Events
Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Four – Beatrice’s Authority
Virtual EventDante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of […]
Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Five – The Sun (Paradiso 10–13) and The Body of Knowledge (Paradiso 14)
Virtual EventDante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of […]
Humanities in the Age of AI Lunch meeting
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute Research cluster, “Humanities in the Age of AI,” is pleased to invite you to their first lunch meeting of the quarter scheduled for January 8th (Monday) at […]
THI Coffee Hour
Humanities 1, Room 515 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students, faculty, staff, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays, 11am to noon. We invite you to visit our team, meet […]
UCHRI Grants Workshop
Humanities 1, Room 202Please join us on January 10, 2024 from 2:00-3:00 p.m. for information about and a chance to workshop proposal ideas for UCHRI grants. The session will be led by Research […]
PhD+ Workshop – Using Generative AI for Research in the Humanities
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis informal, practical workshop will survey how generative AI tools like GPT-4 and Claude can be used in humanistic research. Large Language Models (LLMs) such as these have a well-documented tendency to “hallucinate” information […]
Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Six – Politics and Prophecy: Past, Present, and Future (Paradiso 15–18)
Virtual EventDante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of […]
THI Coffee Hour
Humanities 1, Room 515 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students, faculty, staff, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays, 11am to noon. We invite you to visit our team, meet […]
Muriam Haleh Davis – The Absent Preface: Algerian Readings of Frantz Fanon after Independence
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn 1959, Ferhat Abbas, the President of the GPRA (Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic), refused Frantz Fanon’s request to write a preface for L’An V de la révolution algérienne. This […]
Dr. D. B. Maroon – Black Lives, American Love: Essays on Race and Resilience
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesOur own UCSC alumna, Dr. D. B. Maroon (PhD Anthropology, 2006) will talk about her newly released book, Black Lives, American Love: Essays on Race and Resilience. This talk will take place in the Humanities Building, Room 210 on January 17th from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. D. B. Maroon is an author, anthropologist, and […]