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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 […] |
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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 […]
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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 […] |
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […] |
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 On November 5, 2025, UC Santa Cruz will celebrate the 10th anniversary of Giving Day, our signature 24-hour fundraising event that unites Slugs around the world in support of student success, research, and community programs. Over the past decade, thousands of donors have raised millions to provide scholarships, fuel groundbreaking research, strengthen basic needs programs, […]
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What can criticism offer us in a world of unruly generative images and synthetic media? What precise language might we use for machine learning's impact, or the wake of an algorithm? How must our practices of discernment and the critical impulse evolve in response to computational developments, to perhaps be more resilient and responsive? This […] Please join us for a talk with Nour Joudah at the second annual Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement series! The Palestinian experience, like that of many indigenous peoples, is one unbound by time; it occupies a simultaneity of temporalities in any given moment and is constantly finding ways to escape the […]
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Farmers and gardeners have long appreciated a wide variety of plants and have nurtured them for meals, healing, and exchange. But diversity too often has been surrendered to monocultures of fields and spirits, predisposing much of modern agriculture to uniformity and, consequently, vulnerability. Today it is primarily at the individual level—such as growing and saving […] |
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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 […] Wondering what you can do with your Arts or Humanities degree? Hear from a real professional on our campus with a background in both. Rebecca Hernandez is the inaugural Community Archivist at the UCSC University Library. In this job talk, she will tell us about her educational journey as a first-generation transfer student and share […]
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Wonder as the Source Ariel Gore is an author, editor, and teacher. She makes books, zines, coloring books, and tarot cards. She is the founding editor & publisher of the Alternative Press Award-winning magazine Hip Mama and the author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction. Her latest, Hexing the Patriarchy, is out from from Seal Press. […] |
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Join award-winning author and editor Ariel Gore for a conversation and mini-workshop on translating your research for non-academic genres including personal essays, fiction, memoir/autofiction, and journalism. What does your reader need to know? How do you find a balance between your own voice and the words of others? What do you do about things like […] |
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What does it look like when our creative process is driven by disability and community? How does the work develop, change, and differ from the already-established ways of making? In this talk, Jay Afrisando will share his recent and upcoming works focusing on how disability and community of diverse bodies drive the ways such works […]
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 Interested in faculty funding opportunities from the UC Humanities Research Institute and want to know more about the advisory committee selection process? Join UCHRI Director Jaimey Fisher and Research Grants Program Director Sara Černe for a grants presentation and Q&A. This year UCHRI is offering up to $25,000 grants for collaborative research projects, support for projects connected […] |
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Interested in an impact-driven career in law, public policy, or politics? Come hear from UCSC Humanities alum Kim Angulo, an Assistant Public Defender with experience in both law and public policy work. You’ll gain insights into how to enter these fields, considerations for knowing whether they’re a good fit for you, and ideas for how […]
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Wonder as the Source Issa Quincy is a British writer. He spent spent several years working as a film archivist. His poetry has appeared in The London Magazine and been anthologized by New Rivers Press. His fiction has appeared in Transition Magazine and The Kenyon Review. Quincy's debut novel, Absence, is a haunting atmospheric exploration […]
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 Film Screening and Panel Discussion: 5:30-7pm, Studio C Reception: Communications 139, 7-8pm Surfing is a sport dear to Santa Cruzians, as the city has branded itself the “Original Surf City USA” for over two decades. Despite the awe-inspiring image of individuals “rid pulses of energy moving through the ocean,” the sport is also embedded in […] |
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 Are you an Indigenous leader or a public educator committed to fostering meaningful partnerships and enriching Indigenous education? Join Cabrillo College for a free transformative one-day workshop designed to cultivate understanding, share best practices, and forge lasting alliances. “Building Alliances in Indigenous Education” offers a unique opportunity for dialogue and collaboration, empowering participants to enhance […]
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 Following the success of its 2023 debut, Broadsides No. 2 returns this fall to MK Contemporary Art Gallery with a compelling exploration of the dynamic relationship between poetry and visual art. The exhibition pairs nine nationally recognized poets with nine distinguished visual artists, presenting collaborative works that reveal the unexpected resonances between image and language. […] |
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 This event has been postponed. An updated date will be announced in the coming weeks. The History of Consciousness department invites you to the next talk in their Fall 2025 Research Colloquium series. Stephen David Engel will read from an experimental history called “Timescape of Rings.” In it, he meditates on a 2,200-year-old redwood round […] |
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Scholars are frequently called upon to share their expertise with a diverse range of publics outside academia—and this kind of engagement often begins with the publication of a book with a “trade press” (i.e., a commercial, non-university/academic publisher, with a powerful marketing and publicity apparatus). Not all academics want to do this kind of work. […]  Due to the planned strike activities on campus, this event has been cancelled. Following the wars in Vietnam, over two million people fled to country with the collapse of the Republic of Vietnam. That exodus, referred to by many as “the boat people” resulted in nearly half dying while in flight, battling the elements, starvation, […]
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To accomodate the planned strike action at UC Santa Cruz on November 18th, this event will take place at the base of campus near the intersection of Bay and High Streets. Please join the More-than-Human(ities) Laboratory as we co-host Dr. Lyla June Johnston and her timely talk on indigenous knowledge and agricultural practices. Dr. Lyla […] |
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South American Archaeology is living through a growing push towards a theoretical focus developed from within. Of particular influence is the concept of “coloniality”, an enduring form of colonialism that affects the frameworks of reference the colonized have of themselves. However, coloniality and the emphasis on “subaltern archaeologies” as a generalized category for the production […]  Are you curious about your career options as a humanities student? Wondering how the professionals around you got to where they are? Join this interactive workshop to learn about informational interviewing*, a way you can use your curiosity to explore career possibilities and make meaningful professional connections. You’ll leave ready to reach out, learn from […] |
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 Join us for the 16th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading, featuring honored guest Ellen Bass. Poet Gary Young will host the program, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1,000 prize). Photo by: Irene Young Ellen Bass’s most recent collection, Indigo, was published […] |
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Join the Linguistics Department for Liv Hoversten's talk "Is Language Control in Comprehension Applied Within or External to the Lexicon?" Bilinguals need to continually monitor and select the appropriate language(s) for the current context in order to communicate efficiently. Prominent models of bilingual word recognition posit that this selection process, known as language control, occurs […] |
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At the second community dinner of the year, the afternoon is guided by Aaron Samuel Mulenga and Nkondelina Chileshe, a couple from Zambia—a nation nestled in the heart of southern Africa. They carry with them the spirit of their Bantu ancestors, whose journeys across the continent shaped not only language and culture but also the […] |
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This lecture will provide a history of Red Power radicalization and Indigenous-Marxist cross-fertilization. It examines the political work undertaken by a small but dedicated cadre of Native organizers going by the name Native Alliance for Red Power (or NARP) in Vancouver, British Columbia (BC), from 1967 to the 1975. It argues that their political organizing […] |
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 Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Megha Majumdar (A Burning) who will share her electrifying new novel that has recently been long-listed for the National Book Award and received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Booklist. A Guardian and a Thief, a piercing and propulsive tour de force, is set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change and […] |
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 Carleton Watkins, an iconic photographer of the 19th Century American West, is best known for his images of Yosemite that were used as testimony in the formation of the National Park system. This paper explores his previously understudied photographs of Alcatraz, taken over approximately three decades beginning in 1861. Through close readings of the changing […]
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This talk will first examine the way in which the notion of context plays a central role in the history of the computer science and ubiquitous AI on the one hand, and in that of privacy and data protection on the other and, second, will examine the way in which this notion replays the conception […]
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Join the Seeds of Resurgence Research cluster as they gather to discuss readings related to the Hebron Seed bank, which Israeli forces destroyed in August. Participants will think together about how colonial power targets food sovereignty and what can be done to resist those acts of destruction. This event will be hosted at The Greenhouse […] |
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 The history of hinterland communities is largely written in remote landscapes that today are often targeted for infrastructural development that forcibly relocates existing residents and transforms the land, obliterating those histories, and weakening communities. In 1984/5 the Iban longhouse at Nanga Jela on Sarawak’s Engkari River in Malaysian Borneo, along with twenty-one other communities and […]
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Wonder as the Source 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 each quarter, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the […] |
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