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SUMMARY:Vicente Rafael & Jorgge Menna Barreto - Authoritarianism in the Philippines and Brazil
DESCRIPTION:This dialogic colloquium enjoins us to learn about and reflect on authoritarianism in Rodrigo Duterte’s Philippines and Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil.  In each of these democracies\, what histories and dynamics have contributed to these figures’ rise\, and how is their appeal connected to the place of each country in global economies of material and cultural capital? How should we understand their contemporaneity and connection? How have they approached the pandemic’s necropolitical possibilities and challenges? The session will begin with brief opening remarks from Vicente Rafael on Duterte’s Philippines and Jorgge Menna Barreto on Bolsonaro’s Brazil. We will then open to a broader conversation among participants. \n \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, November 18th to receive Zoom link and password. \nPlease Note: colloquium participants will be expected to have completed brief readings by Vicente Rafael and Jorgge Menna Barreto before the event. \n\nVicente L. Rafael is Professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle. He works mainly on the cultural politics of the Philippines and occasionally on the United States\, focusing on such topics as colonialism\, nationalism and postcoloniality; language and religion; translation and technology; and race and empire. His books include Motherless Tongues (2016); The Promise of the Foreign (2005); White Love and Other Events in Filipino History (2000); and Contracting Colonialism (1988). \nJorgge Menna Barreto is a Brazilian artist and educator who works at the intersection of art and agroecology\, focusing on agroforestry. Since 2015\, Menna Barreto has been a professor at UERJ\, Rio de Janeiro\, and he is presently on postdoctoral leave in Europe. In January 2021\, he will begin as Assistant Professor in Environmental Art at UC Santa Cruz. He is also the translator of Anna Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World into Brazilian Portuguese\, to be launched next year. \n\nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies.* \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \nThis session is co-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies and the Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast). \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-cultural-studies-colloquium-6/
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SUMMARY:Visualizing Abolition: Visuality and Carceral Formations - Nicole Fleetwood\, Herman Gray\, and Nicholas Mirzoeff
DESCRIPTION:The third event in the Visualizing Abolition series brings together visual and cultural theorists Nicole Fleetwood\, Herman Gray\, and Nicholas Mirzoeff to consider the roles of visual culture in normalizing mass incarceration and the racist brutalities of policing within the social landscape and political vision of America. Questions of visuality and formations moves beyond critiques of film\, television\, advertisements\, and other media to ask how dominant visions of the world—and the visual regimes that regulate what people see and what remains hidden from view—are materialized in the prison industrial complex. \n \nThis event is part of The Humanities Institute’s yearlong series on Memory. \nFor the 2020/21 academic year\, UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, in collaboration with Professor Dent\, feminist studies\, has organized a year-long series of online events featuring artists\, activists\, scholars\, and others united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition. \nThe events of Visualizing Abolition accompany Barring Freedom\, a bi-coastal exhibition of art featuring Sonya Clark\, American Artist\, Dread Scott\, Deana Lawson\, Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun\, Sharon Daniel\, Sanford Biggers\, and other artists whose practices creatively confront the failure of many to see the racist biases within the criminal justice system or to comprehend the economic and social problems that the system serves to obscure. Barring Freedom will be on view at San José Museum of Art late October 2020-March 21\, 2021. \nVisualizing Abolition is organized by UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences in collaboration with San José Museum of Art and Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. The series has been generously funded by the Nion McEvoy Family Trust\, Ford Foundation\, Future Justice Fund\, Wanda Kownacki\, Peter Coha\, James L. Gunderson\, Rowland and Pat Rebele\, Porter College\, UCSC Foundation\, and annual donors to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. \nPartners include: Howard University School of Law\, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts\, Jessica Silverman Gallery\, Indexical\, The Humanities Institute\, University Library\, University Relations\, Institute for Social Transformation\, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, Porter College\, the Center for Cultural Studies\, the Center for Creative Ecologies\, and Media and Society\, Kresge College.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/visualizing-abolition-visuality-and-carceral-formations-nicole-fleetwood-herman-gray-and-nicholas-mirzoeff/
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Getting Hired at a California Community College
DESCRIPTION:A panel discussion with current and recent instructors at California Community Colleges\, who are all UC Santa Cruz graduate student alumni\, including: \nBeth Au\, Moderator\nDirector\nCalifornia Community Colleges Registry \nFrancesca Caparas\, Panelist\nM.A. Literature\nEnglish Professor and Faculty Coordinator\, Jean Miller Resource Room for Women\, Genders\, and Sexuality\nDe Anza College \nSarah Gerhardt\, Panelist\nPh.D. Chemistry\nChemistry Instructor\nCabrillo College \nElizabeth Gonzalez\, Panelist\nPh.D. Psychology\nInterim Director\, Metas Center\nSan José City College \nBrian Malone\, Panelist\nPh.D. Literature\nEnglish Professor\nDe Anza College \nMelissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano\, Panelist\nPh.D. Education\nEthnic Studies Professor\nEvergreen Valley College \nNicholas Vasallo\, Panelist\nD.M.A.\nDirector\, Music Industry Studies\, AV Technology\, and Music Composition\nDiablo Valley College \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Getting Hired at a California Community College” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2020-2021 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the fifth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n*Note that all 2020-2021 PhD+ workshops will be held virtually until further notice. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-getting-hired-at-a-california-community-college/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Victorian Kitchens & Cocktails
DESCRIPTION:Dust off your copies of What Shall We Have for Dinner? by Lady Clutterbuck and Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management and join us for three interactive sessions exploring Victorian kitchens and cocktails. Dickens Project alumna Liz Pollock explores food and drink preparation in the Victorian kitchen. In subsequent lessons\, she will demonstrate how to make delicious beverages from the Victorian era. \n \nLiz Pollock first came to Santa Cruz in 1975 to visit some friends at the UC Santa Cruz campus for the “Valentine’s Day Waltz” at Cowell College. As soon as she could\, she transferred from Cal State LA to UCSC and majored in comparative literature. She met her husband at Adolph’s Italian Family Restaurant\, where she bartended for five years. Liz has owned and operated the Cook’s Bookcase since 2007 and lives with her family in a restored 1914 California Craftsman bungalow in beautiful Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/victorian-kitchens-cocktails-2/
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SUMMARY:Moor Mother + Rasheedah Phillips: Black Quantum Futurism
DESCRIPTION:The exhibition is Moor Mother—a Philadelphia artist praised as part of “a new generation of visionary black storytellers” (The New York Times—premieres a new video followed by a discussion of Black Quantum Futurism theory and practice with her collaborator Rasheedah Phillips. Weaving through haunting slave narratives as dystopian allegory\, negro spirituals\, and Black ritual\, Moor Mother’s work points to a liberated future through Black Quantum Futurism\, a project in partnership with author Rasheedah Phillips. Through a time of ecological and social disaster\, she says\, “I’m not saying\, this is the end\, we’re all doomed\,” but rather that “I believe there is another way. So it’s about trying to get the audience to understand another way of digesting the truth.” \n \nThe events are co-organized with T.J. Demos of the Center for Creative Ecologies at UC Santa Cruz as part of the UCSC Mellon-funded Sawyer Seminar’s Beyond the End of the World research project\, Indexical\, and the Institute of the Arts and Sciences with the collaboration of The Humanities Institute and Kuumbwa Jazz Center. \nCamae Ayewa (Moor Mother) is a nationally- and internationally-touring musician\, poet\, visual artist\, and workshop facilitator\, and has performed at numerous festivals\, colleges\, galleries\, and museums around the world\, sharing the stage with King Britt\, Roscoe Mitchell\, Claudia Rankine\, bell hooks\, and more. Her most recent album\, Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes\, is the culmination of all of her earthly experiences merged with all of her cosmic ones. On Analog Fluids\, haunting slave narratives are presented as dystopian allegory and negro spirituals are flipped\, remixed\, and recaptured\, only to be digitized into a symbiotic bio-morph program for the post-thumb drive age. It’s a record rich with the noise and chaos that affirm Moor Mother’s punk roots\, yet it is also anchored in earthiness via the constant injection of Black ritual\, poetry\, and drums programmed to vibrate through the listener’s mitochondria. \nBlack Quantum Futurism Collective is a multidisciplinary collaboration between Camae Ayewa (Rockers!; Moor Mother) and Rasheedah Phillips (The AfroFuturist Affair; Metropolarity) exploring the intersections of futurism\, creative media\, DIY-aesthetics\, and activism in marginalized communities through an alternative temporal lens. BQF Collective has created a number of community-based events\, experimental music projects\, performances\, exhibitions\, zines\, and anthologies of experimental essays on space-time consciousness. BQF Collective is a 2016 A Blade of Grass Fellow\, 2015 artist-in-residence at West Philadelphia Neighborhood Time Exchange\, and had their experimental short\, Black Bodies as Conductors of Gravity\, premiere at the 2015 Afrofuturism Now! Festival in Rotterdam. BQF Collective frequently collaborates with other Black Futurists\, Joy KMT\, Irreversible Entanglements\, Thomas Stanley\, Ras Mashramani\, Alex Smith to produce literature\, present workshops\, lectures\, and performances.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/52537/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T110000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Impassioned Online Teaching: Empathy\, Embodiment and Radical Pedagogy in Practice
DESCRIPTION:How do we\, as educators\, create virtual experiences that are inclusive\, engaging\, and impactful for our students? How can we make remote conditions more intimate\, accessibility more equitable\, and our classrooms more collaborative? What do design strategies grounded in compassion and creativity look like? From decolonizing the syllabus to somatic abolitionism and interactive storytelling\, this workshop will offer practical techniques for learning and liberation. Please join us as we reimagine the possibilities of a mindfulness-based approach to teaching in the digital age. \nThis workshop is co-presented by The Humanities Institute (THI) and the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL) at UC Santa Cruz and open to University of California faculty\, staff\, and students. \nPanel led by UC Santa Cruz’s 2020 National Humanities Center GSSR Fellows: \n\nKristen Laciste (History of Art & Visual Culture)\nAlexyss McClellan-Ufugusuku (History)\nAlexandra Moore (History of Art & Visual Culture)\nFrancesca Romeo (Film and Digital Media)\nMeleia Simon-Reynolds (History)\nMatthew Tedford (History of Art & Visual Culture)\nKirstin Wagner (Literature)\n\n  \nLeft to right and top to bottom: Meleia Simon-Reynolds\, Kirstin Wagner\, Francesca Romeo\, Alexyss McClellan-Ufugusuku\, Matthew Tedford\, Kristen Laciste\, Alexandra Moore\n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the fifth 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. *Note that all 2020-2021 PhD+ workshops will be held virtually until further notice. \n  \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-creating-meaningful-online-learning-experiences/
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SUMMARY:Idan Landau: A Selectional Criterion for Adjunct Control
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Idan Landau\, from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev – Israel\, speaking on A Selectional Criterion for Adjunct Control. \nZoom Information will be emailed on Thursday\, November 12\, 2020 \n\nNonfinite adjuncts display a non-uniform control distribution: While all adjuncts accept control by the local matrix subject (Obligatory Control\, OC)\, only some accept other controllers (non-obligatory control\, NOC). For example\, the rationale clause in (1a) allows NOC by the stimulus clause in (1b) does not. \n1a). Mary has made up her mind. Bill would present the speakers [in order PRO to give him the opportunity to practice their names]. \n1b).Mary giggled. Bill smiled [PRO to see her/him in underwear]. \nThe question which adjuncts fall in which category\, and why\, has rarely been addressed (see Green 2-18\, 2019 for an exception). \nFollowing Landeau 2015\, I propose that control operates via prediction (a property-denoting clause) or logophoric anchoring (a propositional cause). The (possibly null) prepositional head of Strict OC adjuncts (as in (1b)) s-selects a property\, while that of alternating OC/NOC adjuncts (as in (1a)) s-selects either a property or proposition. This selectional distinction is independently detectable by testing whether the adjunct accepts a lexical subject\, providing us with a reliable predictor of its control behavior. In this talk\, I will examine 10 different types of adjuncts in English ad demonstrate how this system derives their control patterns. It is further shown that purely configurational theories\, that posit complementarity between OC and NOC\, are empirically inadequate. Finally\, I address the question of why the predictive variant of nonfinite adjuncts is available by default (within and across languages)\, whereas the propositional variant is not. The explanation hinges on the principle of Economy of Projection\, which favors the smaller\, predictive variant over the propositional one. The dual analysis of adjunct control offers insights into puzzling language-internal facts as well as typological generalizations\, so far unrelated in the theory of control. \nOrganized by the Department of Linguistics
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/idan-landau-a-selectional-criterion-for-adjunct-control/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T190000
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SUMMARY:Morgan Parker - Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 11th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading\, featuring honored guest Morgan Parker. Poet Gary Young will host the program\, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1\,000 prize). \n \nGary Young is the author of many volumes of poems and translations\, and has edited several anthologies and poetry textbooks\, including Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California and The Geography of Home: California’s Poetry of Place. His most recent books are Precious Mirror\, translations from the Japanese published by White Pine Press (2018)\, and That’s What I Thought\, which won the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award from Persea Books (2018). His book No Other Life won the William Carlos Williams Award\, and in 2009 he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Young teaches creative writing and directs the Cowell Press at the UC Santa Cruz. \nMorgan Parker is a poet\, essayist\, and novelist. She is the author of the young adult novel Who Put This Song On?; and the poetry collections Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night\, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé\, and Magical Negro\, which won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award. Parker’s debut book of nonfiction is forthcoming from One World. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship\, winner of a Pushcart Prize\, and has been hailed by The New York Times as “a dynamic craftsperson” of “considerable consequence to American poetry.” Parker received her Bachelors in Anthropology and Creative Writing from Columbia University and her MFA in Poetry from NYU. She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow\, and creator and host of the live talk show Reparations\, Live! at the Ace Hotel. She co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series with Tommy Pico. With Angel Nafis\, she is The Other Black Girl Collective. She lives in Los Angeles. \nView and purchase Morgan Parker’s books at: https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/morganparker \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors poet\, teacher\, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009). Marcus was the 1999 Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year and a recipient of the 2007 Gail Rich Award. Among his published works are eleven volumes of poetry\, including The Santa Cruz Mountain Poems\, Pages from a Scrapbook of Immigrants\, Moments Without Names\, Shouting Down the Silence\, Pursuing the Dream Bone and The Dark Figure In The Doorway; a novel\, The Brezhnev Memo; and a literary memoir\, Striking Through the Masks. He taught English and Film at Cabrillo College for thirty years\, was the co-host of the radio program\, The Poetry Show\, and was the co-host of the television film review show\, Cinema Scene. Learn more at: www.mortonmarcus.com \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Archive can be found at UCSC Special Collections. Mort’s personal papers\, manuscripts\, and recordings reflect his legacy as a poet and educator\, and his collection of poetry books\, broadsides\, literary magazines and correspondence with other poets and writers illuminate his deep involvement in\, and passion for\, the literary art of poetry. \nOrganizing Committee\nLen Anderson\, Danusha Laméris\, Donna Mekis\, Mark Ong\, Maggie Paul\, Irena Polić\, Jory Post\, Teresa Mora\, Joseph Stroud\, and Gary Young. \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Contest\nphren-Z\, an online literary magazine\, whose mission is to celebrate the Santa Cruz literary community\, has established a national poetry contest\, The Morton Marcus Poetry Prize\, in honor of Morton Marcus\, “whose life and work inspired the writing of many students\, friends\, and emerging poets.” For more information visit: http://phren-z.org/poetry_contest.html \nDennis Maloney\, editor and publisher of White Pine Press has honored phren-Z by serving as the judge for this year’s contest. \nSupport Poetry in Santa Cruz\nThe Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading continues to be offered free to the public. Please consider donating to the Morton Marcus Poetry Reading at thi.ucsc.edu/projects/morton-marcus-poetry-reading as well as to Poetry Santa Cruz at: http://www.baymoon.com/~poetrysantacruz/ \nMort was a donating member of Poetry Santa Cruz from its inception in 2001. \nThis community event is presented by the The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by: \nBookshop Santa Cruz\nCabrillo College English Department\nCowell College\nLiving Writers Series\nOw Family Properties\nPoetry Santa Cruz\nPorter Hitchcock Modern Poetry Fund\nPorter College\nSanta Cruz Writes\nSpecial Collections & Archives \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by November 5th\, 2020.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-morgan-parker-morton-marcus-poetry-reading/
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SUMMARY:Manan Ahmed: The Loss of Hindustan
DESCRIPTION:Manan Ahmed is Associate Professor for History of South Asia at Columbia University. He specializes in the littoral western Indian Ocean world from 1000-1800 CE. He is the author of A Book of Conquest (2016) and The Loss of Hindustan (2020) \nPart of the 2020-21 Center For South Asian Studies Lecture Series. \nOrganized by The Center for South Asian Studies
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/manan-ahmed-the-loss-of-hindustan/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T170000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Using Twitter Professionally
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to promote your research and create a virtual community of Tweeple in Twitter! Learn the basics\, including how to set up your page\, use hashtags\, use best practices\, and more with Kayla Isenberg (Senior Director\, Digital Engagement\, University Relations at UC Santa Cruz). The Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Using Twitter Professionally” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2020-2021 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the fifth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n*Note that all 2020-2021 PhD+ workshops will be held virtually until further notice. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-using-twitter-professionally/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201110T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201110T133000
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SUMMARY:Book talk and conversation: Peter Limbrick\,  Arab Modernism as World Cinema
DESCRIPTION:Peter Limbrick (Film and Digital Media\, UC Santa Cruz) will discuss his new book Arab Modernism as World Cinema: The Films of Moumen Smihi in conversation with Professor Tarek El-Ariss (Dartmouth College). \nArab Modernism as World Cinema (University of California Press\, 2020) explores the radically beautiful films of Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi\, demonstrating the importance of Moroccan and Arab film cultures in histories of world cinema. Examining Smihi’s oeuvre\, which enacts an exchange of images and ideas between Arab and non-Arab cultures\, Limbrick rethinks the relation of Arab cinema to modernism and further engages debates about the use of modernist forms by filmmakers in the Global South. \n \nPeter Limbrick is Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz. In addition to Arab Modernism as World Cinema\, he is the author of Making Settler Cinemas: Film and Colonial Encounters in the U.S.\, Australia\, and New Zealand (Palgrave\, 2010) and articles on postcolonial and transnational cinemas. \n  \nTarek El-Ariss is Professor and Chair of Middle Eastern Studies at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political (2013) and Leaks\, Hacks\, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age (2019)\, and editor of The Arab Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology of the Nahda (2018). \n  \nOrganized by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/peter-limbrick-arab-modernism-as-world-cinema/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201109T183000
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SUMMARY:Slugs and Steins with Sylvanna M. Falcón: The Evolving Practice of Human Rights Accountability
DESCRIPTION:Sylvanna M. Falcón\, founder of UC Santa Cruz’s Human Rights Investigations Lab for the Americas\, will explain how human rights accountability has shifted in the digital realm and the ways in which a new generation of human rights activists are needed with critical digital literacy skills in search for the truth. \nDr. Falcón founded Human Rights Investigations Lab for the Americas in September 2019. The Lab’s social justice mission is to track and monitor ongoing humanitarian\, environmental and socio-political crises throughout the Americas by using open source investigative methods to promote justice and achieve accountability for communities adversely affected by human rights violations. The lab offers digital verification support to non-governmental organizations\, news outlets\, and other advocacy partners. \n \n\nSylvanna M. Falcón\, Associate Professor\, Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) at UC Santa Cruz.\nAs Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, her research and teaching interests are in human rights\, transnational and decolonial feminism\, racism and antiracism\, open source investigations\, and transitional justice in Peru. She is a former United Nations consultant to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women. Dr. Falcón authored the award-winning book Power Interrupted: Antiracist and Feminist Activists inside the United Nations\, [University of Washington Press\, 2016 – awarded the National Women’s Studies Association Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Award] and the co-editor of Precarity and Belonging: Labor\, Migration\, and Noncitizenship [under contract with Rutgers University Press] and New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights [Routledge\, 2011]. Her work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals\, including International Journal of Transitional Justice\, Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies\, Feminism.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-evolving-practice-of-human-rights-accountability-the-new-terrain-for-justice/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201109T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201109T160000
DTSTAMP:20260629T091539
CREATED:20201105T190731Z
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SUMMARY:Victorian Kitchens & Cocktails
DESCRIPTION:Dust off your copies of What Shall We Have for Dinner? by Lady Clutterbuck and Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management and join us for three interactive sessions exploring Victorian kitchens and cocktails. Dickens Project alumna Liz Pollock explores food and drink preparation in the Victorian kitchen on November 9th. In subsequent lessons\, she will demonstrate how to make delicious beverages from the Victorian era. \n \nLiz Pollock first came to Santa Cruz in 1975 to visit some friends at the UC Santa Cruz campus for the “Valentine’s Day Waltz” at Cowell College. As soon as she could\, she transferred from Cal State LA to UCSC and majored in comparative literature. She met her husband at Adolph’s Italian Family Restaurant\, where she bartended for five years. Liz has owned and operated the Cook’s Bookcase since 2007 and lives with her family in a restored 1914 California Craftsman bungalow in beautiful Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/victorian-kitchens-cocktails/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201105T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201105T190000
DTSTAMP:20260629T091539
CREATED:20201007T213403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201009T180638Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: sidony o'neal
DESCRIPTION:sidony o’neal (b. 1988) is an artist and writer based in Portland\, OR. Recent exhibitions include Sculpture Center\, Fourteen30 Contemporary\, and the Institute for New Connotative Action. Performances as a part of non-band DEAD THOROUGHBRED have been presented at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art\, Kunstverein Düsseldorf\, Volksbühne Berlin\, Performance Space New York\, and If I Can’t Dance (Amsterdam). O’neal’s writing has been published at Arts.Black and the journal of Women & Performance. A chapbook\, LYFE IN A BOTTLE TREE BOTTLE\, is forthcoming from House House Press. O’neal is the recipient of the Oregon Art Commission’s 2020 Joan Shipley Award and is represented by Fourteen30 Contemporary\, Portland. \n \n\nLIVING WRITERS FALL 2020: SEEING RED—RAGE\, WRITING\, ART features contemporary poets\, cultural critics\, performance and visual artists interrogating rage\, its call and possibilities\, rendered across an array of works (text\, installation\, and performance) exploring rage’s circumstances\, effects\, and configurations through poetry\, prose\, and interdisciplinary modes.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-sidony-oneal/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201104T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201104T160000
DTSTAMP:20260629T091539
CREATED:20201021T023832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201021T023908Z
UID:10005772-1604498400-1604505600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Fascism and Regimes of Knowledge
DESCRIPTION:This symposium asks what the analytic of fascism offers for understanding the present authoritarian convergence. Panelists address the question of fascism as a geopolitically and historically diverse series of entanglements with (neo) liberalism\, white supremacy\, racial capitalism\, imperialism\, heteropatriarchy\, and settler colonialism\, and focus on the variety of antifascist collective organizing undertaken by Black\, Indigenous\, and other racialized subjects across the planet. \n \n\nSpeakers \n\nNadia Abu El-Haj\, Professor\, Anthropology\, Columbia University\nDenise Ferreira da Silva\, Professor & Director\, Social Justice Institute\, University of British Columbia\nMacarena Gómez-Barris\, Professor & Chair\, Social Science & Cultural Studies\, Pratt Institute and Director\, Global South Center\nCynthia A. Young\, Associate Professor\, African American Studies and Women’s\, Gender & Sexuality Studies\, Penn State University\n\nModerators \n\nAlyosha Goldstein\, Professor\, American Studies\, University of New Mexico\nSimón Ventura Trujillo\, Assistant Professor\, Latinx Studies\, English Department\, New York University\n\nPresented by UCSC Center for Racial Justice and the Critical Ethnic Studies Journal
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fascism-and-regimes-of-knowledge/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201104T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201104T133000
DTSTAMP:20260629T091539
CREATED:20200730T191326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201009T180757Z
UID:10005746-1604492100-1604496600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Gina Dent\, Debbie Gould & Savannah Shange - The Morning After: A (Post)Election Conversation
DESCRIPTION:The U.S. presidential election is on Nov 3. We will gather as a community the morning after to process the preceding night (and preceding years) and to think together about the weeks\, months\, and years to come. Gina Dent\, Debbie Gould\, and Savannah Shange will start off the conversation. And if it makes more sense to take to the streets on this Wednesday\, then that’s what we’ll do. \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, November 4th to receive Zoom link and password. \nFrom Fair Fight: for voters who plan to vote by mail\, you should request your ballot now so that you have plenty of time to receive and return it\, by going to www.vote.org. If your state offers ballot tracking\, you will be able to track your application and ballot from vote.org. You can find information on how to return your ballot\, including drop boxes and other methods\, on vote.org. \nIf you plan to vote in person\, Fair Fight strongly recommends that you vote early if your state offers early voting. To make your early vote plan\, visit https://www.vote.org/early-voting-calendar/. If your state does not offer early voting\, visit https://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/ to find your Election Day polling location. \n\nGina Dent is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies\, History of Consciousness\, and Legal Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She writes and teaches on race\, feminism\, popular culture\, and visual art\, and her current book project — Prison as a Border and Other Essays\, on popular culture and the conditions of knowledge — grows out of her work as an advocate for human rights and prison abolition. \nDebbie Gould is Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz. She is the author of Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against Aids (2009)\, and works on political emotion and affect\, social movements and contentious politics\, and feminist and queer theory. She was involved in ACT UP/Chicago for many years and was a founding member of the research/art/activist collaborative group\, Feel Tank Chicago\, most famous for its International Parades of the Politically Depressed. \nSavannah Shange is an urban anthropologist who works at the intersections of race\, place\, sexuality\, and the state. She is author of Progressive Dystopia: Abolition\, AntiBlackness\, and Schooling in San Francisco (2019) and is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz\, with research interests in circulated and lived forms of blackness\, ethnographic ethics\, Afro-pessimism\, and queer of color critique. \n\nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies.* \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-cultural-studies-colloquium-5/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201029T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201029T190000
DTSTAMP:20260629T091539
CREATED:20201007T213015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201007T213015Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Khary Polk
DESCRIPTION:Khary Oronde Polk is the author of Contagions of Empire: Scientific Racism\, Sexuality\, and Black Military Workers Abroad\, 1898-1948 (UNC Press\, 2020). A child of an African American military family\, his new book examines how the movement of Black soldiers and nurses around the world in the early-to-mid twentieth century challenged U.S. military ideals of race\, nation\, sexuality\, and honor. Polk has written for the Studio Museum of Harlem\, The Journal of Negro History\, Women’s Studies Quarterly\, Gawker\, and the journal Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly. His work has also appeared in a number of queer and queer of color anthologies\, including If We Have To Take Tomorrow\, Corpus\, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?\, and Think Again. He lives in Amherst\, Massachusetts\, where he teaches courses on race & the American imagination\, military history\, Black sexuality\, and queer theory. \n \n\nLIVING WRITERS FALL 2020: SEEING RED—RAGE\, WRITING\, ART features contemporary poets\, cultural critics\, performance and visual artists interrogating rage\, its call and possibilities\, rendered across an array of works (text\, installation\, and performance) exploring rage’s circumstances\, effects\, and configurations through poetry\, prose\, and interdisciplinary modes.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-khary-polk-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201029T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201029T180000
DTSTAMP:20260629T091539
CREATED:20200911T181132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200922T165815Z
UID:10006888-1603987200-1603994400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Usha Iyer: Folded Corporeal Histories of the Hindi Film Dancer Actress in the 1950s and 1960s
DESCRIPTION:Usha Iyer\, Assistant Professor\, Film and Media Studies\, Stanford University\, is the author of Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema (Oxford University Press\, 2020)\, which examines constructions of gender\, stardom\, sexuality\, and spectacle in Hindi cinema through women’s labor\, collaborative networks\, and gestural genealogies to produce a corporeal history of South Asian cultural modernities. Her essays have appeared and are forthcoming in Camera Obscura\, South Asian Popular Culture\, Figurations in Indian Film\, The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory\, and the Women Film Pioneers Project\, among others. \nPart of the 2020-21 Center For South Asian Studies Lecture Series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-dr-usha-iyer/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201029T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201029T170000
DTSTAMP:20260629T091539
CREATED:20201015T192136Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201020T153722Z
UID:10005768-1603985400-1603990800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Publishing Scholarly Works\, Copyright
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to publish scholarly work\, from finding and evaluating a publisher to negotiating the publication contract and navigating copyright with Martha Stuit (Scholarly Communication Librarian\, UC Santa Cruz Library). The Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Publishing Scholarly Works\, Copyright” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2020-2021 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the fifth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n*Note that all 2020-2021 PhD+ workshops will be held virtually until further notice. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-publishing-scholarly-works-copyright/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201028T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201028T160000
DTSTAMP:20260629T091539
CREATED:20201021T021810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201022T195254Z
UID:10005771-1603893600-1603900800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Fascism and Organized Violence Symposium
DESCRIPTION:This symposium asks what the analytic of fascism offers for understanding the present authoritarian convergence. Panelists address the question of fascism as a geopolitically and historically diverse series of entanglements with (neo) liberalism\, white supremacy\, racial capitalism\, imperialism\, heteropatriarchy\, and settler colonialism\, and focus on the variety of antifascist collective organizing undertaken by Black\, Indigenous\, and other racialized subjects across the planet. \n \n\nSpeakers \n\nJohanna Fernández\, Associate Professor\, History\, Baruch College/City University of New York\nAllan E. S. Lumba\, Assistant Professor\, History\, Virginia Tech University\nAnne Spice\, Acting Assistant Professor\, Geography & Environmental Studies\, Ryerson University\n\nModerators \n\nAlyosha Goldstein\, Professor\, American Studies\, University of New Mexico\nSimón Ventura Trujillo\, Assistant Professor\, Latinx Studies\, English Department\, New York University\n\nPresented by UCSC Center for Racial Justice and the Critical Ethnic Studies Journal
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fascism-and-organized-violence/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201028T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201028T133000
DTSTAMP:20260629T091539
CREATED:20200730T191145Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T174718Z
UID:10005745-1603886400-1603891800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Anna Tsing - Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:A collection of maps\, a game\, an archive\, an analysis\, a meditation on life on Earth: Feral Atlas is the cumulation of a five-year curatorial project involving more than a hundred scientists\, humanists\, poets\, and artists. Stretching the concept of the map\, the atlas shows how imperial and industrial infrastructures have had world-ripping effects on the ways humans and nonhumans live together. A diversity of observers\, from Indigenous elders to research scientists\, bring us beyond transcendent terror and hope into the present. \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, October 28th to receive Zoom link and password. \n \nAnna Tsing is Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz. She is the author of The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015)\, Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (2005)\, and In the Realm of the Diamond Queen (1994). Tsing is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Niels Bohr Professorship for a multi-year project on the Anthropocene. She is interested in multi-species anthropology; social landscapes and forest ethnoecologies; globalization; feminist theory; and multi-sited ethnography. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies.* \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-cultural-studies-colloquium-4/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201027T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201027T173000
DTSTAMP:20260629T091539
CREATED:20200911T181551Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201021T015705Z
UID:10006890-1603814400-1603819800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Visualizing Abolition: Bryan Stevenson - Memory and Justice
DESCRIPTION:Founder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) Bryan Stevenson is the featured speaker for the second event in Visualizing Abolition\, joining Gina Dent for a conversation about art\, culture\, and activism. \n \nBryan Stevenson is a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer who has\, over the last two decades\, tirelessly worked to challenge the racial and economic injustices of mass incarceration in the United States. Stevenson has also been at the forefront of the creation of two cultural sites\, The Legacy Museum and The National Memorial for Peace and Justice. For Visualizing Abolition\, Stevenson will discuss how those institutions relate to his legal social justice initiatives. The wide-ranging conversation with Professor Dent will focus on the role images\, art\, and culture can have in how people see and understand the legacies of history\, as well as how re-envisioning history can enliven contemporary struggles against racial inequality and the criminal justice system. \nThis event is part of The Humanities Institute’s yearlong series on Memory. \nFor the 2020/21 academic year\, UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, in collaboration with Professor Dent\, feminist studies\, has organized a year-long series of online events featuring artists\, activists\, scholars\, and others united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition. \nThe events of Visualizing Abolition accompany Barring Freedom\, a bi-coastal exhibition of art featuring Sonya Clark\, American Artist\, Dread Scott\, Deana Lawson\, Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun\, Sharon Daniel\, Sanford Biggers\, and other artists whose practices creatively confront the failure of many to see the racist biases within the criminal justice system or to comprehend the economic and social problems that the system serves to obscure. Barring Freedom will be on view at San José Museum of Art late October 2020-March 21\, 2021. \nVisualizing Abolition is organized by UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences in collaboration with San José Museum of Art and Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. The series has been generously funded by the Nion McEvoy Family Trust\, Ford Foundation\, Future Justice Fund\, Wanda Kownacki\, Peter Coha\, James L. Gunderson\, Rowland and Pat Rebele\, Porter College\, UCSC Foundation\, and annual donors to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. \nPartners include: Howard University School of Law\, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts\, Jessica Silverman Gallery\, Indexical\, The Humanities Institute\, University Library\, University Relations\, Institute for Social Transformation\, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, Porter College\, the Center for Cultural Studies\, the Center for Creative Ecologies\, and Media and Society\, Kresge College.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-bryan-stevenson-memory-and-justice/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201023T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201023T130000
DTSTAMP:20260629T091539
CREATED:20200911T181309Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201013T203746Z
UID:10006889-1603454400-1603458000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Lily Balloffet\, Argentina in the Global Middle East
DESCRIPTION:Lily Pearl Balloffet (Latin American and Latino Studies\, UC Santa Cruz) will discuss her recent book\, Argentina in the Global Middle East\, in conversation with Devi Mays (University of Michigan). \nArgentina in the Global Middle East connects modern Latin American and Middle Eastern history through their shared links to global migration systems. By following the mobile lives of individuals with roots in the Levantine Middle East\, Lily Pearl Balloffet sheds light on the intersections of ethnicity\, migrant–homeland ties\, and international relations \n \nLily Pearl Balloffet is a scholar of migration\, mobility\, and inter-American relations in historical context. Her current book project\, American Venom: Snakes & Our Interconnected Hemisphere bridges environmental\, medical\, and labor histories of moving people and animals in the Caribbean Basin. She has also published articles in the Journal of Latin American Studies\, Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of North African & Middle East Migration Studies\, Latin American Studies Association Forum\, and The Latin Americanist. Other research and teaching interests include contemporary Latin American hip hop\, and social revolutions. \nDevi Mays is Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. (PhD\, History and Jewish Studies at Indiana University\, Bloomington). Dr. Mays researches transnational Jewish networks in the Mediterranean and global contexts\, with a focus on Sephardic Jews. She is the author of Forging Ties\, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora (Stanford University Press\, 2020) – a history of migration and nation-building from the vantage point of those who lived between states. \nCo-sponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies Department.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-lily-ballofet/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201023T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201023T123000
DTSTAMP:20260629T091539
CREATED:20200915T213052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201023T222247Z
UID:10006893-1603450800-1603456200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Grants and Fellowships
DESCRIPTION:Learn about locating fellowship opportunities\, framing your research for different funding organizations\, and acquiring grants with Nathaniel Deutsch\, Irena Polić\, Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (The Humanities Institute)\, Holly Unruh (Arts Research Institute)\, and Matthew Tedford. We’ll share advice about different types of awards and strategies for making your proposal stand out. Bring your ideas and questions for an important conversation on securing funding for humanities and arts research and projects. \n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the fifth 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. The workshop series is open to University of California faculty\, staff\, and students. *Note that all 2020-2021 PhD+ workshops will be held virtually until further notice. \n  \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-grants-and-fellowships/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201022T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201022T190000
DTSTAMP:20260629T091539
CREATED:20201007T212533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201007T212533Z
UID:10006895-1603393200-1603393200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Living Writers: Frances Richard
DESCRIPTION:Frances Richard is the author of Gordon Matta-Clark: Physical Poetics (University of California Press\, 2019)\, and co-author\, with Jeffrey Kastner and Sina Najafi\, of Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Fake Estates” (Cabinet Books\, 2005); she is the editor of I Stand in My Place With My Own Day Here: Site-Specific Art at The New School (The New School/Duke University Press\, 2019)\, and Joan Jonas is on our mind\, a volume of essays on the artist (Wattis Institute\, 2017). Her books of poems include Anarch. (Futurepoem\, 2012)\, The Phonemes (Les Figues Press\, 2012) and See Through (Four Way Books\, 2003). She is senior editor at Places journal and lives in Oakland CA. \n \n\nLIVING WRITERS FALL 2020: SEEING RED—RAGE\, WRITING\, ART features contemporary poets\, cultural critics\, performance and visual artists interrogating rage\, its call and possibilities\, rendered across an array of works (text\, installation\, and performance) exploring rage’s circumstances\, effects\, and configurations through poetry\, prose\, and interdisciplinary modes.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-frances-richard/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201022T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201022T170000
DTSTAMP:20260629T091539
CREATED:20201015T184525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201020T153644Z
UID:10005767-1603380600-1603386000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Public Speaking
DESCRIPTION:Learn about warmups\, crafting your talk\, audience engagement\, and presenting online using Zoom with the owner and coach of Activate to Captivate\, Bri McWhorter. The Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Public Speaking” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2020-2021 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the fifth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n*Note that all 2020-2021 PhD+ workshops will be held virtually until further notice. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-public-speaking/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201021T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201021T133000
DTSTAMP:20260629T091539
CREATED:20200730T191049Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T174642Z
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SUMMARY:Gerald Casel - Not About Race Dance
DESCRIPTION:During this “talk\,” the artists/collaborators and Gerald Casel will share their recent recent choreographic explorations during COVID-19 based on their latest work\, Not About Race Dance. \nNot About Race Dance is a collaborative\, choreographic response to the homoraciality that haunts US American postmodern dance. The work’s title reflects its primary impetus\, Neil Greenberg’s Not About AIDS Dance (1994)\, which discursively refused the project’s central focus to underscore its appeal for public acknowledgment of the lived experiences and losses of the AIDS crisis. Not About Race Dance employs this central paradox to call attention to how whiteness historically formed the structures\, experiences\, and experiments of postmodern choreographers; whiteness is the “not race” that Not About Race Dance exposes as a durable history and dominant social structure perpetuated through modern and contemporary dance practices. \nNot About Race Dance further contests the structural endurance of white postmodernity by disidentifying with the white cube activated by Trisha Brown’s Locus (1975). The dance’s adaptations of Greenberg and Brown’s choreographic devices are intended to raise questions around the racial politics of mimesis\, or what Homi Bhabha refers to as “colonial mimicry.” Moving beyond the politics of representation\, Not About Race Dance thus poses a common conundrum faced by artists of color whose work is often positioned in opposition to or on the margins of the dominant through a false binary that simultaneously reclaims the sanctity of the center. By deliberately occupying a space that has historically been defined by white artists\, this dance asks if and how difference can be made visible through choreographic structures and processes that do not necessarily make space for brown and black bodies. \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, October 21st to receive Zoom link and password. \n \nGerald Casel is a dance artist\, performance maker\, cultural activator\, and educator. As a queer\, immigrant\, artist of color\, he is proud to be a first-generation college graduate. He serves as the Provost of Porter College and is an Associate Professor of Dance at UC Santa Cruz. Casel is the artistic director of GERALDCASELDANCE. His choreographic research and social practice converge to complicate and provoke questions surrounding colonialism\, collective cultural amnesia\, whiteness and privilege\, and the tensions between the invisible/perceived/obvious structures of power. He and his collaborators imagine alternative futures beyond the one that is being determined by our current economy and social structures of inequity. A graduate of The Juilliard School with an MFA from UW-Milwaukee\, Casel received a Bessie award for dancing in the companies of Michael Clark\, Stephen Petronio\, Zvi Gotheiner\, and Stanley Love. His choreography has been presented by Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church\, Dance Theater Workshop\, The Yard\, ODC Theater\, YBCA\, Dancebase Edinburgh\, Kuan Du Arts Festival Taiwan\, and has been developed in residencies at The Bogliasco Foundation\, The National Center for Choreography-Akron\, ODC Theater\, and CHIME. Dancing Around Race\, a community engagement process that interrogates racial inequity in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond continues to grow under his leadership. Casel’s Not About Race Dance has been awarded a National Dance Project grant\, which will be in residence at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography and will premiere at CounterPulse in 2021 with a forthcoming tour.  www.geraldcasel.com \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies.* \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-cultural-studies-colloquium-3/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Visualizing Abolition: A Conversation with Angela Y. Davis and Gina Dent
DESCRIPTION:Join Angela Y. Davis and Gina Dent\, noted antiprison activists\, scholars\, and educators\, for an online conversation about critical issues in the arts\, visual culture\, and abolition. This is the first in a series of events that questions what it means to think of abolitionism as a vision—one that challenges the social\, economic\, and political worldviews that prisons promote. \n \nAngela Y. Davis\, Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies\, UCSC\, is a renowned activist and scholar. For decades\, Dr. Davis has been at the forefront in our nation’s quest for economic\, racial\, and gender equality and social justice. She is the author of nine books\, including her most recent book of essays called The Meaning of Freedom. \nGina Dent\, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies\, History of Consciousness\, and Legal Studies\, UCSC is a committed activist\, scholar\, and educator\, Dent’s current book project\, Prison as a Border and Other Essays\, grows out of her work as an advocate for human rights and prison abolition. She is the editor of Black Popular Culture\, and author of numerous articles on race\, feminism\, popular culture\, and visual art. \nThis event is part of The Humanities Institute’s yearlong series on Memory. \nFor the 2020/21 academic year\, UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, in collaboration with Professor Dent\, feminist studies\, has organized a year-long series of online events featuring artists\, activists\, scholars\, and others united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition. \nThe events of Visualizing Abolition accompany Barring Freedom\, a bi-coastal exhibition of art featuring Sonya Clark\, American Artist\, Dread Scott\, Deana Lawson\, Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun\, Sharon Daniel\, Sanford Biggers\, and other artists whose practices creatively confront the failure of many to see the racist biases within the criminal justice system or to comprehend the economic and social problems that the system serves to obscure. Barring Freedom will be on view at San José Museum of Art late October 2020-March 21\, 2021. \nVisualizing Abolition is organized by UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences in collaboration with San José Museum of Art and Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. The series has been generously funded by the Nion McEvoy Family Trust\, Ford Foundation\, Future Justice Fund\, Wanda Kownacki\, Peter Coha\, James L. Gunderson\, Rowland and Pat Rebele\, Porter College\, UCSC Foundation\, and annual donors to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. \nPartners include: Howard University School of Law\, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts\, Jessica Silverman Gallery\, Indexical\, The Humanities Institute\, University Library\, University Relations\, Institute for Social Transformation\, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, Porter College\, the Center for Cultural Studies\, the Center for Creative Ecologies\, and Media and Society\, Kresge College.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-visualizing-abolition-a-conversation-with-angela-y-davis-and-gina-dent/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201016T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201016T183000
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SUMMARY:Stories from the Epicenter (Podcast Launch Event)
DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to join us for the launch of our ten-part documentary podcast\, Stories from the Epicenter\, which explores the experience and memory of the Loma Prieta Earthquake in Santa Cruz County through oral history records and interviews with current residents of Santa Cruz and Watsonville. The event will include a moderated discussion with the podcast producers followed by a Q&A with the audience. Clips from the podcast will be integrated into the discussion. The first two episodes will be pre-released on October 14th\, and a trailer is available now. We encourage you to listen prior to the event. The full series will be available to stream on October 17th\, 2020. \n \n\nPanelists:
 \nDaniel Story\, Digital Scholarship Librarian\, UCSC | series producer \nThomas Sawano\, Digital Scholarship Student Assistant\, UCSC | producer and contributor \nMadeline Carpou\, UCSC Alum | producer and contributor \nMarla Novo\, Director of Exhibitions and Programs\, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History | contributor \nJennifer Hooker\, Librarian II\, Santa Cruz Public Libraries | contributor \nKathleen Aston\, On-Call Librarian at SCPL\, Collections Manager at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History | contributor \nModerator:
 \nKristy Golubiewski-Davis\, Director\, Digital Scholarship Department\, University Library\, UCSC \n\nStories from the Epicenter is a production of the University Library at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, in partnership with the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History\, and Santa Cruz Public Libraries. For more information\, visit library.ucsc.edu/StoriesFromTheEpicenter
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stories-from-the-epicenter-podcast-launch-event/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201015T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201015T190000
DTSTAMP:20260629T091539
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Anne Waldman
DESCRIPTION:Anne Waldman: Poet\, performer\, professor\, literary curator\, cultural activist has been a prolific poet and performer for many years\, creating radical new hybrid forms for the long poem\, both serial and narrative\, as with Marriage: A Sentence\, Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble\, and Manatee/Humanity\, and Gossamurmur\, all published by Penguin Poets. She is also the author of the magnum opus The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment (Coffee House Press 2011)\, which won the PEN Center 2012 Award for Poetry. She was one of the founders of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church In-the-Bowery\, and The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University with Allen Ginsberg and Diana di Prima in 1974. She continues to work with the Kerouac School as a Distinguished Professor of Poetics and Artistic Director of its Summer Writing Program. Her forthcoming books are Bard\, Kinetic (Coffee House\, 2021) and Mesopotopia (Penguin\, 2022). \n \n\nLIVING WRITERS FALL 2020: SEEING RED—RAGE\, WRITING\, ART features contemporary poets\, cultural critics\, performance and visual artists interrogating rage\, its call and possibilities\, rendered across an array of works (text\, installation\, and performance) exploring rage’s circumstances\, effects\, and configurations through poetry\, prose\, and interdisciplinary modes.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-anne-waldman/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201015T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201015T143000
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SUMMARY:Hispanic-Serving Institution Equity Talk with Gina Garcia
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online discussion with Dr. Gina Garcia\, moderated by Dr. Rebecca Covarrubias and Dr. Jennifer Baszile\, on how the UC Santa Cruz HSI Initiatives continue advancing student success and equity practices towards becoming a racially-just HSI. \n \nDr. Gina Garcia is editor of Hispanic-Serving Institutions(HSIs) in Practice: Defining “Servingness” at HSIs(2020)\, to which the UC Santa Cruz HSI Initiatives Team contributed five chapters. \nTo learn more about Dr. Garcia’s work\, please visit her website: www.ginaanngarcia.com \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-dr-gina-garcia/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201014T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201014T133000
DTSTAMP:20260629T091539
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SUMMARY:Samia Khatun — Race\, Gender & New Epistemic Grounds: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Desert Australia
DESCRIPTION:At the forefront of white nationalist border regimes\, the Australian nation-state has long operated as an Anglo imperial outpost in the Indian Ocean world. If we look at Aboriginal language archives about South Asians\, however\, we see alternative epistemic grounds and spatial imaginations on which we can situate historical storytelling about race\, gender\, and migration. This presentation will follow two Muslim men into Australian deserts\, where they encountered two Aboriginal sisters waiting for a train at a lonely railway station c.1897. \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, October 14th to receive Zoom link and password. \n \nSamia Khatun became a feminist historian because she once lost her way to a mathematics lecture at the University of Sydney. Since then\, Khatun has chased truths about the past in Sydney\, Antigua\, Kolkata\, Istanbul\, Berlin\, New York\, Dunedin\, Melbourne\, London\, and Dhaka. She researches the life-worlds of people colonised by the British Empire and her documentaries have screened on ABC and SBS-TV in Australia. She is the new Chair for the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS\, London. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies.* \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-cultural-studies-colloquium-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201008T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201008T133000
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SUMMARY:Nir Shafir: How to Read in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
DESCRIPTION:The Ottoman Empire (and the Islamic world at large) was a manuscript culture until the late nineteenth century. That is\, many Ottoman subjects continued to copy books by hand even though they had been aware of printing in European lands for centuries. In recent years\, there has been a new wave of scholarship exploring how Ottoman manuscript culture functioned in practice rather than dismissing it as a “lack” of print. Historians have been particularly interested in demonstrating that even a manuscript culture could support a large number of readers\, even if many of them only possessed a “partially literacy.” \nIn this talk\, Professor Shafir first introduces his larger book project on “manuscript pamphlets\,” which he argues to be one of the new developments in the manuscript culture of the Ottoman Empire. Manuscript pamphlets were short and polemical texts that circulated across to the empire addressing many of the controversial social and religious issues of the time. They also were often aimed at semi-educated or partially literate readers. To understand pamphlets’ significance\, however\, one has to explore first how Ottoman subjects read and were educated. He argues that although the notion of partial literacy has been quite helpful\, it continues to hold an unexamined ideology of reading\, in which all acts of reading in the Ottoman Empire are ultimately replicable and uniform. In the early modern Ottoman Empire however the process of reading differed drastically depending on a reader’s intellectual formation and schooling\, the genre\, and the language in which they read and wrote. The “partially literate” did not just read slowly or poorly\, they read texts in an actively different way than the educated. This was especially true in regard to the auxiliary sciences of language—that is\, grammar\, rhetoric\, logic\, and disputation—that madrasa-trained scholars had made a central part of a scholar’s training. Pamphlets lay at the intersection of these different types of reading and readers. \n \nNir Shafir is an assistant professor of history at the University of California\, San Diego. His research explores the cultural and intellectual life of the Ottoman Empire between 1400-1800. He is currently preparing his first monograph\, Pamphleteering Islam in the Ottoman Empire: Politics and Polemics in a Manuscript Culture\, which examines the social effects of manuscript “pamphlets” on the religious life of the Ottoman Empire. He is a member of the editorial team of the Ottoman History Podcast\, the most popular podcast on Middle Eastern and Islamic history\, and served as editor-in-chief of the podcast in 2018. \n  \nThis talk is presented by the Humanities Institute and the Center for Middle East and North Africa as part of the UC Junior Faculty Exchange Series\, sponsored by the UC Humanities Network and UC Humanities Research Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nir-shafir/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201007T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201007T133000
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SUMMARY:Kelly Gillespie\, Asher Gamedze & Rasigan Maharajh — Re/Distribute: Three Radical Economists on (Post)Apartheid (film screening + discussion)
DESCRIPTION:Two radical collectives in South Africa working inside and outside the academy to agitate against ongoing histories of dispossession consider what redistribution means in the most unequal national context on earth. This 50-minute film looks at how the promises of redistribution in the anti-apartheid liberation movement were foreclosed during the transition out of apartheid in South Africa. The film features three left economists who were active in the anti-apartheid movement but have lived through a transition in which the promise and idea of redistribution was abandoned as South Africa inserted a post-apartheid project into global processes of financialization and neoliberalization. \nWe will screen the film and then discuss it with filmmakers Asher Gamedze and Kelly Gillespie and featured economist Rasigan Maharajh. \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, October 7th to receive Zoom link and password. \n \nKelly Gillespie is a political and legal anthropologist and cultural worker with a research focus on criminal justice and abolition in South Africa. She works at the department of Anthropology at the University of the Western Cape. She writes and teaches about urbanism\, violence\, sexualities\, race\, and the praxis of social justice. In 2008 she co-founded the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism (JWTC). \nAsher Gamedze is a cultural worker based in Cape Town\, South Africa\, working mainly as a musician\, student\, and writer. He is also involved\, as an organiser and an educator\, with various cultural and political collectives such as Fulan Fulan\, The Interim\, and Radical Education Network. His debut album\, dialectic soul\, was released in July 2020. \nRasigan Maharajh is an activist scholar whose research focuses on the political economy of innovation and development\, including the changing world of work\, democratic governance\, and ecological reconstruction. He is the founding Chief Director of the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation based at the Tshwane University of Technology and Professor Extraordinary of the Centre for Research on Evaluation\, Science and Technology at Stellenbosch University. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies.* \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-cultural-studies-colloquium/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200925T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200925T180000
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SUMMARY:Christopher Nelson: Eisa - Drumming\, Dancing and Memory
DESCRIPTION:With the beginning of the 2020 – 2021 school term on the near horizon the OMI team is delighted to announce their next program! \nProfessor Chris Nelson (UNC Chapel Hill) will be joining OMI to discuss Eisa\, Obon\, dancing and cultural memory in contemporary Okinawa. Professor Nelson is an anthropologist who published a study of Eisa called Dancing with the Dead: Memory\, Performance and Everyday Life in Post-War Okinawa (Duke University Press\, 2008). \nOMI Director Alan Christy will lead the conversation with Professor Nelson\, exploring his study and discussing one of Okinawa’s key cultural traditions. \n \nChristopher T Nelson is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina. The central theme of his research has been the transformational possibilities of everyday life. His recent book Dancing with the Dead: Memory\, Performance\, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa takes up this question\, building on several years of fieldwork that he carried out in Okinawa\, Japan. Through ethnographic and archival research\, he explored traditional forms of social organization and genres of ritual and performance. He studied the work of ethnographic comedians\, whose performances weave Okinawan folk humor\, Japanese traditional monologues and improvisational storytelling into sophisticated critiques of everyday life. He also worked with the youth group from which these performers emerged. In particular\, he examined their eisaa—dance for the dead—and its mediation of social relationships. His book provides close readings of these performances\, focusing on modalities of mourning\, memoration and creative action. \nHis current research project is focused on creative actors who were able to struggle against the constraints of the modern world in order to carve out a moment for meaningful activity. While he remains committed to the possibilities of daily life\, he feels it is also important to consider those for whom the burden of the everyday becomes unbearable. His new project Listening to the Bones: The Rhythms of Life and Death in Contemporary Japan takes up this problem. It involves the study of early Okinawan ethnologists such as Iha Fuyû; an ethnography of efforts to recover the remains of the Japanese war dead; as well as a critical exploration of Okinawan photography and experimental film. He is interested in the ways in which people negotiate the vortex of local knowledge\, Japanese nativist ethnology\, western anthropology and discourses of the state.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christopher-nelson-okinawa-memories-initiative/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200924T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200924T190000
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SUMMARY:David Eagleman\, Livewired
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author and neuroscientist David Eagleman will discuss his new book\, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain\, during a free online event on the Crowdcast platform. “Eagleman delivers an intellectually exhilarating look at neuroplasticity. In his view\, the brain’s ability to reconfigure connections between its different areas in response to feedback is ‘quite possibly the most gorgeous phenomenon in biology\,’ and also holds exciting practical applications. Eagleman’s skill as a teacher\, bold vision\, and command of current research will make this superb work a curious reader’s delight.” —Publishers Weekly \n \nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased here at Bookshop Santa Cruz’s website. \nIn Livewired\, Eagleman reveals the many ways in which the brain absorbs experience: developing\, redeploying\, organizing\, and arranging the data it receives from external stimuli\, which enables us to gain the skills\, facilities\, and practices that make us who we are. Eagleman covers decades of the most important research into the functioning of the brain and also presents new discoveries from his own research: about synesthesia\, dreaming\, and wearable devices that are revolutionizing how we think about the five human senses. As only Eagleman can\, along the way we learn why people in the 1980s (and only in the 1980s) saw book pages as slightly pink; why the world’s best archer is armless; why we dream each night\, and what that has to do with the rotation of the planet; what drug withdrawal has in common with a broken heart; how a blind person can learn to see with her tongue or a deaf person can learn to hear with his skin; and how we might someday be able to read the rough details of someone’s life from the microscopic structure etched in their forest of brain cells. \nDAVID EAGLEMAN\, PhD\, teaches brain plasticity at Stanford University\, was the writer and host of the Emmy-nominated television series The Brain\, and is the CEO of NeoSensory\, a company that builds brain/machine interfaces. He is the author of seven previous books\, including the international best sellers Incognito and Sum. He lives in Palo Alto\, California.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-david-eagleman-livewired/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200922T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200922T180000
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SUMMARY:The Deep Read | Margaret Atwood Live
DESCRIPTION:Margaret Atwood will join the UC Santa Cruz community for a free\, live\, virtual event on Tuesday September 22 at 4:30 PM PT. Part of The Humanities Institute’s Deep Read Program\, this event culminates months of in-depth programming and community engagement focused on Atwood’s latest Booker Prize-winning novel\, The Testaments\, a sequel to her 1985 classic The Handmaid’s Tale. \nRSVP TODAY\n\n\n\n\nThe 2020 Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture will feature Atwood in conversation with Kate Schatz (Stevenson ‘01\, Creative Writing)\, the New York Times-bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z . \n\n\n\nWilliam “Bro” Adams (Ph.D. History of Consciousness ’82)\, Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 2014 to 2017\, will be the event MC. \nRead Up\nBookshop Santa Cruz\, our Community Partner\, has put together a web shop of books by Margaret Atwood and Kate Schatz. Buy copies here to support a local business committed to culture and community in Santa Cruz.  \nYou can also catch up on our 4-week exploration of Atwood’s The Testaments from earlier in the year: \nWeek 1: Welcome to Gilead \nWeek 2: Feminist Intersections \nWeek 3: Toxic Bodies \nWeek 4: Atwood Answers \n\n\n\nAbout The Deep Read\nThe Deep Read is a program led by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. We invite curious minds to think deeply about literature\, art\, and the most pressing issues of our day. \nDeep Read Partners\nUC Santa Cruz \nThe Humanities Institute\nCollege Scholars Program\nCouncil of Provosts\nDivision of Student Success\nPorter College\nUniversity Library\nUniversity Relations \nCommunity\nBookshop Santa Cruz \n\n\n\nThe 2020 Deep Read Program is made possible through the generous support of the Helen and Will Webster Foundation.\n  \nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture is made possible through the generous support of the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Studies in Ethics.\nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by September 15th\, 2020.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-deep-read-margaret-atwood-live/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200911T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200911T170000
DTSTAMP:20260629T091539
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SUMMARY:Zoom Forward! Micah Perks & Karen Tei Yamashita
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Please join us for an online reading with Micah Perks and Karen Tei Yamashita\, part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series\, hosted by poet\, fiction writer\, and essayist Jory Post. Presented by phren-Z\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz to showcase writers\, keep our cultural spirits high\, and support Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nThe Zoom room will be open by 4:30\, so come early in case you have technical difficulties. If you need assistance\, send an email to jory@cruzio.com or hannah@santacruzwrites.org. Join the Santa Cruz Writes/phren-Z email list by subscribing here. Weekly Zoom links\, including for this event\, will be emailed to you.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-zoom-forward-micah-perks-karen-tei-yamashita/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200909T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200909T200000
DTSTAMP:20260629T091539
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses - Richard III
DESCRIPTION:Join actors\, scholars\, and friends for ten live readings and discussions focused on the plays about a divided society and a civil war that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. \n \nUndiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses 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 the works that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. As a young writer at the start of his career\, Shakespeare explored ambitions\, rivalries\, and passions that swept away the dynasty that had reigned in England for more than four centuries. Over the course of ten sessions\, we will immerse ourselves in these rarely performed plays—in Henry VI\, Parts 1\, 2\, and 3 and Richard III—and reflect on them both as points of departure for Shakespeare’s career and as a mirror for the times in which we live. \nSchedule: The first nine sessions will last approximately ninety minutes (including an intermission) and will begin at 6:30pm PST. The final session of Richard III will last approximately two and a half hours. \nSessions are free to the public\, and participants are not obligated to attend every meeting of the program. \n*Participants reading along should expect for the first meeting about each play to cover acts one and two; the second meeting to cover acts three and four; and the third meeting to cover act five. The session focussing on Richard III will be a live reading of the entire play. \nJuly 1\, 8\, and 15: Henry VI\, Part 1 – click to view play synopsis \nwith scholars Adam Zucker (UMass\, Amherst) and Ariane Helou (UCLA) \nJuly 22\, 29\, and Aug 5: Henry VI\, Part 2 – click to view play synopsis\nwith scholars Sean Keilen (UCSC) and Maria Frangos (SCS) \nAugust 12\, 19\, 26: Henry VI\, Part 3 – click to view play synopsis\nwith scholars Claire McEachern (UCLA) and Ashley Herum (UC Santa Cruz) \nSeptember 2: Richard III – click to view play synopsis — live reading of the full play (apx. 2.5 hours)\nwith scholar Amani Liggett (UC Santa Cruz) \nTexts available from Folger Shakespeare Library at: https://shakespeare.folger.edu/shakespeares-works/ \nPlay synopses available from Shakespeare 2020 Project at: https://iandoescher.com/shakespeare/ 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-undiscovered-shakespeare-the-wars-of-the-roses-richard-iii/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses - Henry VI\, Part 3
DESCRIPTION:Join actors\, scholars\, and friends for ten live readings and discussions focused on the plays about a divided society and a civil war that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. \n \nUndiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses 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 the works that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. As a young writer at the start of his career\, Shakespeare explored ambitions\, rivalries\, and passions that swept away the dynasty that had reigned in England for more than four centuries. Over the course of ten sessions\, we will immerse ourselves in these rarely performed plays—in Henry VI\, Parts 1\, 2\, and 3 and Richard III—and reflect on them both as points of departure for Shakespeare’s career and as a mirror for the times in which we live. \nSchedule: The first nine sessions will last approximately ninety minutes (including an intermission) and will begin at 6:30pm PST. The final session of Richard III will last approximately two and a half hours. \nSessions are free to the public\, and participants are not obligated to attend every meeting of the program. \n*Participants reading along should expect for the first meeting about each play to cover acts one and two; the second meeting to cover acts three and four; and the third meeting to cover act five. The session focussing on Richard III will be a live reading of the entire play. \nJuly 1\, 8\, and 15: Henry VI\, Part 1 – click to view play synopsis \nwith scholars Adam Zucker (UMass\, Amherst) and Ariane Helou (UCLA) \nJuly 22\, 29\, and Aug 5: Henry VI\, Part 2 – click to view play synopsis\nwith scholars Sean Keilen (UCSC) and Maria Frangos (SCS) \nAugust 12\, 19\, 26: Henry VI\, Part 3 – click to view play synopsis\nwith scholars Claire McEachern (UCLA) and Ashley Herum (UC Santa Cruz) \nSeptember 2: Richard III – click to view play synopsis — live reading of the full play (apx. 2.5 hours)\nwith scholar Amani Liggett (UC Santa Cruz) \nTexts available from Folger Shakespeare Library at: https://shakespeare.folger.edu/shakespeares-works/ \nPlay synopses available from Shakespeare 2020 Project at: https://iandoescher.com/shakespeare/  \nHenry VI\, Full Play Synopsis: In the wake of King Henry V’s death\, the French rebel against English rule. Joan la Pucelle (Joan of Arc) is made general of the French forces. Meanwhile\, in England\, a quarrel between two powerful lords\, the Duke of Somerset and Richard Plantagenet\, Duke of York\, consumes the court when they demand that fellow nobles pick a side by wearing either a red rose (Somerset and the house of Lancaster) or a white rose (the Duke and the house of York). The mounting tensions in the court distract the English from their goals in France\, and young King Henry VI concludes an uneasy peace. He is persuaded to marry a captured French princess\, Margaret of Anjou\, whom he has never met.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-undiscovered-shakespeare-the-wars-of-the-roses-henry-vi-part-3-3/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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