Events
Marc Herbst – “Culture Beside Itself: On Common Sociality and its Relation to More Law-Like Cultural and Governmental Forms”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesMarc Herbst will be presenting a talk titled "Culture Beside Itself: On common sociality and its relation to more law-like cultural and governmental forms," based on his ongoing research on social movements and eco-social planning and his part in the collective efforts of the 11th issue of the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest. These efforts […]
Student Meet and Greet with Leila Fadel and Hannah Allam
Humanities 2, Room 259Join us to meet and talk with the award-winning NPR journalists Leila Fadel and Hannah Allam. The journalists have covered a wide range of questions concerning the Middle East, Islam in America, race, culture, and American extremism. Coffee and light refreshments will be provided. Leila Fadel is currently a national correspondent for NPR, covering […]
Lukas Rieppel – Locating the Central Asiatic Expedition
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesDuring the 1920s, researchers from the New York natural history museum led by Roy Chapman Andrews spent nearly a decade exploring the Gobi Desert in Central Asia. But they were expelled from their base of operations in northern China when the Guomindang party created a new state in Nanjing. Whereas Chinese intellectuals accused American paleontologists […]
FeaturedQuestions That Matter: Reporting the Middle East
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterThe Humanities Institute and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa present: Questions That Matter: Reporting the Middle East and the Future of Investigative Journalism Veteran NPR journalists Hannah Allam & Leila Fadel, in conversation with Jennifer Derr Associate Professor of History at UCSC, discuss their careers in journalism in the Middle East […]
Teaching in Tense Times: A Workshop on Academic Freedom, Inclusive Classrooms, and Some Challenges in College Teaching Today
Alumni Room, University Center CA, United StatesThe Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning and the Humanities Institute invite you to a workshop on academic freedom in the classroom environment with visiting scholars Andrea Brenner and Lara Schwartz. This hands-on workshop is open to faculty and graduate students from all fields who teach or plan to teach in higher education settings. […]
Latinos Modelos Conferencia/Latino Role Models Conference 2020
Cabrillo College Crocker Theater 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos, CA, United StatesOradora Principal: Reyna Grande La galardonada autora de La Distancia Entre Nosotros ADMISIÓN GRATUITA para estudiantes (6th grado hasta la universidad) y sus familias Se ofrece almuerzo Sorteo Mesas de información Esta conferencia será en español con interpretación al inglés Keynote Speaker: Reyna Grande Award-winning author of The Distance Between Us FREE ADMISSION for students […]
Living Writers: Jess Arndt
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJess Arndt received her MFA at Bard and was a 2013 Graywolf SLS Fellow and 2010 Fiction Fellow at the New York Foundation of the Arts. She has written for Fence, BOMB, Aufgabe, and the art journal Parkett, among others. She is a co-founder of New Herring Press, and lives in Los Angeles. More information about Jess Arndt is available here
Bronwyn Bjorkman: Realizing Syntax
Humanities 1, Room 202For more information, please see visit the Linguistics Department Website.
Robert Nichols – Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn his recent publication, Theft is Property! (Duke 2020), Robert Nichols reconstructs the concept of dispossession as a means of examining how shifting configurations of law, property, race, and rights have functioned as modes of governance, both historically and in the present. Through close analysis of arguments by Indigenous scholars and activists from the nineteenth […]
Public Fellowship Info Session
Humanities 1, Room 402Curious about becoming a THI Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you're thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia, then you may be interested in THI's Public Fellowship program. Public fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute […]