Events
Saturday Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Aptos Library 7695 Soquel Dr, Aptos, United StatesSaturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents A Midsummer Night's Dream, featuring a series of readings and conversations held Saturday mornings from April 26 to May 24, 2025. The 1st hour will be spent in conversation with a guest speaker, and during the 2nd hour volunteers will read aloud part of the play. During the final […]
BayPhon 2025 at UCSC
Humanities 1, Room 202UCSC Linguistics is hosting BayPhon, a workshop on Phonetics and Phonology, on Saturday, May 10, 2025. BayPhon brings together faculty and students from linguistics departments in the region, including Stanford, UC Berkeley, San José State, and UCSC. BayPhon is part of a tradition known as “Phrend” (and before that, “Trend”), where linguistics departments in the broader […]
Academic Book Publishing with the University of Minnesota Press
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesJoin Jason Weidemann, an Editorial Director at the University of Minnesota Press, for a "publishing bootcamp" workshop, geared toward graduate students, post docs, and early career scholars working on their first books. Together we’ll discuss information on the editorial process - how to talk to editors, revising the dissertation, and proposals. Time will be left […]
Nauenberg History of Science Lecture with Jessica Riskin
The Seymour Marine Discovery Center 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesProfessor of Insects and Worms: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and his Life-Made World Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) was the Professor of Insects and Worms at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. Living through the storms of the French Revolution and Napoleonic period, he founded biology, coining the term to name a new science devoted to all and […]
Living Writers with Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLiving Writers Series – Spring 2025 Insight, Writings: Third World and Other Imaginaries Tsering Wangmo Dhompa's most recent work is The Politics of Sorrow (Columbia University Press). Other works include the chapbook Revolute (Albion Books, 2021) three collections of poetry: My Rice Tastes Like the Lake, In the Absent Everyday and Rules of the House […]
Jaco de Swart – Dark Matter, Dirty Xenon, and the Limits of Laboratory Experiments
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe History of Consciousness earthecologies x technoscience conversations and the Science and Justice Research Center are pleased to invite you to the following talk entitled Dark Matter, Dirty Xenon, and the Limits of Laboratory Experiments with Jaco de Swart (MIT, Visiting Scholar at Science and Justice Research Center). This event will take place May 7th […]
Deirdre de la Cruz – “It’s Your Curse,” and Other Lessons in Repairing Historical Harm
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe University of Michigan possesses extensive archival, photographic, archaeological and natural history collections from the Philippines, many of which were built during the American colonial period from objects, images, and ancestors taken without the consent of local source communities. This talk introduces a multi-year, collaborative effort by Michigan faculty, curators, collection managers, students, and community […]
A Conversation with Journalist Jazmine Hughes
Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesInterested in Journalism? Come for a conversation with writer and editor Jazmine Hughes. Jazmine Hughes is a writer and editor, and the recipient of two National Magazine Awards. Hughes was a longtime member of the editorial staff at the New York Times, where she penned profiles of cultural figures including Lil Nas X, Whoopi Goldberg, Danny […]
Sandy Rodriguez – Mapping Conflicts across the Californias: The Codex Rodriguez-Mondragón
UCSC Science and Engineering Library, Room 206 580 Red Hill Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin celebrated Los Angeles-based Chicana artist and researcher Sandy Rodriguez for a conversation about her ongoing series Codex Rodriguez-Mondragon with UCSC Professors Jennifer Gonzalez (HAVC) and Kirsten Silva Gruesz (Literature). Sandy Rodriguez’s works are strongly influenced by both the 16th-century colonial and present-day incidents along the US-Mexico border, her works map resistance to the ongoing cycles […]
Dmitri Nikulin – Bartleby, the Inscrutable Scrivener: On the Negative Constitution of Action
Virtual and In PersonThe History of Consciousness department is pleased to announce the first speaker in their Spring 2025 Speaker Series, Dmitri Nikulin, who will be joining them next Monday May 5th to give his talk “Bartleby, the Inscrutable Scrivener: On the Negative Constitution of Action”. The talk will be held in Hum 1 Rm 420 at 1pm […]