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The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series

Virtual Event

The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series February 26, March 26, and April 30 at 1:00-3:00 PM | Virtual Event The next three Pickwick Club sessions will focus on Dickens’s last and most enigmatic work, the unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood. Considered by many lovers of detective fiction to be the ultimate mystery novel, since […]

Linguistics Colloquia: Junko Ito & Armin Mester

Humanities 2, Room 259

Junko Ito & Armin Mester, UC Santa Cruz Over the course of 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

Geographies of/and the Indigenous: South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa Workshop

Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

Participants: Dolly Kikon, Nour Joudan, Aomar Boum, Prita Meier Pasang Sherpa, R. Benedito Ferrao, Maisnam Arnapal, Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh The Geographies of/and the Indigenous Workshop to take place at UC Santa Cruz from February 24-25, 2023. Please note that this workshop is open to faculty and graduate students only. This workshop is presented by the UCSC […]

Living Writers – Shruti Swamy

Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Shruti Swamy is the author of the story collection A House Is a Body, which was a finalist for the PEN/Bingham Prize, the LA Times First Fiction Award, and longlisted for the Story Prize. Her novel, The Archer, was longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and won the California Book Award for […]

PhD+ Workshop – Accessing Campus Resources

Virtual and In Person

Join the GSC grad peer mentor program for a presentation and discussion about the many campus resources available to graduate students. Representatives from multiple campus resources including CAPS, Slug Support, Basic Needs, the Restorative Justice Program, and OMBUDS will be there to share information and answer questions. All grads are welcome and encouraged to attend! Food […]

Richard Jean So – How #BLM Became a Story: Black Fiction in the Age of Platform Capitalism

Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

Event co-sponsored with Kresge College, Media and Society Lecture Series and the Departments of Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. New online writing platforms, like Wattpad, are massively popular (100 million registered users upload ~300,000 stories per day), and with their focus on user generated content and open access, promise to democratize contemporary cultural […]

Christina Heatherton – Making Internationalism

Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Making Internationalism with Christina Heatherton (Trinity College). This talk is part of the History of Consciousness Winter 2023 Speaker Series and co-sponsored by the History Department at UC Santa Cruz. This event will be in person in Humanities 1 Room 420 or virtually via zoom. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/histcon-winter23-speaker-series.html

What is Life? Conference

Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

The conference addresses problems and inconsistencies in modern definitions of life by appealing to explicit and implicit definitions of life offered in ancient texts. This problem is becoming increasingly urgent as astrobiologists come closer to being able to detect biosignatures or signs of life on extrasolar planets, since the forms of life that exist on […]

Aurora Workshop – Gramsci: Southern Questions

Virtual and In Person

"The Aurora Workshop - Gramsci: Southern Questions" will take place Friday, February 17th from 3-5pm (PST) and Saturday, February 18th from 9am-3pm (PST). This workshop will be in person in Humanities 2, Room 259 and virtual (Zoom: 99170004783 PW: gramsci). Please click here to view the full schedule. Friday, February 17th from 3:00-5:00pm (PST) Keynote […]

PhD+ Workshop – Identity, Belonging, and Community

Virtual and In Person

Join the GSC grad peer mentor program for a workshop and discussion on identity, belonging, and community. All grads welcome! From left to right - Lorato Anderson, Marilia Kaisar, Radhika Prasad Lorato Anderson is the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Graduate Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her role centers on advancing initiatives for […]