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 […]
Kailani Polzak – Voyage Visuality: European Representations of Oceania at the Intersection of Eighteenth-Century Racial Theory and Artistic Practice
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesAmid discussions about universal rights, contestations over land, and debates over the morality of chattel slavery, eighteenth-century Europeans increasingly sought to codify social hierarchy in observable physical differences. This project […]
Mohamed Abdelaziz: Photogrammetry and Computer Graphics in Archaeology
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesPhotogrammetry and Computer Graphics in archaeology: application on some terrestrial and underwater archaeological sites in the city of Alexandria, Egypt In Alexandria-Egypt, CEAlex (Centre d’etudes Alexandrines) conducted the first scientific […]
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 […]
PhD+ Workshop – Grants and Fellowships
Humanities 1, Room 202Grants and Fellowships for Scholars in the Humanities 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 stakes of individual research […]
Tommy Orange – Wandering Stars
Santa Cruz Veterans Memorial Building 846 Front Street, Santa CruzBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes award-winning author Tommy Orange for a reading and signing of his new novel, Wandering Stars. The eagerly awaited follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-finalist breakout bestseller There There—winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, the John Leonard Prize, the American Book Award, and one of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2018—Wandering […]
Night of Ideas
Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesA global event, taking place simultaneously in more than 100 countries and 22 cities in the United States, Night of Ideas invites thought leaders, activists, performers, authors, and academics to engage the public in discussions around central questions that address major, contemporary global issues. First introduced in the United States in 2015 by the French […]
Grad Slam 2024
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterGrad Slam is a communication contest hosted by the UC Santa Cruz Graduate Division that is open to all graduate students, except those who have won 1st place in a previous Grad Slam. (Currently enrolled graduate students who have won 2nd or the people’s choice in a prior Grad Slam may enter again.) Participants have […]
Humanities in the Age of AI Lunch meeting
Virtual and In PersonThe Humanities Institute Research cluster, “Humanities in the Age of AI,” is pleased to invite you to their lunch meeting scheduled for Monday, March 4th at 12pm in HUM 210. This meeting will have a hybrid attendance option on Zoom. Please join at noon to attend virtually. Presenting their work on Machine Translation (MT) with […]
An Evening with Martha Mendoza and Juliet Linderman
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn Partnership with the Humanities Institute and City on a Hill Press Kresge's Media & Society Series Presents: An Evening with Martha Mendoza and Juliet Linderman Prize-winning Associated Press coauthors Martha Mendoza and Juliet Linderman will be speaking about journalistic collaboration and their groundbreaking investigation into the US Marine who abducted an Afghan child. Martha […]