Events
Martin Rizzo-Martinez: We Are Not Animals
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Martin Rizzo-Martinez, assistant professor at UC Santa Cruz, for a discussion of We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California, now available in paperback. By examining historical records and drawing on oral histories and the work of anthropologists, archaeologists, ecologists, and psychologists, We Are Not Animals […]
Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics (LAAL) Colloquia: Dr. Elu Tu
Virtual EventThe Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Colloquium is pleased to present: Dr. Elu Tu UC Santa Cruz speaking on Analyzing Asynchronous Online Chinese Language Learning Materials under the PICRAT Technology Integration Model Dr. Elu Tu will present on Wednesday, May 29th at 12:45 pm via Zoom. Meeting ID: 981 3067 3074 Passcode: 064315 […]
CANCELLED – Mjriam Abu Samra – New Horizons in Struggle: The Role of Transnational Palestinian Youth in Decolonial Politics
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCo-sponsored by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) It seems we are living and witnessing a historical moment in the politics of “the Palestine Question.” No matter what analytical framework or political perspective is invoked, no matter the profound disagreement that can emerge in reading not only the current phase but […]
THI Coffee Hour
Humanities 1, Room 515 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students, faculty, staff, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays, 11am to noon. We invite you to visit our team, meet our new Faculty Director, Pranav Anand, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how […]
Santa Cruz Pickwick Club
Virtual EventPlease join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our monthly Pickwick Club meeting. New this year, we will be devoting an entire year to one novel instead of two, and will dive deeply into Great Expectations. Join Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members for a series of discussions about […]
Saturday Shakespeare
Aptos Library 7695 Soquel Dr, Aptos, United StatesIn collaboration with the Shakespeare Workshop at UCSC, this in-person meeting of the Saturday Shakespeare Group will take place on Saturday, May 25th in the new Aptos Library, with a Zoom option for those who can not attend in person. The nominal meeting time is 10:00 am, library doors open at 10:00 am. This meeting […]
CANCELLED – Ussama Makdisi – Palestine, Late Colonialism, and the Question of Genocide
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCo-sponsored by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) This talk explores the relationship between modern philozionism in the West and the denialism of the Palestinians. The nineteenth-century European Zionist idea of implanting and sustaining an exclusively Jewish nationalist state in multireligious Palestine was a response to European racial antisemitism. But it […]
THI Coffee Hour
Humanities 1, Room 515 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students, faculty, staff, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays, 11am to noon. We invite you to visit our team, meet our new Faculty Director, Pranav Anand, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how […]
POSTPONED – Art and Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Investigation with Alice Barale
Virtual and In PersonThe History of Consciousness department presents Art and Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Investigation with Alice Barale, University of Milan. Join us Monday, May 20 at 12pm in Hum 1 Rm 210 or register below to attend virtually: It has been several years since the first artwork created with artificial intelligence was sold at the renowned […]
The Deep Read: A Conversation with Hernan Diaz
Kaiser Permanente Arena 140 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA*Venue Change: Join us at the Kaiser Permanente Arena in Downtown Santa Cruz* 3:00pm – Doors open 3:30pm - Chamber music performance by Astrophic Duo: Polly Malan (Viola) and Chris Pratorius-Gomez (Piano) 4:00pm – Program begins Join us for a public conversation with author Hernan Diaz. He’ll discuss his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Trust with […]