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SUMMARY:Gregory O'Malley - The Escapes of David George
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes prize-winning historian and UC Santa Cruz professor Gregory O’Malley for a discussion about his new book The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery\, Freedom\, and the American Revolution—the dramatic story of a Black man’s relentless search for freedom in Revolutionary America. \nThis book tells the story of David George who in 1762 at the age of 19 escaped from a plantation in Virginia thus becoming a fugitive enslaved person. Using archival records and David’s own brief account of his life\, which is the earliest written testimony by a fugitive enslaved person in North America\, the book tells the story of David George’s relentless search for freedom in Revolutionary-era America and presents a unique perspective on our nation’s origins\, principles\, and contradictions. \nPiecing together archival records and David George’s own brief account of his life—the earliest written testimony by a fugitive enslaved person in North America—Gregory O’Malley presents a thrilling narrative and a unique perspective on our nation’s origins\, principles\, and contradictions. \n \nGregory E O’Malley is professor of history at UC Santa Cruz and the author of The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery\, Freedom\, and the American Revolution. His first book\, Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America\, 1619-1807\, won the Forkosch\, Rawley\, Owsley\, and Elsa Goveia awards. He is a key contributor to the SlaveVoyages.org\, consulted on The 1619 Project\, and lectures widely on the slave trade and related subjects. \n\nCosponsored by The Humanities Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gregory-omalley-the-escapes-of-david-george/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:George Saunders - Vigil
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes George Saunders\, recipient of the 2025 National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters\, for a discussion about his wise\, playful\, electric novel Vigil\, which takes place at the bedside of an oil company CEO in the twilight hours of his life as he is ferried from this world into the next. \n \nNot for the first time\, Jill “Doll” Blaine finds herself hurtling toward earth\, reconstituting as she falls\, right down to her favorite black pumps. She plummets towards her newest charge\, yet another soul she must usher into the afterlife\, and lands headfirst in the circular drive of his ornate mansion. She has performed this sacred duty 343 times since her own death. Her charges\, as a rule\, have been greatly comforted in their final moments. But this charge\, she soon discovers\, isn’t like the others: the powerful K. J. Boone will not be consoled\, because he has nothing to regret. He lived a big\, bold life\, and the world is better for it. Isn’t it? \nVigil transports us\, careening\, through the wild final evening of an epic\, complicated life. Crowds of people and animals—worldly and otherworldly\, alive and dead—arrive\, clamoring for a reckoning. Birds swarm the dying man’s room\, a black calf grazes on the love seat\, a man from a distant\, drought-ravaged village materializes\, two oil-business cronies from decades past show up with chilling plans for Boone’s postdeath future. \nGeorge Saunders is the author of thirteen books\, including the novel Lincoln in the Bardo\, which won the Man Booker Prize\, and five collections of stories\, including Tenth of December\, which was a finalist for the National Book Award\, and the recent collection Liberation Day (selected by former President Obama as one of his ten favorite books of 2022). Three of Saunders’s books—Pastoralia\, Tenth of December\, and Lincoln in the Bardo—were chosen for The New York Times’s list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Saunders hosts the popular Story Club on Substack\, which grew out of his book on the Russian short story\, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain. In 2013\, he was named one of the world’s 100 Most Influential People by Time. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University. \n\nThis event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/george-saunders-vigil/
LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mike McCarthy - A Theory of Late Populism: Popularism
DESCRIPTION:This talk identifies a critical feature of late populism: popularism. Traditional populism operates through articulation: actively constructing “the people” as a political category by linking heterogeneous demands together against an elite or other.  Popularism\, alternatively\, functions through refraction: it seeks maximum resonance with pre-existing popular attitudes and treats “the people” as an already-coherent homogenous group\, simultaneously distorting the ones it claims to embody. While these modes of political practice diverge\, they are two contradictory sides of the same political phenomena. The talk will explain what popularism is; why left and right populisms have increasingly converged on anti-immigrant and culturally conservative positions\, and why popularism commits a fundamental error when it attempts to reflect popular common sense. \nMike McCarthy is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Community Studies here at UC Santa Cruz. At the center of his work is a focus on class and democracy. His first book Dismantling Solidarity: Capitalist Politics and American Pensions since the New Deal was published with Cornell University Press in 2017 and was awarded the Paul Sweezy Book Award as well as an honorable mention for the Labor and Labor Movements Book Award. His most recent book is The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (and a Radical Plan to Rebuild It)\, which was published by Verso Books in 2025. In addition to academic publishing\, his work has been featured in Boston Review\, The Guardian\, Hammer & Hope\, Jacobin\, The New York Times\, The New Left Review\, and The Washington Post. He is currently writing about class and political identity. \n\n \nWinter 2026 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2026 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mike-mccarthy-a-theory-of-late-populism-popularism/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:A History of Families: Bosses\, Bullies\, and Dictators in the Modern Philippines
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) invites you to join them for their winter Slow Seminar\, “A History of Families: Bosses\, Bullies\, and Dictators in the Modern Philippines \nProfessor Steve McKay (Sociology) will facilitate our conversation drawing on a selection of classic and contemporary scholarship on regional politics in the Philippines. With the present Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. presidency and the International Criminal Court case against former president Rodrigo Duterte in mind\, we look forward to a critical discussion of historical and contemporary Southeast Asian politics. \n\nPlease register for the Slow Seminar. Registered guests will receive copies of the selected readings via email. This is a Hybrid event. Participants may join in-person or by Zoom. The Zoom link will be sent out at least 1 hour before the event. \nNew to Slow Seminars? Check out SEACoast’s definition here. \n\nPresented by SEACoast
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-history-of-families-bosses-bullies-and-dictators-in-the-modern-philippines/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:More-Than-Humanities Lab Early Career Scholars Share Session
DESCRIPTION:Please join the More-Than-Human(ities) Lab for our winter “share session.” Two of our early-career lab members will share their current projects and invite your feedback in an informal\, interactive conversation. \nOur presenters will be: \nPietro Autorino: Searching for ‘contemporary agroecology’ beyond Soilutionism: notes from a small on-farm experimental compost station in Italy \n  \n  \nStephanie Lain: Negotiating a Rainforest’s Ransom – A role play game in development.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/more-than-humanities-lab-early-career-scholars-share-session-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers With Carlo Acevedo
DESCRIPTION:Craft Between Worlds \nCarlo Acevedo is a Colombian poet who is the author of Day’s Fortune / Fortuna del día\, a bilingual collection. His work won the 2018 Arcipreste de Hita prize. Born in Barranquilla\, Colombia in 1988\, Acevedo holds a master’s degree in Creative Writing in Spanish from the University of Iowa and is currently a Ph.D. student in the Interdisciplinary Humanities program at the University of California\, Merced. His poems have appeared in numerous national and international anthologies\, and the English translation of Day’s Fortune by Kelsi Vanada won the Sundial Literary Translation Award in 2024. \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Humanities Institute\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, and the Bay Tree Bookstore.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-carlo-acevedo/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kara Cooney - When Women Ruled the World
DESCRIPTION:Ancient Studies presents the 2026 Carl Deppe Lecture featuring Kara Cooney\, who will present her lecture “When Women Ruled the World.” \nWho were the women who once ruled the richest and most successful state of the ancient Mediterranean and African Bronze Age? Ancient Egypt’s female kings\, including Hatshepsut and Nefertiti\, ruled against all odds of the patriarchy in which they lived with real\, unadulterated power. Yet many of these female leaders were judged harshly for taking power or erased from the historical record by the men who followed them\, leaving them elusive historical figures surrounded by mystery and myth. In this lecture\, Prof. Kara Cooney\, Egyptologist and author of When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt\, will go beyond the myths and shed light on these powerful female kings and their historical legacy. \n \nKara Cooney is a professor of ancient Egyptian art and architecture and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California\, Los Angeles. Specializing in social history\, gender studies\, and economies of the ancient world\, she received her PhD in Egyptology from Johns Hopkins University. Her books include The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt\, When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt\, and The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World. Her latest books include Recycling for Death: Coffin Reuse in Ancient Egypt and the Theban Royal Caches\, Ancient Egyptian Society: Challenging Assumptions\, Exploring Approaches\, and Coffin Commerce.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-kara-cooney-when-women-ruled-the-world/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Deep Read at Fungus February First Friday
DESCRIPTION:Join the Deep Read at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History (SCMNH) for Fungus February First Friday. We will celebrate the opening of Fungus February at the Museum with a night of science\, art\, and community exploring the vital role of fungi and fungal webs in our world\, the subject of our Deep Read book\, Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds\, Change Our Minds\, and Shape Our Futures. \nCome learn more about Entangled Life and connect with artists\, mycologists\, and community partners steeped in the world of fungi. This event will offer hands-on activities\, refreshments\, and special seasonal items in the Museum Store. Admission is free\, all are welcome\, and an open bar will be available for guests 21+. \nFor more information about First Friday\, see the Museum website.  There will be many other Fungus February events co-sponsored by THI’s Deep Read at the Museum this month.  See the SCMNH event calendar for details.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deep-read-at-fungus-february-first-friday/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - Henry IV\, Part 1
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Henry IV\, Part 1 by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on January 10\, 17\, 24\, 31 & February 7\, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest speaker followed by a volunteer read aloud of the play. On February 7\, the film The Hollow Crown\, Henry IV Part 1 will be shown. This event series is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop. \nFor more information\, Zoom Link\, or to volunteer to be a reader\, contact: saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com \nGuest Speakers / Film Presentation \n\nJan 10: Alexander Brondarbit\, A historian who specializes in kingship in late medieval and early modern England; author of two books on The Wars of the Roses. Readings: Act 1 – Act 2\, Scene 2\nJan 17: Patty Gallagher\, An actor and Professor of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz; Artistic Associate at Santa Cruz Shakespeare and the Rogue Theatre in Tucson\, Arizona. Readings: Act 2\, Scene 3 – Act 3\, Scene 2.\nJan 24: Julia Reinhardt Lupton\, Distinguished Professor of English at UC Irvine\, co-director of the UCI Shakespeare Center. She is the author of six books on Shakespeare. Readings: Act 3\, Scene 3 – Act 4.\nJan 31: Abigail Heald is currently teaching the Henriad (Richard II\, Henry IV\, Parts I and Part II\, and Henry V) at Stanford University. Readings: Act 5.\nFeb 7: Film Screening: The Hollow Crown\, Henry IV Part 1. Jeremy Irons-King Henry/ Tom Hiddleson-Prince Hal/ Simon Russell Beale-Falstaff\, directed by Richard Eyre.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-henry-iv-part-1-5/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Revolution and Restoration: A Conversation with Massimiliano Tomba\, Ariella Patchen\, and Shaun Terry
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department invites you to the next talk in their Winter 2026 Research Colloquium series. \nThis talk examines Tomba’s Revolution and Restoration as an expression of his philosophy of political time. Tomba argues that modernity consists of dynamic and overlapping temporal layers and that revolutionary change occurs when oppressed groups draw on forgotten or suppressed forms within these layers—commons\, councils\, sanctuary—to move beyond prevailing institutions. For Tomba\, every social form is an open totality\, shot through with contradictions and tensions\, and therefore subject to radical change from within. The political horizon of revolutionary practice is\, then\, a form of relative transcendence that activates resources of justice already sedimented in the historical field. Understanding this method as revolutionary stratigraphy illuminates how concepts such as democratic excess and insurgent universality arise from the layered morphology of political life and how the past becomes a source of practical intervention in the present. \n \nThis event is both in-person and virtual. Register above to attend virtually. \nMassimiliano Tomba is Professor in the Department of History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His publications include Marx’s Temporalities (Brill\, 2012; Haymarket\, 2013)\, Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity (Oxford\, 2019; paperback 2021)\, and Revolution and Restoration: The Politics of Anachronism (Fordham\, 2025). \n  \nAriella Patchen is a PhD student in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz. Her work engages primarily with political theology\, affect theory\, archival research\, and histories of the construct of race and ethnicity. \n  \n  \nShaun Terry is a PhD student in History of Consciousness and a communication scholar and political theorist.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/revolution-and-restoration-a-conversation-with-massimiliano-tomba-ariella-patchen-and-shaun-terry/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Islamophobia in a Global Perspective: A Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) for a panel discussion that situates Islamophobia in a global context as a form of discrimination that shapes politics and culture in Europe\, North Africa\, and the United States. While it is largely acknowledged that the concept of Islamophobia refers to the racial discrimination or othering of Muslims\, it has been institutionalized and experienced differently in various national and historical contexts. Instead of seeking a single definition of Islamophobia\, this panel brings together researchers based in France\, the United States\, and Tunisia to grapple with how certain iterations of anti-Muslim sentiment\, such as the Great Replacement Theory\, have circulated across space\, while accounting for the major differences between how Islamophobia operates in Muslim majority or formerly colonized countries and those regions that have historical been colonial powers that relied on orientalist or racist tropes to secure their imperial hegemony. It also looks at specific practices\, from notions of literacy to carceral regimes\, that demonstrate the functioning of Islamophobia as a form of racial governance. \nProgram: \n2pm – 3:15 pm: Textual Transmission and Categories of Analysis \nPresenters: \nAdrien Thibault (IRMC)\, “An Alien Concept? Uses and Circulation of “Islamophobia” in Social Scientific Journals on the Maghreb” \nArshad Ali (UCSC)\, “Reading Islam Otherwise: Islamophobia\, The Afterlives of Literacy\, Anti-Blackness\, and Muslim Ways of Knowing” \nDiscussant: Thomas Serres (UCSC) \n3:30 – 5pm: Islamophobia in France: Discourses and Practices \nPresenters: \nIman El Feki (University of Strasbourg)\, “Anti-Radicalization Politics in French Prisons: A Case Study of Racialized Institutional Islamophobia” \nDorian Bell (UCSC)\, “Of Nations and Nomads: Antisemitism\, Islamophobia\, and the Great Replacement Theory” \nDiscussant: Huzaifa Shahbaz (UCSC) \n\nParticipants: \nAdrien Thibault  \n“An Alien Concept? Uses and Circulation of the Concept of Islamophobia in Social Science Journals on the Maghreb” \nIn order to contribute to the history of the international circulation of the concept of Islamophobia\, this paper presents an exhaustive review and qualitative analysis of occurrences of the term (in French\, English\, and Arabic) in six leading social science journals specializing in the Maghreb: two French journals (L’Année du Maghreb\, since 2004\, and Maghreb-Machrek\, since 2008)\, two Anglo-American journals (The Journal of North African Studies\, since 1996\, and The Maghreb Review\, since 2009)\, and two Maghrebi journals (IBLA\, Tunisia\, since 2000\, and Insaniyat\, Algeria\, since 1997). This review not only documents the relative scarcity of contemporary uses of the concept in relation to the Maghreb\, but also situates it geographically and socially by systematically relating the diversity of its uses to the national and academic positions\, as well as the social and migratory trajectories\, of the authors who mobilize it. \nDr. Adrien Thibault is a French sociologist and political scientist serving as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain (IRMC) in Tunis. Dr. Thibault’s research focuses on migration\, mobilities\, and social stratification. He explores questions of circulation\, borders\, and marginality\, conducting sociological analyses of how individuals navigate institutional categories and social hierarchies. \n  \n\nArshad Ali  \n“Reading Islam Otherwise: Islamophobia\, The Afterlives of Literacy\, Anti-Blackness\, and Muslim Ways of Knowing” \nThis paper examines global Islamophobia through the lens of literacy\, arguing that contemporary suspicion toward Muslim texts\, languages\, and reading practices cannot be understood apart from longer histories of racial governance. Drawing on the afterlives of African Muslim literacies in the Atlantic world\, the paper shows how Qur’anic pedagogies and manuscript traditions carried by enslaved Muslims disrupted racial regimes that required Black non-literacy\, rendering Muslim textuality unintelligible or dangerous. These historical misreadings persist today in securitized responses to Arabic script\, Qur’anic recitation\, and Muslim study across schools\, airports\, courts\, and digital platforms. Rather than treating these moments as isolated acts of bias\, the paper situates them within literacy’s secular and racial architecture. It then turns to Muslim epistemologies as a methodological intervention\, foregrounding embodied\, ethical\, and relational forms of knowing that unsettle dominant definitions of literacy. Reading Islam otherwise\, the paper argues\, is essential to confronting Islamophobia as an epistemic and racial project\, not merely a cultural misunderstanding. \nArshad Imtiaz Ali is an educator\, community worker\, and scholar who studies youth culture\, race\, identity\, and politics. He is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies Education and Civic Education at UC Santa Cruz. He is concerned with questions of educational possibilities\, liberatory moments/movements\, and social research methodologies. He has written extensively on issues relating to the cultural geography of Muslim student surveillance\, citizenship\, governmentality\, and other issues of coloniality and Muslims in Western spaces. His current project draws upon Muslim and non-Western storywork and ways of knowing to explore how students engage in a science curriculum that appreciates multiple\, culturally sustained ways of understanding the world. \n\nDorian Bell \n“Of Nations and Nomads: Antisemitism\, Islamophobia\, and the Great Replacement Theory” \nIn today’s far-right warnings about a “Great Replacement” of white populations by immigrants and their “globalist” protectors\, the long-entwined histories of antisemitism and Islamophobia are converging again. What’s new\, and what’s old\, about the latest round of Western demographic anxiety? Drawing examples from France\, where the Great Replacement Theory first took shape\, this paper traces how elites and immigrants are being consolidated into an imagined race of “nomads”—rich and poor\, cosmopolitan and migratory—against which the far right now defends the rights of “sedentary” white peoples. The results demonstrate how right-wing antisemitism and its legacies are shaping contemporary animus toward Muslims—and what this means for Jews themselves. \nDorian Bell is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His first book\, Globalizing Race: Antisemitism and Empire in French and European Culture (2018)\, traces intersections between antisemitism and imperialism that shaped the emergence of European racial thought. He is at work on a second book exploring how shifting notions of whiteness are driving political change on both sides of the Atlantic. \n\nIman El Feki \n“Public Policies Countering ‘Terrorism’ and ‘Radicalization’ in French Prisons: A Case Study of Racialized Institutional Islamophobia” \nThe goal of this presentation is to analyze French institutional Islamophobia by examining public policies for countering violent radicalization within the French prison system. To accomplish this\, I have organized the presentation into three parts. First\, I will analyze the detection devices used in prisons\, with a specific focus on grid detection. Second\, I will examine how the institutional understanding of radicalization spreads through the extension of suspicion to other prisoners\, researchers\, and the outside world. Lastly\, based on my experience as an object of institutional suspicion\, I will discuss the effects of Islamophobic suspicion on individuals. \nIman El Feki is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Strasbourg (France)\, and a member of the “Societies\, stakeholders\, governments in Europe” (SAGE) center. Since 2018\, her research has focused on French public policies for countering radicalization and terrorism\, especially their effects on targeted groups\, such as French Muslims. She studies these policies within the prison administration and has conducted three years of ethnography (2019-2021) with a special unit dedicated to radicalization inside this French institution (public policies\, critical security studies\, prison sociology\, sociology of Islamophobia). \n\n  \nHuzaifa Shahbaz \nHuzaifa Shahbaz is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics at UC Santa Cruz. His research examines the evolution of Muslim American organizing and the political strategies Muslim organizations have adopted in response to Islamophobia and the War on Terror. Prior to joining UCSC\, Huzaifa held research roles at the Othering & Belonging Institute\, the Institute for Policy Studies\, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). \n  \n\nThomas Serres  \nThomas Serres is Associate Professor of Politics at UC Santa Cruz. His research spans the field of Middle Eastern studies\, critical security studies\, and comparative politics\, combining an ethnographic approach with a conceptual apparatus inspired by critical theory. He is particularly interested in the effects of protracted and entangled crises (popular uprisings\, “war on terror\,” refugee crisis\, neoliberalization) in North Africa and beyond. His first book\, The Suspended Disaster: Governance by Catastrophization in Bouteflika’s Algeria\, was published in 2023 with Columbia University Press\, expanding on a French edition initially released in 2019. He also co-edited the volume North Africa and the Making of Europe with Bloomsbury Publishing (2018). \n\nPresented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and supported by the Villa Albertine
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/islamophobia-in-a-global-perspective-a-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Josen Masangkay Diaz - Population Crisis and the Reproductive Archive
DESCRIPTION:This talk focuses on the development of a population science in the decade that preceded the Ferdinand Marcos regime in the Philippines and throughout the Marcos dictatorship. The regime’s management of reproductive health\, in particular\, illustrates the construction of new technologies of measurement and containment. The talk focuses on readings of “family planning” archives that highlight both family planning as the management of the Philippines labor-surplus economy and the different ways that family planning workers struggled against these impositions. \nJosen Masangkay Diaz (she/they) writes and teaches about race\, gender\, colonialism\, and authoritarianism. Her book\, Postcolonial Configurations: Dictatorship\, the Racial Cold War\, and Filipino America (Duke University Press\, 2023)\, analyzes the formation of Filipino American subjectivity through a study of U.S.-Philippine cold war politics. \n\n \nWinter 2026 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2026 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/josen-masangkay-diaz-population-crisis-and-the-reproductive-archive/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260212T172000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Rosie Stockton
DESCRIPTION:Craft Between Worlds \nRosie Stockton is a poet and scholar\, author of the collections Permanent Volta (Nightboat Books\, 2021) and Fuel (Nightboat Books\, 2025). In Fuel\, Stockton explores how capitalist extraction seeps into intimate life\, traversing oil fields\, domestic spaces\, and painful retractions of love. Stockton is an organizer with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners and directs the Creative Writing Stream of the UC Sentencing Project\, where they facilitate a poetry workshop at the California Institution for Women. \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Humanities Institute\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, and the Bay Tree Bookstore.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-rosie-stockton/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260212T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260212T180000
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SUMMARY:Marion Nestle - Sustainable Food in the Trump Era
DESCRIPTION:What is the state of sustainable food now\, what are the forces affecting food choice\, and what can we do about it? Join us for this year’s Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture featuring Marion Nestle — Mark Bittman’s “guiding light” on nutrition and Alice Waters’ “tireless warrior for public health” — for a bracing look at what’s on today’s menu and what’s in store. \nThank you for your interest in this event! The event is now sold out but please join us online via live stream. \nMarion Nestle is a consumer advocate\, nutritionist\, award-winning author\, and academic who specializes in the politics of food and dietary choice. Her research examines scientific\, economic\, and social influences on food choice and health\, with an emphasis on the role of food industry marketing. Her books explore how politics affects food production\, dietary intake\, food safety\, and human and planetary health. She is the author of books such as the classic\, Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health\, Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety\, What to Eat\, and many more! Nestle is the emerita Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition\, Food Studies\, and Public Health and Professor of Sociology at New York University. She also holds an appointment as visiting professor in the Cornell Division of Nutritional Sciences. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition\, both from the University of California\, Berkeley. \n\nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Series is made possible by the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Ethics which enables lively dialogue about ethics related challenges in interdisciplinary settings.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/marion-nestle-sustainable-food-in-the-trump-era/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Of Body and Soul: Politics and Eschatology in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:This seminar explores how pre-modern debates over body and soulshaped political and eschatological thought in the Mediterranean. Each panel brings Jewish\, Christian\, and Islamic voices into dialogue\, with Dante Alighieri’s oeuvre as a recurring point of comparison. Our aim is to situate questions of embodiment\, psychology\, soteriology\, and collective destiny in light of their historical contexts and their wider intellectual and political implications. \nPanels are organized around four thematic currents — Aristotelianism\, Neoplatonism\, Mysticism\, and Political Eschatology — in order to examine how body-soul anthropology\, political theology\, and visions of history intersected in the pre-modern Mediterranean (12th–16th centuries). \nThis event will be live-streamed via a Zoom Webinar for anyone outside of the Santa Cruz who would like to attend. Please register for the live stream here: https://ucsc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_P3yCD6CxRwWY_MO6dJKAMg \nFull event schedule here. \nThe day’s program will feature (Full bios here): \nAkash Kumar (University of California\, Berkeley) \n  \n  \n \nAlexander Green (University of Florida\, The Hamilton School for Classic and Civic Education)\nTalk title: “Maimonides on the Duality of Love” \n  \n\nAlison Cornish (New York University) \n  \n  \nAndrew LaZella (The University of Scranton)\nTalk title: “Averroes and the Aristotelian Left: The Latin Averroists’ Agent Intellect and Dante’s Empire” \n  \nBettina Koch (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)\nTalk title: “The Challenged Souls: How the Abuse of Spiritual Power Threatens the Souls in Marsilius of Padua’s Defensor Pacis” \n  \nElliot Wolfson (University of California\, Santa Barbara)\nTalk title: “Transposition of the Material into the Angelic Body: Abraham Abulafia’s Polemic with the Christian Dogma of Incarnation” \n  \nEthan H. Shagan (University of California\, Berkeley)\nTalk title: “The Protestant Emergence of ‘Secular’ Political Theology” \n  \n  \n \nFilippo Gianferrari (University of California\, Santa Cruz) \n  \n  \nGiacomo Berchi (Stanford University) \n  \n  \nHeather Webb (Yale University)\nTalk title: “The Forms of Affective Communities: Clare of Assisi\, Dante\, and Catherine of Siena” \n  \nJason Aleksander (San José State University)\nTalk title: “The Enigma of History in Nicholas of Cusa’s De ultimis diebus” \n  \n  \nMassimiliano Tomba (University of California\, Santa Cruz) \n  \n  \nNathanael Deutsh (University of California\, Santa Cruz) \n  \n  \nPaola Nasti (Northwestern University)\nTalk title: “Humana Universitas: Dante’s Universal Monarchy between Politics and Eschatology” \n  \nPaula Pico Estrada (Universidad Nacional de San Martín)\nTalk title: “Annihilation and Embodiment: St. Catherine of Genoa’s Doctrine of Purgatory as Political Eschatology” \n  \nPeerawat Chiaranunt (The University of Notre Dame)\nTalk title: “Two Aspects of Local Motion in the Paradiso: subtilitas and agilitas” \n  \n  \nSeyed N. Mousavian (Loyola University\, Chicago)\nTalk title: “Avicenna on the Human Soul\, Body and Eschatology” \n  \n  \n \nTheodore Cachey (The University of Notre Dame)\nTalk title: “Mapping the Unmappable: Poetics\, Participation\, and the Body–Soul Problem in Dante’s Paradiso” \n  \n\nThis event is sponsored by Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Porter College\, The Humanities Institute\, the Italian Studies and the Literature Department\, The Center for Jewish Studies\, University of California Regents System Collaboration Funding\, and San José State University Division of Research and Innovation. \nTower of Babel mosaic\, Monreale Cathedral\, Palermo\, Sicily (12th c.). Photo © Holger Uwe Schmitt\, Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped for design.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/of-body-and-soul-politics-and-eschatology-in-the-pre-modern-mediterranean/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Martin Rizzo-Martinez - Wounded Lee: the Red Power movement in 1970s Santa Cruz in the wake of Alcatraz
DESCRIPTION:In the spring of 1975\, a 1\,500-year-old Indigenous cemetery on Lee Road in Watsonville\, California\, was threatened by a development project. Members of the local Native American community with ties to this sacred site occupied the construction site in protest of the development. The local Sheriff called upon the newly formed well-armed County SWAT force\, leading to an armed confrontation. They were quickly joined by allies\, including representatives from the San Jose AIM office\, local Vietnam Veterans against the War / Winter Soldiers\, and representatives from the Indigenous run Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association from Humboldt County. Fortunately\, a compromise was made and violence was averted. This incident is one piece of a larger book project looking at similar grass roots\, Indigenous led movements to protect sacred spaces in California in the 1970s and early 80s. \nMartin Rizzo-Martinez is an Assistant Professor in the Film & Digital Media department at UCSC. He is a historian and media maker\, author of We are not Animals\, which explores the history of Indigenous peoples of the Santa Cruz area\, as well as co-producer of the podcast Challenging Colonialism. He has worked closely and collaboratively with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band\, and other local Tribes. \n\n \nWinter 2026 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2026 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/martin-rizzo-martinez-wounded-lee-the-red-power-movement-in-1970s-santa-cruz-in-the-wake-of-alcatraz/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – THI Public Fellowship Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Curious about becoming a THI Graduate Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia\, then you may be interested in THI’s Public Fellowship program. \nPublic fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute to research\, programming\, communications\, and fundraising at non-profit organizations\, cultural institutions\, or companies and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study. \n  \n \n  \nPlease join us for an information session about the 2026 THI Graduate Public Fellows program to learn about Summer 2026 opportunities. \nAll THI Public Fellow applicants are required to attend an Info Session or talk with THI staff. Please contact Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell\, Research Programs and Communications Director\, at saskia@ucsc.edu if you are unable to attend the workshop due to a work or class scheduling conflict. Final applications are due on March 30th\, 2026. \n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nRSVP here: \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-thi-public-fellowship-information-session-4/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Nathalie Khankan
DESCRIPTION:Craft Between Worlds \nNathalie Khankan is a poet and scholar\, author of quiet orient riot (Omnidawn). The collection won Omnidawn’s 2019 1st/2nd Book Prize and received the 2021 California Book Award in Poetry. Fady Joudah calls the book “a flowering wound\,” posing subversive questions about the body\, motherhood\, and settler colonialism while insisting on tenderness. Juliana Spahr calls it “a book about holding tight to the intimacy and love for a child\,” whose poems show how to sustain deep loves in difficult times. \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Humanities Institute\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, and the Bay Tree Bookstore.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-nathalie-khankan/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260220T150000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium with Ethan Poole
DESCRIPTION:Join the Linguistics Department for Ethan Poole’s talk “Syntactic Variables and Semantic Minimality” in collaboration with Zahra Mirrazi. \nIn this talk\, Poole argues that when two syntactic variables are “related” and stand in a c- command relationship at LF\, a 3⁄4-pattern emerges: free/free\, bound/bound\, bound/free\, and *free/bound. Several otherwise-disparate puzzles are shown to fall under this pattern: Dahl’s Puzzle\, SCO effects\, the Nested DP Constraint\, exceptional de dicto\, de re blocking\, and certain restrictions on fake indexicals. Building on Drummond 2014\, Poole proposes that these phenomena reflect a minimality-style constraint on variables: (roughly) a variable may not be bound across a related free variable. The notion of “related”\, we define in terms of overlap in value and counterparts\, an extension of Reinhart’s (2006) covaluation. He argues that this “semantic minimality” does not straightforwardly reduce to the garden-variety syntactic minimality; rather\, he suggests that syntactic and semantic minimality are separate\, convergent consequences of pressure for shorter dependencies. \n \nThis event is in-person with an option to join virtually available.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-with-ethan-poole/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260221T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260221T130000
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SUMMARY:Latino Role Models Conference
DESCRIPTION:Achieve your dreams for college and career! \nA free annual event for Santa Cruz County students\, grades 6 to college\, and their families\, featuring Latino professionals\, college students\, and resource information. Presented in Spanish with English translation. Attendees eligible for prizes. \nFor more information: SCSenderos.org \n\nPresented by Cabrillo College\, Live Oak School District\, Mexican Consulate –  San Jose\, Pajaro Valley Unified\, San Lorenzo Valley Unified\, Santa Cruz City Schools\, Santa Cruz County Office of Education\, Scotts Valley Unified\, Senderos\, Soquel Union Elementary\, UCSC
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/latino-role-models-conference/
LOCATION:Cabrillo College Crocker Theater\, 6500 Soquel Dr.\, Aptos\, CA\, 95003\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260225T121500
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SUMMARY:Hillary Angelo - Climate Change as Large-Scale Social Transformation
DESCRIPTION:It is a common (aspirational) refrain that climate change “changes everything\,” and equally common to note that climate-related transitions seem to be changing very little at all. What climate-related changes are happening now? And how might we grasp emergent trajectories while we’re in the midst of these transitions? With a substantive focus on the city-hinterland relationship and the American West\, and based on five years of fieldwork related to renewable energy\, conservation\, and housing development on public lands in Nevada and Utah\, this talk gets purchase on these questions by presenting climate change as a form of macro-social change. I draw on classical and contemporary macro-historical sociology and critical geography to show how this framework provides new insights on climate transitions and describe its implications for understanding contemporary climate politics\, policy\, and visions of a just transition. \nHillary Angelo is an Associate Professor of Sociology\, founding Director of UCSC’s Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies\, and former member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Her work combines historical sociology\, critical social theory\, and urban political economy and ecology to analyze contemporary urban and environmental culture and politics. She has published widely in leading sociology\, geography\, and urban studies journals and her first book\, How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens\, was published in 2021 by the University of Chicago Press. \n\n \nWinter 2026 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2026 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hillary-angelo-climate-change-as-large-scale-social-transformation/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Work - in - Progress with Geoffrey C. Bowker
DESCRIPTION:Join SJRC scholars for an open discussion of works-in-progress! This is a wonderful chance to engage with one another’s ideas\, and support our own internal work. At this session\, we will hear from Geoffrey Bowker\, Emeritus Professor in Irvine and Science & Justice Advisor about works-in-progress and ongoing work on the death of infrastructure\, AI\, and underwater network cables and his collaborative comic book on Actor Network Theory. SJRC members Warren Sack and Dimitris Papadopolous will act as “warm up” discussants. \nContact Colleen Stone (colleen@ucsc.edu) or Maria Puig de la Bellacasa (puig@ucsc.edu) for the readings\, including a new comic book on the graveyard of machines! \nGeoffrey C. Bowker is Emeritus Professor at the School of Information and Computer Science\, University of California at Irvine\, where he directed a laboratory for Values in the Design of Information Systems and Technology. Positions included Professor of and Senior Scholar in Cyberscholarship at the University of Pittsburgh School and Executive Director\, Center for Science\, Technology and Society\, Santa Clara. He was awarded the prestigious 4S Bernal Prize in 2024 and his book Memory Practices in the Sciences (MITS Press 2008) won the 2007 Ludwig Fleck Prize and was named “Best Information Science Book” by the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). \n\nCo-sponsored by Science and Justice Research Center and the earthecologies x technoscience conversations\, History of Consciousness \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/work-in-progress-with-geoffrey-c-bowker/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tsering Wangmo Dhompa - Kyi-dug\, Tibetan Welfare Groups: Sharing Ups and Downs
DESCRIPTION:As many as 80\,000 Tibetans fled to India and Nepal in 1959 following the Chinese occupation of Tibet. The establishment of a Tibetan government in exile helped foster a sense of belonging\, but it was also through mutual aid groups\, such as the kyi-dug\, that Tibetan refugees took care of one another. The word kyi-dug: kyi for happiness\, and dug for sorrow\, carries an implicit notion that the kyi-dug is organized with the goal to comfort and support community members in times of crises. In this talk\, Dhompa will braid a few different stories–– refugee aid packages in the early 1960s\, kyi-dug and children\, and ancestral divinities of land and people––to speak about resistance and belonging. \n \nThis event is both in-person and on zoom. Click above for the zoom link. \nTsering Wangmo Dhompa is the author of The Politics of Sorrow\, an account of early Tibetan exile political life in India published by Columbia University Press (2025). She has several collections of poetry: My Rice Tastes Like the Lake\, In the Absent Everyday and Rules of the House (all from Apogee Press\, Berkeley)\, and a non-fiction book\, Coming Home to Tibet (Shambhala Publications\, 2014) \nThis event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law. \n\nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tsering-wangmo-dhompa-kyi-dug-tibetan-welfare-groups-sharing-ups-and-downs/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with James Janko
DESCRIPTION:Craft Between Worlds \nJames Janko is an award-winning author of four novels\, including Buffalo Boy and Geronimo\, The Clubhouse Thief\, What We Don’t Talk About\, and The Wire-Walker. His work is deeply informed by his experience as a combat medic in the Vietnam War\, often probing the intertwined violences of war and environmental destruction. Janko will be introduced by Karen Tei Yamashita. \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Humanities Institute\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, and the Bay Tree Bookstore. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-james-janko/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kitchen Counterculture: A Conversation About Jerry Garcia\, the Grateful Dead\, and the Food that Fueled a Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents Kitchen Counterculture: A Conversation About Jerry Garcia\, the Grateful Dead\, and the Food that Fueled a Revolution\,” featuring award-winning food writer Gabi Moskowitz and journalist\, teacher\, and author Jim Newton. This event is cosponsored by the UC Santa Cruz The Humanities Division\, The Humanities Institute\, and the UCSC Special Collections & Archives. \n \nYour RSVP helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. Thank you for registering! \nDead in the Kitchen\, by Gabi Moskowitz: Kindly calling all Deadheads! Enjoy a variety of vibrant and delicious vegetarian and vegan recipes as you cook your way through Dead in the Kitchen: The Official Grateful Dead Cookbook\, available just in time to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the legendary psychedelic rock band. \nWelcome to the show! Dead in the Kitchen is the official\, authorized Grateful Dead cookbook\, a well-crafted extension of the vibrant\, communal\, free-spirited energy that the band and their legacy have graced us with for decades. Featuring the band’s iconic artwork\, logos\, and illustrations\, this beautifully designed book brings the unmistakable Grateful Dead aesthetic to life on every page\, making it a must-have collectible for devoted fans. \nYou’ll find recipes organized and inspired by not only the band’s timeless music\, but also the loyal Deadheads that continue to find kindness and community amongst one another. Delight in dishes like the savory Curried Vegetable Pot Pie\, the Meatless Meatball Sandwich\, or a sweet bite of Pumpkin Cheesecake. With each recipe crafted to be simple and accessible for all\, this is the perfect cookbook for novice cooks and seasoned pros alike. Find your flow in the kitchen as you create each flavorful dish and\, if Jerry has taught us anything\, don’t be afraid to improvise! This cookbook celebrates the Grateful Dead on each page and encourages more connection through gathering together and enjoying delicious food that’s good for feeding the mind\, body\, and soul. \nHere Beside the Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia\, the Grateful Dead\, and an American Awakening\, by Jim Newton: In 1965\, in Palo Alto\, Jerry Garcia opened a dictionary to a fable in which an appreciative soul repays the generosity of a traveler\, a “gift of the grateful dead.” After a traumatic car accident that injured him and killed a close friend\, Garcia had resolved to build his life around music. He had practiced relentlessly and caromed across the northern California folk and bluegrass scene. He had gathered up some fellow musicians and formed a band. Now they had their name. Following the history of the Grateful Dead means tracking American cultural history through a period of radical reconsideration. The Dead played at the Acid Tests and the Human Be-In and Woodstock\, at the occupation of Columbia and the Bail Ball for People’s Park. They performed at the base of the Pyramids during a lunar eclipse\, at Madison Square Garden to defend the rainforests\, in San Francisco to sound the alarm over AIDS and at Huey Newton’s birthday party. For three decades\, the band explored the meaning and limits of freedom. The radical message of the Dead\, to reject the mainstream and build a bohemian community\, radiated across the world\, manifesting itself in art\, music\, business\, and politics. Here Beside the Rising Tide tells the story of those disparate shafts of light\, putting Garcia into a broader context while tracing his eventful life. Nearly a century after his birth\, Garcia’s influence stretches onward\, expressed in guitar licks and a gentle way of life\, one of excellence and gratitude\, chasing freedom\, living moment to moment\, guided by song-the gift of the Grateful Dead. \nGabi Moskowitz is the founder of BrokeAssGourmet.com\, an award-winning website about inexpensive cooking. She’s written five cookbooks\, and produced Freeform’s Young & Hungry\, a situation comedy based on her life and writing. She lives in Marin County\, California\, with her husband and daughters. \nJim Newton is a journalist\, teacher\, and author of Justice for All\, Eisenhower\, Worthy Fights\, and Man of Tomorrow. He was at the Los Angeles Times for twenty-five years as a reporter\, bureau chief\, editorial page editor\, columnist\, and editor at large. He lives in Pasadena\, California\, and teaches at UCLA\, where he founded and edits the award-winning public affairs magazine Blueprint.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kitchen-counterculture-a-conversation-about-jerry-garcia-the-grateful-dead-and-the-food-that-fueled-a-revolution/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Writing Hangout with Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
DESCRIPTION:If we take a moment to examine our lives\, we can find meaningful\, even exciting connections between our mundane moments and the society we live in. In this workshop\, we will write together to explore how we can find the words we need to create the communities we would like to be. All are welcome. No prior creative writing experience is required and prompts will be provided. Lunch and informal discussion to follow. \nTsering Wangmo Dhompa is the author of The Politics of Sorrow\, an account of early Tibetan exile political life in India published by Columbia University Press (2025). She has several collections of poetry: My Rice Tastes Like the Lake\, In the Absent Everyday and Rules of the House (all from Apogee Press\, Berkeley)\, and a non-fiction book\, Coming Home to Tibet (Shambhala Publications\, 2014) \nThis event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law. \n\nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/writing-hangout-with-tsering-wangmo-dhompa/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260227T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260227T150000
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CREATED:20260218T205000Z
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SUMMARY:Restitution Beyond Return - Who names the Objects in Museums?
DESCRIPTION:The Department of History invites you to join their talk about African Arts\, Western Museums\, and the debate over restitution. \nThis lecture examines restitution as an ethical and epistemic process that goes beyond the physical return of objects from Western museums to African institutions. While repatriation often functions as a diplomatic practice\, restitution is framed here as historical repair that requires transforming the narratives\, classifications\, and meanings assigned to museum objects. Drawing on case studies\, the lecture analyzes how sacred African objects were historically renamed as “fetishes” through colonial vocabularies. It argues that museums bear an ongoing responsibility to revise these narratives\, making restitution a process of reinterpretation\, accountability\, and public education. \nProf. Vanicleia Silva-Santos is the curator of the African Collection at Penn Museum\, University of Pennsylvania. She holds a PhD in History from the University of São Paulo and teaches at the Department of Africana Studies at UPenn.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/restitution-beyond-return-who-names-the-objects-in-museums/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260302T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260302T130000
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SUMMARY:Timescape of Rings with Stephen David Engel
DESCRIPTION:Stephen David Engel will read from an experimental history called “Timescape of Rings.” In it\, he meditates on a 2\,200-year-old redwood round with markers for historical events affixed to its rings—the birth of Jesus\, the invention of gunpowder\, the drafting of the Magna Carta\, and on. By running his fingers over the rings\, he recalls histories not commemorated by these markers\, in particular revolts and egalitarian movements. From there\, Stephen’s daydreams carry him back deeper in time\, all the way back to the first woody trees some 385 million years ago. \n \nThis event is in-person and online. Register for the virtual option here. \nStephen David Engel is a transdisciplinary scholar who thinks across big scales of history and time and who writes about them using creative genres. His writing has appeared in Rethinking History\, ROAR Magazine\, The Anthology of Babel\, and other publications. He holds a PhD from the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where he received the Hayden White dissertation fellowship for excellence in historical theory. This spring\, he will serve as Visiting Professor at Deep Springs College\, an alternative liberal arts college in the California desert. \n\nThis event is presented by HisCon and part of the 2026 Winter Research Colloquium Series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/timescape-of-rings-with-stephen-david-engel-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260303T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260303T133000
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SUMMARY:More-Than-Humanities Lab Reading Group: Against Purity
DESCRIPTION:Please join the More-Than-Human(ities) Lab for our winter book club meeting. We will be discussing Alexis Shotwell’s book Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times\, which offers a framework for conceiving of our own complicity in the presence of toxicity\, climate change\, and other ongoing crises. Event attendees will be expected to have read the book. \nAlexis Shotwell will join us on Zoom to answer your questions and discuss the impact of the book: Zoom link \n \nThe first 15 registrants will recieve free copies of the book from Professor Hannah Cole. Subsequent registrants can access a digital copy of the book through the UCSC Library. \nPlease arrive ready to discuss your questions\, thoughts\, and responses.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/more-than-humanities-lab-reading-group-against-purity/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260304T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260304T133000
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SUMMARY:Thiago Mota - In Search of Protection: Islam\, Crocodiles\, and Local Experiences of a Global Religion in Early Modern West Africa
DESCRIPTION:This talk proposes a new reading of Early Modern European sources for African history in light of Islamic African written records and oral traditions. It examines how Islam interacted with local religions and cultural practices in order to become meaningful and suitable for West African communities. Focusing on the need for protection against crocodile attacks along major Senegambian rivers\, the talk explores how History\, Anthropology\, and Islamic Studies can be brought into conversation to offer a fuller understanding of Islamization in West Africa. \nDr. Thiago Mota is an Assistant Professor of African History at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His research focuses on Islam in West Africa\, colonial encounters\, and the social history of knowledge production across Afro-Atlantic spaces. His next book\, Global Islam from Below: Islamic Political Culture in Senegambia and the Atlantic World\, 1400–1850\, is under contract with Cambridge University Press and examines how ordinary Muslims shaped political and religious life in Senegambia and its Atlantic connections. He has taught widely on African history\, including courses on Islamic manuscript cultures\, precolonial African history\, and debates on the restitution of African cultural heritage. \n\n \nWinter 2026 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2026 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thiago-mota-in-search-of-protection-islam-crocodiles-and-local-experiences-of-a-global-religion-in-early-modern-west-africa/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260304T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260304T160000
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SUMMARY:Kate Schatz - Where the Girls Were Talk & Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join UCSC alum Kate Schatz\, bestselling author of the Rad Women series\, for a reading from her new novel Where the Girls Were and a Q & A on writing\, creativity\, and growing up amid political and cultural change. \nBlending sharp cultural insight with emotional depth\, Schatz’s work explores how young women navigate creativity\, power\, and identity in a world shaped by social movements and personal reckonings. The event will include a reading\, followed by a Q & A conversation about her writing process\, themes\, and career. \nWhether you’re interested in creative writing\, social justice\, or just love a good story\, this event is a chance to hear from a working writer about how books actually come into the world. \nFree and open to the public. \n\nPresented by the UCSC Creative Writing Program. Want more? Kate Schatz will be speaking later in the evening at Bookshop Santa Cruz. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kate-schatz-where-the-girls-were-talk-reading/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260304T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260304T200000
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SUMMARY:Kate Schatz - Where The Girls Were
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes bestselling author Kate Schatz (Do the Work: An Anti-Racist Activity Book) for a discussion about her latest novel Where the Girls Were. Schatz will be in conversation with activist-scholar Bettina Aptheker. \n \nThey were sent away to be forgotten. This is their story. Where the Girls Were is a timely unearthing of a little-known moment in American history\, when the sexual revolution and feminist movement collided with the limits of reproductive rights—and society’s expectations of women. As Baker finds her strength and her voice\, she shows us how to step into your power\, even when the world is determined to keep you silent. \nKate Schatz is a feminist author from California. She’s the New York Times bestselling author of Do the Work: An Anti-Racist Activity Book\, with W. Kamau Bell\, and the “Rad Women” book series (including Rad American Women A-Z\, Rad Women Worldwide\, and Rad American History A-Z). Her book of fiction\, Rid of Me: A Story\, was published as part of the cult-favorite 33 1/3 series. \nBettina Aptheker is Distinguished Professor Emerita\, Feminist Studies\, University of California\, Santa Cruz where she taught for more than 40 years. An activist-scholar she co-led the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley in 1964\, and the National Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. She played a leading role in the international movement to Free Angela Davis. She has been part of the LGBT movement since the late 1970s. She has published several books including a memoir\, Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red\, Fought for Free Speech\, and Became A Feminist Rebel. Her most recent book is called Communists in Closets: Queering the History. She and her wife\, Kate Miller\, have been together since 1979. They live in Santa Cruz. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Kate Schatz \n\nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Kate will be speaking earlier in the day at UCSC. We encourage the campus community to join her!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kate-schatz-where-the-girls-were/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260304T210000
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Two Noble Kinsmen - Episode I
DESCRIPTION:Shakespeare returns to the characters and themes of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in what may have been the last play he had a hand in writing: The Two Noble Kinsmen. This time\, however\, the story of Theseus and Hippolyta\, the disorienting experience of adolescent sexual desire\, and the conflict of duties to sovereigns\, parents\, friends\, and spouses are no laughing matter. They are over-shadowed by the play’s source text — Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale\, in which chance foils Theseus’s best efforts to create order out of chaos and meaning out of loss — and by Shakespeare’s own experience writing tragedy and tragicomedy. \n \nThomas Luxon is Professor of English\, Emeritus at Dartmouth College\, where he was also the inaugural Cheheyl Professor and Director of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning. His teaching and scholarship focus on literature of the English Renaissance and Reformation\, with a particular interest in John Milton\, John Bunyan\, John Dryden\, and 17th-century English religion and politics. In his revelatory book\, Single Imperfection: Milton\, Marriage\, and Friendship (Duquesne UP\, 2005)\, Professor Luxon explores the impact of ancient theories of friendship on Milton’s conception of Reformation marriage\, and during the pandemic\, he contributed a lecture about the rivalry of friendship and marriage in Two Noble Kinsmen to Ian Doescher’s Shakespeare 2020 Project. \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-the-two-noble-kinsmen-episode-i/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260305T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260305T150000
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SUMMARY:Planting Oceania & Healing Communities
DESCRIPTION:Planting Oceania is a Oceanian/Indigenous Pacific Islander community organization that plants traditional foods in two gardens located at Filoli Historic House and Gardens in Woodside and at the UC Giltract Farms in Albany. Members of Planting Oceania will share stories about growing plants and stewarding the Land as an important cultural practice for building Oceania/Pacific Islander communities in California. Panelists will discuss being good guests and building good relations with Native California tribal leaders and communities–the Indigenous stewards of the Land–protocols they center in their land-based work. \nRefreshments will be provided. \nSpeakers\nWindsor Taro– (Belauan)\nJohn Holt (Kanaka Maoli/Native Hawaiian)\nLoa Niumeitolu (Tongan)\nFuifuilupe Niumeitolu (Tongan)\nAndria Takesy (Belauan and Chuukese)\nLeila Tamale (Tongan)\nSitiveni Heimuli (Tongan) \nFor more info: fniumeit@ucsc.edu \n\nSponsored by Rachel Carson College\, Center for Racial Justice\, Critical Race Ethnic Studies\, Asian American/ Pacific Islander Resource Center\, American Indian Resource Center\, People of Color Sustainable Collective\, and Mauna Kea Protectors
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/planting-oceania-healing-communities/
LOCATION:Namaste Lounge – College 9\, Namaste Lounge\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260305T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260305T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T103716
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SUMMARY:Traveling Film Southasia - Film Screening Festival Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) for a celebratory film screening event to launch Travelling Film Southasia\, a mobile film festival highlighting 19 exceptional nonfiction productions of the last two years\, originally screened at Film Southasia 2024 in Kathmandu. This year’s festival encapsulates a range of experiences on the Subcontinent with films from Nepal\, Bangladesh\, India\, Pakistan and Myanmar\, including CSAS Faculty Director Dolly Kikon’s recent film\, Abundance. \nFilm Southasia (FSA) is a biennial festival that began in 1997 with the goal of popularizing documentary films so that they entertain\, inform\, and change lives. In addition to the festival that takes place in Kathmandu every two years\, FSA organizes screenings\, discussions\, and workshops to promote Southasian non-fiction within the Subcontinent and around the world. Film Southasia believes that film is a powerful medium that not only helps better represent the region internationally\, but also contributes immensely to introspection and to initiatives that bring change at the local level. \nFor more information: Traveling FSA 2025. \nAfter the March 5 film festival launch event\, the festival films will be available for streaming until March 20. Link and instructions for viewing to follow. \nThis event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law. \n\nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored by the Department of Film and Digital Media and The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/traveling-film-southasia-film-screening-festival-launch/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260305T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260305T185500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Craft Between Worlds \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Humanities Institute\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, and the Bay Tree Bookstore.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-student-reading-7/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260308T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260308T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T103716
CREATED:20251217T180415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T193903Z
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SUMMARY:The Trial of Spock — An Opera Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The creators of The Trial of Spock—An Opera In Three Acts present concert performances of five scenes from an opera-in-progress at the UC Santa Cruz Music Center Recital Hall. \nCaptain Christopher Pike is gravely injured. Lieutenant Spock is behaving strangely. Charged with protecting Pike in his state of extreme need\,Vulcan Commodore T’or suspects that Lieutenant Spock—once Captain Pike’s science officer—is up to no good. Spock’s Captain\, James T. Kirk\, doesn’t see the trouble until far too late\, and soon Spock holds all of them prisoner aboard a ship destined for the “forbidden planet” Talos IV. He refuses to say a word about their fate—not until his superiors agree to give him his trial. Under oath\, and with strange evidence\, Spock tells the story of Captain Pike’s first visit to Talos IV\, where illusion and artificial experiences plunge Pike and fellow captive Vina into uncharted dimensions of their memories\, and their concepts of self. \nJoin sopranos Nicole Koh\, Sheila Willey\, and Emily Sinclair; tenors Alex Boyer and Nicolas Vasquez-Gerst\, baritones Joseph Calzada and Michael Kuo\, and the Del Sol Quartet\, as they distort the myth of Orpheus\, in order to re-think our presumed relationships to freedom and reality\, and its augmentations. \n \nMusic by Ben Leeds Carson; libretto by Perre DiCarlo & Ben Leeds Carson and Lincoln & Lee Taiz; with contributions from John de Lancie\, based on teleplays by Gene Roddenberry. \nJoin us for “Questions that Matter – How to Live Long and Prosper: Lessons from a Star Trek Opera\,” a follow up conversation about the opera at Kuumbwa Jazz Center on March 13th. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-trial-of-spock-an-opera-workshop/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260309T130000
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SUMMARY:Elemental Encounters with Cymene Howe
DESCRIPTION:Cymene Howe\, the final guest of the Winter 2026 HistCon Research Colloquium will be joining us next week to give her talk “Elemental Encounters: how water\, ice and fire + earth\, spin and chemicals become us”. \nFrom chemical relations to the sweep of stormfronts\, the elements render a series of sensory\, scientific and semiotic coordinates that reveal material intimacies. The classical forms of western philosophy (earth\, air\, fire\, water) and the periodic table of chemical elements operate as tools of categorization. Eastern elemental philosophies and the many Indigenous elemental entities of world-making\, in their multiple capacities\, represent forces of encounter\, interaction and transformation. In this discussion\, I explore the analytic possibilities afforded through an engagement with elemental forms and I offer a preliminary set of coordinates to evaluate socioenvironmental phenomena through ethnographic engagement with elemental dispositions. Drawing from Alaimo and Starosielski’s conviction that the elements represent ‘lively forces that shape culture\, politics\, and communication\,’ I consider how human and nonhuman encounters through (and with) the elements can help us surface both the punctuations and the cadences of our times and how the elements themselves\, when heard as ethnographic interlocutors\, have much to tell us about our place in the world. \n \nThis event is in-person with a virtual option to join available. Register above to join virtually. \nCymene Howe is Professor of Anthropology and Co-Founder of the STS Program at Rice University. Her most recent books include Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene; Anthropocene Unseen; Solarities: Elemental Encounters and Refractions and The Johns Hopkins Guide to Contemporary Theory. She has conducted field research in Nicaragua and Mexico\, Iceland and Greenland\, the U.S. and South Africa and has been awarded The Berlin Prize for Transatlantic Dialogue in the Arts\, Humanities\, and Public Policy as well as a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residential Fellowship. Her current research focuses on the social impacts of glacier loss and sea level rise in coastal communities globally and she has co-created many public-facing events and art installations to raise climate awareness including the Okjökull Memorial (Iceland\, 2019). She is currently at work on a book entitled The Elemental Turn. \n\nThis event is part of the 2026 Winter Research Colloquium Series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/elemental-encounters-with-cymene-howe/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260310T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260310T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T103716
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SUMMARY:How to Co-Create an AI Policy in Your Classroom
DESCRIPTION:It is well known that students are using AI\, that some uses undermine their learning\, and that bans are difficult and labor-intensive to enforce. To confront this\, Lauren Lyons asked students in her Ethics and Technology course to collaboratively build their own AI policy. In this session\, Lyons will describe how she structured the activity\, share what she learned (including what she would change)\, and then open a broader conversation about co-creating AI policies across disciplines\, both within and beyond the humanities. \nStudents ultimately chose a relatively restrictive policy\, allowing AI for mechanical editing but not for generating ideas or prose. Several takeaways emerged from the work they submitted for the activity\, ensuing discussions\, and course evaluations. First\, the discussion brought the pedagogically relevant reasons to the fore: students evaluated AI use in terms of its effects on their own learning rather than as a matter of compliance. Second\, specificity mattered. Distinguishing among different uses (e.g. brainstorming\, outlining\, generating text\, and editing) was necessary for students to understand the impact of AI on learning and articulate a clear policy. Finally\, the activity opened a broader conversation about the ethics of AI in education\, one students were eager to have and continued throughout the course. \nThere are a number of questions Lyons hopes to get into in the discussion portion of this session: How might different learning goals across fields shape what appropriate AI use looks like and so how to set bounds on co-creation? What should we do if a chosen AI policy goes against our own pedagogical judgement? How should we enforce AI policies\, and how might co-creation help with enforcement? Could this model apply to graduate courses? How can we co-create policy in large lecture courses? \nLauren Lyons is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy at Rutgers\, New Brunswick in 2024. She works in ethics\, social and political philosophy\, philosophy of law\, and their intersection. She is especially interested in the ethics of policing and punishment. Lyons recently wrote a paper arguing that we should “unbundle” the police\, reallocating powers and responsibilities from police to other institutions and reducing the footprint of policing. She is currently working on papers on prison abolition and crime prevention and the structure of functional critique (i.e. prisons function to maintain hierachies). Methodologically\, she aims to put ideas emanating from social movements into conversation with analytic ethics and political philosophy. \n\nThis event is presented by The Humanities Institute’s ± AI Initiative.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/how-to-co-create-an-ai-policy-in-your-classroom/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Anne Fadiman - Frog: And Other Essays
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes award-wining author Anne Fadiman (The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down) for a discussion about her latest book Frog: And Other Essays\, a new collection of evocative personal essays. “Affecting and often humorous . . . Fadiman has a knack for finding the extraordinary in the ordinary\, using everyday objects to explore such profound themes as grief\, loss\, and personal growth . . . Readers will be captivated.” —Publishers Weekly \n \nIn Frog\, Anne Fadiman returns to her favorite genre\, the essay\, of which she is one of our most celebrated practitioners. Ranging in subject matter from her deceased frog\, to archaic printer technology\, to the fraught relationship between Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his son Hartley\, these essays unlock a whole world–one overflowing with mundanity and oddity–through sly observation and brilliant wit. \nThe diverse subjects of Frog are bound together by the quality of Fadiman’s attention\, and subtly\, they come to form a slantwise portrait of the artist\, a writer dedicated to chronicling the world as it changes around her\, in ways small and large\, as time passes. \nAnne Fadiman is the author\, most recently\, of the essay collection Frog (2026). Her first book\, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (1997)\, won the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and the Salon Book Award. In 2017\, she published The Wine Lover’s Daughter\, a memoir about her father. Fadiman has also written two essay collections\, Ex Libris and At Large and At Small\, and edited Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love. She is Professor in the Practice of English and Francis Writer in Residence at Yale.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anne-fadiman-frog-and-other-essays/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Two Noble Kinsmen - Episode II
DESCRIPTION:Shakespeare returns to the characters and themes of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in what may have been the last play he had a hand in writing: The Two Noble Kinsmen. This time\, however\, the story of Theseus and Hippolyta\, the disorienting experience of adolescent sexual desire\, and the conflict of duties to sovereigns\, parents\, friends\, and spouses are no laughing matter. They are over-shadowed by the play’s source text — Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale\, in which chance foils Theseus’s best efforts to create order out of chaos and meaning out of loss — and by Shakespeare’s own experience writing tragedy and tragicomedy. \n \nThomas Luxon is Professor of English\, Emeritus at Dartmouth College\, where he was also the inaugural Cheheyl Professor and Director of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning. His teaching and scholarship focus on literature of the English Renaissance and Reformation\, with a particular interest in John Milton\, John Bunyan\, John Dryden\, and 17th-century English religion and politics. In his revelatory book\, Single Imperfection: Milton\, Marriage\, and Friendship (Duquesne UP\, 2005)\, Professor Luxon explores the impact of ancient theories of friendship on Milton’s conception of Reformation marriage\, and during the pandemic\, he contributed a lecture about the rivalry of friendship and marriage in Two Noble Kinsmen to Ian Doescher’s Shakespeare 2020 Project. \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-the-two-noble-kinsmen-episode-ii/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Latinos\, Language\, and Change in New Destination Communities of the U.S. South
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to invite you to a talk with Dr. Stephen Fafulas (University of Mississippi). \nThe U.S. South has emerged as a major new destination for Latino populations\, reshaping local communities in ways that are still not fully understood. In this talk\, I draw on over a decade of community-based research to examine language choice and patterns of linguistic variation among Latinos in the U.S. South\, highlighting how local social contexts shape bilingual practices. \nDr. Stephen Fafulas is Associate Professor at the University of Mississippi. His research focuses on sociolinguistics\, bilingualism\, and language variation. \n  \n  \n\nSponsored by the University of Mississippi Faculty Laureates program.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/latinos-language-and-change-in-new-destination-communities-of-the-u-s-south/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Living Writers With Mary-Alice Daniel
DESCRIPTION:Craft Between Worlds \nMary-Alice Daniel is a Nigerian American poet and cross-genre writer born near the Niger/Nigeria border. Her debut poetry collection\, Mass for Shut Ins\, was selected by Rae Armantrout as a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. Her memoir A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing (Ecco\, 2022) was named one of Kirkus’s best nonfiction books of 2022 and explores religion\, migration\, myth\, and the uncanny across three continents. \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Humanities Institute\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, and the Bay Tree Bookstore.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-mary-alice-daniel/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:On the Canon of the History of Philosophy: Critique & Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a day of presentations and conversation featuring: \nSilvestre Gristina (University of Padua / UC Santa Cruz) \nSilvestre Gristina is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Global Fellow between the University of Padua and the University of California\, Santa Cruz. As part of his MSCA project\, he will be spending a two-year research period at the History of Consciousness Department at UCSC. Silvestre received his PhD in Philosophy in June 2023 from the University of Padua. He carried out a one- year postdoctoral fellowship at the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies in Naples\, then completed a twenty-month postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Humanities of the University of Ferrara. His research interests include the history of German Classical Philosophy\, the philosophies of the Young Hegelians and Marx\, the history of twentieth-century Marxism\, and the development of twentieth-century French philosophy. He is currently engaged with methodological questions concerning the history of philosophy and the history of political thought. His research project\, “Temporalities\, Histories\, and Methods of Philosophy”\, intends to contribute to the studies on the critique of the Western Canon\, through specific reflection on the History of Philosophy and its political nature. \n\nElizabeth Millán Brusslan (DePaul University) presenting “Surprises and Hermeneutical Blindness: Elements of Philosophy’s Imperfect Canon” \nElizabeth Millán Brusslan is Chair and Professor in the Department of Philosophy at DePaul University. She works on aesthetics\, German Idealism/Romanticism and Latin American Philosophy. She is the author of Friedrich Schlegel and the Emergence of Romantic Philosophy (SUNY\, 2007) and several edited volumes on early German Romanticism and Latin American philosophy. She recently edited with Jimena Solé\, Fichte in the Americas\, a volume in the Fichte Studien Series (Leiden: Brill\, 2023) and is currently working on The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Philosophy\, which will be an inter-American collection of essays from scholars in the United States\, Canada\, and Latin America. She also recently completed an essay\, “Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre as Bildung The Tale of a Working Class Hero for Freedom” for Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre: A Critical Guide\, edited by Jeffery Kinlaw (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press\, forthcoming) and an essay\, “Walter Benjamin and Romantic Critique” for The Palgrave Handbook to Walter Benjamin\, edited by Nathan Ross (New York: Palgrave\, 2025). In 2004-5\, she was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for a project on Humboldt’s view of nature\, and she has published several articles on that topic especially on Humboldt’s views of America and is finishing a book-length study on Alexander von Humboldt’s view of nature. \n\nGiulia Valpione (École Normale Supérieure / CNRS / DePaul University) presening “The Subversive Canon of Political Ecology. A fragmented History?” \nGiulia Valpione is Marie Curie Fellow at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris) and Visiting Scholar at DePaul University (Chicago). She is the author of The Romantic Self. Sovereignty and the Politics of Nature (Cambridge University Press\, July 2026). She has published extensively on German Romanticismand Idealism\, environmental philosophy\, the politics/nature relationship\, and the history of women philosophers. She has worked and studied in Italy\, Germany\, France\, Brazil\, and the United States. Her texts have been published by\, among others: Oxford University Press\, Cambridge University Press\, DeGruyter\, the British Journal for the History of Philosophy\, and the Hegel Bulletin. She served as co-manager of the European Teacher Training Program: “Green Europe: Active Citizenship and the Environment” and is the co-founder and former co-editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Symphilosophie. International Journal of Philosophical Romanticism. \n\nBanu Bargu (UC Santa Cruz) presenitng “On Sea-Rovers: Althusser’s Montesquieu and the Colonial Unconscious of Materialism” \nBanu Bargu is Professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is a political theorist\, whose research also draws upon anthropology\, philosophy\, global history\, and Middle East studies around questions of the body\, power\, violence\, resistance practices\, authoritarianism and exceptional regimes\, carcerality and democracy. She is the author of two books: Disembodiment: Corporeal Politics of Radical Refusal (Oxford UP\, 2024)\, which is the recipient of the 2025 David Easton Award\, and Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (Columbia UP\, 2014)\, which was the recipient of the 2015 First Book Award\, both given by APSA’s Foundations of Political Theory section. Bargu’s curated collections include Turkey’s Necropolitical Laboratory (Edinburgh UP\, 2019)\, “The Political Encounter with Althusser” (2019 special issue of Rethinking Marxism\, co-edited with Robyn Marasco)\, and Feminism\, Capitalism\, and Critique (Palgrave\, 2017\, co-edited with Chiara Bottici). Bargu has previously taught at The New School for Social Research\, New York City\, and SOAS\, University of London. Her scholarship has been recognized by a number of fellowships\, including the Mercator fellowship\, ACLS fellowship\, and a residential fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton\, NJ. Bargu currently serves as the editor of Political Theory. \n\nRobert Nichols (UC Santa Cruz) presenting “Political Philosophy and /as Reception Theory” \nRobert Nichols is Professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His work in social and political thought takes up questions of power\, sovereignty\, property\, and historical consciousness\, especially as they inform and animate struggles at the intersection of anti-capitalism and anti-colonialism. Nichols has published several books and journal articles on these topics\, including Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory (2020); The Dispossessed: Karl Marx’s Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor\, ed. and trans.\, (2021); and The World of Freedom: Heidegger\, Foucault\, and the Politics of Historical Ontology (2014). Before joining UCSC\, Nichols held faculty posts at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) and the University of Alberta (Canada)\, and visiting scholar positions at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (Germany); École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris\, France); Columbia University (NYC); and the University of Cambridge (UK). He is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Fulbright\, Humboldt\, Killiam\, McKnight and Trudeau Foundations\, as well as the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. \n\nMassimiliano Tomba (UC Santa Cruz) \nMassimiliano Tomba (Ph.D. in Political Philosophy at the University of Pisa) taught Political Philosophy at the University of Padova (Italy). He specialized in German classical philosophy during his stay in Germany (University of Würzburg\, Münich\, and Hamburg). Since 2012\, he has been acting as co-director of an international project whose aim is to rethink the predominant schemes of interpretation of global society to overcome the prevailing Eurocentrism in conceptions of universalism\, space\, and time. Among his publications is Krise und Kritik bei Bruno Bauer. Kategorien des Politischen im nachhegelschen Denken\, Peter Lang\, 2005; La vera politica. Kant e Benjamin: la possibilità della giustizia\, Quodlibet\, 2006; Marx’s Temporalities\, Brill\, 2013; Attraverso la piccolo porta. Quattro studi su Walter Benjamin\, Mimesis\, 2017: Insurgent Universality. An Alternative Legacy of Modernity\, New York\, Oxford University Press\, 2019\, Co-winner of the 2021 David and Elaine Spitz Prize for the best book in liberal and/or democratic theory published in 2019. \n\nFor more information please contact Silvestre Gristina at silvestre.gristina@unipd.it \nThis event is Organized by University of Padua & UC Santa Cruz and Co-Funded by the European Union. This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and the History of Consciousness Department. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/on-the-canon-of-the-history-of-philosophy-critique-crisis/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 320
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SUMMARY:Questions that Matter - How to Live Long and Prosper: Lessons from a Star Trek Opera
DESCRIPTION:What do we need to live a fulfilling life? This essential question of the humanities feels especially pressing now\, on the precipice of profound changes to our planet\, our bodies\, and our sense of human exceptionality. Join us for a conversation — and a music-and-drama masterclass — about speculative fiction from the Star Trek world\, the myth of Orpheus\, and what the operatic form can teach us about intelligence\, humanity\, and the good life. The evening will feature UC Santa Cruz faculty\, Ben Leeds Carson (Professor of Music)\, Camilla A. Hawthorne (Associate Professor of Sociology)\, and Pranav Anand (THI Faculty Director and Professor of Linguistics)\, along with librettist Perre DiCarlo. \n \nThose attending Questions That Matter may be interested in the “The Trial of Spock — An Opera Workshop” on March 8th. This workshop is a rare opportunity for Trekkies and opera lovers to attend a recording of five scenes of an opera-in-progress: The Trial of Spock\, with members of the San Francisco and San Jose Opera companies accompanied by San Francisco’s Del Sol Quartet. \nQuestions That Matter is a public humanities series developed by The Humanities Institute and the community of Santa Cruz. It brings together\, in conversation\, two or more UC Santa Cruz scholars with community residents and students to explore questions that matter to all of us.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/question-that-matter-how-to-live-long-and-prosper-lessons-from-a-star-trek-opera/
LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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SUMMARY:Karen Russell - The Antidote
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Karen Russell (Swamplandia!) for a discussion about her latest novel The Antidote\, which will be available in paperback on the night of the event. “The Antidote blends speculative and fantasy elements with rich language and vivid characters in an effort not to escape reality but to comment even more thoughtfully on it. . . . Russell’s lyrical writing dazzles on every page.” —The New York Times \n \nYour RSVP helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. Thank you for registering! \nThe Antidote opens on Black Sunday\, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz\, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the dust bowl drought but beneath its own violent histories. The Antidote follows a “Prairie Witch\,” whose body serves as a bank vault for peoples’ memories and secrets; a Polish wheat farmer who learns how quickly a hoarded blessing can become a curse; his orphan niece\, a basketball star and witch’s apprentice in furious flight from her grief; a voluble scarecrow; and a New Deal photographer whose time-traveling camera threatens to reveal both the town’s secrets and its fate. \nKaren Russell is the author of six books of fiction\, including the New York Times bestsellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. She has received MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Born and raised in Miami\, Florida\, she now lives in the Bay Area with her husband\, son\, and daughter. The Antidote\, a national bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award\, is her second novel. \nThis event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-russell-the-antidote/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Two Noble Kinsmen - Episode III
DESCRIPTION:Shakespeare returns to the characters and themes of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in what may have been the last play he had a hand in writing: The Two Noble Kinsmen. This time\, however\, the story of Theseus and Hippolyta\, the disorienting experience of adolescent sexual desire\, and the conflict of duties to sovereigns\, parents\, friends\, and spouses are no laughing matter. They are over-shadowed by the play’s source text — Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale\, in which chance foils Theseus’s best efforts to create order out of chaos and meaning out of loss — and by Shakespeare’s own experience writing tragedy and tragicomedy. \n \nThomas Luxon is Professor of English\, Emeritus at Dartmouth College\, where he was also the inaugural Cheheyl Professor and Director of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning. His teaching and scholarship focus on literature of the English Renaissance and Reformation\, with a particular interest in John Milton\, John Bunyan\, John Dryden\, and 17th-century English religion and politics. In his revelatory book\, Single Imperfection: Milton\, Marriage\, and Friendship (Duquesne UP\, 2005)\, Professor Luxon explores the impact of ancient theories of friendship on Milton’s conception of Reformation marriage\, and during the pandemic\, he contributed a lecture about the rivalry of friendship and marriage in Two Noble Kinsmen to Ian Doescher’s Shakespeare 2020 Project. \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-the-two-noble-kinsmen-episode-iii/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Community Conversation with Author Randy Ribay
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a community conversation with Randy Ribay\, young adult fiction writer and National Book Award Finalist. During the event\, Randy will discuss his recent novel\, Everything We Never Had (2024)\, about four-generations of Filipino American men grappling with identity\, masculinity\, and father-son relationships. The characters’ stories traverse histories of Filipino America\, including those of Watsonville and the Pajaro Valley. Randy conducted archival research using the Watsonville is in the Heart Community Digital Archive and other repositories to create intergenerational narratives of Filipino American migration\, labor\, and family. \nThis event is free and open to the public. \n\nIt is co-sponsored by Watsonville Public Library\, UCSC’s Center for Labor and Community\, Watsonville is in the Heart\, The Tobera Project\, and Pajaro Valley for Ethnic Studies and Justice.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/community-conversation-with-author-randy-ribay/
LOCATION:Watsonville Civic Plaza\, 275 Main Street\, Watsonville\, CA\, 95076\, United States
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SUMMARY:Colm Toibin - The News From Dublin
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz welcome acclaimed author Colm Tóibín (Long Island\, Brooklyn) for a discussion about The News from Dublin\, a brilliant collection of nine short stories\, many never-before-published\, set across Ireland\, Spain\, and America—about the complexities of family\, longing\, loss\, and love. \n \nCelebrated as “his generation’s most gifted writer of love’s complicated\, contradictory power” ( Los Angeles Times)\, Colm Tóibín is a master of short fiction as well as the novel\, able to summon an extraordinary intensity of emotion in a brief tale. The eleven stories transport readers across continents and eras. \nIn The Journey to Galway\, a mother who has learned of the death of her son\, a fighter pilot in World War I\, travels to Galway to inform his wife and their three now fatherless children. “Sleep\,” originally published in The New Yorker\, explores the rift between two lovers as one of them cannot reckon with his grief and fear after the death of his brother. Death\, again\, is a central character in the title story\, “The News from Dublin\,” as Maurice Webster travels to Dublin to try to save his younger brother who is dying of tuberculosis. Maurice must petition the health minister for access to a new experimental drug\, and this is the only hope. \nColm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels\, including Long Island\, an Oprah’s Book Club Pick; The Magician\, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master\, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn\, winner of the Costa Book Award; and Nora Webster\, winner of the Hawthornden Prize\, as well as three story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and was named the 2022–2024 Laureate for Irish Fiction by the Arts Council of Ireland. In 2021\, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Colm Tóibín \n\nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/colm-toibin-the-news-from-dublin/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Oceans of Dissent Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Oceans of Dissent will serve as a feminist gathering to forge new vernaculars of the geopolitical\, to assemble spatial imaginaries of the “oceanic” that refuse rather than relent to the insistent march of capital and empire. Our deliberations will foreground inter-linked landscapes across multiple oceanic field-formations\, to expand settled narratives of region\, historiography\, aesthetics and more. To “dissent” here is an invitation to think more about the messiness and stuckness of our intellectual labors across histories of slavery\, indenture\, colonialism and more. Let us imagine those conversations together. \n \nRegister here! \nMore information: Oceans of Dissent Workshop \nAny questions? Email Sadie Lynn at sklynn@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/oceans-of-dissent-workshop/
LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz
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SUMMARY:Suzanne Simard - When the Forest Breathes
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Suzanne Simard (Finding the Mother Tree)\, a scientist who pioneered the concept of sophisticated communication between trees. Simard will share her highly anticipated new book When the Forest Breathes\, in which she offers a powerful vision for saving our forests based on nature’s deep-rooted cycles of renewal. \n“A masterclass on the inner workings of forests. . . . This is science as an act of love for the world.” —Zoë Schlanger\, author of The Light Eaters \n \nRaised in a family of loggers committed to sensible forest stewardship\, trailblazing ecologist Suzanne Simard has watched as timber companies leave forests at higher risk for wildfires\, water crises\, and plant and animal extinction. But her research has the potential to chart a new course. The forest\, she reveals\, is a symphony of finely honed cycles of regeneration—from mushrooms breaking down logs to dying elder trees passing their genetic knowledge to younger ones—that hold the key to protecting our forests. Working closely with local Indigenous communities\, whose models of responsible forestry have been largely dismissed\, Simard examines how human interventions—particularly destruction of the overstory’s mother trees—endanger new growth and longevity. If we can honor the tools that trees have honed for sharing intergenerational wisdom\, she argues\, we can protect these sacred places for many years to come. \nDr. Suzanne Simard is the New York Times bestselling author of Finding the Mother Tree. She is a Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia\, where she leads The Mother Tree Project and co-directs the Belowground Ecosystem Group. Dr. Simard has earned a global reputation for pioneering research on tree connectivity and communication and the productivity\, health\, and biodiversity of forests. Her work has been published widely\, with over 170 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals\, including Nature\, Ecology\, and Global Biology\, and she has co-authored the book Climate Change and Variability. Her research has been communicated broadly through three TED Talks\, TED Experiences\, as well as articles and interviews in The New Yorker\, National Geographic\, NPR\, CNN\, and many more. She lives with her family in the mountains around Nelson\, British Columbia. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Suzanne Simard \n\n  \nThis event is cosponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanic Garden and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/suzanne-simard-when-the-forest-breathes/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Music in North Africa: From Cultural Mixity to Political Expression
DESCRIPTION:This talk will look at various musical genres in North Africa to explore the history of a region that is at the crossroads of Africa\, Europe\, and the Middle East. How is music an expression of the cultural diversity of the region? How have musicians played a central political role from the colonial period to the so-called “Arab Uprisings” that swept the region from 2010-2020? How does music continue to give expression to various social and economic issues in the region\, such as the refugee crisis? The talk will focus on classical genres such as Arab-Andalusian music as well as Raï\, Gnawa and even rap. The presentation will include clips and translations of music and offer important historical and political context for the 15 May concert hosted by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa at Woodhouse Brewery featuring the musical group\, Aza. \nMuriam Haleh Davis is the Director of the Center of the Middle East and North Africa at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria\, published by Duke University Press in 2022. In addition to her scholarly work\, you can also find her writing in the LA Review of Books\, Al Jazeera English\, Truthout\, Jacobin\, Public Books and Jadaliyya. Her favorite genre of music is Raï.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/music-in-north-africa-from-cultural-mixity-to-political-expression/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Public Library – Capitola
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260406T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260406T160000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Sotong and Against this Messy World
DESCRIPTION:On April 6\, 2026\, the Graduate Training in Southeast Asia (GETSEA) consortium and UCSC’s Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions will host two short films highlighting the challenges to art and expression in Malaysia’s complex political\, legal\, and societal landscape. \nSotong follows four fierce local drag queens who were part of the 2022 Halloween party raided by the authorities. One of them\, Juan\, was arrested for ‘a man dressing up as a woman’. Two years later\, they revisit on the fallout of that night as they continue to perform underground and nurture the Malaysian drag scene in all its beauty\, joy\, and pain. \nAgainst This Messy World is a deeply introspective and visually captivating short documentary that delves into the heart and soul of artistic expression in Malaysia. A personal exploration\, narrated by Malaysian artists\, this documentary takes viewers on an evocative journey to understand the essence and purpose of being an artist in a world marked by chaos and uncertainty and piece together conversations and unfiltered moments in their lives. \nUniversities from across North America will come together to watch the films simultaneously\, then connect via Zoom with the filmmakers for a post-screening discussion. Please join us in conversation!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-sotong-and-against-this-messy-world/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260406T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260406T160000
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SUMMARY:Neha Dixit — The Many Lives of Syeda X: A People’s History of Invisible India
DESCRIPTION:What does the life of an ordinary working-class\, Muslim woman look and feel like in modern India? Award-winning journalist Neha Dixit traces the story of one such faceless Indian woman\, from the early 1990s to the present day. What emerges is a picture of a life lived under constant corrosive tension. \nSyeda X left the holy city of Banaras (now Varanasi) for Delhi with her young family in the aftermath of riots and communal violence in the early ’90s. In Delhi\, she settled into the life of a poor migrant\, juggling multiple jobs a day – from sewing soccer balls and removing the stems from raisins\, to shelling almonds sold in bulk to multinationals and assisting in illegal abortions. Syeda has held over 50 different jobs in 30 years\, earning paltry sums in the process. And if she ever took a day off\, her job would be lost to another faceless migrant. \nWe meet an unforgettable cast of characters: a rickshaw driver in Chandni Chowk who ends up tragically dead in a terrorist blast\, a doctor who gets arrested for pre-natal sex determination\, a Hindu nationalist “cow vigilante” whose sister elopes with Syeda’s son\, and policemen who delight in beating up young Muslim men. \nWritten with empathy and deep insight\, The Many Lives of Syeda X is a portal to a harsh\, hidden world. It is the story of untold millions and a searing account of urban life in new India. \nNeha Dixit is an independent journalist based in New Delhi. She has covered politics\, gender\, and social justice for seventeen years. Most of her work is investigative\, narrative\, and long-form. She has reported for Al Jazeera\, The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, The Caravan\, The Wire\, and other notable publications. \n\nPresented by the Department of Sociology and co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies. This event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/neha-dixit-the-many-lives-of-syeda-x-a-peoples-history-of-invisible-india/
LOCATION:Rachel Carson College Red Room\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260407T133000
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SUMMARY:Chris Gray - The Fantasies Shaping Today’s AI
DESCRIPTION:All AI (algorithmic intelligence) companies claim they are pursuing the next logical step in digital—perhaps even human—evolution. But\, the development of AI is clearly shaped by a wide range of untethered belief systems from obscure German philosophy to The Lord of the Rings. There is nothing logical about it. It is unreasonable to make AI the dominant industry in terms of investment and valuation when it has produced little profit\, great social disruption\, and a worsening of most aspects of today’s polycrisis\, from climate change to military operations and genocide. \nThe forces trying to produce general purpose AI and super intelligence are multiple and almost all irrational\, even fantastical. The most rational is the hunger for wealth and power\, considered sacred by capitalist true believers\, for even if AIs never wins a war or produce real value\, they will make money and shape societies. \nTo explain today’s “Tech Lords” more than a simplistic “California Ideology” argument is needed. Accepting we now live under Surveillance Capitalism is only the context. Looking at the psychodynamics of Postmodern War is also helpful\, for today’s AI complex shares the same genealogy as contemporary high-tech militaries. A close analysis of key parts of the actual beliefs of AI billionaires\, from fantasy novels to fantasy altruism to dreams of immortality and divinity\, is also very helpful. \nTogether\, they might help begin to answer the real question—how do we transition from this clearly unsustainable socio-technological society into something better? \n\nThis event is presented by The Humanities Institute’s ± AI Initiative.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/chris-gray-the-fantasies-shaping-todays-ai/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260407T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260407T180000
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SUMMARY:Central American Report Back: In Defense Of Land & Dignity
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by SCC intern Rafael Revolorio\, this report-back features community members and organizers Ana and Allan Fisher\, Amy Argenal\, Lupita Alvarado-Sanchez\, and Cynthia Lopez-Fernandez who will reflect on their recent experiences in El Salvador and Honduras during a time of heightened imperialist escalation and right-wing shifts in Latin America. \n\nThis event is sponsored by the Center for Racial Justice and Santa Cruz in Color. Special thanks to the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, the Resource Center for Nonviolence\, and the Bay Area chapter of Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) for their support in co-sponsoring this event.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/central-american-report-back-in-defense-of-land-dignity/
LOCATION:Namaste Lounge – College 9\, Namaste Lounge\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260407T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260407T193000
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CREATED:20260225T011006Z
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SUMMARY:Nauenberg History of Science Lecture with Jennifer Derr
DESCRIPTION:World Wounds: The Damming of the Nile River and the Transformation of Medicine \nThe damming of the Nile River transformed agriculture and human health in twentieth-century Egypt. While dams enabled year-round irrigation and provided hydroelectricity\, the prevalence of parasitic disease also skyrocketed. Professor Derr explores the effects of damming the Nile on the health of Egyptians and the impact of large-scale environmental transformation on the knowledge and practice that made medicine during the twentieth century. \nApril 7\, 2026\nReception 5:30 p.m.\nLecture 6 p.m.\nMusic Recital Hall and Virtual\nFree and open to the public \n \n  \n Jennifer Derr is an Associate Professor in the history department at UC Santa Cruz. Her first book\, The Lived Nile: Environment\, Disease\, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt\, won the Middle East Political Economy Book Prize. In 2019\, the National Science Foundation awarded Derr a CAREER grant to support her research on the “History of Science at the Interface of Biomedical and Environmental Concerns.” In 2024-2025\, she was a fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. \n\nNauenberg History of Science Lecture\nThe Nauenberg History of Science Lecture was established in honor of Michael Nauenberg\, a founding faculty member in the Physics Department at UCSC who came to the campus in 1966. During his distinguished academic career\, he contributed to a remarkably broad range of fields\, including particle physics\, condensed matter physics\, astrophysics\, chaos theory\, fluid dynamics\, and the history of physics in the 17th-18th centuries. \nAmongst Professor Nauenberg’s passions\, he deeply believed in the importance of interdisciplinary scholarship connecting the sciences with the humanities. Following his retirement in 1994\, he pursued his long-standing interests in the history of science\, writing books and articles about Joseph Banks\, Robert Hooke\, Christiaan Huygens\, and Isaac Newton. The Nauenberg History of Science Lecture Series features leading historians of science and highlights the significance of their work across disciplines for faculty\, students\, and community members. \nThe Nauenberg History of Science Lecture is presented by the UC Santa Cruz Emeriti Association and co-sponsored by the Science & Justice Research Center\, The Humanities Institute\, the Humanities Division\, the Environmental Studies Department\, the History Department\, and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA). 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nauenberg-history-of-science-lecture-with-jenniferderr/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260408T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260408T133000
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SUMMARY:Dr. V. Chitra - Drawn to Life: Environments\, Managerial Logics\, and the Limits of Care
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines how urban planning\, animal governance\, and racial politics converge in the production of interspecies belonging in Singapore. Through this\, it considers what drawing\, as an analytic\, might offer anthropology for understanding how more-than-human worlds become governed. Focusing on the “Singapore Special” — a term for local mongrel dogs — it traces how housing policy\, behavioral training regimes\, and administrative classification shape the conditions under which dogs can find belonging in the island-city. \nRecent shifts from culling toward sterilization and rehoming appear to signal a more humane approach to animal care. Yet these interventions install a more demanding managerial logic: dogs must demonstrate governability — proper conduct\, emotional regulation\, adaptability — to qualify for care. Belonging is produced through the same administrative machinery that has long mediated human access to housing\, mobility\, and security in Singapore\, where racialized ideals of civility and order underpin the city-state’s developmental project. \nDrawing on ethnographic research with animal welfare volunteers\, the talk delves into how managerial logics naturalize the conditions they impose\, and sits with the limits of companionship that cannot accommodate refusal\, flight\, and ferality. \nV. Chitra is an anthropologist and visual artist based at The Australian National University. Her research intersects environmental studies\, science and technology studies\, and the visual arts. Her first book\, Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai (Cornell University Press\, 2024) looks at how science\, management\, and planning remake coastal worlds in urban India. Chitra has a background in visual design and works with comics as an ethnographic medium. \n\nPresented by the Center for Cultural Studies and co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Department of Anthropology Colloquium. This event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law. \n\n \nSpring 2026 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Spring 2026 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-v-chitra-drawn-to-life-environments-managerial-logics-and-the-limits-of-care/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260408T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260408T150000
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SUMMARY:Documentación Lingüística en México
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a presentation on “Children’s role in Language Documentation Efforts in Mexico“. \nCuando realizamos proyectos de documentación lingüística\, nos encontramos con niñas y niños que quieren participar en alguna actividad del proceso de documentación\, sean o no hablantes o sean hablantes de herencia. Su colaboración es valiosa en los proyectos porque aportan muchos elementos clave para el proceso de registro de la lengua y la cultura que se está documentando. En esta charla platicaremos sobre algunas experiencias con niñas y niños que colaboraron en diferentes etapas del trabajo de campo que se realizó para la documentación de la lengua otomí de Santa Ana Hueytlalpan\, en el municipio de Tulancingo de Bravo\, en México. \nMaría de Jesús Selene Hernández Gómez Doctora en Estudios Mesoamericanos por la UNAM\, Maestra en Lingüística con Línea Terminal en Lingüística Teórica-Descriptiva y Licenciada en Lenguas Modernas en Inglés\, ambas por la UAQ. Es profesora de la Facultad de Lenguas y Letras y de la Facultad de Filosofía en la Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro. Es investigadora asociada del Laboratorio de Educación y Mediación Intercultural (LEMI) y es responsable del programa de Prácticas Profesionales “Prácticas Universitarias de Traducción”\, que se ofrece en el LEMI. Da clases a nivel licenciatura y posgrado en ambas facultades. Se dedica particularmente a la enseñanza de la historia de la lengua inglesa y sus líneas de investigación son: la documentación y descripción de lenguas originarias mexicanas en peligro de extinción (particularmente el otomí del estado de Hidalgo\, México)\, procesos de traducción de documentos en inglés antiguo y medieval y procesos de traducción en/de lenguas originarias mexicanas. Ha sido becaria del Programa Santander Universities en la Universidad de Surrey y del Programa “Endangered Languages Documentation Programme” (ELDP) en la Universidad de Londres\, ambos en el Reino Unido. \nThis talk will be in Spanish.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/documentacion-linguistica-en-mexico/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260409T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260409T180000
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SUMMARY:New Articulations with James Clifford
DESCRIPTION:This event engages the theme of articulation and James Clifford’s contributions to cultural studies\, anthropology\, and literary studies\, addressing our current disconcerting cultural\, historical\, and ecological conjuncture. \nWith talks by Elizabeth Povinelli (Columbia)\, James Clifford (UCSC)\, and Kirin Narayan (ANU)\, and a panel with Mark Anderson (UCSC)\, Chris Connery (UCSC)\, Donna Haraway (UCSC)\, Gail Hershatter (UCSC)\, Caren Kaplan (UCD)\, and Richard Rodriguez (UCR). \n\nConvened by Dimitris Papadopoulos (UCSC) & Maria Puig de la Bellacasa (UCSC) and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, History of Consciousness\, and the Center for Cultural Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/new-articulations-with-james-clifford/
LOCATION:Humanities 1
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260413T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260413T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T103716
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SUMMARY:Slugs and Steins with Greg O' Malley - The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery\, Freedom\, and the American Revolution
DESCRIPTION:The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery\, Freedom\, and the American Revolution describes the life of a man born enslaved in colonial Virginia\, whose repeated escape attempts made his life a remarkable odyssey. He survived enslavement on Virginia and Carolina plantations\, stints hiding in backcountry Carolina settlements\, captivity in Native American communities\, battlefields of the American Revolution\, and evacuation as a refugee from the emerging United States. Along the way\, he formed a family\, became a preacher\, and founded the first Black Baptist congregation in what became the United States. His surviving narrative offers the earliest known firsthand account of escaping slavery in North America. And because his struggle against slavery spanned the revolutionary era\, his story offers a counterweight to the many biographies of white “founding fathers.” Instead of a fight for political freedom from Britain and monarchy\, George’s life reveals a parallel quest for freedom from American slavery. To achieve his independence\, George fled the United States in the moment of its creation. \n \nGreg O’Malley is professor and chair in the History Department at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His first book\, Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America\, 1619–1807\, received four awards: The America Historical Association’s Forkosch Prize for British history; the AHA’s Rawley Prize for Atlantic history; The Owsley Award from the Southern Historical Association; and the Goveia Prize from the Association of Caribbean Historians. The book examines the network that distributed enslaved\nAfricans throughout North America and the Caribbean after their survival of the Atlantic crossing. O’Malley is also co-creator (with Alex Borucki) of the Intra-American Slave Trade Database\, a free online research tool that documents more than 38\,000 human trafficking voyages from one port in the Americas to another. His second book\, The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery\, Freedom\, and the American Revolution\, was published by St. Martin’s Press in February 2026 and was named one of “ 6 Noteworthy Books for February” by The Washington Post. \nQuestions? Please contact University Events at specialevents@ucsc.edu. \nSlugs and Steins are free informal lectures served up over Zoom. Brought to you by the UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association\, each talk will engage one of our favorite professors in discussion with you\, the local community of Silicon Valley\, and beyond. We will cover everything from organic artichokes to endangered zebras\, self-driving cars to Shakespeare. All are welcome. Audience participation is encouraged. \nWatch past Slugs and Steins events here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slugs-and-steins-with-greg-o-malley-the-escapes-of-david-george-an-odyssey-of-slavery-freedom-and-the-american-revolution/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260415T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260415T133000
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SUMMARY:Carlos Martinez - The Carceral Frontier: Migrant Captivity and Care on the Mexico-U.S. Border
DESCRIPTION:This talk offers an ethnographic account of the structures of captivity that keep migrants and deportees in conditions of enforced immobility and precarity at the Mexico-U.S. border. Whereas much scholarship has framed the border primarily as a site of transit or deadly deterrence\, Martinez argues that it has been transformed into a carceral frontier that restricts the movements of those rendered disposable while gradually wearing them down. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Tijuana\, Mexico\, since 2018\, the presentation examines the lives of deportees and asylum seekers in the borderlands\, focusing on survival strategies\, care practices\, and forms of solidarity that emerge amid the intertwined politics of expulsion\, attrition\, and prolonged waiting. \nCarlos Martinez\, MPH\, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies and core faculty member of the Global and Community Health program at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Trained in public health and medical anthropology\, Dr. Martinez’s research examines the health and sociocultural implications of policing\, incarceration\, and punitive immigration and drug policies. He is the co-editor of All This Safety Is Killing Us: Health Justice Beyond Prisons\, Police\, and Borders (North Atlantic Books\, 2025). \n\n \nSpring 2026 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Spring 2026 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/carlos-martinez-the-carceral-frontier-migrant-captivity-and-care-on-the-mexico-u-s-border/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260415T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260415T190000
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SUMMARY:Ritual Drinking in the Ancient World
DESCRIPTION:“Drink and make a happy day!” (New Kingdom Theben tomb)\n“Wine gladdens the heart of man…” (Psalm 104:15) \nAt this ‘symposium’ event\, three UCSC professors in Classical\, Biblical\, and Egyptian antiquity will tell stories about how various ancient cultures drank wine to commune with their gods\, suspend the normal social rules\, and prepare for the end of days. \nThe Stockwell Cellars tasting room bar will be open for attendees to purchase individual wines-by-the-glass during the event. Come enjoy tasting local Santa Cruz wines while learning about the long history of drinking as a ritual event in the ancient Mediterranean world. A Q&A will follow the short presentations. \n \nRegistration required! \nMartin Devecka\, Associate Professor\, Ancient Studies & Literature\, “Wine before Liquor” \nAs a cultural historian\, Devecka writes on topics in ancient literature and society that range from robots to ruins. He is currently finishing a book manuscript on animal citizenship in the Roman Empire. \nAnne Kreps\, Associate Professor\, Ancient Studies & History\, “Drinking like the World is Going to End” \nAs a historian of the ancient Near East\, Kreps studies heresies\, Gnosticism\, and the politics of sacred texts. Her current work examines the Dead Sea Scrolls within New Religious Movements in the United States. \nElaine Sullivan\, Associate Professor\, Ancient Studies & History\, “How to Get Drunk with a Goddess” \nAn Egyptogist\, Sullivan’s field research has included excavation and survey at Karnak’s Mut Temple\, the cemetery of Saqqara\, and the Greco-Roman city of Karanis\, all in Egypt. She is currently authoring a book on the sales of antiquities out of Egypt in the late 19th and early 20th century. \n  \nThis event is presented by Ancient Studies at UCSC\, co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ritual-drinking-in-the-ancient-world/
LOCATION:Stockwell Cellars\, 1100 Fair Ave\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260416
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260417
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SUMMARY:Ripple Effect Arts Festival Opening
DESCRIPTION:A celebration of Santa Cruz County’s creative community during arts and culture month in California! The arts community of Santa Cruz County is coming together for this exciting new 11-day celebration showcasing the region’s rich artistic landscape. \nThe festival will feature performances\, exhibitions\, workshops\, and interactive events across venues countywide\, inviting audiences of all ages to experience the transformative power of art. \nKnown for our stunning coastline and redwood forests throughout Santa Cruz County\, the Ripple Effect Arts Festival invites visitors to also discover the talent and creativity of our local artists\, as well as the hospitality that make this region a world-class destination. \nThe Ripple Effect Arts Festival was born out of a shared belief that the arts not only enrich our lives but also strengthen our community and economy. At a time when many artists and organizations face mounting challenges\, Ripple Effect provides a new opportunity for collaboration\, visibility\, and collective support. Grassroots and volunteer-driven\, the festival is powered by the dedication of local arts organizations and community partners who believe in the unifying force of creativity. \nMore info and detailed schedule at: https://www.rippleartsfestsantacruz.org/ \n\nThe Ripple Effect Arts Festival is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ripple-effect-arts-festival-opening/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz County\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260416T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260416T185500
DTSTAMP:20260403T103716
CREATED:20260402T175230Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T175230Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Joe De Vera and Josen Diaz
DESCRIPTION:In Nourishment\, Us. \nJoe De Vera (WSU) Visual Artist and Josen Diaz (UCSC) Critic and Archivist \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Humanities Institute\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, and the Bay Tree Bookstore.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-joe-de-vera-and-josen-diaz/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260417T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260417T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T103716
CREATED:20260224T210503Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T210632Z
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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Night of Ideas
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a nocturnal celebration of art\, philosophy\, and activism! \nAs the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its independence\, the 2026 Santa Cruz Night of Ideas invites us not to celebrate the Enlightenment\, but to interrogate it. Long associated with democracy\, progress\, and universal reason\, the Enlightenment’s legacy remains deeply ambivalent – coexisting with enduring forms of exclusion\, colonial violence\, and economic exploitation. These unresolved tensions\, strikingly visible today\, demand renewed scrutiny. \nRather than treating the Enlightenment as a closed chapter or shared inheritance\, this edition centers young local voices and civil society to ask urgent questions: whose reason matters\, whose freedoms are secured\, and whose futures are denied? \nThrough conversations\, workshops\, performances\, and visionary talks\, Enlightenment\, Now! becomes a space for lived experience and collective experimentation. Featuring contributions from local performers Crista Berryessa and the Beati Quorum\, Alex Olwal’s audiovisual collaborations with AL-EK\, and Juan Ospina\, flautist and composer with Olemano\, we will gather with Thomas Sage Pedersen\, Ronaldo V. Wilson\, Gina Athena Ulysse\, and many other guests. The aim is not consensus\, but momentum: rethinking progress and imagining new political\, ethical\, and cultural possibilities under radically changed conditions. \nJoin us on Friday\, April 17 at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences to explore what remains of the Enlightenment\, and what it might become! \n\nNight of Ideas\, a global event taking place simultaneously in more than 100 countries and 22 cities in the United States\, invites thought leaders\, activists\, performers\, authors\, and academics to engage the public in discussions around central questions that address major\, contemporary global issues. \nFirst introduced in the United States in 2015 by the French Embassy\, Night of Ideas is a nationwide phenomenon today\, drawing tens of thousands of people to events across the country\, for a nocturnal marathon of philosophical debates\, performances\, readings\, and more. \n\nThis event is brought to you by the Center for Public Philosophy\, with support from the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, The Humanities Institute\, the Marc Sanders Foundation\, Villa Albertine\, and the Institut Français. \nBy attending this event you hereby consent to having your photo/likeness/recordings posted publicly and on social media.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-night-of-ideas/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260418T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260418T101500
DTSTAMP:20260403T103716
CREATED:20260402T175937Z
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - Macbeth
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Macbeth by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on Aoril 18\, 25\, May 2\, 9 & 16 2026 at 10:15 a.m in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest speaker followed by a volunteer read aloud of the play. On May 16\,a video of a live stage production will be shown. This event series is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop. \nFor more information\, Zoom Link\, or to volunteer to be a reader\, contact: saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com \nGuest Speakers / Video Recording \n\nApril 18: Julia Reinhard Lupton\, Distinguished Professor Emerita of English & Comparative Literature & Co-Director of the New Swan Shakespeare Center at UC\, Irvine. Reading: Act 1\nApril 25: Paul Mullins\, Acclaimed New York-based theatre director and actor\, Paul will direct Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2026 production of Macbeth. Reading: Act 2 through Act 3\, Scene 3\nMay 2: Abigail Heald\, Lecturer in Literature @ UC Santa Cruz & Stanford. She is writing a book on the relationship between art and emotion in Shakespeare’s work. Reading: Act 3\, Scene 4 through Act 4\, Scene 2\nMay 9: Charles Pasternak\, Actor / Director\, Artistic Director of Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Reading: Act 4\, Scene 3 through Act 5\, Scene 8\nMay 16: Video recording of a live stage production at the Globe Theatre\, directed by Tony Award winning director Eve Best\, and starring Joseph Millson (Macbeth) and Samantha Spiro (Lady Macbeth).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-macbeth-april18/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260420T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260420T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T103716
CREATED:20260218T203627Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T213217Z
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SUMMARY:Aziz Abu Sarah & Maoz Inon - The Future is Peace
DESCRIPTION:Two lifelong peace activists and guides to Israel/Palestine\, both of whom have lost family in the conflict\, take readers on a revealing life-changing journey across this holy\, bloodstained land and discover the mythic\, political\, and personal history that divides but also binds them and their peoples. \nIn The Future Is Peace\, Sarah and Inon take readers on a transformative weeklong journey across a sacred and bloodstained land. Facing competing narratives\, they explore how compassion and unity can pull humanity back from the precipice of blind hatred. Throughout their travels\, they have been constantly asked: In the face of so much loss\, how can we ever find hope? Their answer is always the same. One cannot find hope. We must create it. \n \nAziz Abu Sarah is Co-CEO of InterAct International\, a nonprofit dedicated to Middle East Peace. He is a peacebuilder\, entrepreneur\, National Geographic Explorer\, TED Fellow\, and renowned speaker and trainer on conflict resolution and responsible travel. Aziz is the co-founder of MEJDI Tours\, a travel company on a mission to transform tourism into a global force of citizen diplomacy. He has won numerous awards\, including from the United Nations\, Institute of International Education\, and The Explorers Club. Aziz is consistently named one of the world’s 500 most influential Muslims by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in Jordan. He has written opinion pieces for The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Al-Quds\, and Haaretz. \nMaoz Inon is Co-CEO of InterAct International\, a nonprofit dedicated to Middle East Peace. He is an Israeli peace activist and entrepreneur. He was honored with the prestigious Franco-German Human Rights Prize and the Shared Living Award from Abraham Initiatives. He has spoken on Capitol Hill\, at U.S. universities\, and the European Parliament. He has written pieces for The Washington Post\, Al Jazeera\, Haaretz\, and more. He has founded several peace-focused initiatives within Israel and the Middle East\, including the Jesus Trail\, Fauzi Azar Inn\, and Abraham Hostel & Tour brands. \nDouglas Abrams is a multiple New York Times-bestselling author\, as well as an editor\, literary agent\, and film producer. He is the founder and president of Idea Architects\, a creative book and media agency helping visionaries create a wiser\, healthier\, and more just world. He co-wrote The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World with the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu which inspired the film MISSION: JOY. Doug served as the interviewer in the film as well as an Executive Producer. As an editor and literary agent\, he has also worked with other Nobel Laureates including Nelson Mandela\, Jody Williams\, and Elizabeth Blackburn and worked with many visionary scientists including Stephen Hawking. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/aziz-abu-sarah-maoz-inon-the-future-is-peace/
LOCATION:Holy Cross Parish Hall\, 170 High St # A\, Santa Cruz\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260420T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260420T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T103716
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260403T024212Z
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SUMMARY:Film screening with Julie Wyman: The Tallest Dwarf
DESCRIPTION:The Tallest Dwarf charts Julie Wyman’s quest to find her place within the little people (LP) community at a moment when dwarf identity is poised to radically change. Wyman’s work engages issues of embodiment\, body image\, and the possibilities and problematics of media spectatorship—all informed by her experience of living with hypochondroplasia dwarfism. Julie Wyman will be in conversation after the screening with Pooja Rangan (Professor of English and Film and Media Studies at Amherst College and Visiting Scholar of Visualizing Abolition) and Cynthia Ling Lee (Associate Professor of Performance\, Play & Design\, UC Santa Cruz). \nCo-organized/co-sponsored by the Arts Division’s Film & Digital Media Department\, “Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice“— a collaborative initiative of five UC campuses\, including Riverside\, Irvine\, Los Angeles\, Santa Cruz\, and San Francisco\, to address health disparities in institutions and policy — and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. This event is open to UC Santa Cruz affiliates. \nPARKING\n– Parking via UCSC permit or ParkMobile\n– Core West is the lot closest to the event \nABOUT THE FILM\nAs Wyman unpacks the rumors of “partial dwarfism” in her family\, she finds that hers is the last of a body type she has inherited. She joins forces with a group of dwarf artists to confront the legacy of being fetishized and put on display. Together they create films that reclaim a complicated history and speak back to the echoes of eugenics in the newly emerging pharmaceutical interventions that make little people taller. Through its personal and expanding perspective\, the film invites audiences to a new way of seeing. \nABOUT THE FILMMAKER\nJulie Forrest Wyman’s 2012 documentary STRONG! premiered at AFI Silverdocs and was broadcast nationally on PBS’s Emmy award-winning series\, Independent Lens\, where it won the series’ Audience Award. Wyman’s work has been awarded support from Sundance\, Sandbox\, IDA\, SF Film Society\, Points North\, ITVS\, the Creative Capital Foundation\, The Princess Grace Foundation\, California Humanities\, and NEH. She has been a fellow at the UC Davis Feminist Research Institute and a resident of SF Film Society’s Filmhouse\, Siena Art Institute\, Logan Nonfiction and Points North. Her films\, including FatMob (2016)\, Buoyant (2005)\, and A Boy Named Sue (2000)\, have aired on Showtime\, MTV’s LOGO-TV\, and have been exhibited on five continents. She serves as Associate Professor of Cinema and Digital Media at UC Davis. \nPhotographer credit: Gabriella Garcia-Pardo; image description: A group of six LP (little people) performers regard their paper body cut outs on the wall.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-with-julie-wyman-the-tallest-dwarf/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260422T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260422T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T103716
CREATED:20260323T224522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260323T231239Z
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SUMMARY:Ashwak Hauter - Physics of Affinity: Violence\, Love\, & Affinity in the Physician-Patient Relationship
DESCRIPTION:This talk recalls the recent phenomena of the murder of physicians in Jordan and Yemen\, and the rise in altercations in Saudi Arabia between physicians and patients and their family. Aiming to work on the physics of affinity\, the binding and unbinding of ethical relationalities\, within the patient-doctor relationship the physicians claim to be prophets and reintroduced alghayb (unknown\, God’s knowledge) into the clinic in order to prevent the arrogation of power to them and counter the demand of patients for them to deliver the cure. This talk prompts us to ask what kinds of ethics emerges with Alghayb in view? In dialogue with Abu-Hamid Alghazaly\, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya\, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\, Sigmund Freud\, and Jacque Lacan’s work on affinity\, transference\, savoir\, and alghayb\, this paper explores the auto-erotics within ethical relationalities in the clinic. It provokes us to reexamine the anthropological reduction of affinity to a preoccupation with aggression\, moving us toward understanding the asymmetries of exchange and relationalities. \nAshwak Sam Hauter is an assistant professor of medical anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the author of “Fright and the Fraying of Community” published in Cultural Anthropology and “Madness\, Pain\, & Ikhtilāṭ al-ʿaql: Conceptualizing Ibn Abī Ṣādiq’s Medico-Philosophical Psychology” in Early Science and Medicine. Her manuscript in progress details scenes of Islah (reform) within medicines in Yemen\, Saudi Arabia\, and Jordan aimed at securing demands for ‘afiya (holistic well-being)\, recentering the health of the individual body around the political\, economic\, and spiritual dimensions of the community (umma). Her current project centers around examining mental health and the work of culture amidst the war in Yemen among Yemeni artists\, poets\, filmmakers\, and psychologists. \n\nPresented by the Center for Cultural Studies and co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Department of Anthropology Colloquium. This event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law. \n\n \nSpring 2026 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Spring 2026 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ashwak-hauter-physics-of-affinity-violence-love-affinity-in-the-physician-patient-relationship/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260424
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260425
DTSTAMP:20260403T103716
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SUMMARY:This is Thirty Exhibition Opening
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History’s 30 year anniversary\, this exhibition will highlight some of the artwork and artifacts from the MAH’s permanent collection. In addition\, artist Joshua Moreno will create a site specific installation inspired by the MAH’s historical archives. \nThe exhibition runs from April 24th to August 9th\, 2026. Please visit the MAH website for more information. \nImage: Sam Jablon\, Vicousss\, 2023. Oil on linen. Collection of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Gift of Max Werner \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/this-is-thirty-exhibition-opening/
LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260425T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260425T101500
DTSTAMP:20260403T103716
CREATED:20260402T180114Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T213841Z
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - Macbeth
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Macbeth by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on Aoril 18\, 25\, May 2\, 9 & 16 2026 at 10:15 a.m in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest speaker followed by a volunteer read aloud of the play. On May 16\,a video of a live stage production will be shown. This event series is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop. \nFor more information\, Zoom Link\, or to volunteer to be a reader\, contact: saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com \nGuest Speakers / Video Recording \n\nApril 18: Julia Reinhard Lupton\, Distinguished Professor Emerita of English & Comparative Literature & Co-Director of the New Swan Shakespeare Center at UC\, Irvine. Reading: Act 1\nApril 25: Paul Mullins\, Acclaimed New York-based theatre director and actor\, Paul will direct Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2026 production of Macbeth. Reading: Act 2 through Act 3\, Scene 3\nMay 2: Abigail Heald\, Lecturer in Literature @ UC Santa Cruz & Stanford. She is writing a book on the relationship between art and emotion in Shakespeare’s work. Reading: Act 3\, Scene 4 through Act 4\, Scene 2\nMay 9: Charles Pasternak\, Actor / Director\, Artistic Director of Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Reading: Act 4\, Scene 3 through Act 5\, Scene 8\nMay 16: Video recording of a live stage production at the Globe Theatre\, directed by Tony Award winning director Eve Best\, and starring Joseph Millson (Macbeth) and Samantha Spiro (Lady Macbeth).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-macbeth-april25/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260426T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260426T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T103716
CREATED:20260402T171919Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T174149Z
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SUMMARY:Guelaguetza Cultural Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza is an authentic cultural festival with food\, dance\, music\, and crafts presented each spring by Senderos. This local festival is like the traditional fiestas celebrated each summer in Oaxaca\, Mexico. Guelaguetza is a Zapotec word that means “a commitment of sharing and cooperation.” Guelaguetza is a celebration that honors the gods for sufficient rainfall and a bountiful harvest. \nMore information at: Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza | Senderos
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vive-oaxaca-guelaguetza-3/
LOCATION:Branciforte Small Schools Campus\, 840 N Branciforte Ave\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260428T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260428T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T103716
CREATED:20260224T204659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260311T195151Z
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SUMMARY:Karen Tei Yamashita - Questions 27 & 28
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes acclaimed author Karen Tei Yamashita (I Hotel) to celebrate the launch of her new novel Questions 27 & 28—a masterful polyvocal history of Japanese Americans before\, during\, and after World War II. Yamashita will be in conversation with Alice Yang\, Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \nIn February 1942\, shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor\, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order authorizing the secretary of war to remove 120\,000 Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast and corral them into inland concentration camps. \n \nQuestions 27 & 28 reaches backward and forward from the time of the questionnaire\, chronicling the individuals who arrived in the US from Japan at the turn of the century\, their children who came of age during war and incarceration\, and their descendants who lived in its aftermath. Yamashita mixes fact with fiction and layers genres from James Bond movies to haiku to oral history\, transfiguring an enormity of archival research into a chorus of stories. With her signature wit and aplomb\, she gives voice to laborers\, artists\, scholars\, informants\, and activists who\, over three generations\, defined an immigrant community. \nKaren Tei Yamashita is the author of nine books\, including I Hotel\, finalist for the National Book Award. Recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 2021 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters\, she is Professor Emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. In 2024 Yamashita was inducted as a Literature Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nAlice Yang is Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She received her Ph.D. in history from Stanford University and currently co-directs the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories. She specializes in memories of the Pacific War\, Asian American history\, race\, gender\, oral history\, historical memory\, and twentieth-century America. Her publications include Historical Memories of the Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress (2007)\, Major Problems in Asian American History (2003\, 2017) and What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean? (2000). Her exhibit\, Never Again is Now: Japanese American Women Activists and the Legacy of Mass Incarceration\, appeared at UC Santa Cruz\, the Watsonville Public Library and the Japanese American Museum of San Jose. She also has served as chair of the UCSC History Department and provost of Stevenson College at UCSC. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Karen Tei Yamashita \n\nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-tei-yamashita-questions-27-28/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260429T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260429T133000
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SUMMARY:Quinn Slobodian - Whither Neoliberalism Studies?
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Politics Department \nThe last two decades have seen a flood of research on neoliberalism. Defined in multiple and even conflicting ways\, the term nonetheless served as a master category of analysis for scholars from history to geography and communications. Where does the field sit now as trends of authoritarianism and reterritorialization shatter long-standing axioms of rule? This question will be discussed in relation to my own engagement with the subfield of neoliberalism studies over many years. \nQuinn Slobodian teaches international history at Boston University. His books include Globalists\, Crack-Up Capitalism\, and Hayek’s Bastards. Out in April 2026 with Ben Tarnoff is Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. He is a Guggenheim Fellow for 2025-26. \n\nPresented by the Center for Cultural Studies and co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Department of Anthropology Colloquium. This event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law. \n\n \nSpring 2026 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Spring 2026 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/quinn-slobodian-whither-neoliberalism-studies/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260430T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260430T185500
DTSTAMP:20260403T103716
CREATED:20260402T175356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T175356Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Nathan Osorio
DESCRIPTION:In Nourishment\, Us. \nNathan Osorio (Texas Tech) Poet and Critic UCSC Alum \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Humanities Institute\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, and the Bay Tree Bookstore.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-nathan-osorio/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260430T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260430T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T103716
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SUMMARY:Environmental Crisis in Gabes: Agriculture and Revolt in Tunisia
DESCRIPTION:Film Screening and Discussion:  5:30-7pm\, Communications (Studio C) \nReception:  7-8:30pm\, Communications 139 \nGabes Labess (All is well in Gabes) questions current development models by focusing on the Oasis of Gabes\, the only coastal oasis in the world. What was once considered “The Paradise of the World” has been transformed into an economic\, social\, and ecological catastrophe by the construction\, in the 1970s\, of an industrial chemical complex that has deprived local farmers of their water\, arable land\, economic well-being\, and personal dignity. \nJoin us for a screening of this film by Habib Ayeb\, followed by a discussion with Jennifer Derr (UCSC) and Hossein Ayazi (UCB) on how models of development influence the lived environment\, public health\, and political contestation from California to North Africa. As climate change and rising temperatures dramatically alter landscapes around the world\, professors Derr and Ayazi will discuss how local populations adapt to these challenges and organize to demand accountability from the state. Reception to follow. \nHossein Ayazi\, PhD\, is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California\, Berkeley. His research\, teaching\, and policy work examine the U.S. and global political economy of agri-food systems and environmental change and their relationship to antiracist\, anticolonial\, and revolutionary-socialist movements from the twentieth century to the present. He has authored reports and peer-reviewed articles on U.S. and global agri-food and environmental policy\, state and corporate power\, trade and development\, labor and migration\, climate impacts and resilience strategies\, and food sovereignty and climate reparations. He is currently coordinating lead author on the California Fifth Climate Assessment topical report on Climate-Induced Human Displacement & Migration and has recently advised the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on “Global Recommendations to Prevent Loss of Nationality and Statelessness in the Context of Climate Change.” He holds a PhD in Environmental Science\, Policy\, and Management from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and has held resident fellowships and visiting professorships at Tufts University\, Williams College\, and Santa Clara University. \nJennifer L. Derr is Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz\, where she also served as the founding director of the Center for the Middle East and North Africa. Her research explores the intersections among medicine\, science\, the environment\, and capitalism\, particularly in the modern Middle East and North Africa. Prof. Derr’s book\, The Lived Nile: Environment\, Disease\, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt (Stanford University Press\, 2019)\, was awarded the 2020 Middle East Political Economy Book Prize. \n\nPresented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and co-sponsored by the Film and Digital Media Department.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/environmental-crisis-in-gabes-agriculture-and-revolt-in-tunisia/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260502T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260502T101500
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - Macbeth
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Macbeth by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on Aoril 18\, 25\, May 2\, 9 & 16 2026 at 10:15 a.m in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest speaker followed by a volunteer read aloud of the play. On May 16\,a video of a live stage production will be shown. This event series is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop. \nFor more information\, Zoom Link\, or to volunteer to be a reader\, contact: saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com \nGuest Speakers / Video Recording \n\nApril 18: Julia Reinhard Lupton\, Distinguished Professor Emerita of English & Comparative Literature & Co-Director of the New Swan Shakespeare Center at UC\, Irvine. Reading: Act 1\nApril 25: Paul Mullins\, Acclaimed New York-based theatre director and actor\, Paul will direct Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2026 production of Macbeth. Reading: Act 2 through Act 3\, Scene 3\nMay 2: Abigail Heald\, Lecturer in Literature @ UC Santa Cruz & Stanford. She is writing a book on the relationship between art and emotion in Shakespeare’s work. Reading: Act 3\, Scene 4 through Act 4\, Scene 2\nMay 9: Charles Pasternak\, Actor / Director\, Artistic Director of Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Reading: Act 4\, Scene 3 through Act 5\, Scene 8\nMay 16: Video recording of a live stage production at the Globe Theatre\, directed by Tony Award winning director Eve Best\, and starring Joseph Millson (Macbeth) and Samantha Spiro (Lady Macbeth).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-macbeth-may2/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260504T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260504T190000
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SUMMARY:Kuumbwa Jazz Presents - Gregorio Uribe
DESCRIPTION:“Colombian artist Gregorio Uribe\, whose blend of contemporary cumbia and timeless charisma has marked him as an artist to watch.” – Billboard \nUribe was recognized by the Colombian government as one of “The 100 Most Successful Colombians Abroad”\, and has received honors from the city of Boston and the state of Massachusetts for his contribution to Latin music. He is currently recording his fourth studio album\, a groundbreaking collection of songs that will take the Colombian accordion to a new level of versatility. This concert date will feature a dynamic combination of solo and band performances.\n\n \nGregorio Uribe is a Latin GRAMMY-nominated Colombian singer-songwriter and accordionist. He graduated from Berklee College of Music and has performed his music at NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert\, Carnegie Hall\, Madison Square Garden\, and the New Orleans Jazz Fest\, among others. He has collaborated with renowned artists such as Rubén Blades\, Carlos Vives\, and Paquito D’Rivera\, as well as with folklore masters Alfredo Gutiérrez\, Carmelo Torres\, and Martina Camargo. \nFor more information: Kuumbwa Jazz – Gregorio Uribe \n\nPresented by the Kuumbwa Jazz Center and Co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kuumbwa-jazz-presents-gregorio-uribe/
LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260506T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260506T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T103716
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SUMMARY:Sanjay Barbora - Territorial Autonomy\, States and Politics in the 21st Century: Notes from a Frontier
DESCRIPTION:How can we interpret the increasing centralisation of political authority and decision-making in the 21st century\, and can movements for autonomy provide an answer to this question? The concept of territorial autonomy has been a complex issue in modern politics\, especially since the emergence of postwar nation-states in the 20th century. While it provided a useful framework for understanding the structure of the modern state and its legal systems\, it has also been a convenient tool for governance\, where calls for autonomy have often been subject to the shifting nature of power. In this presentation\, I will draw on my personal involvement with autonomy movements in the region James Scott\, Willem van Schendel\, and Sanjib Baruah refer to as “Zomia\,” to explore the challenges faced by much of the world today. \nSanjay Barbora studies agrarian change\, social movements\, wildlife conservation\, human migration and urbanisation in the global south\, especially in South Asia. Before coming to UCSC\, he worked as a media development professional with Panos South Asia and as one of the founding faculty members of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences\, Guwahati Campus. He reads Seamus Heaney’s poems when he is confused\, and cook for friends and family when he is able. \n\nPresented by the Center for Cultural Studies and co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Department of Anthropology Colloquium. This event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law. \n\n \nSpring 2026 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Spring 2026 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sanjay-barbora-territorial-autonomy-states-and-politics-in-the-21st-century-notes-from-a-frontier/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260507T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260507T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T103716
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SUMMARY:Gukha Amin — From the Margins: The Lives and Labor of Yemen’s "Undesirable" Subjects
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for the Middle East and North Africa for a presentation by Gukha Amin.  Her talk follows the lives of social outcasts and marginalized Black people who lived and moved across Southern Arabia in the first half of the twentieth century using deportation records\, petitions\, and criminal cases. These include street performers\, sex workers\, sanitation laborers\, and others who colonial officials labeled as “undesirables.” Moving across Somalia\, Djibouti\, Ethiopia\, and Southern Arabia\, these subaltern actors reveal the porous contours of an “Oceanic Yemen\,” a global space that reincorporates Southern Arabia into its historic oceanic networks and makes legible Yemen’s deep links to the Horn of Africa. The talk centers these individuals’ labor\, mobility\, and gendered experience to unpack the complex subject and racial formations unfolding in twentieth-century Southern Arabia and the broader region. It asks who were the men and women that made up the social margins of this global space? How does their labor and gendered experience challenge our understanding of gender and sexuality? And what do these internal outsiders teach us about how categories of race\, Blackness\, and caste overlapped and operated in the twentieth-century Middle East and beyond? \nGukha Amin is a historian of modern Yemen and a current UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Santa Cruz. She is interested in questions of race and racialization in the Middle East and North Africa. Her book project\, The Nesting Margins: Identity and Belonging in Oceanic Yemen is a social history of racial and social minorities living and moving across late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century Southern Arabia. Gukha is the founder and curator of The Global Yemen Project\, an ongoing digital humanities project that narrates the global histories of an “Oceanic Yemen” through the lives of those on the margins of Yemeni society. \n\nPresented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa. Lunch will be served during the talk.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/from-the-margins-the-lives-and-labor-of-yemens-undesirable-subjects/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260509T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260509T101500
DTSTAMP:20260403T103716
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - Macbeth
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Macbeth by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on Aoril 18\, 25\, May 2\, 9 & 16 2026 at 10:15 a.m in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest speaker followed by a volunteer read aloud of the play. On May 16\,a video of a live stage production will be shown. This event series is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop. \nFor more information\, Zoom Link\, or to volunteer to be a reader\, contact: saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com \nGuest Speakers / Video Recording \n\nApril 18: Julia Reinhard Lupton\, Distinguished Professor Emerita of English & Comparative Literature & Co-Director of the New Swan Shakespeare Center at UC\, Irvine. Reading: Act 1\nApril 25: Paul Mullins\, Acclaimed New York-based theatre director and actor\, Paul will direct Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2026 production of Macbeth. Reading: Act 2 through Act 3\, Scene 3\nMay 2: Abigail Heald\, Lecturer in Literature @ UC Santa Cruz & Stanford. She is writing a book on the relationship between art and emotion in Shakespeare’s work. Reading: Act 3\, Scene 4 through Act 4\, Scene 2\nMay 9: Charles Pasternak\, Actor / Director\, Artistic Director of Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Reading: Act 4\, Scene 3 through Act 5\, Scene 8\nMay 16: Video recording of a live stage production at the Globe Theatre\, directed by Tony Award winning director Eve Best\, and starring Joseph Millson (Macbeth) and Samantha Spiro (Lady Macbeth).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-macbeth-may9/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260511T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260511T200000
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SUMMARY:Reyna Grande - Migrant Heart
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes award-winning author Reyna Grande (The Distance Between Us) back to the store to celebrate the release of her newest book Migrant Heart: Essays About Things I Can’t Forget—an ambitious memoir in essays that illuminates the hidden cost of the American Dream and the complex journey of healing that follows survival. Grande will be in conversation with Sylvanna Falcón\, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \nMigrant Heart is a powerful testament to Grande’s role as a storyteller and cultural witness. It is an essential\, moving read that continues to expand what we understand about the United States and the complex people who cross and live within its borders. It is a book for anyone seeking to understand the true price of belonging and the enduring power of finding one’s voice. \n \nReyna Grande is an award-winning author\, motivational speaker\, and writing teacher. As a young girl\, she crossed the US-Mexico border to join her family in Los Angeles\, a harrowing journey chronicled in The Distance Between Us\, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her other books include the novels A Ballad of Love and Glory\, Across a Hundred Mountains\, and Dancing with Butterflies\, the memoirs Migrant Heart\, The Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition\, and A Dream Called Home\, and the anthology Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration\, Survival\, and New Beginnings. She lives in Woodland\, California\, with her husband and two children. Visit ReynaGrande.com for more information. \nSylvanna Falcón is a Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She is the winner of the 2016 Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize from the National Women’s Studies Association and of a teaching award from the Division of Social Sciences at UC Santa Cruz. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Reyna Grande \n\nThis event is cosponsored by Latin American and Latino Studies and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/reyna-grande-migrant-heart/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260513T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260513T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T103716
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SUMMARY:Camilla Hawthorne\, Michael Whalen\, Christina Zanfagna\, and John Gennari - BLACKITALIAN: A Documentary Screening and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:What are the meanings of belonging and cultural identity at a time of resurgent white nationalism\, large-scale transnational migration\, and the increasingly convulsive dynamics of nation and imperium? We address this question in a screening and robust critical discussion of scenes from a documentary film-in-progress called BLACKITALIAN. A collaboration between cultural geographer Camilla Hawthorne\, ethnomusicologist Christina Zanfagna\, cultural historian John Gennari\, and filmmaker Michael Whalen\, BLACKITALIAN interweaves “story walks\,” interviews\, and media representations to explore cross-racial contact zones of music\, foodways\, and other forms of expressive culture in the cities of New York\, New Orleans\, and Milan. What emerges is a dynamic story about the ways social outsiders move to the inside and create new forms of culture and belonging\, challenging us to confront our differences and understand our entwined histories. \n \nCamilla Hawthorne is Associate Professor of Sociology and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. The bilingual\, dual citizen daughter of a Black American father and an Italian mother\, Hawthorne has studied the politics of race\, citizenship\, and Blackness in Italy and the wider Mediterranean region for over a decade. She is the author of the monograph Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean (Cornell University Press 2022; published in Italian as Razza e cittadinanza. Frontiere contese e contestate nel Mediterraneo nero\, Astarte Edizioni 2023) and co-editor of The Black Mediterranean: Bodies\, Borders and Citizenship (Palgrave Macmillan 2021) and The Black Geographic: Praxis\, Resistance\, Futurity (Duke University Press\, 2023). She also serves as program director and faculty member with the Black Europe Summer School in Amsterdam\, The Netherlands. In 2020\, Hawthorne was named one of the Corriere della Sera (Italy’s largest national newspaper) Women of the Year for her contributions to the study of the Black diaspora in Italy \n \nMichael Whalen is the Knight Ridder/San Jose Mercury New Endowed Professor at Santa Clara University. A member of the Director’s Guild of America since 1996\, Whalen has extensive experience writing one-hour documentaries focusing on humanities scholarship for A&E (a dozen episodes of “Ancient Mysteries” and “Biography”) and the Discovery Channel/TLC (six episodes of “Super Structures”). He has also produced documentaries for The Discovery Channel\, NBC\, MTV\, and The Learning Channel (TLC). As an independent filmmaker\, Whalen regularly explores themes of identity and culture with his documentaries. Another First Step (1994\, Cine Golden Eagle Award) tells the story of an Irish American father trying to care for his autistic deaf and mute son in the 1950s and 60s. FRESH women (2007\, Worldfest Gold Medal) profiles four 40-year-old women leaving the corporate world to launch careers in art. A Christmas in Tent City (2008\, multiple Best Short Film awards) recounts the experience of a Mexican immigrant child living in a migrant worker camp. A Question of Habit (PBS\, 2011) uncovers how popular culture (think Sister Mary Margarita cocktail napkins and nun porn) has erased the real history of American nuns. The Farmer & The Chef (Australian Public Television\, 2014) takes the audience behind the scenes of a working relationship between a world class chef and farmer\, and Gringos at the Gate (2012\, ESPN) explores US/Mexican relations and national identity through the intense rivalry of the two nations’ soccer teams. \n \nChristina Zanfagna is an Associate Professor of Music and Ethnic Studies at Santa Clara University. An ethnomusicologist and bicoastal Italian-American who grew up on hip hop and basketball\, her research explores the intersections of Black popular music\, race\, and urban space. She is the author of Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels (University of California Press\, 2017)\, an ethnographic monograph that examines the everyday lives of former gangsta rappers turned gospel rappers in Los Angeles. Zanfagna’s writing has appeared in a variety of publications\, including Journal of Popular Music Studies\, Black Music Research Journal\, Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music and Sound Studies\, Cambridge Companion to Hip Hop\, Routledge Handbook of Religion and American Culture\, and Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas\, as well as journalistic publications such as The Beat\, fRoots\, and Stranger’s Guide. She has written on topics ranging from hip hop’s religious history to digital DJing practices\, “krump” street dancing in South L.A.\, the globalization of flamenco\, Harlem’s musical and religious diasporas\, and the soundscapes of American gentrification. She is also a flamenco dancer\, regularly performing throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. \n \nJohn Gennari is Professor of English and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of Vermont. He is an American Studies-trained U.S. cultural historian with specializations in jazz and popular music\, race and ethnicity\, Italian American culture\, food\, sports\, and cultural criticism. He is the author of Flavor and Soul: Italian America at Its African American Edge (University of Chicago Press\, 2017. His earlier book\, Blowin’ Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics (University of Chicago Press\, 2006)\, was awarded the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Excellence in Music Criticism and the John Cawelti Award for the Best Book in American Culture. Gennari has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University\, and the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia. \n\nPresented by the Center for Cultural Studies and co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Department of Anthropology Colloquium. This event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law. \n\n \nSpring 2026 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Spring 2026 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/camilla-hawthorne-michael-whalen-christina-zanfagna-and-john-gennari-blackitalian-a-documentary-screening-and-discussion/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260514T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260514T113000
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SUMMARY:Jean Drèze - "Yummy: School Meals in India"
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for South Asian Studies for a virtual talk by Jean Drèze\, “Yummy: School Meals in India.” School meals have been a legal entitlement of Indian children since 2001. It took some years for this legal entitlement to translate into functional schemes\, but from then onwards school meals have made important contributions to child nutrition\, school attendance\, and social equity. From time to time\, they faced some resistance from the biscuit industry\, finance ministries\, upper-caste parents\, and other parties. School meals are alive and well today\, yet much scope remains to expand their nutritional\, educational\, and social benefit \n \nThis event is virtual. Register above. \nJean Drèze is a development economist based in Ranchi (Eastern India). His work focuses on various aspects of social policy\, from employment guarantee to school meals. He is also active in various campaigns for economic and social rights. \n  \n\nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jean-dreze-yummy-school-meals-in-india/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260514T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260514T185500
DTSTAMP:20260403T103716
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SUMMARY:Living Writers
DESCRIPTION:In Nourishment\, Us. \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Humanities Institute\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, and the Bay Tree Bookstore.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260514T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260514T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T103716
CREATED:20260331T213150Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260331T220412Z
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Journalist David Noriega
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with City on a Hill Press and with support from The Humanities Institute and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, Kresge’s Media and Society Series presents an evening with award-winning journalist David Noriega. \nDavid Noriega is an award-winning journalist and National Correspondent for NBC News. He has reported from all across the United States and more than a dozen countries on five continents\, covering migration\, politics\, armed conflict\, organized crime\, labor\, the environment\, and more. Noriega is the recipient of an Edward R. Murrow Award for his reporting from Mexico\, as well as awards from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists\, the New York Press Club\, the Los Angeles Press Club\, and the French American Foundation. His work has been nominated three times for the News and Documentary Emmy Awards. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/an-evening-with-journalist-david-noriega/
LOCATION:Namaste Lounge – College 9\, Namaste Lounge\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260515T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260515T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T103716
CREATED:20260310T200043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260311T173000Z
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SUMMARY:CMENA's Annual Concert Featuring Aza
DESCRIPTION:CMENA is proud to present AZA for our 2026 Spring concert. AZA weaves the rich musical traditions of North Africa’s Tamazight culture with contemporary global influences\, creating a unique and captivating sound. Led by Moroccan-born musician Fattah Abbou\, AZA blends the intricate melodies and dynamic rhythms of styles like Ahwash\, Rwais\, and Gnawa. The band celebrates Amazigh heritage through music\, art\, and education – building bridges between cultures across continents. \n\nPresented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/aza-celebrating-amazigh-heritage-through-music/
LOCATION:Woodhouse Brewery\, 119 Madrone St.\, Santa Cruz\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260516T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260516T101500
DTSTAMP:20260403T103716
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - Macbeth
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Macbeth by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on Aoril 18\, 25\, May 2\, 9 & 16 2026 at 10:15 a.m in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest speaker followed by a volunteer read aloud of the play. On May 16\,a video of a live stage production will be shown. This event series is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop. \nFor more information\, Zoom Link\, or to volunteer to be a reader\, contact: saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com \nGuest Speakers / Video Recording \n\nApril 18: Julia Reinhard Lupton\, Distinguished Professor Emerita of English & Comparative Literature & Co-Director of the New Swan Shakespeare Center at UC\, Irvine. Reading: Act 1\nApril 25: Paul Mullins\, Acclaimed New York-based theatre director and actor\, Paul will direct Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2026 production of Macbeth. Reading: Act 2 through Act 3\, Scene 3\nMay 2: Abigail Heald\, Lecturer in Literature @ UC Santa Cruz & Stanford. She is writing a book on the relationship between art and emotion in Shakespeare’s work. Reading: Act 3\, Scene 4 through Act 4\, Scene 2\nMay 9: Charles Pasternak\, Actor / Director\, Artistic Director of Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Reading: Act 4\, Scene 3 through Act 5\, Scene 8\nMay 16: Video recording of a live stage production at the Globe Theatre\, directed by Tony Award winning director Eve Best\, and starring Joseph Millson (Macbeth) and Samantha Spiro (Lady Macbeth).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-macbeth-may16/
LOCATION:Aptos Library\, 7695 Soquel Dr\, Aptos\, 95003\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260519T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260519T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T103716
CREATED:20260331T215829Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260331T220331Z
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SUMMARY:Privacy’s Defender: Fight Against Digital Surveillance with Cindy Cohn
DESCRIPTION:Cindy Cohn has devoted her life to the fight for digital rights. She’s tangled with federal officials to keep our online conversations secure from the government’s prying eyes\, fought to ensure that you are told when your information has been turned over to the government\, and argued before judges to protect our right to speak and to share science and knowledge on the internet. \nIn Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance (MIT Press)\, Cindy weaves her own personal story with her role as a leading legal voice representing the rights and interests of technology users\, innovators\, whistleblowers\, and researchers during the Crypto Wars of the 1990s\, battles over NSA’s dragnet internet spying revealed in the 2000s\, and the fight against FBI gag orders. \nDuring this national book tour\, Cindy will be at UC Santa Cruz to give a book talk on May 19\, 2026 from 12:00-1:30 pm. \n \nFree and open to the public with registration. This event is both in-person and virtual. \nCindy Cohn is the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation\, which works to ensure that technology supports freedom\, justice and innovation for all the people of the world. Before becoming Executive Director a decade ago\, Cindy was the organization’s Legal Director from 2000-2015\, and led the organization’s impact litigation work on bringing balance to copyright law\, stopping mass spying and protecting freedom of expression online. She’s won many awards for her work and even more court decisions. \n\nInstitute for Social Transformation\, The Humanities Institute\, Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (CITRIS)\, and the Security Research Lab.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/privacys-defender-fight-against-digital-surveillance-with-cindy-cohn/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Deep Read: Faculty Salon on Entangled Life
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a salon-style event at the Hay Barn on campus where our participating Deep Read faculty\, Professors Benjamin Breen (History)\, Gregory Gilbert (Environmental Studies)\, and Donna Haraway (History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies) will give brief presentations and discuss Entangled Life with the Deep Read community in a Q&A moderated by Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead\, Laura Martin. Participants can also attend virtually. \n \nIn person at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. Doors open at 5:30pm. \nEvent Logistics: Bicycling\, carpooling\, ridesharing\, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited on campus. If you drive to the event\, please plan to park in UCSC Lot #115 or #116. To reach these lots\, proceed through the main entrance to campus\, continue up the hill from the information kiosk on Coolidge\, then turn right at the Ranch View/Carriage House Road stoplight into the Carriage House/Campus Facilities parking lot. The Hay Barn is a 5-minute walk across the street from the parking lot. There will be directional signage to help you get to the correct parking lot and the Hay Barn entrance. Overflow parking will be available in lot #122. View the campus parking map here. \n\n \nThe Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz made possible through the generous support of the Helen and Will Webster Foundation. We invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-deep-read-faculty-salon-on-entangled-life/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260520T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260520T133000
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SUMMARY:Alyssa Battistoni - Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies \nAlthough capitalism is typically treated as a force for relentless commodification\, it consistently fails to place value on vital aspects of the nonhuman world\, whether carbon emissions or entire ecosystems. Free Gifts argues that to understand contemporary ecological problems from biodiversity collapse to climate change\, we have to understand how some things come to have value under capitalism—and how others do not. The book recovers and reinterprets the idea of the free gift of nature used by classical economic thinkers to describe what we gratuitously obtain from the natural world\, and builds on Karl Marx’s critique of political economy to show how capitalism fundamentally treats nature as free for the taking. This novel theory of capitalism’s relationship to nature not only helps us understand contemporary ecological breakdown\, but also casts capitalism’s own core dynamics in a new light. \nAlyssa Battistoni is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College. She works and teaches on climate and environmental politics\, capitalism\, Marxism\, feminism\, and other topics in contemporary social and political thought. Alyssa is the co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (Verso 2019)\, and Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature (Princeton 2025)\, and her academic work has been published in the American Political Science Review\, Political Theory\, NOMOS\, Perspectives on Politics\, Contemporary Political Theory\, among other outlets. \n\nPresented by the Center for Cultural Studies and co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Department of Anthropology Colloquium. This event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law. \n\n \nSpring 2026 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Spring 2026 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alyssa-battistoni-free-gifts-capitalism-and-the-politics-of-nature/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260520T190000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening with Raed Rafei - "Tripoli: A Tale of Three Cities"
DESCRIPTION:Pre-Screening Reception: 5:30-7pm\, Communications 139 \nFilm Screening:  7-8:30\, Communications\, Studio C \nWhile living abroad\, a filmmaker returns to Tripoli\, Lebanon\, to confront a hometown that once rejected him as a queer child. With a microphone in hand\, he walks around coffee shops\, public squares\, and a park to ask the city’s inhabitants about their cultural and social beliefs and their embrace of new ideas. Gradually\, he meets a group of marginalized individuals whose eccentric life choices contradict the general lifestyle in this religiously and socially conservative city. Through intimate conversations with a communist activist\, a queer music producer\, and other unconventional characters\, Tripoli: A Tale of Three Cities explores the complicated relations one forms with a hometown in crisis. This contemplative urban symphony paints a picture of a city trapped in a self-spun web\, paralyzed by a deep economic crisis\, a faltering revolution\, and a looming doomsday. \nJoin us for a screening of the film followed by a discussion between UC Santa Cruz alum\, Raed Rafei\, and Professor of Film and Digital Media\, Peter Limbrick. \nRaed (El) Rafei is a filmmaker\, scholar\, and multimedia journalist who has directed award-winning documentaries and experimental films. As a journalist\, he has worked for international publications like the Los Angeles Times and news outlets like CNN and Al-Jazeera Documentary Channel. Rafei holds a PhD in Film and Digital Media from the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and an MA in Journalism from the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and his research focuses on queer cinema in the Arab region and its diasporas. His films\, which include Tripoli: A Tale of Three Cities\, 74 (The Reconstitution of a Struggle) and Al-Atlal (The Ruins)\, have screened at international film festivals and venues like IDFA\, the Centre Pompidou in Paris\, Doc Lisboa\, Visions du Réel\, and the Pacific Film Archives in Berkeley. \n\nPresented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and co-sponsored by Film and Digital Media \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-tripoli-a-tale-of-three-cities/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260521T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260521T130000
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SUMMARY:Prof Dr Laura Van Broekhoven - Indigenous-Led Regenerative Partnerships: Reframing Museum Ethics for Reconciliation and Societal Healing
DESCRIPTION:For over a decade\, the Pitt Rivers Museum has engaged in sustained\, collaborative work with Indigenous peoples whose cultural belongings\, acquired through histories of dispossession and colonial violence\, are now held in Oxford. Part of the work has helped reposition the museum as a site of cultural care rather than a repository of extracted\, well-preserved “assets.” Drawing on four recent projects that have prioritised listening and collaboration grounded in Indigenous self-determination—including “Maasai: Living Cultures\,” “Naga: A Path Home\,” “Shuar: Proyecto Tsantsa\,” and “Evenki: Wandering in Other Worlds”—Prof. Van Broekhoven explores how Indigenous-led partnerships can enable transformational change through shifting power dynamics on an institutional and societal level. \nThis lecture examines how Indigenous-led partnerships challenge entrenched academic norms that privilege written documentation over Indigenous knowledge systems. In some contexts\, communities have chosen not repatriation but cultural care\, reconciliation\, and processes of peace-building through reparative justice\, using collaboration as a catalyst to renew and strengthen their own governance structures and to address internal inequities shaped by colonial histories. In others\, existing peace-making frameworks have been reactivated to collectively confront the enduring impact of colonialism and to imagine pathways for recovery and decolonising the present. Across these contexts\, regenerative partnerships can support peace\, healing\, and structural repair\, even as such shifts may be experienced as loss by those long accustomed to institutional advantage. \nProfessor Laura Van Broekhoven is the Director of the Pitt Rivers Museum and Professor of Museum Studies\, Ethics\, and Material Culture at the University of Oxford. As a member of the Colonial Collections Committee\, she advises the Dutch Ministry of Culture on repatriation. She is an international authority on museum ethics and the development of new praxis in the field of ethnographic museums\, especially with regards to redress and repatriation\, always working through partnership. At the 2022 European Museum of the Year Awards\, Laura was awarded the Kenneth Hudson Award for Institutional Courage and Professional Integrity by the European Museum Forum as recognition of four museum directors for their ‘”personal courage and professional integrity in their continuous contributions to developing a new global ethics for museums\, addressing the urgent and contentious issues of decolonization\, restitution\, reparation\, and repatriation.” In May 2025\, Laura won the “Making a difference globally” VC award and the Museum+Heritage ‘Partnership of the Year’ award for the groundbreaking Maasai Living Cultures project.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/prof-dr-laura-van-broekhoven-indigenous-led-regenerative-partnerships-reframing-museum-ethics-for-reconciliation-and-societal-healing/
LOCATION:Social Sciences 1\, Room 261\,  Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Terri Witek
DESCRIPTION:In Nourishment\, Us. \nTerri Witek (Stetson University Emeritus). Poet/Visual Artist \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Humanities Institute\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, and the Bay Tree Bookstore.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-terri-witek/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260526T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260526T180000
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SUMMARY:The Deep Read: The Literature and Poetics of Fungi Salon
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a salon-style event at the Hay Barn on campus where we will hold a salon focused on the literary and poetic influence of fungi and its relation to Entangled Life. The salon will feature Professors Hannah Cole (Assistant Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz)\, Brenda Hillman (Professor Emerita of Poetry at Saint Mary’s College)\, A. Laurie Palmer (Professor Emerita of Art at UC Santa Cruz)\, and Jennifer Tseng (Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at UC Santa Cruz) in conversation with moderator Laura Martin and the Deep Read community. Participants can also attend virtually. \n \nIn person at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. Doors open at 5:30pm. \nEvent Logistics: Bicycling\, carpooling\, ridesharing\, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited on campus. If you drive to the event\, please plan to park in UCSC Lot #115 or #116. To reach these lots\, proceed through the main entrance to campus\, continue up the hill from the information kiosk on Coolidge\, then turn right at the Ranch View/Carriage House Road stoplight into the Carriage House/Campus Facilities parking lot. The Hay Barn is a 5-minute walk across the street from the parking lot. There will be directional signage to help you get to the correct parking lot and the Hay Barn entrance. Overflow parking will be available in lot #122. View the campus parking map here. \n\n \nThe Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz made possible through the generous support of the Helen and Will Webster Foundation. We invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-deep-read-the-literature-and-poetics-of-fungi-salon/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260527T133000
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SUMMARY:Murad Idris – Against Hate: On the Politics of a False Diagnosis
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Global Political Thought Working Group \nThe idea that “hate” names a fundamental problem of our time has engulfed Anglophone public discourse. Republicans and Democrats\, university presidents and doxxing campaigns\, advocacy organizations and journalists\, scholarly experts and “hate glossaries” criticize what they oppose as hate\, demand standing against hate\, and seem to treat hate as a diagnosis—one that comes with its own institutional prescriptions. In recent years\, Gaza has put the pervasiveness and power of this discourse on full display. What is the long history of this way of diagnosing politics and the world? Who hates\, what counts as hating\, who is hated\, and what broader philosophical structures and shifts underlie the subject for whom hate is a cipher or a code for understanding the world? The presentation offers a genealogy of “hate” through the question of Palestine over the last six decades\, its transformations\, and its intersections with anti-Muslim racism. \n \nMurad Idris is Associate Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan and is currently a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. His award-winning book\, War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought (Oxford\, 2019)\, examines how philosophers fantasize about peace in order to promote hierarchy\, war\, and repression. He co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory (Oxford\, 2020)\, with Leigh Jenco and Megan Thomas\, and co-authored Political Theory: A Global and Comparative Introduction (SAGE\, 2025)\, with Leigh Jenco and Paulina Ochoa Espejo. He is completing projects about Sayyid Qutb’s global and critical thought\, the genealogies of racializing Islam\, and the politics of hate. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania with specializations in Political Theory and Middle East Politics. \n\nPresented by the Center for Cultural Studies and co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Department of Anthropology Colloquium. This event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law. \n\n \nSpring 2026 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Spring 2026 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/murad-idris-dialogue-for-hate-a-global-genealogy/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Deep Read - A Conversation with Merlin Sheldrake
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free\, public conversation with British mycologist and author\, Merlin Sheldrake\, at UC Santa Cruz’s Quarry Amphitheater on May 31\, 2026. He’ll discuss his New York Times bestseller\, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds\, Change our Minds\, and Shape our Futures with Associate Professor of History Benjamin Breen and the Deep Read community. Together\, we’ll explore the dependence of all life—human\, plant\, animal\, and beyond—on fungal networks and how the resulting interconnections provoke us to reconsider our understanding of existence\, identity\, intelligence\, and more. \n \n\n \nThe Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz made possible through the generous support of the Helen and Will Webster Foundation. We invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-deep-read-a-conversation-with-merlin-sheldrake/
LOCATION:Quarry Amphitheater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260601T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260601T133000
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SUMMARY:CMENA Student Choice Lecture:  Razan Ghazzawi -Carceral Geographies to Racialized Borders: A Queer Feminist Ethnography
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the annual student choice lecture presented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa:  Razan Ghazzawi\, “Carceral Geographies to Racialized Borders: A Queer Feminist Ethnography.”  From a positionality of an exiled protestor in Europe and a former political prisoner in Syria\, this project traces the journeys of eight self-identified Syrian and Palestinian LGBTQ artists\, workers\, performers\, and refugees from their temporary exile locations in Lebanon to their refugee destinations in Europe. It explores the interlocutors’ temporal encounters with geographies of checkpoints and prisons in Syria and Lebanon\, on one side\, and racialized borders of Europe\, on the other. This project investigates narratives of what Rima Hammami calls “carceral geographies” as well as surviving checkpoints\, prisons\, and asylum journeys from Syria and Lebanon to Europe. The talk will focus on one of the book’s chapters\, which examines stories of navigating and surviving racialized borders as LGBTQ refugees of color\, and how this experience is securitized and militarized; it will also explore emotional labor and care as affective forms of protest within the context of military carceral states in Syria and Lebanon as well as Europe’s “refugee crisis.” \nDr. Razan Ghazzawi (they/them/هي\هن) is an award-winning human rights defender\, former political prisoner\, and recovering blogger. They are an Assistant Professor in the Department of Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University. A MESA Global Academy Fellow for 2024–2025\, Ghazzawi’s work has appeared in ARTE\, Al Jazeera English\, The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication\, and Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research. They are currently developing their first book monograph\, an ethnographic study of sexuality politics in Syria and Lebanon that examines revolution\, the “war on terror\,” and the “refugee crisis” from south–south perspectives. \n\nCo-presented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and the Arab Students Union. Lunch will be served during the talk.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/from-carceral-geographies-to-racialized-borders-a-queer-feminist-ethnography/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:In Nourishment\, Us. \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Humanities Institute\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, and the Bay Tree Bookstore.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-student-reading-8/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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