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Humanities in the Age of AI Lunch meeting
Humanities in the Age of AI Lunch meeting
The Humanities Institute Research cluster, "Humanities in the Age of AI," is pleased to invite you to it's inaugural lunch meeting scheduled for October 2 (Monday) at noon in HUM 210. The research cluster boasts a diverse group of core participants. This includes six esteemed faculty members from various disciplines, graduate students representing politics, history, […]
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Climate Justice Leaders: Voices from the Pajaro Valley
Climate Justice Leaders: Voices from the Pajaro Valley
Dive into the heart of climate justice at the Center for Reimagining Leadership's inaugural event. Join us for an enlightening panel discussion on October 3rd, 2023, as we illuminate the untold stories of the Pajaro Valley Levee Breach. Explore leadership in emergencies, environmental equity, and community resilience through the eyes of local climate justice leaders. […]
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Reimagining Leadership for Climate Science and Justice Virtual Panel
Reimagining Leadership for Climate Science and Justice Virtual Panel
Addressing the urgent impacts of climate change, particularly on vulnerable communities, requires us to reconsider how we approach science. It requires a new approach to scientific leadership that centers justice and diverse approaches to knowing and being in the world. This event will showcase and celebrate scholars whose scientific leadership in addressing climate change reflects […]
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Ambassa in America featuring Arivu
Ambassa in America featuring Arivu
ARIVU is a soulful composer, versatile song writer, fierce rapper and an energetic performer all fused into one package. He is best-known for his contributions in the global hit Single Enjoy Enjaami besides his hard-hitting political raps which made him one of the most powerful youth voice coming out of India. Through his rebellious singles […]
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Oliver Jeffers: Begin Again
Oliver Jeffers: Begin Again
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes globally renowned artist and internationally bestselling author Oliver Jeffers for an event celebrating his new book BEGIN AGAIN: The Story of How We Got Here and Where We Might Go. Take a visually stunning journey through humankind’s history as Jeffers examines our shared motivations for existence in his first illustrated book […]
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Strawberry Picker Film Screening
Strawberry Picker Film Screening
The Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) Initiatives invites you to join a film screening event featuring Strawberry Picker produced by Inspira Studios. This special event has been organized in celebration and recognition of Latinx Heritage Month, and is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Strawberry Picker is a short documentary depicting the life story […]
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Nick Mitchell – The University in Surplus Perspective, 1945-1968
Nick Mitchell – The University in Surplus Perspective, 1945-1968
Is it possible to historicize higher education without taking its basic categories for granted? In this talk, I aim to provide a historical and theoretical framework for the emergence of mass higher education in the twentieth century U.S. framed by the problem of surpluses—population, labor, and governance capacity. Faced with the prospect of mass unemployment […]
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Living Writers – Thais Miller
Living Writers – Thais Miller
Thaïs Miller is the author of the novel Our Machinery (2008) and the short story collection The Subconscious Mutiny and Other Stories (2009). She is a PhD Candidate in Literature, pursuing a Creative/Critical Writing Concentration, at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She received her MA in Creative Writing for Social Activism from New York […]
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Festival of Monsters
Monsters lurk in our culture. They rise in times of growing prejudice, discrimination and othering. The 2023 Festival of Monsters (Oct. 13-15) — hosted by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies — explores the ways monsters and tropes of monstrosity both preserve and conflict with forms of social and cultural injustice. Held in […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Jim McCloskey
Linguistics Colloquia: Jim McCloskey
Jim McCloskey, UC Santa Cruz 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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micha cárdenas – Atoms Never Touch
micha cárdenas – Atoms Never Touch
Join us in celebrating the debut of Atoms Never Touch by micha cárdenas; forward by adrienne maree brown. Jumping to alternate realities sounds great, if you're in control. But what if you're not? What if you're propelled away from the people and places you love the most in the blink of an eye? And what […]
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Martina Broner – From Arboreal to Aerial: Seeing the Amazon from Above
Martina Broner – From Arboreal to Aerial: Seeing the Amazon from Above
Can seeing the Amazon from above bring about new perspectives on the forest at a critical time? This talk proposes that the documentary Helena Sarayaku manta (dir. Eriberto Gualinga, 2021) rethinks the aerial view by pushing against its historical associations with omniscience and a desire for mastery and by reframing it instead around the vitality […]
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Living Writers – J. Vanessa Lyon
Living Writers – J. Vanessa Lyon
J. Vanessa Lyon is the author of Lush Lives (an inaugural title of Roxane Gay Books/Grove Atlantic), the Audible Original The Groves, and Meet Me in Madrid, written under the pseudonym Verity Lowell. A James Baldwin fellow at MacDowell and Bread Loaf Contributor in Nonfiction, she received a PhD in the history of art from […]
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Natalia Molina – A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community
Natalia Molina – A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community
Natalia Molina, Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and Dean's Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, will visit our campus and chapter on Oct. 23-24, 2023 as part of the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program. Since 1956, the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program has offered undergraduates […]
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Rosanna Xia: California Against the Sea
Rosanna Xia: California Against the Sea
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes environmental journalist Rosanna Xia, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, for a conversation with UCSC professor Gary Griggs about her new book California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. "Just as the coast defines the liminal world between land […]
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Cultural Studies Colloquium with Claudio Bueno (UCSC Arts)
Cultural Studies Colloquium with Claudio Bueno (UCSC Arts)
Please stay tuned for more information. The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
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Living Writers – Deborah Landau
Living Writers – Deborah Landau
Deborah Landau is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Skeletons (‘23). Her other books include Soft Targets (winner of The Believer Book Award), The Uses of the Body, and The Last Usable Hour, all Lannan Literary Selections from Copper Canyon Press, and Orchidelirium, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye for the Robert Dana […]
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Linguistics Colloquia: Yael Sharvit
Linguistics Colloquia: Yael Sharvit
Yael Sharvit, UCLA 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