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SUMMARY:Wenyi Shang - Moving Beyond the Streetlight: How Computational Methods Can Open Up New Directions in Humanities Research
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an engaging talk by Wenyi Shang\, titled Moving Beyond the Streetlight: How Computational Methods Can Open Up New Directions in Humanities Research. \nThe “streetlight effect” describes an observational bias relevant to the humanities and social sciences\, where researchers tend to focus on the questions limited by the scales of materials they can directly comprehend. The application of computational methods in the humanities research has the potential to transform this landscape\, providing interpretative tools to offer new insights into the macroscopic trends that studies at the individual and microscopic scale often fail to reveal. This talk presents two case studies to demonstrate how computational methods can open up new directions in humanities research. The first uses machine learning models to classify English poetry by lexicon and prosody\, shedding new light on the distinction between “genre” and “form.” The second applies social network analysis to explore the structural characteristics of political networks in Northern Song (960–1127 C.E.) China\, revealing changes in political culture during the period. \nPlease join us in person in Humanities 1\, Room 210 or via Zoom \nWenyi Shang is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Science & Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri. He earned his Ph.D. from the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and his bachelor’s degree from Peking University\, China. His research focuses on digital humanities\, addressing scholarly inquiries in history and literature through computational methods. He has employed network analysis to investigate social structures and transformations in political culture in premodern Chinese societies\, and used text mining to study literature\, uncovering novel perspectives on cultural changes reflected in literary texts. Both methods frequently intersect with machine learning models.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ai-cluster-wenyi-shang/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:LinkedIn with Eric Curiel
DESCRIPTION:LinkedIn is a powerful tool to network and search for jobs. We will go over tips to update your LinkedIn profile to help recruiters find you\, explore ways to identify alumni with similar career paths and interests on LinkedIn\, and show you how to connect effectively with them to expand your network. We will also go over best practices for searching for jobs. \nThis event is on Mon\, Nov 18\, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend the session. \n \nEric Curiel has worked for over ten years in supporting college students in pursuing successful careers and currently serves as associate director of career engagement in Career Success. He is passionate about supporting students\, especially those from underrepresented populations\, to be successful. He completed his bachelor’s degree in ecology and evolution from UC Santa Cruz in 2014. Eric enjoys being outdoors\, photography\, and watching soccer. \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/linkedin-with-eric-curiel/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241119T120000
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SUMMARY:Contributions to Diversity Statement with Judith Estrada
DESCRIPTION:Judith Estrada\, Ph.D.\nAssistant Vice Chancellor\nOffice for Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion (ODEI) \nThis event has two sessions: Nov 19\, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. via Zoom\, or Nov 20\, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend either session. \n \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/contributions-to-diversity-statement-with-judith-estrada/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241119T190000
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SUMMARY:Public Film Screening and Filmmaker Q&A: A Feeling Greater than Love with Mary Jirmanus Saba
DESCRIPTION:In her directorial debut\, Mary Jirmanus Saba deals with a forgotten revolution\, saving from oblivion bloodily suppressed strikes at Lebanese tobacco and chocolate factories. These events from the 1970s\, which held the promise of a popular revolution and\, with it\, of women’s emancipation were erased from collective memory by the country’s civil wars. Rich in archival footage from Lebanon’s militant cinema tradition\, the film reconstructs the spirit of that revolt\, asking of the past how we might transform the present. FIPRESCI International Critics Prize Winner at the 2017 Berlinale Forum.\n– Malgorzata Sadowska \nMary Jirmanus Saba is a geographer who uses film and other media to explore labor movement histories\, connections among unstable landscapes and legacies of colonialism in the Arab World\, Latin America and Turtle Island and the ever-present resilience of everyday life. Her debut feature film A Feeling Greater Than Love (2017) premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival Forum where it received the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize\, making several “Best of 2017” lists. From 2006-2008\, she produced the community broadcast television program\, Via Comunidad with art collective Vientos del Sur in Ibarra\, Ecuador. A avid producer of anonymous and collective agitprop\, her latest film Mahdi Amel in Gaza (2024) is screening in community spaces\, protest sites\, and sometimes festivals. Saba is a member of UAW Labor for Palestine\, the People’s CDC and a UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Santa Cruz in Film and Digital Media. \nPreceded by a workshop: Mon. November 18\, 4 – 7 PM\, Comm. 139 \nIn this workshop filmmaker and scholar Mary Jirmanus Saba will discuss her recent work on films made in the aftermath of the Arab Spring\, exploring the emergence of the “character driven resilience documentary.” Using her own work as an example\, Saba will facilitate a discussion about the political economy of arts funding and social movements. \nTo join the workshop\, RSVP to ilusztig@ucsc.edu. \n\nPresented by Film and Digital Media and co-sponsored by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/public-film-screening-and-filmmaker-qa-a-feeling-greater-than-love-with-mary-jirmanus-saba/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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SUMMARY:Giving Day 2024
DESCRIPTION:Mark your calendar for Wednesday\, November 20 and join us for UC Santa Cruz’s annual Giving Day—a 24-hour online fundraising event dedicated to supporting projects that enrich the UCSC student experience. \nGiving Day is an opportunity to unite the entire UCSC community—students\, alumni\, faculty\, and friends—to create a lasting\, positive impact on our students\, the community\, and the world. Let’s show our Banana Slug pride and rally together to support the next generation of changemakers. \nWhether supporting student success\, funding cutting-edge research in the sciences or technology\, or advancing humanities and the arts\, your gift on November 20 will help fuel programs and initiatives that make UCSC a unique place. You can make an impact in a way that resonates with you. \nOur mission to provide high quality educational and research experiences for our students\, regardless of their backgrounds and financial circumstances is more important than ever. Your support is crucial to ensuring we deliver on that mission. \nLearn more at give.ucsc.edu/giving-day-2024
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/giving-day-2024/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED: Lara Sheehi - "The Imperative to Refuse Psychic Intrusion in Palestine-Lebanon Solidarities"
DESCRIPTION:This talk will discuss the ways psychic intrusions are central features of settler colonial logics and how they are used with specific intent to disrupt solidarities. Palestine-Lebanon solidarities will be used as a “case study” to read the psycho-politico-affective forces that demobilize. \nAbout the Speaker \nLara Sheehi (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies\, Qatar\, and a Research Fellow at the University of South Africa’s Institute for Social and Health Sciences. She is the founding faculty director of the Psychoanalysis and the Arab World Lab. Prof. Sheehi’s work takes up decolonial and anti-oppressive approaches to psychoanalysis\, with a focus on liberation struggles in the Global South. She is co-author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge\, 2022)\, which won the Middle East Monitor’s 2022 Palestine Book Award for Best Academic Book. Prof. Sheehi is the President of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (APA\, Division 39)\, co-editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality\, co-editor of Counterspace in Psychoanalysis\, Culture and Society\, and an advisory board member for the USA-Palestine Mental Health Network and the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. She is currently working on a new book\, From the Clinic to the Street: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (Pluto Press). \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)\, Anthropology Department\, Sociology Department\, Politics Department\, Center for Cultural Studies\, People’s University\, and Institute for Social Transformation. \nThis talk is a part of the 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/lara-sheehi-the-imperative-to-refuse-psychic-intrusion-in-palestine-lebanon-solidarities/
LOCATION:Cervantes and Velasquez Conference Room\, Bay Tree Building\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - California Community Colleges Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to apply to (first step: register with and upload your CV to the CCC Registry) and what it’s like to work for a California community college by talking to director of the CCC Registry\, Beth Au\, moderator of the panel\, and a panel of UCSC graduate student alumni and a former UCSC postdoc\, all of whom currently work for a CCC. \nThis event is on Thu\, Nov 21\, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend the session. \n \n\nModerator\nBeth Au \nDirector\, California Community Colleges Registry \nBeth Au has a master’s degree in Asian American Studies from UCLA. She has been director of the California Community Colleges (CCC) Registry since 2002. As director\, she oversees and manages cccregistry.org and hosts annual job fairs for the college system every January. \nThe CCC Registry is the state chancellor’s job board for faculty\, management and staff opportunities at all 73 districts and 116 colleges across California. The CCCs are the largest higher education employer in the world with over 60\,000 faculty\, administrators and staff across the state. \nIn her role as a recruiter\, she frequently works with UC graduate students and postdocs through UC Career Centers and Graduate Divisions to host CCC interest panels. During Covid\, she pivoted the informational panels and 1:1 sessions with job seekers to a virtual format and has continued recruitment in the online environment. She has counseled over 400 job seekers in Zoom sessions since May 2020 and continues to use Zoom to maintain outreach and recruitment. Several of the job seekers she has coached have been offered full-time\, tenure track positions at a CCC since 2022. \nBeth is available for 1:1 Zoom sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. to offer CCC application and career advice. Reach out to her directly at aub@yosemite.edu to schedule a session. \n\nPanelists\nFrancesca “Chesa” Caparas\nInstructor\, English\, Women’s Studies\, and Asian American Studies\nDe Anza College\, Cupertino \nChesa Caparas (she/they) has a B.A. and M.A. in modern literature from UC Santa Cruz. She is faculty in English\, Women’s Studies\, and Asian American Studies at De Anza College. In her classes she explores literature and pop culture\, the intersections of technology with race and gender\, and the ethical applications of artificial intelligence. In 2022\, she was a Fulbright Scholar to the Philippines where she researched media and information literacy. She is currently pursuing a master’s in Information and Knowledge Strategy at Columbia University. \n\nJasmeet Dhaliwal\, Ph.D.\nInstructor\, Geology\, Earth and Environmental Sciences\nChabot College\, Hayward \nJasmeet Dhaliwal received her Ph.D. in earth science from UC San Diego and held a postdoctoral researcher position at UC Santa Cruz until accepting a position as a geology and earth and environmental sciences instructor at Chabot College. She worked with Beth Au to prepare the application to Chabot. \n\nSarah Gerhardt\, Ph.D.\nChemistry Department Chair and Instructor\nCabrillo College \nSarah started teaching immediately after receiving her Ph.D. in physical chemistry from UCSC. She started as a lecturer at Santa Clara University teaching general and physical chemistry and moved to Cabrillo College to teach general\, introductory\, and biological chemistry\, the last for allied health sciences. She also participated in the ACCESS program at UCSC as a community college liaison for several summers. After having two children (teaching while pregnant and at night while her children were young) and several years as a lecturer\, Sarah did a postdoctorate in molecular\, cell\, and developmental biology under Professor Harry Noller at UCSC. She returned to teaching general and introductory chemistry full-time at Monterey Peninsula College 2011 to 2017. Since August 2017\, she has taught general chemistry full-time at Cabrillo College and is currently chair of Cabrillo’s Chemistry Department. \n\nBrian Malone\, Ph.D.\nProfessor of English\nDe Anza\, Cupertino \nBrian Malone (he/him) is a tenured professor of English at De Anza College in Cupertino. He teaches classes in composition and English literature\, in addition to serving on the leadership team for Guided Pathways and as project director for a Title III: Strengthening Institutions Program grant. He previously served as tenure review coordinator for the college. He holds an A.B. from Harvard University and an M.A. from the University of Virginia. He received a Ph.D. in literature from UC Santa Cruz in 2014\, with a dissertation focusing on the nineteenth-century novel in England and France. \n\nMelissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano\, Ph.D.\nEthnic Studies Professor\nEvergreen Valley College\, San José \nMelissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano is a full-time ethnic studies professor at Evergreen Valley College in San Jose. She obtained her A.A. in sociology from Southwestern College\, B.A. in sociology from UC San Diego\, M.A. in Asian American studies from San Francisco State University\, and both an M.A. and Ph.D. in education from UC Santa Cruz. She is co-editor of the Pilipinx Radical Imagination Reader (2018)\, and a contributing author to the anthologies Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy (2019)\, the SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies (2022)\, as well as Closer to Liberation: Pin[a/x]y Activism in Theory and Practice (2023). Her work draws from women-of-color radical thought to address how intersectional struggles of racism\, classism\, cisheteropatriarchy\, and body terrorism impact us every day. \n\nAndrea Seeger\, A.B.D.\nLecturer\, Social Justice\, Literature\, Writing\nOakes College\, UCSC\nFaculty\, English Department\nCabrillo College\, Aptos \nAndrea Seeger\, a Santa Cruz native\, returned a few years ago to her hometown after academic wandering. She received her undergraduate education at UCSC\, first studying mathematics\, then completing her B.A. in literature. She has an M.A. in English literature from the University of Colorado Boulder and is A.B.D. in English at UC Berkeley. Andrea has been teaching literature\, writing\, and social justice for nearly 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 Oakes College and writing through the UCSC Writing Program. She also lectures in English at Cabrillo College. Andrea recently served as the director of the UCSC Writing Center and its VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center\, an HSI Initiative. Andrea is deeply committed to student-centered learning and equitable access to a deep\, quality education. \n\nRandy Villegas\, Ph.D.\nAssociate Professor\, Political Science\nCollege of the Sequoias\, Visalia \nA product of public education institutions\, Randy Villegas is an associate professor of political science at College of the Sequoias and a trustee for the Visalia Unified School District Board of Education. Before beginning graduate school\, Villegas worked as a journalist and an organizer in Bakersfield\, CA. He has been a recipient of numerous awards\, including the 2020 CARE-UC Innovation Fellowship and the American Political Science Association (APSA) Fund for Latino Scholarship. He is currently featured in the Unity Exhibit of the California State Capitol Museum for his work around social justice issues in the Central Valley. After being appointed to the Visalia Board of Trustees in December 2021\, he was elected by the voters of area 6 to continue serving in November 2022. Randy is honored to serve our students\, families\, and community. \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/california-community-colleges-panel-discussion-2/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, 95064
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Christmas Carol Dramaturgy Talk with Santa Cruz Shakespeare
DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz Shakespeare for a presentation and talk by their brilliant Christmas Carol dramaturgs Dr. Renee Fox (UC Santa Cruz)\, Dr. Michael Chemers (UC Santa Cruz)\, and Charles Pasternak (SCS Artistic Director). Renee and Michael will discourse on Dickens and his marvelous novella. Q&A to follow. Expertise breeds love; don’t be a Scrooge; join SCS in nerding out over this beautiful story!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-shakespeare-christmas-carol-dramaturgy-talk/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Public Library – Downtown Branch\, 224 Church Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Chris Benner & Manuel Pastor - Charging Forward
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Chris Brenner and Manuel Pastor for a reading and signing of their new book Charging Forward: Lithium Valley\, Electric Vehicles\, and a Just Future—a clarion call for justice in the quest for clean energy. \n“Charging Forward brilliantly uses the Valley to illustrate what’s at stake as we move to a clean energy world. Clear-eyed that we cannot change the way we deliver power until we change who wields power\, Benner and Pastor offer both hard-headed analysis and hope for a just future.” —Van Jones \n \nChris Benner is the director of the Institute for Social Transformation and the Everett Program for Technology and Social Change at UC Santa Cruz\, where he is also the Dorothy E. Everett Chair in Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship\, and a professor of environmental studies and sociology. He has co-authored five books with Manuel Pastor\, including Equity\, Growth and Community: What the Nation Can Learn From America’s Metro Areas\, and Solidarity Economics: Why Mutuality and Movements Matter. He lives in Santa Cruz\, California. \nManuel Pastor is the director of the Equity Research Institute at the University of Southern California where he is also a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity and the inaugural holder of the Turpanjian Chair in Civil Society and Social Change. He has co-authored five books with Chris Benner\, including Equity\, Growth and Community: What the Nation Can Learn From America’s Metro Areas\, Solidarity Economics: Why Mutuality and Movements Matter\, and Charging Forward: Lithium Valley\, Electric Vehicles\, and a Just Future (The New Press). Pastor is also the author of State of Resistance: What California’s Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Mean for America’s Future (The New Press). He lives in Los Angeles. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Institute for Social Transformation at UC Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/chris-benner-manuel-pastor-charging-forward/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241122T123000
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SUMMARY:Kunal Purohit - H-Pop\, The Secretive World of Hindutva Popstars
DESCRIPTION:Can a song trigger a murder?\nCan a poem spark a riot?\nCan a book divide a people? \nAway from the gaze of mainstream urban media\, across India’s dusty\, sleepy towns\, a brand of popular culture is quietly seizing the imagination of millions\, on the internet and off it. From catchy songs with acerbic lyrics to poetry recited in public gatherings to social media influencers shaping opinions with their brand of “breaking news” to books rescripting historical events\, “Hindutva Pop\,” or H-Pop\, is steadily creating societal acceptability for Hindutva’s core beliefs. Award-winning\, independent journalist Kunal Purohit travels through India\, profiling some of H-Pop’s most prolific and popular creators\, inquiring whether they are driven by ideology or commerce and asking what motivates the audience to consume its daily dose of bigotry. \nKunal Purohit is an award-winning\, independent journalist\, documentary film-maker\, and podcast creator. Over the past two decades\, Kunal has written on issues of development\, politics\, and inequality. More recently\, his work has focused on hate crimes and the rise of Hindu nationalism. He is the recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Civic Journalism (2012)\, the Statesman Award for Rural Reporting (2014)\, and the UNFPA-Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitive Reporting (2014 and 2019). \n\nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) and co-sponsored by the Music Department\, the Kamil and Talat Hasan Endowed Chair for Classical Indian Music\, the Ali Akbar Khan Endowment for Classical Indian Music\, and The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-talk-h-pop-the-secretive-world-of-hindutva-popstars/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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