Events
38th Annual Dickens Universe Conference featuring Little Dorrit
The 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 […]
Cabrillo Music Festival Community Night
Santa Cruz Civic AuditoriumThe Humanities Institute is excited to announce a new public partnership with the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. THI will serve as a sponsor of the Festival’s new Community Night event on August 9, 2018. Community Night will include a dynamic short concert of chamber works performed by members of the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra designed for […]
Weekend with Shakespeare
UCSC ArboretumJoin Shakespeare scholars and artists for two days of lectures, discussions, and demonstrations about the 2018 Season’s mainstage productions, Romeo & Juliet and Love’s Labour’s Lost. Weekend with Shakespeare Lecture Series: This year, the Weekend With Shakespeare Lecture Series is free! However, we suggest interested participants RSVP through The Santa Cruz Shakespeare website. Weekend with […]
Nido de Lenguas: Summer Camp
Santa Cruz Adult School 319 La Fonda Ave, Santa Cruz, United StatesNido de Lenguas Summer Camp is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Please sign up online using the form or by emailing us at nidodelenguas@ucsc.edu. What is Summer Camp? It is a one-day event where anybody has the opportunity to learn about — and learn how to speak — a Oaxacan language. Currently, […]
Madhuri Shekar’s Queen + Panel
De Anza College, Cupertino CA, United StatesWith prestigious accolade only days away, the numbers start adding up to an ethical dilemma for UC Santa Cruz graduate researchers, Ariel Spiegel and Sanam Rao , and their supervisor, Dr. Philip Hayes in Madhuri Shekar’s Queen. Is financier, Arvind Patel , correct that their whole hypothesis is motivated by left-wing bias? The drama directed by EnActe […]
Reyna Grande Book Launch: A Dream Called Home
Peace United Church 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUC Santa Cruz alumna, Reyna Grande, will discuss her new memoir, A Dream Called Home, in conversation with Micah Perks, UC Santa Cruz Literature Professor. A DREAM CALLED HOME is Grande’s lyrical and moving follow-up to The Distance Between Us. This memoir tells the story of her pursuit to become the first in her family to […]
Digital Humanities Meet Up
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin the Digital Humanities campus community for a Fall Quarter Meet Up. This is an opportunity to meet digital scholarship practitioners across campus and connect as we start a new year. The Meet Up is informal: please invite colleagues interested in building a DH portfolio and learning more about digital scholarship. Zac Zimmer, Assistant Professor […]
Anita Sarkeesian and Ebony Adams: History vs. Women
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us at Bookshop Santa Cruz for discussion and signing with Anita Sarkeesian and Ebony Adams, moderated by UCSC Professor of Film and Digital Media Shelley Stamp, about their new book, History vs. Women. Rebels, rulers, scientists, artists, warriors and villains. Women are, and have always been, all these things and more. Looking through the ages and […]
Chris Benner: “A Universal Technology Dividend? – Rethinking price, value, work and the commons”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn this talk, Dr. Benner will discuss his current work exploring the idea of a Universal Technology Dividend. He will explore questions related to the common-property characteristics of technology and innovation, the monopolistic characteristics of information markets, and the need to rethink how we define work in contemporary labor markets. Event Photos: Chris Benner is […]
Living Writers: Samiya Bashir
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSamiya Bashir is the author of three books of poetry: Field Theories, and Gospel, and Where the Apple Falls. Sometimes she makes poems of dirt. Sometimes zeros and ones. Sometimes variously rendered text. Sometimes light. Her work has been widely published, performed, installed, printed, screened, and experienced. Bashir holds a BA from the University of […]