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  • Dr. Joy Buolamwini

    Cancelled – Dr. Joy Buolamwini: Unmasking AI

    Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz present Dr. Joy Buolamwini, "The conscience of the AI revolution" (Fortune), who will discuss her new book, Unmasking AI: […]

  • THI Coffee Hour

    Humanities 1, Room 515 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The 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 […]

  • Ya Zuo – Feeling the Universe: Phenomenology of Emotion in Premodern China

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    What is an emotion? Are your feelings inside you, or somewhere out there in the world? In this talk, Ya Zuo introduces the phenomenology of emotion in premodern China. The Chinese theories offer an interesting understanding of affectivity which places emotions beyond the subject. Emotion is simultaneously a deep cosmic order exceeding the mundane world […]

  • Map of Israel and Gaza

    Israel/Palestine: Learn-In

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Deeply concerned about Israel/Palestine? Grappling with Hamas' attack on October 7 and Israel's current bombardment and invasion of Gaza, as well as the broader historical context for both? Wonder how we got here and how we might imagine a better future together? Come with questions and a desire to learn with and from others. All […]

  • PhD+ Series – Academic Publishing with Martha Stuit and Erich van Rijn

    Graduate Student Commons

    How do you choose a reputable academic journal to publish in? What are your copyrights? What is open access? Where do you find academic publishing support at UCSC beyond your program and department? As scholarly communication librarian at the UCSC University Library, Martha Stuit provides author services, which covers theses and dissertations, publishing academic articles […]

  • Living Writers – Chia Chia Lin

    Merrill Academics 102

    Chia-Chia Lin is the author of The Unpassing (FSG 2019), which was a New York Times Book Review Editor's’ Choice and won the 2020 Clark Fiction Prize. She graduated with an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, NewYorker.com, The New York Times, […]

  • Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Two – The Structure of Dante’s Paradiso: or How to Tell a Story beyond Time, Space, and Individuality

    Virtual Event

    Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary, theological, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire […]

  • The Japanese American Mass Incarceration, Art, Activism, and Multiracial Solidarity

    Page Smith Library

    Join us for a panel discussion with Karen Tei Yamashita and traci kato-kiriyama. The panel discussion will be moderated by Alice Yang. Karen Tei Yamashita, UCSC Literature Professor Emerita, acclaimed author of Letters to Memory, and a 2021 recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, will read from her […]

  • Il Moro film poster

    Il Moro: Film Screening and Director Q&A

    DARC 108 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Join The Humanities Institute and the Departments of Literature, Film and Digital Media, and History of Art & Visual Culture for a screening of the award-winning, Oscar-qualifying short film Il Moro (Italian, with subtitles). Il Moro is a period drama based on true events in the life of Alessandro de’ Medici, the illegitimate son of […]

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