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The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series
The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series
The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series February 26, March 26, and April 30 at 1:00-3:00 PM | Virtual Event The next three Pickwick Club sessions will focus on Dickens’s last and most enigmatic work, the unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood. Considered by many lovers of detective fiction to be the ultimate mystery novel, since […]
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John R. Rickford, Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture
John R. Rickford, Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture
John R. Rickford, Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture. Rickford will read the UCSC chapter from his 2022 memoir Speaking my Soul: Race, Life and Language. This event will take place at the Stevenson College Library on February 28th at 3:30 PM, followed by a reception. Signed copies of the memoir will be available for purchase during the […]
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Tarek El-Ariss – The Fallen Note: A Journey to the Birthplace of the Image
Tarek El-Ariss – The Fallen Note: A Journey to the Birthplace of the Image
The Fallen Note: A Journey to the Birthplace of the Image - As I was moving to a new office in October 2020, a note fell off from one of my theory books— Derrida’s Specter of Marx. The note was an old photocopy with the ink somewhat faded. A ghostly shadow is captured in the […]
UCSC Night at the Museum – Resettlement: Chicago Story
UCSC Night at the Museum – Resettlement: Chicago Story
What is it like to be forced to leave your home, deny your heritage, and start over? Join us for the California premiere of Resettlement: Chicago Story, a new short fictional film and educational website, which explores how people of Japanese ancestry remade their lives in the Midwest after their wrongful incarceration during World War […]
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Invited to Witness: A Book Talk with Prof. Jenny Kelly
Invited to Witness: A Book Talk with Prof. Jenny Kelly
Invited to Witness draws from participant observation of solidarity tours across Palestine and interviews with guides, organizers, community members, and tourists to explore what happens when tourism understands itself as […]
Living Writers – Sara Freeman
Living Writers – Sara Freeman
Sara Freeman is a Canadian-British writer based in the United States. She graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in fiction in 2013. At Columbia, she won the Henfield Prize […]
PhD+ Workshop – VOCES Drafting Stages with Carlos Decena
PhD+ Workshop – VOCES Drafting Stages with Carlos Decena
Drafting Stages is a series of intimate conversations with speakers working inside and outside of academia and at different points in their careers about writing as an evolving and non-linear […]
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PhD+ Workshop – Going Public: A Workshop on Public Writing for Academics
PhD+ Workshop – Going Public: A Workshop on Public Writing for Academics
There’s no such thing as the Ivory Tower. Colleges and universities are not isolated enclaves, and they probably never were. Public engagement is an essential part of the core mission […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Rajesh Bhatt
Linguistics Colloquia: Rajesh Bhatt
Rajesh Bhatt, U Mass Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please visit: […]
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Baptiste Morizot, Ways of Being Alive
Baptiste Morizot, Ways of Being Alive
Ways of Being Alive: Lecture followed by a conversation with Donna Haraway, Professor Emerita, History of Consciousness. Baptiste Morizot is a writer and lecturer in philosophy at Aix-Marseille University. […]
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Elena Vasiliou – Queer Pleasure, Resistance and Pain in Ex-Prisoners’ Narratives
Elena Vasiliou – Queer Pleasure, Resistance and Pain in Ex-Prisoners’ Narratives
Queer pleasure, resistance and pain in ex-prisoners’ narratives with Elena Vasiliou (UC Berkeley). This talk is part of the History of Consciousness Winter 2023 Speaker Series. This event will be […]
Fighting for Life: Race and the Limits of Infant Survival
Fighting for Life: Race and the Limits of Infant Survival
Join Dr. Wangui Muigai as she charts the history of one of the most enduring health disparities in America, the racial gap in infant survival. Drawing on a trove of […]
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PhD+ Workshop – Personal and Professional Wellness
PhD+ Workshop – Personal and Professional Wellness
Navigating UC health insurance and counseling services can be complicated for graduate students. Join the Graduate Student Commons for lunch and a panel with experts from our Student Health and […]
Zac Zimmer – An Internet Built of Books
Zac Zimmer – An Internet Built of Books
On the Internet, the book is a drag: a literal metaphor that pulls us back to the material world. This talk focuses on three examples of the book-object’s material drag […]
Dr. Wangui Muigai Reading Group – Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine”
Dr. Wangui Muigai Reading Group – Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine”
Dr. Wangui Muigai will be leading a reading group exploring three distinct frameworks (theoretical, methodological, and analytic) for understanding the causes of racial health disparities. Two articles take us back to the 1990s wave of research on “minority health” and ethnic health disparities, revealing how a generation of researchers in the biological, social, and epidemiological sciences sought […]
The MARCH Continues, An Evening with Andrew Aydin
The MARCH Continues, An Evening with Andrew Aydin
The UCSC Arts Division, John R. Lewis College, and The Humanities Institute present: The MARCH Continues, An Evening with Andrew Aydin. Co-Author with John R. Lewis, of the award wining graphic novel series MARCH. Attendees will receive a free copy of the first book in the MARCH series, and can have it signed by Andrew […]
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Indigenous Border/lands Symposium
Indigenous Border/lands Symposium
The Peggy and Jack Baskin Presidential Chair of Feminist Studies, in collaboration with the Indigenous Border/lands Collective, present "Indigenous Border/lands," an exploration of the border/lands from the perspective of Indigenous peoples, scholars and activists across the Americas. 4:00pm Aa‘a Mat Tipaay Ak’wee, Bringing Her/Voice Back to the Land: Incomplete Repatriations in The Autobiography of Delfina […]
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Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore
Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore
The Friends of the Dickens Project invites you to participate in "Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore." The three sessions will offer the Friends a chance to examine Victorian responses to the environment, with a particular emphasis on Australia. The first session will involve a presentation on […]
Zakir Hussain: Masters of Percussion at the Rio Theatre
Zakir Hussain: Masters of Percussion at the Rio Theatre
Every other year since 1996, Zakir Hussain has served as curator, conductor and producer to bring the very cream of Indian music and world percussion to tour America and Europe with his series, Zakir Hussain and Masters of Percussion. Growing out of his renowned international tabla duet tours with his father, the legendary Ustad Allarakha, […]
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Jessica Marglin – The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean
Jessica Marglin – The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean
In the winter of 1873, Nissim Shamama, a wealthy Jew from Tunisia, died suddenly in his palazzo in Livorno, Italy. His passing initiated a fierce lawsuit over his large estate. Before Shamama's riches could be disbursed among his aspiring heirs, Italian courts had to decide which law to apply to his estate—a matter that depended […]
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Elizabeth McKenzie, The Dog of the North
Elizabeth McKenzie, The Dog of the North
FREE IN-PERSON EVENT: Acclaimed local writer Elizabeth McKenzie will be in conversation with Karen Joy Fowler about McKenzie's highly-anticipated new novel, The Dog of the North. This event is cosponsored by Catamaran Literary Reader and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. "Even funnier, even more romantic than McKenzie's wonderful last, The Portable Veblen, this […]
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Dr. Agnieszka Otwinowska-Kasztelanic – Do L2 and L3 learners benefit from training their awareness of cross- linguistic similarity?
Dr. Agnieszka Otwinowska-Kasztelanic – Do L2 and L3 learners benefit from training their awareness of cross- linguistic similarity?
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Winter Colloquium Words whose form is similar across languages: cognates (formally and semantically similar) and false cognates (formally similar) are claimed to be learned differently than non-cognates. Raising learners’ "cognate awareness" means consciously focusing their attention on cross-linguistic similarity between L1 and L2 words. However, it is unclear […]
Jennifer Egan, The Candy House
Jennifer Egan, The Candy House
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Jennifer Egan, one of the most celebrated writers of our time, who will discuss The Candy House (in paperback March 7th), her "inventive, effervescent" (Oprah Daily) novel about the memory and quest for authenticity and human connection. This event will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn on […]
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Mohamed Hamed – Arabic Language Resources in the UC System and Beyond
Mohamed Hamed – Arabic Language Resources in the UC System and Beyond
The Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMNEA) is hosting a talk by Mohamed Hamed geared to help students and faculty in the UC system advance their Arabic language research and locate sources. He will be offering an overview of online resources, and covering issues such as interlibrary loan as well as transliteration. […]
Juan Gabriel Vásquez – Restoring Continuity: Notes on History and Fiction
Juan Gabriel Vásquez – Restoring Continuity: Notes on History and Fiction
The Humanities Division and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz invite you to join us for the Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture, featuring Juan Gabriel Vásquez. Guests who attend in person are invited to join us for a reception with light refreshments and beverages at 5:00 p.m. In 1935, as Europe witnessed the […]
Persian New Year Celebration
Persian New Year Celebration
Join us for a Persian New Year Celebration, the rebirth of nature at the beginning of Spring, when Iranian people are combatting with darkness for a new day (Nowruz) with the slogan "Woman, Life, Freedom, Zan, Zendegee, Azadee." This Nowruz celebration is free! Presentations will be made by elected officials and Iranian speakers alongside music […]
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Linguistics Colloquia: Marc Garellek
Linguistics Colloquia: Marc Garellek
Marc Garellek (UC San Diego) Over the course of 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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PhD+ Workshop – Community as Rebellion
PhD+ Workshop – Community as Rebellion
Community as Rebellion offers a meditation on creating liberatory spaces for students and faculty of color within academia. Through personal experiences and analytical reflections, García Peña invites us—in particular Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian women—to engage in liberatory practices of boycott, abolition, and radical community-building to combat the academic world’s tokenizing and exploitative structures. She argues that […]
Let’s talk about ChatGPT Panel
Let’s talk about ChatGPT Panel
ChatGPT rolled out as a disruptive and instantly polarizing new technology. Should we see it as an impediment or an asset to student learning? Should we just look to other new technologies to detect student use of ChatGPT, or could there be pedagogical applications of ChatGPT that could further learning? On campus, faculty are shaping […]
Taija McDougall – Plantations Derivations
Taija McDougall – Plantations Derivations
Plantations Derivations with Taija McDougall (UC Irvine). This talk is part of the History of Consciousness Winter 2023 Speaker Series. This event will be in person in Humanities 1 Room 420 or virtually via zoom. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/histcon-winter23-speaker-series.html
A Reading with Ross Gay & Chris Mattingly
A Reading with Ross Gay & Chris Mattingly
FREE IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome New York Times bestselling author Ross Gay (The Book of Delights) and local poet Chris Mattingly for a very special evening of poetry and conversation. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Ross Gay's newest book is Inciting Joy: In these […]
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NEH Funders Panel
NEH Funders Panel
To watch this Zoom recording of this virtual discussion with Senior Program Officers from the National Endowment for the Humanities, please email Caitlin Charos. Featuring: Jill Austin is a senior program officer in the Division of Public Programs at NEH. She arrived at NEH in 2015 after two decades of work in museums and […]
PhD+ Workshop – THI Public Fellowship Information Session
PhD+ Workshop – THI Public Fellowship Information Session
Curious about becoming a THI Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you're thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia, then you may be interested in THI's Public Fellowship program. Public fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute […]
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2023 Latino Role Models Conference
2023 Latino Role Models Conference
This exciting FREE annual conference features Latino/a college students and professionals and performances inspiring students to achieve their dreams for college and career. This year, we are excited to welcome Olga Talamante as the keynote speaker! The conference is conducted in Spanish with English translation at the Crocker Theater, Cabrillo College. Please complete the registration […]
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series
The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series
The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series February 26, March 26, and April 30 at 1:00-3:00 PM | Virtual Event The next three Pickwick Club sessions will focus on Dickens’s last and most enigmatic work, the unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood. Considered by many lovers of detective fiction to be the ultimate mystery novel, since […]
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PhD+ Workshop – VOCES Drafting Stages with Melissa Johnson
PhD+ Workshop – VOCES Drafting Stages with Melissa Johnson
Drafting Stages is a series of intimate conversations with speakers working inside and outside of academia and at different points in their careers about writing as an evolving and non-linear process. Focusing on conditions, inspirations, and methods, each speaker will offer personal insight into their processes and the messiness and vulnerabilities of drafting stages. The […]
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