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SUMMARY:Oliver Jeffers: Begin Again
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes globally renowned artist and internationally bestselling author Oliver Jeffers for an event celebrating his new book BEGIN AGAIN: The Story of How We Got Here and Where We Might Go. Take a visually stunning journey through humankind’s history as Jeffers examines our shared motivations for existence in his first illustrated book aimed at a broad audience. This event\, cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, includes a solo presentation by Jeffers\, a moderated Q&A\, and book signing. \nPlease visit Bookshop Santa Cruz’s website for info on attending this event: \nhttps://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/oliver-jeffers \nIn his first illustrated book created specifically with a wider audience in mind\, Oliver Jeffers shares a very brief history of humanity\, reviews our current position\, and shares his dreams for where we go from here. With his bold\, iconic art\, executed in a simple two-color palette\, Oliver Jeffers looks at our shared motivations for existence to follow the human path from the dawn of our species through history\, sharing profound\, sometimes poignant\, commentary on our present\, and then offers a challenge: Where do we go from here? How can we create new stories and new systems that allow all of humanity to flourish? How can we journey toward a collective and robust future? \nIllustrated in his world-renowned art style\, Oliver Jeffers’ reflection on the patterns that have led us to where we are today\, the stories we have governed ourselves by\, and those we might adopt going forward\, is insightful\, moving\, and powerful. A must-have for anyone who wants the next generation to inherit a world to be proud of. \nOliver Jeffers makes art and tells stories. His books include How to Catch a Star; Lost and Found\, which was the recipient of the prestigious Nestle Children’s Book Prize Gold Award in the UK and was later adapted into an award-winning animated film; and the New York Times bestsellers Here We Are\, What We’ll Build\, Stuck\, This Moose Belongs to Me\, and Once Upon an Alphabet. He is also\, of course\, the illustrator of the #1 smash hits The Day the Crayons Quit and The Day the Crayons Came Home\, both written by Drew Daywalt. His fine art is world-renowned and his dip-art exhibitions are much sought-after events. Originally from Belfast\, Northern Ireland\, Oliver now splits his time between Belfast and Brooklyn\, New York. Follow him @OliverJeffers.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/oliver-jeffers-begin-again/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Strawberry Picker Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:The Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) Initiatives invites you to join a film screening event featuring Strawberry Picker produced by Inspira Studios. This special event has been organized in celebration and recognition of Latinx Heritage Month\, and is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nStrawberry Picker is a short documentary depicting the life story of a little boy growing up in labor camps to become a world-class artist! The film provides a look at generations of struggle and resilience in the Chicano Art Community through the experiences of Watsonville-born and raised\, Chicano Artist\, Juan R. Fuentes. \nOur special guests\, Juan R. Fuentes and filmmakers\, Maria Cano-Bonner and Eugenia Renteria\, from Inspira Studios will join us in a panel discussion on the importance of Latinx representation in media and the arts\, and the inspiration for their work. \nTuesday\, October 10 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM \nAt Stevenson Event Center\nLight refreshments will be provided!\nPlease RSVP if you plan to attend this event.\n\nVisit the HSI Initiatives event webpage here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/strawberry-picker-film-screening/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231011T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231011T130000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Series – Informational Interview with Lorato Anderson
DESCRIPTION:An informational interview is one that you conduct with someone working in a field for an institution or company that you want to consider working in and for. How do you conduct an informational interview? What questions should you ask to get the best information about what it’s like to do that job for that organization? How do you network to locate people to ask for an informational interview? \nLorato Anderson is the Director of Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion at UCSC\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. \nLorato has worked on campus since 2016 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. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2023-2024 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 eighth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted (or co-sponsored) by The Humanities Institute. Our meetings provide the opportunity 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-series-informational-interview-with-lorato-anderson/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, 95064
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Nick Mitchell – The University in Surplus Perspective\, 1945-1968
DESCRIPTION:Is it possible to historicize higher education without taking its basic categories for granted? In this talk\, I aim to provide a historical and theoretical framework for the emergence of mass higher education in the twentieth century U.S. framed by the problem of surpluses—population\, labor\, and governance capacity. Faced with the prospect of mass unemployment in the wake of the second world war\, U.S. state-making found in the university a means of putting wartime budget surpluses to work in an effort to absorb demobilized population and labor surpluses. The category of the college student emerges in this period as a means of anticipating and managing the potential crises attendant to modern warfare. But as it develops\, it does not remain there. The university as a site for the absorption of surplus emerges as a site for the struggle over how and toward what ends surplus time—time free of and freed from the wage—might be used. \nNick Mitchell (she/her) works in the Department of Feminist Studies and the Department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. As a researcher\, Mitchell is principally engaged the status with higher education in the U.S. as a problem for historical and theoretical inquiry. As a writer\, Mitchell aims to make better sense of university life-worlds by developing scales\, vocabularies\, and categories to reframe and rethink its rhythms and textures. These research and writing efforts can be found in essays published in Feminist Studies\, Critical Ethnic Studies\, The New Inquiry\, and Spectre\, as well as in two forthcoming books: “Discipline and Surplus: Black Studies\, Women’s Studies\, and the Dawn of Neoliberalism” (under contract with Duke University Press) and “The University\, in Theory: Essays on Institutionalized Knowledge.” \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/nick-mitchell-the-university-in-surplus-perspective-1945-1968/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Series – Curating your Digital Reputation with Lisa Nielsen
DESCRIPTION:Your digital reputation refers to your presence on the internet\, on social media platforms and on personal and worksite websites. Learn tips on how to distinguish yourself from the crowd and create a lasting impression in an evolving digital communications landscape. \nLisa Nielsen\, Senior Director of Marketing and Creative Services\, University Relations\nLisa Nielsen has over 25 years of design and marketing experience in the private sector and with non-profits. From working at Apple Computer as an Art Director to running her own firm in San Francisco for 15 years\, she knows what it means to be a good communicator and marketer. From startups to fortune 500 clients\, her adventures in marketing have added up to a depth of knowledge which she likes to share. Lisa has been with UC Santa Cruz for 12 years as the marketing director and oversees a creative team of writers\, videographers\, and designers. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2023-2024 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 eighth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted (or co-sponsored) by The Humanities Institute. Our meetings provide the opportunity 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-series-curating-your-digital-reputation-with-lisa-nielsen/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, 95064
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Living Writers – Thais Miller
DESCRIPTION:Thaïs Miller is the author of the novel Our Machinery (2008) and the short story collection The Subconscious Mutiny and Other Stories (2009). She is a PhD Candidate in Literature\, pursuing a Creative/Critical Writing Concentration\, at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She received her MA in Creative Writing for Social Activism from New York University in 2011 and her BA magna cum laude with Honors in Literature and a minor in Music Performance from American University in 2009. Her short stories\, dramatic writing\, poetry\, essays on craft\, book reviews\, and interviews have been published by CRAFT\, Nautilus\, The Los Angeles Review of Books’s PubLab\, Entropy\, The Common\, Vol. 1 Brooklyn\, Carolina Academic Press\, and appear in many other literary journals and magazines. For more information\, visit: https://thaismiller.wordpress.com/  \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-thais-miller/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Festival of Monsters
DESCRIPTION:Monsters lurk in our culture. They rise in times of growing prejudice\, discrimination and othering. The 2023 Festival of Monsters (Oct. 13-15) — hosted by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies — explores the ways monsters and tropes of monstrosity both preserve and conflict with forms of social and cultural injustice. \nHeld in two locations in beautiful Santa Cruz\, Calif\, the 2023 Festival includes an academic conference\, plus performances\, readings\, presentations from monster-makers\, and an exhibit at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) entitled Werewolf Hunters\, Jungle Queens\, and Space Commandos: The Lost Worlds of Women Comics Artists. \nAuthors Mallory O’Meara (The Lady from the Black Lagoon) and Jess Zimmerman (Women and Other Monsters) will give the keynote talks. Author Addie Tsai (Unwieldy Creatures) will read and discuss her book\, which is a queer\, nonbinary\, biracial retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. \nThe full schedule of activities\, event information\, and registration can be found at: https://www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/2023festival \nSponsors include the Arts Research Institute of UC Santa Cruz\, UC Santa Cruz Arts Division\, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, Porter College\, the UC Santa Cruz Foundation Board and private donors. Additional support provided by Bookshop Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/festival-of-monsters-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231013T132000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Ryan Bennett
DESCRIPTION:Ryan Bennett\, UC Santa Cruz: “Vowel deletion as grammatically-controlled gestural overlap in Uspanteko”\nUspanteko (Mayan) is spoken by ~5000 people in the central highlands of Guatemala. Unstressed\nvowels in Uspanteko often delete\, though deletion is variable within and across speakers. Deletion\nappears to be phonological\, being sensitive to phonotactics\, foot structure\, vowel quality\, and\nmorphology; and being largely insensitive to speech rate and style. But deletion also appears to be\nphonetic in character\, reflecting extreme vowel reduction rather than symbolic deletion: it is variable\,\ngradient\, insensitive to certain phonotactics\, and opaque with respect to accent placement.\nElectroglottography data suggests that even apparently ‘deleted’ vowels may contribute voicing to\n[C(V)C] intervals\, albeit inaudibly. We thus analyze deletion as grammatically-controlled gestural\noverlap\, which masks vowels in [CVC] contexts\, either in the phonology proper (e.g. Gafos 2002) or\nas part of a grammar of phonetic interpretation (e.g. Kingston & Diehl 1994). \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-ryan-bennett/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Series – Plática with the authors of The Latinx Guide to Graduate School
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a delightful conversation and book talk with Dr. Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales and Dr. Magdalena Barrera\, authors of The Latinx Guide to Graduate School. \nGraduate Students are invited to meet with the authors from 2-3:30pm to learn about the unwritten rules for surviving and thriving in graduate school including strategies for writing and finding school/work/life balance. \nJoin us at the Cervantes and Velasquez Conference Room (on the 3rd Floor of the Bay Tree Building). \nThere will be 10 copies of the book available for the first 10 students to check in. The book is also available online through McHenry Library. \n \nMore about the authors:\n\n\n\n\nDr. Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales is an interdisciplinary scholar of immigration and education. Her academic\, activist and community work focuses on the ways undocumented young people are changing the political and legislative terrain around “illegality” and belonging in this country. Her work lies at the intersection of education\, immigration\, and social movements. She is the co-author of Encountering Poverty: Thinking and Acting in an Unequal World (2016\, University of California Press) and co-editor of We Are Not DREAMers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States (2020\, Duke University Press).\n\n\n\nDr. Magdalena L. Barrera is the inaugural Vice Provost for Faculty Success. In this role\, she provides thought leadership for the division on all aspects of faculty recruitment\, onboarding\, and professional advancement within a Minority Serving Institution context. Her work is informed by a deep commitment to recruiting and retaining diverse faculty who bring asset-minded pedagogies to the classroom. A former first-generation student\, Dr. Barrera holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature and Latin American Studies from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. She began her faculty career at SJSU in 2008\, following a postdoctoral teaching fellowship in Stanford’s Introduction to the Humanities program.\n\n\n\nThere will also be an Undergraduate Session from 10-11:30am.  \nThis event is presented by GANAS Graduate Program and HSI Initiatives. THI is proud to be co-sponsoring this event. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the eighth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted (or co-sponsored) by The Humanities Institute. Our meetings provide the opportunity 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-series-platica-with-the-authors-of-the-latinx-guide-to-graduate-school/
LOCATION:Cervantes and Velasquez Conference Room\, Bay Tree Building\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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