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SUMMARY:Kaveh Akbar: Martyr!
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes acclaimed and bestselling author Kaveh Akbar for a discussion and signing of his phenomenal fiction debut Martyr!\, which Tommy Orange calls\, “An absolute jewel of a novel. A diamond. I haven’t loved a book this much in years. Kaveh’s writing is so thoroughly powerful and gorgeous you can feel it from where dreams come\, and in all over your brain\, and straight from the bottom of your heart. This book does everything. It is so entirely funny and sad and true and beautiful. Kaveh Akbar is one of my favorite writers. Ever.” This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n \nYour registration helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. \nThank you for registering! \n“Akbar is a dazzling writer\, with bars like you wouldn’t believe . . . What Akbar pulls off in Martyr! is nothing short of miraculous.” —The New York Times Book Review \nA newly sober\, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants\, guided by the voices of artists\, poets\, and kings\, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying\, funny\, and wholly original\, Martyr! heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction. \nCyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk\, an addict\, and a poet\, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying\, and toward his mother\, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed. \nKaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith\, art\, ourselves\, others. \nKaveh Akbar’s poems appear in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, The Best American Poetry\, and elsewhere. He is the author of two poetry collections: Pilgrim Bell and Calling a Wolf a Wolf\, in addition to a chapbook\, Portrait of the Alcoholic. He is also the editor of The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine. He lives in Iowa City.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kaveh-akbar-martyr/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ecologies of Care Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Center for South Asian Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites you to launch an international collaboration\, the Ecologies of Care Initiative. In partnership with the University of British Columbia (UBC)\, Simon Fraser University (SFU)\, and Lincoln University (LU) this initiative invites scholars at the forefront of the social sciences\, arts\, and humanities to address livability as a desired condition for all. \nSituated in the Himalayan region\, the Ecologies of Care Initiative will include conversations across the boundaries of contemporary nation-states\, including Pakistan\, Nepal\, Bhutan\, Northeast India\, and beyond. Known as the water towers of Asia\, this region holds much of the world’s snow and ice beyond the North and South Pole. It is a site of incredible cultural and linguistic diversity\, with hundreds of languages spoken and distinct colonial experiences that shape contemporary global Indigenous movements in South Asia. Ecologies of Care focuses on tracing how peoples along the Himalayas cobble together shifting livelihoods among rapidly shifting governmental-sponsored projects\, including militarism\, gender\, environmentalism\, and tourism. \nFor the Conference Program and more information\, please visit: https://csas.ucsc.edu/ecologies-of-care-2024-25/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ecologies-of-care-conference/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Laleh Khalili in conversation with Nidhi Mahajan--Palestine and the Maritime Politics of the Red Sea
DESCRIPTION:Thinking through the complexities of the Red Sea blockade\, Professor Khalili will ask questions about how the entangled international and commercial control of maritime space deals with such disruptions in cargo and trade flows\, and how the structure of global capital has to be taken into account in toto while waging a Gramscian war of position at local levels to leverage transformations more broadly. \nRegistration required to attend:  Register here \nLaleh Khalili is Al-Qasimi Professor of Gulf Studies and the Director of the Centre for Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter. Her most recent book is Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula (Verso 2020)\, which examines the role of maritime infrastructures as conduits of movement of technologies\, capital\, people\, and cargo. \nNidhi Mahajan is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz. Her book project\, Moorings: The Dhow Trade\, Capitalism\, and Sovereignty in the Indian Ocean\, examines the marginalized mobile society of Muslim seafarers from Kachchh in western India who have become crucial intermediaries in global shipping as they move across South Asia\, East Africa\, and the Middle East. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/laleh-khalili-in-conversation-with-nidhi-mahajan-palestine-and-the-maritime-politics-of-the-red-sea/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Writing Psychology with Andrea Seeger
DESCRIPTION:Sometimes we can be our severest writing critics and biggest hindrances to writing success. Learn how to overcome psychological barriers and start writing in this interactive workshop. Participants will also learn about the VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center. \nThis event has two sessions: Oct 14\, 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, or Oct 23\, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend either session. \n \nAndrea Seeger received a B.A. in Literature from UC Santa Cruz\, an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder\, and an A.B.D. in English from UC Berkeley. Andrea has been teaching literature\, writing\, and social justice for over 20 years. She has taught writing and rhetoric in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at CU Boulder and literature at UC Berkeley. She currently teaches social justice at UCSC’s Oakes College and writing through UCSC’s Writing Program. She is also a lecturer at Cabrillo College\, where she teaches English. Andrea is deeply committed to student-centered learning and equitable access to quality education. Andrea’s scholarship focuses on the intersections of racial and gender formation in 20th-century American literature\, and her work is deeply invested in social justice. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop 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 ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/writing-psychology-with-andrea-seeger/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Mapping Hydrocommons Cultures in the Americas
DESCRIPTION:In this session\, Lisa Blackmore and Alejandro Ponce de León will talk about a series of mapping processes that they’ve been engaged in with river communities in Latin America. They will explore how art and humanities research intersects with water activism and how collaborative editorial and curatorial work can support emergent and resilient practices that care for common waters. The session will involve some hands-on work to identify together these practices and the affective attachments that bind us to water. \nLisa Blackmore – Curator\, researcher\, educator\, working between creative practice\, collaborative projects and public outreach. Since 2018\, she has been directing entre— ríos\, a research and artistic platform that invents participatory and interdisciplinary methodologies\, online and in person\, that connect knowledges and communities to bodies of water. Lisa obtained her PhD in Latin American Cultural Studies from Birkbeck College in 2011 and is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Essex\, UK. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Environmental Science\, Policy\, and Management at UC Berkeley. In 2023\, she was a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow for her project Imagining the Hydrocommons: Art\, Water and Infrastructure in Latin America. \nAlejandro Ponce de León – Researcher\, working at the intersection of environmental humanities and technoscience studies. He is the founder and co-editor of the Latin American Platform for Environmental Humanities\, a collective that fosters dialogues on environmental thought across the Americas. His work has been published in Cultural Studies\, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies\, Humanidades: revista de la Universidad de Montevideo\, Revista Tabula Rasa\, Revista Endémico\, Diffractions\, Tapuya\, Sociological Forum\, among others. Alejandro is currently a visiting scholar at the University of London’s School of Advanced Study. \nThis event is presented by the THI 2024-25 research cluster\, UC Santa Cruz More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mapping-hydrocommons-cultures-in-the-americas/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Huerta Center Graduate Scholar CART Alternative Spring Break - Info Session
DESCRIPTION:2024-2025 CART Alternative Spring Break: Huerta Center Graduate Scholars \nIn Winter 2025\, two graduate students will receive funding from the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas (Huerta Center) and be trained by the University Library’s Center for Archival Research and Training (CART) to assist a UC Santa Cruz Archivist based at the Dolores Huerta Foundation in Bakersfield\, CA in archival processing during Spring Break 2025 (March 24-28\, 2025). \nAttend the virtual information session on Tuesday\, October 15th at 3pm to learn more. Register via Zoom below. \n \nThe Huerta Center Graduate Scholars will be trained in CART for up to 20 hours during Winter quarter\, then travel to Bakersfield to participate in an “alternative spring break” program from March 24-28\, 2025. There they will work alongside the UCSC Archivist and engage in archival processing of the Dolores Huerta Papers and the Huerta Foundation records. \nEligibility: Currently enrolled in a graduate program at UCSC at least through June 2025 (at least five credits\, not on leave or filing fee\, in good academic standing\, within normative time). Priority will go to graduate students in the Humanities Division and the Latin American and Latino Studies department. \nLearn more at: https://guides.library.ucsc.edu/cart/apply AND https://thi.ucsc.edu/call-for-applications-huerta-center-graduate-scholar/ \nThis program is funded by The Humanities Institute of UC Santa Cruz\, administered by the Huerta Center and the Latin American and Latino Studies department\, and is part of a Mellon Foundation grant to establish new public archives preserving the legacy of social justice activist Dolores Huerta through a partnership with the Dolores Huerta Foundation.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cart-program-info-session/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Moving Money and Moving Power: Philanthropy Isn’t Neutral
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series – Power\, Politics\, and Our Democracy \nUC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy\, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How do power\, politics\, and the media landscape interact\, disrupt\, and reinforce one another? Join the conversation with our scholars and national thought leaders to learn more about how to think critically about our political processes and the nature of our democracy. There are six events in the series\, all of them are offered online via Zoom\, and three events have an in-person option. More information listed below. Events are free and open to the public. \nFor registration and full program information please visit: https://transform.ucsc.edu/events/2024-elections-forum-series/ \nCo-sponsored by: Institute for Social Transformation\, Merrill College\, The Humanities Institute\, Science and Justice Research Center\, Politics Department Democratic Discourse and Engagement Initiative\, Kresge College\, John R. Lewis College\, and College Nine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/moving-money-and-moving-power-philanthropy-isnt-neutral/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Festival of Monsters - Academic Conference
DESCRIPTION:Rising from the darkness\, monsters bring to light the parts of our world we might rather see hidden. They come forth in times of growing prejudice\, discrimination and othering. The 2024 Festival of Monsters (Academic Conference October 16-18) —hosted by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies — explores the way monsters and tropes of monstrosity pervade our culture. \nHeld on the beautiful UC Santa Cruz campus\, the 2024 Festival includes the conference\, plus a performance\, a live podcast recording and the Monsters Ball. This year’s academic conference includes panels on monstrous ecologies\, black monstrosity\, zombies\, body horror and more. Independent video game designer and activist mattie brice and Professor Jerry Rafiki Jenkins (author of Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction) will give the keynote talks. \nFor more information\, please visit: https://www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/2024fest \nThe 2024 Festival of Monsters is grateful for the support of Porter College; Oakes College; The Arts Research Institute; The Humanities Institute; Sigfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment; University of California Humanities Research Institute; the UC Santa Cruz Department of Literature; the UC Santa Cruz Department of Performance\, Play and Design; Crown College; James Gunderson and Peter Coha.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/festival-of-monsters-3/
LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz
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SUMMARY:Lisa Blackmore: Hydrocommoning
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Lisa will present ‘hydrocommoning’ as a concept to think with emergent water cultures by asking what work a theory and praxis of hydrocommoning might do to support transitions to alternative hydrosocial relations beyond modern urban and extractive paradigms. She will lay out a methodological route for interdisciplinary water research that takes seriously situated embodied knowledge and planetary hydrologies by arguing for the generative role of art in igniting multiscalar engagements with liquid ecologies. Drawing on projects developed through the entre—ríos collective\, she will situate engaged curatorial practice as a response to calls in the environmental humanities to contribute aesthetic forms that support a reclaiming of common waters. \nLisa Blackmore is a researcher\, curator and educator\, working with water cultures in Latin America. Since 2018\, she has been directing entre—ríos\, a research and artistic platform for collaborative methodologies connecting communities to bodies of water. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Environmental Science\, Policy\, and Management at UC Berkeley and Senior Lecturer in Art History and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Essex\, UK. Her recent publications include the co-edited volume Hydrocommons Cultures: Art\, Pedagogy and Care Practices in the Americas (2024) and “Water” in Handbook to Latin American Environmental Aesthetics (2023). entre-rios.net / lisablackmore.net \nCo-sponsored by UCSC’s More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory. \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/lisa-blackmore-hydrocommoning/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Curating Your Digital Reputation with Lisa Nielsen
DESCRIPTION:Your digital reputation refers to your presence on the internet\, on social media platforms and on personal and professional websites. Learn tips on how to distinguish yourself from the crowd and create a lasting impression in an evolving digital communications landscape. \nThis event has two sessions: Oct 16\, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. via Zoom or Oct 30\, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend either session. \n \nLisa Nielsen has over 25 years of design and marketing experience in the private sector and with non-profits. From working at Apple Computer as an art director to running her own firm in San Francisco for 15 years\, she knows what it means to be a good communicator and marketer. From startups to Fortune 500 clients\, her adventures in marketing have built a depth of knowledge that she likes to share. Lisa is in her second decade at UC Santa Cruz as marketing director\, overseeing a creative team of writers\, videographers\, and designers. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop 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 ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/curating-your-digital-reputation-with-lisa-nielsen/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:WordPress Website Design with Jason Chafin
DESCRIPTION:Professional websites can boost your reputation and aid your networking and job search. UCSC provides free access to WordPress (with several design templates) to faculty\, postdoctoral scholars\, and graduate students. \nGet design tips from Jason and get started using WordPress to make a blog or static website to showcase your graduate or postdoctoral work! \nThis event has two sessions: Oct 17\, 1:30-3:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204\, or Nov 6\, 12:00-1:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend either session. \n \nJason Chafin graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 1993 with a bachelor’s in environmental studies. He earned his master of environmental studies from The Evergreen State College in Olympia\, WA\, and spent over a decade as an environmental planner. He switched gears in 2010 and became a web developer\, working primarily with WordPress. He’s been with University Relations as the senior web developer in the Communications and Marketing Department since 2017. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop 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 ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/wordpress-website-design-with-jason-chafin/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, 95064
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Stacey D'Erasmo
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Fall 2024 \nGrowing Things\n~ gardens\, poems\, emotions\, relationships\, stories\, our artistic practices\, carefully tended\, beautifully ordered\, rewilded and wild ~ \nAbout The Living Writers Series \nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \nAbout the Author \nStacey D’Erasmo is the author of the novels Tea\, A Seahorse Year\, The Sky Below\, Wonderland\, and The Complicities. She is also the author of the nonfiction books The Art of Intimacy: The Space Between and The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry. D’Erasmo’s work has been published in The New York Times Book Review\, New York Times Magazine\, Ploughshares\, Interview\, The New Yorker\, and the Los Angeles Times. She was a Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University\, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction in 2009\, and won the Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize from the Lambda Literary Foundation in 2012. \nShe is currently a Professor of Writing and Publishing Practices at Fordham University in NYC. \n\nSponsored by The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books\, which provides books for purchase at the readings.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-stacey-derasmo/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dana Frank: What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes Dana Frank\, UC Santa Cruz Professor Emerita of History\, for a discussion about her new book What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?: Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n“The most important book on the Great Depression in a generation. Dana Frank skillfully shows how working-class people experimented with new forms of organizing based on traditions of struggles against racism as well as class and gender oppression. Our understanding of the Great Depression and its contested legacies will never be the same thanks to this brilliant and timely book.” —Paul Ortiz\, author of An African American and Latinx History of the United States. \n \nYour registration helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. \nThank you for registering! \nDrawing on little-known stories of working people\, What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? amplifies voices that have been long omitted from standard histories of the Depression era. In four stories of resilience\, mutual aid\, and radical rebellion that will transform how we understand the Great Depression\, Professor Dana Frank explores how ordinary working people in the US turned to collective action to meet the crisis of the Great Depression and what we can learn from them today. Readers are introduced to: \n\nThe 7 daring Black women who worked as wet nurses and staged a sit-down strike to demand better pay and an end to racial discrimination.\nThe groups who used mutual aid\, cooperatives\, eviction protests\, and demands for government relief to meet their basic needs.\nThe million Mexican and Mexican American repatriados who were erased from mainstream historical memory\, while (often fictitious) white “Dust Bowl migrants” became enshrined.\nThe Black Legion\, a white supremacist fascist organization that saw racism\, antisemitism\, anti-Catholicism\, and fascism as the cure to the Depression.\n\nWhile capitalism crashed during the Great Depression\, racism did not and was\, in fact\, wielded by some to blame and oppress their neighbors. Patriarchy persisted\, too\, undermining the power of social movements and justifying women’s marginalization within them. For other ordinary people\, collective action gave them the means to survive and fight against such hostilities. \nWhat resulted were powerful new forms of horizontal reciprocity and solidarity that allowed people to provide each other with the bread\, beans\, and comradeship of daily life. The New Deal\, when it arrived\, provided vital resources to many\, but others were cut off from its full benefits\, especially if they were women or people of color. \nWhat Can We Learn from the Great Depression? shows us how we might look to the past to think about how we can shape the future of our own failed economy. These lessons can also help us imagine and build movements to challenge such an economy—and to transform the state as a whole—in service to the common good without replicating racism and patriarchy. \nDana Frank is Professor Emerita of History at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. A well-regarded senior historian\, she is the author of many books on labor\, women\, and social justice in the US and Honduras. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Guardian\, The Nation\, Foreign Affairs\, and many other publications\, and she has testified before both the US Congress and Canadian Parliament.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dana-frank-what-can-we-learn-from-the-great-depression/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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