Events
PhD+ Workshop – Grants and Fellowships
Graduate Student CommonsGrants and Fellowships for Scholars in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences Learn how to make your fellowship and grant proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss what does and does not need to be in a research proposal, the proper tone and form, and ways to tease out the larger […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Bryan Donaldson
Humanities 1, Room 202Bryan Donaldson, 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
Paisley Currah – This Anti-Trans Moment: Resisting the Right and the Center
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe current assault on transgender people in the United States seems relatively new, but in fact governments have been regulating the lives of transgender people for decades—from contradictory rules for sex classification to bans on Medicaid coverage to rules about gender-appropriate comportment. In this talk, Currah situates these legislative attacks within a longer history of […]
Deep Read Partner Event: Confronting Climate Change
Zoom CA, United StatesThe Deep Read is partnering with Confronting Climate Change, an annual public lecture series that brings together scientists, artists, policy experts, and community members to discuss our planet’s wellbeing and share solutions for our future. This online event will spark conversation and thought on how research in the natural and social sciences can lead to […]
Living Writers – Zaina Alsous
Virtual EventZaina Alsous is the author of the poetry collection A Theory of Birds (University of Arkansas Press, 2019), winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award and the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, and the chapbook Lemon Effigies (Anhinga Press, 2017), winner of the Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize. Her poetry, reviews, and essays have been published […]
THI Public Fellowship Information Session
Virtual EventCurious about becoming a THI Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you're thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia, then you may be interested in THI's Public Fellowship program. Public fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute […]
Paromita Vohra – The Lovers’ Argument: What Bollywood Songs Taught Me About Making Documentaries
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesAs a documentary filmmaker, working in India, and especially as one interested in political conversation and social change, you inherit a form. The documentary form ostensibly exists outside commercial mainstream […]
Humanities Faculty Research Forum
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesUnderstanding Your Research Support Ecosystem Please join us in person for a brief presentation about the Research Cycle followed by a meet-and-greet with the team that supports your research. Breakfast […]
Ecological Utopia: From the Victorians to Us with Professor Deanna K. Kreisel
Virtual EventPlease join the Friends of the Dickens Project for our spring Friends Faculty Fellowship talk series by Associate Professor Deanna K. Kreisel (University of Mississippi) who will be discussing “Ecological […]
Legal Studies Program Annual Distinguished Lecture: Coming to Understand Latino Anti-Black Bias
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us as we welcome Tanya Katerí Hernández to discuss her book Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality. Praised as the "most important Afro-Latina voice […]