Events
Events
BuYun Chen – Making the Intangible Tangible: Craft, History, and the Ryukyus
Virtual and In PersonHow did the global and regional circulation of resources, techniques, and technologies transform local ecologies, practices, and livelihoods? Located between the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean, the Ryukyu […]
Living Writers: Claire Vaye Watkins and Cathy Thomas
Virtual EventClaire Vaye Watkins is the author of two novels I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness (Riverhead Books, 2021) and Gold Fame Citrus (Riverhead Books, 2015). She is also the author of […]
Unbound: The Life and Legacy of Asian American Community Historian Judy Yung
Virtual EventThrough this event we aim to honor and celebrate Judith "Judy" Yung’s tremendous legacy as a UC Santa Cruz emerita professor of American Studies, community and public scholar of Chinese […]
Jerome Morgan and jackie sumell – Abolition and Healing
DARC 108 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis event is limited to the campus community and not open to the public. We invite students, staff, and faculty to join us for a live conversation about incarceration, harm, […]
A Conversation with Michelle Obama
FeaturedVirtual EventThe Humanities Institute is excited to announce that UC Santa Cruz has been invited to participate in a special event with Michelle Obama on Tuesday, November 9th, 2021, at Prince […]
Precarity and Belonging Book Launch
Virtual EventModerated by Dr. Camilla Hawthorne, this webinar will celebrate UCSC professors and their recent publication of Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship (Rutgers University Press, 2021). Precarity and Belonging […]
PhD+ Workshop – Preparing the Teaching Statement and the Teaching Portfolio
Virtual EventGain tools and tips for effectively writing a teaching statement, a common document in faculty hiring and review processes and an opportunity to reflect on how your teaching supports student […]
Lital Levy – World Literature, Translation, and Diaspora: The Intimately Global Journey of Grace Aguilar’s The Vale of Cedars
Virtual and In PersonThis talk follows the translation history of the Anglo-Jewish author Grace Aguilar’s 1850 novel The Vale of Cedars from Victorian England to Mainz, Warsaw, Vilna, Calcutta, and Tunis. A case study for Levy's broader project on “Global Haskalah,” it brings together Sephardic studies, world literature and translation studies, transnational literary history, and Jewish literary studies. […]
PhD+ Workshop – Publishing in Academia
Virtual and In PersonLearn how to publish scholarly work, from finding and evaluating a publisher to negotiating the publication contract and navigating copyright. This workshop will be led by Martha Stuit (Scholarly Communication Librarian, University Library) and Erich van Rijn (Director of Journals and Open Access, UC Office of Scholarly Communication, UC Press). The Division of Graduate Studies' […]
A.M. Darke – Games and Play as Social Intervention
Virtual EventGame designer A.M. Darke frames powerful dialogue about the role of games in the shaping of power in contemporary digital culture, and beyond. What is at stake in self-representation, and our representations of our communities, through gaming. How are industry representations variously coded as racial, as gendered? How can aspiring game-makers intervene in their communities […]