Events

Ralina Joseph: “Postracial Resistance-Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States"Post Racial Resistance-Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity" speaks about how African American women, celebrities. cultural products, and audiences subversively used the tools of postracial discourse-- the media- propagated notion that race and race based discrimination are over-- in order to resist its very tenets. Ralina Joseph is a Associate Professor at […]
Questions That Matter on KZSC
CA, United StatesTune in to KZSC to hear the upcoming Transformation Highway featuring Pranav Anand (Associate Professor of Linguistics), Lise Getoor (Professor of Computer Science and Engineering), and Nathaniel Deutsch (Director of the Humanities Institute) who will be discussing the upcoming event Questions That Matter: Data and Democracy
Cancelled: Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis week's Center Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium has been cancelled. See you next week! The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Naomi Francis
Humanities 2, Room 259More details available here.
Center for Public Philosophy: High School Regional Ethics Bowl
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTeams of up to five high school students have the fall semester to develop their thinking on 15 real-world ethical questions (“cases”) put out in early September by the National High School Ethics Bowl organization. In the Winter, each team participates at a regional tournament (“bowl”). The team that is deemed to have displayed the […]

Prof and a Pint: “Dickens and the Struggles of Marriage”
Forager, San Jose 420 S 1st St, San Jose, CA, United StatesCharles Dickens is known for his marriage plots: no matter what kinds of twists and turns threaten the path of true love, in the end David Copperfield gets his Agnes, Esther Summerson gets her Woodcourt, and John Harmon gets his Bella. But was marriage really a happy ending for the women in Dickens’s novels? What […]

Book of Joy Community Read
Join Book of Joy author Doug Abrams, in partnership with Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Public Libraries, Temple Beth El, and The Humanities Institute for a community-wide discussion and celebration around the themes of kindness and joy. During this time of social and cultural division and at a time when many are feeling a sense of despair, The Book of Joy: […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Gorka Elordieta
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesGorka Elordieta, University of Basque Country More info at: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

Muriam Davis: “Colonial Genealogies of Racial Neoliberalism – Governing for the Market in Algeria, 1958-1965”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesProf. Davis’s current work studies how French attempts to introduce a market economy during the Algerian War of Independence transformed the prevailing understandings of racial difference organized around Islam. It highlights the continuities with the post-colonial period, when Algerian socialism introduced new economic practices that were a locus for expressing revolutionary values and national identity. […]

Interdisciplinary Graduate Writing: Challenges and Strategies II
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesDo you struggle with dissertation writing? Us too! This workshop will provide a peer-led space for conversation among graduate students engaged in interdisciplinary dissertation writing in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. It offers resources and tools to push through common roadblocks in your advanced writing practice related to issues of voice, discipline-crossing work, organization, […]
