Events
Hindustani Music and Performance of Modernity: A talk and film screening by Tejaswini Niranjana
Music Center Room 131 1156 HIGH STREET, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHindustani Music and Performance of Modernity A documentary film and talk on Hindustani music in Mumbai, based on the forthcoming book, Musicophila in Mumbai: Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious. […]
Humanities Spring Awards
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAnnual Humanities Spring Awards Celebration at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn on Wednesday, June 5th, starting at 4:00 pm. The event includes the Spring Awards ceremony for undergraduate achievements, the Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellows poster session, and a celebration of faculty milestones. The Humanities Spring Awards Celebration is a wonderful opportunity for staff, faculty, alumni, […]
Keith A. Spencer Book Talk
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States"A People's History of Silicon Valley: How the Tech Industry Exploits Workers, Erodes Privacy and Undermines Democracy" with author Keith A. Spencer Keith A Spencer is an editor at salon.com where he writes about science and technology, the politics of space colonization, the social and cultural ramifications of the tech industry. http://keithspencer.org/ Light refreshments provided […]
Living Writers: Diana Khoi Nguyen
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBorn and raised in Los Angeles, Diana Khoi Nguyen is a multimedia artist and award-winning poet whose work has appeared widely in literary journals such as Poetry, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, PEN America, and The Iowa Review, among others. She recently won the 92Y's Discovery / Boston Review2017 Poetry Contest and the Omnidawn Open […]
Nido de Lenguas: Clases
Branciforte Small Schools Campus 840 N Branciforte Ave, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesNido de Lenguas: Clases will offer regular classes turning native speakers into language teachers to share their linguistic heritage with dedicated community members.
Neal Stephenson: Fall, or Dodge in Hell
Santa Cruz Veterans Hall AuditoriumBookshop Santa Cruz is thrilled to welcome bestselling author Neal Stephenson for a reading and signing of his highly-anticipated new book, Fall, or Dodge in Hell. This offsite and ticketed event will take place at the Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building, 846 Front Street, Santa Cruz. Cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa […]
Graduate Friday Forum with Aaron Franklin
Humanities 1, Room 408Transcendental Sentimentalism - An Introduction Broadly construed, moral sentimentalism is the position that human emotions or sentiments play a crucial role in our best normative or descriptive accounts of moral value or judgements thereof. With this presentation, Aaron introduces and sketches a defense of a novel form of more sentimentalism he calls “Transcendental Sentimentalism.” According […]
Prof and A Pint- The 1930s: The Past of Our Present?
Forager, San Jose 420 S 1st St, San Jose, CA, United StatesMarc Matera challenges this image of the decade and draws different lessons for our time by considering the 1930s through examples in which global connections and international organization reached new levels on many fronts, from struggles for colonial and racial freedom to the spread of populist authoritarianism. Comparisons between 1930s and our contemporary moment are […]
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWe welcome award winning author Ocean Vuong (Night Sky with Exit Wounds) for a reading of his highly acclaimed debut novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, named a best book of summer by The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Vulture, Thrillist, Entertainment Weekly, Elle, and more. "In this achingly beautiful novel, a young Vietnamese American writes […]
39th Annual Dickens Universe
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, 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 […]