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SUMMARY:An evening with Jennifer Brea and Megan Moodie - Talking about chronic illness\, care\, and Covid
DESCRIPTION:Join Sundance Award winning Filmmaker Jennifer Brea and anthropologist and writer Megan Moodie for an evening of conversation and reflection on chronic illness\, the global crisis of care\, and Covid-19. \nAs the numbers of the chronically ill grow rapidly worldwide due to what is being called “long Covid\,” there is much to be learned from the experience of those who were grappling with the effects of difficult-to-diagnose\, understudied\, and invisibilzed diseases long before the appearance of the novel coronavirus. What do the experiences of the chronically ill teach us about how to survive – not just physically\, but emotionally and socially – in the face of huge knowledge gaps and medical disbelief? How can patients separated by vast distances and often unable to engage in traditional political organizing join together to demand answers and treatment? What do patient voices tell us about how the organization of medicine needs to change in order to better serve the well-being of us all? \n \nRegistrants will receive a link to pre-screen Brea’s 2017 film “Unrest” at no cost (the film is also available to view on Netflix and Amazon Prime)\, as well as be invited to pre-submit questions to these two medical justice advocates. Please email thi@ucsc.edu for the no cost link to screen the film. Audience members will also be invited to submit questions and participate in the discussion in real time during the event. \n\n \n\n  \nJennifer Brea is an independent documentary filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She has an AB from Princeton University and was a PhD student at Harvard until sudden illness left her bedridden. In the aftermath\, she rediscovered her first love\, film. Her Sundance award-winning feature documentary\, “Unrest\,” has screened in over 30 countries and had its US national broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens. She is also co-creator of Unrest VR\, winner of the Sheffield Doc/Fest Alternate Realities Award. An activist for people with disabilities and chronic illness\, she co-founded a global advocacy network\, #MEAction and is a TED Fellow. \n“Unrest\,” her film debut\, was awarded a Special Jury Prize at the Paley Center for Media’s DocPitch competition and is supported by the Harnisch Foundation\, Chicken & Egg Pictures\, BRITDOC’s Good Pitch\, the Tribeca Film Institute\, the Fledgling Fund and the Sundance Institute. You can read more about her at jenbrea.com or @jenbrea on twitter \nMegan Moodie is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz where she teaches about feminist theory\, disability studies\, and creative ethnography. A writer of essay\, fiction\, film criticism\, and drama\, Moodie’s work has appeared in publications such as The Los Angeles Review of Books\, Film Quarterly\, and the Chicago Quarterly Review. Megan regularly communicates with broad audiences in and beyond anthropology; her writing on topics such as disability\, genetic illness\, motherhood\, film\, art\, and daily strategies for survival has appeared in MUTHA Magazine\, Film Quarterly\, SAPIENS\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books\, among others\, and her 2018 essay “Birthright” (Chicago Quarterly Review (26)) was named a “Notable Essay of the Year” by Best American Essays 2019. \nRead more: \n\nFeature article on “Unrest” from The Los Angeles Times: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-jennifer-brea-unrest-documentary-20170929-story.html\nMoodie’s July 2020 essay on the aftermath of “Unrest” and the challenges of relapsing/remitting illness here: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/when-the-chronically-ill-re-mission-filmmaker-jennifer-breas-life-after-unrest/\n\nPresented by the Humanities Institute’s Body\, (Anti)Narrative\, and Corporeal Creative Practices Research Cluster and the Institute for Social Transformation. \n\nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact the The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by January 4\, 2021. The event will include closed captioning and ASL translation.
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SUMMARY:UPDATE: "Unrest" Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:2/19/2020: Please note that due to unfortunate health issues\, Jennifer Brea will no longer be in attendance at the event. The screening is still taking place and Professor Moodie will still be in attendance for the introduction.  \nJennifer Brea’s Sundance award-winning documentary\, Unrest\, is a personal journey from patient to advocate to storyteller. Jennifer is twenty-eight years-old\, working on her PhD at Harvard\, and months away from marrying the love of her life when a mysterious fever leaves her bedridden. When doctors tell her it’s “all in her head\,” she picks up her camera as an act of defiance and brings us into a hidden world of millions that medicine abandoned. \nIn this story of love and loss\, newlyweds Jennifer and Omar search for answers as they face unexpected obstacles with great heart. Often confined by her illness to the private space of her bed\, Jennifer connects with others around the globe. Like a modern-day Odysseus\, she travels by Skype into a forgotten community\, crafting intimate portraits of four other families suffering similarly. Jennifer Brea’s wonderfully honest and humane portrayal asks us to rethink the stigma around an illness that affects millions. Unrest is a vulnerable and eloquent personal documentary that is sure to hit closer to home than many could imagine. \nFree and open to the public – RSVP appreciated. Seating is first come\, first served. \nDoors open at 6:30\, film begins at 7:00pm \n \n\n \n\n  \nJennifer Brea is an independent documentary filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She has an AB from Princeton University and was a PhD student at Harvard until sudden illness left her bedridden. In the aftermath\, she rediscovered her first love\, film. Her Sundance award-winning feature documentary\, Unrest\, has screened in over 30 countries and had its US national broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens. She is also co-creator of Unrest VR\, winner of the Sheffield Doc/Fest Alternate Realities Award. An activist for people with disabilities and chronic illness\, she co-founded a global advocacy network\, #MEAction and is a TED Talker. \nUnrest\, her film debut\, was awarded a Special Jury Prize at the Paley Center for Media’s DocPitch competition and is supported by the Harnisch Foundation\, Chicken & Egg Pictures\, BRITDOC’s Good Pitch\, the Tribeca Film Institute\, the Fledgling Fund and the Sundance Institute. You can read more about her at jenbrea.com or @jenbrea on twitter \nMegan Moodie\, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California\,Santa Cruz\, is a cultural anthropologist\, writer\, performer\, and film critic who works at the intersection of arts\, humanities\, and social sciences. Trained as a specialist in feminist political and legal anthropology\, her early work explored the intersection of gender and indigeneity in South Asia. More recently\, she has been investigating how anthropologists can use embodied and arts-based ethnographic methods\, such as performance and film\, to illuminate non-normative experiences of the body\, such as chronic pain and illness\, in the service of greater disability and medical justice. Megan regularly communicates with broad audiences in and beyond anthropology; her writing on topics such as disability\, genetic illness\, motherhood\, film\, art\, and daily strategies for survival has appeared in MUTHA Magazine\, Film Quarterly\, SAPIENS\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books\, among others\, and her 2018 essay “Birthright” (Chicago Quarterly Review (26)) was named a “Notable Essay of the Year” by Best American Essays 2019.\n \nPresented by the Humanities Institute’s Body\, (Anti)Narrative\, and Corporeal Creative Practices Research Cluster \n\nDirections and Parking:\nThe Del Mar Theater is located at 1124 Pacific Ave #4415\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95060. Click here for directions and parking at the Del Mar Theater. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact the The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by February 14\, 2020. Information about the Del Mar’s accessibility equipment can be found here.
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Peg Alford Pursell and Sophia Shalmiyev
DESCRIPTION:Peg Alford Pursell is the author of A Girl Goes Into the Forest\, (Dzanc Books\, July 2019)\, and of Show Her A Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow\, the 2017 Indies Book of the Year for Literary Fiction. Her work has been published in many journals and anthologies\, including Permafrost\, Joyland\, and the Los Angeles Review. Most recently\, her microfiction\, flash fiction\, and hybrid prose have been nominated for Best Small Microfictions and Pushcart Prizes. She is the founder and director of WTAW Press\, a nonprofit publisher of literary books\, and of Why There Are Words\, the national literary reading series. She is a member of the SF Writers Grotto. See more at: www.pegalfordpursell.com \n  \nSophia Shalmiyev is an immigrant from the Soviet Union and the author of Mother Winter (2019\, S&S)\, which Kirkus Reviews describes as “a rich tapestry of autobiography and meditations on feminism\, motherhood\, art\, and culture\, this book is as intellectually satisfying as it is artistically profound. A sharply intelligent\, lyrically provocative memoir.” Shalmiyev has an MFA from Portland State University and a second master’s degree in creative arts therapy from the School of Visual Arts. She lives in Portland with her two children. Her latest work can be found at Lit Hub and Guernica. \n  \nPresented with support from the Humanities Institute’s Body\, (Anti)Narrative\, and Corporeal Creative Practices Research Cluster
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-sophia-shalmiyev/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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