Events
PhD+ Series – Plática with the authors of The Latinx Guide to Graduate School
Cervantes and Velasquez Conference Room Bay Tree Building, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for a delightful conversation and book talk with Dr. Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales and Dr. Magdalena Barrera, authors of The Latinx Guide to Graduate School. Graduate Students are invited to meet with the authors from 2-3:30pm to learn about the unwritten rules for surviving and thriving in graduate school including strategies for writing and finding […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Ryan Bennett
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesRyan Bennett, UC Santa Cruz: "Vowel deletion as grammatically-controlled gestural overlap in Uspanteko" Uspanteko (Mayan) is spoken by ~5000 people in the central highlands of Guatemala. Unstressed vowels in Uspanteko […]
Festival of Monsters
Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMonsters lurk in our culture. They rise in times of growing prejudice, discrimination and othering. The 2023 Festival of Monsters (Oct. 13-15) — hosted by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies — explores the ways monsters and tropes of monstrosity both preserve and conflict with forms of social and cultural injustice. Held in […]
Living Writers – Thais Miller
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThaïs Miller is the author of the novel Our Machinery (2008) and the short story collection The Subconscious Mutiny and Other Stories (2009). She is a PhD Candidate in Literature, […]
PhD+ Series – Curating your Digital Reputation with Lisa Nielsen
Graduate Student Commons, Room 204 420 Hagar Dr, Santa CruzYour digital reputation refers to your presence on the internet, on social media platforms and on personal and worksite websites. Learn tips on how to distinguish yourself from the crowd and create a lasting impression in an evolving digital communications landscape. Lisa Nielsen, Senior Director of Marketing and Creative Services, University Relations Lisa Nielsen has […]
Nick Mitchell – The University in Surplus Perspective, 1945-1968
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIs it possible to historicize higher education without taking its basic categories for granted? In this talk, I aim to provide a historical and theoretical framework for the emergence of […]
PhD+ Series – Informational Interview with Lorato Anderson
Graduate Student Commons, Room 204 420 Hagar Dr, Santa CruzAn informational interview is one that you conduct with someone working in a field for an institution or company that you want to consider working in and for. How do you conduct an informational interview? What questions should you ask to get the best information about what it’s like to do that job for that […]
Strawberry Picker Film Screening
Stevenson Event CenterThe Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) Initiatives invites you to join a film screening event featuring Strawberry Picker produced by Inspira Studios. This special event has been organized in celebration and recognition of Latinx Heritage Month, and is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Strawberry Picker is a short documentary depicting the life story […]
Oliver Jeffers: Begin Again
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes globally renowned artist and internationally bestselling author Oliver Jeffers for an event celebrating his new book BEGIN AGAIN: The Story of How We Got Here and Where We Might Go. Take a visually stunning journey through humankind’s history as Jeffers examines our shared motivations for existence in his first illustrated book […]
Ambassa in America featuring Arivu
Quarry Amphitheater 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesARIVU is a soulful composer, versatile song writer, fierce rapper and an energetic performer all fused into one package. He is best-known for his contributions in the global hit Single Enjoy Enjaami besides his hard-hitting political raps which made him one of the most powerful youth voice coming out of India. Through his rebellious singles […]