Events
Events
Martin Rizzo-Martinez – Wounded Lee: the Red Power movement in 1970s Santa Cruz in the wake of Alcatraz
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn the spring of 1975, a 1,500-year-old Indigenous cemetery on Lee Road in Watsonville, California, was threatened by a development project. Members of the local Native American community with ties to this sacred site occupied the construction site in protest of the development. The local Sheriff called upon the newly formed well-armed County SWAT force, […]
PhD+ Workshop – THI Public Fellowship Information Session
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCurious about becoming a THI Graduate Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring […]
More-Than-Humanities Lab Reading Group: Against Purity
Humanities 1, Room 202Please join the More-Than-Human(ities) Lab for our winter book club meeting. We will be discussing Alexis Shotwell’s book Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times, which offers a framework for conceiving […]
Living Writers with Nathalie Khankan
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCraft Between Worlds Nathalie Khankan is a poet and scholar, author of quiet orient riot (Omnidawn). The collection won Omnidawn's 2019 1st/2nd Book Prize and received the 2021 California Book […]
Latino Role Models Conference
Cabrillo College Crocker Theater 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos, CA, United StatesAchieve your dreams for college and career! A free annual event for Santa Cruz County students, grades 6 to college, and their families, featuring Latino professionals, college students, and resource […]
Hillary Angelo – Climate Change as Large-Scale Social Transformation
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIt is a common (aspirational) refrain that climate change “changes everything,” and equally common to note that climate-related transitions seem to be changing very little at all. What climate-related changes are happening now? And how might we grasp emergent trajectories while we’re in the midst of these transitions? With a substantive focus on the city-hinterland […]
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa – Kyi-dug, Tibetan Welfare Groups: Sharing Ups and Downs
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States +1 moreAs many as 80,000 Tibetans fled to India and Nepal in 1959 following the Chinese occupation of Tibet. The establishment of a Tibetan government in exile helped foster a sense […]
Living Writers with James Janko
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCraft Between Worlds James Janko is an award-winning author of four novels, including Buffalo Boy and Geronimo, The Clubhouse Thief, What We Don't Talk About, and The Wire-Walker. His work […]
Kitchen Counterculture: A Conversation About Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and the Food that Fueled a Revolution
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz Presents Kitchen Counterculture: A Conversation About Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and the Food that Fueled a Revolution," featuring award-winning food writer Gabi Moskowitz and journalist, teacher, […]
Writing Hangout with Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIf we take a moment to examine our lives, we can find meaningful, even exciting connections between our mundane moments and the society we live in. In this workshop, we […]