Events
The Deep Read: San Diego Alumni Salon
Stone Brewing Liberty Station 2816 Historic Decatur Rd UNIT 116, San Diego, CA, United StatesThe Deep Read is coming back to San Diego! The Humanities Institute invites San Diego alumni and Deep Readers to a special event at Stone Brewing in Liberty Station to discuss this year's Deep Read book, the 2024 National Book Award-winning novel James by Percival Everett. The event is designed to invite curious minds to […]
Frances Malino – Rediscovering Mazaltob: A Century-Old Feminist Sephardi Novel
Virtual EventProf. Frances Malino (Emerita, Wellesley College) will discuss Blanche Bendahan’s Mazaltob: A Novel, Edited by Yaëlle Azagury & Frances Malino (Brandeis University Press, 2024). Raised in the juderia or Jewish quarter of Tetouan, Morocco at the turn of the 20th century, sixteen-year-old Mazaltob finds herself betrothed to José a man from her own community who […]
Queer Aɸ (Queer Analytic Philosophy) Conference
UCSCThe UC Santa Cruz Philosophy Department is delighted to announce the Queer Aɸ (Queer Analytic Philosophy) Conference which will take place at UC Santa Cruz on April 12-13, 2025. The conference will foreground philosophical work in the analytic tradition (broadly conceived) that is informed by queer experience, community, and theorizing. Keynote speaker will be the […]
Living Writers with Julie Ezelle-Patton
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLiving Writers Series – Spring 2025 Insight, Writings: Third World and Other Imaginaries Poet, visual artist, Julie Ezelle-Patton’s most recent title is The Flower Poem (Tender Buttons, 2024). J Walking thru the Alphabet, an edited selection of Patton’s concrete, visual, and textual poetics from the 1970s to the near present, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books, […]
The Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture – Fred Moten: Theory and Practice of Contradiction
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Division and The Humanities Institute invite you to join us for the Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture, featuring Fred Moten. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the lecture will begin at 6:00 p.m. This talk will consider some theoretical and historical issues that come more fully to light when we meditate on […]
Evyn Le Espiritu Gandhi – Southern Constellations: South Korea, South Vietnam, and the US South
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk proposes southern constellations as a method and political concept. To constellate is to bring together seemingly disparate spaces or objects into the same conceptual orbit, probing the new meanings and structures that emerge in the resultant constellation. To illustrate, this talk constellates three spaces often considered outside the purview of Global South studies: […]
Gary Young: A Retrospective – Exhibition Opening
McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special CollectionsJoin us on April 9th from 12-2 p.m. for the opening of Gary Young: A Retrospective Books, Broadsides, Prints & Ephemera at UCSC Special Collections and Archives. Gary will treat us to an artist talk and a tour of the exhibition. Light refreshments will be provided. Gary Young is a poet and artist whose honors […]
How Fairy Tales Became White: A Conversation with Professors Kimberly Lau and Micah Perks
Santa Cruz Public Library - Downtown Branch 224 Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join Professors Micah Perks and Kimberly Lau for a conversation about fairy tales, fantasy, and the ways that historically and culturally specific ideas about race contribute to the making and maintenance of their white worlds. This is an after-hours event at Downtown Library. Refreshments will be served. Kimberly Lau is Professor of Literature at […]
Cat Bohannon – Eve
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz presents author Cat Bohannon who will be in-conversation with Vicky Oelze about Bohannon's book Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution—a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, […]
Questions That Matter: Disability in Medicine and Memoir
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterWhat does it mean to talk and write about the experiences of our bodies? How do the stories told about us mediate the narratives we construct? What are the stakes for disabled writers sharing their first-person perspectives with the world? In this dialogue with two scholars and memoirists of disability, we will explore how intellectual […]