Events

This event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series - Power, Politics, and Our Democracy UC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How […]

Learn about paid internships and undergraduate research opportunities for Humanities Students including applications, timelines, and program details. Open to all Humanities Majors and Minors. For more information please email humco@ucsc.edu. Please visit the Humanities Student Events Calendar to see other exciting events happening for students in the Humanities Division.

Learn about paid internships and undergraduate research opportunities for Humanities Students including applications, timelines, and program details. Info on how to join via Zoom can be found via the Humanities Division Linktree. Open to all Humanities Majors and Minors. For more information please email humco@ucsc.edu. Please visit the Humanities Student Events Calendar to see other […]

Having a fantastic resume and cover letter are the first steps towards securing part-time, full-time, on-campus or off-campus work. Join us for this informative workshop to learn best practices and resources for creating or updating your resume and cover letter. Register on Handshake here! Open to all Humanities Majors and Minors. For more information please […]

If “climate apartheid” is on the rise, as Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò warns, then Cop City Atlanta—the multimillion-dollar new police training facility built by clear-cutting the city’s largest green space—offers an ominous flashpoint. For not only is Cop City’s contested construction (which is ongoing) an exemplary story of the violent repression of community activism at the […]

This event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series - Power, Politics, and Our Democracy UC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How […]

Bangladesh’s recent student-led mass uprising which ousted the longstanding autocrat, Sheikh Hasina, from office is widely considered to have ushered in a new era in Bangladesh politics. How did the uprising, which began with a demand for student’s job quota reform, unfold, and eventually turn into a mass movement? What political possibilities and precarities lie […]

The UCSC Center for Jewish Studies presents an event with Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University. How should we speak about the shocking October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas and its allies which killed 1,139 people, 61% of them Israeli civilians, […]

Living Writers Series – Fall 2024 Growing Things ~ gardens, poems, emotions, relationships, stories, our artistic practices, carefully tended, beautifully ordered, rewilded and wild ~ About The Living Writers Series The Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series […]

This event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series - Power, Politics, and Our Democracy UC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How […]

Black divers were central to the reclamation of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to transport kidnapped Africans to the United States. In our coastal area, the unceded territory of the Amah Mutsun people and a place where Black servicemen and their families resettled after fighting in U.S. wars in the Pacific, Santa Cruz […]

This event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series - Power, Politics, and Our Democracy UC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How […]

In this talk, Lisa will present 'hydrocommoning' as a concept to think with emergent water cultures by asking what work a theory and praxis of hydrocommoning might do to support transitions to alternative hydrosocial relations beyond modern urban and extractive paradigms. She will lay out a methodological route for interdisciplinary water research that takes seriously […]

Living Writers Series – Fall 2024 Growing Things ~ gardens, poems, emotions, relationships, stories, our artistic practices, carefully tended, beautifully ordered, rewilded and wild ~ About The Living Writers Series The Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series […]

Join the Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies to celebrate the release of two important new books by UCSC faculty exploring power, historical development, and environmental justice in the Bay Area: Lindsey Dillon’s Toxic City and Eric Porter’s A People’s History of SFO (both published by University of California Press). The authors will be […]

This event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series - Power, Politics, and Our Democracy UC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How […]

This talk reteaches the history of the research university as a series of answers to the question of what symbols are for, what symbols can do. By answers I do not mean simply what scholars have said about these matters, but also what we have done, the worlds we have made in our teaching and […]

This presentation focuses on the political potential of contemporary Palestinian transnational youth activism in Europe and USA.  It compares student political engagement namely by examining the formation and development of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) during what is regarded as the “golden age” of the Palestinian revolution (1960s-1970s) with contemporary initiatives, efforts and […]

The Humanities Career Engagement Specialist will lead an interactive workshop that will set you up to better understand how your humanities skills can prepare you for a fulfilling career. Free burritos for all who register through our Linktree here! Open to all Humanities Majors and Minors. For more information please email humco@ucsc.edu. Please visit the […]

Living Writers Series – Fall 2024 Growing Things ~ gardens, poems, emotions, relationships, stories, our artistic practices, carefully tended, beautifully ordered, rewilded and wild ~ About The Living Writers Series The Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series […]

When Immanuel Kant suggested in 1798 that a citizenship of the world could be staged in Konigsberg without physical travel, he illuminated the dense heterogeneity of place. Kant’s insight might be seen to have informed many projects of British cultural studies that situated globality inside locality by focusing on the potential of working-class cultures built […]

A not to be missed opportunity to explore the UC Santa Cruz Campus, on and off the footpaths with Professor Jim Clifford. We’ll wander among the trees, down in the ravines, out in the meadows. Pooling our different knowledges of environmental, social, cultural, technological and architectural history, we will try to disentangle the overlapping layers […]

This event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series - Power, Politics, and Our Democracy UC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How […]

On Saturday, November 2 from 6-7pm, we will have a SPOOKY READING GROUP POTLUCK at West Lake Park. On theme for Halloween and Day of the Dead, Alisa Puga Keesey will lead us in a discussion of the essay “What is it like to be a bat?” (We think we can observe bats at dusk […]