Events
Student Success in the Humanities with Dean Jasmine Alinder
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesJoin Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder for a discussion on her plan to “play offense” in positioning UC Santa Cruz proactively, making strong arguments for the relevance and value of the humanities as an essential, core component of a 21st-century liberal arts education. Learn more about Dean Alinder’s Employing Humanities Initiative designed to prepare career-ready humanities […]
Brandi Thompson Summers – Spatial Temporalities: The Future-Pasts of Black Dispossession
Virtual and In PersonIn this talk, Dr. Summers explores the history of unhoused populations in Oakland, the cyclical displacements of Black locals, and the appearance and reappearance of parking lots in these stories of disruption. She tells the story of West Oakland, in particular, as a testing ground for speculative urbanism--an urbanism based not in speculator’s profit or […]
PhD+ Workshop – Stories from the Field
Virtual EventWhile humanities doctoral programs tend to focus on training students for tenure track faculty positions, many PhDs pursue jobs outside of a university setting. According to the UC Humanities Research Institute’s recent report, Stories from the Field, more than a quarter of UC humanities doctoral alumni reported that they did not seek a tenure track […]
Roald Hoffman, “Returning, Remembering, Forgiving”
Virtual EventPlease join us for a lecture featuring Prof. Roald Hoffmann, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize, and a Holocaust survivor. This lecture will take place in conjunction with Prof. Nathaniel Deutsch’s […]
Dickens Day of Writing
Museum of Art & History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Dickens Project is the premier center in the United States for the study of Charles Dickens and nineteenth-century studies. Founded in 1981 and based at UC Santa Cruz, the […]
Michelle C. Velazquez-Potts – Force-Feeding and the Suspended Animation of Torture
Virtual and In PersonSince 2002, prisoners at Guantánamo Bay detention camp have been force-fed as punishment for hunger striking, prompting the question of how to understand the feeding tube’s various uses as both […]
Living Writers: Samuel Ace
Virtual EventLIVING WRITERS UCSC, SPRING 2022 presents: CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS showcases interdisciplinary writers who deeply engage in various sonic forms, whether the libretto and the operatic, sound and […]
Suryakant Waghmore – Being an Ambedkarite Under Hindu Rashtra
Virtual EventSuryakant Waghmore is a Public Sociologist, Academic and Writer. Currently a Professor of Sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT-Bombay, he earned his PhD in Sociology as […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Nicole Holliday
TBD CA, United StatesAbout eight times each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
The 8th Annual AA/PIRC Comedy Night featuring Maysoon Zayid
Virtual and In PersonThe Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, the College Nine & John Lewis College Programs Office and the College Nine Student Senate present: The 8th Annual AA/PIRC Comedy Night Featuring Maysoon Zayid at College Nine and Ten Multipurpose Room! Our doors open at 4:00 PM. If you are joining in person, we invite you all to […]