Events
Story & Pictures By : A Benefit Film Screening for Santa Cruz County Public School Libraries
Santa Cruz High School Auditorium 415 Walnut Avenue, Santa CruzWith 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 […]
Rick Steves: On the Hippie Trail
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop 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 […]
2025 Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture featuring Raghuram Rajan
UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley CampusUC 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 […]
Living Writers Student Reading
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLiving 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 […]
Alt-Ac in the Archives: Archives and Rare Books Career Pathways
Virtual EventEver 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 […]
Humanities Campus to Career: Job Talk with Tammy Tolgo, Amazon Talent Acquisition
Virtual EventConsidering 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, […]
PhD+ Workshop – THI Public Fellowship Information Session
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCurious 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 […]
Critical Imagination in Crisis Times
Cultural Center at Merrill Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin 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 […]
Matthew L. Jones – Great Exploitations: Hacking, Machine Learning and the NSA in the Golden Age of Signals Intelligence
Virtual and In PersonThe 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 […]
“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
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesJoin 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, […]