Events
Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts XI-XV
Virtual EventJoin Professor Karen Hattaway (San Jacinto College) for a series of discussions about the book that stunned Conrad and Dostoevsky. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens Sept. 25, Oct. 23, Nov. 27, and Jan. 22 at 1:00-3:00 PM (PDT) | Virtual Events Charles Dickens published Our Mutual Friend in twenty monthly parts from May 1864 […]
CANCELED – PhD+ Workshop – Mindfulness
Virtual and In PersonMindfulness is a particular way of paying attention. It is the mental faculty of purposefully bringing attention to one’s present moment experience. Practicing mindfulness can lead to: improved ability to focus, increased patience and adaptability, greater empathy and compassion, and improved feelings of well-being. In this session we’ll review mindfulness basics and try a couple […]
Patti Smith: Songs & Stories, A Book of Days
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz is thrilled to welcome Patti Smith, National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, back to town for a celebration of A Book of Days—her deeply moving and idiosyncratic visual book of days featuring more than 365 images and reflections. Tickets include entry to the event and a copy of […]
CANCELED – PhD+ Workshop – Maintaining Work-Life Balance in Academia
Virtual and In PersonJoin Angel Dominguez for an interactive workshop and discussion of what it means to cultivate a healthy work-life balance. The interactive discussion will cover the importance of setting boundaries, time management, how technology can be your friend, and why saying “no” doesn't make you a bad person! Angel is a queer, first-generation, Latinx UCSC alumnus […]
CANCELED: Hannah Zeavin – Hot and Cool Mothers
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States“Hot and Cool Mothers” moves toward a media theory of mothering and parental “fitness.” The article begins with an investigation into midcentury pediatric psychological studies on Bad Mothers and their impacts on their children. The most famous, if not persistent, of these diagnoses is that of the so-called refrigerator mother. The refrigerator mother is not […]
PhD+ Workshop – Career Pathways for Humanities Graduate Students
Virtual EventJoin us for a virtual workshop with Katina Rogers, "Career Pathways for Humanities Graduate Students," Nov. 30 at 1 p.m. on Zoom. Register here. This workshop is presented by the Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Merced and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. About the […]
CANCELED – PhD+ Workshop – Public Speaking
Virtual and In PersonLearn techniques to warm up, deal with nerves, craft your talk, and deliver an engaging oration for any audience. This interactive workshop will take you through Bri’s trademarked W.A.V.E.® methods to get you ready to connect with an audience and keep them engaged. Bri McWhorter is the founder and CEO of Activate to Captivate, where […]
CANCELED: Hannah Zeavin – Sigmund Freud: Tele-Analyst
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy, Hannah Zeavin shows that, far from a recent concern in the COVID-19 pandemic, teletherapy is as old as psychoanalysis itself. It may be well known that Sigmund Freud routinely used media metaphorically in his theories of the psychic apparatus; this talk recovers the early history of Freud’s […]
Living Writers: Student Reading
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesConversations: Power Forged, the Fall Living Writers theme, features poets, novelists, academics, curators, and artists in conversation with one another, in person, across genre and media to open up a space between them, and all of us, within dialogue, collaboration, politics, intimacy and difference which poet and activist Audre Lorde describes as that raw and powerful […]
POSTPONED – Douglas Brinkley: Silent Spring Revolution
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesNew York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley will present his new book Silent Spring Revolution, which chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties […]