Events

California Humanities wants to hear from you. We are embarking on a listening tour throughout California over the next few months to find out who is producing humanities content and programming in our regions and across California. Our goal is to sit down and talk with organizations and individuals focused on telling California stories through […]

The UC Santa Cruz Graduate Research Symposium offers graduate students from every division the opportunity to discuss their research with colleagues on campus and with the public. McHenry Library Information Commons South and Adjoining Classrooms April 3, 2020 1:15 p.m. Kickoff 1:30–3:30 p.m. Judging 3:30–5:30 p.m. Award Reception, south terrace and lawn For more information […]

Kathryn Davidson (Harvard) - Title TBD Kathryn Davidson is an assistant professor in Linguistics at Harvard University where her research investigates the unique capacity that we have to understand an infinite number of sentences that we’ve never encountered before (semantics), how we incorporate contextual information into these meanings (pragmatics), and how we ever learn to […]

Jacqueline Wernimont is an antiracist, feminist scholar working toward greater justice in digital cultures. She writes about long histories of media and technology—particularly those that count and commemorate—and entanglements with archives and historiographic ways of knowing. Her book, Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media, is out with MIT Press. She is a network weaver across humanities, […]

The same hopes that have landed FitBits on millions of wrists, Rings on thousands of doors, and Echoes in so many homes have brought us the latest in educational technologies. These hopes include better support of ourselves, our goals, and our dreams for success, health, and safety. As universities and colleges increasingly buy into smart […]

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies. All Center for […]

The Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present Beyond the End of the World Lecture Series Nick Estes is a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. He is an Assistant Professor in the American Studies Department at the University of New Mexico. In 2014, he co-founded The Red Nation, an Indigenous resistance organization. […]

Kevin Ryan (Harvard) - Title TBD Kevin M. Ryan is a phonologist whose research focuses on prosodic systems and the constituents of speech, especially stress, weight, meter, and phrasal phonology. This work draws on the statistical analysis of speech/text corpora, experiments, and studies of particular languages (often Indic or Dravidian). About eight times each year, […]

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies. All Center for […]

Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender is a solo show, written and performed by Lisa Wolpe. It is an hour long, with no intermission. Lisa is an expert on gender-flipping Shakespeare as well as an actress, director, teacher, writer, traveler, and distinguished scholar. Her one-women show explores her experiences as an activist for inclusion, diversity, […]

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies. All Center for […]

The Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present Beyond the End of the World Lecture Series Natasha Dhillon and Amin Husain, are MTL, a collaboration that joins research, aesthetics, organizing and action in practice. Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain are co-founders of Tidal: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy, the movement-generated theory magazine; Global Ultra […]