Events
CruzHacks 2024 Hackathon
Stevenson Event CenterCruzHacks is the largest hackathon in Santa Cruz! Each year, hundreds of students are invited to develop solutions to real-world problems, pursue inclusion in tech, and kindle the spirit of […]
Stefan Tanaka: What Do Pasts Do? Toward Potential History
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: What Do Pasts Do? Toward Potential History with Stefan Tanaka. This talk is a part of the HISC Winter 2024 Speaker […]
Benjamin Breen – Tripping on Utopia
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Benjamin Breen, associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz, for a discussion and signing of his new book, Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold […]
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 […]
January 24 – Mengyang (Zoe) Zhao – Verify You Are Human: How Video Game Automation Intensifies Extraction of Platform Game Work
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesPart of a broader book project on the rise of platform video game work in China, this study examines the impact of automation fears on escalating labor extraction from gaming […]
Living Writers with Undergraduate Alumna Sina Grace
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLiving Writers - Winter 2024 - Return of the Beloved: An Alumni Series Sina Grace is the author and illustrator of the autobiographical Self-Obsessed, and Not My Bag, which recounts […]
Reza Aslan – An American Martyr in Persia
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn 1907, educator and American missionary Howard Baskerville traveled to Iran in the midst of a democratic revolution led by a group of brilliant young firebrands committed to transforming their […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]