Events
Benjamin Breen – AI Legibility, Physical Archives, and the Future of Research
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 a series of meetings this winter quarter. This meeting is scheduled for March […]
Jennifer Finney Boylan – Amelia Earhart, Saved from Drowning
Music Center Recital Hall - UCSC 402 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for this year's Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture featuring Jennifer Finney Boylan, who will deliver her talk titled Amelia Earhart, Saved from Drowning. In this collage of story […]
Alex Brostoff – The Task of the Trans Translator: Paradoxes of Visibility, Autotheories of Opacity
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesWhat is the task of the trans translator? How have paradoxes of visibility bound translation and trans studies in uncanny inversions of each other? And what might autotheoretical methodologies contribute […]
More-Than-Human(ities) Lab Early Career Scholars Share Session
Humanities 1, Room 202Please join the More-Than-Human(ities) Lab for our first ever “Share Session.” Three of our early-career lab members will share their current projects and invite your feedback in an informal, interactive […]
Intimacies of Relation: The Autotheoretical Turn
UCSCAutotheory’s genre-bending form blends critical theory with life writing. Through performances, readings, papers, and embodied writing exercises, this transdisciplinary conference explores where and how autotheory emerged, the range of its […]
Omer Aijazi – Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir
Virtual EventThe Center for South Asian Studies presents Omer Aijazi speaking on "Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir." Omer Aijazi takes us to remote mountainous valleys in the portion of […]
Eman Ghanayem – For the Love of Genocide
Cervantes and Velasquez Conference Room Bay Tree Building, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Racial Justice is proud to present For the Love of Genocide with Eman Ghanayem, Assistant Professor of English at the University of San Diego. This presentation unravels love in its colonial manifestation as a rationale for genocidal violence. It centers in its analysis the discourse currently used by those supporting and perpetuating […]
Living Writers with Prageeta Sharma
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLiving Writers Series – Winter 2025 Grief Sequence Not to suppress mourning (suffering)...but to change it, transform it…after Prageeta Sharma & Roland Barthes Prageeta Sharma is the author of five […]
Activating Community Engagement with Imagining America at UC Santa Cruz
Cowell Conference Room Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States*Note that this event has a new date and location: It will take place in person on March 7 from 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. at the Cowell Conference Room (132) (map). Please join us for a special workshop with Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA). Learn about the member benefits, […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Jessica Rett
Humanities 2, Room 259The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present, Jessica Rett (UC Los Angeles) speaking on Ambidirectionality and apparently expletive negation. This is an in-person event. You can also join virtually […]