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SUMMARY:Mediterranean Slavery Since the 18th Century and the Historical Study of Race: M’hamed Oualdi in Conversation with Shreya Parikh
DESCRIPTION:From ancient times through abolition\, scholars have often described slavery in the Mediterranean region as being relatively unaffected by the history of racial thought. Instead\, many historians have focused on the decisive role played by religion. At the same time\, however\, it is undeniable that dark-skinned enslaved people occupied a more subordinate position in comparison with other dominated groups. Presented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa\, this talk investigates whether theories of race and racism can elucidate the social\, political\, and economic dimensions of slavery in the Mediterranean\, while also asking how studying slavery in the Mediterranean might provide a different understanding of racialization during the early modern period. \n \nM’hamed Oualdi is a Professor at the European University Institute\, Florence. Before joining the EUI\, he taught at Sciences Po-Paris and Princeton University. He is supervising a European Research Council-funded project about the demise of slavery in the Mediterranean from the mid-18th century to the 1930s. He is the author of Esclaves et maîtres. Les mamelouks au service des beys de Tunis du XVIIe siècle aux années 1880 (Publications de la Sorbonne\, 2011) and A Slave between Empires (Columbia University Press\, 2020). \nShreya Parikh is a lecturer and affiliated researcher at Sciences Po Paris. She received a Dual Ph.D. in Political Science and in Sociology from Sciences Po and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2024. Her dissertation\, Mirages of Race: Blackness\, Racialization\, and the Black Movement in Tunisia\, examines the intersections of race\, migration\, and citizenship in the production of Blackness in contemporary Tunisia. She is currently working on adapting her dissertation manuscript into a book.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mhamed-oualdi-in-conversation-with-shreya-parikh/
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Grants and Fellowships
DESCRIPTION:Grants and Fellowships for Scholars in the Humanities  \nLearn how to make your fellowship and grant proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss what does and does not need to be in a research proposal\, the proper tone and form\, and ways to tease out the larger stakes of individual research projects and avoid the jargon of field-specific descriptions. This session will help you craft a research proposal that appeals to a broad academic audience. This workshop will be an opportunity for graduate students to learn about The Humanities Institute’s funding resources as well as strategies for acquiring extramural support. \nThe workshop will be led by Pranav Anand (Faculty Director at The Humanities Institute and Professor of Linguistics) Alma Heckman (Steering Committee Member at The Humanities Institute and Associate Professor of History & Jewish Studies)\, and Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (Research Programs and Communications Director at The Humanities Institute). \n  \nPlease RSVP using your UCSC email address: \nLoading… \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-grants-and-fellowships-4/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Nora Khan – Discernment: Unruly Images\, Synthetic Media\, and Evolving Critical Impulse
DESCRIPTION:What can criticism offer us in a world of unruly generative images and synthetic media? What precise language might we use for machine learning’s impact\, or the wake of an algorithm? How must our practices of discernment and the critical impulse evolve in response to computational developments\, to perhaps be more resilient and responsive? \nThis talk invites one to consider how our language might move with ‘intelligent’ systems and beings that simulate liveness and likeness. To navigate a present and future dominated by synthetic media\, and created by predictive systems\, we take up a practice of seeing through systems. This talk first explores the craft of developing a hybrid\, strategic\, collective and dissident criticism of technology. It second reviews cases of baffling\, seemingly inarticulable experiences from early software experiments and artists’ interventions\, into AI/ML. Third\, it explores the evolution of language in response to material and symbolic systems that dramatically shape our creative approaches and cognition. Throughout\, the talk explores evolving critical methods that help us better situate ourselves to identify a vast range of hidden fictions and beliefs about what technology is meant to do and be. \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/nora-khan-discernment/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Humanities Campus to Career:  Law Panel
DESCRIPTION:Please stay tuned for a new date! \n\nAre you interested in a career in the legal field? Come learn about careers in law from current and former attorneys with Humanities backgrounds. \nAppetizers and light refreshments will be served. \n \nSarah Cunniff (she/her) attended Stevenson College at UC Santa Cruz\, where she majored in French Literature. After law school\, she worked in large and small law firms and in-house at Levi Strauss. Most recently she spent a dozen years at the Career Development Office at Berkeley Law school\, where she supported students in their job searches\, with a special affinity for students with humanities backgrounds. \nChris Khasho (he/him) graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 2013 with a B.A. in Philosophy and is now a successful young attorney in Los Angeles. Chris represents clients in a broad array of business litigation matters and counsels them in corporate and transactional matters at Cypress LLP\, a premier business litigation firm in Century City. Chris is passionate about giving back to his community and helping clients resolve their legal issues. \nRitu Goswamy (they/them) is a Staff Attorney with the UC Immigrant Legal Services Center and serves UC Santa Cruz. They are a graduate from Barnard College\, Columbia University and Boston College (Joint J.D./M.S.W. degrees). Prior to joining the Center\, Ritu worked as a child welfare worker in Oakland\, and as an attorney with the Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center (now Legal Aid at Work) and Legal Advocates for Children & Youth (part of the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley). \nJalyn Mitchell (she/her) is a proud UCSC College Ten Alum and majored in English Language Literature with a minor in Legal Studies. She graduated from Law School from Loyola University in Chicago and went to work in San Jose at the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley where she represented people on long term psychiatric holds with their due process right to a hearing to leave the hospital. Currently and for the last 2.5 years\, she has represented young people on a variety of issues including restraining orders\, traffic tickets\, education law\, and guardianships. \nLearn more about the panelists here. \nThis event is presented by the Employing Humanities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-campus-to-career-law-panel/
LOCATION:Merrill Provost House\, Provost's Residence\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: Timon of Athens - Episode 3
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this year’s\, Undiscovered Shakespeare featuring Timon of Athens (1606)\, a late play focusing on the corrosive effects of prodigality and ingratitude in an apparently democratic society. Gretchen Minton\, Professor of English at the University of Montana\, Bozeman and the editor of the most recent Arden edition of the play\, will be the production’s visiting scholar. \n \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced. \nGretchen Minton is a Shakespeare scholar and Professor of English at Montana State University. She is the editor and author of several works\, including the award-winning Shakespeare in Montana\, and she works frequently as a dramaturg\, script adaptor\, and director.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-timon-of-athens-episode-3/
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SUMMARY:Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents: Jennifer Finney Boylan | CLEAVAGE: MEN\, WOMEN\, AND THE SPACE BETWEEN US
DESCRIPTION:What is the difference between men and women? In her new book Cleavage: Men\, Women\, and the Space Between Us\, Jennifer Finney Boylan\, bestselling author of She’s Not There and co-author of Mad Honey with Jodi Picoult\, examines the divisions—as well as the common ground—between the genders\, and reflects on her own experiences\, both difficult and joyful\, as a transgender American. \n \nJennifer Finney Boylan is the author of nineteen books\, including Mad Honey\, coauthored with Jodi Picoult. Her memoir\, She’s Not There\, was the first bestselling work by a transgender American. Since 2014\, she has been the inaugural Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University; she is also on the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference of Middlebury College and the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano\, Italy. She is the President of PEN America\, and from 2011 to 2018 she was a member of the Board of Directors of GLAAD\, including four years as national cochair. In 2022-23 she was a Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She graduated from Wesleyan University and Johns Hopkins\, and she holds doctorates honoris causafrom Sarah Lawrence College\, the New School\, and Wesleyan University. For many years she was a contributing opinion writer for the opinion section of the New York Times. Her work has also appeared in the New Yorker\, the Washington Post\, the Boston Globe\, Literary Hub\, Down East\, and many other publications. She lives in Maine and New York with her wife\, Deirdre. They have two children: a daughter\, Zai\, and a son\, Sean. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Jennifer Finney Boylan \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bookshop-santa-cruz-presents-jennifer-finney-boylan-cleavage-men-women-and-the-space-between-us/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Hannah Sanghee Park
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Winter 2025 \nGrief Sequence\nNot to suppress mourning (suffering)…but to change it\, transform it…after Prageeta Sharma & Roland Barthes \nHannah Sanghee Park is the author of two poetry collections. a chapbook\, Ode Days Ode (2011) and The Same-Different (2015)\, which won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. In 2013\, she was awarded the Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Her hometown is Federal Way\, Washington\, and she currently resides in Los Angeles\, California. \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-hannah-sanghee-park/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Colin Winnette
DESCRIPTION:As part of Kresge’s Writers House Reading Series\, Kresge’s Media and Society presents an evening with novelist and short-story writer Colin Winnette\, who will be giving a reading followed by Q&A. \nThe event will start at 7pm in the Kresge A Lounge (the first-floor lounge in one of the new residence halls). \nColin Winnette is the author of several books\, including Coyote\, Haints Stay\, The Job of the Wasp\, and most recently Users\, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Winnette’s writing has appeared in McSweeney’s\, The Believer\, and The Paris Review Daily\, among many others. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/an-evening-with-colin-winnette/
LOCATION:Kresge Collge – A Lounge
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SUMMARY:Evgeny Morozov - AI and its Others: Cold War Legacies\, Neoliberal Futures\, and the Fight for Ecological Reason
DESCRIPTION:Evgeny Morozov will be on campus Friday afternoon\, February 28 to talk about his recent Boston Review article “The AI We Deserve.” \nEvgeny Morozov holds a PhD in History of Science from Harvard University. He is the founder of “The Syllabus” and author of The Net Delusion (2011) and To Save Everything\, Click Here (2013).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/evgeny-morozov-ai-and-its-others/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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