Event Recaps
1 March 2023 / 5 November 2024 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
On March 1, 2023, The Humanities Institute presented the 2023 Night at the Museum, featuring the California premiere of Resettlement: Chicago Story, a new short fictional film and educational website, […]
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3 November 2022 / 28 November 2022 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
On November 3, 2022, Natasha Trethewey gave the 13th Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading. Jeremy Ra was the 2022 Morton Marcus Poetry winner. Dan White wrote about the reading for […]
18 November 2021 / 1 December 2021 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
On November 18, 2021, the 12th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading was held, hosted by poet Danusha Laméris and featuring honored guest, Gary Young. Watch the video of the event […]
19 April 2021 / 16 January 2024 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
On April 19th, 2021, the Humanities Institute was honored to welcome esteemed Professor Saidiya Hartman for the inaugural Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture. Hartman gave this years lecture entitled, […]
17 February 2021 / 4 June 2024 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
On February 17th, 2021, the Annual Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies was held, featuring UCLA’s Sarah Abrevaya Stein in conversation with UC Santa Cruz’s Alma Heckman, the Neufeld-Levin […]
14 January 2021 / 28 January 2021 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
On January 14th, 2021, Sundance Award-winning Filmmaker Jennifer Brea and anthropologist and writer Megan Moodie gathered for an evening of conversation and reflection on chronic illness, the global crisis of […]
Event Recaps Signature Events
4 February 2020 / 21 May 2020 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
On February 4th, 2020, Veteran NPR journalists Hannah Allam & Leila Fadel, in conversation with Jennifer Derr Associate Professor of History at UCSC, discussed their careers in journalism in the […]
8 November 2019 / 21 May 2020 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
On November 7, 2019, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz presented the 10th Annual Morton Marcus Poetry reading with Gary Soto. Poet Gary Young, hosted the program, which included […]
3 November 2019 / 5 April 2020 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
On November 1-2, 2019, scholars from across the world gathered to celebrate the work and legacy of Hayden White. The event was conceived as an invitation to extend Hayden White’s […]
23 September 2019 / 5 April 2020 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
On September 21, 2019, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz, in partnership with Bookshop Santa Cruz, were delighted to present an evening with Malcolm Gladwell for the hardcover tour […]
On September 19, 2019 Bookshop Santa Cruz and the Humanities Institute presented Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Colson Whitehead for a reading of The Nickel Boys, his highly anticipated followup […]
News
30 August 2019 / 4 September 2019 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
Henry Luce Foundation funds five-year initiative, supporting innovative scholarship, graduate students, and “slow science” July 01, 2019 By Jennifer McNulty Special places deserve special care, which is precisely what a new […]
Feature News
23 July 2019 / 4 September 2019 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
July 23, 2019 By Scott Rappaport Donna Haraway, distinguished professor emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz, has been elected as a Fellow of the British Academy. […]
Event Recaps News
9 May 2019 / 5 April 2020 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
On May 9th, 2019, The Humanities Institute and Center for Jewish History event, Anti-Semitism and the Internet, drew over 100 people to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. At […]
2 April 2019 / 18 December 2019 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
On April 2nd, 2019, Laurie Halse Anderson discussed her new book, SHOUT– a searing poetic memoir for the #MeToo era. — Event Photos by Crystal Birns: — Laurie Halse Anderson […]
Data and Democracy News
20 February 2019 / 20 December 2019 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
On February 20th, 2019, James Loeffler presented the annual Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies titled “The Right to Be Heard: Jews, Human Rights, and Global Democracy” at UC Santa Cruz. […]
29 October 2018 / 16 January 2024 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
On October 29, 2018, Jaron Lanier gave the year’s Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture entitled, “How the Interned Failed and How to Recreate It.” Jaron Lanier visited UC Santa Cruz […]
2 October 2018 / 6 April 2020 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
On October 2nd, 2018, UC Santa Cruz alumna, Reyna Grande, discussed her new memoir, A Dream Called Home, in conversation with Micah Perks, UC Santa Cruz Literature Professor. A DREAM […]
28 April 2018 / 16 January 2024 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
On April 28th, 2018, Bettina Aptheker, distinguished professor and Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies, delivered the weekend’s faculty keynote address and 2018’s Peggy Downes Baskin […]
Tagged
16 November 2017 / 5 April 2020 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
On November 16th, 2017, the Eighth Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading presented by the Humanities Institute and the Living Writers Series featured Dorianne Laux. The Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors […]
26 June 2017 / 21 February 2018 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
By Jennifer Pittman Students involved in individual research projects across multiple disciplines will be celebrating their findings June 9 at the inaugural Koret Scholars Undergraduate Research Slam. The year-end event will feature […]
By Matthew Renda Universities are driven by metrics. They track graduation and retention rates and the number of graduates who secure employment within their field of study. But public institutions […]
19 June 2017 / 21 February 2018 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
CIED launched UCSC’s new IDEA Hub with a pitch competition: Pitch for Social and Creative Enterprise June 7, 2017 3:00 to 5:30 p.m. Hotel Paradox 611 Ocean St. Santa Cruz […]
By Scott Rappaport Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies Bettina Aptheker was presented with the John Dizikes Teaching Award in Humanities at the Humanities Division’s 2017 Spring Awards celebration held at […]
