Victorian Gaslighting with Professor Nora Gilbert
2024-05-19 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual Event
Please join the Friends of the Dickens Project for our spring Friends Faculty Fellowship talk series by Associate Professor Nora Gilbert (University of North Texas) who will be discussing “Victorian Gaslighting”
Virtual Sessions:
April 14: Book Talk: Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice
May 19: Discussion: Gaslight (1944) –Directed by George Cukor

As someone who co-specializes in Victorian literature and early Hollywood film, I’ve long been a fan of the darkly disturbing 1944 film Gaslight starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. During the first session of this series, I will provide an overview of an essay collection that I’m currently co-editing with Diana Bellonby and Tara MacDonald called Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice, in which we trace the genealogy of gaslighting back to its Victorian roots by bringing together fourteen essays that examine a wide range of nineteenth-century literary texts through the lens of gaslighting. During the second session, we will have an in-depth discussion of the 1944 film version of Gaslight itself, which captures the “maddening” feeling of this particular form of emotional abuse so gut-wrenchingly well.
Nora Gilbert is an associate professor of English at the University of North Texas. She is the author of Better Left Unsaid: Victorian Novels, Hays Code Films, and the Benefits of Censorship (2013) and Gone Girls, 1684-1901: Flights of Feminist Resistance in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Novel (2023), as well as a number of other essays on Victorian literature and classical Hollywood film. Since 2017, she has served as the editor of the journal Studies in the Novel. She is the 2024 Spring Friends of the Dickens Project Faculty Fellow.

The Deep Read: A Conversation with Hernan Diaz
2024-05-19 16:00 - 17:30 | Kaiser Permanente Arena, 140 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060
*Venue Change: Join us at the Kaiser Permanente Arena in Downtown Santa Cruz*
3:00pm – Doors open
3:30pm – Chamber music performance by Astrophic Duo: Polly Malan (Viola) and Chris Pratorius-Gomez (Piano)
4:00pm – Program begins
Join us for a public conversation with author Hernan Diaz. He’ll discuss his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Trust with Deep Read Faculty Lead, Associate Professor of Literature Zac Zimmer. We’ll consider how the technologies of finance and fiction overlap in this novel about capitalism and its social, cultural, and political power in the United States.

Hernan Diaz
Hernan Diaz is the award-winning author of In the Distance, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and Trust, which was longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize and one of the winners of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Associate Professor Zac Zimmer
Zac Zimmer is an interdisciplinary scholar of literature, culture, and technology in the hemispheric Americas and serves as a faculty lead for this year’s Deep Read.

Parking information
CLICK HERE for information regarding Downtown Santa Cruz parking and a full city map of available parking lots.

Disabled Parking Lot 17: The Laurel Street Extension Parking Lot (200 Laurel Street, near Wheel Works)

Street Parking on Spruce Street where it intersects with Front Street.

Public Transportation Santa Cruz Metro has many routes that will drop off near Kaiser Permanente Arena. For bus routes and details CLICK HERE.

About the Deep Read
The Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Now in its fifth year, we invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.

POSTPONED - Art and Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Investigation with Alice Barale
2024-05-20 12:00 | Virtual and In Person
The History of Consciousness department presents Art and Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Investigation with Alice Barale, University of Milan.
Join us Monday, May 20 at 12pm in Hum 1 Rm 210 or register below to attend virtually:

It has been several years since the first artwork created with artificial intelligence was sold at the renowned auction house Christie’s in 2018. In the meantime, new types of artificial intelligence have emerged, enabling artists to conduct different experiments. However, the presence of AI in the artistic process continues to raise significant questions. How should its role be understood? And, more importantly, what new chances does it offer within the artistic field and beyond?

Alice Barale is a scholar of Aesthetics and Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural and Environmental Heritage at the University of Milan. She has extensively researched Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin, authors to whom she has dedicated several essays and two monographs (“La malinconia dell’immagine,” FUP, 2009, and “La prima impresa: Shakespeare in Warburg e Benjamin,” Jaca Book, 2021). For Benjamin, she has edited and translated a new Italian version of “Origin of the German Trauerspiel” (Carocci, 2018). Among her most recent research interests are the philosophy of color (“Il giallo del colore,” Jaca Book, 2020) and the relationship between art and artificial intelligence. She has curated the collected volume “Arte e intelligenza artificiale. Be my GAN” (Jaca Book, 2020) and is currently working on a new book on the topic, which will be released soon.
Talk co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute with Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

THI Coffee Hour
2024-05-22 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-05-29 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-06-05 11:00 - 12:00 | Humanities 1, Room 515, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The 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 THI supports Faculty, Graduate Students, and Undergraduate Students, including fellowship and grant opportunities, and hear more about our ongoing research initiatives and partnerships. Enjoy a free cup of coffee, pick up a THI sticker, and be a part of our humanities community.
Come say hi to us at the THI Suite, on the 5th floor of the Humanities 1 building. We look forward to seeing you!

Saturday Shakespeare
2024-05-25 10:00 | Aptos Library, 7695 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 95003, United States
In collaboration with the Shakespeare Workshop at UCSC, this in-person meeting of the Saturday Shakespeare Group will take place on Saturday, May 25th in the new Aptos Library, with a Zoom option for those who can not attend in person. The nominal meeting time is 10:00 am, library doors open at 10:00 am.
This meeting features a DVD showing. There are many productions to choose from, most of which cut the play considerably. We will see the 1996 Kenneth Branagh version which presents the play in its entirety. It has a star-studded cast.
The play is in two parts with an intermission: the first part lasts 2hrs. 37 min and the second part 1 hr. 24 min. We will proceed as follows:
10:00: View part 1
12:45 – 1:15: Break (light refreshments will be provided). We also suggest that people bring something light to share (mini-potluck).
1:15 – 2:45: View part 2
Note: For those who don’t want to view both parts in one sitting, we will reshow part 2, by Zoom only on June 1.
Zoom Information
For those who will be attending by Zoom, here is the Zoom information. The link is:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89795220016?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 897 9522 0016
Passcode: [REDACTED]
All Scheduled Meetings

April 27 | Paul Whitworth
May 4 | Charles Pasternack
May 11 | Sean Keilen
May 18 | Michael Warren
May 25 | DVD showing
June 1 | Zoom only showing of DVD

Directions
The Aptos library is easy to find –> Exit highway 1 at State Park Drive and go north to Soquel Drive. Turn left on Soquel Drive and the library is almost immediately on the right. The address is 7695 Soquel Dr, Aptos, CA 95003. There is free parking.
Donations to Santa Cruz Shakespeare
Our meetings are free, but we suggest that members make a contribution to Santa Cruz Shakespeare.
To do this you can either make a donation by credit card or send a check payable to Santa Cruz Shakespeare:
Santa Cruz Shakespeare
501 Upper Park Rd
Santa Cruz, CA 95065
If you send a check, it would be helpful if you could indicate that this gift is on behalf of the Saturday Shakespeare Group.
New Members Wanted
We are always looking for new members. Everyone is welcome. If you know of anyone who would be interested in attending these meetings, please encourage them to do so. Contact saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com to be added to the mailing list.
Note: It is strongly encouraged to attend in person if you possibly can. The lectures and readings will be much more vivid for those actually present, and the in-person interactions will restart the social aspect of the group.

Santa Cruz Pickwick Club
2024-05-26 13:00 - 15:00 | Virtual Event
Please join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our monthly Pickwick Club meeting. New this year, we will be devoting an entire year to one novel instead of two, and will dive deeply into Great Expectations. Join Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members for a series of discussions about this book.

Charles Dickens depicts how a gentleman is made, not born, in this novel. Presented as Pip’s confessional autobiography, Great Expectations describes his childhood at the forge, his infatuation with the beautiful Estella, his shame at his working-class origin and his eagerness to be a gentleman, and eventually his life as a young man-about-town with “great expectations” of inheriting a fortune. Recalling these events as an adult, Mr. Pirrip is frank about his mistakes and shortcomings.
Recommended Edition: We recommend the Penguin Classics edition of the novel for its appendices and notes, but other versions are fine. First-time readers should avoid the Introduction if they don’t want spoilers. Download the novel to read at Gutenburg.org or to listen at LibriVox.org.
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to reach out at dpj@ucsc.edu

CANCELLED - Mjriam Abu Samra – New Horizons in Struggle: The Role of Transnational Palestinian Youth in Decolonial Politics
2024-05-29 12:15 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA)
It seems we are living and witnessing a historical moment in the politics of “the Palestine Question.” No matter what analytical framework or political perspective is invoked, no matter the profound disagreement that can emerge in reading not only the current phase but also the historical context, there is a shared agreement that this is a moment of rupture from the discourses and strategies that, for the past 30 years, have dominated the approach to, and understanding of, Palestine at the international level. A polarised environment has re-emerged with many comparing the current anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim discourse—pushed by the government and sustained by its support for Israel and stigmatisation of solidarity with Palestine—to the 9/11 context. At the popular level, however, a stronger movement keeps developing in solidarity with Palestinians, led by Palestinian youth movements transnationally. How has Palestinian youth political engagement been impacted by the current developments in Palestine and in the international system? What are the discourses they are articulating and how are they different from previous rhetoric? What are the strategies of mobilisation that they are using? Is there a rupture or can any continuity be identified with the political engagement of older Palestinian generations in Diaspora? My presentation attempts to answers these questions by analysing current and ongoing practices of political mobilisation of Palestinian youth in the US, discussing the potential role they can play in the political development of the Palestinian movement.
Mjriam Abu Samra will be joining the department of Anthropology at UC Davis with ties to the program in Middle East/South Asian Studies as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow through the cooperation with her hosting institution, the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy –Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage. Mjriam received her Ph.D. from the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, UK and her MA in Middle East Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK. Her research focuses on Palestinian transnational student and youth politics and Third World solidarities. Her work intervenes in the critical study of refugees, colonialisms, social movements and it is grounded on critical theories on subalternity and decolonization building on Gramsci and Fanon contribution to post-colonial studies. As a MSC Postdoctoral Fellow Mjriam will be exploring the political potential of contemporary Palestinian transnational youth activism in the United States and Europe through an historical comparative lens. Mjriam has publications in the Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics (LAAL) Colloquia: Dr. Elu Tu
2024-05-29 12:45 - 13:45 | Virtual Event
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Colloquium is pleased to present:
Dr. Elu Tu
UC Santa Cruz
speaking on
Analyzing Asynchronous Online Chinese Language Learning Materials under the PICRAT Technology Integration Model

Dr. Elu Tu will present on Wednesday, May 29th at 12:45 pm via Zoom.
Meeting ID: 981 3067 3074
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Abstract
The PICRAT framework is a model designed to explore the complex relationships between instructors, students, and technology in the context of teaching practices. This framework utilizes the PIC (Passive, Integrative, Creative) and RAT (Replaces, Amplifies, Transforms) axes to illustrate the dynamics of the student-teacher-technology relationship. Specifically, the PIC axis shows how students engage with technology, while the RAT axis illustrates how instructors use technology to enhance their teaching practices. These axes are used to construct a matrix that demonstrates the nine possible combinations of teaching practices that can occur. This study collected asynchronous online Chinese language instructional videos across three proficiency levels (i.e., Novice, Intermediate, and Advanced) and used content analysis to examine how the nine possibilities in teaching practices are implemented in each proficiency level under the PICRAT framework. The results demonstrated the similarities and differences between PICRAT practices at different proficiency levels. The data analysis will contribute to language instruction by providing pedagogical insights for different proficiency levels, which can enhance language teaching and learning outcomes.
Elu Tu is a Lecturer of Chinese Language in the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She earned her Ph.D. degree in the Curriculum and Instruction Department—World Language Education program from the University of Wisconsin- Madison. Her research focuses on instructional technology, self-directed learning, and digital literacy.

Martin Rizzo-Martinez: We Are Not Animals
2024-05-29 19:00 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Martin Rizzo-Martinez, assistant professor at UC Santa Cruz, for a discussion of We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California, now available in paperback. By examining historical records and drawing on oral histories and the work of anthropologists, archaeologists, ecologists, and psychologists, We Are Not Animals sets out to answer questions of who the Indigenous people in the Santa Cruz region were and how they survived through the nineteenth century.

About We Are Not Animals
Between 1770 and 1900 the linguistically and culturally diverse Ohlone and Yokuts tribes adapted to and expressed themselves politically and culturally through three distinct colonial encounters with Spain, Mexico, and the United States. In We Are Not Animals Martin Rizzo-Martinez traces tribal, familial, and kinship networks through the missions’ chancery registry records to reveal stories of individuals and families and shows how ethnic and tribal differences and politics shaped strategies of survival within the diverse population that came to live at Mission Santa Cruz.
We Are Not Animals illuminates the stories of Indigenous individuals and families to reveal how Indigenous politics informed each of their choices within a context of immense loss and violent disruption.
Martin Rizzo-Martinez is an Assistant Professor in the Film & Digital Media Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research focuses on the history of Indigenous resistance and survival in Santa Cruz County during the 19th century. He has worked closely with Bay Area Indigenous communities, like the Amah Mutsun, in his research and collaborative projects. His book has received multiple awards. Among other media projects, he co-produces a podcast entitled Challenging Colonialism. Learn more at https://rizzomartinez.com/.
Purchase your own copy of We Are Not Animals and learn more about the event at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – We Are Not Animals
This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.

Living Writers with Karen Tei Yamashita and Angie Sijun Lou
2024-05-30 17:20 - 18:55 | Virtual and In Person
Living 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 strictures that bind critical scholarship.
*Venue Change: This event will take place off campus, held at the Resource Center for Nonviolence (612 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060)*
This event will also be livestreamed at: https://vimeo.com/event/425786

Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books (including I Hotel, finalist for the National Book Award, and most recently Sansei and Sensibility), all published by Coffee House Press. Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation, the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, and a United States Artists’ Ford Foundation Fellowship, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Angie Sjiun Lou is a Kundiman Fellow and a Ph.D. Candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at UC Santa Cruz.

The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse XXII
2024-05-31 19:00, 2024-06-01 19:00, 2024-06-02 19:00 | Stevenson Event Center
Cowell College, Stevenson College and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics will present the 22nd season of the Miriam Ellis international Playhouse (MEIP XXII), May 31, June 1, and June 2, 2024 at 7:00 PM in the Stevenson Event Center at UCSC.
Four fully-staged theater pieces will be presented in French, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish, with English supertitles, performed by Language students and directed by their instructors.
To learn more about MEIP XXII and past performances visit: Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
All are welcome! Admission is free; parking in adjacent lots is $5.00.

Saturday Shakespeare
2024-06-01 10:00 | Aptos Library, 7695 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 95003, United States
In collaboration with the Shakespeare Workshop at UCSC, the Saturday Shakespeare Group will host a Zoom only re-showing of part 2 of the DVD. This is for those who were not able to stay for both parts of the Hamlet screening on Saturday, May 25th. Start time is 10:00 am.
Zoom Information
This is a virtual event. The zoom link is:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89795220016?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 897 9522 0016
Passcode: [REDACTED]
All Scheduled Meetings

April 27 | Paul Whitworth
May 4 | Charles Pasternack
May 11 | Sean Keilen
May 18 | Michael Warren
May 25 | DVD showing
June 1 | Zoom only showing of DVD

Donations to Santa Cruz Shakespeare
Our meetings are free, but we suggest that members make a contribution to Santa Cruz Shakespeare.
To do this you can either make a donation by credit card or send a check payable to Santa Cruz Shakespeare:
Santa Cruz Shakespeare
501 Upper Park Rd
Santa Cruz, CA 95065
If you send a check, it would be helpful if you could indicate that this gift is on behalf of the Saturday Shakespeare Group.
New Members Wanted
We are always looking for new members. Everyone is welcome. If you know of anyone who would be interested in attending these meetings, please encourage them to do so. Contact saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com to be added to the mailing list.

CANCELLED - Experiments in Vision and Abstraction: the Making of Mary's Amber Spyglass with Neda Genova
2024-06-03 12:00 | Virtual and In Person
The History of Consciousness department presents Experiments in Vision and Abstraction: the Making of Mary’s Amber Spyglass with Neda Genova, University of Warwick.
Join us Monday, June 3 at 12pm in Hum 1 Rm 420 or register below to attend virtually:

“A fresh instrument serves the same purpose as foreign travel; it shows things in unusual combinations.” (A. N. Whitehead 1948)
In this talk, I will look closely at the process of constructing a fictional visualising device alongside A.N. Whitehead’s formulation of abstraction as a relational process of interaction, objectification, and differentiation (1985). The presentation will focus specifically on an episode from part three of Philip Pullman’s children’s book trilogy “His Dark Materials” – a book that arguably dramatizes the struggle between what with Donna Haraway we may describe as the “god trick” of infinite vision and domination, and the quest to end domination, to learn and know in an entangled world of difference. In the story that I want to explore, physicist Mary Malone is tasked with helping the mulefa – beings from a world parallel to her own, whose delicate ecological balance has been disrupted. Unable to see the elementary particles that pollinate the trees on whose thriving the mulefa depend, Mary ventures to construct an imaging device. What eventually becomes the “amber spyglass” turns out to be the result of an experimental and speculative process of layering and discarding material surfaces, invested with meaning and affect that gain relevance in relation to the technico-political problem that Mary sees herself faced with. In the talk I would like to trace the construction of the spyglass and offer a reading of this episode through recourse to Whitehead’s discussion of abstraction as productive practice, bringing it into conversation with Felix Guattari’s work on machinic assemblages, as well as with Donna Haraway’s and Isabelle Stengers’ contributions to feminist epistemologies. My aim in doing so is to use the fictitious terrain charted out by Pullman to think afresh about practices of experimentation and visualisation, touching upon issues such as truth-making as an ethically grounded and politically committed practice; the interplay between imagination and making sense in common (Stengers 2023); and the role of entanglement and separation in fabricating the worlds we want to inhabit.
Neda Genova is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick (UK). Her research sits at the intersection of cultural, media and post-communist studies and explores questions such as visual culture and transformation of public space in contemporary Bulgaria; commoning as a political practice of imagination in a post-communist context; the production of abstraction; fiction and topology. Her first book, Politics of Surfaces, is forthcoming with Goldsmiths Press.
This event is a part of the Spring 2024 History of Consciousness Speaker Series.

CANCELLED: Gabriel Winant - Service Economy Dilemmas
2024-06-05 12:15 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
This talk will explore the possible relationships between global economic restructuring and the emergence of new politics of family, gender, and sexuality. The rise of “service economies” in many forms around the world has had profound implications for individual life courses and the normative genders attached to them. Why is this, and what can we learn from it?
Gabriel Winant is assistant professor of history at the University of Chicago. His main interests include the history of work and class, political economy, and social policy. His prize-winning first book, The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America, was published by Harvard University Press in 2021 and offered a new account of the origins and meaning of the transition from industrial to service work in the United States.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

UCSC Night at the Museum - From the Archives: Conversations on Filipino America
2024-06-05 19:00 - 20:30 | Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Join us for The Humanities Institute’s annual Night at the Museum featuring Watsonville is in the Heart and highlighting Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley, a community-driven exhibition that uplifts stories of Filipino American migration and labor in Watsonville and the greater Pajaro Valley of the Central Coast. The exhibition brings together oral history, archival materials, and contemporary works of art.
Several of the most prominent thinkers in Filipino American history: Catherine Ceniza Choy, Richard “Rick” Baldoz, and Rudy Guevarra, Jr will present their academic insights.

Doors and exhibits open at 6pm, event program begins at 7pm
Dr. Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr. is Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. He is the author of Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego, and most recently, Aloha Compadre: Latinxs in Hawaiʻi. He is a former Ford Foundation Senior Fellow and UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Guevarra is also co-editor of the forthcoming book, Culinary Mestizaje: Racial Mixing, Migration and Foodways in the U.S.
Dr. Catherine Ceniza Choy is a writer, historian, and professor of ethnic studies at UC Berkeley. She is the author of the books Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History; Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America; and Asian American Histories of the United States. The daughter of Filipino immigrants, she was born and raised in New York City. She currently lives in Berkeley with her husband Greg Choy.
Dr. Rick Baldoz is a third-generation Filipino-American. His research focuses on race, immigration law, and the politics of citizenship. His first major book The Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in Filipino America 1898-1946 (NYU Press) examines the connection between the U.S. ascendancy as a global power and the racialization of Filipinos domestically. His book won book awards from the American Sociological Association and the American Library Association. His current book project is on US immigration policy over the past half century highlighting the interplay between US foreign policy entanglements and large scale population flows to the United States.
Enjoy an evening of conversation on the role of archives, the work of preserving memories, and the histories of Filipinos in the United States. THI’s annual Night at the Museum event welcomes members of the public to experience the ongoing exhibitions and gallery spaces at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History for free!
Night at the Museum is co-sponsored by I’m Just Nosy, a special collaboration between UCSC Special Collections & Archives and Watsonville is in the Heart (WIITH). I’m Jusy Nosy is a zine project highlighting the Pajaro Valley Filipino American community’s genealogical research and archiving expertise. As told by Maia Mislang (WIITH Undergraduate Public Fellow) with support from Meleia Simon Reynolds (Co-Director of the WIITH Community Digital Archive) and Sam Regal (Librarian in UCSC Special Collections), it spotlights Juanita Sulay Wilson, community matriarch and self-taught historian/archivist, whose work has been foundational to the Tobera Project and Watsonville is in the Heart. The zine is a resource for folks who wish to explore their own family and community histories. This project was generously supported by California Rare Book School’s Radical Librarianship Institute.

Watsonville is in the Heart and Sowing Seeds is presented with support from The Tobera Project, California Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Monterey Peninsula Foundation, UCSC Humanities Division, Arts Division, Division of Social Sciences, Center for Labor and Community, Office of Research, Arts Research Institute, Committee on Research, Society of Hellman Fellows, Institute for Social Transformation, and Dr. Rebecca S. Hernandez, member of Rise Together, Community Foundation Santa Cruz County. The exhibition is made possible with generous contributions from Cristana DeGuzman and Bryce Lee, Cathy and Greg Reyes, and Ow Family Properties.
This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a partner of the NEH. Visit www.calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibition do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Celebrating the Humanities: Spring Awards
2024-06-06 16:00 - 19:00 | Virtual and In Person
Please mark your calendars for June 6th as we acknowledge the achievements of our outstanding students at the annual Celebrating the Humanities: Spring Awards event.
This year, the hybrid event will take place both at the Museum of Art and History and virtually on Zoom with the program beginning at 4 p.m. A reception will follow for in-person guests. Friends and families of awardees are welcome to attend either in person or online.

Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) 2024
2024-06-07 14:30 - 17:30 | London Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz, United States
The Linguistics Department’s annual Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) will be held Friday, June 7th, from 2:30 – 5:30 pm in Multipurpose Room 3 at the London Nelson Center in downtown Santa Cruz, 301 Center Street. The Distinguished Alumnus speaker will be Kirby Conrod, Assistant Professor at Swarthmore College.
Poster Presentations (2:30 – 4:30 PM)
Monique Aingworth, Samuel Almer, Cal Boye-Lynn, Jordy Chanon, E.Z. Dashiell, Amenia Denson, Melissa Garcia, Julia Helmer, Jennifer Hernandez, Millie Hacker, Andrew Kato, Killian Kiuttu, Valen Munson, Grace Nighswonger, Amanda Pollem, Brenn Simons, Ben Sommer
Keynote Speech (4:40 – 5:30 PM)
Kirby Conrod – Assistant Professor in Linguistics, Swarthmore College
For more info contact: mgong9@ucsc.edu

Japanese Cultural Fair
2024-06-08 | Mission Plaza, 103 Emmett Street, Santa Cruz, 95060, United States
Since its founding in 1986, the Japanese Cultural Fair has provided an opportunity for members of the Santa Cruz County community to increase their awareness and understanding of Japanese culture, both traditional and contemporary. Through the arts, crafts, and culture of Japan, the fair has brought together thousands of people, improving their understanding of our Pacific Rim neighbor, as well as enriching the community of Santa Cruz.
Join us for this year’s wonderful showcase of Japanese Culture featuring crafts, music, and food!
Interested in volunteering? Volunteers are a major reason the festival has succeeded in becoming what it is today. Please consider being a part of that tradition and volunteer today at: https://www.jcfsantacruz.org/volunteer.
For more information visit: https://www.jcfsantacruz.org/

Aurora Workshop Series
2024-07-02 14:00 - 15:30 | Virtual Event
Join us on July 2nd at 2:00 PM for the Summer 2024 Aurora Workshop Series with Virinder S. Kalra (Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick), Anne Murphy (Associate Professor of History, University of British Columbia), and G. S. Sahota (Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies, Associate Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz).
Join via Zoom here.
Featuring:
Radical Love: Gurbakhsh Singh Prīt Laṛī (1895-1977)
And His Vision For A New India
Paper by Anne Murphy
For the pre-circulated paper, please contact G.S. Sahota at sahota@ucsc.edu at least two days before the event.

Family Day: Sowing Seeds
2024-07-13 12:00 - 18:00 | Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Join Watsonville is in the Heart for family-friendly fun and free admission to all current exhibitions including Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley. Participate in a community scrapbook project and take home your own photo. Lay mosaic tiles for a local public art project led by artist Kathleen Crocetti. Explore the Sowing Seeds exhibition and learn about community history from local organizations. For full program info and schedule click here.

Santa Cruz Shakespeare Opening Night
2024-07-18 20:00 | The Audrey Stanley Grove in Delaveaga Park, 501 Upper Park Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95065, United States
Tickets are now on sale for Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2024 Season, featuring As You Like It, Hamlet, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Glass Menagerie. This is the Season of Generations: of the inheritors of the new world; of the young finding, discovering, claiming their identities and their power; of forging a new path and changing the world. Each of the shows of the 2024 season deal directly with the next generation inheriting the world. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute.
The 2024 season runs from July 18 – September 28.

As You Like It by William Shakespeare | July 13 – Sept. 1 | Directed by Carey Perloff
Shakespeare’s As You Like It is a tale of banishment and escape to the forest of Arden, where a merry band find unity, love, and rebirth. The ensemble includes the melancholy Jacques (“All the world’s a stage…), the vigorous Orlando, and the brilliant Rosalind. Amidst a hurly of comedy, disguise, and discovery, love is sought, debated, and eventually learned. As You Like It is a hilarious journey into the heart of human foible and frailty, showing us the myriad ways that love can rebuild the world.
Hamlet by William Shakespeare | July 31 – Aug. 31 | Directed by Susan Dalian
In the most famous play ever written, Prince Hamlet contends with the ghost of his father, with the swift marriage of his mother to his uncle, with himself… most potently with himself. His questions throughout, of what it means to be a man, a son, a citizen of the world; what it means to be alive; what is owed; these questions have echoed through the last four hundred years and will no doubt echo for as long as we stand up on a stage and tell stories. Not to mention that it’s a thrilling tale of murder, revenge, madness, and betrayal. Artistic Director, Charles Pasternak, will play Hamlet, with former Artistic Director, Mike Ryan, as Claudius.
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde | July 14 – Sept. 7 | Directed by Paul Mullins
Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest has not been done in the 42-year history of Santa Cruz Shakespeare. It is one of the greatest comedies ever written, filled with some of the sharpest wit in the English language. The most iconic figure of this masterpiece is the formidable Lady Bracknell; obsessed with tradition and propriety, she cannot countenance her daughter Gwendolyn’s love of our titular Earnest. It’s not his money she objects to, of which he has plenty, but his bloodline: he has seemingly, and famously, descended from a HANDBAG. At least, that’s where he was discovered as an orphan. The young strain and contrive against their elder’s conservatism; through fantasy, imagination, and so much wit, they will reshape the world; redefining, and reNAMING, love’s conventions.
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams | Sept. 11‒28 | Directed by Charles Pasternak
Presented for the first time in the company’s history, Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie is an American masterpiece; an autobiographical “dream” play, Tom, the young Tennessee, struggles in his claustrophobic home life, caught between his controlling mother and his damaged sister. He loves them. His battle is actually not that he wants to leave, but that he wants to stay. But if he does, can he ever become the writer and the man he aspires to be? A thrilling expansion for Santa Cruz Shakespeare: Menagerie will open at the end of our traditional summer season, running in the Grove through September.

Dickens Universe
2024-07-21 - 2024-07-27 | UC Santa Cruz
The Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars, teachers, students, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus of the University of California—all focused on one or two Victorian novels, usually one by Charles Dickens. In 2024, the Dickens Universe will feature Great Expectations, which since its publication in 1860-61, has been one of Dickens’s best-loved and most widely read works.
Now in its 44th year of operation, the Dickens Universe combines features of a scholarly conference, a festival, a book club, and summer camp. Participants include people of all ages and walks of life—distinguished scholars, graduate students, undergraduates, retirees, young professionals, high school teachers, anyone who loves to read and who enjoys long Victorian novels.
Here are some of the reasons why the Universe such a special experience:

The college lifestyle: participants live on campus, eat together in the student dining hall, have time to meet and come to know each other in different ways.
Everyone is reading the same book. We all have this one important thing in common.
The range of activities—formal lectures, small discussion groups, films, daily Victorian teas, performances, and Victorian dancing.

The Universe offers a week of total immersion in the world of Victorian fiction with friendly, like-minded colleagues in a beautiful setting. This year’s Dickens Universe will begin on Sunday, July 21, and end on Saturday, July 27.
Registration is now open for the 2024 Dickens Universe featuring Great Expectations. The conference will primarily be an in-person event, with the option to attend virtually from afar.
To register or learn about The Dickens Universe visit: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/universe/

Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music - Unbound
2024-08-03 19:00 | Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
Maestro Cristian Măcelaru leads the Festival Orchestra in works by composers Daniel Kellogg, Nathaniel Heyder, Lembit Beecher, and Iván Enrique Rodríguez.
Daniel Kellogg: The Golden Spike (West Coast Premiere)
Nathaniel Heyder: unbound: Phase 1 (World Premiere | Festival Commission)
Lembit Beecher: Tell Me Again (Karen Ouzounian, cello) (West Coast Premiere)
Iván Enrique Rodríguez: Casting the Dice (World Premiere | Festival Commission
The Festival orchestra brings to life new works exploring historical and personal journeys. The Golden Spike by Daniel Kellogg marks the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad. unbound: Phase 1 by rising composer Nathaniel Heyder reflects on a period of artistic and personal freedom. Lembit Beecher’s Tell Me Again uses cello to portray a story of immigration, composed for the virtuosic cellist Karen Ouzounian. Casting the Dice, a powerful Festival commission by Iván Enrique Rodríguez explores the experiences of displaced people and human movement.
For more details visit: Unbound – Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
Folks under 35 can purchase discounted tickets for $20. Space is limited, so order your tickets today!
Order tickets online at https://cabrillomusic.org/order-tickets/

This event is a part of the 2024 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, where Music Director & Conductor, Cristian Măcelaru, and the intrepid festival orchestra give life to 4 world premieres, 9 West Coast debuts, with music by 15 Composers in Residence portraying powerful movements of change and showcasing music that moves beyond boundaries of place, time, style, and convention.
Co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County Bank, and Redtree Partners, L.P.

Filipino American Literature Reading @ AAPI Cultural Festival
2024-08-04 14:30 - 16:00 | The 418 Project, 155 River Street S, Santa Cruz, 95060, United States
Please join Watsonville is in the Heart on Sunday August 4, 2024 from 2:30- 4:00 pm for a Filipino American literature reading in celebration of the final day of the Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley exhibition. The event at The 418 Project will feature award-winning poets and authors, Karen Tei Yamashita, Randy Ribay, Shirley Ancheta, Robert Gomez, and Oscar Peñaranda. The writers will read new and published works about Filipino American and local farmworker history.
The reading will coincide with the Asian American Pacific Islander Cultural Festival hosted by the Asian American Pacific Coalition with generous sponsorship provided by The 418 Project, the Coastal Watershed Council, and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. The festival will run from 12:00-4:00pm and feature performances, music, artwork, food vendors, and community organization tables.
At 4:00pm, we welcome all guests to take part in a joyful procession across the street to the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (705 Front Street) to view Sowing Seeds and learn about local community-engaged research projects. Museum entrance will be free from 4:00- 7:00 pm.
The event is made possible with support from the UCSC Social Sciences Division, the Institute for Social Transformation, Center for Labor and Community, and California Humanities. We thank The 418 Project, The Tobera Project, and the Asian American Pacific Islander Coalition for this meaningful collaboration.
Event Seating: Seating at this event will be limited. Reserved seats will be available for guests with health conditions or impairments.
Event Parking: There are two paid parking garages with available disability parking spaces near The 418 Project. Other parking can be found at the Soquel/Front Garage (601 Front St. Santa Cruz, CA, 95060)

Slugs and Steins - Learning About Autism From Autistic People
2024-08-12 18:30 - 20:00 | Virtual Event
Most of the research on autism is conducted by non-autistic people. The neurodiversity movement centers autistic perspectives which contributes to a better understanding of autistic experiences and can counteract existing stereotypes about autistic people. In this presentation, we discuss two methods for centering autistic perspectives on autism—including autistic people on research teams and reading autistic autobiographies—and explore several potential benefits of doing so.

Nameera Akhtar is a Professor of Psychology, and Janette Dinishak is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz. After a fruitful decade of collaborating on autism-related topics, these two academics would like you to know that they are not experts on autism. In their presentation they will introduce you to some of the real experts.
Slugs & Steins: Lectures from UC Santa Cruz is a monthly series comprised of informal discussions highlighting UC Santa Cruz’s many amazing faculty members. Talks are held on the 2nd Monday of each month with topics ranging from organic artichokes to endangered zebras, self-driving cars to Shakespeare. All are welcome, and audience participation is encouraged. We encourage you to share the link far and wide as slugs and friends from around the world may join us.
Questions? Please contact University Events at specialevents@ucsc.edu

Kuumbwa Jazz Presents - Delbert Anderson Quartet
2024-08-16 18:00 - 21:00 | Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Delbert Anderson, a Diné jazz trumpet artist, composer, and educator, stands at the forefront of a vibrant Native American jazz scene. His work, deeply rooted in his Diné heritage, seamlessly integrates Navajo “spinning songs” of love, healing, and courtship with jazz and funk, thus marking him as a community-minded Indigenous individualist. Through his Delbert Anderson Quartet, Anderson revives the improvised sounds of the Diné circle, blending them with jazz, funk, and hip-hop. His compositions are inspired by Navajo Nation landscapes, historical events, and the desire to preserve and educate about Diné history.

His commitment to community and education is evident through his “Build A Band” educational program, which teaches jazz improvisation to young students through a Diné and family curriculum, wellness programs, and community outreach initiatives aimed at evoking change for the well-being of all humans.
Anderson’s achievements have garnered recognition, including multiple awards from Chamber Music America, the Cultural Capital Fellowship from the First Peoples Fund, and the Jazz Road Program at South Arts. His contributions to music and culture have been featured in prominent outlets like The New York Times, JazzTimes, Grammy.com, and NPR.
Co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.

Weekend with Shakespeare
2024-08-17 - 2024-08-18 | UCSC Arboretum
Dig deeply into our Shakespeare productions this season with a special weekend of lectures, discussions and hands-on activities. In partnership with UCSC’s Shakespeare Workshop and The Humanities Institute, this is a wonderful opportunity to learn more about each play during the day and then enjoy the production that same evening.
This year, Weekend with Shakespeare will be held at the UCSC Campus on August 17th (Hamlet) and August 18th (As You Like It).
Admission is free to all, but seating is limited! Please register below to reserve your seats.

Schedule for Weekend with Shakespeare
Saturday, 8/17 — Hamlet

11:00 Welcome (Sean Keilen, UCSC)
11:15 Actor Panel (Charles Pasternak and members of the company, SCS)
12:15 Boxed lunch (courtesy of Shakespeare Workshop)
1:00 Visiting Scholar (Claire McEachern, UCLA)
2:00 End of program

Sunday, 8/18 — As You Like It

11:00 Welcome (Sean Keilen, UCSC)
11:15 Actor Panel (Charles Pasternak and members of the company, SCS)
12:15 Boxed lunch (courtesy of Shakespeare Workshop)
1:00 Visiting Scholar (Claire McEachern, UCLA)
2:00 End of program

* On both days, the Visiting Scholar will be available in the Grove before the performance to do a “Five Things” talk.

Sean Keilen is Professor of Literature and UC Santa Cruz, the founder of Shakespeare Workshop, and Head of Dramaturgy at Santa Cruz Shakespeare.
Charles Pasternak is Artistic Director at Santa Cruz Shakespeare, before which served as Artistic Director of The Porters of Hellsgate Theatre Co in Los Angeles for over fifteen years. He has had a wide-ranging career as an actor and director at theatres across this country including American Players Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, three seasons with The Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis and four with Shakespeare Santa Cruz.
Claire McEachern is Professor of English at the UC Los Angeles. She is the author of Believing in Shakespeare: Studies in Longing (Cambridge, 2018); The Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590-1612 (Cambridge, 1996); and editor of eight of Shakespeare’s plays including the Arden 3 Much Ado About Nothing (2015). Her essay collections include the Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy (Cambridge, 2nd edition, 2015), and, with Debora Shuger, Religion and Culture in Renaissance England (Cambridge, 1997).

Puerto Rican Studies Association Conference
2024-08-23 - 2024-08-25 | UC Santa Cruz
The Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA) is an interdisciplinary academic organization that promotes the development and circulation of knowledge about Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans from the Puerto Rican islands and its broad diasporas. We are excited to host this year’s PRSA conference at UC Santa Cruz from Friday, August 23 to Sunday, August 25.
This year’s theme is Scales of Solidarity and will think about the role of solidarity in building a freer and more just world. During the conference there will be panels, workshops, film screenings, performances, and a bombazo that will bring musicians from around California to participate. We are especially excited to be collaborating with the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery to mount an exhibit focused on Puerto Rican communities in California curated by Aurora Levins Morales.
Highlights include:
LUNCH AND KEYNOTE: Ileana Rodríguez Silva, University of Washington, Seattle
Friday, August 23 at 12:45PM–2:30PM, Stevenson Events Center
BOOK AND DISSERTATION AWARDS CEREMONY
Friday, August 23 at 6:15PM–7:30PM, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery
RECEPTION AND BOMBAZO
Saturday, August 24 at 6:30PM–9:00PM, Cowell Patio
You can find the full program here. Registration is now open. All UCSC students, staff, and faculty can register to attend the conference for free by clicking here.

Slugs and Steins with Professor Alma Heckman - Fascism and Anti-Fascism: Jewish and Muslim Politics in Interwar Morocco
2024-09-09 18:30 - 20:00 | Virtual Event
Interwar Morocco was home to a thriving anti-fascist political scene with intimate connections to France and Spain. Politically active Moroccan Jews and Muslims were found in the ranks of many different anti-fascist organizations, above all the International League Against Antisemitism, or the LICA after its French acronym (Ligue internationale contre l’antisémitisme). Through organizations like the LICA, Moroccan Jews and Muslims responded to rising fascism and antisemitism out of a sense of shared political values.

Alma Rachel Heckman is the Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies and Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her book The Sultan’s Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging was published by Stanford University Press in 2021.

Questions? Please contact University Events at specialevents@ucsc.edu.

14th Annual Latino Role Models Conference
2024-09-14 09:00 - 13:00 | Cabrillo College Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos, CA, 95003, United States
Join us for the 14th annual Latino Role Models Conference, designed to inspire students in grades six through college to achieve their dreams for college and career. No pre-registration is required. Presentations center the experiences of Latino professionals, college students, and community leaders who share the barriers they have overcome and strategies to persevere. This conference will be conducted in Spanish with English interpretation. Parents and guardians are encouraged to participate along with their students. Resource tables will share information about the pathway to higher education.
This year’s keynote speaker will be Jaime Cortez, Watsonville and San Francisco Bay Area based writer and visual artist. Jaime’s debut collection of short stories Gordo is a work of semiautobiographical fiction set in farm worker camps and farm towns near Watsonville, California in the 1970s. Cortez spent his early years in San Juan Bautista and Watsonville where he attended public schools and graduated from Watsonville High School. He received his B.A. in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania, and his fine art MFA at UC Berkeley. Jaime was the first in his family to graduate from college and is excited to share his story at the 2024 Latino Role Models Conference.
Other professional presenters will include:
Melida Alfaro, Business Consultant and Entrepreneur
Dr. Roberto (Bobby) Diaz, Orthopedic Surgeon, Sutter Health
Maria Elena de la Garza, Nonprofit Executive Director, Community Action Board
Jose Gonzalez, Attorney, Santa Cruz County Public Defender
Jaime Molina, Social Worker, Trainer, Parent Educator
Mayra Ochoa, Web and IT manager, Digital Nest
Roberto Zuniga, Spanish Teacher, Aptos High School
Yesenia Lopez Duran, Social Worker, Santa Cruz County Public Defender
Erandi Escareño, Media and Communications Professional, will moderate the conference
For more information about Latino Role Models:
Call: (831) 854-7740
email: info@SCSenderos.org
website: SCSenderos.org
The Latino Role Models Conference was created by Senderos in 2010 and is now presented in collaboration with: Cabrillo College, Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County, Consulado General de México en San José, Kaiser Permanente, Live Oak School District, Pajaro Valley Unified School District, San Lorenzo Unified School District, Santa Cruz City Schools, Santa Cruz County Office of Education, Santa Cruz County College Commitment, Scotts Valley Unified School District, Senderos, Soquel Union Elementary School District, UC Santa Cruz, Bay Federal Credit Union. This event is co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute.

Joseph Stiglitz - The Road to Freedom
2024-09-17 19:00 - 20:00 | London Nelson Center, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Bookshop Santa Cruz is joining forces with The Humanities Institute and the Institute for Social Transformation to present Joseph E. Stiglitz—one of the world’s leading economists and winner of the Nobel Prize—who will discuss his new book, The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society, a compelling new vision of personal and economic freedom. Professor Stiglitz will be in conversation with Dr. Chris Benner, Dorothy E. Everett Chair in Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship, and a Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at UC Santa Cruz.

We are a nation born from the conviction that people must be free. But since the middle of the last century, that idea has been co-opted. Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by cloaking it in the rhetoric of freedom, leading to pharmaceutical companies freely overcharging for medication, a Big Tech free from oversight, politicians free to incite rebellion, corporations free to pollute, and more. How did we get here? Whose freedom are we—and should we—be thinking about?
In The Road to Freedom, Nobel prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz dissects America’s current economic system and the political ideology that created it, laying bare their twinned failure. “Free” and unfettered markets have only succeeded in delivering a series of crises: the financial crisis, the opioid crisis, and the crisis of inequality. While a small portion of the population has amassed considerable wealth, wages for most people have stagnated. Free and unfettered markets have exploited consumers, workers, and the environment alike. Such failures have fed populist movements that believe being free means abandoning any obligations citizens have to one another. As they grow in strength, these movements now pose a real threat to true economic and political freedom.
As an economic advisor to presidents and as chief economist at the World Bank, Stiglitz has witnessed these profound changes firsthand. As he argues, the failures follow from the elites’ unshakeable dedication to “the neoliberal experiment.” Explicitly taking on giants such as Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman, Stiglitz exposes accepted ideas about our political and economic life for what they are: twisted visions that tear at the social fabric while they enrich the very few.
The Road to Freedom breaks new ground, showing how economics—including recent advances in which Stiglitz has played such an important role—reframes how to think about freedom and the role of the state in a twenty-first century society. Drawing on the work of contemporary philosophers, Stiglitz explains a deeper, more humane way to assess freedoms—one that considers with care what to do when one person’s freedom conflicts with another’s. We must reimagine our existing economic and legal systems and embrace forms of collective action, including regulation and investment, if we are to create an innovative society in which everyone can flourish. The task could not be more urgent, and Stiglitz’s latest book is essential reading for those committed to the American ideal of an economic and political system that delivers well-being, opportunity, and meaningful freedoms for all.
Joseph E. Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and the best-selling author of People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent; Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Age of Trump; The Price of Inequality; and Freefall. He was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton, chief economist of the World Bank, named by Time as one of the 100 most influential individuals in the world, and now teaches at Columbia University and is chief economist of the Roosevelt Institute.

SALA 2024: The South Asian Literature and Art Festival
2024-09-28 - 2024-09-29 | Stanford Center for South Asia, Encina Commons, 615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA, 94305
Organized by the Stanford Center for South Asia in collaboration with Art Forum SF, the South Asian Literature and Art Festival showcases contemporary reflections of literature and arts from the sub-continent and its diaspora. It features highly acclaimed contemporary South Asian Art collections as well as panel discussions that include Art, Literature, Poetry, and Cinema. Authors and artists across the globe will represent their experiences through keynotes, panels, and live presentations. The theme this year is “Plurality in community,” where ArtForum SF explores caste, class, gender, and borders to understand how individuality and collectivity can coexist and collide.
The Festival will take place September 28-29 at the Stanford Center for South Asia and is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies.
For more information, please visit the Festival website: https://www.salafestival.org/

Falafel Welcome Lunch with The Center for the Middle East and North Africa
2024-09-30 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The Center for the Middle East and North Africa invites all CMENA affiliates and students to a falafel welcome lunch. Come catch up with one another, meet CMENA faculty, and learn about the Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS) Minor.

Gary Griggs: California Catastrophes
2024-09-30 19:00 - 20:30 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Gary Griggs, local author and Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UC Santa Cruz, for a discussion and signing of his new book California Catastrophes: The Natural Disaster History of the Golden State. This comprehensive account of California’s numerous and perilous natural disasters explores how a unique combination of forces has affected Californians throughout the state’s history and carries a sobering message about our short disaster memories. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.

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“Griggs has long been a voice for being prepared for that extreme event just around the corner. He has done it again with California Catastrophes, a must-read for every long-term Californian.” —John Laird, California State Senator and former California Secretary for Natural Resources
California has more natural hazards per square mile than any other state, but this hasn’t deterred people from moving here. Entire California towns and regions frequently contend with destruction caused by earthquakes, floods, landslides and debris flows, and sea-level rise and coastal erosion. As Gary Griggs demonstrates in California Catastrophes, few years go by without a disaster of some kind, and residents often rebuild in the same locations that were just destroyed.
Considering the current climate crisis and increasing environmental inequalities, the stakes are growing ever higher. This book dives into the history of the state’s vulnerability to natural hazards, why and where these events occur, and how Californians can better prepare going forward. A mix of photographs and maps both historical and contemporary orients readers within the state’s sprawling landscapes and provides glimpses of some of the geologic risks in each region. With the final chapter, Griggs issues a call to action and challenges readers to envision a safer, more equitable, and sustainable future.
Gary Griggs is Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he has taught for more than fifty years. His research and teaching have focused on natural disasters and the California coast.

Navigating the Media Landscape: Critical Media Literacy in the 2024 Elections
2024-10-02 19:00 | Virtual and In Person
This event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series – Power, Politics, and Our Democracy
UC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How do power, politics, and the media landscape interact, disrupt, and reinforce one another? Join the conversation with our scholars and national thought leaders to learn more about how to think critically about our political processes and the nature of our democracy. There are six events in the series, all of them are offered online via Zoom, and three events have an in-person option. More information listed below. Events are free and open to the public.
For registration and full program information please visit: https://transform.ucsc.edu/events/2024-elections-forum-series/
Co-sponsored by: Institute for Social Transformation, Merrill College, The Humanities Institute, Science and Justice Research Center, Politics Department Democratic Discourse and Engagement Initiative, Kresge College, John R. Lewis College, and College Nine.

Employing Humanities Internships and Research Info Session #1
2024-10-03 12:00 - 12:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Learn about paid internships and undergraduate research opportunities for Humanities Students including applications, timelines, and program details.
Open to all Humanities Majors and Minors. For more information please email humco@ucsc.edu.
Please visit the Humanities Student Events Calendar to see other exciting events happening for students in the Humanities Division.

Employing Humanities Internships and Research Info Session #2
2024-10-04 12:00 - 12:30 | Virtual Event
Learn about paid internships and undergraduate research opportunities for Humanities Students including applications, timelines, and program details. Info on how to join via Zoom can be found via the Humanities Division Linktree.
Open to all Humanities Majors and Minors. For more information please email humco@ucsc.edu.
Please visit the Humanities Student Events Calendar to see other exciting events happening for students in the Humanities Division.

Homage to Antoinette Swan & the Princes of Surf
2024-10-04 18:00 - 19:00 | Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Do you know about the three Hawaiian princes coming to Santa Cruz in 1885 and introducing surfing to the mainland? They didn’t come here by accident. Join historians Geoffrey Dunn and Kim Stoner and learn about Antoinette Swan and her ties to Hawaiian royalty. This talk is a sneak peek of more hidden stories we will share in an upcoming exhibition in 2025.

This event is presented by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.

Educator Workshop with the Amah Mutsun
2024-10-05 09:00 - 15:00 | Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
Join the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History for a collaborative workshop connecting local educators with tribal leaders and scholars.
This workshop aims to deepen knowledge, clarify terminology, and provide a space for dialogue about incorporating a native perspective into K-12 curriculum.
Teachers will have the opportunity to work side-by-side with colleagues and tribal representatives as they consider the strengths and weaknesses of their current curriculum and consider ways that they might better incorporate an Indigenous perspective into future lessons.
Featuring: Valentin Lopez, Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band
Earn continuing education credit and join this FREE outdoor workshop on Saturday, October 5th from 9am-3pm at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History. Open to formal and informal educators of the Monterey Bay region. Light breakfast and lunch will be provided.
Learn more and register at: https://www.santacruzmuseum.org/10-5-educator-workshop-with-the-amah-mutsun/

This event is supported by The Humanities Institute, The History & Civics Project @ UC Santa Cruz, and The Bagelry.

Disrupting Imposter Phenomenon from the Inside Out with Silvia Austerlic
2024-10-08 11:30 - 13:00 | Virtual Event
Have you ever felt imposter phenomenon? Learn how to cultivate a growth mindset to disrupt it and move toward empowering ways of learning.
This event has two sessions: Oct 8, 11:30 – 1:00 p.m. via Zoom or Nov 5, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend either session.

Silvia Austerlic is an intercultural educator, facilitator and consultant, and founder of Senti-pensante Connections, whose mission is to bridge inner work and social justice in service of individual transformation, social change, and collective action. A lecturer at UCSC Oakes College, she developed and teaches “Building an Inner Sanctuary,” which fosters the cultivation of inner and outer resources needed to show up for community-oriented action and social justice; and facilitates campus-wide learning events surrounding critical interculturality, self-leadership, healing justice, and fostering resilience and care in the community.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Employing Humanities Resume and Cover Letter Career Workshop
2024-10-08 13:30 - 14:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Having a fantastic resume and cover letter are the first steps towards securing part-time, full-time, on-campus or off-campus work. Join us for this informative workshop to learn best practices and resources for creating or updating your resume and cover letter.
Register on Handshake here!
Open to all Humanities Majors and Minors. For more information please email humco@ucsc.edu.
Please visit the Humanities Student Events Calendar to see other exciting events happening for students in the Humanities Division.

T.J. Demos – Counterinsurgent: Cop City, Abolition Ecology, and the Aesthetics of Counterreform
2024-10-09 12:15 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
If “climate apartheid” is on the rise, as Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò warns, then Cop City Atlanta—the multimillion-dollar new police training facility built by clear-cutting the city’s largest green space—offers an ominous flashpoint. For not only is Cop City’s contested construction (which is ongoing) an exemplary story of the violent repression of community activism at the nexus of abolition, decolonization, and environmentalism. It also spotlights the forces of contemporary counterinsurgency—including its aesthetic modalities—that are operating to prevent any political transformation beyond the status quo. If the environmental movement is losing in the struggle to stop world-ending climate change, then continuing to focus on practices of ecological repair is increasingly myopic, even escapist, without taking into account the forces blocking any meaningful change. How might a prehensive climate-justice-directed art history, and an insurgent arts of the possible, meaningfully respond?
T. J. Demos is Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture, at University of California, Santa Cruz, and founding Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. Demos is the author of several books, including Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (Sternberg Press, 2017); Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology (Sternberg Press, 2016); and The Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary During Global Crisis (Duke University Press, 2013) – winner of the College Art Association’s 2014 Frank Jewett Mather Award. He co-edited The Routledge Companion on Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change (2021), was a Getty Research Institute Fellow (Spring 2020), and directed the Mellon-funded Sawyer Seminar research project Beyond the End of the World (2019-21). His new book, Radical Futurisms: Ecologies of Collapse, Chronopolitics, and Justice-to-Come, 2023, is out from Sternberg Press.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

The Informational Interview with Lorato Anderson
2024-10-09 13:30 - 15:00 | Graduate Student Commons, Room 204, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, 95064
An informational interview is one 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 organization? How do you network to locate people to ask for an informational interview?
This event has two sessions: Oct 8, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, or Oct 10, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend either session.

As director of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the Division of Graduate Studies at UC Santa Cruz, Lorato Anderson focuses on advancing initiatives for minoritized graduate student support across multiple campus-wide projects and providing direct support to students, staff, faculty, and programs. Lorato graduated with a B.A. in Literature/Writing from UC San Diego and received her M.S. in Higher Education Administration and Policy from Northwestern University, where she researched and developed assessment models for English language learners and created multiple DEI programs that are still active. She has extensive experience in grant writing, teaching, advising, assessment, and creating long-lasting research-backed programs to promote minoritized undergraduate and graduate student success.
Lorato has worked on campus since 2016 and received the 2020 Outstanding Staff Achievement Award in Social Sciences. Her previous roles include graduate program adviser and coordinator for Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) and Politics and undergraduate advisor for Psychology. She takes pride in incorporating social justice and empathetic advising strategies and teaching pedagogies into her work in advising, administration, and grant and program development.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory Cluster Meet and Greet
2024-10-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Join us for the inaugural More-than-humanities community gathering! Light refreshments will be served. This will be our chance to come together to get to know one another and shape the vision for the lab. We hope you will come, and we ask that you bring your 1-2 wishes for the lab to share with the community.
Learn more about the research cluster here.

Conflict Resolution with Anthony Keen-Louie
2024-10-09 15:00 - 16:30 | Graduate Student Commons, Room 204, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, 95064
Wherever there are groups of people, there will be conflict. However, conflict can be an opportunity to grow and improve if the right tools and resources are used. This workshop will explore conflict as a topic, share information about conflict resolution resources at UCSC, and provide some conflict resolution skills for participants to use in their careers that focus on building community.
This event is on Oct 9, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons. Register below to attend the session.

Anthony Keen-Louie (he/him/his) is a seasoned student affairs professional and mediator and has worked with the UCSC Ombuds Office since August 2023. Previously he served at UCSD for eight years in residential life leadership roles supporting inclusive student community development with initiatives for student residents, including graduate students and students with dependents. Anthony has a master’s degree in Dispute Resolution from the USC Gould School of Law, where he now serves as an adjunct lecturer in law, and is a mediator, trainer, and group format mediator with the National Conflict Resolution Center. He also has a master’s degree in Higher Education/Student Affairs from New York University and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from UC Riverside.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Identity in Focus: Media Representations and the 2024 Presidential Election
2024-10-09 19:00 | Virtual and In Person

Mizanur Rahman--The Mass Uprisings in Bangladesh: Youth Mobilization, Political Possibility, and Precarity
2024-10-10 11:00 - 12:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Bangladesh’s recent student-led mass uprising which ousted the longstanding autocrat, Sheikh Hasina, from office is widely considered to have ushered in a new era in Bangladesh politics. How did the uprising, which began with a demand for student’s job quota reform, unfold, and eventually turn into a mass movement? What political possibilities and precarities lie ahead for post-uprising Bangladesh? What united people of different religions, regions, castes, classes, and generations to fight against authoritarian rule? What inspired them to fearlessly confront state violence and sacrifice their lives? This talk will treat these questions about recent and unfolding political events in Bangladesh and suggest that the mass uprising has been a struggle to reclaim people’s sovereignty and to recover their right to speak and reinstate their dignity.
Md Mizanur Rahman is a PhD candidate in Politics at UC Santa Cruz. His research focuses on liberalism and its critics, Islamic political thought, and religion and politics in South Asia. He is particularly interested in Bangladesh politics and has written on debates concerning Islam, modernity, and the politics of Islamic seminaries in Bangladesh.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Center for Cultural Studies

Understanding October 7, 2023 and Israel’s War on the Gaza Strip
2024-10-10 12:30 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The UCSC Center for Jewish Studies presents an event with Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University.
How should we speak about the shocking October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas and its allies which killed 1,139 people, 61% of them Israeli civilians, in a single day? What is the appropriate context for understanding the attack, Israel’s massive military, intelligence, and first response failure and its vengeful retaliation which has resulted in nearly 42,000 confirmed Palestinian deaths in the Gaza Strip, some 2/3 of them women and children with plausible estimates rising as high as 186,000? Is it possible to acknowledge the reality of the categories of “terrorism” and “genocide” while placing them in a broader historical context?

Due to the anticipated high demand and limited space for this event, in person attendance at this event will be reserved for the UC Santa Cruz campus community (staff, faculty, and students with a ucsc.edu email address). We will be requiring registration at the door in order to attend in person.
For those in the community who would like to watch Professor Beinin’s presentation, we will be offering the event via livestream, which you can access at: https://vimeo.com/event/4619142
Joel Beinin is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University. His research and writing focus on the social and cultural history and political economy of modern Egypt, Palestine, and Israel, and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. He received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1970, A.M. from Harvard University in 1974, and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1982. He taught at Stanford from 1983 to 2019 with a hiatus as Director of Middle East Studies and Professor of History at the American University in Cairo in 2006-08. In 2002 he served as president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America.
He has written or edited twelve books and over fifty academic articles and book chapters. His most recent book is A Critical Political Economy of the Modern Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2020); co-edited with Bassam Haddad and Sherene Seikaly. His books on Israel/Palestine include: The Independent Left in Israel, 1967-1993: A Collection in Memory of Noam Kaminer [in Hebrew] (November Books, 2019); co-edited with Carmel Kaminer, Matan Kaminer, Smadar Nehab Kaminer, and others; The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005 (Stanford University Press, 2006); co-edited with Rebecca L. Stein; Was the Red Flag Flying There? Marxist Politics and the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Egypt and Israel, 1948-1965 (University of California Press, 1990); and Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Occupation (South End Press, 1989); co-edited with Zachary Lockman.

Living Writers with Julián Delgado Lopera
2024-10-10 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Living Writers Series – Fall 2024
Growing Things
~ gardens, poems, emotions, relationships, stories, our artistic practices, carefully tended, beautifully ordered, rewilded and wild ~
About The Living Writers Series
The Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public.
About the Author
Julián Delgado Lopera is the author of The New York Times acclaimed novel Fiebre Tropical (Feminist Press 2020), the Winner of the 2021 Ferro Grumley Award and a 2021 Lambda Literary award; a finalist of the 2020 Kirkus Prize in Fiction and the 2021 Aspen Literary Prize. Julián is also the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and ¡Cuéntamelo! (Aunt Lute 2017) an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latinx immigrants which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award.
Julián’s received fellowships and residencies from The National Endowment for the Arts, Black Mountain Institute, Creative Work Fund, Hedgebrook, California Arts Council, San Francisco Arts Commission, Headlands Center for The Arts, Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts, Lambda Literary Foundation and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Their work has appeared in Granta, Teen Vogue, The Kenyon Review, McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, The White Review, LALT, Four Way Review, Broadly, TimeOut Mag to name a few. They are the former executive director of RADAR Productions and one of the founders of Drag Queen Story Hour. They have been curating Latinx history projects in San Francisco for over 10 years in partnerships with places such as the GLBT Historical Society, SF Public Library, El/la Para Translatinas, Galería de la Raza and Brava Theatre. Born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, Julián currently resides in San Francisco. Their second novel is forthcoming from Liveright. Watch their TED Talk here.

Sponsored by The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Laurie Sain Endowment, The Humanities Institute, Bookshop Santa Cruz, and Two Birds Books, which provides books for purchase at the readings.

U.S. Elections and Democracy in Deeply Polarized Times: What are the Stakes and Opportunities?
2024-10-10 19:00 | Virtual and In Person

Festival of Monsters Public Festival
2024-10-11 - 2024-10-12 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies presents the 2024 Festival of Monsters opens Oct. 11-12 with a weekend of free public events for all ages. Festivities begin 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, at the Museum of Art and History (705 Front St., Santa Cruz) with a reading and Q&A with Kiersten White, the New York Times Bestselling author of Hide. White will be reading from her new book Lucy Undying, a dark romantic fantasy novel that explores what happens to Lucy Westenra once she escapes Dracula’s thrall.
At 7 p.m., local company Circus of the Moon will perform Pluto’s Labryinth, a twisted journey of shadows and demons featuring aerialists, acrobats, and ensemble dance. Masks and memorabilia from horror design company Trick or Treat Studio will be on display.
At 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, there will be a free outdoor screening of the silent 1922 F.W. Murnau film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror on the Oakes College lower lawn (231 Oakes Road, Santa Cruz). Professor Emertius H.M. Leicester will introduce the classic vampire film, which stars Max Schreck as Count Orlok.
Events the weekend of Oct. 11-12 are free and first-come, first served.
Please visit here for registration and more information: https://www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/2024festpublic
The 2024 Festival of Monsters is grateful for the support of Porter College; Oakes College; The Arts Research Institute; The Humanities Institute; Sigfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment; University of California Humanities Research Institute; the UC Santa Cruz Department of Literature; the UC Santa Cruz Department of Performance, Play and Design; Crown College; Good Times; Trick or Treat Studios; Bookshop Santa Cruz; Atlantis Fantasyworld; James Gunderson and Peter Coha.

Bilingual California/California Bilingüe: Fronteras y Futuros
2024-10-11 18:00 | Music Center Recital Hall
Join us as we welcome Professor Ana Celia Zentella (professor emerita, UC San Diego) to discuss the political, social, and educational barriers that California’s Spanish-English bilinguals must overcome to ensure a bilingual future for themselves and their children. She suggests ways that students, parents, teachers, university faculty and community groups can contribute successfully.

This event is free and open to the public with free parking.
California is the state with the largest number of Spanish speakers in the USA; the approximately 15 million Spanish speakers represent 39.09 % of the state’s population (U.S. Census Bureau, 2024). The large numbers and long history of Spanish in California (as the official administrative language from 1542 to 1848) suggest the continuity of the language and bilingualism are ensured. But the state’s Spanish speakers, primarily of Mexican and other increasingly diverse origins, cross many political, economic, racial, and linguistic fronteras to arrive, survive, and thrive in California. The bilingual future of immigrants and their children and grandchildren is impeded by multiple barriers, beyond concrete walls at the border. We can and must ensure un futuro bilingüe with our teaching, research, and community outreach.
Major barreras include the demonization of Latinus and our Spanish and English by many – including political leaders – restrictive employment policies, and limited educational programs. In southern California, studies of border high school Latinus, Anglo university students, and transfronterizus – those who cross the border from Mexico to study in California – reveal that monolingual English speakers are not the only promoters of dismissive attitudes towards diverse ways of speaking Spanish and English. Labels like “fresas,” “nacos,” “sociales,” and “pochos mochos” build intra-Latinu walls and impede bilingual fluency, and Spanglish is widely misunderstood and maligned.
LEVANTA LA VOZ in the classroom and the community!
We must advocate for effective bilingual instruction that confronts these barriers, and organize parent workshops and dance and poetry projects that involve the community. Student and faculty research should be shared with political leaders, newspapers, and social media platforms. And let’s all celebrate International Mother Language Day on February 21st in creative ways. But what do you think will help guarantee el futuro bilingüe de California?
This event is the keynote address of the 1st Symposium on Spanish-English bilingualism in California, which will bring together leading scholars investigating the linguistic practices and patterns of variation across Spanish-English bilinguals throughout the state of California. This inaugural symposium will serve to engage researchers in cross-campus collaborations and interdisciplinary initiatives. Please visit the Symposium event page for more information.
Ana Celia Zentella, professor emerita (University of California, San Diego and Hunter College), is an anthro-political linguist recognized for her research on US Latinu languages, language socialization, “Spanglish,” and “English-only” laws. In 1996, Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger declared October 30 “Doctor Ana Celia Zentella Day” for “her leading role in building appreciation for language diversity and respect for language rights.” In 2015, the Latin American Studies Association’s Latino Section honored Zentella as Public Intellectual of the Year. In 2016, she received the Award for Public Outreach & and Community Service from the Society for Linguistic Anthropology. Professor Zentella was Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022, and received the Distinguished Career Award from the Association of Latina/o and Latinx Anthropologists in 2023.
This event is sponsored by the Bilingualism Research Lab, Multilingual Hispanic Speech in CA, the Comparative Language Sciences Project, and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics.
If you have disability-related needs, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by October 4, 2024.

1st Symposium on Spanish-English Bilingualism in California
2024-10-12 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The 1st Symposium on Spanish-English bilingualism in California brings together leading scholars investigating the linguistic practices and patterns of variation across Spanish-English bilinguals throughout the state of California. This inaugural symposium will serve to engage researchers in cross-campus collaborations and interdisciplinary initiatives. The symposium’s keynote address will be given by Professor Ana Celia Zentella (professor emerita, UC San Diego) on October 11th at the Music Recital Hall. Please visit the keynote event page to register and for more information.
Full symposium schedule here. The day’s program will feature:

Abel Cruz (Santa Clara University)
Talk title: “Expressing diminutive meaning in heritage Spanish: Linking the heritage experience to diminutive use in everyday speech”

Ana Sánchez-Muñoz (California State University, Northridge)
Talk title: Empowering Californian Bilinguals through Heritage Language Education

Anne L. Beatty-Martínez (University of California, San Diego)
Talk title: Understanding Bilingualism in Context

Claudia Holguín Mendoza (University of California Riverside)
Talk title: Spanish language ideologies within the Latinx community in California: Critical Sociolinguistics and Pedagogical Implications

Claudia Sánchez-Gutiérrez (University of California, Davis)
Talk title: Linguistic belongingness in an Emerging HSI

Covadonga Lamar Prieto (University of California Riverside)
Talk title: Code-Meshing, diglossia and diaglossia in Californio Spanish and California Spanish

Ernesto R. Gutiérrez Topete (Pomona College)
Talk title: Place-dependent stop salience among Spanish-English bilinguals: Evidence from code-switching

Eve Higby (California State University, East Bay)
Talk title: Disentangling cross-language facilitation and interference in Spanish-English bilinguals

Gabriela Simon-Cereijido (California State University, Los Angeles)
Talk title: Linguistic Skills and Perspectives of Spanish-English Students in Health Professions

Gabriella Licata (University of California, Riverside)
Talk title: Examining generational bias differences towards Californian Spanish features

Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez (California State University Long Beach)
Talk title: From Northern (white) Spanish to Southern Cool Spanglish: Perceptual Dialectology in California

Ji Young Kim (University of California, Los Angeles)
Talk title: Predicting areas of convergence and divergence between heritage and monolingual Spanish based on the phonological development of Spanish and English

Justin Davidson (University of California, Berkeley)
Talk title: Legitimizing Spanish-English Contact in U.S. Spanish: Sociophonetic Variation in Spanish Orthographic <b> and <v>

Lauren Schmidt (San Diego State University)
Talk title: Exploring lived language experiences of Spanish-English bilinguals in the San Diego border region and how these shape issues of identity

Mark Amengual (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Talk title: Intergenerational language shift and interlingual influence in the acoustic realization of Spanish-speaking Californians

This event is sponsored by the Bilingualism Research Lab, Multilingual Hispanic Speech in CA, the Comparative Language Sciences Project, the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, and UC MRPI

Filipino American Heritage Month Festival
2024-10-12 12:00 - 17:00 | Watsonville City Plaza, 358 Main St., Watsonville, CA, 95076, United States
Join us for the 3rd annual Filipino American Heritage Festival on the Watsonville city plaza! Featuring vendors, performances, and food.
Co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.

CLOTILDA: Resistance, Resilience, Remembrance, Rebuilding
2024-10-12 15:00 - 18:00 | Resource Center for Non Violence
Black divers were central to the reclamation of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to transport kidnapped Africans to the United States.
In our coastal area, the unceded territory of the Amah Mutsun people and a place where Black servicemen and their families resettled after fighting in U.S. wars in the Pacific, Santa Cruz Black holds space to engage with Kamau Sadiki, a master diver with the Slave Wrecks Project, and Joycelyn Davis, a direct descendant through Charlie Lewis of the 110 Africans who were violently uprooted from their homes and communities.

Through a multigenerational conversation facilitated by Santa Cruz Black with Black studies students at UC Santa Cruz, we will consider how the reclamation of the wreck was an act of resistance to the world-shattering racialized and colonial violence of chattel slavery, an act of remembrance prompting us to consider waterways as a Black geography, and an act of community resilience and rebuilding.
How does the resurfacing of the wreck challenge generations of secrecy and silence?
How does it upend the presumption of closure and healing?
How has it impacted–across generations–the people of Africatown (aka Magazine/Plateau) in Mobile, Alabama?
This event is co-sponsored by the Slave Voyages project, the Humanities Division, John R.Lewis/College 9, and The Humanities Institute.

Dear Watsonville Screening and Q&A
2024-10-12 18:00 - 19:00 | PVA Porter Building, 280 Main Street, Watsonville, 95076, United States
In celebration of Filipino American History Month, join Watsonville is in the Heart and the Watsonville Film Festival for a screening of Dear Watsonville, a mixed-media documentary offering an intimate glimpse into the lives of the first generation of Filipino farmworkers to arrive in the Pajaro Valley as seen through the eyes of their children. A Q&A with the team who created the film will follow the screening.
Dear Watsonville was directed by Sandra Lucille and produced by Watsonville is in the Heart. It premiered in April 2024 as part of the art and history exhibition, Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley.

Kaveh Akbar: Martyr!
2024-10-13 19:00 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes acclaimed and bestselling author Kaveh Akbar for a discussion and signing of his phenomenal fiction debut Martyr!, which Tommy Orange calls, “An absolute jewel of a novel. A diamond. I haven’t loved a book this much in years. Kaveh’s writing is so thoroughly powerful and gorgeous you can feel it from where dreams come, and in all over your brain, and straight from the bottom of your heart. This book does everything. It is so entirely funny and sad and true and beautiful. Kaveh Akbar is one of my favorite writers. Ever.” This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.

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“Akbar is a dazzling writer, with bars like you wouldn’t believe . . . What Akbar pulls off in Martyr! is nothing short of miraculous.” —The New York Times Book Review
A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying, funny, and wholly original, Martyr! heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction.
Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed.
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others.
Kaveh Akbar’s poems appear in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the author of two poetry collections: Pilgrim Bell and Calling a Wolf a Wolf, in addition to a chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic. He is also the editor of The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine. He lives in Iowa City.

Ecologies of Care Workshop
2024-10-14 09:30 - 16:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The Center for South Asian Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites you to launch an international collaboration, the Ecologies of Care Initiative. In partnership with the University of British Columbia (UBC), Simon Fraser University (SFU), and Lincoln University (LU) this initiative invites scholars at the forefront of the social sciences, arts, and humanities to address livability as a desired condition for all.
Situated in the Himalayan region, the Ecologies of Care Initiative will include conversations across the boundaries of contemporary nation-states, including Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Northeast India, and beyond. Known as the water towers of Asia, this region holds much of the world’s snow and ice beyond the North and South Pole. It is a site of incredible cultural and linguistic diversity, with hundreds of languages spoken and distinct colonial experiences that shape contemporary global Indigenous movements in South Asia. Ecologies of Care focuses on tracing how peoples along the Himalayas cobble together shifting livelihoods among rapidly shifting governmental-sponsored projects, including militarism, gender, environmentalism, and tourism.
For the Conference Program and more information, please visit: https://csas.ucsc.edu/ecologies-of-care-2024-25/

Laleh Khalili in conversation with Nidhi Mahajan--Palestine and the Maritime Politics of the Red Sea
2024-10-14 10:00 - 11:30 | Virtual Event
Thinking through the complexities of the Red Sea blockade, Professor Khalili will ask questions about how the entangled international and commercial control of maritime space deals with such disruptions in cargo and trade flows, and how the structure of global capital has to be taken into account in toto while waging a Gramscian war of position at local levels to leverage transformations more broadly.
Registration required to attend: Register here
Laleh Khalili is Al-Qasimi Professor of Gulf Studies and the Director of the Centre for Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter. Her most recent book is Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula (Verso 2020), which examines the role of maritime infrastructures as conduits of movement of technologies, capital, people, and cargo.
Nidhi Mahajan is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz. Her book project, Moorings: The Dhow Trade, Capitalism, and Sovereignty in the Indian Ocean, examines the marginalized mobile society of Muslim seafarers from Kachchh in western India who have become crucial intermediaries in global shipping as they move across South Asia, East Africa, and the Middle East.

Writing Psychology with Andrea Seeger
2024-10-14 14:30 - 16:30 | Graduate Student Commons, Room 204, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, 95064
Sometimes we can be our severest writing critics and biggest hindrances to writing success. Learn how to overcome psychological barriers and start writing in this interactive workshop. Participants will also learn about the VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center.
This event has two sessions: Oct 14, 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, or Oct 23, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend either session.

Andrea Seeger received a B.A. in Literature from UC Santa Cruz, an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder, and an A.B.D. in English from UC Berkeley. Andrea has been teaching literature, writing, and social justice for over 20 years. She has taught writing and rhetoric in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at CU Boulder and literature at UC Berkeley. She currently teaches social justice at UCSC’s Oakes College and writing through UCSC’s Writing Program. She is also a lecturer at Cabrillo College, where she teaches English. Andrea is deeply committed to student-centered learning and equitable access to quality education. Andrea’s scholarship focuses on the intersections of racial and gender formation in 20th-century American literature, and her work is deeply invested in social justice.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Mapping Hydrocommons Cultures in the Americas
2024-10-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
In this session, Lisa Blackmore and Alejandro Ponce de León will talk about a series of mapping processes that they’ve been engaged in with river communities in Latin America. They will explore how art and humanities research intersects with water activism and how collaborative editorial and curatorial work can support emergent and resilient practices that care for common waters. The session will involve some hands-on work to identify together these practices and the affective attachments that bind us to water.
Lisa Blackmore – Curator, researcher, educator, working between creative practice, collaborative projects and public outreach. Since 2018, she has been directing entre— ríos, a research and artistic platform that invents participatory and interdisciplinary methodologies, online and in person, that connect knowledges and communities to bodies of water. Lisa obtained her PhD in Latin American Cultural Studies from Birkbeck College in 2011 and is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Essex, UK. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley. In 2023, she was a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow for her project Imagining the Hydrocommons: Art, Water and Infrastructure in Latin America.
Alejandro Ponce de León – Researcher, working at the intersection of environmental humanities and technoscience studies. He is the founder and co-editor of the Latin American Platform for Environmental Humanities, a collective that fosters dialogues on environmental thought across the Americas. His work has been published in Cultural Studies, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Humanidades: revista de la Universidad de Montevideo, Revista Tabula Rasa, Revista Endémico, Diffractions, Tapuya, Sociological Forum, among others. Alejandro is currently a visiting scholar at the University of London’s School of Advanced Study.
This event is presented by the THI 2024-25 research cluster, UC Santa Cruz More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory.

Huerta Center Graduate Scholar CART Alternative Spring Break - Info Session
2024-10-15 15:00 | Virtual Event
2024-2025 CART Alternative Spring Break: Huerta Center Graduate Scholars
In Winter 2025, two graduate students will receive funding from the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas (Huerta Center) and be trained by the University Library’s Center for Archival Research and Training (CART) to assist a UC Santa Cruz Archivist based at the Dolores Huerta Foundation in Bakersfield, CA in archival processing during Spring Break 2025 (March 24-28, 2025).
Attend the virtual information session on Tuesday, October 15th at 3pm to learn more. Register via Zoom below.

The Huerta Center Graduate Scholars will be trained in CART for up to 20 hours during Winter quarter, then travel to Bakersfield to participate in an “alternative spring break” program from March 24-28, 2025. There they will work alongside the UCSC Archivist and engage in archival processing of the Dolores Huerta Papers and the Huerta Foundation records.
Eligibility: Currently enrolled in a graduate program at UCSC at least through June 2025 (at least five credits, not on leave or filing fee, in good academic standing, within normative time). Priority will go to graduate students in the Humanities Division and the Latin American and Latino Studies department.
Learn more at: https://guides.library.ucsc.edu/cart/apply AND https://thi.ucsc.edu/call-for-applications-huerta-center-graduate-scholar/
This program is funded by The Humanities Institute of UC Santa Cruz, administered by the Huerta Center and the Latin American and Latino Studies department, and is part of a Mellon Foundation grant to establish new public archives preserving the legacy of social justice activist Dolores Huerta through a partnership with the Dolores Huerta Foundation.

Moving Money and Moving Power: Philanthropy Isn’t Neutral
2024-10-15 17:30 | Virtual and In Person

Festival of Monsters - Academic Conference
2024-10-16 - 2024-10-18 | UC Santa Cruz
Rising from the darkness, monsters bring to light the parts of our world we might rather see hidden. They come forth in times of growing prejudice, discrimination and othering. The 2024 Festival of Monsters (Academic Conference October 16-18) —hosted by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies — explores the way monsters and tropes of monstrosity pervade our culture.
Held on the beautiful UC Santa Cruz campus, the 2024 Festival includes the conference, plus a performance, a live podcast recording and the Monsters Ball. This year’s academic conference includes panels on monstrous ecologies, black monstrosity, zombies, body horror and more. Independent video game designer and activist mattie brice and Professor Jerry Rafiki Jenkins (author of Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction) will give the keynote talks.
For more information, please visit: https://www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/2024fest
The 2024 Festival of Monsters is grateful for the support of Porter College; Oakes College; The Arts Research Institute; The Humanities Institute; Sigfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment; University of California Humanities Research Institute; the UC Santa Cruz Department of Literature; the UC Santa Cruz Department of Performance, Play and Design; Crown College; James Gunderson and Peter Coha.

Lisa Blackmore: Hydrocommoning
2024-10-16 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
In this talk, Lisa will present ‘hydrocommoning’ as a concept to think with emergent water cultures by asking what work a theory and praxis of hydrocommoning might do to support transitions to alternative hydrosocial relations beyond modern urban and extractive paradigms. She will lay out a methodological route for interdisciplinary water research that takes seriously situated embodied knowledge and planetary hydrologies by arguing for the generative role of art in igniting multiscalar engagements with liquid ecologies. Drawing on projects developed through the entre—ríos collective, she will situate engaged curatorial practice as a response to calls in the environmental humanities to contribute aesthetic forms that support a reclaiming of common waters.
Lisa Blackmore is a researcher, curator and educator, working with water cultures in Latin America. Since 2018, she has been directing entre—ríos, a research and artistic platform for collaborative methodologies connecting communities to bodies of water. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley and Senior Lecturer in Art History and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Essex, UK. Her recent publications include the co-edited volume Hydrocommons Cultures: Art, Pedagogy and Care Practices in the Americas (2024) and “Water” in Handbook to Latin American Environmental Aesthetics (2023). entre-rios.net / lisablackmore.net
Co-sponsored by UCSC’s More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

Curating Your Digital Reputation with Lisa Nielsen
2024-10-16 12:00 - 13:30 | Virtual and In Person
Your digital reputation refers to your presence on the internet, on social media platforms and on personal and professional websites. Learn tips on how to distinguish yourself from the crowd and create a lasting impression in an evolving digital communications landscape.
This event has two sessions: Oct 16, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. via Zoom or Oct 30, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend either session.

Lisa Nielsen has over 25 years of design and marketing experience in the private sector and with non-profits. From working at Apple Computer as an art director to running her own firm in San Francisco for 15 years, she knows what it means to be a good communicator and marketer. From startups to Fortune 500 clients, her adventures in marketing have built a depth of knowledge that she likes to share. Lisa is in her second decade at UC Santa Cruz as marketing director, overseeing a creative team of writers, videographers, and designers.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

WordPress Website Design with Jason Chafin
2024-10-17 13:30 - 15:00 | Graduate Student Commons, Room 204, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, 95064
Professional websites can boost your reputation and aid your networking and job search. UCSC provides free access to WordPress (with several design templates) to faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students.
Get design tips from Jason and get started using WordPress to make a blog or static website to showcase your graduate or postdoctoral work!
This event has two sessions: Oct 17, 1:30-3:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, Study Lounge 204, or Nov 6, 12:00-1:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend either session.

Jason Chafin graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 1993 with a bachelor’s in environmental studies. He earned his master of environmental studies from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, and spent over a decade as an environmental planner. He switched gears in 2010 and became a web developer, working primarily with WordPress. He’s been with University Relations as the senior web developer in the Communications and Marketing Department since 2017.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Living Writers with Stacey D'Erasmo
2024-10-17 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Living Writers Series – Fall 2024
Growing Things
~ gardens, poems, emotions, relationships, stories, our artistic practices, carefully tended, beautifully ordered, rewilded and wild ~
About The Living Writers Series
The Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public.
About the Author
Stacey D’Erasmo is the author of the novels Tea, A Seahorse Year, The Sky Below, Wonderland, and The Complicities. She is also the author of the nonfiction books The Art of Intimacy: The Space Between and The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry. D’Erasmo’s work has been published in The New York Times Book Review, New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares, Interview, The New Yorker, and the Los Angeles Times. She was a Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction in 2009, and won the Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize from the Lambda Literary Foundation in 2012.
She is currently a Professor of Writing and Publishing Practices at Fordham University in NYC.

Sponsored by The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Laurie Sain Endowment, The Humanities Institute, Bookshop Santa Cruz, and Two Birds Books, which provides books for purchase at the readings.

Dana Frank: What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?
2024-10-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Bookshop welcomes Dana Frank, UC Santa Cruz Professor Emerita of History, for a discussion about her new book What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?: Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
“The most important book on the Great Depression in a generation. Dana Frank skillfully shows how working-class people experimented with new forms of organizing based on traditions of struggles against racism as well as class and gender oppression. Our understanding of the Great Depression and its contested legacies will never be the same thanks to this brilliant and timely book.” —Paul Ortiz, author of An African American and Latinx History of the United States.

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Drawing on little-known stories of working people, What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? amplifies voices that have been long omitted from standard histories of the Depression era. In four stories of resilience, mutual aid, and radical rebellion that will transform how we understand the Great Depression, Professor Dana Frank explores how ordinary working people in the US turned to collective action to meet the crisis of the Great Depression and what we can learn from them today. Readers are introduced to:

The 7 daring Black women who worked as wet nurses and staged a sit-down strike to demand better pay and an end to racial discrimination.
The groups who used mutual aid, cooperatives, eviction protests, and demands for government relief to meet their basic needs.
The million Mexican and Mexican American repatriados who were erased from mainstream historical memory, while (often fictitious) white “Dust Bowl migrants” became enshrined.
The Black Legion, a white supremacist fascist organization that saw racism, antisemitism, anti-Catholicism, and fascism as the cure to the Depression.

While capitalism crashed during the Great Depression, racism did not and was, in fact, wielded by some to blame and oppress their neighbors. Patriarchy persisted, too, undermining the power of social movements and justifying women’s marginalization within them. For other ordinary people, collective action gave them the means to survive and fight against such hostilities.
What resulted were powerful new forms of horizontal reciprocity and solidarity that allowed people to provide each other with the bread, beans, and comradeship of daily life. The New Deal, when it arrived, provided vital resources to many, but others were cut off from its full benefits, especially if they were women or people of color.
What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? shows us how we might look to the past to think about how we can shape the future of our own failed economy. These lessons can also help us imagine and build movements to challenge such an economy—and to transform the state as a whole—in service to the common good without replicating racism and patriarchy.
Dana Frank is Professor Emerita of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A well-regarded senior historian, she is the author of many books on labor, women, and social justice in the US and Honduras. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, The Nation, Foreign Affairs, and many other publications, and she has testified before both the US Congress and Canadian Parliament.

Mastering the Elevator Pitch with Nada Miljkovich
2024-10-21 14:00 - 15:30 | Graduate Student Commons, Room 204, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, 95064
In this interactive workshop, graduate students will learn how to craft a compelling and concise elevator pitch tailored to their specific goals—whether it’s securing funding, attracting partners, or landing clients.
Participants will explore techniques to clearly communicate their vision, project, or business in just a few sentences, leaving a lasting impression. Through guided exercises and real-world examples, participants will develop the skills they need to present their ideas confidently and spark interest in any professional setting.
This event has two sessions: Oct 21, 2:00-3:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, Study Lounge 204, or Nov 4, 2:00-3:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend either session.

Nada Miljković is an experienced educator and digital arts expert with over a decade of teaching at UCSC. As a project manager and instructor at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development (CIED), she focuses on fostering creativity, storytelling, and entrepreneurial skills in students. Passionate about empowering students with real-world tools, Nada prepares future leaders in both their professional and personal lives while pursuing a Ph.D. in Digital Arts at the University of Arts, Belgrade.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Book Celebration: Toxic City and A People’s History of SFO
2024-10-21 15:00 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Join the Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies to celebrate the release of two important new books by UCSC faculty exploring power, historical development, and environmental justice in the Bay Area: Lindsey Dillon’s Toxic City and Eric Porter’s A People’s History of SFO (both published by University of California Press). The authors will be in conversation with graduate students from the departments of History and Sociology.
A limited number of both books are available for graduate students – please contact kgalinde@ucsc.edu to receive a copy. Books are available for sale via the UC Press website for 30% off using the code UCPSAVE30.
About the Authors and Books
Toxic City: Redevelopment and Environmental Justice in San Francisco explores the impact of green gentrification in Bayview-Hunters Point, a historically Black neighborhood in San Francisco. Lindsey examines how revitalization efforts often threaten to displace long-time residents who have fought for toxic cleanup and urban redevelopment as a means of reparative justice. She links these struggles to broader issues of environmental racism and the legacy of slavery, arguing for a vision of environmental justice within the context of reparations. Lindsey Dillon is author of Toxic City and a critical human geographer and Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz.
A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport examines the history of San Francisco International Airport to uncover a rich narrative of development and power in the Bay Area from the eighteenth century to today. Eric highlights SFO’s pivotal role in the region’s evolution as a hub of commerce, innovation, and influence. By examining the airport’s colonial roots and its impact on trade, social dynamics, and environmental change, Porter reveals how individual actions intersect with larger systems of power. The book concludes by confronting the climate crisis and the challenges it poses to SFO and the surrounding community. Eric Porter is Professor of History and History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz, where he also holds appointments in the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Music Departments. His research and teaching interests include Black cultural and intellectual history, US urban and cultural history, and jazz and improvisation studies. Porter is author of A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport (University of California Press, 2024).

Hosted by the Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies (CUES). Co-Sponsored by the departments of History of Consciousness and Sociology, the Division of Social Sciences, the Institute for Social Transformation, and the Science & Justice Research Center.

Burnout: Recognizing, Preventing, Mitigating with Audrey Kim and Nicolette Severson
2024-10-22 16:00 - 17:30 | Graduate Student Commons, Room 204, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, 95064
Burnout is a state of exhaustion that can impact our work, personal lives, health, and overall sense of well-being and purpose. Join us to discuss common causes and symptoms, and learn strategies to recognize, prevent, and manage burnout.
This event is on Oct 22, 4:00-5:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend the session.

Prior to joining UCSC CAPS in 2001, Audrey Kim, Ph.D., worked in the corporate and nonprofit sectors and understands how burnout can be different and yet similar across various settings. Kim likes helping students gain insight into their problems and learn practical strategies for overcoming them. She especially enjoys working with graduate students and facilitating the Graduate Women’s Group at UCSC.
Nicolette “Niki” Severson, LCSW, has been on the team at CAPS since January 2021. She came to her work as a therapist by way of a background in academia, education, and research in public health and social work. Previous to UCSC, Severson worked with underserved populations in community mental health. She has firsthand experience with burnout from a variety of demanding work environments and is excited to talk about this critical topic.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Engaging Digital Democracy: Tools to Recognize Political Dis- and Mis-Information
2024-10-22 19:00 | Virtual and In Person

Noreen Khawaja – What is a University? Humboldt and HistCon in Perspective
2024-10-23 12:15 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
This talk reteaches the history of the research university as a series of answers to the question of what symbols are for, what symbols can do. By answers I do not mean simply what scholars have said about these matters, but also what we have done, the worlds we have made in our teaching and in our shaping of the forms of the university itself. Two portraits stand at the center, each from public universities, each cases in which scholars themselves had an unusual degree of influence: the founding of the University of Berlin in the years before 1809 and the formation of the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz over the course of the 1970s-80s. Both institutions were established during periods of academic reform and state-building ambition. In both cases we find the imprint of a peculiarly Romantic myth—the idea of an intimate relation among three sets of maps: maps of a school, maps of culture, and maps of the mind.
Noreen Khawaja teaches in the Religion and Modernity program at Yale University. Her work examines the ideas, practices, and institutions of secular reason. She is the author of The Religion of Existence: Asceticism in Philosophy from Kierkegaard to Sartre (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and is currently at work on a history of the research university.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

Mjriam Abu Samra - "Intergenerational, Anticolonial Vanguards: The Palestinian Transnational Student Movement in Historical Perspective"
2024-10-23 16:00 | Cervantes and Velasquez Conference Room, Bay Tree Building, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This presentation focuses on the political potential of contemporary Palestinian transnational youth activism in Europe and USA. It compares student political engagement namely by examining the formation and development of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) during what is regarded as the “golden age” of the Palestinian revolution (1960s-1970s) with contemporary initiatives, efforts and strategies of mobilization amongst Palestinian youth in shatat (Diaspora). By looking to the past through a historical continuum that has molded present-day Palestinian youth activism, I propose that new futures can only be made through methodologies that tether together time and space.
About the Speaker
Mjriam Abu Samra is a Marie Curie Post-Doc Fellow at the department of Anthropology at UC Davis with ties to the program in Middle East/South Asian Studies through the cooperation with her host institution University of Venice Ca Foscari in Italy.
Mjriam received her Ph.D. from the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, UK and her MA in Middle East Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK. Her research focuses on Palestinian transnational student and youth politics and Third World solidarities. Her work intervenes in the critical study of refugees, colonialisms, social movements and it is grounded on critical theories on subalternity and decolonization. As a MSC Postdoctoral Fellow Mjriam will be exploring the political potential of contemporary Palestinian transnational youth activism in the United States and Europe through an historical comparative lens.
Before joining UC Davis, Mjriam was based in Amman, Jordan, where she worked as gender expert for the Center of Strategic Studies at the University of Jordan and as Senior researcher and coordinator at the Al Nahda research center. She taught courses on international politics, developments, and history of colonialism at the University of Jordan and American education abroad programs in Amman.

This talk is presented by the Center for Racial Justice (CRJ) at UC Santa Cruz and co-sponsored by Feminist Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department, Students for Justice in Palestine, Faculty for Justice in Palestine, Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS), Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA), Anthropology Department, Sociology Department, Politics Department, Center for Cultural Studies, and People’s University.
It is the first talk in a year-long speaker series, “Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement.” For more information , please visit the CRJ website: https://crjucsc.com/

Employing Humanities - Humanities at Work: Making a Meaningful Career
2024-10-23 17:00 - 18:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
The Humanities Career Engagement Specialist will lead an interactive workshop that will set you up to better understand how your humanities skills can prepare you for a fulfilling career. Free burritos for all who register through our Linktree here!
Open to all Humanities Majors and Minors. For more information please email humco@ucsc.edu.
Please visit the Humanities Student Events Calendar to see other exciting events happening for students in the Humanities Division.

The Center for Cultural Studies 35th Anniversary Conference
2024-10-24 - 2024-10-25 | UC Santa Cruz
Join us for a celebratory conference in collaborative form, including a conversation with founding director Jim Clifford, lightning talks on Cultural Studies keywords, dialogues, reflections by former graduate student affiliates, and a collective imagining of CCS’s next chapter.
Events begin Thursday, October 24 at 5:00 PM and run through Friday evening in Humanities 210 and the Oakes College Mural Room. For more information, view or download the full program.

For over three decades, the Center for Cultural Studies has hosted a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. Read more about the colloquium and the Center for Cultural Studies legacy here.

Academic Publishing with Martha Stuit and Erich van Rijn
2024-10-24 11:30 - 13:00 | Virtual and In Person
How do you choose a reputable academic journal to publish in? What are your copyrights? What is open access? Where do you find academic publishing support at UCSC beyond your program and department?
This event has two sessions: Oct 24, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. via Zoom, or Oct 29, 3:00-4:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend either session.

As scholarly communication librarian at the UCSC University Library, Martha Stuit provides author services, which cover publishing theses, dissertations, and academic articles and books; open access; and copyright. She also serves as the library’s liaison to the Division of Graduate Studies. Prior to becoming a librarian, she was a journalist. Martha has an M.S. in Information from the University of Michigan.
Erich van Rijn is executive director at the University of California Press where he leads book and journal publishing operations. Erich has been with the University of California Press since 1997 and has held positions in marketing, sales, operations, and finance. Prior to joining the press, he held positions in marketing at Oxford University Press and HarperCollins Publishers.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Living Writers with Carolina Ixta
2024-10-24 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Living Writers Series – Fall 2024
Growing Things
~ gardens, poems, emotions, relationships, stories, our artistic practices, carefully tended, beautifully ordered, rewilded and wild ~
About The Living Writers Series
The Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public.
About the Author
Carolina Ixta is a writer from Oakland, California. A daughter of Mexican immigrants, she received her B.A. in Creative Writing and Spanish Language and Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz and obtained her Master’s degree in Education at the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently an elementary school teacher whose pedagogy centers critical race theory at the primary education level. Shut Up, This is Serious is her debut novel.

Sponsored by The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Laurie Sain Endowment, The Humanities Institute, Bookshop Santa Cruz, and Two Birds Books, which provides books for purchase at the readings.

Art and Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Investigation with Alice Barale
2024-10-28 13:00 | Virtual and In Person
The History of Consciousness department presents “Art and Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Investigation” with Alice Barale, University of Milan as part of the 2024-2025 HistCon Speaker Series.
Join us Monday, October 28 at 1pm PST in Hum 1 Rm 210 or register below to attend virtually:

It has been several years since the first artwork created with artificial intelligence was sold at the renowned auction house Christie’s in 2018. In the meantime, new types of artificial intelligence have emerged, enabling artists to conduct different experiments. However, the presence of AI in the artistic process continues to raise significant questions. How should its role be understood? And, more importantly, what new chances does it offer within the artistic field and beyond?
Alice Barale is a scholar of Aesthetics and Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural and Environmental Heritage at the University of Milan. She has extensively researched Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin, authors to whom she has dedicated several essays and two monographs (“La malinconia dell’immagine,” FUP, 2009, and “La prima impresa: Shakespeare in Warburg e Benjamin,” Jaca Book, 2021). For Benjamin, she has edited and translated a new Italian version of “Origin of the German Trauerspiel” (Carocci, 2018). Among her most recent research interests are the philosophy of color (“Il giallo del colore,” Jaca Book, 2020) and the relationship between art and artificial intelligence. She has curated the collected volume “Arte e intelligenza artificiale. Be my GAN” (Jaca Book, 2020) and has just completed a new book on the subject, which will be published in November 2024.
Co-sponsored by Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence & The Humanities Institute.

Proactive Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with Lorato Anderson
2024-10-29 13:30 - 15:00 | Graduate Student Commons, Room 204, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, 95064
How do you proactively promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in your role as a graduate student, a researcher, a teaching assistant, and a peer and undergraduate mentor? Learn active steps you can take in every role to promote a just and welcoming environment at UCSC in every space.
Recommended Reading: Ely, Robin J., and Thomas, David A. “Getting Serious About Diversity: Enough Already with the Business Case.” Harvard Business Review, November-December 2020 Magazine Issue.
This event has two sessions: Oct 29, 1:30-3:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, Study Lounge 204, or Oct 31, 12:00-1:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend either session.

As director of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the Division of Graduate Studies at UC Santa Cruz, Lorato Anderson focuses on advancing initiatives for minoritized graduate student support across multiple campus-wide projects and providing direct support to students, staff, faculty, and programs. Lorato graduated with a B.A. in Literature/Writing from UC San Diego and received her M.S. in Higher Education Administration and Policy from Northwestern University, where she researched and developed assessment models for English language learners and created multiple DEI programs that are still active. She has extensive experience in grant writing, teaching, advising, assessment, and creating long-lasting research-backed programs to promote minoritized undergraduate and graduate student success.
Lorato has worked on campus since 2016 and received the 2020 Outstanding Staff Achievement Award in Social Sciences. Her previous roles include graduate program adviser and coordinator for Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) and Politics and undergraduate advisor for Psychology. She takes pride in incorporating social justice and empathetic advising strategies and teaching pedagogies into her work in advising, administration, and grant and program development.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Sandhya Shukla - Cosmopolitanism and Relationality: The Logic of the Cultural Studies We Need Now
2024-10-30 12:15 - 13:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
When Immanuel Kant suggested in 1798 that a citizenship of the world could be staged in Konigsberg without physical travel, he illuminated the dense heterogeneity of place. Kant’s insight might be seen to have informed many projects of British cultural studies that situated globality inside locality by focusing on the potential of working-class cultures built through migrancy and racialization in cities like London. US cultural studies, by contrast, underemphasized that local-global dynamic, perhaps because the crossings of daily experience that inspired scholars like Stuart Hall were hard to see through post-1970s America’s balkanization of racial and ethnic identities. And while Hall and others advocated an interdisciplinarity that took seriously the inextricability of representation and social life, this was not always fully attended to by the literary criticism that assumed the task of translating British cultural studies for the US academy. This cross-cultural talk brings together the earlier approaches of Hall and the Birmingham school with the histories and stories told about Harlem in order to propose working-class cosmopolitanism as a useful conceptual frame for the political present.
Sandhya Shukla is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Virginia. Her most recent work is Cross-Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and Place (Columbia University Press, 2024). She is also the author of India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England (Princeton University Press, 2003), and a co-editor of Imagining Our Americas: Toward a Transnational Frame (Duke University Press, 2007). Her work has appeared in publications such as American Quarterly, symploke, and Annual Review of Anthropology.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

Walking in the Ecotone with Jim Clifford
2024-10-30 14:30 | Humanities 1
A not to be missed opportunity to explore the UC Santa Cruz Campus, on and off the footpaths with Professor Jim Clifford. We’ll wander among the trees, down in the ravines, out in the meadows. Pooling our different knowledges of environmental, social, cultural, technological and architectural history, we will try to disentangle the overlapping layers that constitute a unique environment. Meet in front of Humanities 1 at 2:30pm
Jim Clifford is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the History of Consciousness Department. Since his retirement he has photographed the campus, co-curated an exhibition about its history and published a book of Images and texts, In the Ecotone, that evokes the site’s “poetics of space,” its planning/design history, and its utopian potential.
Co-sponsored by: GeoEcologies + TechnoScience Conversations in the History of Consciousness Department and the Science and Justice Research Center

Decoding the Headlines: Top News Stories, Misinformation, and the 2024 Presidential Campaign
2024-10-30 19:00 | Virtual and In Person

"What Is It Like to Be a Bat?": Spooky Reading Group Potluck
2024-11-02 18:00 - 19:00 | Westlake Park, 149-111 Bradley Dr, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
On Saturday, November 2 from 6-7pm, we will have a SPOOKY READING GROUP POTLUCK at West Lake Park.
On theme for Halloween and Day of the Dead, Alisa Puga Keesey will lead us in a discussion of the essay “What is it like to be a bat?” (We think we can observe bats at dusk at West Lake!). Alisa wants the community to know that the essay is heavily philosophical and dense. In our first meeting, Flora Lu called for inclusivity in our group so that we can speak across disciplinary divides without alienating any of our members, so the discussion will welcome perspectives, questions, and confusions from all of our members.
Please sign up to bring a dish to share here. COSTUMES ENCOURAGED!
Presented by the THI 2024-25 research cluster, UC Santa Cruz More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory.

A Post-Election Conversation
2024-11-06 12:15 - 13:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Join the CCS community as we process what just happened. We will be discussing electoral politics, the role of media in the election, political affects, and what is to be done. With: Liz Beaumont, Jody Biehl, and Daniel Wirls.
Liz Beaumont is Associate Professor of Politics and Legal Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her research explores the politics and law of citizenship and constitutional democracy, with particular interests in problems of unequal citizenship, how citizens, civic groups, and movements seek to use, challenge, and transform rights and law. Her most recent book is the co-edited volume Civic Education in Polarized Times, New York University Press (2024).
Jody K. Biehl is an award-winning journalist and journalism educator. She spent 15 years as a reporter and editor, including at Germany’s Der Spiegel, before joining the faculty at SUNY Buffalo, where she redesigned the journalism program curriculum. She came to UCSC in 2021 and is a Humanities Divisional Associate Teaching Professor. She is interested in the role that community and local journalism play in society and serves as the Community Voices editor at Lookout Santa Cruz. In 2024, she was part of the Lookout team to win the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting.
Daniel Wirls is Professor of Politics at UC Santa Cruz and author of numerous works on the history of Congress and the Senate as well as U.S. military policy and American political thought. His most recent book is The Senate: From White Supremacy to Government Gridlock (University of Virginia Press, 2021). Dan also serves on the board of the Council for a Livable World, the nation’s oldest anti-nuclear weapons political action committee.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

CANCELLED - Ellen Bass: Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
2024-11-07 18:00 - 19:30 | Cultural Center at Merrill, Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Join us for the 15th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading, featuring honored guest Ellen Bass. Poet Gary Young will host the program, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1,000 prize).
Unfortunately we have had to cancel this event, Ellen has caught Covid.
Photo by: Irene Young
Ellen Bass’s most recent collection, Indigo, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020. Among her other books are Like a Beggar, The Human Line, and Mules of Love. Her poems appear frequently in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and many other journals. Among her awards are Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The NEA, and The California Arts Council, The Lambda Literary Award, and four Pushcart Prizes. She co-edited with Florence Howe the first major anthology of women’s poetry, No More Masks!, and her nonfiction books include the groundbreaking The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse and Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth. A chancellor emerita of the Academy of American Poets, Bass founded poetry workshops at Salinas Valley State Prison and the Santa Cruz, California jails, and teaches in the MFA writing program at Pacific University.
Gary Young is the author of several collections of poetry. His most recent books are That’s What I Thought, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award from Persea Books, and Precious Mirror, translations from the Japanese. His other books include Even So: New and Selected Poems; Pleasure; No Other Life, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award; Braver Deeds, winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize; Days; The Dream of a Moral Life, which won the James D. Phelan Award; and Hands. He has received a Pushcart Prize, and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, and the Vogelstein Foundation, among others. In 2009 he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Young was the first Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, and in 2012 he was named Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year. Since 1975 he has designed, illustrated, and printed limited edition letterpress books and broadsides at his Greenhouse Review Press. His fine print work is represented in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Getty Museum, and special collection libraries throughout the U.S. and Europe. He teaches creative writing and directs the Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz.
This event is a part of the Fall UCSC Living Writers course, which features poets, novelists, academics, curators, and artists in conversation with one another, in person, across genre and media.
Purchase both poets’ works at: www.bookshopsantacruz.com

Parking Information
The Merrill Cultural Center is located in Merrill College, in the northeast corner of the campus core. Those walking or arriving by Metro bus or campus shuttle can take the steep path heading northeast from the Crown/Merrill bus stop.
For those driving from the Main Entrance, stay on Coolidge Drive. Shortly after Coolidge turns left and becomes McLaughlin Drive, turn right at the sign for Merrill College. At the top of the hill, veer right. There are ParkMobile parking spaces along the left side of the lot, and parking for “A,” “B,” and “C” permits along the right. There are two accessible parking spaces if you turn left at the top of the hill and two more if you turn right. Parking attendants will be on site to sell parking permits to event attendees.

The Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors poet, teacher, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009). Marcus was the 1999 Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year and a recipient of the 2007 Gail Rich Award. Among his published works are eleven volumes of poetry, including The Santa Cruz Mountain Poems, Pages from a Scrapbook of Immigrants, Moments Without Names, Shouting Down the Silence, Pursuing the Dream Bone and The Dark Figure In The Doorway; a novel, The Brezhnev Memo; and a literary memoir, Striking Through the Masks. He taught English and Film at Cabrillo College for thirty years, was the co-host of the radio program, The Poetry Show, and was the co-host of the television film review show, Cinema Scene. Learn more at: www.mortonmarcus.com
The Morton Marcus Poetry Archive can be found at UCSC Special Collections. Mort’s personal papers, manuscripts, and recordings reflect his legacy as a poet and educator, and his collection of poetry books, broadsides, literary magazines and correspondence with other poets and writers illuminate his deep involvement in, and passion for, the literary art of poetry.
Organizing Committee: Danusha Laméris, Donna Mekis, Mark Ong, Maggie Paul, Farnaz Fatemi, David Sullivan, Irena Polić, Teresa Mora, and Gary Young.
Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Contest: Every year, the annual reading coincides with the The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Prize, a national poetry contest which honors Morton Marcus, “whose life and work inspired the writing of many students, friends, and emerging poets.” The contest is hosted by The Hive Poetry Collective. The Hive is a group of Santa Cruz poets creating a weekly radio show and live poetry events featuring a diverse roster of poets and seeks to bring a diverse community together in appreciation of all kinds of poetry by all kinds of people. This year’s contest will be judged by Brad Crenshaw. For more information visit: https://hivepoetry.org/morton-marcus-prize/
Support Poetry in Santa Cruz: The Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading is made possible due to campus and community co-sponsorships and generous contributions from members of our community, like you. To ensure we can continue to offer this poetry reading free and open to the public in honor and memory of Morton Marcus, and to have our lives deeply enriched by exceptional poetry, please consider making a gift to The Morton Marcus Poetry Reading Fund: thi.ucsc.edu/projects/morton-marcus-poetry-reading.
This community event is presented by the The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by:
Bookshop Santa Cruz
Cabrillo College English Department
Cowell College
Donna F. Mekis
The Hive Poetry Collective
Living Writers Series
Ow Family Properties
Merrill College
Poetry Santa Cruz
Porter Hitchcock Modern Poetry Fund
Porter College
Santa Cruz Writes
Side By Side Press
Special Collections & Archives
If you have disability-related needs, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by October 31.

Jim McCloskey: Clauses without verbs - The Irish landscape and beyond
2024-11-08 13:20 - 15:00 | Virtual and In Person
The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Jim McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz) speaking on Clauses without verbs – The Irish landscape and beyond.
Please join us Friday, November 8 at 1:20pm in Humanities 1 – Room 210 or virtually via Zoom:

One of the ways (perhaps the principal way) in which contemporary Irish departs from the typological profile of a Standard Average European (SAE) language is in its intricate and rich subsystem of finite verbless clauses. This subsystem will be the focus of my talk.
There is existing work on the topic, but that work focuses almost exclusively on clauses which express copular relations (predicative, identificational, specificational). This talk will focus instead on the very large (and largely unstudied) class of predications which are verbless in their syntax but not copular in their semantics. It turns out that this sub-grouping includes many kinds of predication which have been of interest and importance in contemporary formal semantics and philosophy of language — almost all of the familiar modal expressions, comparative clauses, propositional attitude predicates, subjective attitude ascriptions, structures of weak quantification, predicates of temporal duration and frequency, predicates of knowledge, acquaintance and many other psychological states (but not physical states).
The first goal of the talk will be descriptive — to provide an overview (syntactic and semantic) of these predication types — with a view ultimately of answering the typological-theoretical question of what predication-types can in principle be expressed in a verb-free syntactic frame.
The second goal will be to develop a syntactic framework which can accommodate these patterns and make the correct distributional predictions and connections within the language.
The third goal will be to consider theoretical implications (some syntactic, some semantic), especially for the theory of extended projection and for the question of how roots are integrated into larger structures.

Online Platforms for Presenting Research with Kayla Isenberg
2024-11-12 10:00 - 11:30 | Virtual Event
Ready to promote your research on social media? This seminar will help you learn how! Explore how to promote your research and expertise on the text-based social media platforms Threads, Mastodon, and others. We’ll cover how to use each platform, how each works, how to communicate effectively on each platform, and how to pick the right platform for you and your goals.
This event is on Nov 12, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend the session.

Kayla Isenberg is the senior director of digital engagement for UC Santa Cruz, where she runs digital strategy for the main campus social media properties and advises on divisional and other social media accounts across campus. She has over 15 years of experience in digital marketing and social media, working for a variety of companies, from startups to Fortune 500. She was listed on the Forbes 40 under 40 list for her work at Warner Bros Records. In her work in higher education, she has won multiple CASE awards for her work in digital marketing and social media at UC Santa Cruz and has been a featured speaker at CASE social media conferences.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Film Screening and Director's Discussion: Chaityabhumi
2024-11-12 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Chaityabhumi is a holy site that holds immense importance for the Dalit movement in India, as it is where Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s last rites were performed after his passing on December 6, 1956. Dr Ambedkar, often called the father of the Indian Constitution, dedicated his life to fighting the chains of caste oppression and bringing revolutionary change. He was a guiding light for the oppressed who dismantled discriminatory barriers and empowered them to reclaim their dignity and their rightful place in society.
This musical film will bring to light the history and cultural politics of how people commemorate December 6 at Chaityabhumi, Mumbai, and the relevance of this public event in contemporary India. It explores how the Dalit community comes together to honor this day and the political implications it holds for their identity and empowerment.
Somnath Waghmare is a Mumbai-based, Dalit-Buddhist film researcher and documentary filmmaker. He is the co-founder of the Ambedkarite Dalit song documentation project, ‘The Ambedkar Age Digital Bookmobile,’ for which he was awarded the Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art Public Art Grant in 2020. He is also the founder of Begumpura Productions. His recent documentary, Chaityabhumi, has been screened globally, including at the London School of Economics and Columbia University. His past films include I am not a Witch (2016), The Battle of Bhima Koregaon: An Unending Journey (2017), Memories of Mangaon (2022), and There is No Caste Discrimination in IITs? (2023). He is currently working on a documentary biopic on American born Indian sociologist Gail Omvedt.

Presented by the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.

The Hive Live! Featuring Gary Young & Elizabeth Robinson
2024-11-12 19:00 - 20:30 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The Hive Live! presents an evening of poetry with Gary Young and Elizabeth Robinson at Bookshop Santa Cruz.
Gary Young is a poet, artist, and translator. He is the author of nine collections of poetry, among them That’s What I Thought, and American Analects, both from Persea Books. His other books include Precious Mirror, translations from the Japanese; Taken to Heart: 70 Poems from the Chinese; Even So: New and Selected Poems; Pleasure; No Other Life, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award; Braver Deeds, winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize; The Dream of a Moral Life, which won the James D. Phelan Award; and Hands. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the California Arts Council, among others. His print work is represented in collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Getty Center for the Arts. In 2009 he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. He teaches creative writing and directs the Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz.
Elizabeth Robinson is the author, most recently, for Excursive (Roof Books), Thirst & Sufeit (Threadsuns Press), and, collaboratively with Susanne Dyckman, Rendered Paradise (Apogee Press). In the past five years, Robinson has received Editors’ Choice Awards from Scoundrel Time and New Letters, and a Pushcart Prize. Vulnerabiity Index is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press in 2025.

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This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.

Dolly Kikon – Abundance: Living with a Forest
2024-11-13 12:15 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
We welcome Dolly Kikon for a screening of her film Abundance: Living with a Forest and a talk about her work on Indigenous ecology in the Eastern Himalayan region.
Abundance: Living with a Forest (2024) is a filmic biography of foraging, forest, and jhum cultivation in Nagaland, a hill state in Northeast India where approximately 60% of the population depend on jhum cultivation. Jhum cultivation and foraging have been recognized as community practices of indigenous knowledge. However, both these practices and the forest to which they are intrinsically linked have been threatened by the plantation, monocropping, and infrastructure activities that have surged with the ongoing ceasefire between Naga armed groups and the government.
Abundance: Living with a Forest follows Zareno, a Lotha forager in the forest of Khumtsü, and traces the foraged edible plants as they make their way to the market in Wokha town. The film gestures to an impending loss that Indigenous communities encounter across the world.
Watch the trailer here:

Listen to the Title Song from the documentary:

Dolly Kikon is Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz and director of the Center for South Asian Studies. She is the author of Experiences of Naga Women in Armed Conflict: Narratives from a Militarized Society (2004); Life and Dignity: Women’s Testimonies of Sexual Violence in Dimapur (2015); Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India (2019); with Bengt G. Karlsson, Leaving the Land: Indigenous Migration and Affective Labour in India (2019); with Duncan McDuie-Ram, Ceasefire City: Militarism, Capitalism, and Urbanism in Dimapur (2021); with Dixita Deka, Joel Rodrigues, Bengt G. Karlsson, Sanjay Barbora, and Meenal Tula, Seeds and Sovereignty: Eastern Himalayan Experiences (2023).

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

Dr. Christian Alvarado - "The Storm in Kenya": The Mau Mau Uprising and pan-Africanist Thought in the mid-20th Century
2024-11-13 13:30 - 15:00 | Virtual and In Person
The History Department invites you to an upcoming talk by Dr. Christian Alvarado entitled “The Storm in Kenya:” The Mau Mau Uprising and pan-Africanist Thought in the mid-20th Century.
Join us in person from 1:30 – 3:00 pm (PT) in Humanities 1, Room 202 or join via Zoom here.
Historical work on the event most commonly known as the “Mau Mau Uprising”—which roiled late-colonial Kenya in the 1950s and captivated audiences the world over—has long been preoccupied with examining the political and economic origins of anticolonial resistance in the colony, the operations of British counter-insurgency efforts, and the legacy of each of these for post-independence Kenyan society. In distinction to these orthodox approaches to the study of Mau Mau, Alvarado’s current book project considers how this event impacted the political, economic, and cultural history of other parts of the African continent, as well as Europe and the Americas. This talk presents an account of the role “myths of Mau Mau” played in pan-Africanist thought both within and far beyond the borders of the colony during this period. Across the globe, understandings of this event served as a key touchstone in the attempt to forge international solidarities among communities both in support of colonial rule and those who sought to bring about its end. This talk focuses in particular on debates about Mau Mau as they arose in two important contexts in the contemporary pan-Africanist movement. First, an array of conferences, forums, and political meetings held on the continent during the late 1950s and early 1960s; second, in contemporary Garveyite political thought both in Africa and abroad. Considered together, these visions of what George Padmore called “the Storm in Kenya” illuminate new dimensions in the transnational history of not only Mau Mau, but African decolonization more broadly.
Dr. Christian Alvarado received his PhD in History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis. His wide-ranging research situates the event most commonly known as the Mau Mau Uprising in late-colonial Kenya within the broader history of decolonization in 20th century Africa. By tracing how understandings of this event circulated across transnational networks and cultural formations, this work aims to show how the frameworks to which Mau Mau is put illuminate novel insights into global dimensions in the history of African decolonization. These frameworks include, but are not limited to, the history of the social sciences, notions of African ‘race relations,’ pan-Africanism, diverse memory communities, and conspiracist discourses. Across these seemingly disparate realms, Alvarado argues that Mau Mau serves as a way of probing contemporary and current debates regarding the ethics of (anti)colonial violence, the relationship between tradition and modernity, and the nature of decolonization. A historian by training, Dr. Alvarado’s interdisciplinary work is also in conversation with the fields of cultural studies, comparative literature, and political theory.

Public Speaking with Catherine Carlstroem
2024-11-13 14:00 - 16:00 | Graduate Student Commons, Room 204, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, 95064
These interactive in-person workshops provide an overview of strategies and best practices for public speaking, including managing anxiety, key delivery techniques, and composition tips for crafting clearer and more focused speeches, with an emphasis on the parameters of the Grad Slam’s short presentations.
This event has two sessions: Nov 13, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, Study Lounge 204, or Nov 19, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend either session.

UCSC faculty and alum Catherine Carlstroem (PhD American Literature) is a longtime lecturer in Humanities at UCSC (over 30 years) and has enjoyed teaching public speaking for over 10 of these. Along with teaching, she coordinates the Cowell Core Course.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Project Paradiso - Episode Sixteen – The Futures of Dante's Paradiso: Reading Forward
2024-11-14 09:50 - 11:25 | Virtual and In Person
Join us for a conversation with Prof. Alison Cornish (New York University) and Prof. Arielle Saiber (Johns Hopkins University), about the challenges and opportunities of reading Dante’s Paradiso today, particularly in, but not limited to, the academic context. They will explore innovative future directions to take this poem to as many readers and diverse audiences as possible, and also why this should be done, especially in view of the textbook that will be complied as a result of this year-long webinar series.

This event will be will be in person at Oakes Acad 105 and via Zoom (registration required).
Dante’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 Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers. This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars took readers on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule.
Featuring:
Alison Cornish, Professor of Italian Studies at New York University and President of the Dante Society of America. She is the author of Reading Dante’s Stars (Yale, 2000), Vernacular Translation in Dante’s Italy: Illiterate Literature (Cambridge, 2011) a commentary on Dante’s Paradiso, translated by Stanley Lombardo (Hackett, 2017), and Believing in Dante: Truth in Fiction (Cambridge, 2022); as well as a number of essays on Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio. During the seventh centenary of the poet’s death, she organized a crowd-sourced series of video conversations between members of the Dante Society of America, entitled “Canto per Canto: Conversations with Dante in Our Time.”
Arielle Saiber, Charles S. Singleton Professor of Italian Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. Saiber’s books include Images of Quattrocento Florence: Writings on Literature, History and Art co-edited with Stefano U. Baldassarri (Yale, 2000); Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language (Ashgate/Routledge, 2005); and Measured Words: Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy (University of Toronto Press, 2017).
Saiber publishes primarily on Dante, on the intersections between premodern Italian literature and mathematics/science, and visual interpretations of Dante’s Commedia. She has also published on early print history, science fiction, and experimental electronic music. Her current research is on “altered states of consciousness” in medieval and Renaissance Italian literature.
She has co-edited a number of special issues of academic journals: for Configurations, “Mathematics and the Imagination” (2009) with Henry S. Turner; for Dante Studies, “Longfellow and Dante” (2010) with Giuseppe Mazzotta; for California Italian Studies, “Sound” (2014) with Deanna Shemek; and for Science Fiction Studies, “Italian Science Fiction” (2015) with Salvatore Proietti and Umberto Rossi. She is currently co-editing with Proietti an anthology of Italian science fiction in English for Wesleyan University Press’s Early Classics of Science Fiction series.
Her doctoral dissertation on Giordano Bruno won Yale’s Field Prize (2000), and in 2004 she received the Karofsky Prize for teaching at Bowdoin. She has been a fellow at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici in Naples, Italy (1998-1999), the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2003-2004), and Villa I Tatti – Harvard’s Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy (2008-2009). She also received an NEH Fellowship (2008-2009), the MLA’s Scaglione Publication Award (2016), the Newberry Library’s Weiss-Brown Publication Award (2017), the American Initiative for Italian Culture’s Bridge Book Award (2018), and the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts’ Kendrick Book Prize (2019) for her book Measured Words.
In 2006 she built the web-based archive, Dante Today: Sightings and Citings of Dante’s Work in Contemporary Culture, which she now co-edits with Beth Coggeshall.
She co-edits the new book series Proximities: Experiments in Nearness with David Cecchetto for the University of Minnesota Press.

Presented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, and Porter College.

Crafting the CV with Veronica Heiskell
2024-11-14 12:00 - 13:30 | Virtual Event
Applications for academic positions require a CV, and some industry, government, and nonprofit employers also require them. Learn how a CV differs from a resume, about hybrid CV-resumes, what goes on a CV, and what order to put information depending on the type of academic institution you’re applying to and for what type of position.
This event is on Thu, Nov 14, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend the session.

Veronica Heiskell has worked for over fourteen years in diversity and career centers in a variety of higher education institutions and currently serves as director of experiential learning at Career Success. Her goal is to remove as many barriers as possible for all students to pursue meaningful experiential learning opportunities. She completed her bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in LGBT studies at UCLA, her master’s degree in counseling and guidance in higher education at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and her doctorate in higher education administration at UT Austin. Her dissertation research focused on sense of belonging for exploratory students.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.
