Events
Events
Josen Masangkay Diaz – Population Crisis and the Reproductive Archive
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis 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 […]
Living Writers with Rosie Stockton
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCraft Between Worlds Rosie 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 […]
Marion Nestle – Sustainable Food in the Trump Era
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWhat 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 […]
Of Body and Soul: Politics and Eschatology in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis 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 […]
Martin Rizzo-Martinez – Wounded Lee: the Red Power movement in 1970s Santa Cruz in the wake of Alcatraz
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn 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 […]
PhD+ Workshop – THI Public Fellowship Information Session
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCurious 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 […]
More-Than-Humanities Lab Reading Group: Against Purity
Humanities 1, Room 202Please 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. […]
Living Writers with Nathalie Khankan
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCraft Between Worlds Nathalie 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 […]
Latino Role Models Conference
Cabrillo College Crocker Theater 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos, CA, United StatesAchieve your dreams for college and career! A 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. For more information: SCSenderos.org Presented by Cabrillo College, Live Oak School District, Mexican Consulate […]
Hillary Angelo – Climate Change as Large-Scale Social Transformation
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIt 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 […]