Events
Living Writers with Poets Sarah Ghazal Ali and Julian Talamantez Brolaski
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLiving Writers - Winter 2024 - Return of the Beloved: An Alumni Series Sarah Ghazal Ali is a poet, teacher, and editor. She is the author of Theophanies (Alice James […]
The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture with Maryana Iskander – Humans in the Loop: Wikipedia’s Future in the Age of AI
Virtual and In PersonWhat role will humans play in shaping the future of the internet, especially given the meteoric rise of generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT? Wikipedia is tech-enabled, but very human-led. […]
Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Nine – Language (Paradiso 26)
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 […]
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 […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Dustin Chacón
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Department of Linguistics is pleased to present, Dustin Chacón (University of Georgia). Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the […]
Charles Duhigg – Supercommunicators
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Charles Duhigg (The Power of Habit) for a reading and signing of his new book, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection, […]
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 […]
Kailani Polzak – Voyage Visuality: European Representations of Oceania at the Intersection of Eighteenth-Century Racial Theory and Artistic Practice
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesAmid discussions about universal rights, contestations over land, and debates over the morality of chattel slavery, eighteenth-century Europeans increasingly sought to codify social hierarchy in observable physical differences. This project […]
Mohamed Abdelaziz: Photogrammetry and Computer Graphics in Archaeology
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesPhotogrammetry and Computer Graphics in archaeology: application on some terrestrial and underwater archaeological sites in the city of Alexandria, Egypt In Alexandria-Egypt, CEAlex (Centre d’etudes Alexandrines) conducted the first scientific […]
Undiscovered Shakespeare: Henry VIII
Virtual EventJoin Santa Cruz Shakespeare, the UCSC Shakespeare Workshop, and The Humanities Institute, as we launch Undiscovered Shakespeare: Henry VIII, the fourth installment of our annual virtual Shakespeare program. Register for […]