Events
“What Is It Like to Be a Bat?”: Spooky Reading Group Potluck
Westlake Park 149-111 Bradley Dr, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOn Saturday, November 2 from 6-7pm, we will have a SPOOKY READING GROUP POTLUCK at West Lake Park. On theme for Halloween and Day of the Dead, Alisa Puga Keesey […]
Decoding the Headlines: Top News Stories, Misinformation, and the 2024 Presidential Campaign
Virtual and In PersonThis event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series - Power, Politics, and Our Democracy UC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to […]
Walking in the Ecotone with Jim Clifford
Humanities 1A not to be missed opportunity to explore the UC Santa Cruz Campus, on and off the footpaths with Professor Jim Clifford. We’ll wander among the trees, down in the ravines, out in the meadows. Pooling our different knowledges of environmental, social, cultural, technological and architectural history, we will try to disentangle the overlapping layers […]
Sandhya Shukla – Cosmopolitanism and Relationality: The Logic of the Cultural Studies We Need Now
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesWhen Immanuel Kant suggested in 1798 that a citizenship of the world could be staged in Konigsberg without physical travel, he illuminated the dense heterogeneity of place. Kant’s insight might be seen to have informed many projects of British cultural studies that situated globality inside locality by focusing on the potential of working-class cultures built […]
Proactive Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with Lorato Anderson
Graduate Student Commons, Room 204 420 Hagar Dr, Santa CruzHow do you proactively promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in your role as a graduate student, a researcher, a teaching assistant, and a peer and undergraduate mentor? Learn active steps you can take in every role to promote a just and welcoming environment at UCSC in every space. Recommended Reading: Ely, Robin J., and Thomas, […]
Art and Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Investigation with Alice Barale
Virtual and In PersonThe History of Consciousness department presents "Art and Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Investigation" with Alice Barale, University of Milan as part of the 2024-2025 HistCon Speaker Series. Join us Monday, October 28 at 1pm PST in Hum 1 Rm 210 or register below to attend virtually: It has been several years since the first artwork […]
Living Writers with Carolina Ixta
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLiving Writers Series – Fall 2024 Growing Things ~ gardens, poems, emotions, relationships, stories, our artistic practices, carefully tended, beautifully ordered, rewilded and wild ~ 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 is a new series […]
Academic Publishing with Martha Stuit and Erich van Rijn
Virtual and In PersonHow do you choose a reputable academic journal to publish in? What are your copyrights? What is open access? Where do you find academic publishing support at UCSC beyond your program and department? This event has two sessions: Oct 24, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. via Zoom, or Oct 29, 3:00-4:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, Study […]
The Center for Cultural Studies 35th Anniversary Conference
UC Santa CruzJoin us for a celebratory conference in collaborative form, including a conversation with founding director Jim Clifford, lightning talks on Cultural Studies keywords, dialogues, reflections by former graduate student affiliates, and a collective imagining of CCS’s next chapter. Events begin Thursday, October 24 at 5:00 PM and run through Friday evening in Humanities 210 and […]
Employing Humanities – Humanities at Work: Making a Meaningful Career
Humanities 1, Room 202The Humanities Career Engagement Specialist will lead an interactive workshop that will set you up to better understand how your humanities skills can prepare you for a fulfilling career. Free burritos for all who register through our Linktree here! Open to all Humanities Majors and Minors. For more information please email humco@ucsc.edu. Please visit the […]