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SUMMARY:Liberation Pedagogy: bell hooks and Teaching/Learning as Emancipatory Practice featuring Jody Greene
DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL) invites you to our 2023 Convocation featuring CITL’s Founding Director Jody Greene. From its foundation\, CITL has drawn inspiration and wisdom from the work of the late bell hooks\, educational visionary and early proponent of active and activist learning. According to hooks\, our practices of teaching and learning can and should be as transformative and revolutionary as what we teach. More than three decades ago\, not long after she finished her graduate work on this campus\, hooks offered us a roadmap to transform educational practice to be equitable\, student-centered\, relationship-rich\, and dynamically engaged. In this talk\, Jody will revisit hooks’ influence on recent efforts to reshape teaching and learning at UC Santa Cruz as it takes up the challenge of being a genuinely minority-serving institution. \nAs CITL comes to the close of its seventh year\, we are marking the end of the first phase of our development. This Spring\, CITL will be merging with Online Education to create a single\, integrated Teaching and Learning Center. In June\, Founding Director Jody Greene will be stepping down to make way for new leadership for the Center in the next phase of its evolution. Please join us at 5:00pm for a reception\, followed by the lecture which will begin at 5:45pm. \nRegister to attend in person – RSVP requested by April 18\, 2023 \nRegister to attend virtually \nJody Greene came to UC Santa Cruz in 1998 and has served as Professor of Literature\, Feminist Studies\, and the History of Consciousness. Their research interests include seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature; non-dualist Western philosophy\, especially the work of Spivak\, Derrida\, and Nancy; human rights and international law; queer studies; and the history of literary discourse and literary institutions. \nRecent publications include a collection\, co-edited with Sharif Youssef\, The Hostile Takeover: Human Rights after Corporate Personhood (Toronto\, 2020)\, and op-eds in publications such as The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed. They are the recipient of the UCSC Humanities Division John Dizikes Teaching Award (2008)\, the Disability Resource Center Champion of Change Award (2018)\, and\, twice\, of the UCSC Academic Senate Excellence in Teaching Award (2001\, 2014). In 2016\, they were appointed the founding Director of the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)\, and they now serve as UCSC’s first Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning. In 2021\, they were appointed Special Advisor to the CP/EVC for Educational Equity and Academic Success. \nEach year\, CITL hosts a convocation to bring together educators across the campus and from the local community to explore significant topics in teaching and learning in higher education. Each year’s keynote address is free and open to the public. This event is presented by the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)\, and co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute. \nQuestions? Please contact the University Events Office at specialevents@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/liberation-pedagogy-bell-hooks-and-teaching-learning-as-emancipatory-practice-featuring-jody-greene/
LOCATION:University Center\, Bhojwani Room\, CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230316T170000
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SUMMARY:Juan Gabriel Vásquez – Restoring Continuity: Notes on History and Fiction
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 Juan Gabriel Vásquez. Guests who attend in person are invited to join us for a reception with light refreshments and beverages at 5:00 p.m. \nIn 1935\, as Europe witnessed the rise of fascism\, Paul Valéry tried to identify in a lecture the origins of the crisis. Things were better\, he said\, when people were able to understand their present moment as the result of past events\, when “continuity reigned in the minds”. In this lecture\, Juan Gabriel Vásquez will discuss why that sense of continuity with the past is in fact indispensable\, for individuals and societies alike\, and he will suggest that fiction –the literary imagination of the historical past– might be uniquely adept at restoring it when it is broken. \nClick here to register to attend this event in person \nClick here to register to attend this event virtually \nJuan Gabriel Vásquez is the author of numerous novels\, including The Shape of the Ruins\, which was shortlisted for the 2019 International Man Booker Prize; Reputations\, a New York Times Best Book of the Year; and The Sound of Things Falling\, a National Bestseller and winner of the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Vásquez’s novels have been published in twenty-five languages worldwide. After sixteen years living in France\, Belgium\, and Spain\, he now resides between Bogotá and New York City. \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/juan-gabriel-vasquez-restoring-continuity-notes-on-history-and-fiction/
LOCATION:University Center\, Bhojwani Room\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fighting for Life: Race and the Limits of Infant Survival
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Wangui Muigai as she charts the history of one of the most enduring health disparities in America\, the racial gap in infant survival. Drawing on a trove of historical records and archival materials\, this talk follows Black families as they have journeyed from birthing rooms to burial grounds\, fighting for the ability to birth and nurture healthy babies. In charting the historical landscapes of Black infant death across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries\, Dr. Muigai will examine the role of cultural practices\, medical theories\, and communal initiatives to explain and address the causes of Black infant death. The talk considers the legacy of these ideas and efforts in ongoing struggles to preserve Black life. \nWangui Muigai is an Assistant Professor at Brandeis University in the departments of History\, African & African American Studies and the Health: Science\, Society\, and Policy Program. Dr. Muigai was named a 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellow and selected as a Class of 2025 Fellow in the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics. Her first book\, on the history of infant death in the Black experience\, is forthcoming with Harvard University Press. \nParking at the University Center: Please follow the directional signs for “Fighting for Life” from the base of campus to College Nine/John R. Lewis lot 165. Parking attendants will be on site for attendees to buy parking permits. From lot 165\, there will be walking directional signs to the University Center\, which is above the College Nine/John R. Lewis Dining Hall. \nThe event is part of the year long Mellon Sawyer Seminar series Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fighting-for-life-race-and-the-limits-of-infant-survival/
LOCATION:University Center\, Bhojwani Room\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Baskin Ethics Lecture with Joy Connolly - A Connected Planet: Scholarship for the Global Good
DESCRIPTION:“Serving the public good” is the motto and a strategic goal of many an American research university. In this lecture\, Joy asks: what public do humanistic scholars serve\, how do we define the public and its good\, and how does and how might our study contribute to this project? Thinking critically about the tradition of research on the ancient Mediterranean\, Joy’s own field\, she makes the case for a planetary frame for humanistic study whose fields of activity are the global and the local. This frame resolves an intractable tension in academia today\, where institutions proudly recruit students and faculty from all over the world but retain disciplinary divisions that reflect the national borders and imperial power map of two centuries ago. \n \nIn-person attendance\nThe lecture will begin promptly at 4:00 p.m. and will be followed by a question and answer session and a reception in the Rotunda. Doors will open at 3:30 p.m \n \nVirtual attendance \nJoy Connolly began her service as President of the American Council of Learned Societies on July 1\, 2019. Previously\, she served as provost and interim president of The Graduate Center at the City University of New York\, where she was also Distinguished Professor of Classics. She has held faculty appointments at New York University\, where she served as Dean for the Humanities from 2012-16\, Stanford University\, and the University of Washington. Committed to broadening scholars’ impact on the world\, as provost at the Graduate Center Joy secured generous support from the Mellon Foundation to foster public-facing scholarship through innovative experiments in doctoral training. She has published two books with Princeton University Press and over seventy articles\, reviews\, and short essays. Connolly earned a BA from Princeton University in 1991 and a PhD in classical studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. \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. \nThis event is presented by the Humanities Division and co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joy-connolly-a-connected-planet-scholarship-for-the-global-good/
LOCATION:University Center\, Bhojwani Room\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Morton - Moving Up Without Losing Your Way
DESCRIPTION:Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class\, low-income\, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work\, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromises such students have to make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own. Measuring the true cost of higher education for those from disadvantaged backgrounds\, Jennifer Morton looks at the ethical dilemmas of upward mobility—the broken ties with family and friends\, the severed connections with former communities\, and the loss of identity—faced by students as they strive to accomplish their educational goals. \nThis event is presented by The Humanities Institute and the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning\, and will take place at the University Center\, Bhojwani Room on Wednesday\, January 25\, 2023 from 4:00pm to 5:30pm with a reception to follow from 5:30-6:30pm. \n \nIn-Person attendance \n \nVirtual attendance \nJennifer Morton is Presidential Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and a senior fellow at the Center for Ethics and Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her areas of research are philosophy of action\, moral philosophy\, philosophy of education\, and political philosophy\, and her work has been featured in The Atlantic\, Inside Higher Education\, The Chronicle of Higher Education\, The Nation\, New York Daily News\, Times Higher Education\, Princeton Alumni Weekly\, Public Books \, and Vox. Her book Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility (Princeton University Press\, 2020) was awarded the Frederic W. Ness Book Award by the Association of American Colleges\, and Universities. \nJody Greene is the founding Director of the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)\, UCSC’s first Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning\, as well as Special Advisor to the CP/EVC for Educational Equity and Academic Success. Their research interests include seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature; non-dualist Western philosophy\, especially the work of Spivak\, Derrida\, and Nancy; human rights and international law; queer studies; and the history of literary discourse and literary institutions. They have served as Professor of Literature\, Feminist Studies\, and the History of Consciousness at UCSC. They are the recipient of the UCSC Humanities Division John Dizikes Teaching Award (2008)\, the Disability Resource Center Champion of Change Award (2018)\, and\, twice\, of the UCSC Academic Senate Excellence in Teaching Award (2001\, 2014).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jennifer-morton-moving-up-without-losing-your-way/
LOCATION:University Center\, Bhojwani Room\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture: Debating Holocaust Memory: The Politics of Comparison in Contemporary Germany
DESCRIPTION:Over the past two years\, the German public sphere has been roiled by a series of debates concerning the uniqueness and comparability of the Holocaust. These debates have called up older controversies\, especially the Historikerstreit (the Historians’ Debate) of the 1980s in which the left-liberal philosopher Jürgen Habermas took on conservative historians who sought to relativize the Nazi genocide. Despite certain similarities\, however\, the new debates cannot be reduced to a repetition of that earlier moment. The Historikerstreit turned on the relation between Nazi and Stalinist crimes and the question of German responsibility for the Holocaust; today’s controversies involve instead the relation between colonialism and the Holocaust and between racism and antisemitism as well as the ongoing crisis in Israel/Palestine. In this talk\, Michael Rothberg will reflect on these ongoing debates\, including the particular place in them of his book Multidirectional Memory\, which was translated into German in early 2021. As the current debates reveal\, the dominant Holocaust memory regime in Germany is based on an absolutist understanding of the Holocaust’s uniqueness and a rejection of relational and multidirectional approaches to the genocide. While that memory regime represented a major societal accomplishment of the 1980s and 1990s\, it has reached its limits in Germany’s “postmigrant” present. Yet\, as examples of migrant engagement with the Holocaust illustrate\, German society already includes more relational models of memory that have the potential to transform the German model of coming to terms with the past in productive ways. \n*Please note that UC Santa Cruz has COVID-19 guidelines for in-person events. When you arrive\, please provide proof of vaccination OR a recent negative COVID-19 test result taken within 72 hours of the start of the event (must be a lab PCR test; home tests/antigen tests are not valid). Guests are also required to complete a symptom check form online the day you arrive on campus. Masks are required indoors. \nClick here to register for in-person attendance. \nClick here to register for remote attendance via Zoom. \n  \nMichael Rothberg is the 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies\, Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature\, and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Los Angeles. His latest book is The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators (2019)\, published by Stanford University Press in their “Cultural Memory in the Present” series. Previous books include Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization (2009)\, Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation (2000)\, and\, co-edited with Neil Levi\, The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings (2003). The translation of Multidirectional Memory into German in 2021 helped launch a national debate about the current state of German Holocaust memory. With Yasemin Yildiz\, he is currently completing Memory Citizenship: Migrant Archives of Holocaust Remembrance for Fordham University Press. \nFor more information\, please visit: The Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-hayden-v-white-distinguished-annual-lecture-debating-holocaust-memory-the-politics-of-comparison-in-contemporary-germany/
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Jacque Wernimont "Quantified Education: Unpacking What We're Tracking"
DESCRIPTION:The same hopes that have landed FitBits on millions of wrists\, Rings on thousands of doors\, and Echoes in so many homes have brought us the latest in educational technologies. These hopes include better support of ourselves\, our goals\, and our dreams for success\, health\, and safety. As universities and colleges increasingly buy into smart systems for grading\, tracking attendance\, monitoring student and employee wellness\, and more\, we also need to reckon with the costs – human\, fiscal\, and environmental – of these innovations in education. We‘ve got the Quantified Self\, the Quantified Home\, even the Smart/Quantified City — what does it mean that we now have Quantified Education? \n  \nJacqueline Wernimont is an antiracist\, feminist scholar working toward greater justice in digital cultures. She writes about long histories of media and technology—particularly those that count and commemorate—and entanglements with archives and historiographic ways of knowing. Her book\, Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media\, is out with MIT Press. She is a network weaver across humanities\, arts\, and sciences. This work includes codirecting HASTAC (Humanities\, Arts\, Science\, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) and serving as the Inaugural Chair of Digital Humanities and Social Engagement at Dartmouth College. \n  \nPresented by:  The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning. \n  \nAdditional Events: Jacqueline Wernimont will be at UC Santa Cruz from April 8th-10th\, 2020 as THI’s Scholar-in-Residence. On April 8th\, she will discuss “Numbered Lives: Quantum Mediations of Life in Early Anglo-America” at the Cultural Studies Colloquium. On April 10th\, she will lead a workshop on “Feminist in the Academy” for THI’s PhD+ series. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/citl-convocation-jacque-wernimont/
LOCATION:University Center\, Bhojwani Room\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Can We Talk? What Makes Campus Conversations So Tough\, And How To Do Better
DESCRIPTION:In the classroom and other campus spaces\, scorn and indignation for people we disagree with are preventing productive discussion on contested issues. On especially hot-button topics\, there’s even a growing tendency to remain silent rather than risk rebuke. We’ve got to do better. But how? \nJoin us for a presentation by and collaborative discussion with Lara Schwartz and Andrea Malkin Brenner\, 2019-20 Fellows at the University California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement. In their current research\, Brenner and Schwartz develop a paradigm shift favoring robust inquiry on campus that transcends disagreement and debate. “Can we Talk?” is part of the Fellows’ week-long residency at UC Santa Cruz. \nIn addition to their scholarly work and innovative teaching at AU\, together they are authors of the hugely successful book How to College; What to Know Before You Go (and When You’re There). They are currently under contract with Macmillan to produce a new book tentatively titled A Guide to Productive and Inclusive Discourse on Campus\, for which they will be conducting research during their weeklong UCSC residency. \n\nAndrea Malkin Brenner\, Ph.D. is a sociologist\, speaker and an independent consultant who works with students\, faculty\, and staff on challenges related to college transitions. \nLara Schwartz\, J.D. teaches at American University School of Public Affairs in Washington DC\, where she founded and directs the Project on Social Discourse. \nSponsored by: The Center for Public Philosophy and The Community Studies Program \nFor more information and accommodation requests\, contact pudup@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/can-we-talk-what-makes-campus-conversations-so-tough-and-how-to-do-better/
LOCATION:University Center\, Bhojwani Room\, CA\, United States
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