Events
Humanizing Technology Launch Event
Crown College Plaza Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanizing Technology Certificate Program is a Humanities Division initiative targeted to early career Engineering students but open to all UCSC undergraduates. The program features small class sizes and GE […]
Sawyer Seminar Reading Group with Alberto Ortiz-Díaz
Virtual EventThis reading group is part of the Sawyer Seminar “Race, Empire, and Environments of Biomedicine.” Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute. The talk will occur virtually and guests […]
Telling Your Research Story Through Comics
Virtual EventJoin us for "Telling Your Research Story Through Comics" on Nov. 7 at 10 a.m. on Zoom. Featuring: Felicia Lopez (UCM), Carolyn Jennings (UCM), Jordan Collver, and Pino Cao. Register […]
Victorian Necromancies with Professor Renée Fox – Discussion of Dracula (Beginning-Chap. 16)
Virtual EventVictorian Necromancies with Professor Renée Fox As part of the series “Victorian Necromancies,” Professor Fox will lead three sessions that offer the Friends an opportunity to explore the Victorian gothic, […]
Madhavi Murty Reading Group – Stories That Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe THI research cluster "Vernaculars of Travel in South Asia and the Middle East" presents a reading group on Madhavi Murty's new book "Stories That Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India." Madhavi Murty will be in conversation with Radhika Prasad. Stories that Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India examines the assertion […]
Natasha Trethewey – Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
Cultural Center at Merrill Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for the 13th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading, featuring honored guest Natasha Trethewey. Poet Gary Young will host the program, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1,000 prize). Seating will be first come, first served. Registration required. Natasha Trethewey […]
PhD+ Workshop – WordPress Website Design
Virtual and In PersonProfessional websites can boost your reputation and aid your networking and job search. UCSC provides free access to WordPress (with several design templates) to faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students. Get design tips from Jason and get started using WordPress to make a blog or static website to showcase your graduate work! Jason Chafin graduated […]
Stories of Action: Community Activism in the Face of Racism in Latin America with Natalia Barrera Francis
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States"Stories of Action: Community Activism in the Face of Racism in Latin America with Natalia Barrera Francis." The Dolores Huerta Research Center of America is proud to welcome and sponsor two talks by Natalia Barrera-Francis, an award-winning journalist and anti-racist activist from Lima, Perú. She will deliver two talks at UCSC on Nov. 1st and […]
Alberto Ortiz-Díaz – Carceral Care: Health Professionals and the Living Dead in Colonial Puerto Rico’s Sanitary City, 1920s-1940s
Virtual EventUsing an array of primary sources, this talk explores the early history of the Río Piedras sanitary city or medical corridor, a transnationally and imperially inspired built environment and complex of welfare institutions (a tuberculosis hospital, an insane asylum, and a penitentiary) constructed and consolidated on the margins of San Juan by Puerto Rico’s colonial-populist […]
Christian Sorace: Steppe Immunity
Virtual and In PersonThe History of Consciousness department is pleased present their upcoming speaker series this fall quarter and invites you to join them. These will be hybrid events, hosted in-person in Humanities 1 Room 420 & virtually via Zoom, except for the talk on October 25th which will only be on Zoom. The Zoom link for all […]