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SUMMARY:The Deep Read: A Conversation with Percival Everett
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free\, public conversation with author\, Percival Everett\, at UC Santa Cruz’s Quarry Amphitheater on May 4 at 4pm. He’ll discuss his National Book Award-winning novel James with Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead\, Professor of Literature Vilashini Cooppan.  We’ll consider how Everett depicts the possibility of humanity in this novel about the brutality of slavery\, the performance of race\, and the value of language and literacy. Doors open at 3pm\, and we’ll be entertained before the author event from 3-4pm by The Cedar Street Jazz Duo featuring cellist Dr. Renata Bratt and guitarist Brian Fitzgerald. \n \nEvent Logistics: All guest parking will take place at the East Remote Parking Lot (Lot 104). Parking will be free on Sunday. We encourage sustainable transport such as carpooling\, biking\, or utilizing METRO transit services whenever possible. Enter campus through UCSC’s main entrance located at the intersection of Bay and High St. There will be signs directing you to the “Quarry Event.” Shuttle services will be provided. If guests are planning to walk from the lot\, please make time for a 15- 20 walk to the Quarry Amphitheater gates. ADA parking will be located at the Bay Tree Bookstore Parking Lot 102. Each vehicle must display a valid\, DMV-issued ADA placard or plate to be able to park in this area. For these and any further ADA accessibility accommodations please email Quarry@ucsc.edu. \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-a-conversation-with-percival-everett/
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SUMMARY:57th Annual Faculty Research Lecture featuring Professor Gina Athena Ulysse
DESCRIPTION:The UC Santa Cruz Academic Senate is delighted to invite you to the 57th Annual Faculty Research Lecture Featuring Professor Gina Athena Ulysse\, Feminist Studies Department: \nThe Whole Time…\nA Redwoods Rasanblaj Epic Poem\nsou 7 Pwen \nInspired by Sinéad O’Connor and 11th Hour’s caffeine chronicles\, this epic stream of consciousness ethnographic poem meditates on origins\, a theory of everything\, the dark arts\, shadow work in the upside down of arboreal classrooms in these redwoods on Indigenous Land of the so-called holy cross… \nLacing ancestral chants\, cosmos spaciousness\, history with misfit tales\, and popular song\, this non psychedelic surrealist journey explores the contours of linear and all-around time in search of aliveness on scorched earth while ruminating on the impossibility of all sentient beings everywhere experiencing peace among the plantocracy with their disdain for brilliance where praxis is a floating signifier and our humanity is routinely questioned. Improv dance by Linda Isabelle Francois Obas. \n \n  \nGina Athena Ulysse is a Haitian American feminist artist-scholar. In the last three decades\, her decolonial work as a cultural anthropologist has engaged in crossings and dialogues between the arts\, humanities\, and the social sciences. Her practice is rooted in what she calls rasanblaj – a gathering of ideas\, people\, things\, and spirits. Her latest book is an abridged compilation A Call to Rasanblaj: Black Feminist Futures and Ethnographic Aesthetics (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung\, 2023) edited and with an interview by Penelope Papailas is translated in Greek by Vangelis Poulios. Her visual art has been featured on the covers of Frontiers\, Feminist Formations\, Meridians\, and Feminist Studies. Over the years\, she has performed at The Bowery\, Bluestockings Bookstore\, The British Museum\, Brooklyn Museum\, Cabaret Voltaire\, Gorki Theatre\, LaMaMa\, Marcus Garvey Liberty Hall\, MoMA Salon among other venues. She was an invited artist in the Biennale of Sydney in Australia in 2020. She will be participating in the Biennale of Dakar\, Senegal\, Spring 2024. \nLinda Isabelle Francois Obas is an internationally known Haytian choreographer\, performer and sociocultural activist. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of XPression Ayiti (2017) a dance company that is based on Haitian traditional dances. She was professionally trained in Haiti with JeanGuy Saintus\, Jean Rene Delsoin\, Gerald Florestal in classical techniques\, modern dance\, jazz and other forms. Her solo and company performances have been presented in colleges\, concert theatres and festivals in Barbados\, Benin\, Cyprus\, Dominican Republic\, Guadeloupe\, Guyana\, Jamaica\, Japan\, The United States and Trinidad to name a few. She is developing Thera-LakAy\, her holistic dance teaching pedagogy that relies on Haitian spirituality and traditional dance. \n\nEvent Details \n\nThis event is free and open to the public. Seating will begin at 5:30 p.m.\nParking permits will be available for purchase for $5 in lot 101 at Hahn Student Services\, ”A” permits are required during the week until 8 p.m. Park Mobile options are available in this same lot. Please follow the event signage at the base of campus and a parking attendant will assist you.\nThe lecture will be held in person and also available to view via livestream.\n\nQuestions? Please contact the University Events Office at specialevents@ucsc.edu \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/57th-annual-faculty-research-lecture-featuring-professor-gina-athena-ulysse/
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SUMMARY:Climate Justice Leaders: Voices from the Pajaro Valley
DESCRIPTION:Dive into the heart of climate justice at the Center for Reimagining Leadership’s inaugural event. Join us for an enlightening panel discussion on October 3rd\, 2023\, as we illuminate the untold stories of the Pajaro Valley Levee Breach. Explore leadership in emergencies\, environmental equity\, and community resilience through the eyes of local climate justice leaders. This event goes beyond conversation – we invite you to be a part of the solution\, contributing to the healing of the Pajaro Valley community. Brought to you by UCSC Center for Reimagining Leadership and moderated by Ayo Banjo. Don’t miss the chance to engage\, learn\, and take action for a more just world. \nPanelists:\nKeisha Browder\, CEO United Way Santa Cruz County\nMireya Gomez Contreras\, Co-Director Esperanza Community Farms\nMaria Elena de la Garza\, Executive Director\, Community Action Board\nErika Zavaleta\, Professor Ecology and Evolutionary Biology\, UCSC \nModerator: National Organizer Ayo Banjo \nCo-sponsored by Porter College\, John R. Lewis College\, College Nine\, Merrill College\, Oakes College\, Kresge College\, Cowell College\, Rachel Carson College\, The Humanities Institute\, Office of CP/EVC\, Vera Rubin Presidential Chair\, The Heising-Simons Foundation\, and The Center for Coastal Climate Resilience
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/climate-justice-leaders-voices-from-the-pajaro-valley/
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SUMMARY:The Deep Read: Elizabeth Kolbert in Conversation with Ezra Klein
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the culminating event of the 2023 Deep Read—a live discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Elizabeth Kolbert and NY Times columnist and podcast host Ezra Klein. We’ll discuss this year’s Deep Read book\, Under a White Sky\, which depicts the stark changes and emerging technologies affecting our climate and world. \nThis event will take place at the UC Santa Cruz Quarry Amphitheater. Students\, staff\, alumni\, and the broader community are invited to join and think deeply with two of the greatest minds working today to explain our complicated world. While this event will not be live streamed\, it will be recorded. Deep Read Community members will be the first to receive the video once it goes live following the event. \n\nSchedule\n3:00pm – Meet our community partners\n4:00pm – Program begins \nAbout the Speakers\n Elizabeth Kolbert has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1999. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History\, her book about mass extinctions that weaves intellectual and natural history with reporting in the field began as an article in The New Yorker. It won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in the General Nonfiction category and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle awards for the best books of 2014. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future was a national bestseller and was named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post\, Time\, Esquire\, Smithsonian Magazine\, Publishers Weekly\, Kirkus Reviews\, and Library Journal. \nEzra Klein is an Opinion columnist and podcast host at the New York Times. His podcast\, The Ezra Klein Show\, receives more than a half-million downloads per episode and is routinely in the top 25 podcasts on Apple’s charts. Prior to his work at the Times\, Klein founded and launched Vox\, the popular explanatory news site. As Vox’s editor-in-chief\, and then its editor-at-large\, he helped create Explained on Netflix. In 2020\, Klein published Why We’re Polarized\, a bestselling examination of the forces driving polarization and paralyzing politics in the United States. Klein is a UC Santa Cruz alumnus. \nParking\nFree parking for this event will be in the East Remote Lot 104. There will be free shuttles taking attendees from the parking lot to the venue. \nDeep Read Faculty Salon\nOn 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 the book with UCSC students and the broader Deep Read community. Learn more here. \n\n\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-elizabeth-kolbert-in-conversation-with-ezra-klein/
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SUMMARY:The Deep Read: A Conversation with Yaa Gyasi
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a live discussion May 15 at the Quarry Amphitheater with novelist Yaa Gyasi and UC Santa Cruz Professor Emerita of Literature Karen Tei Yamashita\, as we close the book on the 2022 Deep Read exploration of Transcendent Kingdom. We’ll discuss the conditions of cultural assimilation for immigrants to the United States\, religious faith vs. scientific inquiry\, and the experience of first-generation students in higher education. \n\n                                                               \n\n\n\nParking\nFree parking for this event will be in the East Remote Lot 104. There will be free shuttles taking attendees from the parking lot to the venue. \nSchedule\n3:30 – 4:00pm: Doors open. UCSC Music Lecturer Francis Akotuah will perform Ghanian drumming with an ensemble \n4:00 – 5:00pm: Yaa Gyasi and Karen Tei Yamashita in conversion \n5:00 – 5:30pm: Q&A with Yaa Gyasi \n\n\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/yaa-gyasi/
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SUMMARY:Postponed - The Deep Read: Margaret Atwood
DESCRIPTION:3/16/2020: If you have been following the news\, you’re aware that many gatherings across the country have been canceled in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus). \nFollowing guidance from local health experts\, UC Santa Cruz will postpone the Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture featuring Margaret Atwood\, originally scheduled for April 5. We hope to share a new date for this event soon. \nRefunds on ticket purchases will be processed soon\, and you will receive a notification confirming the refund directly from the ticketing system. \nOne way to stay connected virtually is to participate in The Humanities Institute’s new program\, The Deep Read\, which invites curious minds to think deeply and engage virtually about literature and art. Our first Deep Read is Atwood’s The Testaments. You can sign up to receive weeks of digital programming and prepare for Margaret Atwood’s future visit to UC Santa Cruz. \nOur priority is to ensure the health and safety of our alumni\, community\, guest speakers\, students\, and staff. We appreciate your patience as UCSC strives to sustain its mission of teaching\, research\, public service\, and community engagement during these unprecedented times. \nBelow were the April event details. This will be updated once there is more info on the new date.  \nJoin us as we welcome writer Margaret Atwood to the UC Santa Cruz campus to discuss her award winning books\, and the ways in which her fiction reflects our cultural and political realities. Atwood will be in conversation with author Kate Schatz (Stevenson ‘01\, Creative Writing)\, the New York Times-bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z. \nTickets \nAdmission is $30. \nWhere\nQuarry Amphitheater\, UC Santa Cruz \nWhen\nSunday April 5 at 5pm\nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture & Alumni Weekend Keynote \nThis event is part of The Deep Read\, a new program by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz that invites curious minds to think deeply about literature\, art\, and the most pressing issues of our day. We’ll read books from a wide range of genres\, exploring their implications on our politics\, inner lives\, and communities. \nMargaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction\, poetry and critical essays. Her most recent\, record-breaking novel\, The Testaments—sequel to her 1985 classic The Handmaid’s Tale—won the 2019 Booker Prize. Her other work includes the Giller and Booker Prize-shortlisted Oryx and Crake\, as well as Alias Grace\, The Robber Bride\, Cat’s Eye\, and Booker winner The Blind Assassin.
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SUMMARY:Campus 50th Anniversary Kickoff: Dress Up Like It's 1965!
DESCRIPTION:Join us in Quarry Plaza for a fun 50th kick-off event. Come dressed up like it’s 1965\, be photographed by a professional photographer\, and compete for the best outfit. \nNoon to 2pm\nJanuary 15\, 2015\, at Quarry Plaza \nWhat did they actually wear in 1965? \nFollow our social media channels for hot tips from UC Santa Cruz alumna and Mad Men Co-Costume Designer Tiffany White Stanton (Kresge ‘03\, psychology). Share your “look” by hashtagging your photos #ucsc50 \nCompete for the most authentic 1965 outfit by posing for a photo for Tiffany to judge. The winners will be featured in the UCSC alumni magazine and on our social media channels. \nKZSC will be onsite broadcasting live and spinning tunes from 1965. \nIt’ll be swinging’. \nMore info at: 50years.ucsc.edu/kick-off \n 
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