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 The Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) invites you to a Slow Seminar on the new book: The Urban Grotesque: Jakarta's Financial Lives by Prof. Doreen Lee, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Northeastern University. Opening comments will be made by Dr. Kirsten Keller. Advance copies of the reading will be made available to those who R.S.V.P. indicating that […] |
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The More-than-Human(ities) Lab is a multidisciplinary “playgroup”--to borrow from Anna Tsing–dedicated to sharing resources in support of collaborative environmental humanities research. Launched in 2024 as a research cluster of The Humanities Institute, MtH offers speaking events, reading groups, and manuscript “share seshes” for those interested in the more-than-human and with different intellectual, artistic, and community-engaged […] |
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 Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents The Tragedy of King Richard II by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on October 4, 11, 18, 25 & November 1, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest […]
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 Join us in celebrating Filipino American History Month with a powerful day of culture, art, food, and community—honoring the legacy of the Manong Generation and the stories that shaped the Pajaro Valley. This event is presented by the Tobera Project and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and Watsonville is in the Heart. Featuring: Live Performances […] |
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 The Center for the Middle East and North Africa invites all CMENA affiliates and students to a falafel welcome lunch. Come catch up with one another, meet CMENA faculty, and learn about the Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS) Minor. |
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 Join us for an info session with Kylie Rachwalski, Assistant Director of Experiential Learning in the UCSC Humanities Division to learn more about Humanities EXCEL and EXPLORE Programs for humanities undergraduate students. Humanities EXCEL is a paid internship program for Humanities majors and minors, connecting you with community organizations where you’ll gain hands-on experience, mentorship, and real-world skills. […]  Presented by The Center for Racial Justice. Cosponsored by Oakes College. Free and open to the public. Born in Jim Crow–era Monroe, North Carolina, Robert F. Williams and Mabel R. Williams were the state's most legendary African American freedom fighters. The Williamses' leadership in Monroe was just the beginning of a lifelong pursuit of freedom […]  Jaron Lanier is a musician, computer scientist, visual artist, writer, technologist, and futurist who is considered a founder of the field of virtual reality. In Music & The Future of Humanity Lanier will be joined by the Free Waves trio, featuring Tim Jackson and Zack Olsen, singer/songwriter Harper Simon, Haruki Fujii and members of the Santa Cruz Symphony. Can't make it in-person? You can stream […] |
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 Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness: earth ecologies x technoscience This talk offers a speculative reading of practices that reclaim and reimagine human–soil relations within the legacies of anthropocentric, productionist, and colonial ecologies. I explore how soils come to epitomize planet Earth, life, death and memory, as well as the fraught significance of writing alternative stories […]
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 Get ready for the season with vampires, ghouls and zombies! Join UC Santa Cruz professors Michael Chemers (The Monster in Theater History), Renée Fox (The Necromantics), and Kimberly Lau (Specters of the Marvelous) as they discuss the histories and politics of vampires, ghouls, zombies and other undead monsters in literature, theater, and pop culture. The Center for […] |
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 The Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in partnership with Santa Clara University, invites you to a two-day academic workshop exploring the effects and imprints of the plantation complex on life and land in South Asia and beyond. South Asia has had a long, complicated history with plantations. […] |
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Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents The Tragedy of King Richard II by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on October 4, 11, 18, 25 & November 1, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest […] | |
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Learn about the importance of preserving and documenting the history and culture of our community through archiving. We will discuss how the rise of interest in Community Archives has transformed the way collective memories are curated, capturing forgotten and suppressed voices, reshaping our understanding of what archives are and how they function, and challenging long-held […]
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 In this talk, Kimberly Lau offers intertwined readings of several cognate fairy tales that revolve around true and false brides, beginning with Black slaves and white fairies in 17th-century Naples and tracing their evolution into (implicitly raced but unmarked) kind and unkind girls in 19th-century Germany. Through her readings, Lau illustrates some of the ways […] |
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 Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes #1 New York Times bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell for a discussion about Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering. In this provocative new work, Malcolm Gladwell returns for the first time in twenty-five years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time […] |
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 Held on the beautiful UC Santa Cruz campus, the 2025 Festival of Monsters academic conference (Oct. 15-18) includes panels on cannibalism, classic monsters, child monsters and the monsters of childhood, Chicanix Nuclear Gothic and more. David Livingstone Smith, Kim Lau and Jeffrey Jerome Cohen will give this year's keynote talks. The main conference will take […]
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Within the British empire, Panjab has long been regarded as the quintessential agrarian province inhabited by a diligent, prosperous and “martial race” of peasants. Against such essentialist depictions, I explore the landowning peasant and landless laborer as novel subjects forged in the encounter between colonialism and struggles over culture and capital within Panjabi society. Company […] |
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Feeling the archival impulse? Come get some hands-on experiences with McHenry Library's Special Collections, chat about archives with your fellow grad students, and get your questions answered about archival research at UCSC and beyond. Curious undergrads are welcome, too! Space is limited. This event is presented by the Center for Archival Research & Training (CART) […]
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 Wonder as the Source Cindy Juyoung Ok is the author of Ward Toward and the translator of The Hell of That Star by Kim Hyesoon. She was a finalist for a 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, has served as a Poetry Foundation Library Forms & Features visiting teaching artist, and was a […]
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 Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes author, editor, and poet John Freeman for a conversation with Karen Tei Yamashita about his new book California Rewritten: A Journey Through the Golden State's New Literature. This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. "In Freeman's hands, California is a literary mecca, and each essay a revelation." —Ingrid Rojas Contreras, […] |
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Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents The Tragedy of King Richard II by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on October 4, 11, 18, 25 & November 1, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest […] |
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 Anna Yegorova and Pablo Escudero will engage Professor Kevin Anderson on his recently published monograph, The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads. In this work, Anderson carries out a systematic analysis of Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks and related texts on Russia, India, Ireland, Algeria, Latin America, and ancient Rome, with an eye to how viewing the world beyond the […] |
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This talk offers a framework for understanding the entangled fate of Palestinian and Lebanese liberation by situating the 1970s Palestinian revolution and Lebanese Civil War opposition front through a shared narrative. This talk will show how these two efforts not only organized jointly, but how their aspirations were shared and impactful of the social landscape […]
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Please join us for this year's first anthropology colloquium/Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice event! This event is in-person and virtual. Register for virtual participation here. Christie George is a writer, curator and producer who has beenworking at the intersection of media, technology and social change for more than twenty years -- first as a film […] |
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 Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Roach for a discussion about Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy. In this irrepressible new work, Mary Roach explores the remarkable advances and difficult questions prompted by the human body's failings. When and how does a person decide they'd be better off with a […] |
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Join the Linguistics Department for Elsi Kaiser's talk, "Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Exploring Interpretation and Dissimilation of Third Person Pronouns in English and Finnish". Transitive clauses with two personal pronouns in coargument position (e.g. “she saw her”, “he helped him”) are perfectly natural in English. But perhaps surprisingly, such two-pronoun sequences are […] |
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Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents The Tragedy of King Richard II by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on October 4, 11, 18, 25 & November 1, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest […]
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 Join us for the Día de los Muertos community celebration of traditional music, dance, and art at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. Enjoy live performances by Senderos’ Centeotl Danza y Baile and Ensamble Musical de Senderos. Stroll through the museum in a self-guided presentation of community altars. Performances all day! This event […] |
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 Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Julian Brave NoiseCat who will share his stunning debut We Survived the Night. Drawing from five years of on-the-ground reporting, We Survived the Night paints a profound and unforgettable portrait of contemporary Indigenous life, alongside an intimate and deeply powerful reckoning between a father and a son. Soulful, formally daring, indelible […] |
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Within the everyday workspaces of Assam’s tea plantations, Adivasi tea tribes engage in listening, sounding, and music. At times, these sounds and music flow into Adivasi living areas known as “lines.” Upatyaka explores the dynamic relationship between the sounds of the workplace and the sociocultural life woven through tea plantation labor. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork […]
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 Join us for a kick-off meeting about The Humanities Institute's new ± AI Initiative. Learn about THI's vision and funding opportunities and connect with colleagues who have overlapping interests in humanities and artificial intelligence. Bring your research ideas, projects, dreams, and plans to the discussion as we look at ways to further advance humanistic work […] |
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 Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness: earth ecologies x technoscience What a vital occasion it would be to receive intellectual gifts that enable us to better grasp our current socio-ecological moment, […]
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 Are you curious about graduate school in the humanities? Join this Humanities Grad School 101 session, where we’ll hear from Associate Dean of Research Pranav Anand and stellar UCSC graduate students in History, […] |
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What happens when the ethical and interpretive frameworks of the humanities meet the algorithmic and interactive architectures of artificial intelligence? This dialogue brings together two leading voices from distinct yet converging fields: Magy Seif El-Nasr, a pioneer in human-centered AI, game analytics, and interactive narrative design, and Minghui Hu, a historian and digital humanist, explores […]
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Wonder as the Source Aracelis Girmay is a poet, teacher, and editor. Her poems trace the connections of transformation and loss across cities and bodies. She is the author of […]
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 Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz are delighted to welcome award-winning chef and food activist Alice Waters for a discussion about A School Lunch Revolution, […] |
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Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents The Tragedy of King Richard II by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on October 4, 11, 18, 25 & November 1, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest […]
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Join the Seeds of Resurgence Research Cluster, in conjunction with The Greenhouse Project (TGP), as they host a gathering where people interested in the cluster can meet and eat and do something together with their hands. Participants will also build a seed undercommons (as opposed to a bank). Supplies will be provided. If you have […] |