This spring, Percival Everett spoke with Dan White, Humanities Writer at UC Santa Cruz, about the creation of his 2024 National Book Award-winning novel James, a book that reoccupies and […]
Acclaimed novelist Percival Everett will step onto the stage of the Quarry Amphitheater at UC Santa Cruz next month for a highly anticipated conversation with Professor Vilashini Cooppan as part […]
Welcome to Week 3 of our exploration of James. This week, we invite you to finish the novel and consider what it reveals about historical memory, the resistance to slavery, and […]
The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Matt Wagers, speaking on Setting Healthy (mnemonic) Boundaries. This is an in-person event. You can also join virtually via Zoom. Nearly 20 […]
Join celebrated Los Angeles-based Chicana artist and researcher Sandy Rodriguez for a conversation about her ongoing series Codex Rodriguez-Mondragon with UCSC Professors Jennifer Gonzalez (HAVC) and Kirsten Silva Gruesz (Literature). […]
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Rachel Kushner, two-time finalist for both the Booker Prize and National Book Award, for a reading and signing of her acclaimed novel Creation Lake, available in paperback […]
Perhaps water is a mouth that runs toward unwritten histories. This possibility comes closer to the senses in the work of Jumana Emil Abboud, an artist whose practice is grounded […]
Featuring 10 major video installations made between 1999 and 2022, alongside several early single-channel films including his iconic Looking for Langston (1989), this exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of […]
UC Santa Cruz Professor Nirvikar Singh is the director of “Sikhs in the 21st Century: Remembering the Past, Engaging the Future,” a research project housed at The Humanities Institute. As […]
Ania Mah Gricuk is a 3rd year History Ph.D. student who received the 2023 THI Summer Research and the 2024 Summer Pathways fellowships. Gricuk was able to conduct significant research […]
Join Jason Weidemann, an Editorial Director at the University of Minnesota Press, for a “publishing bootcamp” workshop, geared toward graduate students, post docs, and early career scholars working on their […]
Interested in Journalism? Come for a conversation with writer and editor Jazmine Hughes. Jazmine Hughes is a writer and editor, and the recipient of two National Magazine Awards. Hughes was […]
Join the UCSC Special Collections & Archives for a conversation with Donna Haraway titled “Thick, Slimy, Squishy, & Generative,” featuring History of Consciousness alumni Chela Sandoval (’93), Katie King (’87), […]
Welcome to Week 2 of our exploration of James. This week, we’re reading through Part One (Chapter 32) of the novel together with the help of Professor of Literature, Susan Gillman, […]
Analyses of Palestinian poetics often expose the violent structure of ongoing-Nakba — the Zionist settler-colonial uprooting and removal of Palestinians (both physically from the land and physiologically from life) since […]
Liliana Barajas is in her senior year at UC Santa Cruz and is majoring in Anthropology and Literature with a Latin American concentration. She is currently working with Open Campus […]
The Humanities Institute (THI) is thrilled to announce the 2025 Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice Research fellows. This graduate fellowship supports ongoing research on health inequality in the state of […]
UCSC Feminist Studies and the UCSC Music Department proudly present Lifting As We Rhyme: 50 Years of Black Feminist Sonic World Making—a roundtable discussion featuring Tricia Rose, internationally respected speaker, […]
UCSC Feminist Studies and the UCSC Music Department proudly present Tricia Rose—an internationally respected speaker, award-winning writer, and leading scholar of African American culture, racial inequality, and gender—for a conversation […]
Join the Department of Applied Linguistics for a professional development workshop featuring Ying Jin, the 2018 ACTFL National Teacher of the Year, who will present her talk titled “Nurturing Hearts […]