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SUMMARY:Gregory O'Malley - The Escapes of David George
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes prize-winning historian and UC Santa Cruz professor Gregory O’Malley for a discussion about his new book The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery\, Freedom\, and the American Revolution—the dramatic story of a Black man’s relentless search for freedom in Revolutionary America. \nThis book tells the story of David George who in 1762 at the age of 19 escaped from a plantation in Virginia thus becoming a fugitive enslaved person. Using archival records and David’s own brief account of his life\, which is the earliest written testimony by a fugitive enslaved person in North America\, the book tells the story of David George’s relentless search for freedom in Revolutionary-era America and presents a unique perspective on our nation’s origins\, principles\, and contradictions. \nPiecing together archival records and David George’s own brief account of his life—the earliest written testimony by a fugitive enslaved person in North America—Gregory O’Malley presents a thrilling narrative and a unique perspective on our nation’s origins\, principles\, and contradictions. \n \nGregory E O’Malley is professor of history at UC Santa Cruz and the author of The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery\, Freedom\, and the American Revolution. His first book\, Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America\, 1619-1807\, won the Forkosch\, Rawley\, Owsley\, and Elsa Goveia awards. He is a key contributor to the SlaveVoyages.org\, consulted on The 1619 Project\, and lectures widely on the slave trade and related subjects. \n\nCosponsored by The Humanities Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gregory-omalley-the-escapes-of-david-george/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:George Saunders - Vigil
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes George Saunders\, recipient of the 2025 National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters\, for a discussion about his wise\, playful\, electric novel Vigil\, which takes place at the bedside of an oil company CEO in the twilight hours of his life as he is ferried from this world into the next. \n \nNot for the first time\, Jill “Doll” Blaine finds herself hurtling toward earth\, reconstituting as she falls\, right down to her favorite black pumps. She plummets towards her newest charge\, yet another soul she must usher into the afterlife\, and lands headfirst in the circular drive of his ornate mansion. She has performed this sacred duty 343 times since her own death. Her charges\, as a rule\, have been greatly comforted in their final moments. But this charge\, she soon discovers\, isn’t like the others: the powerful K. J. Boone will not be consoled\, because he has nothing to regret. He lived a big\, bold life\, and the world is better for it. Isn’t it? \nVigil transports us\, careening\, through the wild final evening of an epic\, complicated life. Crowds of people and animals—worldly and otherworldly\, alive and dead—arrive\, clamoring for a reckoning. Birds swarm the dying man’s room\, a black calf grazes on the love seat\, a man from a distant\, drought-ravaged village materializes\, two oil-business cronies from decades past show up with chilling plans for Boone’s postdeath future. \nGeorge Saunders is the author of thirteen books\, including the novel Lincoln in the Bardo\, which won the Man Booker Prize\, and five collections of stories\, including Tenth of December\, which was a finalist for the National Book Award\, and the recent collection Liberation Day (selected by former President Obama as one of his ten favorite books of 2022). Three of Saunders’s books—Pastoralia\, Tenth of December\, and Lincoln in the Bardo—were chosen for The New York Times’s list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Saunders hosts the popular Story Club on Substack\, which grew out of his book on the Russian short story\, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain. In 2013\, he was named one of the world’s 100 Most Influential People by Time. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University. \n\nThis event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/george-saunders-vigil/
LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mike McCarthy - A Theory of Late Populism: Popularism
DESCRIPTION:This talk identifies a critical feature of late populism: popularism. Traditional populism operates through articulation: actively constructing “the people” as a political category by linking heterogeneous demands together against an elite or other.  Popularism\, alternatively\, functions through refraction: it seeks maximum resonance with pre-existing popular attitudes and treats “the people” as an already-coherent homogenous group\, simultaneously distorting the ones it claims to embody. While these modes of political practice diverge\, they are two contradictory sides of the same political phenomena. The talk will explain what popularism is; why left and right populisms have increasingly converged on anti-immigrant and culturally conservative positions\, and why popularism commits a fundamental error when it attempts to reflect popular common sense. \nMike McCarthy is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Community Studies here at UC Santa Cruz. At the center of his work is a focus on class and democracy. His first book Dismantling Solidarity: Capitalist Politics and American Pensions since the New Deal was published with Cornell University Press in 2017 and was awarded the Paul Sweezy Book Award as well as an honorable mention for the Labor and Labor Movements Book Award. His most recent book is The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (and a Radical Plan to Rebuild It)\, which was published by Verso Books in 2025. In addition to academic publishing\, his work has been featured in Boston Review\, The Guardian\, Hammer & Hope\, Jacobin\, The New York Times\, The New Left Review\, and The Washington Post. He is currently writing about class and political identity. \n\n \nWinter 2026 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 Winter 2026 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/mike-mccarthy-a-theory-of-late-populism-popularism/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:A History of Families: Bosses\, Bullies\, and Dictators in the Modern Philippines
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) invites you to join them for their winter Slow Seminar\, “A History of Families: Bosses\, Bullies\, and Dictators in the Modern Philippines \nProfessor Steve McKay (Sociology) will facilitate our conversation drawing on a selection of classic and contemporary scholarship on regional politics in the Philippines. With the present Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. presidency and the International Criminal Court case against former president Rodrigo Duterte in mind\, we look forward to a critical discussion of historical and contemporary Southeast Asian politics. \n\nPlease register for the Slow Seminar. Registered guests will receive copies of the selected readings via email. This is a Hybrid event. Participants may join in-person or by Zoom. The Zoom link will be sent out at least 1 hour before the event. \nNew to Slow Seminars? Check out SEACoast’s definition here. \n\nPresented by SEACoast
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-history-of-families-bosses-bullies-and-dictators-in-the-modern-philippines/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:More-Than-Humanities Lab Early Career Scholars Share Session
DESCRIPTION:Please join the More-Than-Human(ities) Lab for our winter “share session.” Two of our early-career lab members will share their current projects and invite your feedback in an informal\, interactive conversation. \nOur presenters will be: \nPietro Autorino: Searching for ‘contemporary agroecology’ beyond Soilutionism: notes from a small on-farm experimental compost station in Italy \n  \n  \nStephanie Lain: Negotiating a Rainforest’s Ransom – A role play game in development.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/more-than-humanities-lab-early-career-scholars-share-session-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers With Carlo Acevedo
DESCRIPTION:Craft Between Worlds \nCarlo Acevedo is a Colombian poet who is the author of Day’s Fortune / Fortuna del día\, a bilingual collection. His work won the 2018 Arcipreste de Hita prize. Born in Barranquilla\, Colombia in 1988\, Acevedo holds a master’s degree in Creative Writing in Spanish from the University of Iowa and is currently a Ph.D. student in the Interdisciplinary Humanities program at the University of California\, Merced. His poems have appeared in numerous national and international anthologies\, and the English translation of Day’s Fortune by Kelsi Vanada won the Sundial Literary Translation Award in 2024. \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-carlo-acevedo/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kara Cooney - When Women Ruled the World
DESCRIPTION:Ancient Studies presents the 2026 Carl Deppe Lecture featuring Kara Cooney\, who will present her lecture “When Women Ruled the World.” \nWho were the women who once ruled the richest and most successful state of the ancient Mediterranean and African Bronze Age? Ancient Egypt’s female kings\, including Hatshepsut and Nefertiti\, ruled against all odds of the patriarchy in which they lived with real\, unadulterated power. Yet many of these female leaders were judged harshly for taking power or erased from the historical record by the men who followed them\, leaving them elusive historical figures surrounded by mystery and myth. In this lecture\, Prof. Kara Cooney\, Egyptologist and author of When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt\, will go beyond the myths and shed light on these powerful female kings and their historical legacy. \n \nKara Cooney is a professor of ancient Egyptian art and architecture and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California\, Los Angeles. Specializing in social history\, gender studies\, and economies of the ancient world\, she received her PhD in Egyptology from Johns Hopkins University. Her books include The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt\, When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt\, and The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World. Her latest books include Recycling for Death: Coffin Reuse in Ancient Egypt and the Theban Royal Caches\, Ancient Egyptian Society: Challenging Assumptions\, Exploring Approaches\, and Coffin Commerce.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-kara-cooney-when-women-ruled-the-world/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Deep Read at Fungus February First Friday
DESCRIPTION:Join the Deep Read at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History (SCMNH) for Fungus February First Friday. We will celebrate the opening of Fungus February at the Museum with a night of science\, art\, and community exploring the vital role of fungi and fungal webs in our world\, the subject of our Deep Read book\, Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds\, Change Our Minds\, and Shape Our Futures. \nCome learn more about Entangled Life and connect with artists\, mycologists\, and community partners steeped in the world of fungi. This event will offer hands-on activities\, refreshments\, and special seasonal items in the Museum Store. Admission is free\, all are welcome\, and an open bar will be available for guests 21+. \nFor more information about First Friday\, see the Museum website.  There will be many other Fungus February events co-sponsored by THI’s Deep Read at the Museum this month.  See the SCMNH event calendar for details.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deep-read-at-fungus-february-first-friday/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - Henry IV\, Part 1
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Henry IV\, Part 1 by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on January 10\, 17\, 24\, 31 & February 7\, 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 a volunteer read aloud of the play. On February 7\, the film The Hollow Crown\, Henry IV Part 1 will be shown. 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\nJan 10: Alexander Brondarbit\, A historian who specializes in kingship in late medieval and early modern England; author of two books on The Wars of the Roses. Readings: Act 1 – Act 2\, Scene 2\nJan 17: Patty Gallagher\, An actor and Professor of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz; Artistic Associate at Santa Cruz Shakespeare and the Rogue Theatre in Tucson\, Arizona. Readings: Act 2\, Scene 3 – Act 3\, Scene 2.\nJan 24: Julia Reinhardt Lupton\, Distinguished Professor of English at UC Irvine\, co-director of the UCI Shakespeare Center. She is the author of six books on Shakespeare. Readings: Act 3\, Scene 3 – Act 4.\nJan 31: Abigail Heald is currently teaching the Henriad (Richard II\, Henry IV\, Parts I and Part II\, and Henry V) at Stanford University. Readings: Act 5.\nFeb 7: Film Screening: The Hollow Crown\, Henry IV Part 1. Jeremy Irons-King Henry/ Tom Hiddleson-Prince Hal/ Simon Russell Beale-Falstaff\, directed by Richard Eyre.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-henry-iv-part-1-5/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Revolution and Restoration: A Conversation with Massimiliano Tomba\, Ariella Patchen\, and Shaun Terry
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department invites you to the next talk in their Winter 2026 Research Colloquium series. \nThis talk examines Tomba’s Revolution and Restoration as an expression of his philosophy of political time. Tomba argues that modernity consists of dynamic and overlapping temporal layers and that revolutionary change occurs when oppressed groups draw on forgotten or suppressed forms within these layers—commons\, councils\, sanctuary—to move beyond prevailing institutions. For Tomba\, every social form is an open totality\, shot through with contradictions and tensions\, and therefore subject to radical change from within. The political horizon of revolutionary practice is\, then\, a form of relative transcendence that activates resources of justice already sedimented in the historical field. Understanding this method as revolutionary stratigraphy illuminates how concepts such as democratic excess and insurgent universality arise from the layered morphology of political life and how the past becomes a source of practical intervention in the present. \n \nThis event is both in-person and virtual. Register above to attend virtually. \nMassimiliano Tomba is Professor in the Department of History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His publications include Marx’s Temporalities (Brill\, 2012; Haymarket\, 2013)\, Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity (Oxford\, 2019; paperback 2021)\, and Revolution and Restoration: The Politics of Anachronism (Fordham\, 2025). \n  \nAriella Patchen is a PhD student in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz. Her work engages primarily with political theology\, affect theory\, archival research\, and histories of the construct of race and ethnicity. \n  \n  \nShaun Terry is a PhD student in History of Consciousness and a communication scholar and political theorist.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/revolution-and-restoration-a-conversation-with-massimiliano-tomba-ariella-patchen-and-shaun-terry/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Islamophobia in a Global Perspective: A Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) for a panel discussion that situates Islamophobia in a global context as a form of discrimination that shapes politics and culture in Europe\, North Africa\, and the United States. While it is largely acknowledged that the concept of Islamophobia refers to the racial discrimination or othering of Muslims\, it has been institutionalized and experienced differently in various national and historical contexts. Instead of seeking a single definition of Islamophobia\, this panel brings together researchers based in France\, the United States\, and Tunisia to grapple with how certain iterations of anti-Muslim sentiment\, such as the Great Replacement Theory\, have circulated across space\, while accounting for the major differences between how Islamophobia operates in Muslim majority or formerly colonized countries and those regions that have historical been colonial powers that relied on orientalist or racist tropes to secure their imperial hegemony. It also looks at specific practices\, from notions of literacy to carceral regimes\, that demonstrate the functioning of Islamophobia as a form of racial governance. \nProgram: \n2pm – 3:15 pm: Textual Transmission and Categories of Analysis \nPresenters: \nAdrien Thibault (IRMC)\, “An Alien Concept? Uses and Circulation of “Islamophobia” in Social Scientific Journals on the Maghreb” \nArshad Ali (UCSC)\, “Reading Islam Otherwise: Islamophobia\, The Afterlives of Literacy\, Anti-Blackness\, and Muslim Ways of Knowing” \nDiscussant: Thomas Serres (UCSC) \n3:30 – 5pm: Islamophobia in France: Discourses and Practices \nPresenters: \nIman El Feki (University of Strasbourg)\, “Anti-Radicalization Politics in French Prisons: A Case Study of Racialized Institutional Islamophobia” \nDorian Bell (UCSC)\, “Of Nations and Nomads: Antisemitism\, Islamophobia\, and the Great Replacement Theory” \nDiscussant: Huzaifa Shahbaz (UCSC) \n\nParticipants: \nAdrien Thibault  \n“An Alien Concept? Uses and Circulation of the Concept of Islamophobia in Social Science Journals on the Maghreb” \nIn order to contribute to the history of the international circulation of the concept of Islamophobia\, this paper presents an exhaustive review and qualitative analysis of occurrences of the term (in French\, English\, and Arabic) in six leading social science journals specializing in the Maghreb: two French journals (L’Année du Maghreb\, since 2004\, and Maghreb-Machrek\, since 2008)\, two Anglo-American journals (The Journal of North African Studies\, since 1996\, and The Maghreb Review\, since 2009)\, and two Maghrebi journals (IBLA\, Tunisia\, since 2000\, and Insaniyat\, Algeria\, since 1997). This review not only documents the relative scarcity of contemporary uses of the concept in relation to the Maghreb\, but also situates it geographically and socially by systematically relating the diversity of its uses to the national and academic positions\, as well as the social and migratory trajectories\, of the authors who mobilize it. \nDr. Adrien Thibault is a French sociologist and political scientist serving as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain (IRMC) in Tunis. Dr. Thibault’s research focuses on migration\, mobilities\, and social stratification. He explores questions of circulation\, borders\, and marginality\, conducting sociological analyses of how individuals navigate institutional categories and social hierarchies. \n  \n\nArshad Ali  \n“Reading Islam Otherwise: Islamophobia\, The Afterlives of Literacy\, Anti-Blackness\, and Muslim Ways of Knowing” \nThis paper examines global Islamophobia through the lens of literacy\, arguing that contemporary suspicion toward Muslim texts\, languages\, and reading practices cannot be understood apart from longer histories of racial governance. Drawing on the afterlives of African Muslim literacies in the Atlantic world\, the paper shows how Qur’anic pedagogies and manuscript traditions carried by enslaved Muslims disrupted racial regimes that required Black non-literacy\, rendering Muslim textuality unintelligible or dangerous. These historical misreadings persist today in securitized responses to Arabic script\, Qur’anic recitation\, and Muslim study across schools\, airports\, courts\, and digital platforms. Rather than treating these moments as isolated acts of bias\, the paper situates them within literacy’s secular and racial architecture. It then turns to Muslim epistemologies as a methodological intervention\, foregrounding embodied\, ethical\, and relational forms of knowing that unsettle dominant definitions of literacy. Reading Islam otherwise\, the paper argues\, is essential to confronting Islamophobia as an epistemic and racial project\, not merely a cultural misunderstanding. \nArshad Imtiaz Ali is an educator\, community worker\, and scholar who studies youth culture\, race\, identity\, and politics. He is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies Education and Civic Education at UC Santa Cruz. He is concerned with questions of educational possibilities\, liberatory moments/movements\, and social research methodologies. He has written extensively on issues relating to the cultural geography of Muslim student surveillance\, citizenship\, governmentality\, and other issues of coloniality and Muslims in Western spaces. His current project draws upon Muslim and non-Western storywork and ways of knowing to explore how students engage in a science curriculum that appreciates multiple\, culturally sustained ways of understanding the world. \n\nDorian Bell \n“Of Nations and Nomads: Antisemitism\, Islamophobia\, and the Great Replacement Theory” \nIn today’s far-right warnings about a “Great Replacement” of white populations by immigrants and their “globalist” protectors\, the long-entwined histories of antisemitism and Islamophobia are converging again. What’s new\, and what’s old\, about the latest round of Western demographic anxiety? Drawing examples from France\, where the Great Replacement Theory first took shape\, this paper traces how elites and immigrants are being consolidated into an imagined race of “nomads”—rich and poor\, cosmopolitan and migratory—against which the far right now defends the rights of “sedentary” white peoples. The results demonstrate how right-wing antisemitism and its legacies are shaping contemporary animus toward Muslims—and what this means for Jews themselves. \nDorian Bell is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His first book\, Globalizing Race: Antisemitism and Empire in French and European Culture (2018)\, traces intersections between antisemitism and imperialism that shaped the emergence of European racial thought. He is at work on a second book exploring how shifting notions of whiteness are driving political change on both sides of the Atlantic. \n\nIman El Feki \n“Public Policies Countering ‘Terrorism’ and ‘Radicalization’ in French Prisons: A Case Study of Racialized Institutional Islamophobia” \nThe goal of this presentation is to analyze French institutional Islamophobia by examining public policies for countering violent radicalization within the French prison system. To accomplish this\, I have organized the presentation into three parts. First\, I will analyze the detection devices used in prisons\, with a specific focus on grid detection. Second\, I will examine how the institutional understanding of radicalization spreads through the extension of suspicion to other prisoners\, researchers\, and the outside world. Lastly\, based on my experience as an object of institutional suspicion\, I will discuss the effects of Islamophobic suspicion on individuals. \nIman El Feki is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Strasbourg (France)\, and a member of the “Societies\, stakeholders\, governments in Europe” (SAGE) center. Since 2018\, her research has focused on French public policies for countering radicalization and terrorism\, especially their effects on targeted groups\, such as French Muslims. She studies these policies within the prison administration and has conducted three years of ethnography (2019-2021) with a special unit dedicated to radicalization inside this French institution (public policies\, critical security studies\, prison sociology\, sociology of Islamophobia). \n\n  \nHuzaifa Shahbaz \nHuzaifa Shahbaz is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics at UC Santa Cruz. His research examines the evolution of Muslim American organizing and the political strategies Muslim organizations have adopted in response to Islamophobia and the War on Terror. Prior to joining UCSC\, Huzaifa held research roles at the Othering & Belonging Institute\, the Institute for Policy Studies\, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). \n  \n\nThomas Serres  \nThomas Serres is Associate Professor of Politics at UC Santa Cruz. His research spans the field of Middle Eastern studies\, critical security studies\, and comparative politics\, combining an ethnographic approach with a conceptual apparatus inspired by critical theory. He is particularly interested in the effects of protracted and entangled crises (popular uprisings\, “war on terror\,” refugee crisis\, neoliberalization) in North Africa and beyond. His first book\, The Suspended Disaster: Governance by Catastrophization in Bouteflika’s Algeria\, was published in 2023 with Columbia University Press\, expanding on a French edition initially released in 2019. He also co-edited the volume North Africa and the Making of Europe with Bloomsbury Publishing (2018). \n\nPresented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and supported by the Villa Albertine
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/islamophobia-in-a-global-perspective-a-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Josen Masangkay Diaz - Population Crisis and the Reproductive Archive
DESCRIPTION:This talk focuses on the development of a population science in the decade that preceded the Ferdinand Marcos regime in the Philippines and throughout the Marcos dictatorship. The regime’s management of reproductive health\, in particular\, illustrates the construction of new technologies of measurement and containment. The talk focuses on readings of “family planning” archives that highlight both family planning as the management of the Philippines labor-surplus economy and the different ways that family planning workers struggled against these impositions. \nJosen Masangkay Diaz (she/they) writes and teaches about race\, gender\, colonialism\, and authoritarianism. Her book\, Postcolonial Configurations: Dictatorship\, the Racial Cold War\, and Filipino America (Duke University Press\, 2023)\, analyzes the formation of Filipino American subjectivity through a study of U.S.-Philippine cold war politics. \n\n \nWinter 2026 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 Winter 2026 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/josen-masangkay-diaz-population-crisis-and-the-reproductive-archive/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260212T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260212T185500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Rosie Stockton
DESCRIPTION:Craft Between Worlds \nRosie Stockton is a poet and scholar\, author of the collections Permanent Volta (Nightboat Books\, 2021) and Fuel (Nightboat Books\, 2025). In Fuel\, Stockton explores how capitalist extraction seeps into intimate life\, traversing oil fields\, domestic spaces\, and painful retractions of love. Stockton is an organizer with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners and directs the Creative Writing Stream of the UC Sentencing Project\, where they facilitate a poetry workshop at the California Institution for Women. \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-rosie-stockton/
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:20260212T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260212T180000
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SUMMARY:Marion Nestle - Sustainable Food in the Trump Era
DESCRIPTION:What is the state of sustainable food now\, what are the forces affecting food choice\, and what can we do about it? Join us for this year’s Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture featuring Marion Nestle — Mark Bittman’s “guiding light” on nutrition and Alice Waters’ “tireless warrior for public health” — for a bracing look at what’s on today’s menu and what’s in store. \nThank you for your interest in this event! The event is now sold out but please join us online via live stream. \nMarion Nestle is a consumer advocate\, nutritionist\, award-winning author\, and academic who specializes in the politics of food and dietary choice. Her research examines scientific\, economic\, and social influences on food choice and health\, with an emphasis on the role of food industry marketing. Her books explore how politics affects food production\, dietary intake\, food safety\, and human and planetary health. She is the author of books such as the classic\, Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health\, Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety\, What to Eat\, and many more! Nestle is the emerita Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition\, Food Studies\, and Public Health and Professor of Sociology at New York University. She also holds an appointment as visiting professor in the Cornell Division of Nutritional Sciences. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition\, both from the University of California\, Berkeley. \n\nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Series is made possible by the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Ethics which enables lively dialogue about ethics related challenges in interdisciplinary settings.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/marion-nestle-sustainable-food-in-the-trump-era/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260219
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SUMMARY:Of Body and Soul: Politics and Eschatology in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:This seminar explores how pre-modern debates over body and soulshaped political and eschatological thought in the Mediterranean. Each panel brings Jewish\, Christian\, and Islamic voices into dialogue\, with Dante Alighieri’s oeuvre as a recurring point of comparison. Our aim is to situate questions of embodiment\, psychology\, soteriology\, and collective destiny in light of their historical contexts and their wider intellectual and political implications. \nPanels are organized around four thematic currents — Aristotelianism\, Neoplatonism\, Mysticism\, and Political Eschatology — in order to examine how body-soul anthropology\, political theology\, and visions of history intersected in the pre-modern Mediterranean (12th–16th centuries). \nThis event will be live-streamed via a Zoom Webinar for anyone outside of the Santa Cruz who would like to attend. Please register for the live stream here: https://ucsc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_P3yCD6CxRwWY_MO6dJKAMg \nFull event schedule here. \nThe day’s program will feature (Full bios here): \nAkash Kumar (University of California\, Berkeley) \n  \n  \n \nAlexander Green (University of Florida\, The Hamilton School for Classic and Civic Education)\nTalk title: “Maimonides on the Duality of Love” \n  \n\nAlison Cornish (New York University) \n  \n  \nAndrew LaZella (The University of Scranton)\nTalk title: “Averroes and the Aristotelian Left: The Latin Averroists’ Agent Intellect and Dante’s Empire” \n  \nBettina Koch (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)\nTalk title: “The Challenged Souls: How the Abuse of Spiritual Power Threatens the Souls in Marsilius of Padua’s Defensor Pacis” \n  \nElliot Wolfson (University of California\, Santa Barbara)\nTalk title: “Transposition of the Material into the Angelic Body: Abraham Abulafia’s Polemic with the Christian Dogma of Incarnation” \n  \nEthan H. Shagan (University of California\, Berkeley)\nTalk title: “The Protestant Emergence of ‘Secular’ Political Theology” \n  \n  \n \nFilippo Gianferrari (University of California\, Santa Cruz) \n  \n  \nGiacomo Berchi (Stanford University) \n  \n  \nHeather Webb (Yale University)\nTalk title: “The Forms of Affective Communities: Clare of Assisi\, Dante\, and Catherine of Siena” \n  \nJason Aleksander (San José State University)\nTalk title: “The Enigma of History in Nicholas of Cusa’s De ultimis diebus” \n  \n  \nMassimiliano Tomba (University of California\, Santa Cruz) \n  \n  \nNathanael Deutsh (University of California\, Santa Cruz) \n  \n  \nPaola Nasti (Northwestern University)\nTalk title: “Humana Universitas: Dante’s Universal Monarchy between Politics and Eschatology” \n  \nPaula Pico Estrada (Universidad Nacional de San Martín)\nTalk title: “Annihilation and Embodiment: St. Catherine of Genoa’s Doctrine of Purgatory as Political Eschatology” \n  \nPeerawat Chiaranunt (The University of Notre Dame)\nTalk title: “Two Aspects of Local Motion in the Paradiso: subtilitas and agilitas” \n  \n  \nSeyed N. Mousavian (Loyola University\, Chicago)\nTalk title: “Avicenna on the Human Soul\, Body and Eschatology” \n  \n  \n \nTheodore Cachey (The University of Notre Dame)\nTalk title: “Mapping the Unmappable: Poetics\, Participation\, and the Body–Soul Problem in Dante’s Paradiso” \n  \n\nThis event is sponsored by Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Porter College\, The Humanities Institute\, the Italian Studies and the Literature Department\, The Center for Jewish Studies\, University of California Regents System Collaboration Funding\, and San José State University Division of Research and Innovation. \nTower of Babel mosaic\, Monreale Cathedral\, Palermo\, Sicily (12th c.). Photo © Holger Uwe Schmitt\, Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped for design.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/of-body-and-soul-politics-and-eschatology-in-the-pre-modern-mediterranean/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Martin Rizzo-Martinez - Wounded Lee: the Red Power movement in 1970s Santa Cruz in the wake of Alcatraz
DESCRIPTION:In the spring of 1975\, a 1\,500-year-old Indigenous cemetery on Lee Road in Watsonville\, California\, was threatened by a development project. Members of the local Native American community with ties to this sacred site occupied the construction site in protest of the development. The local Sheriff called upon the newly formed well-armed County SWAT force\, leading to an armed confrontation. They were quickly joined by allies\, including representatives from the San Jose AIM office\, local Vietnam Veterans against the War / Winter Soldiers\, and representatives from the Indigenous run Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association from Humboldt County. Fortunately\, a compromise was made and violence was averted. This incident is one piece of a larger book project looking at similar grass roots\, Indigenous led movements to protect sacred spaces in California in the 1970s and early 80s. \nMartin Rizzo-Martinez is an Assistant Professor in the Film & Digital Media department at UCSC. He is a historian and media maker\, author of We are not Animals\, which explores the history of Indigenous peoples of the Santa Cruz area\, as well as co-producer of the podcast Challenging Colonialism. He has worked closely and collaboratively with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band\, and other local Tribes. \n\n \nWinter 2026 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 Winter 2026 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/martin-rizzo-martinez-wounded-lee-the-red-power-movement-in-1970s-santa-cruz-in-the-wake-of-alcatraz/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – THI Public Fellowship Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Curious about becoming a THI Graduate Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia\, then you may be interested in THI’s Public Fellowship program. \nPublic fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute to research\, programming\, communications\, and fundraising at non-profit organizations\, cultural institutions\, or companies and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study. \n  \n \n  \nPlease join us for an information session about the 2026 THI Graduate Public Fellows program to learn about Summer 2026 opportunities. \nAll THI Public Fellow applicants are required to attend an Info Session or talk with THI staff. Please contact Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell\, Research Programs and Communications Director\, at saskia@ucsc.edu if you are unable to attend the workshop due to a work or class scheduling conflict. Final applications are due on March 30th\, 2026. \n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the tenth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nRSVP here: \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-thi-public-fellowship-information-session-4/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Nathalie Khankan
DESCRIPTION:Craft Between Worlds \nNathalie Khankan is a poet and scholar\, author of quiet orient riot (Omnidawn). The collection won Omnidawn’s 2019 1st/2nd Book Prize and received the 2021 California Book Award in Poetry. Fady Joudah calls the book “a flowering wound\,” posing subversive questions about the body\, motherhood\, and settler colonialism while insisting on tenderness. Juliana Spahr calls it “a book about holding tight to the intimacy and love for a child\,” whose poems show how to sustain deep loves in difficult times. \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-nathalie-khankan/
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:20260220T150000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium with Ethan Poole
DESCRIPTION:Join the Linguistics Department for Ethan Poole’s talk “Syntactic Variables and Semantic Minimality” in collaboration with Zahra Mirrazi. \nIn this talk\, Poole argues that when two syntactic variables are “related” and stand in a c- command relationship at LF\, a 3⁄4-pattern emerges: free/free\, bound/bound\, bound/free\, and *free/bound. Several otherwise-disparate puzzles are shown to fall under this pattern: Dahl’s Puzzle\, SCO effects\, the Nested DP Constraint\, exceptional de dicto\, de re blocking\, and certain restrictions on fake indexicals. Building on Drummond 2014\, Poole proposes that these phenomena reflect a minimality-style constraint on variables: (roughly) a variable may not be bound across a related free variable. The notion of “related”\, we define in terms of overlap in value and counterparts\, an extension of Reinhart’s (2006) covaluation. He argues that this “semantic minimality” does not straightforwardly reduce to the garden-variety syntactic minimality; rather\, he suggests that syntactic and semantic minimality are separate\, convergent consequences of pressure for shorter dependencies. \n \nThis event is in-person with an option to join virtually available.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-with-ethan-poole/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260221T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260221T130000
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SUMMARY:Latino Role Models Conference
DESCRIPTION:Achieve your dreams for college and career! \nA free annual event for Santa Cruz County students\, grades 6 to college\, and their families\, featuring Latino professionals\, college students\, and resource information. Presented in Spanish with English translation. Attendees eligible for prizes. \nFor more information: SCSenderos.org \n\nPresented by Cabrillo College\, Live Oak School District\, Mexican Consulate –  San Jose\, Pajaro Valley Unified\, San Lorenzo Valley Unified\, Santa Cruz City Schools\, Santa Cruz County Office of Education\, Scotts Valley Unified\, Senderos\, Soquel Union Elementary\, UCSC
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/latino-role-models-conference/
LOCATION:Cabrillo College Crocker Theater\, 6500 Soquel Dr.\, Aptos\, CA\, 95003\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260225T121500
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SUMMARY:Hillary Angelo - Climate Change as Large-Scale Social Transformation
DESCRIPTION:It is a common (aspirational) refrain that climate change “changes everything\,” and equally common to note that climate-related transitions seem to be changing very little at all. What climate-related changes are happening now? And how might we grasp emergent trajectories while we’re in the midst of these transitions? With a substantive focus on the city-hinterland relationship and the American West\, and based on five years of fieldwork related to renewable energy\, conservation\, and housing development on public lands in Nevada and Utah\, this talk gets purchase on these questions by presenting climate change as a form of macro-social change. I draw on classical and contemporary macro-historical sociology and critical geography to show how this framework provides new insights on climate transitions and describe its implications for understanding contemporary climate politics\, policy\, and visions of a just transition. \nHillary Angelo is an Associate Professor of Sociology\, founding Director of UCSC’s Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies\, and former member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Her work combines historical sociology\, critical social theory\, and urban political economy and ecology to analyze contemporary urban and environmental culture and politics. She has published widely in leading sociology\, geography\, and urban studies journals and her first book\, How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens\, was published in 2021 by the University of Chicago Press. \n\n \nWinter 2026 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 Winter 2026 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/hillary-angelo-climate-change-as-large-scale-social-transformation/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Work - in - Progress with Geoffrey C. Bowker
DESCRIPTION:Join SJRC scholars for an open discussion of works-in-progress! This is a wonderful chance to engage with one another’s ideas\, and support our own internal work. At this session\, we will hear from Geoffrey Bowker\, Emeritus Professor in Irvine and Science & Justice Advisor about works-in-progress and ongoing work on the death of infrastructure\, AI\, and underwater network cables and his collaborative comic book on Actor Network Theory. SJRC members Warren Sack and Dimitris Papadopolous will act as “warm up” discussants. \nContact Colleen Stone (colleen@ucsc.edu) or Maria Puig de la Bellacasa (puig@ucsc.edu) for the readings\, including a new comic book on the graveyard of machines! \nGeoffrey C. Bowker is Emeritus Professor at the School of Information and Computer Science\, University of California at Irvine\, where he directed a laboratory for Values in the Design of Information Systems and Technology. Positions included Professor of and Senior Scholar in Cyberscholarship at the University of Pittsburgh School and Executive Director\, Center for Science\, Technology and Society\, Santa Clara. He was awarded the prestigious 4S Bernal Prize in 2024 and his book Memory Practices in the Sciences (MITS Press 2008) won the 2007 Ludwig Fleck Prize and was named “Best Information Science Book” by the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). \n\nCo-sponsored by Science and Justice Research Center and the earthecologies x technoscience conversations\, History of Consciousness \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/work-in-progress-with-geoffrey-c-bowker/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tsering Wangmo Dhompa - Kyi-dug\, Tibetan Welfare Groups: Sharing Ups and Downs
DESCRIPTION:As many as 80\,000 Tibetans fled to India and Nepal in 1959 following the Chinese occupation of Tibet. The establishment of a Tibetan government in exile helped foster a sense of belonging\, but it was also through mutual aid groups\, such as the kyi-dug\, that Tibetan refugees took care of one another. The word kyi-dug: kyi for happiness\, and dug for sorrow\, carries an implicit notion that the kyi-dug is organized with the goal to comfort and support community members in times of crises. In this talk\, Dhompa will braid a few different stories–– refugee aid packages in the early 1960s\, kyi-dug and children\, and ancestral divinities of land and people––to speak about resistance and belonging. \n \nThis event is both in-person and on zoom. Click above for the zoom link. \nTsering Wangmo Dhompa is the author of The Politics of Sorrow\, an account of early Tibetan exile political life in India published by Columbia University Press (2025). She has several collections of poetry: My Rice Tastes Like the Lake\, In the Absent Everyday and Rules of the House (all from Apogee Press\, Berkeley)\, and a non-fiction book\, Coming Home to Tibet (Shambhala Publications\, 2014) \nThis event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law. \n\nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tsering-wangmo-dhompa-kyi-dug-tibetan-welfare-groups-sharing-ups-and-downs/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with James Janko
DESCRIPTION:Craft Between Worlds \nJames Janko is an award-winning author of four novels\, including Buffalo Boy and Geronimo\, The Clubhouse Thief\, What We Don’t Talk About\, and The Wire-Walker. His work is deeply informed by his experience as a combat medic in the Vietnam War\, often probing the intertwined violences of war and environmental destruction. Janko will be introduced by Karen Tei Yamashita. \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. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-james-janko/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kitchen Counterculture: A Conversation About Jerry Garcia\, the Grateful Dead\, and the Food that Fueled a Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents Kitchen Counterculture: A Conversation About Jerry Garcia\, the Grateful Dead\, and the Food that Fueled a Revolution\,” featuring award-winning food writer Gabi Moskowitz and journalist\, teacher\, and author Jim Newton. This event is cosponsored by the UC Santa Cruz The Humanities Division\, The Humanities Institute\, and the UCSC Special Collections & Archives. \n \nYour RSVP helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. Thank you for registering! \nDead in the Kitchen\, by Gabi Moskowitz: Kindly calling all Deadheads! Enjoy a variety of vibrant and delicious vegetarian and vegan recipes as you cook your way through Dead in the Kitchen: The Official Grateful Dead Cookbook\, available just in time to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the legendary psychedelic rock band. \nWelcome to the show! Dead in the Kitchen is the official\, authorized Grateful Dead cookbook\, a well-crafted extension of the vibrant\, communal\, free-spirited energy that the band and their legacy have graced us with for decades. Featuring the band’s iconic artwork\, logos\, and illustrations\, this beautifully designed book brings the unmistakable Grateful Dead aesthetic to life on every page\, making it a must-have collectible for devoted fans. \nYou’ll find recipes organized and inspired by not only the band’s timeless music\, but also the loyal Deadheads that continue to find kindness and community amongst one another. Delight in dishes like the savory Curried Vegetable Pot Pie\, the Meatless Meatball Sandwich\, or a sweet bite of Pumpkin Cheesecake. With each recipe crafted to be simple and accessible for all\, this is the perfect cookbook for novice cooks and seasoned pros alike. Find your flow in the kitchen as you create each flavorful dish and\, if Jerry has taught us anything\, don’t be afraid to improvise! This cookbook celebrates the Grateful Dead on each page and encourages more connection through gathering together and enjoying delicious food that’s good for feeding the mind\, body\, and soul. \nHere Beside the Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia\, the Grateful Dead\, and an American Awakening\, by Jim Newton: In 1965\, in Palo Alto\, Jerry Garcia opened a dictionary to a fable in which an appreciative soul repays the generosity of a traveler\, a “gift of the grateful dead.” After a traumatic car accident that injured him and killed a close friend\, Garcia had resolved to build his life around music. He had practiced relentlessly and caromed across the northern California folk and bluegrass scene. He had gathered up some fellow musicians and formed a band. Now they had their name. Following the history of the Grateful Dead means tracking American cultural history through a period of radical reconsideration. The Dead played at the Acid Tests and the Human Be-In and Woodstock\, at the occupation of Columbia and the Bail Ball for People’s Park. They performed at the base of the Pyramids during a lunar eclipse\, at Madison Square Garden to defend the rainforests\, in San Francisco to sound the alarm over AIDS and at Huey Newton’s birthday party. For three decades\, the band explored the meaning and limits of freedom. The radical message of the Dead\, to reject the mainstream and build a bohemian community\, radiated across the world\, manifesting itself in art\, music\, business\, and politics. Here Beside the Rising Tide tells the story of those disparate shafts of light\, putting Garcia into a broader context while tracing his eventful life. Nearly a century after his birth\, Garcia’s influence stretches onward\, expressed in guitar licks and a gentle way of life\, one of excellence and gratitude\, chasing freedom\, living moment to moment\, guided by song-the gift of the Grateful Dead. \nGabi Moskowitz is the founder of BrokeAssGourmet.com\, an award-winning website about inexpensive cooking. She’s written five cookbooks\, and produced Freeform’s Young & Hungry\, a situation comedy based on her life and writing. She lives in Marin County\, California\, with her husband and daughters. \nJim Newton is a journalist\, teacher\, and author of Justice for All\, Eisenhower\, Worthy Fights\, and Man of Tomorrow. He was at the Los Angeles Times for twenty-five years as a reporter\, bureau chief\, editorial page editor\, columnist\, and editor at large. He lives in Pasadena\, California\, and teaches at UCLA\, where he founded and edits the award-winning public affairs magazine Blueprint.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kitchen-counterculture-a-conversation-about-jerry-garcia-the-grateful-dead-and-the-food-that-fueled-a-revolution/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Writing Hangout with Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
DESCRIPTION:If we take a moment to examine our lives\, we can find meaningful\, even exciting connections between our mundane moments and the society we live in. In this workshop\, we will write together to explore how we can find the words we need to create the communities we would like to be. All are welcome. No prior creative writing experience is required and prompts will be provided. Lunch and informal discussion to follow. \nTsering Wangmo Dhompa is the author of The Politics of Sorrow\, an account of early Tibetan exile political life in India published by Columbia University Press (2025). She has several collections of poetry: My Rice Tastes Like the Lake\, In the Absent Everyday and Rules of the House (all from Apogee Press\, Berkeley)\, and a non-fiction book\, Coming Home to Tibet (Shambhala Publications\, 2014) \nThis event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law. \n\nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/writing-hangout-with-tsering-wangmo-dhompa/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Restitution Beyond Return - Who names the Objects in Museums?
DESCRIPTION:The Department of History invites you to join their talk about African Arts\, Western Museums\, and the debate over restitution. \nThis lecture examines restitution as an ethical and epistemic process that goes beyond the physical return of objects from Western museums to African institutions. While repatriation often functions as a diplomatic practice\, restitution is framed here as historical repair that requires transforming the narratives\, classifications\, and meanings assigned to museum objects. Drawing on case studies\, the lecture analyzes how sacred African objects were historically renamed as “fetishes” through colonial vocabularies. It argues that museums bear an ongoing responsibility to revise these narratives\, making restitution a process of reinterpretation\, accountability\, and public education. \nProf. Vanicleia Silva-Santos is the curator of the African Collection at Penn Museum\, University of Pennsylvania. She holds a PhD in History from the University of São Paulo and teaches at the Department of Africana Studies at UPenn.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/restitution-beyond-return-who-names-the-objects-in-museums/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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