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  • Nurturing Difference

    Nurturing Difference – Parenting and Disability in a Careless Age

    Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    We’ll be discussing Danilyn Rutherford’s Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World (Duke University Press) and Noah Wardrip-Fruin’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Can a game take care of us? (University of Chicago Press). Joined by Donna Haraway and Megan Moodie, and moderated by THI Faculty Director, Pranav Anand, the panel will discuss caregiving, parenthood, disability, language, meaning, and technology. In an increasingly […]

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    Saturday Shakespeare – Henry IV, Part 1

    Virtual and In Person

    Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on January 10, 17, 24, 31 & February 7, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest speaker followed by a […]

  • Moulay Hicham Alaoui – Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Religion, Politics, and the Struggle for Freedom

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Join us for a book talk by Dr. Hicham Alaoui in which he will deliver insights about the battle for democracy in the Middle East, drawing upon his recent book, Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Tunisia and Egypt in Comparative Perspective (Palgrave, 2022), also available in French (Le Cherche Midi, 2024) and Arabic (Dar […]

  • Prophetic Maharaja: Loss, Sovereignty, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    How do traditions and peoples grapple with loss, particularly when it is of such magnitude that it defies the possibility of recovery or restoration? Rajbir Singh Judge offers new ways to understand loss and the limits of history by considering Maharaja Duleep Singh and his struggle during the 1880s to reestablish Sikh rule, the lost […]

  • PhD+ Workshop – Grants and Fellowships

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Grants and Fellowships for Humanities Scholars Learn how to make your fellowship and grant proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss what does and does not need to be in a research proposal, the proper tone and form, and ways to tease out the larger stakes of individual research projects and […]

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    Christopher Chen – The Poetics of Racial Boundary Formation

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    This talk examines how National Book Award-winning poet and translator Daniel Borzutzky and poet-essayist Wendy S. Walters explore the relationship between capitalism and racialization through poetics of spatial boundary formation. Mobilizing innovative poetic forms, Borzutzky's recursive, translational syntax mirrors capitalist processes of abstraction and Walters' sonnets are mapped onto suburban planning documents. Borzutzky's poetry offers […]

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    Saturday Shakespeare – Henry IV, Part 1

    Virtual and In Person

    Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on January 10, 17, 24, 31 & February 7, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest speaker followed […]

  • 2026 Santa Cruz Fungus Fair

    London Nelson Community Center 301 Center St., Santa Cruz, United States

    Did you know that without fungus, we’d have no bread, cheese, beer, or wine? Or that anti-cholesterol medicine was developed from mushrooms? Come to the Santa Cruz Fungus Fair to learn fascinating and fun facts about beautiful and diverse species of mushrooms! This unique Santa Cruz area tradition draws thousands of visitors each January. View remarkable […]

  • Decolonial AI: Designing Technologies for Generative Justice

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    The extraction of ecological value from nature, labor value from workers, and social value from communities constitutes the root cause of pollution, poverty and social domination. Indigenous traditions, commons-based production and related alternatives offer models in which value is not extracted, but rather circulated back to the human and non-human agencies that generated it. In […]

  • John O. Jordan – Dickens and Soundscape: The Old Curiosity Shop

    Virtual Event

    Please join the Dickens Project for the rescheduled Dickens Universe talk by John Jordan, Dickens Project Co-Founder and Co-Director. Critics have long recognized and commented on the striking visual quality of Dickens’s writing, including the ways in which his novels seem to have anticipated and even influenced the development of certain film techniques. With the […]

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