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SUMMARY:The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series
DESCRIPTION:The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series\nFebruary 26\, March 26\, and April 30 at 1:00-3:00 PM | Virtual Event \nThe next three Pickwick Club sessions will focus on Dickens’s last and most enigmatic work\, the unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood. Considered by many lovers of detective fiction to be the ultimate mystery novel\, since its author died without providing a solution\, Drood has challenged and intrigued the imaginations of generations of readers. \nJoin Dickens enthusiast\, writer\, and Friends of the Dickens Project board member\, Carl Wilson for a series of discussions about this book. Wilson notes: \n“I first read Drood in 1980 when Leon Garfield published his completion of the novel. I was fascinated then\, and still am\, by his theory that Dickens would have presented Jasper as a divided self\, anticipating Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde by almost twenty years. Although no one will truly know\, that theory has stayed with me since\, and I would suggest that first-time readers pay close attention to Dickens’s various descriptions of Jasper throughout the five completed and sixth partially completed monthly numbers.” \nReading Schedule\nFebruary 26: Chapters 1-9\nMarch 26: Chapters 10-16\nApril 30: Chapters 17-End \nQuestions to consider for the first session: The opening chapter reads like almost nothing else that Dickens wrote. What is the purpose of such tortuous writing? What is the result of Dickens choosing to write much of the opening pages in present tense? Wilkie Collins thought that Drood was “the melancholy work of a worn-out brain.” Do you agree? \nMore Information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/pickwick-club/2023-02-edwin-drood.html\nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkdOmurTgjGdIQ0pyOjIhtspXltHg3huWg \nThe Santa Cruz Pickwick (Book) Club\, a branch of the Dickens Fellowship\, is a community of local bookworms\, students\, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. The Santa Cruz Public Libraries provide support for the reading group.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feb_26_edwin_drood/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:John R. Rickford\, Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture
DESCRIPTION:John R. Rickford\, Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture. Rickford will read the UCSC chapter from his 2022 memoir Speaking my Soul: Race\, Life and Language. \nThis event will take place at the Stevenson College Library on February 28th at 3:30 PM\, followed by a reception. Signed copies of the memoir will be available for purchase during the event. \nJohn R. Rickford  is a member of the National Academy of Science\, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and Fellow\, the British Academy. \n  \n  \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, the Department of Linguistics\, and the Stevenson Programs Office.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-r-rickford-stevenson-distinguished-alumni-lecture/
LOCATION:Stevenson College Library\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230301T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230301T133000
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SUMMARY:Tarek El-Ariss - The Fallen Note: A Journey to the Birthplace of the Image
DESCRIPTION:The Fallen Note: A Journey to the Birthplace of the Image – As I was moving to a new office in October 2020\, a note fell off from one of my theory books— Derrida’s Specter of Marx. The note was an old photocopy with the ink somewhat faded. A ghostly shadow is captured in the image\, blurring the top part of the page but leaving the paragraph intact. One can surmise that the copy was taken in haste\, in a doctor’s office in the late ‘90s\, somewhere in Upstate NY. It was a photocopy of a page in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) describing a condition wherein patients experience parasites or insects infesting their surroundings and crawling on their skin. Patients collect what they believe to be evidence of their infestation and bring it to the doctor in search of a cure. Where did this note come from? How did it find its way to that book in particular? And was its revelation during an office move at the height of Covid an accident\, a coincidence\, or a message from another time and place and experience? In this talk\, I investigate the provenance of this note\, embarking on a journey that leads me to the birthplace of the image and photocopying technology with companies such as Xerox and Kodak in Upstate NY. It also leads me to confront the ghosts and monsters of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-90) that crawl into suitcases and possess tightly packed books and items of clothing as they cross oceans and go up rivers and canals. In the process\, I reflect on hauntology and theory more generally\, questioning its potential as a system of meaning that can access the past and reveal the hidden. \nTarek El-Ariss is an author\, a scholar\, and the James Wright Professor at Dartmouth College where he teaches Middle Eastern Studies and Comparative Literature. Born and raised in Beirut during the Civil War (1975-1990) and trained in philosophy\, literary theory\, and visual and cultural studies\, his work deals with questions of displacement\, modernity\, and the somatic in literature and culture. He has written about disoriented travelers\, outcasts\, queers\, hackers\, and characters with complicated relations to home\, tribe\, nation\, and power. He is the author of Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political (Fordham\, 2013) and Leaks\, Hacks\, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age (Princeton\, 2019)\, and editor of The Arab Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology of the Nahda (MLA\, 2018). In 2021\, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete a forthcoming book entitled\, “Homo Belum: An Autobiography of War.” \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. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Arabic Colloquium at The Humanities Institute\, funded by the UC Humanities Network\, and co-sponsored by the Center for Middle East and North Africa.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tarek-el-ariss-the-fallen-note-a-journey-to-the-birthplace-of-the-image/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:UCSC Night at the Museum - Resettlement: Chicago Story
DESCRIPTION:What is it like to be forced to leave your home\, deny your heritage\, and start over? Join us for the California premiere of Resettlement: Chicago Story\, a new short fictional film and educational website\, which explores how people of Japanese ancestry remade their lives in the Midwest after their wrongful incarceration during World War II. \nThe event is part of the annual Night at the Museum hosted by the Humanities Institute and the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz. It is also co-sponsored by the Watsonville-Santa Cruz Japanese American Citizens League and will serve as this year’s Day of Remembrance. The evening will commence with a special performance by the Watsonville Taiko Group\, followed by a screening of the film\, a preview of the larger web experience\, and a Q&A discussion with some of the project’s core creators. Marcia Hashimoto will attend and speak to the enduring legacy of her late and much beloved husband Mas Hashimoto. The event’s panel will feature key members of the project\, including the film’s director and executive producer\, website creators\, and UC Santa Cruz’s Dean of Humanities\, Jasmine Alinder\, who led the research team. \n \nRegistration required. Reception to follow. This event is free and open to the public. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by February 22\, 2023. This event is co-sponsored by the Watsonville-Santa Cruz Japanese American Citizens League\, Full Spectrum Features\, and the Museum of Art and History. \nPanel participants: \nJasmine Alinder is the Dean of Humanities at UC Santa Cruz and a historian of photography\, race\, and civil rights. Beyond her published work and university service\, Dr. Alinder has supported and worked on numerous public history projects\, including Full Spectrum Feature’s The Orange Story\, which is the prequel for Resettlement: Chicago Story. In the creation of Resettlement: Chicago Story\, Dr. Alinder acted as the project’s lead academic advisor. \nClara Bergamini is a PhD candidate at UC Santa Cruz who specializes in the social\, political\, and environmental history of disaster in modern Japan and East Asia. She worked as one of Resettlement: Chicago Story’s historians and researchers. \n  \n  \n \nPatrick Hall is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is currently working as a highschool teacher in Kentucky where he teaches U.S. history and social studies. He worked both as a historian and researcher for the Resettlement: Chicago Story project and as an advisor for integrating the project into K-12 curriculum. \n  \nReina Higashitani is a first generation immigrant filmmaker based in NY/LA. She is the film writer and director for Resettlement: Chicago Story and works as an Assistant Professor at the New American Film School at Arizona State University. \n  \n  \nJason Matsumoto is a fourth-generation Japanese American producer and musician from Chicago. He is the executive producer for Resettlement: Chicago Story and works as the executive producer of film and the Co-Executive Director at Full Spectrum Features. \n  \nAshley Cheyemi McNeil is a public humanities scholar who is currently acting as the Director of Education and Research at Full Spectrum Features\, a role that she came into after joining the team as an ACLS Leading Edge Fellow. Dr. McNeil is the project manager for Resettlement: Chicago Story. \n  \nKatherine Nagasawa is a multimedia journalist who specializes in participatory\, place-based storytelling. Before becoming the web producer for Resettlement: Chicago Story\, she produced a number of interactive web experiences about Chicago Japanese American history\, including Uprooted and Reckoning. \n  \nRJ Ramey is the web designer behind Resettlement: Chicago Story and is the founder & Creative Director of Auut Studio (findauut.com). Based in San Francisco\, he started the company in 2015 to design more compelling materials for high school history teachers and museum audiences. He is known for breaking some of the rules and stale expectations for digital humanities and now teams up with other scholars to do the same. As a public historian\, RJ takes an intersectional approach and centers on stories of people of color. \nCeline Parreñas Shimizu is the Dean of the Division of Arts at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is a film scholar and filmmaker whose most recent work includes her book The Proximity of Other Skins (2020) and the film 80 Years Later: On Japanese American Racial Inheritance (2022). She previously worked at San Francisco State University as a professor and Director of the School of Cinema and at UC Santa Barbara as chair of the Senior Women’s Council and as a professor teaching in Asian American\, Feminist\, and Film and Media Studies. \n  \nCo-sponsored by the Watsonville-Santa Cruz Japanese American Citizens League\, Full Spectrum Features\, and the Museum of Art and History.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/resettlement-chicago-story-film-screening-and-panel/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
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SUMMARY:Invited to Witness: A Book Talk with Prof. Jenny Kelly
DESCRIPTION:Invited to Witness draws from participant observation of solidarity tours across Palestine and interviews with guides\, organizers\, community members\, and tourists to explore what happens when tourism understands itself as solidarity and solidarity functions through modalities of tourism. Kelly argues that solidarity tourism in Palestine functions as a fraught localized political strategy and an emergent industry\, through which Palestinian organizers refashion conventional tourism by extending deliberately truncated invitations to visit Palestine and witness the effects of Israeli state practice on Palestinian land and lives. The book shows how Palestinian organizers\, under the constraints of military occupation\, and in a context in which they do not control their borders or the historical narrative\, wrest both the capacity to invite and\, in Edward Said’s words\, “the permission to narrate” from Israeli control. \nProf. Jenny Kelly in conversation with Prof. Nick Mitchell and Prof. Sophia Azeb \nJennifer Kelly is an Associate Professor in FMST and CRES. She graduated from UCSC with a double major in FMST and LIT\, and received her Ph.D. in American Studies with a Portfolio in Women’s and Gender Studies from University of Texas at Austin. \n  \n  \n  \nPresented by Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies \nJoin in person in Humanities 210\, or on zoom here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/invited-to-witness-a-book-talk-with-prof-jenny-kelly/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T172000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers - Sara Freeman
DESCRIPTION:Sara Freeman is a Canadian-British writer based in the United States. She graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in fiction in 2013. At Columbia\, she won the Henfield Prize for the best piece of short fiction by a graduate student. Her debut novel\, Tides\, is forthcoming from Grove Atlantic (US)\, Hamish Hamilton (Canada)\, and Granta (UK).\n \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-sara-freeman/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T190000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - VOCES Drafting Stages with Carlos Decena
DESCRIPTION:Drafting Stages is a series of intimate conversations with speakers working inside and outside of academia and at different points in their careers about writing as an evolving and non-linear process. Focusing on conditions\, inspirations\, and methods\, each speaker will offer personal insight into their processes and the messiness and vulnerabilities of drafting stages. \nThe invited speaker for this session is Carlos Ulises Decena\, an interdisciplinary scholar\, whose work straddles the humanities and social sciences and whose intellectual projects engage and blur the boundaries among critical ethnic\, queer\, and feminist studies and social justice. His first book\, Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men\, was published by Duke University Press in 2011. His second book\, Circuits of the Sacred: A Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean will be published in Spring 2023 by Duke University Press. \n \nThe conversation will be facilitated by Dr. Gina Athena Ulysse\, Professor in the Feminist Studies Department at UCSC. This event is presented by GANAS Graduate Pathways and VOCES and is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. \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-drafting-stages-with-carlos-decena/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Going Public: A Workshop on Public Writing for Academics
DESCRIPTION:There’s no such thing as the Ivory Tower. Colleges and universities are not isolated enclaves\, and they probably never were. Public engagement is an essential part of the core mission of higher education. \nBut how do we reach the public? This age of constant media babble and a vast explosion of online and print publications have transformed the traditional pathways of publication\, prestige\, and engagement. Academics – experts in so many things – need to be part of the conversation. In fact\, the variety of media voices has only made expertise and authority more important. \nIn this workshop\, journalist and historian David M. Perry will lead you through the process of getting your voice into the public sphere. He will cover pragmatic topics: the art of the pitch\, finding the right venue\, managing social media profiles\, getting paid\, making it count for tenure and promotion\, and protecting yourself from trolls and harassment. He will also talk about strategies to simultaneously maintain academic authority and be accessible to the broader public. \nThrough it all\, you’ll be working on your pitches\, reading essays that embody important traits\, and developing your own ideas. \nOver the last five years\, David – once a mild-mannered medievalist – has become a columnist for Pacific Standard Magazine\, with hundreds of published pieces at venues all over the world\, including the New York Times\, the Guardian\, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Along the way\, he’s learned a lot about how to take academic expertise and share it with a much broader audience. \nGoing public isn’t easy\, but neither is getting into graduate school\, getting a PhD\, or finding an academic job\, so you’ve already traveled some pretty difficult paths. This workshop will start you on your way towards the next challenge. \nPlease come to the workshop with an idea for an essay that you might like to write. Essays could be about your scholarly expertise\, personal experience\, or anything else that interests you. We will mostly focus on traditional “op-ed” essays as a structure\, but will also discuss blogging (iterative essay writing on a site under your control)\, reported pieces\, and narrative/creative non-fiction (memoir\, experimental prose\, features\, etc.). Complimentary lunch provided to attendees. \nPlease RSVP using your UCSC email address: \nLoading… \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-david-perry-going-public-a-workshop-on-public-writing-for-academics/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Rajesh Bhatt
DESCRIPTION:Rajesh Bhatt\, U Mass \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-rajesh-bhatt/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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