Events
Benjamin Breen – AI Legibility, Physical Archives, and the Future of Research
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute Research cluster, “Humanities in the Age of AI,” is pleased to invite you to a series of meetings this winter quarter. This meeting is scheduled for March 4th (Tuesday) at noon in HUM 210 with guest speaker, Benjamin Breen speaking on "AI legibility, physical archives, and the future of research." As artificial […]
Jennifer Finney Boylan – Amelia Earhart, Saved from Drowning
Music Center Recital Hall - UCSC 402 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for this year's Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture featuring Jennifer Finney Boylan, who will deliver her talk titled Amelia Earhart, Saved from Drowning. In this collage of story […]
Alex Brostoff – The Task of the Trans Translator: Paradoxes of Visibility, Autotheories of Opacity
Humanities 1, Room 202What is the task of the trans translator? How have paradoxes of visibility bound translation and trans studies in uncanny inversions of each other? And what might autotheoretical methodologies contribute […]
More-Than-Human(ities) Lab Early Career Scholars Share Session
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join the More-Than-Human(ities) Lab for our first ever “Share Session.” Three of our early-career lab members will share their current projects and invite your feedback in an informal, interactive conversation. Snacks will be served! About Our Presenters: Joan Chia-en Chiang - "'I Won't Fight For You': Amis Soldiers in the Japanese Empire during WWII" […]
Intimacies of Relation: The Autotheoretical Turn
UCSCAutotheory’s genre-bending form blends critical theory with life writing. Through performances, readings, papers, and embodied writing exercises, this transdisciplinary conference explores where and how autotheory emerged, the range of its […]
Omer Aijazi — “Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir”
Virtual EventThe Center for South Asian Studies presents Omer Aijazi speaking on "Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir." Omer Aijazi takes us to remote mountainous valleys in the portion of […]
For the Love of Genocide with Eman Ghanayem
Cervantes and Velasquez Conference Room Bay Tree Building, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Racial Justice is Proud to Present: For the Love of Genocide Part of the Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement Speaking Series This presentation […]
Living Writers with Prageeta Sharma
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLiving Writers Series – Winter 2025 Grief Sequence Not to suppress mourning (suffering)...but to change it, transform it…after Prageeta Sharma & Roland Barthes Prageeta Sharma is the author of five […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Jessica Rett
Humanities 2, Room 259The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present, Jessica Rett (UC Los Angeles) speaking on Ambidirectionality and apparently expletive negation. This is an in-person event. You can also join virtually […]
AI Cluster Meeting – Matthew L. Jones
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute Research cluster, “Humanities in the Age of AI,” is pleased to invite you to a series of meetings this winter quarter. The research cluster boasts a diverse group of core participants. This includes esteemed faculty members from various disciplines, graduate students representing politics, history, literature, philosophy, feminist studies, and film and visual […]