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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - The Tragedy of King Richard II
DESCRIPTION: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 speaker followed by volunteer read aloud of the play. This event series is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop. \nFor more information\, Zoom Link\, or to volunteer to be a reader\, contact: saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com \nGuest Speakers / Film Presentation \n\nOct 4: Sean Keilen: Professor of Literature\, UC Santa Cruz; founding Director of Shakespeare Workshop. Serves as dramaturg at Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Readings: Act I\, Scenes 1-4\nOct 11: Katie O’Hare: UCSC Graduate Dissertation on Shakespeare’s Henriad\, which includes Richard II. She will begin teaching at UCLA in Fall 2025. Readings: Act II\, Scene 1-4\, Act III\, Scene 1\nOct 18: Jessica Kubzansky: Artistic Director of Boston Court Pasadena\, author ‘R2’\, a re-envisioning of ‘Richard II’\, performed by SC Shakespeare in 2021. Readings: Act III\, Scenes 2-3\, Act IV Scene 1 to line 162\nOct 25: Paul Whitworth: Professor Emeritus Theater Arts\, UCSC. Began his career as an actor at the Royal Shakespeare Company 1976. Served as Artistic Director for Shakespeare Santa Cruz\, 1996-2007. Readings: Act IV\, Scene 1 line 163 to Act V\, Scenes 1-8\nNov 1: Film Screening: Richard II: The Hollow Crown directed by Rupert Goold with Ben Whishaw\, Rory Kinnear\, David Suchet\, Patrick Stewart\, 2012\, 148 minutes.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-the-tragedy-of-king-richard-ii/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Filipino American History Month Festival
DESCRIPTION: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. \nFeaturing: \n\nLive Performances\nFilipino Food\nLocal Makers & Artists\nCultural Showcases\nFamily-Friendly Fun
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/filipino-american-history-month-festival/
LOCATION:Watsonville City Plaza\, 358 Main St.\, Watsonville\, CA\, 95076\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251006T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251006T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T235421
CREATED:20250917T222552Z
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SUMMARY:Falafel Welcome Lunch with The Center for the Middle East and North Africa
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/falafel-welcome-lunch-with-the-center-for-the-middle-east-and-north-africa-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251007T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251007T163000
DTSTAMP:20260426T235421
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SUMMARY:Humanities Division Experiential Learning Info Session
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\n\n\nHumanities 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.\nHumanities EXPLORE is a paid undergraduate research program where you work on faculty-led research projects\, deepening your academic experience while building career-ready skills.\n\n\n\n\n\nBoth programs pay $20/hour for working 10–15 hours per week. Some positions run September–June\, while others run January-June (or into the summer). \nMore information and zoom link at: Humanities EXCEL and EXPLORE Programs. \n\nThis Info Session is being led by the Humanities Division. The Mellon Foundation\, The Helen and Will Webster Foundation\, The Humanities Institute\, the UCSC Humanities Division\, and private donors generously support the Humanities EXCEL and EXPLORE Programs.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-division-experiential-learning-info-session/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251007T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251007T173000
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SUMMARY:The Memoirs of Robert & Mabel Williams: African American Freedom\, Armed Resistance\, and International Solidarity
DESCRIPTION:Presented by The Center for Racial Justice. Cosponsored by Oakes College. Free and open to the public. \nBorn in Jim Crow–era Monroe\, North Carolina\, Robert F. Williams and Mabel R. Williams were the state’s most legendary African American freedom fighters. \n\n\nThe Williamses’ leadership in Monroe was just the beginning of a lifelong pursuit of freedom and justice for Black people in the United States and for oppressed populations throughout the world. Their activism foreshadowed major developments in the civil rights and Black Power movements\, including Malcolm X’s advocacy of fighting oppression “by any means necessary\,” the emergence of the Black Panther Party\, and Black solidarity with Third World liberation movements. \nRobert documented his experiences in Monroe in his classic 1962 book\, NEGROES WITH GUNS\, and completed a draft of his memoir\, WHILE GOD LAY SLEEPING\, months before his death in 1996. Mabel began a memoir of her own before her death in 2014. The family selected John Bracey Jr.\, Akinyele K. Umoja\, and Gloria Aneb House to edit and complete the manuscripts\, which are presented together in this book\, offering a gripping portrait of these pioneering freedom fighters that is both deeply intimate and a fierce call to action in the ongoing fight against racial injustice. \n\n\n\nAkinyele K. Umoja is a professor of Africana studies at Georgia State University. \nLisa Williams is the daughter-in-law of Robert and Mabel Williams.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-memoirs-of-robert-mabel-williams-african-american-freedom-armed-resistance-and-international-solidarity/
LOCATION:Oakes Learning Center\, UCSC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251007T190000
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SUMMARY:Master Class: Jaron Lanier – Music & The Future of Humanity
DESCRIPTION: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. \nCan’t make it in-person? You can stream it! Click here to register. \n\nThis event is presented by Kuumbwa Jazz Center\, and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/master-class-jaron-lanier-music-the-future-of-humanity-feat-free-waves-harper-simon-haruka-fujii-santa-cruz-symphony-members/
LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251008T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251008T133000
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SUMMARY:María Puig de la Bellacasa - Inheriting the Burdens of Human–Soil Belonging
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness: earth ecologies x technoscience \n\nThis 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 of soil belonging amid the rise of white supremacist autochthonism. When nostalgic pasts and anticipated futures lose their appeal\, learning from soils becomes a way of surfacing time—bringing up temporalities that resist linearity. Soil-centered worlds reorient attention toward the mixed\, impure\, and generative potentialities of more-than-human belonging. \nMaría Puig de la Bellacasa works at the intersection of environmental humanities\, socio-cultural studies of science\, and feminist theory. Her book Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More-than-Human Worlds (University of Minnesota Press\, 2017) brings feminist materialist care theory into conversation with debates on more-than-human ontologies and ecological practices. She is also co-editor of Ecological Reparation (Bristol University Press\, 2023) and Reactivating Elements (Duke University Press\, 2022). Her talk draws from a manuscript in progress\, tentatively titled When the Word for World is Soil\, which explores shifting human-soil relations across science\, ecological movements\, and aesthetics in visual art and public culture.\n \n  \n\n \nFall 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Fall 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/maria-puig-de-la-bellacasa-inheriting-the-burdens-of-human-soil-belonging/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251008T183000
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SUMMARY:Talking Tales of the Undead
DESCRIPTION:Get ready for the season with vampires\, ghouls and zombies! \n\n\n\nJoin 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. \n\nThe Center for Monster Studies at UC Santa Cruz aims to explore the role of monsters in culture and humanities. Monsters play a role in the representation of some of the most challenging problems facing our world: matters of race and religion\, social justice\, and environmental threats.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/talking-tales-of-the-undead/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Public Library – Downtown Branch\, 224 Church Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251009
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251011
DTSTAMP:20260426T235421
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SUMMARY:Sociality\, Science\, and Surveillance: Plantations in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION: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. \nSouth Asia has had a long\, complicated history with plantations. The indentured world that it engineered took every form of life under its control. With its intact economic\, scientific\, social\, cultural aspects\, the plantation complex survived into the post-colonial period in South Asia and among its historically displaced communities worldwide. UC Santa Cruz’s Dolly Kikon and Sanjay Barbora and Santa Clara University’s Mythri Jegathesan will convene a lively discussion on the sociality\, science\, and surveillance that structure the plantation worlds of 21st-century South Asia. \nThe workshop will take place from 9am-4:00pm on Thursday\, October 9\, with a dinner and reception to follow\, and it will reconvene on Friday\, October 10\, from 9:30am-5:30pm. \nFor the full Conference Program and more information\, please visit: https://csas.ucsc.edu/2025-26-events/ \nPhoto credit: Dolly Kikon; Rani\, Assam; 2023
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sociality-science-and-surveillance-plantations-in-the-21st-century/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251011T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251011T121500
DTSTAMP:20260426T235421
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - The Tragedy of King Richard II
DESCRIPTION: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 speaker followed by volunteer read aloud of the play. This event series is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop. \nFor more information\, Zoom Link\, or to volunteer to be a reader\, contact: saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com \nGuest Speakers / Film Presentation \n\nOct 4: Sean Keilen: Professor of Literature\, UC Santa Cruz; founding Director of Shakespeare Workshop. Serves as dramaturg at Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Readings: Act I\, Scenes 1-4\nOct 11: Katie O’Hare: UCSC Graduate Dissertation on Shakespeare’s Henriad\, which includes Richard II. She will begin teaching at UCLA in Fall 2025. Readings: Act II\, Scene 1-4\, Act III\, Scene 1\nOct 18: Jessica Kubzansky: Artistic Director of Boston Court Pasadena\, author ‘R2’\, a re-envisioning of ‘Richard II’\, performed by SC Shakespeare in 2021. Readings: Act III\, Scenes 2-3\, Act IV Scene 1 to line 162\nOct 25: Paul Whitworth: Professor Emeritus Theater Arts\, UCSC. Began his career as an actor at the Royal Shakespeare Company 1976. Served as Artistic Director for Shakespeare Santa Cruz\, 1996-2007. Readings: Act IV\, Scene 1 line 163 to Act V\, Scenes 1-8\nNov 1: Film Screening: Richard II: The Hollow Crown directed by Rupert Goold with Ben Whishaw\, Rory Kinnear\, David Suchet\, Patrick Stewart\, 2012\, 148 minutes.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-the-tragedy-of-king-richard-ii-2/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251013T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251013T163000
DTSTAMP:20260426T235421
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SUMMARY:Orientation to Community Archiving
DESCRIPTION:Learn about the importance of preserving and documenting the history and culture of our community through archiving. \nWe 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 assumptions about the role of professionals in mediating and sharing history. \n\n\nRebecca Hernandez is currently the inaugural Community Archivist at the UC Santa Cruz University Library\, where she collaborates with community members to preserve the rich history and cultural heritage of Santa Cruz County. Her academic background includes a PhD in American Studies\, MA in American Indian Studies\, and an MFA in Design. \n \nA virtual option is available. Space is limited. \nMore information available here. \nThis event is presented by the The Humanities Division Employing Humanities Program and UC Santa Cruz Special Collections & Archives.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/orientation-to-community-archiving/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251013T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251013T200000
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SUMMARY:Slugs and Steins with Professor Kimberly Lau - Race and the European Fairy Tale: The Making of a White Genre
DESCRIPTION: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 that culturally specific\, historical ideas about race\, racial thinking\, and racism have contributed to the development of the European fairy tale as a genre as well as to the creation of the fairy tale’s enduringly white world. \n\nKimberly J. Lau is Professor of Literature and Provost of College Nine and John R. Lewis College. She is the author of Specters of the Marvelous: Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale (2025); Erotic Infidelities: Love and Enchantment in Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber” (2015)\, Body Language: Sisters in Shape\, Black Women’s Fitness\, and Feminist Identity Politics (2011)\, and New Age Capitalism: Making Money East of Eden (2000)\, as well as articles in a number of interdisciplinary journals. Her research interests include fairy tales\, folklore\, and fantasy; feminist theory and critical race studies; the intersection of popular and political cultures and monster studies. \nSlugs and Steins are free informal lectures served up over Zoom. Brought to you by the UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association\, each talk will engage one of our favorite professors in discussion with you\, the local community of Silicon Valley\, and beyond. We will cover everything from organic artichokes to endangered zebras\, self-driving cars to Shakespeare. All are welcome. Audience participation is encouraged. \nWatch past Slugs and Steins events here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slugs-and-steins-with-professor-kimberly-lau-race-and-the-european-fairy-tale-the-making-of-a-white-genre/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251014T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251014T200000
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SUMMARY:Malcolm Gladwell—Revenge of the Tipping Point
DESCRIPTION: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 with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena. \n \nThis event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz \n\nWhy is Miami…Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third\, and what does it mean for racial harmony? 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 with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena. \nThrough a series of riveting stories\, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering. He takes us to the streets of Los Angeles to meet the world’s most successful bank robbers\, rediscovers a forgotten television show from the 1970s that changed the world\, visits the site of a historic experiment on a tiny cul-de-sac in northern California\, and offers an alternate history of two of the biggest epidemics of our day: COVID and the opioid crisis. Revenge of the Tipping Point is Gladwell’s most personal book yet. With his characteristic mix of storytelling and social science\, he offers a guide to making sense of the contagions of modern world. It’s time we took tipping points seriously. \nMalcolm Gladwell is the author of eight New York Timesbestsellers: The Tipping Point\, Blink\, Outliers\, What the Dog Saw\, David and Goliath\, Talking to Strangers\, The Bomber Mafiaand Revenge of the Tipping Point. He is also the co-founder of Pushkin Industries\, an audio production company that produces audiobooks like Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon\, as well as podcasts including Revisionist History\, Broken Record\, The Happiness Lab\, Against the Rules\, and Medal of Honor: Stories of Courage. Gladwell has been included in the Time 100 Most Influential People list and was named one of Foreign Policy’s Top Global Thinkers. Previously\, he was a staff writer for The New Yorker. Gladwell was born in England and grew up in rural Ontario. He lives in New York.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/malcolm-gladwell-revenge-of-the-tipping-point/
LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251015
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251019
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SUMMARY:Festival of Monsters
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe main conference will take place on the UC Santa Cruz campus on Oct. 16-17\, with a reception and opening talk Oct. 15 at the Museum of Art and History and a day of public events in downtown Santa Cruz on Oct. 18. \nThe registration fee includes a welcome reception the evening of Oct. 15\, breakfast and lunch on Oct. 16 and 17\, a closing Monsters Ball on the evening of Oct. 17\, and all conference events. All conference presenters and attendees should register for the conference by Monday\, Sept. 15\, 2025. \nThe conference costs $275 for tenure track faculty and $225 for graduate students\, contingent faculty and independent scholars. Current UC Santa Cruz students\, staff and faculty may attend the conference for free. The free registration DOES NOT include food. \n \nPlease visit: https://www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/2025fest for registration and logistical information \nSponsors for the 2025 Festival of Monsters include Porter College; The Arts Research Institute; The Humanities Institute; the Sigfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment; the UC Santa Cruz Department of Literature; the UC Santa Cruz Department of Performance\, Play and Design; Bookshop Santa Cruz; Atlantis Fantasyworld; Game Santa Cruz; and James Gunderson.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/festival-of-monsters-4/
LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251015T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251015T133000
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SUMMARY:Navyug Gill - Labor History and the Accumulation of Difference in Colonial Panjab
DESCRIPTION: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 officials and ascendant Panjabis together disrupted existing forms of identity and activity to generate a new kind of hierarchy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through an interrogation of a disparate archive – settlement reports and legal judgments to labor contracts\, vernacular poetry and family budgets – I challenge the givenness of the peasant by explicating the ideological and material divisions that transformed the equation of rural power\, and thus reconfigured global capitalism. Weaving together economic logic with cultural difference\, this presentation offers a way to re-think comparative political economy alongside alternative possibilities for emancipatory futures. \n \nNavyug Gill is a historian of modern South Asia and global history. He is Associate Professor in the Department of History\, Philosophy and Liberal Studies at William Paterson University. His research explores questions of agrarian change\, labor politics\, caste hierarchy\, postcolonial critique and histories of capitalism. His first book\, Labors of Division: Global Capitalism and the Emergence of the Peasant in Colonial Panjab\, was published by Stanford University Press in 2024. A South Asia edition was released by Navayana in 2025. The book won the “Henry A. Wallace Award” for the best book on agricultural history outside the US from the AgriculturalHistory Society. Gill’s scholarly and public writings have appeared in venues such as Past and Present\, the Journal of Asian Studies\, Economic and Political Weekly\, Al Jazeera\, the Law and Political Economy Project and Trolley Times. \n  \n\n \nFall 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Fall 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/navyug-gill-labor-history-and-the-accumulation-of-difference-in-colonial-panjab/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Archives 101 for Graduate Students
DESCRIPTION: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. \n \nCurious undergrads are welcome\, too! Space is limited. \n \n\nThis event is presented by the Center for Archival Research & Training (CART) in Special Collections & Archives and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the 10th year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/archives-101-for-graduate-students/
LOCATION:McHenry Library (3rd Floor)\, Special Collections
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Cindy Juyoung Ok
DESCRIPTION:Wonder as the Source \nCindy 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 reviewer for Harriet Books in 2022-2023. Ok\, formerly a high school physics teacher\, now works as an assistant English professor. You can find Ok’s published work in The Nation\, The Yale Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, and elsewhere. \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Humanities Institute\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, and the Bay Tree Bookstore.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-cindy-juyuong-ok/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251016T200000
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SUMMARY:John Freeman - California Rewritten
DESCRIPTION: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. \n“In Freeman’s hands\, California is a literary mecca\, and each essay a revelation.” —Ingrid Rojas Contreras\, author of The Man Who Could Move Clouds \n \nYour RSVP helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. Thank you for registering! \nDive into the revelatory worlds of California’s most exciting writers\, and discover how their books uncover our history and can help us imagine our shared future. Percival Everett\, Rebecca Solnit\, Tommy Orange\, Michael Connelly\, Julie Otsuka: As John Freeman writes in California Rewritten\, “Literature of so many kinds and so many genres from so many different types of people—at the highest level—has been coming out of California and from Californians for decades now.” Freeman\, one of the sharpest editors working today\, has followed the evolution of California’s literary life since his teenage years in Sacramento. In over fifty essays inspired by his hosting of Alta Journal’s popular California Book Club\, he offers an essential road map to California literature now. He shows us how the state’s most exciting writers can unlock our understanding of the past\, and how they can deepen our imaginations as we confront the most pressing issues that face our society: labor and inequality\, migration and citizenship\, technology and its limits\, changing landscapes and climate catastrophe. Incisive and compulsively readable\, California Rewritten will be a source of empowering discovery for any book lover who cares about the Golden State. \nJohn Freeman has hosted Alta’s California Book Club since its founding in 2020. He is an executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf\, and he edited Freeman’s (2015-2023)\, a literary annual of new writing. His books include How to Read a Novelist and Dictionary of the Undoing\, as well as the anthologies Tales of Two Americas\, Tales of Two Planets\, The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story\, and Sacramento Noir. He is also the author of three poetry collections\, Maps\, The Park\, and Wind\, Trees. His work is translated into more than twenty languages\, and has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, and The New York Times. The former editor of Granta\, he lives in New York. \nKaren Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books (including I Hotel\, finalist for the National Book Award\, and most recently Sansei and Sensibility)\, all published by Coffee House Press. Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation\, the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature\, and a United States Artists’ Ford Foundation Fellowship\, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-freeman-california-rewritten/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251018T121500
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - The Tragedy of King Richard II
DESCRIPTION: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 speaker followed by volunteer read aloud of the play. This event series is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop. \nFor more information\, Zoom Link\, or to volunteer to be a reader\, contact: saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com \nGuest Speakers / Film Presentation \n\nOct 4: Sean Keilen: Professor of Literature\, UC Santa Cruz; founding Director of Shakespeare Workshop. Serves as dramaturg at Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Readings: Act I\, Scenes 1-4\nOct 11: Katie O’Hare: UCSC Graduate Dissertation on Shakespeare’s Henriad\, which includes Richard II. She will begin teaching at UCLA in Fall 2025. Readings: Act II\, Scene 1-4\, Act III\, Scene 1\nOct 18: Jessica Kubzansky: Artistic Director of Boston Court Pasadena\, author ‘R2’\, a re-envisioning of ‘Richard II’\, performed by SC Shakespeare in 2021. Readings: Act III\, Scenes 2-3\, Act IV Scene 1 to line 162\nOct 25: Paul Whitworth: Professor Emeritus Theater Arts\, UCSC. Began his career as an actor at the Royal Shakespeare Company 1976. Served as Artistic Director for Shakespeare Santa Cruz\, 1996-2007. Readings: Act IV\, Scene 1 line 163 to Act V\, Scenes 1-8\nNov 1: Film Screening: Richard II: The Hollow Crown directed by Rupert Goold with Ben Whishaw\, Rory Kinnear\, David Suchet\, Patrick Stewart\, 2012\, 148 minutes.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-the-tragedy-of-king-richard-ii-4/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251020T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251020T130000
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SUMMARY:The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads with Kevin Anderson
DESCRIPTION: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 boundaries of Western modernity fundamentally alters our understanding of capitalism\, empire\, historical development\, and revolutionary possibilities\, past and present. \n \nKevin Anderson is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He is the author of numerous books and articles\, including The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads; Marx at the Margins; Foucault and the Iranian Revolution (with Janet Afary); and Lenin\, Hegel\, and Western Marxism. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-late-marxs-revolutionary-roads-with-kevin-anderson/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251022T133000
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Mogannam - Palestinian-Lebanese Revolution-Making in Civil War Lebanon
DESCRIPTION: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 in Lebanon. By situating these histories together\, this talk will reframe the notion of “civil war” in Lebanon and dissect the concept of revolution for a free Palestine. \n \nJennifer Mogannam is an Assistant Professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at UCSC and affiliate faculty with the Center for the Middle East & North Africa. Her research centers Palestinian and Arab movements of the 20th and 21st century. She also intervenes in the question of refugees\, colonialism and imperialism\, Palestinian feminism\, violence\, and third world solidarities. \n  \n\n \nFall 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Fall 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jennifer-mogannam-palestinian-lebanese-revolution-making-in-civil-war-lebanon/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Zine-Making Workshop with Christie George
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for this year’s first anthropology colloquium/Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice event! \n \nThis event is in-person and virtual. Register for virtual participation here. \nChristie 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 distributor with Women Make Movies and later as the President of New Media Ventures for a decade. In her creative practice\, she is interested in collaborative art\, especially work that explores and expands the idea of collective authorship. Christie recently released “The Emergency Was Curiosity\,” a book report\, exhibition and event series about cultivating individual and collective creative attention. She has a BA from Yale University and an MBA with distinction from the University of Oxford where she was a Skoll Scholar and was awarded the Said Prize. Christie is a proud board member of the Indivisible Project. \n\nSponsored by the UCOP-sponsored MRPI in Disability Justice and Abolition Medicine\, The Humanities Institute\, and the Department of Anthropology
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/zine-making-workshop-with-christie-george/
LOCATION:Social Sciences 1\, Room 261\,  Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mary Roach - Replaceable You
DESCRIPTION: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 prosthetic than their existing limb? Can a donated heart be made to beat forever? Can an intestine provide a workable substitute for a vagina? \n \nThe body is the most complex machine in the world\, and the only one for which you cannot get a replacement part from the manufacturer. For centuries\, medicine has reached for what’s available–sculpting noses from brass\, borrowing skin from frogs and hearts from pigs\, crafting eye parts from jet canopies and breasts from petroleum by-products. Today we’re attempting to grow body parts from scratch using stem cells and 3D printers. How are we doing? Are we there yet? Irrepressible and accessible\, Replaceable You immerses readers in the wondrous\, improbable\, and surreal quest to build a new you. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nMary Roach is the author of seven best-selling works of nonfiction\, including Grunt\, Stiff\, and\, most recently\, Fuzz. Her writing has appeared in National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine\, among other publications. She lives in California.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mary-roach-replaceable-you/
LOCATION:London Nelson Community Center\, 301 Center St.\, Santa Cruz\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251024T150000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium with Elsi Kaiser
DESCRIPTION: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”. \nTransitive 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 highly dispreferred in Finnish. To further our understanding of the notion of ‘prominence\,’ I report a series of psycholinguistic studies and corpus analyses on two-pronoun sequences in English and Finnish. My recent work with Jina Song on English two-pronoun sequences shows that pronoun interpretation depends on referential structure in ways that cannot be reduced to Binding Theory: Interpretation of a subject pronoun depends on whether the clause contains a second pronoun. In other words\, two-pronoun sequences exhibit distinct patterns\, which we show are not reducible to semantic or syntactic parallelism. Furthermore\, in striking contrast to English\, I propose that Finnish is subject to a Pronoun Dissimilation Constraint: When two expressions in the same local domain are referentially distinct\, realizing both as personal pronouns is dispreferred (and crucially\, replacing one with an anaphoric demonstrative yields an acceptable sentence). I present evidence showing that the Pronoun Dissimilation Constraint cannot be reduced to a pure disambiguation phenomenon\, nor to linear proximity\, phonological similarity\, or the presence of another option in the language’s anaphoric paradigm. I explore this phenomenon from a typological perspective in relation to other dissimilation phenomena\, as well as obviation phenomena in languages with obviative-proximate systems. Time permitting\, I will also present new data from English exploring the notion of prominence in transitive clauses from the perspective of spatial orientation effects\, using a drawing task. \n \nThis event is in-person with an option to join virtually available. \nElsi Kaiser is a professor at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Southern California. She received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Elsi Kaiser’s primary research focus is in language processing and psycholinguistics. She investigates the processes and representations involved in comprehension and production\, especially in domains that involve multiple aspects of linguistic representation (syntax\, semantics\, pragmatics)\, such as reference resolution.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguists-colloquium-with-elsi-kaiser/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251025T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251025T121500
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - The Tragedy of King Richard II
DESCRIPTION: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 speaker followed by volunteer read aloud of the play. This event series is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop. \nFor more information\, Zoom Link\, or to volunteer to be a reader\, contact: saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com \nGuest Speakers / Film Presentation \n\nOct 4: Sean Keilen: Professor of Literature\, UC Santa Cruz; founding Director of Shakespeare Workshop. Serves as dramaturg at Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Readings: Act I\, Scenes 1-4\nOct 11: Katie O’Hare: UCSC Graduate Dissertation on Shakespeare’s Henriad\, which includes Richard II. She will begin teaching at UCLA in Fall 2025. Readings: Act II\, Scene 1-4\, Act III\, Scene 1\nOct 18: Jessica Kubzansky: Artistic Director of Boston Court Pasadena\, author ‘R2’\, a re-envisioning of ‘Richard II’\, performed by SC Shakespeare in 2021. Readings: Act III\, Scenes 2-3\, Act IV Scene 1 to line 162\nOct 25: Paul Whitworth: Professor Emeritus Theater Arts\, UCSC. Began his career as an actor at the Royal Shakespeare Company 1976. Served as Artistic Director for Shakespeare Santa Cruz\, 1996-2007. Readings: Act IV\, Scene 1 line 163 to Act V\, Scenes 1-8\nNov 1: Film Screening: Richard II: The Hollow Crown directed by Rupert Goold with Ben Whishaw\, Rory Kinnear\, David Suchet\, Patrick Stewart\, 2012\, 148 minutes.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-the-tragedy-of-king-richard-ii-3/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Día de los Muertos Celebration
DESCRIPTION: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.\nEnjoy 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. \nPerformances all day! \nThis event is presented by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History in collaboration with Senderos\, and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. For more details\, please visit the event page on the MAH’s website here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dia-de-los-muertos-celebration/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251027T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251027T200000
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SUMMARY:Julian Brave NoiseCat - We Survived the Night
DESCRIPTION: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 work from an important new voice. \nThis event is cosponsored by the American Indian Resource Center and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. It will take place at the London Nelson Community Center. A student reception will be held at 6:30pm. The first 30 registered student attendees will receive free entry and a copy of We Survived the Night. All other attendees may purchase tickets using the button below. \n \n“Written in gorgeous\, sparse prose\, We Survived the Night reads like a novel. Told with a blistering honesty\, the truth and grit create a beautifully woven coyote story we haven’t heard before. This is a love letter to Oakland\, to the Canim Lake Band Tsq’secen of the Secwepemc Nation\, to a father from his son\, to the act of being a Native person in the twenty first century finding ways to love even through all that wounds have opened and wrought. With this\, Julian Brave NoiseCat has written a book I’ve been waiting my whole life to read.” —Tommy Orange \nA stunning narrative from one of the most powerful young writers at work today—We Survived the Night (Knopf) interweaves oral history with hard-hitting journalism and a deeply personal father-son journey into a searing portrait of Indigenous survival\, love\, and resurgence. \nJulian Brave NoiseCat’s childhood was rich with culture and contradictions. When his Secwépemc and St’at’imc father\, an artist haunted by a turbulent past\, abandoned the family\, he and his non-Native mother were embraced by the urban Native community in Oakland\, California\, as well as by family on the Canim Lake Indian Reserve in British Columbia. In his father’s absence\, NoiseCat immersed himself in Native history and culture to understand the man he seldom saw—his past\, his story\, where he came from—and\, by extension\, himself. \nYears later\, NoiseCat sets out across the continent to correct the erasure\, invisibility\, and misconceptions surrounding the First Peoples of this land\, as he develops his voice as a storyteller and artist in his own right. \nJulian Brave NoiseCat is a writer\, Oscar-nominated filmmaker\, champion powwow dancer\, and student of Salish art and history. His writing has appeared in dozens of publications\, including The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and The New Yorker. NoiseCat has been recognized with numerous awards including the 2022 American Mosaic Journalism Prize and many National Native Media Awards. He was a finalist for the Livingston Award and multiple Canadian National Magazine Awards\, and was named to the TIME100 Next list in 2021. His first documentary\, Sugarcane\, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. Directed alongside Emily Kassie\, Sugarcane premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival\, where NoiseCat and Kassie won the Directing Award in U.S. Documentary. NoiseCat is a proud member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq̓éscen̓ and descendant of the Líl̓wat Nation of Mount Currie. We Survived the Night is his first book.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/julian-brave-noisecat-we-survived-the-night/
LOCATION:London Nelson Community Center\, 301 Center St.\, Santa Cruz\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251028T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251028T113000
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SUMMARY:On the Field\, Making Archives - Music and Talks with Upatyaka Dutta
DESCRIPTION: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 conducted across Assam’s tea estates and her experiences as a singer from the region\, she listens to the voices of Adivasi women pluckers—their songs\, conversations\, and laughter; Adivasi and non-Adivasi interactions; and the broader soundscape in which they work. \nUpatyaka Dutta is a doctoral candidate in Ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto and a 2024 recipient of the Society for Ethnomusicology’s 21st-Century Fellowship. Her broader research interests include sounds studies and community and collaborative archival practices. \n  \n\nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Music Department\, The Kamil and Talat Hasan Endowed Chair for Classical Indian Music\, and the Ali Akbar Khan Endowment for Classical Indian Music
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/on-the-field-making-archives-music-and-talks-with-upatyaka-dutta/
LOCATION:Music Center Room 131\, 1156 HIGH STREET\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:± AI Initiative Meeting
DESCRIPTION: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 on new technologies. \nThis brown bag lunch is open to current UCSC faculty and staff across campus involved in humanistic research\, teaching\, and administration who are interested in the development\, uses\, and impacts of artificial intelligence. \nPlease make sure to RSVP here:
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ai-initiative-meeting/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251029T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251029T133000
DTSTAMP:20260426T235421
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SUMMARY:Reading the Conjuncture with Dimitris Papadopoulos\, Jim Clifford\, Camilla Hawthorne\, Gail Hershatter\, Laurie Palmer\, and Vanita Seth
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness: earth ecologies x technoscience \nWhat a vital occasion it would be to receive intellectual gifts that enable us to better grasp our current socio-ecological moment\, especially as many of us feel short of interpretations. We are inspired by Stuart Hall’s conjunctural thinking\, as we face a situation where intensive and condensed contradictions unfold—not from a single primary cause\, but through intricate political and ecological\, economic and cultural\, social and geological articulations and re-articulations that shape the specificity of our present and reorder the coordinates of crisis and opportunity. This panel\, along with the discussion that will follow\, aims to be a moment of gift-giving—leaving behind conceptual\, narratological\, or visual gifts for those who seek to understand a present that is elusive and deeply troubling. \nJim Clifford\, Professor Emeritus in History of Consciousness and founding director of the Center for Cultural Studies\, is best known for his historical and literary critiques of anthropological representation\, travel writing\, and museum practices. His last book\, Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the 21st Century (2013)\, is the third in a trilogy which also includes The Predicament of Culture (1988) and Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late 20th Century (1997). Jim is currently investigating the colonial legacies and future possibilities of ethnological museums in the former First World. \nCamilla Hawthorne is a critical human geographer and associate professor of sociology and critical race and ethnic studies at UC Santa Cruz who studies migration\, citizenship\, racial capitalism\, and the insurgent abolition geographies of the Black Mediterranean. She is the author of Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean (2022)\, translated into Italian as Razza e cittadinanza. Frontiere contese e contestate nel Mediterraneo nero (2023)\, and co-editor of The Black Mediterranean: Bodies\, Borders\, and Citizenship (2021)\, The Black Geographic: Praxis\, Resistance\, Futurity (2023)\, and Heartbreak and Other Geographies: Collected Works of Katherine McKittrick (forthcoming 2026). She also serves as program director of the Black Europe Summer School\, an intensive course on citizenship\, race\, and the Black diaspora in Europe that is held for two weeks each summer in Amsterdam\, the Netherlands. \nGail Hershatter is Research Professor and Distinguished Professor Emer. of History at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and a former President of the Association for Asian Studies. Her books include The Workers of Tianjin (1986\, Chinese translation 2016)\, Personal Voices: China Women in the 1980s (1988\, with Emily Honig)\, Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution in Twentieth-Century Shanghai (1997\, Chinese translation 2003)\, Women in China’s Long Twentieth Century (2004)\, The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past (2011; Chinese translation 2017) and Women and China’s Revolutions (2019).  She is at work on a book provisionally entitled “Travels on the Revolution’s Edge.” \nA. Laurie Palmer is an artist\, writer\, and teacher whose research-based work focuses on undoing and re-crafting human practices of relating with the material world towards building just\, livable\, and joyful social and environmental relations. Palmer just retired after 10 years in the Art Department at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she helped her colleagues build the Environmental Art and Social Practice MFA program. \nDimitris Papadopoulos is a transdisciplinary scholar working at the intersections of science and technology studies\, the environmental humanities\, and cultural and visual studies. He is Professor of History of Consciousness in the History of Consciousness Department\, University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nVanita Seth is an associate professor in the Politics Department. \n  \n\n \nFall 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Fall 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/reading-the-conjuncture-with-dimitris-papadopoulos-jim-clifford-camilla-hawthorne-gail-hershatter-laurie-palmer-and-vanita-seth/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251029T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251029T183000
DTSTAMP:20260426T235421
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SUMMARY:Humanities Grad School 101
DESCRIPTION: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\, Linguistics\, Literature\, and Philosophy. We’ll discuss important considerations for deciding to pursue graduate school and what to look for in an academic program and advisor. You’ll leave knowing how to decide whether grad school is right for you and what you can do now to prepare. \n \nThis is a hybrid event and will be hosted both in-person and on Zoom. \nDinner will be provided for those joining in person. \n\nThis event is presented by the Humanities Division Employing Humanities initiative.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-grad-school-101/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251030T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251030T133000
DTSTAMP:20260426T235421
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SUMMARY:When Human-Centered AI Encountered Digital Humanities: A Dialogue between Magy Seif El-Nasr and Minghui Hu
DESCRIPTION: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 the cultural\, religious\, and intellectual history of China through computational and interpretive lenses. \nTogether\, they will explore shared concerns—from narrative design and agency to ethical modeling and epistemological boundaries—charting new possibilities at the intersection of technology and the humanities. This conversation is not only a meeting of disciplines\, but a reimagining of the collaborative future of AI and humanistic inquiry. \nThis event is sponsored by the Leading the Change Collaboration Series at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/when-human-centered-ai-encountered-digital-humanities-a-dialogue-between-magy-seif-el-nasr-and-minghui-hu/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251030T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251030T185500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Aracelis Girmay
DESCRIPTION:Wonder as the Source \nAracelis 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 the poetry collections the black maria (2016)\, Kingdom Animalia (2011)\, and Teeth (2007). She was named a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. In 2011 Girmay was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and in 2015 she received a Whiting Award for Poetry. A Cave Canem Fellow and an Acentos board member\, she led youth and community writing workshops. Girmay is the Knight Family Professor of Creative Writing at Stanford University. \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Humanities Institute\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, and the Bay Tree Bookstore.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-aracelis-girmay/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251030T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251030T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T235421
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Alice Waters
DESCRIPTION: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\, “A blueprint for the ways in which we should feed our kids organic foods\, both at home and at school.” (Epicurious) \nIn this wonderful\, multigenerational cookbook for adults and children alike\, Waters champions an empowered relationship between students and organic food\, offering delicious recipes that will nourish future generations—and ourselves—from the inside out. \n \nAll tickets include a donation to the Edible Schoolyard Project and Life Lab. \nAlice Waters is a chef and the founder/owner of Chez Panisse in Berkeley\, California. She has won numerous awards\, including the National Humanities Medal\, the French Legion of Honor Medal\, the Cavaliere of the Italian Republic\, the Julia Child Award\, and three James Beard Awards. As vice president of Slow Food International and founder of the Edible Schoolyard Project\, she has helped bring food awareness to people of all ages all over the world. \nMore information at Bookshop Santa Cruz – An Evening with Alice Waters
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/an-evening-with-alice-waters/
LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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