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  • Reading the Conjuncture with Dimitris Papadopoulos, Jim Clifford, Camilla Hawthorne, Gail Hershatter, Laurie Palmer, and Vanita Seth

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

    Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness: earth ecologies x technoscience What a vital occasion it would be to receive intellectual gifts that enable us to better grasp our current socio-ecological moment, especially as many of us feel short of interpretations. We are inspired by Stuart Hall's conjunctural thinking, as we face a situation where intensive and […]

  • Humanities Grad School 101

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

    Are you curious about graduate school in the humanities? Join this Humanities Grad School 101 session, where we’ll hear from Associate Dean of Research Pranav Anand and stellar UCSC  graduate students in History, Linguistics, Literature, and Philosophy. We’ll discuss important considerations for deciding to pursue graduate school and what to look for in an academic program and advisor. […]

  • When Human-Centered AI Encountered Digital Humanities: A Dialogue between Magy Seif El-Nasr and Minghui Hu

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

    What happens when the ethical and interpretive frameworks of the humanities meet the algorithmic and interactive architectures of artificial intelligence? This dialogue brings together two leading voices from distinct yet converging fields: Magy Seif El-Nasr, a pioneer in human-centered AI, game analytics, and interactive narrative design, and Minghui Hu, a historian and digital humanist, explores […]

  • Living Writers with Aracelis Girmay

    Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Wonder as the Source Aracelis Girmay is a poet, teacher, and editor. Her poems trace the connections of transformation and loss across cities and bodies. She is the author of the poetry collections the black maria (2016), Kingdom Animalia (2011), and Teeth (2007). She was named a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. In 2011 Girmay was […]

  • An Evening with Alice Waters

    Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz are delighted to welcome award-winning chef and food activist Alice Waters for a discussion about A School Lunch Revolution, "A blueprint for the ways in which we should feed our kids organic foods, both at home and at school." (Epicurious) In this wonderful, multigenerational […]

  • Saturday Shakespeare – The Tragedy of King Richard II

    Virtual and In Person

    Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents The Tragedy of King Richard II by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on October 4, 11, 18, 25 & November 1, 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 […]

  • Seeds of Resurgence Cluster Meet and Greet

    The Greenhouse Project 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, United States

    Join the Seeds of Resurgence Research Cluster, in conjunction with The Greenhouse Project (TGP), as they host a gathering where people interested in the cluster can meet and eat and do something together with their hands. Participants will also build a seed undercommons (as opposed to a bank).  Supplies will be provided.  If you have […]

  • Giving Day

    Giving Day 2025

    Virtual Event

    On November 5, 2025, UC Santa Cruz will celebrate the 10th anniversary of Giving Day, our signature 24-hour fundraising event that unites Slugs around the world in support of student success, research, and community programs. Over the past decade, thousands of donors have raised millions to provide scholarships, fuel groundbreaking research, strengthen basic needs programs, […]

  • Nora Khan – Discernment: Unruly Images, Synthetic Media, and Evolving Critical Impulse

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

    What can criticism offer us in a world of unruly generative images and synthetic media? What precise language might we use for machine learning's impact, or the wake of an algorithm? How must our practices of discernment and the critical impulse evolve in response to computational developments, to perhaps be more resilient and responsive? This […]

  • Nour Joudah – Palestine is the Countermap

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

    Please join us for a talk with Nour Joudah at the second annual Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement series! The Palestinian experience, like that of many indigenous peoples, is one unbound by time; it occupies a simultaneity of temporalities in any given moment and is constantly finding ways to escape the […]

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