BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Humanities Institute X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250306T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250306T100000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20250128T223103Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250226T220050Z UID:10007590-1741255200-1741255200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Omer Aijazi - Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir DESCRIPTION:The Center for South Asian Studies presents Omer Aijazi speaking on “Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir.” \n \nOmer Aijazi takes us to remote mountainous valleys in the portion of Kashmir under Pakistan’s control\, where life has been shaped by recurring environmental disasters and by the violence of the contested India/Pakistan border. In conversation with a radical humanist anthropology and affect theory\, held accountable to Black and Indigenous studies\, Aijazi offers a decolonial approach to disaster studies centering not on trauma and rupture but rather on repair—the social labor of creating and maintaining viable life\, even amidst constant diminishment and world-annihilation. \nOmer Aijazi is a critical disaster studies scholar and decolonial ethnographer of borderland South Asia. He teaches at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester. \nThis event is a part of the 2024 – 25 Ecologies of Care Lecture Series. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/omer-aijazi-atmospheric-violence/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T190000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20241216T231201Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241217T194748Z UID:10007562-1740596400-1740596400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: Timon of Athens - Episode 3 DESCRIPTION:Join us for this year’s\, Undiscovered Shakespeare featuring Timon of Athens (1606)\, a late play focusing on the corrosive effects of prodigality and ingratitude in an apparently democratic society. Gretchen Minton\, Professor of English at the University of Montana\, Bozeman and the editor of the most recent Arden edition of the play\, will be the production’s visiting scholar. \n \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. \nGretchen Minton is a Shakespeare scholar and Professor of English at Montana State University. She is the editor and author of several works\, including the award-winning Shakespeare in Montana\, and she works frequently as a dramaturg\, script adaptor\, and director. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-timon-of-athens-episode-3/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250224T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250224T100000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20250116T223422Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250220T235156Z UID:10007587-1740391200-1740391200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mediterranean Slavery Since the 18th Century and the Historical Study of Race: M’hamed Oualdi in Conversation with Shreya Parikh DESCRIPTION:From ancient times through abolition\, scholars have often described slavery in the Mediterranean region as being relatively unaffected by the history of racial thought. Instead\, many historians have focused on the decisive role played by religion. At the same time\, however\, it is undeniable that dark-skinned enslaved people occupied a more subordinate position in comparison with other dominated groups. Presented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa\, this talk investigates whether theories of race and racism can elucidate the social\, political\, and economic dimensions of slavery in the Mediterranean\, while also asking how studying slavery in the Mediterranean might provide a different understanding of racialization during the early modern period. \n \nM’hamed Oualdi is a Professor at the European University Institute\, Florence. Before joining the EUI\, he taught at Sciences Po-Paris and Princeton University. He is supervising a European Research Council-funded project about the demise of slavery in the Mediterranean from the mid-18th century to the 1930s. He is the author of Esclaves et maîtres. Les mamelouks au service des beys de Tunis du XVIIe siècle aux années 1880 (Publications de la Sorbonne\, 2011) and A Slave between Empires (Columbia University Press\, 2020). \nShreya Parikh is a lecturer and affiliated researcher at Sciences Po Paris. She received a Dual Ph.D. in Political Science and in Sociology from Sciences Po and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2024. Her dissertation\, Mirages of Race: Blackness\, Racialization\, and the Black Movement in Tunisia\, examines the intersections of race\, migration\, and citizenship in the production of Blackness in contemporary Tunisia. She is currently working on adapting her dissertation manuscript into a book. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mhamed-oualdi-in-conversation-with-shreya-parikh/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250219T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250219T190000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20241216T231050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241217T194647Z UID:10007561-1739991600-1739991600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: Timon of Athens - Episode 2 DESCRIPTION:Join us for this year’s\, Undiscovered Shakespeare featuring Timon of Athens (1606)\, a late play focusing on the corrosive effects of prodigality and ingratitude in an apparently democratic society. Gretchen Minton\, Professor of English at the University of Montana\, Bozeman and the editor of the most recent Arden edition of the play\, will be the production’s visiting scholar. \n \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. \nGretchen Minton is a Shakespeare scholar and Professor of English at Montana State University. She is the editor and author of several works\, including the award-winning Shakespeare in Montana\, and she works frequently as a dramaturg\, script adaptor\, and director. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-timon-of-athens-episode-2/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250213T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250213T180000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20241212T214257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T193803Z UID:10007558-1739469600-1739469600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Derek Penslar - Is Israel a Settler-Colonial State? DESCRIPTION:Due to the atmospheric river event effecting  Santa Cruz County\, this event will now take place via Zoom. Everyone who has RSVP’d for the event will receive a Zoom link. Anyone interested in attending the virtual event can register below using the “register” button.  \n\nThe Center for Jewish Studies Presents The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies featuring Derek Penslar. Derek Penslar will be presenting his talk titled Is Israel a Settler-Colonial State? \n \nSince the 1960s\, referencing Israel as settler-colonial has been a common polemical practice\, a means of delegitimization of the state of Israel and those who believe in its right to exist. But over this same period\, scholars have done serious work on the relationship between Zionism\, Israel\, and settler-colonialism. This talk will separate the analytical from the polemic threads in the discourse on Israel and settler-colonialism. It will propose a new vocabulary\, both more flexible and precise\, to describe Israel and that can be more conducive to a just resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. \nDerek Penslar Harvard University\nDerek Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History and the Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. He has published a dozen books\, most recently Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader (2020; German ed. 2022); and Zionism: An Emotional State (2023). He is currently writing a book titled The War for Palestine\, 1947-1949: A Global History. He is a past president of the American Academy for Jewish Research\, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada\, and an Honorary Fellow of St. Anne’s College\, Oxford. \n  \n\nEvery year\, the Jewish Studies Department honors Helen Diller\, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, by hosting a public lecture on campus by an internationally recognized scholar. See a full list of previous Diller lectures here. \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-helen-diller-distinguished-lecture-in-jewish-studies-featuring-derek-penslar/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/UCSC-campus-marketing-cloud-email-banner-1200x762-REV-2-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250212T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250212T203000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20241216T230327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250110T035904Z UID:10007560-1739386800-1739392200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: Timon of Athens - Episode 1 DESCRIPTION:Join us for this year’s\, Undiscovered Shakespeare featuring Timon of Athens (1606)\, a late play focusing on the corrosive effects of prodigality and ingratitude in an apparently democratic society. Gretchen Minton\, Professor of English at the University of Montana\, Bozeman and the editor of the most recent Arden edition of the play\, will be the production’s visiting scholar. \n \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. \n \nGretchen Minton is a Shakespeare scholar and Professor of English at Montana State University. She is the editor and author of several works\, including the award-winning Shakespeare in Montana\, and she works frequently as a dramaturg\, script adaptor\, and director. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-timon-of-athens-episode-1/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250211T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250211T193000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20241218T181015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250108T235257Z UID:10007564-1739296800-1739302200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Deep Read Salon: Revisiting Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Deep Read salon on Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn featuring UC Santa Cruz Professor of Literature and Twain scholar\, Susan Gillman. Prof. Gillman will discuss Twain’s novel in the context of 19th-century popular literature and political history and explore its broader cultural influence and reach as our American idol and target. She’ll help lay the groundwork for understanding this year’s Deep Read book\, Percival Everett’s James\, a rewriting of Huckleberry Finn that engages with both Twain’s novel and legacy. After delivering a brief lecture\, Prof. Gillman will be in conversation with Vilashini Cooppan (UCSC Professor of Literature\, Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead) and Laura Martin (UCSC Lecturer\, Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead). \n \n\n \nThe Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. We invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deep-read-talk-on-mark-twains-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/DRMT-Website-Events-V2-1024-x-576-px.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250131T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250131T100000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20250114T211714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250122T214619Z UID:10007580-1738317600-1738317600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Francesca Orsini — East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature DESCRIPTION:Join us Friday\, January 31st at 10am PST for a discussion with Francesca Orsini on East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature\, in conversation with G.S. Sahota and Rahul Parson. This event is part of the Winter 2025 Aurora Lecture Series. \n \nFrancesca Orsini is Professor Emerita of Hindi and South Asian Literature\, School of Oriental and African Studies – University of London \nRahul Parson is Assistant Professor of Hindi Literature and Culture\, South & Southeast Asian Studies – University of California\, Berkeley \nG.S. Sahota is Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies\, Associate Professsor of Literature – University of California\, Santa Cruz URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/winter-2025-aurora-lecture-series-francesca-orsini-east-of-delhi/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/AuroraLecture_Winter2025.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250124T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250124T100000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20250114T210549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250114T220540Z UID:10007579-1737712800-1737712800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Winter 2025 Aurora Lecture Series: Francesca Orsini — Varieties of Realism DESCRIPTION:Join us Friday\, January 24th at 10am PST for Varieties of Realism\, a lecture by Francesca Orsini with discussants: G.S. Sahota and Rahul Parson. \n \nFrancesca Orsini is Professor Emerita of Hindi and South Asian Literature\, School of Oriental and African Studies – University of London \nRahul Parson is Assistant Professor of Hindi Literature and Culture\, South & Southeast Asian Studies – University of California\, Berkeley \nG.S. Sahota is Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies\, Associate Professsor of Literature – University of California\, Santa Cruz URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/winter-2025-aurora-lecture-series-francesca-orsini-varieties-of-realism/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/AuroraLecture_Winter2025.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250123T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250123T100000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20241119T193811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250115T213224Z UID:10007546-1737626400-1737626400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ambika Aiyadurai - Caring for Humans and Nonhumans: Challenges in India’s Wildlife Conservation DESCRIPTION:Organized by the Center for South Asian Studies\, this talk examines different meanings of care in India’s wildlife conservation. Drawing on fieldwork and case studies from across the country\, Professor Aiyadurai will discuss various forms of care in protecting endangered species and preventing extinction. Addressing the role of wildlife conservationists and Indigenous people\, the talk asks how and in what ways the notions of care for humans and nonhumans among these groups vary\, overlap\, and sometimes compete against each other. How do we reconcile the conflicts emerging through the hierarchical nature of the ethics of care in wildlife conservation? \n \nAmbika Aiyadurai is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology\, Gandhinagar. Her research interests include human-animal relations and community-based wildlife conservation. \nThis talk is a part of the Center for South Asian Studies Ecologies of Care 2024-25 Lecture Series. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/caring-for-humans-and-nonhumans/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Caring-for-humans-and-nonhumans.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241209T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241209T200000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20241119T185940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241119T201137Z UID:10007544-1733769000-1733774400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Slugs and Steins with Professor Renee Fox and Professor Elaine Sullivan - The Curse of the Mummy DESCRIPTION:This talk focuses on a new UCSC Humanities course called “The Curse of the Mummy\,” co-taught by Associate Professor of Literature Renée Fox and Associate Professor Elaine Sullivan. Combining analysis of 19th-century Egyptology’s transformation of ancient Egypt into a European fantasy with study of ancient Egyptian culture itself\, the course relies on the collaborative expertise of an Egyptologist and a Victorian studies scholar to discover how and why the ancient past can become integral to contemporary identity\, society\, and aesthetics. \nThe talk will focus on the genesis of the course\, some of the bizarre mummy literature it covers\, the ways it relates to Professor Fox’s and Professor Sullivan’s current (and very different) research\, and why mummies are a perfect subject to think about the intersections and divergences between different Humanities disciplines. \n \nRenee Fox is Associate Professor of Literature\, the Jordan-Stern Presidential Chair for Dickens and Nineteenth-Century Studies\, Co-Director of the Dickens Project\, and Co-Director of the Center for Monster Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She is the author of The Necromantics: Reanimation\, the Historical Imagination\, and Victorian British and Irish Literature (The Ohio State University Press\, 2023)\, co-editor of the Routledge International Handbook of Irish Studies (Routledge\, 2021)\, and co-editor of the forthcoming Race\, Violence\, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Liverpool University Press\, 2025). Her other publications include essays and articles on topics ranging from Victorian acrobats to Dracula’s gothic realism to epitaphic form in Irish poetry\, and she’s currently at work on a new book entitled Violent Reading: 19th-Century Ireland and the Politics of Genre. \nElaine Sullivan (M.A. and Ph.D. in Egyptian Art and Archaeology at Johns Hopkins University) is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Sullivan is an Egyptologist and a Digital Humanist whose work focuses on applying new technologies to ancient cultural materials. Her born-digital publication\, Constructing the Sacred (Stanford University Press\, 2020\, awarded prizes by the American Historical Association and the Archaeological Institute of America)\, utilizes a geo-temporal 3D model of the necropolis of Saqqara (near modern Cairo) to investigate questions of ritual landscape at the site. She was the project coordinator of the Digital Karnak Project\, a multi-phased 3D virtual reality model of the famous ancient Egyptian temple complex of Karnak. \nSlugs and Steins are free informal lectures served up over Zoom. Brought to you by the UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association\, each talk will engage one of our favorite professors in discussion with you\, the local community of Silicon Valley\, and beyond. We will cover everything from organic artichokes to endangered zebras\, self-driving cars to Shakespeare. All are welcome. Audience participation is encouraged. \nWatch past Slugs and Steins events here. \nQuestions? Contact the UC Santa Cruz University Events office at specialevents@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slugs-and-steins-with-professor-renee-fox-and-professor-elaine-sullivan-the-curse-of-the-mummy/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Mummy.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241203T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241203T133000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20241007T023714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241007T023714Z UID:10007517-1733227200-1733232600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Interviewing and Negotiating the Job Offer with Veronica Heiskell DESCRIPTION:Learn interviewing strategies to land a job offer. Then\, learn how to negotiate the best salary and benefits package when you receive the job offer. \nThis class offers strategies that apply to both academic and alternative-to-academic job applications and negotiations. The negotiation strategies also apply to asking for raises\, job reclassifications\, and title and responsibility changes. \nThis event is on Tue\, Dec 3\, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend the session. \n \nVeronica Heiskell has worked for over thirteen years in diversity and career centers in a variety of higher education institutions and currently serves as director of experiential learning at Career Success. Her goal is to remove as many barriers as possible for all students to pursue meaningful experiential learning opportunities. She completed her bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in LGBT studies at UCLA\, her master’s degree in counseling and guidance in higher education at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo\, and her doctorate in higher education administration at UT Austin. Her dissertation research focused on sense of belonging for exploratory students. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/interviewing-and-negotiating-the-job-offer-with-veronica-heiskell/ LOCATION:Virtual Event CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241120 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241121 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20241112T191409Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241112T191743Z UID:10007540-1732060800-1732147199@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Giving Day 2024 DESCRIPTION:Mark your calendar for Wednesday\, November 20 and join us for UC Santa Cruz’s annual Giving Day—a 24-hour online fundraising event dedicated to supporting projects that enrich the UCSC student experience. \nGiving Day is an opportunity to unite the entire UCSC community—students\, alumni\, faculty\, and friends—to create a lasting\, positive impact on our students\, the community\, and the world. Let’s show our Banana Slug pride and rally together to support the next generation of changemakers. \nWhether supporting student success\, funding cutting-edge research in the sciences or technology\, or advancing humanities and the arts\, your gift on November 20 will help fuel programs and initiatives that make UCSC a unique place. You can make an impact in a way that resonates with you. \nOur mission to provide high quality educational and research experiences for our students\, regardless of their backgrounds and financial circumstances is more important than ever. Your support is crucial to ensuring we deliver on that mission. \nLearn more at give.ucsc.edu/giving-day-2024 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/giving-day-2024/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GivingDay2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241118T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241118T163000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20241007T014839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241007T014839Z UID:10007512-1731942000-1731947400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:LinkedIn with Eric Curiel DESCRIPTION:LinkedIn is a powerful tool to network and search for jobs. We will go over tips to update your LinkedIn profile to help recruiters find you\, explore ways to identify alumni with similar career paths and interests on LinkedIn\, and show you how to connect effectively with them to expand your network. We will also go over best practices for searching for jobs. \nThis event is on Mon\, Nov 18\, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend the session. \n \nEric Curiel has worked for over ten years in supporting college students in pursuing successful careers and currently serves as associate director of career engagement in Career Success. He is passionate about supporting students\, especially those from underrepresented populations\, to be successful. He completed his bachelor’s degree in ecology and evolution from UC Santa Cruz in 2014. Eric enjoys being outdoors\, photography\, and watching soccer. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linkedin-with-eric-curiel/ LOCATION:Virtual Event CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241114T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241114T133000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20241007T014445Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241106T222141Z UID:10007511-1731585600-1731591000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Crafting the CV with Veronica Heiskell DESCRIPTION:Applications for academic positions require a CV\, and some industry\, government\, and nonprofit employers also require them. Learn how a CV differs from a resume\, about hybrid CV-resumes\, what goes on a CV\, and what order to put information depending on the type of academic institution you’re applying to and for what type of position. \nThis event is on Thu\, Nov 14\, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend the session. \n \nVeronica Heiskell has worked for over fourteen years in diversity and career centers in a variety of higher education institutions and currently serves as director of experiential learning at Career Success. Her goal is to remove as many barriers as possible for all students to pursue meaningful experiential learning opportunities. She completed her bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in LGBT studies at UCLA\, her master’s degree in counseling and guidance in higher education at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo\, and her doctorate in higher education administration at UT Austin. Her dissertation research focused on sense of belonging for exploratory students. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/crafting-the-cv-with-veronica-heiskell/ LOCATION:Virtual Event CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241112T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241112T113000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20241007T013308Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241007T013430Z UID:10007509-1731405600-1731411000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Online Platforms for Presenting Research with Kayla Isenberg DESCRIPTION:Ready to promote your research on social media? This seminar will help you learn how! Explore how to promote your research and expertise on the text-based social media platforms Threads\, Mastodon\, and others. We’ll cover how to use each platform\, how each works\, how to communicate effectively on each platform\, and how to pick the right platform for you and your goals. \nThis event is on Nov 12\, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend the session. \n \nKayla Isenberg is the senior director of digital engagement for UC Santa Cruz\, where she runs digital strategy for the main campus social media properties and advises on divisional and other social media accounts across campus. She has over 15 years of experience in digital marketing and social media\, working for a variety of companies\, from startups to Fortune 500. She was listed on the Forbes 40 under 40 list for her work at Warner Bros Records. In her work in higher education\, she has won multiple CASE awards for her work in digital marketing and social media at UC Santa Cruz and has been a featured speaker at CASE social media conferences. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/online-platforms-for-presenting-research-with-kayla-isenberg/ LOCATION:Virtual Event CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241015T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241015T150000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20241002T210551Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241003T204607Z UID:10007495-1729004400-1729004400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Huerta Center Graduate Scholar CART Alternative Spring Break - Info Session DESCRIPTION:2024-2025 CART Alternative Spring Break: Huerta Center Graduate Scholars \nIn Winter 2025\, two graduate students will receive funding from the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas (Huerta Center) and be trained by the University Library’s Center for Archival Research and Training (CART) to assist a UC Santa Cruz Archivist based at the Dolores Huerta Foundation in Bakersfield\, CA in archival processing during Spring Break 2025 (March 24-28\, 2025). \nAttend the virtual information session on Tuesday\, October 15th at 3pm to learn more. Register via Zoom below. \n \nThe Huerta Center Graduate Scholars will be trained in CART for up to 20 hours during Winter quarter\, then travel to Bakersfield to participate in an “alternative spring break” program from March 24-28\, 2025. There they will work alongside the UCSC Archivist and engage in archival processing of the Dolores Huerta Papers and the Huerta Foundation records. \nEligibility: Currently enrolled in a graduate program at UCSC at least through June 2025 (at least five credits\, not on leave or filing fee\, in good academic standing\, within normative time). Priority will go to graduate students in the Humanities Division and the Latin American and Latino Studies department. \nLearn more at: https://guides.library.ucsc.edu/cart/apply AND https://thi.ucsc.edu/call-for-applications-huerta-center-graduate-scholar/ \nThis program is funded by The Humanities Institute of UC Santa Cruz\, administered by the Huerta Center and the Latin American and Latino Studies department\, and is part of a Mellon Foundation grant to establish new public archives preserving the legacy of social justice activist Dolores Huerta through a partnership with the Dolores Huerta Foundation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cart-program-info-session/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CART_InfoSession.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241014T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241014T113000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20240926T192158Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241016T181021Z UID:10007483-1728900000-1728905400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Laleh Khalili in conversation with Nidhi Mahajan--Palestine and the Maritime Politics of the Red Sea DESCRIPTION:Thinking through the complexities of the Red Sea blockade\, Professor Khalili will ask questions about how the entangled international and commercial control of maritime space deals with such disruptions in cargo and trade flows\, and how the structure of global capital has to be taken into account in toto while waging a Gramscian war of position at local levels to leverage transformations more broadly. \nRegistration required to attend:  Register here \nLaleh Khalili is Al-Qasimi Professor of Gulf Studies and the Director of the Centre for Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter. Her most recent book is Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula (Verso 2020)\, which examines the role of maritime infrastructures as conduits of movement of technologies\, capital\, people\, and cargo. \nNidhi Mahajan is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz. Her book project\, Moorings: The Dhow Trade\, Capitalism\, and Sovereignty in the Indian Ocean\, examines the marginalized mobile society of Muslim seafarers from Kachchh in western India who have become crucial intermediaries in global shipping as they move across South Asia\, East Africa\, and the Middle East. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/laleh-khalili-in-conversation-with-nidhi-mahajan-palestine-and-the-maritime-politics-of-the-red-sea/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/CMENA-OCT14-1024X576.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241008T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241008T130000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20241003T025445Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241004T040512Z UID:10007496-1728387000-1728392400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Disrupting Imposter Phenomenon from the Inside Out with Silvia Austerlic DESCRIPTION:Have you ever felt imposter phenomenon? Learn how to cultivate a growth mindset to disrupt it and move toward empowering ways of learning. \nThis event has two sessions: Oct 8\, 11:30 – 1:00 p.m. via Zoom or Nov 5\, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend either session. \n \nSilvia Austerlic is an intercultural educator\, facilitator and consultant\, and founder of Senti-pensante Connections\, whose mission is to bridge inner work and social justice in service of individual transformation\, social change\, and collective action. A lecturer at UCSC Oakes College\, she developed and teaches “Building an Inner Sanctuary\,” which fosters the cultivation of inner and outer resources needed to show up for community-oriented action and social justice; and facilitates campus-wide learning events surrounding critical interculturality\, self-leadership\, healing justice\, and fostering resilience and care in the community. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/disrupting-imposter-phenomenon-from-the-inside-out-with-silvia-austerlic/ LOCATION:Virtual Event CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241004T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241004T123000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20240915T090403Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240915T090403Z UID:10007469-1728043200-1728045000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Employing Humanities Internships and Research Info Session #2 DESCRIPTION:Learn about paid internships and undergraduate research opportunities for Humanities Students including applications\, timelines\, and program details. Info on how to join via Zoom can be found via the Humanities Division Linktree. \nOpen to all Humanities Majors and Minors. For more information please email humco@ucsc.edu. \nPlease visit the Humanities Student Events Calendar to see other exciting events happening for students in the Humanities Division. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/employing-humanities-internships-and-research-info-session-2/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240909T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240909T200000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20240826T162249Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240826T164255Z UID:10007461-1725906600-1725912000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Slugs and Steins with Professor Alma Heckman - Fascism and Anti-Fascism: Jewish and Muslim Politics in Interwar Morocco DESCRIPTION:Interwar Morocco was home to a thriving anti-fascist political scene with intimate connections to France and Spain. Politically active Moroccan Jews and Muslims were found in the ranks of many different anti-fascist organizations\, above all the International League Against Antisemitism\, or the LICA after its French acronym (Ligue internationale contre l’antisémitisme). Through organizations like the LICA\, Moroccan Jews and Muslims responded to rising fascism and antisemitism out of a sense of shared political values. \n \nAlma Rachel Heckman is the Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies and Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her book The Sultan’s Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging was published by Stanford University Press in 2021. \n  \nQuestions? Please contact University Events at specialevents@ucsc.edu. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slugs-and-steins-with-associate-professor-alma-heckman-fascism-and-anti-fascism-jewish-and-muslim-politics-in-interwar-morocco/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240812T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240812T200000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20240808T165320Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240808T182751Z UID:10007448-1723487400-1723492800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Slugs and Steins - Learning About Autism From Autistic People DESCRIPTION:Most of the research on autism is conducted by non-autistic people. The neurodiversity movement centers autistic perspectives which contributes to a better understanding of autistic experiences and can counteract existing stereotypes about autistic people. In this presentation\, we discuss two methods for centering autistic perspectives on autism—including autistic people on research teams and reading autistic autobiographies—and explore several potential benefits of doing so. \n \nNameera Akhtar is a Professor of Psychology\, and Janette Dinishak is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. After a fruitful decade of collaborating on autism-related topics\, these two academics would like you to know that they are not experts on autism. In their presentation they will introduce you to some of the real experts. \nSlugs & Steins: Lectures from UC Santa Cruz is a monthly series comprised of informal discussions highlighting UC Santa Cruz’s many amazing faculty members. Talks are held on the 2nd Monday of each month with topics ranging from organic artichokes to endangered zebras\, self-driving cars to Shakespeare. All are welcome\, and audience participation is encouraged. We encourage you to share the link far and wide as slugs and friends from around the world may join us. \nQuestions? Please contact University Events at specialevents@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/learning-about-autism-from-autistic-people/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240702T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240702T153000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20240514T172948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240529T195714Z UID:10007438-1719928800-1719934200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Aurora Workshop Series DESCRIPTION:Join us on July 2nd at 2:00 PM for the Summer 2024 Aurora Workshop Series with Virinder S. Kalra (Professor of Sociology\, University of Warwick)\, Anne Murphy (Associate Professor of History\, University of British Columbia)\, and G. S. Sahota (Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies\, Associate Professor of Literature\, University of California\, Santa Cruz). \nJoin via Zoom here. \nFeaturing:\nRadical Love: Gurbakhsh Singh Prīt Laṛī (1895-1977)\nAnd His Vision For A New India\nPaper by Anne Murphy \nFor the pre-circulated paper\, please contact G.S. Sahota at sahota@ucsc.edu at least two days before the event. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/aurora-workshop-series/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240529T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240529T134500 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20240522T210927Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240528T174915Z UID:10007440-1716986700-1716990300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics (LAAL) Colloquia: Dr. Elu Tu DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Colloquium is pleased to present: \nDr. Elu Tu\nUC Santa Cruz \nspeaking on\nAnalyzing Asynchronous Online Chinese Language Learning Materials under the PICRAT Technology Integration Model \n\nDr. Elu Tu will present on Wednesday\, May 29th at 12:45 pm via Zoom. \nMeeting ID: 981 3067 3074\nPasscode: 064315 \n \n  \nAbstract \nThe PICRAT framework is a model designed to explore the complex relationships between instructors\, students\, and technology in the context of teaching practices. This framework utilizes the PIC (Passive\, Integrative\, Creative) and RAT (Replaces\, Amplifies\, Transforms) axes to illustrate the dynamics of the student-teacher-technology relationship. Specifically\, the PIC axis shows how students engage with technology\, while the RAT axis illustrates how instructors use technology to enhance their teaching practices. These axes are used to construct a matrix that demonstrates the nine possible combinations of teaching practices that can occur. This study collected asynchronous online Chinese language instructional videos across three proficiency levels (i.e.\, Novice\, Intermediate\, and Advanced) and used content analysis to examine how the nine possibilities in teaching practices are implemented in each proficiency level under the PICRAT framework. The results demonstrated the similarities and differences between PICRAT practices at different proficiency levels. The data analysis will contribute to language instruction by providing pedagogical insights for different proficiency levels\, which can enhance language teaching and learning outcomes. \nElu Tu is a Lecturer of Chinese Language in the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She earned her Ph.D. degree in the Curriculum and Instruction Department—World Language Education program from the University of Wisconsin- Madison. Her research focuses on instructional technology\, self-directed learning\, and digital literacy. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/department-of-languages-and-applied-linguistics-colloquia-dr-elu-tu/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240526T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240526T150000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20231012T062845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231012T164840Z UID:10007332-1716728400-1716735600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club DESCRIPTION:Please join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our monthly Pickwick Club meeting. New this year\, we will be devoting an entire year to one novel instead of two\, and will dive deeply into Great Expectations. Join Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members for a series of discussions about this book. \n \nCharles Dickens depicts how a gentleman is made\, not born\, in this novel. Presented as Pip’s confessional autobiography\, Great Expectations describes his childhood at the forge\, his infatuation with the beautiful Estella\, his shame at his working-class origin and his eagerness to be a gentleman\, and eventually his life as a young man-about-town with “great expectations” of inheriting a fortune. Recalling these events as an adult\, Mr. Pirrip is frank about his mistakes and shortcomings. \nRecommended Edition: We recommend the Penguin Classics edition of the novel for its appendices and notes\, but other versions are fine. First-time readers should avoid the Introduction if they don’t want spoilers. Download the novel to read at Gutenburg.org or to listen at LibriVox.org. \nIf you have any questions please don’t hesitate to reach out at dpj@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-7/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/1024x576_GE_Pickwick_Banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240519T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240519T150000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20240416T211205Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240416T220142Z UID:10007407-1716123600-1716130800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Victorian Gaslighting with Professor Nora Gilbert DESCRIPTION:Please join the Friends of the Dickens Project for our spring Friends Faculty Fellowship talk series by Associate Professor Nora Gilbert (University of North Texas) who will be discussing “Victorian Gaslighting” \nVirtual Sessions: \nApril 14: Book Talk: Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice \nMay 19: Discussion: Gaslight (1944) –Directed by George Cukor \n \nAs someone who co-specializes in Victorian literature and early Hollywood film\, I’ve long been a fan of the darkly disturbing 1944 film Gaslight starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. During the first session of this series\, I will provide an overview of an essay collection that I’m currently co-editing with Diana Bellonby and Tara MacDonald called Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice\, in which we trace the genealogy of gaslighting back to its Victorian roots by bringing together fourteen essays that examine a wide range of nineteenth-century literary texts through the lens of gaslighting. During the second session\, we will have an in-depth discussion of the 1944 film version of Gaslight itself\, which captures the “maddening” feeling of this particular form of emotional abuse so gut-wrenchingly well. \nNora Gilbert is an associate professor of English at the University of North Texas. She is the author of Better Left Unsaid: Victorian Novels\, Hays Code Films\, and the Benefits of Censorship (2013) and Gone Girls\, 1684-1901: Flights of Feminist Resistance in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Novel (2023)\, as well as a number of other essays on Victorian literature and classical Hollywood film. Since 2017\, she has served as the editor of the journal Studies in the Novel. She is the 2024 Spring Friends of the Dickens Project Faculty Fellow. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/victorian-gaslighting-with-professor-nora-gilbert-2/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Victorian-Gaslighting-1600x900-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240517T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240517T100000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20240430T175702Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240430T181014Z UID:10007424-1715940000-1715940000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Swag: A Creolised Alegropolitics of Resistance DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Center for South Asian Studies presents Swag: A Creolised Alegropolitics of Resistance with Ananya Jahanara Kabir on May 17th. This virtual event will be held via Zoom | Register Here \nLearn more about this event at: CSAS Crossings \nAnanya Jahanara Kabir is Professor of English Literature at King’s College London. Her research spans creolisation across the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds\, critical philology\, and the politics of pleasure. A Fellow of the British Academy\, she has been awarded India’s Infosys Prize in the Humanities and Germany’s Humboldt Research Prize. \nCo-sponsored by The Center for Cultural Studies and The Humanities Institute. This event is a part of The Center for South Asian Studies’ annual lecture series\, Crossings. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/swag-a-creolised-alegropolitics-of-resistance/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240517T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240517T103000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20231015T221410Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240112T173607Z UID:10006185-1715936400-1715941800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode Fifteen – Global Perspectives\, Part 2 & 3: Paradiso in World Religions & Spirituality and A Text that Fosters Interreligious Dialogue DESCRIPTION:Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \n \n  \n \nEileen Gardiner\, a research fellow at the University of Bristol\, specializes in medieval visions of the otherworld. She is the author of Visions of Heaven and Hell Before Dante and Medieval Visions of Heaven and Hell: A Sourcebook. She has also published on pilgrimage with her 2010 book on The Pilgrim’s Way to St. Patrick’s Purgatory. She has also published five volumes on hell in various religious traditions\, including Hinduism and Buddhism. She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature and Medieval Studies. With Ron Musto\, Eileen is a co-founder and co-publisher of Italica Press\, the former co-director of ACLS Humanities E-Book and of the Medieval Academy of America and co-editor of its journal\, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies. \nPresented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and Porter College URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-a-gateway-to-dantes-heaven-episode-episode-fourteen-global-perspectives-part-1-paradiso-in-world-literature-culture/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/UCSC-THI-ProjectParadiso-1024x576-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240503T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240503T130000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20240416T172514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240418T165337Z UID:10007405-1714737600-1714741200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Conversation with Jennifer Lunden\, author of American Breakdown DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, May 3 at 12:00PM for a virtual webinar with Jennifer Lunden\, author of AMERICAN BREAKDOWN: Our Ailing Nation\, My Body’s Revolt\, and the Nineteenth Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life. \n \nA Silent Spring for the human body\, this wide-ranging\, genre-crossing literary mystery interweaves the author’s quest to understand the source of her own condition with her telling of the story of the chronically ill 19th-century diarist Alice James—ultimately uncovering the many hidden health hazards of life in America. \nIn this meticulously researched and illuminating debut\, Lunden interweaves her own experience with Alice’s\, exploring the history of medicine and the effects of the industrial revolution and late-stage capitalism to tell a riveting story of how we are a nation struggling—and failing—to be healthy. Read More \nJennifer Lunden is an award-winning writer who explores the intersection of health and the environment. Her essays have been published in Creative Nonfiction\, Orion\, River Teeth\, DIAGRAM\, Longreads\, and other journals; selected for several anthologies; and praised as notable in Best American Essays. A former therapist\, she was named Maine’s Social Worker of the Year in 2012. She and her husband\, the artist Frank Turek\, live in a little house in Portland\, Maine\, where they keep several chickens\, two cats\, and some gloriously untamed gardens. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/conversation-with-jennifer-lunden-author-of-american-breakdown/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/American-Breakdown-with-Jennifer-Lunden-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240503T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240503T103000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20231019T214757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240112T173528Z UID:10007342-1714726800-1714732200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode Fourteen – Global Perspectives\, Part 1: Paradiso in World Literature & Culture DESCRIPTION:Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \n \n  \nMartin Eisner is Chair of Romance Studies and Professor of Italian at Duke University. He is the author of Dante’s New Life of the Book: A Philology of World Literature (Oxford UP\, 2021)\, which won the Howard R. Marraro Prize from the Modern Language Association. His first book Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature: Dante\, Petrarch\, Cavalcanti\, and the Authority of the Vernacular (Cambridge UP\, 2013) was recently published in Italian as Boccaccio e l’invenzione della letteratura italiana (Salerno\, 2022). He is currently working on a biography of Boccaccio for Reaktion Books’s Renaissance Lives series. \n  \nPresented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and Porter College URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-a-gateway-to-dantes-heaven-episode-episode-fourteen-global-perspectives-part-1-paradiso-in-world-literature-culture-2/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/UCSC-THI-ProjectParadiso-1024x576-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240428T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240428T150000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20231012T062806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231012T165444Z UID:10007330-1714309200-1714316400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club DESCRIPTION:Please join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our monthly Pickwick Club meeting. New this year\, we will be devoting an entire year to one novel instead of two\, and will dive deeply into Great Expectations. Join Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members for a series of discussions about this book. \n \nCharles Dickens depicts how a gentleman is made\, not born\, in this novel. Presented as Pip’s confessional autobiography\, Great Expectations describes his childhood at the forge\, his infatuation with the beautiful Estella\, his shame at his working-class origin and his eagerness to be a gentleman\, and eventually his life as a young man-about-town with “great expectations” of inheriting a fortune. Recalling these events as an adult\, Mr. Pirrip is frank about his mistakes and shortcomings. \nRecommended Edition: We recommend the Penguin Classics edition of the novel for its appendices and notes\, but other versions are fine. First-time readers should avoid the Introduction if they don’t want spoilers. Download the novel to read at Gutenburg.org or to listen at LibriVox.org. \nIf you have any questions please don’t hesitate to reach out at dpj@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-6/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/1024x576_GE_Pickwick_Banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240419T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240419T103000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20231015T220857Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240112T173456Z UID:10006184-1713517200-1713522600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode Thirteen – Early Receptions DESCRIPTION:Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \n \n \nSimon Gilson is Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian and Fellow of Magdalen College\, University of Oxford. He has published widely on Dante’s reception in fourteenth-\, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy. His publications include: Dante and Renaissance Florence (CUP 2005) and Reading Dante in Renaissance Italy: Florence\, Venice and the ‘Divine Poet’ (CUP 2018). \n  \n  \nPresented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and Porter College URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-a-gateway-to-dantes-heaven-episode-episode-thirteen-early-receptions/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/UCSC-THI-ProjectParadiso-1024x576-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240416T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240416T133000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20240313T193416Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240313T193644Z UID:10004605-1713268800-1713274200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Creative Academic Publishing With Robin James DESCRIPTION:This is an Arts Research Institute (ARI) workshop on creative academic publishing with Robin James. Robin James is an author and former academic\, currently working as Editor of Philosophy\, Literary Theory\, and Music & Sound Studies at Palgrave Macmillan. She will conduct a workshop for junior scholars interested in turning their ideas into a successful book proposal. She will also discuss the details of the publication process\, and how to pitch a project to an editor. This workshop is geared toward graduate students and early career faculty\, and is appropriate for anyone wanting to learn more about academic publishing! \n**Please rsvp to Holly Unruh\, Executive Director\, Arts Research Institute. Email hunruh@ucsc.edu for zoom link. \nThis workshop is presented by the Arts Research Institute and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2023-2024 PhD+ series. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the eighth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted (or co-sponsored) by The Humanities Institute. Our meetings provide the opportunity to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-creative-academic-publishing-workshop/ LOCATION:Virtual Event CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240414T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240414T150000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20240416T205906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240416T211959Z UID:10007406-1713099600-1713106800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Victorian Gaslighting with Professor Nora Gilbert DESCRIPTION:Please join the Friends of the Dickens Project for our spring Friends Faculty Fellowship talk series by Associate Professor Nora Gilbert (University of North Texas) who will be discussing “Victorian Gaslighting” \nAs someone who co-specializes in Victorian literature and early Hollywood film\, I’ve long been a fan of the darkly disturbing 1944 film Gaslight starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. During the first session of this series\, I will provide an overview of an essay collection that I’m currently co-editing with Diana Bellonby and Tara MacDonald called Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice\, in which we trace the genealogy of gaslighting back to its Victorian roots by bringing together fourteen essays that examine a wide range of nineteenth-century literary texts through the lens of gaslighting. During the second session\, we will have an in-depth discussion of the 1944 film version of Gaslight itself\, which captures the “maddening” feeling of this particular form of emotional abuse so gut-wrenchingly well. \nNora Gilbert is an associate professor of English at the University of North Texas. She is the author of Better Left Unsaid: Victorian Novels\, Hays Code Films\, and the Benefits of Censorship (2013) and Gone Girls\, 1684-1901: Flights of Feminist Resistance in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Novel (2023)\, as well as a number of other essays on Victorian literature and classical Hollywood film. Since 2017\, she has served as the editor of the journal Studies in the Novel. She is the 2024 Spring Friends of the Dickens Project Faculty Fellow. \nVirtual Sessions: \n\nApril 14: Book Talk: Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice\nMay 19: Discussion: Gaslight (1944) –Directed by George Cukor\n\nTo register or watch the recordings visit: UCSC The Dickens Project URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/victorian-gaslighting-with-professor-nora-gilbert/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Victorian-Gaslighting-1600x900-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240405T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240405T103000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20231015T220544Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240112T173415Z UID:10006183-1712307600-1712313000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode Twelve – Flower of Humanity: The Vergin Mary in Paradiso DESCRIPTION:Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \nFlower of Humanity: The Vergin Mary in Paradiso (Par. 23 and 31-33) \nIn lines of sublime beauty that fuse the fin’amor image of the rose with the ancient Marian type of the flos Iesse (Isa. 11:1)\, Dante tells us that Paradise itself\, the candida rosa (Par. 31.1)\, is generated from the warmth of Mary’s womb: ‘Nel ventre tuo si raccese l’amore\, / per lo cui caldo ne l’etterna pace così è germinato questo fiore’ (Par. 33.7-9). She is the termine fisso (3)\, the fixed point\, upon which God’s plan of salvation turns. Without her fiat (Luke 1:28)\, Paradise would be a sterile bloom\, deprived of the Love that breathes life into all things. Just so\, it is her words that set Dante’s own journey in motion (Inf. 2.94-114) and it is she who mediates his final vision. Without her\, one could argue\, there would be no Commedia. \nIt is essential to recognize this centrality of the Virgin if one is to come to a proper understanding of her role in the Paradiso. Taking as its starting point the Prayer to the Virgin (Par. 33.1-39)\, this chapter will explore the multiple ways in which Mary is present in the third cantica (and more broadly of the poem as a whole)\, whether as a source of hope and grace\, mediatrix\, supreme example of humanity fulfilled\, icon of the Church\, or prophetic sign of the New Creation (Rev. 21.1). Ultimately\, reading the poem in a Marian key\, we may conclude that it is she\, synthesis and apex of creation in all its beauty\, who leads Dante (and possibly the reader too) into the heart of the Trinity where\, become fully Christ\, we too may glimpse something of the presence of God beneath all things. \n \nBrian K. Reynolds teaches in the Italian Department and the Graduate Institute of Comparative Literature of Fu Jen Catholic University\, Taipei\, specializing in Medieval Italian Literature and in Mariology. He received his primary degree from University College Dublin in Italian and history and went on to carry out his postgraduate studies at UCD and Trinity College Dublin. He also taught in both of these institutions and in the Università degli Studi\, Bari prior to moving to Taiwan. Reynolds has written and spoken widely on Dante Alighieri and on Italian courtly and religious literature of the Middle Ages. At present he is mid-way through a project to produce a hypertext of the Divine Comedy. \nReynolds is also a recognized expert on Patristic and Medieval Mariology having published a major study\, Gateway to Heaven\, on Marian doctrine and devotion as well as numerous articles and book chapters. He is currently completing the second volume of his Gateway to Heaven series\, on Marian typological imagery. Reynolds is on the board of several journals including Claritas: Journal of Dialogue and Culture and Maria: A Journal of Marian Studies. He is the founder and convenor of the Dante in East Asia Network and is a member\, specializing in Mariology\, of the International Interdisciplinary Abba School\, based in the Sophia University Institute. \nPresented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and Porter College URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-a-gateway-to-dantes-heaven-episode-episode-twelve-radical-belonging/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/UCSC-THI-ProjectParadiso-1024x576-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240324T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240324T150000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20231012T062602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231012T165412Z UID:10007328-1711285200-1711292400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club DESCRIPTION:Please join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our monthly Pickwick Club meeting. New this year\, we will be devoting an entire year to one novel instead of two\, and will dive deeply into Great Expectations. Join Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members for a series of discussions about this book. \n \nCharles Dickens depicts how a gentleman is made\, not born\, in this novel. Presented as Pip’s confessional autobiography\, Great Expectations describes his childhood at the forge\, his infatuation with the beautiful Estella\, his shame at his working-class origin and his eagerness to be a gentleman\, and eventually his life as a young man-about-town with “great expectations” of inheriting a fortune. Recalling these events as an adult\, Mr. Pirrip is frank about his mistakes and shortcomings. \nRecommended Edition: We recommend the Penguin Classics edition of the novel for its appendices and notes\, but other versions are fine. First-time readers should avoid the Introduction if they don’t want spoilers. Download the novel to read at Gutenburg.org or to listen at LibriVox.org. \nIf you have any questions please don’t hesitate to reach out at dpj@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-5/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/1024x576_GE_Pickwick_Banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240322T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240322T103000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20231025T215908Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240112T173251Z UID:10006188-1711098000-1711103400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode 11 - The End of Imagination (Paradiso 33) DESCRIPTION:Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \n \n  \nWilliam Franke is a Dante scholar\, a philosopher of the humanities\, and a professor of comparative literature at Vanderbilt University. He has also been professor of philosophy at University of Macao (2013-2016); Fulbright-University of Salzburg Distinguished Chair in Intercultural Theology (2005-06); and Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung research fellow (1994- 95). His book Dante’s Paradiso and the Theological Origins of Modern Thought: Toward a Speculative Philosophy of Self-Reflection received the Hermes Award: Book of the Year in Phenomenological Hermeneutics from The International Institute for Hermeneutics (IIH)\, 2021 and he became Honorary Professor (Profesore Honoris Causa) of the Agora Hermeneutica. \nIn addition to six monographs on Dante\, Franke’s critical theory books include Poetry and Apocalypse: Theological Disclosures of Poetic Language (Stanford University Press\, 2009) and A Theology of Literature: The Bible as Revelation in the Tradition of the Humanities (Cascade\, 2017). These works follow up on books tracing prophetic poetry from Homer and Virgil to Dante (The Revelation of Imagination\, Northwestern University Press\, 2015) and then forward from Dante through Chaucer\, Shakespeare\, Milton\, Blake\, Leopardi\, to more recent modern classics including Baudelaire\, Dickinson\, and Yeats (Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante\, Ohio State University Press\, 2016). \nIn conjunction with his work on prophetic poetry\, Franke has developed what he calls A Philosophy of the Unsayable (University of Notre Dame Press\, 2014) reconstructing the apophatic tradition in On What Cannot Be Said (Notre Dame\, 2007\, 2 vols.). His Apophatic Paths from Europe to China (SUNY\, 2018\, Chinese Philosophy series) extends this project into an intercultural philosophy. His The Universality of What is Not: The Apophatic Turn in Critical Thinking (Notre Dame\, 2020) explores applications of this philosophy to media studies\, postmodern identity politics of race and gender\, and cognitive sciences in their struggle with the humanities. \nDante monographs by William Franke\nDantologies: Theoretical and Theological Turns in Dante Studies – New York: Routledge\, 2023 (forthcoming) Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture\nThe Divine Vision of Dante’s Paradiso: The Metaphysics of Representation – Cambridge\, UK: Cambridge University Press\, 2021 (304 + xx pages)\nDante’s Vita Nuova and the New Testament: Hermeneutics and the Poetics of Revelation – Cambridge\, UK: Cambridge University Press\, 2021 (299 + xix pages)\nDante’s Paradiso and the Theological Origins of Modern Thought: Toward a Speculative Philosophy of Self-Reflection – New York: Routledge\, 2021 (334 + xxii pages) Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature Series\nDante and the Sense of Transgression: ‘The Trespass of the Sign’ – London and New York: Continuum [Bloomsbury Academic]\, 2013 Invited for New Directions in Religion and Literature Series\, edited by Mark Knight and Emma Mason (200 + xv pages)\nDante’s Interpretive Journey – Chicago: University of Chicago Press\, 1996 (242 + xi pages) Religion and Postmodernism series\, edited by Mark C. Taylor \nPresented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and Porter College URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dante-episode11/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/UCSC-THI-ProjectParadiso-1024x576-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240311T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240311T200000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20231220T194545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240307T201212Z UID:10007365-1710181800-1710187200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Slugs and Steins with Pranav Anand DESCRIPTION:Pranav Anand joins Slugs and Steins to deliver his talk titled “Language Models: A Selective History and Notes on the Future.” Drawing on the Humanities Division’s Humanizing Technology curriculum\, will highlight some of the history of language models now ascendant in systems like ChatGPT. We will wend our way from early cryptography through the beginnings of machine translation\, and into the data-rich present of large language models. Along the way\, we will contemplate the ways that developments in technology have been driven by historical backdrop\, and leverage that understanding to contemplate what the near future will look like. \nPranav Anand is a Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz and Faculty Director of the Humanities Institute\, specializing in semantics and pragmatics\, particularly in the study of context-dependence\, perspectival expressions\, and subjectivity. His work\, which leverages linguistic fieldwork\, logical analysis\, philosophy of language\, and computational linguistics\, has examined affect and sentiment\, debate and persuasion\, narrative\, ellipsis and fragments\, and modality and knowledge. \nRegister for the Zoom Webinar below: \n \nQuestions? Contact the UC Santa Cruz University Events office at specialevents@ucsc.edu. \nSlugs and Steins are free informal lectures served up over Zoom. Brought to you by the UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association\, each talk will engage one of our favorite professors in discussion with you\, the local community of Silicon Valley\, and beyond. We will cover everything from organic artichokes to endangered zebras\, self-driving cars to Shakespeare. All are welcome. Audience participation is encouraged. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slugs-and-steins-with-pranav-anand/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240308T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240308T100000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20231219T230840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231222T182122Z UID:10007349-1709892000-1709892000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Queer Religiously & Other Companion Stories DESCRIPTION:Omar Kasmani is a guest-lecturer at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universitaet\, Berlin. He is the author of Queer Companions: Religion\, Public Intimacy and Saintly Affects in Pakistan (Duke UP\, 2022) and the editor of Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere (Duke UP\, 2023). \n \nMore info on this event here. This event is presented by the Center for South Asian Studies as a part of the 2023-2024 Lecture Series Crossings. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/queer-religiously-other-companion-stories/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Kasmani-cover-cropped.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240308T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240308T103000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20231015T215652Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240112T173212Z UID:10006182-1709888400-1709893800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode Ten – A Drama of Choice at the Extremity of the Universe (Paradiso 27–30) DESCRIPTION:Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \n \n Alison Cornish is Professor of Italian Studies at New York University and President of the Dante Society of America. She is the author of Reading Dante’s Stars (Yale\, 2000)\, Vernacular Translation in Dante’s Italy: Illiterate Literature (Cambridge\, 2011) a commentary on Dante’s Paradiso\, translated by Stanley Lombardo (Hackett\, 2017)\, and Believing in Dante: Truth in Fiction (Cambridge\, 2022). as well as a number of essays on Dante\, Petrarch and Boccaccio. During the seventh centenary of the poet’s death\, she organized a crowd-sourced series of video conversations between members of the Dante Society of America\, entitled “Canto per Canto: Conversations with Dante in Our Time.” \nPresented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and Porter College URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-a-gateway-to-dantes-heaven-episode-episode-ten-a-drama-of-choice-at-the-extremity-of-the-universe-paradiso-27-30/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/UCSC-THI-ProjectParadiso-1024x576-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T210000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20231220T230737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240104T195448Z UID:10007361-1709751600-1709758800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: Henry VIII DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, the UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute\, as we launch Undiscovered Shakespeare: Henry VIII\, the fourth installment of our annual virtual Shakespeare program. \nRegister for all sessions here: \n \nAbout Henry VIII:\nEarly in its first run in 1613\, Henry VIII (1613) set the world on fire – if by “world” we mean The Globe\, the theater in which Shakespeare’s company had performed since 1599. A stage canon set alight the building’s thatch roof and supporting timbers. \nThe play focuses on the fall of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey\, Henry’s closest advisor\, on Henry’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon and marriage to Anne Boleyn\, and on the first stirrings of the English Reformation under Thomas Cranmer\, the Archbishop of Canterbury who gave us the Book of Common Prayer\, before it culminates in the birth of Elizabeth I. In part\, this play is about Henry’s effort to emerge from the shadow of his courtiers and determine his own fate as a king. In part\, it is about the way that it feels to be on the losing end of history’s epoch-making struggles and how the theater might help us to acknowledge and commemorate those losses so that they don’t come back to haunt the future. \nThis is a most unusual play\, unlike Shakespeare’s earlier meditations on the history of the English monarchy. Despite being very popular through the nineteenth century\, Henry VIII is rarely seen in performance today\, despite the current interest in television programs\, films\, and novels about the Tudor dynasty. This three-part\, virtual reading\, (February 21 and 28 and March 6) which is the fourth installment Undiscovered Shakespeare\, a collaboration between Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, The Humanities Institute\, and UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, brings Shakespeare’s last history play alive again. \nCome one\, come all\, for live theater and for lively conversation with actors\, scholars\, and each other! \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. \nEpisode 1: February 21\, 2024\, 7:00pm-9:00pm\nBuckingham (Prologue through Act 2\, Scene 1)\nThe play opens in the summer of 1520. Henry VIII has just returned from France\, where he was attending The Field of the Cloth of Gold: a diplomatic summit and extravagant display of wealth\, organized by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey to make peace between Henry and the French king\, Francois I. The Duke of Buckingham and other English nobles resent the favor that Henry bestows on Wolsey\, a commoner. Among themselves\, they accuse the Cardinal of usurping the King’s sovereign powers\, but soon it is Buckingham who finds himself on trial for treason. Queen Katherine warns Henry that excessive taxes\, attributed to Wolsey’s influence at court\, have brought his subjects to the brink of rebellion. \nEpisode 2: February 28\, 2024\, 7:00pm-9:00pm\nKatharine and Wolsey (Act 2\, Scene 2 through Act 3\, Scene 2)\nWhen Anne Boleyn enters King Henry’s life\, he begins to search for valid reasons to annul his marriage to Queen Katherine\, who has been his wife for twenty-four years. The Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk blame Henry’s change of heart on Wolsey. The Queen defends her marriage before the Pope’s legate\, but the union is dissolved. Norfolk and Suffolk reveal the Cardinal’s enormous private wealth to the King. Wolsey understands his goose is cooked and reflects philosophically on his impending fall from grace with Thomas Cromwell\, his loyal servant. \nEpisode 3: March 6\, 2024\, 7:00pm-9:00pm\nCranmer (Act 4\, Scene 1 through Epilogue)\nAfter Wolsey’s fall and death\, King Henry finds a new spiritual advisor in Thomas Cranmer\, the reformist Archbishop of Canterbury. He also appoints Thomas Cromwell\, Wolsey’s servant\, as his personal secretary and member of the Privy Council. Off stage\, Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen\, while Katherine dies of a broken heart before our eyes. Stephen Gardiner\, the Bishop of Winchester and the enemy of Queen Anne\, plots the downfall Cranmer and Cromwell\, her allies\, but King Henry outmaneuvers him\, foiling the plot and demonstrating his superiority to his advisors. As the play ends\, the year must be 1533\, because the Queen gives birth to a daughter\, Elizabeth. Cranmer prophesies a golden future for England that\, by the time Shakespeare wrote this play\, already belonged to England’s past. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-henry-viii-ep3/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Undiscovered_Shakespeare_Banner1024x576.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240228T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240228T210000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20231220T230537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240104T195351Z UID:10007362-1709146800-1709154000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: Henry VIII DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, the UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute\, as we launch Undiscovered Shakespeare: Henry VIII\, the fourth installment of our annual virtual Shakespeare program. \nRegister for all sessions here: \n \nAbout Henry VIII:\nEarly in its first run in 1613\, Henry VIII (1613) set the world on fire – if by “world” we mean The Globe\, the theater in which Shakespeare’s company had performed since 1599. A stage canon set alight the building’s thatch roof and supporting timbers. \nThe play focuses on the fall of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey\, Henry’s closest advisor\, on Henry’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon and marriage to Anne Boleyn\, and on the first stirrings of the English Reformation under Thomas Cranmer\, the Archbishop of Canterbury who gave us the Book of Common Prayer\, before it culminates in the birth of Elizabeth I. In part\, this play is about Henry’s effort to emerge from the shadow of his courtiers and determine his own fate as a king. In part\, it is about the way that it feels to be on the losing end of history’s epoch-making struggles and how the theater might help us to acknowledge and commemorate those losses so that they don’t come back to haunt the future. \nThis is a most unusual play\, unlike Shakespeare’s earlier meditations on the history of the English monarchy. Despite being very popular through the nineteenth century\, Henry VIII is rarely seen in performance today\, despite the current interest in television programs\, films\, and novels about the Tudor dynasty. This three-part\, virtual reading\, (February 21 and 28 and March 6) which is the fourth installment Undiscovered Shakespeare\, a collaboration between Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, The Humanities Institute\, and UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, brings Shakespeare’s last history play alive again. \nCome one\, come all\, for live theater and for lively conversation with actors\, scholars\, and each other! \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. \nEpisode 1: February 21\, 2024\, 7:00pm-9:00pm\nBuckingham (Prologue through Act 2\, Scene 1)\nThe play opens in the summer of 1520. Henry VIII has just returned from France\, where he was attending The Field of the Cloth of Gold: a diplomatic summit and extravagant display of wealth\, organized by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey to make peace between Henry and the French king\, Francois I. The Duke of Buckingham and other English nobles resent the favor that Henry bestows on Wolsey\, a commoner. Among themselves\, they accuse the Cardinal of usurping the King’s sovereign powers\, but soon it is Buckingham who finds himself on trial for treason. Queen Katherine warns Henry that excessive taxes\, attributed to Wolsey’s influence at court\, have brought his subjects to the brink of rebellion. \nEpisode 2: February 28\, 2024\, 7:00pm-9:00pm\nKatharine and Wolsey (Act 2\, Scene 2 through Act 3\, Scene 2)\nWhen Anne Boleyn enters King Henry’s life\, he begins to search for valid reasons to annul his marriage to Queen Katherine\, who has been his wife for twenty-four years. The Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk blame Henry’s change of heart on Wolsey. The Queen defends her marriage before the Pope’s legate\, but the union is dissolved. Norfolk and Suffolk reveal the Cardinal’s enormous private wealth to the King. Wolsey understands his goose is cooked and reflects philosophically on his impending fall from grace with Thomas Cromwell\, his loyal servant. \nEpisode 3: March 6\, 2024\, 7:00pm-9:00pm\nCranmer (Act 4\, Scene 1 through Epilogue)\nAfter Wolsey’s fall and death\, King Henry finds a new spiritual advisor in Thomas Cranmer\, the reformist Archbishop of Canterbury. He also appoints Thomas Cromwell\, Wolsey’s servant\, as his personal secretary and member of the Privy Council. Off stage\, Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen\, while Katherine dies of a broken heart before our eyes. Stephen Gardiner\, the Bishop of Winchester and the enemy of Queen Anne\, plots the downfall Cranmer and Cromwell\, her allies\, but King Henry outmaneuvers him\, foiling the plot and demonstrating his superiority to his advisors. As the play ends\, the year must be 1533\, because the Queen gives birth to a daughter\, Elizabeth. Cranmer prophesies a golden future for England that\, by the time Shakespeare wrote this play\, already belonged to England’s past. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-henry-viii-ep2/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Undiscovered_Shakespeare_Banner1024x576.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240225T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240225T150000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20231012T062523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231012T165338Z UID:10007326-1708866000-1708873200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club DESCRIPTION:Please join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our monthly Pickwick Club meeting. New this year\, we will be devoting an entire year to one novel instead of two\, and will dive deeply into Great Expectations. Join Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members for a series of discussions about this book. \n \nCharles Dickens depicts how a gentleman is made\, not born\, in this novel. Presented as Pip’s confessional autobiography\, Great Expectations describes his childhood at the forge\, his infatuation with the beautiful Estella\, his shame at his working-class origin and his eagerness to be a gentleman\, and eventually his life as a young man-about-town with “great expectations” of inheriting a fortune. Recalling these events as an adult\, Mr. Pirrip is frank about his mistakes and shortcomings. \nRecommended Edition: We recommend the Penguin Classics edition of the novel for its appendices and notes\, but other versions are fine. First-time readers should avoid the Introduction if they don’t want spoilers. Download the novel to read at Gutenburg.org or to listen at LibriVox.org. \nIf you have any questions please don’t hesitate to reach out at dpj@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-4/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/1024x576_GE_Pickwick_Banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240223T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240223T103000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20231015T215224Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240112T173120Z UID:10006181-1708678800-1708684200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode Nine – Language (Paradiso 26) DESCRIPTION:Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \n \n Heather Webb (PhD Stanford 2004) is Professor of Italian Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Selwyn College. She is the author of The Medieval Heart (Yale\, 2010)\, Dante’s Persons: An Ethics of the Transhuman (Oxford University Press\, 2016)\, and Dante\, Artist of Gesture (Oxford University Press\, September 2022). With Zygmunt Baranski\, she is editor of Dante’s ‘Vita Nova’: A Collaborative Reading (Notre Dame University Press\, December 2023). With George Corbett\, she is editor of Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy\, 3 vols (Open Book Publishers\, 2015\, 2016\, 2017). With Pierpaolo Antonello\, she is editor of Mimesis\, Desire\, and the Novel: René Girard and Literary Criticism (Michigan State Press\, 2015). She is Senior Editor of Italian Studies for pre-1700 material. \nPresented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and Porter College URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-a-gateway-to-dantes-heaven-episode-episode-nine-language-paradiso-26/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/UCSC-THI-ProjectParadiso-1024x576-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240221T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240221T210000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20231220T224318Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240104T195239Z UID:10007364-1708542000-1708549200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: Henry VIII DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, the UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute\, as we launch Undiscovered Shakespeare: Henry VIII\, the fourth installment of our annual virtual Shakespeare program. \nRegister for all sessions here: \n \nAbout Henry VIII:\nEarly in its first run in 1613\, Henry VIII (1613) set the world on fire – if by “world” we mean The Globe\, the theater in which Shakespeare’s company had performed since 1599. A stage canon set alight the building’s thatch roof and supporting timbers. \nThe play focuses on the fall of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey\, Henry’s closest advisor\, on Henry’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon and marriage to Anne Boleyn\, and on the first stirrings of the English Reformation under Thomas Cranmer\, the Archbishop of Canterbury who gave us the Book of Common Prayer\, before it culminates in the birth of Elizabeth I. In part\, this play is about Henry’s effort to emerge from the shadow of his courtiers and determine his own fate as a king. In part\, it is about the way that it feels to be on the losing end of history’s epoch-making struggles and how the theater might help us to acknowledge and commemorate those losses so that they don’t come back to haunt the future. \nThis is a most unusual play\, unlike Shakespeare’s earlier meditations on the history of the English monarchy. Despite being very popular through the nineteenth century\, Henry VIII is rarely seen in performance today\, despite the current interest in television programs\, films\, and novels about the Tudor dynasty. This three-part\, virtual reading\, (February 21 and 28 and March 6) which is the fourth installment Undiscovered Shakespeare\, a collaboration between Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, The Humanities Institute\, and UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, brings Shakespeare’s last history play alive again. \nCome one\, come all\, for live theater and for lively conversation with actors\, scholars\, and each other! \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. \nEpisode 1: February 21\, 2024\, 7:00pm-9:00pm\nBuckingham (Prologue through Act 2\, Scene 1)\nThe play opens in the summer of 1520. Henry VIII has just returned from France\, where he was attending The Field of the Cloth of Gold: a diplomatic summit and extravagant display of wealth\, organized by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey to make peace between Henry and the French king\, Francois I. The Duke of Buckingham and other English nobles resent the favor that Henry bestows on Wolsey\, a commoner. Among themselves\, they accuse the Cardinal of usurping the King’s sovereign powers\, but soon it is Buckingham who finds himself on trial for treason. Queen Katherine warns Henry that excessive taxes\, attributed to Wolsey’s influence at court\, have brought his subjects to the brink of rebellion. \nEpisode 2: February 28\, 2024\, 7:00pm-9:00pm\nKatharine and Wolsey (Act 2\, Scene 2 through Act 3\, Scene 2)\nWhen Anne Boleyn enters King Henry’s life\, he begins to search for valid reasons to annul his marriage to Queen Katherine\, who has been his wife for twenty-four years. The Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk blame Henry’s change of heart on Wolsey. The Queen defends her marriage before the Pope’s legate\, but the union is dissolved. Norfolk and Suffolk reveal the Cardinal’s enormous private wealth to the King. Wolsey understands his goose is cooked and reflects philosophically on his impending fall from grace with Thomas Cromwell\, his loyal servant. \nEpisode 3: March 6\, 2024\, 7:00pm-9:00pm\nCranmer (Act 4\, Scene 1 through Epilogue)\nAfter Wolsey’s fall and death\, King Henry finds a new spiritual advisor in Thomas Cranmer\, the reformist Archbishop of Canterbury. He also appoints Thomas Cromwell\, Wolsey’s servant\, as his personal secretary and member of the Privy Council. Off stage\, Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen\, while Katherine dies of a broken heart before our eyes. Stephen Gardiner\, the Bishop of Winchester and the enemy of Queen Anne\, plots the downfall Cranmer and Cromwell\, her allies\, but King Henry outmaneuvers him\, foiling the plot and demonstrating his superiority to his advisors. As the play ends\, the year must be 1533\, because the Queen gives birth to a daughter\, Elizabeth. Cranmer prophesies a golden future for England that\, by the time Shakespeare wrote this play\, already belonged to England’s past. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-henry-viii-ep1/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Undiscovered_Shakespeare_Banner1024x576.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240209T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240209T103000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20231015T214317Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240110T204019Z UID:10006179-1707469200-1707474600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Cancelled - Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode Eight - Hierarchy and Diversity (Paradiso 3; 27–29 & 32) DESCRIPTION:Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \n \n  \nPaola Nasti is Associate Professor of Italian Literature at Northwestern University. She has also taught\, as an associate\, in the United Kingdom. Her research focuses on Dante’s biblical\, religious and theological culture. In addition to a monograph on the Solomonic tradition (Favole d’amore e “saver profondo”: la tradizione salomonica in Dante. Angelo Longo Editore\, Ravenna 2007) she has published numerous essays on the scriptural theme: ‘Vocabuli d’autori e di Scienze e di libri ‘(Conv. II xii 5): Dante’s wisdom paths’\, in Ledda\, G. (ed.) Dante’s Bible: Mystical experience\, prophecy and biblical theology in Dante. Centro Dantesco Onlus\, Ravenna\, 2011); ‘Dante and ecclesiology’\, in: Hoeness\, C. E. and Treherne\, M. (eds.) Reviewing Dante’s Theology\, Peter Lang\,2013)’; ‘The stigmata and the love of the poor man of Assisi: Dante’s reinterpretations of a medieval topos’\, in Christian Dante and religious culture in medieval Italy\, Ravenna\, Longo\, 2018); ‘The triumph of Christ: anti-pietism in Comedy’\, in Proceedings of the Conference “Theologus Dantes. Theological themes in the works and in the first commentaries”\, Venice\, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari\, 2018\, pp. 103-138).; ‘Religious Culture’\, in Cambridge Companion to Dante’s Commedia\, ed. by Z. G. Baranski and S. Gilson\, Cambridge\, Cambridge University Press\, 2018\, pp. 158-172.in Proceedings of the Conference “Theologus Dantes. Theological themes in the works and in the first commentaries”\, Venice\, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari\, 2018\, pp. 103-138).; ‘Religious Culture’\, in Cambridge Companion to Dante’s Commedia\, ed. by Z. G. Baranski and S. Gilson\, Cambridge\, Cambridge University Press\, 2018\, pp. 158-172.in Proceedings of the Conference “Theologus Dantes. Theological themes in the works and in the first commentaries”\, Venice\, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari\, 2018\, pp. 103-138).; ‘Religious Culture’\, in Cambridge Companion to Dante’s Commedia\, ed. by Z. G. Baranski and S. Gilson\, Cambridge\, Cambridge University Press\, 2018\, pp. 158-172. \nPresented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and Porter College URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-a-gateway-to-dantes-heaven-episode-episode-eight-hierarchy-and-diversity-paradiso-3-27-29-32/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/UCSC-THI-ProjectParadiso-1024x576-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240128T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240128T150000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20231012T062430Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231012T165258Z UID:10007323-1706446800-1706454000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club DESCRIPTION:Please join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our monthly Pickwick Club meeting. New this year\, we will be devoting an entire year to one novel instead of two\, and will dive deeply into Great Expectations. Join Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members for a series of discussions about this book. \n \nCharles Dickens depicts how a gentleman is made\, not born\, in this novel. Presented as Pip’s confessional autobiography\, Great Expectations describes his childhood at the forge\, his infatuation with the beautiful Estella\, his shame at his working-class origin and his eagerness to be a gentleman\, and eventually his life as a young man-about-town with “great expectations” of inheriting a fortune. Recalling these events as an adult\, Mr. Pirrip is frank about his mistakes and shortcomings. \nRecommended Edition: We recommend the Penguin Classics edition of the novel for its appendices and notes\, but other versions are fine. First-time readers should avoid the Introduction if they don’t want spoilers. Download the novel to read at Gutenburg.org or to listen at LibriVox.org. \nIf you have any questions please don’t hesitate to reach out at dpj@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-3/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/1024x576_GE_Pickwick_Banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240126T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240126T103000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20231015T214639Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240112T173041Z UID:10006180-1706259600-1706265000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode Seven – Justice for All (Paradiso 19–21) DESCRIPTION:Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \n \n  \nAkash Kumar is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley. His research focuses on medieval Italian literature through the lens of Mediterranean and global culture\, from the history of science to the origins of popular phenomena such as the game of chess. Recent work on a global Dante has appeared in the volume Migrants Shaping Europe\, Past and Present (Manchester UP\, 2022)\, MLN (2022)\, and the Blackwell Companion to World Literature (2020). Akash also serves as Editor of Dante Notes\, the digital publication of the Dante Society of America. \n  \nPresented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and Porter College URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-a-gateway-to-dantes-heaven-episode-seven-justice-for-all-paradiso-19-21/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/UCSC-THI-ProjectParadiso-1024x576-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240112T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240112T103000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20231015T213531Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240112T172955Z UID:10006178-1705050000-1705055400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode Six – Politics and Prophecy: Past\, Present\, and Future (Paradiso 15–18) DESCRIPTION:Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \n \n  \nThe Rev’d Dr Claire Honess is an ordained priest in the Church of England and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Leeds (UK)\, where she was until 2021 Professor of Italian Studies. Her research focuses on the intersections between Dante’s political thought\, his theological understanding\, and his poetic innovation: themes that come together in particularly interesting ways in the canti of Cacciaguida in Paradiso. She is the author of From Florence to the Heavenly City: The Poetry of Citizenship in Dante (Legenda\, 2006) and the translator of four of Dante’s political letters (MHRA\, 2007) and of numerous articles on related themes. Before her ordination\, she taught at the Universities of London\, Reading and Leeds\, and served as Head of the School of Languages\, Cultures and Societies and Dean of the Doctoral College at the latter. She served as Senior Editor of the journal The Italianist\, Chair of the Society for Italian Studies\, and was a co-founder and co-director of the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies. \nPresented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and Porter College URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-a-gateway-to-dantes-heaven-episode-six-politics-and-prophecy-past-present-and-future-paradiso-15-18/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/UCSC-THI-ProjectParadiso-1024x576-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231222T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231222T103000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20231015T212449Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240112T172910Z UID:10006177-1703235600-1703241000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Five – The Sun (Paradiso 10–13) and The Body of Knowledge (Paradiso 14) DESCRIPTION:Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \n \nFilippo Gianferrari is originally from Modena\, Italy. He has received a BA and MA in Letteratura italiana from the Università degli Studi di Bologna\, and a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from the University of Notre Dame. After completing his Ph.D.\, he taught at Vassar College and Smith College. He has been part of the Literature Department at UCSC since 2019. He works on Dante\, Petrarch\, and Boccaccio\, lay education\, and political theology in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. He is interested in the ways literature and education (particularly literacy) intersect with and inform each other. He has published mostly on the topic of Dante’s intellectual formation and he has completed a monograph titled “Dante’s Education: Latin Schoolbooks and Vernacular Poetics.” The book investigates Dante’s debts to his earliest school readings and his critical stance toward contemporary education. His attention is now devoted to the study of vernacular theories and visions of political charity and eschatology.\n \nRon Herzman is Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York\, Geneseo. In addition to Geneseo\, where he continues to teach Dante\, he has taught Dante at Georgetown University\, St. John’s College in Santa Fe\, New York University\, Regis High School\, and Attica Correctional Facility. He has directed eighteen Summer Seminars for Schoolteachers through the National Endowment for the Humanities\, twelve of which were on Dante in Italy. With his colleague Bill Cook\, he teaches the Divine Comedy through a twenty- four-lecture course available through the Great Courses series produced by The Teaching Company. Together with Cook\, he was the recipient of the first CARA Award for Excellence in Teaching Medieval Studies from the Medieval Academy of America. He has written over fifty articles and reviews on Dante\, with emphasis on Dante and the Franciscans\, and on Dante and the visual arts. The Medieval World View (Oxford University Press\, with Bill Cook)\, now in its third edition\, has been in print since 1984. With Richard Emmerson\, he is the author of The Apocalyptic Tradition in Medieval Literature (University of Pennsylvania Press\, 1994) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-a-gateway-to-dantes-heaven-episode-five-the-sun-paradiso-10-13-and-the-body-of-knowledge-paradiso-14/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/UCSC-THI-ProjectParadiso-1024x576-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231215T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231215T103000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20231015T022928Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240112T172820Z UID:10006176-1702630800-1702636200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Four – Beatrice’s Authority DESCRIPTION:Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \n \nElena Lombardi is Professor of Italian Literature at Oxford\, and the Paget Toynbee Fellow and Tutor in Medieval Studies at Balliol College. She is the author of five books: The Syntax of Desire. Language and Love in Augustine\, the Modistae\, Dante (Toronto UP\, 2007)\, The Wings of the Doves. Love and Desire in Dante and Medieval Culture (McGill UP\, 2012)\, Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante (Oxford UP\, 2018)\, Beatrice e le altre. Dante e l’universo femminile (Roma-LaRepubblica\, 2021)\, and Dante’s Ulisse and Other Stories (Forthcoming: 2023). She has written several articles on medieval and early modern topics and is one of the editors of the Oxford Handbook of Dante (Oxford UP\, 2021). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-a-gateway-to-dantes-heaven-episode-four-beatrices-authority/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/UCSC-THI-ProjectParadiso-1024x576-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231201T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231201T103000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20231012T205550Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231116T173837Z UID:10007329-1701421200-1701426600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Three – The Subject of Violence (Paradiso 3–5 & 14–18) DESCRIPTION:Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \n \nBrenda Deen Schildgen is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature\, emerita at UC Davis. Among her books are the most recent\, Dante and Violence: Domestic\, Civic\, Cosmic (2021); Divine Providence\, A History: Bible\, Virgil\, Orosius\, Augustine\, and Dante (2012); Other Renaissances: A New Approach to World Literature (2006); Heritage or Heresy: Destruction and Preservation of Art and Architecture in Europe (2008); Dante and the Orient (2002)\, translated into Italian (2016) and Arabic (2009). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-a-gateway-to-dantes-heaven-episode-three-the-subject-of-violence-paradiso-3-5-14-18/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231126T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231126T150000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20231012T061803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231012T165125Z UID:10007321-1701003600-1701010800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club DESCRIPTION:Please join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our monthly Pickwick Club meeting. New this year\, we will be devoting an entire year to one novel instead of two\, and will dive deeply into Great Expectations. Join Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members for a series of discussions about this book. \n \nCharles Dickens depicts how a gentleman is made\, not born\, in this novel. Presented as Pip’s confessional autobiography\, Great Expectations describes his childhood at the forge\, his infatuation with the beautiful Estella\, his shame at his working-class origin and his eagerness to be a gentleman\, and eventually his life as a young man-about-town with “great expectations” of inheriting a fortune. Recalling these events as an adult\, Mr. Pirrip is frank about his mistakes and shortcomings. \nRecommended Edition: We recommend the Penguin Classics edition of the novel for its appendices and notes\, but other versions are fine. First-time readers should avoid the Introduction if they don’t want spoilers. Download the novel to read at Gutenburg.org or to listen at LibriVox.org. \nIf you have any questions please don’t hesitate to reach out at dpj@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-2/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/1024x576_GE_Pickwick_Banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231117T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231117T103000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20231012T064803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231018T221047Z UID:10007331-1700211600-1700217000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode Two – The Structure of Dante’s Paradiso: or How to Tell a Story beyond Time\, Space\, and Individuality DESCRIPTION:Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \n \nEpisode Two – The Structure of Dante’s Paradiso: or How to Tell a Story beyond Time\, Space\, and Individuality featuring: \nAlejandro Cuadrado is a Lecturer in the Department of Italian Studies. He received his PhD in Italian and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 2023\, where he was also a Core Preceptor and Provost Diversity Fellow. He has an undergraduate degree in French & Italian from Princeton University. His research focuses on medieval Italian literature at the intersection of history and religion. He is currently writing his first book\, Dante\, Historian of Religious Institutions\, which argues that Dante embeds parallel histories of the papacy\, monasticism\, and the mendicant fraternal orders into the Commedia. His other research has considered medieval exemplarity\, travel and pilgrimage narratives\, Boccaccio\, Petrarch\, lyric poetry\, Mediterranean Studies\, and Cervantes. With Akash Kumar\, he is the co-editor of the Dante Simile Project\, which brings together a wide range of scholars to historicize and contextualize Dante’s narrative similes. He is an Assistant Editor of Digital Dante\, an online resource dedicated to original research and ideas on Dante\, including Teodolinda Barolini’s commentary to the Divine Comedy. \nPresented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and Porter College URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-a-gateway-to-dantes-heaven-episode-two-the-structure-of-dantes-paradiso-or-how-to-tell-a-story-beyond-time-space-and-individuality/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/UCSC-THI-ProjectParadiso-1024x576-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231108 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231109 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20231031T192021Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231031T215635Z UID:10007339-1699401600-1699487999@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Giving Day DESCRIPTION:Please consider partnering with the Humanities Division on Wednesday\, November 8\, by supporting one or more of our exciting Giving Day projects. This annual 24-hour fundraising drive is full of challenges and matches that can double or even triple your dollars. We believe in the power of the humanities to transform lives and society for the better. And we believe that with your support\, our students can lead impactful lives that transform our world. \nIn the Humanities at UC Santa Cruz\, we prepare students not just for jobs and careers\, but for lifelong learning\, happiness\, and meaningful engagement in the world. These five Giving Day projects will provide incredible opportunities for our students to engage beyond the classroom. \nHumanities Student Success Fund \nThrough our Humanities Student Success Fund\, we provide access to experiential learning that enhances academic curriculum and prepares students for rewarding and impactful careers. With your support\, we will increase access to things like paid internships\, service learning\, and research support for undergraduate\, transfer\, and graduate students studying the Humanities. \nCenter for Public Philosophy \nThe Center for Public Philosophy aims to empower the general public with the tools and insights of philosophy and critical thought. Through community programming\, events\, and media\, the center helps foster more thoughtful and engaged thinkers\, doers\, and change makers. Your donation will go towards the annual High School Ethics Bowl as well as our new programs such as the Night of Ideas\, a free event that brings art\, music\, and interesting speakers to the public. Help the Center for Public Philosophy share the power\, practice\, and joy of philosophy far\nbeyond university walls. \nClassics Alive! \nClassics Alive! helps students learn about the language\, literature\, art\, and history of Ancient Greece\, Rome\, and beyond. Your generous gift will help us purchase Greek and Latin textbooks for students with financial need\, provide support to the Classics Library in Cowell College\, fund awards to recognize student achievement\, organize class excursions to the Getty Villa and other regional museums\, and sponsor students on archaeological digs and other summer programs. \nMinorities and Philosophy \nMinorities and Philosophy (MAP) is an organization of 180 local MAP Chapters dedicated to addressing structural injustices in academic philosophy and removing barriers that impeded participation for members of marginalized groups. Your gift to UCSC’s local chapter provides support for mentorship opportunities\, speaker events\, panel discussions\, reading groups\, and conferences. \nOkinawa Memories Initiative \nThe Okinawa Memories Initiative (OMI) is a dynamic international public history project with a big impact. For nearly a decade\, OMI has been a campus leader in connecting undergraduate students to career-building experiential learning opportunities. From innovative exhibits and oral history interviews to community partnerships\, undergraduate members develop vital professional and academic skills through hands-on public humanities research. \nPhilosophical Slug Society \nThe Philosophical Slug Society is a student-run undergraduate club where students meet to discuss ancient and contemporary philosophy and apply their education outside of the classroom. Help philosophy students attend workshops\, conferences\, and other academic events that greatly enhance their academic experience. \nLook for another email in the coming days to learn more about our impact in and beyond the classroom! \nGive Now! \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/giving-day-is-november-8/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Untitled-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231027T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231027T103000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20230925T195425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231023T200930Z UID:10007303-1698397200-1698402600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode One – Introduction – A Restless Paradise DESCRIPTION:Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \n \nEpisode One – Introduction – A Restless Paradise\, featuring: \nFilippo Gianferrari is originally from Modena\, Italy. He has received a BA and MA in Letteratura italiana from the Università degli Studi di Bologna\, and a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from the University of Notre Dame. After completing his Ph.D.\, he taught at Vassar College and Smith College. He has been part of the Literature Department at UCSC since 2019. He works on Dante\, Petrarch\, and Boccaccio\, lay education\, and political theology in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. He is interested in the ways literature and education (particularly literacy) intersect with and inform each other. He has published mostly on the topic of Dante’s intellectual formation and he has completed a monograph titled “Dante’s Education: Latin Schoolbooks and Vernacular Poetics.” The book investigates Dante’s debts to his earliest school readings and his critical stance toward contemporary education. His attention is now devoted to the study of vernacular theories and visions of political charity and eschatology. \nRon Herzman is Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York\, Geneseo. In addition to Geneseo\, where he continues to teach Dante\, he has taught Dante at Georgetown University\, St. John’s College in Santa Fe\, New York University\, Regis High School\, and Attica Correctional Facility. He has directed eighteen Summer Seminars for Schoolteachers through the National Endowment for the Humanities\, twelve of which were on Dante in Italy. With his colleague Bill Cook\, he teaches the Divine Comedy through a twenty- four-lecture course available through the Great Courses series produced by The Teaching Company. Together with Cook\, he was the recipient of the first CARA Award for Excellence in Teaching Medieval Studies from the Medieval Academy of America. He has written over fifty articles and reviews on Dante\, with emphasis on Dante and the Franciscans\, and on Dante and the visual arts. The Medieval World View (Oxford University Press\, with Bill Cook)\, now in its third edition\, has been in print since 1984. With Richard Emmerson\, he is the author of The Apocalyptic Tradition in Medieval Literature (University of Pennsylvania Press\, 1994). \nPresented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and Porter College URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-a-gateway-to-dantes-heaven-episode-one-introduction-a-restless-paradise/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/UCSC-THI-ProjectParadiso-1024x576-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231022T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231022T150000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20231001T232416Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231012T164858Z UID:10007314-1697979600-1697986800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club DESCRIPTION:Please join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our monthly Pickwick Club meeting. New this year\, we will be devoting an entire year to one novel instead of two\, and will dive deeply into Great Expectations. Join Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members for a series of discussions about this book. \n \nCharles Dickens depicts how a gentleman is made\, not born\, in this novel. Presented as Pip’s confessional autobiography\, Great Expectations describes his childhood at the forge\, his infatuation with the beautiful Estella\, his shame at his working-class origin and his eagerness to be a gentleman\, and eventually his life as a young man-about-town with “great expectations” of inheriting a fortune. Recalling these events as an adult\, Mr. Pirrip is frank about his mistakes and shortcomings. \nRecommended Edition: We recommend the Penguin Classics edition of the novel for its appendices and notes\, but other versions are fine. First-time readers should avoid the Introduction if they don’t want spoilers. Download the novel to read at Gutenburg.org or to listen at LibriVox.org. \nIf you have any questions please don’t hesitate to reach out at dpj@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/1024x576_GE_Pickwick_Banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231017T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231017T133000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20230927T215458Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230929T161906Z UID:10007317-1697544000-1697549400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:National Endowment for the Humanities Q&A DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, October 17th from 12:00-1:30 p.m. for a virtual open forum Q&A with Program Officers from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). \nThis event will be guided by faculty questions. If you would like to submit questions for the Program Officers in advance\, please fill out this form. \nWe will be joined by the following NEH Program Officers: \n\nSheila Brennan\, Senior Program Officer\, Office of Digital Humanities\nMadison Hendron\, Program Officer\, Division of Research Programs\nHannah Schell\, Program Officer\, Division of Education Programs\n\n \nSheila A. Brennan is a Senior Program Officer in the Office of Digital Humanities and team lead for the Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities grant program. She is formerly the Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and Research Associate Professor in the department of history and art history at George Mason University. She has managed more than thirty digital humanities projects and trained many students and professionals in digital methods. She is the author of an open access digital monograph\, Stamping American Memory: Collectors\, Citizens\, and the Post (Michigan 2018). She has a PhD in American and digital history from George Mason. \nMadison Hendren is a Program Officer in the Division of Research Programs where she has worked since November 2020. At NEH\, she oversees the John W. Kluge Fellowships review and is a member of the Collaborative Research program management team. Prior to joining NEH\, she earned a Ph.D. in Italian studies from the University of Chicago (December 2020). Her dissertation considered the function of games and contests in Boccaccio’s Teseida. \nHannah Schell is a Program Officer in the Division of Education Programs. She holds a B.A. in philosophy from Oberlin College and earned her Ph.D. in religion from Princeton University. Prior to joining the NEH in 2022\, she worked with the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education\, a program of the Council of Independent Colleges\, and served seventeen years on the faculty of Monmouth College in Illinois. Schell is co-author of Christian Thought in America: A Brief History (Fortress Press). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/national-endowment-for-the-humanities-qa/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/NEH-QA-Calendar-Banner-1024-x-576px-Images-Only.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231005T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231005T190000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20230920T182303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230920T183855Z UID:10006155-1696527000-1696532400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Reimagining Leadership for Climate Science and Justice Virtual Panel DESCRIPTION:Addressing the urgent impacts of climate change\, particularly on vulnerable communities\, requires us to reconsider how we approach science. It requires a new approach to scientific leadership that centers justice and diverse approaches to knowing and being in the world. This event will showcase and celebrate scholars whose scientific leadership in addressing climate change reflects the values at the foundation of the Center for Reimagining Leadership: equitable access\, multimodal expertise\, responsible stewardship\, and accountability. The event will illuminate why the pursuit of science—and by extension scientific excellence—is inseparable from the humans who animate it. \n \nPanel:\nCutcha Risling Baldy\, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Native American Studies at California Polytechnic State University\, Humboldt. Her research focuses on Indigenous feminisms\, California Indians\, Environmental Justice\, and Decolonization. She received her Ph.D. in Native American Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Feminist Theory and Research from UC Davis and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Literary Research from San Diego State University. Risling Baldy is Hupa\, Yurok and Karuk and an enrolled member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe in Northern California. \nAsmeret Asefaw Berhe\, Ph.D. is the Director of Science at the U.S. Department of Energy. She is on leave from UC Merced where she holds the Ted and Jan Falasco Chair in Earth Sciences and Geology\, is a Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry\, and previously served as Associate Dean for Graduate Education. She is a biogeochemist with research focus on climate change impacts on nutrient budgets in soils. She conducted the TED talk: “A Climate Solution that’s Right Under Our Feet.” Her research focus lies at the intersection of soil science\, global change science\, and political ecology with an emphasis on how the soil system regulates the earth’s climate and the dynamic two-way relationship between the natural environment and human communities. Berhe’s scholarship and efforts to ensure equity and inclusion of people from all walks of life in the scientific enterprise have received numerous awards and honors. \nMaya Carrasquillo\, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the PI of the Liberatory Infrastructures Lab (LiL) at UC Berkeley. The mission of LiL is to develop systems of critical infrastructure that support liberation and restorative justice for all. She is also the Faculty Director of the (CEE)² Community-Engaged Education program at UC Berkeley. Carrasquillo’s research focuses on sustainable and equitable urban water infrastructure\, food-energy-water systems (FEWs)\, community engagement and community science in decision-making\, and environmental and infrastructural justice. She is a certified Envision Sustainability Professional (ENV SP) and a College of Engineering Huelskamp Faculty Fellow. Carrasquillo is a recipient of the prestigious Georgia Tech Alumni 40 Under 40 award for the Class of 2022. \nAlexii Sigona is a fifth year Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley’s Department of Environmental Science\, Policy\, and Management with a research focus on Indigenous resource management. Alexii is involved in his tribal Youth Group and serves as Chair of Lands Committee of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust. \nModerator: Sikina Jinnah\, Ph.D. is a Professor of Environmental Studies and Associate Director of the Center for Reimagining Leadership at UC Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on environmental governance in the areas of climate change\, climate engineering\, and the nexus between international trade and environmental politics. She is the author or editor of six books and over 50 articles and chapters. Her first book\, “Post-treaty Politics” (MIT Press) received the 2016 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for best book in international environmental affairs from the International Studies Association\, and her newest book “Teaching Environmental Justice: Practices to Engage Students and Build Community” is forthcoming in fall 2023. She is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow\, edits the journal Environmental Politics\, and serves on the U.S. National Academies of Science\, Engineering and Medicine Committee on Atmospheric Methane Removal. Jinnah has a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in Environmental Science\, Policy and Management. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/reimagining-leadership-for-climate-science-and-justice-virtual-panel/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230929T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230929T113000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20230913T220916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230913T224637Z UID:10007287-1695981600-1695987000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sahana Ghosh – Searching for the "Illegal Migrant": Notes from the India-Bangladesh Borderlands DESCRIPTION:Sahana Ghosh is a social anthropologist whose research focuses on the experiences of inequality and injustice at the intersection of mobility\, policing\, labor\, and gender. Her book\, A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands (University of California Press\, 2023) is forthcoming. She is currently researching the gendered labors of soldiering in postcolonial India. \n  \n“Searching for the ‘Illegal Migrant’: Notes from the India-Bangladesh Borderlands” is a part of the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies 2023-2024 lecture series\, Crossings.  \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sahana-ghosh-searching-for-the-illegal-migrant-notes-from-the-india-bangladesh-borderlands/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Speaker_Banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230911T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230911T200000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20230815T164243Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230818T184512Z UID:10007279-1694457000-1694462400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Slugs and Steins with Professor Sharon Kinoshita - Rediscovering Marco Polo DESCRIPTION:Few medieval figures enjoy greater name recognition than Marco Polo. Today\, he is a brand whose name connotes exoticism\, adventure\, and East-West travel; academic critics sometime see him as the precursor to European explorers who cast a colonizing gaze over non-Western parts of the world. The source of all these images is the book usually known in English translation as “The Travels.” In this talk\, Professor Kinoshita returns his work to its original title\, The Description of the World (in Old French\, Le Devisement du monde). Composed by the Venetian merchant in collaboration with an Arthurian romance writer named Rustichello of Pisa in 1298\, The Description comes at the midpoint of a remarkable century when the Mongol conquests of Chinggis Khan and his successors\, resulting in the largest contiguous empire in history\, had produced a world of unprecedented travel\, communication\, and interaction. Our Slugs & Steins lecture will explore some of the most interesting\, curious\, and surprising aspects of that world. \n \nSharon Kinoshita is Professor of Literature at UCSC\, specializing in medieval French literature (including the earliest Arthurian romances of figures like Lancelot and Perceval)\, Mediterranean Studies\, and the Global Middle Ages. Her work on Marco Polo includes an annotated translation of the earliest surviving version of his Description of the World (Hackett\, 2016)\, numerous essays exploring various aspects of his world (the silk trade\, multilingualism\, animals)\, and a book forthcoming in Reaktion Press’s new series\, “Medieval Lives.” She recently contributed the blogpost “On the Road with Marco Polo” to The Humanities Institute’s 2022-2023 series on Travel. \nSlugs and Steins are free informal lectures served up over Zoom. Brought to you by the UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association\, each talk will engage one of our favorite professors in discussion with you\, the local community of Silicon Valley\, and beyond. We will cover everything from organic artichokes to endangered zebras\, self-driving cars to Shakespeare. All are welcome. Audience participation is encouraged. \nQuestions? Contact the UC Santa Cruz University Events office at specialevents@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slugs-and-steins-with-professor-sharon-kinoshita-rediscovering-marco-polo/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230814T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230814T200000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20230718T103226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230718T103304Z UID:10006140-1692037800-1692043200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Slugs and Steins with Professor Eric Porter: What Can We Learn from the Airport? DESCRIPTION:For many people\, airports may seem like alienating “nonplaces”—as anthropologist Marc Augé put it—where we rush to make connections and spend long\, monotonous hours waiting for delayed flights. But airports are fascinating sites that can tell us a lot about the places where they are situated. Among other things\, they are complex infrastructures where people\, the built and natural environments\, and different kinds of networks come together. Airports are also sites of accumulated power in a given region. Looking at the history of an airport\, then\, can provide a airport useful lens for examining some of the complex\, interconnected forces that have influenced the development of its region over time. Exploring that history can also help us understand how differently positioned people in that place have abided\, resisted\, and otherwise negotiated the powerful forces that have shaped their lives. In this talk\, Eric Porter will discuss San Francisco International Airport (SFO) as a site whose history reveals important perspectives on a wide range of phenomena that have helped to make the Bay Area. Along the way he will read excerpts from his new book\, A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport. \n \nOrder A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport online and save 30%. Use source code SAVE30 at checkout. \nEric Porter is Professor of History\, History of Consciousness\, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, where he is also affiliated with the Music and Latin American and Latina/o Studies departments. His research and teaching interests include Black cultural and intellectual history\, US cultural and urban history\, and jazz and improvisation studies. \nSlugs and Steins are free informal lectures served up over Zoom. Brought to you by the UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association\, each talk will engage one of our favorite professors in discussion with you\, the local community of Silicon Valley\, and beyond. We will cover everything from organic artichokes to endangered zebras\, self-driving cars to Shakespeare. All are welcome. Audience participation is encouraged. \nQuestions? Contact the UC Santa Cruz University Events office at specialevents@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slugs-and-steins-with-professor-eric-porter-what-can-we-learn-from-the-airport/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230625T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230625T130000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20230512T045453Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230512T045928Z UID:10007285-1687698000-1687698000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens's London DESCRIPTION:Please join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our June Pickwick Club talk by author and historian Lee Jackson who will be discussing Dickens’s London. \nLee Jackson\, author of Dickensland (Yale\, 2023) will discuss the curious history of London’s Dickensian tourist destinations. Louisa May Alcott\, visiting in 1866\, was typical of the innumerable American tourists who would arrive in subsequent decades\, enraptured by the dream-like quality of the Victorian metropolis seen through a Dickensian lens (‘I felt as if I’d got into a novel’). But did tourists truly encounter ‘Dickens’s London’ or merely a ‘Dickensland’ shaped by the demands of Dickens fandom (dubbed by Victorian newspapers ‘The Dickens Cult’) and canny heritage entrepreneurs? \n \n  \nLee Jackson is an author and historian\, creator of the popular online sourcebook of Victoriana ‘The Dictionary of Victorian London‘ and an academic advisor to the Charles Dickens Museum. His previous non-fiction books include Dirty Old London (Yale\, 2014) and Palaces of Pleasure (Yale\, 2019). \nIf you have any questions please don’t hesitate to reach out at dpj@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-pickwick-club-presents-dickensland-by-lee-jackson/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230610T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230610T150000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20230314T213721Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T213721Z UID:10006091-1686402000-1686409200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ecological Utopia: From the Victorians to Us with Professor Deanna K. Kreisel DESCRIPTION:Please join the Friends of the Dickens Project for our spring Friends Faculty Fellowship talk series by Associate Professor Deanna K. Kreisel (University of Mississippi) who will be discussing “Ecological Utopia: From the Victorians to Us.” \nOver the course of three sessions\, we will have an opportunity to explore Victorian responses to their changing environment\, with a particular focus on William Morris’s utopian novel News from Nowhere. \nVirtual Sessions | Zoom Registration \n\nApril 8: Research Talk: It’s the End of the World and We Know It: Ecological Grief and the Work of Utopia\nMay 6: William Morris’ News from Nowhere\, Chapters 1-20\nJune 10: Discussion: News from Nowhere Chapters 21-32\, excerpts from Half-Earth Socialism by Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass\n\nThe first session will consist of a presentation about my current research. I am currently working on a book entitled It’s the End of the World and We Know It: Ecological Grief and the Work of Utopia\, which is about ecological mourning and utopian thinking from the Victorian period to the present. The book begins with a discussion of the ‘utopia craze’ of the late 19th century—of which Morris’s novel was a key part—and also discusses the work of John Ruskin and other early environmentalist writers. The latter part of the book explores recent and present-day responses to ecological change\, including literary responses\, and considers our own “ecological mourning” as a legacy of Victorian thinking. It ends with a discussion of recent on-the-ground ecotopian experiments. \nThe second and third sessions will consist of an in-depth discussion of News from Nowhere. In Session Two we will discuss the first half of Morris’s novel and contemporary Victorian responses to it; in the final session we will discuss the second half of the novel alongside some short excerpts from recent writers on climate grief and ecotopia. \nDeanna Kreisel is Associate Professor of English and co-director of Environmental Studies at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of ‘Economic Woman: Demand\, Gender\, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy\,’ as well as articles on Victorian literature and culture in PMLA\, Representations\, ELH\, Novel\, Mosaic\, Victorian Studies\, Nineteenth Century Literature\, and elsewhere. She is the co-editor\, along with Devin Griffiths\, of a special Victorian Literature and Culture issue on “Open Ecologies” and the volume ‘After Darwin: Literature\, Theory\, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century.’ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ecological-utopia-from-the-victorians-to-us-with-professor-deanna-k-kreisel-3/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Dickens_2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230601T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230601T172000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20230404T045111Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T170236Z UID:10007249-1685640000-1685640000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers - Mai Der Vang DESCRIPTION:Mai Der Vang is the author of Yellow Rain (Graywolf Press\, 2021)\, winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets\, an American Book Award\, and a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry\, along with Afterland (Graywolf Press\, 2017)\, winner of the First Book Award from the Academy of American Poets. The recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship\, her poetry has appeared in Tin House\, the American Poetry Review\, and Poetry\, among other journals and anthologies. She teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Fresno State. \n \n\nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-mai-der-vang/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230528T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230528T150000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20230502T024224Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230502T025207Z UID:10007271-1685278800-1685286000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dickens and Victorian Psychology: Introspection\, First-Person Narration\, and the Mind by Tyson Stolte DESCRIPTION:Please join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our May Pickwick Club talk by Associate Professor Tyson Stolte (New Mexico State University) who will be discussing Dickens and Victorian Psychology. \nDickens and Victorian Psychology returns Dickens’s fiction to the midst of nineteenth-century debates about the nature of the mind\, reading Dickens’s experiments with first-person point of view as part of his larger effort to insist upon a dualist psychology in the face of new physiological theories of consciousness. While psycho-physiology was widely seen by Victorian readers as a materialist threat to belief in our immortality\, Dickens’s incorporation into his fiction of the introspection that remained the key methodology for dualist psychologies allowed him to insist upon the irreducibility of consciousness—and the possibility of the mind’s surviving the body. Through a reading of The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, however\, this talk will also show how psycho-physiologists worked to drain the shared language of Victorian psychology of any meaning beyond the physical\, making it ever more difficult to theorize a psychology that transcended the here and now. \n\n\n \n\nTyson Stolte is an associate professor in the Department of English at New Mexico State University. His book Dickens and Victorian Psychology: Introspection\, First-Person Narration\, and the Mind was published by Oxford University Press in 2022. He has also published articles on such topics as Dickens\, Robert Browning\, Edward FitzGerald\, Victorian psychology\, and nineteenth-century theories of matter and energy. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/may-2023-dickens-and-victorian-psychology-introspection-first-person-narration-and-the-mind-by-tyson-stolte/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230525T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230525T172000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20230404T044842Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T170139Z UID:10007250-1685035200-1685035200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers - Karla Cornejo Villavicencio DESCRIPTION:Karla Cornejo Villavicencio is the author of the National Book Award finalist The Undocumented Americans. Her work\, which focuses on race\, culture\, and immigration\, has appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Vogue\, Elle\, The New Republic\, The Daily Beast\, n+1\, The New Inquiry\, and Interview magazine. Born in Ecuador\, she later became one of the first undocumented students admitted to Harvard University. \n \n\nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-karla-cornejo-villavicencio/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230506T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230506T150000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20230314T213545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230427T165652Z UID:10006089-1683378000-1683385200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ecological Utopia: From the Victorians to Us with Professor Deanna K. Kreisel DESCRIPTION:Please join the Friends of the Dickens Project for our spring Friends Faculty Fellowship talk series by Associate Professor Deanna K. Kreisel (University of Mississippi) who will be discussing “Ecological Utopia: From the Victorians to Us.” \nOver the course of three sessions\, we will have an opportunity to explore Victorian responses to their changing environment\, with a particular focus on William Morris’s utopian novel News from Nowhere. \nVirtual Sessions | Zoom Registration \n\nApril 8: Research Talk: It’s the End of the World and We Know It: Ecological Grief and the Work of Utopia\nMay 6: William Morris’ News from Nowhere\, Chapters 1-20\nJune 10: Discussion: News from Nowhere Chapters 21-32\, excerpts from Half-Earth Socialism by Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass\n\nThe first session will consist of a presentation about my current research. I am currently working on a book entitled It’s the End of the World and We Know It: Ecological Grief and the Work of Utopia\, which is about ecological mourning and utopian thinking from the Victorian period to the present. The book begins with a discussion of the ‘utopia craze’ of the late 19th century—of which Morris’s novel was a key part—and also discusses the work of John Ruskin and other early environmentalist writers. The latter part of the book explores recent and present-day responses to ecological change\, including literary responses\, and considers our own “ecological mourning” as a legacy of Victorian thinking. It ends with a discussion of recent on-the-ground ecotopian experiments. \nThe second and third sessions will consist of an in-depth discussion of News from Nowhere. In Session Two we will discuss the first half of Morris’s novel and contemporary Victorian responses to it; in the final session we will discuss the second half of the novel alongside some short excerpts from recent writers on climate grief and ecotopia. \nDeanna Kreisel is Associate Professor of English and co-director of Environmental Studies at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of ‘Economic Woman: Demand\, Gender\, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy\,’ as well as articles on Victorian literature and culture in PMLA\, Representations\, ELH\, Novel\, Mosaic\, Victorian Studies\, Nineteenth Century Literature\, and elsewhere. She is the co-editor\, along with Devin Griffiths\, of a special Victorian Literature and Culture issue on “Open Ecologies” and the volume ‘After Darwin: Literature\, Theory\, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century.’ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ecological-utopia-from-the-victorians-to-us-with-professor-deanna-k-kreisel-2/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Dickens_2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230505T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230505T120000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20220912T204723Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230427T200506Z UID:10005984-1683280800-1683288000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Debjani Bhattarcharyya – Climate Ledgers: Atmospheric Politics\, Risk and Liability in the Indian Ocean\, 1770-1850 DESCRIPTION:“Climate Ledgers” is a part of the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies 2022-2023 lecture series\, Futures. \n \nSpeaker: \nProfessor Debjani Bhattarcharyya\, University of Zurich URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/debjani-bhattarcharyya-climate-ledgers-atmospheric-politics-risk-and-liability-in-the-indian-ocean-1770-1850/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/11.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230430T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230430T150000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20230130T230949Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T184904Z UID:10007199-1682859600-1682866800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series DESCRIPTION:The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series\nFebruary 26\, March 26\, and April 30 at 1:00-3:00 PM | Virtual Event \nThe next three Pickwick Club sessions will focus on Dickens’s last and most enigmatic work\, the unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood. Considered by many lovers of detective fiction to be the ultimate mystery novel\, since its author died without providing a solution\, Drood has challenged and intrigued the imaginations of generations of readers. \nJoin Dickens enthusiast\, writer\, and Friends of the Dickens Project board member\, Carl Wilson for a series of discussions about this book. Wilson notes: \n“I first read Drood in 1980 when Leon Garfield published his completion of the novel. I was fascinated then\, and still am\, by his theory that Dickens would have presented Jasper as a divided self\, anticipating Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde by almost twenty years. Although no one will truly know\, that theory has stayed with me since\, and I would suggest that first-time readers pay close attention to Dickens’s various descriptions of Jasper throughout the five completed and sixth partially completed monthly numbers.” \nReading Schedule\nFebruary 26: Chapters 1-9\nMarch 26: Chapters 10-16\nApril 30: Chapters 17-End \nQuestions to consider for the first session: The opening chapter reads like almost nothing else that Dickens wrote. What is the purpose of such tortuous writing? What is the result of Dickens choosing to write much of the opening pages in present tense? Wilkie Collins thought that Drood was “the melancholy work of a worn-out brain.” Do you agree? \nMore Information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/pickwick-club/2023-02-edwin-drood.html\nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkdOmurTgjGdIQ0pyOjIhtspXltHg3huWg \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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/april_30_edwin_drood/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Dickens.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230418T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230418T183000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20230308T004158Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230403T194502Z UID:10007232-1681837200-1681842600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:What’s Happening in Peru? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Structural Crisis DESCRIPTION:Peru has been in a state of political and humanitarian crisis since early December 2022 when protests erupted in the wake of former President Pedro Castillo’s unsuccessful attempt to shut down Congress to avert an impeachment. When acting President Dina Boluarte–Castillo’s former vice president—announced that elections would not be held until May 2024\, Peruvians across the country took to the streets first to demand elections and a constitutional assembly and then\, when the national police violently repressed protests\, to demand Boluarte’s resignation. Months later\, more than 60 Peruvians have died\, including 47 protestors killed by state forces\, mostly from Southern Andean regions of the country\, and Boluarte has refused to resign. \nThe current situation in Peru is the latest expression of a deep structural crisis\, rooted in historical relations of dominance since colonial times in the highly centralized country. This is reflected in the long-standing conflictive relationship between the capital\, Lima\, and the other regions\, which has polarized the public debate even more. The role of media and emerging technologies have played a crucial role in how these protests have been represented\, adding fire to this polarization. To understand this multidimensional crisis from multidisciplinary perspectives\, this round table features scholars from both the humanities and social sciences who will reflect on the historical\, social\, cultural\, economic\, and political implications of the ongoing crisis for the future of Peru. \nPanelists \nAldair Mejía (Photojournalist\, Lima) is a photojournalist based in Lima\, Peru. He currently focuses his work on political issues\, social conflicts\, portraits\, concerts\, among other events in the country. During the last years Aldair has been working as a collaborator for the EFE agency of Spain and Diario La República\, his photographs have been published by agencies such as CNN in Spanish\, EFE Agency\, New York Times\, Clarín\, La Vanguardia\, Washington Post\, etc. He is also a member of the Association of Photo Journalists of Peru (AFPP). Finalist in the IPYS contest\, Recognition in the 35 Awards\, Second Place in the Photojournalism category in the Entel contest\, Winner in the PhotoEspaña contest. \nCecilia Mendez (UCSB) is a Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. A Peruvian historian specialized in the social and political history of Peru in the national period\, she received her Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook\, and numerous prestigious awards\, including the Howard Cline book prize for her book The Plebeian Republic (Duke\, 2005). Her work calls the attention on the importance of late eighteenth-century\, and nineteenth-century political developments in shaping modern conceptions nationhood\, citizenship\, and “race” in Peru. She has investigated the historical relationship between the peasants and the militaries\, and the role of war and the army in the construction of the state. She is a columnist for the Peruvian newspaper La República. \nCarlos Molina-Vital (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) currently works as an instructor and director of the Quechua Program at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has two master’s degrees in Linguistics: one from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (2005)\, the other from Rice University\, in Houston\, Texas (2012). He is currently finishing his doctorate in Andean Studies (Linguistics) at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. His studies of the Quechua languages ​​include varieties spoken in Ancash\, Ayacucho\, Apurimac\, and Cuzco in Peru. Since 2018\, he has coordinated the QINTI project (Quechua Innovation and Teaching Initiative). With his collaborators he is currently writing Ayni\, which aims to an open access manual for Southern Quechua and intended to help teachers and students of Quechua in the United States and around the world draw on the shared characteristics and diversity of Quechua varieties mutually intelligible in Peru and Bolivia. \nMariela Noles Cotito (Universidad del Pacífico\, Lima) is a Professor of Political Science and of Discrimination and Public Policy at Universidad del Pacifico\, in Lima\, Peru. Her research agenda includes topics of gender equality\, social inclusion policies in Peru\, and how the intersection of different systems of oppression position different groups of people outside of the scope of legal protection. Most recently she is focused on exploring the effectiveness of ethnoracial legislation to promote and protect the rights of Afrodescendants in Peru. She holds a Law degree from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru\, an LLM from the University of Pennsylvania\, and two MA degrees in Latin American Studies and Political Science from the University of South Florida. Concurrently\, she has held positions in the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations and the Ministry of Culture in Peru\, and a top advisory position in the Office of Women and Equality of the Metropolitan Municipality of the City of Lima on issues of diversity and social inclusion. \nNelson Pereyra (Universidad Nacional San Cristóbal de Huamanga\, Ayacucho) is a historian\, graduated from the National University of San Cristóbal de Huamanga\, with master’s studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and Pablo de Olavide University in Spain. In addition\, he holds a Ph.D. in History with a Mention in Andean Studies. His lines of research are related to the political participation of peasants in the formation of the Peruvian State and to regional history and culture. He has recently published the books: History\, Memory and Symbolism of Holy Week in Ayacucho\, State\, Memory and Contemporary Society in Ayacucho\, Cusco and Lima (edited together with Claudia Rosas) and Living and Active regions: Knots and Foundations of Contemporary Peru (co-authored with Susana Aldana Rivera). \nModerators \nAlejandra Watanabe Farro (LALS\, UCSC) \nAmanda Smith (Literature\, UCSC) \nCarla Hernández Garavito (Anthropology\, UCSC) \nCo-organized with Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (The Humanities Institute\, UCSC) \n \nRegistration required to receive the zoom link. \nIn Spanish with simultaneous English interpretation \nThis event is presented by The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by the Department of Latino and Latin American Studies\, the Spanish Studies program\, Arts Research Institute\, and the Dolores Huerta Research Center. \n\n\n¿Qué está pasando en el Perú? Perspectivas interdisciplinarias para entender una crisis estructural\nDesde principios de diciembre del 2022\, el Perú atraviesa una crisis política y humanitaria cuando estallaron las protestas a raíz del intento fallido del expresidente Pedro Castillo de cerrar el Congreso para evitar la vacancia por incapacidad moral. Cuando la presidenta en funciones Dina Boluarte –exvicepresidenta de Castillo– anunció que las elecciones no se realizarían hasta mayo de 2024\, peruanos de todo el país salieron a las calles primero para exigir elecciones y asamblea constituyente y\, cuando la Policía Nacional y el Ejército reprimieron violentamente las protestas\, exigir la renuncia de Boluarte. Meses después\, más de 60 peruanos han muerto\, incluidos al menos 47 manifestantes asesinados por las fuerzas estatales\, en su mayoría de las regiones andinas del sur del país\, y Boluarte se niega a renunciar. \nLa situación actual del Perú es la expresión más reciente de una profunda crisis estructural\, arraigada en históricas relaciones de dominio desde la época colonial en un país altamente centralizado. Esto se refleja en la conflictiva relación entre la capital\, Lima\, y ​​las demás regiones\, que ha polarizado aún más el debate público. El papel de los medios y las nuevas tecnologías ha jugado un papel crucial en la forma en que se han representado estas protestas\, agregando tensión a esta polarización. Para comprender esta crisis estructural desde perspectivas multidisciplinarias\, esta mesa redonda convoca académicos de las humanidades y ciencias sociales para reflexionar colectivamente sobre las implicaciones históricas\, sociales\, culturales\, económicas y políticas de la crisis actual para el futuro de Perú. \nPanelistas \nAldair Mejía es Fotoperiodista\, en Lima\,Perú\, cuyo trabajo se centra principalmente en coberturas de prensa. Actualmente enfoca su labor en temáticas políticas\, conflictos sociales\, retratos\, conciertos\, entre otros acontecimientos en el país. Durante los últimos años Aldair ha estado trabajando como colaborador para la agencia EFE de España y Diario La República\, sus fotografías han sido publicadas las agencias\, como CNN en español\, Agencia EFE\, New York Times\, Clarín\, La Vanguardia\, Washington Post\, etc. También es miembro de la Asociación de Foto Periodistas del Perú (AFPP). Finalista en el concurso IPYS\, Reconocimieno en los 35 Awards\, Segundo Puesto en la categoria de Fotoperiodismo en el concurso de Entel\, Ganador en el concurso de PhotoEspaña. \nCecilia Mendez es profesora de Historia en la Universidad de California\, Santa Bárbara. Historiadora peruana especializada en la historia social y política del Perú en el período nacional\, recibió su Ph.D. de la Universidad Estatal de Nueva York en Stony Brook\, y varios prestigiosos premios\, incluido el premio del libro Howard Cline por su libro The Plebeian Republic (Duke\, 2005). Su trabajo llama la atención sobre la importancia de los desarrollos políticos de finales del siglo XVIII y del siglo XIX en la formación de las concepciones modernas de nación\, ciudadanía y “raza” en el Perú. Y han investigado la relación histórica entre los campesinos y los militares\, y el papel de la guerra y el ejército en la construcción del Estado. Es columnista del diario peruano La República. \nCarlos Molina-Vital se desempeña como instructor y responsable del Programa de Quechua en el Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos y Caribeños de la Universidad de Illinois en Urbana-Champaign. Tiene dos maestrías en Lingüística: una de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2005)\, la otra de la Universidad Rice\, en Houston\, Texas (2012). Actualmente está terminando su doctorado en Estudios Andinos en la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Sus estudios de las lenguas quechuas incluyen variedades habladas en Ancash\, Ayacucho\, Apurímac y Cuzco en Perú. Desde 2018 coordina el proyecto QINTI (Iniciativa de Innovación y Enseñanza Quechua\, por sus siglas en inglés). Con sus colaboradores está escribiendo actualmente Ayni\, que busca ser un manual de acceso abierto para quechua sureño y destinado a ayudar a profesores y estudiantes de quechua en los Estados Unidos y en todo el mundo a partir de las características compartidas y la diversidad de las variedades quechua mutuamente inteligibles habladas en Perú y Bolivia. \nMariela Noles Cotito es profesora de Ciencia Política\, y Discriminación y Políticas Públicas en la Universidad del Pacífico. Es abogada por la PUCP; máster en Derecho por la University of Pennsylvania; máster en Estudios Latinoamericanos y máster en Ciencia Política\, con una concentración en Etnicidad en Países Andinos\, por la University of South Florida. Su portafolio de investigación incluye temas de derechos humanos\, igualdad de género y no discriminación\, así como el análisis de políticas públicas de inclusión en el país. Ha sido parte de equipos técnicos en el Ministerio de la Mujer\, el Ministerio de Cultura y la Gerencia de la Mujer de la Municipalidad Metropolitana de Lima. \nNelson Pereyra es historiador\, egresado de la Universidad Nacional de San Cristóbal de Huamanga\, con estudios de maestría en la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú y en la Universidad Pablo de Olavide en España. Además\, es doctor en Historia con Mención de Estudios Andinos. Sus ejes de investigación están relacionados con la participación política de los campesinos en la formación del Estado peruano y con la historia y cultura regional. Recientemente ha publicado los libros: Historia\, memoria y simbolismo de la Semana Santa de Ayacucho\, Estado\, memoria y sociedad contemporánea en Ayacucho\, Cusco y Lima (editado junto a Claudia Rosas) y Regiones vivas y activas: nudos y fundamentos del Perú contemporáneo (en coautoría con Susana Aldana Rivera). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/peru/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/PhotoAldair-Mejia.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230413T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230413T172000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20230404T044045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T165919Z UID:10007253-1681406400-1681406400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers - Zaina Alsous DESCRIPTION:Zaina Alsous is the author of the poetry collection A Theory of Birds (University of Arkansas Press\, 2019)\, winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award and the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize\, and the chapbook Lemon Effigies (Anhinga Press\, 2017)\, winner of the Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize. Her poetry\, reviews\, and essays have been published in Poetry magazine\, Kenyon Review\, the New Inquiry\, Adroit\, and elsewhere. She edits for Scalawag Magazine\, a publication dedicated to unsettling dominant narratives of the southern United States. \n \n\nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-zaina-alsous/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230412T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230412T150000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20230329T182017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230329T192314Z UID:10007241-1681308000-1681311600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY: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 a second information session about the 2023 THI Public Fellows program and learn about Summer 2023 opportunities. \nAll THI Public Fellow applicants are required to attend an Info Session or meet with THI Staff by April 14th\, 2023. Final applications are due on April 20\, 2023. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the seventh 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-thi-public-fellowship-information-session-2/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230408T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230408T150000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20230314T213331Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T213427Z UID:10007224-1680958800-1680966000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ecological Utopia: From the Victorians to Us with Professor Deanna K. Kreisel DESCRIPTION:Please join the Friends of the Dickens Project for our spring Friends Faculty Fellowship talk series by Associate Professor Deanna K. Kreisel (University of Mississippi) who will be discussing “Ecological Utopia: From the Victorians to Us.” \nOver the course of three sessions\, we will have an opportunity to explore Victorian responses to their changing environment\, with a particular focus on William Morris’s utopian novel News from Nowhere. \nVirtual Sessions | Zoom Registration \n\nApril 8: Research Talk: It’s the End of the World and We Know It: Ecological Grief and the Work of Utopia\nMay 6: William Morris’ News from Nowhere\, Chapters 1-20\nJune 10: Discussion: News from Nowhere Chapters 21-32\, excerpts from Half-Earth Socialism by Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass\n\nThe first session will consist of a presentation about my current research. I am currently working on a book entitled It’s the End of the World and We Know It: Ecological Grief and the Work of Utopia\, which is about ecological mourning and utopian thinking from the Victorian period to the present. The book begins with a discussion of the ‘utopia craze’ of the late 19th century—of which Morris’s novel was a key part—and also discusses the work of John Ruskin and other early environmentalist writers. The latter part of the book explores recent and present-day responses to ecological change\, including literary responses\, and considers our own “ecological mourning” as a legacy of Victorian thinking. It ends with a discussion of recent on-the-ground ecotopian experiments. \nThe second and third sessions will consist of an in-depth discussion of News from Nowhere. In Session Two we will discuss the first half of Morris’s novel and contemporary Victorian responses to it; in the final session we will discuss the second half of the novel alongside some short excerpts from recent writers on climate grief and ecotopia. \nDeanna Kreisel is Associate Professor of English and co-director of Environmental Studies at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of ‘Economic Woman: Demand\, Gender\, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy\,’ as well as articles on Victorian literature and culture in PMLA\, Representations\, ELH\, Novel\, Mosaic\, Victorian Studies\, Nineteenth Century Literature\, and elsewhere. She is the co-editor\, along with Devin Griffiths\, of a special Victorian Literature and Culture issue on “Open Ecologies” and the volume ‘After Darwin: Literature\, Theory\, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century.’ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ecological-utopia-from-the-victorians-to-us-with-professor-deanna-k-kreisel/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Dickens_2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230326T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230326T150000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20230130T230650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T185228Z UID:10007200-1679835600-1679842800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series DESCRIPTION:The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series\nFebruary 26\, March 26\, and April 30 at 1:00-3:00 PM | Virtual Event \nThe next three Pickwick Club sessions will focus on Dickens’s last and most enigmatic work\, the unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood. Considered by many lovers of detective fiction to be the ultimate mystery novel\, since its author died without providing a solution\, Drood has challenged and intrigued the imaginations of generations of readers. \nJoin Dickens enthusiast\, writer\, and Friends of the Dickens Project board member\, Carl Wilson for a series of discussions about this book. Wilson notes: \n“I first read Drood in 1980 when Leon Garfield published his completion of the novel. I was fascinated then\, and still am\, by his theory that Dickens would have presented Jasper as a divided self\, anticipating Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde by almost twenty years. Although no one will truly know\, that theory has stayed with me since\, and I would suggest that first-time readers pay close attention to Dickens’s various descriptions of Jasper throughout the five completed and sixth partially completed monthly numbers.” \nReading Schedule\nFebruary 26: Chapters 1-9\nMarch 26: Chapters 10-16\nApril 30: Chapters 17-End \nQuestions to consider for the first session: The opening chapter reads like almost nothing else that Dickens wrote. What is the purpose of such tortuous writing? What is the result of Dickens choosing to write much of the opening pages in present tense? Wilkie Collins thought that Drood was “the melancholy work of a worn-out brain.” Do you agree? \nMore Information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/pickwick-club/2023-02-edwin-drood.html\nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkdOmurTgjGdIQ0pyOjIhtspXltHg3huWg \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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/march_26_edwin_drood/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Dickens.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230324T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230324T143000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20230313T181617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T193729Z UID:10007229-1679664600-1679668200@thi.ucsc.edu 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 2023 THI Public Fellows program on March 24\, 2023\, and learn about Summer 2023 opportunities. \nAll THI Public Fellow applicants are required to attend the Info Session on March 24th\, 2023 or meet with THI Staff by April 14th\, 2023. Final applications are due on April 20\, 2023. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the seventh 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-thi-public-fellowship-information-session/ LOCATION:Virtual Event CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230324T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230324T123000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20230315T173206Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230425T212329Z UID:10006097-1679655600-1679661000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:NEH Funders Panel DESCRIPTION:To watch this Zoom recording of this virtual discussion with Senior Program Officers from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, please email Caitlin Charos. \n  \nFeaturing: \nJill Austin is a senior program officer in the Division of Public Programs at NEH. She arrived at NEH in 2015 after two decades of work in museums and nonprofits that serve museums. Prior to her role at NEH\, Austin was a curator at the Chicago History Museum for ten years. Her last exhibition\, The Secret Lives of Objects\, featured objects boasting mysterious pasts from the permanent collection and opened in 2015. Another major exhibition\, Out in Chicago: LGBT History at the Crossroads\, opened in 2011 and was the result of a three-year curatorial collaboration with historian Jennifer Brier of the University of Illinois\, Chicago. They also co-edited and contributed to an accompanying anthology of essays of the same title on Chicago LGBT and queer history. With Brier\, she also contributed a chapter to Susan Ferentinos’ anthology Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites. Previously\, Austin served as a curator at Detroit Historical Museums and was an exhibition and publication coordinator at Exhibitions International\, a New York-based traveling exhibitions firm that specialized in design and the decorative arts. She got her start in the museum field as an educator at the Carnegie Museum of Art\, Pittsburgh. A native of southeast Michigan\, she earned a BA in history/classics from Eastern Michigan University\, and received an MA in the history of art and architecture from the University of Pittsburgh. \nJulia Huston Nguyen is a Senior Program Officer in the Division of Education Programs. She earned an undergraduate degree in history and German studies from Mount Holyoke College and a Ph.D. in history from Louisiana State University. Julia’s graduate training focused on the pre-Civil War American South\, with emphasis on the Lower Mississippi River Valley. She has published numerous articles on education\, domestic service\, and religion in antebellum and Civil War-era Mississippi and Louisiana. She came to the Endowment in 2004 from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi\, where she was an assistant professor of history\, and she has also taught at Louisiana State University and River Parishes Community College. In the Division of Education Programs\, Julia works with all of the division’s programs and serves at the program lead for Humanities Initiatives at Community Colleges\, Hispanic-Serving Institutions\, Historically Black Colleges and Universities\, and Tribal Colleges and Universities. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/neh-funders-panel/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230312T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230312T140000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20221209T221748Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221209T221748Z UID:10006040-1678629600-1678629600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing\, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore DESCRIPTION:The Friends of the Dickens Project invites you to participate in “Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing\, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore.” The three sessions will offer the Friends a chance to examine Victorian responses to the environment\, with a particular emphasis on Australia. The first session will involve a presentation on Professor Moore’s current research\, which is on representations of bushfires and wildfires in nineteenth-century settler literature. The project is informed by both the environmental humanities and emotions theory and she will talk a little about these approaches. As part of this session\, she will introduce some of the work she has done on Anthony Trollope’s travels (especially his representations of fire and environmental issues). We will also spend some time thinking about how Trollope positioned himself as a successor to Dickens\, as both a novelist and travel writer. \n \n1/8/23\, 2pm PST – Research Talk:\nRepresentations of bushfires and wildfires in nineteenth-century settler literature\n2/12/23\, 2pm PST – Discussion: Chapters I-VI Harry Heathcote of Gangoil\n3/12/23\, 2pm PST – Discussion: Chapters VII-XII Harry Heathcote of Gangoil \nThe second and third sessions will be discussions of Trollope’s wonderfully melodramatic Christmas story Harry Heathcote of Gangoil (1874). The novella is set in Australia and draws on Trollope’s own experiences down under. It’s a remarkable work for the depth of emotions that it conveys\, but also for how it captures the uncanny and threatening qualities that settlers saw in the Australian bush. Professor Moore has chosen Harry Heathcote because it presents an aspect of Trollope’s writing that is often forgotten\, but also because it raises a number of fascinating issues including migration\, race and climate change\, which will\, she hopes\, lead to some lively discussions. \nGrace Moore is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Otago\, Aotearoa/New Zealand. She is the author of Dickens and Empire and The Victorian Novel in Context\, and her edited works include (with Michelle Smith)\, Victorian Environments. Grace’s most recent publication is a special issue of the journal Occasion\, entitled Fire Stories. She first attended the Dickens Universe as a graduate student in 1998. \nThis event series is presented by the Dickens Project. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anthony-trollope-down-under-travel-writing-bushfires-and-australian-ecology-with-professor-grace-moore-3/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/grace_moore_banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230226T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230226T150000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20230130T230452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T185303Z UID:10007201-1677416400-1677423600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series DESCRIPTION:The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series\nFebruary 26\, March 26\, and April 30 at 1:00-3:00 PM | Virtual Event \nThe next three Pickwick Club sessions will focus on Dickens’s last and most enigmatic work\, the unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood. Considered by many lovers of detective fiction to be the ultimate mystery novel\, since its author died without providing a solution\, Drood has challenged and intrigued the imaginations of generations of readers. \nJoin Dickens enthusiast\, writer\, and Friends of the Dickens Project board member\, Carl Wilson for a series of discussions about this book. Wilson notes: \n“I first read Drood in 1980 when Leon Garfield published his completion of the novel. I was fascinated then\, and still am\, by his theory that Dickens would have presented Jasper as a divided self\, anticipating Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde by almost twenty years. Although no one will truly know\, that theory has stayed with me since\, and I would suggest that first-time readers pay close attention to Dickens’s various descriptions of Jasper throughout the five completed and sixth partially completed monthly numbers.” \nReading Schedule\nFebruary 26: Chapters 1-9\nMarch 26: Chapters 10-16\nApril 30: Chapters 17-End \nQuestions to consider for the first session: The opening chapter reads like almost nothing else that Dickens wrote. What is the purpose of such tortuous writing? What is the result of Dickens choosing to write much of the opening pages in present tense? Wilkie Collins thought that Drood was “the melancholy work of a worn-out brain.” Do you agree? \nMore Information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/pickwick-club/2023-02-edwin-drood.html\nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkdOmurTgjGdIQ0pyOjIhtspXltHg3huWg \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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feb_26_edwin_drood/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Dickens.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230212T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230212T140000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20221209T221616Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221209T221616Z UID:10007188-1676210400-1676210400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing\, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore DESCRIPTION:The Friends of the Dickens Project invites you to participate in “Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing\, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore.” The three sessions will offer the Friends a chance to examine Victorian responses to the environment\, with a particular emphasis on Australia. The first session will involve a presentation on Professor Moore’s current research\, which is on representations of bushfires and wildfires in nineteenth-century settler literature. The project is informed by both the environmental humanities and emotions theory and she will talk a little about these approaches. As part of this session\, she will introduce some of the work she has done on Anthony Trollope’s travels (especially his representations of fire and environmental issues). We will also spend some time thinking about how Trollope positioned himself as a successor to Dickens\, as both a novelist and travel writer. \n \n1/8/23\, 2pm PST – Research Talk:\nRepresentations of bushfires and wildfires in nineteenth-century settler literature\n2/12/23\, 2pm PST – Discussion: Chapters I-VI Harry Heathcote of Gangoil\n3/12/23\, 2pm PST – Discussion: Chapters VII-XII Harry Heathcote of Gangoil \nThe second and third sessions will be discussions of Trollope’s wonderfully melodramatic Christmas story Harry Heathcote of Gangoil (1874). The novella is set in Australia and draws on Trollope’s own experiences down under. It’s a remarkable work for the depth of emotions that it conveys\, but also for how it captures the uncanny and threatening qualities that settlers saw in the Australian bush. Professor Moore has chosen Harry Heathcote because it presents an aspect of Trollope’s writing that is often forgotten\, but also because it raises a number of fascinating issues including migration\, race and climate change\, which will\, she hopes\, lead to some lively discussions. \nGrace Moore is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Otago\, Aotearoa/New Zealand. She is the author of Dickens and Empire and The Victorian Novel in Context\, and her edited works include (with Michelle Smith)\, Victorian Environments. Grace’s most recent publication is a special issue of the journal Occasion\, entitled Fire Stories. She first attended the Dickens Universe as a graduate student in 1998. \nThis event series is presented by the Dickens Project. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anthony-trollope-down-under-travel-writing-bushfires-and-australian-ecology-with-professor-grace-moore-2/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/grace_moore_banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230210T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230210T100000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20220912T205811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221208T173029Z UID:10007117-1676023200-1676023200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Elora Shehebuddin – Bangladesh\, Third World Solidarity\, and the Global Politics of Feminism DESCRIPTION:“Bangladesh\, Third World Solidarity\, and the Global Politics of Feminism” 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 Elora Shehebuddin\, UC Berkeley URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/elora-shehebuddin-bangladesh-third-world-solidarity-and-the-global-politics-of-feminism/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/11.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230206T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230206T200000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20230119T001853Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230121T004055Z UID:10006057-1675708200-1675713600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Slugs and Steins with Professor Eric Porter: What Can We Learn from the Airport? DESCRIPTION:For many people\, airports may seem like alienating “nonplaces”—as anthropologist Marc Augé put it—where we rush to make connections and spend long\, monotonous hours waiting for delayed flights. But airports are fascinating sites that can tell us a lot about the places where they are situated. Among other things\, they are complex infrastructures where people\, the built and natural environments\, and different kinds of networks come together. Airports are also sites of accumulated power in a given region. Looking at the history of an airport\, then\, can provide a airport useful lens for examining some of the complex\, interconnected forces that have influenced the development of its region over time. Exploring that history can also help us understand how differently positioned people in that place have abided\, resisted\, and otherwise negotiated the powerful forces that have shaped their lives. In this talk\, Eric Porter will discuss San Francisco International Airport (SFO) as a site whose history reveals important perspectives on a wide range of phenomena that have helped to make the Bay Area. Along the way he will read excerpts from his new book\, A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport. \n \nOrder A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport online and save 30%. Use source code SAVE30 at checkout. \nEric Porter is Professor of History\, History of Consciousness\, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, where he is also affiliated with the Music and Latin American and Latina/o Studies departments. His research and teaching interests include Black cultural and intellectual history\, US cultural and urban history\, and jazz and improvisation studies. \nSlugs and Steins are free informal lectures served up over Zoom. Brought to you by the UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association\, each talk will engage one of our favorite professors in discussion with you\, the local community of Silicon Valley\, and beyond. We will cover everything from organic artichokes to endangered zebras\, self-driving cars to Shakespeare. All are welcome. Audience participation is encouraged. \nQuestions? Contact the UC Santa Cruz University Events office at specialevents@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/what-can-we-learn-from-the-airport-with-professor-eric-porter/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230126T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230126T203000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20230119T174100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230120T214333Z UID:10006059-1674759600-1674765000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Tobera Project Talk Story: 1930 Anti-Filipino Watsonville Race Riots DESCRIPTION:January 19th marks the 93rd Anniversary of the Anti-Filipino Watsonville Race Riots. We invite you to join us for a Talk Story to honor the history of Fermin Tobera and Filipino Farmworkers. \nThis Talk Story will be facilitated by Professor Steve Mckay and feature Poet Shirley Ancheta and acclaimed author Karen Tei Yamashita. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tobera-project-talk-story-1930-anti-filipino-watsonville-race-riots/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230122T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230122T150000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20220910T005548Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220929T010907Z UID:10005982-1674392400-1674399600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts XVI-XX 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-xvi-xx/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/THI-Event-Banner-2-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230120T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230120T100000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20220912T205409Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221208T172119Z UID:10005985-1674208800-1674208800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Divya Cherian – Caste and Time: Notes from Early Modern India DESCRIPTION:“Caste and Time” 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 Divya Cherian\, Princeton University URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/divya-cherian-caste-and-time-notes-from-early-modern-india/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/11.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230108T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230108T140000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20221209T215711Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221209T221439Z UID:10007186-1673186400-1673186400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing\, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore DESCRIPTION:The Friends of the Dickens Project invites you to participate in “Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing\, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore.” The three sessions will offer the Friends a chance to examine Victorian responses to the environment\, with a particular emphasis on Australia. The first session will involve a presentation on Professor Moore’s current research\, which is on representations of bushfires and wildfires in nineteenth-century settler literature. The project is informed by both the environmental humanities and emotions theory and she will talk a little about these approaches. As part of this session\, she will introduce some of the work she has done on Anthony Trollope’s travels (especially his representations of fire and environmental issues). We will also spend some time thinking about how Trollope positioned himself as a successor to Dickens\, as both a novelist and travel writer. \n \n1/8/23\, 2pm PST – Research Talk:\nRepresentations of bushfires and wildfires in nineteenth-century settler literature\n2/12/23\, 2pm PST – Discussion: Chapters I-VI Harry Heathcote of Gangoil\n3/12/23\, 2pm PST – Discussion: Chapters VII-XII Harry Heathcote of Gangoil \nThe second and third sessions will be discussions of Trollope’s wonderfully melodramatic Christmas story Harry Heathcote of Gangoil (1874). The novella is set in Australia and draws on Trollope’s own experiences down under. It’s a remarkable work for the depth of emotions that it conveys\, but also for how it captures the uncanny and threatening qualities that settlers saw in the Australian bush. Professor Moore has chosen Harry Heathcote because it presents an aspect of Trollope’s writing that is often forgotten\, but also because it raises a number of fascinating issues including migration\, race and climate change\, which will\, she hopes\, lead to some lively discussions. \nGrace Moore is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Otago\, Aotearoa/New Zealand. She is the author of Dickens and Empire and The Victorian Novel in Context\, and her edited works include (with Michelle Smith)\, Victorian Environments. Grace’s most recent publication is a special issue of the journal Occasion\, entitled Fire Stories. She first attended the Dickens Universe as a graduate student in 1998. \nThis event series is presented by the Dickens Project. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anthony-trollope-down-under-travel-writing-bushfires-and-australian-ecology-with-professor-grace-moore/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/grace_moore_banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221204T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221204T140000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20220910T002556Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220929T005202Z UID:10005978-1670162400-1670162400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Victorian Necromancies with Professor Renée Fox – Discussion of Dracula (Chap. 17-End) 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-chap-17-end/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/THI-Event-Banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221130T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221130T143000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20221020T233800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221129T222319Z UID:10007160-1669813200-1669818600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Career Pathways for Humanities Graduate Students DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual workshop with Katina Rogers\, “Career Pathways for Humanities Graduate Students\,” Nov. 30 at 1 p.m. on Zoom. Register here. \nThis workshop is presented by the Center for the Humanities at the University of California\, Merced and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/career-pathways-for-humanities-graduate-students/ LOCATION:Virtual Event CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/11-30-22psd.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221127T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221127T150000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20220910T005310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220929T010522Z UID:10005981-1669554000-1669561200@thi.ucsc.edu 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/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/THI-Event-Banner-2-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221118T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221118T130000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20221107T182136Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221116T205757Z UID:10007170-1668772800-1668776400@thi.ucsc.edu 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/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221118T112000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221118T130000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20220927T191053Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T191053Z UID:10007150-1668770400-1668776400@thi.ucsc.edu 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/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221107T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221107T173000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20220919T232406Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220928T214149Z UID:10007125-1667836800-1667842200@thi.ucsc.edu 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/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221107T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221107T110000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20221020T234504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221020T234504Z UID:10007161-1667815200-1667818800@thi.ucsc.edu 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/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/11-7-22.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221106T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221106T140000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20220910T001916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220929T004857Z UID:10005977-1667743200-1667743200@thi.ucsc.edu 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/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/THI-Event-Banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221102T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221102T173000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20220919T231314Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221027T194854Z UID:10007124-1667404800-1667410200@thi.ucsc.edu 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/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Event_Page_Banner-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221102T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221102T150000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20221019T192625Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221019T192759Z UID:10007159-1667397600-1667401200@thi.ucsc.edu 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/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221028T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221028T120000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20220912T203929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221020T170013Z UID:10005983-1666951200-1666958400@thi.ucsc.edu 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/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/11.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221025T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221025T140000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20220929T211251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220929T211350Z UID:10006015-1666699200-1666706400@thi.ucsc.edu 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/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221023T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221023T150000 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20220910T004656Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220929T010730Z UID:10005980-1666530000-1666537200@thi.ucsc.edu 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/ LOCATION:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/THI-Event-Banner-2-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221020T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221020T185500 DTSTAMP:20260415T155932 CREATED:20220920T201311Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221018T214811Z UID:10007130-1666286400-1666292100@thi.ucsc.edu 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/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR