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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/
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240128T130000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240126T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240126T103000
DTSTAMP:20260617T151658
CREATED:20231015T214639Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240112T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240112T103000
DTSTAMP:20260617T151658
CREATED:20231015T213531Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231222T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231222T103000
DTSTAMP:20260617T151658
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231215T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231215T103000
DTSTAMP:20260617T151658
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231201T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231201T103000
DTSTAMP:20260617T151658
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231126T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231126T150000
DTSTAMP:20260617T151658
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LAST-MODIFIED:20231012T165125Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231117T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231117T103000
DTSTAMP:20260617T151658
CREATED:20231012T064803Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231018T221047Z
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231108
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231109
DTSTAMP:20260617T151658
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231027T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231027T103000
DTSTAMP:20260617T151658
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231022T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231022T150000
DTSTAMP:20260617T151658
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231017T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231017T133000
DTSTAMP:20260617T151658
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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
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230911T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230911T200000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230814T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230814T200000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230625T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230625T130000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230610T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230610T150000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230601T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230601T172000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230528T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230528T150000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230525T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230525T172000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230506T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230506T150000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230505T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230505T120000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230430T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230430T150000
DTSTAMP:20260617T151658
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230418T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230418T183000
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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/
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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/
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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
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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
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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
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – THI Public Fellowship Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Curious about becoming a THI Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia\, then you may be interested in THI’s Public Fellowship program. \nPublic fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute to research\, programming\, communications\, and fundraising at non-profit organizations\, cultural institutions\, or companies and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study. \nPlease join us for an information session about the 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
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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
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230212T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230212T140000
DTSTAMP:20260617T151658
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230210T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230210T100000
DTSTAMP:20260617T151658
CREATED:20220912T205811Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221208T173029Z
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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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230206T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230206T200000
DTSTAMP:20260617T151658
CREATED:20230119T001853Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230121T004055Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230126T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230126T203000
DTSTAMP:20260617T151658
CREATED:20230119T174100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230120T214333Z
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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:20260617T151658
CREATED:20220910T005548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220929T010907Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230120T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230120T100000
DTSTAMP:20260617T151658
CREATED:20220912T205409Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221208T172119Z
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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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230108T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230108T140000
DTSTAMP:20260617T151658
CREATED:20221209T215711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221209T221439Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221204T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221204T140000
DTSTAMP:20260617T151658
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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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221130T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221130T143000
DTSTAMP:20260617T151658
CREATED:20221020T233800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221129T222319Z
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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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221127T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221127T150000
DTSTAMP:20260617T151658
CREATED:20220910T005310Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220929T010522Z
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SUMMARY:Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts XI-XV
DESCRIPTION:Join Professor Karen Hattaway (San Jacinto College) for a series of discussions about the book that stunned Conrad and Dostoevsky.  \nOur Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens \nSept. 25\, Oct. 23\, Nov. 27\, and Jan. 22 at 1:00-3:00 PM (PDT) | Virtual Events \nCharles Dickens published Our Mutual Friend in twenty monthly parts from May 1864 to November 1865. It was the fourteenth and final novel in his vast corpus of novels\, only to be followed by The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)\, which remained unfinished at the time of his death. \nMurder\, Money\, Marriage\, and Mounds… of dust\, of human refuse\, of cultural debris\, of industrial by-production. These are the grand themes and objects this novel’s world spawns\, with such horrible inevitability you will think its Thames river-mud could foster spontaneous generation. For the world of Our Mutual Friend is a dirtied and cynical place. Here\, even literacy and education–the “power of knowledge” that give heart and decency to Pip and Biddy in Great Expectations–may become\, in the wrong hands\, mechanical instruments for self-aggrandizement. And the good may need all the wiles of the bad to manufacture a happy ending. \nReading Schedule \n\n\n\nSep. 25\nBook the First: The Cup and the Lip – Chapters 1-17\, Parts I-V\n\n\n\nOct. 23\nBook the Second: Birds of a Feather – Chapters 1-16\, Parts VI-X\n\n\n\nNov. 27\nBook the Third: A Long Lane – Chapters 1-17\, Parts XI-XV\n\n\n\nJan. 22\nBook the Fourth: A Turning – Chapters 1-16\, Parts XVI-XX\n\n\n\n\nThis series of discussions is presented by the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club / Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship with support from the Santa Cruz Public Libraries. \nMore information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/pickwick-club/index.html \nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpf-mppjsuHd3RdY9mqMeH-FloGyFbM-MQ
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/our-mutual-friend-discussion-series-parts-xi-xv/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221118T130000
DTSTAMP:20260617T151658
CREATED:20221107T182136Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221116T205757Z
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SUMMARY:Postponed - Meet the Editors: A Guide to Submitting and Publishing Your Academic Book
DESCRIPTION:This event is going to be rescheduled. \nMeet the Editors: A Guide to Submitting and Publishing Your Academic Book \nFaculty and graduate students from all UC campuses are welcome. The discussion will be geared towards those completing their first academic manuscripts. Q&A to follow. \n  \n \n  \n \n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nNiels Hooper\, Executive Editor\, University of California Press \nMargo Irvin\, Acquisitions Editor\, Stanford University Press \nKathleen McDermott\, Executive Editor for History\, Harvard University Press \nEric Porter\, Professor in History\, History of Consciousness\, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, UC Santa Cruz \n  \n  \nPresented by the Institute of Arts and Humanities\, UC San Diego
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/meet-the-editors-a-guide-to-submitting-and-publishing-your-academic-book/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221118T112000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221118T130000
DTSTAMP:20260617T151658
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:20260617T151658
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:20260617T151658
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
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221106T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221106T140000
DTSTAMP:20260617T151658
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221102T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221102T173000
DTSTAMP:20260617T151658
CREATED:20220919T231314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221027T194854Z
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SUMMARY:Alberto Ortiz-Díaz – Carceral Care: Health Professionals and the Living Dead in Colonial Puerto Rico’s Sanitary City\, 1920s-1940s
DESCRIPTION:Using an array of primary sources\, this talk explores the early history of the Río Piedras sanitary city or medical corridor\, a transnationally and imperially inspired built environment and complex of welfare institutions (a tuberculosis hospital\, an insane asylum\, and a penitentiary) constructed and consolidated on the margins of San Juan by Puerto Rico’s colonial-populist state between the 1920s and 40s. Within and across these institutional spaces\, health professionals contributed to the production of medicalized scientific knowledge and cared for and socially regulated racialized\, pathologized Puerto Ricans. Penitentiary “living dead” (incarcerated people)\, in particular\, were subjected to research and received treatment\, but also provided health labor that put them at risk while powering the sanitary city and nurturing its inhabitants. Crucially\, however\, some prisoners managed to exploit the unthinkable openness of the complex\, revealing in the process that the living dead could only be buried alive for so long. \n \nThis talk is part of the Sawyer Seminar “Race\, Empire\, and Environments of Biomedicine.” Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute. \nThe talk will occur virtually and guests can register to join the Zoom conference ahead of the event. \nAlberto Ortiz Díaz is assistant professor of history at the University of Texas\, Arlington\, and currently a Larson Fellow at the Kluge Center\, Library of Congress. His first book\, Raising the Living Dead: Rehabilitative Corrections in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean\, is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press in March 2023. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alberto-ortiz-diaz-carceral-care-health-professionals-and-the-living-dead-in-colonial-puerto-ricos-sanitary-city-1920s-1940s/
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SUMMARY:A Tamiment Book Talk with Bettina Aptheker
DESCRIPTION:Presented by NYU Libraries – Join scholar activists Bettina Aptheker and Judith Smith as they discuss Aptheker’s most recent book Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s. \n \nCommunists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s explores the history of gay\, lesbian\, and non-heterosexual people in the Communist Party in the United States. \nThe Communist Party banned lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, and transgender (LGBT) people from membership beginning in 1938 when it cast them off as “degenerates.” It persisted in this policy until 1991. During this 60-year ban\, gays and lesbians who did join the Communist Party were deeply closeted within it\, as well as in their public lives as both queer and Communist. By the late 1930s\, the Communist Party had a membership approaching 100\,000 and tens of thousands more people moved in its orbit through the Popular Front against fascism\, anti-racist organizing\, especially in the south\, and its widely read cultural magazine\, The New Masses. Based on a decade of archival research\, correspondence\, and interviews\, Bettina Aptheker explores this history\, also pulling from her own experience as a closeted lesbian in the Communist Party in the 1960s and ‘70s. Ironically\, and in spite of this homophobia\, individual Communists laid some of the political and theoretical foundations for lesbian and gay liberation and women’s liberation\, and contributed significantly to peace\, social justice\, civil rights\, and Black and Latinx liberation movements. \nBettina Aptheker is Distinguished Professor Emerita\, Feminist Studies\, University of California\, Santa Cruz where she taught for more than 40 years\, and had over 17\,000 students in the course of her career. An activist-scholar she co-led the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley in 1964\, and the National Student Mobilization Committee To End the War in Vietnam. She was a member of the Communist Party from 1962-1981. She has been part of the LGBT movement since the late 1970s\, She has published several books including\, The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis\, Tapestries of Life: Women’s Work\, Women’s Consciousness and the Meaning of Daily Experience\, and a memoir\, Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red\, Fought for Free Speech & Became A Feminist Rebel that was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in 2006. She and her wife\, Kate Miller\, have been together since 1979. They live in Santa Cruz. \nJudith Smith is Professor of American Studies Emerita at University of Massachusetts Boston\, where she taught cultural history since 1945 and history of media and film. She is the author of Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist\, Public Radical (2014) and Visions of Belonging: Family Stories\, Popular Culture\, and Postwar Democracy\, 1940-1960 (2004). Her published essays explored how writers on the left addressed popular audiences on radio in the 1930s and 1940s\, live television drama in the 1950s\, and in film from the mid 1940s to the mid 1960s. She served as researcher/consultant for the recent documentary\, Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart: Lorraine Hansberry (2018). \nLive closed captioning will be available.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/62746/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Tariq Thachil – Who Governs in India's Small Towns? Notes from Rajasthan's Nagar Palikas
DESCRIPTION:“Who Governs in India’s Small Towns” will take place on October 28\, 2022 from 10am to 12pm PST\, and is a part of the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies 2022-2023 lecture series\, Futures.  Guests can register to attend the virtual event here. \nSpeaker: \nProfessor Tariq Thachil (University of Pennsylvania)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tariq-thachil-who-governs-in-indias-small-towns-notes-from-rajasthans-nagar-palikas/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Joan Scott - The Professor of Desire: Charles Fourier's Sexual Utopia
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department is pleased present their upcoming speaker series this fall quarter and invites you to join them. These will be hybrid events\, hosted in-person in Humanities 1 Room 420 & virtually via Zoom\, except for the talk on October 25th which will only be on Zoom. The Zoom link for all talks is the same\, and can be accessed by clicking the “Join” button below. The October 25th “The Professor of Desire: Charles Fourier’s Sexual Utopia” talk will be given by Joan Scott from the Institute for Advanced Study. \n \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gianluca-bonaiuti-domesticity-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221023T130000
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SUMMARY:Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts VI-X
DESCRIPTION:Join Professor Karen Hattaway (San Jacinto College) for a series of discussions about the book that stunned Conrad and Dostoevsky.  \nOur Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens \nSept. 25\, Oct. 23\, Nov. 27\, and Jan. 22 at 1:00-3:00 PM (PDT) | Virtual Events \nCharles Dickens published Our Mutual Friend in twenty monthly parts from May 1864 to November 1865. It was the fourteenth and final novel in his vast corpus of novels\, only to be followed by The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)\, which remained unfinished at the time of his death. \nMurder\, Money\, Marriage\, and Mounds… of dust\, of human refuse\, of cultural debris\, of industrial by-production. These are the grand themes and objects this novel’s world spawns\, with such horrible inevitability you will think its Thames river-mud could foster spontaneous generation. For the world of Our Mutual Friend is a dirtied and cynical place. Here\, even literacy and education–the “power of knowledge” that give heart and decency to Pip and Biddy in Great Expectations–may become\, in the wrong hands\, mechanical instruments for self-aggrandizement. And the good may need all the wiles of the bad to manufacture a happy ending. \nReading Schedule \n\n\n\nSep. 25\nBook the First: The Cup and the Lip – Chapters 1-17\, Parts I-V\n\n\n\nOct. 23\nBook the Second: Birds of a Feather – Chapters 1-16\, Parts VI-X\n\n\n\nNov. 27\nBook the Third: A Long Lane – Chapters 1-17\, Parts XI-XV\n\n\n\nJan. 22\nBook the Fourth: A Turning – Chapters 1-16\, Parts XVI-XX\n\n\n\n\nThis series of discussions is presented by the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club / Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship with support from the Santa Cruz Public Libraries. \nMore information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/pickwick-club/index.html \nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpf-mppjsuHd3RdY9mqMeH-FloGyFbM-MQ
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/our-mutual-friend-discussion-series-parts-vi-x/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Living Writers:  Tonya Foster\, Conversation with Ronaldo V. Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Tonya Foster in conversation with Ronaldo V. Wilson\, as part of the George and Judy Marcus Chair in Poetry Reading\, presented in collaboration with The Poetry Center and San Francisco State University. \n \nConversations: Power Forged\, the Fall Living Writers theme\, features poets\, novelists\, academics\, curators\, and artists in conversation with one another\, in person\, across genre and media to open up a space between them\, and all of us\, within dialogue\, collaboration\, politics\, intimacy and difference which poet and activist Audre Lorde describes as that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged. Between legacies\, institutions\, families\, embodiments and homes; across race\, gender\, sexuality\, and class\, guests will explore just how. The Fall 2022 series is co-sponsored by the Center for Racial Justice. \nTonya M. Foster is a poet\, essayist\, and Black feminist scholar. She is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court\, the bilingual chapbook La Grammaire des Os; and co-editor of Third Mind: Teaching Creative Writing through Visual Art. Her writing and research focus on poetry\, poetics\, ideas of place and emplacement\, and on intersections between the visual and the written. Dr. Foster is a poetry editor at Fence Magazine and a member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto. Forthcoming publications include poetry collections—Thingifications (Ugly Duckling Presse) and AHotB (A History of the Bitch); anthologies—The Umbra Galaxy (Wesleyan University Press) (a 2-volume compendium on the Umbra Writers Workshop)\, and New Writing\, New Flesh: An Anthology (Nightboat Books)\, an anthology of experimental creative drafts. Her poetry and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in Other Influences (MIT Press)\, New Weathers Anthology (Nightboat Books); The Difference Is Spreading: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems (UPenn Press); the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day online journal\, Entropy Magazine\, the A-Line Journal\, Callaloo\, boundary2\, TripWire\, Poetry Project Newsletter\, The Harvard Review\, Best American Experimental Writing\, Letters to the Future: Black Women/Radical Writing\, and elsewhere. She was a member of the multi-disciplinary advisory committee for the ground-breaking exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America at the Museum of Modern Art\, New York\, NY. Her essay for the exhibition’s 2021 field guide\, “Time\, Memory\, and Living in Shotgun Houses in the South of the South City of New Orleans\,” extends her meditations on place and poetics. She is a 2021 Lisa Goldberg fellow at the Radcliffe Institute @ Harvard\, a Creative Capital awardee\, a recipient of awards from Macdowell\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, New York Foundation for the Arts\, the San Francisco Museum of the African Diaspora\, and the Ford and Mellon Foundations\, among others. Dr. Foster holds the George and Judy Marcus Endowed Chair in Poetry at San Francisco State University. She is a new resident in a decades old Emeryville artist’s co-operative. \nRonaldo V. Wilson\, PhD\, poet\, interdisciplinary artist\, and academic\, is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man\, winner of the Cave Canem Prize; Poems of the Black Object\, winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry; Farther Traveler: Poetry\, Prose\, Other\, finalist for a Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry; and Lucy 72. His latest books are Carmelina: Figures and Virgil Kills: Stories. The recipient of numerous fellowships\, including Cave Canem\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Ford Foundation\, Kundiman\, MacDowell\, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation\, and Yaddo\, Wilson is Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at U.C. Santa Cruz\, serving on the core faculty of the Creative Critical PhD Program; principal faculty member of CRES (Critical Race and Ethnic Studies); and affiliate faculty member of DANM (Digital Arts and New Media).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-tonya-foster-in-conversation-with-ronaldo-v-wilson/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Asli Bâli – From Revolution to Devolution? Dilemmas of Federalism & Decentralization in the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:“From Revolution to Devolution? Dilemmas of Federalism and Decentralization in the Middle East” \nThis seminar engages in a qualitative comparison of four experiences with decentralization in the Middle East to explore the ways in which decentralized governance arrangements might address governance crises\, identity-based conflict and self-determination demands in the Middle East. Bâli argues that the failure to engage with these and other experiences in the MENA region in the growing literature on decentralization in comparative politics and law produces gaps in both the institutional design strategies available in the prescriptions derived from the literature\, and also in our accounts of the region that focus exclusively on the macro politics of authoritarianism without paying attention to experiments on the ground that have sought to formulate alternative governance strategies. \n \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and the Legal Studies Program. \nAslı Bâli is Professor of Law at the Yale Law School. Previously\, she was on the faculty at the UCLA School of Law where she was Faculty Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights\, a core faculty member of the Critical Race Studies Program and served as the Director of the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. Bâli’s research focuses on two broad areas: public international law—including human rights law and the law of the international security order—and comparative constitutional law\, with a focus on the Middle East. Her scholarship has appeared in leading international and comparative law reviews and peer reviewed journals such as the American Journal of International Law\,  International Journal of Constitutional Law and Law & Social Inquiry; her edited volume Constitution Writing\, Religion and Democracy was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017 and a second edited volume\, Identity Conflict\, Governance and Decentralization in the Middle East is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2022. She received her J.D. from Yale\, her M.Phil. from Cambridge University and her Ph.D in Politics from Princeton University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/asli-bali-from-revolution-to-devolution-dilemmas-of-federalism-and-decentralization-in-the-middle-east/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Renée Fox – The Necromantics: Reanimation\, the Historical Imagination\, and Victorian British and Irish Literature
DESCRIPTION:Victorian Necromancies with Professor Renée Fox \nAs part of the series “Victorian Necromancies\,” Professor Fox will lead three sessions that offer the Friends an opportunity to explore the Victorian gothic\, one of her favorite genres of 19th-century literature. \nFrom Professor Fox: “The first session will be a presentation on my forthcoming book\, The Necromantics: Reanimation\, the Historical Imagination\, and Victorian British and Irish Literature\, and the second two sessions will be discussions of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula (1897). Although I don’t write about Dracula very much in my book\, I chose it for these sessions for a few reasons: as an Irishman living in London for much of his adult life\, Stoker has always been important to my work on the intersections between Irish and British writing at the end of the 19th century\, and Dracula is a deeply weird novel that I think everyone should read and talk about. I’m also really interested in adaptation (I think about it as a form of reanimation)\, and Dracula offers a fantastic opportunity not just to talk about the text’s many adaptations across the last 125 years\, but also to talk about the novel’s own investments in questions of originality and reproduction.” \nRenée Fox is an assistant professor in the Literature Department at UC Santa Cruz\, where she teaches classes in Victorian Studies\, Irish Studies\, the gothic\, and popular culture. She is the 2022 Autumn Friends of the DickensProject Faculty Fellow. \nVirtual Sessions \n\n\n\nBook Talk: The Necromantics: Reanimation\, the Historical Imagination\, and Victorian British and Irish Literature\nOctober 2\, 20222:00 PM PDT\n\n\n\nDiscussion: Dracula (Beginning to Chapter 16)\nNovember 6\, 20222:00 PM PST\n\n\n\nDiscussion: Dracula (Chapter 17 to End)\nDecember 4\, 20222:00 PM PST\n\n\n\n\nMore Information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/programs/friends-faculty-fellows/victorian-necromancies.html \nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkf–hpz8rEtTZRTrhuGsHGRsIQJSVlahR
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/renee-fox-the-necromantics-reanimation-the-historical-imagination-and-victorian-british-and-irish-literature/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220930T120000
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SUMMARY:The People Revolt: Sri Lanka
DESCRIPTION:The People Revolt: Sri Lanka\,” will take place on September 30\, 2022 from 12pm to 2pm PST\, and is presented by the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies as a part of their 2022-2023 lecture series\, Futures. This event is co-organized by the Center for South Asian Studies and Stanford University. \n \nPanelists: \n\nFarzana Haniffa Professor (Department of Sociology\, University of Colombo)\nSwasthika Arulingam (Human rights lawyer and women’s rights activist)\nMarisa De Silva (Feminist activist\, Coordinator for the People’s Alliance for Right to Land)\n\nModerators: \n\nSharika Thiranagama (Stanford University)\nAnjali Arondekar (UC Santa Cruz)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-people-revolt-sri-lanka/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220925T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220925T130000
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SUMMARY:Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts I-V
DESCRIPTION:Join Professor Karen Hattaway (San Jacinto College) for a series of discussions about the book that stunned Conrad and Dostoevsky.  \nOur Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens \nSept. 25\, Oct. 23\, Nov. 27\, and Jan. 22 at 1:00-3:00 PM (PDT) | Virtual Events \nCharles Dickens published Our Mutual Friend in twenty monthly parts from May 1864 to November 1865. It was the fourteenth and final novel in his vast corpus of novels\, only to be followed by The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)\, which remained unfinished at the time of his death. \nMurder\, Money\, Marriage\, and Mounds… of dust\, of human refuse\, of cultural debris\, of industrial by-production. These are the grand themes and objects this novel’s world spawns\, with such horrible inevitability you will think its Thames river-mud could foster spontaneous generation. For the world of Our Mutual Friend is a dirtied and cynical place. Here\, even literacy and education–the “power of knowledge” that give heart and decency to Pip and Biddy in Great Expectations–may become\, in the wrong hands\, mechanical instruments for self-aggrandizement. And the good may need all the wiles of the bad to manufacture a happy ending. \nReading Schedule \n\n\n\n\nSep. 25 \n\n\nBook the First: The Cup and the Lip – Chapters 1-17\, Parts I-V \n\n\n\n\n\nOct. 23 \n\n\nBook the Second: Birds of a Feather – Chapters 1-16\, Parts VI-X \n\n\n\n\n\nNov. 27 \n\n\nBook the Third: A Long Lane – Chapters 1-17\, Parts XI-XV \n\n\n\n\n\nJan. 22 \n\n\nBook the Fourth: A Turning – Chapters 1-16\, Parts XVI-XX \n\n\n\n\n\nThis series of discussions is presented by the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club / Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship with support from the Santa Cruz Public Libraries. \nMore information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/pickwick-club/index.html \nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpf-mppjsuHd3RdY9mqMeH-FloGyFbM-MQ
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/our-mutual-friend-discussion-series-parts-i-v/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220812T140000
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SUMMARY:Center for Racial Justice Summer Institute 2022
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Racial Justice presents:\nSummer Institute 2022: Political Education and Liberatory Knowledge \nDates: August 10-12\, 2022\nTime: 10:00am–2:00pm PT \nClick below to register:\nDay 1 (August 10th)\nDay 2 (August 11th)\nDay 3 (August 12th) \nCheck crjucsc.com for more detailed information to follow.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-racial-justice-summer-institute-2022/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220624T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220624T140000
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SUMMARY:Digital Humanities Workshop Series 2022: Virtual & Augmented Reality
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the fourth meeting of the Digital Humanities Workshop Series 2022. Learn how to use AR/VR for your projects to enhance your user’s experience. This event covers available game engines\, software\, and services; using VR/AR for exhibits or teaching; and a demonstration on how to create an interactive\, digital environmentNo prior experience is necessary to attend this event.  \nSpeaker: Yuri Cantrell\, Humanities UX/Digital Media Specialist \nSponsored by the Humanities Division\, The Humanities Institute\, Information Technology Services (ITS)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-humanities-workshop-series-2022-virtual-augmented-reality/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220613T183000
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SUMMARY:Slugs & Steins: Jennifer Lynn Kelly - Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Drawing from her research on solidarity tours in Palestine\, Jennifer Kelly shows how solidarity tourism in Palestine functions as a fraught localized political strategy\, and an emergent industry\, through which Palestinian organizers refashion conventional tourism to the region by extending deliberately truncated invitations to tourists to come to Palestine and witness the effects of Israeli state practice on Palestinian land and lives. She shows how Palestinian organizers both extend and redefine this invitation to witness\, as well as intervene in tourist demands for evidence and desire for performances of trauma by asking tourists to instead confront the violence of their own desire in Palestine. She also details the conditions that have led Palestinians to make their case through solidarity tourism in the first place\, describing the ways in which tourists travel to Palestine to see the effects of Israeli occupation for themselves despite the volumes of literature Palestinians have produced on their own condition. In this way\, Kelly shows how Palestinian organizers\, under the constraints of military occupation\, and in a context in which they do not control their borders or the historical narrative\, wrest both the capacity to invite and\, in Edward Said’s words\, “the permission to narrate” from Israeli control. \n \nJennifer Lynn Kelly is an Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at University of California\, Santa Cruz. Her research broadly engages questions of settler colonialism\, U.S. empire\, and the fraught politics of both tourism and solidarity. Her first book\, Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine (Duke University Press\, Spring 2023)\, is a multi-sited interdisciplinary ethnographic study of solidarity tourism in Palestine. In it\, she analyzes the ways in which solidarity tourism has emerged in Palestine as an organizing strategy that is both embedded in and working against histories of sustained displacement. Her next project\, co-edited with Somdeep Sen (Rothskilde University) and Lila Sharif (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine\, an edited volume in the Detours Series at Duke University Press.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slugs-steins-jennifer-lynn-kelley-invited-to-witness-solidarity-tourism-across-occupied-palestine/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220603T130000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Research Development
DESCRIPTION:Research Development \nLearn how to make your fellowship and grant proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss what does and does not need to be in a research proposal\, the proper tone and form\, and ways to tease out the larger stakes of individual research projects and avoid the jargon of field-specific descriptions. This session will help you craft a research proposal that appeals to a broad academic audience. \nThe workshop will be led by Sharon Kinoshita (Professor\, Literature). Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (THI Research Program Manager)\, Hannah Jasper (Research Development Analyst for the Arts Research Institute)\, and Eric Sneathen (THI Research Development GSR). \nSharon Kinoshita is a Professor of Literature. She co-directs the mediterraneanseminar.org and has been PI or co-PI for a five-year UC Multicampus Research Project\, a UC Humanities Research Institute Residential Research Group\, and four National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institutes in Mediterranean Studies. She has served as first- or final-round fellowship reviewer for the ACLS\, the Stanford Humanities Center\, the American Academy in Berlin\, and other institutions. \nSaskia Nauenberg Dunkell is the Research Program Manager at THI. She joined THI in 2019 to manage the Mellon-funded Expanding Humanities Impact and Publics project. This project supports graduate student success and public scholarship through a range of events\, workshops\, and initiatives. Saskia is a humanistic social scientist and holds a PhD in sociology from UCLA. \nHannah Jasper is a Research Development Analyst for the Arts Research Institute. She is an arts administrator\, curator\, researcher\, and writer who has worked for the last ten years helping to preserve and uplift critically important and yet unexamined stories. Hannah has contributed to developing new and ongoing projects at many distinguished arts and cultural organizations throughout the United States\, including the University of Chicago\, Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events\, The Children’s Museum of Art and Social Justice\, The Ed Paschke Art Center\, and Culture Saving. \nEric Sneathen is the Arts and Humanities Research and Development GSR for 2021-2022. He is a poet and queer literary historian living in Oakland. From 2019-2020\, he was a THI Public Fellow working with the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco to complete the San Francisco ACT UP Oral History Project\, funded by California Humanities. His writing and scholarship have been supported by a number of grants and fellowships from UCSC\, UC San Diego\, and the University of Buffalo. In June he’ll be graduating with a PhD in Literature\, with a concentration in Creative-Critical Studies. \n  \nLoading… \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/research-development/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:The Center for Racial Justice Presents: War Against Our Schools: Film Screening and Collaborative Viewing Guide Launch
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a screening of La Guerra Contra Nuestras Escuelas/ War Against our Schools\, a documentary project exploring the short and long term impact of school closings and privatization in Puerto Rico. After the screening\, we will unveil the collaborative viewing guide created by Defend Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rico Syllabus to accompany the film. The guide features a microsyllabus exploring topics from the film\, teaching tools\, and advocacy resources that can be used in educational and community settings. Together\, the film and viewing guide explore and historicize threats to public education in Puerto Rico and provide avenues for action needed to defend our schools. \n \nFeatured Speakers: \n\nMarisol Lebron\nYarimar Bonilla\nIsabel Guzzardo\nMikey Cordero\nSarah Molinari\nFrances Medina\n\nBilingual Interpretation Provided By: Babilla Collective
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-center-for-racial-justice-presents-war-against-our-schools-film-screening-and-collaborative-viewing-guide-launch/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220524T180000
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SUMMARY:The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies: A Conversation with Ethan Michaeli
DESCRIPTION:Please join us The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies\, which promises to be a lively conversation between Ethan Michaeli\, award-winning author of the new book\, Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel\, and Nathaniel Deutsch\, Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Taking place on May 24th at 6:00 PM. \nRSVP to attend virtually here. \nTwelve Tribes explores tribalism in Israel and Palestine by weaving together personal histories of ordinary citizens from all walks of life\, revealing the land’s extraordinary\, polyphonic diversity as well as its volatility. An American Jew with close family in Israel\, Michaeli used his background and language skills to gain access to Israelis and Palestinians of all sectors during his travels across the country over four crucial years. Michaeli met with the aging revolutionaries who founded Israel’s kibbutz movement and the young people working for the country’s booming Big Tech companies\, Ethiopian Jews and ultra-Orthodox Haredim. Twelve Tribes examines Israeli-Palestinian relations at the grassroots level with portraits of Palestinian citizens of Israel and those living in the territory ruled by the Palestinian Authority\, as well as Israeli settlers and soldiers\, illuminating how the conflicts there have global consequences. The book also explores the rapidly changing relationship between Israel and the United States\, whose political interactions are increasingly fraught even as their military industries and even legal systems are more enmeshed. \nEthan Michaeli is an award-winning author\, educator and publisher whose latest book\, Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel (Custom House\, 2021)\, was praised by The New York Times Book Review\, which noted that “…illuminating conversations with a wide variety of ordinary people — ultra-Orthodox Jews\, Holocaust survivors\, aging kibbutzniks\, Ethiopian and Russian immigrants\, Arab citizens of Israel\, Jewish settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank — fill the pages of this richly descriptive book.” The New York Times applauded Ethan’s first book The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America\, (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2016) as “a towering achievement that will not be soon forgotten.” The Defender was named a Notable Book of 2016 by The New York Times\, The Washington Post and Amazon\, awarded the Best Non Fiction of 2016 prizes from the Chicago Writers Association as well as the Midland Authors Association\, and placed on the short list for the Mark Lynton Prize. \n\nThis event is made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Endowment and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-helen-diller-distinguished-lecture-in-jewish-studies-a-conversation-with-ethan-michaeli/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220524T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220524T163000
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SUMMARY:Conversation on The Celine Archive with Filmmaker and Arts Dean Celine Parreñas
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Racial Justice presents a conversation on The Celine Archive with Filmmaker and Arts Dean Celine Parreñas. \nIn 1932\, Celine Navarro was buried alive by her own community of Filipino Americans in northern California. Filmmaker Celine Parreñas Shimizu\, finding kinship with Navarro’s long-lost story\, exhumes her tragic life story while trying to unravel the mystery of her murder. This documentary paints a vivid portrait of the early Filipino migrant community\, creating space not just for a reckoning with the haunting violence of Navarro’s murder\, but also belated community grief. \n \nPlease view the film in advance. After registering\, you will receive two links that will enable you to do the following: \n\nView The Celine Archive (available from 5/12-5/26)\nJoin the May 24 webinar\n\n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/conversation-on-the-celine-archive/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220522T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220522T150000
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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship: A Tale of Two Cities
DESCRIPTION:A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It is the story of the French Doctor Manette\, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris\, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met. The story details the conditions that led to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. \nIts central themes–cultural and historical difference\, the nature of political revolution and change\, the identity and narration of the self\, sacrifice\, secrecy heroism–find expression through an often weird or gothic concern with bodies and their doubles\, split identities\, and the uncertain boundaries of life and death. \nJoin Wayne Batten and the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship for a series of discussions about Dickens’s most enduring–and shortest!–novels.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-dickens-fellowship-a-tale-of-two-cities/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220517T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220517T113000
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SUMMARY:The Stories of Pilipino Migrant Labor in San Jose: Challenging the Neoliberal Export Labor Policy of the Philippines
DESCRIPTION:Pilipinx Historical Dialogue: The purpose of this course is to foster an interactive conversation and space of political education amongst participants regarding Pilipinx history\, diaspora\, organizing\, and culture. \n \nPresented by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Racial Justice.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-stories-of-pilipino-migrant-labor-in-san-jose-challenging-the-neoliberal-export-labor-policy-of-the-philippines/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220513T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220513T190000
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SUMMARY:Jed Buchwald - "Isaac Newton and the Origin of Civilization"
DESCRIPTION:Isaac Newton\, who renovated the foundations of mathematics\, optics\, and mechanics in the 17th century\, aimed also to overturn the entire history of civilization. By the late 1690s Newton had become convinced that the natural rate of population growth implied that elaborately organized social life had not arisen until near the time of Solomon’s kingdom. He canvassed ancient texts for words that could be pruned and transformed into supporting evidence – deploying in the process the earliest known procedures for handling discrepant data\, and reconstructing the very plan of Solomon’s temple. Here we will find Newton’s unorthodox religious convictions interacting in complex ways with the new methods that he had introduced into experimental science. And we will also see how the most sophisticated of techniques can produce error when data is massaged to fit a strongly-held conviction. \n*Due to unforeseen circumstances\, this year’s event will only be held online. Join us by registering for the webinar here: \n \n  \nJed Z. Buchwald is the Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History at Caltech. After earning degrees in physics and science history at Princeton and Harvard\, Professor Buchwald taught for twenty years at the University of Toronto. After several years as director of the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, he moved to the California Institute of Technology in 2001. He has authored or co-authored six books in the history of science and\, more recently\, on the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Buchwald is a member of the American Philosophical Society\, the International Academy of the History of Science\, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was also a MacArthur Fellow in 1995. \n  \n\nInaugural Nauenberg History of Science Lecture\nThe Nauenberg History of Science Lecture was established in honor of Michael Nauenberg\, a founding faculty member in the Physics Department at UCSC who came to the campus in 1966. During his distinguished academic career\, he contributed to a remarkably broad range of fields\, including particle physics\, condensed matter physics\, astrophysics\, chaos theory\, fluid dynamics\, and the history of physics in the 17th-18th centuries. \nAmongst Professor Nauenberg’s passions\, he deeply believed in the importance of interdisciplinary scholarship connecting the sciences with the humanities. Following his retirement in 1994\, he pursued his long-standing interests in the history of science\, writing books and articles about Joseph Banks\, Robert Hooke\, Christiaan Huygens\, and Isaac Newton. In 2013\, he became the only scientist to receive the University of California Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award\, an honor normally given to Professors in the Humanities and Social Sciences. When Professor Nauenberg passed away in 2019\, the UCSC Emeriti Association and the Nauenberg family established a History of Science Lecture series in the spirit of his 1999 proposal. \nYou can support the lecture series by contributing here. \nThe Nauenberg History of Science Lecture is presented by the UCSC Emeriti Association and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jed-buchwald-isaac-newton-and-the-origin-of-civilization/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220512T172000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Soham Patel
DESCRIPTION:LIVING WRITERS UCSC\, SPRING 2022 presents: CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS \nCELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS showcases interdisciplinary writers who deeply engage in various sonic forms\, whether the libretto and the operatic\, sound and visual art\, acoustic music and songwriting\, or embodied meditations to explore the possibilities in being attentive to sound\, as action and celebrant through writing. This hybrid series features an array of writers and artists who work across several modes (text\, multi-media\, meditation\, and performance) exploring what happens between sound and/as verbal language\, rendering its effects and configurations through poetry\, prose\, and sound inspired and activated interdisciplinary writing practices. \n \nSoham Patel\, daughter of immigrants to the U.S. by way of Uganda\, India\, and the United Kingdom\, Patel was born in Lincoln\, England and raised in rural North Dakota. She is the author of the poetry collections to afar from afar (The Accomplices)\, ever really hear it (Subito\, [winner of the 2017 Subito Prize\, chosen by Mathias Svalina])\, the forthcoming all one in the end—water (Delete\, 2022)\, and the chapbooks and nevermind the storm\, New Weather Drafts (Portable Press @Yo-Yo Labs)\, and in airplane and other poems (oxeye press). She is an editor at The Georgia Review and Fence. \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-soham-patel/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220509T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220509T150000
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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: A Tale of Two Cities
DESCRIPTION:A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It is the story of the French Doctor Manette\, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris\, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met. The story details the conditions that led to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. \nJune 22: Book the Second: The Golden Thread\, Chapters 6-24 \nIts central themes–cultural and historical difference\, the nature of political revolution and change\, the identity and narration of the self\, sacrifice\, secrecy heroism–find expression through an often weird or gothic concern with bodies and their doubles\, split identities\, and the uncertain boundaries of life and death. \nJoin Wayne Batten and the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship for a series of discussions about Dickens’s most enduring–and shortest!–novels. \n \n  \n\n\nSupplemental Readings are available upon request. Contact Courtney at cmahaney@ucsc.edu. \nRecommended Edition: We recommend the Penguin Classics edition of the novel\, but other versions are fine. Download the novel to read at Gutenburg.org or to listen at LibriVox.org. \nThe Santa Cruz Pickwick (Book) Club\, a branch of the Dickens Fellowship\, is a community of local bookworms\, students\, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. The Santa Cruz Public Libraries provide support for the reading group. \n\n\n\n\nSanta Cruz Pickwick Club \nMeets on the fourth Sunday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM (Pacific). \nQuestions? Call (831) 459-2103\nor email dpj@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-a-tale-of-two-cities/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220505T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220505T120000
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SUMMARY:Harjeet Grewal - Janamsakhis and Sikh Epistemology
DESCRIPTION:The Sikh tradition produced some of the earliest vernacular prose narratives beginning in the mid-sixteenth century known as Janamsakhis. These accounts of Guru Nanak Sahib’s life remain central to the lives of Sikhs across the globe today. This talk reviews scholarly debates about Janamsakhi’s and argues that examining the Janamsakhis from a critical literary perspective helps better determine their role in Sikh intellectual and ethical life. Their longevity and continuing importance\, Grewal argues\, is better understood from such a perspective. \nJoin Zoom here. \nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/harjeet-grewal-janamsakhis-and-sikh-epistemology/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220502T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220502T200000
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SUMMARY:Mieko Kawakami in Conversation with Ruth Ozeki
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Mieko Kawakami\, bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs\, for an online discussion of her new\, extraordinary novel—All the Lovers in the Night\, in which she demonstrates yet again why she is one of today’s most uncategorizable\, insightful\, and talented novelists. Kawakami will be in conversation with acclaimed author Ruth Ozeki at this special event presented by Europa Editions. \n“Her most accomplished novel yet… A contemporary Japanese master continues her meteoric rise into our literary firmament.” —Oprah Daily (A Most Anticipated Book of 2022) \nVisit https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/mieko-kawakami for more information. \n \nMieko Kawakami is the author of the internationally best-selling novel Breasts and Eggs\, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and one of TIME’s Best 10 Books of 2020; and the highly-acclaimed Heaven\, her second novel to be translated and published in English\, which Oprah Daily described as written “with jagged\, visceral beauty.” Born in Osaka\, Japan\, Kawakami made her literary debut as a poet in 2006\, and in 2007 published her first novella\, My Ego\, My Teeth\, and the World. Known for their poetic qualities\, their insights into the female body\, and their preoccupation with ethics and modern society\, her books have been translated into over twenty languages. Kawakami’s literary awards include the Akutagawa Prize\, the Tanizaki Prize\, and the Murasaki Shikibu Prize. She lives in Tokyo\, Japan. \nRuth Ozeki is a novelist\, filmmaker\, and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the best-selling author of four novels: The Book of Form and Emptiness\, longlisted for the UK Women’s Prize for Fiction; My Year of Meats; All Over Creation; and A Tale for the Time Being\, winner of the LA Times Book Prize and finalist for the 2013 Booker Prize and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award. Her nonfiction work includes a memoir\, The Face: A Time Code\, and the documentary film\, Halving the Bones. A longtime Buddhist practitioner\, Ruth is affiliated with the Brooklyn Zen Center and the Everyday Zen Foun­dation. She is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities at Smith College. \nTICKETING INFORMATION: \nChoose from several ticket options! \nentry-only ticket: $5 (no book included)\nentry + book ticket package: $32—$62 (book included\, with signed bookplate while supplies last)\nFor entry + book\, select IN-STORE PICKUP or have the book SHIPPED to you either in the U.S. or internationally. \nEVENT ACCESS: \nThe link to join the virtual event will be sent to the email address you register upon purchase. It will also be available for ticketholders here on Eventbrite.\nCan’t make the event? A replay will be available to customers afterwards! \nThis event is presented by Europa Editions and Bookshop Santa Cruz and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mieko-kawakami-in-conversation-with-ruth-ozeki/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220429T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220429T120000
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SUMMARY:Suryakant Waghmore - Being an Ambedkarite Under Hindu Rashtra
DESCRIPTION:Suryakant Waghmore is a Public Sociologist\, Academic and Writer. Currently a Professor of Sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences\, IIT-Bombay\, he earned his PhD in Sociology as a Commonwealth Scholar from University of Edinburgh (2011). He is author of Civility against Caste (2013) and Co-editor of Civility in Crisis (2020). He was recently awarded the New India Foundation Fellowship (2021) to work on his book tentatively titled\, Is a Post Caste City Possible? He was previously Professor and Chairperson at the Centre for Social Justice and Governance\, TISS (Mumbai) and has held visiting faculty positions at Fudan University\, University of Hyderabad\, Stanford University and Göttingen University. \n \nPresented by THI’s Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/suryakant-waghmore-being-an-ambedkarite-under-hindu-rashtra/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220428T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220428T185500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Samuel Ace
DESCRIPTION:LIVING WRITERS UCSC\, SPRING 2022 presents: CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS \nCELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS showcases interdisciplinary writers who deeply engage in various sonic forms\, whether the libretto and the operatic\, sound and visual art\, acoustic music and songwriting\, or embodied meditations to explore the possibilities in being attentive to sound\, as action and celebrant through writing. This hybrid series features an array of writers and artists who work across several modes (text\, multi-media\, meditation\, and performance) exploring what happens between sound and/as verbal language\, rendering its effects and configurations through poetry\, prose\, and sound inspired and activated interdisciplinary writing practices. \n \nSamuel Ace is a trans and genderqueer poet and sound artist. He is the author of several books\, most recently Our Weather Our Sea and the newly re-issued Meet Me There: Normal Sex and Home in three days. Don’t wash. He is the recipient of the Astraea Lesbian Writer Award and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award in Poetry\, as well as a multi-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the National Poetry Series. Recent work can be found in Poetry\, ARC Poetry\, PEN America\, Best American Experimental Poetry\, The Academy of American Poet’s Poem-a-Day\, Poetry Daily\, We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics\, and many other journals and anthologies. \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-samuel-ace/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220425T104000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220425T120000
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SUMMARY:Roald Hoffman\, "Returning\, Remembering\, Forgiving"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lecture featuring Prof. Roald Hoffmann\, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize\, and a Holocaust survivor.\nThis lecture will take place in conjunction with Prof. Nathaniel Deutsch’s course “The Holocaust: A Global Perspective.”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-twentieth-annual-joseph-f-bunnett-lecture-roald-hoffman-returning-remembering-forgiving/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220422T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220422T123000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Stories from the Field
DESCRIPTION:While humanities doctoral programs tend to focus on training students for tenure track faculty positions\, many PhDs pursue jobs outside of a university setting. According to the UC Humanities Research Institute’s recent report\, Stories from the Field\, more than a quarter of UC humanities doctoral alumni reported that they did not seek a tenure track faculty position when they started their PhD programs\, and this percentage increased during the isolation of the dissertation writing process and the challenges of the academic job market. UC humanities PhDs go into a wide range of careers – from positions in the non-profit sector to marketing and communications work and jobs in the tech industry. Stories from the Field considers the economic and professional outcomes of humanities PhDs\, to better track where humanists end up\, how they apply their expertise\, and the ways they are contributing to society. Examining faculty positions alongside other careers\, the report promotes a broader definition of what success looks like for humanities PhDs. \nJoin us for a conversation with Kelly Anne Brown (Literature Ph.D.\, ’11)\, Associate Director of UCHRI\, and UC Santa Cruz Literature alumni to discuss findings from Stories from the Field and the diverse range of careers that humanities PhDs pursue. Our Literature graduate alumni panelists include J. Josh Guevara (Ph.D. ’12)\, Warren Hoffman (Ph.D.\, ’04)\, Andrea Quaid (Ph.D.\, ’14)\, and Cathy Thomas (Ph.D.\, ’19). Many PhD alumni are eager to keep in touch with graduate program networks as well as support current students and this event provides an opportunity to further those connections. The workshop is being held during Alumni Week to encourage faculty\, graduate students\, and alumni to all engage in this important discussion and reflection about graduate humanities training at UC Santa Cruz and opportunities beyond. \nPanelists: \nAs the Associate Director of UCHRI\, Kelly Anne Brown manages a diverse portfolio of projects\, including the UC-wide competitive grants program\, Humanists@Work\, and Horizons of the Humanities\, among others. She holds a BA in English from Lewis & Clark College and a PhD in literature from UC Santa Cruz\, where her scholarship centered on modernist publicness and interwar art and performance. Her professional background includes experience in public policy and administration\, with a focus on children and family issues at the city\, county\, and state levels of California government. Her recent scholarship addresses issues of professionalization\, the work of the humanities\, and the future of graduate education. \nDr. Cathy Thomas is an assistant professor in the English Department at UCSB. She is a creative writer and scholar invested in womanist and black feminist pedagogy\, practice\, critique\, and play. She studies Afrodiasporic Literature across genres\, especially speculative fiction\, Caribbean literature & culture\, comic books\, and science & technology studies. Her work agitates against androcentric modernity and antiblack humanism. She received her PhD in Literature at University of California at Santa Cruz and her MFA from the University of Colorado\, Boulder. Prior to academia\, she work in a genetics lab\, at a neuropsychiatric center focused on mindfulness\, in Hollywood\, and on HIV clinical research. \n  \n \nAndrea Quaid (she/her) is a writer\, editor and teacher. Her work focuses on poetry and poetics\, pedagogy\, and feminist studies. She is co-editor of Acts + Encounters\, a collection about experimental writing and community\, and Urgent Possibilities\, Writings on Feminist Poetics and Emergent Pedagogies (both from eohippus labs). Currently\, she is co-editing a collection called Migrating Pedagogies (Forthcoming). Her work appears in albeit\, American Book Review\, BOMBlog\, Entropy\, Feminist Spaces Journal\, Full Stop\, Jacket2\, Lana Turner\, LIT\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Manifold and Syllabus. With Harold Abramowitz\, she curates RAD! Residencies at the Poetic Research Bureau. She teaches in the Bard College Language & Thinking Program and Institute for Writing and Thinking. She also teaches in the Critical Studies Department at California Institute of the Arts. She co-founded and directs Humanities in the City\, an education nonprofit that hosts public programs committed to education equity and the transformational power of interdisciplinary humanities study in classrooms and communities.  \n\nWith more than fourteen years of public sector experience\, J. Guevara has a proven record of solving wicked problems\, working with diverse\, cross-functional teams\, and achieving results at scale in local government. J. is an expert in broadband\, civic innovation\, and protecting the value of infrastructure to catalyze community impact especially through public-private partnerships. \n\n\nIn 2020\, he joined the City of San José Public Works Department as Deputy Director\, responsible for nearly 150 employees in the Development Services and Engineering Services divisions. His portfolio includes private development such as Google’s 80-acre Downtown West campus and also the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority’s $7-$9 billion dollar expansion of BART rail system with over 5 miles of single-bore tunnel and two new stations in Downtown San José as the biggest public capital investment in the Bay Area in over a generation. J. is also responsible for the San José Small Cell team delivering one of the fastest 5G deployments in the nation through public-private partnerships with AT&T\, Verizon\, and T-Mobile\, where he launched the San Jose Digital Inclusion Fund\, dedicated to connect and sustain adoption to 50\,000 households over ten years through a collective impact model. \n\n\nUsing Scrum\, OKRs\, and a multiplier leadership approach\, J. coaches new civic innovators and builds transformative teams. He holds a Ph.D. in Literature from UC Santa Cruz with a dissertation all about the unexpected cultural work of the bicycle as a form of equitable technology. You can learn more about J. at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jjoshguevara/ \n\nWarren Hoffman currently serves as the executive director for the Association for Jewish Studies in New York where he leads the largest membership organization of Jewish studies scholars\, teachers\, and students in the world. Warren brings more than 15 years of experience in the Jewish\, arts\, academic\, and nonprofit sectors. In Philadelphia\, he was the associate director of community programming for the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia and was also the senior director of programming for the Gershman Y in Philadelphia. Warren also served as the literary manager and dramaturg for Philadelphia Theatre Company and was the associate artistic director of Jewish Repertory Theatre. Warren holds a PhD in American literature from the University of California–Santa Cruz and has taught at multiple universities. He earned rave reviews for his book The Passing Game: Queering Jewish American Culture. The second edition of his critically acclaimed book The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical hit bookstores February 2020. His most recent book\, for which he served as co-editor\, Warm and Welcoming: How the Jewish Community Can Become Truly Diverse and Inclusive in the 21st Century\, was released in late 2021. warrenhoffman.com \n\n\nLoading… \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stories-from-the-field/
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Janice A. Lowe
DESCRIPTION:LIVING WRITERS UCSC\, SPRING 2022 presents: CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS \nCELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS showcases interdisciplinary writers who deeply engage in various sonic forms\, whether the libretto and the operatic\, sound and visual art\, acoustic music and songwriting\, or embodied meditations to explore the possibilities in being attentive to sound\, as action and celebrant through writing. This hybrid series features an array of writers and artists who work across several modes (text\, multi-media\, meditation\, and performance) exploring what happens between sound and/as verbal language\, rendering its effects and configurations through poetry\, prose\, and sound inspired and activated interdisciplinary writing practices. \n \nJanice A. Lowe\, is a compoer and poet. Her music LIL BUDDA\, text by Stephanie L. Jones\, was presented by the NAMT Festival of New Musicals and the O’Neill Musical Theater Conference. Lowe’s music-poetry works have been performed with ensembles and collaborations at The Poetry Project\, Bop Stop\, Jazz Festival Berlin\, University of Cambridge and the Arts for Art Peace & Justice Celebration. She composed music for the plays DOOR OF NO RETURN by Nehassaiu DeGannes (Shakespeare & Co.) and Jenni Lamb’s 12th & CLAIRMOUNT (Stage West-Chicago.) Lowe has performed with bands including Anne Waldman & Fast Speaking Music\, Digital Diaspora and Julie Ezelle Patton’s Rock\, Paper Twister. She composed musical settings for the McKoy Twins section of Tyehimba Jess’s OLIO\, (joint Creative Capital award.) She is also the composer of LEAVING CLE SONGS\, a song cycle based on her debut poetry collection. Lowe’s poems have appeared in numerous journals including Callaloo\, Best American Experimental Writings\, Interim Poetics\, and Solidarity Texts: Radiant Re-Sisters. Lowe was a co-founding member of The Dark Room Collective. She performs and records with her ensemble\, NAMAROON. Her work has been recognized by The Rauschenberg Foundation and City Artists Corps. For more\, visit https://www.janicelowe.com/ \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-janice-a-lowe/
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SUMMARY:Aurora Lecture Series: Arvind-pal Mandair - Epistemic Empowerment: Sikh Philosophy and Cognitive Decolonization
DESCRIPTION:‘Sikh philosophy’ is a nascent field of knowledge in the sense that it has not yet emerged but shows signs of future potential. It lies at the intersection of several fields including World Philosophies\, Sikh and/or Asian studies\, and Philosophy of Religion. Although literature on Sikh philosophy has existed for over a century (in several languages)\, it has never been recognized within the Western academy. In this presentation I examine some of the reasons why this has been the case. What can a potential turn towards Sikh philosophy achieve? Why does it matter? To whom? Rather than providing a conventional objective analysis of the history of Sikh philosophy\, its literature (etc etc)\, however\, I’d like ask a slightly different question: what is Sikh philosophy for? To do this\, I’d like to bring my own scholarly quest for recognition of Sikh philosophy within the academy into dialogue with autotheory. This is to some extent already a hint about the nature of Sikh philosophy and the politics of framing non-Western ideas and concepts within the global knowledge system. \nJoin Zoom here. \nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/arvind-pal-mandair-epistemic-empowerment-sikh-philosophy-and-cognitive-decolonization/
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SUMMARY:Students as Agents of Transformative Change - Necessary Trouble: Thinking with the Legacy of John R. Lewis
DESCRIPTION:“Every generation leaves behind a legacy. What that legacy will be is determined by the people of that generation. What legacy do you want to leave behind?” ― John Lewis \nReady for some Necessary Trouble? In anticipation and in honor of the dedication of John R. Lewis College at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, the Division of Social Sciences\, Colleges Nine and Ten\, the Institute for Social Transformation\, and the Center for Racial Justice are organizing five events centered on topics exemplified by the life of Representative John Lewis. \nFeatured Speakers: \nXavier Livermon \nStudent Speakers TBD \nAt UC Santa Cruz\, we believe that the real change is us. This series will highlight the efforts of faculty\, students\, staff\, community leaders\, and alumni in their commitments to social and racial justice\, civic engagement and democracy. It is an opportunity for us all to reflect on how we can help carry John R. Lewis’ legacy forward in the future.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/students-as-agents-of-transformative-change-necessary-trouble-thinking-with-the-legacy-of-john-r-lewis/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Robert Alter - The Psalms as Literature
DESCRIPTION:This is the first event of Shakespeare’s Psalms: A community seminar series. \nShakespeare cited the Psalms more than any other book of the Bible. What did the psalms mean to him? This series\, co-hosted by Sean Keilen (UCSC) and Julia Lupton (UCI) explores the presence of psalms in Shakespeare’s poetic imagery\, psychological insights\, and contributions to wisdom. The series consists of seven Wednesday meetings\, starting at 12:00 PT\, and is free and open to all. The series launches with a special appearance by Prof. Robert Alter\, the foremost modern translator of the Hebrew Bible into English and the author of several books on the Bible as literature. \n \nRobert Alter is Professor in the Graduate School and Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley\, where he has taught since 1967. He has written widely on the European novel from the eighteenth century to the present\, on contemporary American fiction\, and on modern Hebrew literature. He has also written extensively on literary aspects of the Bible. His twenty-four published books include two prize-winning volumes on biblical narrative and poetry and award-winning translations of Genesis and of the Five Books of Moses. He has devoted book-length studies to Fielding\, Stendhal\, and the self-reflexive tradition in the novel. Books by him have been translated into ten different languages. Among his publications over the past twenty-five years are “Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka\, Benjamin\, and Scholem” (1991)\, “The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel” (1999)\, “Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture” (2000)\, “The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary” (2004)\, “Imagined Cities” (2005)\, “The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary” (2007)\, “Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible” (2010)\, “The Wisdom Books: A Translation with Commentary” (2010)\, and “Ancient Israel: The Former Prophets.” \nCo-sponsored by The Shakespeare Workshop\, UC Santa Cruz\, and UCI Jewish Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/robert-alter-the-psalms-as-literature/
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SUMMARY:Slugs & Steins: David Brundage - The Easter Rising and New York: How Ireland's Revolution Triggered a Fight Against Empire
DESCRIPTION:This talk will assess the impact of the 1916 Easter Rising on a variety of anticolonial movements beyond Ireland and the Irish diaspora\, focusing on New York City\, long recognized as the overseas capital of Irish nationalist agitation and mobilization. But New York played a similar role for a variety of other descent groups and diasporas as well. After an overview of some of these non-Irish groups in the city (including African Americans and South Asians)\, this topic will be placed in the context of World War I and post-war efforts to end colonialism and foster self-determination for nations around the world. While some historians have emphasized the role of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson’s ideas in these efforts\, this talk will demonstrate the centrality of the Easter Rising and the subsequent Irish Revolution\, as understood by both Irish and non-Irish intellectuals and political activists in the increasingly cosmopolitan city of New York. \n \nDavid Brundage is Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz and is currently Chair of UCSC’s Academic Senate. He has published widely in the areas of U.S. immigration and labor history and the history of the Irish diaspora\, and is the author\, most recently\, of Irish Nationalists in America: The Politics of Exile\, 1798–1998 (Oxford University Press\, 2016)\, selected as a Choice Magazine “Outstanding Academic Title” of the year and described by the Irish Times as a major work that “challenges us to rethink the history of Irish nationalism and its far-flung supporters\, and to ponder its present and future.” He is finishing up a new book\, tentatively entitled New York Against Empire: Challenging British Colonialism in a Time of War and Revolution\, 1910–1927\, which investigates New York City as a “contact zone” that brought together anticolonial activists from across the globe.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slugs-steins-david-brundage-the-easter-rising-and-new-york-how-irelands-revolution-triggered-a-fight-against-empire/
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SUMMARY:Rohit De - Lawyering in Times of Lawlessness: Defending Dissenters in India and Sri Lanka (1947-1971)
DESCRIPTION:Rohit De is an Associate Professor of History at Yale University and an Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School. A lawyer and a historian of South Asia and the common law world\, he is the author of A People’s Constitution: Law and Everyday Life in the Indian Republic (Princeton University Press\, 2018). He is currently working on two book projects. The first is a history of decolonization and rebellious lawyering and the second\, co-authored with Ornit Shani\, looks at how thousands of ordinary Indians\, read\, deliberated debated\, and substantially engaged with the anticipated constitution at the time of its writing. In 2020\, Rohit De was elected a Carnegie Fellow. He has held fellowships from the Social Science Research Council\, the Davis Centre for Historical Studies at Princeton University\, the Melbourne Law School\, and the Centre for Asian Legal Studies at the National University of Singapore. Prior to starting at Yale\, he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge. He clerked for Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan of the Supreme Court of India and has worked with constitution reform projects on Nepal and Sri Lanka \n \nPresented by THI’s Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rohit-de-lawyering-in-times-of-lawlessness-defending-disasters-in-india-and-sri-lanka-1941-1971/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Pathways to Thriving Communities - Necessary Trouble: Thinking with the Legacy of John R. Lewis
DESCRIPTION:“These young people are saying we all have a right to know what is in the air we breathe\, in the water we drink\, and the food we eat. It is our responsibility to leave this planet cleaner and greener. That must be our legacy.” ― John Lewis \nReady for some Necessary Trouble? In anticipation and in honor of the dedication of John R. Lewis College at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, the Division of Social Sciences\, Colleges Nine and Ten\, the Institute for Social Transformation\, and the Center for Racial Justice are organizing five events centered on topics exemplified by the life of Representative John Lewis. \nFeatured Speakers: \nAlicia Riley \nNancy N. Chen \nJames Doucet-Battle \nAt UC Santa Cruz\, we believe that the real change is us. This series will highlight the efforts of faculty\, students\, staff\, community leaders\, and alumni in their commitments to social and racial justice\, civic engagement and democracy. It is an opportunity for us all to reflect on how we can help carry John R. Lewis’ legacy forward in the future.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pathways-to-thriving-communities-necessary-trouble-thinking-with-the-legacy-of-john-r-lewis/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220401T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220401T150000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia:  Maria Gouskova
DESCRIPTION:About eight times each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lingustics-colloquia-maria_gouskova/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Publishing
DESCRIPTION:As co-editors of the recently published special issue of Critical Ethnic Studies on Borderland Regimes and Resistance in Global Perspective\, we invite you to join us for a workshop focused on academic journal article publishing. We will cover: adapting elements from your dissertation into journal articles; creating your own publication pipeline; navigating the journal submission\, review\, and publishing process; and dealing with rejections. We will also discuss the process of submitting to journal special issues\, such as ours–including how to pitch your work to a special issue\, how to work with editors on your piece during revise-and-resubmit\, and how to propose a guest-edited special issue. \n \nPanelists: \n\nCamilla Hawthorne (Assistant Professor\, Sociology)\nJenny Kelly (Assistant Professor\, Feminist Studies)\n\nPresented by The Humanities Institute’s Border Regimes and Resistance in Global Perspective Cluster \n  \n\nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-publishing-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Social Movements for a Just Society - Necessary Trouble: Thinking with the Legacy of John R. Lewis
DESCRIPTION:“A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few. Ignoring these cries and failing to respond to this movement is simply not an option — for peace cannot exist where justice is not served.” — John Lewis said of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act \nReady for some Necessary Trouble? In anticipation and in honor of the dedication of John R. Lewis College at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, the Division of Social Sciences\, Colleges Nine and Ten\, the Institute for Social Transformation\, and the Center for Racial Justice are organizing five events centered on topics exemplified by the life of Representative John Lewis. \nFeatured Speakers: \nVeronica Terriquez \nHiroshi Fukurai \nElizabeth Beaumont \nRekia Gina Jibrin \nAt UC Santa Cruz\, we believe that the real change is us. This series will highlight the efforts of faculty\, students\, staff\, community leaders\, and alumni in their commitments to social and racial justice\, civic engagement and democracy. It is an opportunity for us all to reflect on how we can help carry John R. Lewis’ legacy forward in the future. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/social-movements-for-a-just-society-necessary-trouble-thinking-with-the-legacy-of-john-r-lewis/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220329T180000
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SUMMARY:John W. Reid\, "Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet"
DESCRIPTION:Five stunningly large forests remain on Earth: the Taiga\, extending from the Pacific Ocean across all of Russia and far-northern Europe; the North American boreal\, ranging from Alaska’s Bering seacoast to Canada’s Atlantic shore; the Amazon\, covering almost the entirety of South America’s bulge; the Congo\, occupying parts of six nations in Africa’s wet equatorial middle; and the island forest of New Guinea\, twice the size of California. \nThese megaforests are vital to preserving global biodiversity\, thousands of cultures\, and a stable climate\, as economist John W. Reid and celebrated biologist Thomas E. Lovejoy argue convincingly in Ever Green. Megaforests serve an essential role in decarbonizing the atmosphere–the boreal alone holds 1.8 trillion metric tons of carbon in its deep soils and peat layers\, 190 years’ worth of global emissions at 2019 levels–and saving them is the most immediate and affordable large-scale solution to our planet’s most formidable ongoing crisis. \nReid and Lovejoy offer practical solutions to address the biggest challenges these forests face\, from vastly expanding protected areas\, to supporting Indigenous forest stewards\, to planning smarter road networks. In gorgeous prose that evokes the majesty of these ancient forests along with the people and animals who inhabit them\, Reid and Lovejoy take us on an exhilarating global journey. \n \n \nJohn W. Reid is a conservationist and economist whose writing has appeared in outlets including the New York Times and Scientific American. He is the founder and former head of Conservation Strategy Fund\, winner of the MacArthur Foundation Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. He currently serves as senior economist for the nonprofit Nia Tero and lives in Sebastopol\, California. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-w-reid-ever-green-saving-big-forests-to-save-the-planet/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220327T150000
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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: "Night Walks" by Charles Dickens
DESCRIPTION:For its next meeting\, the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club will read Dickens’s short\, semi-autobiographical essay\, “Night Walks.” Professor John Jordan will lead the discussion. Originally published in 1860 in Dickens’s weekly magazine All the Year Round\, the essay is a good example of Dickens’s work as a journalist\, social activist\, and observer of the modern metropolis. It is also a powerful piece of writing in its own right. \nIn “Night Walks\,” Dickens assumes the identity of a man who suffers from insomnia and whose remedy for this affliction is to walk at night through the streets of the city until dawn before returning home exhausted to fall asleep. The essay describes the people he encounters and the places he sees on these walks. \nA nocturnal walking tour through the heart of London\, “Night Walks” engages our sympathies and enlarges our social vision. It invites the reader to look at familiar places with fresh eyes\, to see people who might otherwise remain invisible\, and to imagine what we may have in common with those less fortunate than ourselves. \nShort\, accessible\, and highly relevant to social problems still facing us today\, “Night Walks” for these reasons may interest schoolteachers in particular as a useful text for introducing Dickens to their students. \nThe Dickens Project has produced an electronic version of this essay. A link to this edition is included below. Only a dozen or so pages long\, the essay comes with notes\, a map of London indicating principal landmarks mentioned in the essay\, and a brief introduction by Professor Jordan. \n \nRecommended Edition: Click here to download a PDF of the Dickens Project’s edition of this essay.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-night-walks-by-charles-dickens/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:The 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing
DESCRIPTION:HSP2022 will interrogate the connection between prosody\, gesture and meaning. We are delighted to welcome the following researchers to address questions related to the perception and production of prosody and the planning and interpretation of co-speech gesture. By what mechanisms are these multimodal communication channels integrated with\, or segregated from\, other aspects of linguistic cognition\, such as syntax\, compositional semantics and pragmatics? How does our ability to process gestural or prosodic features develop in first- and second-language? \nSpeakers include: \nMara Breen Psychology and Education – Mt Holyoke\nAoju Chen Languages\, Literature and Communication – Utrecht\nKathryn Davidson Linguistics – Harvard\nJesse Harris Linguistics – UCLA\nSotaro Kita Psychology – Warwick\nPilar Prieto ICREA and Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Dept of Translation and Language Sciences)\, Catalonia \n \n  \nHSP2022 will operate as a virtual conference. \nVirtual core\nThere will be a virtual “core” scientific program organized centrally by UC Santa Cruz. It will consist of invited presentations\, peer-reviewed plenary presentations\, and poster sessions. Anyone will be able to participate fully just virtually. \nSelf-organized satellite gatherings\nAlthough we have canceled the in-person events in Santa Cruz\, folks may wish to gather with other HSP-ers in-person. We encourage any individual or group to self-organize a gathering local to themselves\, where safe and feasible. These can be of any size and scope and formality. \nWe will maintain and publish a clearinghouse of known self-organized satellite gatherings. We’ve also created a sourcebook of ideas. \nFor more information\, please visit: hsp2022@ucsc.edu or contact chusp@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-35th-annual-conference-on-human-sentence-processing/
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Mara Breen
DESCRIPTION:About eight times each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lingustics-colloquia-mara-breen/
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SUMMARY:Latino Role Models Virtual 2022 Conference: Dolores Huerta
DESCRIPTION:We are honored that Dolores Huerta\, Founder and President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation and co-founder with Cesar Chavez of the United Farm Workers Union will be our keynote speaker this year. \n \nSenderos specializes in teaching Latino culture and history through the artistic expression of dance and music\, hosts an annual Guelaguetza\, and offers other performances in local and far-reaching places.  Our organization serves children\, youth and adults of all ages\, including English Language Learners and economically disadvantaged people\, free of cost. We keep alive our native cultures and languages\, represent our countries of origin with pride\, share our culture and contribute to the larger community\, promote harmony\, and break stereotypes.  We are healthy\, successful\, focused on fulfilling our dreams\, and safe from gang influence. We create a college going culture by providing tutoring\, awarding scholarships\, fostering youth leadership\, promoting bi-literacy\, and creating opportunities for community service. We work together to create a thriving\, welcoming\, family-oriented community that values all contributions\, provides help when needed\, and engages all participants in group decisions. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/latino-role-models-virtual-2022-conference-dolores-huerta/
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Careers in Academic Publishing\, featuring Mellon University Press Diversity Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Join the 2021 cohort of the Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowship to hear more about their career trajectories in publishing. The six panelists will discuss topics including their experiences in graduate school\, their journeys into the academic publishing world\, and their broader experiences with careers beyond the tenure track. A moderated question and answer period will follow the panel presentation. \nChad M. Attenborough\, University of Washington Press\nChad M. Attenborough joined the University of Washington Press from Vanderbilt University\, where he is a PhD candidate studying black responses to the British abolition of the slave trade in the Caribbean. While completing his research\, Chad worked for Vanderbilt University Press as a graduate assistant where his passion for publishing developed in earnest and during which he helped process works for VUP’s Critical Mexican Studies series\, their Black Lives and Liberation series\, alongside their Anthropology and Latin American list. Chad received his MA from Vanderbilt in Atlantic History and his BA from Bowdoin College in French. His areas of interest include black diaspora studies\, imperial and intellectual histories\, global migration studies\, and critical geographies. \nFabiola Enríquez\, University of Chicago Press\nFabiola Enríquez joined the University of Chicago Press after having served as Managing Editor for the Cambridge University Press journal International Labor and Working-Class History. She received her BA in History from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez. She is currently pursuing a PhD in History at Columbia University\, where she is writing a dissertation on the intersection between religion and politics in late-nineteenth century Cuba and Puerto Rico. Her interest in publishing comes as a continuation of these academic pursuits\, seeing in acquisitions editing a platform from which to facilitate the global dissemination of knowledge and rescue perspectives that have thus far been underrepresented in historical discussions. Born and raised in Puerto Rico\, she has been living in Chile for the past two years\, and is the proud human to a reformed Chilean street dog. \nSuraiya Anita Jetha\, MIT Press \nSuraiya Anita Jetha is a former contributing editor of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology’s AnthroNews column. She has extensive experience in academic programming\, most recently with the Center for Cultural Studies at the University of California-Santa Cruz. She received a BA in Anthropology from Yale University\, an MA in Migration and Diaspora Studies from SOAS University of London\, and an MA in Anthropology from the New School for Social Research. She is currently writing a dissertation to complete a PhD in Anthropology and Feminist Studies at the University of California-Santa Cruz. Her research interests include anthropology\, science and technology studies\, feminist studies\, and ethnography. \nRobert Ramaswamy\, Ohio State University Press\nRobert Ramaswamy joined the Ohio State University Press from the University of Michigan\, where he is a PhD candidate in American Culture. He recently completed an internship with Michigan Publishing\, during which he worked on title selection and user access for the American Council of Learned Societies’ Humanities Ebook Collection (HEB). At HEB\, he coordinated with scholars in learned societies across the humanities to include more work from scholars\, subfields\, and presses that have historically been excluded from “the canon.” His scholarly interests include feminist theory\, histories of capitalism\, and twentieth-century African American history. He lives in Ann Arbor with his partner\, Anna\, two dogs\, and nine chickens. \n\nJacqulyn Teoh\, Cornell University Press \nJacqulyn Teoh joined Cornell University Press after working as an apprentice at the Feminist Press at CUNY and a part-time acquisitions assistant at the University of Wisconsin Press\, where she was a member of UW Press’s Equity\, Justice\, and Inclusion working group and helped to prepare a demographic survey of authors as a baseline understanding of diversity\, representation\, and inclusion. She holds a BA from Pennsylvania State University\, an MA from the University of Leeds\, and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her dissertation looked at the structures of the contemporary literary marketplace with a focus on Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian American writing. \nJameka Williams\, Northwestern University Press\nJameka Williams is a MFA candidate at Northwestern University in poetry. She received her BA in English from Eastern University in St. Davids\, PA. After supporting herself as a pastry chef during her graduate studies\, she is transitioning into pursuing a career in book publishing\, having interned with independent publisher\, Agate\, in Evanston\, IL. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize\, and she is a Best New Poets 2020 finalist\, published by University of Virginia Press annually. She is currently completing her first full-length poetry collection. \n\nRSVP here: \nLoading… \n  \n\n\nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-careers-in-academic-publishing-featuring-mellon-university-press-diversity-fellows/
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