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SUMMARY:Marc Matera - Race After Empire: Racial Capitalism in Southern Africa and “Race Relations” in Britain
DESCRIPTION:“Race relations” became synonymous with various obstacles to the “integration” of Commonwealth migrants in postwar Britain and\, ultimately\, shorthand for social and political issues perceived to be related to racial differences in general. However\, interest in race relations did not center initially on Caribbean\, South Asian\, and African migrants to metropolitan Britain. Before the mid-1960s\, race relations served as a means of conceptualizing and grappling with “problems of the end of Empire\,” and efforts to study and manage them focused on centers of extractive industries in British settler colonies in Africa. \nThis talk demonstrates how white liberals and business leaders in colonial Africa provided institutional models and much of the personnel and start-up capital for a race relations industry in Britain that depoliticized racism and delegitimated anticolonial and Black Power politics by attributing them to racial identification. Studies of and policies targeting race relations in 1960s Britain emerged alongside and in connection with efforts to manage\, co-opt\, or divert the transformative potential of decolonization and to shape postcolonial futures with neoliberal solutions. From this perspective\, when it comes to liberal politics of race\, as the South African artist William Kentridge suggests (“Art in a State of Siege (100 Years of Easy Living)\,” 1988)\, “London is a suburb of Johannesburg”. \nMarc Matera is Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century (University of California Press\, 2015). He coauthored The Global 1930s: The International Decade (Routledge\, 2017) with Susan Kingsley Kent and The Women’s War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2012) with Misty L. Bastian and Susan Kingsley Kent. He recently contributed to and coauthored introductory and concluding essays for a thematic issue of Modern British History\, “Marking Race in Twentieth Century Britain”. The research for Professor Matera’s talk was supported in part by a research fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. \n\n \nWINTER 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/marc-matera-race-after-empire/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ambika Aiyadurai - Caring for Humans and Nonhumans: Challenges in India’s Wildlife Conservation
DESCRIPTION:Organized by the Center for South Asian Studies\, this talk examines different meanings of care in India’s wildlife conservation. Drawing on fieldwork and case studies from across the country\, Professor Aiyadurai will discuss various forms of care in protecting endangered species and preventing extinction. Addressing the role of wildlife conservationists and Indigenous people\, the talk asks how and in what ways the notions of care for humans and nonhumans among these groups vary\, overlap\, and sometimes compete against each other. How do we reconcile the conflicts emerging through the hierarchical nature of the ethics of care in wildlife conservation? \n \nAmbika Aiyadurai is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology\, Gandhinagar. Her research interests include human-animal relations and community-based wildlife conservation. \nThis talk is a part of the Center for South Asian Studies Ecologies of Care 2024-25 Lecture Series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/caring-for-humans-and-nonhumans/
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Venita Blackburn
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Winter 2025 \nGrief Sequence\nNot to suppress mourning (suffering)…but to change it\, transform it…after Prageeta Sharma & Roland Barthes \nWorks by Venita Blackburn have appeared in The New Yorker\, NY Times\, Harper’s\, McSweeney’s\, Story Magazine\, the Virginia Quarterly Review\, the Paris Review\, and others. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship in 2014 and several Pushcart prize nominations. She received the Prairie Schooner book prize for fiction\, which resulted in the publication of her collected stories\, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes\, in 2017 and earned a place as a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions award among other honors. Blackburn’s second collection of stories is How to Wrestle a Girl\, 2021\, finalist for a Lambda Literary Prize and was a NY Times editor’s choice. Her debut novel\, Dead in Long Beach\, California\, is about the mania of grief\, all of human history and a lesbian assassin at the end of the world and was selected as one of the NYTimes and NPR’s best books of 2024. She is the founder and president of Live\, Write\, an organization devoted to offering free creative writing workshops for communities of color. Her hometown is Compton\, California\, and she is an Associate Professor of creative writing at California State University\, Fresno. \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. \n\nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-venita-blackburn/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Accidentally Wes Anderson: Adventures in Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:With support from Santa Cruz County and The Humanities Institute\, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) is proud to present Accidentally Wes Anderson: Adventures in Santa Cruz—an exhibition that pays tribute to the world of travel photography\, community\, and adventure\, where architecture\, design\, and aesthetics converge in stunning symmetry reminiscent of the iconic filmmaker’s visual style. \nThe exhibit will run from January 24th – May 18th. \nThis is an adventure. Join us to discover the most interesting places on Earth\, both near and far\, inspired by the eponymous director’s cinematic vision. Produced in collaboration with brand and social media community Accidentally Wes Anderson (AWA)\, this exhibition takes guests on a visual journey to the most beautiful\, idiosyncratic locations around the globe—including Santa Cruz County—all seemingly plucked from the whimsical world of filmmaker Wes Anderson. \nFrom impossibly grand hotels and chateaus to idyllic lighthouses\, cable cars\, and train carriages\, AWA explores the filmmaker’s distinct aesthetic\, whether a perfectly symmetrical landscape or a European city brimming with technicolor structures. The MAH exhibition\, which will include a selection of community-sourced images of quirky places and locales in Central Coast California\, is also presented as homage to the centennial celebration of the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk’s Giant Dipper roller coaster\, an Anderson-esque vintage wooden coaster that debuted in 1924. \nBorn off the back of a viral online phenomenon and community of the same name\, AWA celebrates the undeniable visual vernacular of one of cinema’s greatest filmmakers. Each of the locations highlighted in the exhibition boasts the recognizable singular aesthetic that is oh-so typical of film master Wes Anderson. Bright\, vivid\, and often slightly jarring to reality\, AWA collects the world’s most Anderson-like sites in all their faded grandeur and pop-pastel colors\, telling the story behind each stranger-than-fiction location. Authorized by Anderson himself\, the exhibition and its companion books celebrate much of the weird and wonderful architecture that exists in our unique world\, paying tribute to travel\, photography\, community\, and adventure. \nAWA photo contributors have been called “adventurers” who range from travelers\, architects\, history buffs\, artists\, editors\, photographers\, to teachers\, students\, and all walks of life intrigued by the wonders of the world and civilization. \n\nBanner Image: Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk\, photo by Ludwig Favre\, @ludwigfavre.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/accidentally-wes-anderson-adventures-in-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Winter 2025 Aurora Lecture Series: Francesca Orsini — Varieties of Realism
DESCRIPTION:Join us Friday\, January 24th at 10am PST for Varieties of Realism\, a lecture by Francesca Orsini with discussants: G.S. Sahota and Rahul Parson. \n \nFrancesca Orsini is Professor Emerita of Hindi and South Asian Literature\, School of Oriental and African Studies – University of London \nRahul Parson is Assistant Professor of Hindi Literature and Culture\, South & Southeast Asian Studies – University of California\, Berkeley \nG.S. Sahota is Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies\, Associate Professsor of Literature – University of California\, Santa Cruz
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/winter-2025-aurora-lecture-series-francesca-orsini-varieties-of-realism/
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SUMMARY:We Are the Middle of Forever: A More-Than-Human(ities) Lab Book Club Discussion with Stan Rushworth
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a conversation with Stan Rushworth\, who will be discussing his latest book We Are the Middle of Forever\, which places Indigenous voices at the center of conversations about today’s environmental crisis. Event attendees will be expected to have read the book\, which will be provided free of charge to anyone who would like to participate. \n \nPlease sign up here for a free copy of the book. If you would like a copy to read over the winter break\, please sign up by December 2nd. Registrations received after December 2nd will receive their books in January. \nProfessor Amanda Smith will email all the registrants with a time to pick up their book. \nAn American Library Association Notable Book\, We Are the Middle of Forever draws on interviews with people from different North American Indigenous cultures and communities\, generations\, and geographic regions\, who share their knowledge and experience\, their questions\, their observations\, and their dreams of maintaining the best relationship possible to all of life. A welcome antidote to the despair arising from the climate crisis\, We Are the Middle of Forever will be an indispensable aid to those looking for new and different ideas and responses to the challenges we face. \nThis event is presented by the THI More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory Research Cluster. \nStan Rushworth is a teacher of Native American literature and the author of Sam Woods: American Healing\, Going to Water: The Journal of Beginning Rain\, Diaspora’s Children\, and (with Dahr Jamail) We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth (The New Press). He lives in Northern California.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/we-are-the-middle-of-forever/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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