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  • Marco Cavallaro – Beyond Ambiguity: Prolegomena to a Materialist Phenomenology

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

    Further information to come. Register above to attend virtually. Marco Cavallaro is Assistant Professor at the Husserl Archives and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cologne, where he leads a DFG-funded research project on the history and development of Italian phenomenology. His research focuses on Husserlian phenomenology, Italian phenomenology, and the intersections of […]

  • Mabel Denzin Gergan – Geological Surprises: Reading the Himalaya Otherwise

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

    Drawing on research in Sikkim, India, with the Affected Citizens of Teesta movement, and with geoscientists across the Himalayan region, this talk asks: How have state powers used geological ways of seeing the Himalaya and with what consequences? What other geological imaginaries might offer an emancipatory, justice-centered approach to the earth? Centering the 2023 Glacial […]

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    CANCELLED – Film Screening with Isaac Julien – Young Soul Rebels

    Quarry Amphitheater 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Due to rain forecasted this Wednesday, we unfortunately have to cancel this event. We will be rescheduling for a later date. Thank you for your understanding. Join the Humanities Institute, the Moving Image Lab, and the Quarry Amphitheater for a screening of Isaac Julien’s 1991 film, Young Soul Rebels. Recently restored to its original director’s […]

  • Kirsten Keller, Megan Thomas, & Anna Tsing – The Clam, the Mud, and the Girl: Soft Coasts and the Story of Property

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

    What if we considered Southeast Asia from the perspective of its muddy coasts and inland swamps? Precolonial “Soft coasts” supported a maritime world connecting diverse peoples by trade, kinship, and fealty. European ideas of property and governance brought land reclamation, destroying those wetlands. Reclamation continues in postcolonial guises. What are its social and ecological effects? […]

  • Striking laborers holding signs

    Lineages of Workers Inquiry in the U.S.

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

    The 1970s saw a burst of working-class struggle in the United States. In a moment of crisis, workers responded with courage and determination to fight back. A wave of strikes and rank-and-file rebellion led a number of feminist scholars and activists to investigate, contextualize, and broadcast this activity. Some engaged in oral history, others in […]

  • Delio Vasquez – Huey P. Newton’s Philosophy and the Structured Vehicle

    Virtual and In Person

    Delio Vasquez (New York University) will be in conversation with Darien Acero & xafsa ciise (UC Santa Cruz). This conversation and talk describes Huey P. Newton’s conception of reality and how it informed his development of strategies for the revolutionary organization, the Black Panther Party. Newton’s early approach was deeply influenced by skepticism, radical empiricism, […]

  • Exhibition Opening—Aesthetic Breach: Past and Present Struggles for Justice in North African Comics

    Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Cowell College Cowell College‎ 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The Center for Middle East and North Africa is pleased to share "Aesthetic Breach: Past and Present Struggles for Justice in North African Comics," an exhibit of graphic novels and comics from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region on display at the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery this fall. The exhibit, which is open […]

  • Living Writers with Jason Magabo Perez

    Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Living Writers Fall 2026 - OPEN SEASON: WRITING ENACTS features writers, performers and artists who explore what it means to encounter invisibility and silence, while simultaneously engaging with the insistent specters of hypervisibility and experiences of race, gender, and sexuality. These writers and artists work on the page, screen, stage and beyond. Often targeted, they […]

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    PhD+ Workshop – Archives 101 for Graduate Students

    McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special Collections

    Feeling the archival impulse? Come get some hands-on experience in the Special Collections & Archives Reading Room, chat about archives with your fellow grad students, and get your questions answered about archival research at UCSC and beyond. Curious undergrads are welcome, too! Space is limited. Please RSVP so we can get an accurate headcount.   […]

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    Hannah Cole – Beyond Monoculture: A Theoretical Framework for Caribbean Literature

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

    The history of the insular Caribbean has long been told in terms of the boom and bust of the monoculture plantation system. Indeed, monoculture has become a pervasive way of understanding not only the agriculture but also the societies, economies, and cultures of the Caribbean islands. Yet, as Kamau Brathwaite has written, "the plantation does […]

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