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SUMMARY:Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing\, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore
DESCRIPTION:The Friends of the Dickens Project invites you to participate in “Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing\, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore.” The three sessions will offer the Friends a chance to examine Victorian responses to the environment\, with a particular emphasis on Australia. The first session will involve a presentation on Professor Moore’s current research\, which is on representations of bushfires and wildfires in nineteenth-century settler literature. The project is informed by both the environmental humanities and emotions theory and she will talk a little about these approaches. As part of this session\, she will introduce some of the work she has done on Anthony Trollope’s travels (especially his representations of fire and environmental issues). We will also spend some time thinking about how Trollope positioned himself as a successor to Dickens\, as both a novelist and travel writer. \n \n1/8/23\, 2pm PST – Research Talk:\nRepresentations of bushfires and wildfires in nineteenth-century settler literature\n2/12/23\, 2pm PST – Discussion: Chapters I-VI Harry Heathcote of Gangoil\n3/12/23\, 2pm PST – Discussion: Chapters VII-XII Harry Heathcote of Gangoil \nThe second and third sessions will be discussions of Trollope’s wonderfully melodramatic Christmas story Harry Heathcote of Gangoil (1874). The novella is set in Australia and draws on Trollope’s own experiences down under. It’s a remarkable work for the depth of emotions that it conveys\, but also for how it captures the uncanny and threatening qualities that settlers saw in the Australian bush. Professor Moore has chosen Harry Heathcote because it presents an aspect of Trollope’s writing that is often forgotten\, but also because it raises a number of fascinating issues including migration\, race and climate change\, which will\, she hopes\, lead to some lively discussions. \nGrace Moore is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Otago\, Aotearoa/New Zealand. She is the author of Dickens and Empire and The Victorian Novel in Context\, and her edited works include (with Michelle Smith)\, Victorian Environments. Grace’s most recent publication is a special issue of the journal Occasion\, entitled Fire Stories. She first attended the Dickens Universe as a graduate student in 1998. \nThis event series is presented by the Dickens Project.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anthony-trollope-down-under-travel-writing-bushfires-and-australian-ecology-with-professor-grace-moore-2/
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SUMMARY:Baskin Ethics Lecture with Joy Connolly - A Connected Planet: Scholarship for the Global Good
DESCRIPTION:“Serving the public good” is the motto and a strategic goal of many an American research university. In this lecture\, Joy asks: what public do humanistic scholars serve\, how do we define the public and its good\, and how does and how might our study contribute to this project? Thinking critically about the tradition of research on the ancient Mediterranean\, Joy’s own field\, she makes the case for a planetary frame for humanistic study whose fields of activity are the global and the local. This frame resolves an intractable tension in academia today\, where institutions proudly recruit students and faculty from all over the world but retain disciplinary divisions that reflect the national borders and imperial power map of two centuries ago. \n \nIn-person attendance\nThe lecture will begin promptly at 4:00 p.m. and will be followed by a question and answer session and a reception in the Rotunda. Doors will open at 3:30 p.m \n \nVirtual attendance \nJoy Connolly began her service as President of the American Council of Learned Societies on July 1\, 2019. Previously\, she served as provost and interim president of The Graduate Center at the City University of New York\, where she was also Distinguished Professor of Classics. She has held faculty appointments at New York University\, where she served as Dean for the Humanities from 2012-16\, Stanford University\, and the University of Washington. Committed to broadening scholars’ impact on the world\, as provost at the Graduate Center Joy secured generous support from the Mellon Foundation to foster public-facing scholarship through innovative experiments in doctoral training. She has published two books with Princeton University Press and over seventy articles\, reviews\, and short essays. Connolly earned a BA from Princeton University in 1991 and a PhD in classical studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. \nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Series is a lively forum for the discussion and exploration of ethics-related challenges in human endeavors. The Ethics Lecture is made possible by the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Ethics which enables the Humanities Division to promote a dialogue about ethics and ethics related challenges in an interdisciplinary setting. The endowment was established in honor of Peggy Downes Baskin’s longtime interest in ethical issues across the academic spectrum. \nThis event is presented by the Humanities Division and co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joy-connolly-a-connected-planet-scholarship-for-the-global-good/
LOCATION:University Center\, Bhojwani Room\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:ACLS Workshop with Joy Connolly
DESCRIPTION:Professor Connolly will present an overview of current American Council of Learned Societies programs in support of humanistic scholarship\, including fellowships\, grants\, and projects accelerating equity and progressive change; She will also discuss recent and emerging scholarly directions\, including digital publications\, collaborative research\, translation\, and publicly engaged work. \n \nJoy Connolly began her service as President of the American Council of Learned Societies on July 1\, 2019. Previously\, she served as provost and interim president of The Graduate Center at the City University of New York\, where she was also Distinguished Professor of Classics. She has held faculty appointments at New York University\, where she served as Dean for the Humanities from 2012-16\, Stanford University\, and the University of Washington. Committed to broadening scholars’ impact on the world\, as provost at the Graduate Center Joy secured generous support from the Mellon Foundation to foster public-facing scholarship through innovative experiments in doctoral training. She has published two books with Princeton University Press and over seventy articles\, reviews\, and short essays. Connolly earned a BA from Princeton University in 1991 and a PhD in classical studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. \nThis event is sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, the UCSC Arts Research Institute\, the UCSC Office of Foundation Relations\, and the UCSC Office of Research Development
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/acls-workshop-with-joy-connolly/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Psychology of Writing
DESCRIPTION:Sometimes we can be our severest writing critics and biggest hindrances to writing success. Learn about the VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center (for graduate students only) and how to overcome psychological barriers and start writing! \nAndrea Seeger received a bachelor’s degree in literature from UC Santa Cruz\, master’s in English literature from the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder\, and an all but dissertation in English from UC Berkeley. Andrea has been teaching literature\, writing\, and social justice for nearly 20 years. She has taught writing and rhetoric in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at CU Boulder and literature at UC Berkeley. She currently teaches social justice at UCSC’s Oakes College and writing through UCSC’s Writing Program. She is also a lecturer at Cabrillo College\, where she teaches English. Andrea is the director of The Writing Center and of its VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center\, one of the Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) Initiatives of the Graduating and Advancing New American Scholars (GANAS) Graduate Pathways program (Activity 6). Andrea is deeply committed to student-centered learning and equitable access to a quality education. Andrea’s scholarship focuses on the intersections of racial and gender formation in 20th-century American literature\, and her work is deeply invested in social justice. \nThis event will be held in Graduate Student Commons Room 204 and on Zoom. \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-psychology-of-writing-2/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Amelia Glaser - Angry Winds: Jewish Leftists and the Challenge of Palestine\, 1929
DESCRIPTION:In the summer of 1929\, a week of violence in Mandate Palestine left hundreds of Jews and Arabs dead and many more wounded. These events\, which began with protests in Jerusalem\, divided the world-wide Jewish Left into those who sympathized with the Arabs and those who condemned the violence as a new manifestation of the east European anti-Jewish pogrom. In this talk\, Amelia Glaser will discuss how these events echoed in the transnational community of Yiddish poets\, and will analyze poetry written in support of each side. The Yiddish poetry devoted to the clashes in Palestine a century ago help to illuminate how complex ideologies have long defined identity and community. \nAmelia Glaser is Professor of Literature at UC San Diego\, where she holds the Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies. She is the author of Jews and Ukrainians in Russia’s Literary Borderlands (Northwestern U.P.\, 2012) and Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine (Harvard UP\, 2020). She is the editor of Stories of Khmelnytsky: Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising (Stanford U.P.\, 2015) and\, with Steven Lee\, Comintern Aesthetics (U. Toronto Press\, 2020). She is also a translator from\, primarily\, Yiddish\, Ukrainian\, and Russian. She is currently writing about contemporary Ukrainian poetry.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/amelia-glaser-angry-winds-jewish-leftists-and-the-challenge-of-palestine-192/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Keya Ganguly – Reason and the Image: On Satyajit Ray’s Shatranj Ke Khilari (The Chess Players)
DESCRIPTION:This talk focuses on Satyajit Ray’s cinematic treatment of an episode from India’s late colonial history in Shatranj Ke Khilari (“The Chess Players\,” 1977). Through his portrayal of the betrayal of reason under the pretext of law\, Ray makes an appeal on behalf of the visual image as a critique of reason rather than its lure. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asia Studies. \nKeya Ganguly is Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of States of Exception: Everyday Life and Postcolonial Identity (2001) and Cinema\, Emergence\, and the Films of Satyajit Ray (2010). She served as Senior Editor of Cultural Critique from 1998-2010\, and her essays have appeared in Cultural Studies\, New Formations\, Race and Class\, South Atlantic Quarterly\, and History of the Present. Recent and forthcoming essays have explored Mahasweta Devi’s radical politics\, the aesthetics of exile\, and world cinema in dialectical perspective. She is currently writing a book on the revolutionary utopianism of the early Indian nationalist\, Aurobindo Ghose\, entitled Political Metaphysics. \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/keya-ganguly-reason-and-the-image-on-satyajit-rays-shatranj-ke-khilari-the-chess-players/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Identity\, Belonging\, and Community
DESCRIPTION:Join the GSC grad peer mentor program for a workshop and discussion on identity\, belonging\, and community. All grads welcome! \nFrom left to right – Lorato Anderson\, Marilia Kaisar\, Radhika Prasad\nLorato Anderson is the Director of Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion in Graduate Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her role centers on advancing initiatives for minoritized graduate student support across multiple campus-wide projects\, as well as providing direct support to students\, staff\, faculty\, and programs. Lorato graduated with a B.A. in Literature/Writing from UC San Diego and received her M.S. in Higher Education Administration and Policy from Northwestern University\, where she researched and developed assessment models for English Language Learners and created multiple DEI programs that are still active today. She has extensive experience in grant writing\, teaching\, advising\, assessment\, and creating long-lasting research-backed programs to promote minoritized undergraduate and graduate student success. Lorato has worked on campus for six years and received the 2020 Outstanding Staff Achievement Award in Social Sciences; her previous roles include Graduate Program Advisor and Coordinator for Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) and Politics\, as well as Undergraduate Advisor for Psychology. She takes pride in incorporating social justice\, as well as empathetic advising strategies and teaching pedagogies\, in her work in advising\, administration\, and grant and program development. \nMarilia Kaisar (Lead Mentor – Arts) is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz. She holds an MA in Media Studies from Pratt Institute and a Diploma in Architecture Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her experimental practice uses affect theory and a feminist perspective to explore intersections of media\, technology\, and desire\, using the body as the nexus point. Currently working on her dissertation titled “F*cking with the Virtual”. \nRadhika Prasad (Lead Mentor – Humanities) “I’m a sixth year PhD candidate in the Literature department with a Designated Emphasis in Feminist Studies. My academic interests include South Asian literature and history\, translation studies\, language politics\, and feminisms in the Global South. As a sixth year international student and a woman of color\, I have found the university to be a space of immense possibility\, but also great inequity. Peer mentorship programs are an important step towards bridging the knowledge gap\, and making universities\, classrooms\, graduate programs\, and research into more equitable spaces\, and I am excited to contribute to this one.” \nThis workshop is presented by the Graduate Student Commons (GSC) and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Graduate Student Commons workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nThis event will be held in Graduate Student Commons Room 204 and on Zoom. \n \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-identity-belonging-and-community/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Aurora Workshop - Gramsci: Southern Questions
DESCRIPTION:“The Aurora Workshop – Gramsci: Southern Questions” will take place Friday\, February 17th from 3-5pm (PST) and Saturday\, February 18th from 9am-3pm (PST). This workshop will be in person in Humanities 2\, Room 259 and virtual (Zoom: 99170004783 PW: gramsci). Please click here to view the full schedule. \nFriday\, February 17th from 3:00-5:00pm (PST)\nKeynote presentation: Gramsci as a Typical Interwar Communist: The Vernacular and the War Over Language\nTimothy Brennan\nUniversity of Minnesota\, Twin Cities\nCultural Studies & Comparative Literature \nSaturday\, February 18th from 9:00am-3:00 pm (PST)\nGramsci: Southern Questions Workshop \nPanels and Roundtable including:\nMichael Denning\nColleen Lye\nKeya Ganguly\nAditya Bahl\nChris Connery\nMassimiliano Tomba\nJuned Shaikh\nG. S. Sahota
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/aurora-workshop-gramsci-southern-questions/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230218T090000
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SUMMARY:What is Life? Conference
DESCRIPTION:The conference addresses problems and inconsistencies in modern definitions of life by appealing to explicit and implicit definitions of life offered in ancient texts. This problem is becoming increasingly urgent as astrobiologists come closer to being able to detect biosignatures or signs of life on extrasolar planets\, since the forms of life that exist on these planets may not fit within definitions of life generated by biologists for studying life on Earth. We think that ancient answers to this definitional problem may suggest fruitful directions in which contemporary\, operating definitions of life could be expanded. Participants include experts on a wide array of ancient cultures whose work addresses concepts of life from a range of theoretical perspectives; we pay particular attention to speakers whose work addresses gendered and racialized views of life in antiquity. We also engage modernist scholars whose work has critiqued contemporary definitions of life. Finally—and most essentially—the conference is coordinated with UCSC’s astrobiology initiative and includes several speakers from scientific fields who can address the role of definitions in the search for extraterrestrial life. \nKeynote: Carol Cleland\, Philosophy (University of Colorado Boulder) \nAlso featuring: \n\nRuth Murray-Clay\, Planetary Science (UC Santa Cruz)\nFrancesca Spiegel\, Greek literature/medicine\nMartin Devecka\, Cultural history/Central Asia (UC Santa Cruz)\nMichael Wong\, Astrobiology (Carnegie Institution for Science’s Earth & Planets Laboratory)\nAmit Shilo\, Greek literature and political theory (UC Santa Barbara)\nZac Zimmer\, Latin American Literature and speculative fiction (UC Santa Cruz)\nMario Telo\, Greek literature (UC Berkeley)\nTejas Aralere\, Ancient science/Sanskrit (UC Santa Barbara)\nAlex Purves\, Greek literature (UCLA)\nDavid Shorter\, World Arts/Dance/Anthropology (UCLA)\nLaurence Totelin\, Ancient science/technology/medicine ( Cardiff University)\nAnna Freidin Roman cultural history (University of Michigan)\nGina Konstantopoulos\, Assyriology and Cuneiform Studies (UCLA)\nJames Porter Ancient literature and philosophy (UC Berkeley)\nGiulia Maria Chesi Greek literature/history of technology\nMark Csikszentmihalyi\, East Asian Languages and Cultures (UC Berkeley)\nKaren ni Mheallaigh\, Ancient science/fiction (John Hopkins Univeristy)\nColin Webster\, Greek medicine (UC Davis)\nNatalie Batalha\, Astrobiology (UC Santa Cruz)\nMaria Gerolemou\, Greek Literature/History of technology  (University of Exeter)\nStuart Bartlett\, OOL and exoplanets (Cal Tech)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/what-is-life-conference/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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