Events

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 […]

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 […]

This talk will explore the possible relationships between global economic restructuring and the emergence of new politics of family, gender, and sexuality. The rise of "service economies" in many forms around the world has had profound implications for individual life courses and the normative genders attached to them. Why is this, and what can we […]

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 and THI's Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Cluster welcome Alice Barale for her talk, "Art and Artificial Intelligence: a philosophical Investigation." It has been several years since the first artwork created with artificial intelligence was sold at the renowned auction house Christie's in 2018. In the meantime, new […]

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 […]

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 […]