Events
CANCELLED – TechnoScience Improv
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCo-sponsored by Center for Cultural Studies, History of Consciousness: GeoEcologies + TechnoScience Conversations, Global and Community Health, and the Science & Justice Research Center This two-hour roundtable improv (12.15-2.00pm) brings together ten UCSC scholars working on social, historical, and cultural studies of science, technology and medicine. The event will be structured around eight open, improvised […]
THI Coffee Hour
Humanities 1, Room 515 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students, faculty, staff, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays, 11am to noon. We invite you to visit our team, meet our new Faculty Director, Pranav Anand, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how […]
The Deep Read: Craft Salon
Zoom CA, United StatesJoin us for a public, Zoom conversation about the writing craft of Hernan Diaz's Trust, the 2024 Deep Read book selection. UC Santa Cruz-affiliated novelists Micah Perks (Professor of Literature and Creative Writing), Elizabeth McKenzie (Merrill ’81, Literature), and Maria Pachon (Literature PhD student in the Creative/Critical Writing Concentration) will discuss the techniques deployed in this experimental novel and highlight […]
Making a Killing: Capitalism, Cops, & the War on Black Life with Robin Kelley
Virtual and In PersonThe History of Consciousness department presents Making a Killing: Capitalism, Cops, & the War on Black Life with Robin Kelley, UC Los Angeles. This talk is a part of the Spring 2024 History of Consciousness Speaker Series. The History of Consciousness Speaker series is a quarterly series of talks by distinguished guests. To learn more […]
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 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 […]
Indian Midsummer
Experimental Theater Experimental Theater, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKarlton Hester has composed the music for Karen Tei Yamashita’s libretto that is a reading of the envisioned as an operetta within a dance/videographic play. More info at: https://arts.ucsc.edu/news_events/indian-midsummer-april-santa-cruz-festival-event Presented by: Digital Arts and New Media Music Department This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. Emeritus Professor Karen Tei Yamashita, librettist (UCSC Literature Department) […]
Saturday Shakespeare
Aptos Library 7695 Soquel Dr, Aptos, United StatesIn collaboration with the Shakespeare Workshop at UCSC, the first in-person meeting of the Saturday Shakespeare Group in four years will take place on Saturday, April 27th in the new Aptos Library, with a Zoom option for those who can not attend in person. The nominal meeting time is 10:00 am, library doors open at […]
Yosimar Reyes’ One-Man Show: “Prieto”
Stevenson Event CenterNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED POET, YOSIMAR REYES, BRINGS HIS FULL-LENGTH AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ONE-MAN SHOW TO UC SANTA CRUZ Directed by Kat Evasco and Sean San José, Produced by The Living World Project CRES 70u – (Un)docu Studies, in collaboration with the Cultural Arts and Diversity Resource Center (CADrc) and the Center for Racial Justice (CRJ) bring the […]
The Deep Read: Bay Area Salon
San Rafael, CAMeet 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 The Humanities Institute, invites curious minds to delve deeply into books guided by the expertise of UC Santa Cruz scholars. […]
Carla Freccero – Do Animals Have History?
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk, very much a meditation-in-progress, asks a series of questions about how we (in the Western European intellectual tradition) come to think about the categories of history and evolution and the various ways we might deconstruct this opposition, making way for co-constitutive material histories of the living. It also asks whether, in the time […]