Events
Events
Decolonial AI: Designing Technologies for Generative Justice
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe extraction of ecological value from nature, labor value from workers, and social value from communities constitutes the root cause of pollution, poverty and social domination. Indigenous traditions, commons-based production and related alternatives offer models in which value is not extracted, but rather circulated back to the human and non-human agencies that generated it. In […]
2026 Santa Cruz Fungus Fair
London Nelson Community Center 301 Center St., Santa Cruz, United StatesDid you know that without fungus, we’d have no bread, cheese, beer, or wine? Or that anti-cholesterol medicine was developed from mushrooms? Come to the Santa Cruz Fungus Fair to […]
Saturday Shakespeare – Henry IV, Part 1
Virtual and In PersonSaturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on January 10, 17, 24, 31 & February 7, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the […]
Christopher Chen – The Poetics of Racial Boundary Formation
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk examines how National Book Award-winning poet and translator Daniel Borzutzky and poet-essayist Wendy S. Walters explore the relationship between capitalism and racialization through poetics of spatial boundary formation. Mobilizing innovative poetic forms, Borzutzky's recursive, translational syntax mirrors capitalist processes of abstraction and Walters' sonnets are mapped onto suburban planning documents. Borzutzky's poetry offers […]
PhD+ Workshop – Grants and Fellowships
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesGrants and Fellowships for Humanities Scholars 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 projects and […]
Prophetic Maharaja: Loss, Sovereignty, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesHow do traditions and peoples grapple with loss, particularly when it is of such magnitude that it defies the possibility of recovery or restoration? Rajbir Singh Judge offers new ways to understand loss and the limits of history by considering Maharaja Duleep Singh and his struggle during the 1880s to reestablish Sikh rule, the lost […]
Moulay Hicham Alaoui – Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Religion, Politics, and the Struggle for Freedom
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for a book talk by Dr. Hicham Alaoui in which he will deliver insights about the battle for democracy in the Middle East, drawing upon his recent book, Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Tunisia and Egypt in Comparative Perspective (Palgrave, 2022), also available in French (Le Cherche Midi, 2024) and Arabic (Dar […]
Saturday Shakespeare – Henry IV, Part 1
Virtual and In PersonSaturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on January 10, 17, 24, 31 & February 7, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library […]
Nurturing Difference – Parenting and Disability in a Careless Age
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWe’ll be discussing Danilyn Rutherford’s Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World (Duke University Press) and Noah Wardrip-Fruin’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Can a game take care of us? (University of Chicago Press). […]
Cinthya Martinez – Toxic Caging!: Abolish ICE & Feminist Resistance
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk looks at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in California and the grassroots movement to abolish ICE led by formerly detained migrants and local activists. It focuses on the […]