Events
The Deep Read: Bay Area Salon
San Rafael, CAMeet Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder and UCSC faculty members for a special evening to learn about the Deep Read, this year's featured book, and how you can get involved. The Deep Read, hosted annually by The Humanities Institute, invites curious minds to delve deeply into books guided by the expertise of UC Santa Cruz scholars. […]
Carla Freccero – Do Animals Have History?
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk, very much a meditation-in-progress, asks a series of questions about how we (in the Western European intellectual tradition) come to think about the categories of history and evolution and the various ways we might deconstruct this opposition, making way for co-constitutive material histories of the living. It also asks whether, in the time […]
THI Coffee Hour
Humanities 1, Room 515 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe 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 our new Faculty Director, Pranav Anand, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how […]
Right Livelihood International Conference
UCSC and Silicon Valley CampusesJoin us April 23-27, 2024, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the UCSC Right Livelihood Center. We will inaugurate UCSC’s new role as Global Secretariat of the Right Livelihood College network, launch an international student network, launch faculty-laureate research clusters, and more. Events are free and open to the public. Learn more about the conference […]
Black Enlightenment with Surya Parekh
Virtual and In PersonThe History of Consciousness department presents Black Enlightenment with Surya Parekh, Binghamton University. This talk is a part of the Spring 2024 History of Consciousness Speaker Series. The History of Consciousness Speaker series is a quarterly series of talks by distinguished guests. Recordings of previous lectures are available in the HistCon Speaker Series Archive. To […]
Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Thirteen – Early Receptions
Virtual EventDante’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 […]
Peter Galison – Time: Physics, Film, History
Music Center Recital Hall - UCSC 402 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHenri Poincaré's and Albert Einstein's reformulation of simultaneity was long seen as a development from imaginative thought experiments. But the all-too-material and the most abstract notions of time cross in essential ways (Swiss Patent Office, Paris Bureau of Longitude). Galison explores this intersection in collaboration with the artist William Kentridge (“The Refusal of Time,” 2012), […]
Living Writers with Jennifer Tseng
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLiving Writers Series - Spring 2024 Imaginaries)Un(bound: Race, Justice, Writing: The Living Writers Series, the Center for Racial Justice, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) present poets, theorists, fiction and hybrid artists working at the nexus of creative-critical practice in the struggle for justice with the imperative of imaginatively undoing the academic and disciplinary […]
Dr. Stephanie Lain – Spanish Vowel and Consonant Contributions to Talker Identification and Lexical Contrast
Humanities 1, Room 202The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics presents: SPANISH VOWEL AND CONSONANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO TALKER IDENTIFICATION AND LEXICAL CONTRAST with Dr. Stephanie Lain (UC Santa Cruz) Abstract Acoustic properties of the input determine how speech sounds are processed, categorized, and encoded in memory. This information is used to identify words and convey information about the […]
Craig Reinarman and Gina Dent – From Drug Wars to Harm Reduction
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for the 2024 Legal Studies Annual Distinguished Lecture: "From Drug Wars to Harm Reduction: Reflections on the Future of Addiction Research, Drug Policy, and Mass Incarceration" with Craig Reinarman (Sociology & Legal Studies - Emeritus and Community Studies) in conversation with Gina Dent (Feminist Studies and Legal Studies) This event will take place […]