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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/april_30_edwin_drood/
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SUMMARY:Alev Çinar - The Predicament of Islamic Decoloniality in Turkey: Sufi Political Thought and the “Great East” Project of Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
DESCRIPTION:After winning its battle against the occupying colonial powers during The War of Independence in 1919-1922\, Turkey set on a secular\, Westernizationist path toward modernization under Mustafa Kemal’s leadership. Turkey spent what can be referred to as its postcolonial period under its founding ideology\, Kemalism\, which launched a West-oriented secular modernization project that framed the Ottoman system and Islam as inferior\, backward\, and uncivilized. First forms of what I refer to as “Islamic decolonial thought\,” or Islamic decoloniality\, emerged against this backdrop in the 1950s\, which later developed into a collection of diverse intellectual movements constituting the current Islamic intellectual field (IIF) in Turkey. This study examines the Sufi-based political thought of Turkish Muslim poet and writer Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (1904-1983) as one of the pioneers of Islamic decolonial thought in Turkey. Necip Fazıl\, who is current President Erdogan’s main ideological inspiration\, was the founder and lead writer of the The Great East (Büyük Doğu) journal published in 1943-1978\, which is considered to be Turkey’s first Islam-based political journal that was instrumental in inspiring numerous political and intellectual movements currently active in the IIF. \nAlev Çınar is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Bilkent University\, Turkey. She received her M.A. in Sociology from Bogazici University; Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania\, and completed two postdoctoral fellowships at the International Center for Advanced Studies\, New York University\, and the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center\, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. \n\nShe is the author of Modernity\, Islam and Secularism in Turkey: Bodies Places and Time; co-editor of Urban Imaginaries: Locating the Modern City\, and of Visualizing Secularism and Religion: Egypt\, Lebanon\, Turkey\, India. She also has articles that have appeared in journals such as the Comparative Studies in Society and History\, International Journal of Middle East Studies\, Theory\, Culture and Society\, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. She is currently serving on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Middle East Studies. \nHistory of Consciousness Spring 23 Speaker Series. \nIn person and via zoom. Please see the History of Consciousness Speaker Series website for further details. \nTalk co-sponsored by CMENA.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alev-cinar-the-predicament-of-islamic-decoloniality-in-turkey-sufi-political-thought-and-the-great-east-project-of-necip-fazil-kisakurek-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hanna Musiol – Wounded Landscapes and Maps of Hurt: Breaths\, Scars\, and Tender Story-Sharing
DESCRIPTION:This event is co-sponsored by Film and Digital Media \nMaps always sense and often cut. Much has been written about their violence\, as an overture for the genocidal touch\, as a prospecting tool priming landscapes for material and narrative extraction\, or as an instrument of attritional social neglect (Lo Presti). Hegemonic cartographies live off of elisions of “disposable bodies” and on demarcation lines which construct architectures of harm (Lambert). This talk focuses instead on scars\, gasps of pain\, cartographic story-sharing\, and maps of hurt. It is thus an homage to marginalized but not marginal bodies\, stories and breaths\, all demanding oxygen\, care\, delight\, and a “right to co-existence” (Holmes). Drawing on the work of feminist\, diasporic\, and critical race thinkers\, architects\, poets\, human geographers\, and Indigenous Arctic mixmedia practitioners—Katherine McKittrick\, Olga Lehmann\, Pia Arke\, Afaa Weaver\, Laura Lo Presti\, Johnny Pitts\, Eliane Brum\, Viktorija Bogdanova\, among many others—Musiol will center on site-specific cartographic acts of “tender narration” involving artivists\, architects\, mappers\, students\, and literary scholars working together in art galleries\, on the page\, in our classrooms\, and in the streets (Tokarczuk). Specifically\, she will meander across several sites and rehearsals of remapping: Afaa Weavers’s and Viktorija Bogdanova’s poetic maps of spaces that “hurt us” and Sissel Bergh’s textual cartographies of South Sámi coast; monumental\, yet ephemeral urban-scale poetic storytelling actions taking over the streets\, pages\, bodies\, and facades in Trondheim and Hiedanranta; and\, finally\, site-specific pedagogies of cartographic story-sharing\, which draw on the ambulatory\, resuscitative\, biosocial oxygen-delivery affordances of poetry (in polylingual urban poetic ensembles and Søstrene Suse’s Radiokino listening seances). The talk will conclude with reflection about the cartographic acts of “repair\,” tenderness\, and “unlearning” (Azoulay)\, asking\, after Josie Billington and Pia Arke\, how we\, literary and cultural scholars and students\, can attend to the wounded bodies and landscapes “personally\,” using our meager disciplinary tools and “enfleshed” cartographies of hurt (Sharpe). \nHanna Musiol (PhD\, Northeastern University) is Professor of Modern/Contemporary Literature at NTNU (Norway) and a 2022–2023 Human Rights Fellow at SUNY Binghamton (US). Her research interests include transnational literary studies\, site-specific transmedia storytelling and reparative reading practices\, and critical theory\, with emphasis on migration\, environmental humanities / political ecology\, and environmental and human rights. She publishes frequently on aesthetics and justice\, and her work has appeared in DHQ\, ASAP/J\, Environment\, Space\, and Place\, Technology of Human Rights Representation\, Journal of American Studies\, and Writing Beyond the State. Musiol regularly co-organizes city-scale curatorial\, public humanities\, and civic-engagement initiatives and exhibitions\, such as Narrating the City\, Of Borders and Travelers\, Spectral Landscapes\, and Resist as Forest. She is based in Trondheim\, where she frequently collaborates with grassroots urban storytelling initiatives such as Literature for Inclusion & Poetry without Borders. She is currently involved in several transborder research projects devoted to spatial storytelling: Narrating Sustainability\, One by Walking\, Environmental Storytelling\, and Environmental Practices Across Borders. \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. \nRSVP by 11 AM on the day of the colloquium\, and you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hanna-musiol-wounded-landscapes-and-maps-of-hurt-breaths-scars-and-tender-story-sharing/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land  Book Talk and Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land\, examines the ongoing settler colonial war over the US-Mexico border from the perspective of Apache\, Tohono O’odham\, and Maya who fight to protect their sacred land. Exploring the logic of borders\, Schaeffer turns to Indigenous sacred sciences and ancestral land-based practices that are critical to reversing the ecological and social violence of surveillance\, extraction\, and occupation. \nFelicity Schaeffer is a UCSC Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies. She is also the author of Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship across the Americas\, and co-editor of Precarity and Belonging: Labor\, Migration\, and Noncitizenship. \nThis event is presented by the Feminist Studies Department\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, and The Center for Racial Justice \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/unsettled-borders-the-militarized-science-of-surveillance-on-sacred-indigenous-land-book-talk-and-celebration/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Labor Hope\, Labor Reality: Organizing Unions in 2023 - An Evening with E. Tammy Kim
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, May 3\, at 5:30pm in the Namaste Lounge (College Nine)\, New Yorker writer and co-host of the podcast Time to Say Goodbye E. Tammy Kim will be giving a talk on the state of labor activism and organizing\, followed by a panel discussion with writer\, organizer\, and doctoral candidate in Sociology Sarah Mason and Unite Here member and organizer Martha Hernandez. This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and UCSC Library\, with support from the Anthropology Department. \nE. Tammy Kim is a contributing writer at The New Yorker who covers labor and the workplace\, arts and culture\, and the Koreas. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times\, the New York Review of Books\, the London Review of Books\, and the Nation\, among many other publications. With Jay Caspian Kang\, she co-hosts the podcast Time to Say Goodbye\, which New York Magazine described as “not just about the concept of ‘Asian America\,’ but\, in many ways\, the broader discourse of race in America\, which it tries to complicate in provocative\, meaningful ways.” A contributing editor at Lux\, she has been an Alicia Patterson fellow and a fellow at Type Media Center\, and she is the current Writer-in-Residence at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. She also co-edited Punk Ethnography\, a book about contemporary world music. \nSarah Mason is a writer\, organizer\, and PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Her writing has appeared in the New Left Review\, Logic Magazine\, the Guardian\, and New Politics. She is a head steward in UAW 2865. \nMartha Hernandez is a member of Unite Here. A union leader in the Dream Inn\, where she has worked as a housekeeper for twenty-six years\, Hernandez is a Union Shop Steward and member of the Union Negotiating Committee. She was named Union Member of the Year in 2015.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/labor-hope-labor-reality-organizing-unions-in-2021-an-evening-with-e-tammy-kim/
LOCATION:Namaste Lounge – College 9\, Namaste Lounge\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:On Salon: Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:On Salon: A new reading series featuring UCSC’s incredible writers and poets. Join us for a new quarterly reading series sponsored by the Literature Department featuring graduate and undergraduate creative writers: Angie Sijun Lou\, Kristen Nelson\, Alicia Gutierrez\, Fio Harden\, Isla Oyguy\, Charissa Zeigler.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/on-salon-a-new-reading-series-featuring-ucscs-incredible-writers-and-poets/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Deep Read: Faculty Salon
DESCRIPTION:On May 4\, you’ll be able to join the conversation—either in person or online—at a salon-style event where our participating professors will lead a discussion of this year’s Deep Read book\, Under a White Sky\, with UCSC students and the broader Deep Read community. \nFaculty Speakers\n\nJorge Menna Barreto\, Environmental Art\nMike Beck\, Marine Sciences\, Director of the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience\nJody Biehl\, Literature and Science Communication Program\nSikina Jinnah\, Environmental Studies\n\n\n\nNot in Santa Cruz? Register for Zoom access. \nEvent Logistics\nBicycling\, car pooling\, ridesharing\, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited. If you drive to the event\, please plan to park in UCSC Lot #115 or 116. To reach these lots\, proceed through the main entrance to campus\, continue up the hill from the information kiosk on Coolidge\, then turn right at the Ranch View/Carriage House Road stoplight into the Carriage House/Campus Facilities parking lot. The Hay Barn is a 5-minute walk across the street from the parking lot. There will be directional signage to help you get to the correct parking lot and Barn entrances. Overflow parking will be available at lot 122. Download a parking map here. \n\nAbout The Deep Read\nThis event is part of The Humanities Institute’s Deep Read Program that invites curious minds to think deeply about literature\, art\, and the most pressing issues of our day. We read books from a wide range of genres\, exploring their implications on our politics\, inner lives\, and communities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-deep-read-faculty-salon/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:The 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
DESCRIPTION:The West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL\, pronounced /ˈwɪkfəl/) is an annual linguistics conference\, held in the spring at a university in western North America. It is a top international venue for researchers in theoretical linguistics\, studying any aspect of human language from a formal perspective\, including phonology\, morphology\, syntax\, semantics\, and their interfaces. The first WCCFL was held in 1982\, and it has previously been hosted by UC Santa Cruz four times\, most recently in 2012. The 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 41) will take place on May 5-7\, 2023 at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nInvited speakers:\nLuke Adamson\, Rutgers University\nDorothy Ahn\, Rutgers University\nEva Zimmerman\, University of Leipzig \nAt this time\, all talks in both main and special sessions are planned for in person presentation. In addition to one in-person person session\, there will be one virtual poster session. \nFull conference information can be found at: https://babel.ucsc.edu/wccfl41/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-41st-west-coast-conference-on-formal-linguistics/
LOCATION:Stevenson College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Debjani Bhattarcharyya – Climate Ledgers: Atmospheric Politics\, Risk and Liability in the Indian Ocean\, 1770-1850
DESCRIPTION:“Climate Ledgers” is a part of the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies 2022-2023 lecture series\, Futures. \n \nSpeaker: \nProfessor Debjani Bhattarcharyya\, University of Zurich
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/debjani-bhattarcharyya-climate-ledgers-atmospheric-politics-risk-and-liability-in-the-indian-ocean-1770-1850/
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SUMMARY:Encore Papers & Presentations
DESCRIPTION:This crip-friendly event is an opportunity to learn about what your UCSC colleagues are doing in their Disability Studies work. Presenters will present works-in-progress\, or re-deliver papers they have given in professional venues (such as conferences\, workshops\, etc.). Attendees are invited to actively and passively participate\, and speakers will provide notes\, a script\, and/or links to slides for access. The event is presented by the Humanities Institute’s Disability Studies Cluster. \nSCHEDULE \nAutism Life Writing\nCaitlin Flaws\, Literature \nAutoethnography\, Undone: Towards a Crip Critique of Ethnographic Realism\nMegan Moodie\, Anthropology \nBeyond UDL: Improving Accessibility through Asynchronous Activities\nDr. Brenda Sanfilippo\, Writing Program \nThe Mortification of Harvey Leach\nDr. Michael Chemers\, Performance\, Play & Design \nToward an Access Manifesto for the Food Limited\nDr. Amy Vidali\, Writing Program \nWhat Might a History Course on Disabilities in East Asia Look Like?\nDr. Noriko Aso\, History \nNOTE: This is a scent-free event. If you need a specific accommodation for this event (including professional captioning and/or ASL interpreting)\, please contact Amy Vidali at avidali@ucsc.edu with what you need. (Disclosing why you need this accommodation is not required.)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/encore-papers-presentations/
LOCATION:Namaste Lounge – College 9\, Namaste Lounge\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ecological Utopia: From the Victorians to Us with Professor Deanna K. Kreisel
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Friends of the Dickens Project for our spring Friends Faculty Fellowship talk series by Associate Professor Deanna K. Kreisel (University of Mississippi) who will be discussing “Ecological Utopia: From the Victorians to Us.” \nOver the course of three sessions\, we will have an opportunity to explore Victorian responses to their changing environment\, with a particular focus on William Morris’s utopian novel News from Nowhere. \nVirtual Sessions | Zoom Registration \n\nApril 8: Research Talk: It’s the End of the World and We Know It: Ecological Grief and the Work of Utopia\nMay 6: William Morris’ News from Nowhere\, Chapters 1-20\nJune 10: Discussion: News from Nowhere Chapters 21-32\, excerpts from Half-Earth Socialism by Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass\n\nThe first session will consist of a presentation about my current research. I am currently working on a book entitled It’s the End of the World and We Know It: Ecological Grief and the Work of Utopia\, which is about ecological mourning and utopian thinking from the Victorian period to the present. The book begins with a discussion of the ‘utopia craze’ of the late 19th century—of which Morris’s novel was a key part—and also discusses the work of John Ruskin and other early environmentalist writers. The latter part of the book explores recent and present-day responses to ecological change\, including literary responses\, and considers our own “ecological mourning” as a legacy of Victorian thinking. It ends with a discussion of recent on-the-ground ecotopian experiments. \nThe second and third sessions will consist of an in-depth discussion of News from Nowhere. In Session Two we will discuss the first half of Morris’s novel and contemporary Victorian responses to it; in the final session we will discuss the second half of the novel alongside some short excerpts from recent writers on climate grief and ecotopia. \nDeanna Kreisel is Associate Professor of English and co-director of Environmental Studies at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of ‘Economic Woman: Demand\, Gender\, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy\,’ as well as articles on Victorian literature and culture in PMLA\, Representations\, ELH\, Novel\, Mosaic\, Victorian Studies\, Nineteenth Century Literature\, and elsewhere. She is the co-editor\, along with Devin Griffiths\, of a special Victorian Literature and Culture issue on “Open Ecologies” and the volume ‘After Darwin: Literature\, Theory\, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century.’
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ecological-utopia-from-the-victorians-to-us-with-professor-deanna-k-kreisel-2/
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