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Women of Color Environmentalists Panel

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

Join the UCSC community for an empowering panel that celebrates the voices, visions, and efforts of women of color environmentalists. Our panelists include inspiring women from UC Santa Cruz and external organizations. After the panel, enjoy a special dinner with the panelists and all event attendees! UCSC community members and affiliates of all identities are […]

Event Series THI Coffee Hour

THI Coffee Hour

Humanities 1, Room 515 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

The 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 […]

Orit Bashkin: The Farhud – Gender, Memory, Reconstruction

Social Sciences 2, Room 71

Orit Bashkin will give her lecture, entitled The Farhud - Gender, Memory, Reconstruction on Monday, May 13 at 10:40am in Soc Sci II Rm 71. This guest lecture is a part of UCSC's class, The Holocaust: A Global History, taught by Nathaniel Deutsch and Alma Rachel Heckman. Orit Bashkin is Mabel Greene Myers Professor of […]

Saturday Shakespeare

Aptos Library 7695 Soquel Dr, Aptos, United States

In collaboration with the Shakespeare Workshop at UCSC, this in-person meeting of the Saturday Shakespeare Group will take place on Saturday, May 11th in the new Aptos Library, with a Zoom option for those who can not attend in person. The nominal meeting time is 10:00 am, library doors open at 10:00 am. The speaker […]

Living Writers with Graduate Alumni: Nathan Osorio and Kendall Grady

Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Living Writers Series - Spring 2024 Imaginaries)Un(bound: Race, Justice, Writing: The Living Writers Series, the Center for Racial Justice, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) present poets, theorists, fiction and hybrid artists working at the nexus of creative-critical practice in the struggle for justice with the imperative of imaginatively undoing the academic and disciplinary […]

Dimitris Papadopoulos – Toxic Realism: 222 Photographs in 44’33”

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

Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness: GeoEcologies + TechnoScience Conversations Through a series of 222 photographs and a separate conceptual narration, this intermedial and semi-performative presentation discusses the pervasive, toxic realism of anthropochemicals and the search for alternative substances. Dimitris Papadopoulos is Professor of History of Consciousness in the Department of History of Consciousness, University of […]

Event Series THI Coffee Hour

THI Coffee Hour

Humanities 1, Room 515 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

The 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 […]

Angie Sijun Lou & Karen Tei Yamashita – Dark Soil: Fictions and Mythographies

Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Angie Sijun Lou and Karen Tei Yamashita for the launch of Dark Soil: Fictions and Mythographies—a new anthology edited by Lou and featuring ten new stories from Yamashita, all centered around Santa Cruz's history, along with eight works of nonfiction from authors including Brandon Shimoda and Juliana Spahr. About Dark Soil […]

The Deep Read: Faculty Salon

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

On May 6, you’ll be able to join the conversation—either in person or online—at a salon-style event where our participating professors will lead a discussion of this year’s Deep Read book, Trust, with the Deep Read community. Faculty Speakers Lori Kletzer, Economics, Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Madhavi Murty, Feminist Studies Dard Neuman, Music […]