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Mediterranean Slavery Since the 18th Century and the Historical Study of Race: M’hamed Oualdi in Conversation with Shreya Parikh
Mediterranean Slavery Since the 18th Century and the Historical Study of Race: M’hamed Oualdi in Conversation with Shreya Parikh
From ancient times through abolition, scholars have often described slavery in the Mediterranean region as being relatively unaffected by the history of racial thought. Instead, many historians have focused on the decisive role played by religion. At the same time, however, it is undeniable that dark-skinned enslaved people occupied a more subordinate position in comparison […]
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PhD+ Workshop – Grants and Fellowships
PhD+ Workshop – Grants and Fellowships
Grants and Fellowships for Scholars in the Humanities Learn how to make your fellowship and grant proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss what does and does not need to be in a research proposal, the proper tone and form, and ways to tease out the larger stakes of individual research […]
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CANCELLED – Nora Khan – Discernment: Unruly Images, Synthetic Media, and Evolving Critical Impulse
CANCELLED – Nora Khan – Discernment: Unruly Images, Synthetic Media, and Evolving Critical Impulse
What can criticism offer us in a world of unruly generative images and synthetic media? What precise language might we use for machine learning’s impact, or the wake of an algorithm? How must our practices of discernment and the critical impulse evolve in response to computational developments, to perhaps be more resilient and responsive? This […]
POSTPONED – Humanities Campus to Career: Law Panel
POSTPONED – Humanities Campus to Career: Law Panel
Please stay tuned for a new date! Are you interested in a career in the legal field? Come learn about careers in law from current and former attorneys with Humanities backgrounds. Appetizers and light refreshments will be served. Sarah Cunniff (she/her) attended Stevenson College at UC Santa Cruz, where she majored in French Literature. After […]
Undiscovered Shakespeare: Timon of Athens – Episode 3
Undiscovered Shakespeare: Timon of Athens – Episode 3
Join us for this year's, Undiscovered Shakespeare featuring Timon of Athens (1606), a late play focusing on the corrosive effects of prodigality and ingratitude in an apparently democratic society. Gretchen Minton, Professor of English at the University of Montana, Bozeman and the editor of the most recent Arden edition of the play, will be the […]
Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents: Jennifer Finney Boylan | CLEAVAGE: MEN, WOMEN, AND THE SPACE BETWEEN US
Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents: Jennifer Finney Boylan | CLEAVAGE: MEN, WOMEN, AND THE SPACE BETWEEN US
What is the difference between men and women? In her new book Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us, Jennifer Finney Boylan, bestselling author of She's Not There and co-author of Mad Honey with Jodi Picoult, examines the divisions—as well as the common ground—between the genders, and reflects on her own experiences, both difficult […]
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Living Writers with Hannah Sanghee Park
Living Writers with Hannah Sanghee Park
Living Writers Series – Winter 2025 Grief Sequence Not to suppress mourning (suffering)...but to change it, transform it…after Prageeta Sharma & Roland Barthes Hannah Sanghee Park is the author of two poetry collections. a chapbook, Ode Days Ode (2011) and The Same-Different (2015), which won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. […]
An Evening with Colin Winnette
An Evening with Colin Winnette
As part of Kresge's Writers House Reading Series, Kresge's Media and Society presents an evening with novelist and short-story writer Colin Winnette, who will be giving a reading followed by Q&A. The event will start at 7pm in the Kresge A Lounge (the first-floor lounge in one of the new residence halls). Colin Winnette is the […]
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Evgeny Morozov – AI and its Others: Cold War Legacies, Neoliberal Futures, and the Fight for Ecological Reason
Evgeny Morozov – AI and its Others: Cold War Legacies, Neoliberal Futures, and the Fight for Ecological Reason
Evgeny Morozov will be on campus Friday afternoon, February 28 to talk about his recent Boston Review article "The AI We Deserve." Evgeny Morozov holds a PhD in History of Science from Harvard University. He is the founder of "The Syllabus" and author of The Net Delusion (2011) and To Save Everything, Click Here (2013).
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Banu Bargu with Key MacFarlane & Anna Yegorova – Disembodiment: A Conversation
Banu Bargu with Key MacFarlane & Anna Yegorova – Disembodiment: A Conversation
The History of Consciousness department is pleased to announce the final talk in the Winter 25 session of the HisCon Speaker Series. HistCon Professor Banu Bargu, in discussion with HistCon Grads Key MacFarlane & Anna Yegrovoa will present “Disembodiment: A Conversation” on Monday, March 3, at 1pm in Hum 1 Rm 420 with a virtual […]
Book Conversation: Kevin Pham – The Architects of Dignity
Book Conversation: Kevin Pham – The Architects of Dignity
Professor Kevin Pham (University of Amsterdam) will be speaking about his 2024 book The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization on Monday March 3, at 3pm in Humanities 1 room 210. To attend virtually, join via Zoom here. In his new book, The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization (Oxford University Press, 2024), […]
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Benjamin Breen – AI Legibility, Physical Archives, and the Future of Research
Benjamin Breen – AI Legibility, Physical Archives, and the Future of Research
The Humanities Institute Research cluster, “Humanities in the Age of AI,” is pleased to invite you to a series of meetings this winter quarter. This meeting is scheduled for March 4th (Tuesday) at noon in HUM 210 with guest speaker, Benjamin Breen speaking on "AI legibility, physical archives, and the future of research." As artificial […]
Jennifer Finney Boylan – Amelia Earhart, Saved from Drowning
Jennifer Finney Boylan – Amelia Earhart, Saved from Drowning
Join us for this year's Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture featuring Jennifer Finney Boylan, who will deliver her talk titled Amelia Earhart, Saved from Drowning. In this collage of story and song, Jennifer Finney Boylan speculates on the life of Amelia Earhart after the crash. Using that event as a springboard, she considers how our […]
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Alex Brostoff – The Task of the Trans Translator: Paradoxes of Visibility, Autotheories of Opacity
Alex Brostoff – The Task of the Trans Translator: Paradoxes of Visibility, Autotheories of Opacity
What is the task of the trans translator? How have paradoxes of visibility bound translation and trans studies in uncanny inversions of each other? And what might autotheoretical methodologies contribute to decolonizing the transgender imaginary in translation? This talk probes how form—from the grammatical to the material and from the social to the structural—shapes and […]
More-Than-Human(ities) Lab Early Career Scholars Share Session
More-Than-Human(ities) Lab Early Career Scholars Share Session
Please join the More-Than-Human(ities) Lab for our first ever “Share Session.” Three of our early-career lab members will share their current projects and invite your feedback in an informal, interactive conversation. Snacks will be served! About Our Presenters: Joan Chia-en Chiang - "'I Won't Fight For You': Amis Soldiers in the Japanese Empire during WWII" […]
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Intimacies of Relation: The Autotheoretical Turn
Autotheory’s genre-bending form blends critical theory with life writing. Through performances, readings, papers, and embodied writing exercises, this transdisciplinary conference explores where and how autotheory emerged, the range of its practices, and the ways in which its forms recast the relationships between subjects and the worlds that make them. Panels explore autotheory in relationship to […]
Omer Aijazi – Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir
Omer Aijazi – Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir
The Center for South Asian Studies presents Omer Aijazi speaking on "Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir." Omer Aijazi takes us to remote mountainous valleys in the portion of Kashmir under Pakistan’s control, where life has been shaped by recurring environmental disasters and by the violence of the contested India/Pakistan border. In conversation with […]
Eman Ghanayem – For the Love of Genocide
Eman Ghanayem – For the Love of Genocide
The Center for Racial Justice is Proud to Present: For the Love of Genocide Part of the Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement Speaking Series This presentation unravels love in its colonial manifestation as a rationale for genocidal violence. It centers in its analysis the discourse currently used by those supporting and […]
Living Writers with Prageeta Sharma
Living Writers with Prageeta Sharma
Living Writers Series – Winter 2025 Grief Sequence Not to suppress mourning (suffering)...but to change it, transform it…after Prageeta Sharma & Roland Barthes Prageeta Sharma is the author of five poetry collections, including Grief Sequence (Wave Books, 2019) and The Opening Question (2004), which won the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize. In 2010, she received […]
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Activating Community Engagement with Imagining America at UC Santa Cruz
Activating Community Engagement with Imagining America at UC Santa Cruz
*Note that this event has a new date and location: It will take place in person on March 7 from 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. at the Cowell Conference Room (132) (map). Please join us for a special workshop with Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA). Learn about the member benefits, […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Jessica Rett
Linguistics Colloquia: Jessica Rett
The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present, Jessica Rett (UC Los Angeles) speaking on Ambidirectionality and apparently expletive negation. This is an in-person event. You can also join virtually via Zoom. Some constructions in some languages involve expletive negation (EN): negation that seems to not affect the truth conditions of the sentence. For example, […]
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“Zone of Flux: The Mutable Geographies, Interrupted Histories, and Multiple Languages of the Mediterranean” – Iain Chambers in Conversation with Camilla Hawthorne and Mediterranean Studies Roundtable
“Zone of Flux: The Mutable Geographies, Interrupted Histories, and Multiple Languages of the Mediterranean” – Iain Chambers in Conversation with Camilla Hawthorne and Mediterranean Studies Roundtable
Join us for a Mediterranean Studies talk and roundtable featuring Iain Chambers, former Professor of the Sociology of Cultural Processes, Oriental University, Naples. 4:30-5:30 | “Mediterranean Blues: Colonial Spacetime and Other Archives,” Iain Chambers Introducer and Respondent: Camilla Hawthorne (Associate Professor of Sociology and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, UCSC) 5:45-7:00 | “Mediterranean as Materiality, […]
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Matthew L. Jones – Great Exploitations: Hacking, Machine Learning and the NSA in the Golden Age of Signals Intelligence
Matthew L. Jones – Great Exploitations: Hacking, Machine Learning and the NSA in the Golden Age of Signals Intelligence
The Humanities Institute Research cluster, “Humanities in the Age of AI,” is pleased to invite you to a series of meetings this winter quarter. This meeting is scheduled for March 11th (Tuesday) at noon in HUM 210 with guest speaker, Matthew L. Jones speaking on Great Exploitations: Hacking, Machine Learning and the NSA in the […]
Critical Imagination in Crisis Times
Critical Imagination in Crisis Times
Join us for a one-day conference, "Critical Imagination in Crisis Times," featuring presentations by: Iain Chambers, Former Professor of the Sociology of Cultural Processes, Oriental University, Naples Paul Gilroy, Emeritus Professor of Humanities, University College, London Vron Ware, Visiting Professor at the Gender Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science UC Santa […]
PhD+ Workshop – THI Public Fellowship Information Session
PhD+ Workshop – THI Public Fellowship Information Session
Curious about becoming a THI Graduate Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia, then you may be interested in THI’s Public Fellowship program. Public fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to […]
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Humanities Campus to Career: Job Talk with Tammy Tolgo, Amazon Talent Acquisition
Humanities Campus to Career: Job Talk with Tammy Tolgo, Amazon Talent Acquisition
Considering careers in recruiting, human resources, or business? Join this informative job talk and Q&A to learn about talent acquisition from a UCSC Humanities alumna who is a leader in the field! Tammy will offer insights about her journey as a first generation college student from graduation through various talent acquisition roles in multiple industries, […]
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Alt-Ac in the Archives: Archives and Rare Books Career Pathways
Alt-Ac in the Archives: Archives and Rare Books Career Pathways
Ever thought about pursuing a career in archives and libraries? Wondered about what other paths you can pursue with your degree - PhD or otherwise? Come to this panel discussion with four professional librarians and archivists, all from the UC Santa Cruz Special Collections & Archives in McHenry Library. We’ll have a conversation on the […]
Living Writers Student Reading
Living Writers Student Reading
Living Writers Series – Winter 2025 Grief Sequence Not to suppress mourning (suffering)...but to change it, transform it…after Prageeta Sharma & Roland Barthes Sponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Laurie Sain Endowment, The Humanities Institute, Bookshop Santa Cruz, and Two Birds Books (where the writers' books are available for […]
2025 Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture featuring Raghuram Rajan
2025 Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture featuring Raghuram Rajan
UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Cynthia Larive and Foundation Board Trustee Anuradha Luther Maitra invite you to the Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture: "How can India (and developing countries) grow? Navigating an automating and protectionist world" featuring Raghuram Rajan. The schedule for Thursday, March 13, includes a reception from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., followed by the program […]
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Rick Steves: On the Hippie Trail
Rick Steves: On the Hippie Trail
Bookshop Santa Cruz presents bestselling travel writer Rick Steves , who will join us for a special event at The Rio Theatre to discuss his new memoir On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer. Stow away with Rick Steves for a glimpse into the unforgettable moments, misadventures, and […]
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Story & Pictures By : A Benefit Film Screening for Santa Cruz County Public School Libraries
Story & Pictures By : A Benefit Film Screening for Santa Cruz County Public School Libraries
With book bans skyrocketing across the country, let’s celebrate the value of children’s books by supporting our local public school libraries together. Children’s books are often one of the first moments that allow children to dive deep into their imaginations. Come celebrate the impact of children’s books with a benefit screening of a new documentary […]
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Ariella Azoulay – Crafting a Jewish Muslim World
Ariella Azoulay – Crafting a Jewish Muslim World
Crafting a potential history of the Jewish Muslim World means taking seriously the fact that we – Muslim Jews - are the living ruins of worlds that imperialism is committed to make disappear. Asking ‘who am I?’ / ‘who are we?’ means breaking apart the cohesiveness and solidity of the identities assigned by settler colonial […]
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Center for South Asian Studies Meet and Greet
Center for South Asian Studies Meet and Greet
Join us for a Center for South Asian Studies Meet and Greet! Come have some food and refreshments with the CSAS community and tell us about your research and interests related to South Asia and the Center. Grab a bite, get a drink, and tell us about your research!
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Night of Ideas
Night of Ideas
The Future We Share: Activism, Creativity, and Collective Imagination Join us on April 4, 2025 for the Night of Ideas in Santa Cruz, a nocturnal celebration of art, philosophy, and activism! From solar energy and housing justice to communal music and movement, Night of Ideas – Santa Cruz invites you to explore interactive sessions on […]
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