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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-3/
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SUMMARY:Zakir Hussain: Masters of Percussion at the Rio Theatre
DESCRIPTION:Every other year since 1996\, Zakir Hussain has served as curator\, conductor and producer to bring the very cream of Indian music and world percussion to tour America and Europe with his series\, Zakir Hussain and Masters of Percussion. Growing out of his renowned international tabla duet tours with his father\, the legendary Ustad Allarakha\, Masters of Percussion began as a platform for both popular and rarely heard rhythm traditions from India. While performing and collaborating in India for a few months every year\, Hussain has sought and unearthed lesser-known folk and classical traditions which feed into the greater stream of Indian music\, playing an educational role in affording them greater visibility\, as well as introducing them to audiences in the West. 2023’s tour will also feature Sabir Khan\, Tupac Mantilla\, Melissa Hié\, and Navin Sharma. \nOver time\, the constantly changing ensemble has expanded to include great drummers and percussionists from many world traditions\, including jazz. The 2023 version will be no exception\, presenting American audiences with extraordinary\, exciting and spontaneous combinations of percussive\, as well as melodic\, performances. Past years have included master drummers from Central Asia\, India\, and the U.S. \n \nDoors open at 6:30\, performance begins at 7:30 \nPresented by Kuumbwa Jazz Center. Sponsored by The Center for South Asian Studies and The Humanities Institute at UCSC
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/64071/
LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jessica Marglin - The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:In the winter of 1873\, Nissim Shamama\, a wealthy Jew from Tunisia\, died suddenly in his palazzo in Livorno\, Italy. His passing initiated a fierce lawsuit over his large estate. Before Shamama’s riches could be disbursed among his aspiring heirs\, Italian courts had to decide which law to apply to his estate—a matter that depended on his nationality. Was he an Italian citizen? A subject of the Bey of Tunis? Had he become stateless? Or was his Jewishness also his nationality? Tracing a decade-long legal battle involving Jews\, Muslims\, and Christians from both sides of the Mediterranean\, The Shamama Case offers a riveting history of citizenship across regional\, cultural\, and political borders. \nJessica Marglin is Associate Professor of Religion\, Law\, and History\, and the Ruth Ziegler Early Career Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Southern California. She earned her PhD from Princeton and her BA and MA from Harvard. Her research focuses on the history of Jews and Muslims in North Africa and the Mediterranean\, with a particular emphasis on law. She is the author of Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco (Yale University Press\, 2016) and the co-editor\, with Matthias Lehmann\, of Jews and the Mediterranean (Indiana University Press\, 2020). Her book The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean is forthcoming with Princeton University Press. \nThis event will be held on November 14th from 12:00pm-1:30pm and is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies and co-sponsored by the Center for Middle East and North Africa. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/61836/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth McKenzie\, The Dog of the North
DESCRIPTION:FREE IN-PERSON EVENT: Acclaimed local writer Elizabeth McKenzie will be in conversation with Karen Joy Fowler about McKenzie’s highly-anticipated new novel\, The Dog of the North. This event is cosponsored by Catamaran Literary Reader and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n“Even funnier\, even more romantic than McKenzie’s wonderful last\, The Portable Veblen\, this is a screwball comedy worthy of a Preston Sturgis screenplay. You will be surprised\, delighted\, and grateful to be aboard The Dog of the North with the admirable Penny Rush as she faces every challenge her wild and crazy family can throw at her. A book that lifts the spirits.” —Karen Joy Fowler\, author of Booth \nPenny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over; she’s quit her job. Her mother and stepfather went missing in the Australian outback five years ago; her mentally unbalanced father provokes her; her grandmother Dr. Pincer keeps experiments in the refrigerator and something worse in the woodshed. But Penny is a virtuoso at what’s possible when all else fails. \nElizabeth McKenzie\, beloved novelist of California and its idiosyncrasies\, follows Penny on her quest for a fresh start. There will be a road trip in the Dog of the North\, an old van with gingham curtains\, a piñata\, and stiff brakes. There will be injury and peril. There will be a dog named Kweecoats and two brothers who may share a toupee. There will be questions: Why is a detective investigating her grandmother\, and what is “the scintillator”? And can Penny recognize a good thing when it finally comes her way? \nThis slyly humorous\, thoroughly winsome novel finds the purpose in life’s curveballs\, insisting that even when we are painfully warped by those we love most\, we can be brought closer to our truest selves. \n  \n \n  \nElizabeth McKenzie is the author of the novel The Portable Veblen\, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize; a collection\, Stop That Girl\, shortlisted for The Story Prize; and the novel MacGregor Tells the World\, a Chicago Tribune\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Library Journal Best Book of the Year. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and was recorded for NPR’s Selected Shorts. \n  \nKaren Joy Fowler is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels and three short story collections. Her 2004 novel\, The Jane Austen Book Club\, spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s previous novel\, Sister Noon\, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Her debut novel\, Sarah Canary\, won the Commonwealth medal for best first novel by a Californian\, was listed for the Irish Times International Fiction Prize as well as the Bay Area Book Reviewers Prize\, and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s short story collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award in 1999\, and her collection What I Didn’t See won the World Fantasy Award in 2011. Her most recent novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves won the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction and was short-listed for the 2014 Man Booker Prize. Her new novel Booth published in March 2022. She is the co-founder of the Otherwise Award and the current president of the Clarion Foundation (also known as Clarion San Diego). Fowler and her husband\, who have two grown children and seven grandchildren\, live in Santa Cruz\, California. Fowler also supports a chimp named Caesar who lives at the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Sierra Leone. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/64326/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dr. Agnieszka Otwinowska-Kasztelanic - Do L2 and L3 learners benefit from training their awareness of cross- linguistic similarity?
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Winter Colloquium \nWords whose form is similar across languages: cognates (formally and semantically similar) and false cognates (formally similar) are claimed to be learned differently than non-cognates. Raising learners’ “cognate awareness” means consciously focusing their attention on cross-linguistic similarity between L1 and L2 words. However\, it is unclear if L2 learners really need to be made aware of cognateness. Another question is whether focusing on L1-L2 similarity is enough\, considering that many students are learning a foreign language not as their L2\, but as their L3. In this talk I will discuss whether raising “cognate awareness” indeed modulates the effectiveness of learning words in a foreign language. First\, I will briefly present two classroom quasi-experiments concerning the acquisition of L2-English cognates and non-cognates by language learners with L1-Polish. Then\, I will move on to a naturalistic classroom experiment on learning words in Italian as L3 by L1-Polish learners with L2-English. The talk will present robust and ecologically-valid evidence on acquiring cognates in a foreign language. \n  \nDr. Agnieszka Otwinowska-Kasztelanic\, The University of Warsaw \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-agnieszka-otwinowska-kasztelanic-do-l2-and-l3-learners-benefit-from-training-their-awareness-of-cross-linguistic-similarity/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Egan\, The Candy House
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Jennifer Egan\, one of the most celebrated writers of our time\, who will discuss The Candy House (in paperback March 7th)\, her “inventive\, effervescent” (Oprah Daily) novel about the memory and quest for authenticity and human connection. \nThis event will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn on the UC Santa Cruz campus\, and is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nThe Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton\, whose company\, Mandala\, is so successful that he is “one of those tech demi-gods with whom we’re all on a first name basis.” Bix is forty\, with four kids\, restless\, and desperate for a new idea\, when he stumbles into a conversation group\, mostly Columbia professors\, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or “externalizing” memory. Within a decade\, Bix’s new technology\, “Own Your Unconscious”–which allows you access to every memory you’ve ever had\, and to share your memories in exchange for access to the memories of others–has seduced multitudes. \nIn the world of Egan’s spectacular imagination\, there are “counters” who track and exploit desires and there are “eluders\,” those who understand the price of taking a bite of the Candy House. Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of narrative styles–from omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices\, an epistolary chapter\, and a chapter of tweets. Intellectually dazzling\, The Candy House is also a moving testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for connection\, family\, privacy\, and love. \n  \n \n  \nJennifer Egan is the author of six previous books of fiction: Manhattan Beach\, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; A Visit from the Goon Squad\, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Keep; the story collection Emerald City; Look at Me\, a National Book Award Finalist; and The Invisible Circus. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Harper’s Magazine\, Granta\, McSweeney’s\, and The New York Magazine. Her website JenniferEgan.com. \n  \nVisit https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/jennifer-egan for more information.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jennifer-egan-the-candy-house/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mohamed Hamed – Arabic Language Resources in the UC System and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMNEA) is hosting a talk by Mohamed Hamed geared to help students and faculty in the UC system advance their Arabic language research and locate sources. He will be offering an overview of online resources\, and covering issues such as interlibrary loan as well as transliteration. There will also be time for you to pose any questions that you might have. \nStudents are invited to meet with Dr. Hamed over lunch on March 16th. Please email Muriam Davis (muhdavis@ucsc.edu) to RSVP. \nMohamed Hamed joined the University of California\, Berkeley Library in 2017 as the new Middle Eastern & Near Eastern Studies Librarian. Mohamed joins the Library from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where\, for the last seven years\, he has been the Middle Eastern & African Studies Librarian. He has earned a BA\, MA\, and PhD in Library and Information Science from Cairo University. Previous professional affiliations include The American University in Cairo\, Santa Monica College Library\, and Arabic Language instruction at UNC Chapel Hill. Professionally Mohamed has participated in several key organizations including the Middle East Librarians Association\, the Africana Librarians Council\, and the Arab Federation for Libraries and Information. \nThis event is presented 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/mohamed-hamed-arabic-language-resources-in-the-uc-system-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Juan Gabriel Vásquez – Restoring Continuity: Notes on History and Fiction
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Division and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz invite you to join us for the Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture\, featuring Juan Gabriel Vásquez. Guests who attend in person are invited to join us for a reception with light refreshments and beverages at 5:00 p.m. \nIn 1935\, as Europe witnessed the rise of fascism\, Paul Valéry tried to identify in a lecture the origins of the crisis. Things were better\, he said\, when people were able to understand their present moment as the result of past events\, when “continuity reigned in the minds”. In this lecture\, Juan Gabriel Vásquez will discuss why that sense of continuity with the past is in fact indispensable\, for individuals and societies alike\, and he will suggest that fiction –the literary imagination of the historical past– might be uniquely adept at restoring it when it is broken. \nClick here to register to attend this event in person \nClick here to register to attend this event virtually \nJuan Gabriel Vásquez is the author of numerous novels\, including The Shape of the Ruins\, which was shortlisted for the 2019 International Man Booker Prize; Reputations\, a New York Times Best Book of the Year; and The Sound of Things Falling\, a National Bestseller and winner of the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Vásquez’s novels have been published in twenty-five languages worldwide. After sixteen years living in France\, Belgium\, and Spain\, he now resides between Bogotá and New York City. \nThe Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture Series is made possible by the support of the Thomas H. and Josephine Baird Memorial Fund\, an endowment that supports yearly lectures relevant to historical and cultural theory\, and to ensure that Hayden White’s legacy and intellectual spirit is honored and sustained.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/juan-gabriel-vasquez-restoring-continuity-notes-on-history-and-fiction/
LOCATION:University Center\, Bhojwani Room\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Persian New Year Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Persian New Year Celebration\, the rebirth of nature at the beginning of Spring\, when Iranian people are combatting with darkness for a new day (Nowruz) with the slogan “Woman\, Life\, Freedom\, Zan\, Zendegee\, Azadee.” This Nowruz celebration is free! Presentations will be made by elected officials and Iranian speakers alongside music and refreshments. Come with family and friends\, everyone is welcome. \nThis event is presented in collaboration with the City of Santa Cruz\, SILCA\, UCSC ISU\, and the UCSC Center for Middle East and North Africa.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/persian-new-year-celebration/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Marc Garellek
DESCRIPTION:Marc Garellek (UC San Diego) \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-marc-garellek/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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