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 Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Julian Brave NoiseCat who will share his stunning debut We Survived the Night. Drawing from five years of on-the-ground reporting, We Survived the Night paints a […] |
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Within the everyday workspaces of Assam’s tea plantations, Adivasi tea tribes engage in listening, sounding, and music. At times, these sounds and music flow into Adivasi living areas known as “lines.” Upatyaka explores the dynamic relationship between the sounds of the workplace and the sociocultural life woven through tea plantation labor. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork […]
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 Join us for a kick-off meeting about The Humanities Institute's new ± AI Initiative. Learn about THI's vision and funding opportunities and connect with colleagues who have overlapping interests in […] |
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 Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness: earth ecologies x technoscience What a vital occasion it would be to receive intellectual gifts that enable us to better grasp our current socio-ecological moment, especially as many of us feel short of interpretations. We are inspired by Stuart Hall's conjunctural thinking, as we face a situation where intensive and […]
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 Are you curious about graduate school in the humanities? Join this Humanities Grad School 101 session, where we’ll hear from Associate Dean of Research Pranav Anand and stellar UCSC graduate students in History, […] |
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What happens when the ethical and interpretive frameworks of the humanities meet the algorithmic and interactive architectures of artificial intelligence? This dialogue brings together two leading voices from distinct yet converging fields: Magy Seif El-Nasr, a pioneer in human-centered AI, game analytics, and interactive narrative design, and Minghui Hu, a historian and digital humanist, explores […]
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 Wonder as the Source Aracelis Girmay is a poet, teacher, and editor. Her poems trace the connections of transformation and loss across cities and bodies. She is the author of […]
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 Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz are delighted to welcome award-winning chef and food activist Alice Waters for a discussion about A School Lunch Revolution, […] |
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Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents The Tragedy of King Richard II by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on October 4, 11, 18, 25 & November 1, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest […]
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Join the Seeds of Resurgence Research Cluster, in conjunction with The Greenhouse Project (TGP), as they host a gathering where people interested in the cluster can meet and eat and do something together with their hands. Participants will also build a seed undercommons (as opposed to a bank). Supplies will be provided. If you have […] |
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 On November 5, 2025, UC Santa Cruz will celebrate the 10th anniversary of Giving Day, our signature 24-hour fundraising event that unites Slugs around the world in support of student […]
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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 […] Please join us for a talk with Nour Joudah at the second annual Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement series! The Palestinian experience, like that of many indigenous peoples, is one unbound by time; it occupies a simultaneity of temporalities in any given moment and is constantly finding ways to escape the […]
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Farmers and gardeners have long appreciated a wide variety of plants and have nurtured them for meals, healing, and exchange. But diversity too often has been surrendered to monocultures of fields and spirits, predisposing much of modern agriculture to uniformity and, consequently, vulnerability. Today it is primarily at the individual level—such as growing and saving […] |
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 Within the everyday workspaces of Assam’s tea plantations, Adivasi tea tribes engage in listening, sounding, and music. At times, these sounds and music flow into Adivasi living areas known as […] Wondering what you can do with your Arts or Humanities degree? Hear from a real professional on our campus with a background in both. Rebecca Hernandez is the inaugural Community Archivist at the UCSC University Library. In this job talk, she will tell us about her educational journey as a first-generation transfer student and share […]
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Wonder as the Source Ariel Gore is an author, editor, and teacher. She makes books, zines, coloring books, and tarot cards. She is the founding editor & publisher of the […] |
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Join award-winning author and editor Ariel Gore for a conversation and mini-workshop on translating your research for non-academic genres including personal essays, fiction, memoir/autofiction, and journalism. What does your reader need to know? How do you find a balance between your own voice and the words of others? What do you do about things like […] |
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What does it look like when our creative process is driven by disability and community? How does the work develop, change, and differ from the already-established ways of making? In this talk, Jay Afrisando will share his recent and upcoming works focusing on how disability and community of diverse bodies drive the ways such works […]
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 Interested in faculty funding opportunities from the UC Humanities Research Institute and want to know more about the advisory committee selection process? Join UCHRI Director Jaimey Fisher and Research Grants Program Director […] |
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Interested in an impact-driven career in law, public policy, or politics? Come hear from UCSC Humanities alum Kim Angulo, an Assistant Public Defender with experience in both law and public policy work. You’ll gain insights into how to enter these fields, considerations for knowing whether they’re a good fit for you, and ideas for how […]
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Wonder as the Source Issa Quincy is a British writer. He spent spent several years working as a film archivist. His poetry has appeared in The London Magazine and been […]
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 Film Screening and Panel Discussion: 5:30-7pm, Studio C Reception: Communications 139, 7-8pm Surfing is a sport dear to Santa Cruzians, as the city has branded itself the “Original Surf City […] |
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 Are you an Indigenous leader or a public educator committed to fostering meaningful partnerships and enriching Indigenous education? Join Cabrillo College for a free transformative one-day workshop designed to cultivate […]
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 Following the success of its 2023 debut, Broadsides No. 2 returns this fall to MK Contemporary Art Gallery with a compelling exploration of the dynamic relationship between poetry and visual […] |
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 The History of Consciousness department invites you to the next talk in their Fall 2025 Research Colloquium series. Stephen David Engel will read from an experimental history called “Timescape of […] |
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 Following the wars in Vietnam, over two million people fled to country with the collapse of the Republic of Vietnam. That exodus, referred to by many as “the boat people” […]
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Please join the More-than-Human(ities) Laboratory as we co-host Dr. Lyla June Johnston and her timely talk on indigenous knowledge and agricultural practices. Dr. Lyla June Johnston is an Indigenous musician, scholar, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Her messages focus on Indigenous rights, supporting youth, traditional land stewardship practices and […] |
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South American Archaeology is living through a growing push towards a theoretical focus developed from within. Of particular influence is the concept of “coloniality”, an enduring form of colonialism that affects the frameworks of reference the colonized have of themselves. However, coloniality and the emphasis on “subaltern archaeologies” as a generalized category for the production […] |
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 Join us for the 16th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading, featuring honored guest Ellen Bass. Poet Gary Young will host the program, and the evening will include an announcement of […] |
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Liv Hoversten is an Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from UC Davis and a B.A. in Chemistry from St. Olaf College. Liv Hoversten's current work in progress examines the role of parafoveal processing (i.e., the word […] |
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With The Greenhouse Project, The Seeds of Resurgence Research Cluster will host a dinner prepared by the duo Aaron Mulenga and Nkonde Malenga, who will guest chef a Zambian ubwali dinner featuring mais (corn) seed. The last iteration was very beautiful and featured the Palestinian artist Noura Alhariri, who curated a dinner around grapevines (the second most […] |
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This lecture will provide a history of Red Power radicalization and Indigenous-Marxist cross-fertilization. It examines the political work undertaken by a small but dedicated cadre of Native organizers going by […] |
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 Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Megha Majumdar (A Burning) who will share her electrifying new novel that has recently been long-listed for the National Book Award and received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers […] |
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Join the Seeds of Resurgence Research cluster as they gather to discuss readings related to the Hebron Seed bank, which Israeli forces destroyed in August. Participants will think together about how colonial power targets food sovereignty and what can be done to resist those acts of destruction. This event will be hosted at The Greenhouse […] |
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Wonder as the Source About the Living Writers Series The Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There […] |
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