Events

In Zionism's early decades, Mizrahim, or Jews from Arab and Muslim-majority countries, were largely an afterthought for the movement. Soon after Israel's founding, however, they became the majority of the new country’s Jewish population—both essential and marginalized by an elite intent on preserving Israel’s European identity. This virtual lecture explores how the Mizrahim, led by […]

The Center for Cultural Studies presents Elspeth Iralu speaking on "Indigenous Epistemologies for the Time Being." In this talk, Professor Iralu examines Naga modes of storytelling as anticolonial epistemologies that enact Naga sovereignty in the here and now. Reflecting on the capacity of storytelling to facilitate movement between past, present, and future, she will highlight […]

The Deep Read is coming back to San Diego! The Humanities Institute invites San Diego alumni and Deep Readers to a special event at Stone Brewing in Liberty Station to discuss this year's Deep Read book, the 2024 National Book Award-winning novel James by Percival Everett. The event is designed to invite curious minds to […]

Prof. Frances Malino (Emerita, Wellesley College) will discuss Blanche Bendahan’s Mazaltob: A Novel, Edited by Yaëlle Azagury & Frances Malino (Brandeis University Press, 2024). Raised in the juderia or Jewish quarter of Tetouan, Morocco at the turn of the 20th century, sixteen-year-old Mazaltob finds herself betrothed to José a man from her own community who […]

The UC Santa Cruz Philosophy Department is delighted to announce the Queer Aɸ (Queer Analytic Philosophy) Conference which will take place at UC Santa Cruz on April 12-13, 2025. The conference will foreground philosophical work in the analytic tradition (broadly conceived) that is informed by queer experience, community, and theorizing. Keynote speaker will be the […]

Living Writers Series – Spring 2025 Insight, Writings: Third World and Other Imaginaries Poet, visual artist, Julie Ezelle-Patton’s most recent title is The Flower Poem (Tender Buttons, 2024). J Walking […]

The Humanities Division and The Humanities Institute invite you to join us for the Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture, featuring Fred Moten. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the […]

Join us on April 9th from 12-2 p.m. for the opening of Gary Young: A Retrospective Books, Broadsides, Prints & Ephemera at UCSC Special Collections and Archives. Gary will treat […]