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A Jam-Packed Spring Semester! Happy New Year! We're looking forward to an exciting Spring 2019. Ourinternational symposium will explore monuments and memory around theworld. In our unique interdisciplinary studio courses, GUH students will

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travel to Lagos, Nigeria and New Orleans, Louisiana to explore theintersections of art, justice, and space. And our Fellows will meet todiscuss their ongoing research on topics including gentrification, consumerspaces, and cultural mapping in contemporary Indonesia, Cuba andnineteenth-century Tokyo.

GUH Certificate Info Sessions Graduate: Jan 24 10a in 305 Wurster Undergraduate: Jan 24 11a in 305 Wurster If you love cities, pursuing a Certificate in GlobalUrban Humanities is a great way to structure yourstudies and connect across disciplines to other folksdigging deeply into urban life. Join the certificateprogram and get priority access to unique fieldwork-based studio courses. Learn more at our infosessions.

GUH Course Spotlight: The City, Arts, and PublicSpace Instructors: Teresa Caldeira and ShannonJackson CYPLAN 291/RHETORIC 240G Spring 2019, 4 units, T 1-4p Local urban practices and artistic interventions arerecreating public spaces in metropolises around theworld. This GUH graduate seminar draws fromdifferent methods across the humanities andenvironmental design to explore some of theseinterventions and to theorize about the publiccharacter of the transformations that they provoke.Students will be examining a foundational set ofreadings in urban humanities. Required for theGraduate Certificate in Global Urban Humanities.More

Techniques of Memory: Landscape, Iconoclasm,Medium and Power April 17-18 Symposium David Brower Center Whether in Berlin, New Orleans, or Seoul,monuments are just one way that cities embodymemory. Our spring symposium will bring togetherscholars, artists and activists from around the worldto consider techniques as new as augmented realityand as old as storytelling as ways of building urbanmeaning out of memory. More

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Mapping Affecdence: Urban counter-drag in SanFrancisco, 1966-75 Brown bag lecture by Natalia Matesanz Ventura,PhD Visiting Student Researcher Jan 28, 12-1:30p in 106 Wurster In the late '60s and early '70s, San Francisco'scounterculture devised underground, self-organizedDIY urban networks of communal survival. TheAngels of Light, an acid-drag commune of free-theatre performers, transformed buildings, recycledurban waste for props, and performed in the streets.Combining affect and performance theory within aSituationist framework, Matesanz utilizes what shecoins affecdent cartography to reveal how theAngels of Light used urban space for counterculturecontestations of mainstream gender, political andconsumer practices. More

The Feminist Resistance to the Radical Right inBrazil: A Forum of Four Brazilian FeministPolitical Leaders Jan 28, 4-7pm Booth Auditorium (room 175), School of Law Join in this unprecedented opportunity to hear fromand dialogue with 4 newly elected Brazilianpoliticians as they begin historic terms inoffice: Talíria Petrone (RJ), Sâmia Bomfim (SP), JôCavalcanti (PE), and Fernanda Melchionna (RS).They will discuss feminism, formal politics, andinnovative modes of resistance to the radical rightturn in Brazilian government. RSVP by Jan 15. More

GUH People: Noam Shoked GUH alumnus Noam Shoked was recently awardedthe 2018-2019 Princeton-Mellon Fellowship. AtPrinceton, he will continue his research on the waysin which the design of West Bank settlementsbecame a site of both collaboration andconfrontation between architects, settlers, andgovernment officials. More

More on The Evolution of Beauty If you missed the lively GUH­sponsored lecture byevolutionary biologist Richard Prum in November,check out the New York Times Magazine article,

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"How Beauty is Making Scientists RethinkEvolution," on his work. 

GUH PicksCall for Art and Dance on theme of Resilience Bulbfest 2019 DEADLINE Feb 8 Bulbfest 2019 will explore the theme of Resilience ata shoreline landfill through outdoor art installationsand dance performances at a festival on May 5 andexhibition to run through the summer. The call forproposals can be seen at bulbfest.org. 

QUANTOPIA: The History of the Internet withGreg Niemeyer and DJ Spooky Jan 25, 7:30p Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater World Premiere: Teaming up with Internet Archiveand data artist and GUH Faculty Greg Niemeyer,composer/multimedia artist Paul D. Miller aka DJSpooky created this tribute to the history of theinternet and to the depth and high stakes of freespeech and creative expression involved in our dailyuse of media. More

Night of Ideas: "Facing our Time: The City of theFuture" Feb 2, 7p-2a San Francisco Main Public Library Can our cities be community focused and globallyconnected while also smart, resilient, and infusedwith poetry and empathy? Through dialogue, howcan we empower people of all ages, classes, andbackgrounds? Is an innovative and inclusive citypossible? Discuss these questions, enjoy music andart, and sip French wine as the Main Library opensits doors for a free and festive night to exchangeideas in the form of a 7-hour marathon of debates,discussions and performances. More

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Surprising Evidence: Revealing VanishedLandscapes through Nontraditional MovingImages EDA Gallery Talk with UC Santa Cruz Professorof Film & Digital Media Rick Prelinger Feb 12, 6:30-8p in Wurster Auditorium (room112) Historians, architects, and planners often look tofeature films as records of extinct environments. Butfew know of the existence of alternative archivalrecords: home movies, process plates, and "usefulfilms." Vividly depicting simultaneous and elusivegeographies, these materials enable newframeworks for presentation and visualization,including community- and commons-based eventsfocusing on urban futures and the right to the city.More

Daniel Libeskind: Edge of Order Jan 20, 3-4:30p Contemporary Jewish Museum Starchitect Daniel Libeskind opens the door to hisunique creative process in conversation with theCJM's Executive Director, Lori Starr. Hear thestories behind his most important projects, includingthe design for The Contemporary Jewish Museum,and learn how the architect's unlikely rise from achild born to Holocaust survivors in a Polishhomeless shelter, to a teenager in the Bronx, to anavant-garde academic still shapes his boundary-pushing work at Studio Libeskind. Book sales andsigning to follow. More

OpportunitiesEast Asian Foreign Language & Area Studies(FLAS) Fellowships for 2019-2020 andSummer 2019 DEADLINE JAN 30. FLAS fellowships providefunding to students to encourage the study ofless commonly taught foreign languages incombination with area and international studies.Fellowships are available for graduate students inEast Asian and Central Asian Languages(summer only).

Awards for the study of Chinese (Mandarin orCantonese), Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, andTibetan are available for AY 2010-2020 andSummer 2019. In addition, a select number ofawards for the study of Central Asian languages,including Uigyur, Kazakh, Uzbek, and Tajik, willbe given in Summer 2019. More

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