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SUMMARY:Victorian Gaslighting with Professor Nora Gilbert
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Friends of the Dickens Project for our spring Friends Faculty Fellowship talk series by Associate Professor Nora Gilbert (University of North Texas) who will be discussing “Victorian Gaslighting” \nAs someone who co-specializes in Victorian literature and early Hollywood film\, I’ve long been a fan of the darkly disturbing 1944 film Gaslight starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. During the first session of this series\, I will provide an overview of an essay collection that I’m currently co-editing with Diana Bellonby and Tara MacDonald called Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice\, in which we trace the genealogy of gaslighting back to its Victorian roots by bringing together fourteen essays that examine a wide range of nineteenth-century literary texts through the lens of gaslighting. During the second session\, we will have an in-depth discussion of the 1944 film version of Gaslight itself\, which captures the “maddening” feeling of this particular form of emotional abuse so gut-wrenchingly well. \nNora Gilbert is an associate professor of English at the University of North Texas. She is the author of Better Left Unsaid: Victorian Novels\, Hays Code Films\, and the Benefits of Censorship (2013) and Gone Girls\, 1684-1901: Flights of Feminist Resistance in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Novel (2023)\, as well as a number of other essays on Victorian literature and classical Hollywood film. Since 2017\, she has served as the editor of the journal Studies in the Novel. She is the 2024 Spring Friends of the Dickens Project Faculty Fellow. \nVirtual Sessions: \n\nApril 14: Book Talk: Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice\nMay 19: Discussion: Gaslight (1944) –Directed by George Cukor\n\nTo register or watch the recordings visit: UCSC The Dickens Project
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/victorian-gaslighting-with-professor-nora-gilbert/
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SUMMARY:Opacity and Voice in Édouard Glissant and José María Arguedas with Benjamin Davis
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department presents Opacity and Voice in Édouard Glissant and José María Arguedas with Benjamin Davis\, Saint Louis University. \nThis talk is a part of the Spring 2024 History of Consciousness Speaker Series. The History of Consciousness Speaker series is a quarterly series of talks by distinguished guests. \nRecordings of previous lectures are available in the HistCon Speaker Series Archive. \nTo learn more visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/hisc_speaker_series/.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/opacity-and-voice-in-edouard-glissant-and-jose-maria-arguedas-with-benjamin-davis/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Creative Academic Publishing With Robin James
DESCRIPTION:This is an Arts Research Institute (ARI) workshop on creative academic publishing with Robin James. Robin James is an author and former academic\, currently working as Editor of Philosophy\, Literary Theory\, and Music & Sound Studies at Palgrave Macmillan. She will conduct a workshop for junior scholars interested in turning their ideas into a successful book proposal. She will also discuss the details of the publication process\, and how to pitch a project to an editor. This workshop is geared toward graduate students and early career faculty\, and is appropriate for anyone wanting to learn more about academic publishing! \n**Please rsvp to Holly Unruh\, Executive Director\, Arts Research Institute. Email hunruh@ucsc.edu for zoom link. \nThis workshop is presented by the Arts Research Institute and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2023-2024 PhD+ series. \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-workshop-creative-academic-publishing-workshop/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:57th Annual Faculty Research Lecture featuring Professor Gina Athena Ulysse
DESCRIPTION:The UC Santa Cruz Academic Senate is delighted to invite you to the 57th Annual Faculty Research Lecture Featuring Professor Gina Athena Ulysse\, Feminist Studies Department: \nThe Whole Time…\nA Redwoods Rasanblaj Epic Poem\nsou 7 Pwen \nInspired by Sinéad O’Connor and 11th Hour’s caffeine chronicles\, this epic stream of consciousness ethnographic poem meditates on origins\, a theory of everything\, the dark arts\, shadow work in the upside down of arboreal classrooms in these redwoods on Indigenous Land of the so-called holy cross… \nLacing ancestral chants\, cosmos spaciousness\, history with misfit tales\, and popular song\, this non psychedelic surrealist journey explores the contours of linear and all-around time in search of aliveness on scorched earth while ruminating on the impossibility of all sentient beings everywhere experiencing peace among the plantocracy with their disdain for brilliance where praxis is a floating signifier and our humanity is routinely questioned. Improv dance by Linda Isabelle Francois Obas. \n \n  \nGina Athena Ulysse is a Haitian American feminist artist-scholar. In the last three decades\, her decolonial work as a cultural anthropologist has engaged in crossings and dialogues between the arts\, humanities\, and the social sciences. Her practice is rooted in what she calls rasanblaj – a gathering of ideas\, people\, things\, and spirits. Her latest book is an abridged compilation A Call to Rasanblaj: Black Feminist Futures and Ethnographic Aesthetics (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung\, 2023) edited and with an interview by Penelope Papailas is translated in Greek by Vangelis Poulios. Her visual art has been featured on the covers of Frontiers\, Feminist Formations\, Meridians\, and Feminist Studies. Over the years\, she has performed at The Bowery\, Bluestockings Bookstore\, The British Museum\, Brooklyn Museum\, Cabaret Voltaire\, Gorki Theatre\, LaMaMa\, Marcus Garvey Liberty Hall\, MoMA Salon among other venues. She was an invited artist in the Biennale of Sydney in Australia in 2020. She will be participating in the Biennale of Dakar\, Senegal\, Spring 2024. \nLinda Isabelle Francois Obas is an internationally known Haytian choreographer\, performer and sociocultural activist. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of XPression Ayiti (2017) a dance company that is based on Haitian traditional dances. She was professionally trained in Haiti with JeanGuy Saintus\, Jean Rene Delsoin\, Gerald Florestal in classical techniques\, modern dance\, jazz and other forms. Her solo and company performances have been presented in colleges\, concert theatres and festivals in Barbados\, Benin\, Cyprus\, Dominican Republic\, Guadeloupe\, Guyana\, Jamaica\, Japan\, The United States and Trinidad to name a few. She is developing Thera-LakAy\, her holistic dance teaching pedagogy that relies on Haitian spirituality and traditional dance. \n\nEvent Details \n\nThis event is free and open to the public. Seating will begin at 5:30 p.m.\nParking permits will be available for purchase for $5 in lot 101 at Hahn Student Services\, ”A” permits are required during the week until 8 p.m. Park Mobile options are available in this same lot. Please follow the event signage at the base of campus and a parking attendant will assist you.\nThe lecture will be held in person and also available to view via livestream.\n\nQuestions? Please contact the University Events Office at specialevents@ucsc.edu \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/57th-annual-faculty-research-lecture-featuring-professor-gina-athena-ulysse/
LOCATION:Quarry Amphitheater
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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-5/2024-04-17/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Zirwat Chowdhury - Transacting Empire: Family Portraits
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Center for South Asian Studies presents Transacting Empire: Family Portraits with Zirwat Chowdhury on April 17th. Participants are invited to attend in person at HUM 1 room 210 or register via Zoom. \nThis talk traces across the disjointed pairing of two portraits an imperial form of kinship that emerged among covenanted servants of the East India Company in eighteenth-century Bengal. Noting the portraits’ departures from prevailing conventions in British family portraiture\, the talk examines the overlapping “joint-stock” formations of domesticity and commercial partnership through which the Hastings-Hancock household accumulated and remitted its colonial wealth. \n \nZirwat Chowdhury is Assistant Professor of 18th- and 19th-Century European Art at UCLA. Her research explores the interconnected histories of art\, visual culture\, and aesthetic philosophy in 18th-century Britain\, France\, South Asia and the Atlantic World. \n  \n\nCo-sponsored by The Center for Cultural Studies and The Humanities Institute. This event is a part of The Center for South Asian Studies’ annual lecture series\, Crossings and The Center for Cultural Studies’ Wednesday colloquium series. \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. Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/zirwat-chowdhury-transacting-empire-family-portraits/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Craig Reinarman and Gina Dent - From Drug Wars to Harm Reduction
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 2024 Legal Studies Annual Distinguished Lecture: “From Drug Wars to Harm Reduction: Reflections on the Future of Addiction Research\, Drug Policy\, and Mass Incarceration” with Craig Reinarman (Sociology & Legal Studies – Emeritus and Community Studies) in conversation with Gina Dent (Feminist Studies and Legal Studies) \nThis event will take place Wednesday\, April 17\, 4-5:30 pm\, at the UCSC Hay Barn. Doors will open at 3:30 pm for light refreshments and mingling. We hope to see you there!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/craig-reinarman-and-gina-dent-from-drug-wars-to-harm-reduction/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dr. Stephanie Lain - Spanish Vowel and Consonant Contributions to Talker Identification and Lexical Contrast
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics presents: \nSPANISH VOWEL AND CONSONANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO TALKER IDENTIFICATION AND LEXICAL CONTRAST\nwith Dr. Stephanie Lain\n(UC Santa Cruz) \n\nAbstract \nAcoustic properties of the input determine how speech sounds are processed\, categorized\, and encoded in memory. This information is used to identify words and convey information about the speaker. The series of experiments described in this talk were undertaken with the goal of clarifying the roles vowels and consonants play in lexical decision making and talker identification in Spanish. Participants in the study were 101 listeners who self-identified as native speakers of Spanish. They performed one of six same-different auditory discrimination experiments which varied according to task (lexical decision or talker identification) and condition (unaltered stimuli\, vowels excised\, consonants excised). Responses from each participant were used to calculate a D prime score (evaluating the participant’s ability to discriminate between tokens)\, as well as a language dominance score (participants were Spanish/English bilinguals). Reaction times and null responses were also recorded. Results were analyzed using a multivariate 2 x 3 factorial analysis with language dominance as a co-variate\, followed by univariate analyses to further examine the effects of independent variables. Findings from the current study largely confirm results from previous studies conducted in English which suggest a greater reliance on consonants when performing lexical decision tasks and vowels when performing talker identity tasks. From this\, we may infer that variation observed in response to the acoustic properties of vowels and consonants appears be universal to linguistic processing and not a result of the interaction between speech sounds within a given language system. These results have implications for theories of speech perception\, particularly with regard to the role of listener experience in the perception of phonemes and talker-specific acoustic properties.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-dr-stephanie-lain/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Jennifer Tseng
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Spring 2024\nImaginaries)Un(bound: Race\, Justice\, Writing: The Living Writers Series\, the Center for Racial Justice\, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) present poets\, theorists\, fiction and hybrid artists working at the nexus of creative-critical practice in the struggle for justice with the imperative of imaginatively undoing the academic and disciplinary strictures that bind critical scholarship. \n \nJennifer Tseng’s forthcoming book\, Thanks for Letting Us Know You Are Alive\, poems made with her late father’s English letters\, won the Juniper Prize for Poetry and will be published by University of Massachusetts Press in spring 2024. She currently teaches literature and creative writing at University of California\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-jennifer-tseng/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Peter Galison - Time: Physics\, Film\, History
DESCRIPTION:Henri Poincaré’s and Albert Einstein’s reformulation of simultaneity was long seen as a development from imaginative thought experiments. But the all-too-material and the most abstract notions of time cross in essential ways (Swiss Patent Office\, Paris Bureau of Longitude). Galison explores this intersection in collaboration with the artist William Kentridge (“The Refusal of Time\,” 2012)\, pushing history\, physics\, and philosophy into a more associative-imaginative register. From there\, Galison turns to the 10\,000 year struggle to contain radioactive materials—a duration twice recorded in human history—and finally to the time of black holes\, and the image of the photon ring. \n\n \nPeter Galison is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor in history of science and physics at Harvard University. He currently directs the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard\, a leading center for interdisciplinary research on black holes. His books include How Experiments End; Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics; Einstein’s Clocks\, Poincaré’s Maps; and\, with Lorraine Daston\, Objectivity. His latest feature film is Black Holes | The Edge of All We Know. \n\nNauenberg History of Science Lecture\nThe Nauenberg History of Science Lecture was established in honor of Michael Nauenberg\, a founding faculty member in the Physics Department at UCSC who came to the campus in 1966. During his distinguished academic career\, he contributed to a remarkably broad range of fields\, including particle physics\, condensed matter physics\, astrophysics\, chaos theory\, fluid dynamics\, and the history of physics in the 17th-18th centuries. \nAmongst Professor Nauenberg’s passions\, he deeply believed in the importance of interdisciplinary scholarship connecting the sciences with the humanities. Following his retirement in 1994\, he pursued his long-standing interests in the history of science\, writing books and articles about Joseph Banks\, Robert Hooke\, Christiaan Huygens\, and Isaac Newton. The Nauenberg History of Science Lecture series aims to bring the best historians of science to UCSC to share the importance of this interdisciplinary work with faculty\, students\, and interested community members. You can support the series by contributing here.\n \nThe Nauenberg History of Science Lecture is presented by the UC Santa Cruz Emeriti Association and co-sponsored by Crown College\, the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP)\, the Arts Research Institute\, and the History Department.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/peter-galison-time-physics-film-history/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall – UCSC\, 402 McHenry Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode Thirteen – Early Receptions
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 \nSimon Gilson is Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian and Fellow of Magdalen College\, University of Oxford. He has published widely on Dante’s reception in fourteenth-\, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy. His publications include: Dante and Renaissance Florence (CUP 2005) and Reading Dante in Renaissance Italy: Florence\, Venice and the ‘Divine Poet’ (CUP 2018). \n  \n  \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-thirteen-early-receptions/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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