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Dan Zimmer – From Left/Right to Up/Down: Technological Transcendence, Ecological Collapse, and a New Polarity in Politics
Dan Zimmer – From Left/Right to Up/Down: Technological Transcendence, Ecological Collapse, and a New Polarity in Politics
The first guest of the Winter '25 lineup of the HistCon Speaker Series will be joining us next week! Dan Zimmer will give his talk “From Left/Right to Up/Down: Technological Transcendence, Ecological Collapse, and a New Polarity in Politics” on Monday, January 27th, at 1pm in Hum 1 Rm 210. If you are unable to make […]
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Sophia Azeb – Mapping the “Arab” in Pan-African Political Culture
Sophia Azeb – Mapping the “Arab” in Pan-African Political Culture
Amid the US-backed Israeli genocide in Palestine and the UAE-backed genocide in Sudan, the constellation of transnational and multiracial movement solidarities forged throughout the myriad capitalist and colonialist crises of the 21st century continue to reckon with the precarity of their uneven legibility across various regional, continental, and global contexts. Expanding on the titular catalogue […]
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Francesca Orsini — East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature
Francesca Orsini — East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature
Join us Friday, January 31st at 10am PST for a discussion with Francesca Orsini on East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature, in conversation with G.S. Sahota and Rahul Parson. This event is part of the Winter 2025 Aurora Lecture Series. Francesca Orsini is Professor Emerita of Hindi and South Asian Literature, School […]
Geographies of Dissent: A Trans/Feminist Dialogue
Geographies of Dissent: A Trans/Feminist Dialogue
Feminist Studies presents Geographies of Dissent — a dialogue centering trans/feminist vernaculars of the geopolitical, and how current histories of occupation and authoritarianism have impacted feminist projects of dissent. The first 20 students who register for the full day will receive their choice of one of the speakers' books. 11am | Violent Intimacies: The Trans […]
American Patchwork Quartet
American Patchwork Quartet
The Humanities Institute and Kuumbwa Jazz is pleased to present American Patchwork Quartet (APQ) on Friday, January 31, 2025 at 7:00PM! Join the live concert and support American Patchwork Quartet's mission to reclaim the immigrant soul of American Roots Music as APQ weaves modern immigrant dreams into songs. American Patchwork Quartet (APQ), led by multi-Grammy […]
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Zhongmin Chen — “Re-evaluating the Development of the Chinese Language”
Zhongmin Chen — “Re-evaluating the Development of the Chinese Language”
The Fusional Linguistics Initiative presents, Zhongmin Chen (Fudan University) speaking on "Re-evaluating the Development of the Chinese Language: the 'One-center Multi-Layer' Development Hypothesis." This talk will take place Monday, February 3 at 1:20pm in Humanities 1 - Room 210. Language is humanity's most vital tool for communication, making the study of its evolution inherently linked […]
The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life – Film Screening and Discussion with Co-Director/Executive Producer, Dr. Persis Karim
The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life – Film Screening and Discussion with Co-Director/Executive Producer, Dr. Persis Karim
Join us for a screening of the film, The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life, and a discussion with the film’s Co-Director and Executive Producer, Persis Karim, who will be in conversation with UCSC PhD candidate, Shirin Towfiq. The film shares a multi-generational perspective of those who came to the U.S. as students, […]
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Paul North & Paul Reitter – Notes on Translating Marx’s Capital
Paul North & Paul Reitter – Notes on Translating Marx’s Capital
This presentation will discuss the history of Anglophone translations of Capital (Vol. 1) Karl Marx’s magnus opus, paying particular attention to the different circumstances that have shaped important translation decisions. It will also identify some of the major translation challenges the text poses and ask how the meaning of the Capital varies according to how […]
Humanities at Work: Informational Interviewing
Humanities at Work: Informational Interviewing
Wondering about your career options? Your curiosity is one of your greatest assets for discovering career possibilities, for building your network, and for creating a fulfilling professional life. Join this interactive workshop to learn about exploring your career options and growing your network with the practice of informational interviewing. Free copies of Designing Your Life […]
Radhika Govindrajan — “It’s Not Love, It’s Deception”: The Affective Politics of Law and Majoritarianism in Himalayan India
Radhika Govindrajan — “It’s Not Love, It’s Deception”: The Affective Politics of Law and Majoritarianism in Himalayan India
Winter 2025 Anthropology Colloquium Series, “It’s Not Love, It’s Deception”: The Affective Politics of Law and Majoritarianism in Himalayan India with Radhika Govindrajan. This talk draws on ethnographic research in Himalayan India to explore how majoritarian feeling creeps into the legal domain by exploring the contingent production of sentiment among state officials who legislate inter-religious […]
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Dixita Deka–After Insurgency: Farming Journeys and Rehabilitation in Northeast India
Dixita Deka–After Insurgency: Farming Journeys and Rehabilitation in Northeast India
Since India’s independence in 1947, militarization, the extractive regime, and capital have significantly transformed the agrarian landscape in Northeast India. This talk is based on ongoing ethnographic work in Assam among the former insurgents of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) who have taken up farming. Reclaiming the fields and the commons has been […]
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Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents: Neko Case | THE HARDER I FIGHT THE MORE I LOVE YOU
Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents: Neko Case | THE HARDER I FIGHT THE MORE I LOVE YOU
Beloved Grammy-nominated musician Neko Case will share her new book, THE HARDER I FIGHT THE MORE I LOVE YOU — a "heartbreaking and funny" memoir of a poverty-stricken childhood, obsessive desires, and indispensable friendships that reflects on the way art and music and a deep connection to nature guided her journey towards stardom (Maggie Smith, […]
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Riccardo Bellofiore & Giovanna Vertova – Nature, Women, and Capital: A Critical Reconsideration
Riccardo Bellofiore & Giovanna Vertova – Nature, Women, and Capital: A Critical Reconsideration
Join us as we continue the Winter 25 session of the HistCon Speaker Series next week! Riccardo Bellofiore & Giovanna Vertova, University of Bergamo (the class economists) will give their talk “Nature, Women, and Capital: A Critical Reconsideration” on Monday, February 10, at 1pm in Hum 1 Rm 420. If you are unable to make […]
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lecture: “Primary Wonder: Spirituality, Art, and Nature” with Douglas E. Christie
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lecture: “Primary Wonder: Spirituality, Art, and Nature” with Douglas E. Christie
Join us for the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lecture: "Primary Wonder: Spirituality, Art, and Nature" with Douglas E. Christie, Professor Emeritus in the Theological Studies Department at Loyola Marymount University. "Primary wonder." Poet Denise Levertov describes this as the feeling that sometimes arises within us when we encounter "the mystery/that there is anything, anything […]
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Armen Khatchatourov – Truths and Rewards of Algorithmic Governmentality: A Heuristic Approach to Normativity at Play in AI Systems
Armen Khatchatourov – Truths and Rewards of Algorithmic Governmentality: A Heuristic Approach to Normativity at Play in AI Systems
Join us for a thought-provoking talk with Armen Khatchatourov on "Truths and Rewards of Algorithmic Governmentality: A Heuristic Approach to Normativity at Play in AI Systems." If you are unable to make it in person, you can attend virtually via Zoom. The rapid proliferation of AI-based systems has transformed how we understand and relate to […]
Deep Read Salon: Revisiting Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Deep Read Salon: Revisiting Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Join us for a Deep Read salon on Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn featuring UC Santa Cruz Professor of Literature and Twain scholar, Susan Gillman. Prof. Gillman will discuss Twain's novel in the context of 19th-century popular literature and political history and explore its broader cultural influence and reach as our American idol and […]
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La Marr Jurelle Bruce – COME OUTSIDE: Black Love, Open Sky
La Marr Jurelle Bruce – COME OUTSIDE: Black Love, Open Sky
This presentation is culled from The Afromantic: Black Love Out Yonder, a book-length cultural history, critical theory, aesthetic expression, and existential assertion of B/black love outside. The project will follow black love to cookouts, carnivals, rooftops, rallies, jazz funerals, cruising spots, garden plots, hush harbors, distant stars, and forest clearings—emphasizing ways of loving that escape […]
Career Workshop: Using LinkedIn to Accelerate Your Career
Career Workshop: Using LinkedIn to Accelerate Your Career
LinkedIn can be a powerful tool to leverage in your career journey. Join us for a fast-paced and practical workshop where you'll learn how to create a professional and dynamic LinkedIn profile, as well as how to use various LinkedIn resources to improve your networking and job search skills! This event is presented by the […]
Undiscovered Shakespeare: Timon of Athens – Episode 1
Undiscovered Shakespeare: Timon of Athens – Episode 1
Join us for this year's, Undiscovered Shakespeare featuring Timon of Athens (1606), a late play focusing on the corrosive effects of prodigality and ingratitude in an apparently democratic society. Gretchen Minton, Professor of English at the University of Montana, Bozeman and the editor of the most recent Arden edition of the play, will be the […]
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Thomas Haigh–Artificial Intelligence: The Brand That Wouldn’t Die
Thomas Haigh–Artificial Intelligence: The Brand That Wouldn’t Die
Join us for this undergraduate-facing event at the Merrill Cultural Center featuring leading historian of computing, Thomas Haigh. He will contextualize the current Artificial Intelligence hype in the longer history of boom and bust for for the AI brand, critiquing claims made for large language models. Pizza will be served and all are welcome. Presented […]
Derek Penslar – Is Israel a Settler-Colonial State?
Derek Penslar – Is Israel a Settler-Colonial State?
Due to the atmospheric river event effecting Santa Cruz County, this event will now take place via Zoom. Everyone who has RSVP'd for the event will receive a Zoom link. Anyone interested in attending the virtual event can register below using the "register" button. The Center for Jewish Studies Presents The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture […]
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Katie Shilton – Trust, Trustworthiness and Participation: Findings From a Survey of Global Projects Navigating Participatory Forms of AI
Katie Shilton – Trust, Trustworthiness and Participation: Findings From a Survey of Global Projects Navigating Participatory Forms of AI
This meeting is scheduled for February 18th (Tuesday) at noon in HUM 210 with guest speaker, Katie Shilton speaking on "Trust, Trustworthiness and Participation: Findings From a Survey of Global Projects Navigating Participatory Forms of AI." As the discourse on responsible and trustworthy AI intensifies, Participatory AI (PAI) presents a compelling approach to the democratic […]
A Conversation with Bay Area Journalist Joe Eskenazi
A Conversation with Bay Area Journalist Joe Eskenazi
In partnership with City on a Hill Press and with support from The Humanities Institute and The Alumni Association, Kresge's Media and Society Series presents an evening with acclaimed journalist Joe Eskenazi, who will speak to the nuts and bolts of regionally rooted reporting, and survey several of his most impactful stories. Joe Eskenazi is […]
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Valentin Lopez – Amah Mutsun Tribal History & Importance of Traditional Land Stewardship
Valentin Lopez – Amah Mutsun Tribal History & Importance of Traditional Land Stewardship
Join us as we welcome Valentin Lopez, Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band for his talk "Amah Mutsun Tribal History & Importance of Traditional Land Stewardship." Valentin Lopez is the Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, one of three historic tribes that are recognized as Ohlone. The Amah Mutsun are comprised of the […]
Ajay Skaria – The Part of the Indigenous: Adivasis and the Subaltern Intimation of Freedom
Ajay Skaria – The Part of the Indigenous: Adivasis and the Subaltern Intimation of Freedom
This talk attends to what the Subaltern Studies tradition begins to think and gives to our own times to think. The emergence of Subaltern Studies was part of the increasing prominence of the “New Social Movements,” new because they were focused more on oppression than exploitation. Recognizing this allows us to discern that the Subaltern […]
Undiscovered Shakespeare: Timon of Athens – Episode 2
Undiscovered Shakespeare: Timon of Athens – Episode 2
Join us for this year's, Undiscovered Shakespeare featuring Timon of Athens (1606), a late play focusing on the corrosive effects of prodigality and ingratitude in an apparently democratic society. Gretchen Minton, Professor of English at the University of Montana, Bozeman and the editor of the most recent Arden edition of the play, will be the […]
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Winter 2025 Aurora Lecture: G. S. Sahota
Winter 2025 Aurora Lecture: G. S. Sahota
Join us as we welcome G.S. Sahota—Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies and Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz for a conversation on Equality of the Minor: Ambedkar’s Critical Legacy Today. This engaging discussion will take place on February 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM in Humanities 1, Room 202. […]
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Mediterranean Slavery during the 18th Century and the Historical Study of Race: M’hamed Oualdi in Conversation with Shreya Parikh
Mediterranean Slavery during the 18th Century and the Historical Study of Race: M’hamed Oualdi in Conversation with Shreya Parikh
From ancient times through abolition, scholars have often described slavery in the Mediterranean region as being relatively unaffected by the history of racial thought. Instead, many historians have focused on the decisive role played by religion. At the same time, however, it is undeniable that dark-skinned enslaved people occupied a more subordinate position in comparison […]
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PhD+ Workshop – Grants and Fellowships
PhD+ Workshop – Grants and Fellowships
Grants and Fellowships for Scholars in the Humanities Learn how to make your fellowship and grant proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss what does and does not need to be in a research proposal, the proper tone and form, and ways to tease out the larger stakes of individual research […]
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Nora Khan – TBA
Nora Khan – TBA
Details coming soon. WINTER 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1, Room 210. Staff assistance is provided by […]
Humanities Campus to Career: Law Panel
Humanities Campus to Career: Law Panel
Are you interested in a career in the legal field? Come learn about careers in law from current and former attorneys with Humanities backgrounds. Appetizers and light refreshments will be served. Sarah Cunniff (she/her) attended Stevenson College at UC Santa Cruz, where she majored in French Literature. After law school, she worked in large and […]
Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents: Jennifer Finney Boylan | CLEAVAGE: MEN, WOMEN, AND THE SPACE BETWEEN US
Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents: Jennifer Finney Boylan | CLEAVAGE: MEN, WOMEN, AND THE SPACE BETWEEN US
What is the difference between men and women? In her new book Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us, Jennifer Finney Boylan, bestselling author of She's Not There and co-author of Mad Honey with Jodi Picoult, examines the divisions—as well as the common ground—between the genders, and reflects on her own experiences, both difficult […]
Undiscovered Shakespeare: Timon of Athens – Episode 3
Undiscovered Shakespeare: Timon of Athens – Episode 3
Join us for this year's, Undiscovered Shakespeare featuring Timon of Athens (1606), a late play focusing on the corrosive effects of prodigality and ingratitude in an apparently democratic society. Gretchen Minton, Professor of English at the University of Montana, Bozeman and the editor of the most recent Arden edition of the play, will be the […]
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Activating Community Engagement with Imagining America at UC Santa Cruz
Activating Community Engagement with Imagining America at UC Santa Cruz
Please join us for a special workshop with Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA). Learn about the member benefits, such as fellowships, conferences, research, and resources, available to UCSC faculty, students, and staff. IA will share a toolkit and creative engagement tools to help organize the people, projects, and partners on our […]
Living Writers with Hannah Sanghee Park
Living Writers with Hannah Sanghee Park
Living Writers Series – Winter 2025 Grief Sequence Not to suppress mourning (suffering)...but to change it, transform it…after Prageeta Sharma & Roland Barthes Hannah Sanghee Park is the author of two poetry collections. a chapbook, Ode Days Ode (2011) and The Same-Different (2015), which won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. […]
An Evening with Colin Winnette
An Evening with Colin Winnette
As part of Kresge's Writers House Reading Series, Kresge's Media and Society presents an evening with novelist and short-story writer Colin Winnette, who will be giving a reading followed by Q&A. The event will start at 7pm in the Kresge A Lounge (the first-floor lounge in one of the new residence halls). Colin Winnette is the […]
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Evgeny Morozov – “AI and its Others: Cold War Legacies, Neoliberal Futures, and the Fight for Ecological Reason”
Evgeny Morozov – “AI and its Others: Cold War Legacies, Neoliberal Futures, and the Fight for Ecological Reason”
Evgeny Morozov will be on campus Friday afternoon, February 28 to talk about his recent Boston Review article "The AI We Deserve." Evgeny Morozov holds a PhD in History of Science from Harvard University. He is the founder of "The Syllabus" and author of The Net Delusion (2011) and To Save Everything, Click Here (2013).