THI Coffee Hour
2024-03-13 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-03-20 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-04-10 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-04-17 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-04-24 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-05-01 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-05-08 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-05-15 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) and 3 more dates | 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!

Rahel Jaeggi: Progress and Regression
2024-03-18 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities 1, Room 420, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The History of Consciousness department is delighted to present Progress and Regression with Rahel Jaeggi (Humboldt University of Berlin)
This talk is part of the HISC Winter 2024 Speaker Series. Guests are invited to join us in-person in HUM 1, Room 420 at 2:00 pm PST, or join virtually via Zoom. We look forward to seeing you there!

About Progress and Regression
My paper deals with a question which has repeatedly preoccupied contemporary philosophical discussion and which seems to me to be indispensable for a critical theory of society in the tradition of left-Hegelian critique in particular—namely, the question of progress and regression. So what does it mean to understand social change as a movement of progression, or, respectively, regression? How can the concept of progress help us to understand, as Wendy Brown says “where we have come from and where we are going”, if where we are trying to go is towards emancipation – or at least away from the multi-crisis we are currently in? And in which respect does it prevent us from understanding this? How can we (and can we?) distinguish regressive from progressive or emancipatory movements? Read more
About Rahel Jaeggi
Rahel Jaeggi is Professor of Philosophy with a focus on Political Philosophy at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Since 2018 she is also director of the University’s Centre for Social Critique. She has researched and taught as a visiting professor at Yale University, Fudan University, and as Theodor Heuss Professor at The New School for Social Research. Jaeggi was also a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She is a prominent representative of critical theory, has received numerous awards, and is the author and co-editor of numerous books, including Alienation (2015), Critique of Forms of Life (Harvard University Press, 2018) and Fortschritt und Regression, which is about to be translated and will appear in English in 2025. She is currently a fellow at the Thomas Mann Haus in Los Angeles.

PhD+ Workshop - THI Public Fellowship Information Session
2024-03-21 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Curious about becoming a THI Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia, then you may be interested in THI’s Public Fellowship program.
Public fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute to research, programming, communications, and fundraising at non-profit organizations, cultural institutions, or companies and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study.
Please join us for an information session about the 2024 THI Public Fellows program to learn about Summer 2024 opportunities and hear from previous THI Public Fellows.
All THI Public Fellow applicants are required to attend an Info Session or meet with THI Staff by March 21st, 2024. Final applications are due on April 15, 2024.
The workshop will be led by Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell, THI Research Programs and Communications Director, and include a panel with recent Public Fellows, Rafael Franco-Flores (who worked with the GLBT Historical Society) and Wesley Viebahn (who worked with the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History)

About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the eighth year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.
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Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode 11 - The End of Imagination (Paradiso 33)
2024-03-22 09:00 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule.

William Franke is a Dante scholar, a philosopher of the humanities, and a professor of comparative literature at Vanderbilt University. He has also been professor of philosophy at University of Macao (2013-2016); Fulbright-University of Salzburg Distinguished Chair in Intercultural Theology (2005-06); and Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung research fellow (1994- 95). His book Dante’s Paradiso and the Theological Origins of Modern Thought: Toward a Speculative Philosophy of Self-Reflection received the Hermes Award: Book of the Year in Phenomenological Hermeneutics from The International Institute for Hermeneutics (IIH), 2021 and he became Honorary Professor (Profesore Honoris Causa) of the Agora Hermeneutica.
In addition to six monographs on Dante, Franke’s critical theory books include Poetry and Apocalypse: Theological Disclosures of Poetic Language (Stanford University Press, 2009) and A Theology of Literature: The Bible as Revelation in the Tradition of the Humanities (Cascade, 2017). These works follow up on books tracing prophetic poetry from Homer and Virgil to Dante (The Revelation of Imagination, Northwestern University Press, 2015) and then forward from Dante through Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Leopardi, to more recent modern classics including Baudelaire, Dickinson, and Yeats (Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante, Ohio State University Press, 2016).
In conjunction with his work on prophetic poetry, Franke has developed what he calls A Philosophy of the Unsayable (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014) reconstructing the apophatic tradition in On What Cannot Be Said (Notre Dame, 2007, 2 vols.). His Apophatic Paths from Europe to China (SUNY, 2018, Chinese Philosophy series) extends this project into an intercultural philosophy. His The Universality of What is Not: The Apophatic Turn in Critical Thinking (Notre Dame, 2020) explores applications of this philosophy to media studies, postmodern identity politics of race and gender, and cognitive sciences in their struggle with the humanities.
Dante monographs by William Franke
Dantologies: Theoretical and Theological Turns in Dante Studies – New York: Routledge, 2023 (forthcoming) Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
The Divine Vision of Dante’s Paradiso: The Metaphysics of Representation – Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021 (304 + xx pages)
Dante’s Vita Nuova and the New Testament: Hermeneutics and the Poetics of Revelation – Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021 (299 + xix pages)
Dante’s Paradiso and the Theological Origins of Modern Thought: Toward a Speculative Philosophy of Self-Reflection – New York: Routledge, 2021 (334 + xxii pages) Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature Series
Dante and the Sense of Transgression: ‘The Trespass of the Sign’ – London and New York: Continuum [Bloomsbury Academic], 2013 Invited for New Directions in Religion and Literature Series, edited by Mark Knight and Emma Mason (200 + xv pages)
Dante’s Interpretive Journey – Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996 (242 + xi pages) Religion and Postmodernism series, edited by Mark C. Taylor
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

Santa Cruz Pickwick Club
2024-03-24 13:00 - 15:00, 2024-04-28 13:00 - 15:00, 2024-05-26 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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

The Deep Read: NYC Salon
2024-04-03 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Lot 15 inside Black Tap, 45 W 35th Street, New York, NY, 10016
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 THI, invites curious minds to delve deeply into books guided by the expertise of UC Santa Cruz scholars. This year, we’re reading and thinking about Trust, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Hernan Diaz.
Our evening will feature light bites and a limited selection open bar. The first 50 guests will receive a copy of Trust to take home.
Don’t miss this chance to connect with fellow Slugs, engage with literature, and participate in this year’s Deep Read. Everyone is invited.

Participants
Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder
Jasmine Alinder is the Humanities Division’s academic leader, the PI for the Mellon Foundation grant which supports her Employing Humanities Initiative, and a historian of photography and the incarceration of Japanese Americans.
Professor Pranav Anand
Pranav Anand is the Faculty Director of The Humanities Institute. He is a Professor of Linguistics focused on semantics, pragmatics, syntax, and computational linguistics.
THI Founding Director Irena Polić
Irena Polić has co-directed The Humanities Institute since 2008, serves as the Assistant Dean for Research and Engagement for the Humanities Division, and is the founding director of the Deep Read.
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.

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.

Gail Hershatter: Notes from the Life of a Peripatetic Revolutionary
2024-04-04 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Music Center Recital Hall – UCSC, 402 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Emeriti Association presents their annual Emeriti Faculty Lecture with Gail Hershatter who will give her lecture, “Notes from the Life of a Peripatetic Revolutionary.”
The event will take place in UCSC’s Music Recital Hall at 7:00 PM. Doors open at 6:30 PM.

Notes from the Life of a Peripatetic Revolutionary with Gail Hershatter
Xu Ming had many identities: coddled son of an elite family, patriotic activist, underground Communist organizer, Clark University graduate student, New York-based journalist, land reform organizer, Korean War negotiator, diplomat, politically disgraced Rightist, rural laborer, small-town junior high basketball coach, globe-trotting government economic advisor, eyewitness to the 1989 Tiananmen suppression. This lecture explores what we can learn from the life of a single individual about a canonical event of Big History—the Chinese Communist revolution.
About Gail Hershatter
Gail Hershatter is Research Professor and Distinguished Professor Emer. of History at UC Santa Cruz, and a former President of the Association for Asian Studies. Her books include The Workers of Tianjin (1986), Personal Voices: China Women in the 1980s (1988, with Emily Honig), Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution in Twentieth-Century Shanghai (1997), Women in China’s Long Twentieth Century (2004), The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past (2011), and Women and China’s Revolutions (2019).

Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode Twelve – Flower of Humanity: The Vergin Mary in Paradiso
2024-04-05 09:00 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule.
Flower of Humanity: The Vergin Mary in Paradiso (Par. 23 and 31-33)
In lines of sublime beauty that fuse the fin’amor image of the rose with the ancient Marian type of the flos Iesse (Isa. 11:1), Dante tells us that Paradise itself, the candida rosa (Par. 31.1), is generated from the warmth of Mary’s womb: ‘Nel ventre tuo si raccese l’amore, / per lo cui caldo ne l’etterna pace così è germinato questo fiore’ (Par. 33.7-9). She is the termine fisso (3), the fixed point, upon which God’s plan of salvation turns. Without her fiat (Luke 1:28), Paradise would be a sterile bloom, deprived of the Love that breathes life into all things. Just so, it is her words that set Dante’s own journey in motion (Inf. 2.94-114) and it is she who mediates his final vision. Without her, one could argue, there would be no Commedia.
It is essential to recognize this centrality of the Virgin if one is to come to a proper understanding of her role in the Paradiso. Taking as its starting point the Prayer to the Virgin (Par. 33.1-39), this chapter will explore the multiple ways in which Mary is present in the third cantica (and more broadly of the poem as a whole), whether as a source of hope and grace, mediatrix, supreme example of humanity fulfilled, icon of the Church, or prophetic sign of the New Creation (Rev. 21.1). Ultimately, reading the poem in a Marian key, we may conclude that it is she, synthesis and apex of creation in all its beauty, who leads Dante (and possibly the reader too) into the heart of the Trinity where, become fully Christ, we too may glimpse something of the presence of God beneath all things.

Brian K. Reynolds teaches in the Italian Department and the Graduate Institute of Comparative Literature of Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, specializing in Medieval Italian Literature and in Mariology. He received his primary degree from University College Dublin in Italian and history and went on to carry out his postgraduate studies at UCD and Trinity College Dublin. He also taught in both of these institutions and in the Università degli Studi, Bari prior to moving to Taiwan. Reynolds has written and spoken widely on Dante Alighieri and on Italian courtly and religious literature of the Middle Ages. At present he is mid-way through a project to produce a hypertext of the Divine Comedy.
Reynolds is also a recognized expert on Patristic and Medieval Mariology having published a major study, Gateway to Heaven, on Marian doctrine and devotion as well as numerous articles and book chapters. He is currently completing the second volume of his Gateway to Heaven series, on Marian typological imagery. Reynolds is on the board of several journals including Claritas: Journal of Dialogue and Culture and Maria: A Journal of Marian Studies. He is the founder and convenor of the Dante in East Asia Network and is a member, specializing in Mariology, of the International Interdisciplinary Abba School, based in the Sophia University Institute.
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

CANCELLED - Linguistics Colloquia: Karlos Arregi
2024-04-05 13:20 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present:
Karlos Arregi
University of Chicago
speaking on
The relation between head movement and periphrasis

Abstract
In joint work with Asia Pietraszko, I’ve been investigating the relation between head movement and the synthesis-periphrasis distinction in the verbal domain. We use the term “synthesis” to refer to verbal expressions in which the lexical verb bears all the verbal inflection in a clause (e.g. “rode” in English). In contrast, a periphrastic verbal expression additionally contains an auxiliary verb (specifically, “be” or “have”), and verbal inflection is distributed between the lexical verb and the auxiliary (e.g. “had ridden”).
We argue for two crosslinguistic generalizations: T-V Optionality and *V-Aux. According to T-V Optionality, languages vary as to whether T is in a head-movement relation with a verb. *V-Aux states that in periphrasis, the lexical verb and the auxiliary cannot be related by head movement. Existing analyses of periphrasis can account for one or the other generalization, but not for both.
We further argue that this tension between the two generalizations is resolved if we adopt the hypothesis that both head movement and periphrasis are tied to selection. More specifically, we propose that head movement is parasitic on a selectional relation (following Svenonius 1994, Julien 2002, Matushansky 2006, and Preminger 2019) and that auxiliaries are merged as specifiers selected by functional heads such as T (Pietraszko 2017).

Join us for this in-person talk on Friday, April 5th at 1:20 pm. We look forward to seeing you there!
For accessibility issues, please contact Sarah Amador (samador@ucsc.edu)

The Deppe Memorial Lecture with Professor Emily Gowers
2024-04-05 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UCSC Classical Studies Program presents The Carl Mark Deppe Memorial Lecture, taking place this Friday, April 5 at the Cowell Provost house at 4:00pm (reception to follow).
This year, Professor Emily Gowers (University of Cambridge) will be giving a talk titled “Sallust’s Salient Snails.”
The lecture will focus on a brief episode in Sallust’s Jugurtha, where a soldier’s encounter with some tiny snails and a tree in the African desert changes the course of history. Gowers will read it for its unusually detailed style of narrative, and ask what it tells us about the role of small things in historiography, as well as about Sallust’s conception of time and space and his own contribution as a historian.
All are welcome to attend this event. We hope to see you there!

Humanities in the Age of AI Lunch meeting
2024-04-08 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The Humanities Institute Research cluster, “Humanities in the Age of AI,” is pleased to invite you to their lunch meeting scheduled for Monday, April 8th at 12pm in HUM 210. This month’s meeting will feature guest speakers Theresa Hice-Fromille (Ohio State University) and Sarah Papazoglakis (Lit PhD, ’18) on Afrofuturism for Tech: Creative Approaches to Design and Policy.
The Speculative Fictions and Futures Project was initiated in 2022 by Sarah Papazoglakis and Theresa Hice-Fromille. With an initial archive of 39 speculative fiction texts, the first stage of the project identified 10 common themes for an inclusive metaverse. The Afro-, Latinx-, Indigenous-, and Asian-futurist texts analyzed explore many marginalized perspectives on the hopes, fears, and challenges brought forth by emerging technologies. The project’s 25 recommendations provide builders (digital artists, computer scientists, linguists, policy experts, etc.) with concrete suggestions and real-life examples to implement in metaverse construction. The focus of this presentation is on the ways the project data can be used to creatively consider a pressing issue: the ethical codes that will shape the construction and use of emerging technologies. Incorporating lessons from diverse speculative texts encourages cultural inclusivity in ways that solely focusing on existing legal frameworks cannot.

SPEAKER BIOS
Theresa Hice-Fromille (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Geography at The Ohio State University with a PhD in Sociology and designated emphases in CRES and Feminist Studies from UC Santa Cruz. In 2022 she completed a summer THI public humanities fellowship with Meta’s Reality Labs where she co-developed a diverse speculative fictions archive that critically taxonomizes the technologies and futures portrayed in Afro-, Indigenous-, Asian-, and Latinx-futurist cultural productions. Throughout 2022 and 2023 she led presentations and equity workshops for developers that draw on insights garnered from this archive to inspire equitable and conscientious technological innovation. She is currently extending this work to include youth participatory action research (YPAR) and workshops for young people in the so-called “Silicon Heartland.”
Sarah Papazoglakis holds a PhD in Literature from University of California, Santa Cruz and is currently a Trust Strategist at Meta’s Reality Labs. In this role, she builds privacy and responsible innovation frameworks for emerging VR technologies and bridges the gap between AI research and consumer product use. Sarah draws from her humanities PhD to help product and engineering leaders imagine and define positive social impacts of future technologies and scope the requirements needed to build privacy- and trust-by-design into foundational product architectures.

The research cluster boasts a diverse group of core participants. This includes six esteemed faculty members from various disciplines, graduate students representing politics, history, literature, philosophy, feminist studies, and film and visual studies, and undergraduate scholars from computer science, computational media, and creative writing. To learn more about current cluster projects and further information about upcoming speakers visit: https://thi.ucsc.edu/clusters/humanities-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/
The Humanities Institute (THI) will graciously cater lunch for this meeting. Once we have obtained our meals, we will gather and take our seats. The first 10 minutes have been set aside to elucidate the cluster’s overview. Following this, we will go ahead with individual introductions. After a short five-minute recess, speakers will commence their presentations, anticipated to last for approximately 20 minutes. A structured dialogue on the topic will follow.
For those who prefer to schedule in advance, please note the dates for our brown bag meetings throughout the academic year: 10/2 (lunch provided), 11/6, 12/11, 1/8 (lunch provided), 2/12, 3/4, 4/8 (lunch provided), and 5/6.
THI will graciously cater on the three specified dates. For the remaining meetings, attendees are cordially invited to bring their lunch.

Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine
2024-04-08 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
UCSC Feminist Studies and Faculty for Justice in Palestine present Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine with panelists: Lila Adib Sharif (Arizona State University), Jennifer Lynn Kelly (UC Santa Cruz), and Somdeep Sen (Roskilde University); the editorial collective of Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine.
Join us for this panel discussion with excerpts from Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine (Forthcoming, Duke University Press) on Monday, April 8th at 3:00 PM. Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine showcases how Palestinians across Palestine and in the diaspora reshape forms of tourism to their homeland in order to lay claim to it in the midst of Israel’s settler-colonial project.
For more information visit: https://fjpucsc.org/

What Can Genomics Teach Us About Jewish History with Dr. Shamam Waldman
2024-04-09 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Cowell Ranch Hay Barn, Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This year’s Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies will be given by Dr. Shamam Waldman.
Join us on April 9th at Cowell Ranch Hay Barn for Dr. Waldman’s lecture titled:
“What Can Genomics Teach Us About Jewish History?”

Doors will open at 5:30PM. The talk will begin promptly at 6:00PM.

The study of population genetics, and specifically ancient DNA, can now offer new insights into Jewish history. One profound example is in our understanding of the origins and early history of Ashkenazi Jews. Scholars in a variety of disciplines have, for years, debated the topic, proposing different theories. Recent genetic analysis and research is helping to shed light on this long-standing puzzle. Another example of how population genetics can offer new insights concerns the genetic connections between the Bronze – Age Levant and present-day Jewish and Middle Eastern populations.
In this talk Dr. Shamam Waldman will share her perspective on these questions and the implications of new research based on ancient DNA. Dr. Waldman will present findings from two recent articles in Cell that she co- led: one analyzing DNA from 14th century Jews in Erfurt Germany which showed that the medieval Ashkenazi Jewish population was much more heterogeneous than the one today, and the other on the genomic history of the people of the Bronze-Age Southern Levant which showed migrations from the Caucasus and Iran into this region between about 2500-1000 CE.
Presented by the Center for Jewish Studies. Co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and the Genomics Institute at UC Santa Cruz. This event is made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Endowment and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz.

Shamam Waldman completed her PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the field of population genetics, and she is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Reich Lab at Harvard University. Dr. Waldman developed computational and statistical methods to analyze ancient DNA. She used these methods to study the genetic connections between Canaanites and present-day Middle Eastern populations, as well as the genetic origins of Ashkenazi Jews. As a postdoctoral researcher she continues to study ancient DNA of Jews in Europe during the Middle Ages as well as hunter-gatherers from the Mesolithic period.

Juned Shaikh - The Afterlife of Confiscation: Engels’ The Origin of the Family in 1930s and 40s India
2024-04-10 12:15 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Gangadhar Adhikari returned to India from Germany in the 1920s with a tranche of books. He had recently completed his PhD in Chemistry in Berlin and had joined the Communist Party of Germany. Upon his return to India in 1928, he joined the Communist Party of India and was jailed in 1929 on charges of a conspiracy to commit treason against the colonial government. His books were impounded and many of them were returned to him upon his release in 1933. The same books were confiscated again in 1935. On the list of books was Friedrich Engels’s The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. This book was returned to him again in 1936 with the assessment that it was a history book, not of instrumental use in political action. The book captured the imagination of some party intellectuals who believed that revolutionizing the family was crucial to a political and social revolution in India. Adhikari’s colleague in the party, Shripad Dange was inspired by it to chart the history of the Indian family. Engels’ categories were imported to make sense of the history of the family in India. This also occasioned a historical materialist reading of Indian epics and families, an engagement with orientalist readings, and evocations of primitive communism in Indian antiquity.
Juned Shaikh is Associate Professor of History at UCSC. He is currently working on a book on Gangadhar Adhikari.

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.

Native Speaker Series with Patty Krawec
2024-04-11 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Namaste Lounge – College 9, Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
You are invited to join the American Indian Resource Center‘s Native Speaker Series with Patty Krawec (Anishinaabe/Ukrainian), on April 11th, 2024, to be held at the Namaste Lounge located at College 9 and JRL at 5:00 PM-7:00 PM.
Guest author, Patty Krawec will share with us her most recent book titled: Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future. Her discussion will focus on building intentional movement and embodying radical rest, shedding self-care as a survival strategy, and thinking more collectively about community care. For those new to Patty Krawec, and to those that joined the AIRC Book Circle in the winter, then come join us in conversation. This event is open to all UCSC affiliates and guests!

Book Description
“Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement, and disappearance, Krawec helps readers see settler colonialism through the eyes of an Indigenous writer. Settler colonialism tried to force us into one particular way of living, but the old ways of kinship can help us imagine a different future. Krawec asks, What would it look like to remember that we are all related? How might we become better relatives to the land, to one another, and to Indigenous movements for solidarity? Braiding together historical, scientific, and cultural analysis, Indigenous ways of knowing, and the vivid threads of communal memory, Krawec crafts a stunning, forceful call to “unforget” our history.”

This event is hosted in collaboration with UCSC’s: The Center for Reimsgining Leadership (CRL), OpenLab and the Vera Rubin Presidential Chair, Center for Coastal Climate Resilience (CCCR), Anthropology, Community Studoies and History Departments, College Nine and John R. Lewis College Co Curricular Programs Office (CoCo), The Humanities Institute (THI), Student Diversity and Inclusion program (ODEI/SDIP), Sustainability Office (SEJA/SO), People of Color Sustainability Collective (PoCSC), and the American Indian Resource Center (AIRC).

Living Writers with micha cárdenas
2024-04-11 17:20 - 18:55 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities Lecture Hall, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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.
micha cárdenas, PhD, is an artist and Associate Professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Performance, Play & Design, at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she directs the Critical Realities Studio. Her book Poetic Operations, Duke University Press (2022), proposes algorithmic analysis to develop a trans of color poetics. Poetic Operations was the co-winner of the Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize in 2022 from the National Women’s Studies Association. cárdenas’s co-authored books The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities (2012) and Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs (2010) were published by Atropos Press.
She is a first generation Colombian American. Her solo and collaborative artworks have been presented in museums, galleries and biennials including the Thessaloniki Biennial in Greece, Arnolfini Gallery, De La Warr Pavilion in London, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, the Centro Cultural del Bosque in Mexico City, the Centro Cultural de Tijuana, the Zero1 Biennial and the California Biennial. Cárdenas is a member of the artist collective Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0; She posts updates on Mastodon at http://eldritch.cafe/@michacard

Book Talk with Laila Shereen Sakr: Arabic Glitch and Digital Palestine
2024-04-11 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Laila Shereen Sakr (UC Santa Barbara) will give her talk entitled, “Arabic Glitch and Digital Palestine” and present her recent book, Arabic Glitch: Technocultures, Data Bodies, and Archives.
Arabic Glitch explores an alternative origin story of twenty-first century technological innovation in digital politics—one centered on the Middle East and the 2011 Arab uprisings. Developed from an archive of social media data collected over the decades following the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, this book interrogates how the logic of programming technology influences and shapes social movements. Engaging revolutionary politics, Arab media, and digital practice in form, method, and content, Laila Shereen Sakr formulates a media theory that advances the concept of the glitch as a disruptive media affordance. Playing with multiple voices that span across the virtual and the real, Sakr argues that there is no longer a divide between the virtual and embodied: both bodies and data are physically, socially, and energetically actual.
The concept of Arabic Glitch challenges the once dominant narratives about the relationship between technology and political agency that center Silicon Valley, as well as the study of digital art (specifically glitch art), the study of online social movements, and area studies of the Arabic-speaking Middle East and North Africa. It instigates interventions by demonstrating that twenty-first-century resistance movements are grounded in the 2011 Arab uprisings; showing how social media stage confrontations between state and resistors; introducing the valuable concept of data bodies, which keep the body and analog experience in digital knowledge production, and promoting software literacy. While “glitch” in popular parlance is typically understood as an unwelcome error, an Arabic glitch functions as both a visual artifact and conceptual “tear” in technologies and institutions–a tear that creates an opening for social change. The argument interweaves ideas from artistic practice with discussions of historical and social movements while considering technoculture in the Arab world through the framework of “glitch.”
Laila Shereen Sakr is Associate Professor of Media Theory and Practice at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research in media analytics and creative scholarship have deployed the idea, experimentation, and aesthetics of glitch to make a series of conceptual points culminating in her single-authored book, Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives (Stanford University Press, 2023). At UCSB, she co-founded Wireframe, a studio promoting collaborative theoretical and creative media practice with investments in global, social, and environmental justice. She is Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Feminist Studies, Department of Media Arts and Technology, Center for Responsible Machine Learning, Center for Middle East Studies, and the Center for Information Technology and Society.
Presented by The Center for the Middle East and North Africa located within The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.

Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley
2024-04-12 | Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History presents Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley — A community-driven exhibition that preserves and uplifts stories of Filipino migration and labor in Watsonville and the greater Pajaro Valley of Central California.
The exhibition culminates a four-year research initiative between community members, UC Santa Cruz students, scholars, and curators called Watsonville is in the Heart (WIITH). It brings together oral history, archival materials, and contemporary works of art to feature multidimensional narratives across four themes: labor, gender, conflict, and memory. The artists featured in Sowing Seeds include Minerva Amistoso, Binh Danh, Ant Lorenzo, Sandra Lucille, Johanna Poethig, Ruth Tabancay, Jenifer Wofford, and Connie Zheng.
To learn more about the exhibition visit: https://www.santacruzmah.org/exhibitions/sowing-seeds
This exhibition is presented with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, California Humanities, UCSC The Humanities Institute, UCSC Arts Research Institute, UCSC Arts Division, UCSC Office of Research, UCSC Division of Social Sciences, UCSC Center for Labor and Community, Monterey Peninsula Foundation, UCSC Committee on Research, Society of Hellman Fellows, and Rebecca Hernandez of the Rise Together Fund at Community Foundation Santa Cruz County.

Hindustani Music Concert featuring Uday Bhawalker and Sukhad Manik Munde
2024-04-12 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Music Center Recital Hall – UCSC, 402 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
As a part of the Indian Music Series, UC Santa Cruz is welcoming Uday Bhawalkar to campus for a concert on Friday, April 12. The renowned vocalist will be performing Dhrupad music, one of the oldest musical genres in the Hindustani tradition.
Uday Bhawalkar is an internationally recognized vocalist and professor in the department of ethnomusicology at the University of Washington. He is part of the Dagar family who has been known for their involvement in music since the 1500s, and has their own genre of Dhrupad music named after them.
Bhawalker will be accompanied by Sukhad Manik Munde, who also comes from a long standing musical family. Though known as a tabla player, for his upcoming performance Munde will be playing the pakhawaj, a two sided drum.
Tickets available through Eventbrite.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies.

TEDxSantaCruz
2024-04-13 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Cabrillo College Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos, CA, 95003, United States
Co-sponsored by The Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County, Lookout Santa Cruz, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz, and many more.
The vibrant interplay of ideas, creative energy, and the rich tapestry of diversity within Santa Cruz County is the beating heart of TEDxSantaCruz.
This upcoming event is scheduled for Saturday, April 13, 2024, at the Crocker Theater. The theme for this event is “Rising Together.” It suggests a scale of collaboration that currently doesn’t exist. As a society, we are facing huge challenges such as climate change, preserving natural resources, racism, poverty, lack of health care, homelessness, and educational inequalities. Speakers will address big ideas and solutions to challenges at the local, regional, national and global levels.
For more information and to purchase tickets visit: https://tedxsantacruz.org/

Victorian Gaslighting with Professor Nora Gilbert
2024-04-14 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”
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.
Virtual Sessions:

April 14: Book Talk: Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice
May 19: Discussion: Gaslight (1944) –Directed by George Cukor

To register or watch the recordings visit: UCSC The Dickens Project

Opacity and Voice in Édouard Glissant and José María Arguedas with Benjamin Davis
2024-04-15 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual and In Person
The History of Consciousness department presents Opacity and Voice in Édouard Glissant and José María Arguedas with Benjamin Davis, Saint Louis 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 learn more visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/hisc_speaker_series/.

PhD+ Workshop – Creative Academic Publishing With Robin James
2024-04-16 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual Event
This is an Arts Research Institute (ARI) workshop on creative academic publishing with Robin James. Robin James is an author and former academic, currently working as Editor of Philosophy, Literary Theory, and Music & Sound Studies at Palgrave Macmillan. She will conduct a workshop for junior scholars interested in turning their ideas into a successful book proposal. She will also discuss the details of the publication process, and how to pitch a project to an editor. This workshop is geared toward graduate students and early career faculty, and is appropriate for anyone wanting to learn more about academic publishing!
**Please rsvp to Holly Unruh, Executive Director, Arts Research Institute. Email hunruh@ucsc.edu for zoom link.
This workshop is presented by the Arts Research Institute and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2023-2024 PhD+ series.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the eighth year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted (or co-sponsored) by The Humanities Institute. Our meetings provide the opportunity to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grant/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

57th Annual Faculty Research Lecture featuring Professor Gina Athena Ulysse
2024-04-16 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Quarry Amphitheater
The UC Santa Cruz Academic Senate is delighted to invite you to the 57th Annual Faculty Research Lecture Featuring Professor Gina Athena Ulysse, Feminist Studies Department:
The Whole Time…
A Redwoods Rasanblaj Epic Poem
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Inspired by Sinéad O’Connor and 11th Hour’s caffeine chronicles, this epic stream of consciousness ethnographic poem meditates on origins, a theory of everything, the dark arts, shadow work in the upside down of arboreal classrooms in these redwoods on Indigenous Land of the so-called holy cross…
Lacing ancestral chants, cosmos spaciousness, history with misfit tales, and popular song, this non psychedelic surrealist journey explores the contours of linear and all-around time in search of aliveness on scorched earth while ruminating on the impossibility of all sentient beings everywhere experiencing peace among the plantocracy with their disdain for brilliance where praxis is a floating signifier and our humanity is routinely questioned. Improv dance by Linda Isabelle Francois Obas.

Gina Athena Ulysse is a Haitian American feminist artist-scholar. In the last three decades, her decolonial work as a cultural anthropologist has engaged in crossings and dialogues between the arts, humanities, and the social sciences. Her practice is rooted in what she calls rasanblaj – a gathering of ideas, people, things, and spirits. Her latest book is an abridged compilation A Call to Rasanblaj: Black Feminist Futures and Ethnographic Aesthetics (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, 2023) edited and with an interview by Penelope Papailas is translated in Greek by Vangelis Poulios. Her visual art has been featured on the covers of Frontiers, Feminist Formations, Meridians, and Feminist Studies. Over the years, she has performed at The Bowery, Bluestockings Bookstore, The British Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Cabaret Voltaire, Gorki Theatre, LaMaMa, Marcus Garvey Liberty Hall, MoMA Salon among other venues. She was an invited artist in the Biennale of Sydney in Australia in 2020. She will be participating in the Biennale of Dakar, Senegal, Spring 2024.
Linda Isabelle Francois Obas is an internationally known Haytian choreographer, performer and sociocultural activist. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of XPression Ayiti (2017) a dance company that is based on Haitian traditional dances. She was professionally trained in Haiti with JeanGuy Saintus, Jean Rene Delsoin, Gerald Florestal in classical techniques, modern dance, jazz and other forms. Her solo and company performances have been presented in colleges, concert theatres and festivals in Barbados, Benin, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Jamaica, Japan, The United States and Trinidad to name a few. She is developing Thera-LakAy, her holistic dance teaching pedagogy that relies on Haitian spirituality and traditional dance.

Event Details

This event is free and open to the public. Seating will begin at 5:30 p.m.
Parking permits will be available for purchase for $5 in lot 101 at Hahn Student Services, ”A” permits are required during the week until 8 p.m. Park Mobile options are available in this same lot. Please follow the event signage at the base of campus and a parking attendant will assist you.
The lecture will be held in person and also available to view via livestream.

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

Zirwat Chowdhury - Transacting Empire: Family Portraits
2024-04-17 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The UCSC Center for South Asian Studies presents Transacting Empire: Family Portraits with Zirwat Chowdhury on April 17th. Participants are invited to attend in person at HUM 1 room 210 or register via Zoom.
This talk traces across the disjointed pairing of two portraits an imperial form of kinship that emerged among covenanted servants of the East India Company in eighteenth-century Bengal. Noting the portraits’ departures from prevailing conventions in British family portraiture, the talk examines the overlapping “joint-stock” formations of domesticity and commercial partnership through which the Hastings-Hancock household accumulated and remitted its colonial wealth.

Zirwat Chowdhury is Assistant Professor of 18th- and 19th-Century European Art at UCLA. Her research explores the interconnected histories of art, visual culture, and aesthetic philosophy in 18th-century Britain, France, South Asia and the Atlantic World.

Co-sponsored by The Center for Cultural Studies and The Humanities Institute. This event is a part of The Center for South Asian Studies’ annual lecture series, Crossings and The Center for Cultural Studies’ Wednesday colloquium series.

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.

Craig Reinarman and Gina Dent - From Drug Wars to Harm Reduction
2024-04-17 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Cowell Ranch Hay Barn, Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Join us for the 2024 Legal Studies Annual Distinguished Lecture: “From Drug Wars to Harm Reduction: Reflections on the Future of Addiction Research, Drug Policy, and Mass Incarceration” with Craig Reinarman (Sociology & Legal Studies – Emeritus and Community Studies) in conversation with Gina Dent (Feminist Studies and Legal Studies)
This event will take place Wednesday, April 17, 4-5:30 pm, at the UCSC Hay Barn. Doors will open at 3:30 pm for light refreshments and mingling. We hope to see you there!

Dr. Stephanie Lain - Spanish Vowel and Consonant Contributions to Talker Identification and Lexical Contrast
2024-04-17 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities 1, Room 202
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics presents:
SPANISH VOWEL AND CONSONANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO TALKER IDENTIFICATION AND LEXICAL CONTRAST
with Dr. Stephanie Lain
(UC Santa Cruz)

Abstract
Acoustic properties of the input determine how speech sounds are processed, categorized, and encoded in memory. This information is used to identify words and convey information about the speaker. The series of experiments described in this talk were undertaken with the goal of clarifying the roles vowels and consonants play in lexical decision making and talker identification in Spanish. Participants in the study were 101 listeners who self-identified as native speakers of Spanish. They performed one of six same-different auditory discrimination experiments which varied according to task (lexical decision or talker identification) and condition (unaltered stimuli, vowels excised, consonants excised). Responses from each participant were used to calculate a D prime score (evaluating the participant’s ability to discriminate between tokens), as well as a language dominance score (participants were Spanish/English bilinguals). Reaction times and null responses were also recorded. Results were analyzed using a multivariate 2 x 3 factorial analysis with language dominance as a co-variate, followed by univariate analyses to further examine the effects of independent variables. Findings from the current study largely confirm results from previous studies conducted in English which suggest a greater reliance on consonants when performing lexical decision tasks and vowels when performing talker identity tasks. From this, we may infer that variation observed in response to the acoustic properties of vowels and consonants appears be universal to linguistic processing and not a result of the interaction between speech sounds within a given language system. These results have implications for theories of speech perception, particularly with regard to the role of listener experience in the perception of phonemes and talker-specific acoustic properties.

Living Writers with Jennifer Tseng
2024-04-18 17:20 - 18:55 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities Lecture Hall, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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.

Jennifer Tseng’s forthcoming book, Thanks for Letting Us Know You Are Alive, poems made with her late father’s English letters, won the Juniper Prize for Poetry and will be published by University of Massachusetts Press in spring 2024. She currently teaches literature and creative writing at University of California, Santa Cruz.

Peter Galison - Time: Physics, Film, History
2024-04-18 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Music Center Recital Hall – UCSC, 402 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, 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), pushing history, physics, and philosophy into a more associative-imaginative register. From there, Galison turns to the 10,000 year struggle to contain radioactive materials—a duration twice recorded in human history—and finally to the time of black holes, and the image of the photon ring.

Peter Galison is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor in history of science and physics at Harvard University. He currently directs the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard, a leading center for interdisciplinary research on black holes. His books include How Experiments End; Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics; Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps; and, with Lorraine Daston, Objectivity. His latest feature film is Black Holes | The Edge of All We Know.

Nauenberg History of Science Lecture
The Nauenberg History of Science Lecture was established in honor of Michael Nauenberg, a founding faculty member in the Physics Department at UCSC who came to the campus in 1966. During his distinguished academic career, he contributed to a remarkably broad range of fields, including particle physics, condensed matter physics, astrophysics, chaos theory, fluid dynamics, and the history of physics in the 17th-18th centuries.
Amongst Professor Nauenberg’s passions, he deeply believed in the importance of interdisciplinary scholarship connecting the sciences with the humanities. Following his retirement in 1994, he pursued his long-standing interests in the history of science, writing books and articles about Joseph Banks, Robert Hooke, Christiaan Huygens, and Isaac Newton. The Nauenberg History of Science Lecture series aims to bring the best historians of science to UCSC to share the importance of this interdisciplinary work with faculty, students, and interested community members. You can support the series by contributing here.

The Nauenberg History of Science Lecture is presented by the UC Santa Cruz Emeriti Association and co-sponsored by Crown College, the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP), the Arts Research Institute, and the History Department.

Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode Thirteen – Early Receptions
2024-04-19 09:00 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule.

Simon Gilson is Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian and Fellow of Magdalen College, University of Oxford. He has published widely on Dante’s reception in fourteenth-, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy. His publications include: Dante and Renaissance Florence (CUP 2005) and Reading Dante in Renaissance Italy: Florence, Venice and the ‘Divine Poet’ (CUP 2018).

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

Black Enlightenment with Surya Parekh
2024-04-22 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 learn more visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/hisc_speaker_series/.

Right Livelihood International Conference
2024-04-23 - 2024-04-27 | 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 and register for events at: https://rightlivelihood.ucsc.edu/conference
Featuring International Speakers: Phylis Omido, Juan Pablo Orrego, and International Student Delegates.
Phyllis Omido – dubbed the “Erin Brockovich of East Africa” – is a Kenyan environmental activist leading the battle for the justice and health of the Owino Uhuru community that has suffered from lead poisoning ever since a battery smelting plant began operating in their village. Omido’s use of litigation, advocacy, and media engagement has set vital legal precedents, affirming people’s right to a clean and healthy environment and the state’s responsibility to safeguard it.
Juan Pablo Orrego is a Chilean musician and environmentalist who has worked for decades to preserve the Biobío River, one of South America’s most spectacular and ecologically significant rivers. The campaign has become a symbol of the environmental and social struggle still ongoing in the country, connecting the dots between energy policy, environment, indigenous people’s rights, monopolies, and the neo-liberal development goals of the establishment.
We will be joined by a cadre of thirteen students from the Global Campus of Human Rights, a network comprised of over 100 universities, and the Right Livelihood College, a network with campuses in Nigeria, India, Thailand, Chile, Argentina, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, and UC Santa Cruz.

This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Social Transformation, Division of Social Sciences, UCSC Foundation, Kamieniecki Lecture Fund Endowment, Merrill, Porter and Stevenson Colleges, Global Campus of Human Rights, Student Fee Advisory Committee, Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas, The Humanities Institute, Politics Democratic Discourse and Engagement Initiative, Legal Studies Department, Silicon Valley Leadership Group, Division of Student Affairs and Success, and The Jack and Peggy Baskin Endowed Chair in Feminist Studies.

Carla Freccero – Do Animals Have History?
2024-04-24 12:15 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, 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 of the now, we are prepared to overcome a Cartesian inheritance to confront a shared, shattered, and shattering historical predicament together with other living others.
Carla Freccero is Distinguished Professor of Literature and History of Consciousness at UCSC, where she has taught since 1991. Trained in early modern continental European history and literature, she also publishes in US popular culture, queer and feminist theory, and, most recently, animal studies. Author of three books (on Rabelais; on popular culture; and on Queer Early Modernity) and co-editor of a number of journal issues dealing with sexuality, race and animality, her in-progress book is tentatively titled Animate Figures.

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 Deep Read: Bay Area Salon
2024-04-25 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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. This year, we’re reading and thinking about Trust, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Hernan Diaz.
Our hosts, Mark Zemelman (Crown ’78, history) and Sarah Papazoglakis (Ph.D. ’18, literature), will provide dinner and refreshments.
Don’t miss this chance to connect with fellow Slugs, engage with literature, and participate in this year’s Deep Read.

Yosimar Reyes' One-Man Show: "Prieto"
2024-04-26 19:30 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 captivating autobiographical one-man show written and performed by renowned artist Yosimar Reyes – “Prieto” to UC Santa Cruz.
Through the playful, lovably naive lens of an 8-year-old Reyes, Prieto tells the story of an overprotective grandmother who recycles bottles to support her family while her grandson wonders why they can’t have money like his friends. It tells the story of chismosa vecinas (gossipy neighbors) who peek through their windows and watch as the neighborhood boys tease young Reyes for “acting like a girl.” To escape from the taunting and the daily toil, Reyes creates an imaginary world for himself — one made up of books and ’90s R&B. Prieto saw its world premiere production at San Francisco’s Brava Theater in October 2022. Now on tour with The Living Word Project, Prieto has seen productions at San Jose Theater, and Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA) in San Jose, CA.
This event is free for UCSC Students, Faculty and Staff with Registration. Doors will open at 7:00 PM, show begins at 7:30PM.

Co-sponsored by Baskin School of Engineering, Center for Reimagining Leadership, Dean of Students Office, Division of Student Affairs and Success, El Centro – Chicanx Latinx Resource Center, The Lionel Cantú Queer Resource Center, HSI Initiatives, Social Science Division, The Humanities Institute, Humanities Division, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Education Department, and the Sociology Department.

Saturday Shakespeare
2024-04-27 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Aptos Library, 7695 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 95003, 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 10:00 am.
The speaker for this meeting will be Paul Whitworth, distinguished Shakespearean actor and director.
His professional acting career began at the Royal Shakespeare Company (1976-1982). In 1984, he joined Shakespeare Santa Cruz where he played many major roles including Hamlet, Benedict in Much Ado About Nothing, Iago, Richard III, and last year, at Santa Cruz Shakespeare, King Lear. He was Artistic Director of Shakespeare Santa Cruz from 1996 to 2007.
Readings: All of Act I + Act II Scene 1
Reading Coordinator: Bob Morgan | rmorgan3135@gmail.com
If you would like to read please email Bob as soon as possible.
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]
Future 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.
The Text
We will be using the Pelican edition. If you would like to read please get hold of a copy of this edition because there are differences between different editions. There are two sources for the play, the second quarto (Q2) of 1604-5 and the first folio (F) of 1623. The folio contains 70 lines not in Q2 and lacks 230 that are in Q2. Most editions combine them in a conflated text, thus making a long play even longer. The pelican edition does not do that, but sticks almost entirely to Q2. As a result there will be significant differences between the Pelican edition and an edition that uses a conflated text.
Unfortunately Bookshop Santa Cruz won’t order copies for the group (unless all copies are paid for in advance). You will therefore need to order a copy yourself. Alternatively you can buy it on Amazon. It is difficult to find the Pelican edition by searching on the Amazon site. Better is to google “Hamlet Pelican Edition Amazon”.
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 through their website 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.

Indian Midsummer
2024-04-27 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Experimental Theater, Experimental Theater, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, 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)
Professor Karlton Hester, composer (“Santa Cruz Balledrama”, Music Department and DANM)
Professor Marianne Weems, Theatrical Consultant (Theater Arts Department)
Professor Yangxi, choreographer (& MUC students, Taotao Huang, and Yaxuan Xu)
Mandjou Kone, choreographer
Steph Layton, cinematographer
Heeyoung Choi, music stage manager
Ronaldo Lopes de Oliveira, artist
Amaya Walsh Saldivar, theatrical stage manager
Dramaturgy by Lucy Mae S.P. Burns

Making a Killing: Capitalism, Cops, & the War on Black Life with Robin Kelley
2024-04-29 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual and In Person
The History of Consciousness department presents Making a Killing: Capitalism, Cops, & the War on Black Life with Robin Kelley, UC Los Angeles.
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. To learn more visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/hisc_speaker_series/.
Recordings of previous lectures are available in the HistCon Speaker Series Archive.

The Deep Read: Craft Salon
2024-04-30 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom, CA, United States
Join us for a public, Zoom conversation about the writing craft of Hernan Diaz’s Trust, the 2024 Deep Read book selection. UC Santa Cruz-affiliated novelists Micah Perks (Professor of Literature and Creative Writing), Elizabeth McKenzie (Merrill ’81, Literature), and Maria Pachon (Literature PhD student in the Creative/Critical Writing Concentration) will discuss the techniques deployed in this experimental novel and highlight creative dimensions of the book.

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.

CANCELLED - TechnoScience Improv
2024-05-01 12:15 - 14:15 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Co-sponsored by Center for Cultural Studies, History of Consciousness: GeoEcologies + TechnoScience Conversations, Global and Community Health, and the Science & Justice Research Center
This two-hour roundtable improv (12.15-2.00pm) brings together ten UCSC scholars working on social, historical, and cultural studies of science, technology and medicine. The event will be structured around eight open, improvised conversations. Rather than structured around formal talks, each conversation will start with a question from a different panelist exploring emerging practices, speculative transformations, and critical imaginings of technoscience, health and ecology.
We welcome panelists: Dimitris Papadopoulos (convenor), Karen Barad, James Doucet-Battle, Kat Gutierrez, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Jenny Reardon, Warren Sack, Kriti Sharma, Matt Sparke, and Zac Zimmer.

ABOUT THE PANELISTS
Karen Barad is Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness.
James Doucet-Battle is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Co-Director of the Science & Justice Research Center.
Kat Gutierrez is an Assistant Professor in the History Department.
Dimitris Papadopoulos is Professor of History of Consciousness in the Department of History of Consciousness.
Maria Puig de la Bellacasa is Professor of History of Consciousness in the Department of History of Consciousness.
Jenny Reardon is a Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of the Science & Justice Research Center.
Warren Sack is Professor of the Software Arts in the Film + Digital Media Department.
Kriti Sharma is an Assistant Professor of Critical Race Science and Technology Studies in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies.
Matt Sparke is Professor of Politics in the Politics Department and Co-Director of Global and Community Health.
Zac Zimmer is an Associate Professor of Literature in the Literature Department.

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.

Dalit Histories, Gender Formations: A Conversation with Journalist Meena Kotwal
2024-05-01 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual and In Person
This talk is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asia at Stanford University and the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz (CSAS).
On May 1, 2024 , Meena Kotwal will be in conversation with Anjali Arondekar (Professor in Feminist Studies, UCSC and Founding Director, CSAS) at the Stanford University campus. This talk will take place in Encina Commons, 123 (615 Crothers Way, Stanford University) at 5:00 PM PT. For more details visit Dalit Histories, Gender Formations
This event is hybrid:
To Attend In-person | Register Here
To Connect Virtually | Register Here
Meena Kotwal is a journalist and founder of Mooknayak, an online news channel and website that covers issues related to the persecution of the Dalit, tribal, and minority communities, and which advocates for social justice and democracy for the marginalized.

The Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series & Thom Gentle Lecture
2024-05-02 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series & Thom Gentle Lecture will take place on Thursday, May 2nd, 2024, at 3:00pm at the Cowell Provost House. This event will also be livestreamed and recorded: Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series Lecture.
This year’s guest speaker is Bathsheba Demuth, Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Environment and Society, Brown University. Professor Demuth’s lecture is titled “The Reindeer Herd in the Ruins.”
Climate change is often described in apocalyptic terms: as Armageddon, or the end of the world. Nowhere is this more true than in the Arctic, where the rates of warming are twice that of temperate regions, and have been visible for decades. This talk looks to the history of the Chukchi Peninsula on the far northeastern edge of Russia — a place that has experienced radical changes in the past, first with the founding of the Soviet Union and then with its dissolution — to explore what kinds of narratives suit the experience of radical change. Weaving a story of devoted Bolsheviks, Chukchi nomads, and herds of reindeer, it asks what is lost when we emphasize rupture, and what is gained by paying attention to the ruins left by past ways of living, as we face a transformed Arctic – and planet.
Bathsheba Demuth is a writer and environmental historian specializing in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. Her interest in northern places and cultures began when she was 18 and moved to the village of Old Crow in the Yukon, where she trained huskies for several years. From the archive to the dog sled, she is interested in how the histories of people, ideas, and ecologies intersect. In addition to her prize-winning book Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, her writing has appeared in publications from The American Historical Review to The New Yorker and The Best American Science and Nature Writing. She is currently the Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University.

The Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series at UCSC honors the life and spirit of a brilliant scholar, teacher, and mentor whose career was cut short by her untimely death in 2021. A specialist in Russian, Central Asian and environmental history, Maya was a valued member of UCSC’s faculty in the History Department and the Humanities Division. The Explorations in History Seminar Series celebrates Maya’s passions for the study of history, for dialogue between the humanities and the sciences, and for innovative scholarship across disciplines—passions that she shared generously with students, colleagues, and communities around the globe.
This year’s event is being sponsored by The Maya K. Peterson Memorial Endowment, the Thom Gentle Endowment in History, and the UCSC History Department.

Living Writers with Joseph Han
2024-05-02 17:20 - 18:55 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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.
This presentation will be both in person at the Humanities Lecture Hall and available via live stream at: https://vimeo.com/event/425786
Joseph Han is the author of Nuclear Family, named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a best book of the year by NPR and Time Magazine. He was selected as a 2022 National Book Foundation ‘5 Under 35’ honoree and received a Kundiman fellowship in fiction. His novel won the 2023 Asian/Pacific American Literature Award Adult Fiction Honor and the 2024 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award.
He is an editor for the West region of Joyland Magazine and an Affiliate Faculty in Fiction at the Antioch University Los Angeles low-residency MFA program.

Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode Fourteen – Global Perspectives, Part 1: Paradiso in World Literature & Culture
2024-05-03 09:00 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule.

Martin Eisner is Chair of Romance Studies and Professor of Italian at Duke University. He is the author of Dante’s New Life of the Book: A Philology of World Literature (Oxford UP, 2021), which won the Howard R. Marraro Prize from the Modern Language Association. His first book Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature: Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and the Authority of the Vernacular (Cambridge UP, 2013) was recently published in Italian as Boccaccio e l’invenzione della letteratura italiana (Salerno, 2022). He is currently working on a biography of Boccaccio for Reaktion Books’s Renaissance Lives series.

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

Conversation with Jennifer Lunden, author of American Breakdown
2024-05-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual Event
Join us on Friday, May 3 at 12:00PM for a virtual webinar with Jennifer Lunden, author of AMERICAN BREAKDOWN: Our Ailing Nation, My Body’s Revolt, and the Nineteenth Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life.

A Silent Spring for the human body, this wide-ranging, genre-crossing literary mystery interweaves the author’s quest to understand the source of her own condition with her telling of the story of the chronically ill 19th-century diarist Alice James—ultimately uncovering the many hidden health hazards of life in America.
In this meticulously researched and illuminating debut, Lunden interweaves her own experience with Alice’s, exploring the history of medicine and the effects of the industrial revolution and late-stage capitalism to tell a riveting story of how we are a nation struggling—and failing—to be healthy. Read More
Jennifer Lunden is an award-winning writer who explores the intersection of health and the environment. Her essays have been published in Creative Nonfiction, Orion, River Teeth, DIAGRAM, Longreads, and other journals; selected for several anthologies; and praised as notable in Best American Essays. A former therapist, she was named Maine’s Social Worker of the Year in 2012. She and her husband, the artist Frank Turek, live in a little house in Portland, Maine, where they keep several chickens, two cats, and some gloriously untamed gardens.

Educator's Mixer: Pajaro Valley Filipino American History
2024-05-03 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
To kick of Asian American and Pacific Islander History Month, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) and Watsonville is in the Heart (WIITH) will co-host a free event for local educators.
The event provides educators with a chance to meet with WIITH team members who are working to produce educational resources about Filipino American history in Santa Cruz county.
Co-sponsored by UCSC’s Arts Division, Center for Labor and Community, History Department, Humanities Division, and Institute for Social Transformation

Saturday Shakespeare
2024-05-04 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 4th 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.
The speaker for this meeting will be Charles Pasternack, current Artistic Director of Santa Cruz Shakespeare. He will tell us about the ambitious program he has arranged for this summer, which includes Hamlet. Additionally, since he will also play the title role in Hamlet, he may give us some thoughts on the play and Hamlet’s character.
Readings: Act II scene 2 +Act III Scene 1 + Act III Scene 2 up to Polonius saying “lights, lights, lights” and all exit except for Horatio and Hamlet (this is line 265 in the Pelican edition)
Reading Coordinator: Linda Mandel | lindamandel@yahoo.com
If you would like to read please email the reading coordinator as soon as possible.
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.
The Text
We will be using the Pelican edition. If you would like to read please get hold of a copy of this edition because there are differences between different editions. There are two sources for the play, the second quarto (Q2) of 1604-5 and the first folio (F) of 1623. The folio contains 70 lines not in Q2 and lacks 230 that are in Q2. Most editions combine them in a conflated text, thus making a long play even longer. The pelican edition does not do that, but sticks almost entirely to Q2. As a result there will be significant differences between the Pelican edition and an edition that uses a conflated text.
Unfortunately Bookshop Santa Cruz won’t order copies for the group (unless all copies are paid for in advance). You will therefore need to order a copy yourself. Alternatively you can buy it on Amazon. It is difficult to find the Pelican edition by searching on the Amazon site. Better is to google “Hamlet Pelican Edition Amazon”.
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.

Prahlad Singh Tipanya & Ensemble
2024-05-05 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Music Center Recital Hall – UCSC, 402 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Experience the vigorous and joyful folk music of Prahlad Singh Tipanya and his ensemble, singing the poetry of Kabir, the great iconoclastic mystic of 15th-century North India. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies.
Prahlad-ji is a locally, nationally, and internationally acclaimed folk singer from Lunyakhedi, a small village in Ujjain District, Madhya Pradesh. He is renowned for his singing and interpretation of Kabir and other Hindi poets associated with nirgun-bhakti—devotion to a God or ultimate reality beyond word and form. Kabir is famous for both his profound mystical insight and his sharp social commentary. His voice is often invoked as inspiring communal harmony and social equality.
Among Prahlad-ji’s many honors is the prestigious Padma Shri award given by the Government of India. He has delighted audiences in the USA on various visits since 2003. He is a featured figure in the book Bodies of Song: Kabir Oral Traditions and Performative Worlds in North India (Oxford University Press, 2015) by Linda Hess. Linda will be traveling with the group and offering onstage translation.
Admission
– Tickets available online at Eventbrite
– Seating is general admission
– Doors are scheduled to open at 7:00 pm.
* Ticket holders not seated by the event start time may forfeit their ticket/seat and refunds will not be issued
Parking
– Lot 126 is the closest parking lot to the event
– Parking is by UCSC permit, Park Mobile, or pay $5 cash/credit to the on-site parking attendant in Lot 126
– More visitor parking information here

Cancelled - Humanities in the Age of AI Lunch meeting
2024-05-06 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The Humanities Institute Research cluster, “Humanities in the Age of AI,” is pleased to invite you to their lunch meeting scheduled for Monday, May 6th at 12pm in HUM 210.
To learn more about current cluster projects and further information about upcoming speakers, please consult our website the events tab. The research cluster boasts a diverse group of core participants. This includes six esteemed faculty members from various disciplines, graduate students representing politics, history, literature, philosophy, feminist studies, and film and visual studies, and undergraduate scholars from computer science, computational media, and creative writing.
Attendees are cordially invited to bring their lunch. We will gather with our meals and take our seats. The first 10 minutes have been set aside to elucidate the cluster’s overview. Following this, we will go ahead with individual introductions. After a short five-minute recess, speakers will commence their presentations, anticipated to last for approximately 20 minutes. A structured dialogue on the topic will follow.
For those who prefer to schedule in advance, please note the dates for our brown bag meetings throughout the academic year: 10/2 (lunch provided), 11/6, 12/11, 1/8 (lunch provided), 2/12 (featuring Davide Panagia), 3/4, 4/8 (lunch provided), and 5/6.
THI will graciously cater on the three specified dates. For the remaining meetings, attendees are cordially invited to bring their lunch.

Heidegger, Christian Eschatology & the Temporality of Being with Prashan Ransinghe
2024-05-06 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual and In Person
The History of Consciousness department presents Heidegger, Christian Eschatology & the Temporality of Being with Prashan Ransinghe, University of Ottawa.
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. To learn more visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/hisc_speaker_series/.
Recordings of previous lectures are available in the HistCon Speaker Series Archive.

The Deep Read: Faculty Salon
2024-05-06 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Cowell Ranch Hay Barn, Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
On May 6, you’ll be able to join the conversation—either in person or online—at a salon-style event where our participating professors will lead a discussion of this year’s Deep Read book, Trust, with the Deep Read community.
Faculty Speakers

Lori Kletzer, Economics, Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor
Madhavi Murty, Feminist Studies
Dard Neuman, Music
Zac Zimmer, Literature and Deep Read Faculty Lead

Not in Santa Cruz? Sign up for the Zoom livestream.
Event Logistics
Bicycling, car pooling, ridesharing, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited. If you drive to the event, please plan to park in UCSC Lot #115 or 116. To reach these lots, proceed through the main entrance to campus, continue up the hill from the information kiosk on Coolidge, then turn right at the Ranch View/Carriage House Road stoplight into the Carriage House/Campus Facilities parking lot. The Hay Barn is a 5-minute walk across the street from the parking lot. There will be directional signage to help you get to the correct parking lot and Barn entrances. Overflow parking will be available at lot 122. Download a parking map 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.

Angie Sijun Lou & Karen Tei Yamashita - Dark Soil: Fictions and Mythographies
2024-05-07 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Angie Sijun Lou and Karen Tei Yamashita for the launch of Dark Soil: Fictions and Mythographies—a new anthology edited by Lou and featuring ten new stories from Yamashita, all centered around Santa Cruz’s history, along with eight works of nonfiction from authors including Brandon Shimoda and Juliana Spahr.

About Dark Soil
Eight authors’ works of personal nonfiction join with ten new stories by Karen Tei Yamashita to illuminate the hidden histories of places large and small. Faced with a scant historical record in her urge to reconstruct the layered past of Santa Cruz, Karen Tei Yamashita turns to fiction set amidst its architecture. Ten stories explore the California city to animate what might have been, to build the fullness of lives forgotten, and to honor their living with story and possibility. Following this impulse into the realm of nonfiction, eight other writers chart their own counternarratives of place through the greater United States. Diverging and converging in their scale and scope, from an unnamed lot on the bank of the Ohio River to the territory of Guam, these works use language as an instrument of excavation, uncovering layers of hurt and desire concealed in the land.
Angie Sijun Lou is a Kundiman Fellow and a PhD candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her writings have appeared in the Kenyon Review, Joyland, Best Small Fictions, and Gulf Coast. She lives in Oakland.
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.
Purchase your own copy of Dark Soil at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Dark Soil
This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.

Dimitris Papadopoulos – Toxic Realism: 222 Photographs in 44’33”
2024-05-08 12:15 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness: GeoEcologies + TechnoScience Conversations
Through a series of 222 photographs and a separate conceptual narration, this intermedial and semi-performative presentation discusses the pervasive, toxic realism of anthropochemicals and the search for alternative substances.
Dimitris Papadopoulos is Professor of History of Consciousness in the Department of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz. His most recent books include Ecological Reparation: Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict (Bristol UP 2023); Reactivating Elements. Chemistry, Ecology, Practice (Duke UP 2021); Experimental Practice. Technoscience, Alterontologies and More-Than-Social Movements (Duke UP 2018). He is currently completing a monograph entitled Substance and its Milieu. Anthropochemicals, Autonomy, and Geo-Ecological Justice and a theory photobook entitled Landscape After the Event. Constructivist Photography and the Vision of Abolition.

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 Deep Read: San Diego Salon
2024-05-08 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Stone Brewing Liberty Station, 2816 Historic Decatur Rd UNIT 116, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States

Living Writers with Graduate Alumni: Nathan Osorio and Kendall Grady
2024-05-09 17:20 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities Lecture Hall, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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.
Nathan Xavier Osorio’s debut full-length poetry collection, Querida, was selected by Shara McCallum as the winner of the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press. He is the author of The Last Town Before the Mojave, selected by Oliver De la Paz for the Poetry Society of America’s 2021 Chapbook Fellowship. His poetry, translations, and essays have also appeared in BOMB, The Offing, Boston Review, Public Books, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. His writing and teaching has been supported by fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, The Kenyon Review, and Poetry Foundation. He is a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative/Critical Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Kendall Grady is a poet scholar working the couplet as microsystem– contact zone–associative monad– elective affinity– allocentrism– affective capillary—baroque structure of intimacy. Selected poems live with Jupiter 88, Dusie, and The Atlas Review.

Saturday Shakespeare
2024-05-11 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 11th 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.
The speaker for this meeting will be Sean Keilen, Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Sean is a regular speaker to the group, and always presents original and stimulating ideas. He is also the founding Director of Shakespeare Workshop, a research center of The Humanities Institute.
Readings: Act III Scene 2 (starting with Hamlet “Why, let the stricken deer go weep”, line 266 in the Pelican edition) + Act III Scenes 3 and 4 + Act IV Scenes 1-6
Reading Coordinator: Bob Peterson | rpeterson@scu.edu
If you would like to read please email the reading coordinator as soon as possible.
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.
The Text
We will be using the Pelican edition. If you would like to read please get hold of a copy of this edition because there are differences between different editions. There are two sources for the play, the second quarto (Q2) of 1604-5 and the first folio (F) of 1623. The folio contains 70 lines not in Q2 and lacks 230 that are in Q2. Most editions combine them in a conflated text, thus making a long play even longer. The pelican edition does not do that, but sticks almost entirely to Q2. As a result there will be significant differences between the Pelican edition and an edition that uses a conflated text.
Unfortunately Bookshop Santa Cruz won’t order copies for the group (unless all copies are paid for in advance). You will therefore need to order a copy yourself. Alternatively you can buy it on Amazon. It is difficult to find the Pelican edition by searching on the Amazon site. Better is to google “Hamlet Pelican Edition Amazon”.
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.

Orit Bashkin: The Farhud - Gender, Memory, Reconstruction
2024-05-13 10:40 (America/Los_Angeles) | Social Sciences 2, Room 71
Orit Bashkin will give her lecture, entitled The Farhud – Gender, Memory, Reconstruction on Monday, May 13 at 10:40am in Soc Sci II Rm 71. This guest lecture is a part of UCSC’s class, The Holocaust: A Global History, taught by Nathaniel Deutsch and Alma Rachel Heckman.
Orit Bashkin is Mabel Greene Myers Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University (2004), and her BA (1995) and MA (1999) from Tel Aviv University. Her publications deal with Iraqi history, Middle Eastern and Ottoman Jewry, Arab cultural revival movements, and the connections between history, memory, and literature. She authored three books published by Stanford University Press: Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel (2017); New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq (2012); The Other Iraq – Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq (2009). She coedited Jews and Journeys: Travel and the Performance of Jewish Identity, with Joshua Levinson (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2021).

Women of Color Environmentalists Panel
2024-05-15 17:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Cowell Ranch Hay Barn, Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Join the UCSC community for an empowering panel that celebrates the voices, visions, and efforts of women of color environmentalists. Our panelists include inspiring women from UC Santa Cruz and external organizations.
After the panel, enjoy a special dinner with the panelists and all event attendees! UCSC community members and affiliates of all identities are invited to attend this free event.
This event is set to begin at 5:00pm in the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn, doors will open at 4:45pm. Dinner will be served from 6:30pm to 7:50pm. RSVP coming soon!
Save the date to your Google Calendar with https://bit.ly/savedate-WOC
This event is made possible with the collaboration and sponsorship of: The African American Resource & Cultural Center, The American Indian Resource Center (AIRC), The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, The Center for Coastal Climate Resilience, The Latin American and Latino Studies Department, The People of Color Sustainability Collective, The Student Alliance of Native American & Indigenous Peoples (SANAI), The Sustainability Office, and The Womxn’s Center.

The 2nd Annual FMST Undergraduate Research Symposium
2024-05-16 - 2024-05-17 | Cowell Ranch Hay Barn, Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UCSC Feminist Studies Presents The 2nd Annual FMST Undergraduate Research Symposium. This year’s FMST Symposium will be a two-day event in celebration of Feminist Studies’ 50th Anniversary.
May 16 | Feminists in the World | 10am to 1pm
UCSC professors across the university – from anthropology and digital media to molecular biology and politics – in conversation about how feminist thought and theory has influenced their work.
May 17 | Radical Research: Feminists on the Rise | 10am to 4pm
A showcase of undergrad research exploring feminist theories and the FMST ethos of activism. Featuring oral presentations and posters exploring questions central to feminist studies. Plus food trucks, music, and live entertainment!

Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode Fifteen – Global Perspectives, Part 2 & 3: Paradiso in World Religions & Spirituality and A Text that Fosters Interreligious Dialogue
2024-05-17 09:00 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule.

Eileen Gardiner, a research fellow at the University of Bristol, specializes in medieval visions of the otherworld. She is the author of Visions of Heaven and Hell Before Dante and Medieval Visions of Heaven and Hell: A Sourcebook. She has also published on pilgrimage with her 2010 book on The Pilgrim’s Way to St. Patrick’s Purgatory. She has also published five volumes on hell in various religious traditions, including Hinduism and Buddhism. She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature and Medieval Studies. With Ron Musto, Eileen is a co-founder and co-publisher of Italica Press, the former co-director of ACLS Humanities E-Book and of the Medieval Academy of America and co-editor of its journal, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies.
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

Swag: A Creolised Alegropolitics of Resistance
2024-05-17 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual Event
The UCSC Center for South Asian Studies presents Swag: A Creolised Alegropolitics of Resistance with Ananya Jahanara Kabir on May 17th. This virtual event will be held via Zoom | Register Here
Learn more about this event at: CSAS Crossings
Ananya Jahanara Kabir is Professor of English Literature at King’s College London. Her research spans creolisation across the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, critical philology, and the politics of pleasure. A Fellow of the British Academy, she has been awarded India’s Infosys Prize in the Humanities and Germany’s Humboldt Research Prize.
Co-sponsored by The Center for Cultural Studies and The Humanities Institute. This event is a part of The Center for South Asian Studies’ annual lecture series, Crossings.

POSTPONED - Humanities Division Graduate Awards Ceremony
2024-05-17 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
We are postponing the Humanities Division Graduate Awards. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Information about rescheduling to come.

Saturday Shakespeare
2024-05-18 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 18th 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.
The speaker for this meeting will be Michael Warren, Emeritus Professor of Literature at UCSC. Warren has been dramaturg for many productions of Santa Cruz Shakespeare and its predecessor, Shakespeare Santa Cruz. We are very grateful to him for sharing his knowledge of, and enthusiasm for, each of the plays that we study.
Readings: Act IV Scene 7 + all of Act 5
Reading Coordinator: Esther Chun | eechun1@gmail.com
If you would like to read please email the reading coordinator as soon as possible.
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.
The Text
We will be using the Pelican edition. If you would like to read please get hold of a copy of this edition because there are differences between different editions. There are two sources for the play, the second quarto (Q2) of 1604-5 and the first folio (F) of 1623. The folio contains 70 lines not in Q2 and lacks 230 that are in Q2. Most editions combine them in a conflated text, thus making a long play even longer. The pelican edition does not do that, but sticks almost entirely to Q2. As a result there will be significant differences between the Pelican edition and an edition that uses a conflated text.
Unfortunately Bookshop Santa Cruz won’t order copies for the group (unless all copies are paid for in advance). You will therefore need to order a copy yourself. Alternatively you can buy it on Amazon. It is difficult to find the Pelican edition by searching on the Amazon site. Better is to google “Hamlet Pelican Edition Amazon”.
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 County History Fair
2024-05-18 12:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park, 144 School Street, Santa Cruz, 95060, United States
This is the 6th History Fair for our County! This year’s Santa Cruz County History Fair will be hosted by the Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park on Saturday May 18th at 12pm. Admission in free for all ages.
We look forward to engaging a wide public audience in a diverse offering of inclusive local history stories and resources. With the aim to bring local history to our community, the event will feature tables hosted by local historians and history organizations. There will also be tours, lectures, a “Passport to the Past” scavenger hunt, and refreshments!
Sponsored by State Parks, Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks, the Capitola Historical Museum, & The Humanities Institute.

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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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.

Saturday Shakespeare
2024-05-25 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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.

CANCELLED - Mjriam Abu Samra – New Horizons in Struggle: The Role of Transnational Palestinian Youth in Decolonial Politics
2024-05-29 12:15 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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)
