Events
Humanities Radio Hour
KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1 FMPlease tune in to KZSC 88.1 FM for Artists on Art's Humanities Radio Hour for a discussion of the upcoming Questions That Matter: Freedom & Race. UC Santa Cruz Humanities Dean […]
Megan Moodie: “Emerging Genres: What Lies between Fiction and Ethnography”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: Megan Moodie’s work focuses on feminist political and legal anthropology and experimental ethnographic writing in India, East Europe, and the U.S. Moodie will read from her full-length novel-in-progress, The […]
Digital Humanities VizLab Open House
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry LibraryIf you’ve never tried VR before, this is your chance. Explore the new DSC VizLab and experience Virtual Reality. We invite you to test the HTC VIVE headset, Samsung Gear […]
Living Writers Series: Jennifer Tamayo
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJennif(f)er Tamayo is a writer and performer. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago and her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Louisiana State […]
Steven Haug: “Community in Heidegger’s Philosophy of Art”
Humanities 2, Room 359In order for a work of art to be great, according to Heidegger, at least one of the conditions it must meet is the community condition. While this condition is […]
“Intentional Design: Making Assignments that Work”
Humanities 2, Room 359"Intentional Design: Making Assignments that Work," with Jessie Dubreuil, Kimberly Helmer, Philip Longo, Tonya Ritola, and Heather Shearer This is the second teaching workshop of The Humanities Institute research cluster […]
Questions That Matter:”Freedom and Race”
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterAmerica has famously been called "the land of the free," and yet when the "Star Spangled Banner" was written, people of African descent were enslaved within its borders, including by […]
Derek Murray: “On Post-Blackness: Queer Satire in Contemporary African-American Art”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDerek Conrad Murray is an interdisciplinary theorist specializing in the history, theory and criticism of contemporary art, visual culture and cultural studies. Author of Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity […]
Yarimar Bonilla: “The Wait of Disaster: Hurricanes and the Politics of Recovery in Puerto Rico”
Humanities 2, Room 259The Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene Research Cluster Presents: "Dr. Yarimar Bonilla, The Wait of Disaster: Hurricanes and the Politics of Recovery in Puerto Rico" Event Photos: Dr. Yarimar Bonilla […]
Living Writers Series: Karen Tei Yamashita
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKaren Tei Yamashita is the author of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, I Hotel, Anime Wong: Fictions of Performance, and most […]