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The Deep Read: NYC Salon
The Deep Read: NYC Salon
Meet Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder and UCSC faculty members for a special evening to learn about the Deep Read, this year's featured book, and how you can get involved. The […]
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Gail Hershatter: Notes from the Life of a Peripatetic Revolutionary
Gail Hershatter: Notes from the Life of a Peripatetic Revolutionary
The Emeriti Association presents their annual Emeriti Faculty Lecture with Gail Hershatter who will give her lecture, "Notes from the Life of a Peripatetic Revolutionary." The event will take place […]
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Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Twelve – Flower of Humanity: The Vergin Mary in Paradiso
Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Twelve – Flower of Humanity: The Vergin Mary in Paradiso
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 […]
CANCELLED – Linguistics Colloquia: Karlos Arregi
CANCELLED – Linguistics Colloquia: Karlos Arregi
The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present: Karlos Arregi University of Chicago speaking on The relation between head movement and periphrasis Abstract In joint work with Asia Pietraszko, I've […]
The Deppe Memorial Lecture with Professor Emily Gowers
The Deppe Memorial Lecture with Professor Emily Gowers
The UCSC Classical Studies Program presents The Carl Mark Deppe Memorial Lecture, taking place this Friday, April 5 at the Cowell Provost house at 4:00pm (reception to follow). This year, […]
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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 lunch meeting scheduled for Monday, April 8th at 12pm in HUM 210. […]
Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine
Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine
UCSC Feminist Studies and Faculty for Justice in Palestine present Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine with panelists: Lila Adib Sharif (Arizona State University), Jennifer Lynn Kelly (UC Santa Cruz), […]
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What Can Genomics Teach Us About Jewish History with Dr. Shamam Waldman
What Can Genomics Teach Us About Jewish History with Dr. Shamam Waldman
This year's Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies will be given by Dr. Shamam Waldman. Join us on April 9th at Cowell Ranch Hay Barn for Dr. Waldman’s lecture titled: “What Can Genomics Teach Us About Jewish History?” Doors will open at 5:30PM. The talk will begin promptly at 6:00PM. The study of population […]
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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 […]
Juned Shaikh – The Afterlife of Confiscation: Engels’ The Origin of the Family in 1930s and 40s India
Juned Shaikh – The Afterlife of Confiscation: Engels’ The Origin of the Family in 1930s and 40s India
Gangadhar Adhikari returned to India from Germany in the 1920s with a tranche of books. He had recently completed his PhD in Chemistry in Berlin and had joined the Communist Party of Germany. Upon his return to India in 1928, he joined the Communist Party of India and was jailed in 1929 on charges of […]
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Native Speaker Series with Patty Krawec
Native Speaker Series with Patty Krawec
You are invited to join the American Indian Resource Center's Native Speaker Series with Patty Krawec (Anishinaabe/Ukrainian), on April 11th, 2024, to be held at the Namaste Lounge located at College 9 and JRL at 5:00 PM-7:00 PM. Guest author, Patty Krawec will share with us her most recent book titled: Becoming Kin: An Indigenous […]
Living Writers with micha cárdenas
Living Writers with micha cárdenas
Living Writers Series - Spring 2024 Imaginaries)Un(bound: Race, Justice, Writing: The Living Writers Series, the Center for Racial Justice, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) present poets, theorists, fiction and hybrid artists working at the nexus of creative-critical practice in the struggle for justice with the imperative of imaginatively undoing the academic and disciplinary […]
Book Talk with Laila Shereen Sakr: Arabic Glitch and Digital Palestine
Book Talk with Laila Shereen Sakr: Arabic Glitch and Digital Palestine
Laila Shereen Sakr (UC Santa Barbara) will give her talk entitled, "Arabic Glitch and Digital Palestine" and present her recent book, Arabic Glitch: Technocultures, Data Bodies, and Archives. Arabic Glitch explores an alternative origin story of twenty-first century technological innovation in digital politics—one centered on the Middle East and the 2011 Arab uprisings. Developed from […]
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Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley
The Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History presents Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley -- A community-driven exhibition that preserves and uplifts stories of Filipino migration and labor in Watsonville and the greater Pajaro Valley of Central California. The exhibition culminates a four-year research initiative between community members, UC Santa Cruz […]
Hindustani Music Concert featuring Uday Bhawalker and Sukhad Manik Munde
Hindustani Music Concert featuring Uday Bhawalker and Sukhad Manik Munde
As a part of the Indian Music Series, UC Santa Cruz is welcoming Uday Bhawalkar to campus for a concert on Friday, April 12. The renowned vocalist will be performing Dhrupad music, one of the oldest musical genres in the Hindustani tradition. Uday Bhawalkar is an internationally recognized vocalist and professor in the department of […]
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TEDxSantaCruz
TEDxSantaCruz
Co-sponsored by The Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County, Lookout Santa Cruz, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz, and many more. The vibrant interplay of ideas, creative energy, and the rich tapestry of diversity within Santa Cruz County is the beating heart of TEDxSantaCruz. This upcoming event is scheduled for Saturday, April 13, 2024, […]
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Victorian Gaslighting with Professor Nora Gilbert
Victorian Gaslighting with Professor Nora Gilbert
Please join the Friends of the Dickens Project for our spring Friends Faculty Fellowship talk series by Associate Professor Nora Gilbert (University of North Texas) who will be discussing “Victorian Gaslighting” As someone who co-specializes in Victorian literature and early Hollywood film, I’ve long been a fan of the darkly disturbing 1944 film Gaslight starring […]
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Opacity and Voice in Édouard Glissant and José María Arguedas with Benjamin Davis
Opacity and Voice in Édouard Glissant and José María Arguedas with Benjamin Davis
The History of Consciousness department presents Opacity and Voice in Édouard Glissant and José María Arguedas with Benjamin Davis, Saint Louis University. This talk is a part of the Spring 2024 History of Consciousness Speaker Series. The History of Consciousness Speaker series is a quarterly series of talks by distinguished guests. Recordings of previous lectures […]
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PhD+ Workshop – Creative Academic Publishing With Robin James
PhD+ Workshop – Creative Academic Publishing With Robin James
This is an Arts Research Institute (ARI) workshop on creative academic publishing with Robin James. Robin James is an author and former academic, currently working as Editor of Philosophy, Literary Theory, and Music & Sound Studies at Palgrave Macmillan. She will conduct a workshop for junior scholars interested in turning their ideas into a successful […]
57th Annual Faculty Research Lecture featuring Professor Gina Athena Ulysse
57th Annual Faculty Research Lecture featuring Professor Gina Athena Ulysse
The UC Santa Cruz Academic Senate is delighted to invite you to the 57th Annual Faculty Research Lecture Featuring Professor Gina Athena Ulysse, Feminist Studies Department: The Whole Time... A Redwoods Rasanblaj Epic Poem sou 7 Pwen Inspired by Sinéad O'Connor and 11th Hour’s caffeine chronicles, this epic stream of consciousness ethnographic poem meditates on origins, a theory […]
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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 […]
Zirwat Chowdhury – Transacting Empire: Family Portraits
Zirwat Chowdhury – Transacting Empire: Family Portraits
The UCSC Center for South Asian Studies presents Transacting Empire: Family Portraits with Zirwat Chowdhury on April 17th. Participants are invited to attend in person at HUM 1 room 210 or register via Zoom. This talk traces across the disjointed pairing of two portraits an imperial form of kinship that emerged among covenanted servants of […]
Craig Reinarman and Gina Dent – From Drug Wars to Harm Reduction
Craig Reinarman and Gina Dent – From Drug Wars to Harm Reduction
Join us for the 2024 Legal Studies Annual Distinguished Lecture: "From Drug Wars to Harm Reduction: Reflections on the Future of Addiction Research, Drug Policy, and Mass Incarceration" with Craig Reinarman (Sociology & Legal Studies - Emeritus and Community Studies) in conversation with Gina Dent (Feminist Studies and Legal Studies) This event will take place […]
Dr. Stephanie Lain – Spanish Vowel and Consonant Contributions to Talker Identification and Lexical Contrast
Dr. Stephanie Lain – Spanish Vowel and Consonant Contributions to Talker Identification and Lexical Contrast
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics presents: SPANISH VOWEL AND CONSONANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO TALKER IDENTIFICATION AND LEXICAL CONTRAST with Dr. Stephanie Lain (UC Santa Cruz) Abstract Acoustic properties of the input determine how speech sounds are processed, categorized, and encoded in memory. This information is used to identify words and convey information about the […]
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Living Writers with Jennifer Tseng
Living Writers with Jennifer Tseng
Living Writers Series - Spring 2024 Imaginaries)Un(bound: Race, Justice, Writing: The Living Writers Series, the Center for Racial Justice, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) present poets, theorists, fiction and hybrid artists working at the nexus of creative-critical practice in the struggle for justice with the imperative of imaginatively undoing the academic and disciplinary […]
Peter Galison – Time: Physics, Film, History
Peter Galison – Time: Physics, Film, History
Henri Poincaré's and Albert Einstein's reformulation of simultaneity was long seen as a development from imaginative thought experiments. But the all-too-material and the most abstract notions of time cross in essential ways (Swiss Patent Office, Paris Bureau of Longitude). Galison explores this intersection in collaboration with the artist William Kentridge (“The Refusal of Time,” 2012), […]
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Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Thirteen – Early Receptions
Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Thirteen – Early Receptions
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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Black Enlightenment with Surya Parekh
Black Enlightenment with Surya Parekh
The History of Consciousness department presents Black Enlightenment with Surya Parekh, Binghamton University. This talk is a part of the Spring 2024 History of Consciousness Speaker Series. The History of Consciousness Speaker series is a quarterly series of talks by distinguished guests. Recordings of previous lectures are available in the HistCon Speaker Series Archive. To […]
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Right Livelihood International Conference
Join us April 23-27, 2024, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the UCSC Right Livelihood Center. We will inaugurate UCSC’s new role as Global Secretariat of the Right Livelihood College network, launch an international student network, launch faculty-laureate research clusters, and more. Events are free and open to the public. Learn more about the conference […]
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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 […]
Carla Freccero – Do Animals Have History?
Carla Freccero – Do Animals Have History?
This talk, very much a meditation-in-progress, asks a series of questions about how we (in the Western European intellectual tradition) come to think about the categories of history and evolution and the various ways we might deconstruct this opposition, making way for co-constitutive material histories of the living. It also asks whether, in the time […]
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The Deep Read: Bay Area Salon
The Deep Read: Bay Area Salon
Meet Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder and UCSC faculty members for a special evening to learn about the Deep Read, this year's featured book, and how you can get involved. The Deep Read, hosted annually by The Humanities Institute, invites curious minds to delve deeply into books guided by the expertise of UC Santa Cruz scholars. […]
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Yosimar Reyes’ One-Man Show: “Prieto”
Yosimar Reyes’ One-Man Show: “Prieto”
NATIONALLY ACCLAIMED POET, YOSIMAR REYES, BRINGS HIS FULL-LENGTH AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ONE-MAN SHOW TO UC SANTA CRUZ Directed by Kat Evasco and Sean San José, Produced by The Living World Project CRES 70u – (Un)docu Studies, in collaboration with the Cultural Arts and Diversity Resource Center (CADrc) and the Center for Racial Justice (CRJ) bring the […]
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Saturday Shakespeare
Saturday Shakespeare
In collaboration with the Shakespeare Workshop at UCSC, the first in-person meeting of the Saturday Shakespeare Group in four years will take place on Saturday, April 27th in the new Aptos Library, with a Zoom option for those who can not attend in person. The nominal meeting time is 10:00 am, library doors open at […]
Indian Midsummer
Indian Midsummer
Karlton Hester has composed the music for Karen Tei Yamashita’s libretto that is a reading of the envisioned as an operetta within a dance/videographic play. More info at: https://arts.ucsc.edu/news_events/indian-midsummer-april-santa-cruz-festival-event Presented by: Digital Arts and New Media Music Department This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. Emeritus Professor Karen Tei Yamashita, librettist (UCSC Literature Department) […]
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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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Making a Killing: Capitalism, Cops, & the War on Black Life with Robin Kelley
Making a Killing: Capitalism, Cops, & the War on Black Life with Robin Kelley
The History of Consciousness department presents Making a Killing: Capitalism, Cops, & the War on Black Life with Robin Kelley, UC Los Angeles. This talk is a part of the Spring 2024 History of Consciousness Speaker Series. The History of Consciousness Speaker series is a quarterly series of talks by distinguished guests. To learn more […]
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The Deep Read: Craft Salon
The Deep Read: Craft Salon
Join us for a public, Zoom conversation about the writing craft of Hernan Diaz's Trust, the 2024 Deep Read book selection. UC Santa Cruz-affiliated novelists Micah Perks (Professor of Literature and Creative Writing), Elizabeth McKenzie (Merrill ’81, Literature), and Maria Pachon (Literature PhD student in the Creative/Critical Writing Concentration) will discuss the techniques deployed in this experimental novel and highlight […]
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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 […]
CANCELLED – TechnoScience Improv
CANCELLED – TechnoScience Improv
Co-sponsored by Center for Cultural Studies, History of Consciousness: GeoEcologies + TechnoScience Conversations, Global and Community Health, and the Science & Justice Research Center This two-hour roundtable improv (12.15-2.00pm) brings together ten UCSC scholars working on social, historical, and cultural studies of science, technology and medicine. The event will be structured around eight open, improvised […]
Dalit Histories, Gender Formations: A Conversation with Journalist Meena Kotwal
Dalit Histories, Gender Formations: A Conversation with Journalist Meena Kotwal
This talk is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asia at Stanford University and the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz (CSAS). On May 1, 2024 , Meena Kotwal will be in conversation with Anjali Arondekar (Professor in Feminist Studies, UCSC and Founding Director, CSAS) at the Stanford University […]
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The Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series & Thom Gentle Lecture
The Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series & Thom Gentle Lecture
The Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series & Thom Gentle Lecture will take place on Thursday, May 2nd, 2024, at 3:00pm at the Cowell Provost House. This event will also be livestreamed and recorded: Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series Lecture. This year's guest speaker is Bathsheba Demuth, Dean’s Associate Professor […]
Living Writers with Joseph Han
Living Writers with Joseph Han
Living Writers Series - Spring 2024 Imaginaries)Un(bound: Race, Justice, Writing: The Living Writers Series, the Center for Racial Justice, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) present poets, theorists, fiction and hybrid artists working at the nexus of creative-critical practice in the struggle for justice with the imperative of imaginatively undoing the academic and disciplinary […]
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Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Fourteen – Global Perspectives, Part 1: Paradiso in World Literature & Culture
Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Fourteen – Global Perspectives, Part 1: Paradiso in World Literature & Culture
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 […]
Conversation with Jennifer Lunden, author of American Breakdown
Conversation with Jennifer Lunden, author of American Breakdown
Join us on Friday, May 3 at 12:00PM for a virtual webinar with Jennifer Lunden, author of AMERICAN BREAKDOWN: Our Ailing Nation, My Body's Revolt, and the Nineteenth Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life. A Silent Spring for the human body, this wide-ranging, genre-crossing literary mystery interweaves the author’s quest to understand the […]
Educator’s Mixer: Pajaro Valley Filipino American History
Educator’s Mixer: Pajaro Valley Filipino American History
To kick of Asian American and Pacific Islander History Month, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) and Watsonville is in the Heart (WIITH) will co-host a free event for local educators. The event provides educators with a chance to meet with WIITH team members who are working to produce educational resources about […]
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Saturday Shakespeare
Saturday Shakespeare
In collaboration with the Shakespeare Workshop at UCSC, this in-person meeting of the Saturday Shakespeare Group will take place on Saturday, May 4th in the new Aptos Library, with a Zoom option for those who can not attend in person. The nominal meeting time is 10:00 am, library doors open at 10:00 am. The speaker […]
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