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SALA 2024: The South Asian Literature and Art Festival
Organized by the Stanford Center for South Asia in collaboration with Art Forum SF, the South Asian Literature and Art Festival showcases contemporary reflections of literature and arts from the sub-continent and its diaspora. It features highly acclaimed contemporary South Asian Art collections as well as panel discussions that include Art, Literature, Poetry, and Cinema. […]
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Falafel Welcome Lunch with The Center for the Middle East and North Africa
Falafel Welcome Lunch with The Center for the Middle East and North Africa
The Center for the Middle East and North Africa invites all CMENA affiliates and students to a falafel welcome lunch. Come catch up with one another, meet CMENA faculty, and learn about the Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS) Minor.
Gary Griggs: California Catastrophes
Gary Griggs: California Catastrophes
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Gary Griggs, local author and Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UC Santa Cruz, for a discussion and signing of his new book California Catastrophes: The Natural Disaster History of the Golden State. This comprehensive account of California's numerous and perilous natural disasters explores how a unique combination of […]
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Navigating the Media Landscape: Critical Media Literacy in the 2024 Elections
Navigating the Media Landscape: Critical Media Literacy in the 2024 Elections
This event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series - Power, Politics, and Our Democracy UC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How […]
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Employing Humanities Internships and Research Info Session #1
Employing Humanities Internships and Research Info Session #1
Learn about paid internships and undergraduate research opportunities for Humanities Students including applications, timelines, and program details. Open to all Humanities Majors and Minors. For more information please email humco@ucsc.edu. Please visit the Humanities Student Events Calendar to see other exciting events happening for students in the Humanities Division.
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Employing Humanities Internships and Research Info Session #2
Employing Humanities Internships and Research Info Session #2
Learn about paid internships and undergraduate research opportunities for Humanities Students including applications, timelines, and program details. Info on how to join via Zoom can be found via the Humanities Division Linktree. Open to all Humanities Majors and Minors. For more information please email humco@ucsc.edu. Please visit the Humanities Student Events Calendar to see other […]
Homage to Antoinette Swan & the Princes of Surf
Homage to Antoinette Swan & the Princes of Surf
Do you know about the three Hawaiian princes coming to Santa Cruz in 1885 and introducing surfing to the mainland? They didn't come here by accident. Join historians Geoffrey Dunn and Kim Stoner and learn about Antoinette Swan and her ties to Hawaiian royalty. This talk is a sneak peek of more hidden stories we […]
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Educator Workshop with the Amah Mutsun
Educator Workshop with the Amah Mutsun
Join the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History for a collaborative workshop connecting local educators with tribal leaders and scholars. This workshop aims to deepen knowledge, clarify terminology, and provide a space for dialogue about incorporating a native perspective into K-12 curriculum. Teachers will have the opportunity to work side-by-side with colleagues and tribal representatives […]
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Disrupting Imposter Phenomenon from the Inside Out with Silvia Austerlic
Disrupting Imposter Phenomenon from the Inside Out with Silvia Austerlic
Have you ever felt imposter phenomenon? Learn how to cultivate a growth mindset to disrupt it and move toward empowering ways of learning. This event has two sessions: Oct 8, 11:30 - 1:00 p.m. via Zoom or Nov 5, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend either […]
Employing Humanities Resume and Cover Letter Career Workshop
Employing Humanities Resume and Cover Letter Career Workshop
Having a fantastic resume and cover letter are the first steps towards securing part-time, full-time, on-campus or off-campus work. Join us for this informative workshop to learn best practices and resources for creating or updating your resume and cover letter. Register on Handshake here! Open to all Humanities Majors and Minors. For more information please […]
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T.J. Demos – Counterinsurgent: Cop City, Abolition Ecology, and the Aesthetics of Counterreform
T.J. Demos – Counterinsurgent: Cop City, Abolition Ecology, and the Aesthetics of Counterreform
If “climate apartheid” is on the rise, as Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò warns, then Cop City Atlanta—the multimillion-dollar new police training facility built by clear-cutting the city’s largest green space—offers an ominous flashpoint. For not only is Cop City’s contested construction (which is ongoing) an exemplary story of the violent repression of community activism at the […]
The Informational Interview with Lorato Anderson
The Informational Interview with Lorato Anderson
An informational interview is one you conduct with someone working in a field for an institution or company that you want to consider working in and for. How do you conduct an informational interview? What questions should you ask to get the best information about what it’s like to do that job for that organization? […]
More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory Cluster Meet and Greet
More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory Cluster Meet and Greet
Join us for the inaugural More-than-humanities community gathering! Light refreshments will be served. This will be our chance to come together to get to know one another and shape the vision for the lab. We hope you will come, and we ask that you bring your 1-2 wishes for the lab to share with the […]
Conflict Resolution with Anthony Keen-Louie
Conflict Resolution with Anthony Keen-Louie
Wherever there are groups of people, there will be conflict. However, conflict can be an opportunity to grow and improve if the right tools and resources are used. This workshop will explore conflict as a topic, share information about conflict resolution resources at UCSC, and provide some conflict resolution skills for participants to use in […]
Identity in Focus: Media Representations and the 2024 Presidential Election
Identity in Focus: Media Representations and the 2024 Presidential Election
This event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series - Power, Politics, and Our Democracy UC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How […]
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Mizanur Rahman–The Mass Uprisings in Bangladesh: Youth Mobilization, Political Possibility, and Precarity
Mizanur Rahman–The Mass Uprisings in Bangladesh: Youth Mobilization, Political Possibility, and Precarity
Bangladesh’s recent student-led mass uprising which ousted the longstanding autocrat, Sheikh Hasina, from office is widely considered to have ushered in a new era in Bangladesh politics. How did the uprising, which began with a demand for student’s job quota reform, unfold, and eventually turn into a mass movement? What political possibilities and precarities lie […]
Understanding October 7, 2023 and Israel’s War on the Gaza Strip
Understanding October 7, 2023 and Israel’s War on the Gaza Strip
The UCSC Center for Jewish Studies presents an event with Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University. How should we speak about the shocking October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas and its allies which killed 1,139 people, 61% of them Israeli civilians, […]
Living Writers with Julián Delgado Lopera
Living Writers with Julián Delgado Lopera
Living Writers Series – Fall 2024 Growing Things ~ gardens, poems, emotions, relationships, stories, our artistic practices, carefully tended, beautifully ordered, rewilded and wild ~ About The Living Writers Series The Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series […]
U.S. Elections and Democracy in Deeply Polarized Times: What are the Stakes and Opportunities?
U.S. Elections and Democracy in Deeply Polarized Times: What are the Stakes and Opportunities?
This event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series - Power, Politics, and Our Democracy UC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How […]
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Festival of Monsters Public Festival
The UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies presents the 2024 Festival of Monsters opens Oct. 11-12 with a weekend of free public events for all ages. Festivities begin 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, at the Museum of Art and History (705 Front St., Santa Cruz) with a reading and Q&A with Kiersten White, the […]
Bilingual California/California Bilingüe: Fronteras y Futuros
Bilingual California/California Bilingüe: Fronteras y Futuros
Join us as we welcome Professor Ana Celia Zentella (professor emerita, UC San Diego) to discuss the political, social, and educational barriers that California’s Spanish-English bilinguals must overcome to ensure a bilingual future for themselves and their children. She suggests ways that students, parents, teachers, university faculty and community groups can contribute successfully. This event […]
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1st Symposium on Spanish-English Bilingualism in California
The 1st Symposium on Spanish-English bilingualism in California brings together leading scholars investigating the linguistic practices and patterns of variation across Spanish-English bilinguals throughout the state of California. This inaugural symposium will serve to engage researchers in cross-campus collaborations and interdisciplinary initiatives. The symposium's keynote address will be given by Professor Ana Celia Zentella (professor […]
Filipino American Heritage Month Festival
Filipino American Heritage Month Festival
Join us for the 3rd annual Filipino American Heritage Festival on the Watsonville city plaza! Featuring vendors, performances, and food. Co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
CLOTILDA: Resistance, Resilience, Remembrance, Rebuilding
CLOTILDA: Resistance, Resilience, Remembrance, Rebuilding
Black divers were central to the reclamation of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to transport kidnapped Africans to the United States. In our coastal area, the unceded territory of the Amah Mutsun people and a place where Black servicemen and their families resettled after fighting in U.S. wars in the Pacific, Santa Cruz […]
Dear Watsonville Screening and Q&A
Dear Watsonville Screening and Q&A
In celebration of Filipino American History Month, join Watsonville is in the Heart and the Watsonville Film Festival for a screening of Dear Watsonville, a mixed-media documentary offering an intimate glimpse into the lives of the first generation of Filipino farmworkers to arrive in the Pajaro Valley as seen through the eyes of their children. […]
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Kaveh Akbar: Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar: Martyr!
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes acclaimed and bestselling author Kaveh Akbar for a discussion and signing of his phenomenal fiction debut Martyr!, which Tommy Orange calls, "An absolute jewel of a novel. A diamond. I haven't loved a book this much in years. Kaveh's writing is so thoroughly powerful and gorgeous you can feel it from […]
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Ecologies of Care Workshop
Ecologies of Care Workshop
The Center for South Asian Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites you to launch an international collaboration, the Ecologies of Care Initiative. In partnership with the University of British Columbia (UBC), Simon Fraser University (SFU), and Lincoln University (LU) this initiative invites scholars at the forefront of the social sciences, […]
Laleh Khalili in conversation with Nidhi Mahajan–Palestine and the Maritime Politics of the Red Sea
Laleh Khalili in conversation with Nidhi Mahajan–Palestine and the Maritime Politics of the Red Sea
In this talk, Professor Khalili will discuss the Yemeni naval blockade of the Red Sea in solidarity with Palestine and its effects on the Israeli economy and political scene as well as on global maritime flows. While the blockade of the Red Sea has been to some extent a successful solidarity action against the Israeli […]
Writing Psychology with Andrea Seeger
Writing Psychology with Andrea Seeger
Sometimes we can be our severest writing critics and biggest hindrances to writing success. Learn how to overcome psychological barriers and start writing in this interactive workshop. Participants will also learn about the VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center. This event has two sessions: Oct 14, 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, or Oct […]
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Mapping Hydrocommons Cultures in the Americas
Mapping Hydrocommons Cultures in the Americas
In this session, Lisa Blackmore and Alejandro Ponce de León will talk about a series of mapping processes that they’ve been engaged in with river communities in Latin America. They will explore how art and humanities research intersects with water activism and how collaborative editorial and curatorial work can support emergent and resilient practices that […]
Huerta Center Graduate Scholar CART Alternative Spring Break – Info Session
Huerta Center Graduate Scholar CART Alternative Spring Break – Info Session
2024-2025 CART Alternative Spring Break: Huerta Center Graduate Scholars In Winter 2025, two graduate students will receive funding from the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas (Huerta Center) and be trained by the University Library’s Center for Archival Research and Training (CART) to assist a UC Santa Cruz Archivist based at the Dolores Huerta […]
Moving Money and Moving Power: Philanthropy Isn’t Neutral
Moving Money and Moving Power: Philanthropy Isn’t Neutral
This event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series - Power, Politics, and Our Democracy UC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How […]
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Festival of Monsters – Academic Conference
Rising from the darkness, monsters bring to light the parts of our world we might rather see hidden. They come forth in times of growing prejudice, discrimination and othering. The 2024 Festival of Monsters (Academic Conference October 16-18) —hosted by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies — explores the way monsters and tropes […]
Curating Your Digital Reputation with Lisa Nielsen
Curating Your Digital Reputation with Lisa Nielsen
Your digital reputation refers to your presence on the internet, on social media platforms and on personal and professional websites. Learn tips on how to distinguish yourself from the crowd and create a lasting impression in an evolving digital communications landscape. This event has two sessions: Oct 16, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. via Zoom or […]
Lisa Blackmore: Hydrocommoning
Lisa Blackmore: Hydrocommoning
In this talk, Lisa will present 'hydrocommoning' as a concept to think with emergent water cultures by asking what work a theory and praxis of hydrocommoning might do to support transitions to alternative hydrosocial relations beyond modern urban and extractive paradigms. She will lay out a methodological route for interdisciplinary water research that takes seriously […]
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WordPress Website Design with Jason Chafin
WordPress Website Design with Jason Chafin
Professional websites can boost your reputation and aid your networking and job search. UCSC provides free access to WordPress (with several design templates) to faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students. Get design tips from Jason and get started using WordPress to make a blog or static website to showcase your graduate or postdoctoral work! This […]
Living Writers with Stacey D’Erasmo
Living Writers with Stacey D’Erasmo
Living Writers Series – Fall 2024 Growing Things ~ gardens, poems, emotions, relationships, stories, our artistic practices, carefully tended, beautifully ordered, rewilded and wild ~ About The Living Writers Series The Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series […]
Dana Frank: What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?
Dana Frank: What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?
Bookshop welcomes Dana Frank, UC Santa Cruz Professor Emerita of History, for a discussion about her new book What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?: Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. "The most important book on the Great […]
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Mastering the Elevator Pitch with Nada Miljkovich
Mastering the Elevator Pitch with Nada Miljkovich
In this interactive workshop, graduate students will learn how to craft a compelling and concise elevator pitch tailored to their specific goals—whether it’s securing funding, attracting partners, or landing clients. Participants will explore techniques to clearly communicate their vision, project, or business in just a few sentences, leaving a lasting impression. Through guided exercises and […]
Book Celebration: Toxic City and A People’s History of SFO
Book Celebration: Toxic City and A People’s History of SFO
Join the Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies to celebrate the release of two important new books by UCSC faculty exploring power, historical development, and environmental justice in the Bay Area: Lindsey Dillon’s Toxic City and Eric Porter’s A People’s History of SFO (both published by University of California Press). The authors will be […]
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Burnout: Recognizing, Preventing, Mitigating with Audrey Kim and Nicolette Severson
Burnout: Recognizing, Preventing, Mitigating with Audrey Kim and Nicolette Severson
Burnout is a state of exhaustion that can impact our work, personal lives, health, and overall sense of well-being and purpose. Join us to discuss common causes and symptoms, and learn strategies to recognize, prevent, and manage burnout. This event is on Oct 22, 4:00-5:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, Study Lounge 204. Register below […]
Engaging Digital Democracy: Tools to Recognize Political Dis- and Mis-Information
Engaging Digital Democracy: Tools to Recognize Political Dis- and Mis-Information
This event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series - Power, Politics, and Our Democracy UC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How […]
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Noreen Khawaja – What is a University? Humboldt and HistCon in Perspective
Noreen Khawaja – What is a University? Humboldt and HistCon in Perspective
This talk reteaches the history of the research university as a series of answers to the question of what symbols are for, what symbols can do. By answers I do not mean simply what scholars have said about these matters, but also what we have done, the worlds we have made in our teaching and […]
Employing Humanities – Humanities at Work: Making a Meaningful Career
Employing Humanities – Humanities at Work: Making a Meaningful Career
The Humanities Career Engagement Specialist will lead an interactive workshop that will set you up to better understand how your humanities skills can prepare you for a fulfilling career. Free burritos for all who register through our Linktree here! Open to all Humanities Majors and Minors. For more information please email humco@ucsc.edu. Please visit the […]
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The Center for Cultural Studies 35th Anniversary Conference
Join us for a celebratory conference in collaborative form, including a conversation with founding director Jim Clifford, lightning talks on Cultural Studies keywords, dialogues, reflections by former graduate student affiliates, and a collective imagining of CCS’s next chapter. Events begin Thursday, October 24 at 5:00 PM and run through Friday evening in Humanities 210 and […]
Academic Publishing with Martha Stuit and Erich van Rijn
Academic Publishing with Martha Stuit and Erich van Rijn
How do you choose a reputable academic journal to publish in? What are your copyrights? What is open access? Where do you find academic publishing support at UCSC beyond your program and department? This event has two sessions: Oct 24, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. via Zoom, or Oct 29, 3:00-4:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, Study […]
Living Writers with Carolina Ixta
Living Writers with Carolina Ixta
Living Writers Series – Fall 2024 Growing Things ~ gardens, poems, emotions, relationships, stories, our artistic practices, carefully tended, beautifully ordered, rewilded and wild ~ About The Living Writers Series The Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series […]
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Art and Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Investigation with Alice Barale
Art and Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Investigation with Alice Barale
The History of Consciousness department presents Art and Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Investigation with Alice Barale, University of Milan. Join us Monday, October 28 at 1pm PST in Hum 1 Rm 210 or register below to attend virtually: It has been several years since the first artwork created with artificial intelligence was sold at the […]
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Proactive Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with Lorato Anderson
Proactive Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with Lorato Anderson
How do you proactively promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in your role as a graduate student, a researcher, a teaching assistant, and a peer and undergraduate mentor? Learn active steps you can take in every role to promote a just and welcoming environment at UCSC in every space. Recommended Reading: Ely, Robin J., and Thomas, […]
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Sandhya Shukla – Cosmopolitanism and Relationality: The Logic of the Cultural Studies We Need Now
Sandhya Shukla – Cosmopolitanism and Relationality: The Logic of the Cultural Studies We Need Now
When Immanuel Kant suggested in 1798 that a citizenship of the world could be staged in Konigsberg without physical travel, he illuminated the dense heterogeneity of place. Kant’s insight might be seen to have informed many projects of British cultural studies that situated globality inside locality by focusing on the potential of working-class cultures built […]
Decoding the Headlines: Top News Stories, Misinformation, and the 2024 Presidential Campaign
Decoding the Headlines: Top News Stories, Misinformation, and the 2024 Presidential Campaign
This event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series - Power, Politics, and Our Democracy UC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How […]