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CommonGround: A Festival of Place-Inspired, Outdoor Work
CommonGround is a new biennial festival of place-inspired, outdoor work hosted in locations throughout Santa Cruz County, from downtown plazas and nearby waterways to forested hillsides and local landmarks. Focused on temporary and performative public art projects in rural, urban, and architectural space, the 10-day event features site-responsive installations and interventions across the area’s natural […]
Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts I-V
Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts I-V
Join Professor Karen Hattaway (San Jacinto College) for a series of discussions about the book that stunned Conrad and Dostoevsky. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens Sept. 25, Oct. 23, Nov. 27, and Jan. 22 at 1:00-3:00 PM (PDT) | Virtual Events Charles Dickens published Our Mutual Friend in twenty monthly parts from May 1864 […]
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The People Revolt: Sri Lanka
The People Revolt: Sri Lanka
The People Revolt: Sri Lanka,” will take place on September 30, 2022 from 12pm to 2pm PST, and is presented by the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies as a part of their 2022-2023 lecture series, Futures. This event is co-organized by the Center for South Asian Studies and Stanford University. Panelists: Farzana […]
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Renée Fox – The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature
Renée Fox – The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature
Victorian Necromancies with Professor Renée Fox As part of the series “Victorian Necromancies,” Professor Fox will lead three sessions that offer the Friends an opportunity to explore the Victorian gothic, one of her favorite genres of 19th-century literature. From Professor Fox: “The first session will be a presentation on my forthcoming book, The Necromantics: Reanimation, […]
Era of Gold, Era of Empire: In the World of Ramses ‘the Great’
Era of Gold, Era of Empire: In the World of Ramses ‘the Great’
The Bay Area's De Young Museum is one of the stops on the US tour of the spectacular Egyptian art show 'Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs,' on view now through February 12, 2023. In this talk at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Dr. Elaine Sullivan, an Egyptologist and […]
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Nidhi Mahajan – A Burning Sea: Arbitrage and a Fractured Moral Economy in the Persian Gulf
Nidhi Mahajan – A Burning Sea: Arbitrage and a Fractured Moral Economy in the Persian Gulf
Wooden sailing vessels or dhows have long traversed The Indian Ocean, making it what some scholars have called “the cradle of globalization.” Today, dhows or vahans from Kachchh in western India continue along old Indian Ocean routes as crucial intermediaries in global shipping. This talk traces how this mobile trade network is anchored or moored in […]
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Santa Cruz Film Festival
The Humanities Institute is happy to co-sponsor the 18th annual Santa Cruz Film Festival. Founded in 2001 by Jane Sullivan and Johnny Davis, the Santa Cruz Film Festival has exhibited over 1,300 independent films by national and international filmmakers, as well as films and videos produced in the greater Santa Cruz County and Monterey Bay […]
PhD+ Workshop – Proactive Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
PhD+ Workshop – Proactive Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
How do you proactively promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in your role as a graduate student, a researcher, a teaching assistant, 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. Lorato Anderson is the Director of Diversity, Equity, […]
Richard M. Eaton – The Persianate World: What Was It? How Did It Appear? Why Did It Collapse?
Richard M. Eaton – The Persianate World: What Was It? How Did It Appear? Why Did It Collapse?
As part of the Aurora Lecture Series, Professor Eaton will deliver a talk on Oct. 6. This event, which can be attended in person (Humanities 1 Room 202) and on Zoom is hosted by the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Endowed Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies.
3 events,
Playing with Fire: A Hot Symposium
We will explore the pleasures, perils & politics of fire through art, theory, practice, and activism. On the UCSC campus in the DARC building, room #108. This event is organized by E.A.R.T.H Lab with support from The Humanities Institute. The symposium is free and open to the public, but registration is required. The full schedule for the Symposium […]
Clio in India: Approaches to South Asian Pasts Conversation with G. S. Sahota
Clio in India: Approaches to South Asian Pasts Conversation with G. S. Sahota
As part of the Aurora Lecture Series, Professor Sahota will discuss approaches to South Asian pasts on Oct. 7 at 10AM. This event, which can be attended in person (Humanities 1 Room 202) and on Zoom is hosted by the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Endowed Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies.
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Brendan Regan – The Effect of Short-Term Study Abroad on the Production and Perception of Language- and Dialect-Specific Sounds by L2 and Heritage Spanish Speakers
Brendan Regan – The Effect of Short-Term Study Abroad on the Production and Perception of Language- and Dialect-Specific Sounds by L2 and Heritage Spanish Speakers
There is a growing interest in examining the effect of study abroad on language acquisition. However, compared to other linguistic domains, there is a lack of studies that examine phonetic acquisition in the study abroad (henceforth SA) context. Of the previous studies that have examined phonetic acquisition in the SA context, the role of linguistic proficiency and bilingualism […]
3 events,
PhD+ Workshop – Using Twitter Professionally
PhD+ Workshop – Using Twitter Professionally
Learn how to promote your research or creative work and create a virtual community of Tweeple. Kayla Isenberg is senior director of digital engagement for UC Santa Cruz, where she […]
Louise Meintjes – Giving Voice to a Politics of Breath
Louise Meintjes – Giving Voice to a Politics of Breath
Drawing on her longterm study of Zulu song and dance, Meintjes revisits instances of ngoma vocal performance in order to explore the idea of breath and aesthetic vitality foregrounded in popular political […]
Gianluca Bonaiuti: Domesticity and Beyond
Gianluca Bonaiuti: Domesticity and Beyond
The History of Consciousness department is pleased present their upcoming speaker series this fall quarter and invites you to join them. These will be hybrid events, hosted in-person in Humanities […]
1 event,
Asli Bâli – From Revolution to Devolution? Dilemmas of Federalism & Decentralization in the Middle East
Asli Bâli – From Revolution to Devolution? Dilemmas of Federalism & Decentralization in the Middle East
“From Revolution to Devolution? Dilemmas of Federalism and Decentralization in the Middle East” This seminar engages in a qualitative comparison of four experiences with decentralization in the Middle East to […]
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Intellectual Property Wars: The Battle for Access to Medicines
Intellectual Property Wars: The Battle for Access to Medicines
The globalization of intellectual property in the 1980s has coincided with some of the deadliest pandemics, epidemics and outbreaks, from HIV, hepatitis C, SARS, and recently COVID -19. Tahir Amin […]
Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts
Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts
Celeste Ng, number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, will be on campus for an event celebrating her new book, Our Missing Hearts—a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about […]
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PhD+ Workshop – Conducting an Informational Interview
PhD+ Workshop – Conducting an Informational Interview
An information interview is one that you conduct with someone working in a field for an institution or company that you want to consider working in and for. How do […]
Tahir Amin – Technological Colonialism: The Political Economy of Innovation and Global Health
Tahir Amin – Technological Colonialism: The Political Economy of Innovation and Global Health
With billions of people in low-income countries still without Covid-19 vaccines and therapeutics, this pandemic has exposed the neo-colonial structures of the political economy of intellectual property system and the […]
Dimitris Vardoulakis: Materialism and Instrumentality
Dimitris Vardoulakis: Materialism and Instrumentality
The History of Consciousness department is pleased present their upcoming speaker series this fall quarter and invites you to join them. These will be hybrid events, hosted in-person in Humanities […]
Postponed – Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture: John Rickford
Postponed – Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture: John Rickford
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been postponed. A new date will be announced as soon as possible. This event features John R. Rickford (Member, National Academy of Sciences, Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow, the British Academy) Mr. Rickford will be reading the UCSC chapter from his 2022 memoir "Speaking […]
Temple Grandin, Visual Thinking
Temple Grandin, Visual Thinking
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Temple Grandin (Thinking In Pictures) for a discussion of her new book, Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think In Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions. This offsite, ticketed event will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn and is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa […]
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PhD+ Workshop – Crafting the Contributions to Diversity Statement
PhD+ Workshop – Crafting the Contributions to Diversity Statement
Institutions of higher learning increasingly require faculty applicants to submit a statement of contributions to diversity. Learn what belongs in this statement and how to communicate it effectively. Judith Estrada, Ph.D., was born and raised in downtown Los Angeles, where she became conscious of educational and social inequalities at an early age. She publishes and […]
Catamaran 10th Anniversary Benefit
Catamaran 10th Anniversary Benefit
Join Catamaran to celebrate 10 years of the literary journal at the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz. Lite appetizers and drinks will be served with a silent auction, followed by a program to honor 10 years of the nonprofit organization's accomplishments. For full event details and to buy tickets please visit: https://catamaranliteraryreader.com/events-2022/2022/10/10/catamaran-10th-anniversary-benefit
RCA 30th Anniversary Celebration: Sharing Futures, Speaking Truths
RCA 30th Anniversary Celebration: Sharing Futures, Speaking Truths
Join us as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Research Center for the Americas! The distinguished honoree will be civil rights & feminist icon Dolores Huerta. The keynote speaker will be Cristina Jiménez, community organizer and co-founder of United We Dream. We have more surprises in store so follow us on social media! Visit our 30th Anniversary Facebook Event Page & follow […]
Living Writers: Tonya Foster, Conversation with Ronaldo V. Wilson
Living Writers: Tonya Foster, Conversation with Ronaldo V. Wilson
Tonya Foster in conversation with Ronaldo V. Wilson, as part of the George and Judy Marcus Chair in Poetry Reading, presented in collaboration with The Poetry Center and San Francisco State University. Conversations: Power Forged, the Fall Living Writers theme, features poets, novelists, academics, curators, and artists in conversation with one another, in person, across genre […]
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Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts VI-X
Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts VI-X
Join Professor Karen Hattaway (San Jacinto College) for a series of discussions about the book that stunned Conrad and Dostoevsky. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens Sept. 25, Oct. 23, Nov. 27, and Jan. 22 at 1:00-3:00 PM (PDT) | Virtual Events Charles Dickens published Our Mutual Friend in twenty monthly parts from May 1864 […]
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From Levi to Dante: Redefining Humanity from the Margins
From Levi to Dante: Redefining Humanity from the Margins
Join us for the final event of From the Margins: Dante 701 Years Later, featuring Professor Robert Gordon (University of Cambridge) and Martin Eisner (Duke University). Moderated by Nathaniel Deutsch (UC Santa Cruz Professor and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies). Free and open to the public. Registration required. "Primo Levi and Dante. Cosmologies," by […]
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PhD+ Workshop – Preparing the Teaching Statement and Portfolio
PhD+ Workshop – Preparing the Teaching Statement and Portfolio
Gain tools and tips for effectively writing a teaching statement, a common document in faculty hiring and review processes and an opportunity to reflect on how your teaching supports student learning. We’ll also review how to select teaching portfolio materials that tell a compelling story of who you are as an educator. Kendra Dority, Ph.D., […]
Joan Scott – The Professor of Desire: Charles Fourier’s Sexual Utopia
Joan Scott – The Professor of Desire: Charles Fourier’s Sexual Utopia
The History of Consciousness department is pleased present their upcoming speaker series this fall quarter and invites you to join them. These will be hybrid events, hosted in-person in Humanities 1 Room 420 & virtually via Zoom, except for the talk on October 25th which will only be on Zoom. The Zoom link for all […]
Bettina Aptheker – Communists in Closets
Bettina Aptheker – Communists in Closets
The Humanities Institute and Bookshop Santa Cruz welcome Bettina Aptheker, UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Professor Emerita, for a discussion about her new book, Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s-1990s, which explores the history of gay, lesbian, and non-heterosexual people in the Communist Party in the United States. Free and open to the public. Registration […]
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All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference
All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference October 26-28, 2022 | Santa Cruz, CA There is an exciting resurgence in critical public scholarship: a push for universities to reach beyond their academic audiences and build stronger community-university partnerships to jointly tackle pressing social issues. Indeed, the complexity and scale of our social ills require not only […]
PhD+ Workshop – Disrupting Imposter Phenomenon from the Inside Out
PhD+ Workshop – Disrupting Imposter Phenomenon from the Inside Out
Have you ever felt imposter phenomenon? Learn how to cultivate a growth mindset to disrupt it and move toward empowering ways of learning. Silvia Austerlic is an intercultural educator, facilitator and consultant, and founder of Senti-pensante Connections, whose mission is to bridge inner work and social justice in service of individual transformation, social change, and […]
Archive as Offering – Grace L. Sanders Johnson
Archive as Offering – Grace L. Sanders Johnson
This talk names the layered applications, quotidian quality, and refusals of physical, psychological, and archival violence against Haitian women during the US occupation (1915-1934). Told alongside the story of a teenage girl’s life and death, the talk ultimately considers experimental historical practices as an opportunity to intervene in the presumed teleology of Black women’s lives […]
Rebecca Solnit, Orwell’s Roses
Rebecca Solnit, Orwell’s Roses
Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome acclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit to the store for a discussion and signing of her most recent book, Orwell's Roses (in paperback October 18th). This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Bookshop's head book buyer, Melinda, says: "The gift of Rebecca Solnit is that […]
2 events,
Tariq Thachil – Who Governs in India’s Small Towns? Notes from Rajasthan’s Nagar Palikas
Tariq Thachil – Who Governs in India’s Small Towns? Notes from Rajasthan’s Nagar Palikas
“Who Governs in India's Small Towns” will take place on October 28, 2022 from 10am to 12pm PST, and is a part of the UC Santa Cruz Center for South […]
4 events,
Historias de acción: Acción comunitaria frente al racismo en América Latina con Natalia Barrera Francis
Historias de acción: Acción comunitaria frente al racismo en América Latina con Natalia Barrera Francis
*Charla en español* "Historias de acción: Acción comunitaria frente al racismo en América Latina con Natalia Barrera Francis." The Dolores Huerta Research Center of America is proud to welcome and […]
Ching Kwan Lee – Hong Kong: Global China’s Restive Frontier
Ching Kwan Lee – Hong Kong: Global China’s Restive Frontier
How did Hong Kong transform itself from a “shoppers’ and capitalists’ paradise” into a “city of protests” at the frontline of an anti-China global backlash in 2019? Most analysts interpret […]
Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz – “The Idea ‘Asia’ in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Philippine Political Thought and Action”
Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz – “The Idea ‘Asia’ in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Philippine Political Thought and Action”
This talk will excavate the Philippine nation’s cosmopolitan and transnational Asian intellectual moorings, in order to reconnect Philippine history to that of Southeast Asia, from which it has been historiographically […]
George Saunders, Liberation Day
George Saunders, Liberation Day
We are delighted to welcome award-winning writer George Saunders for an event to celebrate the release of his new book, Liberation Day: Stories—a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, […]
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PhD+ Workshop – Interviewing and Negotiating the Job Offer
PhD+ Workshop – Interviewing and Negotiating the Job Offer
Learn interviewing strategies to land the job offer. Then learn how to negotiate the best salary and benefits package when you receive the job offer. This class offers strategies that […]
Charne Lavery – Vertical Indian Ocean: A Cultural History of the Southern Submarine
Charne Lavery – Vertical Indian Ocean: A Cultural History of the Southern Submarine
This talk describes a new book project, an exploration of deep sea culture centered on the Indian Ocean as an ‘ocean of the south’. Drawn by the alternative histories and […]
Christian Sorace: Steppe Immunity
Christian Sorace: Steppe Immunity
The History of Consciousness department is pleased present their upcoming speaker series this fall quarter and invites you to join them. These will be hybrid events, hosted in-person in Humanities 1 Room 420 & virtually via Zoom, except for the talk on October 25th which will only be on Zoom. The Zoom link for all […]
A Tamiment Book Talk with Bettina Aptheker
A Tamiment Book Talk with Bettina Aptheker
Presented by NYU Libraries - Join scholar activists Bettina Aptheker and Judith Smith as they discuss Aptheker's most recent book Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s. Communists in Closets: […]
Alberto Ortiz-Díaz – Carceral Care: Health Professionals and the Living Dead in Colonial Puerto Rico’s Sanitary City, 1920s-1940s
Alberto Ortiz-Díaz – Carceral Care: Health Professionals and the Living Dead in Colonial Puerto Rico’s Sanitary City, 1920s-1940s
Using an array of primary sources, this talk explores the early history of the Río Piedras sanitary city or medical corridor, a transnationally and imperially inspired built environment and complex of welfare institutions (a tuberculosis hospital, an insane asylum, and a penitentiary) constructed and consolidated on the margins of San Juan by Puerto Rico’s colonial-populist […]
Stories of Action: Community Activism in the Face of Racism in Latin America with Natalia Barrera Francis
Stories of Action: Community Activism in the Face of Racism in Latin America with Natalia Barrera Francis
"Stories of Action: Community Activism in the Face of Racism in Latin America with Natalia Barrera Francis." The Dolores Huerta Research Center of America is proud to welcome and sponsor two talks by Natalia Barrera-Francis, an award-winning journalist and anti-racist activist from Lima, Perú. She will deliver two talks at UCSC on Nov. 1st and […]
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PhD+ Workshop – WordPress Website Design
PhD+ Workshop – WordPress Website Design
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 work! Jason Chafin graduated […]
Natasha Trethewey – Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
Natasha Trethewey – Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
Please join us for the 13th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading, featuring honored guest Natasha Trethewey. Poet Gary Young will host the program, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1,000 prize). Seating will be first come, first served. Registration required. Natasha Trethewey […]
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