BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:The Humanities Institute
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Los_Angeles
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20230312T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20231105T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20240310T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20241103T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20250309T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20251102T090000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240304T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240304T120000
DTSTAMP:20260509T194021
CREATED:20240228T231553Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240229T204730Z
UID:10007265-1709553600-1709553600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Humanities in the Age of AI Lunch meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute Research cluster\, “Humanities in the Age of AI\,” is pleased to invite you to their lunch meeting scheduled for Monday\, March 4th at 12pm in HUM 210. This meeting will have a hybrid attendance option on Zoom. Please join at noon to attend virtually. \nPresenting their work on Machine Translation (MT) with Large Language Models (LLMs)\, Minghui Hu\, Olayinka Iyinolakan\, Michaela Barker\, Johnny Li\, Napat Srichan\, Korben Tompkin and William Zhao will explore the integration of LLMs (Language Model Models) into translation engines. Our focus will be on how this integration can benefit academic translations and help to make low-resourced languages more accessible on the internet. Our translation engines are being tested on both OpenAI and the open-source LLM mistral. We will present our work-in-progress and welcome feedback as we continue with our research. \nTo learn more about current cluster projects and further information about upcoming speakers\, please consult our website the events tab. The research cluster boasts a diverse group of core participants. This includes six esteemed faculty members from various disciplines\, graduate students representing politics\, history\, literature\, philosophy\, feminist studies\, and film and visual studies\, and undergraduate scholars from computer science\, computational media\, and creative writing. \nAttendees are cordially invited to bring their lunch. We will gather with our meals and take our seats. The first 10 minutes have been set aside to elucidate the cluster’s overview. Following this\, we will go ahead with individual introductions. After a short five-minute recess\, speakers will commence their presentations\, anticipated to last for approximately 20 minutes. A structured dialogue on the topic will follow. \nFor those who prefer to schedule in advance\, please note the dates for our brown bag meetings throughout the academic year: 10/2 (lunch provided)\, 11/6\, 12/11\, 1/8 (lunch provided)\, 2/12 (featuring Davide Panagia)\, 3/4\, 4/8 (lunch provided)\, and 5/6. \nTHI will graciously cater on the three specified dates. For the remaining meetings\, attendees are cordially invited to bring their lunch.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-in-the-age-of-ai-lunch-meeting-5/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240304T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240304T190000
DTSTAMP:20260509T194021
CREATED:20240221T213005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240221T224618Z
UID:10006251-1709578800-1709578800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:An Evening with Martha Mendoza and Juliet Linderman
DESCRIPTION:In Partnership with the Humanities Institute and City on a Hill Press \nKresge’s Media & Society Series Presents:\nAn Evening with Martha Mendoza and Juliet Linderman \n\nPrize-winning Associated Press coauthors Martha Mendoza and Juliet Linderman will be speaking about journalistic collaboration and their groundbreaking investigation into the US Marine who abducted an Afghan child. \nMartha Mendoza and Juliet Linderman are Associated Press investigative journalists and frequent coauthors. A UCSC alumna\, Mendoza is the recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes\, as well as an Emmy for her work on the Frontline–PBS collaboration Kids Caught in the Crackdown. Linderman’s work has been recognized with several awards\, including honors from The Society of Professional Journalists and Investigative Reporters and Editors.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/an-evening-with-martha-mendoza-and-juliet-linderman/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T120000
DTSTAMP:20260509T194021
CREATED:20240131T212356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240214T215013Z
UID:10006232-1709722800-1709726400@thi.ucsc.edu
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-5/2024-03-06/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Simple-THI-Coffee-Hour-1600-x-900-px.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T133000
DTSTAMP:20260509T194021
CREATED:20240111T231630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240111T231630Z
UID:10007374-1709726400-1709731800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Chris Connery – China and the Mutations of Neoliberalism: Thoughts on the Current Conjuncture
DESCRIPTION:China’s economic and social development over the last 25 years has featured significant elements from the neoliberal playbook–ideologies of competition and human capital\, market metrics\, efficiency\, suppression of labor rights\, and more–coexisting with severe state limitations on private property\, impediments to the formation of a capitalist class\, and\, especially in the last ten years\, an expansion of state-owned enterprises and party control of the economy. This talk argues for the continued relevance of neoliberalism to an understanding of China today\, and suggests that China’s particular and limited neoliberal character offers insights into the nature of contemporary capitalism\, and of its antagonists. \nChristopher Connery is Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. He has published on early imperial Chinese literati culture (Empire of the Text: Writing and Authority in Early Imperial China); the oceanic mythos in early and late capitalism (“Pacific Rim Discourse”\, “The Oceanic Feeling”\, “Sea Power”\, et al); the global 1960s (The Asian Sixties \, The Sixties and the World Event\, “The World Sixties”\, “The End of the Sixties”); and contemporary Chinese intellectual politics and culture. Since 2010 he has been a member (writer\, performer\, political consultant) of Shanghai-based\, Chinese-language theater group Grass Stage\, which has performed throughout China\, as well as Hong Kong\, Taiwan\, Japan\, and North America. \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/chris-connery-china-and-the-mutations-of-neoliberalism-thoughts-on-the-current-conjuncture/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T194021
CREATED:20240221T190411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240305T222204Z
UID:10007322-1709740800-1709748000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Humanists in Tech Alumni Panel
DESCRIPTION:EVER WONDERED HOW YOUR HUMANITIES DEGREE CAN LEAD TO AN AWESOME CAREER IN TECH? \nJoin us for a lively discussion with successful Humanities alumni who have paved their way in the tech industry. They’ll share their stories\, insights\, and tips to help you navigate your own journey. This is a great opportunity to learn about possible career pathways in tech from Humanities Alumni who are in the field. \nThis event will take place in Merrill College Provost House on Wednesday\, March 6th at 4:00PM. Appetizers and refreshments will be served. \nWho’s Invited: \n\nAll Humanities undergraduate and graduate students\nParticipants in our Humanizing Technology Certificate Program\n\nThis is not your average event; it’s a chance to connect\, learn\, and get inspired! See below for more information about our alumni. \n  \nPlease RSVP by Monday\, March 4th to let us know you will be joining us! \n \nThank you\, we can’t wait to see you there! \n  \n\nTHE ALUMNI LINEUP \n \n  \nDavid Gleason\, History & Literature B.A.\nHealthcare Data – Anthem \n  \n  \n \n  \nLily Ng\, Linguistics B.A.\nTechnical Program Manager – Grammarly \n  \n  \n \n  \nDr. Sarah Papazoglakis\, Literature PH.D.\nSenior Trust Strategist – META’s Reality Labs \n  \n  \n \n  \nRyan Pittington\, Literature B.A.\nGlobal Head of User Operations – Asana \n  \n  \n \n  \nEmily Sloan-Pace\, Literature PH.D.\nProfessor in Residence – Zoho Corporation \n  \n  \n \n  \nJake Vincent\, Lingusitics PH.D.\nLanguage Engineer – Amazon Web Services \n  \n  \nYou can read more about our outstanding Alumni here: Alumni Bios – Hum Tech Panel \n\n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanists-in-tech-alumni-panel/
LOCATION:Merrill Provost House\, Provost's Residence\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
GEO:36.99915578925;-122.05380488759
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Merrill Provost House Provost's Residence Santa Cruz CA 95064 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Provost's Residence:geo:-122.05380488759,36.99915578925
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T190000
DTSTAMP:20260509T194021
CREATED:20240227T182029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240227T215423Z
UID:10006253-1709751600-1709751600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Moor Mother and James Gordon Williams in Concert
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Institute\, the Humanities Institute\, and the Institute of Arts and Sciences \nAudiences are invited to explore Black Quantum Futurism and Ubuntu philosophy in this collaborative performance featuring Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother)\, an American poet and composer\, and pianist and composer James Gordon Williams\, an assistant professor of music at UC Santa Cruz. \nJoin us at 6:30 PM prior to the performance to enjoy a complimentary cup of tea or coffee and a treat in the lobby. \n\nADMISSION \n\nSelf-service tickets available only on Eventbrite starting February 27.\nReminder: there is no ticket window at the event.\n\nPARKING \n\nLot 126 is the closest lot to the event\nParking is by UCSC permit\, Park Mobile\, or pay $5 cash/credit to the on-site parking attendant\nMore visitor parking information available here\n\n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nCamae Ayewa (Moor Mother) is a national and international touring musician\, poet\, visual artist\, and Professor of Composition at the USC Thornton School of Music. Her work speaks to many genres from electronic to free jazz and classical music. Camae’s work has been featured at the Guggenheim Museum\, The Met\, Carnegie Mellon and Carnegie Hall\, Documenta 15\, the Berlin Jazz Festival\, and the Glastonbury Festival. Through the lens and practice of Black Quantum Futurism the art she makes is a statement for the future\, as well as a way to honor the present and its historic connections to a multitude of past realities and future outcomes. \nJames Gordon Williams is a dynamic composer\, pianist\, and cultural theorist. He has worked with artists Crystal Z. Campbell\, Maria Gaspar\, Fred Moten\, Cauleen Smith\, and Suné Woods. He has performed with pianist/composer Anthony Davis\, bassist Mark Dresser\, Joseph Jarman\, Gregory Porter\, George E. Lewis\, Mark Dresser\, Greg Osby\, Charenée Wade as well as other musical luminaries. He held the piano chair for several years in the late Charli Persips’ Supersound band. \nFor more information visit the UCSC events calendar
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/moor-mother-and-james-gordon-williams-in-concert/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall – UCSC\, 402 McHenry Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Moor-Mother-THI-website-banner.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T210000
DTSTAMP:20260509T194021
CREATED:20231220T230737Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240104T195448Z
UID:10007361-1709751600-1709758800@thi.ucsc.edu
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-ep3/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Undiscovered_Shakespeare_Banner1024x576.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240307T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240307T183000
DTSTAMP:20260509T194021
CREATED:20231219T234234Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T234850Z
UID:10007347-1709830800-1709836200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky - Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky will present on his book\, Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press\, 2024)\, which reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. Between the 1850s and World War I\, the Ottoman Empire welcomed about a million Muslim refugees from Russia.  Empire of Refugees\, examines how Circassian\, Chechen\, Dagestani\, and other refugees transformed the late Ottoman Empire and how the Ottoman government managed Muslim refugee resettlement. North Caucasians established hundreds of villages throughout the Ottoman Balkans\, Anatolia\, and the Levant. Most villages still exist today\, including what is now the city of Amman. Empire of Refugees demonstrates that the Ottoman government created a refugee regime that predated refugee systems set up by the League of Nations and the United Nations. It offers a new way to think about migration and displacement in the Middle East. Grounded in archival research in ten countries\, this book examines the migration of about a million Muslim refugees from Russia to the Ottoman Empire and rewrites the history of Muslim migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. \nDr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky is a historian of global migration and forced displacement and Assistant Professor of Global Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. His research examines Muslim refugee migration and its role in shaping the modern world. He is the author of Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press\, 2024). Based on research in over twenty archives in ten countries\, the book explores the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. Vladimir is currently writing a new book\, which is a transnational history of Muslim displacement in the Middle East\, Central Asia\, and South Asia since 1850. His articles appeared in Past & Present\, Comparative Studies in Society and History\, International Journal of Middle East Studies\, Slavic Review\, and Kritika. He received a Ph.D. in History from Stanford University and served as a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/refugee-migration-in-the-ottoman-middle-east/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Troyansky-Empire-of-Refugees-Event-Banner.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240307T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240307T190000
DTSTAMP:20260509T194021
CREATED:20231130T224644Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231218T221027Z
UID:10006198-1709832000-1709838000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Living Writers with Former Professors Peter Gizzi & Nathaniel Mackey
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers – Winter 2024 – Return of the Beloved: An Alumni Series\nPeter Gizzi is the author of Now It’s Dark (Wesleyan\, 2020)\, Sky Burial: New and Selected Poems (Carcanet\, UK 2020)\, Archeophonics (Wesleyan\, 2016)\, In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems 1987-2011 (Wesleyan\, 2014)\, Threshold Songs (Wesleyan\, 2011)\, The Outernationale (Wesleyan\, 2007)\, Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan\, 2003)\, Artificial Heart (Burning Deck\, 1998)\, and Periplum (Avec Books\, 1992). He has also published several limited-edition chapbooks\, folios\, and artist books. \nHis honors include the Lavan Younger Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets (1994) and fellowships in poetry from The Fund for Poetry (1993)\, The Rex Foundation (1993)\, Howard Foundation (1998)\, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts (1999)\, and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2005). He has twice been the recipient of The Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow in Poetry at The University of Cambridge (2011\, 2015-16). In 2018 Wesleyan published In the Air: Essays on the Poetry of Peter Gizzi. \nHe has held residencies at The MacDowell Colony\, Yaddo\, The Foundation of French Literature at Royaumont\, Un Bureau Sur L’Atlantique\, the Centre International de Poesie Marseille (cipM)\, and Tamaas. \nHis editing projects have included o·blēk: a journal of language arts (1987-1993)\, The Exact Change Yearbook (Exact Change/Carcanet\, 1995)\, The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan\, 1998)\, and with Kevin Killian\, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan\, 2008). For several years he was the Poetry Editor for The Nation. Since 2003\, he has been a contributing editor to the journal\, Conjunctions. \nHe has been on the faculty at Brown University (1993-95)\, the University of California\, Santa Cruz (1995-2001)\, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Summer Program at Naropa (1998\, 2007)\, The University of New Orleans Summer Program in Madrid (2004)\, Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg (2006)\, The Writer’s Workshop at The University of Iowa (Fall 2008)\, and the University of Cambridge (2010-11 and 2015-16). He currently works at the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst. \nBorn in Miami and raised in Southern California\, poet\, novelist\, editor\, and critic Nathaniel Mackey earned his BA from Princeton University and his PhD from Stanford University. Mackey is the author of numerous books of poetry\, including Blue Fasa (2015)\, Nod House (2011)\, the National Book Award-winning Splay Anthem (2006)\, Whatsaid Serif (1998)\, and Eroding Witness (1985)\, which was chosen for the National Poetry Series. He has published several book-length installments of his ongoing prose work\, From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate\, beginning with Bedouin Hornbook in 1986. David Hajdu described the prose project as “not simply writing about jazz\, but writing as jazz” in a 2008 New York Times Book Review piece on the fourth volume in Mackey’s series\, Bass Cathedral (2007). Hajdu characterized the movement of language in the volumes as “kinetic and also contemplative\, elegiac and mercurial\, sometimes volatile.” The first three volumes of Mackey’s series were published together by New Directions in 2010. A recording of Mackey’s work Strick: Song of the Andoumboulou 16-25 was released in 1995 by Spoken Engine Company\, with musical accompaniment by Royal Hartigan and Hafez Modirzadeh.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-former-professors-peter-gizzi-nathaniel-mackey/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/LWBanner.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240307T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240307T190000
DTSTAMP:20260509T194021
CREATED:20240124T185153Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240229T205856Z
UID:10007372-1709838000-1709838000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Michele Norris - Our Hidden Conversations
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz welcome Peabody Award-winning journalist Michele Norris for a discussion of her new book Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity—a transformative dialogue on race and identity in America\, unearthed through Norris’s decade-long work at The Race Card Project. \nNorris will be in conversation with Vilashini Cooppan\, Professor of Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \nThis is event is cosponsored by NAACP Santa Cruz County. This special event will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn and is free to attend thanks to the support of The Humanities Institute. Please register if you plan to join us! Your registration helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. Thank you! \n \n\nThe prompt seemed simple: Race. Your Thoughts. Six Words. Please Send. \nThe answers\, though\, have been challenging and complicated. In the twelve years since award-winning journalist Michele Norris first posed that question\, over half a million people have submitted their stories to The Race Card Project inbox. The stories are shocking in their depth and candor\, spanning the full spectrum of race\, ethnicity\, identity\, and class. Even at just six words\, the micro-essays can pack quite a punch\, revealing\, fear\, pain\, triumph\, and sometimes humor. Responses such as: You’re Pretty for a Black girl. White privilege\, enjoy it\, earned it. Lady\, I don’t want your purse. My ancestors massacred Indians near here. Urban living has made me racist. I’m only Asian when it’s convenient. \nMany go even further than just six words\, submitting backstories\, photos\, and heirlooms: a collection much like a scrapbook of American candor you rarely get to see. Our Hidden Conversations is a unique compilation of stories\, richly reported essays\, and photographs providing a window into America during a tumultuous era. This powerful book offers an honest\, if sometimes uncomfortable\, conversation about race and identity\, permitting us to eavesdrop on deep-seated thoughts\, private discussions\, and long submerged memories. \nThe breadth of this work came as a surprise to Norris. For most of the twelve years she has collected these stories\, many were submitted by white respondents. This unexpected panorama provides a rare 360-degree view of how Americans see themselves and one another. \nOur Hidden Conversations reminds us that even during times of great division\, honesty\, grace\, and a willing ear can provide a bridge toward empathy and maybe even understanding. \nYou can purchase your own copy of Our Hidden Conversations at Bookshop Santa Cruz. \n\nMichele Norris is one of America’s most trusted voices in journalism\, earning several honors over a long career\, including Peabody\, Emmy\, Dupont\, and Goldsmith awards. She is a columnist for The Washington Post Opinion Section\, the host of the Audible Original Podcast\, Your Mama’s Kitchen\, and from and from 2002 to 2012 she was a cohost of NPR’s All Things Considered. \nVilashini Cooppan is Professor of Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UCSC. She teaches and writes about comparative and world literature\, the memory and legacies of colonial and racial violence\, and literary theory. She is the author of Worlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing (Stanford UP\, 2009)\, numerous journal articles and book chapters\, and has co-edited the forthcoming volume Autotheories: Transdisciplinary Experiments in Self-Theorizing.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/michele-norris-our-hidden-conversations/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Michele-Norris-Our-Hidden-Conversations-Banner.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240308T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240308T103000
DTSTAMP:20260509T194021
CREATED:20231015T215652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240112T173212Z
UID:10006182-1709888400-1709893800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode Ten – A Drama of Choice at the Extremity of the Universe (Paradiso 27–30)
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 \n Alison Cornish is Professor of Italian Studies at New York University and President of the Dante Society of America. She is the author of Reading Dante’s Stars (Yale\, 2000)\, Vernacular Translation in Dante’s Italy: Illiterate Literature (Cambridge\, 2011) a commentary on Dante’s Paradiso\, translated by Stanley Lombardo (Hackett\, 2017)\, and Believing in Dante: Truth in Fiction (Cambridge\, 2022). as well as a number of essays on Dante\, Petrarch and Boccaccio. During the seventh centenary of the poet’s death\, she organized a crowd-sourced series of video conversations between members of the Dante Society of America\, entitled “Canto per Canto: Conversations with Dante in Our Time.” \nPresented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and Porter College
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-a-gateway-to-dantes-heaven-episode-episode-ten-a-drama-of-choice-at-the-extremity-of-the-universe-paradiso-27-30/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/UCSC-THI-ProjectParadiso-1024x576-1.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240308T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240308T100000
DTSTAMP:20260509T194021
CREATED:20231219T230840Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231222T182122Z
UID:10007349-1709892000-1709892000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Queer Religiously & Other Companion Stories
DESCRIPTION:Omar Kasmani is a guest-lecturer at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universitaet\, Berlin. He is the author of Queer Companions: Religion\, Public Intimacy and Saintly Affects in Pakistan (Duke UP\, 2022) and the editor of Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere (Duke UP\, 2023). \n \nMore info on this event here. This event is presented by the Center for South Asian Studies as a part of the 2023-2024 Lecture Series Crossings.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/queer-religiously-other-companion-stories/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Kasmani-cover-cropped.png
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR