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PhD+ Series – Conflict Resolution with De Acker
PhD+ Series – Conflict Resolution with De Acker
De Acker, Campus Ombuds, Office of Ombuds We will explore ways to identify when a conversation is becoming “crucial” before you walk into one. This interactive workshop will help you identify your own styles and how you can address conflict in high-stakes conversations more effectively. The goal is to develop strategies to meet specific challenges […]
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PhD+ Series – Curriculum Vitae with Veronica Heiskell
PhD+ Series – Curriculum Vitae with Veronica Heiskell
Veronia Heiskell, Director of Experiential Learning and Student Employment, Career Success Applications for academic positions require a CV, and some alternative-academic employers also require them. Learn how a CV differs from a resume, about hybrid CV-resumes, what goes on a CV, and what order to put information depending on type of academic institution you're applying […]
Jennifer Mogannam – Gendering Revolution: Palestinian Praxis, Labor, and Decolonization
Jennifer Mogannam – Gendering Revolution: Palestinian Praxis, Labor, and Decolonization
As a population of exile – transnational, stateless refugees struggling to return to their lands and rebuild their communities lost since 1948 – the Palestinian people built a grassroots trajectory of decolonization that peaked in the 1970s. Through oral histories and cultural text, this presentation analyzes gendered labor, value, and the intersections of national and […]
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PhD+ Series – Speaking Up to Bias with De Acker
PhD+ Series – Speaking Up to Bias with De Acker
De Acker, Campus Ombuds, Office of Ombuds This workshop will explore how to address bias when it is directed at you or someone else. We’ll review what bias is, how it shows up, and the impact it can have. We’ll discuss and practice ways to respond directly or as a bystander, and how to offer […]
PhD+ Series – California Community Colleges Panel Discussion
PhD+ Series – California Community Colleges Panel Discussion
Learn how to apply to (first step: register with and upload your CV to the CCC Registry) and what it’s like to work for a California community college by talking to director of the CCC Registry, Beth Au, moderator of the panel, and a panel of UCSC graduate student alumni and a former UCSC postdoc, all […]
Dr. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni – Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
Dr. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni – Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
Please join us for the 14th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading, featuring honored guest Dr. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. 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. […]
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Critical Theory Roundtable Comes to UC Santa Cruz
Next month the 30th annual Critical Theory Roundtable will take place on UC Santa Cruz's campus in Humanities 2 Room 259 hosted by HistCon professors Banu Bargu & Massimiliano Tomba. The events will take place on November 3rd & 4th. Find the program below. The Critical Theory Roundtable is a small, high caliber conference that […]
Mediterranean Studies, Present & Future: The “California School” Twenty Years On
From its inception at UC Santa Cruz in 2003, the “California School” of Mediterranean Studies has promoted the Mediterranean not (pace Braudel) as a predefined place of the olive and the vine, but as a heuristic rubric useful for disrupting or reconfiguring existing categories of analysis (especially those defined by nation-states, continents, or religious cultures)—in […]
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Nathan Hill– Wellness
Nathan Hill– Wellness
Bookshop welcomes Nathan Hill, best-selling author of The Nix, for a reading and signing of Wellness—a poignant and witty novel about marriage, the often baffling pursuit of health and happiness, and the stories that bind us together. From the gritty '90s Chicago art scene to a suburbia of detox diets and home-renovation hysteria, Wellness reimagines […]
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PhD+ Series – WordPress Website Design with Jason Chafin
PhD+ Series – 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! Jason […]
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Giving Day
Please consider partnering with the Humanities Division on Wednesday, November 8, by supporting one or more of our exciting Giving Day projects. This annual 24-hour fundraising drive is full of challenges and matches that can double or even triple your dollars. We believe in the power of the humanities to transform lives and society for […]
PhD+ Series – Slide Design with Sonya Newlyn
PhD+ Series – Slide Design with Sonya Newlyn
Have you ever inflicted a boring slide presentation on an audience? Learn tips and techniques for using slides the way they should be used, as visual aids to your spoken-word presentation. Prior to attending this workshop, review this slide design page. Sonya Newlyn received her M.A. in English literature from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill […]
Hafsa Kanjwal – Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation
Hafsa Kanjwal – Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation
Cosponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies In this talk, Dr. Hafsa Kanjwal discusses her new book Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation. The book interrogates how Kashmir was made “integral” to India through a study of the decade long rule (1953-1963) of Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad, the second Prime Minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir. Drawing […]
The First Folio at 400 Exhibit Opening
The First Folio at 400 Exhibit Opening
Special Collections and Archives at UCSC invites you to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio. Working together, Sean Keilen, Katie O’Hare and Peggy Gotthold and Lawrence Van Velzer present an exhibition that explores this landmark event in the history of printing and the transmission of Shakespeare’s works. The First Folio […]
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PhD+ Series – Psychology of Writing with Andrea Seeger
PhD+ Series – Psychology of Writing 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 and about the VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center (for graduate students only)! Andrea Seeger received a bachelor’s degree in literature from UC Santa Cruz, master’s in English literature from the University of […]
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Cancelled – Dr. Joy Buolamwini: Unmasking AI
Cancelled – Dr. Joy Buolamwini: Unmasking AI
Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz present Dr. Joy Buolamwini, "The conscience of the AI revolution" (Fortune), who will discuss her new book, Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines. Buolamwini explains how we've arrived at an era of AI harms and oppression, […]
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THI Coffee Hour
THI Coffee Hour
The Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students, faculty, staff, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays, 11am to noon. We invite you to visit our team, meet our new Faculty Director, Pranav Anand, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how […]
PhD+ Series – Interviewing and Negotiating the Job Offer with Veronica Heiskell
PhD+ Series – Interviewing and Negotiating the Job Offer with Veronica Heiskell
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 apply to both academic and alternative-to-academic job applications and negotiations. The negotiation strategies also apply to asking for raises, job reclassifications, and title and responsibilities […]
Ya Zuo – Feeling the Universe: Phenomenology of Emotion in Premodern China
Ya Zuo – Feeling the Universe: Phenomenology of Emotion in Premodern China
What is an emotion? Are your feelings inside you, or somewhere out there in the world? In this talk, Ya Zuo introduces the phenomenology of emotion in premodern China. The Chinese theories offer an interesting understanding of affectivity which places emotions beyond the subject. Emotion is simultaneously a deep cosmic order exceeding the mundane world […]
Israel/Palestine: Learn-In
Israel/Palestine: Learn-In
Deeply concerned about Israel/Palestine? Grappling with Hamas' attack on October 7 and Israel's current bombardment and invasion of Gaza, as well as the broader historical context for both? Wonder how we got here and how we might imagine a better future together? Come with questions and a desire to learn with and from others. All […]
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PhD+ Series – Academic Publishing with Martha Stuit and Erich van Rijn
PhD+ Series – 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? As scholarly communication librarian at the UCSC University Library, Martha Stuit provides author services, which covers theses and dissertations, publishing academic articles […]
Living Writers – Chia Chia Lin
Living Writers – Chia Chia Lin
Chia-Chia Lin is the author of The Unpassing (FSG 2019), which was a New York Times Book Review Editor's’ Choice and won the 2020 Clark Fiction Prize. She graduated with an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, NewYorker.com, The New York Times, […]
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Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Two – The Structure of Dante’s Paradiso: or How to Tell a Story beyond Time, Space, and Individuality
Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Two – The Structure of Dante’s Paradiso: or How to Tell a Story beyond Time, Space, and Individuality
Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary, theological, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire […]
The Japanese American Mass Incarceration, Art, Activism, and Multiracial Solidarity
The Japanese American Mass Incarceration, Art, Activism, and Multiracial Solidarity
Join us for a panel discussion with Karen Tei Yamashita and traci kato-kiriyama. The panel discussion will be moderated by Alice Yang. Karen Tei Yamashita, UCSC Literature Professor Emerita, acclaimed author of Letters to Memory, and a 2021 recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, will read from her […]
Il Moro: Film Screening and Director Q&A
Il Moro: Film Screening and Director Q&A
Join The Humanities Institute and the Departments of Literature, Film and Digital Media, and History of Art & Visual Culture for a screening of the award-winning, Oscar-qualifying short film Il Moro (Italian, with subtitles). Il Moro is a period drama based on true events in the life of Alessandro de’ Medici, the illegitimate son of […]
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Broadsides – Pairing Artworks with Poetry from the Morton Marcus Community of Poets
Broadsides – Pairing Artworks with Poetry from the Morton Marcus Community of Poets
Please join us for an artists' reception and poetry reading to celebrate the opening of Broadsides, an exhibition presented by m.k. contemporary art, which brings together diverse voices from the local poetry scene and pairs their writings with highly accomplished local and regional visual artists. The event will be hosted by Santa Cruz treasure Wallace […]
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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 their second lunch meeting scheduled for November 6th (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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Santa Cruz Pickwick Club
Santa Cruz Pickwick Club
Please join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our monthly Pickwick Club meeting. New this year, we will be devoting an entire year to one novel instead of two, and will dive deeply into Great Expectations. Join Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members for a series of discussions about […]
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PhD+ Series – Listening, Mentoring, Coaching, Advising with Andrea Cohen
PhD+ Series – Listening, Mentoring, Coaching, Advising with Andrea Cohen
Listening to understand represents an equally important half of effective oral communication to the other half, delivery of the communication by spoken word. Listening well forms the essential communication base upon which to build the skills of mentoring, coaching, and advising. Listening well also aids your performance on a team and in any professional and […]
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THI Coffee Hour
THI Coffee Hour
The Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students, faculty, staff, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays, 11am to noon. We invite you to visit our team, meet our new Faculty Director, Pranav Anand, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how […]
PhD+ Series – Maintaining Work-Life Balance with Angel Dominguez
PhD+ Series – Maintaining Work-Life Balance with Angel Dominguez
Join Angel Dominguez for an interactive workshop and discussion of what it means to cultivate a healthy work-life balance. The interactive discussion will cover the importance of setting boundaries, time management, how technology can be your friend, and why saying “no” doesn't make you a bad person! Angel is a queer, first-generation, Latinx UCSC alumnus […]
Robert Nichols – The Indian Wars Have Never Ended
Robert Nichols – The Indian Wars Have Never Ended
In the 1960s and 70s, Red Power intellectuals and activists engaged in a remarkably ambitious wholesale rewriting of American Indian history. New works of popular and academic history challenged standard narratives of U.S. territorial expansion, with particular emphasis paid to major events of the nineteenth century ‘Indian Wars’, such as Sand Creek, Wounded Knee, and […]
Netta Avineri – Language and Social Justice: What Is, What Has Been, and What Could Be?
Netta Avineri – Language and Social Justice: What Is, What Has Been, and What Could Be?
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present Netta Avineri, Ph.D. (Middlebury Institute of International Studies) “Language and Social Justice: What Is, What Has Been, and What Could Be.” Refreshments will be served. How are language and social justice interconnected? How can one cultivate a language and social justice praxis, integrating reflection, […]
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PhD+ Series – Public Speaking with Bri McWhorter
PhD+ Series – Public Speaking with Bri McWhorter
Every presentation is an opportunity to share your ideas and connect with your audience. In this interactive workshop, Bri will lead you through her program, W.A.V.E.®, where she will show you techniques to overcome nerves, use your voice effectively, and bring your content to life. Whether you are sharing a pitch about your work, speaking […]
Living Writers – Justin Torres
Living Writers – Justin Torres
Justin Torres is the author of the novel Blackouts. His debut novel, We the Animals, won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, was translated into fifteen languages, and was adapted into a feature film. He was named a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35,” a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, a fellow at the […]
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Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Three – The Subject of Violence (Paradiso 3–5 & 14–18)
Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Three – The Subject of Violence (Paradiso 3–5 & 14–18)
Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary, theological, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire […]
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