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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our monthly Pickwick Club meeting. New this year\, we will be devoting an entire year to one novel instead of two\, and will dive deeply into Great Expectations. Join Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members for a series of discussions about this book. \n \nCharles Dickens depicts how a gentleman is made\, not born\, in this novel. Presented as Pip’s confessional autobiography\, Great Expectations describes his childhood at the forge\, his infatuation with the beautiful Estella\, his shame at his working-class origin and his eagerness to be a gentleman\, and eventually his life as a young man-about-town with “great expectations” of inheriting a fortune. Recalling these events as an adult\, Mr. Pirrip is frank about his mistakes and shortcomings. \nRecommended Edition: We recommend the Penguin Classics edition of the novel for its appendices and notes\, but other versions are fine. First-time readers should avoid the Introduction if they don’t want spoilers. Download the novel to read at Gutenburg.org or to listen at LibriVox.org. \nIf you have any questions please don’t hesitate to reach out at dpj@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Series – Listening\, Mentoring\, Coaching\, Advising with Andrea Cohen
DESCRIPTION:Listening to understand represents an equally important half of effective oral communication to the other half\, delivery of the communication by spoken word. Listening well forms the essential communication base upon which to build the skills of mentoring\, coaching\, and advising. Listening well also aids your performance on a team and in any professional and personal relationship. Learn how to listen conscientiously and to mentor\, coach\, and advise with empathy. \nAndrea Cohen serves as director of strategy and chief of staff in the Division of Academic Affairs at UC Santa Cruz where she engages with strategic initiatives; manages recruitments\, supports personnel\, and guides employee development; centers DEIA goals; and conducts research and strategizes on divisional and campuswide projects. A trusted adviser to colleagues at all levels\, Andrea develops project and implementation plans\, facilitates groups through projects and change processes\, offers workshops and training\, participates on several boards\, and was the founding chair of UCSC’s Campus Advisory Committee on the Status of Womxn (CACSW). Andrea earned a master’s in public administration (M.P.A.) from Villanova University in Philadelphia and a bachelor’s in geography from the University of Colorado Boulder. \n  \n \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-listening-mentoring-coaching-advising-with-andrea-cohen/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231129T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231129T120000
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SUMMARY:THI Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students\, faculty\, staff\, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays\, 11am to noon. \nWe invite you to visit our team\, meet our new Faculty Director\, Pranav Anand\, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how THI supports Faculty\, Graduate Students\, and Undergraduate Students\, including fellowship and grant opportunities\, and hear more about our ongoing research initiatives and partnerships. Enjoy a free cup of coffee\, pick up a THI sticker\, and be a part of our humanities community. \nCome say hi to us at the THI Suite\, on the 5th floor of the Humanities 1 building. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-coffee-hour-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231129T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231129T130000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Series – Maintaining Work-Life Balance with Angel Dominguez
DESCRIPTION:Join Angel Dominguez for an interactive workshop and discussion of what it means to cultivate a healthy work-life balance. The interactive discussion will cover the importance of setting boundaries\, time management\, how technology can be your friend\, and why saying “no” doesn’t make you a bad person! \nAngel is a queer\, first-generation\, Latinx UCSC alumnus dedicated to supporting historically excluded groups of students during their time here in the redwoods as the GANAS graduate services counselor for UCSC. Angel holds an M.F.A. in writing and poetics from Naropa University and is the author of several books of poetry and prose. \n  \n \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-maintaining-work-life-balance-with-angel-dominguez/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Robert Nichols – The Indian Wars Have Never Ended
DESCRIPTION:In the 1960s and 70s\, Red Power intellectuals and activists engaged in a remarkably ambitious wholesale rewriting of American Indian history. New works of popular and academic history challenged standard narratives of U.S. territorial expansion\, with particular emphasis paid to major events of the nineteenth century ‘Indian Wars’\, such as Sand Creek\, Wounded Knee\, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn. This presentation seeks to understand Red Power Historiography as more than just retrospective revision and\, instead\, as a distinct mode of contemporaneous political critique. Particular attention is paid to the way that Red Power Historiography helped to reframe popular interpretations of Cold War conflict\, especially\, the spectre of the guerilla\, the partisan\, and the revolutionary insurgent. Work from this period serves as a model then for how we might bind disparate struggles together\, across great time and space. \nRobert Nichols is Professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His work in social and political theory has been published in several books and journal articles\, including Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory (Duke\, 2020); The Dispossessed: Karl Marx’s Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor\, ed. and trans.\, (Minnesota\, 2021); and The World of Freedom: Heidegger\, Foucault\, and the Politics of Historical Ontology (Stanford\, 2014). \n  \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/robert-nichols-structural-oppression-and-historical-critique/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Netta Avineri - Language and Social Justice: What Is\, What Has Been\, and What Could Be?
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present Netta Avineri\, Ph.D. (Middlebury Institute of International Studies) “Language and Social Justice: What Is\, What Has Been\, and What Could Be.” Refreshments will be served. \nHow are language and social justice interconnected? How can one cultivate a language and social justice praxis\, integrating reflection\, dialogue\, and action for language-related social change? In this presentation\, I will discuss the applied linguistic anthropological (ALA) framework\, a multi scaled\, temporally-shaped critical engagement with socially-situated language issues\, balancing contextual knowledge\, relationship-building\, and aspirations for action (Avineri & Baquedano-López\, forthcoming). The ALA framework explores what is\, what has been\, and what could be through the following steps: centering language\, reflection\, noticing\, observation\, narrative\, positionalities and commitments\, critique\, relationships\, aspirations\, and actions for social change. Through exploring language and social justice issues\, critical reflections\, and hand-on activities\, we will demonstrate the ways that individual\, interpersonal\, and collective engagement are fundamental for systemic social change. \nDr. Netta Avineri is a Language Teacher Education Professor and Intercultural Competence Committee Chair at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. She serves as the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation Graduate Education Pillar Lead. Netta teaches Critical ServiceLearning and Teacher Education courses at California State University\, Monterey Bay. She is co-editor of Language and Social Justice in Practice\, author of Research Methods for Language Teaching: Inquiry\, Process\, and Synthesis\, co-editor of Metalinguistic Communities: Case Studies of Agency\, Ideology\, and Symbolic Uses of Language\, and Series Editor for Critical Approaches in Applied Linguistics. Her co-authored forthcoming textbook is An Introduction to Language and Social Justice: What Is\, What Has Been\, and What Could Be. She has served as the American Association for Applied Linguistics Public Affairs and Engagement Committee Chair and is the Secretary/Treasurer of the Society of Linguistic Anthropology. Netta’s research interests include language and social justice\, critical interculturality\, heritage language socialization\, and ethical community partnerships.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/67951/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Series – Public Speaking with Bri McWhorter
DESCRIPTION:Every presentation is an opportunity to share your ideas and connect with your audience. In this interactive workshop\, Bri will lead you through her program\, W.A.V.E.®\, where she will show you techniques to overcome nerves\, use your voice effectively\, and bring your content to life. Whether you are sharing a pitch about your work\, speaking at a conference\, or giving a job talk\, she will share tools that you can use to impress and captivate your audience. \nBri McWhorter is the founder and CEO of Activate to Captivate\, where she teaches communication techniques from an actor’s point of view. She specializes in public speaking\, scientific communications\, interview skills\, and interpersonal communications. She has taught workshops at Fortune 500 companies\, privately coached CEOs at nonprofits\, and led certificate programs at top universities. She is the creator of W.A.V.E.®\, a program where she teaches speakers how to overcome nerves\, use body language\, and rely on their voice to tell an engaging story. She has coached speakers for academic symposia at various institutions\, including UC Office of the President\, UC Irvine\, UC Santa Barbara\, and UC Santa Cruz. She has a Master of Fine Arts in acting from UC Irvine and a bachelor’s degree in theater and performance studies from UC Berkeley. \n \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-public-speaking-with-bri-mcwhorter/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231130T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231130T190000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers - Justin Torres
DESCRIPTION:Justin Torres is the author of the novel Blackouts. His debut novel\, We the Animals\, won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award\, was translated into fifteen languages\, and was adapted into a feature film. He was named a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35\,” a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University\, and a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library. His short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker\, Harper’s\, Granta\, Tin House\, The Washington Post\, LA Times Image Magazine\, and Best American Essays. He lives in Los Angeles\, and teaches at UCLA. \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-justin-torres/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231201T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231201T103000
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SUMMARY:Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Three – The Subject of Violence (Paradiso 3–5 & 14–18)
DESCRIPTION:Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \n \nBrenda Deen Schildgen is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature\, emerita at UC Davis. Among her books are the most recent\, Dante and Violence: Domestic\, Civic\, Cosmic (2021); Divine Providence\, A History: Bible\, Virgil\, Orosius\, Augustine\, and Dante (2012); Other Renaissances: A New Approach to World Literature (2006); Heritage or Heresy: Destruction and Preservation of Art and Architecture in Europe (2008); Dante and the Orient (2002)\, translated into Italian (2016) and Arabic (2009).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-a-gateway-to-dantes-heaven-episode-three-the-subject-of-violence-paradiso-3-5-14-18/
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