Events
The Deep Read: Community Salon
The Seymour Marine Discovery Center 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOn June 7, we’ll be hosting a salon—co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and Lookout Santa Cruz—focused on actions we can all take in the face of climate change. Ecology Action, Elkhorn Slough Foundation, and Regeneración Pajaro Valley will lead the discussion moderated by UCSC Professor of Humanities and Journalism Jody Biehl. Not in Santa Cruz? Register for […]
Luis Alberto Urrea – Good Night, Irene
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome bestselling author Luis Alberto Urrea (The House of Broken Angels) back to the store for a reading and signing of his new novel Good Night, Irene, which was inspired by his own family's history: his mother's heroism as a Red Cross volunteer during World War II. This event […]
Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents: Stacey Abrams, Rogue Justice
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz is thrilled to welcome #1 New York Times bestselling author and political leader Stacey Abrams to discuss her new book Rogue Justice and the craft of writing. This event will take place at the Rio Theatre (1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz) and is cosponsored by NAACP Santa Cruz County, The Humanities Institute […]
Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC)
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Linguistics Department's annual Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) will be held Friday, June 2nd, from 2:00 – 5:00pm in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge & Courtyard. The Distinguished Alumnus speaker will be Caroline Andrews who is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Zurich. We hope you will attend.
Futurescapes: Projects from the Coha-Gunderson Collective
The Institute of the Arts & Sciences Gallery 100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute presents "Futurescapes: Projects from the Coha-Gunderson Collective," a multi-media exhibition by UCSC students and alumni winners of the Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures. 13 winners of the Coha-Gunderson prize in Speculative Futures, a prize competition made possible by UCSC alumni Peter Coha (Kresge ’78, Mathematics) and James Gunderson (Rachel Carson ’77, Philosophy, […]
Jairus Banaji Reading Group
Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Vernaculars of Travel in South Asia and the Middle East cluster invites you to the final event of their THI working group, which will be a reading group (5:30 - 7) and dinner (7pm - 8:30pm) on Thursday, June 1st. Please RSVP by Friday May 26th with Muriam Davis (muhdavis@ucsc.edu) to receive the readings […]
Living Writers – Mai Der Vang
Virtual EventMai Der Vang is the author of Yellow Rain (Graywolf Press, 2021), winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, an American Book Award, and a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, along with Afterland (Graywolf Press, 2017), winner of the First Book Award from the Academy of […]
Celebrating the Humanities Spring Awards
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease mark your calendars for Thursday, June 1, 2022 as we acknowledge the achievements of our outstanding students and faculty at the annual Celebrating the Humanities Spring Awards event. This year, the hybrid event will take place at the Cowell Provost House with the program beginning at 4 p.m and a reception to follow the […]
Sebastián Gil-Riaño Reading Group – Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States"Indigenous Health and Infrastructures of Race" - In the past few decades, biomedical researchers and human biologists have called for more ethical guidelines for conducting fieldwork on Indigenous groups in South America. Included among these proposals is a call for greater “epidemiological surveillance” of remote Indigenous groups with the aim of reducing health disparities. This […]
Roxanne Euben – The Power of Humiliation: Rhetoric, Retaliation and Resistance
Charles E. Merrill LoungeFrom Trump to ISIS to the Arab uprisings, invocations of humiliation pervade the political landscape. But what does ‘humiliation’ mean exactly, and how does it work rhetorically? In this lecture on her current research, Professor Roxanne Euben develops an account of humiliation anchored in the way people actually use it in language, with a particular […]