Events

This roundtable improv (12.15-2.00pm) brings together ten UCSC scholars working on social, historical, and cultural studies of science, technology and medicine. The event will be structured around eight open, improvised conversations, each beginning with a question from a different panelist exploring emerging practices, speculative transformations, and critical imaginings of technoscience, health and ecology. Participants include: […]

Join us for a virtual Deep Read salon on Percival Everett's James featuring UC Santa Cruz Professors of Literature and Creative Writing, Micah Perks and Karen Tei Yamashita. Professors Perks and Yamashita will discuss the writing craft and techniques of the novel, offering insights on the book from their perspective as novelists and memoirists. Their […]

When was the last time you felt inspired? Learned something new? Pushed boundaries? Let’s do that—again. Experience an exclusive UC Santa Cruz evening with complimentary wine and hors d’oeuvres as we celebrate with world renowned artist, and UCSC faculty member, Sir Isaac Julien whose retrospective exhibit Isaac Julien: I Dream a World is opening at […]

In Zionism's early decades, Mizrahim, or Jews from Arab and Muslim-majority countries, were largely an afterthought for the movement. Soon after Israel's founding, however, they became the majority of the new country’s Jewish population—both essential and marginalized by an elite intent on preserving Israel’s European identity. This virtual lecture explores how the Mizrahim, led by […]

The Center for Cultural Studies presents Elspeth Iralu speaking on "Indigenous Epistemologies for the Time Being." In this talk, Professor Iralu examines Naga modes of storytelling as anticolonial epistemologies that enact Naga sovereignty in the here and now. Reflecting on the capacity of storytelling to facilitate movement between past, present, and future, she will highlight […]

The 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 […]

Prof. 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 […]

The 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 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, […]