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SUMMARY:Questions That Matter: Disability in Medicine and Memoir
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to talk and write about the experiences of our bodies? How do the stories told about us mediate the narratives we construct? What are the stakes for disabled writers sharing their first-person perspectives with the world? In this dialogue with two scholars and memoirists of disability\, we will explore how intellectual and aesthetic engagement with non-normative embodied life speaks to questions that matter — now more than ever. \nFeaturing: Pranav Anand (UC Santa Cruz)\, Jan Grue (University of Oslo)\, Megan Moodie (UC Santa Cruz). \nDoors open 5:30pm – Event begins 6:00pm\nTickets: $15 \n \nFree student tickets are available. Please email thi@ucsc.edu to reserve a student spot.\nA ucsc.edu email and student ID number will be required. \nJan Grue is the author of a wide-ranging body of work in fiction\, nonfiction\, children’s books\, and academic literature\, and a professor at the University of Oslo. I Live a Life Like Yours was published in 2018 in Norway\, where it won the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and was nominated to the Nordic Council Literature Prize\, the first Norwegian nonfiction book to be so honored in fifty years. \n  \nPranav Anand is Professor of Linguistics and Faculty Director of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. His research investigates how context mediates the interpretation of language\, and has explored the interpretation of subjectivity\, persuasive tactics\, bias\, evidence\, belief\, time\, and narrative structure. \n  \nMegan Moodie is a cultural anthropologist\, writer\, performer\, and disability studies scholar whose work spans multiple genres. As a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, she specializes in teaching experimental research methods that bring together social sciences and the arts. Her work on disability\, motherhood\, and artistic practice has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Catamaran\, Hip Mama\, MUTHA Magazine\, and Sapiens. In 2019\, her essay “Birthright\,” which appeared in the Chicago Quarterly Review (Volume 26)\, was named a Notable Essay of the Year by Best American Essays. \nQuestions That Matter is a public humanities series developed by The Humanities Institute and the community of Santa Cruz. It brings together\, in conversation\, two or more UC Santa Cruz scholars with community residents and students to explore questions that matter to all of us.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/questions-that-matter-disability-in-medicine-and-memoir/
LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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SUMMARY:Cat Bohannon - Eve
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz presents author Cat Bohannon who will be in-conversation with Vicky Oelze about Bohannon’s book Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution—a myth-busting\, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved\, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is\, how it came to be\, and how this evolution still shapes all our lives today. Now in paperback\, Eve is also available in an edition adapted for young adults. \n“A smart\, funny\, scientific deep-dive into the power of a woman’s body\, Eve surprises\, educates\, and emboldens.” — Bonnie Garmus\, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry \n \nHow did the female body drive 200 million years of human evolution? • Why do women live longer than men? • Why are women more likely to get Alzheimer’s? • Why do girls score better at every academic subject than boys until puberty\, when suddenly their scores plummet? • Is sexism useful for evolution? • And why\, seriously why\, do women have to sweat through our sheets every night when we hit menopause? \nThese questions are producing some truly exciting science – and in Eve\, with boundless curiosity and sharp wit\, Cat Bohannon covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex: “We need a kind of user’s manual for the female mammal. \nCat Bohannon is a researcher and author with a Ph.D. from Columbia University in the evolution of narrative and cognition. Her essays and poems have appeared in Scientific American\, Mind\, Science Magazine\, The Best American Nonrequired Reading\, The Georgia Review\, The Story Collider\, and Poets Against the War. She lives with her family in Seattle. \nVicky Oelze is an associate professor in anthropology at UC Santa Cruz\, where she teaches subjects including human evolution\, archeological science and primatology. Dr. Oelze joined UCSC after completing her PhD in Archeological Science at Leiden University in the Netherlands and almost a decade of research at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany. Her archeological work spans five continents and ranges from the first farmers in prehistoric Europe to the history of the transatlantic slave trade. Her primatological research focuses on the dietary ecology of African great apes and how maternal investment in terms of breastfeeding varies between species and populations. \nMore information at: Cat Bohannon\, Eve | Bookshop Santa Cruz \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bookshop-santa-cruz-presents-cat-bohannon-eve/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:How Fairy Tales Became White: A Conversation with Professors Kimberly Lau and Micah Perks
DESCRIPTION:Please join Professors Micah Perks and Kimberly Lau for a conversation about fairy tales\, fantasy\, and the ways that historically and culturally specific ideas about race contribute to the making and maintenance of their white worlds. \nThis is an after-hours event at Downtown Library. Refreshments will be served. \nKimberly Lau is Professor of Literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she teaches courses on fairy tales\, monster studies\, popular culture\, and twentieth- and twenty-first-century women’s fiction\, all within the context feminist theory\, critical race studies\, and gender and sexuality studies. She is the author of Specters of the Marvelous: Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale (2024) \nMicah Perks is the author of a short story collection\, a memoir and two novels. Her novel\, What Becomes Us\, won an Independent Publisher’s Gold Medal and was named one of the Top Ten Books about the Apocalypse by The Guardian. \nFor more information\, visit this link.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/how-fairy-tales-became-white-a-conversation-with-professors-kimberly-lau-and-micah-perks/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Public Library – Downtown Branch\, 224 Church Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gary Young: A Retrospective - Exhibition Opening
DESCRIPTION:Join us on April 9th from 12-2 p.m. for the opening of Gary Young: A Retrospective Books\, Broadsides\, Prints & Ephemera at UCSC Special Collections and Archives. Gary will treat us to an artist talk and a tour of the exhibition. Light refreshments will be provided. \nGary Young is a poet and artist whose honors include grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the Vogelstein Foundation\, the California Arts Council\, and two fellowship grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has received a Pushcart Prize\, and his latest book of poems\, That’s What I Thought\, won the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award from Persea Books. His book The Dream of a Moral Life\, won the James D. Phelan Award. Since 1975 he has designed\, illustrated\, and printed limited edition books and broadsides at his Greenhouse Review Press. His print work is represented in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art\, the Victoria and Albert Museum\, The Getty Center for the Arts\, and special collection libraries throughout the country. He was Santa Cruz County’s first Poet Laureate\, and he is Santa Cruz County’s 2012 Artist of the Year. He teaches Creative Writing and directs the Cowell Press at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gary-young-a-retrospective-books-broadsides-prints-ephemera-exhibition-opening/
LOCATION:McHenry Library (3rd Floor)\, Special Collections
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SUMMARY:Evyn Le Espiritu Gandhi – Southern Constellations: South Korea\, South Vietnam\, and the US South
DESCRIPTION:This talk proposes southern constellations as a method and political concept. To constellate is to bring together seemingly disparate spaces or objects into the same conceptual orbit\, probing the new meanings and structures that emerge in the resultant constellation. To illustrate\, this talk constellates three spaces often considered outside the purview of Global South studies: South Korea\, South Vietnam\, and the US South. Both South Korea and South Vietnam aligned with the US during the Cold War and therefore seemingly diverged from a Global South politics defined by socialist revolution and the Third World Liberation movement. To constellate South Korea and South Vietnam with the US South\, a region in the Global North\, is to then ask: how and why do some South Vietnamese and South Korean refugees and migrants to the US gravitate towards the iconography and vernacular of the US South to make legible their own “southern politics” à la Gramsci? \nEvyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi is an associate professor of Asian American Studies at UCLA (Tovaangar). She currently serves as an External Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center. She is the author of Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine (University of California Press\, 2022) and co-editor with Vinh Nguyen of The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives (Routledge\, 2023). Dr. Gandhi is the lead curator of a public history exhibit\, “Remembering Saigon: Journeys through and from Guam\,” which is on view at UC Irvine’s Orange County and Southeast Asian Archive Center. She is currently working on a second book project which revisits Gramsci’s “southern question” by constellating the southern spaces of South Korea\, South Vietnam\, and the US South. \n\n \nSpring 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 Spring 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/evyn-le-espiritu-gandhi-southern-constellations/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture – Fred Moten: Theory and Practice of Contradiction
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Division and The Humanities Institute invite you to join us for the Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture\, featuring Fred Moten. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the lecture will begin at 6:00 p.m. \nThis talk will consider some theoretical and historical issues that come more fully to light when we meditate on a phrase and variation that Cedric Robinson sometimes used: We must deepen or\, alternatively\, we must heighten the contradiction. What is contradiction\, what are the implications of refusing its resolution\, and how do we propel its movement from (speech) act to practice? \n \nThe lecture will also be live-streamed via Zoom. Register here to attend virtually. \nFred Moten studies the social practice of poetry/criticism. He lives in New York and teaches at New York University. His most recent work\, in collaboration with Brandon López\, is Revision (TAO Forms Records\, 2024). \n  \n\nThe Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture Series is made possible by the support of the Thomas H. and Josephine Baird Memorial Fund\, an endowment that supports yearly lectures relevant to historical and cultural theory\, and to ensure that Hayden White’s legacy and intellectual spirit is honored and sustained.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fred-moten-theory-and-practice-of-contradiction/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Julie Ezelle-Patton
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Spring 2025 \nInsight\, Writings: Third World and Other Imaginaries \n \nPoet\, visual artist\, Julie Ezelle-Patton’s most recent title is The Flower Poem (Tender Buttons\, 2024). J Walking thru the Alphabet\, an edited selection of Patton’s concrete\, visual\, and textual poetics from the 1970s to the near present\, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books\, Fall\, 2025. The recently released Chicago Review (Vol. 67)\, ARKiTEXT\, focuses on Let It Bee\, her “poetic conceit” of transforming a 1913 Rustbelt brownstone into a living archive of work created by Depression-era artists Russell Atkins\, Clifton Clay\, Virgie Patton\, Theresa Ramey and others\, whom Patton has advocated for and collected since the mid-aughts\, is a unique collaboration featuring housing\, assemblages and installations of locally resourced detritus\, For the Birds\, an edible forest for wildlife\, a coal room theater\, writing and meditation spaces\, herb gardens and a Cat Cafe. Patton’s “in-the-moment” sound and performance work bridging musical and literary collaborations with artists as diverse as instrumentalists Nasheet Waits\, Ken Filiano\, Melanie Dyer\, Janice Lowe\, Jay Rodriguez\, and others\, has captivated audiences at the Stone\, Torn Page\, Jazz Standard\, Arts for Arts\, Festival Internacional de Poesía in Medellín\, Colombia\, and at a host of international venues. A recipient of an Acker Award\, Denniston Hill Residency\, a Doan Brook Watershed Hero Award\, and a Foundation for Contemporary Art Poetry Award\, Patton currently divides her time between New York City & the rest of the US. Her noted Womb Room Tomb Installation was featured in the 2018 Front International Triennial to great acclaim. \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 Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, the Laurie Sain Endowment\, the Humanities Institute\, The Literature Department\, Creative Writing Program\, and the Center for Racial Justice.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-julie-ezelle-patton/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Queer Aɸ (Queer Analytic Philosophy) Conference
DESCRIPTION:The UC Santa Cruz Philosophy Department is delighted to announce the Queer Aɸ (Queer Analytic Philosophy) Conference which will take place at UC Santa Cruz on April 12-13\, 2025. \n \nThe conference will foreground philosophical work in the analytic tradition (broadly conceived) that is informed by queer experience\, community\, and theorizing. Keynote speaker will be the renowned trans philosopher Talia Mae Bettcher (Cal State LA). \nTalks will cover topics such as gender euphoria\, trans sex talk\, BDSM and social class\, informed consent\, and the social construction of butchness. In addition to talks\, the conference will include a workshop on LGBTQIA+ activism and philosophy\, a party (of course)\, and other glam surprises. \nView the Full Conference Schedule here. \nFor more information\, visit this link.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/queer-analytic-philosophy-conference/
LOCATION:UCSC
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