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30 September 2024 / 1 October 2024 by Adam Jacobson | Leave a Comment
Welcome to the new academic year! In 1999, under the direction of Dean Jorge Hankamer, The Institute of Humanities Research (IHR) was created as a campus center of excellence to […]
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16 May 2024 / 16 May 2024 by Adam Jacobson | 3 Comments on Week 4: Inversion of the Retrograde
Hello and welcome to the fourth and final week of the 2024 Deep Read exploration of Hernan Diaz’s Trust. Catch up on Weeks 1, 2, and 3. We hope Deep […]
9 May 2024 / 9 May 2024 by Adam Jacobson | 7 Comments on Week 3: The Fiction of a Fiction
Welcome to Week 3 of the Deep Read! Catch up on Weeks 1 and 2. Our Faculty Salon on Monday was a thought-provoking and compelling evening. Thank you to our panelists and […]
2 May 2024 / 8 May 2024 by Adam Jacobson | 3 Comments on Week 2: Finance is a Liberal Art
Welcome to Week 2 of the 2024 Deep Read! Catch up on Week 1 here. We’re inspired by the great community comments Deep Readers have been posting, and we hope […]
25 April 2024 / 25 April 2024 by Adam Jacobson | 11 Comments on Week 1: Let’s Read TRUST
Welcome to the 2024 Deep Read! This is the first of four emails exploring Trust by Hernan Diaz. Our goal is to enhance your reading experience by sharing insights, observations, […]
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24 August 2023 / 24 August 2023 by Adam Jacobson | Leave a Comment
During the Spring of 2023, The Humanities Institute produced our fourth and largest annual Deep Read program focused on Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Elizabeth Kolbert’s book Under a White Sky. […]
26 May 2023 / 26 May 2023 by Adam Jacobson
Hello Deep Readers, We’re still buzzing from Sunday’s insightful keynote event with Elizabeth Kolbert and Ezra Klein (Stevenson), but we’re not closing the book on the 2023 Deep Read just yet. On June 7, […]
18 May 2023 / 18 May 2023 by Adam Jacobson | 4 Comments on Week 4: Look Up
Hello, and welcome to the final installment of our 4-week exploration of Under a White Sky. Catch up on weeks 1, 2, and 3 if you haven’t yet. On May 21, […]
11 May 2023 / 11 May 2023 by Adam Jacobson | 4 Comments on Week 3: Best Coast
Hello and welcome to Week 3! Catch up on Week 1 and Week 2 if you haven’t yet. Last week, we hosted the Deep Read Faculty Salon. It was a […]
4 May 2023 / 4 May 2023 by Adam Jacobson | 5 Comments on Week 2: Craft and Calamity
Hello Deep Readers, Welcome to Week 2! Catch up on Week 1 if you haven’t yet. This week, we’re aiming to better understand the craft of Under a White Sky […]
27 April 2023 / 4 May 2023 by Adam Jacobson | 7 Comments on Week 1: Read the World
Welcome to the 2023 Deep Read! This is the first of four weekly installments exploring Elizabeth Kolbert’s Under a White Sky. Our goal is to enhance your reading experience by […]
25 October 2022 / 26 October 2022 by Adam Jacobson
Hello Deep Readers, Each year, we invite curious minds (you!) to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment. Now in our fourth year, we […]
12 May 2022 / 12 May 2022 by Adam Jacobson | 3 Comments on Integrating Faith & Science
Hello Deep Readers, Welcome to the fourth and final week of our in-depth exploration of Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom. We will welcome Gyasi to UCSC’s Quarry Amphitheater this Sunday, May […]
6 May 2022 / 6 May 2022 by Adam Jacobson | Leave a Comment
Hello Deep Readers, Welcome to week three of our four-week exploration of Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom. Catch up on week one and two. This week, we hosted our Faculty Salon […]
28 April 2022 / 28 April 2022 by Adam Jacobson | 2 Comments on Dilemmas of Identity
Hello Deep Readers, Welcome to week two of our four-week exploration of Yaa Gyasi’s novel, Transcendent Kingdom. By now you should be reading the novel—giving you plenty of time to […]
21 April 2022 / 21 April 2022 by Adam Jacobson | 10 Comments on Let’s Dig in
Hello and welcome to the 2022 Deep Read! This is the first of four emails exploring Yaa Gyasi’s novel Transcendent Kingdom. We aim to enhance your reading experience by sharing […]
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21 September 2021 / 21 September 2021 by Adam Jacobson | Leave a Comment
We’re excited to announce the return of the UC Santa Cruz Deep Read program. Following our explorations of Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments and Tommy Orange’s There There, our next book […]
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9 March 2021 / 10 May 2021 by Adam Jacobson | Leave a Comment
The 2021 Deep Read Program explored Tommy Orange’s novel There There. The novel depicts a variety of urban Native American characters living in Oakland, CA. Thousands of Deep readers read […]
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25 February 2021 / 1 March 2021 by Adam Jacobson | 5 Comments on Native Hubs
Hello Deep Readers, Welcome to week four of the Deep Read. If you need to, you can still catch up on week one, two, and three. So far, we’ve had two […]
18 February 2021 / 18 February 2021 by Adam Jacobson | 6 Comments on Real Stories
Hello Deep Readers, Welcome to the third of four weekly installments exploring Tommy Orange’s There There. If you’re just joining us, you can catch up on week one and week […]
11 February 2021 / 22 February 2021 by Adam Jacobson | 9 Comments on Against Assimilation
Hello Deep Readers, Welcome to week two of our four-week exploration of Tommy Orange’s novel, There There. By now, we hope you have the book and have started reading. If you start […]
4 February 2021 / 4 February 2021 by Adam Jacobson | 10 Comments on Let’s Find the There There
Hello Deep Readers! Welcome to the first of four installments exploring Tommy Orange’s novel There There. Our goal is simple—to enhance your reading experience by sharing some of the perspectives and […]
17 August 2020 / 8 September 2020 by Adam Jacobson | Leave a Comment
Margaret Atwood will join the UC Santa Cruz community for a free, live, virtual event on Tuesday September 22 at 4:30 PM PT. Part of The Humanities Institute’s Deep Read […]
22 April 2020 / 24 April 2020 by Adam Jacobson | Leave a Comment
Hello Deep Readers,Welcome to our last installment of our four-part exploration of Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments. So much has happened in the world—and in all of our lives—since we launched […]
