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  • Linguistics Colloquium with Maria Gouskova

    Humanities 1, Room 202

    Join the Linguistics Department for Maria Gouskova's talk "Infixing Reduplication: Connecting Shape and Position". It is a matter of some disagreement whether phonological theory should aim to rule out unattested languages, and if so, how. Some theories are explicitly oriented toward typological restrictiveness, while others accept some overgeneration. In the latter view, the rare and […]

  • Generative AI and the Future of Judgment: A Symposium on Technology and the Humanities

    Virtual and In Person

    Generative AI and the Future of Judgment: A Symposium on Technology and the Humanities will focus on generative AI/machine learning from a humanities perspective, particularly on the work of computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum and philosopher Hannah Arendt. Weizenbaum was a computer scientist who created the early chatbot ELIZA, after which the famous “ELIZA effect” is […]

  • Debasmita Bhattacharya – Code-switching in Text and Speech

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to invite you to an upcoming colloquium: Code-switching in Text and Speech Challenges Information-Theoretic Speaker Design In this work, we use language modeling to investigate the factors that influence insertional code-switching. Code-switching occurs when a speaker alternates between one language variety (the primary language) and another […]

  • Arash Davari – Iran is Not a Signifier: Reflections on Imperialism and Revolution in the 21st Century

    Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    CMENA invites you to a special talk with Dr. Arash Davari, “Iran is Not a Signifier: Reflections on Imperialism and Revolution in the 21st Century,” co-hosted by the Asian American/Pacific Islander (AA/PIRC) Resource Center. This lecture addresses representations of Iran, adopting a phrase from René Magritte’s “The Treachery of Images.” The aim is not to […]

  • Matt O'Hara and the book cover of the Flying Death

    Matt O’Hara – The Flying Death

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes author Matt O'Hara for a reading and signing of The Flying Death—A dramatic tale of explorers of the 1930s racing to find and harvest a poisonous Amazon vine, and how their work plundered local tribes and spurred the invention of new medicines. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute. Your […]

  • Arash Davari – Insurgent Witness: Archetypes of Action in Revolutionary Iran

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Please join us for a book talk with Prof. Arash Davari on his recently published Insurgent Witness: Archetypes of Action in Revolutionary Iran (Cambridge University Press). In this talk, he will revisit histories of the 1979 revolution in Iran and explore how millions of people defied expectations and joined popular assemblies to demand the fall […]

  • Gallery reception for Aesthetic Breach: Past and Present Struggles for Justice in North African Comics

    Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Cowell College Cowell College‎ 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    This exhibition brings together comics and graphic narratives from Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco, introducing a broad range of contemporary artists while centering the works of Sadri Khiari, a major figure of the antiracist left in Tunisia and France, and Salim Zerrouki, an Algerian cartoonist whose drawings combine ferocious satire and nostalgia. Across different forms, […]

  • Graduate Symposium banner with lightbulb imagery

    23rd Annual Graduate Research Symposium

    Physical Sciences Building 590 Steinhart Way, Santa Cruz, CA

    This event celebrates and highlights the work of UCSC graduate students in all academic divisions. Any enrolled graduate student is welcome to present either a poster, talk, or mixed media presentation. The event is free and open to the public.

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    Reckoning with Redress: The Legacy of Japanese American Incarceration

    Cultural Center at Merrill Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Forty-five years ago, survivors and descendants of the WWII Japanese American incarceration, testified before the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC), helping set in motion what would become one of the largest reparations efforts in U.S. history. This year’s Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics lecture marks that anniversary with the launch and premiere […]

  • Living Writers with Serena Chopra

    Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Living Writers Fall 2026 – OPEN SEASON: WRITING ENACTS features writers, performers and artists who explore what it means to encounter invisibility and silence, while simultaneously engaging with the insistent specters of hypervisibility and experiences of race, gender, and sexuality. These writers and artists work on the page, screen, stage and beyond. Often targeted, they create […]

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