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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T180000
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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
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