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Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza
Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza
The Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza is an authentic cultural festival with food, dance, music, and crafts presented each spring by Senderos. This local festival is like the traditional fiestas celebrated each summer in Oaxaca, Mexico. Guelaguetza is a Zapotec word that means “a commitment of sharing and cooperation.” Guelaguetza is a celebration that honors the gods […]
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Carolyn Fornoff – Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change
Carolyn Fornoff – Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change
In this talk, Carolyn Fornoff will discuss her recent book, Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change (Vanderbilt Press, 2024). Her book assesses contemporary trends in the representation of environmental crisis in order to suggest that there has been a shift away from evidentiary modes focused on proving the existence of […]
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The Deep Read: Faculty Salon on James
The Deep Read: Faculty Salon on James
Join us for a salon-style event at the Hay Barn on campus where our participating Deep Read faculty, Professors Susan Gillman (Literature), akua naru (Music), and Greg O'Malley (History), will give brief presentations and discuss James with the Deep Read community in a Q&A moderated by Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead, Laura Martin. Participants can also […]
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Tricia Rose – Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives – And How We Break Free
Tricia Rose – Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives – And How We Break Free
UCSC Feminist Studies and the UCSC Music Department proudly present Tricia Rose—an internationally respected speaker, award-winning writer, and leading scholar of African American culture, racial inequality, and gender—for a conversation about her book Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives – And How We Break Free. On May 2nd, UCSC Feminist Studies and the UCSC […]
M. Ty – It Is Time to Say to the Water, “Disobey”: Reflections with the Art of Jumana Emil Abboud
M. Ty – It Is Time to Say to the Water, “Disobey”: Reflections with the Art of Jumana Emil Abboud
Perhaps water is a mouth that runs toward unwritten histories. This possibility comes closer to the senses in the work of Jumana Emil Abboud, an artist whose practice is grounded in Palestinian landscapes—and the refusal to cede them to their brutal equation with narratives of damage that colonial occupation programmatically inflicts. For some time, Abboud […]
The Deep Read: East Bay Alumni Salon
The Deep Read: East Bay Alumni Salon
The Deep Read is coming back to the East Bay! The Humanities Institute invites East Bay alumni and Deep Readers to a special event at the home of UC Santa Cruz alumna and Foundation Trustee SB Master (Cowell ’75) to discuss this year's Deep Read book, the 2024 National Book Award-winning novel James by Percival […]
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Lifting As We Rhyme: 50 Years of Black Feminist Sonic World Making with Tricia Rose, Gina Dent, and akua naru
Lifting As We Rhyme: 50 Years of Black Feminist Sonic World Making with Tricia Rose, Gina Dent, and akua naru
UCSC Feminist Studies and the UCSC Music Department proudly present Lifting As We Rhyme: 50 Years of Black Feminist Sonic World Making—a roundtable discussion featuring Tricia Rose, internationally respected speaker, award-winning writer, and leading scholar of African American culture, racial inequality, and gender. Rose will be joined by Humanities professor Gina Dent and Music professor […]
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Saturday Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Saturday Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents A Midsummer Night's Dream, featuring a series of readings and conversations held Saturday mornings from April 26 to May 24, 2025. The 1st hour will be spent in conversation with a guest speaker, and during the 2nd hour volunteers will read aloud part of the play. During the final […]
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The Deep Read: A Conversation with Percival Everett
The Deep Read: A Conversation with Percival Everett
Join us for a free, public conversation with author, Percival Everett, at UC Santa Cruz's Quarry Amphitheater on May 4 at 4pm. He'll discuss his National Book Award-winning novel James with Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead, Professor of Literature Vilashini Cooppan. We'll consider how Everett depicts the possibility of humanity in this novel about the brutality […]
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Dmitri Nikulin – Bartleby, the Inscrutable Scrivener: On the Negative Constitution of Action
Dmitri Nikulin – Bartleby, the Inscrutable Scrivener: On the Negative Constitution of Action
The History of Consciousness department is pleased to announce the first speaker in their Spring 2025 Speaker Series, Dmitri Nikulin, who will be joining them next Monday May 5th to give his talk “Bartleby, the Inscrutable Scrivener: On the Negative Constitution of Action”. The talk will be held in Hum 1 Rm 420 at 1pm […]
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Sandy Rodriguez – Mapping Conflicts across the Californias: The Codex Rodriguez-Mondragón
Sandy Rodriguez – Mapping Conflicts across the Californias: The Codex Rodriguez-Mondragón
Join celebrated Los Angeles-based Chicana artist and researcher Sandy Rodriguez for a conversation about her ongoing series Codex Rodriguez-Mondragon with UCSC Professors Jennifer Gonzalez (HAVC) and Kirsten Silva Gruesz (Literature). Sandy Rodriguez’s works are strongly influenced by both the 16th-century colonial and present-day incidents along the US-Mexico border, her works map resistance to the ongoing cycles […]
A Conversation with Journalist Jazmine Hughes
A Conversation with Journalist Jazmine Hughes
Interested in Journalism? Come for a conversation with writer and editor Jazmine Hughes. Jazmine Hughes is a writer and editor, and the recipient of two National Magazine Awards. Hughes was a longtime member of the editorial staff at the New York Times, where she penned profiles of cultural figures including Lil Nas X, Whoopi Goldberg, Danny […]
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Deirdre de la Cruz – “It’s Your Curse,” and Other Lessons in Repairing Historical Harm
Deirdre de la Cruz – “It’s Your Curse,” and Other Lessons in Repairing Historical Harm
The University of Michigan possesses extensive archival, photographic, archaeological and natural history collections from the Philippines, many of which were built during the American colonial period from objects, images, and ancestors taken without the consent of local source communities. This talk introduces a multi-year, collaborative effort by Michigan faculty, curators, collection managers, students, and community […]
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Living Writers with Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Living Writers with Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Living Writers Series – Spring 2025 Insight, Writings: Third World and Other Imaginaries Tsering Wangmo Dhompa's most recent work is The Politics of Sorrow (Columbia University Press). Other works include the chapbook Revolute (Albion Books, 2021) three collections of poetry: My Rice Tastes Like the Lake, In the Absent Everyday and Rules of the House […]
Nauenberg History of Science Lecture with Jessica Riskin
Nauenberg History of Science Lecture with Jessica Riskin
Professor of Insects and Worms: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and his Life-Made World Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) was the Professor of Insects and Worms at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. Living through the storms of the French Revolution and Napoleonic period, he founded biology, coining the term to name a new science devoted to all and […]
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Academic Book Publishing with the University of Minnesota Press
Academic Book Publishing with the University of Minnesota Press
Join Jason Weidemann, an Editorial Director at the University of Minnesota Press, for a "publishing bootcamp" workshop, geared toward graduate students, post docs, and early career scholars working on their first books. Together we’ll discuss information on the editorial process - how to talk to editors, revising the dissertation, and proposals. Time will be left […]
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BayPhon 2025 at UCSC
BayPhon 2025 at UCSC
UCSC Linguistics is hosting BayPhon, a workshop on Phonetics and Phonology, on Saturday, May 10, 2025. BayPhon brings together faculty and students from linguistics departments in the region, including Stanford, UC Berkeley, San José State, and UCSC. BayPhon is part of a tradition known as “Phrend” (and before that, “Trend”), where linguistics departments in the broader […]
Saturday Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Saturday Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents A Midsummer Night's Dream, featuring a series of readings and conversations held Saturday mornings from April 26 to May 24, 2025. The 1st hour will be spent in conversation with a guest speaker, and during the 2nd hour volunteers will read aloud part of the play. During the final […]
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SOLD OUT: Isabel Allende – My Name Is Emilia del Valle
SOLD OUT: Isabel Allende – My Name Is Emilia del Valle
Bookshop Santa Cruz presents New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende (A Long Petal of the Sea and The House of the Spirits) who will join us to celebrate the release of My Name Is Emilia del Valle, a spellbinding historical novel in which a young writer journeys to South America to uncover the truth […]
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A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Italy and Its Culture
A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Italy and Its Culture
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics and the Italian Language Program cordially invite you to a multidisciplinary event on Italy and its culture. Well-renowned UCSC professors from a variety of disciplines ranging from literature to history, from science to engineering and computer science will offer a multidisciplinary perspective on Italy and its culture. Participants […]
Slugs and Steins with Associate Professor Muriam Davis – What Does it Mean to “Decolonize” Knowledge?
Slugs and Steins with Associate Professor Muriam Davis – What Does it Mean to “Decolonize” Knowledge?
The country of Algeria, located in North Africa, experienced one of the most violent struggles for independence of the twentieth century. The war against France, which lasted from 1954–62 has become a paradigmatic case study of the historical process known as decolonization and inspired classic films such as the Battle of Algiers, as well as […]
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Akum Longchari – Reimagining Humanization, Just Peace, and Healing through an Indigenous Lens
Akum Longchari – Reimagining Humanization, Just Peace, and Healing through an Indigenous Lens
Join the Center for South Asian Studies for a presentation by Aküm Longchari, the Center’s Scholar in Residence. From an Indigenous perspective, peace processes in the first quarter of the 21st century have been focused on State-building, where questions of justice and peace remained a matter of privilege and power rather than a right of […]
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Murad Idris – Dialogue for Hate: A Global Genealogy
Murad Idris – Dialogue for Hate: A Global Genealogy
This lecture posits hate, dialogue, and their conjunction as fundamental for the contemporary moralization of violence and hierarchy. It analyzes how the two terms operate through a series of disavowals, displacements, and transubstantiations, tracking their place in the history of political thought, structures of minoritization, and contemporary formations where they became rhetorical vehicles and conceptual […]
Ying Jin – Nurturing Hearts and Minds: Implementing Social Emotional Learning Principles in World Language Classrooms
Ying Jin – Nurturing Hearts and Minds: Implementing Social Emotional Learning Principles in World Language Classrooms
Join the Department of Applied Linguistics for a professional development workshop featuring Ying Jin, the 2018 ACTFL National Teacher of the Year, who will present her talk titled "Nurturing Hearts and Minds: Implementing Social Emotional Learning Principles in World Language Classrooms." Refreshments will be provided. This event is funded by the Peter Rushton and Jacqueline […]
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The Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series: Andy Bruno – “An Environmental History of the Tunguska Mystery”
The Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series: Andy Bruno – “An Environmental History of the Tunguska Mystery”
The third annual Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series will take place on Thursday, May 15th, 2025, at 12:30pm at the Cowell Provost House. This event will be livestreamed and recorded (link to be provided soon). This year's guest speaker is Andy Bruno, Stephen F. Cohen Chair of Russian History and Professor, Indiana University Bloomington. […]
Living Writers with Maria Elena Ramirez
Living Writers with Maria Elena Ramirez
Living Writers Series – Spring 2025 Insight, Writings: Third World and Other Imaginaries Maria E. Ramirez is a woman of Chicana, Puerto Rican, and Apache ancestry. She was actively involved in the student movement in the late sixties, where students, along with their parents, marched and demanded that their community be part of all the […]
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Saturday Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Saturday Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents A Midsummer Night's Dream, featuring a series of readings and conversations held Saturday mornings from April 26 to May 24, 2025. The 1st hour will be spent in conversation with a guest speaker, and during the 2nd hour volunteers will read aloud part of the play. During the final […]
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Nick Kawa and Alisa Keesey – Microbes at Work: The Vital Role of Bacteria and other Microbial Life in Sanitation Systems in the US and Uganda
Nick Kawa and Alisa Keesey – Microbes at Work: The Vital Role of Bacteria and other Microbial Life in Sanitation Systems in the US and Uganda
Wastewater treatment operators in the American Midwest wryly describe their job as “bacteria farming,” but they also insist that microbes are the ones who “do all the work” at treatment plants. Meanwhile, slum activists in Uganda suggest that they “work with microbes” to provide essential sanitation services where the state has failed to provide safe […]
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When Human-Centered AI Encountered Digital Humanities: A Dialogue between Magy Seif El-Nasr and Minghui Hu
When Human-Centered AI Encountered Digital Humanities: A Dialogue between Magy Seif El-Nasr and Minghui Hu
The Humanities Institute Research cluster, Humanities in the Age of AI, presents "When Human-Centered AI Encountered Digital Humanities: A Dialogue between Magy Seif El-Nasr and Minghui Hu." What happens when the ethical and interpretive frameworks of the humanities meet the algorithmic and interactive architectures of artificial intelligence? This dialogue brings together two leading voices from […]
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Soraya Murray – Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination
Soraya Murray – Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination
Soraya Murray’s forthcoming Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination (MIT, 2026) is the first dedicated examination of popular movies classified as “thrillers” that channel societal anxiety or dread about advanced technologies like supercomputers, robotics, AI, biotech, military weaponry, and digital surveillance. Technothriller is about the changing imagination of technology within an American context and its […]
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Living Writers with Angel Dominguez
Living Writers with Angel Dominguez
Living Writers Series – Spring 2025 Insight, Writings: Third World and Other Imaginaries Angel Dominguez is a Latiné poet of Yucatec Maya descent born in Hollywood and raised in Van Nuys, CA, by their immigrant family. They now live amongst the redwoods of Bonny Doon, CA. They’re the author of several books of poetry and […]
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The Center for the Middle East and North Africa & Kuumbwa Jazz Present: Cheb Nasro
The Center for the Middle East and North Africa & Kuumbwa Jazz Present: Cheb Nasro
Join the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and Kuumbwa Jazz for a concert featuring Cheb Nasro, renowned Raï artist and performer. Doors open at 6pm, and the concert begins at 7pm. Fifty free student tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis; sign up here for a free student ticket. Other guests […]
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Saturday Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Saturday Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents A Midsummer Night's Dream, featuring a series of readings and conversations held Saturday mornings from April 26 to May 24, 2025. The 1st hour will be spent in conversation with a guest speaker, and during the 2nd hour volunteers will read aloud part of the play. During the final […]
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Anneeth Hundle – Insecurities of Expulsion: Afro- Asian Entanglements in Transcontinental Uganda
Anneeth Hundle – Insecurities of Expulsion: Afro- Asian Entanglements in Transcontinental Uganda
As part of the Spring 2025 Aurora Lecture Series and the Cultural Studies Colloquium, we welcome Anneeth Kaur Hundle, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Presidential Chair in Social Sciences to Advance Sikh Studies at the University of California, Irvine, for her lecture entitled "Insecurities of Expulsion: Afro- Asian Entanglements in Transcontinental Uganda." In 1972, Ugandan […]
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G.S. Sahota and Susan Gillman – Du Boisian Double Consciousness, Global Sikh Diasporas, and Sikh Studies
G.S. Sahota and Susan Gillman – Du Boisian Double Consciousness, Global Sikh Diasporas, and Sikh Studies
As part of the Spring 2025 Aurora Lecture Series, join G.S. Sahota and Susan Gillman for a conversation on Du Boisian Double Consciousness, Global Sikh Diasporas, and Sikh Studies. The conversation will take place on Thursday, May 29th, from 3:30 to 5:00 PM in Humanities 1, Room 202, with the option to attend via Zoom. […]
Living Writers Student Reading
Living Writers Student Reading
Living Writers Series – Spring 2025 Insight, Writings: Third World and Other Imaginaries Sponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, the Laurie Sain Endowment, the Humanities Institute, The Literature Department, Creative Writing Program, and the Center for Racial Justice.
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Art as Social Transformation with Roger and DeAnna Cummings
Art as Social Transformation with Roger and DeAnna Cummings
As co-founders of Juxtaposition Arts (JXTA) in Minneapolis, Roger Cummings' and DeAnna Cummings’ practices operate at the intersection of art, social justice, and community development. JXTA functions as a "social sculpture" – a living artwork that extends beyond conventional art-making into community engagement. What began in 1995 with nine students has evolved into a comprehensive campus employing 70+ young […]
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