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SUMMARY:Reyna Grande - Migrant Heart
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes award-winning author Reyna Grande (The Distance Between Us) back to the store to celebrate the release of her newest book Migrant Heart: Essays About Things I Can’t Forget—an ambitious memoir in essays that illuminates the hidden cost of the American Dream and the complex journey of healing that follows survival. Grande will be in conversation with Sylvanna Falcón\, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \nMigrant Heart is a powerful testament to Grande’s role as a storyteller and cultural witness. It is an essential\, moving read that continues to expand what we understand about the United States and the complex people who cross and live within its borders. It is a book for anyone seeking to understand the true price of belonging and the enduring power of finding one’s voice. \n \nReyna Grande is an award-winning author\, motivational speaker\, and writing teacher. As a young girl\, she crossed the US-Mexico border to join her family in Los Angeles\, a harrowing journey chronicled in The Distance Between Us\, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her other books include the novels A Ballad of Love and Glory\, Across a Hundred Mountains\, and Dancing with Butterflies\, the memoirs Migrant Heart\, The Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition\, and A Dream Called Home\, and the anthology Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration\, Survival\, and New Beginnings. She lives in Woodland\, California\, with her husband and two children. Visit ReynaGrande.com for more information. \nSylvanna Falcón is a Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She is the winner of the 2016 Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize from the National Women’s Studies Association and of a teaching award from the Division of Social Sciences at UC Santa Cruz. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Reyna Grande \n\nThis event is cosponsored by Latin American and Latino Studies and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/reyna-grande-migrant-heart/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Camilla Hawthorne\, Michael Whalen\, Christina Zanfagna\, and John Gennari - BLACKITALIAN: A Documentary Screening and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:What are the meanings of belonging and cultural identity at a time of resurgent white nationalism\, large-scale transnational migration\, and the increasingly convulsive dynamics of nation and imperium? We address this question in a screening and robust critical discussion of scenes from a documentary film-in-progress called BLACKITALIAN. A collaboration between cultural geographer Camilla Hawthorne\, ethnomusicologist Christina Zanfagna\, cultural historian John Gennari\, and filmmaker Michael Whalen\, BLACKITALIAN interweaves “story walks\,” interviews\, and media representations to explore cross-racial contact zones of music\, foodways\, and other forms of expressive culture in the cities of New York\, New Orleans\, and Milan. What emerges is a dynamic story about the ways social outsiders move to the inside and create new forms of culture and belonging\, challenging us to confront our differences and understand our entwined histories. \n \nCamilla Hawthorne is Associate Professor of Sociology and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. The bilingual\, dual citizen daughter of a Black American father and an Italian mother\, Hawthorne has studied the politics of race\, citizenship\, and Blackness in Italy and the wider Mediterranean region for over a decade. She is the author of the monograph Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean (Cornell University Press 2022; published in Italian as Razza e cittadinanza. Frontiere contese e contestate nel Mediterraneo nero\, Astarte Edizioni 2023) and co-editor of The Black Mediterranean: Bodies\, Borders and Citizenship (Palgrave Macmillan 2021) and The Black Geographic: Praxis\, Resistance\, Futurity (Duke University Press\, 2023). She also serves as program director and faculty member with the Black Europe Summer School in Amsterdam\, The Netherlands. In 2020\, Hawthorne was named one of the Corriere della Sera (Italy’s largest national newspaper) Women of the Year for her contributions to the study of the Black diaspora in Italy \n \nMichael Whalen is the Knight Ridder/San Jose Mercury New Endowed Professor at Santa Clara University. A member of the Director’s Guild of America since 1996\, Whalen has extensive experience writing one-hour documentaries focusing on humanities scholarship for A&E (a dozen episodes of “Ancient Mysteries” and “Biography”) and the Discovery Channel/TLC (six episodes of “Super Structures”). He has also produced documentaries for The Discovery Channel\, NBC\, MTV\, and The Learning Channel (TLC). As an independent filmmaker\, Whalen regularly explores themes of identity and culture with his documentaries. Another First Step (1994\, Cine Golden Eagle Award) tells the story of an Irish American father trying to care for his autistic deaf and mute son in the 1950s and 60s. FRESH women (2007\, Worldfest Gold Medal) profiles four 40-year-old women leaving the corporate world to launch careers in art. A Christmas in Tent City (2008\, multiple Best Short Film awards) recounts the experience of a Mexican immigrant child living in a migrant worker camp. A Question of Habit (PBS\, 2011) uncovers how popular culture (think Sister Mary Margarita cocktail napkins and nun porn) has erased the real history of American nuns. The Farmer & The Chef (Australian Public Television\, 2014) takes the audience behind the scenes of a working relationship between a world class chef and farmer\, and Gringos at the Gate (2012\, ESPN) explores US/Mexican relations and national identity through the intense rivalry of the two nations’ soccer teams. \n \nChristina Zanfagna is an Associate Professor of Music and Ethnic Studies at Santa Clara University. An ethnomusicologist and bicoastal Italian-American who grew up on hip hop and basketball\, her research explores the intersections of Black popular music\, race\, and urban space. She is the author of Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels (University of California Press\, 2017)\, an ethnographic monograph that examines the everyday lives of former gangsta rappers turned gospel rappers in Los Angeles. Zanfagna’s writing has appeared in a variety of publications\, including Journal of Popular Music Studies\, Black Music Research Journal\, Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music and Sound Studies\, Cambridge Companion to Hip Hop\, Routledge Handbook of Religion and American Culture\, and Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas\, as well as journalistic publications such as The Beat\, fRoots\, and Stranger’s Guide. She has written on topics ranging from hip hop’s religious history to digital DJing practices\, “krump” street dancing in South L.A.\, the globalization of flamenco\, Harlem’s musical and religious diasporas\, and the soundscapes of American gentrification. She is also a flamenco dancer\, regularly performing throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. \n \nJohn Gennari is Professor of English and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of Vermont. He is an American Studies-trained U.S. cultural historian with specializations in jazz and popular music\, race and ethnicity\, Italian American culture\, food\, sports\, and cultural criticism. He is the author of Flavor and Soul: Italian America at Its African American Edge (University of Chicago Press\, 2017. His earlier book\, Blowin’ Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics (University of Chicago Press\, 2006)\, was awarded the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Excellence in Music Criticism and the John Cawelti Award for the Best Book in American Culture. Gennari has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University\, and the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia. \n\nPresented by the Center for Cultural Studies and co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Department of Anthropology Colloquium. This event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law. \n\n \nSpring 2026 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 2026 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/camilla-hawthorne-michael-whalen-christina-zanfagna-and-john-gennari-blackitalian-a-documentary-screening-and-discussion/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - CART Archives Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for Archival Research and Training (CART) and the Humanities Institute (THI) for the inaugural meeting of the CART Archives Reading Group! We will be discussing the 2021 essay “The House Archives Built” by Dorothy Berry. You’ll be introduced to some basic concepts of archival theory and practice\, and be invited to think big about what archives are\, and what they could be. \nArtists\, history buffs\, photographers\, grad students / post docs / faculty / undergrads … all are welcome to join! \n \nRegistration is required. \nPlease read The House Archives Built before we meet in person – you can download the essay from the up//root zines website. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of the PhD+ Workshop Series. Learn more about the Center for Archival Research and Training on the CART website.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-cart-archives-reading-group/
LOCATION:McHenry Library (3rd Floor)\, Special Collections
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Bridging Divides in Oral and Written Language Research: Development and Disorders in Bilingual Learners
DESCRIPTION:Please join the LAAL (Languages & Applied Linguistics) Department for a presentation titled\, “Bridging Divides in Oral and Written Language Research: Development and Disorders in Bilingual Learners” by Jiali Wang (Texas A&M University) on Thursday\, May 14\, at 2:00\, in Hum 1\, 202. \nAlthough oral and written language tap into many overlapping underlying skills\, the investigation of oral and written language has been situated in divided fields\, despite the numerous intersections where one may inform the other. From an interdisciplinary research background of Educational Psychology\, Communication Sciences and Disorders\, and Teaching and Learning\, Wang will share two papers in oral and written language research. First\, she presents a clinical tutorial on how to use the Bilingual Multidimensional Ability Scale (B-MAS) to improve the identification of developmental language disorder among bilingual children. Second\, she presents a paper that examines the language use in the writing of bilingual adolescents. Together\, these studies illustrate how an integrated perspective towards oral and written language research can better support the language and literacy development of bilingual learners\, including those with developmental language disorder. Wang concludes by outlining future research directions aimed at understanding bilingual children’s language and literacy development\, improving language assessment\, and translating findings into actionable tools for instructional and clinical practice. \nJiali Wang\, PhD\, is a postdoctoral research associate at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on bilingual language and literacy development\, with particular emphasis on the assessment and identification of developmental language disorder among Spanish–English bilingual children. She also conducts research on writing development and assessment\, using NLP-derived measures to examine language use in students’ writing. Her work explores how linguistic and environmental factors shape language and literacy outcomes of diverse bilingual populations. Her recent projects include creating clinician-friendly tools for identifying language disorder among bilingual learners\, examining the writing development and assessment of diverse learners\, and investigating the home literacy environment among multilingual families.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bridging-divides-in-oral-and-written-language-research-development-and-disorders-in-bilingual-learners/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Erica Hunt\, Tisa Bryant\, and Tonya Foster
DESCRIPTION:In Nourishment\, Us. \nErica Hunt (St. John’s University)\, Tisa Bryant (University of Iowa)\, and Tonya Foster (San Francisco State University)\, Poets\, Critics\, Artists \nLiving Writers Spring 2026:  Our Nourishment\, US features poets\, writers\, critics\, visual and performance artists\, who demonstrate how writing and art enacts around the idea of freedom and the imaginary in the face of the constant threat of terror and erasure. In the presence of who we all are within marginalized yet expansively powerful fields of racialized and multiply lived complex and diverse identities\, please come as we convene in spirit\, deep celebration\, and resource with one another. \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 Humanities Institute\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, and the Bay Tree Bookstore.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Journalist David Noriega
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with City on a Hill Press and with support from The Humanities Institute and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, Kresge’s Media and Society Series presents an evening with award-winning journalist David Noriega. \nDavid Noriega is an award-winning journalist and National Correspondent for NBC News. He has reported from all across the United States and more than a dozen countries on five continents\, covering migration\, politics\, armed conflict\, organized crime\, labor\, the environment\, and more. Noriega is the recipient of an Edward R. Murrow Award for his reporting from Mexico\, as well as awards from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists\, the New York Press Club\, the Los Angeles Press Club\, and the French American Foundation. His work has been nominated three times for the News and Documentary Emmy Awards. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/an-evening-with-journalist-david-noriega/
LOCATION:Namaste Lounge – College 9\, Namaste Lounge\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:CMENA's Annual Concert Featuring Aza
DESCRIPTION:CMENA is proud to present AZA for our 2026 Spring concert. AZA weaves the rich musical traditions of North Africa’s Tamazight culture with contemporary global influences\, creating a unique and captivating sound. Led by Moroccan-born musician Fattah Abbou\, AZA blends the intricate melodies and dynamic rhythms of styles like Ahwash\, Rwais\, and Gnawa. The band celebrates Amazigh heritage through music\, art\, and education – building bridges between cultures across continents. \n\nPresented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/aza-celebrating-amazigh-heritage-through-music/
LOCATION:Woodhouse Brewery\, 119 Madrone St.\, Santa Cruz\, United States
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - Macbeth
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Macbeth by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on Aoril 18\, 25\, May 2\, 9 & 16 2026 at 10:15 a.m in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest speaker followed by a volunteer read aloud of the play. On May 16\,a video of a live stage production will be shown. This event series is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop. \nFor more information\, Zoom Link\, or to volunteer to be a reader\, contact: saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com \nGuest Speakers / Video Recording \n\nApril 18: Julia Reinhard Lupton\, Distinguished Professor Emerita of English & Comparative Literature & Co-Director of the New Swan Shakespeare Center at UC\, Irvine. Reading: Act 1\nApril 25: Charles Pasternak\, Acclaimed New York-based theatre director and actor\, Paul will direct Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2026 production of Macbeth. Reading: Act 2 through Act 3\, Scene 3\nMay 2: Abigail Heald\, Lecturer in Literature @ UC Santa Cruz & Stanford. She is writing a book on the relationship between art and emotion in Shakespeare’s work. Reading: Act 3\, Scene 4 through Act 4\, Scene 2\nMay 9: Paul Mullins\, Actor / Director\, Artistic Director of Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Reading: Act 4\, Scene 3 through Act 5\, Scene 8\nMay 16: Video recording of a live stage production at the Globe Theatre\, directed by Tony Award winning director Eve Best\, and starring Joseph Millson (Macbeth) and Samantha Spiro (Lady Macbeth).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-macbeth-may16/
LOCATION:Aptos Library\, 7695 Soquel Dr\, Aptos\, 95003\, United States
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SUMMARY:EarthStory Festival
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the EarthStory Festival: Our Regenerative Future\, hosted by EarthStory and the Eat•Grow•Learn Community Network at the Agrihood in Santa Clara (76 N. Winchester Boulevard). Join us for an afternoon of storytelling\, music\, workshops\, and booths all celebrating our regenerative future on this planet! Starting at 1:00pm\, come experience a marketplace hosted by local regenerative farms and environmental organizations. There will have workshops all day on the amphitheater stage hosted by Cultivating Self\, Bioticship\, Rising Lotus Reiki\, and Indy Rishi-Singh. At 3:00pm there will be storytelling offered by the Santa Clara Open Space Authority and the Eat•Grow•Learn Community Network. \n \nTickets are free. Donations are welcome. \nFor more information: EarthStory’s Substack \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/earthstory-festival/
LOCATION:The Agrihood\, 76 N Winchester Blvd\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95050
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