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SUMMARY:Curator Walkthrough with Rachel Nelson
DESCRIPTION:Join Rachel Nelson\, Director and Chief Curator\, for a walkthrough of the two exhibitions\, Ashley Hunt: Degrees of Visibility/Ashes Ashes and Sky Hopinka: Seeing and Seen\, currently on view at the new Institute of the Arts and Sciences Galleries on the westside of Santa Cruz.  \n\n\n\nDr. Nelson will guide visitors through the work of Ashley Hunt and Sky Hopinka\, contextualizing key artworks and their larger themes within Visualizing Abolition\, an ongoing public scholarship initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation.   \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRachel Nelson\n\n\n\nDr. Rachel Nelson is director and chief curator of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. She has curated and organized exhibitions including Barring Freedom\, a group exhibition engaging art\, prisons\, and justice; Carlos Motta: We The Enemy; jackie sumell: Solitary Garden; Newton Harrison and Helen Mayer Harrison: Future Garden\, and other projects with artists including Sadie Barnette\, Maria Gaspar\, Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas\, and Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. Nelson also writes and publishes extensively on contemporary art and geopolitics\, including exhibition catalogue essays\, journal articles\, and reviews in Journal of Curatorial Studies\, Public History Weekly\, Brooklyn Rail\, NKA\, Third Text\, Savvy\, and African Arts. She teaches in the History of Art and Visual Culture department at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/curator-walkthrough-with-rachel-nelson/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Tours & Talks,Visualizing Abolition
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SUMMARY:Ashley Hunt: Artist's Talk
DESCRIPTION:Join Ashley Hunt\, artist and professor at CalArts\, for an artist’s talk about his long-standing practices of anti-carceral activism and photography. What does it mean to use art as the medium through which we see the building of the prison system; and its unbuilding? We invite the community to take up these questions in the context of Hunt’s exhibition Degrees of Visibility/Ashes Ashes\, on display at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences Galleries until April 16\, 2023. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\nAshley Hunt\n\n\n\nAshley Hunt is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles\, where he is faculty at the California Institute of the Arts. In works including Corrections Documentary Project (2001–10)\, Prison Maps (2002)\, A World Map in Which We See… (2004–07)\, Notes on the Emptying of a City (2006–10)\, and Degrees of Visibility (2010–present)\, Hunt works in dialogue with movement-building and grassroots organizations\, including Critical Resistance\, the California Coalition for Women Prisoners\, Citizens for Quality Education\, Southerners on New Ground\, and Friends and Family of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children. His works have shown in venues ranging from community centers to prisons to museums\, including Pitzer Art Galleries\, CA; Museum of Modern Art\, New York; Project Row Houses\, Houston; Hammer Museum\, Los Angeles; Tate Modern\, London; Documenta 12\, Germany\, and Sinopale Biennial\, Turkey. His writings include the book\, Notes on the Emptying of a City\, and have appeared in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice; X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/ashley-hunt-artists-talk/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Public Lectures,Tours & Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230325T140000
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SUMMARY:Abolitionist Looking at Lichen
DESCRIPTION:Join Laurie Palmer\, artist and professor at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, for a walk that invites us to look closely at lichens. How can a tiny organism transform our understanding of big structural problems and human relations? How can the act of looking at lichen help undo the scopic violence that we have inherited from the Enlightenment? What can algae teach us about abolition? These questions and more are broached in Laurie Palmer’s new book\, The Lichen Museum\, which draws on the physiological characteristics of lichens to envision alternative ways of living based on interdependence rather than individualism and competition.  \n\n\n\nPlease meet at UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Ave.\, at 2 p.m. and we will proceed as a group for the lichen walk. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. RSVP suggested\, but not required. Please RSVP using this form. \n\n\n\nPlease note: this event (originally scheduled for March 11) has been rescheduled for March 25. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaurie Palmer\n\n\n\nA. Laurie Palmer is an artist\, writer\, and teacher. Her work is concerned\, most immediately\, with resistance to privatization\, and more generally\, with theoretical and material explorations of matter’s active nature as it asserts itself on different scales and in different speeds. Her work takes various forms as sculpture\, installation\, public projects\, and writing. Palmer teaches in the Art Department at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/abolitionist-looking-at-lichen/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Tours & Talks,Visualizing Abolition
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SUMMARY:Curator Walkthrough with Luke A. Fidler
DESCRIPTION:Join Luke A. Fidler\, Curator\, for a walkthrough of the two exhibitions\, Ashley Hunt: Degrees of Visibility/Ashes Ashes and Sky Hopinka: Seeing and Seen\, currently on view at the new Institute of the Arts and Sciences Galleries on the westside of Santa Cruz.  \n\n\n\nDr. Fidler will guide visitors through the work of Ashley Hunt and Sky Hopinka\, contextualizing key artworks and their larger themes within Visualizing Abolition\, an ongoing public scholarship initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation.   \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLuke A. Fidler\n\n\n\nLuke A. Fidler is curator at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and program manager of the Visualizing Abolition initiative. He received his PhD in art history at the University of Chicago.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/curator-walkthrough-with-luke-a-fidler/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Tours & Talks,Visualizing Abolition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T190000
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SUMMARY:Curator Talk with Rachel Nelson & Luke A. Fidler\, The Writing on the Wall
DESCRIPTION:Join curators\, Dr. Rachel Nelson\, and Dr. Luke A. Fidler\, as they discuss the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History’s current exhibition\, The Writing on the Wall.  \n\n\n\nEmulating a prison cell\, The Writing on the Wall at the MAH recreates these largely unseen spaces in a public sphere. The Writing on the Wall is organized by Rachel Nelson and Gina Dent in partnership with the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History as part of Visualizing Abolition\, a public scholarship initiative at UC Santa Cruz designed to shift the social attachment to prisons through art and education. Funding for Visualizing Abolition is provided by the Mellon Foundation. \n\n\n\nThis event will be located at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH): 705 Front StreetSanta Cruz\, CA 95060 \n\n\n\nPlease register for this event here.  \n\n\n\nPhoto by Daris Jasper @culturesaving\, courtesy Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRachel Nelson \n\n\n\nDr. Rachel Nelson is director and chief curator of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. She has curated and organized exhibitions including Barring Freedom\, a group exhibition engaging art\, prisons\, and justice; Carlos Motta: We The Enemy; jackie sumell: Solitary Garden; Newton Harrison and Helen Mayer Harrison: Future Garden\, and other projects with artists including Sadie Barnette\, Maria Gaspar\, Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas\, and Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLuke A. Fidler\n\n\n\nLuke A. Fidler is curator at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and program manager of the Visualizing Abolition initiative. He received his PhD in art history at the University of Chicago.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/curator-talk-with-rachel-nelson-luke-a-fidler-the-writing-on-the-wall/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Tours & Talks,Visualizing Abolition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230506T140000
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SUMMARY:Carolina Caycedo & David de Rozas: Artists' Talk with Juan Mancias (Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas)
DESCRIPTION:Join Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas\, for an artists’ talk about their exhibition The Blessings of the Mystery\, on display at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences Galleries until September 3\, 2023. \n\n\n\nThe artists will be in conversation with Juan Mancias\, Chairman of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas. Chairman Mancias provides the narrative of The Teachings of the Hands\, the single-channel film depicting the complex histories of colonization and ecological precarity in Somi Se’k that forms the centerpiece of the exhibition.  \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. RSVP here.  \n\n\n\n*Somi Se’k means Land of the Sun and is the way the Carrizo/ Comecrudo Tribe refers to the land known as Texas.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/carolina-caycedo-david-de-rozas-artists-talk/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Public Lectures,Tours & Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230511T190000
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SUMMARY:Creating Art in/with Community: A Conversation with Josué Rojas and John Jota Leaños
DESCRIPTION:Attendance is free and by RSVP. \n\n\n\nArtist and muralist Josué Rojas\, currently artist-in-residence at UC Santa Cruz’s Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, will be in conversation with award-winning artist John Jota Leaños\, professor\, film and digital media\, on May 11\, 2023 at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences galleries in the Westside of Santa Cruz. \n\n\n\nDrawing on Rojas’ twenty-five years experience creating murals and public art in the Bay Area\, the conversation will focus on the roles that art can take in cultivating community by drawing attention to key social issues and celebrating communal resilience. From a recent project on Folsom Street commemorating the victims of gun violence as part of the Mission’s long culture of street art to a mural enacting intercultural solidarity at the Chinese Historical Society of America\, Rojas has shown how public art can be a vital tool of civic engagement\, particularly in the service of empowering marginalized and migrant communities. \n\n\n\nThe discussion will also examine how Rojas uses his art practice to empower Chicanx/Latinx communities at UC Santa Cruz. Currently\, Rojas is working with students\, faculty\, and staff to create a mural in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas (formerly the Research Center for the Americas). Founded in 1992\, and the first research center in the UC system to put in conversation the historically disconnected fields of Chicanx/Latinx and Latin American Studies\, the Huerta Center has a long history of working to drive positive social change through multidisciplinary conversation\, which Rojas’ mural will celebrate. \n\n\n\nRojas\, whose work is rooted in both Central American and Chicanx traditions and who has collaborated with organizations like Mission Food Hub and the Ukiah Valley Youth Leadership Coalition\, is ideally placed to commemorate the Huerta Center’s path-defining work. Celina Lucero\, director of Horizons Unlimited\, says: “his work has cultural resonance and centers the Latino culture in all its beauty and diversity.” \n\n\n\nThis event is co-presented by the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, Arts Research Institute’s Arts and Oppression Initiative\, and The Humanities Institute. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nJosué Rojas is a practicing artist\, educator\, and Mission native with over two decades of experience in fine arts\, community arts\, arts leadership\, and bilingual and ethnic media in the San Francisco Bay Area. Throughout his many endeavors\, his work and vision have been characterized by a commitment to San Francisco’s cherished values of community arts and media\, civic engagement\, social justice and empowerment for migrant communities and marginalized communities at large. \n\n\n\nRojas holds a BFA from California College of the Arts and an MFA from Boston University. The former director of Acción Latina\, his work has been supported by organizations including the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.  \n\n\n\nJohn Jota Leaños is an award-winning Mestizo (Xicano/Italian/Chumash) new media artist who uses animation\, documentary\, and performance to explore the convergence of memory\, social space\, and decolonization. Leaños’ animation work has been shown internationally at festivals and museums including Sundance Film Festival\, Cannes Short Film Corner\, the Morelia International Film Festival\, Mexico\, San Francisco International Festival Animation\, the KOS Convention 07\, and the Museum of Contemporary Art\, San Diego. Leaños has also exhibited at the Whitney Biennial in New York\, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Chicago\, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles\, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Leaños is a Guggenheim Fellow in Film\, Creative Capital Foundation Grantee\, a United States Artist Fellow and has been an artist in residence at the University of California\, Santa Barbara in the Center for Chicano Studies\, Carnegie Mellon University in the Center for Arts in Society\, and the Headlands Center for the Arts. Leaños is currently a Professor of Film & Digital Media at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/artist-talk-josue-rojas-and-john-jota-leanos/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lectures,Tours & Talks
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SUMMARY:Curator Walkthrough with Luke A. Fidler
DESCRIPTION:Join Luke A. Fidler\, Curator\, for a walkthrough of the two exhibitions\, Sadie Barnette: Family Business and Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas: The Blessings of the Mystery\, on view at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences Galleries on the westside of Santa Cruz.  \n\n\n\nDr. Fidler will guide visitors through the work of Sadie Barnette\, Carolina Caycedo\, and David de Rozas\, contextualizing key artworks and their larger themes within Visualizing Abolition\, an ongoing public scholarship initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation.   \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLuke A. Fidler\n\n\n\nLuke A. Fidler is curator at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and program manager of the Visualizing Abolition initiative. He received his PhD in art history at the University of Chicago.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/curator-walkthrough-with-luke-a-fidler-2/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Tours & Talks,Visualizing Abolition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230707T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230707T193000
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SUMMARY:Museums and Prisons: A Conversation with Dr. Baz Dreisinger\, Devon Simmons\, and Matthew Wilson
DESCRIPTION:How do you tell the history of a society in crisis? What does it mean to transform sites of injustice into spaces for art? Join us for a conversation about the relationship between museums and prisons\, presented in conjunction with The Writing on the Wall and featuring Dr. Baz Dreisinger (who conceived the project together with her students at John Jay College and artist Hank Willis Thomas)\, Devon Simmons\, and Matthew Wilson. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Rachel Nelson\, director of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, and Dr. Luke A. Fidler. \n\n\n\nEmulating a prison cell\, The Writing on the Wall at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) recreates these largely unseen spaces in a public sphere. The installation’s design references the palimpsest-like writing on the walls of prison cells and layers these onto opaque and transparent acrylic panels arranged in modules. The arrangement of the installation is based on measurements of cell blocks\, providing a spatial context for visitors and immersing them in the words of the incarcerated. The writings were collected\, with the authors’ permission\, by Dr. Dreisinger during her years teaching in US and international prisons. As a presentation of the crisis of global criminal justice systems\, these letters visually convey the narratives\, thoughts\, and emotions of the people behind bars. \n\n\n\nThe Writing on the Wall is organized by Rachel Nelson and Gina Dent in partnership with the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History as part of Visualizing Abolition\, a public scholarship initiative at UC Santa Cruz designed to shift the social attachment to prisons through art and education. Funding for Visualizing Abolition is provided by the Mellon Foundation.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/museums-and-prisons-a-conversation-with-dr-baz-dreisinger-devon-simmons-and-matthew-wilson/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Tours & Talks,Visualizing Abolition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230708T130000
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SUMMARY:Closing Weekend at the Davenport Jail
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the final open weekend of The Writing on the Wall at the Davenport Jail! Devon Simmons and Matthew Wilson\, who have interpreted The Writing on the Wall at previous iterations including The High Line in New York\, will guide visitors through the installation. Dr. Baz Dreisinger\, who conceived the project together with her students at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and artist Hank Willis Thomas\, will attend together with the exhibition’s curators in order to discuss issues of art\, incarceration\, and the carceral history of Santa Cruz County. Refreshments will be provided. \n\n\n\nThe Writing on the Wall is organized by Rachel Nelson and Gina Dent in partnership with the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History as part of Visualizing Abolition\, a public scholarship initiative at UC Santa Cruz designed to shift the social attachment to prisons through art and education. Funding for Visualizing Abolition is provided by the Mellon Foundation.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/open-hours-at-the-davenport-jail/
LOCATION:Davenport Jail\, 70 Center Street\, Davenport\, CA\, 95017\, United States
CATEGORIES:Tours & Talks,Visualizing Abolition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231101T190000
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SUMMARY:Art\, Liberation\, and Institution Building: Lisa Dent in conversation with Elissa Blount Moorhead and Maori Karmael Holmes
DESCRIPTION:Join us on November 1 for a conversation between Lisa Dent\, Elissa Blount Moorhead\, and Maori Karmael Holmes about the problems and potentials of art institutions in the United States. The conversation will be mediated by Dr. Gina Dent.  \n\n\n\nArt institutions have struggled with issues of inclusion and have often failed to serve communities of color. Despite overt structural obstacles\, Black cultural professionals and producers are at the forefront of institution-building through a liberation lens. In this conversation\, guests will discuss their experiences leading and building art institutions. They will also address the challenges and possibilities this field can offer to those thinking through liberation. \n\n\n\nLisa Dent is an advocate for living artists and cultural workers. Her background includes work in film\, theater and the visual arts as a curator\, gallerist\, writer\, production designer\, and creative producer. She is the Director of Public Programs at Mass MoCA\, and previously was the Executive Director of Artspace New Haven. Dent was the director of resources & award programs at Creative Capital\, leading the financial and advisory services programs and advising artists towards the full realization of their projects. Prior to Creative Capital\, Lisa was associate curator of contemporary art at the Columbus Museum of Art\, where she organized exhibitions including Stephanie Syjuco: Pattern Migration\, Currents: Latifa Echakhch\, and Supply & Demand.  Dent was a Helena Rubenstein Fellow at the MoMA and held curatorial staff positions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. From 2004-08\, Lisa owned Lisa Dent Gallery in San Francisco where she presented the work of emerging and mid-career international artists. Dent received her BFA from Howard University\, her MFA from NYU\, and completed the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in curatorial studies.  \n\n\n\nElissa Blount Moorhead is an artist and director investigating the poetics of quotidian Black life. She is the founder of Seven Stories Inc.\, a production company which creates films\, television programs\, and time-based-installations. She is exploring both immutable Blackness and the impermanence of its physical manifestations in film. Moorhead has created public art\, film exhibitions\, and cultural programs\, and co-created multimedia projects including Random Occurrences; Cat Calls (Street Harassment project); Practicum; FunkGodJazzMedicine; and Art in Odd Places.  Recent awards include the USA Artist Award\, Saul Zaentz Innovation Fellowship\, Sundance Episodic Lab\, Ford Foundation /Just Films/Rockwood Fellowship\, Ruby Award\, Creative Capital Award\, and the  Baker Award Prize. Projects she has directed include; Jay Z’s short film 4:44\,  a documentary on artist Damon Davis for PBS\, an AR/film  projection installation\, As of A Now\, and Back and Song\, a four channel film installation in collaboration with filmmaker Bradford Young.  She is the author of P is for Pussy\, an illustrated “children’s” book and is featured essayist in the anthology How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance.  She was a 2020 resident at Eyebeam and a Sundance Episodic Lab participant  and awarded the Comedy Central Award  and the Women at Sundance Adobe Fellowship for her series co- created with her sister\, writer Ericka Blount Danois\, entitled fiftyTWO. She was a recent Bellagio Resident in Lake Como Italy\, and featured artist in Liquid Blackness Symposium: Claiming the B-Side. She has museum shows touring in St. Louis\, NYC\, and Berlin in 2024.   \n\n\n\nMaori Karmael Holmes is the founder of BlackStar Projects. She has organized film programs at Anthology Film Archives\, ICA Philadelphia\, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles\, The Underground Museum\, and Whitney Museum of American Art. She has organized the exhibitions Terence Nance: Swarm (2023)\, Assemblage (2019)\, and Lossless (2017). She hosts the podcast Many Lumens and her writing has appeared in Seen\, Documentary Magazine\, The Believer\, Film Quarterly\, Pleasure Activism\, How We Fight White Supremacy\, and Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media Within Communities Across Disciplines and Algorithms. In 2023\, Maori was announced as a recipient of the United States Artists Beresford Prize and as a Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures Fellow. In 2022\, she was named as one of the Kennedy Center’s #Next50. She was Mediamaker-in-Residence at the Annenberg School at University of Pennsylvania (2020-2023)\, a Soros Equality Fellow (2019-2020)\, a DOC NYC New Leader (2021)\, a Ford Foundation JustFilms/Rockwood Fellow (2016)\, and a Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow (2014). Maori received her MFA in Film from Temple University\, her BA in History from American University\, and received formative training at Howard University and CalArts.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/art-liberation-and-institution-building-lisa-dent-and-maori-karmael-holmes-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Tours & Talks,Visualizing Abolition,Watch Now
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SUMMARY:Race and Catastrophe: Lessons from Palestine - Sherene Seikaly in Conversation with Gina Dent
DESCRIPTION:How do we understand conflicting claims to land and its relationship to colonialism outside of constricted paradigms of exceptionalism and the structures of the nation-state?  What can be learned about the global history of race\, capital\, slavery\, and dispossession through critical analysis of the historical and present struggles in Palestine? At this event\, author and scholar Sherene Seikaly\, in conversation with Gina Dent\, will contextualize Palestinian liberation struggles in relation to the movement for abolition. While prison abolition is often construed as a movement defined by the United States prison industrial complex\, this talk will address central topics in the Palestinian struggle and illuminate its foundational role in thinking about liberation on a global scale.  \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public but space is limited. Registration is now full.  \n\n\n\nSherene Seikaly is Associate Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her book Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine (Stanford University Press\, 2016) explores economy\, territory\, the home\, and the body. Her forthcoming book\, From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine tells a global history of capital\, slavery\, and dispossession. She is the Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UCSB\, co-editor of the Stanford Studies Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures Series\, co-editor of Journal of Palestine Studies\, and co-editor of Jadaliyya. \n\n\n\nGina Dent is Humanities Associate Dean of DEI and Professor of Feminist Studies\, History of Consciousness\, and Legal Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is PI and Co-Director for the Mellon Foundation-funded Visualizing Abolition\, a project designed to redirect social resources away from prisons by accessing the power of the arts. 
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/race-and-catastrophe-lessons-from-palestine-dr-sherene-seikaly-in-conversation-with-dr-gina-dent/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Tours & Talks,Visualizing Abolition
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