Events
Paul Gootenberg: From Teonanácatl to Miami Vice – Latin America’s Contribution to World Drug Culture
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesLong before today’s entanglements with coke, meth, and weed, the Americas were a proving ground of global drug cultures. This millennium of shamanistic and Aztec psychedelics, colonial and Atlantic stimulants […]
Living Writers: R. Zamora Linmark
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesR. Zamora Linmark is the author of The Importance of Being Wilde at Heart, his first novel for young adults from Delacorte/Random House. He has also published two novels, Rolling […]
Eli Yassif: Before Seinfeld – The Early Modern Roots of Jewish Humor
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for Eli Yassif's lecture "Before Seinfeld - The Early Modern Roots of Jewish Humor" Jewish humor has been described as one of the most outstanding characteristics of […]
Cultural Studies Colloquium: Anjali Arondekar
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States“What More Remains: Sexuality, Slavery, Historiography" This talk engages a ‘small’ history of sexuality and slavery in Portuguese India. At stake are three questions: How do we call attention to […]
Democratic Interpellations Conference (NOT CANCELLED)
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesPlease note: this is a two-day event.
Kresge’s Media and Society: Teju Cole (LOCATION/TIME CHANGED)
Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin Kresege for the first Media and Society lecture of Fall 2019 with Teju Cole, a photographer, novelist, art historian, and the New York Times Magazine photography critic. He has […]
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RESCHEDULED Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Beyond the End of the World Sawyer Seminar Series
Music Center Recital Hall - UCSC 402 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present the inaugural event in the Beyond the End of the World series. Due to unforeseen circumstances Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor had […]
CANCELLED Living Writers: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is a poet, essayist, translator, and immigration advocate. He is the author of Cenzontle (BOA editions, 2018), chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy as the winner of the 2017 A. Poulin Jr. prize and winner of the 2018 Northern California Book Award. Cenzontle maps a parallel between the landscape of the border and the […]
Democratic Interpellations Conference (NOT CANCELLED)
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesSanta Cruz Film Festival: General Magic
Colligan Theater at The Tannery Arts Center (View) 1010 River St., Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute is pleased to sponsor Santa Cruz Film Festival's showing of General Magic. The multi-award winning documentary, is a tale of how a great vision, a grave betrayal and an epic failure changed the world. Spun out from Apple in 1990 to create the next big thing, General Magic shipped the first handheld wireless […]