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  • Lital Levy – World Literature, Translation, and Diaspora: The Intimately Global Journey of Grace Aguilar’s The Vale of Cedars

    Virtual and In Person

    This talk follows the translation history of the Anglo-Jewish author Grace Aguilar’s 1850 novel The Vale of Cedars from Victorian England to Mainz, Warsaw, Vilna, Calcutta, and Tunis. A case study for Levy's broader project on “Global Haskalah,” it brings together Sephardic studies, world literature and translation studies, transnational literary history, and Jewish literary studies. […]

  • PhD+ Workshop – Preparing the Teaching Statement and the Teaching Portfolio

    Virtual Event

    Gain tools and tips for effectively writing a teaching statement, a common document in faculty hiring and review processes and an opportunity to reflect on how your teaching supports student learning. We’ll also review how to select teaching portfolio materials that tell a compelling story of who you are as an educator. This workshop will […]

  • Precarity and Belonging Book Launch

    Virtual Event

    Moderated by Dr. Camilla Hawthorne, this webinar will celebrate UCSC professors and their recent publication of Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship (Rutgers University Press, 2021). Precarity and Belonging looks at mobility through space and society. It examines how the movement of people and their incorporation, marginalization, and exclusion, under epochal conditions of labor […]

  • Featured

    A Conversation with Michelle Obama

    Virtual Event

    The Humanities Institute is excited to announce that UC Santa Cruz has been invited to participate in a special event with Michelle Obama on Tuesday, November 9th, 2021, at Prince George’s Community College in Largo, Maryland. This event will feature Mrs. Obama in conversation with a moderator and selected students from a small group of […]

  • Jerome Morgan and jackie sumell – Abolition and Healing

    DARC 108 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    This event is limited to the campus community and not open to the public. We invite students, staff, and faculty to join us for a live conversation about incarceration, harm, and healing with Jerome Morgan and jackie sumell. Jerome Morgan was wrongfully incarcerated at the age of 17 in Angola State Penitentiary for 20 years […]

  • Judy Young

    Unbound: The Life and Legacy of Asian American Community Historian Judy Yung

    Virtual Event

    Through this event we aim to honor and celebrate Judith "Judy" Yung’s tremendous legacy as a UC Santa Cruz emerita professor of American Studies, community and public scholar of Chinese American history, pioneer of oral history methodology, prize-winning author, teacher, supportive colleague, and cherished mentor. Please register by November 4, 2021 Program: Welcome remarks by […]

  • Living Writers: Claire Vaye Watkins and Cathy Thomas

    Virtual Event

    Claire Vaye Watkins is the author of two novels I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness (Riverhead Books, 2021) and Gold Fame Citrus (Riverhead Books, 2015). She is also the author of the short story collection Battleborn (Riverhead Books, 2012), winner of the Story Prize, the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and […]

  • BuYun Chen – Making the Intangible Tangible: Craft, History, and the Ryukyus

    Virtual and In Person

    How did the global and regional circulation of resources, techniques, and technologies transform local ecologies, practices, and livelihoods? Located between the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean, the Ryukyu Kingdom (?-1879; modern-day Okinawa, Japan) was a vital entrepôt in the early modern world, facilitating the movement of goods and people between northeast Asia and […]

  • PhD+ Workshop – Writing the Curriculum Vitae

    Graduate Student Commons

    Applications for academic positions require a CV, and some alternative-academic employers also require them. Even if your post-graduate career will be outside academia, having a CV in addition to a resume will help you realize your transferable skills. This workshop will be led by Veronica Heiskell, Ph.D. (Associate Director of Experiential Learning and Student Employment, Career […]

  • Giving Day

    THI is participating in Giving Day 2021! Please considering donating to our Undergraduate Public Fellows Program!

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