Events
Jerome Morgan and jackie sumell – Abolition and Healing
DARC 108 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis event is limited to the campus community and not open to the public. We invite students, staff, and faculty to join us for a live conversation about incarceration, harm, […]
A Conversation with Michelle Obama
Virtual EventThe Humanities Institute is excited to announce that UC Santa Cruz has been invited to participate in a special event with Michelle Obama on Tuesday, November 9th, 2021, at Prince […]
Precarity and Belonging Book Launch
Virtual EventModerated by Dr. Camilla Hawthorne, this webinar will celebrate UCSC professors and their recent publication of Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship (Rutgers University Press, 2021). Precarity and Belonging […]
PhD+ Workshop – Preparing the Teaching Statement and the Teaching Portfolio
Virtual EventGain tools and tips for effectively writing a teaching statement, a common document in faculty hiring and review processes and an opportunity to reflect on how your teaching supports student learning. We’ll also review how to select teaching portfolio materials that tell a compelling story of who you are as an educator. This workshop will […]
Lital Levy – World Literature, Translation, and Diaspora: The Intimately Global Journey of Grace Aguilar’s The Vale of Cedars
Virtual and In PersonThis talk follows the translation history of the Anglo-Jewish author Grace Aguilar’s 1850 novel The Vale of Cedars from Victorian England to Mainz, Warsaw, Vilna, Calcutta, and Tunis. A case […]
PhD+ Workshop – Publishing in Academia
Virtual and In PersonLearn how to publish scholarly work, from finding and evaluating a publisher to negotiating the publication contract and navigating copyright. This workshop will be led by Martha Stuit (Scholarly Communication Librarian, University Library) and Erich van Rijn (Director of Journals and Open Access, UC Office of Scholarly Communication, UC Press). The Division of Graduate Studies' […]
A.M. Darke – Games and Play as Social Intervention
Virtual EventGame designer A.M. Darke frames powerful dialogue about the role of games in the shaping of power in contemporary digital culture, and beyond. What is at stake in self-representation, and […]
PhD+ Workshop – Interviewing and Negotiating Salary
Virtual EventPractice Mock Interviews and Salary Negotiations. This workshop will be led by Veronica Heiskell, Ph.D. (Associate Director of Experiential Learning and Student Employment, Career Success). The Division of Graduate Studies' professional communication workshop on "Interviewing and Negotiating Salary" is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2021-2022 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the […]
Nasser Zakariya – Questions on “Anthroperiphery”
Virtual and In PersonTaking recent discussions of "Copernican Forecasting" as a point of departure, this talk will look to historical and probabilistic arguments representing science in terms of ongoing demonstrations of the increasingly […]
PhD+ Workshop – Teaching at California Community Colleges
Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesA panel discussion with current and recent instructors at California Community Colleges, who are all UC Santa Cruz graduate student alumni, including: Beth Au, Moderator Director California Community Colleges Registry Francesca (Chesa) Caparas, Panelist M.A. Literature English Professor and Faculty Coordinator, Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies De Anza College Sarah Gerhardt, Panelist Ph.D. Chemistry Chemistry […]