Events
Cancelled – Dr. Joy Buolamwini: Unmasking AI
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz present Dr. Joy Buolamwini, "The conscience of the AI revolution" (Fortune), who will discuss her new book, Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines. Buolamwini explains how we've arrived at an era of AI harms and oppression, […]
PhD+ Series – Psychology of Writing with Andrea Seeger
Graduate Student CommonsSometimes we can be our severest writing critics and biggest hindrances to writing success. Learn how to overcome psychological barriers and start writing and about the VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center (for graduate students only)! Andrea Seeger received a bachelor’s degree in literature from UC Santa Cruz, master’s in English literature from the University of […]
The First Folio at 400 Exhibit Opening
McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special CollectionsSpecial Collections and Archives at UCSC invites you to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio. Working together, Sean Keilen, Katie O’Hare and Peggy Gotthold and Lawrence Van Velzer present an exhibition that explores this landmark event in the history of printing and the transmission of Shakespeare’s works. The First Folio […]
Hafsa Kanjwal – Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCosponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies In this talk, Dr. Hafsa Kanjwal discusses her new book Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation. The book interrogates how Kashmir was made “integral” to India through a study of the decade long rule (1953-1963) of Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad, the second Prime Minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir. Drawing […]
PhD+ Series – Slide Design with Sonya Newlyn
Graduate Student CommonsHave you ever inflicted a boring slide presentation on an audience? Learn tips and techniques for using slides the way they should be used, as visual aids to your spoken-word presentation. Prior to attending this workshop, review this slide design page. Sonya Newlyn received her M.A. in English literature from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill […]
Giving Day
Virtual EventPlease consider partnering with the Humanities Division on Wednesday, November 8, by supporting one or more of our exciting Giving Day projects. This annual 24-hour fundraising drive is full of challenges and matches that can double or even triple your dollars. We believe in the power of the humanities to transform lives and society for […]
PhD+ Series – WordPress Website Design with Jason Chafin
Graduate Student CommonsProfessional websites can boost your reputation and aid your networking and job search. UCSC provides free access to WordPress (with several design templates) to faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students. Get design tips from Jason and get started using WordPress to make a blog or static website to showcase your graduate or postdoctoral work! Jason […]
Nathan Hill– Wellness
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop welcomes Nathan Hill, best-selling author of The Nix, for a reading and signing of Wellness—a poignant and witty novel about marriage, the often baffling pursuit of health and happiness, and the stories that bind us together. From the gritty '90s Chicago art scene to a suburbia of detox diets and home-renovation hysteria, Wellness reimagines […]
Critical Theory Roundtable Comes to UC Santa Cruz
Humanities 2, Room 259Next month the 30th annual Critical Theory Roundtable will take place on UC Santa Cruz's campus in Humanities 2 Room 259 hosted by HistCon professors Banu Bargu & Massimiliano Tomba. The events will take place on November 3rd & 4th. Find the program below. The Critical Theory Roundtable is a small, high caliber conference that […]
Mediterranean Studies, Present & Future: The “California School” Twenty Years On
TBD CA, United StatesFrom its inception at UC Santa Cruz in 2003, the “California School” of Mediterranean Studies has promoted the Mediterranean not (pace Braudel) as a predefined place of the olive and the vine, but as a heuristic rubric useful for disrupting or reconfiguring existing categories of analysis (especially those defined by nation-states, continents, or religious cultures)—in […]