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  • POSTPONED – Humanities Campus to Career: Law Panel

    Merrill Provost House Provost's Residence, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Please stay tuned for a new date! Are you interested in a career in the legal field? Come learn about careers in law from current and former attorneys with Humanities backgrounds. Appetizers and light refreshments will be served. Sarah Cunniff (she/her) attended Stevenson College at UC Santa Cruz, where she majored in French Literature. After […]

  • CANCELLED – Nora Khan – Discernment: Unruly Images, Synthetic Media, and Evolving Critical Impulse

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    What can criticism offer us in a world of unruly generative images and synthetic media? What precise language might we use for machine learning’s impact, or the wake of an algorithm? How must our practices of discernment and the critical impulse evolve in response to computational developments, to perhaps be more resilient and responsive? This […]

  • PhD+ Workshop – Grants and Fellowships

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Grants and Fellowships for Scholars in the Humanities  Learn how to make your fellowship and grant proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss what does and does not need to be in a research proposal, the proper tone and form, and ways to tease out the larger stakes of individual research […]

  • Mediterranean Slavery Since the 18th Century and the Historical Study of Race: M’hamed Oualdi in Conversation with Shreya Parikh

    Virtual Event

    From ancient times through abolition, scholars have often described slavery in the Mediterranean region as being relatively unaffected by the history of racial thought. Instead, many historians have focused on the decisive role played by religion. At the same time, however, it is undeniable that dark-skinned enslaved people occupied a more subordinate position in comparison […]

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    Winter 2025 Aurora Lecture: G. S. Sahota

    Virtual and In Person

    Join us as we welcome G.S. Sahota—Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies and Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz for a conversation on Equality of the Minor: Ambedkar’s Critical Legacy Today. This engaging discussion will take place on February 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM in Humanities 1, Room 202. […]

  • Undiscovered Shakespeare: Timon of Athens – Episode 2

    Virtual Event

    Join us for this year's, Undiscovered Shakespeare featuring Timon of Athens (1606), a late play focusing on the corrosive effects of prodigality and ingratitude in an apparently democratic society. Gretchen Minton, Professor of English at the University of Montana, Bozeman and the editor of the most recent Arden edition of the play, will be the […]

  • Ajay Skaria – The Part of the Indigenous: Adivasis and the Subaltern Intimation of Freedom

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    This talk attends to what the Subaltern Studies tradition begins to think and gives to our own times to think. The emergence of Subaltern Studies was part of the increasing prominence of the “New Social Movements,” new because they were focused more on oppression than exploitation. Recognizing this allows us to discern that the Subaltern […]

  • Valentin Lopez – Amah Mutsun Tribal History & Importance of Traditional Land Stewardship

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Join us as we welcome Valentin Lopez, Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band for his talk "Amah Mutsun Tribal History & Importance of Traditional Land Stewardship." Valentin Lopez is the Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, one of three historic tribes that are recognized as Ohlone. The Amah Mutsun are comprised of the […]

  • A Conversation with Bay Area Journalist Joe Eskenazi

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    In partnership with City on a Hill Press and with support from The Humanities Institute and The Alumni Association, Kresge's Media and Society Series presents an evening with acclaimed journalist Joe Eskenazi, who will speak to the nuts and bolts of regionally rooted reporting, and survey several of his most impactful stories. Joe Eskenazi is […]

  • Katie Shilton – Trust, Trustworthiness and Participation: Findings From a Survey of Global Projects Navigating Participatory Forms of AI

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    This meeting is scheduled for February 18th (Tuesday) at noon in HUM 210 with guest speaker, Katie Shilton speaking on "Trust, Trustworthiness and Participation: Findings From a Survey of Global Projects Navigating Participatory Forms of AI." As the discourse on responsible and trustworthy AI intensifies, Participatory AI (PAI) presents a compelling approach to the democratic […]

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