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SUMMARY:Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza
DESCRIPTION:The Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza is an authentic cultural festival with food\, dance\, music\, and crafts presented each spring by Senderos. This local festival is like the traditional fiestas celebrated each summer in Oaxaca\, Mexico. Guelaguetza is a Zapotec word that means “a commitment of sharing and cooperation.” Guelaguetza is a celebration that honors the gods for sufficient rainfall and a bountiful harvest. \nThe festival is located on a field\, feel free to bring blankets and low chairs. Admission is $10.00 per person; children under 5 admitted free. \nMore information at: Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza | Senderos
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vive-oaxaca-guelaguetza-2/
LOCATION:Branciforte Small Schools Campus\, 840 N Branciforte Ave\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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SUMMARY:Carolyn Fornoff – Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Carolyn Fornoff will discuss her recent book\, Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change (Vanderbilt Press\, 2024). Her book assesses contemporary trends in the representation of environmental crisis in order to suggest that there has been a shift away from evidentiary modes focused on proving the existence of environmental harms\, to more “subjunctive” modes that imagine the world as it could be or should be. \nCarolyn Fornoff is assistant professor of Latin American studies at Cornell University. Her work examines how Mexican and Central American cultural production responds to environmental crisis. Her first monograph\, Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change\, was published in 2024 with Vanderbilt University Press. She is also the co-editor of two volumes in the environmental humanities: Timescales: Thinking Across Ecological Temporalities (University of Minnesota Press\, 2020) and Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema (SUNY Press\, 2021). Fornoff currently cochairs the Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession for the Modern Language Association. \nThis event is presented by the THI More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory Research Cluster.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/carolyn-fornoff-subjunctive-aesthetics/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Deep Read: Faculty Salon on James
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a salon-style event at the Hay Barn on campus where our participating Deep Read faculty\, Professors Susan Gillman (Literature)\, akua naru (Music)\, and Greg O’Malley (History)\, will give brief presentations and discuss James with the Deep Read community in a Q&A moderated by Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead\, Laura Martin. Participants can also attend virtually. \n \nIn person at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. Doors open at 5:30pm. \nEvent Logistics:  Bicycling\, carpooling\, ridesharing\, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited on campus. If you drive to the event\, please plan to park in UCSC Lot #115 or #116. To reach these lots\, proceed through the main entrance to campus\, continue up the hill from the information kiosk on Coolidge\, then turn right at the Ranch View/Carriage House Road stoplight into the Carriage House/Campus Facilities parking lot. The Hay Barn is a 5-minute walk across the street from the parking lot. There will be directional signage to help you get to the correct parking lot and the Hay Barn entrance. Overflow parking will be available in lot #122. Download a parking map here. \n\n \nThe Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz made possible through the generous support of the Helen and Will Webster Foundation. We invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-deep-read-faculty-salon-on-james/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Tricia Rose - Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives - And How We Break Free
DESCRIPTION:UCSC Feminist Studies and the UCSC Music Department proudly present Tricia Rose—an internationally respected speaker\, award-winning writer\, and leading scholar of African American culture\, racial inequality\, and gender—for a conversation about her book Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives – And How We Break Free. \nOn May 2nd\, UCSC Feminist Studies and the UCSC Music Department will also host Lifting As We Rhyme: 50 Years of Black Feminist Sonic World Making – a roundtable discussion with Tricia Rose\, UCSC Humanities Professor Gina Dent\, and UCSC Music Professor and hip hop artist akua naru. More information available here. \n \nTricia Rose is the Director of the Systemic Racism Project at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study\, and Chancellor’s Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University. Rose is the author of Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (1994)\, Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy (2003) and The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop and Why It Matters (2008). Her most recent book\, Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives-And How We Break Free (2024)\, is part of a larger public engagement and learning project featuring the How Systemic Racism Works interactive website (release in 2025).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tricia-rose-metaracism/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:M. Ty – It Is Time to Say to the Water\, “Disobey”: Reflections with the Art of Jumana Emil Abboud
DESCRIPTION:Perhaps water is a mouth that runs toward unwritten histories.  This possibility comes closer to the senses in the work of Jumana Emil Abboud\, an artist whose practice is grounded in Palestinian landscapes—and the refusal to cede them to their brutal equation with narratives of damage that colonial occupation programmatically inflicts.  For some time\, Abboud has attended thoughtfully to the waterscapes surrounding Galilee and Jerusalem—reanimating the folktales that they harbor\, bringing them into the color of a fresh image\, and taking the time to search for what has been said to have disappeared irrevocably.  Keeping company with Abboud’s art\, this talk reflects on what water can hold and how the connection to its reservoirs of memory might be sustained—in defiance of state violence and settler agribusiness\, which together sever Palestinians from the life-giving waterways with which their ancestral knowledge is interspersed.  Come see how ecological sensitivity and counter-colonial remembrance course together in Abboud’s art; and how she practices literacy in invisibility\, all while refreshing the sense—without which history devolves into propaganda—that the erasure of evidence does not mean that nothing is there. \nM. Ty is an ember of a diaspora. They are an Assistant Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \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. Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/m-ty-it-is-time-to-say-to-the-water-disobey/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Deep Read: East Bay Alumni Salon
DESCRIPTION:The Deep Read is coming back to the East Bay! \nThe Humanities Institute invites East Bay alumni and Deep Readers to a special event at the home of UC Santa Cruz alumna and Foundation Trustee SB Master (Cowell ’75) to discuss this year’s Deep Read book\, the 2024 National Book Award-winning novel James by Percival Everett. The event is designed to invite curious minds to think deeply about literature\, art\, and the most pressing issues of our day. Even if you haven’t read the book\, we encourage you to come and enjoy the discussion and connect with fellow East Bay alumni and Deep Readers. Refreshments provided by our host\, SB Master. Please register by April 23\, as space is limited. \n \nEvent Participants:  Jasmine Alinder (Humanities Dean)\, Irena Polić (Deep Read Co/Founder\, THI Managing Director)\,  Vilashini Cooppan (Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead\, Professor of Literature)\, Laura Martin (Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead\, THI Research Program Manager\, Lecturer) \n\n \nThe Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz made possible through the generous support of the Helen and Will Webster Foundation. We invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-deep-read-east-bay-alumni-salon/
LOCATION:Orinda\, Private Home
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SUMMARY:Lifting As We Rhyme: 50 Years of Black Feminist Sonic World Making with Tricia Rose\, Gina Dent\, and akua naru
DESCRIPTION:UCSC Feminist Studies and the UCSC Music Department proudly present Lifting As We Rhyme: 50 Years of Black Feminist Sonic World Making—a roundtable discussion featuring Tricia Rose\, internationally respected speaker\, award-winning writer\, and leading scholar of African American culture\, racial inequality\, and gender. Rose will be joined by Humanities professor Gina Dent and Music professor and hip hop artist akua naru. Join these dynamic artists/scholars for a spirited discussion on how black feminist artists have had a transformative impact on black cultural movements in hip hop. \nOn April 30th\, UCSC Feminist Studies and the UCSC Music Department will also host a book talk with Tricia Rose\, who will discuss her most recent book\, Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives – And How We Break Free. More information available here. \n \nTricia Rose is the Director of the Systemic Racism Project at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study\, and Chancellor’s Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University. Rose is the author of Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (1994)\, Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy (2003) and The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop and Why It Matters (2008). Her most recent book\, Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives-And How We Break Free (2024)\, is part of a larger public engagement and learning project featuring the How Systemic Racism Works interactive website (release in 2025). \nGina Dent is Professor of Humanities and Faculty Research Director at the Institute of the Arts & Sciences at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Currently\, she serves as Principal Investigator and Co-Director for Visualizing Abolition. \nakua naru is a hip hop artist\, poet\, producer\, performer\, and Assistant Professor of Hip Hop\, at University of California\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lifting-as-we-rhyme-50-years-of-black-feminist-sonic-world-making-with-tricia-rose-gina-dent-and-akua-naru/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream\, featuring a series of readings and conversations held Saturday mornings from April 26 to May 24\, 2025. The 1st hour will be spent in conversation with a guest speaker\, and during the 2nd hour volunteers will read aloud part of the play. During the final session\, on May 24th\, a film will be presented. Meetings will take place in the Aptos Library Community Room (in person) and over Zoom (virtual). \nFor more information\, Zoom link\, or to be a reader\, contact: saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com \nThe guest speaker on May 3 is Julia Lupton\, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UC Irvine\, dramaturg for UCI’s New Swan Summer Festival. Readings: Act 2\, Scenes 1 & 2; Act 3\, Scene 1 \nAll Scheduled Meetings \n\nApril 26: Michael Warren\nMay 3: Julia Lupton\nMay 10: Charles Pasternak\nMay 17: Sean Keilen\nMay 24 (Film Screening)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-a-midsummer-nights-dream-2/
LOCATION:Aptos Library\, 7695 Soquel Dr\, Aptos\, 95003\, United States
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