Events
What Actually Happened in 1619: The Origins of Slavery in North America
Music Center Recital HallThe New York Times’s The 1619 Project sparked controversy and conversation across the United States about the history and legacies of slavery. The project drew its name from a date, 1619, connected to the origins of American slavery, and its publication coincided with the four-hundredth anniversary of that event. But what actually happened in 1619? […]
Living Writers with Undergraduate debut novelists Chiara Barzini & Rebecca Rukeyser
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLiving Writers - Winter 2024 - Return of the Beloved: An Alumni Series Chiara Barzini is a screen, fiction, and journalism writer who was born in Rome and raised as a teenager in Los Angeles, where she became obsessed with canyons, quartz, and the Grateful Dead. When she moved to New York she steered her […]
Zhiying Qian – “Verb Bias and Plausibility in Native and Non-native Sentence Processing”
Humanities 1, Room 202The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present: “Verb Bias and Plausibility in Native and Non-native Sentence Processing” with Zhiying Qian, Ph.D. Florida State University Abstract The influence of the properties of a first language (Mandarin, Korean) on the comprehension of sentences in a second language (English) was investigated in a series […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Cynthia Yoonjeong Lee
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Department of Linguistics is pleased to present: "Articulating linguistic prosody: representation and choreography" with Cynthia Yoonjeong Lee University of Michigan Abstract During a communicative act, language users adeptly control and coordinate intricate movements of vocal tract organs, including the lips, tongue, and larynx, to craft linguistic messages. The spatiotemporal patterning of these vocal tract […]
Donna Haraway – Making Kin: Lynn Margulis in Sympoiesis with Sibling Scientists
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCo-sponsored by History of Consciousness: GeoEcologies + TechnoScience Conversations Sympoiesis is a simple word; it means “making with.” We live in a profoundly sympoietic world. This talk begins with Lynn Margulis (1938-2011), a multi-faceted biologist who co-founded the view of Earth as Gaia, a planet with wildly improbable gas ratios and with sustained, unlikely equilibria […]
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 […]
An Evening with Ross Gay & Chris Mattingly
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFREE IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome bestselling author Ross Gay (The Book of Delights, Inciting Joy) and local poet Chris Mattingly for an evening of poetry, plus a Q&A and a book signing. Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding, […]
Ariel Chan – “Bilingualism in Context: The Role of Language Experience and Cultural Identity in Language Processing”
Humanities 2, Room 259The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present: "Bilingualism in Context: The Role of Language Experience and Cultural Identity in Language Processing" with Ariel Chan, Ph.D. Stanford University Abstract Bilingualism is inherently a social phenomenon with variation. Sociolinguistic research (e.g., Chen, 2008; Lo, 1999; Milroy & Wei, 1995) has demonstrated that bilinguals […]
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 […]
Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Seven – Justice for All (Paradiso 19–21)
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 […]