Meet Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder and UCSC faculty members for a special evening to learn about the Deep Read, this year’s featured book, and how you can get involved. The Deep Read, hosted annually by THI, invites curious minds to delve deeply into books guided by the expertise of UC Santa Cruz scholars. This year, we’re reading and thinking about Trust, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Hernan Diaz.

Our evening will feature light bites and a limited selection open bar. The first 50 guests will receive a copy of Trust to take home.

Don’t miss this chance to connect with fellow Slugs, engage with literature, and participate in this year’s Deep Read. Everyone is invited.

Participants

Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder  
Jasmine Alinder is the Humanities Division’s academic leader, the PI for the Mellon Foundation grant which supports her Employing Humanities Initiative, and a historian of photography and the incarceration of Japanese Americans.

Professor Pranav Anand 
Pranav Anand is the Faculty Director of The Humanities Institute. He is a Professor of Linguistics focused on semantics, pragmatics, syntax, and computational linguistics.

THI Founding Director Irena Polić
Irena Polić has co-directed The Humanities Institute since 2008, serves as the Assistant Dean for Research and Engagement for the Humanities Division, and is the founding director of the Deep Read.

Associate Professor Zac Zimmer 
Zac Zimmer is an interdisciplinary scholar of literature, culture, and technology in the hemispheric Americas and serves as a faculty lead for this year’s Deep Read.

About The Deep Read

The Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Now in its fifth year, we invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.