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SUMMARY:Mastering the Elevator Pitch with Nada Miljkovich
DESCRIPTION:In this interactive workshop\, graduate students will learn how to craft a compelling and concise elevator pitch tailored to their specific goals—whether it’s securing funding\, attracting partners\, or landing clients.  \nParticipants will explore techniques to clearly communicate their vision\, project\, or business in just a few sentences\, leaving a lasting impression. Through guided exercises and real-world examples\, participants will develop the skills they need to present their ideas confidently and spark interest in any professional setting. \nThis event has two sessions: Oct 21\, 2:00-3:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204\, or Nov 4\, 2:00-3:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend either session. \n \nNada Miljković is an experienced educator and digital arts expert with over a decade of teaching at UCSC. As a project manager and instructor at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development (CIED)\, she focuses on fostering creativity\, storytelling\, and entrepreneurial skills in students. Passionate about empowering students with real-world tools\, Nada prepares future leaders in both their professional and personal lives while pursuing a Ph.D. in Digital Arts at the University of Arts\, Belgrade. \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/mastering-the-elevator-pitch-with-nada-miljkovich/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, 95064
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Book Celebration: Toxic City and A People’s History of SFO
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies to celebrate the release of two important new books by UCSC faculty exploring power\, historical development\, and environmental justice in the Bay Area: Lindsey Dillon’s Toxic City and Eric Porter’s A People’s History of SFO (both published by University of California Press). The authors will be in conversation with graduate students from the departments of History and Sociology. \nA limited number of both books are available for graduate students – please contact kgalinde@ucsc.edu to receive a copy. Books are available for sale via the UC Press website for 30% off using the code UCPSAVE30. \nAbout the Authors and Books \nToxic City: Redevelopment and Environmental Justice in San Francisco explores the impact of green gentrification in Bayview-Hunters Point\, a historically Black neighborhood in San Francisco. Lindsey examines how revitalization efforts often threaten to displace long-time residents who have fought for toxic cleanup and urban redevelopment as a means of reparative justice. She links these struggles to broader issues of environmental racism and the legacy of slavery\, arguing for a vision of environmental justice within the context of reparations. Lindsey Dillon is author of Toxic City and a critical human geographer and Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz. \nA People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport examines the history of San Francisco International Airport to uncover a rich narrative of development and power in the Bay Area from the eighteenth century to today. Eric highlights SFO’s pivotal role in the region’s evolution as a hub of commerce\, innovation\, and influence. By examining the airport’s colonial roots and its impact on trade\, social dynamics\, and environmental change\, Porter reveals how individual actions intersect with larger systems of power. The book concludes by confronting the climate crisis and the challenges it poses to SFO and the surrounding community. Eric Porter is Professor of History and History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz\, where he also holds appointments in the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Music Departments. His research and teaching interests include Black cultural and intellectual history\, US urban and cultural history\, and jazz and improvisation studies. Porter is author of A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport (University of California Press\, 2024). \n\nHosted by the Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies (CUES). Co-Sponsored by the departments of History of Consciousness and Sociology\, the Division of Social Sciences\, the Institute for Social Transformation\, and the Science & Justice Research Center.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-celebration-toxic-city-and-a-peoples-history-of-sfo/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241022T160000
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SUMMARY:Burnout: Recognizing\, Preventing\, Mitigating with Audrey Kim and Nicolette Severson
DESCRIPTION:Burnout is a state of exhaustion that can impact our work\, personal lives\, health\, and overall sense of well-being and purpose. Join us to discuss common causes and symptoms\, and learn strategies to recognize\, prevent\, and manage burnout. \nThis event is on Oct 22\, 4:00-5:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend the session. \n \nPrior to joining UCSC CAPS in 2001\, Audrey Kim\, Ph.D.\, worked in the corporate and nonprofit sectors and understands how burnout can be different and yet similar across various settings. Kim likes helping students gain insight into their problems and learn practical strategies for overcoming them. She especially enjoys working with graduate students and facilitating the Graduate Women’s Group at UCSC. \nNicolette “Niki” Severson\, LCSW\, has been on the team at CAPS since January 2021. She came to her work as a therapist by way of a background in academia\, education\, and research in public health and social work. Previous to UCSC\, Severson worked with underserved populations in community mental health. She has firsthand experience with burnout from a variety of demanding work environments and is excited to talk about this critical topic. \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/burnout-recognizing-preventing-mitigating-with-audrey-kim-and-nicolette-severson/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, 95064
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Engaging Digital Democracy: Tools to Recognize Political Dis- and Mis-Information
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/engaging-digital-democracy-tools-to-recognize-political-dis-and-mis-information/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Noreen Khawaja – What is a University? Humboldt and HistCon in Perspective
DESCRIPTION:This talk reteaches the history of the research university as a series of answers to the question of what symbols are for\, what symbols can do. By answers I do not mean simply what scholars have said about these matters\, but also what we have done\, the worlds we have made in our teaching and in our shaping of the forms of the university itself. Two portraits stand at the center\, each from public universities\, each cases in which scholars themselves had an unusual degree of influence: the founding of the University of Berlin in the years before 1809 and the formation of the History of Consciousness program at the University of California\, Santa Cruz over the course of the 1970s-80s. Both institutions were established during periods of academic reform and state-building ambition. In both cases we find the imprint of a peculiarly Romantic myth—the idea of an intimate relation among three sets of maps: maps of a school\, maps of culture\, and maps of the mind. \nNoreen Khawaja teaches in the Religion and Modernity program at Yale University. Her work examines the ideas\, practices\, and institutions of secular reason. She is the author of The Religion of Existence: Asceticism in Philosophy from Kierkegaard to Sartre (University of Chicago Press\, 2016) and is currently at work on a history of the research university. \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/noreen-khawaja-what-is-a-university-humboldt-and-histcon-in-perspective/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mjriam Abu Samra - "Intergenerational\, Anticolonial Vanguards: The Palestinian Transnational Student Movement in Historical Perspective"
DESCRIPTION:This presentation focuses on the political potential of contemporary Palestinian transnational youth activism in Europe and USA.  It compares student political engagement namely by examining the formation and development of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) during what is regarded as the “golden age” of the Palestinian revolution (1960s-1970s) with contemporary initiatives\, efforts and strategies of mobilization amongst Palestinian youth in shatat (Diaspora). By looking to the past through a historical continuum that has molded present-day Palestinian youth activism\, I propose that new futures can only be made through methodologies that tether together time and space. \nAbout the Speaker \nMjriam Abu Samra is a Marie Curie Post-Doc Fellow at the department of Anthropology at UC Davis with ties to the program in Middle East/South Asian Studies through the cooperation with her host institution University of Venice Ca Foscari in Italy. \nMjriam received her Ph.D. from the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford\, UK and her MA in Middle East Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)\, UK. Her research focuses on Palestinian transnational student and youth politics and Third World solidarities. Her work intervenes in the critical study of refugees\, colonialisms\, social movements and it is grounded on critical theories on subalternity and decolonization. As a MSC Postdoctoral Fellow Mjriam will be exploring the political potential of contemporary Palestinian transnational youth activism in the United States and Europe through an historical comparative lens. \nBefore joining UC Davis\, Mjriam was based in Amman\, Jordan\, where she worked as gender expert for the Center of Strategic Studies at the University of Jordan and as Senior researcher and coordinator at the Al Nahda research center. She taught courses on international politics\, developments\, and history of colonialism at the University of Jordan and American education abroad programs in Amman. \n\nThis talk is presented by the Center for Racial Justice (CRJ) at UC Santa Cruz and co-sponsored by Feminist Studies\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department\, Students for Justice in Palestine\, Faculty for Justice in Palestine\, Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS)\, Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA)\, Anthropology Department\, Sociology Department\, Politics Department\, Center for Cultural Studies\, and People’s University. \nIt is the first talk in a year-long speaker series\, “Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement.” For more information \, please visit the CRJ website: https://crjucsc.com/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/possibilities-of-palestinian-refusal-speaker-series-mjriam-abu-samra/
LOCATION:Cervantes and Velasquez Conference Room\, Bay Tree Building\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241023T170000
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SUMMARY:Employing Humanities - Humanities at Work: Making a Meaningful Career
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Career Engagement Specialist will lead an interactive workshop that will set you up to better understand how your humanities skills can prepare you for a fulfilling career. Free burritos for all who register through our Linktree here! \nOpen to all Humanities Majors and Minors. For more information please email humco@ucsc.edu. \nPlease visit the Humanities Student Events Calendar to see other exciting events happening for students in the Humanities Division.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/employing-humanities-humanities-at-work-making-a-meaningful-career/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:The Center for Cultural Studies 35th Anniversary Conference
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a celebratory conference in collaborative form\, including a conversation with founding director Jim Clifford\, lightning talks on Cultural Studies keywords\, dialogues\, reflections by former graduate student affiliates\, and a collective imagining of CCS’s next chapter. \nEvents begin Thursday\, October 24 at 5:00 PM and run through Friday evening in Humanities 210 and the Oakes College Mural Room. For more information\, view or download the full program. \n \nFor over three decades\, the Center for Cultural Studies has hosted a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. Read more about the colloquium and the Center for Cultural Studies legacy here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-center-for-cultural-studies-35th-anniversary-conference/
LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241024T130000
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SUMMARY:Academic Publishing with Martha Stuit and Erich van Rijn
DESCRIPTION:How do you choose a reputable academic journal to publish in? What are your copyrights? What is open access? Where do you find academic publishing support at UCSC beyond your program and department? \nThis event has two sessions: Oct 24\, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. via Zoom\, or Oct 29\, 3:00-4:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend either session. \n \nAs scholarly communication librarian at the UCSC University Library\, Martha Stuit provides author services\, which cover publishing theses\, dissertations\, and academic articles and books; open access; and copyright. She also serves as the library’s liaison to the Division of Graduate Studies. Prior to becoming a librarian\, she was a journalist. Martha has an M.S. in Information from the University of Michigan. \nErich van Rijn is executive director at the University of California Press where he leads book and journal publishing operations. Erich has been with the University of California Press since 1997 and has held positions in marketing\, sales\, operations\, and finance. Prior to joining the press\, he held positions in marketing at Oxford University Press and HarperCollins Publishers. \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/academic-publishing-with-martha-stuit-and-erich-van-rijn/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241024T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241024T185000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Carolina Ixta
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 \nCarolina Ixta is a writer from Oakland\, California. A daughter of Mexican immigrants\, she received her B.A. in Creative Writing and Spanish Language and Literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz and obtained her Master’s degree in Education at the University of California\, Berkeley. She is currently an elementary school teacher whose pedagogy centers critical race theory at the primary education level. Shut Up\, This is Serious is her debut novel. \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-carolina-ixta/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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