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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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Prahlad Singh Tipanya & Ensemble
Prahlad Singh Tipanya & Ensemble
Experience the vigorous and joyful folk music of Prahlad Singh Tipanya and his ensemble, singing the poetry of Kabir, the great iconoclastic mystic of 15th-century North India. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies. Prahlad-ji is a locally, nationally, and internationally acclaimed folk singer from Lunyakhedi, a small village in Ujjain […]
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Cancelled – Humanities in the Age of AI Lunch meeting
Cancelled – 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, 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 […]
Heidegger, Christian Eschatology & the Temporality of Being with Prashan Ransinghe
Heidegger, Christian Eschatology & the Temporality of Being with Prashan Ransinghe
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 […]
The Deep Read: Faculty Salon
The Deep Read: Faculty Salon
On May 6, you’ll be able to join the conversation—either in person or online—at a salon-style event where our participating professors will lead a discussion of this year’s Deep Read book, Trust, with the Deep Read community. Faculty Speakers Lori Kletzer, Economics, Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Madhavi Murty, Feminist Studies Dard Neuman, Music […]
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Angie Sijun Lou & Karen Tei Yamashita – Dark Soil: Fictions and Mythographies
Angie Sijun Lou & Karen Tei Yamashita – Dark Soil: Fictions and Mythographies
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Angie Sijun Lou and Karen Tei Yamashita for the launch of Dark Soil: Fictions and Mythographies—a new anthology edited by Lou and featuring ten new stories from Yamashita, all centered around Santa Cruz's history, along with eight works of nonfiction from authors including Brandon Shimoda and Juliana Spahr. About Dark Soil […]
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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 […]
Dimitris Papadopoulos – Toxic Realism: 222 Photographs in 44’33”
Dimitris Papadopoulos – Toxic Realism: 222 Photographs in 44’33”
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 […]
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Living Writers with Graduate Alumni: Nathan Osorio and Kendall Grady
Living Writers with Graduate Alumni: Nathan Osorio and Kendall Grady
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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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 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 […]
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Orit Bashkin: The Farhud – Gender, Memory, Reconstruction
Orit Bashkin: The Farhud – Gender, Memory, Reconstruction
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 […]
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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 […]
Women of Color Environmentalists Panel
Women of Color Environmentalists Panel
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 […]
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The 2nd Annual FMST Undergraduate Research Symposium
The 2nd Annual FMST Undergraduate Research Symposium
UCSC Feminist Studies Presents The 2nd Annual FMST Undergraduate Research Symposium. This year’s FMST Symposium will be a two-day event in celebration of Feminist Studies’ 50th Anniversary. May 16 | Feminists in the World | 10am to 1pm UCSC professors across the university – from anthropology and digital media to molecular biology and politics – […]
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Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Fifteen – Global Perspectives, Part 2 & 3: Paradiso in World Religions & Spirituality and A Text that Fosters Interreligious Dialogue
Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Fifteen – Global Perspectives, Part 2 & 3: Paradiso in World Religions & Spirituality and A Text that Fosters Interreligious Dialogue
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 […]
Swag: A Creolised Alegropolitics of Resistance
Swag: A Creolised Alegropolitics of Resistance
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 […]
POSTPONED – Humanities Division Graduate Awards Ceremony
POSTPONED – Humanities Division Graduate Awards Ceremony
We are postponing the Humanities Division Graduate Awards. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Information about rescheduling to come.
2 events,
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 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 […]
Santa Cruz County History Fair
Santa Cruz County History Fair
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 […]
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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 […]
The Deep Read: A Conversation with Hernan Diaz
The Deep Read: A Conversation with Hernan Diaz
*Venue Change: Join us at the Kaiser Permanente Arena in Downtown Santa Cruz* 3:00pm – Doors open 3:30pm - Chamber music performance by Astrophic Duo: Polly Malan (Viola) and Chris […]
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POSTPONED – Art and Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Investigation with Alice Barale
POSTPONED – Art and Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Investigation with Alice Barale
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 […]
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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 […]
CANCELLED – Ussama Makdisi – Palestine, Late Colonialism, and the Question of Genocide
CANCELLED – Ussama Makdisi – Palestine, Late Colonialism, and the Question of Genocide
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 […]
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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 25th in the new Aptos Library, with a […]
1 event,
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 […]
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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 […]
CANCELLED – Mjriam Abu Samra – New Horizons in Struggle: The Role of Transnational Palestinian Youth in Decolonial Politics
CANCELLED – Mjriam Abu Samra – New Horizons in Struggle: The Role of Transnational Palestinian Youth in Decolonial Politics
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 […]
Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics (LAAL) Colloquia: Dr. Elu Tu
Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics (LAAL) Colloquia: Dr. Elu Tu
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 […]
Martin Rizzo-Martinez: We Are Not Animals
Martin Rizzo-Martinez: We Are Not Animals
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Martin Rizzo-Martinez, assistant professor at UC Santa Cruz, for a discussion of We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California, now available in paperback. By examining historical records and drawing on oral histories and the work of anthropologists, archaeologists, ecologists, and psychologists, We Are Not Animals […]
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Living Writers with Karen Tei Yamashita and Angie Sijun Lou
Living Writers with Karen Tei Yamashita and Angie Sijun Lou
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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The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse XXII
The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse XXII
Cowell College, Stevenson College and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics will present the 22nd season of the Miriam Ellis international Playhouse (MEIP XXII), May 31, June 1, and June 2, 2024 at 7:00 PM in the Stevenson Event Center at UCSC. Four fully-staged theater pieces will be presented in French, Italian, Japanese, and […]
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Saturday Shakespeare
Saturday Shakespeare
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 […]
The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse XXII
The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse XXII
Cowell College, Stevenson College and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics will present the 22nd season of the Miriam Ellis international Playhouse (MEIP XXII), May 31, June 1, and June 2, 2024 at 7:00 PM in the Stevenson Event Center at UCSC. Four fully-staged theater pieces will be presented in French, Italian, Japanese, and […]
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