Events
We Are the Middle of Forever: A More-than-human(ities) Book Club Discussion with Stan Rushworth
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for a conversation with Stan Rushworth, who will be discussing his latest book We Are the Middle of Forever, which places Indigenous voices at the center of conversations about today’s environmental crisis. Event attendees will be expected to have read the book, which will be provided free of charge to anyone who […]
Ambika Aiyadurai – Caring for humans and nonhumans: Challenges in India’s Wildlife Conservation
Virtual EventThis paper examines different meanings of care in India’s wildlife conservation. Drawing on my fieldwork and case studies from across the country, I discuss various forms of care in protecting endangered species and preventing extinction. Addressing the role of wildlife conservationists and Indigenous people, the paper asks how and in what ways the notions of […]
Humanities Division Graduate Awards Make-up
Merrill Provost House Provost's Residence, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDean Jasmine Alinder will recognize Kimberly Tallbear (Ph.D. ’05, History of Consciousness) with the 2023-2024 Distinguished Humanities Graduate Alumni award. Professor Tallbear will give remarks, and we will recognize graduate student awards from last year, with a reception following. The event will take place at the Merrill Provost House from 4 - 6 pm. We […]
Slugs and Steins with Professor Renee Fox and Professor Elaine Sullivan – The Curse of the Mummy
Virtual EventThis talk focuses on a new UCSC Humanities course called “The Curse of the Mummy,” co-taught by Associate Professor of Literature Renée Fox and Associate Professor Elaine Sullivan. Combining analysis of 19th-century Egyptology’s transformation of ancient Egypt into a European fantasy with study of ancient Egyptian culture itself, the course relies on the collaborative expertise […]
American Analects: Book Launch and Poetry Reading
m.k. contemporary art 703 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for the release of American Analects, poems by Gary Young and Feasting on the World, an exhibition at MK Contemporary Art Gallery, paintings by Gene Holton paired with poems by Gary Young. Gary Young will be reading from his new book inspired by his friend and mentor Gene Holton. Presented by MK […]
Casting the Dice: A Dialogue on Migration Through Music
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for a special event with composer Iván Enrique Rodríguez and UC Santa Cruz scholar Amy Argenal to discuss the complex experiences of migrants, the many challenges of seeking asylum and refuge in the United States, and the power of music as a tool for social change. Presented by The Humanities Institute and the […]
Living Writers Student Reading
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 ~ Sponsored by The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Laurie Sain Endowment, The Humanities Institute, Bookshop Santa Cruz, and Two Birds Books, which provides books for purchase at the readings.
Laliv Melamed – On Intimacy and Other Sovereignties
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesHow can we explain decades of Israeli civil society’s consensus around a regime of oppression and impunity? What mediated attachments and disavowals mandate settler colonial violence? This talk follows what the private media complex in order to articulate the intimate channels through which state sovereignty is distributed, structured and internalized. A prerequisite to the current […]
An Evening with Marilynne Robinson: Noel Q King Memorial Lecture
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMarilynne Robinson, a prolific novelist and essayist, is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a National Humanities Medal. President Barack Obama applauded "her grace and intelligence in writing." Her most recent book, Reading Genesis, is a meditation on the origins of humankind and the meaning of […]
Interviewing and Negotiating the Job Offer with Veronica Heiskell
Virtual EventLearn interviewing strategies to land a job offer. Then, learn how to negotiate the best salary and benefits package when you receive the job offer. This class offers strategies that apply to both academic and alternative-to-academic job applications and negotiations. The negotiation strategies also apply to asking for raises, job reclassifications, and title and responsibility […]