Events

The Emeriti Association presents their annual Emeriti Faculty Lecture with Gail Hershatter who will give her lecture, "Notes from the Life of a Peripatetic Revolutionary." The event will take place in UCSC's Music Recital Hall at 7:00 PM. Doors open at 6:30 PM. Notes from the Life of a Peripatetic Revolutionary with Gail Hershatter Xu […]

Meet 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 Deep Read, hosted annually by THI, invites curious minds to delve deeply into books guided by the expertise of UC Santa Cruz scholars. This year, […]

Please 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 […]

Dante’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 the literary, theological, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire […]

The History of Consciousness department is delighted to present Progress and Regression with Rahel Jaeggi (Humboldt University of Berlin) This talk is part of the HISC Winter 2024 Speaker Series. Guests are invited to join us in-person in HUM 1, Room 420 at 2:00 pm PST, or join virtually via Zoom. We look forward to […]

Join Professor James Laine for a book discussion of his Meta-Religion: Religion and Power in World History (2014) in conversation with G.S. Sahota - Associate Professor of Literature and Aurora Chair at UC Santa Cruz. Professor James Laine will also be presenting the Winter 2024 Aurora Lecture on March 11th. For more information about this […]