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SUMMARY:Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents: Stacey Abrams\, Rogue Justice
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is thrilled to welcome #1 New York Times bestselling author and political leader Stacey Abrams to discuss her new book Rogue Justice and the craft of writing. This event will take place at the Rio Theatre (1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz) and is cosponsored by NAACP Santa Cruz County\, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, and the Santa Cruz Community Credit Union. \n \nNOTE: Limited tickets available—purchase today! Venue size selected by the author. \nROGUE JUSTICE: The #1 New York Times bestselling author of While Justice Sleeps returns with another riveting and intricately plotted thriller\, in which a blackmailed federal judge\, a secret court and a brazen murder may lead to an unprecedented national crisis. Drawn from today’s headlines and woven with her unique insider perspective\, Stacey Abrams combines twisting plotlines\, wry wit\, and clever puzzles to create another immensely entertaining suspense novel. \nSTACEY ABRAMS is a New York Times bestselling author\, entrepreneur and political leader. She served as Minority Leader in the Georgia House of Representatives\, and she was the first black woman to become gubernatorial nominee for a major party in United States history. Abrams has launched multiple nonprofit organizations devoted to democracy protection\, voting rights\, and effective public policy. She has also co-founded successful companies\, including a financial services firm\, an energy and infrastructure consulting firm\, and the media company\, Sage Works Productions\, Inc.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stacey-abrams-rogue-justice/
LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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SUMMARY:Luis Alberto Urrea - Good Night\, Irene
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome bestselling author Luis Alberto Urrea (The House of Broken Angels) back to the store for a reading and signing of his new novel Good Night\, Irene\, which was inspired by his own family’s history: his mother’s heroism as a Red Cross volunteer during World War II. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n“Good Night\, Irene is a beautiful\, heartfelt novel that celebrates the intense power and durability of female friendship while shining a light on one of the fascinating lost women’s stories of World War II.” —Kristin Hannah \n \nWhat if a friendship forged on the front lines of war defines a life forever? In the tradition of The Nightingale and Transcription\, Good Night\, Irene is a searing epic based on the magnificent and true story of heroic Red Cross women. \nIn 1943\, Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiance in New York to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe. She makes fast friends in training with Dorothy Dunford\, a towering Midwesterner with a ferocious wit. Together they are part of an elite group of women\, nicknamed Donut Dollies\, who command military vehicles called Clubmobiles at the font line\, providing camaraderie and a tast of home that may be the only solace before troops head into battle. \nAfter D-Day\, these two intrepid friends join the Allied soldiers streaming into France. Their time in Europe will see them embroiled in danger\, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Buchenwald. Through her friendship with Dororothy and a love affair with a courageous American fighter pilot named Hans\, Irene learns to trust again. Her most fervent hope\, which becomes more precarious by the day\, is for all three of them to survive the war intact. \nTaking as inspiration his mother’s own Red Cross service\, Luis Alberto Urrea has delivered an overlooked story of women’s heroism in World War II. With its affecting and uplifting portrait of friendship and valor in harrowing circumstances\, Good Night\, Irene powerfully demonstrates yet again that Urrea’s “gifts as a storyteller are prodigious” (NPR). \nA finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his landmark work of nonfiction The Devil’s Highway\, now in its 30th paperback printing\, Luis Alberto Urrea is the author of numerous other works of nonfiction\, poetry\, and fiction\, including the national bestsellers The Hummingbird’s Daughter and The House of Broken Angels\, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award\, among many other honors\, he lives outside Chicago and teachers at the University of Illinois Chicago.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/luis-alberto-urrea-good-night-irene/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Deep Read: Community Salon
DESCRIPTION:On June 7\, we’ll be hosting a salon—co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and Lookout Santa Cruz—focused on actions we can all take in the face of climate change. Ecology Action\, Elkhorn Slough Foundation\, and Regeneración Pajaro Valley will lead the discussion moderated by UCSC Professor of Humanities and Journalism Jody Biehl. \n\n\nNot in Santa Cruz? Register for Zoom access. \n  \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-community-salon/
LOCATION:The Seymour Marine Discovery Center\, 100 McAllister Way\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bookshop Santa Cruz presents: An evening with Ocean Vuong
DESCRIPTION:In this deeply intimate second poetry collection (in paperback June 6th)\, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother’s death\, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory\, and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous\, Vuong contends with personal loss\, the meaning of family\, and the cost of being the product of an American war in America. At once vivid\, brave\, and propulsive\, Vuong’s poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicenter of the break. \nThe author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky With Exit Wounds\, winner of the 2016 Whiting Award\, the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize\, and a 2019 MacArthur fellow\, Vuong writes directly to our humanity without losing sight of the current moment. These poems represent a more innovative and daring experimentation with language and form\, illuminating how the themes we perennially live in and question are truly inexhaustible. Bold and prescient\, and a testament to tenderness in the face of violence\, Time Is a Mother is a return and a forging forth all at once. This event is presented by Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. \n \nOcean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds and the New York Times bestselling novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. A recipient of the 2019 MacArthur “Genius Grant\,” he is also the winner of the Whiting Award and the T. S. Eliot Prize. His writings have been featured in The Atlantic\, Harper’s Magazine\, The Nation\, The New Republic\, The New Yorker\, and The New York Times. Born in Saigon\, Vietnam\, he currently lives in Northampton\, Massachusetts. \nPRAISE:\n“Piercing . . . The poems in Time Is a Mother give us a path to examine the complexities of what it means to lose a mother\, and what it means to embrace family and the self even when we want to look away. In Vuong’s tender yet unflinching words\, we are reminded that only a mother can carry a beating heart within her body.” —Los Angeles Review of Books \n“Like Orpheus descending into the underworld\, Vuong takes us to the white-hot limits of his grief\, writing with visionary fervor about love\, agony\, and time . . . Aesthetically ambitious and ferociously original . . . Here\, he breaks open and rebuilds.” —Esquire\, “The Best Books of Spring 2022” \n“That’s the essence of Vuong’s talent: he alchemizes deeply individual experiences with universal emotions into what is both familiar and new. . . . We need no more proof of Vuong’s importance in the poetic canon.” —Chicago Review of Books
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bookshop-santa-cruz-presents-an-evening-with-ocean-vuong/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, 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-3/
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