Events
Robert Nichols – The Indian Wars Have Never Ended
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn the 1960s and 70s, Red Power intellectuals and activists engaged in a remarkably ambitious wholesale rewriting of American Indian history. New works of popular and academic history challenged standard narratives of U.S. territorial expansion, with particular emphasis paid to major events of the nineteenth century ‘Indian Wars’, such as Sand Creek, Wounded Knee, and […]
PhD+ Series – Maintaining Work-Life Balance with Angel Dominguez
Graduate Student CommonsJoin 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 […]
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 our new Faculty Director, Pranav Anand, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how […]
PhD+ Series – Listening, Mentoring, Coaching, Advising with Andrea Cohen
Graduate Student CommonsListening to understand represents an equally important half of effective oral communication to the other half, delivery of the communication by spoken word. Listening well forms the essential communication base upon which to build the skills of mentoring, coaching, and advising. Listening well also aids your performance on a team and in any professional and […]
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 one novel instead of two, and will dive deeply into Great Expectations. Join Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members for a series of discussions about […]
Humanities in the Age of AI Lunch meeting
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute Research cluster, “Humanities in the Age of AI,” is pleased to invite you to their second lunch meeting scheduled for November 6th (Monday) at noon in HUM 210. The research cluster boasts a diverse group of core participants. This includes six esteemed faculty members from various disciplines, graduate students representing politics, history, […]
Broadsides – Pairing Artworks with Poetry from the Morton Marcus Community of Poets
m.k. contemporary art 703 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for an artists' reception and poetry reading to celebrate the opening of Broadsides, an exhibition presented by m.k. contemporary art, which brings together diverse voices from the local poetry scene and pairs their writings with highly accomplished local and regional visual artists. The event will be hosted by Santa Cruz treasure Wallace […]
Il Moro: Film Screening and Director Q&A
DARC 108 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin The Humanities Institute and the Departments of Literature, Film and Digital Media, and History of Art & Visual Culture for a screening of the award-winning, Oscar-qualifying short film Il Moro (Italian, with subtitles). Il Moro is a period drama based on true events in the life of Alessandro de’ Medici, the illegitimate son of […]
The Japanese American Mass Incarceration, Art, Activism, and Multiracial Solidarity
Page Smith LibraryJoin us for a panel discussion with Karen Tei Yamashita and traci kato-kiriyama. The panel discussion will be moderated by Alice Yang. Karen Tei Yamashita, UCSC Literature Professor Emerita, acclaimed author of Letters to Memory, and a 2021 recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, will read from her […]
Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Two – The Structure of Dante’s Paradiso: or How to Tell a Story beyond Time, Space, and Individuality
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 the literary, theological, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire […]