Events
Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Thirteen – Early Receptions
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 […]
Black Enlightenment with Surya Parekh
Virtual and In PersonThe History of Consciousness department presents Black Enlightenment with Surya Parekh, Binghamton University. This talk is a part of the Spring 2024 History of Consciousness Speaker Series. The History of […]
Right Livelihood International Conference
UCSC and Silicon Valley CampusesJoin us April 23-27, 2024, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the UCSC Right Livelihood Center. We will inaugurate UCSC’s new role as Global Secretariat of the Right Livelihood College […]
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 […]
Carla Freccero – Do Animals Have History?
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk, very much a meditation-in-progress, asks a series of questions about how we (in the Western European intellectual tradition) come to think about the categories of history and evolution […]
The Deep Read: Bay Area Salon
San Rafael, CAMeet Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder and UCSC faculty members for a special evening to learn about the Deep Read, this year's featured book, and how you can get involved. The […]
Yosimar Reyes’ One-Man Show: “Prieto”
Stevenson Event CenterNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED POET, YOSIMAR REYES, BRINGS HIS FULL-LENGTH AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ONE-MAN SHOW TO UC SANTA CRUZ Directed by Kat Evasco and Sean San José, Produced by The Living World Project […]
Saturday Shakespeare
Aptos Library 7695 Soquel Dr, Aptos, United StatesIn collaboration with the Shakespeare Workshop at UCSC, the first in-person meeting of the Saturday Shakespeare Group in four years will take place on Saturday, April 27th in the new […]
Indian Midsummer
Experimental Theater Experimental Theater, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKarlton Hester has composed the music for Karen Tei Yamashita’s libretto that is a reading of the envisioned as an operetta within a dance/videographic play. More info at: https://arts.ucsc.edu/news_events/indian-midsummer-april-santa-cruz-festival-event Presented by: Digital Arts and New Media Music Department This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. Emeritus Professor Karen Tei Yamashita, librettist (UCSC Literature Department) […]
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 one novel instead of two, and will dive deeply into Great Expectations. Join Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members for a series of discussions about […]