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SUMMARY:The Trial of Spock — An Opera Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The creators of The Trial of Spock—An Opera In Three Acts present concert performances of five scenes from an opera-in-progress at the UC Santa Cruz Music Center Recital Hall. \nCaptain Christopher Pike is gravely injured. Lieutenant Spock is behaving strangely. Charged with protecting Pike in his state of extreme need\,Vulcan Commodore T’or suspects that Lieutenant Spock—once Captain Pike’s science officer—is up to no good. Spock’s Captain\, James T. Kirk\, doesn’t see the trouble until far too late\, and soon Spock holds all of them prisoner aboard a ship destined for the “forbidden planet” Talos IV. He refuses to say a word about their fate—not until his superiors agree to give him his trial. Under oath\, and with strange evidence\, Spock tells the story of Captain Pike’s first visit to Talos IV\, where illusion and artificial experiences plunge Pike and fellow captive Vina into uncharted dimensions of their memories\, and their concepts of self. \nJoin sopranos Nicole Koh\, Sheila Willey\, and Emily Sinclair; tenors Alex Boyer and Nicolas Vasquez-Gerst\, baritones Joseph Calzada and Michael Kuo\, and the Del Sol Quartet\, as they distort the myth of Orpheus\, in order to re-think our presumed relationships to freedom and reality\, and its augmentations. \n \nMusic by Ben Leeds Carson; libretto by Perre DiCarlo & Ben Leeds Carson and Lincoln & Lee Taiz; with contributions from John de Lancie\, based on teleplays by Gene Roddenberry. \nJoin us for “Questions that Matter – How to Live Long and Prosper: Lessons from a Star Trek Opera\,” a follow up conversation about the opera at Kuumbwa Jazz Center on March 13th. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-trial-of-spock-an-opera-workshop/
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SUMMARY:Zionism: Past\, Present\, Future?
DESCRIPTION:Zionism is one of the most fraught terms in contemporary politics. But what exactly is Zionism\, what is its history\, and what have been (and are today) its many meanings to diverse groups? Why have so many embraced different versions of Zionism\, and\, on the flip side\, why and how has Zionism been critiqued\, both among its proponents as well as its detractors? What is the future of Zionism\, particularly in the wake of Israel’s devastating assaults on Gaza and Lebanon following the Hamas organized massacres of Israelis on Oct. 7\, 2023? Please join the UCSC Center for Jewish Studies in a panel conversation featuring\, Liora Halperin (University of Washington)\, Shaul Magid (Dartmouth)\, and Dov Waxman (UCLA); prominent scholars of the history of Zionism\, who will address these questions and many more. \n \nRegistration required for event entry. Seating will be first come\, first served. \n Prof. Halperin is Professor of International Studies and History\, and Distinguished Endowed Chair of Jewish Studies\, at the University of Washington. She is an historian of Israel/Palestine with particular interests in nationalism and collective memory\, Jewish cultural and social history\, language ideology and policy\, and the politics of colonization and settlement. She is the author of The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past (Stanford\, 2021)\, a study of the European Jewish agricultural colonies established in late nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine and the politics of their twentieth-century commemoration and Babel in Zion: Jews\, Nationalism\, and Language Diversity in Palestine\, 1920-1948 (Yale\, 2015)\, which was awarded the Shapiro Prize from the Association for Israel Studies for the best book in Israel Studies. She is currently working on a book about the diverse urban Jewish communities of late 19th/early 20th century Ottoman Palestine and the way a wide range of later groups and political movements\, both Zionist and anti-Zionist\, have commemorated and promoted narratives about this history. \nShaul Magid is a rabbi\, Visiting Professor of Modern Jewish Studies at Harvard Divinity School\, and Distinguished Fellow in Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. He teaches Modern Judaism at Harvard Divinity School and is a senior research fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard. He has written extensively on Zionism\, anti-Zionism\, Diasporism\, and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. He is the author of many books and essays\, most recently Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical (2021) and The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance (2023). His present book project is The Political Theology of Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar – Zionism as Anti-Messianism. \nDov Waxman is the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies at the University of California\, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is the author of four books: The Pursuit of Peace and The Crisis of Israeli Identity: Defending / Defining the Nation (2006)\, Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within (2011)\, Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel (2016)\, and The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know (2019). His writing has also been published in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Los Angeles Times\, The Guardian\, The Atlantic\, Time\, Slate\, and many other publications. \n  \nThis event is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies and co-sponsored by Porter College.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/zionism-past-present-future/
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SUMMARY:Bilingual California/California Bilingüe: Fronteras y Futuros
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Professor Ana Celia Zentella (professor emerita\, UC San Diego) to discuss the political\, social\, and educational barriers that California’s Spanish-English bilinguals must overcome to ensure a bilingual future for themselves and their children. She suggests ways that students\, parents\, teachers\, university faculty and community groups can contribute successfully. \n \nThis event is free and open to the public with free parking. \nCalifornia is the state with the largest number of Spanish speakers in the USA; the approximately 15 million Spanish speakers represent 39.09 % of the state’s population (U.S. Census Bureau\, 2024). The large numbers and long history of Spanish in California (as the official administrative language from 1542 to 1848) suggest the continuity of the language and bilingualism are ensured. But the state’s Spanish speakers\, primarily of Mexican and other increasingly diverse origins\, cross many political\, economic\, racial\, and linguistic fronteras to arrive\, survive\, and thrive in California. The bilingual future of immigrants and their children and grandchildren is impeded by multiple barriers\, beyond concrete walls at the border. We can and must ensure un futuro bilingüe with our teaching\, research\, and community outreach. \nMajor barreras include the demonization of Latinus and our Spanish and English by many – including political leaders – restrictive employment policies\, and limited educational programs. In southern California\, studies of border high school Latinus\, Anglo university students\, and transfronterizus – those who cross the border from Mexico to study in California – reveal that monolingual English speakers are not the only promoters of dismissive attitudes towards diverse ways of speaking Spanish and English. Labels like “fresas\,” “nacos\,” “sociales\,” and “pochos mochos” build intra-Latinu walls and impede bilingual fluency\, and Spanglish is widely misunderstood and maligned. \nLEVANTA LA VOZ in the classroom and the community! \nWe must advocate for effective bilingual instruction that confronts these barriers\, and organize parent workshops and dance and poetry projects that involve the community. Student and faculty research should be shared with political leaders\, newspapers\, and social media platforms. And let’s all celebrate International Mother Language Day on February 21st in creative ways. But what do you think will help guarantee el futuro bilingüe de California? \nThis event is the keynote address of the 1st Symposium on Spanish-English bilingualism in California\, which will bring together leading scholars investigating the linguistic practices and patterns of variation across Spanish-English bilinguals throughout the state of California. This inaugural symposium will serve to engage researchers in cross-campus collaborations and interdisciplinary initiatives. Please visit the Symposium event page for more information. \nAna Celia Zentella\, professor emerita (University of California\, San Diego and Hunter College)\, is an anthro-political linguist recognized for her research on US Latinu languages\, language socialization\, “Spanglish\,” and “English-only” laws. In 1996\, Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger declared October 30 “Doctor Ana Celia Zentella Day” for “her leading role in building appreciation for language diversity and respect for language rights.” In 2015\, the Latin American Studies Association’s Latino Section honored Zentella as Public Intellectual of the Year. In 2016\, she received the Award for Public Outreach & and Community Service from the Society for Linguistic Anthropology. Professor Zentella was Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022\, and received the Distinguished Career Award from the Association of Latina/o and Latinx Anthropologists in 2023. \nThis event is sponsored by the Bilingualism Research Lab\, Multilingual Hispanic Speech in CA\, the Comparative Language Sciences Project\, and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by October 4\, 2024.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bilingual-california-california-bilingue-fronteras-y-futuros/
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SUMMARY:What Actually Happened in 1619: The Origins of Slavery in North America
DESCRIPTION:The New York Times’s The 1619 Project sparked controversy and conversation across the United States about the history and legacies of slavery. The project drew its name from a date\, 1619\, connected to the origins of American slavery\, and its publication coincided with the four-hundredth anniversary of that event. \nBut what actually happened in 1619? The essays collected in The 1619 Project and the important public conversations that followed only touch on the events of that year\, or even on the slave trade more generally. The 1619 Project focuses crucial attention on “arguing that slavery and its legacy have profoundly shaped modern American life\,” with essays on slavery’s long-term impacts on American democracy\, capitalism\, incarceration\, and even modern transportation. \nExploring these modern legacies is crucial\, but many people still have only hazy notions of why 1619 was a key turning point. \nThis public event brings three historians of slavery together—one focused on the importance of slavery to colonial empires\, one focused on captive experiences and health in the slave trade\, and one focused on the introduction of African maritime culture (and surfing!) into the Americas—to wrestle with the question: What actually happened in 1619? \nJoin Professors Elise Mitchell (Princeton)\, Kevin Dawson (UC Merced)\, and Greg O’Malley (UC Santa Cruz) as we explore this issue in a free public forum. \n \n  \nEvent Parking:\n– A valid UCSC permit -OR- ParkMobile payment is required to park in all parking spaces on campus.\n– If parking lot attendants are on site\, guests can obtain a free permit to parking in lot 126. Attendants are scheduled to be on site from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM for this event. Otherwise\, purchase a permit using the ParkMobile app. \nThis event is presented by the Humanities Institutes and funded by a UC-MRPI Grant.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/what-actually-happened-in-1619-the-origins-of-slavery-in-north-america/
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SUMMARY:Amitav Ghosh: "Unmuting the Brutes: Human and Non-human After the Collapse of ‘Civilization’"
DESCRIPTION:CREDITLINE PHOTO: Ivo van der Bent. 22-01-2019 Amitav Ghosh in Amsterdam.\nThe Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present Beyond the End of the World Lecture Series \nAMITAV GHOSH \nThursday\, February 27\, 2020 @ 7 PM\nMusic Recital Hall\, UC Santa Cruz\nFree & open to the public with registration\nBook signing after the talk\, hosted by Bookshop Santa Cruz \n \n  \n  \nThe idea of the ‘human’ dates back to the founding of modernity\, now hurtling towards collapse. As this process intensifies it may bring about a fundamental reconsideration of modern ideas regarding which entities possess such attributes as agency\, speech\, and reason. If so what kinds of narratives and knowledge traditions can we turn to for guidance about what might lie ahead? \nAmitav Ghosh is an award-winning writer\, who was born in Calcutta and grew up in India\, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He is the author of two books of non-fiction\, including The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016)\, a collection of essays\, and ten novels. In 2018 he became the first English-language writer to receive India’s highest literary honor\, the Jnanpith Award. His most recent publication is Gun Island\, a novel. \nBeyond the End of the World comprises a year-long research and exhibition project and public lecture series\, directed by T. J. Demos of UCSC’s Center for Creative Ecologies. The project brings leading international thinkers and cultural practitioners to UC Santa Cruz to discuss what lies beyond dystopian catastrophism\, and asks how we can cultivate radical futures of social justice and ecological flourishing. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture and administered by The Humanities Institute. For more information visit BEYOND.UCSC.EDU \nPresented in partnership with the Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture. The Maitra lecture series\, established in 2001\, seeks to enrich the intellectual life of UC Santa Cruz and the Santa Cruz community. \nCo-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \nDirections and Parking:\nThe UCSC Music Recital Hall is located at 402 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95064\nParking lot attendants will be on site to sell permits and direct guests to available parking in the Performing Arts parking lot #126. The cost for parking is $5. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact the The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-5655.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/amitav-ghosh-maitra-lecture/
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SUMMARY:Morton Marcus Poetry Reading: Gary Soto
DESCRIPTION:  \nEvent Photos by Crystal Birns: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nGary Soto has published more than forty books for children\, young adults and adults\, including Too Many Tamales\, Chato’s Kitchen\, Baseball in April\, Buried Onions and The Elements of San Joaquin. He is the author of In and Out of Shadows\, a musical about undocumented youth and\, most recently\, The Afterlife\, a one-act play about teen murder and teen suicide. \nEvent Program:\nPoet Gary Young\, will host the program\, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1\,000 prize). The reading will conclude with a book signing and reception. RSVP appreciated – seating is first come\, first served. \n \nDoors open at 6:30pm \nProgram begins at 7:00pm \nAbout Morton Marcus:\nThe Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors poet\, teacher\, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009). Marcus\, a nationally acclaimed poet\, called Santa Cruz his home for more than fifty years. This annual poetry series continues Mort’s tradition of bringing acclaimed poets to Santa Cruz County\, continues to acknowledge the significant role poetry has played in our community’s history\, and works to maintain poetry’s influence in our county’s culture. For more information visit www.mortonmarcus.com. You can also view the Morton Marcus Archive in Special Collections at UCSC. \nThis community event is presented by the The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by: \nBookshop Santa Cruz\nCabrillo College English Department\nCowell College\nLiving Writers Series\nOw Family Properties\nPoetry Santa Cruz\nPorter Hitchcock Modern Poetry Fund\nPorter College\nSanta Cruz Writes\nSpecial Collections & Archives \nDirections and Parking:\nThe UCSC Music Recital Hall is located at 402 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95064\nParking lot attendants will be on site to sell permits and direct guests to available parking in the Performing Arts parking lot #126. The cost for parking is $5.\nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by November 4th\, 2019.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/morton-marcus-poetry-reading-gary-soto/
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SUMMARY:Riyaaz Qawwali Performance - Sufi Music Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:Qawwali is a musical tradition from present-day India\, Pakistan\, and Afghanistan\, dating back 700 years. The group Riyaaz Qawwali brings 13th-century Sufi music to life by overcoming cultural and linguistic barriers\, translating lyrics to unravel the cultural heritage of South Asian devotional music. Trained in Eastern and Western classical music\, the members have been professionally performing qawwali for the past twelve years. \nRiyaaz Qawwali represents the diversity and plurality of South Asia: the ensemble’s musicians\, who are settled in the United States\, hail from India\, Pakistan\, Afghanistan\, and Bangladesh and represent multiple religious and spiritual backgrounds. Click here to learn more about the ensemble. \n \n$10 – General Admission \n$4 – UCSC Students with ID \nDay-of-event ticket window opens at 6:30PM\nDoors open at 7:00PM\nParking permit: $5 (cash or credit via attendant in Arts Lot 126) \n  \nPresented by the Kamil and Talat Hasan Chair in Classical Indian Music\, the Ali Akbar Khan Endowment for Indian Classical Music\, and the UC Santa Cruz Music Department. Co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies and The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/riyaaz-qawwali-performance-sufi-music-ensemble/
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SUMMARY:The Original Thinkers Series: A Conversation About Oliver Sacks
DESCRIPTION:Please note a recent change to our lineup: Peabody Award-wining journalist and producer Nikki Silva (Porter\, ’73) and Cowell College Provost Alan Christy will engage Ren Weschler in conversation about Oliver Sacks. Robert Krulwich is unable to join us this evening. Please enjoy this recent Kitchen Sisters episode of The Keepers featuring Ren Weschler. \nAnd How Are You\, Dr. Sacks? is a biographical memoir about Oliver Sacks written by Ren Weschler (Cowell ’74). It is the definitive portrait of Sacks as our preeminent romantic scientist\, a self-described “clinical ontologist” whose entire practice revolved around the single fundamental question he effectively asked each of his patients: How are you? A question which Ren\, with this book\, turns back on the good doctor himself. \nMonday\, October 21\, 7:00–9:00 p.m. \nMusic Center Recital Hall\, UC Santa Cruz \n \nQuestions?\nContact the Special Events Office at specialevents@ucsc.edu or (831) 459-5003. \nSPEAKERS \n\n\nLawrence (Ren) Weschler \nA graduate of Cowell College (1974)\, Ren Weschler writes in LitHub about his earliest awareness of Sacks. Ren was a staff writer for more than 20 years (1981–2002) at The New Yorker. The director emeritus of the NY Institute for the Humanities at NYU\, Ren is also the author of more than 20 books\, including Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder and Vermeer in Bosnia. \n  \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/original-thinkers-robert-krulwich-and-ren-weschler/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190226T190000
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SUMMARY:Lise Getoor: "Responsible Data Science"
DESCRIPTION:The 53rd Annual Faculty Research Lecture will be given by Professor Lise Getoor on Tuesday\, February 26\, 2019 at the Music Recital Hall in the Performing Arts Complex. \n“Responsible Data Science” \nData science is an emerging discipline that offers both promise and peril. Responsible data science refers to efforts that address both the technical and societal issues in emerging data-driven technologies. Prof. Getoor is a computer scientist who is well known for her theoretical work that integrates logic and probability to reason collectively and holistically about context in structured domains. In this lecture\, she will describe some of the opportunities and challenges in developing the foundations for responsible data science. How can machine learning and AI systems reason effectively about complex dependencies and uncertainty? Furthermore\, how do we understand the ethical and justice issues involved in data-driven decision-making? There is a pressing need to integrate algorithmic and statistical principles\, social science theories\, and basic humanist concepts so that we can think critically and constructively about the socio-technical systems we are building. In this talk\, she will lay the groundwork for this important agenda.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lise-getoor-responsible-data-science/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170213T190000
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SUMMARY:Waves Passing in the Night: a Conversation on Astrophysics\, Harmony\, and Boundaries
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos: by Steve Kurtz\n \n  \nUC Santa Cruz Original Thinkers Series \nCowell College and the Institute for Humanities Research Present \nWaves Passing in the Night\nMonday\, February 13\, 7 p.m.\nFollowed by dessert reception and book signing\nMusic Recital Hall\, UC Santa Cruz \nPlease join Chancellor George Blumenthal\, Walter Murch\, a three-time Academy Award-winning sound and film editor\, and author Lawrence (Ren) Weschler (Cowell ’74)\, with astronomer Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz for a conversation on astrophysics\, harmony\, and boundaries.\n\n$10 ticket includes parking in the Performing Arts lot. Free admission for Students who register.\nRen Weschler’s book on Walter Murch\, “Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the land of Astrophysics\,” releases in January 2017. Murch is a 3-time Academy Award-winning sound and film editor with an interest in astrophysics. As a consummate outsider\, Murch had a hard time attracting any sort of comprehensive hearing from professional astrophysicists. However\, Murch has made advances that even some of them find intriguing\, including a connection between Titius Bode and earlier notions–going back past Kepler and Pythagorus–of musical harmony in the heavens.\n“It is controversy that brings science alive.”\n– Lee Smolin\, theoretical physicis\nBrought to you by Cowell College\, in partnership with the Institute for Humanities Research\, Astronomy & Astrophysics Department\, and Film & Digital Media Department. \nQuestions? UC Santa Cruz Special Events Office. Specialevents@ucsc.edu or (831)459-5003 \nAbout the book – Waves Passing in the Night\nFrom Pulitzer Prize nominee Lawrence Weschler\, a fascinating profile of Walter Murch\, a film legend and amateur astrophysicist whose investigations could reshape our understanding of the universe. Click here for more information. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n  \n  \nAbout the Speakers:\nWalter Murch\nMurch has been a Hollywood sound editor for over 45 years\, and has worked with such names as Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. He has won three Academy Awards—one for his work on Apocalypse Now (Best Sound) and two for The English Patient (Best Sound and Best Film Editing). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nLawrence (Ren) Weschler\nA graduate of Cowell College (1974)\, Weschler was a staff writer for over twenty years (1981–2002) at The New Yorker\, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award (for Cultural Reporting in 1988 and Magazine Reporting in 1992) and was also a recipient of Lannan Literary Award (1998). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nEnrico Ramirez-Ruiz\nRamirez-Ruiz is a professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz with a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the violent universe with an emphasis on stellar explosions\, gamma-ray bursts and accretion phenomena. Ramirez-Ruiz is one of the seven international scholars selected this year for the Niels Bohr Professorship Program\, which aims to attract top international researchers to Danish Universities. He leads the international research collaboration in theoretical astrophysics and splits his time between UC Santa Cruz and the University of Copenhagen. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/waves-passing-in-the-night-2/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall
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