Events
FeaturedQuestions That Matter: Reporting the Middle East
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterThe Humanities Institute and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa present: Questions That Matter: Reporting the Middle East and the Future of Investigative Journalism Veteran NPR journalists […]
Lukas Rieppel – Locating the Central Asiatic Expedition
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesDuring the 1920s, researchers from the New York natural history museum led by Roy Chapman Andrews spent nearly a decade exploring the Gobi Desert in Central Asia. But they were […]
Student Meet and Greet with Leila Fadel and Hannah Allam
Humanities 2, Room 259Join us to meet and talk with the award-winning NPR journalists Leila Fadel and Hannah Allam. The journalists have covered a wide range of questions concerning the Middle East, Islam […]
Marc Herbst – “Culture Beside Itself: On Common Sociality and its Relation to More Law-Like Cultural and Governmental Forms”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesMarc Herbst will be presenting a talk titled "Culture Beside Itself: On common sociality and its relation to more law-like cultural and governmental forms," based on his ongoing research on […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Nikos Angelopoulos
Humanities 1, Room 202Please see the Linguistics Department website for more information.
Can We Talk? What Makes Campus Conversations So Tough, And How To Do Better
University Center, Bhojwani Room CA, United StatesIn the classroom and other campus spaces, scorn and indignation for people we disagree with are preventing productive discussion on contested issues. On especially hot-button topics, there's even a growing […]
Living Writers: Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThirii Myo Kyaw Myint was born in Yangon, Myanmar and grew up in Bangkok, Thailand and San José, California. She is the author of the lyric novel The End of […]
Jeffrey Wasserstrom – Hong Kong on the Brink
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk will focus on patterns of protest and the tightening of political controls in Hong Kong during the last few decades, paying particular attention to the 2014 Umbrella Movement […]
Bia Labate: Dilemmas of Ayahuasca Globalization in the 21st Century
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe use of the psychedelic plant brew ayahuasca has expanded significantly during the last 50 years. Once only known to Amazonian communities, ayahuasca is now used in diverse social and […]
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Children of the Land
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes award-winning poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo for a discussion and signing of his new memoir about growing up undocumented in the United States. Children of the Land […]