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RESCHEDULED – Blossoms into Gold: The Croatians in the Pajaro Valley
RESCHEDULED – Blossoms into Gold: The Croatians in the Pajaro Valley
** This event has been rescheduled for July 24th ** Of all the immigrant groups who flocked to California in the last two hundred years, probably the least known are the Croatians of the Dalmatian Coast. Often identified as Austrians, Slavonians, or Dalmatians, they came from a glorious background of international traders, sailors, and political […]
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Mieko Kawakami in Conversation with Ruth Ozeki
Mieko Kawakami in Conversation with Ruth Ozeki
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Mieko Kawakami, bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs, for an online discussion of her new, extraordinary novel—All the Lovers in the Night, in which she demonstrates yet again why she is one of today's most uncategorizable, insightful, and talented novelists. Kawakami will be in conversation with acclaimed author Ruth Ozeki at […]
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Filippo Gianferrari – Dante and Boccaccio vs. Medieval Education: A Lesson in Cross-Cultural Pastoral
Filippo Gianferrari – Dante and Boccaccio vs. Medieval Education: A Lesson in Cross-Cultural Pastoral
Readers have always been fascinated by Dante’s distinctive habit of placing episodes from Scripture side by side with ancient pagan myths, as though the latter had a comparable authority. As my reading shows, a popular medieval school text, known as the Eclogue of Theodulus (Ecloga Theoduli), supplied a fitting precedent and model for this practice […]
Deep Read 2022 Faculty Salon
Deep Read 2022 Faculty Salon
Join us for a discussion with campus faculty and the Deep Read community at the 2022 Deep Read Salon where we’ll discuss Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom. UCSC Chancellor Cynthia Larive—an accomplished bioanalytical chemist—will be joined by Vilashini Coopan (Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies) and Gina Athena Ulysse (Feminist Studies), for an evening of […]
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Harjeet Grewal – Janamsakhis and Sikh Epistemology
Harjeet Grewal – Janamsakhis and Sikh Epistemology
The Sikh tradition produced some of the earliest vernacular prose narratives beginning in the mid-sixteenth century known as Janamsakhis. These accounts of Guru Nanak Sahib’s life remain central to the lives of Sikhs across the globe today. This talk reviews scholarly debates about Janamsakhi’s and argues that examining the Janamsakhis from a critical literary perspective […]
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Linguistics Colloquia: Katy Carlson
Linguistics Colloquia: Katy Carlson
About eight times each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
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Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: A Tale of Two Cities
Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It is the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met. The story details […]
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Kyle Parry – Generativity Across Scales
Kyle Parry – Generativity Across Scales
Toni Morrison said a book is not "This is what I believe," because that would be “just a tract.” Rather, a book is "I don't know what it is, but I am interested in finding out what it might mean to me, as well as to other people." This talk's "I don't know" is a […]
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Living Writers: Soham Patel
Living Writers: Soham Patel
LIVING WRITERS UCSC, SPRING 2022 presents: CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS showcases interdisciplinary writers who deeply engage in various sonic forms, whether the libretto and the operatic, sound and visual art, acoustic music and songwriting, or embodied meditations to explore the possibilities in being attentive to sound, as action and celebrant through writing. This […]
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Karen Tei Yamashita Lifetime Achievement Award Celebration
Karen Tei Yamashita Lifetime Achievement Award Celebration
Please join us in a celebration of Karen Tei Yamashita's Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Foundation. Karen's books will be for sale at the event through Bookshop Santa Cruz. For more information contact: meperks@ucsc.edu. Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, the Literature Department, and Cowell College.
Jed Buchwald – “Isaac Newton and the Origin of Civilization”
Jed Buchwald – “Isaac Newton and the Origin of Civilization”
Isaac Newton, who renovated the foundations of mathematics, optics, and mechanics in the 17th century, aimed also to overturn the entire history of civilization. By the late 1690s Newton had become convinced that the natural rate of population growth implied that elaborately organized social life had not arisen until near the time of Solomon’s kingdom. […]
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Santa Cruz County History Fair
Santa Cruz County History Fair
Celebrate local history by connecting with historical organizations and groups throughout Santa Cruz County. Enjoy hands-on activities, artifacts, photographs, publications, and more. The 2022 Santa Cruz County History Fair is generously sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Participating Organizations: Amah Mutsun Tribal Band California State Parks Capitola Historical Museum Castro Adobe State […]
Pamela Z – Concert and Panel Discussion
Pamela Z – Concert and Panel Discussion
Pamela Z is a composer, technologist, mixed-media and performance artist specializing in real-time synthesis, voice and vocality, and the framing of found objects and found texts as opportunities for unexpectedly visceral engagements— engagements with the interiorities and exteriorities of our identities and communities. She will complete a two-part residency at UC Santa Cruz, engaging with […]
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The Deep Read: A Conversation with Yaa Gyasi
The Deep Read: A Conversation with Yaa Gyasi
Join us for a live discussion May 15 at the Quarry Amphitheater with novelist Yaa Gyasi and UC Santa Cruz Professor Emerita of Literature Karen Tei Yamashita, as we close the book on the 2022 Deep Read exploration of Transcendent Kingdom. We’ll discuss the conditions of cultural assimilation for immigrants to the United States, religious faith vs. […]
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The Stories of Pilipino Migrant Labor in San Jose: Challenging the Neoliberal Export Labor Policy of the Philippines
The Stories of Pilipino Migrant Labor in San Jose: Challenging the Neoliberal Export Labor Policy of the Philippines
Pilipinx Historical Dialogue: The purpose of this course is to foster an interactive conversation and space of political education amongst participants regarding Pilipinx history, diaspora, organizing, and culture. Presented by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Racial Justice.
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Adom Getachew – Africa for the Africans: A History of Self-Determination before Decolonization
Adom Getachew – Africa for the Africans: A History of Self-Determination before Decolonization
From the mid-nineteenth century into the twentieth, Africa for the Africans was the banner under which a range of pan-Africanists imaginaries and political projects were articulated. This lecture charts the transformations of this pan-African motto, examining in particular the shifting conceptions of “Africa” in the first two decades of the twentieth century. This event is […]
Madhavi Murty – Stories that Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India
Madhavi Murty – Stories that Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India
Join us to celebrate the publication of a new book by Feminist Studies Prof. Madhavi Murty, in conversation with Prof. Gina Dent. Stories that Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India (Rutgers University Press) examines the assertion of authoritarian nationalism and neoliberalism backed by the authority of the state, and argues that contemporary India […]
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Living Writers: Senior Projects Reading
Living Writers: Senior Projects Reading
LIVING WRITERS UCSC, SPRING 2022 presents: CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS showcases interdisciplinary writers who deeply engage in various sonic forms, whether the libretto and the operatic, sound and visual art, acoustic music and songwriting, or embodied meditations to explore the possibilities in being attentive to sound, as action and celebrant through writing. This […]
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Festival of Monsters
Festival of Monsters
The 2022 UCSC Festival of Monsters is a weekend of scholarship, social events, and art focused on monsters and their hidden meanings. Anyone interested in monsters, those tantalizing creatures that lurk in our collective cultural psyches, will enjoy this investigation and celebration of the strange and macabre. Scholarly presentations are framed by a film screening, […]
Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
Cowell College, Stevenson College and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics will present the 20th season of the Miriam Ellis international Playhouse (MEIP XX), May 20, 21, and 22, 2022 at 8:00 PM in the Stevenson Event Center at UCSC. Several fully-staged theater pieces in different languages (TBA), with English supertitles, performed by Language students and directed […]
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Abolition. Feminism. Now. with Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, and Beth Richie.
Abolition. Feminism. Now. with Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, and Beth Richie.
Join us for a conversation with abolitionist scholars Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, and Beth Richie as they discuss their new book, Abolition. Feminism. Now. This event is free and open to the public. Free tickets available online. Tickets and admission details to be announced. Please familiarize yourself in advance with the full COVID-19 […]
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Festival of Monsters
Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship: A Tale of Two Cities
Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship: A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It is the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met. The story […]
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Conversation on The Celine Archive with Filmmaker and Arts Dean Celine Parreñas
Conversation on The Celine Archive with Filmmaker and Arts Dean Celine Parreñas
The Center for Racial Justice presents a conversation on The Celine Archive with Filmmaker and Arts Dean Celine Parreñas. In 1932, Celine Navarro was buried alive by her own community of Filipino Americans in northern California. Filmmaker Celine Parreñas Shimizu, finding kinship with Navarro's long-lost story, exhumes her tragic life story while trying to unravel […]
The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies: A Conversation with Ethan Michaeli
The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies: A Conversation with Ethan Michaeli
Please join us The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies, which promises to be a lively conversation between Ethan Michaeli, award-winning author of the new book, Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel, and Nathaniel Deutsch, Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Taking place on May 24th at […]
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Barbara McCullough in Conversation with Lior Shamriz
Barbara McCullough in Conversation with Lior Shamriz
A native of New Orleans, Barbara McCullough has spent most of her life in southern California. Her initial interest was in photography but the moving image, immediacy, and possible forum for ideas set her on a path of exploration. McCullough's work progressed to examining the creative process of artists but always maintaining a fascination with […]
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Socialist World Cultures Conference
Socialist World Cultures Conference
Keynote Lecture: Monica Popescu, McGill University - "Cold War Internationalism and Frayed Alliances," Thursday, May 26, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM. Join us virtually at by clicking here. Click here to download the Socialist World Cultures Conference Program. Monica Popescu is Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar of African Literatures in the Department of English […]
Living Writers: Gina Athena Ulysse
Living Writers: Gina Athena Ulysse
LIVING WRITERS UCSC, SPRING 2022 presents: CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS showcases interdisciplinary writers who deeply engage in various sonic forms, whether the libretto and the operatic, sound and visual art, acoustic music and songwriting, or embodied meditations to explore the possibilities in being attentive to sound, as action and celebrant through writing. This hybrid […]
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Ronaldo V. Wilson and Gina Athena Ulysse – choose to begin/from the ground up/literally:
Ronaldo V. Wilson and Gina Athena Ulysse – choose to begin/from the ground up/literally:
"choose to begin/ from the ground up, literally:" is a conversation whose title is borrowed from Ulysse’s mixed-media assemblage, “Woodswork/Rasanblaj,” digital photos—tree roots, exposed by sun, open field, capturing frey of feeling, living and striated bark— and poetry, where—“No One Could/Save me but you.” This presentation operates between urgencies, where Ronaldo V. Wilson will reflect […]
The Center for Racial Justice Presents: War Against Our Schools: Film Screening and Collaborative Viewing Guide Launch
The Center for Racial Justice Presents: War Against Our Schools: Film Screening and Collaborative Viewing Guide Launch
Please join us for a screening of La Guerra Contra Nuestras Escuelas/ War Against our Schools, a documentary project exploring the short and long term impact of school closings and privatization in Puerto Rico. After the screening, we will unveil the collaborative viewing guide created by Defend Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rico Syllabus to […]
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PhD+ Workshop – Research Development
PhD+ Workshop – Research Development
Research Development 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 projects and avoid the jargon of […]
Humanities Division Spring Awards
Humanities Division Spring Awards
Join us for our annual celebration recognizing student and faculty academic achievement in the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz. The 2021–22 Spring Awards ceremony will be a hybrid event with an option to attend in person at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn or via Zoom. Friends and family are welcome. We will join together […]
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Japanese Cultural Fair
Japanese Cultural Fair
Since its founding in 1986, the 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 […]
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