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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-4/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Dustin Chacón
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present\, Dustin Chacón (University of Georgia). \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-dustin-chacon/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Charles Duhigg - Supercommunicators
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Charles Duhigg (The Power of Habit) for a reading and signing of his new book\, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection\, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work—and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life. \nCharles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and the author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better. A graduate of Harvard Business School and Yale College\, he is a winner of the National Academies of Sciences\, National Journalism\, and George Polk awards. He writes for The New Yorker and other publications\, was previously a senior editor at The New York Times\, and occasionally hosts the podcast How To! \nThis free event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n \nCome inside a jury room as one juror leads a starkly divided room to consensus. Join a young CIA officer as he recruits a reluctant foreign agent. And sit with an accomplished surgeon as he tries\, and fails\, to convince yet another cancer patient to opt for the less risky course of treatment. In Supercommunicators\, Charles Duhigg blends deep research and his trademark storytelling skills to show how we can all learn to identify and leverage the hidden layers that lurk beneath every conversation. \nCommunication is a superpower and the best communicators understand that whenever we speak\, we’re actually participating in one of three conversations: practical (What’s this really about?)\, emotional (How do we feel?)\, and social (Who are we?). If you don’t know what kind of conversation you’re having\, you’re unlikely to connect. \nSupercommunicators know the importance of recognizing—and then matching—each kind of conversation\, and how to hear the complex emotions\, subtle negotiations\, and deeply held beliefs that color so much of what we say and how we listen. Our experiences\, our values\, our emotional lives—and how we see ourselves\, and others—shape every discussion\, from who will pick up the kids to how we want to be treated at work. In this book\, you will learn why some people are able to make themselves heard\, and to hear others\, so clearly. \nWith his storytelling that takes us from the writers’ room of The Big Bang Theory to the couches of leading marriage counselors\, Duhigg shows readers how to recognize these three conversations—and teaches us the tips and skills we need to navigate them more successfully. In the end\, he delivers a simple but powerful lesson: With the right tools\, we can connect with anyone.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/charles-duhigg-supercommunicators/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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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-5/2024-02-28/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kailani Polzak – Voyage Visuality: European Representations of Oceania at the Intersection of Eighteenth-Century Racial Theory and Artistic Practice
DESCRIPTION:Amid discussions about universal rights\, contestations over land\, and debates over the morality of chattel slavery\, eighteenth-century Europeans increasingly sought to codify social hierarchy in observable physical differences. This project depended upon and spurred the production of circulatable pictures of bodies in the form of prints. At the same time\, recent encounters between European and Pacific Islanders disrupted previously accepted human divisions based on a four-continent model. This talk will analyze prints made after European voyages in Oceania to consider how these works give form to interactions between different visual practices and ways of knowing. Though images made during the so-called “voyages of discovery” are often treated as mere illustrations\, this talk will indicate how they do not simply replicate European racialist theories but rather reveal uncertainties and shifts in the visual epistemologies of race. \nKailani Polzak is an Assistant Professor in the History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She specializes in early-modern European visual culture\, focusing on questions of intercultural contact\, race\, and colonialism in representations of the Pacific. Polzak’s current book project examines the graphic and printed works created about the circumnavigatory expeditions conducted by Britain\, France\, and Russia in Aotearoa New Zealand\, Australia\, and Hawaiʻi in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and traces how these pictures were mobilized in constructions of racial difference and geographical space. Her current research and publications emphasize the methodological questions raised by writing about and curating colonial histories from multiple perspectives. \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/kailani-polzak-voyage-visuality-european-representations-of-oceania-at-the-intersection-of-eighteenth-century-racial-theory-and-artistic-practice/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mohamed Abdelaziz: Photogrammetry and Computer Graphics in Archaeology
DESCRIPTION:Photogrammetry and Computer Graphics in archaeology: application on some terrestrial and underwater archaeological sites in the city of Alexandria\, Egypt \nIn Alexandria-Egypt\, CEAlex (Centre d’etudes Alexandrines) conducted the first scientific underwater excavations in 1994 on the submerged site of the remains of the ancient lighthouse of Alexandria near Qaitbey fort. In 2014\, for the first time in Egypt\, the center launched a 3D underwater photogrammetry data-gathering program to obtain a Digital Surface Model of the submerged site of the lighthouse\, and a 3D model of some of its artifacts. \nIn this talk\, digital heritage specialist and digital archaeologist Mohamed Abdelaziz will present the result of land- and underwater-based 3D reconstruction and documentation projects by the Center\, including the capturing of entire archaeological sites\, the virtual anastylosis (re-erection) of sculptural fragments of statues recovered from the sea\, and new methods for viewing visible and (previously) invisible details of archaeological objects.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mohamed-abdelaziz-photogrammetry-and-computer-graphics-in-archaeology/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: Henry VIII
DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, the UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute\, as we launch Undiscovered Shakespeare: Henry VIII\, the fourth installment of our annual virtual Shakespeare program. \nRegister for all sessions here: \n \nAbout Henry VIII:\nEarly in its first run in 1613\, Henry VIII (1613) set the world on fire – if by “world” we mean The Globe\, the theater in which Shakespeare’s company had performed since 1599. A stage canon set alight the building’s thatch roof and supporting timbers. \nThe play focuses on the fall of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey\, Henry’s closest advisor\, on Henry’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon and marriage to Anne Boleyn\, and on the first stirrings of the English Reformation under Thomas Cranmer\, the Archbishop of Canterbury who gave us the Book of Common Prayer\, before it culminates in the birth of Elizabeth I. In part\, this play is about Henry’s effort to emerge from the shadow of his courtiers and determine his own fate as a king. In part\, it is about the way that it feels to be on the losing end of history’s epoch-making struggles and how the theater might help us to acknowledge and commemorate those losses so that they don’t come back to haunt the future. \nThis is a most unusual play\, unlike Shakespeare’s earlier meditations on the history of the English monarchy. Despite being very popular through the nineteenth century\, Henry VIII is rarely seen in performance today\, despite the current interest in television programs\, films\, and novels about the Tudor dynasty. This three-part\, virtual reading\, (February 21 and 28 and March 6) which is the fourth installment Undiscovered Shakespeare\, a collaboration between Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, The Humanities Institute\, and UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, brings Shakespeare’s last history play alive again. \nCome one\, come all\, for live theater and for lively conversation with actors\, scholars\, and each other! \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced. \nEpisode 1: February 21\, 2024\, 7:00pm-9:00pm\nBuckingham (Prologue through Act 2\, Scene 1)\nThe play opens in the summer of 1520. Henry VIII has just returned from France\, where he was attending The Field of the Cloth of Gold: a diplomatic summit and extravagant display of wealth\, organized by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey to make peace between Henry and the French king\, Francois I. The Duke of Buckingham and other English nobles resent the favor that Henry bestows on Wolsey\, a commoner. Among themselves\, they accuse the Cardinal of usurping the King’s sovereign powers\, but soon it is Buckingham who finds himself on trial for treason. Queen Katherine warns Henry that excessive taxes\, attributed to Wolsey’s influence at court\, have brought his subjects to the brink of rebellion. \nEpisode 2: February 28\, 2024\, 7:00pm-9:00pm\nKatharine and Wolsey (Act 2\, Scene 2 through Act 3\, Scene 2)\nWhen Anne Boleyn enters King Henry’s life\, he begins to search for valid reasons to annul his marriage to Queen Katherine\, who has been his wife for twenty-four years. The Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk blame Henry’s change of heart on Wolsey. The Queen defends her marriage before the Pope’s legate\, but the union is dissolved. Norfolk and Suffolk reveal the Cardinal’s enormous private wealth to the King. Wolsey understands his goose is cooked and reflects philosophically on his impending fall from grace with Thomas Cromwell\, his loyal servant. \nEpisode 3: March 6\, 2024\, 7:00pm-9:00pm\nCranmer (Act 4\, Scene 1 through Epilogue)\nAfter Wolsey’s fall and death\, King Henry finds a new spiritual advisor in Thomas Cranmer\, the reformist Archbishop of Canterbury. He also appoints Thomas Cromwell\, Wolsey’s servant\, as his personal secretary and member of the Privy Council. Off stage\, Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen\, while Katherine dies of a broken heart before our eyes. Stephen Gardiner\, the Bishop of Winchester and the enemy of Queen Anne\, plots the downfall Cranmer and Cromwell\, her allies\, but King Henry outmaneuvers him\, foiling the plot and demonstrating his superiority to his advisors. As the play ends\, the year must be 1533\, because the Queen gives birth to a daughter\, Elizabeth. Cranmer prophesies a golden future for England that\, by the time Shakespeare wrote this play\, already belonged to England’s past.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-henry-viii-ep2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Grants and Fellowships
DESCRIPTION:Grants and Fellowships for Scholars in the Humanities  \nLearn how to make your fellowship and grant proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss what does and does not need to be in a research proposal\, the proper tone and form\, and ways to tease out the larger stakes of individual research projects and avoid the jargon of field-specific descriptions. This session will help you craft a research proposal that appeals to a broad academic audience. This workshop will be an opportunity for graduate students to learn about The Humanities Institute’s funding resources as well as strategies for acquiring extramural support. \nThe workshop will be led by Pranav Anand (Faculty Director at The Humanities Institute and Professor of Linguistics) and Caitlin Charos (Research Development Specialist\, Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences). Clara Bergamini (PhD candidate in History) will discuss her role as Research Development GSR and how to set up a meeting to discuss funding opportunities. As part of the workshop\, Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (Research Programs and Communications Manager at The Humanities Institute) will also share an overview of THI resources to support graduate students with fellowship applications. \n  \nPranav Anand\, professor of the Linguistics Department at UC Santa Cruz\, is THI’s new Faculty Director. Anand was awarded the John Dizikes Teaching Award in Humanities\, and earlier this year served as co-principal investigator on a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to create a certificate program for engineering students to better understand the impact of technology on the world. \n  \n  \nCaitlin Charos grew up in Stockton\, California and earned degrees from University of Pennsylvania (B.A.\, English)\, University of York\, U.K. (M.A.\, Cultures of Empire\, Resistance\, and Postcoloniality)\, and Princeton University (M.A.\, A.B.D.\, English). While pursuing a Ph.D. in English at Princeton University\, Caitlin established herself as a researcher\, teacher\, and persuasive grant writer\, and was awarded a fellowship funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for scholarship on global migration. Her research interests include postcolonial literatures\, particularly literatures from southern Africa\, gender and sexualities\, race and ethnicity\, and the novel. Caitlin began her career in research development as a fellow in Princeton’s Office of Corporate Engagement and Foundation Relations\, where she helped connect faculty members to foundation funders with shared missions. She has supported faculty in securing significant grants from the The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, National Endowment for the Humanities\, University of California Humanities Research Institute\, and University of California Office of the President. She is a member of the National Organization of Research Development Professionals. Caitlin loves talking with faculty about their research and is dedicated to applying her experience in support of humanities and social sciences research at UCSC. \n  \n \nSaskia Nauenberg Dunkell is the Research Programs and Communications Manager at The Humanities Institute (THI). In her role\, she manages research projects\, graduate and undergraduate student programs\, communications\, and public humanities initiatives at the institute. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of California\, Los Angeles (UCLA) and is a Research Advisor for the UCSC Human Rights Investigations Lab for the Americas. Before moving to UCSC\, she was an inaugural research affiliate at the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law and yearlong National Science Foundation fellow at the Center for Conflict\, Displacement\, and Peacebuilding at the University of Cartagena\, Colombia. Alongside her scholarship\, she has directed Global Youth Connect’s Colombia Human Rights Delegation\, worked at the International Peace and Security Institute’s The Hague Symposium on Post-Conflict Transitions and International Justice\, and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Kingdom of Tonga. \n  \n\nClara Bergamini is a PhD candidate in history and Research development GSR at UC Santa Cruz. She is working on a dissertation tentatively titled “Mapping Imperial Japan’s Greatest Calamities: Learning Nation and Enacting Empire Through Disaster.” My research centers around how people’s experiences with and memories of crises and catastrophes shape society over time through moments of memory-making. Specifically\, my research focuses on how the annual anniversaries of the 1923 Great Kantō Disaster and other disasters were used for various political and social programming during Japan’s imperial period. \n  \n  \nPlease RSVP using your UCSC email address: \nLoading… \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-grants-and-fellowships-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Tommy Orange - Wandering Stars
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes award-winning author Tommy Orange for a reading and signing of his new novel\, Wandering Stars. The eagerly awaited follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-finalist breakout bestseller There There—winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award\, the John Leonard Prize\, the American Book Award\, and one of the New York Times‘s 10 Best Books of 2018—Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Red Feather’s shooting in There There. \nTommy Orange is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma\, he was born and raised in Oakland\, California. His first book\, There There\, was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and received the 2019 American Book Award. He lives in Oakland\, California. \nJoin us for this ticketed offsite event! \nPurchase your tickets here. \nThis event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and will take place at the Veterans Memorial Building\, 846 Front Street\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tommy-orange-wandering-stars/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Veterans Memorial Building\, 846 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, 95061
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SUMMARY:Night of Ideas
DESCRIPTION:A global event\, taking place simultaneously in more than 100 countries and 22 cities in the United States\, Night of Ideas invites thought leaders\, activists\, performers\, authors\, and academics to engage the public in discussions around central questions that address major\, contemporary global issues. First introduced in the United States in 2015 by the French Embassy\, Night of Ideas is a nationwide phenomenon today\, drawing tens of thousands of people to events across the country\, for a nocturnal marathon of philosophical debates\, performances\, readings\, and more. \nOn March 1\, 2024\, the first official Night of Ideas will be brought to the public in Santa Cruz! \nCome think with us on the evening of March 1 at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences building\, designed for vibrant possibility. Choose among rooms with synchronic presentations and performances\, led by poets\, philosophers\, scientists\, and artists. Muse with us\, ponder with us\, and talk with one another\, as together each of us travels across\, moves around and outside the many lines we draw in our world\, among us\, and between nature and humanity. \nThis event is brought to the public by the Center for Public Philosophy\, the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, The Humanities Institute and Cowell College\, partnering with Villa Albertine. \n  \nThis event is free and open to the public. RSVP is required. \n \n  \n\nNight of Ideas 2024 Schedule\nMAIN HALL\n5:15pm: El Sistema/Estrellas de Esperanza – Music and Dance Performance\n5:45pm: Welcome Remarks\n6:30pm: Exhibition Walkthrough with IAS Director and Curator Rachel Nelson\n7:30: Jay Afrisando – Do you think music is only for persons with ‘normal’ ears? I don’t.\n8:20: Kalie Granier – Manji’o Cho’o \nCONFERENCE ROOM (Room 1)\n6pm: Ed Shanken – Technoshamanism: Towards Hybrid Techniques of Aesthetics and Healing\n7pm: Terri Peszle – Outside the Lines: The Bhagavad Gita\n8pm: Ana Pedroso – Breaching Faultlines: Playfulness with M. Lugones and F. Schiller \nWEST ROOM (Room 2)\n6pm: Juan Ruiz Cortes – Undocumented-everything\, everywhere\, all at once!\n7pm: Luna HighJohn-Bey – Imagination\, Liberation\, & AI\n8pm: Somreeta Paul – You are in my Mind – A Cartesian Nightmare \nONGOING\n“Ask a philosopher a question” booth\nEngage in conversation with other participants\, guest speakers of members of the public.\nScreening of Manji’o Cho’o\, by Kalie Granier\, in IAS Gallery Screening Room \n\nGuest Speakers and Performers\n \nEl Sistema Santa Cruz/Pajaro Valley and Estrellas de Esperanza are two organizations giving the children of Watsonville/Pajaro Valley the keys to claim their cultural heritage and the tools to build their creative and social legacy through music and dance education. \n  \n  \n\nJay Afrisando is a composer\, multimedia artist\, researcher\, and educator. He works on aural diversity\, acoustic ecology\, and cultural identity\, focusing on disability and environmental justice\, arts and accessibility\, and decolonizing arts practices. He shares vital experiences and disseminates knowledge through various media and methods. He is an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \n  \nTo read more about all guests and performers visit: Night of Ideas — Institute of the Arts and Sciences
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/night-of-ideas/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Grad Slam 2024
DESCRIPTION:Grad Slam is a communication contest hosted by the UC Santa Cruz Graduate Division that is open to all graduate students\, except those who have won 1st place in a previous Grad Slam. (Currently enrolled graduate students who have won 2nd or the people’s choice in a prior Grad Slam may enter again.) Participants have a maximum of three minutes to explain their graduate research or artistic endeavor to a general audience. \nPrizes are $3000 to the winner\, $1500 to the runner-up\, $750 to the people’s choice (the last decided by text message voting\, one vote per audience member\, both those in person and watching the live-stream). \nEvery UC holds a Grad Slam\, and the ten UC Grad Slam champions compete in the UC Office of the President Grad Slam in early May in San Francisco! \nFor more information about the Grad Slam visit: https://graddiv.ucsc.edu/calendar/grad-slam/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/grad-slam-2024/
LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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