Events
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 […]
Humanities in the Age of AI Lunch meeting
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 their second lunch meeting scheduled for November 6th (Monday) at noon in HUM […]
Broadsides – Pairing Artworks with Poetry from the Morton Marcus Community of Poets
m.k. contemporary art 703 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for an artists' reception and poetry reading to celebrate the opening of Broadsides, an exhibition presented by m.k. contemporary art, which brings together diverse voices from the […]
Il Moro: Film Screening and Director Q&A
DARC 108 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin The Humanities Institute and the Departments of Literature, Film and Digital Media, and History of Art & Visual Culture for a screening of the award-winning, Oscar-qualifying short film Il […]
The Japanese American Mass Incarceration, Art, Activism, and Multiracial Solidarity
Page Smith LibraryJoin us for a panel discussion with Karen Tei Yamashita and traci kato-kiriyama. The panel discussion will be moderated by Alice Yang. Karen Tei Yamashita, UCSC Literature Professor Emerita, acclaimed […]
Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Two – The Structure of Dante’s Paradiso: or How to Tell a Story beyond Time, Space, and Individuality
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 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 […]
Living Writers – Chia Chia Lin
Merrill Academics 102Chia-Chia Lin is the author of The Unpassing (FSG 2019), which was a New York Times Book Review Editor's’ Choice and won the 2020 Clark Fiction Prize. She graduated with an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, NewYorker.com, The New York Times, […]
PhD+ Series – Academic Publishing with Martha Stuit and Erich van Rijn
Graduate Student CommonsHow do you choose a reputable academic journal to publish in? What are your copyrights? What is open access? Where do you find academic publishing support at UCSC beyond your program and department? As scholarly communication librarian at the UCSC University Library, Martha Stuit provides author services, which covers theses and dissertations, publishing academic articles […]
Israel/Palestine: Learn-In
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesDeeply concerned about Israel/Palestine? Grappling with Hamas' attack on October 7 and Israel's current bombardment and invasion of Gaza, as well as the broader historical context for both? Wonder how we got here and how we might imagine a better future together? Come with questions and a desire to learn with and from others. All […]
Ya Zuo – Feeling the Universe: Phenomenology of Emotion in Premodern China
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesWhat is an emotion? Are your feelings inside you, or somewhere out there in the world? In this talk, Ya Zuo introduces the phenomenology of emotion in premodern China. The Chinese theories offer an interesting understanding of affectivity which places emotions beyond the subject. Emotion is simultaneously a deep cosmic order exceeding the mundane world […]