Events
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 […]
PhD+ Series – Interviewing and Negotiating the Job Offer with Veronica Heiskell
Graduate Student CommonsLearn interviewing strategies to land the job offer. Then learn how to negotiate the best salary and benefits package when you receive the job offer. This class offers strategies that apply to both academic and alternative-to-academic job applications and negotiations. The negotiation strategies also apply to asking for raises, job reclassifications, and title and responsibilities […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]