Events

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Humanities Institute Research cluster, “Humanities in the Age of AI,” is pleased to invite you to their lunch meeting scheduled for Monday, May 6th at 12pm in HUM 210. To learn more about current cluster projects and further information about upcoming speakers, please consult our website the events tab. The research cluster boasts a […]

The History of Consciousness department presents Heidegger, Christian Eschatology & the Temporality of Being with Prashan Ransinghe, University of Ottawa. 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 visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/hisc_speaker_series/. Recordings […]

Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness: GeoEcologies + TechnoScience Conversations Through a series of 222 photographs and a separate conceptual narration, this intermedial and semi-performative presentation discusses the pervasive, toxic realism of anthropochemicals and the search for alternative substances. Dimitris Papadopoulos is Professor of History of Consciousness in the Department of History of Consciousness, University of […]

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 […]

In collaboration with the Shakespeare Workshop at UCSC, this in-person meeting of the Saturday Shakespeare Group will take place on Saturday, May 11th 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 […]

Orit Bashkin will give her lecture, entitled The Farhud - Gender, Memory, Reconstruction on Monday, May 13 at 10:40am in Soc Sci II Rm 71. This guest lecture is a part of UCSC's class, The Holocaust: A Global History, taught by Nathaniel Deutsch and Alma Rachel Heckman. Orit Bashkin is Mabel Greene Myers Professor of […]

Join the UCSC community for an empowering panel that celebrates the voices, visions, and efforts of women of color environmentalists. Our panelists include inspiring women from UC Santa Cruz and external organizations. After the panel, enjoy a special dinner with the panelists and all event attendees! UCSC community members and affiliates of all identities are […]

The UCSC Center for South Asian Studies presents Swag: A Creolised Alegropolitics of Resistance with Ananya Jahanara Kabir on May 17th. This virtual event will be held via Zoom | Register Here Learn more about this event at: CSAS Crossings Ananya Jahanara Kabir is Professor of English Literature at King’s College London. Her research spans […]

In collaboration with the Shakespeare Workshop at UCSC, this in-person meeting of the Saturday Shakespeare Group will take place on Saturday, May 18th 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 […]

This is the 6th History Fair for our County! This year's Santa Cruz County History Fair will be hosted by the Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park on Saturday May 18th at 12pm. Admission in free for all ages. We look forward to engaging a wide public audience in a diverse offering of inclusive local […]

The History of Consciousness department presents Art and Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Investigation with Alice Barale, University of Milan. Join us Monday, May 20 at 12pm in Hum 1 Rm 210 or register below to attend virtually: It has been several years since the first artwork created with artificial intelligence was sold at the renowned […]

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) This talk explores the relationship between modern philozionism in the West and the denialism of the Palestinians. The nineteenth-century European Zionist idea of implanting and sustaining an exclusively Jewish nationalist state in multireligious Palestine was a response to European racial antisemitism. But it […]

In collaboration with the Shakespeare Workshop at UCSC, this in-person meeting of the Saturday Shakespeare Group will take place on Saturday, May 25th 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. This meeting […]

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) It seems we are living and witnessing a historical moment in the politics of “the Palestine Question.” No matter what analytical framework or political perspective is invoked, no matter the profound disagreement that can emerge in reading not only the current phase but […]

The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Colloquium is pleased to present: Dr. Elu Tu UC Santa Cruz speaking on Analyzing Asynchronous Online Chinese Language Learning Materials under the PICRAT Technology Integration Model Dr. Elu Tu will present on Wednesday, May 29th at 12:45 pm via Zoom. Meeting ID: 981 3067 3074 Passcode: 064315   […]

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 […]

In collaboration with the Shakespeare Workshop at UCSC, the Saturday Shakespeare Group will host a Zoom only re-showing of part 2 of the DVD. This is for those who were not able to stay for both parts of the Hamlet screening on Saturday, May 25th. Start time is 10:00 am. Zoom Information This is a […]