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  • Peter Galison – Time: Physics, Film, History

    Music Center Recital Hall - UCSC 402 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Henri Poincaré's and Albert Einstein's reformulation of simultaneity was long seen as a development from imaginative thought experiments. But the all-too-material and the most abstract notions of time cross in essential ways (Swiss Patent Office, Paris Bureau of Longitude). Galison explores this intersection in collaboration with the artist William Kentridge (“The Refusal of Time,” 2012), […]

  • Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Thirteen – Early Receptions

    Virtual Event

    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 […]

  • Black Enlightenment with Surya Parekh

    Virtual and In Person

    The History of Consciousness department presents Black Enlightenment with Surya Parekh, Binghamton University. This talk is a part of the Spring 2024 History of Consciousness Speaker Series. The History of Consciousness Speaker series is a quarterly series of talks by distinguished guests. Recordings of previous lectures are available in the HistCon Speaker Series Archive. To […]

  • Right Livelihood International Conference

    UCSC and Silicon Valley Campuses

    Join us April 23-27, 2024, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the UCSC Right Livelihood Center. We will inaugurate UCSC’s new role as Global Secretariat of the Right Livelihood College network, launch an international student network, launch faculty-laureate research clusters, and more. Events are free and open to the public. Learn more about the conference […]

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    THI Coffee Hour

    THI Coffee Hour

    Humanities 1, Room 515 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, 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 […]

  • Carla Freccero – Do Animals Have History?

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

    This talk, very much a meditation-in-progress, asks a series of questions about how we (in the Western European intellectual tradition) come to think about the categories of history and evolution and the various ways we might deconstruct this opposition, making way for co-constitutive material histories of the living. It also asks whether, in the time […]

  • The Deep Read: Bay Area Salon

    San Rafael, CA

    Meet Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder and UCSC faculty members for a special evening to learn about the Deep Read, this year's featured book, and how you can get involved. The Deep Read, hosted annually by The Humanities Institute, invites curious minds to delve deeply into books guided by the expertise of UC Santa Cruz scholars. […]

  • Yosimar Reyes’ One-Man Show: “Prieto”

    Stevenson Event Center

    NATIONALLY ACCLAIMED POET, YOSIMAR REYES, BRINGS HIS FULL-LENGTH AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ONE-MAN SHOW TO UC SANTA CRUZ Directed by Kat Evasco and Sean San José, Produced by The Living World Project   CRES 70u – (Un)docu Studies, in collaboration with the Cultural Arts and Diversity Resource Center (CADrc) and the Center for Racial Justice (CRJ) bring the […]

  • Saturday Shakespeare

    Aptos Library 7695 Soquel Dr, Aptos, United States

    In collaboration with the Shakespeare Workshop at UCSC, the first in-person meeting of the Saturday Shakespeare Group in four years will take place on Saturday, April 27th 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 […]

  • Indian Midsummer

    Indian Midsummer

    Experimental Theater Experimental Theater, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Karlton Hester has composed the music for Karen Tei Yamashita’s libretto that is a reading of the envisioned as an operetta within a dance/videographic play. More info at: https://arts.ucsc.edu/news_events/indian-midsummer-april-santa-cruz-festival-event Presented by: Digital Arts and New Media Music Department This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. Emeritus Professor Karen Tei Yamashita, librettist (UCSC Literature Department) […]

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