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 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 […]
Rahel Jaeggi: Progress and Regression
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe History of Consciousness department is delighted to present Progress and Regression with Rahel Jaeggi (Humboldt University of Berlin) This talk is part of the HISC Winter 2024 Speaker Series. Guests are invited to join us in-person in HUM 1, Room 420 at 2:00 pm PST, or join virtually via Zoom. We look forward to […]
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 […]
Aurora Lecture Book Discussion with Professor James Laine
Humanities 1, Room 202Join Professor James Laine for a book discussion of his Meta-Religion: Religion and Power in World History (2014) in conversation with G.S. Sahota - Associate Professor of Literature and Aurora Chair at UC Santa Cruz. Professor James Laine will also be presenting the Winter 2024 Aurora Lecture on March 11th. For more information about this […]
Border Tech, Embodiment, and Gender
Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin the UCSC Feminist Studies Department for the Border Tech Event: a roundtable conversation on Border Tech, Embodiment, and Gender with Diana J. Montaño (Washington University in St Louis), Irina Córdoba Ramírez (Universidad Nacional Autonoma of Mexico), and Iván Chaar López (University of Texas at Austin), moderated by USCC Professor Felicity Amaya Schaeffer. These three […]
Slugs and Steins with Pranav Anand
Virtual EventPranav Anand joins Slugs and Steins to deliver his talk titled "Language Models: A Selective History and Notes on the Future." Drawing on the Humanities Division's Humanizing Technology curriculum, will highlight some of the history of language models now ascendant in systems like ChatGPT. We will wend our way from early cryptography through the beginnings […]
Winter 2024 Aurora Lecture: Professor James Laine
Humanities 1, Room 202The Literature Department is pleased to invite you to the 2024 Winter Aurora Lecture featuring Professor James W. Laine, Arnold H. Lowe Professor of Religious Studies, Macalester College. Join Professor James Laine for a lecture, entitled "Early Modern Cosmopolitanism: Steps on the Road to an Idea of Religious Tolerance" with discussants Anna Bigelow - Associate […]
Queer Religiously & Other Companion Stories
Virtual EventOmar Kasmani is a guest-lecturer at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universitaet, Berlin. He is the author of Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy and Saintly Affects in Pakistan (Duke UP, 2022) and the editor of Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere (Duke UP, 2023). More info on this event here. This event […]
Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Ten – A Drama of Choice at the Extremity of the Universe (Paradiso 27–30)
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 […]
Michele Norris – Our Hidden Conversations
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz welcome Peabody Award-winning journalist Michele Norris for a discussion of her new book Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity—a transformative dialogue on race and identity in America, unearthed through Norris's decade-long work at The Race Card Project. Norris will […]