Events

Details coming soon. WINTER 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter […]

Join us for this year's, Undiscovered Shakespeare featuring Timon of Athens (1606), a late play focusing on the corrosive effects of prodigality and ingratitude in an apparently democratic society. Gretchen […]

Living Writers Series – Winter 2025 Grief Sequence Not to suppress mourning (suffering)...but to change it, transform it…after Prageeta Sharma & Roland Barthes Hannah Sanghee Park is the author of […]

The Humanities Institute Research cluster, “Humanities in the Age of AI,” is pleased to invite you to a series of meetings this winter quarter. The research cluster boasts a diverse group of core participants. This includes esteemed faculty members from various disciplines, graduate students representing politics, history, literature, philosophy, feminist studies, and film and visual […]

Join us for this year's Baskin Ethics Lecture featuring Jenny Boylan, who will deliver her talk titled Amelia Earhart, Saved from Drowning. In this collage of story and song, Jennifer Finney Boylan speculates on the life of Amelia Earhart after the crash. Using that event as a springboard, she considers how our social and political […]

Living Writers Series – Winter 2025 Grief Sequence Not to suppress mourning (suffering)...but to change it, transform it…after Prageeta Sharma & Roland Barthes Prageeta Sharma is the author of five poetry collections, including Grief Sequence (Wave Books, 2019) and The Opening Question (2004), which won the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize. In 2010, she received […]

The Humanities Institute Research cluster, “Humanities in the Age of AI,” is pleased to invite you to a series of meetings this winter quarter. The research cluster boasts a diverse group of core participants. This includes esteemed faculty members from various disciplines, graduate students representing politics, history, literature, philosophy, feminist studies, and film and visual […]

Living Writers Series – Winter 2025 Grief Sequence Not to suppress mourning (suffering)...but to change it, transform it…after Prageeta Sharma & Roland Barthes Sponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Laurie Sain Endowment, The Humanities Institute, Bookshop Santa Cruz, and Two Birds Books (where the writers' books are available for […]