BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Los_Angeles
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20180311T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20181104T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20190310T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20191103T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20200308T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20201101T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20210314T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20211107T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20220313T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20221106T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20230312T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20231105T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20240310T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20241103T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20250309T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20251102T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20260308T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20261101T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20270314T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20271107T090000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260404T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260404T150000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20260310T192943Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260310T193603Z
UID:10007872-1775311200-1775314800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Suzanne Simard - When the Forest Breathes
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Suzanne Simard (Finding the Mother Tree)\, a scientist who pioneered the concept of sophisticated communication between trees. Simard will share her highly anticipated new book When the Forest Breathes\, in which she offers a powerful vision for saving our forests based on nature’s deep-rooted cycles of renewal. \n“A masterclass on the inner workings of forests. . . . This is science as an act of love for the world.” —Zoë Schlanger\, author of The Light Eaters \n \nRaised in a family of loggers committed to sensible forest stewardship\, trailblazing ecologist Suzanne Simard has watched as timber companies leave forests at higher risk for wildfires\, water crises\, and plant and animal extinction. But her research has the potential to chart a new course. The forest\, she reveals\, is a symphony of finely honed cycles of regeneration—from mushrooms breaking down logs to dying elder trees passing their genetic knowledge to younger ones—that hold the key to protecting our forests. Working closely with local Indigenous communities\, whose models of responsible forestry have been largely dismissed\, Simard examines how human interventions—particularly destruction of the overstory’s mother trees—endanger new growth and longevity. If we can honor the tools that trees have honed for sharing intergenerational wisdom\, she argues\, we can protect these sacred places for many years to come. \nDr. Suzanne Simard is the New York Times bestselling author of Finding the Mother Tree. She is a Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia\, where she leads The Mother Tree Project and co-directs the Belowground Ecosystem Group. Dr. Simard has earned a global reputation for pioneering research on tree connectivity and communication and the productivity\, health\, and biodiversity of forests. Her work has been published widely\, with over 170 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals\, including Nature\, Ecology\, and Global Biology\, and she has co-authored the book Climate Change and Variability. Her research has been communicated broadly through three TED Talks\, TED Experiences\, as well as articles and interviews in The New Yorker\, National Geographic\, NPR\, CNN\, and many more. She lives with her family in the mountains around Nelson\, British Columbia. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Suzanne Simard \n\n  \nThis event is cosponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanic Garden and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/suzanne-simard-when-the-forest-breathes/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Untitled-design-44.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260402T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260402T190000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20260224T195527Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T195703Z
UID:10007854-1775156400-1775156400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Colm Toibin - The News From Dublin
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz welcome acclaimed author Colm Tóibín (Long Island\, Brooklyn) for a discussion about The News from Dublin\, a brilliant collection of nine short stories\, many never-before-published\, set across Ireland\, Spain\, and America—about the complexities of family\, longing\, loss\, and love. \n \nCelebrated as “his generation’s most gifted writer of love’s complicated\, contradictory power” ( Los Angeles Times)\, Colm Tóibín is a master of short fiction as well as the novel\, able to summon an extraordinary intensity of emotion in a brief tale. The eleven stories transport readers across continents and eras. \nIn The Journey to Galway\, a mother who has learned of the death of her son\, a fighter pilot in World War I\, travels to Galway to inform his wife and their three now fatherless children. “Sleep\,” originally published in The New Yorker\, explores the rift between two lovers as one of them cannot reckon with his grief and fear after the death of his brother. Death\, again\, is a central character in the title story\, “The News from Dublin\,” as Maurice Webster travels to Dublin to try to save his younger brother who is dying of tuberculosis. Maurice must petition the health minister for access to a new experimental drug\, and this is the only hope. \nColm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels\, including Long Island\, an Oprah’s Book Club Pick; The Magician\, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master\, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn\, winner of the Costa Book Award; and Nora Webster\, winner of the Hawthornden Prize\, as well as three story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and was named the 2022–2024 Laureate for Irish Fiction by the Arts Council of Ireland. In 2021\, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Colm Tóibín \n\nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/colm-toibin-the-news-from-dublin/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/colm-toibin-THI-graphic-1024-x-576.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260212T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260212T180000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20251210T210242Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260211T005938Z
UID:10007802-1770919200-1770919200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Marion Nestle - Sustainable Food in the Trump Era
DESCRIPTION:What is the state of sustainable food now\, what are the forces affecting food choice\, and what can we do about it? Join us for this year’s Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture featuring Marion Nestle — Mark Bittman’s “guiding light” on nutrition and Alice Waters’ “tireless warrior for public health” — for a bracing look at what’s on today’s menu and what’s in store. \nThank you for your interest in this event! The event is now sold out but please join us online via live stream. \nMarion Nestle is a consumer advocate\, nutritionist\, award-winning author\, and academic who specializes in the politics of food and dietary choice. Her research examines scientific\, economic\, and social influences on food choice and health\, with an emphasis on the role of food industry marketing. Her books explore how politics affects food production\, dietary intake\, food safety\, and human and planetary health. She is the author of books such as the classic\, Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health\, Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety\, What to Eat\, and many more! Nestle is the emerita Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition\, Food Studies\, and Public Health and Professor of Sociology at New York University. She also holds an appointment as visiting professor in the Cornell Division of Nutritional Sciences. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition\, both from the University of California\, Berkeley. \n\nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Series is made possible by the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Ethics which enables lively dialogue about ethics related challenges in interdisciplinary settings.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/marion-nestle-sustainable-food-in-the-trump-era/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Website-Events-banner-1024x576_REV-1-2.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260205T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260205T173000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20251210T213158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251219T190535Z
UID:10007803-1770312600-1770312600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Kara Cooney - When Women Ruled the World
DESCRIPTION:Ancient Studies presents the 2026 Carl Deppe Lecture featuring Kara Cooney\, who will present her lecture “When Women Ruled the World.” \nWho were the women who once ruled the richest and most successful state of the ancient Mediterranean and African Bronze Age? Ancient Egypt’s female kings\, including Hatshepsut and Nefertiti\, ruled against all odds of the patriarchy in which they lived with real\, unadulterated power. Yet many of these female leaders were judged harshly for taking power or erased from the historical record by the men who followed them\, leaving them elusive historical figures surrounded by mystery and myth. In this lecture\, Prof. Kara Cooney\, Egyptologist and author of When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt\, will go beyond the myths and shed light on these powerful female kings and their historical legacy. \n \nKara Cooney is a professor of ancient Egyptian art and architecture and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California\, Los Angeles. Specializing in social history\, gender studies\, and economies of the ancient world\, she received her PhD in Egyptology from Johns Hopkins University. Her books include The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt\, When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt\, and The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World. Her latest books include Recycling for Death: Coffin Reuse in Ancient Egypt and the Theban Royal Caches\, Ancient Egyptian Society: Challenging Assumptions\, Exploring Approaches\, and Coffin Commerce.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-kara-cooney-when-women-ruled-the-world/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260128T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260128T180000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20251202T191517Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T192836Z
UID:10007794-1769623200-1769623200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:The Sheikh's Jews: Muslim-Jewish Relations in Interwar Algeria
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Jewish Studies presents\, The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies. \nUntil the middle of the twentieth century\, Algeria hosted an array of Jewish communities—some deeply-rooted\, others more recently settled—that played important roles in North African society. French colonial rule\, however\, brought changes that profoundly reshaped Jews’ relationship to their Muslim neighbors. By the years leading up to the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962)\, these changes had created new lines of solidarity—and new tensions—that cast doubt on Jews’ place in Algeria’s future. In this lecture\, Professor Joshua Schreier will explore how the most prominent figure among Algerian Ulema\, ͑Abd al-Ḥamīd Ben Bādīs (1889–1940)\, the undisputed leader of reformist Islam in interwar Algeria and a powerful influence on Algeria’s nascent nationalist movement\, understood Jews\, their relationship to Muslims\, and the escalating conflict in Palestine. \n \nRegistration is required for event entry \n \nJoshua Schreier’s research and teaching navigate the intersection of Jewish\, Middle Eastern\, North African\, and French colonial history. His publications explore the ways colonialism in Algeria not only transformed the relationship between Jews and Muslims but also redefined what these identifiers meant. He is the author of Arabs of the Jewish Faith: The Civilizing Mission in Colonial Algeria (Rutgers\, 2010)\, and The Merchants of Oran: A Jewish Port at the Dawn of Empire (Stanford\, 2017)\, which was a National Jewish Book Award Finalist. \n\nThis event is a part of The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-sheikhs-jews-muslim-jewish-relations-in-interwar-algeria/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260120T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260120T180000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20251120T200406Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251210T225222Z
UID:10007793-1768932000-1768932000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Nurturing Difference - Parenting and Disability in a Careless Age
DESCRIPTION:We’ll be discussing Danilyn Rutherford’s Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World (Duke University Press) and Noah Wardrip-Fruin’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Can a game take care of us? (University of Chicago Press). Joined by Donna Haraway and Megan Moodie\, and moderated by THI Faculty Director\, Pranav Anand\, the panel will discuss caregiving\, parenthood\, disability\, language\, meaning\, and technology. \nIn an increasingly careless world where cruelty is celebrated and disability mocked\, these two highly-readable scholars remind us that beautiful relationships of compassion\, connection\, communication\, and empathy still exist. Rutherford recounts her experiences raising a high assistance-needs daughter\, Millie\, describing the importance of a web of caregivers who support and enrich their lives and the potential for human communication beyond words. Wardrip-Fruin writes about parenting in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic\, exploring how his own need for rest and care in the face of growing disablement reshaped his ideas about masculinity\, fatherhood\, and video game imaginaries. Both books speak to Wardrip-Fruin’s provocative question posed in the subtitle to Animal Crossing: New Horizons\, “Can a game take care of us?” If the “game” is a resource-stripped\, social media-driven capitalist competition where everyone must fight for survival\, where basic welfare programs are being destroyed\, what can we learn from care-centered disability worlds? At a time when we most need it\, these scholar-parents give us extraordinary insight into the form of attention in which all our hopes rest: love. \n \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by January 13\, 2026. ADA parking for this event will be available in lot 170\, directly adjacent to the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. Sign language interpretation will also be available during the event. \nAbout Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World: \nWhen Danilyn Rutherford and her husband Craig noticed that their six-month-old daughter Millie wasn’t making eye contact\, they took her to their pediatrician. And an optometrist. Then a neurologist. Later\, to a team of physical and occupational therapists. None of the doctors could give Millie a diagnosis\, but it was clear that her brain was not developing at the rate it should. At an age when some children take their first steps\, Millie had the cognitive ability and motor skills of a three-month-old. Three years later\, Craig died suddenly of a heart attack and Danilyn found herself on the precipice of her anthropology career as a widow and single mother\, still trying to solve the puzzle posed by Millie’s inaccessible mind. \nNow in her twenties\, Millie has never been able to express herself verbally\, but she has a thriving social environment rooted in the people around her and in things her companions and family can see\, hear\, smell\, and feel. Life in Millie’s world is far richer than might be immediately evident to those who think and communicate in conventional ways. \nBeautiful Mystery explores what it means to be a person in the spaces between what we can and cannot say\, and how we can fight to care for those we love when they don’t have the language to fight for themselves. Through her unique lens as a mother and an anthropologist\, Rutherford tells the story of arriving in Millie’s world\, what she found there\, and how Millie showed her that words aren’t always what makes us human. Enlightening and deeply felt\, Beautiful Mystery proves that you don’t have to understand someone to love them—a lesson that\, if we all learned it\, might allow us to live together in a fractured world. \nAbout Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Can a game take care of us? \nAnimal Crossing: New Horizons was released on March 20\, 2020—just as a pandemic kept many from family\, work\, restaurants\, and the rest of their regularly scheduled lives. At its height\, the game averaged one million copies sold per day\, as players sought comfort\, escape\, and a virtual means of connection. In this book\, game scholar Noah Wardrip-Fruin\, isolated with his family by both lockdown and disability\, explores the power of this game and the mixed emotions of a player and a parent trying to make it from one day to the next—while his kids’ obsession with Animal Crossing creates conflicts between them and pushback against family rules. \nWardrip-Fruin helps both Animal Crossing fans and newcomers understand the unexpected beneath the game’s surface: like the story of the first Animal Crossing\, codesigned by an absent father seeking connection; like the hallmarks of video game manipulation\, from “streak” bonuses to game-determined playtimes; like the appeal of endless shopping\, in a kind of “safe” capitalism; and\, of course\, like the character quirks of a raccoon dog\, Tom Nook\, who provides a world of both safety and strange paternalism. \nFor many\, this blockbuster game offered a comforting world compared to a reality of danger. In this first entry in the Replay series\, Wardrip-Fruin offers an absorbing investigation of a game’s role in contemporary social life and a book that belongs on the shelf of anyone who loves or is puzzled by this Nintendo sensation. \nDanilyn Rutherford is the president of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and a professor emerita of anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Raiding the Land of the Foreigners: The Limits of the Nation on an Indonesian Frontier (Princeton\, 2003)\, Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua (Chicago\, 2012)\, Living in the Stone Age: Reflections on the Origins of a Colonial Fantasy (Chicago\, 2018)\, and\, most recently\, Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World (Duke\, 2025). \nNoah Wardrip-Fruin is a Professor of Computational Media at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He studies and makes video games and electronic literature. Before his most recent book\, Noah authored or co-edited six books on games and digital media for the MIT Press\, including The New Media Reader (2003). His collaborative art projects have been exhibited by the Whitney Museum of American Art\, New Museum of Contemporary Art\, Krannert Art Museum\, and a wide variety of festivals and conferences. Noah holds both a PhD (2006) and an MFA (2003) from Brown University\, an MA (2000) from the Gallatin School at New York University\, and a BA (1994) from the Johnston Center at the University of Redlands. \nMegan Moodie is a Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz. She is chair of the Disabled Faculty Networking Group and a core member of the disability studies initiative on campus. meganmoodie.github.io \n\nThis event is presented by the Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice Project\, a UC Multicampus Research Program and Initiative and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and is a featured event of THI’s year of Nourishment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nurturing-difference-parenting-and-disability-in-a-careless-age/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Website-Events-banner-1024x576_REV-1-1-1.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250429T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250429T193000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20250318T224045Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250402T210610Z
UID:10007632-1745949600-1745955000@thi.ucsc.edu
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DRFS-1600x900-2.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250409T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250409T193000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20250320T172236Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250409T181650Z
UID:10007635-1744221600-1744227000@thi.ucsc.edu
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/THI-HaydenWhiteApril2025-1024x576-1.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241205T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241205T193000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20241106T212639Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241119T195344Z
UID:10007535-1733421600-1733427000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Casting the Dice: A Dialogue on Migration Through Music
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special event with composer Iván Enrique Rodríguez and UC Santa Cruz scholar Amy Argenal to discuss the complex experiences of migrants\, the many challenges of seeking asylum and refuge in the United States\, and the power of music as a tool for social change. \nPresented by The Humanities Institute and the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music\, the event features “Casting the Dice\,” an orchestral work narrated and composed by Rodríguez and based on stories collected from migrants around the world. The piece\, which premiered at the Cabrillo Festival in Summer 2024\, examines the lived experiences of people who have been displaced\, delving into the connections of immigrants and refugees with their homelands\, and their personal journeys as they navigate rebuilding their lives in a new country. \nRodríguez will discuss his process composing this orchestral piece with Argenal\, a scholar of migration\, human rights educator\, and active collaborator with local immigrant and refugee rights organizations. Alongside the conversation\, attendees will get a chance to connect with groups that offer resources to migrants in Santa Cruz County and advocate for just immigration policies\, providing an opportunity to learn about ways to support local efforts in our community. \nThis event is free and open to the public but we ask that you please register. \n \n \nDr. Iván Enrique Rodríguez\, a Puerto Rican composer\, is acclaimed for his gripping\, dramatic music rooted in social justice and Puerto Rican heritage. His notable works include A Metaphor for Power\, addressing Latinx and equality issues\, and Casting the Dice\, about refugees and immigration\, commissioned by the Cabrillo Festival. His music has been performed in major venues like Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center\, as well as in refugee camps across Europe. Rodríguez received the 2019 ASCAP Leonard Bernstein Award and the 2023 ASCAP Rudolf Nissim Prize. He earned his doctorate from The Juilliard School. \nDr. Amy Argenal is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Community-Engaged Research and Learning in the Sociology Department. She completed her doctorate in International and Multicultural Education at the University of San Francisco\, where she also received her Master’s in the same area of study. She received her second Masters in Human Rights from Mahidol University in Thailand. Her current research focuses on the root causes of migration from Central America and explores methodologies that bring the narratives of migrant communities to the forefront. \nEvent Logistics\nParking is available in UCSC Lot #115 or 116 but we also encourage bicycling\, car pooling\, ridesharing\, and public transportation. To reach the UCSC 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. Overflow parking is available at lot 122. Download a parking map here. \n  \n\n \nCo-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Department of Sociology\, Department of Latin American and Latino Studies\, Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, the Arts Research Institute\, the Institute for Social Transformation\, and the Santa Cruz Welcoming Network.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/casting-the-dice-a-dialogue-on-migration-through-music/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Casting-the-dice-poster-1024-x-576-px.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241114T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241114T160000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20241004T041518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241106T223131Z
UID:10007498-1731600000-1731600000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Jasbir Puar - Field Notes: Colonial Power at the Thresholds of Gender Studies
DESCRIPTION:The Feminist Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz is pleased to host Jasbir Puar\, Distinguished Faculty of Arts Professor\, Global Race Studies at the University of British Columbia\, presenting Field Notes: Colonial Power at the Thresholds of Gender Studies. \nJasbir Puar’s research focuses on how the liberal state\, sexuality\, and bio-politics bear on our understanding of disability. In her most recent book\, The Right to Maim\, Prof. Puar uses the concept of “debility”— bodily injury and social exclusion brought on by economic and political factors — to disrupt the category of disability\, and shows how debility\, disability\, and capacity constitute an assemblage that states use to control populations. Interrogating Israel’s policies toward Palestine\, she outlines how Israel brings Palestinians into biopolitical being by designating them available for injury. \nJasbir Puar is a Distinguished Faculty of Arts Professor of Global Race Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her most recent book\, The Right to Maim: Debility\, Capacity\, Disability (2017\, Duke University Press) explores how the liberal state\, sexuality\, and biopolitics bear on our understanding of disability\, culminating in an interrogation of Israel’s policies toward Palestine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jasbir-puar-field-notes-colonial-power-at-the-thresholds-of-gender-studies/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Puar_Jasbir1.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240516
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240518
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20240430T192240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240501T191923Z
UID:10007427-1715817600-1715990399@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:The 2nd Annual FMST Undergraduate Research Symposium
DESCRIPTION:UCSC Feminist Studies Presents The 2nd Annual FMST Undergraduate Research Symposium. This year’s FMST Symposium will be a two-day event in celebration of Feminist Studies’ 50th Anniversary. \nMay 16 | Feminists in the World | 10am to 1pm \nUCSC professors across the university – from anthropology and digital media to molecular biology and politics – in conversation about how feminist thought and theory has influenced their work. \nMay 17 | Radical Research: Feminists on the Rise | 10am to 4pm \nA showcase of undergrad research exploring feminist theories and the FMST ethos of activism. Featuring oral presentations and posters exploring questions central to feminist studies. Plus food trucks\, music\, and live entertainment!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-2nd-annual-fmst-undergraduate-research-symposium/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FMST-Symposium.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240515T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240515T200000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20240423T182804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240423T184906Z
UID:10007411-1715792400-1715803200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Women of Color Environmentalists Panel
DESCRIPTION:Join the UCSC community for an empowering panel that celebrates the voices\, visions\, and efforts of women of color environmentalists. Our panelists include inspiring women from UC Santa Cruz and external organizations. \nAfter the panel\, enjoy a special dinner with the panelists and all event attendees! UCSC community members and affiliates of all identities are invited to attend this free event. \nThis event is set to begin at 5:00pm in the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, doors will open at 4:45pm. Dinner will be served from 6:30pm to 7:50pm. RSVP coming soon! \nSave the date to your Google Calendar with https://bit.ly/savedate-WOC \nThis event is made possible with the collaboration and sponsorship of: The African American Resource & Cultural Center\, The American Indian Resource Center (AIRC)\, The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, The Center for Coastal Climate Resilience\, The Latin American and Latino Studies Department\, The People of Color Sustainability Collective\, The Student Alliance of Native American & Indigenous Peoples (SANAI)\, The Sustainability Office\, and The Womxn’s Center.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/women-of-color-environmentalists-panel/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240506T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240506T200000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20240314T235259Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240410T012028Z
UID:10007386-1715018400-1715025600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:The Deep Read: Faculty Salon
DESCRIPTION:On May 6\, you’ll be able to join the conversation—either in person or online—at a salon-style event where our participating professors will lead a discussion of this year’s Deep Read book\, Trust\, with the Deep Read community. \nFaculty Speakers\n\nLori Kletzer\, Economics\, Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor\nMadhavi Murty\, Feminist Studies\nDard Neuman\, Music\nZac Zimmer\, Literature and Deep Read Faculty Lead\n\n\nNot in Santa Cruz? Sign up for the Zoom livestream. \nEvent Logistics\nBicycling\, car pooling\, ridesharing\, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited. 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 Barn entrances. Overflow parking will be available at lot 122. Download a parking map here. \n\nAbout The Deep Read\nThe Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Now in its fifth year\, we invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deep-read-2024-faculty-salon/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/DeepRead24_May6_FacultySalon-event-Header-copy.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240417T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240417T173000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20240326T231409Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T164909Z
UID:10007389-1713369600-1713375000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Craig Reinarman and Gina Dent - From Drug Wars to Harm Reduction
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 2024 Legal Studies Annual Distinguished Lecture: “From Drug Wars to Harm Reduction: Reflections on the Future of Addiction Research\, Drug Policy\, and Mass Incarceration” with Craig Reinarman (Sociology & Legal Studies – Emeritus and Community Studies) in conversation with Gina Dent (Feminist Studies and Legal Studies) \nThis event will take place Wednesday\, April 17\, 4-5:30 pm\, at the UCSC Hay Barn. Doors will open at 3:30 pm for light refreshments and mingling. We hope to see you there!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/craig-reinarman-and-gina-dent-from-drug-wars-to-harm-reduction/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240409T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240409T200000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20240117T233744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240405T193522Z
UID:10007373-1712685600-1712692800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:What Can Genomics Teach Us About Jewish History with Dr. Shamam Waldman
DESCRIPTION:This year’s Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies will be given by Dr. Shamam Waldman. \nJoin us on April 9th at Cowell Ranch Hay Barn for Dr. Waldman’s lecture titled:\n“What Can Genomics Teach Us About Jewish History?” \n \nDoors will open at 5:30PM. The talk will begin promptly at 6:00PM. \n\nThe study of population genetics\, and specifically ancient DNA\, can now offer new insights into Jewish history. One profound example is in our understanding of the origins and early history of Ashkenazi Jews. Scholars in a variety of disciplines have\, for years\, debated the topic\, proposing different theories. Recent genetic analysis and research is helping to shed light on this long-standing puzzle. Another example of how population genetics can offer new insights concerns the genetic connections between the Bronze – Age Levant and present-day Jewish and Middle Eastern populations. \nIn this talk Dr. Shamam Waldman will share her perspective on these questions and the implications of new research based on ancient DNA. Dr. Waldman will present findings from two recent articles in Cell that she co- led: one analyzing DNA from 14th century Jews in Erfurt Germany which showed that the medieval Ashkenazi Jewish population was much more heterogeneous than the one today\, and the other on the genomic history of the people of the Bronze-Age Southern Levant which showed migrations from the Caucasus and Iran into this region between about 2500-1000 CE. \nPresented by the Center for Jewish Studies. Co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and the Genomics Institute at UC Santa Cruz. This event is made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Endowment and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \n\nShamam Waldman completed her PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the field of population genetics\, and she is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Reich Lab at Harvard University. Dr. Waldman developed computational and statistical methods to analyze ancient DNA. She used these methods to study the genetic connections between Canaanites and present-day Middle Eastern populations\, as well as the genetic origins of Ashkenazi Jews. As a postdoctoral researcher she continues to study ancient DNA of Jews in Europe during the Middle Ages as well as hunter-gatherers from the Mesolithic period.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/what-can-genomics-teach-us-about-jewish-history/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Diller-Waldman-Banner-1024x576-01.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240307T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240307T190000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20240124T185153Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240229T205856Z
UID:10007372-1709838000-1709838000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Michele Norris - Our Hidden Conversations
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz welcome Peabody Award-winning journalist Michele Norris for a discussion of her new book Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity—a transformative dialogue on race and identity in America\, unearthed through Norris’s decade-long work at The Race Card Project. \nNorris will be in conversation with Vilashini Cooppan\, Professor of Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \nThis is event is cosponsored by NAACP Santa Cruz County. This special event will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn and is free to attend thanks to the support of The Humanities Institute. Please register if you plan to join us! Your registration helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. Thank you! \n \n\nThe prompt seemed simple: Race. Your Thoughts. Six Words. Please Send. \nThe answers\, though\, have been challenging and complicated. In the twelve years since award-winning journalist Michele Norris first posed that question\, over half a million people have submitted their stories to The Race Card Project inbox. The stories are shocking in their depth and candor\, spanning the full spectrum of race\, ethnicity\, identity\, and class. Even at just six words\, the micro-essays can pack quite a punch\, revealing\, fear\, pain\, triumph\, and sometimes humor. Responses such as: You’re Pretty for a Black girl. White privilege\, enjoy it\, earned it. Lady\, I don’t want your purse. My ancestors massacred Indians near here. Urban living has made me racist. I’m only Asian when it’s convenient. \nMany go even further than just six words\, submitting backstories\, photos\, and heirlooms: a collection much like a scrapbook of American candor you rarely get to see. Our Hidden Conversations is a unique compilation of stories\, richly reported essays\, and photographs providing a window into America during a tumultuous era. This powerful book offers an honest\, if sometimes uncomfortable\, conversation about race and identity\, permitting us to eavesdrop on deep-seated thoughts\, private discussions\, and long submerged memories. \nThe breadth of this work came as a surprise to Norris. For most of the twelve years she has collected these stories\, many were submitted by white respondents. This unexpected panorama provides a rare 360-degree view of how Americans see themselves and one another. \nOur Hidden Conversations reminds us that even during times of great division\, honesty\, grace\, and a willing ear can provide a bridge toward empathy and maybe even understanding. \nYou can purchase your own copy of Our Hidden Conversations at Bookshop Santa Cruz. \n\nMichele Norris is one of America’s most trusted voices in journalism\, earning several honors over a long career\, including Peabody\, Emmy\, Dupont\, and Goldsmith awards. She is a columnist for The Washington Post Opinion Section\, the host of the Audible Original Podcast\, Your Mama’s Kitchen\, and from and from 2002 to 2012 she was a cohost of NPR’s All Things Considered. \nVilashini Cooppan is Professor of Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UCSC. She teaches and writes about comparative and world literature\, the memory and legacies of colonial and racial violence\, and literary theory. She is the author of Worlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing (Stanford UP\, 2009)\, numerous journal articles and book chapters\, and has co-edited the forthcoming volume Autotheories: Transdisciplinary Experiments in Self-Theorizing.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/michele-norris-our-hidden-conversations/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Michele-Norris-Our-Hidden-Conversations-Banner.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240215T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240215T173000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20231220T000455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240207T210253Z
UID:10007367-1708018200-1708018200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:The Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture - Lisa Lowe: Histories of the Colonial Present
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Division and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz invite you to join us for the Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture\, featuring Lisa Lowe. Guests who attend in person are invited to join us for a reception with light refreshments and beverages at 5:30 p.m. \nSettler colonialism\, slavery\, migration\, and imperial war have been integral to the emergence of the U.S. nation\, state\, and economy\, and the consequences of these histories continue today. In this lecture Lowe examines colonial formations and their imbricated relations\, their durability and the persistence of anti-colonial struggles against them\, and asks: In what ways does a reckoning with colonial histories unsettle and transform the way we understand modernity\, capitalism\, and the political present? If this colonial historical past is not “over\,” but is actively suppressed in national memory\, how is it possible to conceive this longue durée as something unthought yet known\, that is\, a web of relation that we may be unable to think or fully fathom\, even as we are reminded it is something we once knew? \nGuests are also welcome to join the virtual webinar via Zoom. Simply register below. Thank you! \n \n  \n \nLisa Lowe (Ph.D. ’86\, literature) is Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies at Yale. A former student of Hayden White’s\, Lisa Lowe received her Ph.D. in 1986. She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work is concerned with the analysis of race\, immigration\, capitalism\, and colonialism\, the author of Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Cornell University Press\, 1991)\, Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (Duke University Press\, 1996)\, and The Intimacies of Four Continents (Duke University Press\, 2015); she is co-editor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Duke University Press\, 1997) and New Questions\, New Formations: Asian American Studies\, a special issue of positions: east asia cultures critique 5:2 (Fall 1997). Before joining Yale\, Lowe taught at the University of California\, San Diego and Tufts University. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Guggenheim\, Rockefeller\, and Mellon Foundations\, the School of Advanced Study at the University of London\, the UC Humanities Research Institute\, and the American Council of Learned Societies. \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/lisa-lowe-histories-of-the-colonial-present/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/LisaLowe2024-Banner-1024x576-02.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240125T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240125T193000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20231207T173757Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240111T180932Z
UID:10006200-1706205600-1706211000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Reza Aslan - An American Martyr in Persia
DESCRIPTION:In 1907\, educator and American missionary Howard Baskerville traveled to Iran in the midst of a democratic revolution led by a group of brilliant young firebrands committed to transforming their country. The Persian students Baskerville educated inspired him to join them in their fight. Reza Aslan speaks with Jennifer Derr about Baskerville’s story and what it might teach us about our own ideals of constitutional democracy and whose freedom we support. \n \nThis event is free and open to the public. \nReza Aslan is a renowned writer\, commentator\, professor\, Emmy- and Peabody-nominated producer\, and scholar of religions. A recipient of the prestigious James Joyce award\, Aslan is the author of three internationally best-selling books\, including the #1 New York Times Bestseller\, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. His producing credits include the acclaimed HBO series The Leftovers and the hit CBS comedy United States of Al. He is the host and Executive Producer of CNN’s Believer and Rough Draft with Reza Aslan\, as well as co-host along with Rainn Wilson of the podcast Metaphysical Milkshake. Read Reza’s full bio here. \nPresented by the Center for Middle East and North Africa\, and co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute and Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nEvent logistics: Bicycling\, car pooling\, ridesharing\, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited. 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 Barn entrances. Overflow parking will be available at lot 122. Download a parking map here. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by January 18\, 2024.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/reza-aslan-an-american-martyr-in-persia/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/web-banner-event-pg-1024-x-576.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231113T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231113T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20230914T201708Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T175640Z
UID:10007306-1699902000-1699907400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Cancelled - Dr. Joy Buolamwini: Unmasking AI
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz present Dr. Joy Buolamwini\, “The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune)\, who will discuss her new book\, Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines. Buolamwini explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms and oppression\, and what we can do to avoid its pitfalls. \nThis event will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn and is cosponsored by NAACP Santa Cruz County Branch. \n“If you’re going to read only one book about AI\, this should be it.”—Darren Walker\, president of the Ford Foundation \n \n$10 for event access\, $33 includes event entry and a hardcover copy of UNMASKING AI. \n25 free tickets are available to UCSC students. Please email thi@ucsc.edu to reserve a student ticket. Free tickets are first come\, first served. \n“This revelatory book exposes the myriad\, deeply ingrained biases encoded into facial recognition and other ‘trusted’ AI systems\, pushing us to confront our blind trust in the machines that are taking over our lives. In describing how she conquered her own demons along her path towards justice for all\, Dr. Joy Buolamwini’s offers a deeply felt\, stirring call to action for ethical AI—a must-read for those who want a world in which technology serves humanity.” —Maria Ressa\, Nobel Peace Prize winner\, CEO and president of Rappler \nTo most of us\, it seems like recent developments in artificial intelligence emerged out of nowhere to pose unprecedented threats to humankind. But to Dr. Joy Buolamwini\, who has been at the forefront of AI research\, this moment has been a long time in the making. \nAfter tinkering with robotics as a high school student in Memphis and then developing mobile apps in Zambia as a Fulbright fellow\, Dr. Buolamwini followed her lifelong passion for computer science\, engineering\, and art to MIT in 2015. As a graduate student at the “Future Factory\,” she did groundbreaking research that exposed widespread racial and gender bias in AI services from tech giants across the world. \nUnmasking AI goes beyond the headlines about existential risks produced by Big Tech. It is the remarkable story of how Dr. Buolamwini uncovered what she calls “the coded gaze”—the evidence of encoded discrimination and exclusion in tech products—and how she galvanized the movement to prevent AI harms by founding the Algorithmic Justice League. Applying an intersectional lens to both the tech industry and the research sector\, she shows how racism\, sexism\, colorism\, and ableism can overlap and render broad swaths of humanity “excoded” and therefore vulnerable in a world rapidly adopting AI tools. Computers\, she reminds us\, are reflections of both the aspirations and the limitations of the people who create them. \nEncouraging experts and non-experts alike to join this fight\, Buolamwini writes\, “The rising frontier for civil rights will require algorithmic justice. AI should be for the people and by the people\, not just the privileged few.” \nDr. Joy Buolamwini is the founder of the Algorithmic Justice League\, a groundbreaking researcher\, and a renowned speaker. Her writing has been featured in publications such as Time\, The New York Times\, Harvard Business Review\, and The Atlantic. As the Poet of Code\, she creates art to illuminate the impact of artificial intelligence on society and advises world leaders on preventing AI harms. She is the recipient of numerous awards\, including the Rhodes Scholarship\, the inaugural Morals & Machines Prize\, and the Technological Innovation Award from the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change. Her MIT research on facial recognition technologies is featured in the Emmy-nominated documentary Coded Bias. Born in Canada to Ghanaian immigrants\, Buolamwini lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-joy-buolamwini-unmasking-ai/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Unmasking_AI_THI.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230608T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230608T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20230327T173220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230328T174533Z
UID:10007243-1686250800-1686256200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Bookshop Santa Cruz presents: An evening with Ocean Vuong
DESCRIPTION:In this deeply intimate second poetry collection (in paperback June 6th)\, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother’s death\, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory\, and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous\, Vuong contends with personal loss\, the meaning of family\, and the cost of being the product of an American war in America. At once vivid\, brave\, and propulsive\, Vuong’s poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicenter of the break. \nThe author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky With Exit Wounds\, winner of the 2016 Whiting Award\, the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize\, and a 2019 MacArthur fellow\, Vuong writes directly to our humanity without losing sight of the current moment. These poems represent a more innovative and daring experimentation with language and form\, illuminating how the themes we perennially live in and question are truly inexhaustible. Bold and prescient\, and a testament to tenderness in the face of violence\, Time Is a Mother is a return and a forging forth all at once. This event is presented by Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. \n \nOcean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds and the New York Times bestselling novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. A recipient of the 2019 MacArthur “Genius Grant\,” he is also the winner of the Whiting Award and the T. S. Eliot Prize. His writings have been featured in The Atlantic\, Harper’s Magazine\, The Nation\, The New Republic\, The New Yorker\, and The New York Times. Born in Saigon\, Vietnam\, he currently lives in Northampton\, Massachusetts. \nPRAISE:\n“Piercing . . . The poems in Time Is a Mother give us a path to examine the complexities of what it means to lose a mother\, and what it means to embrace family and the self even when we want to look away. In Vuong’s tender yet unflinching words\, we are reminded that only a mother can carry a beating heart within her body.” —Los Angeles Review of Books \n“Like Orpheus descending into the underworld\, Vuong takes us to the white-hot limits of his grief\, writing with visionary fervor about love\, agony\, and time . . . Aesthetically ambitious and ferociously original . . . Here\, he breaks open and rebuilds.” —Esquire\, “The Best Books of Spring 2022” \n“That’s the essence of Vuong’s talent: he alchemizes deeply individual experiences with universal emotions into what is both familiar and new. . . . We need no more proof of Vuong’s importance in the poetic canon.” —Chicago Review of Books
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bookshop-santa-cruz-presents-an-evening-with-ocean-vuong/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/ocean-vuong-THI-copy-scaled.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230509T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230509T180000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20230111T233925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230303T182940Z
UID:10006054-1683648000-1683655200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:2023 Helene Moglen Lecture in Feminism and Humanities with Wendy Brown – After Humanism and the Nation State: More Democracy\, Democracy that is More\, or Democracy No More?
DESCRIPTION:In most accounts of dangers to democracy today\, the value of the object is assumed. At the same time\, we know that the “demos” of Western democracy violently excludes all nonhuman life and much of humanity too. Democracy is no form apart from this content\, no principle floating freely above these histories. Democracy also requires certain cultural\, educational and economic conditions; certain spatialities and temporalities; and modest access to visible levers of power. Absent these\, the vox populi may well become a terrible\, and terrifying\, screech. This talk reflects on these and other predicaments of democracy today. It asks\, without answering\, how to approach this imperiled creature now. \n \nIn-person attendance\nThe lecture will begin at 4:00pm\, with a Q&A and reception to follow.\nDoors will open at 3:30pm \n \nVirtual attendance \nWendy Brown (Crown ’77\, Politics and Economics double major) is UPS Foundation Professor in Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton and Class of 1936 Chair\, Emeritus\, at the University of California\, Berkeley. She is the author\, most recently\, of In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West (2019) and Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber (2023). From 1989-99\, Professor Brown taught at UCSC in the Department of Women’s Studies and worked closely with Helene Moglen to build Feminist Studies. \nThis lecture is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies and made possible by the Helene Moglen Lecture in Feminism and Humanities for the Center for Cultural Studies Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and the Department of Politics. \nIf you have any questions or concerns\, please contact Sadie Lynn at sklynn@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2023-helene-moglen-lecture-in-feminism-and-humanities-with-wendy-brown-after-humanism-and-the-nation-state-more-democracy-democracy-that-is-more-or-democracy-no-more/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T200000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20230301T182055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230424T210001Z
UID:10007222-1683223200-1683230400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:The Deep Read: Faculty Salon
DESCRIPTION:On May 4\, you’ll be able to join the conversation—either in person or online—at a salon-style event where our participating professors will lead a discussion of this year’s Deep Read book\, Under a White Sky\, with UCSC students and the broader Deep Read community. \nFaculty Speakers\n\nJorge Menna Barreto\, Environmental Art\nMike Beck\, Marine Sciences\, Director of the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience\nJody Biehl\, Literature and Science Communication Program\nSikina Jinnah\, Environmental Studies\n\n\n\nNot in Santa Cruz? Register for Zoom access. \nEvent Logistics\nBicycling\, car pooling\, ridesharing\, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited. 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 Barn entrances. Overflow parking will be available at lot 122. Download a parking map here. \n\nAbout The Deep Read\nThis event is part of The Humanities Institute’s Deep Read Program that invites curious minds to think deeply about literature\, art\, and the most pressing issues of our day. We read books from a wide range of genres\, exploring their implications on our politics\, inner lives\, and communities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-deep-read-faculty-salon/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DeepRead_May4-event-Header.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230419T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230419T193000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20230328T180603Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230418T223321Z
UID:10007242-1681927200-1681932600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Karina Walters - Transcending Historical Trauma: How to Address American Indian Health Inequities and Promote Thriving
DESCRIPTION:Throughout history\, settler colonialism has endeavored to erase the lived experiences and histories of American Indian and Alaska Native Peoples. Yet\, Indigenous populations\, particularly Indigenous women\, remain strong and resilient pillars of communities. Oftentimes these [her]stories are missed in public health initiatives as a result of settler colonialism’s perpetual drive to erase and silence. In this talk\, Dr. Walters will explore the latest advances in designing culturally derived\, Indigenist health promotion interventions among American Indian and Alaska Native women. The talk will describe the indigenist methodological innovations utilized in the NIH funded Yappalli Choctaw Road to Health\, a culturally focused\, land-based obesity and substance abuse prevention program as well as the national multi-site Honor Project Two-Spirit Health Study. Consistent with tribal systems of knowledge\, both studies illustrate the importance of developing culturally derived health promotion interventions rooted in Indigenist thoughtways and land-based practices to promote Indigenous thrivance and community well-being. \n \nDr. Karina L. Walters (MSW\, PhD) is the recently appointed Director of the Tribal Health Research Office at the National Institute of Health. She is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma\, a Katherine Hall Chambers University Professor at the University of Washington School of Social Work\, and an adjunct Professor in the Department of Global Health\, School of Public Health\, and Co-Director of the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute (IWRI) at the University of Washington. Dr. Walters is world renowned for her expertise in developing behavioral and multi-level health interventions steeped in culture to activate health-promoting behaviors. She has written landmark papers on traumatic stress and health\, historical and intergenerational trauma\, and originated the Indigenist Stress-Coping model. She has led 22 NIH-funded studies\, is one of the leading American Indian scientists in the country\, and is only one of two American Indians (and the only Native woman) ever invited to deliver the prestigious Director’s lecture to the Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series (WALS) at the NIH. She is the first American Indian Fellow inductee into the American Academy of Social Welfare and Social Work (AASWSW).\n \nEvent logistics: Bicycling\, car pooling\, ridesharing\, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited. 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 Barn entrances. Overflow parking will be available at lot 122. Download a parking map here. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by April 12\, 2023. \nThis event is part of the “Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine” Sawyer Seminar series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karina-walters-transcending-historical-trauma-how-to-address-american-indian-health-inequities-and-promote-thriving/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/UCSC-THI-SawyerSeminar-April19-1024x576-1.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230405T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230405T160000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20230314T205753Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T210416Z
UID:10007226-1680703200-1680710400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Legal Studies Program Annual Distinguished Lecture: Coming to Understand Latino Anti-Black Bias
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Tanya Katerí Hernández to discuss her book Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality. Praised as the “most important Afro-Latina voice on civil rights today\,” Hernández argues that unmasking Latino anti-Black bias is essential for fostering multiracial democracy in the United States. \n \nThis event is open to all. Copies of Racial Innocence will be available for purchase.\nThe UCSC Legal Studies Program and Professor Hernández are making 50 copies of the book available free to UCSC students who attend. \nTanya Katerí Hernández is the Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law\, and an Associate Director of Fordham’s Center on Race\, Law and Justice. She is the author of Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality. \n  \n  \nCo-sponsored by: Center for Racial Justice\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department\, Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, Feminist Studies Department\, History Department\, Latin American and Latino Studies Department\, Philosophy Department\, Politics Department\, Sociology Department\, and The Humanities Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/legal-studies-program-annual-distinguished-lecture-coming-to-understand-latino-anti-black-bias/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230315T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230315T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20230204T052345Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230204T053036Z
UID:10007207-1678906800-1678912200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Jennifer Egan\, The Candy House
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Jennifer Egan\, one of the most celebrated writers of our time\, who will discuss The Candy House (in paperback March 7th)\, her “inventive\, effervescent” (Oprah Daily) novel about the memory and quest for authenticity and human connection. \nThis event will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn on the UC Santa Cruz campus\, and is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nThe Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton\, whose company\, Mandala\, is so successful that he is “one of those tech demi-gods with whom we’re all on a first name basis.” Bix is forty\, with four kids\, restless\, and desperate for a new idea\, when he stumbles into a conversation group\, mostly Columbia professors\, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or “externalizing” memory. Within a decade\, Bix’s new technology\, “Own Your Unconscious”–which allows you access to every memory you’ve ever had\, and to share your memories in exchange for access to the memories of others–has seduced multitudes. \nIn the world of Egan’s spectacular imagination\, there are “counters” who track and exploit desires and there are “eluders\,” those who understand the price of taking a bite of the Candy House. Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of narrative styles–from omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices\, an epistolary chapter\, and a chapter of tweets. Intellectually dazzling\, The Candy House is also a moving testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for connection\, family\, privacy\, and love. \n  \n \n  \nJennifer Egan is the author of six previous books of fiction: Manhattan Beach\, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; A Visit from the Goon Squad\, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Keep; the story collection Emerald City; Look at Me\, a National Book Award Finalist; and The Invisible Circus. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Harper’s Magazine\, Granta\, McSweeney’s\, and The New York Magazine. Her website JenniferEgan.com. \n  \nVisit https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/jennifer-egan for more information.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jennifer-egan-the-candy-house/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-03-at-9.10.36-PM.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230309T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230309T200000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20230123T190237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230303T234306Z
UID:10007204-1678377600-1678392000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Indigenous Border/lands Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The Peggy and Jack Baskin Presidential Chair of Feminist Studies\, in collaboration with the Indigenous Border/lands Collective\, present “Indigenous Border/lands\,” an exploration of the border/lands from the perspective of Indigenous peoples\, scholars and activists across the Americas. \n4:00pm\nAa‘a Mat Tipaay Ak’wee\, Bringing Her/Voice Back to the Land: Incomplete Repatriations in The Autobiography of Delfina Cuero  – Theresa Gregor\, Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies\, California State University Long Beach. Dr. Gregor is Kumeyaay from the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel and also Yoéme. Her research focuses on California American Indian women\, sovereignty\, literary and cultural repatriation\, and tribal cultural resiliency and revitalization. \n6:00 pm\nAbolish Border Imperialism: Migration\, Racial Capitalism and Empire – Harsha Walia\, author of Border and Rule: Global Migration\, Capitalism\, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (2022). Harsha Walia is a migrant justice activist whose work addresses how current migrant and refugee crises are the inevitable outcomes of conquest\, capitalist globalization\, and climate change\, generating mass dispossession worldwide. \nThis event is free and open to the public. \nFor anyone who would like to attend the event virtually\, please register here. \nOn Friday\, March 10\, interdisciplinary scholars from across the country will gather for a day-long\, closed-session symposium to consider the concept of borders and the borderlands from the perspective of Indigenous peoples across the Americas. Presentations across several symposium themes will result in publication of an Indigenous Borderlands journal in 2024. Please visit the Feminist Studies Department website for more info on the Friday symposium schedule. If interested in attending any or all of the panels\, please contact Lisa Supple (lsupple@ucsc.edu). Seating is limited.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/indigenous-borderlands-symposium/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Borderlands-Banner-1024x576-01.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230208T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230208T193000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20221130T174054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230126T174744Z
UID:10007166-1675879200-1675884600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Gershom Gorenberg: The Secret War Against the Nazis for the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:At the midpoint of World War II\, an Axis army under Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was on the brink of conquering the Middle East. Drawing on his latest book\, War of Shadows\, historian and alumnus Gershom Gorenberg (Kresge ’76\, Religious Studies) will reveal the espionage affair that led to the British victory against Rommel at El Alamein – turning the tide of the war and preventing the mass murder of the Jews of Egypt\, Palestine and the rest of the Middle East. \n \nEvent logistics: Bicycling\, car pooling\, ridesharing\, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited. 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 Barn entrances. Overflow parking will be available at lot 122. Download a parking map here. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by February 1\, 2023. \nThis event is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies and made possible by the Helen and Sanford Diller Family Endowment for Jewish Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gershom-gorenberg-the-secret-war-against-the-nazis-for-the-middle-east/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Diller-Gershom-Banner-1024x576-01-e1687974550428.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221201T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221201T180000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20221026T032156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221128T234517Z
UID:10007174-1669917600-1669917600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Douglas Brinkley: Silent Spring Revolution
DESCRIPTION:New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley will present his new book Silent Spring Revolution\, which chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973)\, on December 1 at the UC Santa Cruz Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. The book tells the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy\, Lyndon B. Johnson\, and Richard Nixon. Brinkley will be joined by State Senator John Laird for a question and answer session\, including questions from the audience. \n \nSeating will be first come\, first served. \nThe first 50 students in attendance will receive a free copy of Silent Spring Revolution. Student ID required. \nWith the detonation of the Trinity explosion in the New Mexico desert in 1945\, the United States took control of Earth’s destiny for the first time. After the Truman administration dropped atomic bombs on Japan to end World War II\, a grim new epoch had arrived. During the early Cold War years\, the federal government routinely detonated nuclear devices in the Nevada desert and the Marshall Islands. Not only was nuclear fallout a public health menace\, but entire ecosystems were contaminated with radioactive materials. During the 1950s\, an unprecedented postwar economic boom took hold\, with America becoming the world’s leading hyperindustrial and military giant. But with this historic prosperity came a heavy cost: oceans began to die\, wilderness vanished\, the insecticide DDT poisoned ecosystems\, wildlife perished\, and chronic smog blighted major cities. \nIn Silent Spring Revolution\, Douglas Brinkley pays tribute to those who combated the mauling of the natural world in the Long Sixties: Rachel Carson (a marine biologist and author)\, David Brower (director of the Sierra Club)\, Barry Commoner (an environmental justice advocate)\, Coretta Scott King (an antinuclear activist)\, Stewart Udall (the secretary of the interior)\, William O. Douglas (Supreme Court justice)\, Cesar Chavez (a labor organizer)\, and other crusaders are profiled with verve and insight. \nCarson’s book Silent Spring\, published in 1962\, depicted how detrimental DDT was to living creatures. The exposé launched an ecological revolution that inspired such landmark legislation as the Wilderness Act (1964)\, the Clean Air Acts (1963 and 1970)\, and the Endangered Species Acts (1966\, 1969\, and 1973). In intimate detail\, Brinkley extrapolates on such epic events as the Donora (Pennsylvania) smog incident\, JFK’s Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty\, Great Lakes preservation\, the Santa Barbara oil spill\, and the first Earth Day. \nWith the United States grappling with climate change and resource exhaustion\, Douglas Brinkley’s meticulously researched and deftly written Silent Spring Revolution reminds us that a new generation of twenty-first-century environmentalists can save the planet from ruin. \nPresented by The Humanities Institute and Bookshop Santa Cruz. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Social Transformation. \n  \nDouglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University\, presidential historian for the New-York Historical Society\, trustee of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library\, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. The Chicago Tribune dubbed him “America’s New Past Master.” He is the recipient of such distinguished environmental leadership prizes as the Frances K. Hutchison Medal (Garden Club of America)\, Robin W. Winks Award for Enhancing Public Understanding of National Parks (National Parks Conservation Association)\, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Lifetime Heritage Award. His book The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina\, New Orleans\, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He was awarded a Grammy for Presidential Suite and is the recipient of seven honorary doctorates in American studies. His two-volume\, annotated Nixon Tapes recently won the Arthur S. Link-Warren F. Kuehl Prize. He lives in Austin\, Texas\, with his wife and three children. \nEvent logistics: Bicycling\, car pooling\, ridesharing\, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited. 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 farm entrances. Overflow parking will be available at lot 122. Download a parking map here. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by October 18th\, 2022.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/62874/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-25-at-8.15.44-PM-e1666754252763.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221108T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221108T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20221013T213658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221018T191749Z
UID:10007157-1667934000-1667939400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Karen Tei Yamashita Fall 2022 Emeriti Lecture - Questions 27 & 28: Loyalty and Japanese American Incarceration
DESCRIPTION:In 1942\, at the outset of World War II\, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the incarceration of all Japanese Americans on the West Coast. The following year\, the War Relocation Authority had the task of determining the loyalty of their inmates in order to release them for productive normalized lives outside camp. A loyalty questionnaire was distributed to assess “loyalty.” While many of the questions seemed innocuous\, two questions in particular\, 27 and 28\, about willingness to serve in the US military and forswearing allegiance to the Japanese Emperor\, were confusing and divisive within the incarcerated communities. The answering of these two questions created rifts within families and friends\, with traumatic divisions that resonate to this day. \nRegister to attend in person \nRegister to attend virtually \nComplimentary event parking will be available in lots 115/116. Please follow event signage at the base of campus and a parking attendant will help assist you. \nQuestions? Please contact the University Events Office at specialevents@ucsc.edu. \nKaren Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books\, including I Hotel\, finalist for the National Book Award\, and most recently\, Sansei and Sensibility\, all published by Coffee House Press. Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation\, the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a U.S. Artists’ Ford Foundation Fellowship\, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-tei-yamashita-fall-2022-emeriti-lecture-questions-27-28-loyalty-and-japanese-american-incarceration/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Karen_T_Banner.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221025T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221025T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20220920T183356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220920T183452Z
UID:10007129-1666724400-1666729800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Bettina Aptheker - Communists in Closets
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute and Bookshop Santa Cruz welcome Bettina Aptheker\, UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Professor Emerita\, for a discussion about her new book\, Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s-1990s\, which explores the history of gay\, lesbian\, and non-heterosexual people in the Communist Party in the United States. \n \nFree and open to the public. Registration required. \nThe Communist Party banned LGBT people from membership beginning in 1938 when it cast them off as degenerates. It persisted in this policy until 1991 when the Party split apart in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the socialist countries of Eastern Europe. During this 60- year ban\, gays and lesbians who did join the Communist Party were deeply closeted within it\, as well as in their public lives as both queer and Communist. By the late 1930s the Communist Party had a membership approaching 100\,000 and tens of thousands of more people moved in its orbit through the Popular Front against fascism\, anti-racist organizing\, especially in the south\, and its widely read cultural magazine\, The New Masses. Based on a decade of archival research\, correspondence\, and interviews\, Bettina Aptheker explores this history\, also pulling from her own experience as a closeted lesbian in the Communist Party in the 1960s and 70s. Ironically\, and in spite of this homophobia individual Communists laid some of the political and theoretical foundations for lesbian and gay liberation\, and contributed significantly to peace\, social justice\, civil rights\, Black and Latinx liberation movements. \nThis book will be of interest to students\, scholars\, and general readers in political history\, gender studies and the history of sexuality. \nBettina Aptheker is Distinguished Professor Emerita\, Feminist Studies Department\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\, USA. She is the author of: Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red\, Fought for Free Speech and Became A Feminist Rebel (2006); and The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis (1976; second edition 1999). \nEvent logistics: Bicycling\, car pooling\, ridesharing\, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited. 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 farm entrances. Overflow parking will be available at lot 122. Download a parking map here. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by October 18th\, 2022.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bettina-aptheker-communists-in-closets/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image-1.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221024T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221024T193000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20220919T215651Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221006T180343Z
UID:10007123-1666634400-1666639800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:From Levi to Dante: Redefining Humanity from the Margins
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the final event of From the Margins: Dante 701 Years Later\, featuring Professor Robert Gordon (University of Cambridge) and Martin Eisner (Duke University). Moderated by Nathaniel Deutsch (UC Santa Cruz Professor and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies). \n \nFree and open to the public. Registration required. \n“Primo Levi and Dante. Cosmologies\,” by Robert Gordon (University of Cambridge): Primo Levi famously drew on Dante to map the distant and incomprehensible ‘concentrationary universe’ that he encountered at Auschwitz. Perhaps less well known is Levi’s deep fascination\, shared with Dante\, for astronomy and for the mapping of the cosmos as a tool for understanding man’s place in the wider universe\, and thus also mankind’s own history. This lecture explores Levi and Dante in parallel as two cosmologists\, both in their different ways scientists and poets of the stars. \n“Black Limbo: Dante\, Boccaccio\, and Global Ethnic Studies” by Martin Eisner (Duke University): This talk uses a fifteenth-century illumination of Dante’s limbo that portrays pagan poets with black skin to explore the relationship between medieval reflections on pagans and modern ethnic studies. Highlighting how Dante’s concern with cultural difference in both temporal and spatial terms informs Boccaccio’s elaboration of these ideas\, it shows how this accommodation of past and present pagans contrasts with earlier reflections of Augustine and Jerome\, contemporary ideas of Petrarch\, and later Fascist uses of Dante to which Primo Levi responds. \nRobert S. C. Gordon is Serena Professor of Italian at the University of Cambridge. He works on the literature\, cinema\, and cultural history of modern Italy. His books include a study of Pasolini\, several volumes on Primo Levi\, and a wider history of Italian cultural responses to the Holocaust. He has taught at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and is a former Senior Editor of the journal Italian Studies\, and a former trustee of the British School at Rome. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2015. \nMartin Eisner is Chair of Romance Studies and Professor of Italian at Duke University. He is the author of Dante’s New Life of the Book: A Philology of World Literature (Oxford UP\, 2021) and Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature: Dante\, Petrarch\, Cavalcanti\, and the Authority of the Vernacular (Cambridge UP\, 2013). He is currently working on a biography of Boccaccio for Reaktion Books’s Renaissance Lives series. With a view to the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death\, he continues to develop the online research project Dante’s Library. His articles on Dante\, Boccaccio\, Petrarch\, and Machiavelli have appeared in PMLA\, Renaissance Quarterly\, Dante Studies\, Mediaevalia\, California Italian Studies\, Quaderni d’Italianistica\, Annali d’Italianistica and Le Tre Corone. His research has been supported by the Mellon Foundation\, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton\, the American Academy in Rome\, the American Philosophical Association\, and the Fulbright Foundation. \n Nathaniel Deutsch is a professor of history at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where he holds the Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and is the Faculty Director of The Humanities Institute and the Director of the Center for Jewish Studies. Among his other books are Inventing America’s “Worst” Family: Eugenics\, Islam\, and the Fall and Rise of the Tribe of Ishmael and The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement\, for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. \nEvent logistics: Bicycling\, car pooling\, ridesharing\, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited. 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 Barn entrances. Overflow parking will be available at lot 122. Download a parking map here. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by October 17th\, 2022. \nThis event is sponsored By: Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Literature Department\, The Humanities Institute\, Italian Studies\, Jewish Studies\, and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/from-levi-to-dante-redefining-humanity-from-the-margins/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Dante-Mallette-News-Web-Green.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221020T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221020T170000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20220912T213202Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220929T002804Z
UID:10007120-1666285200-1666285200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:RCA 30th Anniversary Celebration: Sharing Futures\, Speaking Truths
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Research Center for the Americas! \nThe distinguished honoree will be civil rights & feminist icon Dolores Huerta. \nThe keynote speaker will be Cristina Jiménez\, community organizer and co-founder of United We Dream. \nWe have more surprises in store so follow us on social media! Visit our 30th Anniversary Facebook Event Page & follow us on Instagram! \nThe empanada reception from 5 p.m.- 6 p.m. will be outdoors. \nThe program begins at 6 p.m. \nEvent highlights: \n✓Keynote address by Cristina Jiménez (link to bio)\n✓Tribute to civil rights icon Dolores Huerta (link to bio)\n✓Dancing with DJ\n✓Empanadas and desserts\n✓Interactive photo booth\n✓Special invited guests\n✓SO MUCH MORE \nTicket Prices: $35 UCSC Students (Limited Availability)* \n$75 General Admission \n*A limited number of students will be sponsored to attend the event. Please go to https://rca.ucsc.edu/…/30th-anniversary-celebration.html for more information. \nProceeds directly support RCA programs and operations. \nThis event will follow strict COVID-19 protocols to ensure a safe gathering.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rca-30th-anniversary-celebration-sharing-futures-speaking-truths/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/THI-Event-Banner-5.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221019T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221019T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20220922T173516Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220922T173832Z
UID:10007143-1666206000-1666211400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Temple Grandin\, Visual Thinking
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Temple Grandin (Thinking In Pictures) for a discussion of her new book\, Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think In Pictures\, Patterns\, and Abstractions. This offsite\, ticketed event will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn and is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and KAZU 90.3. \n \nA landmark book that reveals\, celebrates\, and advocates for the special minds and contributions of visual thinkers. \nA quarter of a century after her memoir\, Thinking in Pictures\, forever changed how the world understood autism\, Temple Grandin—the “anthropologist from Mars\,” as Oliver Sacks dubbed her—transforms our awareness of the different ways our brains are wired. Do you have a keen sense of direction\, a love of puzzles\, the ability to assemble IKEA furniture without crying? You are likely a visual thinker. \nWith her genius for demystifying science\, Grandin draws on cutting-edge research to take us inside visual thinking. Visual thinkers constitute a far greater proportion of the population than previously believed\, she reveals\, and a more varied one\, from the purest “object visualizers” like Grandin herself\, with their intuitive knack for design and problem solving\, to the abstract\, mathematically inclined “visual spatial” thinkers who excel in pattern recognition and systemic thinking. She also makes us understand how a world increasingly geared to the verbal tends to sideline visual thinkers\, screening them out at school and passing over them in the workplace. Rather than continuing to waste their singular gifts\, driving a collective loss in productivity and innovation\, Grandin proposes new approaches to educating\, parenting\, employing\, and collaborating with visual thinkers. In a highly competitive world\, this important book helps us see\, we need every mind on board. \nTemple Grandin is a professor of animal science at Colorado State University and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Animals in Translation\, Animals Make Us Human\, The Autistic Brain\, and Thinking in Pictures\, which became an HBO movie starring Claire Danes. Dr. Grandin has been a pioneer in improving the welfare of farm animals as well as an outspoken advocate for the autism community. She resides in Fort Collins\, Colorado.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/62129/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/temple-grandin_thi.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221018T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221018T190000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20220825T003955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221018T174814Z
UID:10007103-1666119600-1666119600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Celeste Ng\, Our Missing Hearts
DESCRIPTION:Celeste Ng\, number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere\, will be on campus for an event celebrating her new book\, Our Missing Hearts—a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear. Ng will be in-conversation with local writer Ellen Bass. \nThis ticketed event will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn and is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and KAZU 90.3. Tickets include entry to the in-person event plus a hardcover copy of Our Missing Hearts. Guests can purchase tickets here. \nTHI will provide 15 free tickets (with a free copy of the book) to UC Santa Cruz students on a first come\, first served basis. At this time\, all of the student tickets have been claimed. \nOur Missing Hearts is an old story made new\, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injustice. It’s a story about the power–and limitations–of art to create change\, the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children\, and how any of us can survive a broken world with our hearts intact. \nCELESTE NG is the number one New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere. Her third novel\, Our Missing Hearts\, will be published in October 2022. Ng is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation\, and her work has been published in over thirty languages. \nELLEN BASS’s most recent collection\, Indigo\, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020. Her other poetry books include Like a Beggar\, The Human Line\, and Mules of Love. Her poems appear  frequently in The New Yorker\, American Poetry Review\, and many other journals. Among her awards are Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, The NEA\, and The California Arts Council\, The Lambda Literary Award\, and three Pushcart Prizes. A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets\, Bass founded poetry workshops at Salinas Valley State Prison and the Santa Cruz\, California jails\, and teaches in the MFA writing program at Pacific University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/celeste-ng-our-missing-hearts/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Celeste_NG.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220920T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220920T190000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20220802T014512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220915T190359Z
UID:10007102-1663700400-1663700400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Sandra Cisneros\, Woman Without Shame: Poems
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling and award-winning author Sandra Cisneros (The House on Mango Street) will be coming to campus for an in-person event to celebrate the release of her brave new collection\, Woman Without Shame: Poems. This ticketed event\, which will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, is cosponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz\, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and the Research Center for the Americas at UC Santa Cruz. Tickets include entry to the event and a copy of Woman Without Shame. \nPlease note that this event is now SOLD OUT \nIt has been twenty-eight years since Sandra Cisneros published a book of poetry. With dozens of never-before-seen poems\, Woman Without Shame is a moving collection of songs\, elegies\, and declarations that chronicle her pilgrimage toward rebirth and the recognition of her prerogative as a woman artist. These bluntly honest and often humorous meditations on memory\, desire\, and the essential nature of love blaze a path toward self-awareness. For Cisneros\, Woman Without Shame is the culmination of her search for home—in the Mexico of her ancestors and in her own heart. \nSANDRA CISNEROS is a poet\, short story writer\, novelist\, essayist\, performer\, and artist. Her numerous awards include NEA fellowships in both poetry and fiction\, a MacArthur Fellowship\, national and international book awards\, including the PEN America Literary Award\, and the National Medal of Arts. More recently\, she received the Ford Foundation’s Art of Change Fellowship\, was recognized with the Fuller Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature\, and won the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. In addition to her writing\, Cisneros has fostered the careers of many aspiring and emerging writers through two nonprofits she founded: Macondo Writers and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation. As a single woman she made the choice to have books instead of children. A citizen of both the United States and Mexico\, Cisneros currently lives in San Miguel de Allende and makes her living by her pen. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sandra-cisneros-woman-without-shame-poems/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Sandra_Cisneros_Banner.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220504T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220504T193000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20220329T172441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220503T170258Z
UID:10005942-1651687200-1651692600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Deep Read 2022 Faculty Salon
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion with campus faculty and the Deep Read community at the 2022 Deep Read Salon where we’ll discuss Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom. UCSC Chancellor Cynthia Larive—an accomplished bioanalytical chemist—will be joined by Vilashini Coopan (Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies) and Gina Athena Ulysse (Feminist Studies)\, for an evening of discussion and depth. \nCommunity members in Santa Cruz are encouraged to join us in person at the Hay Barn. Everyone else will be able to participate remotely over Zoom. \n \n\n\nSalon Faculty Lineup\nChancellor Cynthia Larive not only leads our campus\, but also is an accomplished bioanalytical chemist and first-generation college graduate. Her academic experience closely tracks to the professional story arc of the novel’s narrator-protagonist. \nVilashini Cooppan is Professor of Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She’ll bring her scholarly approach to comparative and world literature\, postcolonial studies\, memory studies\, affect theory\, and genre theory to our reading and understanding of Transcendent Kingdom. \nGina Athena Ulysse is an artist-scholar and Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz.  She will focus on how the novel negotiates the narrator’s cultural divide as a young Ghanian-born immigrant to the US\, discussing  howshe is seeking to self-actualize from a Black feminist standpoint.   \nAbout The Deep Read\nThis salon is part of The Humanities Institute’s Deep Read Program that invites curious minds to think deeply about literature\, art\, and the most pressing issues of our day. We read books from a wide range of genres\, exploring their implications on our politics\, inner lives\, and communities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deep-read-salon-at-the-cowell-hay-barn/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/DeepReadHeroweek-1.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220407T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220407T210000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20220309T212335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220309T212839Z
UID:10005932-1649358000-1649365200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Reyna Grande\, "A Ballad of Love and Glory"
DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz alumna Reyna Grande will be in conversation with Micah Perks and Sylvanna Falcón about her highly-anticipated new novel\, A Ballad of Love and Glory\, at an in-person event at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. \nThe event is in-person only; no streaming option is available at this time\, and the event will not be recorded. \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 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. \nTickets: \nA limited number of complimentary tickets will be available for UCSC students\, please use this link: \nTickets for UCSC students \nAll other community members can purchase their tickets at the link below: \nGeneral Tickets \nFree event parking will be available on campus. The book signing will take place at the end of the event and will be outdoors (weather permitting). \n  \nTickets are final sale and do not qualify for Bookshop Reader’s Club Credit. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz\, The Research Center for the Americas and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/reyna-grande-a-ballad-of-love-and-glory/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/reyna-grande.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220314T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220314T190000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20220107T214627Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220303T164118Z
UID:10007043-1647279000-1647284400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Agnes Callard - "Inquisitive Politics"
DESCRIPTION:The public intellectual space seems to be dominated by various forms of bullying\, in various kinds of disguise. One person wants to “call out” your bad assumptions; another commands you to concede their point of view. The overall effect\, for participants\, is of being in a tug of war for one’s attentions\, emotions\, allegiance. Is there another way to conduct public intellectual activity? When the matters under discussion are of pressing\, vital importance\, is it really possible to be inquisitive about them? \nAgnes Callard is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Chicago and the author of Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming (Oxford University Press\, 2018). She is a regular contributor to the New York Times and is also noted for her popular writings and work in public philosophy. \nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Series is a lively forum for the discussion and exploration of ethics-related challenges in human endeavors. The Ethics Lecture is made possible by the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Ethics which enables the Humanities Division to promote a dialogue about ethics and ethics related challenges in an interdisciplinary setting. The endowment was established in honor of Peggy Downes Baskin’s longtime interest in ethical issues across the academic spectrum. \nRegister here for in-person attendance. \nRegister here for virtual attendance via Zoom.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/agnes-callard-inquisitive-politics/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Callard-3.14-Event-Page-Banner-01.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220308T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220308T200000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20220208T190815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220302T204535Z
UID:10007061-1646762400-1646769600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Karen Joy Fowler\, Booth
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Man Booker finalist and bestselling local author Karen Joy Fowler (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves) for a discussion of her highly-anticipated novel Booth—an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth. Fowler will be in conversation with award-winning writer Elizabeth McKenzie. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. \nAll attendees must complete UCSC’s COVID-19 Symptom Check Questionnaire on the day of the event\, provide proof of vaccination at the door\, and remain masked for the duration of their time at the event. \nThis event is ticketed–masks and proof of vaccination are required. \n \nAbout the book: \nIn 1822\, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore\, to farm\, to hide\, and to bear ten children over the course of the next sixteen years. Junius Booth—breadwinner\, celebrated Shakespearean actor\, and master of the house in more ways than one—is at once a mesmerizing talent and a man of terrifying instability. One by one the children arrive\, as year by year\, the country draws frighteningly closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war. \nAs the tenor of the world shifts\, the Booths emerge from their hidden lives to cement their place as one of the country’s leading theatrical families. But behind the curtains of the many stages they have graced\, multiple scandals\, family triumphs\, and criminal disasters begin to take their toll\, and the solemn siblings of John Wilkes Booth are left to reckon with the truth behind the destructively specious promise of an early prophecy. \nBooth is a startling portrait of a country in the throes of change and a vivid exploration of the ties that make\, and break\, a family. \nKaren Joy Fowler is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels\, including The Jane Austen Book Club and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves\, which was the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She lives in Santa Cruz\, California. \n  \n \nElizabeth McKenzie’s work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic Monthly\, The Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology\, and recorded for NPR’s Selected Shorts. Her collection\, Stop That Girl\, was short-listed for The Story Prize and her novel\, The Portable Veblen\, was long listed for the National Book Award. She is the senior editor of the Chicago Quarterly Review and the managing editor of Catamaran Literary Reader.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-joy-fowler-booth/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_222954279_491957585747_1_original-2-e1646253914498.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220306T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220306T180000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20220204T200113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220302T203516Z
UID:10007059-1646582400-1646589600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Erik Larson\, The Splendid and the Vile
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes author Erik Larson for a discussion of his #1 New York Times bestseller The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill\, Family\, and Defiance During the Blitz. Larson will be in conversation with UC Santa Cruz Politics Professor Daniel Wirls. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. This event is ticketed and tickets includes entry to the event and a paperback copy of The Splendid and the Vile (publication date: February 15\, 2022). \n \nErik Larson is the author of six New York Times bestsellers\, most recently The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill\, Family\, and Defiance During the Blitz\, which examines how Winston Churchill and his “Secret Circle” went about surviving the German air campaign of 1940-41. Larson’s The Devil in the White City is set to be a Hulu limited series; his In the Garden of Beasts is under option by Tom Hanks for a feature film. He recently published an audio-original ghost story\, No One Goes Alone\, which has been optioned by Chernin Entertainment\, in association with Netflix. His Thunderstruck has been optioned by Sony Pictures Television for a limited TV series. Larson lives in Manhattan with his wife\, who is a writer and retired neonatologist; they have three grown daughters. \nDaniel Wirls is a Professor of Politics at UC Santa Cruz. He received his PhD in Government from Cornell University in 1988 and has been teaching at UC Santa Cruz ever since. Dan’s research interests range across American politics\, institutions\, public policy\, and political history. His five books include The Senate: From White Supremacy to Government Gridlock (2021); Irrational Security: The Politics of Defense from Reagan to Obama\, and The Federalist Papers and Institutional Power in American Political Development. Dan served as a congressional fellow in 1993-94\, working for a member of the House and the Senate\, and currently serves on the board of the Council for a Livable World\, the nation’s oldest anti-nuclear weapons political action committee. \nTickets include entry to the in-person event\, plus a paperback copy of THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE (signed or with bookplate—see below)\n-This event will be hosted on the The University of California\, Santa Cruz campus\, which requires that all visitors must complete UCSC’s COVID-19 Symptom Check Questionnaire the day of the event. Attendees must also provide proof of vaccination at the door\, and remain masked for the duration of their time at the event.\nThe event is in-person only; no streaming option is available at this time and the event will not be recorded.\nBOOKS: \nBooks will become available for pickup beginning on publication date and may be picked up at Bookshop Santa Cruz prior to the event if desired\, however:\n-PLEASE NOTE that due to COVID-19 there will be no public signing line at the event; the author will be pre-signing books (with optional personalization) on the day of the event.\n-If you would like your book to be signed and/or personalized\, it cannot be collected before the event. (Indicate personalization request on the Order screen when purchasing.)\n-If you would like to collect your book ahead of time\, you’ll receive a signed bookplate\, and personalization will not be available.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/erik-larson-the-splendid-and-the-vile/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/erik-larson-750-copy-1.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200310T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200310T193000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20200218T010522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200304T003017Z
UID:10005702-1583859600-1583868600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:The Deep Read Santa Cruz Salon
DESCRIPTION:Focusing on Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments the Santa Cruz Salon will be an opportunity to discuss the book with UCSC professors and your fellow community members. \nSpeakers\n\nDavid Draper\, Statistics\, Director of the College Scholars Program\nMarcia Ochoa\, Feminist Studies\nAndrew S. Mathews\, Anthropology\nModerator: Laura Martin\, Porter College\n\nDetails\n5:00 pm – 7:30 pm Cowell Ranch Hay Barn94 Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95064Parking is available in lot 116\, where hourly parking is available for purchase. Parking is free after 5pm. \n  \nRSVP \nThe Deep Read\n\nThis Salon is part of the broader Deep Read program by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Join other  curious minds to think deeply about literature\, art\, and the most pressing issues of our day.  \nThis event is free and open to the public. UCSC Students\, Faculty\, staff\, and members of the Santa Cruz community are all welcome.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-deep-read-salon/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SC-Salon-1024x576-2.20.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190605T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190605T190000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20190313T211623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190531T182900Z
UID:10005591-1559750400-1559761200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Humanities Spring Awards
DESCRIPTION:Annual Humanities Spring Awards Celebration at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn on Wednesday\, June 5th\, starting at 4:00 pm. The event includes the Spring Awards ceremony for undergraduate achievements\, the Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellows poster session\, and a celebration of faculty milestones. \nThe Humanities Spring Awards Celebration is a wonderful opportunity for staff\, faculty\, alumni\, students and their families to all come together to recognize and honor excellence and outstanding achievement across the division. \nWednesday\, June 5\, 2019 \nUCSC Cowell Ranch Hay Barn \nFriends and family welcome to attend \n4:00-5:00 pm\nSpring Awards Ceremony\nOpening remarks by Acting Humanities Dean Karen Bassi and EVC Tromp \n5:00-5:30 pm \nUndergraduate Research Fellowship Poster Session \n5:30-7:00 pm \nFaculty Milestone Celebration \nADA parking will be available at Cowell Ranch Hay Barn.\nGeneral parking will be across Coolidge Drive in Parking Lot 116. \nFor questions\, please contact Rafferty Lincoln at rlincoln@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-spring-awards-2019/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Screen-Shot-2019-05-31-at-11.23.50-AM.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190402T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190402T190000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20190123T204317Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190515T174012Z
UID:10005565-1554231600-1554231600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Laurie Halse Anderson Book Launch: SHOUT
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos by Crystal Birns: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \nLaurie Halse Anderson is a New York Times bestselling author whose writing spans young readers\, teens\, and new adults. Combined\, her books have sold more than 8 million copies. She has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award three times. Two of her books\, Speak and Chains\, were National Book Award finalists\, and Chainswas short-listed for the prestigious Carnegie medal. Laurie was selected by the American Library Association for the 2009 Margaret A. Edwards Award and has been honored for her battles for intellectual freedom by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the National Council of Teachers of English. Join us for a discussion and signing of her new book\, SHOUT – a searing poetic memoir for the #MeToo era. \nLaurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about\, and advocates for\, survivors of sexual assault. In 1999\, her groundbreaking\, award-winning novel Speak opened the door for a national dialogue about rape culture and consent. Now\, twenty years later\, she reveals her personal history as a rape survivor in a searing poetic memoir\, SHOUT. \nIn free verse\, Anderson shares reflections\, rants\, and calls to action woven between deeply personal stories from her life that she’s never written about before. Searing and soul-searching\, devastating and triumphant\, SHOUT is a denouncement of our society’s failures and a love letter to all the people with the courage to say #MeToo and #TimesUp\, whether aloud\, online\, or only in their own hearts. \nModerated by Sabaa Tahir \nSabaa Tahir is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the An Ember in the Ashes series. She grew up in California’s Mojave Desert at her family’s eighteen-room motel. There\, she spent her time devouring fantasy novels\, raiding her brother’s comic book stash\, and playing guitar badly. She began writing An Ember in the Ashes while working nights as a newspaper editor. She likes thunderous indie rock\, garish socks\, and all things nerd. Sabaa currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family. \nCo-sponsored by the UCSC Title IX office\, Cowell College\, and UCSC First Gen Initiative \n \nIMPORTANT INFORMATION: \n\nThis event is for mature audiences only; children under 13 will not be admitted.\nAttendees must purchase a copy of SHOUT from Bookshop Santa Cruz either in store or at the event to enter the signing line.\nGet a copy of SHOUT at Bookshop Santa Cruz\, at the event\, or at www.bookshopsantacruz.com.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/laurie-halse-anderson-book-launch-shout/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Halse-Anderson-Shout-750-copy.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T190000
DTSTAMP:20260502T041259
CREATED:20180921T202129Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190918T180746Z
UID:10005516-1550685600-1550689200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:James Loeffler\, “The Right to Be Heard – Jews\, Human Rights\, and Global Democracy"
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos by Crystal Birns: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \nPresented by The Humanities Institute and The Center for Jewish Studies \n2018 marked the 70th anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights amid a time of crisis for global democracy. It is imperative that we revisit the history of the modern Human Rights movement and reexamine the relationship between the Holocaust\, the legal framework of Human Rights\, and the struggle to find justice on the global scale. \n\n\nIn this talk\, James Loeffler draws on his new book\, Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century\, to revisit the 1948 moment in which modern human rights was born. This talk will also address the challenges and opportunities for minorities and stateless peoples by focusing on Jewish human rights pioneers who saw the Jewish state as an expression of global democracy. Join THI to ask where Human Rights come from\, how Jews are part of the story\, and if Zionism is in conflict with the modern Human Rights movement? \n\n\n\nRSVP appreciated\, seating is first come\, first served. Reception to follow. \n \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by February 16th. \nParking and Directions to the UC Santa Cruz Cowell Ranch Hay Barn  \n  \nJames Loeffler is Jay Berkowitz Professor of Jewish History at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Between 2013 and 2015 he was a Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellow in International Law and Dean’s Visiting Scholar at the Georgetown University Law Center. At UVa he teaches courses in Jewish and European history\, Russian and East European history\, international legal history\, and the history of human rights. \nHis publications include Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (Yale University Press\, 2018) and The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire (Yale University Press\, 2010)\, and the forthcoming edited volume\, The Law of Strangers: Jewish Lawyering and International Law in Historical Perspective (Cambridge University Press). \nThis event is part of the THI Data and Democracy Initiative\, a project of Expanding Humanities\, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. \n— \nThe Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies \nEvery year\, we honor Helen Diller\, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, by hosting a public lecture on campus by an internationally recognized scholar. \nVisit our lecture archive online >
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jim-loeffler-helen-diller/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/trtbh-events_page.png
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR