Events
Events
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The Deep Read: Faculty Salon on Entangled Life
Virtual and In PersonJoin us for a salon-style event at the Hay Barn on campus where our participating Deep Read faculty, Professors Benjamin Breen (History), Gregory Gilbert (Environmental Studies), and Donna Haraway (History […]
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Alyssa Battistoni – Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCo-sponsored by the Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies Although capitalism is typically treated as a force for relentless commodification, it consistently fails to place value on vital aspects […]
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2026 Helene Moglen Lecture in Feminism and Humanities with Donna Haraway – Staying with the Trouble for Still Possible Times
Cultural Center at Merrill Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe sky has not fallen - yet. In troubled times, this lecture joins human and more-than-human companion species to ask how to think, really think, without either the apocalyptic violence […]
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Film Screening with Raed Rafei – “Tripoli: A Tale of Three Cities”
Communications 150, Studio CPre-Screening Reception: 5:30-7pm, Communications 139 Film Screening: 7-8:30, Communications, Studio C While living abroad, a filmmaker returns to Tripoli, Lebanon, to confront a hometown that once rejected him as a […]
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Laura Van Broekhoven – Indigenous-Led Regenerative Partnerships: Reframing Museum Ethics for Reconciliation and Societal Healing
Social Sciences 1, Room 261 Social Sciences 1 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFor over a decade, the Pitt Rivers Museum has engaged in sustained, collaborative work with Indigenous peoples whose cultural belongings, acquired through histories of dispossession and colonial violence, are now […]
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Living Writers with Terri Witek
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn Nourishment, Us. Terri Witek (Stetson University Emeritus). Poet/Visual Artist Living Writers Spring 2026: Our Nourishment, US features poets, writers, critics, visual and performance artists, who demonstrate how writing and […]
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Crowdsourcing Research on Language Variation and Change in Hong Kong
Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn this talk, Dr. Yu will present a collaborative research project examining large-scale variation and change in Cantonese in Hong Kong. Using crowdsourcing methodologies, the project collects speech data and […]
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The Deep Read: The Literature and Poetics of Fungi Salon
Virtual and In PersonJoin us for a salon-style event at the Hay Barn on campus where we will hold a salon focused on the literary and poetic influence of fungi and its relation […]
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Murad Idris – Against Hate: On the Politics of a False Diagnosis
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCo-sponsored by the Global Political Thought Working Group The idea that “hate” names a fundamental problem of our time has engulfed Anglophone public discourse. Republicans and Democrats, university presidents and […]
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Jean Drèze – “Yummy: School Meals in India”
Virtual EventJoin the Center for South Asian Studies for a virtual talk by Jean Drèze, “Yummy: School Meals in India.” School meals have been a legal entitlement of Indian children since […]