Event Recaps
13 January 2025 / 23 January 2025 by Lorraine Torres | Leave a Comment
Zionism is one of the most fraught terms in contemporary politics. But what exactly is Zionism, what is its history, and what have been (and are today) its many meanings […]
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3 December 2024 / 4 February 2025 by Lorraine Torres | Leave a Comment
Marilynne Robinson, a prolific novelist and essayist, is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a National Humanities Medal. President Barack Obama […]
11 October 2024 / 5 November 2024 by Lorraine Torres | Leave a Comment
On October 11, 2024, we welcomed Professor Ana Celia Zentella (professor emerita, UC San Diego) to discuss the political, social, and educational barriers that California’s Spanish-English bilinguals must overcome to […]
5 June 2024 / 23 January 2025 by Lorraine Torres | Leave a Comment
On June 5, 2024, The Humanities Institute presented the 2024 Night at the Museum, featuring Watsonville is in the Heart and highlighting Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley, a community-driven […]
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19 May 2024 / 4 September 2024 by Lorraine Torres | Leave a Comment
On May 19, 2024 The Humanities Institute produced its fifth annual Deep Read program. The 2024 Deep Read culminated in a live discussion of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Trust with author Hernan […]
9 April 2024 / 4 June 2024 by Lorraine Torres | Leave a Comment
On April 9th 2024, Dr. Shamam Waldman gave the annual Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies, entitled “What Can Genomics Teach Us About Jewish History?” The study of population […]
11 March 2024 / 20 March 2024 by Lorraine Torres | Leave a Comment
On March 11, 2024, Professor Pranav gave the March Slugs and Steins lecture on ChatGPT: A Selective History, and Notes on the Future of AI/ML Language Models. Drawing on the […]
22 February 2024 / 4 June 2024 by Lorraine Torres | Leave a Comment
On February 22, 2024, Maryana Iskander gave the annual Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture entitled, “Humans in the Loop: Wikipedia’s Future in the Age of AI.” What role will humans […]
15 February 2024 / 13 March 2024 by Lorraine Torres | Leave a Comment
On February 15, 2024, Lisa Lowe gave The Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture entitled, “Histories of the Colonial Present.” In this lecture, Lowe examined colonial formations and their imbricated […]
1 February 2024 / 13 March 2024 by Lorraine Torres | Leave a Comment
On February 1st, 2024, Professors Elise Mitchell (Princeton), Kevin Dawson (UC Merced), and Greg O’Malley (UC Santa Cruz) explored the question: What actually happened in 1619? These three historians of […]
25 January 2024 / 8 July 2024 by Lorraine Torres | Leave a Comment
On January 25th, 2024, Reza Aslan signed and discussed his book, An American Martyr in Persia, in the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. Set in 1907, educator and American missionary Howard […]
2 November 2023 / 6 December 2023 by Lorraine Torres | Leave a Comment
On November 2, 2023, Dr. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni gave the 14th Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning writer, activist, professor, speaker, and author of twenty-one […]
21 May 2023 / 19 November 2024 by Lorraine Torres | Leave a Comment
On May 21, 2023 The Humanities Institute produced our fourth and largest annual Deep Read program. Pulitzer. Prize-winning science journalist Elizabeth Kolbert and NY Times columnist and podcast host Ezra Klein spoke at UC Santa […]
15 May 2022 / 21 May 2024 by Lorraine Torres | Leave a Comment
On May 15, 2022 novelist Yaa Gyasi and UC Santa Cruz Professor Emerita of Literature Karen Tei Yamashita spoke at the Quarry Amphitheater, as we closed the book on the 2022 […]
3 March 2021 / 21 May 2024 by Lorraine Torres | Leave a Comment
On March 3, 2021, The Humanities Institute produced its second annual Deep Read program. The 2022 Deep Read culminated in a live, online discussion of There There with author Tommy Orange. Tommy […]
22 September 2020 / 21 May 2024 by Lorraine Torres | Leave a Comment
On September 22, 2020, The Humanities Institute produced its first ever annual Deep Read program! Throughout 2019-2020, we had over 1,000 people – students, staff, faculty, community members on campus […]
2 November 2017 / 11 June 2024 by Lorraine Torres | Leave a Comment
On November 2, 2017, Marina Rustow gave the annual Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies, entitled “The Cairo Geniza and the Middle East’s Archive Problem.” The Cairo Geniza, a […]
24 February 2016 / 11 June 2024 by Lorraine Torres | Leave a Comment
On February 24, 2016, Todd Presner gave the annual Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies, entitled “The Ethics of the Algorithm: Holocaust Testimony and Digital Humanities” With more than […]
18 May 2015 / 11 June 2024 by Lorraine Torres | Leave a Comment
On May 18, 2015, Maurice Samuels gave the annual Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies, entitled “French Universalism and the Jews: Anti-Antisemitism and the Right to Difference”. In conflicts […]