Events
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 […]
Jun Borras – Land struggles and scholar-activism
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCo-sponsored by Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) The talk will argue that land struggles as framed by agrarian, food and environmental justice movements have regained academic and political importance in recent […]
Kuumbwa Jazz Presents: American Patchwork Quartet
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterKuumbwa Jazz is pleased to present American Patchwork Quartet (APQ) on Feburary 21, 2023 at 7:00PM! Join the live concert and support American Patchwork Quartet's mission to reclaim the immigrant […]
Undiscovered Shakespeare: Henry VIII
Virtual EventJoin Santa Cruz Shakespeare, the UCSC Shakespeare Workshop, and The Humanities Institute, as we launch Undiscovered Shakespeare: Henry VIII, the fourth installment of our annual virtual Shakespeare program. Register for […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Jed Pizarro-Guevara
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Department of Linguistics is pleased to present, Jed Pizarro-Guevara (University of Massachusetts). Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the […]
Living Writers with Poets Sarah Ghazal Ali and Julian Talamantez Brolaski
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLiving Writers - Winter 2024 - Return of the Beloved: An Alumni Series Sarah Ghazal Ali is a poet, teacher, and editor. She is the author of Theophanies (Alice James […]
The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture with Maryana Iskander – Humans in the Loop: Wikipedia’s Future in the Age of AI
Virtual and In PersonWhat role will humans play in shaping the future of the internet, especially given the meteoric rise of generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT? Wikipedia is tech-enabled, but very human-led. […]
Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Nine – Language (Paradiso 26)
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 […]
Santa Cruz Pickwick Club
Virtual EventPlease join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our monthly Pickwick Club meeting. New this year, we will be devoting an entire year to […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Dustin Chacón
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Department of Linguistics is pleased to present, Dustin Chacón (University of Georgia). Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the […]