - Mellon Sawyer Seminar on "Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine"
DESCRIPTION:The Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine” will welcome\, as a residential scholar\, Kaushik Sunder Rajan\, Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory at the University of Chicago. Professor Rajan’s first two books focused on the global political economy of the life sciences and biomedicine\, with an empirical focus on the United States and India. Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life\, published by Duke in 2006\, is a multi-sited ethnography of genomics and post-genomic drug development marketplaces in the United States and India. His second book\, Pharmocracy: Knowledge\, Value and Politics in Global Biomedicine (Duke\, 2017)\, elucidates the political economy of global pharmaceuticals as seen from contemporary India. \nProfessor Rajan will lead a reading group focused on his most recent book\, Multisituated: Ethnography as Diasporic Praxis. We’ll be reading the Introduction and Chapter 3. Email Jennifer Derr at jderr@ucsc.edu for a copy of the readings.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mellon-sawyer-seminar-on-race-empire-and-the-environments-of-biomedicine-kaushik-sunder-rajan-reading-group/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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