Events
Weekend with Shakespeare
UCSC ArboretumAbout: Join Shakespeare scholars and artists for two days of lectures, discussions, and demonstrations about this season’s mainstage productions. Educator’s Day on Sunday, August 20 is built to provide teachers with tools and lesson plans to gain confidence and strategies for teaching Shakespeare in the classroom and beyond. Weekend schedule: Weekend with Shakespeare will be […]
37th Annual Dickens Universe featuring Middlemarch
College 9/10 Multi-Purpose Room College Ten, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars, teachers, students, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus of the University of California—all focused on one or two Victorian novels, usually (but not always) one by Charles […]
Jonathan Safran Foer, Here I Am
Santa Cruz High TheaterBookshop Santa Cruz, Institute for Humanities Research, and Temple Beth El present best-selling and award-winning author Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) for a reading and signing of his latest novel, Here I Am. Ticket packages are $19.98 and include two tickets to the event and one copy of Here […]
Symposium on Oaxacan Linguistics
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGuest Speakers: Eric Campbell (UC Santa Barbara) Emiliana Cruz (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Christian DiCanio (State University of New York, Buffalo) Organized by the Workshop on the Languages of Meso-America. *Stay tuned for more information.
OpEd Project Workshop: “Write to Change the World”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWrite to Change the World The "Write to Change the World" program builds participants' capacity to translate their research for the public and to engage in debate at a national level based on their areas of expertise. This program focuses on increasing the number of underrepresented voices in the media and bringing the humanities to […]
Living Writers: UCSC Creative Writing Program
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading The UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents The Lives of Other Songs Living Writers Series Spring 2017 Thursdays / 5:20-6:50pm / Humanities Lecture Hall April 13, 2017: Tongo Eisen-Martin, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press, 2015) May 4, 2017: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, author of A Home […]
Celebrating Excellence in the Humanities: 2016-17 Spring Awards
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: by Sarah Caldwell Humanists study the stories of humanity, in all their wonderful and tragic manifestations. The annual “Celebrating the Humanities” event is an opportunity for you to participate in this never-ending exploration of what it means to be human. Humanities Division’s awards acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition, distinctions and honors […]
IDEA Hub: A Pitch for Social and Creative Enterprise
Hotel ParadoxIDEA Hub: Creative and Social Entrepreneurship at UCSC presents A Pitch for Social and Creative Enterprise June 7th, 2017 3-9PM Paradox Hotel, Santa Cruz, CA 3-6pm - IDEA Hub Pitch for Social Change 6-9pm - SCNT MeetUp Applications are currently being sought from UCSC students and community collaborators who have ideas for innovations that promote […]
Deanna Shemek: “Digital Isabella d’Este: New Renaissance Navigations”
Cowell Conference Room Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDigital Isabella d’Este: New Renaissance Navigations When you look at a piece of art in a museum do you ever wonder about the context? Where was the art originally hung? What did the room look like? Who were the people viewing the art? Did they listen to music as they viewed the art? Please join […]
Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC)
The Linguistics Department's annual Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) will be held Friday, June 2nd, from 12:45 - 3:45pm in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. The Distinguished Alumna speaker will be Maura O’Leary, who is a PhD graduate student at UCLA. We hope you will attend. Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference Program - coming soon!