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SUMMARY:Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts XI-XV
DESCRIPTION:Join Professor Karen Hattaway (San Jacinto College) for a series of discussions about the book that stunned Conrad and Dostoevsky.  \nOur Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens \nSept. 25\, Oct. 23\, Nov. 27\, and Jan. 22 at 1:00-3:00 PM (PDT) | Virtual Events \nCharles Dickens published Our Mutual Friend in twenty monthly parts from May 1864 to November 1865. It was the fourteenth and final novel in his vast corpus of novels\, only to be followed by The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)\, which remained unfinished at the time of his death. \nMurder\, Money\, Marriage\, and Mounds… of dust\, of human refuse\, of cultural debris\, of industrial by-production. These are the grand themes and objects this novel’s world spawns\, with such horrible inevitability you will think its Thames river-mud could foster spontaneous generation. For the world of Our Mutual Friend is a dirtied and cynical place. Here\, even literacy and education–the “power of knowledge” that give heart and decency to Pip and Biddy in Great Expectations–may become\, in the wrong hands\, mechanical instruments for self-aggrandizement. And the good may need all the wiles of the bad to manufacture a happy ending. \nReading Schedule \n\n\n\nSep. 25\nBook the First: The Cup and the Lip – Chapters 1-17\, Parts I-V\n\n\n\nOct. 23\nBook the Second: Birds of a Feather – Chapters 1-16\, Parts VI-X\n\n\n\nNov. 27\nBook the Third: A Long Lane – Chapters 1-17\, Parts XI-XV\n\n\n\nJan. 22\nBook the Fourth: A Turning – Chapters 1-16\, Parts XVI-XX\n\n\n\n\nThis series of discussions is presented by the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club / Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship with support from the Santa Cruz Public Libraries. \nMore information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/pickwick-club/index.html \nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpf-mppjsuHd3RdY9mqMeH-FloGyFbM-MQ
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/our-mutual-friend-discussion-series-parts-xi-xv/
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SUMMARY:Postponed - Meet the Editors: A Guide to Submitting and Publishing Your Academic Book
DESCRIPTION:This event is going to be rescheduled. \nMeet the Editors: A Guide to Submitting and Publishing Your Academic Book \nFaculty and graduate students from all UC campuses are welcome. The discussion will be geared towards those completing their first academic manuscripts. Q&A to follow. \n  \n \n  \n \n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nNiels Hooper\, Executive Editor\, University of California Press \nMargo Irvin\, Acquisitions Editor\, Stanford University Press \nKathleen McDermott\, Executive Editor for History\, Harvard University Press \nEric Porter\, Professor in History\, History of Consciousness\, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, UC Santa Cruz \n  \n  \nPresented by the Institute of Arts and Humanities\, UC San Diego
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/meet-the-editors-a-guide-to-submitting-and-publishing-your-academic-book/
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Kate Stone
DESCRIPTION:Kate Stone\, Univ of Potsdam\, Germany \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-1/
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SUMMARY:Sawyer Seminar Reading Group with Alberto Ortiz-Díaz
DESCRIPTION:This reading group is part of the Sawyer Seminar “Race\, Empire\, and Environments of Biomedicine.” Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute. \n \nThe talk will occur virtually and guests can register to join the Zoom meeting ahead of the event. \nAlberto Ortiz Díaz is assistant professor of history at the University of Texas\, Arlington\, and currently a Larson Fellow at the Kluge Center\, Library of Congress. His first book\, Raising the Living Dead: Rehabilitative Corrections in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press in March 2023.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sawyer-seminar-reading-group-with-alberto-ortiz-diaz/
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SUMMARY:Telling Your Research Story Through Comics
DESCRIPTION:Join us for “Telling Your Research Story Through Comics” on Nov. 7 at 10 a.m. on Zoom. Featuring: Felicia Lopez (UCM)\, Carolyn Jennings (UCM)\, Jordan Collver\, and Pino Cao. Register here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/telling-your-research-story-through-comics/
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SUMMARY:Victorian Necromancies with Professor Renée Fox - Discussion of Dracula (Beginning-Chap. 16)
DESCRIPTION:Victorian Necromancies with Professor Renée Fox \nAs part of the series “Victorian Necromancies\,” Professor Fox will lead three sessions that offer the Friends an opportunity to explore the Victorian gothic\, one of her favorite genres of 19th-century literature. \nFrom Professor Fox: “The first session will be a presentation on my forthcoming book\, The Necromantics: Reanimation\, the Historical Imagination\, and Victorian British and Irish Literature\, and the second two sessions will be discussions of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula (1897). Although I don’t write about Dracula very much in my book\, I chose it for these sessions for a few reasons: as an Irishman living in London for much of his adult life\, Stoker has always been important to my work on the intersections between Irish and British writing at the end of the 19th century\, and Dracula is a deeply weird novel that I think everyone should read and talk about. I’m also really interested in adaptation (I think about it as a form of reanimation)\, and Dracula offers a fantastic opportunity not just to talk about the text’s many adaptations across the last 125 years\, but also to talk about the novel’s own investments in questions of originality and reproduction.” \nRenée Fox is an assistant professor in the Literature Department at UC Santa Cruz\, where she teaches classes in Victorian Studies\, Irish Studies\, the gothic\, and popular culture. She is the 2022 Autumn Friends of the DickensProject Faculty Fellow. \nVirtual Sessions \n\n\n\nBook Talk: The Necromantics: Reanimation\, the Historical Imagination\, and Victorian British and Irish Literature\nOctober 2\, 20222:00 PM PDT\n\n\n\nDiscussion: Dracula (Beginning to Chapter 16)\nNovember 6\, 20222:00 PM PST\n\n\n\nDiscussion: Dracula (Chapter 17 to End)\nDecember 4\, 20222:00 PM PST\n\n\n\n\nMore Information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/programs/friends-faculty-fellows/victorian-necromancies.html \nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkf–hpz8rEtTZRTrhuGsHGRsIQJSVlahR
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/victorian-necromancies-with-professor-renee-fox-discussion-of-dracula-beginning-chap-16/
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SUMMARY:Alberto Ortiz-Díaz – Carceral Care: Health Professionals and the Living Dead in Colonial Puerto Rico’s Sanitary City\, 1920s-1940s
DESCRIPTION:Using an array of primary sources\, this talk explores the early history of the Río Piedras sanitary city or medical corridor\, a transnationally and imperially inspired built environment and complex of welfare institutions (a tuberculosis hospital\, an insane asylum\, and a penitentiary) constructed and consolidated on the margins of San Juan by Puerto Rico’s colonial-populist state between the 1920s and 40s. Within and across these institutional spaces\, health professionals contributed to the production of medicalized scientific knowledge and cared for and socially regulated racialized\, pathologized Puerto Ricans. Penitentiary “living dead” (incarcerated people)\, in particular\, were subjected to research and received treatment\, but also provided health labor that put them at risk while powering the sanitary city and nurturing its inhabitants. Crucially\, however\, some prisoners managed to exploit the unthinkable openness of the complex\, revealing in the process that the living dead could only be buried alive for so long. \n \nThis talk is part of the Sawyer Seminar “Race\, Empire\, and Environments of Biomedicine.” Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute. \nThe talk will occur virtually and guests can register to join the Zoom conference ahead of the event. \nAlberto Ortiz Díaz is assistant professor of history at the University of Texas\, Arlington\, and currently a Larson Fellow at the Kluge Center\, Library of Congress. His first book\, Raising the Living Dead: Rehabilitative Corrections in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean\, is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press in March 2023. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alberto-ortiz-diaz-carceral-care-health-professionals-and-the-living-dead-in-colonial-puerto-ricos-sanitary-city-1920s-1940s/
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SUMMARY:A Tamiment Book Talk with Bettina Aptheker
DESCRIPTION:Presented by NYU Libraries – Join scholar activists Bettina Aptheker and Judith Smith as they discuss Aptheker’s most recent book Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s. \n \nCommunists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s explores the history of gay\, lesbian\, and non-heterosexual people in the Communist Party in the United States. \nThe Communist Party banned lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, and transgender (LGBT) people from membership beginning in 1938 when it cast them off as “degenerates.” It persisted in this policy until 1991. During this 60-year ban\, gays and lesbians who did join the Communist Party were deeply closeted within it\, as well as in their public lives as both queer and Communist. By the late 1930s\, the Communist Party had a membership approaching 100\,000 and tens of thousands more people moved in its orbit through the Popular Front against fascism\, anti-racist organizing\, especially in the south\, and its widely read cultural magazine\, The New Masses. Based on a decade of archival research\, correspondence\, and interviews\, Bettina Aptheker explores this history\, also pulling from her own experience as a closeted lesbian in the Communist Party in the 1960s and ‘70s. Ironically\, and in spite of this homophobia\, individual Communists laid some of the political and theoretical foundations for lesbian and gay liberation and women’s liberation\, and contributed significantly to peace\, social justice\, civil rights\, and Black and Latinx liberation movements. \nBettina Aptheker is Distinguished Professor Emerita\, Feminist Studies\, University of California\, Santa Cruz where she taught for more than 40 years\, and had over 17\,000 students in the course of her career. An activist-scholar she co-led the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley in 1964\, and the National Student Mobilization Committee To End the War in Vietnam. She was a member of the Communist Party from 1962-1981. She has been part of the LGBT movement since the late 1970s\, She has published several books including\, The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis\, Tapestries of Life: Women’s Work\, Women’s Consciousness and the Meaning of Daily Experience\, and a memoir\, Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red\, Fought for Free Speech & Became A Feminist Rebel that was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in 2006. She and her wife\, Kate Miller\, have been together since 1979. They live in Santa Cruz. \nJudith Smith is Professor of American Studies Emerita at University of Massachusetts Boston\, where she taught cultural history since 1945 and history of media and film. She is the author of Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist\, Public Radical (2014) and Visions of Belonging: Family Stories\, Popular Culture\, and Postwar Democracy\, 1940-1960 (2004). Her published essays explored how writers on the left addressed popular audiences on radio in the 1930s and 1940s\, live television drama in the 1950s\, and in film from the mid 1940s to the mid 1960s. She served as researcher/consultant for the recent documentary\, Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart: Lorraine Hansberry (2018). \nLive closed captioning will be available.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/62746/
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SUMMARY:Tariq Thachil – Who Governs in India's Small Towns? Notes from Rajasthan's Nagar Palikas
DESCRIPTION:“Who Governs in India’s Small Towns” will take place on October 28\, 2022 from 10am to 12pm PST\, and is a part of the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies 2022-2023 lecture series\, Futures.  Guests can register to attend the virtual event here. \nSpeaker: \nProfessor Tariq Thachil (University of Pennsylvania)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tariq-thachil-who-governs-in-indias-small-towns-notes-from-rajasthans-nagar-palikas/
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SUMMARY:Joan Scott - The Professor of Desire: Charles Fourier's Sexual Utopia
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department is pleased present their upcoming speaker series this fall quarter and invites you to join them. These will be hybrid events\, hosted in-person in Humanities 1 Room 420 & virtually via Zoom\, except for the talk on October 25th which will only be on Zoom. The Zoom link for all talks is the same\, and can be accessed by clicking the “Join” button below. The October 25th “The Professor of Desire: Charles Fourier’s Sexual Utopia” talk will be given by Joan Scott from the Institute for Advanced Study. \n \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gianluca-bonaiuti-domesticity-and-beyond/
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SUMMARY:Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts VI-X
DESCRIPTION:Join Professor Karen Hattaway (San Jacinto College) for a series of discussions about the book that stunned Conrad and Dostoevsky.  \nOur Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens \nSept. 25\, Oct. 23\, Nov. 27\, and Jan. 22 at 1:00-3:00 PM (PDT) | Virtual Events \nCharles Dickens published Our Mutual Friend in twenty monthly parts from May 1864 to November 1865. It was the fourteenth and final novel in his vast corpus of novels\, only to be followed by The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)\, which remained unfinished at the time of his death. \nMurder\, Money\, Marriage\, and Mounds… of dust\, of human refuse\, of cultural debris\, of industrial by-production. These are the grand themes and objects this novel’s world spawns\, with such horrible inevitability you will think its Thames river-mud could foster spontaneous generation. For the world of Our Mutual Friend is a dirtied and cynical place. Here\, even literacy and education–the “power of knowledge” that give heart and decency to Pip and Biddy in Great Expectations–may become\, in the wrong hands\, mechanical instruments for self-aggrandizement. And the good may need all the wiles of the bad to manufacture a happy ending. \nReading Schedule \n\n\n\nSep. 25\nBook the First: The Cup and the Lip – Chapters 1-17\, Parts I-V\n\n\n\nOct. 23\nBook the Second: Birds of a Feather – Chapters 1-16\, Parts VI-X\n\n\n\nNov. 27\nBook the Third: A Long Lane – Chapters 1-17\, Parts XI-XV\n\n\n\nJan. 22\nBook the Fourth: A Turning – Chapters 1-16\, Parts XVI-XX\n\n\n\n\nThis series of discussions is presented by the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club / Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship with support from the Santa Cruz Public Libraries. \nMore information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/pickwick-club/index.html \nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpf-mppjsuHd3RdY9mqMeH-FloGyFbM-MQ
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/our-mutual-friend-discussion-series-parts-vi-x/
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SUMMARY:Living Writers:  Tonya Foster\, Conversation with Ronaldo V. Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Tonya Foster in conversation with Ronaldo V. Wilson\, as part of the George and Judy Marcus Chair in Poetry Reading\, presented in collaboration with The Poetry Center and San Francisco State University. \n \nConversations: Power Forged\, the Fall Living Writers theme\, features poets\, novelists\, academics\, curators\, and artists in conversation with one another\, in person\, across genre and media to open up a space between them\, and all of us\, within dialogue\, collaboration\, politics\, intimacy and difference which poet and activist Audre Lorde describes as that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged. Between legacies\, institutions\, families\, embodiments and homes; across race\, gender\, sexuality\, and class\, guests will explore just how. The Fall 2022 series is co-sponsored by the Center for Racial Justice. \nTonya M. Foster is a poet\, essayist\, and Black feminist scholar. She is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court\, the bilingual chapbook La Grammaire des Os; and co-editor of Third Mind: Teaching Creative Writing through Visual Art. Her writing and research focus on poetry\, poetics\, ideas of place and emplacement\, and on intersections between the visual and the written. Dr. Foster is a poetry editor at Fence Magazine and a member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto. Forthcoming publications include poetry collections—Thingifications (Ugly Duckling Presse) and AHotB (A History of the Bitch); anthologies—The Umbra Galaxy (Wesleyan University Press) (a 2-volume compendium on the Umbra Writers Workshop)\, and New Writing\, New Flesh: An Anthology (Nightboat Books)\, an anthology of experimental creative drafts. Her poetry and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in Other Influences (MIT Press)\, New Weathers Anthology (Nightboat Books); The Difference Is Spreading: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems (UPenn Press); the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day online journal\, Entropy Magazine\, the A-Line Journal\, Callaloo\, boundary2\, TripWire\, Poetry Project Newsletter\, The Harvard Review\, Best American Experimental Writing\, Letters to the Future: Black Women/Radical Writing\, and elsewhere. She was a member of the multi-disciplinary advisory committee for the ground-breaking exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America at the Museum of Modern Art\, New York\, NY. Her essay for the exhibition’s 2021 field guide\, “Time\, Memory\, and Living in Shotgun Houses in the South of the South City of New Orleans\,” extends her meditations on place and poetics. She is a 2021 Lisa Goldberg fellow at the Radcliffe Institute @ Harvard\, a Creative Capital awardee\, a recipient of awards from Macdowell\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, New York Foundation for the Arts\, the San Francisco Museum of the African Diaspora\, and the Ford and Mellon Foundations\, among others. Dr. Foster holds the George and Judy Marcus Endowed Chair in Poetry at San Francisco State University. She is a new resident in a decades old Emeryville artist’s co-operative. \nRonaldo V. Wilson\, PhD\, poet\, interdisciplinary artist\, and academic\, is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man\, winner of the Cave Canem Prize; Poems of the Black Object\, winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry; Farther Traveler: Poetry\, Prose\, Other\, finalist for a Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry; and Lucy 72. His latest books are Carmelina: Figures and Virgil Kills: Stories. The recipient of numerous fellowships\, including Cave Canem\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Ford Foundation\, Kundiman\, MacDowell\, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation\, and Yaddo\, Wilson is Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at U.C. Santa Cruz\, serving on the core faculty of the Creative Critical PhD Program; principal faculty member of CRES (Critical Race and Ethnic Studies); and affiliate faculty member of DANM (Digital Arts and New Media).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-tonya-foster-in-conversation-with-ronaldo-v-wilson/
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SUMMARY:Asli Bâli – From Revolution to Devolution? Dilemmas of Federalism & Decentralization in the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:“From Revolution to Devolution? Dilemmas of Federalism and Decentralization in the Middle East” \nThis seminar engages in a qualitative comparison of four experiences with decentralization in the Middle East to explore the ways in which decentralized governance arrangements might address governance crises\, identity-based conflict and self-determination demands in the Middle East. Bâli argues that the failure to engage with these and other experiences in the MENA region in the growing literature on decentralization in comparative politics and law produces gaps in both the institutional design strategies available in the prescriptions derived from the literature\, and also in our accounts of the region that focus exclusively on the macro politics of authoritarianism without paying attention to experiments on the ground that have sought to formulate alternative governance strategies. \n \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and the Legal Studies Program. \nAslı Bâli is Professor of Law at the Yale Law School. Previously\, she was on the faculty at the UCLA School of Law where she was Faculty Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights\, a core faculty member of the Critical Race Studies Program and served as the Director of the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. Bâli’s research focuses on two broad areas: public international law—including human rights law and the law of the international security order—and comparative constitutional law\, with a focus on the Middle East. Her scholarship has appeared in leading international and comparative law reviews and peer reviewed journals such as the American Journal of International Law\,  International Journal of Constitutional Law and Law & Social Inquiry; her edited volume Constitution Writing\, Religion and Democracy was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017 and a second edited volume\, Identity Conflict\, Governance and Decentralization in the Middle East is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2022. She received her J.D. from Yale\, her M.Phil. from Cambridge University and her Ph.D in Politics from Princeton University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/asli-bali-from-revolution-to-devolution-dilemmas-of-federalism-and-decentralization-in-the-middle-east/
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SUMMARY:Renée Fox – The Necromantics: Reanimation\, the Historical Imagination\, and Victorian British and Irish Literature
DESCRIPTION:Victorian Necromancies with Professor Renée Fox \nAs part of the series “Victorian Necromancies\,” Professor Fox will lead three sessions that offer the Friends an opportunity to explore the Victorian gothic\, one of her favorite genres of 19th-century literature. \nFrom Professor Fox: “The first session will be a presentation on my forthcoming book\, The Necromantics: Reanimation\, the Historical Imagination\, and Victorian British and Irish Literature\, and the second two sessions will be discussions of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula (1897). Although I don’t write about Dracula very much in my book\, I chose it for these sessions for a few reasons: as an Irishman living in London for much of his adult life\, Stoker has always been important to my work on the intersections between Irish and British writing at the end of the 19th century\, and Dracula is a deeply weird novel that I think everyone should read and talk about. I’m also really interested in adaptation (I think about it as a form of reanimation)\, and Dracula offers a fantastic opportunity not just to talk about the text’s many adaptations across the last 125 years\, but also to talk about the novel’s own investments in questions of originality and reproduction.” \nRenée Fox is an assistant professor in the Literature Department at UC Santa Cruz\, where she teaches classes in Victorian Studies\, Irish Studies\, the gothic\, and popular culture. She is the 2022 Autumn Friends of the DickensProject Faculty Fellow. \nVirtual Sessions \n\n\n\nBook Talk: The Necromantics: Reanimation\, the Historical Imagination\, and Victorian British and Irish Literature\nOctober 2\, 20222:00 PM PDT\n\n\n\nDiscussion: Dracula (Beginning to Chapter 16)\nNovember 6\, 20222:00 PM PST\n\n\n\nDiscussion: Dracula (Chapter 17 to End)\nDecember 4\, 20222:00 PM PST\n\n\n\n\nMore Information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/programs/friends-faculty-fellows/victorian-necromancies.html \nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkf–hpz8rEtTZRTrhuGsHGRsIQJSVlahR
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/renee-fox-the-necromantics-reanimation-the-historical-imagination-and-victorian-british-and-irish-literature/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:The People Revolt: Sri Lanka
DESCRIPTION:The People Revolt: Sri Lanka\,” will take place on September 30\, 2022 from 12pm to 2pm PST\, and is presented by the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies as a part of their 2022-2023 lecture series\, Futures. This event is co-organized by the Center for South Asian Studies and Stanford University. \n \nPanelists: \n\nFarzana Haniffa Professor (Department of Sociology\, University of Colombo)\nSwasthika Arulingam (Human rights lawyer and women’s rights activist)\nMarisa De Silva (Feminist activist\, Coordinator for the People’s Alliance for Right to Land)\n\nModerators: \n\nSharika Thiranagama (Stanford University)\nAnjali Arondekar (UC Santa Cruz)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-people-revolt-sri-lanka/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts I-V
DESCRIPTION:Join Professor Karen Hattaway (San Jacinto College) for a series of discussions about the book that stunned Conrad and Dostoevsky.  \nOur Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens \nSept. 25\, Oct. 23\, Nov. 27\, and Jan. 22 at 1:00-3:00 PM (PDT) | Virtual Events \nCharles Dickens published Our Mutual Friend in twenty monthly parts from May 1864 to November 1865. It was the fourteenth and final novel in his vast corpus of novels\, only to be followed by The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)\, which remained unfinished at the time of his death. \nMurder\, Money\, Marriage\, and Mounds… of dust\, of human refuse\, of cultural debris\, of industrial by-production. These are the grand themes and objects this novel’s world spawns\, with such horrible inevitability you will think its Thames river-mud could foster spontaneous generation. For the world of Our Mutual Friend is a dirtied and cynical place. Here\, even literacy and education–the “power of knowledge” that give heart and decency to Pip and Biddy in Great Expectations–may become\, in the wrong hands\, mechanical instruments for self-aggrandizement. And the good may need all the wiles of the bad to manufacture a happy ending. \nReading Schedule \n\n\n\n\nSep. 25 \n\n\nBook the First: The Cup and the Lip – Chapters 1-17\, Parts I-V \n\n\n\n\n\nOct. 23 \n\n\nBook the Second: Birds of a Feather – Chapters 1-16\, Parts VI-X \n\n\n\n\n\nNov. 27 \n\n\nBook the Third: A Long Lane – Chapters 1-17\, Parts XI-XV \n\n\n\n\n\nJan. 22 \n\n\nBook the Fourth: A Turning – Chapters 1-16\, Parts XVI-XX \n\n\n\n\n\nThis series of discussions is presented by the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club / Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship with support from the Santa Cruz Public Libraries. \nMore information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/pickwick-club/index.html \nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpf-mppjsuHd3RdY9mqMeH-FloGyFbM-MQ
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/our-mutual-friend-discussion-series-parts-i-v/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Center for Racial Justice Summer Institute 2022
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Racial Justice presents:\nSummer Institute 2022: Political Education and Liberatory Knowledge \nDates: August 10-12\, 2022\nTime: 10:00am–2:00pm PT \nClick below to register:\nDay 1 (August 10th)\nDay 2 (August 11th)\nDay 3 (August 12th) \nCheck crjucsc.com for more detailed information to follow.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-racial-justice-summer-institute-2022/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220624T130000
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SUMMARY:Digital Humanities Workshop Series 2022: Virtual & Augmented Reality
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the fourth meeting of the Digital Humanities Workshop Series 2022. Learn how to use AR/VR for your projects to enhance your user’s experience. This event covers available game engines\, software\, and services; using VR/AR for exhibits or teaching; and a demonstration on how to create an interactive\, digital environmentNo prior experience is necessary to attend this event.  \nSpeaker: Yuri Cantrell\, Humanities UX/Digital Media Specialist \nSponsored by the Humanities Division\, The Humanities Institute\, Information Technology Services (ITS)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-humanities-workshop-series-2022-virtual-augmented-reality/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220613T183000
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SUMMARY:Slugs & Steins: Jennifer Lynn Kelly - Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Drawing from her research on solidarity tours in Palestine\, Jennifer Kelly shows how solidarity tourism in Palestine functions as a fraught localized political strategy\, and an emergent industry\, through which Palestinian organizers refashion conventional tourism to the region by extending deliberately truncated invitations to tourists to come to Palestine and witness the effects of Israeli state practice on Palestinian land and lives. She shows how Palestinian organizers both extend and redefine this invitation to witness\, as well as intervene in tourist demands for evidence and desire for performances of trauma by asking tourists to instead confront the violence of their own desire in Palestine. She also details the conditions that have led Palestinians to make their case through solidarity tourism in the first place\, describing the ways in which tourists travel to Palestine to see the effects of Israeli occupation for themselves despite the volumes of literature Palestinians have produced on their own condition. In this way\, Kelly shows how Palestinian organizers\, under the constraints of military occupation\, and in a context in which they do not control their borders or the historical narrative\, wrest both the capacity to invite and\, in Edward Said’s words\, “the permission to narrate” from Israeli control. \n \nJennifer Lynn Kelly is an Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at University of California\, Santa Cruz. Her research broadly engages questions of settler colonialism\, U.S. empire\, and the fraught politics of both tourism and solidarity. Her first book\, Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine (Duke University Press\, Spring 2023)\, is a multi-sited interdisciplinary ethnographic study of solidarity tourism in Palestine. In it\, she analyzes the ways in which solidarity tourism has emerged in Palestine as an organizing strategy that is both embedded in and working against histories of sustained displacement. Her next project\, co-edited with Somdeep Sen (Rothskilde University) and Lila Sharif (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine\, an edited volume in the Detours Series at Duke University Press.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slugs-steins-jennifer-lynn-kelley-invited-to-witness-solidarity-tourism-across-occupied-palestine/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220603T130000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Research Development
DESCRIPTION:Research Development \nLearn how to make your fellowship and grant proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss what does and does not need to be in a research proposal\, the proper tone and form\, and ways to tease out the larger stakes of individual research projects and avoid the jargon of field-specific descriptions. This session will help you craft a research proposal that appeals to a broad academic audience. \nThe workshop will be led by Sharon Kinoshita (Professor\, Literature). Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (THI Research Program Manager)\, Hannah Jasper (Research Development Analyst for the Arts Research Institute)\, and Eric Sneathen (THI Research Development GSR). \nSharon Kinoshita is a Professor of Literature. She co-directs the mediterraneanseminar.org and has been PI or co-PI for a five-year UC Multicampus Research Project\, a UC Humanities Research Institute Residential Research Group\, and four National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institutes in Mediterranean Studies. She has served as first- or final-round fellowship reviewer for the ACLS\, the Stanford Humanities Center\, the American Academy in Berlin\, and other institutions. \nSaskia Nauenberg Dunkell is the Research Program Manager at THI. She joined THI in 2019 to manage the Mellon-funded Expanding Humanities Impact and Publics project. This project supports graduate student success and public scholarship through a range of events\, workshops\, and initiatives. Saskia is a humanistic social scientist and holds a PhD in sociology from UCLA. \nHannah Jasper is a Research Development Analyst for the Arts Research Institute. She is an arts administrator\, curator\, researcher\, and writer who has worked for the last ten years helping to preserve and uplift critically important and yet unexamined stories. Hannah has contributed to developing new and ongoing projects at many distinguished arts and cultural organizations throughout the United States\, including the University of Chicago\, Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events\, The Children’s Museum of Art and Social Justice\, The Ed Paschke Art Center\, and Culture Saving. \nEric Sneathen is the Arts and Humanities Research and Development GSR for 2021-2022. He is a poet and queer literary historian living in Oakland. From 2019-2020\, he was a THI Public Fellow working with the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco to complete the San Francisco ACT UP Oral History Project\, funded by California Humanities. His writing and scholarship have been supported by a number of grants and fellowships from UCSC\, UC San Diego\, and the University of Buffalo. In June he’ll be graduating with a PhD in Literature\, with a concentration in Creative-Critical Studies. \n  \nLoading… \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/research-development/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:The Center for Racial Justice Presents: War Against Our Schools: Film Screening and Collaborative Viewing Guide Launch
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a screening of La Guerra Contra Nuestras Escuelas/ War Against our Schools\, a documentary project exploring the short and long term impact of school closings and privatization in Puerto Rico. After the screening\, we will unveil the collaborative viewing guide created by Defend Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rico Syllabus to accompany the film. The guide features a microsyllabus exploring topics from the film\, teaching tools\, and advocacy resources that can be used in educational and community settings. Together\, the film and viewing guide explore and historicize threats to public education in Puerto Rico and provide avenues for action needed to defend our schools. \n \nFeatured Speakers: \n\nMarisol Lebron\nYarimar Bonilla\nIsabel Guzzardo\nMikey Cordero\nSarah Molinari\nFrances Medina\n\nBilingual Interpretation Provided By: Babilla Collective
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-center-for-racial-justice-presents-war-against-our-schools-film-screening-and-collaborative-viewing-guide-launch/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220524T180000
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SUMMARY:The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies: A Conversation with Ethan Michaeli
DESCRIPTION:Please join us The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies\, which promises to be a lively conversation between Ethan Michaeli\, award-winning author of the new book\, Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel\, and Nathaniel Deutsch\, Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Taking place on May 24th at 6:00 PM. \nRSVP to attend virtually here. \nTwelve Tribes explores tribalism in Israel and Palestine by weaving together personal histories of ordinary citizens from all walks of life\, revealing the land’s extraordinary\, polyphonic diversity as well as its volatility. An American Jew with close family in Israel\, Michaeli used his background and language skills to gain access to Israelis and Palestinians of all sectors during his travels across the country over four crucial years. Michaeli met with the aging revolutionaries who founded Israel’s kibbutz movement and the young people working for the country’s booming Big Tech companies\, Ethiopian Jews and ultra-Orthodox Haredim. Twelve Tribes examines Israeli-Palestinian relations at the grassroots level with portraits of Palestinian citizens of Israel and those living in the territory ruled by the Palestinian Authority\, as well as Israeli settlers and soldiers\, illuminating how the conflicts there have global consequences. The book also explores the rapidly changing relationship between Israel and the United States\, whose political interactions are increasingly fraught even as their military industries and even legal systems are more enmeshed. \nEthan Michaeli is an award-winning author\, educator and publisher whose latest book\, Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel (Custom House\, 2021)\, was praised by The New York Times Book Review\, which noted that “…illuminating conversations with a wide variety of ordinary people — ultra-Orthodox Jews\, Holocaust survivors\, aging kibbutzniks\, Ethiopian and Russian immigrants\, Arab citizens of Israel\, Jewish settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank — fill the pages of this richly descriptive book.” The New York Times applauded Ethan’s first book The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America\, (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2016) as “a towering achievement that will not be soon forgotten.” The Defender was named a Notable Book of 2016 by The New York Times\, The Washington Post and Amazon\, awarded the Best Non Fiction of 2016 prizes from the Chicago Writers Association as well as the Midland Authors Association\, and placed on the short list for the Mark Lynton Prize. \n\nThis event is made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Endowment and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-helen-diller-distinguished-lecture-in-jewish-studies-a-conversation-with-ethan-michaeli/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Conversation on The Celine Archive with Filmmaker and Arts Dean Celine Parreñas
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Racial Justice presents a conversation on The Celine Archive with Filmmaker and Arts Dean Celine Parreñas. \nIn 1932\, Celine Navarro was buried alive by her own community of Filipino Americans in northern California. Filmmaker Celine Parreñas Shimizu\, finding kinship with Navarro’s long-lost story\, exhumes her tragic life story while trying to unravel the mystery of her murder. This documentary paints a vivid portrait of the early Filipino migrant community\, creating space not just for a reckoning with the haunting violence of Navarro’s murder\, but also belated community grief. \n \nPlease view the film in advance. After registering\, you will receive two links that will enable you to do the following: \n\nView The Celine Archive (available from 5/12-5/26)\nJoin the May 24 webinar\n\n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/conversation-on-the-celine-archive/
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220522T150000
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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship: A Tale of Two Cities
DESCRIPTION:A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It is the story of the French Doctor Manette\, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris\, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met. The story details the conditions that led to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. \nIts central themes–cultural and historical difference\, the nature of political revolution and change\, the identity and narration of the self\, sacrifice\, secrecy heroism–find expression through an often weird or gothic concern with bodies and their doubles\, split identities\, and the uncertain boundaries of life and death. \nJoin Wayne Batten and the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship for a series of discussions about Dickens’s most enduring–and shortest!–novels.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-dickens-fellowship-a-tale-of-two-cities/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220517T100000
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SUMMARY:The Stories of Pilipino Migrant Labor in San Jose: Challenging the Neoliberal Export Labor Policy of the Philippines
DESCRIPTION:Pilipinx Historical Dialogue: The purpose of this course is to foster an interactive conversation and space of political education amongst participants regarding Pilipinx history\, diaspora\, organizing\, and culture. \n \nPresented by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Racial Justice.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-stories-of-pilipino-migrant-labor-in-san-jose-challenging-the-neoliberal-export-labor-policy-of-the-philippines/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220513T173000
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SUMMARY:Jed Buchwald - "Isaac Newton and the Origin of Civilization"
DESCRIPTION:Isaac Newton\, who renovated the foundations of mathematics\, optics\, and mechanics in the 17th century\, aimed also to overturn the entire history of civilization. By the late 1690s Newton had become convinced that the natural rate of population growth implied that elaborately organized social life had not arisen until near the time of Solomon’s kingdom. He canvassed ancient texts for words that could be pruned and transformed into supporting evidence – deploying in the process the earliest known procedures for handling discrepant data\, and reconstructing the very plan of Solomon’s temple. Here we will find Newton’s unorthodox religious convictions interacting in complex ways with the new methods that he had introduced into experimental science. And we will also see how the most sophisticated of techniques can produce error when data is massaged to fit a strongly-held conviction. \n*Due to unforeseen circumstances\, this year’s event will only be held online. Join us by registering for the webinar here: \n \n  \nJed Z. Buchwald is the Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History at Caltech. After earning degrees in physics and science history at Princeton and Harvard\, Professor Buchwald taught for twenty years at the University of Toronto. After several years as director of the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, he moved to the California Institute of Technology in 2001. He has authored or co-authored six books in the history of science and\, more recently\, on the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Buchwald is a member of the American Philosophical Society\, the International Academy of the History of Science\, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was also a MacArthur Fellow in 1995. \n  \n\nInaugural Nauenberg History of Science Lecture\nThe Nauenberg History of Science Lecture was established in honor of Michael Nauenberg\, a founding faculty member in the Physics Department at UCSC who came to the campus in 1966. During his distinguished academic career\, he contributed to a remarkably broad range of fields\, including particle physics\, condensed matter physics\, astrophysics\, chaos theory\, fluid dynamics\, and the history of physics in the 17th-18th centuries. \nAmongst Professor Nauenberg’s passions\, he deeply believed in the importance of interdisciplinary scholarship connecting the sciences with the humanities. Following his retirement in 1994\, he pursued his long-standing interests in the history of science\, writing books and articles about Joseph Banks\, Robert Hooke\, Christiaan Huygens\, and Isaac Newton. In 2013\, he became the only scientist to receive the University of California Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award\, an honor normally given to Professors in the Humanities and Social Sciences. When Professor Nauenberg passed away in 2019\, the UCSC Emeriti Association and the Nauenberg family established a History of Science Lecture series in the spirit of his 1999 proposal. \nYou can support the lecture series by contributing here. \nThe Nauenberg History of Science Lecture is presented by the UCSC Emeriti Association and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jed-buchwald-isaac-newton-and-the-origin-of-civilization/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220512T172000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Soham Patel
DESCRIPTION:LIVING WRITERS UCSC\, SPRING 2022 presents: CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS \nCELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS showcases interdisciplinary writers who deeply engage in various sonic forms\, whether the libretto and the operatic\, sound and visual art\, acoustic music and songwriting\, or embodied meditations to explore the possibilities in being attentive to sound\, as action and celebrant through writing. This hybrid series features an array of writers and artists who work across several modes (text\, multi-media\, meditation\, and performance) exploring what happens between sound and/as verbal language\, rendering its effects and configurations through poetry\, prose\, and sound inspired and activated interdisciplinary writing practices. \n \nSoham Patel\, daughter of immigrants to the U.S. by way of Uganda\, India\, and the United Kingdom\, Patel was born in Lincoln\, England and raised in rural North Dakota. She is the author of the poetry collections to afar from afar (The Accomplices)\, ever really hear it (Subito\, [winner of the 2017 Subito Prize\, chosen by Mathias Svalina])\, the forthcoming all one in the end—water (Delete\, 2022)\, and the chapbooks and nevermind the storm\, New Weather Drafts (Portable Press @Yo-Yo Labs)\, and in airplane and other poems (oxeye press). She is an editor at The Georgia Review and Fence. \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-soham-patel/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220509T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220509T150000
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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: A Tale of Two Cities
DESCRIPTION:A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It is the story of the French Doctor Manette\, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris\, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met. The story details the conditions that led to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. \nJune 22: Book the Second: The Golden Thread\, Chapters 6-24 \nIts central themes–cultural and historical difference\, the nature of political revolution and change\, the identity and narration of the self\, sacrifice\, secrecy heroism–find expression through an often weird or gothic concern with bodies and their doubles\, split identities\, and the uncertain boundaries of life and death. \nJoin Wayne Batten and the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship for a series of discussions about Dickens’s most enduring–and shortest!–novels. \n \n  \n\n\nSupplemental Readings are available upon request. Contact Courtney at cmahaney@ucsc.edu. \nRecommended Edition: We recommend the Penguin Classics edition of the novel\, but other versions are fine. Download the novel to read at Gutenburg.org or to listen at LibriVox.org. \nThe Santa Cruz Pickwick (Book) Club\, a branch of the Dickens Fellowship\, is a community of local bookworms\, students\, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. The Santa Cruz Public Libraries provide support for the reading group. \n\n\n\n\nSanta Cruz Pickwick Club \nMeets on the fourth Sunday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM (Pacific). \nQuestions? Call (831) 459-2103\nor email dpj@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-a-tale-of-two-cities/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Harjeet Grewal - Janamsakhis and Sikh Epistemology
DESCRIPTION:The Sikh tradition produced some of the earliest vernacular prose narratives beginning in the mid-sixteenth century known as Janamsakhis. These accounts of Guru Nanak Sahib’s life remain central to the lives of Sikhs across the globe today. This talk reviews scholarly debates about Janamsakhi’s and argues that examining the Janamsakhis from a critical literary perspective helps better determine their role in Sikh intellectual and ethical life. Their longevity and continuing importance\, Grewal argues\, is better understood from such a perspective. \nJoin Zoom here. \nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/harjeet-grewal-janamsakhis-and-sikh-epistemology/
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SUMMARY:Mieko Kawakami in Conversation with Ruth Ozeki
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Mieko Kawakami\, bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs\, for an online discussion of her new\, extraordinary novel—All the Lovers in the Night\, in which she demonstrates yet again why she is one of today’s most uncategorizable\, insightful\, and talented novelists. Kawakami will be in conversation with acclaimed author Ruth Ozeki at this special event presented by Europa Editions. \n“Her most accomplished novel yet… A contemporary Japanese master continues her meteoric rise into our literary firmament.” —Oprah Daily (A Most Anticipated Book of 2022) \nVisit https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/mieko-kawakami for more information. \n \nMieko Kawakami is the author of the internationally best-selling novel Breasts and Eggs\, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and one of TIME’s Best 10 Books of 2020; and the highly-acclaimed Heaven\, her second novel to be translated and published in English\, which Oprah Daily described as written “with jagged\, visceral beauty.” Born in Osaka\, Japan\, Kawakami made her literary debut as a poet in 2006\, and in 2007 published her first novella\, My Ego\, My Teeth\, and the World. Known for their poetic qualities\, their insights into the female body\, and their preoccupation with ethics and modern society\, her books have been translated into over twenty languages. Kawakami’s literary awards include the Akutagawa Prize\, the Tanizaki Prize\, and the Murasaki Shikibu Prize. She lives in Tokyo\, Japan. \nRuth Ozeki is a novelist\, filmmaker\, and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the best-selling author of four novels: The Book of Form and Emptiness\, longlisted for the UK Women’s Prize for Fiction; My Year of Meats; All Over Creation; and A Tale for the Time Being\, winner of the LA Times Book Prize and finalist for the 2013 Booker Prize and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award. Her nonfiction work includes a memoir\, The Face: A Time Code\, and the documentary film\, Halving the Bones. A longtime Buddhist practitioner\, Ruth is affiliated with the Brooklyn Zen Center and the Everyday Zen Foun­dation. She is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities at Smith College. \nTICKETING INFORMATION: \nChoose from several ticket options! \nentry-only ticket: $5 (no book included)\nentry + book ticket package: $32—$62 (book included\, with signed bookplate while supplies last)\nFor entry + book\, select IN-STORE PICKUP or have the book SHIPPED to you either in the U.S. or internationally. \nEVENT ACCESS: \nThe link to join the virtual event will be sent to the email address you register upon purchase. It will also be available for ticketholders here on Eventbrite.\nCan’t make the event? A replay will be available to customers afterwards! \nThis event is presented by Europa Editions and Bookshop Santa Cruz and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mieko-kawakami-in-conversation-with-ruth-ozeki/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Suryakant Waghmore - Being an Ambedkarite Under Hindu Rashtra
DESCRIPTION:Suryakant Waghmore is a Public Sociologist\, Academic and Writer. Currently a Professor of Sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences\, IIT-Bombay\, he earned his PhD in Sociology as a Commonwealth Scholar from University of Edinburgh (2011). He is author of Civility against Caste (2013) and Co-editor of Civility in Crisis (2020). He was recently awarded the New India Foundation Fellowship (2021) to work on his book tentatively titled\, Is a Post Caste City Possible? He was previously Professor and Chairperson at the Centre for Social Justice and Governance\, TISS (Mumbai) and has held visiting faculty positions at Fudan University\, University of Hyderabad\, Stanford University and Göttingen University. \n \nPresented by THI’s Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/suryakant-waghmore-being-an-ambedkarite-under-hindu-rashtra/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Samuel Ace
DESCRIPTION:LIVING WRITERS UCSC\, SPRING 2022 presents: CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS \nCELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS showcases interdisciplinary writers who deeply engage in various sonic forms\, whether the libretto and the operatic\, sound and visual art\, acoustic music and songwriting\, or embodied meditations to explore the possibilities in being attentive to sound\, as action and celebrant through writing. This hybrid series features an array of writers and artists who work across several modes (text\, multi-media\, meditation\, and performance) exploring what happens between sound and/as verbal language\, rendering its effects and configurations through poetry\, prose\, and sound inspired and activated interdisciplinary writing practices. \n \nSamuel Ace is a trans and genderqueer poet and sound artist. He is the author of several books\, most recently Our Weather Our Sea and the newly re-issued Meet Me There: Normal Sex and Home in three days. Don’t wash. He is the recipient of the Astraea Lesbian Writer Award and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award in Poetry\, as well as a multi-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the National Poetry Series. Recent work can be found in Poetry\, ARC Poetry\, PEN America\, Best American Experimental Poetry\, The Academy of American Poet’s Poem-a-Day\, Poetry Daily\, We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics\, and many other journals and anthologies. \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-samuel-ace/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Roald Hoffman\, "Returning\, Remembering\, Forgiving"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lecture featuring Prof. Roald Hoffmann\, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize\, and a Holocaust survivor.\nThis lecture will take place in conjunction with Prof. Nathaniel Deutsch’s course “The Holocaust: A Global Perspective.”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-twentieth-annual-joseph-f-bunnett-lecture-roald-hoffman-returning-remembering-forgiving/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220422T110000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Stories from the Field
DESCRIPTION:While humanities doctoral programs tend to focus on training students for tenure track faculty positions\, many PhDs pursue jobs outside of a university setting. According to the UC Humanities Research Institute’s recent report\, Stories from the Field\, more than a quarter of UC humanities doctoral alumni reported that they did not seek a tenure track faculty position when they started their PhD programs\, and this percentage increased during the isolation of the dissertation writing process and the challenges of the academic job market. UC humanities PhDs go into a wide range of careers – from positions in the non-profit sector to marketing and communications work and jobs in the tech industry. Stories from the Field considers the economic and professional outcomes of humanities PhDs\, to better track where humanists end up\, how they apply their expertise\, and the ways they are contributing to society. Examining faculty positions alongside other careers\, the report promotes a broader definition of what success looks like for humanities PhDs. \nJoin us for a conversation with Kelly Anne Brown (Literature Ph.D.\, ’11)\, Associate Director of UCHRI\, and UC Santa Cruz Literature alumni to discuss findings from Stories from the Field and the diverse range of careers that humanities PhDs pursue. Our Literature graduate alumni panelists include J. Josh Guevara (Ph.D. ’12)\, Warren Hoffman (Ph.D.\, ’04)\, Andrea Quaid (Ph.D.\, ’14)\, and Cathy Thomas (Ph.D.\, ’19). Many PhD alumni are eager to keep in touch with graduate program networks as well as support current students and this event provides an opportunity to further those connections. The workshop is being held during Alumni Week to encourage faculty\, graduate students\, and alumni to all engage in this important discussion and reflection about graduate humanities training at UC Santa Cruz and opportunities beyond. \nPanelists: \nAs the Associate Director of UCHRI\, Kelly Anne Brown manages a diverse portfolio of projects\, including the UC-wide competitive grants program\, Humanists@Work\, and Horizons of the Humanities\, among others. She holds a BA in English from Lewis & Clark College and a PhD in literature from UC Santa Cruz\, where her scholarship centered on modernist publicness and interwar art and performance. Her professional background includes experience in public policy and administration\, with a focus on children and family issues at the city\, county\, and state levels of California government. Her recent scholarship addresses issues of professionalization\, the work of the humanities\, and the future of graduate education. \nDr. Cathy Thomas is an assistant professor in the English Department at UCSB. She is a creative writer and scholar invested in womanist and black feminist pedagogy\, practice\, critique\, and play. She studies Afrodiasporic Literature across genres\, especially speculative fiction\, Caribbean literature & culture\, comic books\, and science & technology studies. Her work agitates against androcentric modernity and antiblack humanism. She received her PhD in Literature at University of California at Santa Cruz and her MFA from the University of Colorado\, Boulder. Prior to academia\, she work in a genetics lab\, at a neuropsychiatric center focused on mindfulness\, in Hollywood\, and on HIV clinical research. \n  \n \nAndrea Quaid (she/her) is a writer\, editor and teacher. Her work focuses on poetry and poetics\, pedagogy\, and feminist studies. She is co-editor of Acts + Encounters\, a collection about experimental writing and community\, and Urgent Possibilities\, Writings on Feminist Poetics and Emergent Pedagogies (both from eohippus labs). Currently\, she is co-editing a collection called Migrating Pedagogies (Forthcoming). Her work appears in albeit\, American Book Review\, BOMBlog\, Entropy\, Feminist Spaces Journal\, Full Stop\, Jacket2\, Lana Turner\, LIT\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Manifold and Syllabus. With Harold Abramowitz\, she curates RAD! Residencies at the Poetic Research Bureau. She teaches in the Bard College Language & Thinking Program and Institute for Writing and Thinking. She also teaches in the Critical Studies Department at California Institute of the Arts. She co-founded and directs Humanities in the City\, an education nonprofit that hosts public programs committed to education equity and the transformational power of interdisciplinary humanities study in classrooms and communities.  \n\nWith more than fourteen years of public sector experience\, J. Guevara has a proven record of solving wicked problems\, working with diverse\, cross-functional teams\, and achieving results at scale in local government. J. is an expert in broadband\, civic innovation\, and protecting the value of infrastructure to catalyze community impact especially through public-private partnerships. \n\n\nIn 2020\, he joined the City of San José Public Works Department as Deputy Director\, responsible for nearly 150 employees in the Development Services and Engineering Services divisions. His portfolio includes private development such as Google’s 80-acre Downtown West campus and also the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority’s $7-$9 billion dollar expansion of BART rail system with over 5 miles of single-bore tunnel and two new stations in Downtown San José as the biggest public capital investment in the Bay Area in over a generation. J. is also responsible for the San José Small Cell team delivering one of the fastest 5G deployments in the nation through public-private partnerships with AT&T\, Verizon\, and T-Mobile\, where he launched the San Jose Digital Inclusion Fund\, dedicated to connect and sustain adoption to 50\,000 households over ten years through a collective impact model. \n\n\nUsing Scrum\, OKRs\, and a multiplier leadership approach\, J. coaches new civic innovators and builds transformative teams. He holds a Ph.D. in Literature from UC Santa Cruz with a dissertation all about the unexpected cultural work of the bicycle as a form of equitable technology. You can learn more about J. at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jjoshguevara/ \n\nWarren Hoffman currently serves as the executive director for the Association for Jewish Studies in New York where he leads the largest membership organization of Jewish studies scholars\, teachers\, and students in the world. Warren brings more than 15 years of experience in the Jewish\, arts\, academic\, and nonprofit sectors. In Philadelphia\, he was the associate director of community programming for the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia and was also the senior director of programming for the Gershman Y in Philadelphia. Warren also served as the literary manager and dramaturg for Philadelphia Theatre Company and was the associate artistic director of Jewish Repertory Theatre. Warren holds a PhD in American literature from the University of California–Santa Cruz and has taught at multiple universities. He earned rave reviews for his book The Passing Game: Queering Jewish American Culture. The second edition of his critically acclaimed book The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical hit bookstores February 2020. His most recent book\, for which he served as co-editor\, Warm and Welcoming: How the Jewish Community Can Become Truly Diverse and Inclusive in the 21st Century\, was released in late 2021. warrenhoffman.com \n\n\nLoading… \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stories-from-the-field/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Janice A. Lowe
DESCRIPTION:LIVING WRITERS UCSC\, SPRING 2022 presents: CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS \nCELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS showcases interdisciplinary writers who deeply engage in various sonic forms\, whether the libretto and the operatic\, sound and visual art\, acoustic music and songwriting\, or embodied meditations to explore the possibilities in being attentive to sound\, as action and celebrant through writing. This hybrid series features an array of writers and artists who work across several modes (text\, multi-media\, meditation\, and performance) exploring what happens between sound and/as verbal language\, rendering its effects and configurations through poetry\, prose\, and sound inspired and activated interdisciplinary writing practices. \n \nJanice A. Lowe\, is a compoer and poet. Her music LIL BUDDA\, text by Stephanie L. Jones\, was presented by the NAMT Festival of New Musicals and the O’Neill Musical Theater Conference. Lowe’s music-poetry works have been performed with ensembles and collaborations at The Poetry Project\, Bop Stop\, Jazz Festival Berlin\, University of Cambridge and the Arts for Art Peace & Justice Celebration. She composed music for the plays DOOR OF NO RETURN by Nehassaiu DeGannes (Shakespeare & Co.) and Jenni Lamb’s 12th & CLAIRMOUNT (Stage West-Chicago.) Lowe has performed with bands including Anne Waldman & Fast Speaking Music\, Digital Diaspora and Julie Ezelle Patton’s Rock\, Paper Twister. She composed musical settings for the McKoy Twins section of Tyehimba Jess’s OLIO\, (joint Creative Capital award.) She is also the composer of LEAVING CLE SONGS\, a song cycle based on her debut poetry collection. Lowe’s poems have appeared in numerous journals including Callaloo\, Best American Experimental Writings\, Interim Poetics\, and Solidarity Texts: Radiant Re-Sisters. Lowe was a co-founding member of The Dark Room Collective. She performs and records with her ensemble\, NAMAROON. Her work has been recognized by The Rauschenberg Foundation and City Artists Corps. For more\, visit https://www.janicelowe.com/ \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-janice-a-lowe/
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SUMMARY:Aurora Lecture Series: Arvind-pal Mandair - Epistemic Empowerment: Sikh Philosophy and Cognitive Decolonization
DESCRIPTION:‘Sikh philosophy’ is a nascent field of knowledge in the sense that it has not yet emerged but shows signs of future potential. It lies at the intersection of several fields including World Philosophies\, Sikh and/or Asian studies\, and Philosophy of Religion. Although literature on Sikh philosophy has existed for over a century (in several languages)\, it has never been recognized within the Western academy. In this presentation I examine some of the reasons why this has been the case. What can a potential turn towards Sikh philosophy achieve? Why does it matter? To whom? Rather than providing a conventional objective analysis of the history of Sikh philosophy\, its literature (etc etc)\, however\, I’d like ask a slightly different question: what is Sikh philosophy for? To do this\, I’d like to bring my own scholarly quest for recognition of Sikh philosophy within the academy into dialogue with autotheory. This is to some extent already a hint about the nature of Sikh philosophy and the politics of framing non-Western ideas and concepts within the global knowledge system. \nJoin Zoom here. \nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/arvind-pal-mandair-epistemic-empowerment-sikh-philosophy-and-cognitive-decolonization/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220413T160000
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SUMMARY:Students as Agents of Transformative Change - Necessary Trouble: Thinking with the Legacy of John R. Lewis
DESCRIPTION:“Every generation leaves behind a legacy. What that legacy will be is determined by the people of that generation. What legacy do you want to leave behind?” ― John Lewis \nReady for some Necessary Trouble? In anticipation and in honor of the dedication of John R. Lewis College at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, the Division of Social Sciences\, Colleges Nine and Ten\, the Institute for Social Transformation\, and the Center for Racial Justice are organizing five events centered on topics exemplified by the life of Representative John Lewis. \nFeatured Speakers: \nXavier Livermon \nStudent Speakers TBD \nAt UC Santa Cruz\, we believe that the real change is us. This series will highlight the efforts of faculty\, students\, staff\, community leaders\, and alumni in their commitments to social and racial justice\, civic engagement and democracy. It is an opportunity for us all to reflect on how we can help carry John R. Lewis’ legacy forward in the future.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/students-as-agents-of-transformative-change-necessary-trouble-thinking-with-the-legacy-of-john-r-lewis/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Robert Alter - The Psalms as Literature
DESCRIPTION:This is the first event of Shakespeare’s Psalms: A community seminar series. \nShakespeare cited the Psalms more than any other book of the Bible. What did the psalms mean to him? This series\, co-hosted by Sean Keilen (UCSC) and Julia Lupton (UCI) explores the presence of psalms in Shakespeare’s poetic imagery\, psychological insights\, and contributions to wisdom. The series consists of seven Wednesday meetings\, starting at 12:00 PT\, and is free and open to all. The series launches with a special appearance by Prof. Robert Alter\, the foremost modern translator of the Hebrew Bible into English and the author of several books on the Bible as literature. \n \nRobert Alter is Professor in the Graduate School and Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley\, where he has taught since 1967. He has written widely on the European novel from the eighteenth century to the present\, on contemporary American fiction\, and on modern Hebrew literature. He has also written extensively on literary aspects of the Bible. His twenty-four published books include two prize-winning volumes on biblical narrative and poetry and award-winning translations of Genesis and of the Five Books of Moses. He has devoted book-length studies to Fielding\, Stendhal\, and the self-reflexive tradition in the novel. Books by him have been translated into ten different languages. Among his publications over the past twenty-five years are “Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka\, Benjamin\, and Scholem” (1991)\, “The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel” (1999)\, “Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture” (2000)\, “The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary” (2004)\, “Imagined Cities” (2005)\, “The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary” (2007)\, “Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible” (2010)\, “The Wisdom Books: A Translation with Commentary” (2010)\, and “Ancient Israel: The Former Prophets.” \nCo-sponsored by The Shakespeare Workshop\, UC Santa Cruz\, and UCI Jewish Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/robert-alter-the-psalms-as-literature/
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SUMMARY:Slugs & Steins: David Brundage - The Easter Rising and New York: How Ireland's Revolution Triggered a Fight Against Empire
DESCRIPTION:This talk will assess the impact of the 1916 Easter Rising on a variety of anticolonial movements beyond Ireland and the Irish diaspora\, focusing on New York City\, long recognized as the overseas capital of Irish nationalist agitation and mobilization. But New York played a similar role for a variety of other descent groups and diasporas as well. After an overview of some of these non-Irish groups in the city (including African Americans and South Asians)\, this topic will be placed in the context of World War I and post-war efforts to end colonialism and foster self-determination for nations around the world. While some historians have emphasized the role of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson’s ideas in these efforts\, this talk will demonstrate the centrality of the Easter Rising and the subsequent Irish Revolution\, as understood by both Irish and non-Irish intellectuals and political activists in the increasingly cosmopolitan city of New York. \n \nDavid Brundage is Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz and is currently Chair of UCSC’s Academic Senate. He has published widely in the areas of U.S. immigration and labor history and the history of the Irish diaspora\, and is the author\, most recently\, of Irish Nationalists in America: The Politics of Exile\, 1798–1998 (Oxford University Press\, 2016)\, selected as a Choice Magazine “Outstanding Academic Title” of the year and described by the Irish Times as a major work that “challenges us to rethink the history of Irish nationalism and its far-flung supporters\, and to ponder its present and future.” He is finishing up a new book\, tentatively entitled New York Against Empire: Challenging British Colonialism in a Time of War and Revolution\, 1910–1927\, which investigates New York City as a “contact zone” that brought together anticolonial activists from across the globe.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slugs-steins-david-brundage-the-easter-rising-and-new-york-how-irelands-revolution-triggered-a-fight-against-empire/
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SUMMARY:Rohit De - Lawyering in Times of Lawlessness: Defending Dissenters in India and Sri Lanka (1947-1971)
DESCRIPTION:Rohit De is an Associate Professor of History at Yale University and an Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School. A lawyer and a historian of South Asia and the common law world\, he is the author of A People’s Constitution: Law and Everyday Life in the Indian Republic (Princeton University Press\, 2018). He is currently working on two book projects. The first is a history of decolonization and rebellious lawyering and the second\, co-authored with Ornit Shani\, looks at how thousands of ordinary Indians\, read\, deliberated debated\, and substantially engaged with the anticipated constitution at the time of its writing. In 2020\, Rohit De was elected a Carnegie Fellow. He has held fellowships from the Social Science Research Council\, the Davis Centre for Historical Studies at Princeton University\, the Melbourne Law School\, and the Centre for Asian Legal Studies at the National University of Singapore. Prior to starting at Yale\, he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge. He clerked for Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan of the Supreme Court of India and has worked with constitution reform projects on Nepal and Sri Lanka \n \nPresented by THI’s Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rohit-de-lawyering-in-times-of-lawlessness-defending-disasters-in-india-and-sri-lanka-1941-1971/
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SUMMARY:Pathways to Thriving Communities - Necessary Trouble: Thinking with the Legacy of John R. Lewis
DESCRIPTION:“These young people are saying we all have a right to know what is in the air we breathe\, in the water we drink\, and the food we eat. It is our responsibility to leave this planet cleaner and greener. That must be our legacy.” ― John Lewis \nReady for some Necessary Trouble? In anticipation and in honor of the dedication of John R. Lewis College at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, the Division of Social Sciences\, Colleges Nine and Ten\, the Institute for Social Transformation\, and the Center for Racial Justice are organizing five events centered on topics exemplified by the life of Representative John Lewis. \nFeatured Speakers: \nAlicia Riley \nNancy N. Chen \nJames Doucet-Battle \nAt UC Santa Cruz\, we believe that the real change is us. This series will highlight the efforts of faculty\, students\, staff\, community leaders\, and alumni in their commitments to social and racial justice\, civic engagement and democracy. It is an opportunity for us all to reflect on how we can help carry John R. Lewis’ legacy forward in the future.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pathways-to-thriving-communities-necessary-trouble-thinking-with-the-legacy-of-john-r-lewis/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220401T132000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia:  Maria Gouskova
DESCRIPTION:About eight times each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lingustics-colloquia-maria_gouskova/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220401T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220401T140000
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
CREATED:20220121T210817Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Publishing
DESCRIPTION:As co-editors of the recently published special issue of Critical Ethnic Studies on Borderland Regimes and Resistance in Global Perspective\, we invite you to join us for a workshop focused on academic journal article publishing. We will cover: adapting elements from your dissertation into journal articles; creating your own publication pipeline; navigating the journal submission\, review\, and publishing process; and dealing with rejections. We will also discuss the process of submitting to journal special issues\, such as ours–including how to pitch your work to a special issue\, how to work with editors on your piece during revise-and-resubmit\, and how to propose a guest-edited special issue. \n \nPanelists: \n\nCamilla Hawthorne (Assistant Professor\, Sociology)\nJenny Kelly (Assistant Professor\, Feminist Studies)\n\nPresented by The Humanities Institute’s Border Regimes and Resistance in Global Perspective Cluster \n  \n\nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-publishing-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220330T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220330T170000
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
CREATED:20220127T204118Z
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SUMMARY:Social Movements for a Just Society - Necessary Trouble: Thinking with the Legacy of John R. Lewis
DESCRIPTION:“A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few. Ignoring these cries and failing to respond to this movement is simply not an option — for peace cannot exist where justice is not served.” — John Lewis said of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act \nReady for some Necessary Trouble? In anticipation and in honor of the dedication of John R. Lewis College at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, the Division of Social Sciences\, Colleges Nine and Ten\, the Institute for Social Transformation\, and the Center for Racial Justice are organizing five events centered on topics exemplified by the life of Representative John Lewis. \nFeatured Speakers: \nVeronica Terriquez \nHiroshi Fukurai \nElizabeth Beaumont \nRekia Gina Jibrin \nAt UC Santa Cruz\, we believe that the real change is us. This series will highlight the efforts of faculty\, students\, staff\, community leaders\, and alumni in their commitments to social and racial justice\, civic engagement and democracy. It is an opportunity for us all to reflect on how we can help carry John R. Lewis’ legacy forward in the future. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/social-movements-for-a-just-society-necessary-trouble-thinking-with-the-legacy-of-john-r-lewis/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220329T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220329T200000
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
CREATED:20220314T205034Z
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SUMMARY:John W. Reid\, "Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet"
DESCRIPTION:Five stunningly large forests remain on Earth: the Taiga\, extending from the Pacific Ocean across all of Russia and far-northern Europe; the North American boreal\, ranging from Alaska’s Bering seacoast to Canada’s Atlantic shore; the Amazon\, covering almost the entirety of South America’s bulge; the Congo\, occupying parts of six nations in Africa’s wet equatorial middle; and the island forest of New Guinea\, twice the size of California. \nThese megaforests are vital to preserving global biodiversity\, thousands of cultures\, and a stable climate\, as economist John W. Reid and celebrated biologist Thomas E. Lovejoy argue convincingly in Ever Green. Megaforests serve an essential role in decarbonizing the atmosphere–the boreal alone holds 1.8 trillion metric tons of carbon in its deep soils and peat layers\, 190 years’ worth of global emissions at 2019 levels–and saving them is the most immediate and affordable large-scale solution to our planet’s most formidable ongoing crisis. \nReid and Lovejoy offer practical solutions to address the biggest challenges these forests face\, from vastly expanding protected areas\, to supporting Indigenous forest stewards\, to planning smarter road networks. In gorgeous prose that evokes the majesty of these ancient forests along with the people and animals who inhabit them\, Reid and Lovejoy take us on an exhilarating global journey. \n \n \nJohn W. Reid is a conservationist and economist whose writing has appeared in outlets including the New York Times and Scientific American. He is the founder and former head of Conservation Strategy Fund\, winner of the MacArthur Foundation Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. He currently serves as senior economist for the nonprofit Nia Tero and lives in Sebastopol\, California. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-w-reid-ever-green-saving-big-forests-to-save-the-planet/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220327T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220327T150000
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
CREATED:20220310T180321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220310T181021Z
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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: "Night Walks" by Charles Dickens
DESCRIPTION:For its next meeting\, the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club will read Dickens’s short\, semi-autobiographical essay\, “Night Walks.” Professor John Jordan will lead the discussion. Originally published in 1860 in Dickens’s weekly magazine All the Year Round\, the essay is a good example of Dickens’s work as a journalist\, social activist\, and observer of the modern metropolis. It is also a powerful piece of writing in its own right. \nIn “Night Walks\,” Dickens assumes the identity of a man who suffers from insomnia and whose remedy for this affliction is to walk at night through the streets of the city until dawn before returning home exhausted to fall asleep. The essay describes the people he encounters and the places he sees on these walks. \nA nocturnal walking tour through the heart of London\, “Night Walks” engages our sympathies and enlarges our social vision. It invites the reader to look at familiar places with fresh eyes\, to see people who might otherwise remain invisible\, and to imagine what we may have in common with those less fortunate than ourselves. \nShort\, accessible\, and highly relevant to social problems still facing us today\, “Night Walks” for these reasons may interest schoolteachers in particular as a useful text for introducing Dickens to their students. \nThe Dickens Project has produced an electronic version of this essay. A link to this edition is included below. Only a dozen or so pages long\, the essay comes with notes\, a map of London indicating principal landmarks mentioned in the essay\, and a brief introduction by Professor Jordan. \n \nRecommended Edition: Click here to download a PDF of the Dickens Project’s edition of this essay.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-night-walks-by-charles-dickens/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220324
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220327
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CREATED:20220222T180415Z
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SUMMARY:The 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing
DESCRIPTION:HSP2022 will interrogate the connection between prosody\, gesture and meaning. We are delighted to welcome the following researchers to address questions related to the perception and production of prosody and the planning and interpretation of co-speech gesture. By what mechanisms are these multimodal communication channels integrated with\, or segregated from\, other aspects of linguistic cognition\, such as syntax\, compositional semantics and pragmatics? How does our ability to process gestural or prosodic features develop in first- and second-language? \nSpeakers include: \nMara Breen Psychology and Education – Mt Holyoke\nAoju Chen Languages\, Literature and Communication – Utrecht\nKathryn Davidson Linguistics – Harvard\nJesse Harris Linguistics – UCLA\nSotaro Kita Psychology – Warwick\nPilar Prieto ICREA and Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Dept of Translation and Language Sciences)\, Catalonia \n \n  \nHSP2022 will operate as a virtual conference. \nVirtual core\nThere will be a virtual “core” scientific program organized centrally by UC Santa Cruz. It will consist of invited presentations\, peer-reviewed plenary presentations\, and poster sessions. Anyone will be able to participate fully just virtually. \nSelf-organized satellite gatherings\nAlthough we have canceled the in-person events in Santa Cruz\, folks may wish to gather with other HSP-ers in-person. We encourage any individual or group to self-organize a gathering local to themselves\, where safe and feasible. These can be of any size and scope and formality. \nWe will maintain and publish a clearinghouse of known self-organized satellite gatherings. We’ve also created a sourcebook of ideas. \nFor more information\, please visit: hsp2022@ucsc.edu or contact chusp@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-35th-annual-conference-on-human-sentence-processing/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220318T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220318T150000
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Mara Breen
DESCRIPTION:About eight times each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lingustics-colloquia-mara-breen/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220312T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220312T123000
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
CREATED:20220214T172239Z
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SUMMARY:Latino Role Models Virtual 2022 Conference: Dolores Huerta
DESCRIPTION:We are honored that Dolores Huerta\, Founder and President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation and co-founder with Cesar Chavez of the United Farm Workers Union will be our keynote speaker this year. \n \nSenderos specializes in teaching Latino culture and history through the artistic expression of dance and music\, hosts an annual Guelaguetza\, and offers other performances in local and far-reaching places.  Our organization serves children\, youth and adults of all ages\, including English Language Learners and economically disadvantaged people\, free of cost. We keep alive our native cultures and languages\, represent our countries of origin with pride\, share our culture and contribute to the larger community\, promote harmony\, and break stereotypes.  We are healthy\, successful\, focused on fulfilling our dreams\, and safe from gang influence. We create a college going culture by providing tutoring\, awarding scholarships\, fostering youth leadership\, promoting bi-literacy\, and creating opportunities for community service. We work together to create a thriving\, welcoming\, family-oriented community that values all contributions\, provides help when needed\, and engages all participants in group decisions. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/latino-role-models-virtual-2022-conference-dolores-huerta/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220311T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220311T123000
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
CREATED:20220204T223727Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Careers in Academic Publishing\, featuring Mellon University Press Diversity Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Join the 2021 cohort of the Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowship to hear more about their career trajectories in publishing. The six panelists will discuss topics including their experiences in graduate school\, their journeys into the academic publishing world\, and their broader experiences with careers beyond the tenure track. A moderated question and answer period will follow the panel presentation. \nChad M. Attenborough\, University of Washington Press\nChad M. Attenborough joined the University of Washington Press from Vanderbilt University\, where he is a PhD candidate studying black responses to the British abolition of the slave trade in the Caribbean. While completing his research\, Chad worked for Vanderbilt University Press as a graduate assistant where his passion for publishing developed in earnest and during which he helped process works for VUP’s Critical Mexican Studies series\, their Black Lives and Liberation series\, alongside their Anthropology and Latin American list. Chad received his MA from Vanderbilt in Atlantic History and his BA from Bowdoin College in French. His areas of interest include black diaspora studies\, imperial and intellectual histories\, global migration studies\, and critical geographies. \nFabiola Enríquez\, University of Chicago Press\nFabiola Enríquez joined the University of Chicago Press after having served as Managing Editor for the Cambridge University Press journal International Labor and Working-Class History. She received her BA in History from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez. She is currently pursuing a PhD in History at Columbia University\, where she is writing a dissertation on the intersection between religion and politics in late-nineteenth century Cuba and Puerto Rico. Her interest in publishing comes as a continuation of these academic pursuits\, seeing in acquisitions editing a platform from which to facilitate the global dissemination of knowledge and rescue perspectives that have thus far been underrepresented in historical discussions. Born and raised in Puerto Rico\, she has been living in Chile for the past two years\, and is the proud human to a reformed Chilean street dog. \nSuraiya Anita Jetha\, MIT Press \nSuraiya Anita Jetha is a former contributing editor of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology’s AnthroNews column. She has extensive experience in academic programming\, most recently with the Center for Cultural Studies at the University of California-Santa Cruz. She received a BA in Anthropology from Yale University\, an MA in Migration and Diaspora Studies from SOAS University of London\, and an MA in Anthropology from the New School for Social Research. She is currently writing a dissertation to complete a PhD in Anthropology and Feminist Studies at the University of California-Santa Cruz. Her research interests include anthropology\, science and technology studies\, feminist studies\, and ethnography. \nRobert Ramaswamy\, Ohio State University Press\nRobert Ramaswamy joined the Ohio State University Press from the University of Michigan\, where he is a PhD candidate in American Culture. He recently completed an internship with Michigan Publishing\, during which he worked on title selection and user access for the American Council of Learned Societies’ Humanities Ebook Collection (HEB). At HEB\, he coordinated with scholars in learned societies across the humanities to include more work from scholars\, subfields\, and presses that have historically been excluded from “the canon.” His scholarly interests include feminist theory\, histories of capitalism\, and twentieth-century African American history. He lives in Ann Arbor with his partner\, Anna\, two dogs\, and nine chickens. \n\nJacqulyn Teoh\, Cornell University Press \nJacqulyn Teoh joined Cornell University Press after working as an apprentice at the Feminist Press at CUNY and a part-time acquisitions assistant at the University of Wisconsin Press\, where she was a member of UW Press’s Equity\, Justice\, and Inclusion working group and helped to prepare a demographic survey of authors as a baseline understanding of diversity\, representation\, and inclusion. She holds a BA from Pennsylvania State University\, an MA from the University of Leeds\, and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her dissertation looked at the structures of the contemporary literary marketplace with a focus on Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian American writing. \nJameka Williams\, Northwestern University Press\nJameka Williams is a MFA candidate at Northwestern University in poetry. She received her BA in English from Eastern University in St. Davids\, PA. After supporting herself as a pastry chef during her graduate studies\, she is transitioning into pursuing a career in book publishing\, having interned with independent publisher\, Agate\, in Evanston\, IL. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize\, and she is a Best New Poets 2020 finalist\, published by University of Virginia Press annually. She is currently completing her first full-length poetry collection. \n\nRSVP here: \nLoading… \n  \n\n\nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-careers-in-academic-publishing-featuring-mellon-university-press-diversity-fellows/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220304T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220304T180000
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
CREATED:20220214T210850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220225T222921Z
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SUMMARY:Okinawa Memories Initiative\, "Mobilizing the Reversion: A Geo-Political Perspective"
DESCRIPTION:The Okinawa Memories Initiative is pleased to invite you to our upcoming event\, “Mobilizing the Reversion: A Geo-Political Perspective\,” a roundtable discussion featuring Professor Mike Mochizuki from George Washington University and Dr. Fumi Inoue\, a recent doctoral graduate from Boston College\, in conversation with OMI Directors\, Professors Alan Christy and Dustin Wright. This is the second event in our series on Okinawan Reversion\, in which the speakers will be focusing on Reversion from a geo-political perspective\, and the politics behind the Reversion Agreement between the United States and Japan. \n \nThis year’s programming is focused on the 50th Anniversary of Okinawa’s return to Japan. After 27 years of U.S. Occupation\, and 66 years of being a Japanese semi-colony\, Okinawa was formally returned to Japan on May 15\, 1972. But this was not simply a singular moment. When we say ‘Reversion’\, we envision the lived experiences of thousands of Okinawans across the country who experienced a major political\, economic and social shift. \nAt OMI\, we believe that speaking about Okinawa is to speak about the world. The political ramifications of Okinawa’s new status as a Japanese Prefecture rippled across the world’s waters. Beyond that\, the everyday lives of Okinawans changed irrevocably\, not only in large ways\, but in small ways as well. \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/okinawa-memories-initiative-mobilizing-the-reversion-a-geo-political-perspective/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220304T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220304T140000
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
CREATED:20220302T172844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220302T172923Z
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SUMMARY:Digital Humanities Workshop Series: Digital Mapping
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the second meeting of the Digital Humanities Workshop series 2022 — “Digital Mapping” — on March 4 from 1-2 PM. The workshop will explore an open-source geospatial analysis tool\, Kepler.gl\, to create maps to support research and pedagogy. In the hour-long workshop\, you will get hands-on experience creating interactive maps such as line maps\, arc maps\, and cluster maps. No prior computer knowledge is required. Please see the flyer for more details or register for the event. \nWe want to hear from you! Please fill out this quick survey to let us know what digital humanities topics are of interest to you. \nThank you for your support and we look forward to seeing you at the workshops. \n \nXiao Li is a historian and digital humanist. She works as the digital humanist in the Humanities Computing Service in the humanities division. Before joining UC Santa Cruz\, Xiao was a digital humanities specialist at Phillips Academy at Andover\, preserving historical archives on Asian history in the U.S.: Chinese Students at Andover (1878-2000) and was a digital humanities intern at the Smithsonian preserving the destroyed cultural heritage sites in Syria\, Mali and Bosnia. She also worked with Reuters and the Associate Press for four years on international news reporting.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-humanities-workshop-series-digital-mapping/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220304T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220304T133000
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
CREATED:20220302T193208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220307T210911Z
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SUMMARY:War in Ukraine: Background\, Context\, Prospects and Implications
DESCRIPTION:On February 24\, 2022\, Russia invaded its neighbor Ukraine\, a former republic of the USSR and today an independent\, democratic country. Join a panel of UC Santa Cruz faculty\, PhD students\, and alumni who will discuss the historical and political context for Russia’s war in and on Ukraine\, tension with NATO\, broader Russian efforts at territorial expansion and destabilization\, and responses by Ukrainians and the global community. Topics include the geopolitical history of the region\, Russian media politics\, the legacy of Soviet ideals of multinationalism and “brotherhood\,” shifting registers of “Europeanness\,” and responses by the European Union\, other formerly Soviet republics\, and China. Speakers include Jonathan Beecher\, Rikki Brown\, Melissa L. Caldwell\, Peter Kenez\, Tanya Merchant\, Lincoln Mitchell\, Ben Read\, April L. Reber\, Daria Saprynika\, and Roger Schoenman.  \nFor more information\, please visit: https://transform.ucsc.edu/event/war-in-ukraine/ \n \nCo-sponsored by the Institute for Social Transformation\, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, and the Arts Research Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/war-in-ukraine-background-context-prospects-and-implications/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220304T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220304T130000
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
CREATED:20220112T224605Z
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SUMMARY:Aslı Bâli - "From Revolution to Devolution? Dilemmas of Decentralization in the Middle East"
DESCRIPTION:This seminar engages in a qualitative comparison of four experiences with decentralization in the Middle East to explore the ways in which decentralized governance arrangements might address governance crises\, identity-based conflict and self-determination demands in the Middle East. I argue that the failure to engage with these and other experiences in the MENA region in the growing literature on decentralization in comparative politics and law produces gaps in both the institutional design strategies available in the prescriptions derived from the literature\, and also in our accounts of the region that focus exclusively on the macro politics of authoritarianism without paying attention to experiments on the ground that have sought to formulate alternative governance strategies. \n \nAslı Bâli is Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law\, where she is a core faculty member of the International and Comparative Law Program and the Critical Race Studies Programs. She previously served as the Faculty Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights and\, before that\, Director of the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. Bâli’s research focuses on two broad areas: public international law—including human rights law and the law of the international security order—and comparative constitutional law\, with a focus on the Middle East. Her scholarship has appeared in the American Journal of International Law\, Cornell International Law Journal\, International Journal of Constitutional Law\, University of Chicago Law Review\, ICLA Law Review\, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law\, Virginia Journal of International Law and Yale Journal of International Law among others; her edited volume Constitution Writing\, Religion and Democracy was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017 and a second edited volume\, From Revolution to Devolution: Experiments in Decentralization in the MENA Region is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2022. Her current research examines questions of federalism and decentralization for the purposes of addressing identity-based conflict and self-determination demands in the Middle East. Recently\, she has served as the Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School\, the Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law at the Yale Law School\, and was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study. \nThis event is presented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa in collaboration with the UCSC Legal Studies Seminar.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/asli-bali-from-revolution-to-devolution-dilemmas-of-decentralization-in-the-middle-east/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T185500
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
CREATED:20220110T165111Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220217T214925Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Change Me: Stories of Radical Transformation – A Living Writers Series \nAfter a long period of sheltering in place and an even longer period of restricting our daily movements\, many of us are ready for change. This winter’s living writers all have stories of radical transformation to tell. TC Tolbert searches for a language to enact his transition from being Melissa to being TC; Jane Wong struggles to reconcile her American present with the transnational ghosts of her past; Yuri Herrera’s heroine embarks on a journey across the Mexican American border; Karen Tei Yamashita tells tales of ever changing demographics & invisible histories; Eric Wat’s protagonist remakes himself as he navigates drug abuse\, sexuality\, death and family dynamics; the speaker in Sandra Lim’s book of poems transforms not her life but the way she sees her life. All six writers remind us of the power of literature to transform us. They remind us that when we open a book\, often what we’re really saying is: change me. \n \nSponsored by the Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nSee the full list of Living Writers Series events on the Creative Writing Program page. 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-student-reading/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T183000
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
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SUMMARY:LASER Talks with Paula Arai\, Kyle Robertson\, and Ruth Murray-Clay
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online LASER Talk ​featuring Buddhist scholar Paula Arai\, astrophysicist Ruth Murray-Clay\, and public philosophy scholar Kyle Robertson. The wide-ranging presentations will explore subjects including the science of Buddhist painting\, the formation and evolution of planetary systems and the search for life\, and the interconnections between philosophy and social justice. \n \nPaula Arai received her Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Harvard University\, specializing in Japanese Sōtō Zen. She is author of Women Living Zen: Japanese Buddhist Nuns (Oxford University Press)\, and Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Buddhist Women’s Rituals (University of Hawai’i Press)\, and Painting Enlightenment: Healing Visions of the Heart Sutra––The Buddhist Art of Iwasaki Tsuneo (Shambhala Publications). Her research has received a range of support\, including from Fulbright and the American Council of Learned Societies. She trained at Aichi Senmon Nisōdō under the tutelage of Aoyama Shundō Rōshi. Arai is currently a professor of Buddhist Studies at Louisiana State University\, holding the Urmila Gopal Singhal Professorship in Religions of India. \nRuth Murray-Clay is a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz who studies the formation of planetary systems\, including our solar system. Her theoretical work investigates the birth of planets in gas disks orbiting young stars\, dynamical evolution of planetary orbits\, and the evolution of atmospheres due to escape over cosmic time. Her goal is to determine the processes that shape the diversity of planetary systems we see today and to place our solar system in cosmic context. \nKyle Robertson is a lecturer in the UC Santa Cruz philosophy and legal studies departments. In 2015 he co-founded the Center for Public Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz. An attorney\, he has a passion for all things public philosophy. He is involved with high school Ethics Bowl programs\, teaching as part of Mount Tamalpais College in San Quentin State Prison\, and philosophy for children. He regularly speaks on public philosophy and publishes on the challenges of doing public philosophy. \nLeonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is an international program bringing together artists\, scientists\, and scholars for presentations and conversations. This event is sponsored by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences in collaboration with the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning and The Humanities Institute. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/laser-talks-with-paula-arai-kyle-robertson-and-ruth-murray-clay/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T160000
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – THI Public Fellowship Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Curious about becoming a THI Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia\, then you may be interested in THI’s Public Fellowship program. \nPublic fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute to research\, programming\, communications\, and fundraising at non-profit organizations\, cultural institutions\, or companies and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study. \nPlease join us for an information session about the 2022-2023 THI Public Fellows program on March 3\, 2022\, and learn about summer and year-long opportunities. \nAll THI Public Fellow applicants are required to attend an Info Session or meet with THI Staff by March 25\, 2022. Final applications are due on April 14\, 2022 \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nRSVP here: \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-public-fellowship-information-session-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Solidarities for Justice - Necessary Trouble: Thinking with the Legacy of John R. Lewis
DESCRIPTION:“We are one people\, one family\, the human family\, and what affects one of us affects us all.” ― John Lewis \nReady for some Necessary Trouble? In anticipation and in honor of the dedication of John R. Lewis College at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, the Division of Social Sciences\, Colleges Nine and Ten\, the Institute for Social Transformation\, and the Center for Racial Justice are organizing five events centered on topics exemplified by the life of Representative John Lewis. \nFeatured Speakers: \nJohn Brown Childs \nSteve McKay \nChristine Hong \nSylvanna M. Falcón \nDaniel “Nane” Alejandrez \nChisato Hughes \nAt UC Santa Cruz\, we believe that the real change is us. This series will highlight the efforts of faculty\, students\, staff\, community leaders\, and alumni in their commitments to social and racial justice\, civic engagement and democracy. It is an opportunity for us all to reflect on how we can help carry John R. Lewis’ legacy forward in the future. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/solidarities-for-justice-necessary-trouble-thinking-with-the-legacy-of-john-r-lewis/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220301T190000
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SUMMARY:Craig Haney - Media and Criminal Justice in the U.S.
DESCRIPTION:Craig Haney is a social psychologist and criminologist whose work leverages interdisciplinary approaches to policy theory and practice in the pursuit of justice and equity within institutions of policing and corrections. Drawing on social histories of crime and punishment\, as well as the environments of public media and representation in which opinions and beliefs and crime and justice are formed\, Haney and his students examine the personal and social histories\, the psychological effects of incarceration\, and the complex mechanisms in which criminal justice occurs. \n  \nMedia and Society is a series of lectures and public conversations on the role of media\, journalism\, popular culture narrative\, and media representation\, in the deployment of power in contemporary society. \nEach series lasts a full academic year\, but the fall quarter of the series is also a component of Kresge 1: Power and Representation\, the core course at Kresge College. The series as a whole uniquely serves the UC Santa Cruz community in a vital function of the liberal arts: to cultivate dialogue in the context of public dialogue\, and to guard our freedoms in expressing and debating that knowledge. \nKresge College\, the University Library\, and The Humanities Institute work together each year with an interdisciplinary group of faculty\, staff\, and students\, to build a series of conversations that help fulfill a charge of media literacy and media engagement at UC Santa Cruz. In this year’s series — celebrating Kresge’s 50th year — we focus on creative media\, the visual and aural spectacle of race and racism\, and dialogues on abolition and transformative justice. \nJoin the zoom link here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/craig-haney-media-and-criminal-justice-in-the-u-s/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Meena Kandasamy - Caste Fanaticism and Misogyny: The Hate Politics of Internet Hindutva
DESCRIPTION:Meena Kandasamy (b. 1984) is an anti-caste activist\, poet\, novelist and translator. Her writing aims to deconstruct trauma and violence\, while spotlighting the militant resistance against caste\, gender\, and ethnic oppressions. She explores this in her poetry and prose\, most notably in her books of poems such as Touch (2006) and Ms. Militancy (2010)\, as well as her three novels\, The Gypsy Goddess (2014)\, When I Hit You (2017)\, and Exquisite Cadavers (2019). Her latest work is a collection of essays\, The Orders Were to Rape You: Tamil Tigresses in the Eelam Struggle (Navayana\, 2021). Activism is at the heart of her literary work; she has translated several political texts from Tamil to English including the works of Dravidian ideologue Periyar and Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi leader Dr.Thol.Thirumavalavan\, and previously held an editorial role at The Dalit\, an alternative magazine documenting caste-related brutality and the anti-caste resistance in India. Her novels have been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction\, the International Dylan Thomas Prize\, the Jhalak Prize and the Hindu Lit Prize. She holds a PhD in sociolinguistics\, and was Gallatin Global Faculty in Residence at New York University (NYU) in Fall 2018 where she co-taught a course on feminist writers from the neo-colonial world. Her op-eds and essays have appeared in The White Review\, Guernica\, The Guardian and The New York Times. \n \nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored by Stanford University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/meena-kandasamy-caste-fanaticism-and-misogyny-the-hate-politics-of-internet-hindutva/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220224T190000
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SUMMARY:Bettina Aptheker\, Julie Olsen Edwards and Dena Taylor - "Red Diaper Babies: Growing Up During the HUAC Years of the 1950s"
DESCRIPTION:The 2022 season of Our Community Reads from the Friends of the Aptos Library is featuring a series of special events related to themes in Red Letter Days by Sarah-Jane Stratford. All events aim to create a shared experience that will increase appreciation for our community libraries and for our local bookstores; foster pride in the varied experiences that our area offers; and the enrichment –– culturally\, intellectually\, and emotionally –– that comes from the joy of reading! \nGrowing up closer to home than the London scenes depicted in “Red Letter Days\,” three “red diaper babies” discuss how their lives were impacted by the McCarthy era and the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). They will share some of the lessons learned that they have carried into the present. \nBettina Aptheker: Distinguished Professor Emerita\, Feminist Studies Department\, UCSC. Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red\, Fought for Free Speech and Became a Feminist Rebel (2006) and The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis (2nd edition\, 1999). My book to be published in 2023 is called Communists in Closets; Queering the History\, 1930-1990s. \nJulie Olsen Edwards: Cabrillo College Early Childhood faculty (retired)\, writer\, Anti Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves (NAEYC)\, consultant\, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). \nDena Taylor: Cabrillo College Program Manager (retired)\, author\, poet. Dena’s most recent books are Tell Me the Number Before Infinity: the story of a girl with a quirky mind\, an eccentric family\, and oh yes\, a disability (co-authored with Becky Taylor) and Exclamation Points: collected poems. \n \nThis event is hosted by the Friends of the Aptos Library as part of their 2022 season of “Our Community Reads.”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bettina-aptheker-julie-olsen-edwards-and-dena-taylor-red-diaper-babies-growing-up-during-the-huac-years-of-the-1950s/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220224T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220224T203000
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Life and Death of King John
DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute\, as we launch Undiscovered Shakespeare: King John\, the third installment of our annual virtual Shakespeare program. Over the course of three sessions (February 10\, 17\, and 24)\, we will immerse ourselves in another rarely performed play and reflect on it both as a point of departure for Shakespeare’s career and as a mirror for the times in which we live. \nSession 3: February 24th\, 2022 6:30pm-8:30pm\nWe begin with a dramatic reading of The Life and Death of King John\, before turning to a presentation by Jesse Lander\, Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame\, and an open discussion with Professor Lander\, director Charles Pasternak\, and the cast of the production. \nRegister for all sessions here. \nThe Santa Cruz Shakespeare Playbill for King John may be found here. \n \nKing John\, Full Play Synopsis:\nFrance threatens England with war\, claiming that King John has usurped the throne from its rightful claimant\, his nephew Arthur. Armies from both France and England seek support from the town of Angers which proposes that John’s niece marry the dauphin of France to solve the issue. The parties agree\, but the wedding and proposed peace are interrupted by the arrival of an emissary of the Pope who\, angry at John for his treatment of the church in France\, rekindles the war. France invades England and John plots to have Arthur murdered. When Arthur falls from a wall and dies\, the English lords\, convinced that John is responsible\, abandon his cause and join France. John tries to reconcile with the Church to forestall his defeat by the French\, but the Dauphin refuses to back down. The English lords\, however\, learning that the French mean to kill them after the victory\, change sides again. France sues for peace\, but the news comes too late to John\, who dies\, poisoned by a monk. \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced. King John is one of only two plays by Shakespeare written entirely in verse (along with Richard II). In it\, Shakespeare explores the use of political rhetoric to cloak self-serving ambitions during the reign of the king that saw the birth of the Magna Carta. \n  \nSean Keilen is Professor of Literature and former Provost of Porter College at UC Santa Cruz\, where he directs Shakespeare Workshop\, a research center of The Humanities Institute that uses Shakespeare’s writing to bring the campus and the community together in conversation about topics of shared concern. He studies Shakespeare and the history of criticism\, and is the author or editor of books and essays about early British literature and the classical tradition in England. He was educated at Williams College\, Cambridge\, and Stanford University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-the-life-and-death-of-king-john-3/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220224T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220224T185500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Yuri Herrera
DESCRIPTION:Yuri Herrera’s first novel to appear in English\, Signs Preceding the End of the World\, received great critical acclaim in 2015 and was included in many Best-of-Year lists. Yuri is a political scientist\, editor and contemporary Mexican writer who teaches at Tulane University in New Orleans. His prose was described as “stunning” and his novel as an entrance “to the golden gate of Mexican literature” by Elena Poniatowska. Born in Acopan\, Mexico\, Yuri resides in New Orleans\, Louisiana. \n \nChange Me: Stories of Radical Transformation – A Living Writers Series \nAfter a long period of sheltering in place and an even longer period of restricting our daily movements\, many of us are ready for change. This winter’s living writers all have stories of radical transformation to tell. TC Tolbert searches for a language to enact his transition from being Melissa to being TC; Jane Wong struggles to reconcile her American present with the transnational ghosts of her past; Yuri Herrera’s heroine embarks on a journey across the Mexican American border; Karen Tei Yamashita tells tales of ever changing demographics & invisible histories; Eric Wat’s protagonist remakes himself as he navigates drug abuse\, sexuality\, death and family dynamics; the speaker in Sandra Lim’s book of poems transforms not her life but the way she sees her life. All six writers remind us of the power of literature to transform us. They remind us that when we open a book\, often what we’re really saying is: change me. \nThis event is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nSee the full list of Living Writers Series Events on the Creative Writing Program page.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-yuri-herrera/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220224T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220224T190000
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SUMMARY:University Forum: Beyond the Middle Passage: Slave Trading within the Americas\, 1619-1807
DESCRIPTION:During the American slave trade\, more than 12 million enslaved African people endured the infamous Middle Passage across the Atlantic. For many\, the forced migration didn’t end when they reached an American port. Demand for enslaved labor was so rampant in the Americas that speculators purchased many arriving people only to ship them from colony to colony for resale. This phase of the slave trade within the Americas not only added to enslaved people’s traumatic journeys\, it also reveals the centrality of slavery to early American life. Black History Month\, celebrated each year during February\, is a chance for Americans to learn details of their nation’s history that are far too often neglected and pushed to the wayside. This month’s University Forum is a difficult\, yet crucial\, conversation about the spread of the slave trade within the Americas and how slavery became an American institution. Join this University Forum with Professor Greg O’Malley\, moderated by Professor Vilashini Cooppan\, and followed by a question and answer period led by Professor Gina Dent and Professor Cooppan.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/university-forum-beyond-the-middle-passage-slave-trading-within-the-americas-1619-1807/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220223T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220223T133000
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SUMMARY:Engseng Ho - Dubai and Singapore: Asian Diasporics\, Global Logistics\, Company Rule
DESCRIPTION:Dubai and Singapore are emblematic of the contemporary global moment\, embodying dizzying success\, frenetic excess\, spectacular crash. Are they global cities or port-states? Are they Asian nations or corporations descended from the East India Companies that became colonial governments? Their iconic status today as global cities is not simply a function of globalization\, but can be understood in terms of dynamic currents that shape and reshape places in the Indian Ocean\, the original Asian venue of an international economy. Dubai and Singapore are two tiny places that have seen success because they have understood those currents\, and acted in accordance with changes in their dynamics. What are these dynamics – their constants over the long term\, and their recent shifts? \n \nEngseng Ho is a professor of Anthropology and History at Duke University. He is also the Muhammad Alagil Distinguished Visiting Professor of Arabia Asia Studies at the Asia Research Institute\, National University of Singapore. He is a leading scholar of transnational anthropology\, history and Muslim societies\, Arab diasporas\, and the Indian Ocean. His research expertise is in Arabia\, coastal South Asia and maritime Southeast Asia\, and he maintains active collaborations with scholars in these regions. He is co-editor of the Asian Connections book series at Cambridge University Press\, and serves on the editorial boards of journals such as American Anthropologist\, Comparative Studies in Society and History\, History and Anthropology. He has previously worked as Professor of Anthropology\, Harvard University; Senior Scholar\, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; Country and Profile Writer\, the Economist Group; International Economist\, Government of Singapore Investment Corporation/Monetary Authority of Singapore; Director\, Middle East Institute\, National University of Singapore. He was educated at the Penang Free School\, Stanford University\, and the University of Chicago. \nThis event is co-sponsored by SEACoast (Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions) \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nTo attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Winter colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (cult@ucsc.edu). \nPlease note: this event will be fully remote\, with no in-person attendance. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/engseng-ho-dubai-and-singapore-asian-diasporics-global-logistics-company-rule/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220222T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220222T190000
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SUMMARY:From the Margins: Dante 701 Years Later – Dante’s Mediterranean Awakening
DESCRIPTION:During Dante’s lifetime\, the maritime city-states of northern Italy consolidated their position at the center of Mediterranean transit and trade. Thanks to broader trends in the centuries before his birth – the Crusades\, increasing trade in essential foods and luxury goods\, and swift advances in naval architecture and financial supports for trade\, for instance – Genoa and Venice became important hubs for trade and travel between western Europe and the greater Mediterranean world. Florence grew dramatically during the thirteenth century\, but it wasn’t yet the dynamic financial and artistic center that it would become after Dante’s death. Dante’s exile exposed him to cultural trends and technologies reaching northern Italy from the broader Mediterranean world that were still little known in Florence. The works he wrote after his exile – especially the Commedia – reveal his fascination with the technological and intellectual innovations that he learned about as he traveled through northern Italy. This talk addresses Dante’s discovery of the material culture of the Mediterranean – like the shipyards in Venice\, which he may or may not have visited in person; paper and watermarks; dice and dice games; and carpets from the east – and intellectual trends\, like Islamic teachings and legends about the afterlife\, after his exile from Florence. \n \n  \nKarla Mallette is Professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and Professor of Mediterranean Studies in the Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Kingdom of Sicily\, 1100-1250: A Literary History (2005) and European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean (2010); she co-edited A Sea of Languages: Rethinking the Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History (2013). Her most recent book\, Lives of the Great Languages: Latin and Arabic in the Medieval Mediterranean\, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2021. She has directed the Global Islamic Studies Center and the Center for European Studies and is currently chair of the Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan. \nThis event is presented by The Humanities Institute and sponsored by the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Literature Department\, Cowell College\, Italian Studies\, and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa at Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/from-the-margins-dante-701-years-later-dantes-mediterranean-awakening/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220222T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220222T113000
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SUMMARY:Poetry and Protest: Writing Amidst Chaos with poet Alan Pelaez Lopez
DESCRIPTION:In this poetry reading and community conversation\, Alan Pelaez Lopez will reflect on what it means to create art in the middle of legal and political violence. They’ll read from their book\, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien\, and a manuscript-in-progress tentatively titled trans*imagination in the hope that the work can invite questions about abolition\, migrant futures\, and the radical trans imaginary. \n \nAlan Pelaez Lopez is an AfroIndigenous poet\, installation and adornment artist from Oaxaca\, México. Their work attends to the quotidian realities of undocumented migrants in the United States\, the Black condition in Latin America\, and the intimate kinship units that trans and nonbinary people build in the face of violence. Their debut visual poetry collection\, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien\, was a finalist for the 2020 International Latino Book Award. They are also the author of the chapbook\, to love and mourn in the age of displacement. \nThis event is organized by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Racial Justice.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/poetry-and-protest-writing-amidst-chaos-with-poet-alan-pelaez-lopez/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220217T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220217T203000
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Life and Death of King John
DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute\, as we launch Undiscovered Shakespeare: King John\, the third installment of our annual virtual Shakespeare program. Over the course of three sessions (February 10\, 17\, and 24)\, we will immerse ourselves in another rarely performed play and reflect on it both as a point of departure for Shakespeare’s career and as a mirror for the times in which we live. \nSession 2: February 17th\, 2022 6:30pm-8:30pm\nWe begin with a dramatic reading of The Life and Death of King John\, before turning to a presentation by Jesse Lander\, Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame\, and an open discussion with Professor Lander\, director Charles Pasternak\, and the cast of the production. \nSubsequent session is held on Feb 24\, 2022. Register for all sessions here. \nThe Santa Cruz Shakespeare Playbill for King John may be found here. \n \nKing John\, Full Play Synopsis:\nFrance threatens England with war\, claiming that King John has usurped the throne from its rightful claimant\, his nephew Arthur. Armies from both France and England seek support from the town of Angers which proposes that John’s niece marry the dauphin of France to solve the issue. The parties agree\, but the wedding and proposed peace are interrupted by the arrival of an emissary of the Pope who\, angry at John for his treatment of the church in France\, rekindles the war. France invades England and John plots to have Arthur murdered. When Arthur falls from a wall and dies\, the English lords\, convinced that John is responsible\, abandon his cause and join France. John tries to reconcile with the Church to forestall his defeat by the French\, but the Dauphin refuses to back down. The English lords\, however\, learning that the French mean to kill them after the victory\, change sides again. France sues for peace\, but the news comes too late to John\, who dies\, poisoned by a monk. \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced. King John is one of only two plays by Shakespeare written entirely in verse (along with Richard II). In it\, Shakespeare explores the use of political rhetoric to cloak self-serving ambitions during the reign of the king that saw the birth of the Magna Carta. \n  \nSean Keilen is Professor of Literature and former Provost of Porter College at UC Santa Cruz\, where he directs Shakespeare Workshop\, a research center of The Humanities Institute that uses Shakespeare’s writing to bring the campus and the community together in conversation about topics of shared concern. He studies Shakespeare and the history of criticism\, and is the author or editor of books and essays about early British literature and the classical tradition in England. He was educated at Williams College\, Cambridge\, and Stanford University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-the-life-and-death-of-king-john-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220216T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220216T170000
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
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SUMMARY:Black Liberation and Pedagogies - Necessary Trouble: Thinking with the Legacy of John R. Lewis
DESCRIPTION:“Freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit down and rest. Freedom is the continuous action we all must take\, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair\, more just society. “ ― John Lewis \nReady for some Necessary Trouble? In anticipation and in honor of the dedication of John R. Lewis College at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, the Division of Social Sciences\, Colleges Nine and Ten\, the Institute for Social Transformation\, and the Center for Racial Justice are organizing five events centered on topics exemplified by the life of Representative John Lewis. \nFeatured Speakers: \nSavannah Shange \nDavid Henry \nAnthony III \nCat Brooks \nAndrea del Carmen Vázquez \nAt UC Santa Cruz\, we believe that the real change is us. This series will highlight the efforts of faculty\, students\, staff\, community leaders\, and alumni in their commitments to social and racial justice\, civic engagement and democracy. It is an opportunity for us all to reflect on how we can help carry John R. Lewis’ legacy forward in the future. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/black-liberation-and-pedagogies-necessary-trouble-thinking-with-the-legacy-of-john-r-lewis/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220216T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220216T133000
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
CREATED:20220106T163656Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220208T033729Z
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SUMMARY:Althea Wasow - Policing Blackness and Black Bodies in Bert Williams’s "A Natural Born Gambler" (1916)
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URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/althea-wasow-policing-blackness-and-black-bodies-in-bert-williamss-a-natural-born-gambler-1916/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220210T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220210T203000
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Life and Death of King John
DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute\, as we launch Undiscovered Shakespeare: King John\, the third installment of our annual virtual Shakespeare program. Over the course of three sessions (February 10\, 17\, and 24)\, we will immerse ourselves in another rarely performed play and reflect on it both as a point of departure for Shakespeare’s career and as a mirror for the times in which we live. \nSession 1: February 10th\, 2022 6:30pm-8:30pm\nWe begin with a dramatic reading of The Life and Death of King John\, before turning to a presentation by Jesse Lander\, Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame\, and an open discussion with Professor Lander\, director Charles Pasternak\, and the cast of the production. \nSubsequent sessions are held on Feb 17 and Feb 24\, 2022. Register for all three sessions here. \n \nKing John\, Full Play Synopsis:\nFrance threatens England with war\, claiming that King John has usurped the throne from its rightful claimant\, his nephew Arthur. Armies from both France and England seek support from the town of Angers which proposes that John’s niece marry the dauphin of France to solve the issue. The parties agree\, but the wedding and proposed peace are interrupted by the arrival of an emissary of the Pope who\, angry at John for his treatment of the church in France\, rekindles the war. France invades England and John plots to have Arthur murdered. When Arthur falls from a wall and dies\, the English lords\, convinced that John is responsible\, abandon his cause and join France. John tries to reconcile with the Church to forestall his defeat by the French\, but the Dauphin refuses to back down. The English lords\, however\, learning that the French mean to kill them after the victory\, change sides again. France sues for peace\, but the news comes too late to John\, who dies\, poisoned by a monk. \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced. King John is one of only two plays by Shakespeare written entirely in verse (along with Richard II). In it\, Shakespeare explores the use of political rhetoric to cloak self-serving ambitions during the reign of the king that saw the birth of the Magna Carta. \n  \nSean Keilen is Professor of Literature and former Provost of Porter College at UC Santa Cruz\, where he directs Shakespeare Workshop\, a research center of The Humanities Institute that uses Shakespeare’s writing to bring the campus and the community together in conversation about topics of shared concern. He studies Shakespeare and the history of criticism\, and is the author or editor of books and essays about early British literature and the classical tradition in England. He was educated at Williams College\, Cambridge\, and Stanford University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-the-life-and-death-of-king-john/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: TC Tolbert
DESCRIPTION:TC Tolbert (he/him/hey grrrl) is a trans and genderqueer monkey-goat who never ceases to experience a simultaneous grief and deep love any time s/he pays attention to the world. S/he writes poems\, works with wood\, learns\, teaches\, and wanders. In 2019\, TC was awarded an Academy of American Poets’ Laureate Fellowship for his work with trans\, non-binary\, and queer folks as Tucson’s Poet Laureate. Publications include Gephyromania (originally published by Ahsahta Press in 2014\, to be re-released by Nightboat Books in 2022) and five chapbooks. TC is also co-editor (along with Trace Peterson) of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books 2013). TC lives in Tucson\, AZ where s/he is the current Poet Laureate. www.tctolbert.com \n \nChange Me: Stories of Radical Transformation – A Living Writers Series \nAfter a long period of sheltering in place and an even longer period of restricting our daily movements\, many of us are ready for change. This winter’s living writers all have stories of radical transformation to tell. TC Tolbert searches for a language to enact his transition from being Melissa to being TC; Jane Wong struggles to reconcile her American present with the transnational ghosts of her past; Yuri Herrera’s heroine embarks on a journey across the Mexican American border; Karen Tei Yamashita tells tales of ever changing demographics & invisible histories; Eric Wat’s protagonist remakes himself as he navigates drug abuse\, sexuality\, death and family dynamics; the speaker in Sandra Lim’s book of poems transforms not her life but the way she sees her life. All six writers remind us of the power of literature to transform us. They remind us that when we open a book\, often what we’re really saying is: change me. \nSee the full list of Living Writers Series events on the Creative Writing Program page.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-tc-tolbert/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220208T190000
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SUMMARY:Isebill Gruhn\, "From McCarthyism to Today: Demagoguery Then and Now"
DESCRIPTION:The 2022 season of Our Community Reads from the Friends of the Aptos Library is featuring a series of special events related to themes in Red Letter Days by Sarah-Jane Stratford. All events aim to create a shared experience that will increase appreciation for our community libraries and for our local bookstores; foster pride in the varied experiences that our area offers; and the enrichment –– culturally\, intellectually\, and emotionally –– that comes from the joy of reading! \nSetting the stage for the era in which Red Letter Days takes place\, Professor Emerita “Ronnie” Gruhn will describe world events during the 1950’s and developments leading up to current day. She will define the various “isms”(authoritarianism\, socialism\, etc) that are often misused in today’s political discussions and explore the similarities\, if any\, of the McCarthy era to today. \nProfessor Gruhn arrived at UC Santa Cruz in 1969 as a member of the Political Science department and an affiliate of Stevenson College. Gruhn served in diverse capacities at UC Santa Cruz over the past four decades. She twice chaired the Political Science department (1973-1975 and 1980-1981) among other accomplishments\, and today is a regular lecturer for the Osher Lifelong Learner Institute. \n \nThis event is hosted by the Friends of the Aptos Library as part of their 2022 season of “Our Community Reads” and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/isebill-gruhn-from-mccarthyism-to-today-demagoguery-then-and-now/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220207T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220207T190000
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SUMMARY:From the Margins: Dante 701 Years Later - Reading Dante\, Seeking Freedom\, Fleeing Racism
DESCRIPTION:African American culture has been attentive to Dante Alighieri\, the man and his writing\, since the mid-19th century. Dante’s Divine Comedy has proved to be an effective primer on issues of justice for the broader community. This talk will present the work of African American authors from the 19th century to today who have turned to Dante and amplified his voice that speaks truth to power\, that calls out for justice without compromise\, that seeks a better community for us all. \n \n  \nDennis Looney served as director of the Office of Programs and director of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages at the Modern Language Association from 2014-2021. From 1986 to 2013\, he taught Italian at the University of Pittsburgh\, with secondary appointments in Classics and Philosophy. He was chair of the Department of French and Italian for eleven years and assistant dean of humanities for three years at Pitt. Publications include Compromising the Classics: Romance Epic Narrative in the Italian Renaissance (Wayne State UP\, 1996)\, which received honorable mention\, MLA Marraro-Scaglione Award in Italian Literary Studies\, 1996-97; and Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy (U Notre Dame P\, 2011)\, which received the American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize (general category) in 2011. He co-edited and co-translated Ludovico Ariosto’s Latin Poetry (Harvard UP\, 2018) with D. Mark Possanza. \n  \nSponsored by the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Literature Department\, The Humanities Institute\, Cowell College\, Italian Studies\, and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/from-the-margins-dante-701-years-later-reading-dante-seeking-freedom-fleeing-racism/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220204T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220204T140000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Introduction to Digital Humanities
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for the first meeting of the Digital Humanities Workshop series 2022 to learn about what digital humanities means\, how digital tools empower humanities scholarship\, the role of technology in higher education as a tool of communication and research as well as an expressive and creative medium\, and the new opportunities and career paths that digital skills can open for humanists. The first workshop is presented by the Humanities Computing Services in partnership with the Digital Scholarship Commons and The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ series. \nThe Digital Humanities Workshop series will continue throughout 2022 with a range of sessions led by digital humanists at UC Santa Cruz who will discuss their experiences “doing DH” and their insights on how the digital environment is changing the landscape of higher education in general and humanities in particular. We will also explore together digital humanities tools that are widely used in research\, teaching and learning. Our goal is to provide as many perspectives on digital humanities as we can fit in and empower you to advance humanities through digital means. \n \nXiao Li is a historian and digital humanist. She works as the digital humanist in the Humanities Computing Service in the humanities division. Before joining UC Santa Cruz\, Xiao was a digital humanities specialist at Phillips Academy at Andover\, preserving historical archives on Asian history in the U.S.: Chinese Students at Andover (1878-2000) and was a digital humanities intern at the Smithsonian preserving the destroyed cultural heritage sites in Syria\, Mali and Bosnia. She also worked with Reuters and the Associate Press for four years on international news reporting. \nDaniel Story is a historian and digital humanist. He works as a Digital Scholarship Librarian at UC Santa Cruz\, supporting and collaborating with students and faculty who seek to engage digital methods in their teaching\, research\, or learning. He is the lead producer of the ten-part documentary podcast Stories from the Epicenter\, which explores the experience and memory of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake in Santa Cruz County\, California. He also currently serves as a consulting editor for The American Historical Review and produces the journal’s podcast\, AHR Interview. Daniel received his Ph.D. in History from Indiana University\, Bloomington. \n\nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/introduction-to-digital-humanities/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220130T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220130T190000
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SUMMARY:Watsonville is in the Heart Online Screening: Dollar a Day\, Ten Cents a Dance
DESCRIPTION:ONLINE SCREENING: Talk Story II: Dollar a Day\, Ten Cents a Dance screening\, and community discussion. \nOn Sunday\, January 30\, the Watsonville is in the Heart (WIITH) project team rings in 2022 with a screening of Geoffrey Dunn and Mark Schwartz’s Dollar a Day\, Ten Cents a Dance (1984). The documentary offers a portrait of Filipino agricultural workers\, who traveled to California in the early through the mid-twentieth century. \nJoin community members for a conversation between director Geoffrey Dunn\, local philanthropist and activist George Ow\, and Steve McKay\, professor of Sociology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz and co-Principal Investigator of WIITH. \n \nThis event is part of the larger community-engaged public oral history project Watsonville is in the Heart (led by UCSC historian Kat Gutierrez and labor sociologist Steve McKay)\, in collaboration with the Tobera Project. \nFor general information\, please contact toberaproject@gmail.com. The event will be live-streamed and will be live-captioned. A recording of the event will be made available through YouTube. \nThis project is supported by a Humanities for All Quick Grant. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/watsonville-is-in-the-heart-online-screening-dollar-a-day-ten-cents-a-dance/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220127T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220127T185500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Karen Tei Yamashita and Eric Wat
DESCRIPTION:After a long period of sheltering in place and an even longer period of restricting our daily movements\, many of us are ready for change. This winter’s living writers all have stories of radical transformation to tell. TC Tolbert searches for a language to enact his transition from being Melissa to being TC; Jane Wong struggles to reconcile her American present with the transnational ghosts of her past; Yuri Herrera’s heroine embarks on a journey across the Mexican American border; Karen Tei Yamashita tells tales of ever changing demographics & invisible histories; Eric Wat’s protagonist remakes himself as he navigates drug abuse\, sexuality\, death and family dynamics; the speaker in Sandra Lim’s book of poems transforms not her life but the way she sees her life. All six writers remind us of the power of literature to transform us. They remind us that when we open a book\, often what we’re really saying is: change me. \nThe Living Writer Series is sponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz. \n \nKaren Tei Yamashita is an award-winning writer who was born in Oakland\, California. For many years she was Professor of Literature at University of California\, Santa Cruz. Her works\, several of which contain elements of magic realism\, include novels I Hotel (2010)\, Circle K Cycles (2001)\, Tropic of Orange (1997)\, Brazil-Maru (1992)\, and Through the Arc of the Rain Forest (1990). Yamashita’s novels emphasize the necessity of polyglot\, multicultural communities in an increasingly globalized age\, even as they destabilize orthodox notions of borders and national/ethnic identity. She has also written a number of plays\, including Hannah Kusoh\, Noh Bozos and O-Men which was produced by the Asian American theatre group\, East West Players. Her most recent book is the story collection\, Sansei and Sensibility (2020). Karen Tei Yamashita: The Complete Works is now available from Coffeehouse Press. In 2021\, Yamashita was named the recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. \nEric Wat’s first book\, The Making of a Gay Asian Community (2002)\, has been described as a “foundational text in queer Asian American historiography.” Almost twenty years later\, he wrote a follow-up about AIDS activism in the Asian American community\, Love Your Asian Body (2021). But his first love was fiction. In 2016\, after his grandmother passed away\, he quit the best job in the world to write his novel\, Swim (2019). He wrote Swim for queer folks whose main concern in life isn’t coming out\, for people who are dealing with addiction (or know loved ones who are)\, and for adult children who are struggling to take care of their aging parents (and in so doing are confronted by their imperfect relationships). Wat lives and writes in Los Angeles.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-tei-yamashita-and-eric-wat/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220126T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220126T133000
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SUMMARY:Xavier Livermon - Safe Houses? Queerness\, Performance\, and the Land Question in South Africa
DESCRIPTION:During the height of COVID restrictions in 2020\, a group of Black queer artists in Cape Town occupied a ritzy home that had been converted into an Air B and B. They intended to overstay their original booking in order to bring attention to the issue of inequitable housing policy in South Africa\, and the particular ways that the continuation of apartheid urban planning created disproportionate vulnerabilities for Black queer folk in Cape Town. In this talk\, I will consider the political implications of joining queerness with the land question in post-apartheid South Africa through direct political action and performance. \n \nXavier Livermon is Associate Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UCSC \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nFor Winter 2022\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format\, in which some events are fully remote and others have the option of in-person attendance. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. Those who attend in person must adhere to the campus mask mandate for all indoor activities and must complete UCSC’s symptom-check form before coming to campus. In person attendees are asked to please arrive at 12pm so that the event coordinators can verify the symptom check has been completed. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Winter colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (cult@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/xavier-livermon-safe-houses-queerness-performance-and-the-land-question-in-south-africa/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220121T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220121T140000
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SUMMARY:Demystifying Book Publishing for FirstGen Scholars
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a panel with first-gen authors about their publishing experiences\, followed by a presentation and Q&A with UC Press editors about common publishing topics\, such as choosing the right publisher; preparing a book proposal; how the peer review and Editorial Committee process works; revising your manuscript; and working with publishers to promote your book. Attendees are encouraged to ask questions. A recording will be made available after the event. \nSponsored by: UC Press and the UC Collaborative of Humanities Centers and Institutes \nLearn more at the UC Press FirstGen Program.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/demystifying-book-publishing-for-firstgen-scholars/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220121T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220121T120000
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SUMMARY:Bishnupriya Ghosh - Multispecies Distributions in the Epidemic Episteme
DESCRIPTION:Bishnupriya Ghosh teaches at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. She has published two monographs\, When Borne Across: Literary Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel (Rutgers UP\, 2004) and Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular (Duke Up\, 2011) on global media cultures. Her current work on media\, risk\, and globalization includes the co-edited Routledge Companion to Media and Risk (Routledge 2020) and a new monograph\, The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media (under contract\, Duke UP). \n \nPresented by THI’s Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bishnupriya-ghosh-multispecies-distributions-in-the-epidemic-episteme/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220119T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220119T170000
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SUMMARY:Mona El-Ghobashy - "Bread and Freedom: Egypt's Revolutionary Situation"
DESCRIPTION:Bread and Freedom offers a new account of Egypt’s 2011 revolutionary mobilization\, based on a documentary record hidden in plain sight—party manifestos\, military communiqués\, open letters\, constitutional contentions\, protest slogans\, parliamentary debates\, and court decisions. A rich trove of political arguments\, the sources reveal a range of actors vying over the fundamental question in politics: who holds ultimate political authority. The revolution’s tangled events engaged competing claims to sovereignty made by insurgent forces and entrenched interests alike\, a vital contest that was terminated by the 2013 military coup and its aftermath. Now a decade after the 2011 Arab uprisings\, Mona El-Ghobashy rethinks how we study revolutions\, looking past causes and consequences to train our sights on the collisions of revolutionary politics. She moves beyond the simple judgments that once celebrated Egypt’s revolution as an awe-inspiring irruption of people power or now label it a tragic failure. Revisiting the revolutionary interregnum of 2011–2013\, Bread and Freedom takes seriously the political conflicts that developed after the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak\, an eventful thirty months when it was impossible to rule Egypt without the Egyptians. \n \nMona El-Ghobashy is a scholar of Egyptian politics whose research focuses on law and politics\, varieties of protest\, and limited elections in contemporary Egypt. Her work brings out the dynamics of political contestation before and after the 2011 uprising. \nThis event is presented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa in collaboration with the UCSC Politics Symposium.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mona-el-ghobashy-bread-and-freedom-egypts-revolutionary-situation/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220113T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220113T185500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Jane Wong
DESCRIPTION:Jane Wong’s poems can be found in places such as Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019\, Best American Poetry 2015\, American Poetry Review\, POETRY\, AGNI\, Third Coast\, New England Review\, and others. Her essays have appeared in McSweeney’s\, Black Warrior Review\, Ecotone\, The Common\, The Georgia Review\, Shenandoah\, and This is the Place: Women Writing About Home.\n \nA Kundiman fellow\, she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships and residencies from the U.S. Fulbright Program\, Artist Trust\, Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room\, 4Culture\, the Fine Arts Work Center\, Bread Loaf\, Hedgebrook\, Willapa Bay\, the Jentel Foundation\, SAFTA\,  Mineral School\, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund\, and others. \nShe is the author of How to Not Be Afraid of Everything from Alice James Books (2021) and Overpour from Action Books. She holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Western Washington University. \n \nChange Me: Stories of Radical Transformation – A Living Writers Series \nAfter a long period of sheltering in place and an even longer period of restricting our daily movements\, many of us are ready for change. This winter’s living writers all have stories of radical transformation to tell. TC Tolbert searches for a language to enact his transition from being Melissa to being TC; Jane Wong struggles to reconcile her American present with the transnational ghosts of her past; Yuri Herrera’s heroine embarks on a journey across the Mexican American border; Karen Tei Yamashita tells tales of ever changing demographics & invisible histories; Eric Wat’s protagonist remakes himself as he navigates drug abuse\, sexuality\, death and family dynamics; the speaker in Sandra Lim’s book of poems transforms not her life but the way she sees her life. All six writers remind us of the power of literature to transform us. They remind us that when we open a book\, often what we’re really saying is: change me. \nSee the full list of Living Writers Series events on the Creative Writing Program page.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-jane-wong/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220112T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220112T133000
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SUMMARY:Jean Beaman - Suspect Citizenship
DESCRIPTION:Incidents of state violence and activism against that violence illustrate the continuing significance of race and the persistence of white supremacy in France\, the United States\, and worldwide. Based on past and current ethnographic research and interviews with ethnic minorities in the Parisian metropolitan region\, this talk argues that\, despite France’s colorblind and Republican ethos\, France’s “visible minorities” function under a “suspect citizenship” in which their full societal belonging is never granted. Beaman focuses on the growing problem of state-sponsored violence against ethnic minorities which reveals how France is creating a “bright boundary” (Alba 2005) between whites and non-whites\, furthering disparate outcomes based on race and ethnic origin. By considering the multifaceted dimensions of citizenship and belonging in France\, Beaman demonstrates the limitations of full societal inclusion for France’s non-white denizens and how French Republicanism continues to mark\, rather than erase\, racial and ethnic distinctions. \n \nJean Beaman is Associate Professor of Sociology\, with affiliations with Black Studies\, Political Science\, Feminist Studies\, Global Studies\, and the Center for Black Studies Research\, at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Previously\, she was faculty at Purdue University and held visiting fellowships at Duke University and the European University Institute (Florence\, Italy). Her research is ethnographic in nature and focuses on race/ethnicity\, racism\, international migration\, and state violence in both France and the United States. She is author of Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France (University of California Press\, 2017)\, as well as numerous articles and book chapters. Her current book project is on suspect citizenship and belonging\, anti-racist mobilization\, and activism against police violence in France. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University. She is also an Associate Editor of the journal\, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power and a Corresponding Editor for the journal Metropolitics/Metropolitiques. She is the Co-PI for the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar grant\, “Race\, Precarity\, and Privilege: Migration in a Global Context” for 2020-2022. \nJean Beaman’s presentation will be presented remotely\, please register here to receive the Zoom link on Wednesday\, January 12. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nFor Winter 2022\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format\, in which some events are fully remote and others have the option of in-person attendance. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. Those who attend in person must adhere to the campus mask mandate for all indoor activities and must complete UCSC’s symptom-check form before coming to campus. In person attendees are asked to please arrive at 12pm so that the event coordinators can verify the symptom check has been completed. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Winter colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (cult@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jean-beaman-suspect-citizenship/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211217T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211217T180000
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SUMMARY:Japan Circa 1972: Setting The Stage For Reversion
DESCRIPTION:Please join the conversation on Okinawa\, Japan\, and the media in the years leading up to reversion. Yoshikuni Igarashi will discuss the contents of his recent book\, Japan\, 1972: Visions of Masculinity in an Age of Mass Consumerism in conversation with Drew Richardson (PhD. UCSC)\, and set the stage for a series of OMI events on the 50th anniversary of Okinawan Reversion. \nYoshikuni Igarashi is Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Bodies of Memory: Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture\, 1945-1970 (2000) and Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan’s Lost Soldiers (Columbia\, 2016)\, and recently Japan\, 1972: Visions of Masculinity in an Age of Mass Consumerism. \nThis event is made possible by the Gilbert and Margaret Nee Fund in Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/japan-circa-1972-setting-the-stage-for-reversion/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211213T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211213T200000
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
CREATED:20211116T004419Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211119T004050Z
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SUMMARY:Monolingualism can be cured! And what does this mean for bilingual speech?
DESCRIPTION:It is by no means a small feat that bilinguals can speak two or more languages. In addition to acquiring a variety of components of the linguistic system\, they must have the ability to produce language-specific acoustic targets in their languages accurately and consistently\, and importantly\, they do it while inhibiting or deactivating the influence of their first or dominant language. In this talk\, I will discuss and dispel several myths about bilingualism and bilingual speech\, offer an overview of the potential cognitive benefits of being bilingual\, and conclude by providing evidence of the resourcefulness of bilinguals and multilinguals to overcome cross-language influence in their speech demonstrating the flexibility of their sound systems. \nMark Amengual is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and the director of the UCSC Bilingualism Research Laboratory in the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His research and teaching interests focus primarily on experimental phonetics\, bilingualism\, and psycholinguistics. He has been the principal investigator or collaborator in several research projects on Spanish–Catalan bilinguals\, Spanish– Galician bilinguals\, Spanish heritage speakers in the United States\, English heritage speakers and British immigrants in Spain\, and Spanish–Otomi (Hñäñho) bilingual speakers in Mexico. This work has been published in international venues\, such as Journal of Phonetics\, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America\, Phonetica\, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition\, International Journal of Bilingualism\, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism\, and Applied Psycholinguistics. He is also the editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/monolingualism-can-be-cured-and-what-does-this-mean-for-bilingual-speech/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211207T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211207T120000
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
CREATED:20211116T001107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211116T001107Z
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SUMMARY:Capacity Building Workshop for UC Faculty: "Telling Your Research Story Through Film" with Case Creative
DESCRIPTION:Please note this workshop is only available to UC faculty.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/capacity-building-workshop-for-uc-faculty-telling-your-research-story-through-film-with-case-creative/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211202T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211202T185500
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
CREATED:20210917T183759Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210921T155854Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:The World Beyond Us: A Living Writers Series – Taking advantage of our (hopefully) last virtual Living Writers this Fall\, 2021\, this series will be centered on writers working and living outside the United States\, writers who look beyond the U.S. in their work\, and writers who work in languages other than English. Due to the prohibitive cost of travel and lodging\, many of these writers would have been difficult if not impossible to bring in person. Some writers will read with their translators\, extending the conversation to the art of translation as well. Two of these translators are Literature Department professors and one a Literature Department graduate student\, highlighting the creative translation work being done in our own department. The U.S. publishes very little work in translation\, just 3% of the books published in the U.S. are translations\, compared to other countries (50% of Italy’s books are translations\, for example). Thus\, this series will expose students (as well as faculty and community members) to exciting writers\, writing and translations they very likely are not familiar with. \n \nThis series will also include one night of California speculative writers\, Claire Vaye Watkins and Cathy Thomas\, who will read and talk about California Futures. This California Futures evening will be sponsored by The Humanities Institute Research Cluster Speculatively Scientific Fictions of the Future.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-student-reading-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211201T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211201T203000
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
CREATED:20211104T215925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211104T215925Z
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SUMMARY:Rabih Alameddine - The Wrong End of the Telescope
DESCRIPTION:The Wrong End of the Telescope is a “shape-shifting kaleidoscope\, a collection of moments—funny\, devastating\, absurd—that bear witness to the violence of war and displacement without sensationalizing it…The Wrong End of the Telescope is a gorgeously written\, darkly funny and refreshingly queer witness to that seeking.” —BookPage \nMina Simpson\, a Lebanese doctor\, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos\, Greece\, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother\, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years\, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful\, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp’s children. Not since the inimitable Aaliya of An Unnecessary Woman has Rabih Alameddine conjured such a winsome heroine to lead us to one of the most wrenching conflicts of our time. Cunningly weaving in stories of other refugees into Mina’s singular own\, The Wrong End of the Telescope is a bedazzling tapestry of both tragic and amusing portraits of indomitable spirits facing a humanitarian crisis. \nRABIH ALAMEDDINE is the author of the novels The Angel of History; An Unnecessary Woman; The Hakawati; I\, the Divine; Koolaids; and the story collection\, The Perv. In 2019\, he won the Dos Passos Prize. \nThe Swank Hotel is an acrobatic\, unforgettable\, surreal\, and unexpectedly comic novel that interrogates the illusory dream of stability that pervaded early twenty-first-century America. \nAt the outset of the 2008 financial crisis\, Em has a dependable\, dull marketing job generating reports of vague utility while she anxiously waits to hear news of her sister\, Ad\, who has gone missing—again. Em’s days pass drifting back and forth between her respectably cute starter house (bought with a “responsible\, salary-backed\, fixed-rate mortgage”) and her dreary office. Then something unthinkable\, something impossible\, happens and she begins to see how madness permeates everything around her while the mundane spaces she inhabits are transformed\, through Lucy Corin’s idiosyncratic magic\, into shimmering sites of the uncanny. \nLUCY CORIN is the author of The Swank Hotel\, One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses\, and two other books of fiction. She is the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Rome Prize and an NEA Literature Fellowship. She lives in Berkeley\, California. \n \nFREE VIRTUAL EVENT: Award winning author Rabih Alameddine (An Unnecessary Woman) and acclaimed writer Lucy Corin will read from and discuss their new work: Corin’s The Swank Hotel and Alameddine’s The Wrong End of the Telescope. \nThe featured books can be purchased on the Bookshop Santa Cruz event page.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rabih-alameddine-the-wrong-end-of-the-telescope/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211119T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211119T133000
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
CREATED:20211006T195657Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211111T014640Z
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Bridget Copley
DESCRIPTION:About eight times each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lingustics-colloquia-bridget-copley/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211119T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211119T120000
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
CREATED:20210910T172326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210920T191029Z
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SUMMARY:Gowri Vijayakumar - Risk and Respectability: Sexuality and the Nation in the Time of AIDS
DESCRIPTION:Gowri Vijayakumar is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies\, affiliated with the South Asian Studies Program at Brandeis. She is the author of At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis\, published by Stanford University Press in 2021. Her articles and essays on gender\, sexuality\, transnational politics\, and the state have appeared or are forthcoming in Gender & Society\, Social Problems\, Qualitative Sociology\, Signs\, and World Development. \n \nPresented by THI’s Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gowri-vijayakumar-risk-and-respectability-sexuality-and-the-nation-in-the-time-of-aids/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211118T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211118T190000
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
CREATED:20210914T182003Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211018T182618Z
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SUMMARY:Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Gary Young
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 12th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading\, featuring honored guest Gary Young. Poet Danusha Laméris 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). \n \nGary Young is the author of several collections of poetry. His most recent books are That’s What I Thought\, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award from Persea Books\, and Precious Mirror\, translations from the Japanese. His other books include Even So: New and Selected Poems; Pleasure; No Other Life\, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award; Braver Deeds\, winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize; Days; The Dream of a Moral Life\, which won the James D. Phelan Award; and Hands. He has received a Pushcart Prize\, and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the California Arts Council\, and the Vogelstein Foundation\, among others. In 2009 he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Young was the first Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County\, and in 2012 he was named Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year. Since 1975 he has designed\, illustrated\, and printed limited edition letterpress books and broadsides at his Greenhouse Review Press. His fine print work is represented in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art\, the Victoria and Albert Museum\, The Getty Museum\, and special collection libraries throughout the U.S. and Europe. He teaches creative writing and directs the Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz. \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors poet\, teacher\, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009). Marcus was the 1999 Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year and a recipient of the 2007 Gail Rich Award. Among his published works are eleven volumes of poetry\, including The Santa Cruz Mountain Poems\, Pages from a Scrapbook of Immigrants\, Moments Without Names\, Shouting Down the Silence\, Pursuing the Dream Bone and The Dark Figure In The Doorway; a novel\, The Brezhnev Memo; and a literary memoir\, Striking Through the Masks. He taught English and Film at Cabrillo College for thirty years\, was the co-host of the radio program\, The Poetry Show\, and was the co-host of the television film review show\, Cinema Scene. Learn more at: www.mortonmarcus.com \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Archive can be found at UCSC Special Collections. Mort’s personal papers\, manuscripts\, and recordings reflect his legacy as a poet and educator\, and his collection of poetry books\, broadsides\, literary magazines and correspondence with other poets and writers illuminate his deep involvement in\, and passion for\, the literary art of poetry. \nOrganizing Committee\nLen Anderson\, Danusha Laméris\, Donna Mekis\, Mark Ong\, Maggie Paul\, Irena Polić\, Teresa Mora\, and Joseph Stroud. \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Contest\nphren-Z\, an online literary magazine\, whose mission is to celebrate the Santa Cruz literary community\, has established a national poetry contest\, The Morton Marcus Poetry Prize\, in honor of Morton Marcus\, “whose life and work inspired the writing of many students\, friends\, and emerging poets.” For more information visit: http://phren-z.org/poetry_contest.html \nDavid Sullivan\, a poet and faculty member at Cabrillo College\, has honored phren-Z by serving as the judge for this year’s contest. \nSupport Poetry in Santa Cruz\nThe Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading continues to be offered free to the public. Please consider donating to the Morton Marcus Poetry Reading at thi.ucsc.edu/projects/morton-marcus-poetry-reading as well as to Poetry Santa Cruz at: http://www.baymoon.com/~poetrysantacruz/ \nMort was a donating member of Poetry Santa Cruz from its inception in 2001. \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 \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by November 11th\, 2021.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gary-young-morton-marcus-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211117T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211117T130000
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
CREATED:20210911T180449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211116T220443Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Interviewing and Negotiating Salary
DESCRIPTION:Practice Mock Interviews and Salary Negotiations. This workshop will be led by Veronica Heiskell\, Ph.D. (Associate Director of Experiential Learning and Student Employment\, Career Success). \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Interviewing and Negotiating Salary” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2021-2022 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-interviewing-and-negotiating-salary/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211116T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211116T204500
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
CREATED:20211013T183425Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211112T222834Z
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SUMMARY:A.M. Darke - Games and Play as Social Intervention
DESCRIPTION:Game designer A.M. Darke frames powerful dialogue about the role of games in the shaping of power in contemporary digital culture\, and beyond. What is at stake in self-representation\, and our representations of our communities\, through gaming. How are industry representations variously coded as racial\, as gendered? How can aspiring game-makers intervene in their communities and social representations of them? A.M. Darke rejoins our series for the third time\, pivoting from panelist to core/keynote lecturer. His lecture will take shape in two parts; the first an overview of his own work\, and the second a primer on accessible platforms for game-making. \n \n  \nA.M. Darke is an artist\, game designer\, and activist designing games for social impact. He created the award-winning card game Objectif\, which explores the intersection of race\, gender\, and standards of beauty. In 2016 he became an Oculus Launch Pad fellow\, and shortly thereafter wrote An Open Letter to Oculus Founder\, Palmer Luckey in response to reports of Luckey’s alt-right affiliations. The following year\, he curated the exhibition Building Code: Developing Mixed Use Space in Virtual Reality as an artist-in-residence at Laboratory. In 2018\, Darke joined the NYU Game Center Incubator residency\, and is currently a Futurist in Residence with ARVR Women. Darke holds a B.A. in Design (’13) and an M.F.A. in Media Arts (’15)\, both from UCLA. He is an Assistant Professor of Games and Playable Media\, and Digital Arts and New Media at UC Santa Cruz\, and the founding director of The Other Lab\, an interdisciplinary\, intersectional feminist research lab for experimental games\, XR\, and new media. His work has been shown internationally and featured in a variety of publications\, including Forbes\, Kill Screen\, The Creator’s Project\, and NPR. \n  \nMedia and Society is a series of lectures and public conversations on the role of media\, journalism\, popular culture narrative\, and media representation\, in the deployment of power in contemporary society. \nEach series lasts a full academic year\, but the fall quarter of the series is also a component of Kresge 1: Power and Representation\, the core course at Kresge College. The series as a whole uniquely serves the UC Santa Cruz community in a vital function of the liberal arts: to cultivate dialogue in the context of public dialogue\, and to guard our freedoms in expressing and debating that knowledge.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-m-darke-games-and-play-as-social-intervention/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211109T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211109T150000
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
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LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T203237Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Preparing the Teaching Statement and the Teaching Portfolio
DESCRIPTION:Gain tools and tips for effectively writing a teaching statement\, a common document in faculty hiring and review processes and an opportunity to reflect on how your teaching supports student learning. We’ll also review how to select teaching portfolio materials that tell a compelling story of who you are as an educator. This workshop will be led by Kendra Dority\, Ph.D. (Associate Director for Graduate Programs\, Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning). \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on the “Preparing the Teaching Statement and the Teaching Portfolio” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2021-2022 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-preparing-the-teaching-statement-and-the-teaching-portfolio/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211109T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211109T133000
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
CREATED:20210923T200425Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210923T200425Z
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SUMMARY:Precarity and Belonging Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Dr. Camilla Hawthorne\, this webinar will celebrate UCSC professors and their recent publication of Precarity and Belonging: Labor\, Migration\, and Noncitizenship (Rutgers University Press\, 2021). Precarity and Belonging looks at mobility through space and society. It examines how the movement of people and their incorporation\, marginalization\, and exclusion\, under epochal conditions of labor and social precarity\, have challenged older notions of citizenship and alienage. This book brings precarity and mobility together to explore the points of contact and friction\, and\, thus\, the spaces for a possible politics of commonality\, between citizens and noncitizens.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/precarity-and-belonging-book-launch/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211109T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211109T110000
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
CREATED:20211014T225722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211102T220155Z
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Michelle Obama
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to announce that UC Santa Cruz has been invited to participate in a special event with Michelle Obama on Tuesday\, November 9th\, 2021\, at Prince George’s Community College in Largo\, Maryland. This event will feature Mrs. Obama in conversation with a moderator and selected students from a small group of participating colleges\, including ours. \nOur campus community will have remote access to the free event and an opportunity to receive a free copy of Mrs. Obama’s book Becoming. \nWe will nominate one UC Santa Cruz undergraduate student to meet Mrs. Obama and participate in the in-person event at Prince George’s Community College in Largo\, Maryland. The conversation will be based on themes from her 2018 memoir\, Becoming\, with a particular emphasis on issues that are most resonant for college students. The Humanities Institute will sponsor the student’s travel and accommodation in Washington\, D.C. Applications for this opportunity were accepted until Thursday\, October 21\, at 11:59 p.m. PT. \nJoin this special conversation online by registering with your ucsc.edu email address! Please note the registration is free and is open until Friday\, November 5\, at 8:59 p.m. PT. \n \nThe Humanities Institute was thrilled to be able to offer 500 free copies of Becoming to members of the UC Santa Cruz community. At this time\, the books have all been claimed. \n  \n\nThis event is part of The Humanities Institute’s yearlong series on Imagination.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-conversation-with-michelle-obama/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211105T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211105T170000
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
CREATED:20211013T164401Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211013T164401Z
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SUMMARY:Unbound: The Life and Legacy of Asian American Community Historian Judy Yung
DESCRIPTION:Through this event we aim to honor and celebrate Judith “Judy” Yung’s tremendous legacy as a UC Santa Cruz emerita professor of American Studies\, community and public scholar of Chinese American history\, pioneer of oral history methodology\, prize-winning author\, teacher\, supportive colleague\, and cherished mentor. \n \nPlease register by November 4\, 2021 \nProgram: \n\nWelcome remarks by Professor Alice Yang (UCSC)\nRemembrances by George Ow (Chinese American History Enthusiast and Philanthropist) and Buck Gee (Angel Island Foundation)\nCommunity forum: Professor Alice Yang will moderate a conversation with alumni Mana Hayakawa\, Lora Collier Chan\, Kio Tong-ishikawa\, Yukiya Jerry Waki\nAcademic forum: Professor Emerita Karen Tei Yamashita (UCSC) will moderate conversation with Professor Emerita Bettina Aptheker (UCSC)\, Professor Gordon Chang (Stanford)\, and Professor Erika Lee (U. of Minnesota)\nClosing remarks from Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder (UCSC)\n\nThis event is sponsored by: \n\nAsian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\nCenter for Racial Justice\nCowell College\nCritical Race and Ethnic Studies Department\nHumanities Division\nOakes College\n\nFor any questions or accommodations\, please contact Humanities Division Development Assistant Rafferty Lincoln\, rlincoln@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/unbound-the-life-and-legacy-of-asian-american-community-historian-judy-yung/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211104T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211104T185500
DTSTAMP:20260618T221734
CREATED:20210917T183328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210921T155807Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Claire Vaye Watkins and Cathy Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Claire Vaye Watkins is the author of two novels I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness (Riverhead Books\, 2021) and Gold Fame Citrus (Riverhead Books\, 2015). She is also the author of the short story collection Battleborn (Riverhead Books\, 2012)\, winner of the Story Prize\, the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and a Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. Battleborn was named a Best Book of 2012 by the San Francisco Chronicle\, Boston Globe\, Time Out New York\, and Flavorwire\, and a Best Short Story Collection by NPR.org. In 2012\, the National Book Foundation named Claire one of the 5 Best Writers Under 35. Her stories and essays have appeared in Granta\, One Story\, The Paris Review\, Ploughshares\, Glimmer Train\, Best of the West 2011\, Best of the Southwest 2013\, and elsewhere. \nCathy Thomas is an Assistant Professor at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. She has worked for NBC\, CBS\, Warner Bros. and in film development for Forest Whitaker. She is a script reader for Annapurna Pictures and Skydance Media. Some of her recent research is published in a chapter of Articulating the Action Figure: Essays on Toys and Their Messages; short stories and essays in Positive Magnets Journal; and a forthcoming memory project Wax on\, Wax Off. She is Managing Editor of The C.O.U.P Project\, a multi-platform dialogic journal engaged in acute critiques of power\, privilege\, domination\, and the violences they produce. She received her Ph.D. in Literature with a Creative/Critical Writing Concentration at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she was awarded a UC President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship and examined carnivalesque in Caribbean literature with her spec fiction novel Poco Mas. \n \nThe World Beyond Us: A Living Writers Series – Taking advantage of our (hopefully) last virtual Living Writers this Fall\, 2021\, this series will be centered on writers working and living outside the United States\, writers who look beyond the U.S. in their work\, and writers who work in languages other than English. Due to the prohibitive cost of travel and lodging\, many of these writers would have been difficult if not impossible to bring in person. Some writers will read with their translators\, extending the conversation to the art of translation as well. Two of these translators are Literature Department professors and one a Literature Department graduate student\, highlighting the creative translation work being done in our own department. The U.S. publishes very little work in translation\, just 3% of the books published in the U.S. are translations\, compared to other countries (50% of Italy’s books are translations\, for example). Thus\, this series will expose students (as well as faculty and community members) to exciting writers\, writing and translations they very likely are not familiar with. \nThis series will also include one night of California speculative writers\, Claire Vaye Watkins and Cathy Thomas\, who will read and talk about California Futures. This California Futures evening will be sponsored by The Humanities Institute Research Cluster Speculatively Scientific Fictions of the Future.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-claire-vaye-watkins-cathy-thomas/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211028T172000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Lara Vapnyar
DESCRIPTION:Lara Vapnyar moved from Moscow to Brooklyn in the 1990s. Knowing very little English\, she quickly picked up the language and soon began writing in it. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Harper’s Magazine\, and Zoetrope: All-Story. She is the author of two short story collections\, There are Jews in My House (Anchor\, 2003) and Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love (Anchor\, 2008) as well as four novels\, Memoirs of a Muse (Vintage\, 2006)\, The Scent of Pine (Simon & Schuster\, 2014)\, Still Here (Hogarth\, 2016)\, and Divide Me by Zero (Tin House Books\, 2019). She lives in New York City with her family. \n \nThe World Beyond Us: A Living Writers Series – Taking advantage of our (hopefully) last virtual Living Writers this Fall\, 2021\, this series will be centered on writers working and living outside the United States\, writers who look beyond the U.S. in their work\, and writers who work in languages other than English. Due to the prohibitive cost of travel and lodging\, many of these writers would have been difficult if not impossible to bring in person. Some writers will read with their translators\, extending the conversation to the art of translation as well. Two of these translators are Literature Department professors and one a Literature Department graduate student\, highlighting the creative translation work being done in our own department. The U.S. publishes very little work in translation\, just 3% of the books published in the U.S. are translations\, compared to other countries (50% of Italy’s books are translations\, for example). Thus\, this series will expose students (as well as faculty and community members) to exciting writers\, writing and translations they very likely are not familiar with. \nThis series will also include one night of California speculative writers\, Claire Vaye Watkins and Cathy Thomas\, who will read and talk about California Futures. This California Futures evening will be sponsored by The Humanities Institute Research Cluster Speculatively Scientific Fictions of the Future.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-lara-vapnyar/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Nouri al-Jarrah with translator Camilo Gómez-Rivas and Omar Pimienta with translator José Antonio Villarán
DESCRIPTION:Nouri al-Jarrah is a Syrian poet and influential poetic voice on the Arab literary scene. He has lived in exile and been publishing his poetry for nearly 40 years. His poetry draws on diverse cultural sources\, and is marked by a special focus on mythology\, folk tales and legends. A Boat to Lesbos and Other Poems (Banipal Books\, 2018)\, is Nouri Al-Jarrah’s first collection in English translation. This powerful epic poem was written while thousands of Syrian refugees were enduring frightening journeys across the Mediterranean before arriving on the small island\, and set out like a Greek tragedy\, also has editions in French\, Italian\, Turkish\, Spanish\, Persian\, and forthcoming in Greek – a truly international response to the torment of the Syrian people during these last few years. \nCamilo Gómez-Rivas and Allison Blecker are the translators of Nouri al-Jarrah’s A Boat to Lesbos and Other Poems (Banipal Books\, 2018). Gómez-Rivas is an Associate Professor of Mediterranean Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He specializes in the cultures\, history\, and literatures of the medieval and early modern western Mediterranean. His book\, Law and the Islamization of Morocco under the Almoravids: the Fatwās of Ibn Rushd al-Jadd to the Far Maghrib\, analyzes a group of legal consultative texts between Cordoba and the Far Maghrib (what is today Morocco) and argues that legal institutions developed in the latter in response to the social needs of growing urban spaces and the administrative needs of the first Berber-Islamic empire. He is currently working on a second book-length project on the social and cultural history of the reception of displaced populations in the medieval and early modern western Mediterranean: a history of the refugees of the “reconquista.” In addition to translating modern Arabic literature\, he has also written on modern topics including legal reform in Morocco and Egypt. He received his PhD in Medieval Studies from Yale in 2009. After a two-year dissertation writing fellowship at Willamette University in\, Salem\, Oregon\, he spent five years teaching in the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations at the American University in Cairo. \nOmar Pimienta was born in Tijuana in 1978 and lives and works between San Diego and Tijuana. Pimienta has a Ph.D in Literature and an MFA from the University of California-San Diego as well as a B.A. in Latin American Studies\, San Diego State University. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally at spaces such as the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; 5th Transborder Biennial with El Paso Museum of Art; MOCA Tucson. Arizona; Oceanside Museum of Art.; A Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA exhibit; Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach and the Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles\, CA. His books of poetry include\, Album of Fences (Cardboard House Press\, 2018)\, Inspección secudaria (Atrasalante Poesía\, 2017)\, El Álbum de las Rejas (Ediciones Liliputienses\, 2016)\, Escribo desde aquí (Pre-Textos\, 2010)\, La Libertad: ciudad de paso. (CECUT/ CONACULTA\, 2006; New edition\, Aullido libros\, Huelva\, España\, 2008)\, and Primera Persona: Ella. (Ediciones de la Esquina /Anortecer\, 2004; New Edition\, Littera libros\, Cáceres\, España. 2009). \nJosé Antonio Villarán is the translator of Omar Pimienta’s Album of Fences (Cardboard House Press\, 2018). He has bilingual fluency (English and Spanish) as a writer\, scholar\, translator and instructor. He is the author of two books of poetry: la distancia es siempre la misma (2006) & el cerrajero (2012). He is the creator of the AMLT project (http://amlt-elcomienzo.blogspot.pe)\, an exploration of hypertext literature and collective authorship. His third book\, titled open pit\, is forthcoming from AUB in 2021. Areas of focus include: Creative Writing\, Poetry/Poetics\, Cross-Genre Literature\, Literary Translation\, US-Latinx Literature\, Critical University Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. He holds an MFA in Writing from UCSD and a PhD in Literature with a Creative/Critical Writing Concentration from UCSC. \n \nThe World Beyond Us: A Living Writers Series – Taking advantage of our (hopefully) last virtual Living Writers this Fall\, 2021\, this series will be centered on writers working and living outside the United States\, writers who look beyond the U.S. in their work\, and writers who work in languages other than English. Due to the prohibitive cost of travel and lodging\, many of these writers would have been difficult if not impossible to bring in person. Some writers will read with their translators\, extending the conversation to the art of translation as well. Two of these translators are Literature Department professors and one a Literature Department graduate student\, highlighting the creative translation work being done in our own department. The U.S. publishes very little work in translation\, just 3% of the books published in the U.S. are translations\, compared to other countries (50% of Italy’s books are translations\, for example). Thus\, this series will expose students (as well as faculty and community members) to exciting writers\, writing and translations they very likely are not familiar with. \nThis series will also include one night of California speculative writers\, Claire Vaye Watkins and Cathy Thomas\, who will read and talk about California Futures. This California Futures evening will be sponsored by The Humanities Institute Research Cluster Speculatively Scientific Fictions of the Future.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-nouri-al-jarrah/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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