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SUMMARY:Colm Toibin - The News From Dublin
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz welcome acclaimed author Colm Tóibín (Long Island\, Brooklyn) for a discussion about The News from Dublin\, a brilliant collection of nine short stories\, many never-before-published\, set across Ireland\, Spain\, and America—about the complexities of family\, longing\, loss\, and love. \n \nCelebrated as “his generation’s most gifted writer of love’s complicated\, contradictory power” ( Los Angeles Times)\, Colm Tóibín is a master of short fiction as well as the novel\, able to summon an extraordinary intensity of emotion in a brief tale. The eleven stories transport readers across continents and eras. \nIn The Journey to Galway\, a mother who has learned of the death of her son\, a fighter pilot in World War I\, travels to Galway to inform his wife and their three now fatherless children. “Sleep\,” originally published in The New Yorker\, explores the rift between two lovers as one of them cannot reckon with his grief and fear after the death of his brother. Death\, again\, is a central character in the title story\, “The News from Dublin\,” as Maurice Webster travels to Dublin to try to save his younger brother who is dying of tuberculosis. Maurice must petition the health minister for access to a new experimental drug\, and this is the only hope. \nColm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels\, including Long Island\, an Oprah’s Book Club Pick; The Magician\, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master\, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn\, winner of the Costa Book Award; and Nora Webster\, winner of the Hawthornden Prize\, as well as three story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and was named the 2022–2024 Laureate for Irish Fiction by the Arts Council of Ireland. In 2021\, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Colm Tóibín \n\nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/colm-toibin-the-news-from-dublin/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Oceans of Dissent Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Oceans of Dissent will serve as a feminist gathering to forge new vernaculars of the geopolitical\, to assemble spatial imaginaries of the “oceanic” that refuse rather than relent to the insistent march of capital and empire. Our deliberations will foreground inter-linked landscapes across multiple oceanic field-formations\, to expand settled narratives of region\, historiography\, aesthetics and more. To “dissent” here is an invitation to think more about the messiness and stuckness of our intellectual labors across histories of slavery\, indenture\, colonialism and more. Let us imagine those conversations together. \n \nRegister here! \nMore information: Oceans of Dissent Workshop \nAny questions? Email Sadie Lynn at sklynn@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/oceans-of-dissent-workshop/
LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260404T150000
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SUMMARY:Suzanne Simard - When the Forest Breathes
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Suzanne Simard (Finding the Mother Tree)\, a scientist who pioneered the concept of sophisticated communication between trees. Simard will share her highly anticipated new book When the Forest Breathes\, in which she offers a powerful vision for saving our forests based on nature’s deep-rooted cycles of renewal. \n“A masterclass on the inner workings of forests. . . . This is science as an act of love for the world.” —Zoë Schlanger\, author of The Light Eaters \n \nRaised in a family of loggers committed to sensible forest stewardship\, trailblazing ecologist Suzanne Simard has watched as timber companies leave forests at higher risk for wildfires\, water crises\, and plant and animal extinction. But her research has the potential to chart a new course. The forest\, she reveals\, is a symphony of finely honed cycles of regeneration—from mushrooms breaking down logs to dying elder trees passing their genetic knowledge to younger ones—that hold the key to protecting our forests. Working closely with local Indigenous communities\, whose models of responsible forestry have been largely dismissed\, Simard examines how human interventions—particularly destruction of the overstory’s mother trees—endanger new growth and longevity. If we can honor the tools that trees have honed for sharing intergenerational wisdom\, she argues\, we can protect these sacred places for many years to come. \nDr. Suzanne Simard is the New York Times bestselling author of Finding the Mother Tree. She is a Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia\, where she leads The Mother Tree Project and co-directs the Belowground Ecosystem Group. Dr. Simard has earned a global reputation for pioneering research on tree connectivity and communication and the productivity\, health\, and biodiversity of forests. Her work has been published widely\, with over 170 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals\, including Nature\, Ecology\, and Global Biology\, and she has co-authored the book Climate Change and Variability. Her research has been communicated broadly through three TED Talks\, TED Experiences\, as well as articles and interviews in The New Yorker\, National Geographic\, NPR\, CNN\, and many more. She lives with her family in the mountains around Nelson\, British Columbia. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Suzanne Simard \n\n  \nThis event is cosponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanic Garden and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/suzanne-simard-when-the-forest-breathes/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Music in North Africa: From Cultural Mixity to Political Expression
DESCRIPTION:This talk will look at various musical genres in North Africa to explore the history of a region that is at the crossroads of Africa\, Europe\, and the Middle East. How is music an expression of the cultural diversity of the region? How have musicians played a central political role from the colonial period to the so-called “Arab Uprisings” that swept the region from 2010-2020? How does music continue to give expression to various social and economic issues in the region\, such as the refugee crisis? The talk will focus on classical genres such as Arab-Andalusian music as well as Raï\, Gnawa and even rap. The presentation will include clips and translations of music and offer important historical and political context for the 15 May concert hosted by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa at Woodhouse Brewery featuring the musical group\, Aza. \nMuriam Haleh Davis is the Director of the Center of the Middle East and North Africa at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria\, published by Duke University Press in 2022. In addition to her scholarly work\, you can also find her writing in the LA Review of Books\, Al Jazeera English\, Truthout\, Jacobin\, Public Books and Jadaliyya. Her favorite genre of music is Raï.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/music-in-north-africa-from-cultural-mixity-to-political-expression/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Public Library – Capitola
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Sotong and Against this Messy World
DESCRIPTION:On April 6\, 2026\, the Graduate Training in Southeast Asia (GETSEA) consortium and UCSC’s Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions will host two short films highlighting the challenges to art and expression in Malaysia’s complex political\, legal\, and societal landscape. \nSotong follows four fierce local drag queens who were part of the 2022 Halloween party raided by the authorities. One of them\, Juan\, was arrested for ‘a man dressing up as a woman’. Two years later\, they revisit on the fallout of that night as they continue to perform underground and nurture the Malaysian drag scene in all its beauty\, joy\, and pain. \nAgainst This Messy World is a deeply introspective and visually captivating short documentary that delves into the heart and soul of artistic expression in Malaysia. A personal exploration\, narrated by Malaysian artists\, this documentary takes viewers on an evocative journey to understand the essence and purpose of being an artist in a world marked by chaos and uncertainty and piece together conversations and unfiltered moments in their lives. \nUniversities from across North America will come together to watch the films simultaneously\, then connect via Zoom with the filmmakers for a post-screening discussion. Please join us in conversation!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-sotong-and-against-this-messy-world/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Neha Dixit — The Many Lives of Syeda X: A People’s History of Invisible India
DESCRIPTION:What does the life of an ordinary working-class\, Muslim woman look and feel like in modern India? Award-winning journalist Neha Dixit traces the story of one such faceless Indian woman\, from the early 1990s to the present day. What emerges is a picture of a life lived under constant corrosive tension. \nSyeda X left the holy city of Banaras (now Varanasi) for Delhi with her young family in the aftermath of riots and communal violence in the early ’90s. In Delhi\, she settled into the life of a poor migrant\, juggling multiple jobs a day – from sewing soccer balls and removing the stems from raisins\, to shelling almonds sold in bulk to multinationals and assisting in illegal abortions. Syeda has held over 50 different jobs in 30 years\, earning paltry sums in the process. And if she ever took a day off\, her job would be lost to another faceless migrant. \nWe meet an unforgettable cast of characters: a rickshaw driver in Chandni Chowk who ends up tragically dead in a terrorist blast\, a doctor who gets arrested for pre-natal sex determination\, a Hindu nationalist “cow vigilante” whose sister elopes with Syeda’s son\, and policemen who delight in beating up young Muslim men. \nWritten with empathy and deep insight\, The Many Lives of Syeda X is a portal to a harsh\, hidden world. It is the story of untold millions and a searing account of urban life in new India. \nNeha Dixit is an independent journalist based in New Delhi. She has covered politics\, gender\, and social justice for seventeen years. Most of her work is investigative\, narrative\, and long-form. She has reported for Al Jazeera\, The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, The Caravan\, The Wire\, and other notable publications. \n\nPresented by the Department of Sociology and co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies. This event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/neha-dixit-the-many-lives-of-syeda-x-a-peoples-history-of-invisible-india/
LOCATION:Rachel Carson College Red Room\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Chris Gray - The Fantasies Shaping Today’s AI
DESCRIPTION:All AI (algorithmic intelligence) companies claim they are pursuing the next logical step in digital—perhaps even human—evolution. But\, the development of AI is clearly shaped by a wide range of untethered belief systems from obscure German philosophy to The Lord of the Rings. There is nothing logical about it. It is unreasonable to make AI the dominant industry in terms of investment and valuation when it has produced little profit\, great social disruption\, and a worsening of most aspects of today’s polycrisis\, from climate change to military operations and genocide. \nThe forces trying to produce general purpose AI and super intelligence are multiple and almost all irrational\, even fantastical. The most rational is the hunger for wealth and power\, considered sacred by capitalist true believers\, for even if AIs never wins a war or produce real value\, they will make money and shape societies. \nTo explain today’s “Tech Lords” more than a simplistic “California Ideology” argument is needed. Accepting we now live under Surveillance Capitalism is only the context. Looking at the psychodynamics of Postmodern War is also helpful\, for today’s AI complex shares the same genealogy as contemporary high-tech militaries. A close analysis of key parts of the actual beliefs of AI billionaires\, from fantasy novels to fantasy altruism to dreams of immortality and divinity\, is also very helpful. \nTogether\, they might help begin to answer the real question—how do we transition from this clearly unsustainable socio-technological society into something better? \n\nThis event is presented by The Humanities Institute’s ± AI Initiative.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/chris-gray-the-fantasies-shaping-todays-ai/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Central American Report Back: In Defense Of Land & Dignity
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by SCC intern Rafael Revolorio\, this report-back features community members and organizers Ana and Allan Fisher\, Amy Argenal\, Lupita Alvarado-Sanchez\, and Cynthia Lopez-Fernandez who will reflect on their recent experiences in El Salvador and Honduras during a time of heightened imperialist escalation and right-wing shifts in Latin America. \n\nThis event is sponsored by the Center for Racial Justice and Santa Cruz in Color. Special thanks to the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, the Resource Center for Nonviolence\, and the Bay Area chapter of Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) for their support in co-sponsoring this event.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/central-american-report-back-in-defense-of-land-dignity/
LOCATION:Namaste Lounge – College 9\, Namaste Lounge\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nauenberg History of Science Lecture with Jennifer Derr
DESCRIPTION:World Wounds: The Damming of the Nile River and the Transformation of Medicine \nThe damming of the Nile River transformed agriculture and human health in twentieth-century Egypt. While dams enabled year-round irrigation and provided hydroelectricity\, the prevalence of parasitic disease also skyrocketed. Professor Derr explores the effects of damming the Nile on the health of Egyptians and the impact of large-scale environmental transformation on the knowledge and practice that made medicine during the twentieth century. \nApril 7\, 2026\nReception 5:30 p.m.\nLecture 6 p.m.\nMusic Recital Hall and Virtual\nFree and open to the public \n \n  \n Jennifer Derr is an Associate Professor in the history department at UC Santa Cruz. Her first book\, The Lived Nile: Environment\, Disease\, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt\, won the Middle East Political Economy Book Prize. In 2019\, the National Science Foundation awarded Derr a CAREER grant to support her research on the “History of Science at the Interface of Biomedical and Environmental Concerns.” In 2024-2025\, she was a fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. \n\nNauenberg History of Science Lecture\nThe Nauenberg History of Science Lecture was established in honor of Michael Nauenberg\, a founding faculty member in the Physics Department at UCSC who came to the campus in 1966. During his distinguished academic career\, he contributed to a remarkably broad range of fields\, including particle physics\, condensed matter physics\, astrophysics\, chaos theory\, fluid dynamics\, and the history of physics in the 17th-18th centuries. \nAmongst Professor Nauenberg’s passions\, he deeply believed in the importance of interdisciplinary scholarship connecting the sciences with the humanities. Following his retirement in 1994\, he pursued his long-standing interests in the history of science\, writing books and articles about Joseph Banks\, Robert Hooke\, Christiaan Huygens\, and Isaac Newton. The Nauenberg History of Science Lecture Series features leading historians of science and highlights the significance of their work across disciplines for faculty\, students\, and community members. \nThe Nauenberg History of Science Lecture is presented by the UC Santa Cruz Emeriti Association and co-sponsored by the Science & Justice Research Center\, The Humanities Institute\, the Humanities Division\, the Environmental Studies Department\, the History Department\, and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA). 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nauenberg-history-of-science-lecture-with-jenniferderr/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dr. V. Chitra - Drawn to Life: Environments\, Managerial Logics\, and the Limits of Care
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines how urban planning\, animal governance\, and racial politics converge in the production of interspecies belonging in Singapore. Through this\, it considers what drawing\, as an analytic\, might offer anthropology for understanding how more-than-human worlds become governed. Focusing on the “Singapore Special” — a term for local mongrel dogs — it traces how housing policy\, behavioral training regimes\, and administrative classification shape the conditions under which dogs can find belonging in the island-city. \nRecent shifts from culling toward sterilization and rehoming appear to signal a more humane approach to animal care. Yet these interventions install a more demanding managerial logic: dogs must demonstrate governability — proper conduct\, emotional regulation\, adaptability — to qualify for care. Belonging is produced through the same administrative machinery that has long mediated human access to housing\, mobility\, and security in Singapore\, where racialized ideals of civility and order underpin the city-state’s developmental project. \nDrawing on ethnographic research with animal welfare volunteers\, the talk delves into how managerial logics naturalize the conditions they impose\, and sits with the limits of companionship that cannot accommodate refusal\, flight\, and ferality. \nV. Chitra is an anthropologist and visual artist based at The Australian National University. Her research intersects environmental studies\, science and technology studies\, and the visual arts. Her first book\, Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai (Cornell University Press\, 2024) looks at how science\, management\, and planning remake coastal worlds in urban India. Chitra has a background in visual design and works with comics as an ethnographic medium. \n\nPresented by the Center for Cultural Studies and co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Department of Anthropology Colloquium. This event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law. \n\n \nSpring 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 Spring 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/dr-v-chitra-drawn-to-life-environments-managerial-logics-and-the-limits-of-care/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260408T150000
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SUMMARY:Documentación Lingüística en México
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a presentation on “Children’s role in Language Documentation Efforts in Mexico“. \nCuando realizamos proyectos de documentación lingüística\, nos encontramos con niñas y niños que quieren participar en alguna actividad del proceso de documentación\, sean o no hablantes o sean hablantes de herencia. Su colaboración es valiosa en los proyectos porque aportan muchos elementos clave para el proceso de registro de la lengua y la cultura que se está documentando. En esta charla platicaremos sobre algunas experiencias con niñas y niños que colaboraron en diferentes etapas del trabajo de campo que se realizó para la documentación de la lengua otomí de Santa Ana Hueytlalpan\, en el municipio de Tulancingo de Bravo\, en México. \nMaría de Jesús Selene Hernández Gómez Doctora en Estudios Mesoamericanos por la UNAM\, Maestra en Lingüística con Línea Terminal en Lingüística Teórica-Descriptiva y Licenciada en Lenguas Modernas en Inglés\, ambas por la UAQ. Es profesora de la Facultad de Lenguas y Letras y de la Facultad de Filosofía en la Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro. Es investigadora asociada del Laboratorio de Educación y Mediación Intercultural (LEMI) y es responsable del programa de Prácticas Profesionales “Prácticas Universitarias de Traducción”\, que se ofrece en el LEMI. Da clases a nivel licenciatura y posgrado en ambas facultades. Se dedica particularmente a la enseñanza de la historia de la lengua inglesa y sus líneas de investigación son: la documentación y descripción de lenguas originarias mexicanas en peligro de extinción (particularmente el otomí del estado de Hidalgo\, México)\, procesos de traducción de documentos en inglés antiguo y medieval y procesos de traducción en/de lenguas originarias mexicanas. Ha sido becaria del Programa Santander Universities en la Universidad de Surrey y del Programa “Endangered Languages Documentation Programme” (ELDP) en la Universidad de Londres\, ambos en el Reino Unido. \nThis talk will be in Spanish.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/documentacion-linguistica-en-mexico/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:New Articulations with James Clifford
DESCRIPTION:This event engages the theme of articulation and James Clifford’s contributions to cultural studies\, anthropology\, and literary studies\, addressing our current disconcerting cultural\, historical\, and ecological conjuncture. For more info\, please visit: tinyurl.com/5ecv4t27 \nWith talks by Elizabeth Povinelli (Columbia)\, James Clifford (UCSC)\, and Kirin Narayan (ANU)\, and a panel with Mark Anderson (UCSC)\, Chris Connery (UCSC)\, Donna Haraway (UCSC)\, Gail Hershatter (UCSC)\, Caren Kaplan (UCD)\, and Richard Rodriguez (UCR). \nProgram schedule: \n12.00 Dimitris Papadopoulos & Maria Puig de la Bellacasa\n12.15 Elizabeth Povinelli\n1.30 Light Lunch\n2.00 James Clifford\n2.45 Break\n3.00 Mark Anderson\, Chris Connery\, Donna Haraway\, Gail Hershatter\, Caren Kaplan\, Richard Rodriguez\n4.30 Break\n4.45 Kirin Narayan\n6.00 End \n\nConvened by Dimitris Papadopoulos (UCSC) & Maria Puig de la Bellacasa (UCSC) and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, History of Consciousness\, and the Center for Cultural Studies. Please note that this event will be held in person only.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/new-articulations-with-james-clifford/
LOCATION:Humanities 1
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260413T183000
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SUMMARY:Slugs and Steins with Greg O' Malley - The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery\, Freedom\, and the American Revolution
DESCRIPTION:The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery\, Freedom\, and the American Revolution describes the life of a man born enslaved in colonial Virginia\, whose repeated escape attempts made his life a remarkable odyssey. He survived enslavement on Virginia and Carolina plantations\, stints hiding in backcountry Carolina settlements\, captivity in Native American communities\, battlefields of the American Revolution\, and evacuation as a refugee from the emerging United States. Along the way\, he formed a family\, became a preacher\, and founded the first Black Baptist congregation in what became the United States. His surviving narrative offers the earliest known firsthand account of escaping slavery in North America. And because his struggle against slavery spanned the revolutionary era\, his story offers a counterweight to the many biographies of white “founding fathers.” Instead of a fight for political freedom from Britain and monarchy\, George’s life reveals a parallel quest for freedom from American slavery. To achieve his independence\, George fled the United States in the moment of its creation. \n \nGreg O’Malley is professor and chair in the History Department at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His first book\, Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America\, 1619–1807\, received four awards: The America Historical Association’s Forkosch Prize for British history; the AHA’s Rawley Prize for Atlantic history; The Owsley Award from the Southern Historical Association; and the Goveia Prize from the Association of Caribbean Historians. The book examines the network that distributed enslaved\nAfricans throughout North America and the Caribbean after their survival of the Atlantic crossing. O’Malley is also co-creator (with Alex Borucki) of the Intra-American Slave Trade Database\, a free online research tool that documents more than 38\,000 human trafficking voyages from one port in the Americas to another. His second book\, The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery\, Freedom\, and the American Revolution\, was published by St. Martin’s Press in February 2026 and was named one of “ 6 Noteworthy Books for February” by The Washington Post. \nQuestions? Please contact University Events at specialevents@ucsc.edu. \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-greg-o-malley-the-escapes-of-david-george-an-odyssey-of-slavery-freedom-and-the-american-revolution/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Carlos Martinez - The Carceral Frontier: Migrant Captivity and Care on the Mexico-U.S. Border
DESCRIPTION:This talk offers an ethnographic account of the structures of captivity that keep migrants and deportees in conditions of enforced immobility and precarity at the Mexico-U.S. border. Whereas much scholarship has framed the border primarily as a site of transit or deadly deterrence\, Martinez argues that it has been transformed into a carceral frontier that restricts the movements of those rendered disposable while gradually wearing them down. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Tijuana\, Mexico\, since 2018\, the presentation examines the lives of deportees and asylum seekers in the borderlands\, focusing on survival strategies\, care practices\, and forms of solidarity that emerge amid the intertwined politics of expulsion\, attrition\, and prolonged waiting. \nCarlos Martinez\, MPH\, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies and core faculty member of the Global and Community Health program at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Trained in public health and medical anthropology\, Dr. Martinez’s research examines the health and sociocultural implications of policing\, incarceration\, and punitive immigration and drug policies. He is the co-editor of All This Safety Is Killing Us: Health Justice Beyond Prisons\, Police\, and Borders (North Atlantic Books\, 2025). \n\n \nSpring 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 Spring 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/carlos-martinez-the-carceral-frontier-migrant-captivity-and-care-on-the-mexico-u-s-border/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260415T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260415T190000
DTSTAMP:20260519T001207
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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT: Ritual Drinking in the Ancient World
DESCRIPTION:“Drink and make a happy day!” (New Kingdom Theben tomb)\n“Wine gladdens the heart of man…” (Psalm 104:15) \nAt this ‘symposium’ event\, three UCSC professors in Classical\, Biblical\, and Egyptian antiquity will tell stories about how various ancient cultures drank wine to commune with their gods\, suspend the normal social rules\, and prepare for the end of days. \nThe Stockwell Cellars tasting room bar will be open for attendees to purchase individual wines-by-the-glass during the event. Come enjoy tasting local Santa Cruz wines while learning about the long history of drinking as a ritual event in the ancient Mediterranean world. A Q&A will follow the short presentations. \n \nRegistration required! This event is now sold out. \nMartin Devecka\, Associate Professor\, Ancient Studies & Literature\, “Wine before Liquor” \nAs a cultural historian\, Devecka writes on topics in ancient literature and society that range from robots to ruins. He is currently finishing a book manuscript on animal citizenship in the Roman Empire. \nAnne Kreps\, Associate Professor\, Ancient Studies & History\, “Drinking like the World is Going to End” \nAs a historian of the ancient Near East\, Kreps studies heresies\, Gnosticism\, and the politics of sacred texts. Her current work examines the Dead Sea Scrolls within New Religious Movements in the United States. \nElaine Sullivan\, Associate Professor\, Ancient Studies & History\, “How to Get Drunk with a Goddess” \nAn Egyptogist\, Sullivan’s field research has included excavation and survey at Karnak’s Mut Temple\, the cemetery of Saqqara\, and the Greco-Roman city of Karanis\, all in Egypt. She is currently authoring a book on the sales of antiquities out of Egypt in the late 19th and early 20th century. \n  \nThis event is presented by Ancient Studies at UCSC\, co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ritual-drinking-in-the-ancient-world/
LOCATION:Stockwell Cellars\, 1100 Fair Ave\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260416
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260417
DTSTAMP:20260519T001207
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SUMMARY:Ripple Effect Arts Festival Opening
DESCRIPTION:A celebration of Santa Cruz County’s creative community during arts and culture month in California! The arts community of Santa Cruz County is coming together for this exciting new 11-day celebration showcasing the region’s rich artistic landscape. \nThe festival will feature performances\, exhibitions\, workshops\, and interactive events across venues countywide\, inviting audiences of all ages to experience the transformative power of art. \nKnown for our stunning coastline and redwood forests throughout Santa Cruz County\, the Ripple Effect Arts Festival invites visitors to also discover the talent and creativity of our local artists\, as well as the hospitality that make this region a world-class destination. \nThe Ripple Effect Arts Festival was born out of a shared belief that the arts not only enrich our lives but also strengthen our community and economy. At a time when many artists and organizations face mounting challenges\, Ripple Effect provides a new opportunity for collaboration\, visibility\, and collective support. Grassroots and volunteer-driven\, the festival is powered by the dedication of local arts organizations and community partners who believe in the unifying force of creativity. \nMore info and detailed schedule at: https://www.rippleartsfestsantacruz.org/ \n\nThe Ripple Effect Arts Festival is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ripple-effect-arts-festival-opening/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz County\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260416T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260416T150000
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SUMMARY:Omar Zahzah - Virtual Palestine: Digital Settler Colonialism and Palestinian Resistance
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Racial Justice is very proud to sponsor the second annual Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement series! Please join us for the following talk with Omar Zahzah- Virtual Palestine: Digital Settler Colonialism and Palestinian Resistance. \nIn this talk\, Omar Zahzah will elaborate upon the concept of digital settler colonialism\, which captures how the internet is weaponized to fortify Israeli settler colonialism—often with the complicity of US Big Tech companies. Building off of his newly published book Terms of Servitude: Zionism\, Silicon Valley\, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle (Censored Press/Seven Stories Press\, 2025)\, the presentation will also describe the contingent role that digital technologies have played in advancing the Palestinian struggle\, and how Palestinians and their allies continue to resist censorship and repression in spite of an increasingly hostile digital status quo.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/omar-zahzah-virtual-palestine-digital-settler-colonialism-and-palestinian-resistance/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260416T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260416T185500
DTSTAMP:20260519T001207
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260413T170823Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Joe De Vera and Josen Diaz
DESCRIPTION:In Nourishment\, Us. \nJoe De Vera (WSU) Visual Artist and Josen Diaz (UCSC) Critic and Archivist \nJoe deVera’s paintings and installations are attempts to clarify the absurd theaters of human tragedy — examining the possible relationships between historiography and art objects — while simultaneously investigating the resonant aftermath of mass conflict. Having emigrated from the Philippines as a youth and enlisting in the U.S. Marines Corps after high school — serving two combat deployments to Iraq in support of the Second Gulf War/GWOT — deVera’s works are also autobiographical observations of power structures and the machines of empire. He joined the Sam Fox School from Wake Forest University. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from California State University\, Fullerton\, and his Master of Fine Arts in painting and printmaking from Yale University. \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. Her writing appears in American Quarterly\, Social Text\, Critical Ethnic Studies Journal\, Signs\, and elsewhere. She serves as section editor for Lateral\, editorial board member for the Asian Journal of Women’s Studies\, Critical Ethnic Studies Journal\, and Feminist Pedagogy Journal. She received her Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California\, San Diego and was previously faculty at the University of San Diego and fellow with the Asian American Studies Center at the University of California\, Los Angeles. \nLiving Writers Spring 2026:  Our Nourishment\, US features poets\, writers\, critics\, visual and performance artists\, who demonstrate how writing and art enacts around the idea of freedom and the imaginary in the face of the constant threat of terror and erasure. In the presence of who we all are within marginalized yet expansively powerful fields of racialized and multiply lived complex and diverse identities\, please come as we convene in spirit\, deep celebration\, and resource with one another. \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-joe-de-vera-and-josen-diaz/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260417T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260417T210000
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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Night of Ideas
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a nocturnal celebration of art\, philosophy\, and activism! \nAs the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its independence\, the 2026 Santa Cruz Night of Ideas invites us not to celebrate the Enlightenment\, but to interrogate it. Long associated with democracy\, progress\, and universal reason\, the Enlightenment’s legacy remains deeply ambivalent – coexisting with enduring forms of exclusion\, colonial violence\, and economic exploitation. These unresolved tensions\, strikingly visible today\, demand renewed scrutiny. \nRather than treating the Enlightenment as a closed chapter or shared inheritance\, this edition centers young local voices and civil society to ask urgent questions: whose reason matters\, whose freedoms are secured\, and whose futures are denied? \nThrough conversations\, workshops\, performances\, and visionary talks\, Enlightenment\, Now! becomes a space for lived experience and collective experimentation. Featuring contributions from local performers Crista Berryessa and the Beati Quorum\, Alex Olwal’s audiovisual collaborations with AL-EK\, and Juan Ospina\, flautist and composer with Olemano\, we will gather with Thomas Sage Pedersen\, Ronaldo V. Wilson\, Gina Athena Ulysse\, and many other guests. The aim is not consensus\, but momentum: rethinking progress and imagining new political\, ethical\, and cultural possibilities under radically changed conditions. \nJoin us on Friday\, April 17 at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences to explore what remains of the Enlightenment\, and what it might become! \n\nNight of Ideas\, a global event taking place simultaneously in more than 100 countries and 22 cities in the United States\, invites thought leaders\, activists\, performers\, authors\, and academics to engage the public in discussions around central questions that address major\, contemporary global issues. \nFirst introduced in the United States in 2015 by the French Embassy\, Night of Ideas is a nationwide phenomenon today\, drawing tens of thousands of people to events across the country\, for a nocturnal marathon of philosophical debates\, performances\, readings\, and more. \n\nThis event is brought to you by the Center for Public Philosophy\, with support from the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, The Humanities Institute\, the Marc Sanders Foundation\, Villa Albertine\, and the Institut Français. \nBy attending this event you hereby consent to having your photo/likeness/recordings posted publicly and on social media.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-night-of-ideas/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260418T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260418T101500
DTSTAMP:20260519T001207
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - Macbeth
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Macbeth by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on Aoril 18\, 25\, May 2\, 9 & 16 2026 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 May 16\,a video of a live stage production 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 / Video Recording \n\nApril 18: Julia Reinhard Lupton\, Distinguished Professor Emerita of English & Comparative Literature & Co-Director of the New Swan Shakespeare Center at UC\, Irvine. Reading: Act 1\nApril 25: Charles Pasternak\, Acclaimed New York-based theatre director and actor\, Paul will direct Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2026 production of Macbeth. Reading: Act 2 through Act 3\, Scene 3\nMay 2: Abigail Heald\, Lecturer in Literature @ UC Santa Cruz & Stanford. She is writing a book on the relationship between art and emotion in Shakespeare’s work. Reading: Act 3\, Scene 4 through Act 4\, Scene 2\nMay 9: Paul Mullins\, Actor / Director\, Artistic Director of Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Reading: Act 4\, Scene 3 through Act 5\, Scene 8\nMay 16: Video recording of a live stage production at the Globe Theatre\, directed by Tony Award winning director Eve Best\, and starring Joseph Millson (Macbeth) and Samantha Spiro (Lady Macbeth).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-macbeth-april18/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260420T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260420T183000
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SUMMARY:ICE Surveillance is Not Safety / La Vigilancia de ICE No es Seguridad
DESCRIPTION:During a time of escalating state violence\, Pajaro Valley for Ethnic Studies and Justice (PVESJ) and Get The Flock Out Santa Cruz County invite you to join us for an evening of community education and resistance against automated license plate readers (ALPR) that track us and endanger migrant members of our community. At this freedom school\, we will discuss what we can do locally to secure our digital civil rights and make us safe. \n \nDoors will open at 6:00 pm\, and the event will begin at 6:30 pm / Hora: Puertas se abren a las 6:00 pm\, el evento empieza a las 6:30pm\nLocation will be sent with registration confirmation / La ubicación se enviará junto con la confirmación de registro \nWhy Freedom Schools? In the tradition of freedom and liberation schools\, the Watsonville Ethnic Studies Freedom School fosters a space of political education in the service of local communities most impacted by structural violence. We formed in response to the failure of the prior PVUSD school board to heed the community’s call to support ethnic studies. From a foundation of community knowledge\, we learn from each other and engage in collective study in order to organize for justice and enact social transformation. \nCosponsored by the Center for Racial Justice\, the Resource Center for Nonviolence\, MILPA\, the Tobera Project\, Santa Cruz Black\, People’s Aid\, Santa Cruz County Immigration Coalition\, Your Allied Rapid Response\, and Watsonville Brown Berets.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ice-surveillance-is-not-safety-la-vigilancia-de-ice-no-es-seguridad/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz County\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260420T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260420T200000
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SUMMARY:Aziz Abu Sarah & Maoz Inon - The Future is Peace
DESCRIPTION:Two lifelong peace activists and guides to Israel/Palestine\, both of whom have lost family in the conflict\, take readers on a revealing life-changing journey across this holy\, bloodstained land and discover the mythic\, political\, and personal history that divides but also binds them and their peoples. \nIn The Future Is Peace\, Sarah and Inon take readers on a transformative weeklong journey across a sacred and bloodstained land. Facing competing narratives\, they explore how compassion and unity can pull humanity back from the precipice of blind hatred. Throughout their travels\, they have been constantly asked: In the face of so much loss\, how can we ever find hope? Their answer is always the same. One cannot find hope. We must create it. \n \nAziz Abu Sarah is Co-CEO of InterAct International\, a nonprofit dedicated to Middle East Peace. He is a peacebuilder\, entrepreneur\, National Geographic Explorer\, TED Fellow\, and renowned speaker and trainer on conflict resolution and responsible travel. Aziz is the co-founder of MEJDI Tours\, a travel company on a mission to transform tourism into a global force of citizen diplomacy. He has won numerous awards\, including from the United Nations\, Institute of International Education\, and The Explorers Club. Aziz is consistently named one of the world’s 500 most influential Muslims by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in Jordan. He has written opinion pieces for The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Al-Quds\, and Haaretz. \nMaoz Inon is Co-CEO of InterAct International\, a nonprofit dedicated to Middle East Peace. He is an Israeli peace activist and entrepreneur. He was honored with the prestigious Franco-German Human Rights Prize and the Shared Living Award from Abraham Initiatives. He has spoken on Capitol Hill\, at U.S. universities\, and the European Parliament. He has written pieces for The Washington Post\, Al Jazeera\, Haaretz\, and more. He has founded several peace-focused initiatives within Israel and the Middle East\, including the Jesus Trail\, Fauzi Azar Inn\, and Abraham Hostel & Tour brands. \nDouglas Abrams is a multiple New York Times-bestselling author\, as well as an editor\, literary agent\, and film producer. He is the founder and president of Idea Architects\, a creative book and media agency helping visionaries create a wiser\, healthier\, and more just world. He co-wrote The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World with the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu which inspired the film MISSION: JOY. Doug served as the interviewer in the film as well as an Executive Producer. As an editor and literary agent\, he has also worked with other Nobel Laureates including Nelson Mandela\, Jody Williams\, and Elizabeth Blackburn and worked with many visionary scientists including Stephen Hawking. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/aziz-abu-sarah-maoz-inon-the-future-is-peace/
LOCATION:Temple Beth El\, 3055 Porter Gulch Road\, Aptos\, CA\, 95003\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260420T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260420T213000
DTSTAMP:20260519T001207
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SUMMARY:Film Screening with Julie Wyman - The Tallest Dwarf
DESCRIPTION:The Tallest Dwarf charts Julie Wyman’s quest to find her place within the little people (LP) community at a moment when dwarf identity is poised to radically change. Wyman’s work engages issues of embodiment\, body image\, and the possibilities and problematics of media spectatorship—all informed by her experience of living with hypochondroplasia dwarfism. Julie Wyman will be in conversation after the screening with Pooja Rangan (Professor of English and Film and Media Studies at Amherst College and Visiting Scholar of Visualizing Abolition) and Cynthia Ling Lee (Associate Professor of Performance\, Play & Design\, UC Santa Cruz). \nCo-organized/co-sponsored by the Arts Division’s Film & Digital Media Department\, “Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice“— a collaborative initiative of five UC campuses\, including Riverside\, Irvine\, Los Angeles\, Santa Cruz\, and San Francisco\, to address health disparities in institutions and policy — and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. This event is open to UC Santa Cruz affiliates. \nPARKING\n– Parking via UCSC permit or ParkMobile\n– Core West is the lot closest to the event \nABOUT THE FILM\nAs Wyman unpacks the rumors of “partial dwarfism” in her family\, she finds that hers is the last of a body type she has inherited. She joins forces with a group of dwarf artists to confront the legacy of being fetishized and put on display. Together they create films that reclaim a complicated history and speak back to the echoes of eugenics in the newly emerging pharmaceutical interventions that make little people taller. Through its personal and expanding perspective\, the film invites audiences to a new way of seeing. \nABOUT THE FILMMAKER\nJulie Forrest Wyman’s 2012 documentary STRONG! premiered at AFI Silverdocs and was broadcast nationally on PBS’s Emmy award-winning series\, Independent Lens\, where it won the series’ Audience Award. Wyman’s work has been awarded support from Sundance\, Sandbox\, IDA\, SF Film Society\, Points North\, ITVS\, the Creative Capital Foundation\, The Princess Grace Foundation\, California Humanities\, and NEH. She has been a fellow at the UC Davis Feminist Research Institute and a resident of SF Film Society’s Filmhouse\, Siena Art Institute\, Logan Nonfiction and Points North. Her films\, including FatMob (2016)\, Buoyant (2005)\, and A Boy Named Sue (2000)\, have aired on Showtime\, MTV’s LOGO-TV\, and have been exhibited on five continents. She serves as Associate Professor of Cinema and Digital Media at UC Davis. \nPhotographer credit: Gabriella Garcia-Pardo; image description: A group of six LP (little people) performers regard their paper body cut outs on the wall.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-with-julie-wyman-the-tallest-dwarf/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260421T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260421T193000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening with Dolly Kikon - A Sacred Place
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the American premiere of A Sacred Place (2026)\, a new film by Professor Dolly Kikon (Anthropology). The film tells the story of stones\, spirits\, and salt springs in Makhel. The film focuses on intergenerational storytellers and their relationship with the land. It integrates visual ethnography\, oral tradition\, and geological features of Makhel to center Indigenous pedagogy\, community history\, and ecology. After the screening\, Professor Clementine Bordeaux (HAVC) will provide comments and facilitate a conversation with Kikon and audience member participants. \nPlease find a trailer for A Sacred Place here. \n \nThis screening is a hybrid event. We welcome you to join us in-person in Studio C/Room 150\, Communications Building at UCSC or on Zoom. Remote participants will receive a link to the film before the event to watch on their own. \n\nThis event is graciously co-sponsored by UCSC’s Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions\, Center for South Asian Studies\, Indigenous Faculty Network\, the Film and Digital Media Department\, and The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-sacred-place-film-screening/
LOCATION:Communications\, Studio C\, Room 150\, Communications Bldg‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260422T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260422T133000
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SUMMARY:Ashwak Hauter - Physics of Affinity: Violence\, Love\, & Affinity in the Physician-Patient Relationship
DESCRIPTION:This talk recalls the recent phenomena of the murder of physicians in Jordan and Yemen\, and the rise in altercations in Saudi Arabia between physicians and patients and their family. Aiming to work on the physics of affinity\, the binding and unbinding of ethical relationalities\, within the patient-doctor relationship the physicians claim to be prophets and reintroduced alghayb (unknown\, God’s knowledge) into the clinic in order to prevent the arrogation of power to them and counter the demand of patients for them to deliver the cure. This talk prompts us to ask what kinds of ethics emerges with Alghayb in view? In dialogue with Abu-Hamid Alghazaly\, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya\, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\, Sigmund Freud\, and Jacque Lacan’s work on affinity\, transference\, savoir\, and alghayb\, this paper explores the auto-erotics within ethical relationalities in the clinic. It provokes us to reexamine the anthropological reduction of affinity to a preoccupation with aggression\, moving us toward understanding the asymmetries of exchange and relationalities. \nAshwak Sam Hauter is an assistant professor of medical anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the author of “Fright and the Fraying of Community” published in Cultural Anthropology and “Madness\, Pain\, & Ikhtilāṭ al-ʿaql: Conceptualizing Ibn Abī Ṣādiq’s Medico-Philosophical Psychology” in Early Science and Medicine. Her manuscript in progress details scenes of Islah (reform) within medicines in Yemen\, Saudi Arabia\, and Jordan aimed at securing demands for ‘afiya (holistic well-being)\, recentering the health of the individual body around the political\, economic\, and spiritual dimensions of the community (umma). Her current project centers around examining mental health and the work of culture amidst the war in Yemen among Yemeni artists\, poets\, filmmakers\, and psychologists. \n\nPresented by the Center for Cultural Studies and co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Department of Anthropology Colloquium. This event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law. \n\n \nSpring 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 Spring 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/ashwak-hauter-physics-of-affinity-violence-love-affinity-in-the-physician-patient-relationship/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Arts and Ecology Festival
DESCRIPTION:The first Arts & Ecology Festival at UC Santa Cruz will bring together talks and panels featuring artists\, scientists\, and researchers. The April 22 program includes film screenings\, live music\, artworks\, a clothing swap\, a poetry slam\, a solar powered mobile projection system\, and groups like the Norris Center of Natural History\, The Fábrica community textile Arts & Salvage Workshop in Santa Cruz\, and a mobile podcast booth from UC Davis for participants to respond to climate-focused prompts\, capturing creative perspectives on climate change. \nThis program is part of OpenLab Collaborative Research Center\, led by Jennifer Parker\, with support from the Art Department and the University of California Climate Action Arts Network (UC CAAN). UC CAAN is a new system wide initiative to support creative research\, scholars\, students\, and community partners to address the climate crisis through the transformative power of the arts. The network is supported by the University of California Office of the President through its Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives (MRPI) grant program. \nLearn more at the Arts & Ecology Festival website.  \nThe Humanities Institute’s Deep Read program is co-sponsoring a Compost and Fungi: Interactive Talk at 5 pm on Megafires\, Floods and Fungi.  \nWith the rise of catastrophic megafires and flooding\, we look to fungi and other microbes as nature’s mediators between fire and water. They sink carbon\, retain water\, prevent erosion\, digest toxins\, and establish ecological balance in both pre and post fire ecosystems. As fires enter the human-made environment more regularly\, there is a growing concern about post-fire toxic ash\, and the consequences of ash-runoff entering the surrounding waterways. Wildfire also provides a unique opportunity to revitalize ecosystems\, restore water and maximize nutrient cycling. There is a growing grassroots network with hubs in Colorado\, California and Hawaii that seeks to generate fire resilience by allying with fungi and other microbes. CoRenewal’s FENiXS program and the Biome Logs Project are evaluating the efficacy of fungal inoculation\, with the aim of producing widely applicable tools and methodologies to facilitate ecological regeneration and recovery in the aftermath of disaster and environmental injustice\, while honoring and taking inspiration from indigenous relationships with fire and fungi. In this participatory workshop\, we will discuss how to organize and integrate inoculants into land tending practices\, as well as how to contribute to community science that supports these efforts.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/arts-and-ecology-festival/
LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center\, 407 McHenry Road\, Santa Cruz
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SUMMARY:Bibliography as Biography - Recovering Early-Nineteenth-Century Latinx Figures
DESCRIPTION:The lecture will focus on the history of Spanish-language writing and publishing in the United States with particular attention to a New York publisher in the early nineteenth century. \nCarmen E. Lamas is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature\, Translation\, and Historiography (Oxford University Press\, 2021; 2025 paperback release) which won the MLA Prize in Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies and the Latin American Studies Association Latinx Studies Book Award. She is the co-editor of the critical edition Irene Albar. Novela cubana (1885\, 1886) by Eusebio Guiteras (Calambur 2023). Her work has appeared in various journals and edited volumes\, and she is a co-founding editor of Pasados: Recovering History\, Imagining Latinidad\, a new open-access journal published with the University of Pennsylvania Press. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Literature Department and the Spanish Studies Major
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bibliography-as-biography-recovering-early-nineteenth-century-latinx-figures/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:This is Thirty Exhibition Opening
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History’s 30 year anniversary\, this exhibition will highlight some of the artwork and artifacts from the MAH’s permanent collection. In addition\, artist Joshua Moreno will create a site specific installation inspired by the MAH’s historical archives. \nThe exhibition runs from April 24th to August 9th\, 2026. Please visit the MAH website for more information. \nImage: Sam Jablon\, Vicousss\, 2023. Oil on linen. Collection of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Gift of Max Werner \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/this-is-thirty-exhibition-opening/
LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - Macbeth
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Macbeth by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on Aoril 18\, 25\, May 2\, 9 & 16 2026 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 May 16\,a video of a live stage production 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 / Video Recording \n\nApril 18: Julia Reinhard Lupton\, Distinguished Professor Emerita of English & Comparative Literature & Co-Director of the New Swan Shakespeare Center at UC\, Irvine. Reading: Act 1\nApril 25: Charles Pasternak\, Acclaimed New York-based theatre director and actor\, Paul will direct Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2026 production of Macbeth. Reading: Act 2 through Act 3\, Scene 3\nMay 2: Abigail Heald\, Lecturer in Literature @ UC Santa Cruz & Stanford. She is writing a book on the relationship between art and emotion in Shakespeare’s work. Reading: Act 3\, Scene 4 through Act 4\, Scene 2\nMay 9: Paul Mullins\, Actor / Director\, Artistic Director of Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Reading: Act 4\, Scene 3 through Act 5\, Scene 8\nMay 16: Video recording of a live stage production at the Globe Theatre\, directed by Tony Award winning director Eve Best\, and starring Joseph Millson (Macbeth) and Samantha Spiro (Lady Macbeth).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-macbeth-april25/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Emmaia Gelman - The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State
DESCRIPTION:“The ADL was born of the belief that the best protection from antisemitism was admission into the white racial state and waging a vigorous defense of capitalism\, individual rights\, and the West against communists and barbarians. And it has never looked back.” –Robin D. G. Kelley \nThe Anti-Defamation League (ADL) once sought to portray itself as a defender of civil rights aligned with racial justice movements in the United States. In a groundbreaking study that Publishers Weekly describes as a “gutsy\, razor-sharp demystification of a powerful organization\,” Emmaia Gelman exposes the ADL’s alliance with American white supremacy and western empire and its historic investment in Cold War anticommunism. Her definitive account shows how the ADL as a Zionist organization has advanced and supported pro-state policing\, a hate-crimes framework that obscures racialized structures of power\, and a “War on Terror” that has stoked anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia. \n \nPlease register here but on-site registration is possible. \nEmmaia Gelman is the founding Director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. She has taught social and cultural analysis at NYU and social sciences at Sarah Lawrence College. Her writing appears in Jewish Currents\, Boston Review\, The Forward\, and elsewhere. \n__________________________________________________________________________ \nThis event is presented by the Center for Racial Justice and cosponsored by the Resource Center for Nonviolence\, Jewish Voice for Peace–South Bay\, Santa Cruz Jews for a Free Palestine\, Students for Justice in Palestine Santa Cruz\, Faculty for Justice in Palestine at UC Santa Cruz\, UC Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine\, the Ethnic Studies Council at the University of California\, and the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-anti-defamation-league-and-the-racial-state-a-book-talk-with-emmaia-gelman/
LOCATION:Resource Center for Non Violence
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260426T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260426T160000
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SUMMARY:Guelaguetza Cultural Festival
DESCRIPTION:Senderos presents the 21st annual Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza\, a family friendly\, Indigenous cultural festival. The Guelaguetza brings together food\, music\, dance\, language\, crafts\, and community to celebrate the beautiful traditions of Oaxaca\, Mexico. Local dancers from Senderos’ own Centeotl Danza y Baile will represent the eight regional traditions of Oaxaca\, accompanied by Oaxacan musicians from Los Angeles. Oaxacan food and beverage specialties such as mole\, tlayudas\, and tejate will be sold along with crafts and souvenirs. Senderos is a partner in the new Ripple Effect Santa Cruz Arts Festival and Guelaguetza will take place on the closing day of the festival. \n*Admission is $10; free for children 5 and under. No dogs\, alcohol\, smoking on school property. Bring blankets and lawn chairs and be transported to the sights and sounds of Oaxaca! \nMore information at: Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza | Senderos \nIsai Pazos\, Senderos Executive Director said\, “As we celebrate Guelaguetza in Santa Cruz\, we affirm our commitment to passing these cultural traditions to new generations\, ensuring that our heritage continues to thrive. Today more than ever this is critical. Together\, through culture and solidarity\, we continue to build a stronger\, more connected community.” The word Guelaguetza is derived from the Oaxacan Indigenous Zapotec language and signifies giving\, cooperation\, and community. The Guelaguetza is the major fundraising event for Senderos\, a nonprofit in Santa Cruz who has been providing free dance and music classes\, education support and scholarships for Latino youth since 2001. \nGuelaguetza in Santa Cruz was created by Senderos co-founders\, Fe Silva and Nereida Robles- Vasquez; starting small in the Civic Auditorium\, the festival moved outdoors to Harbor High School\, San Lorenzo Park and attracted 2000 attendees last year at current location Branciforte Small Schools. Even during COVID\, Senderos presented virtual full-length presentations with video of dancers and musicians in Santa Cruz and in Oaxaca. \nThis event is co-sponsored by: Santa Cruz City Schools\, Arts Council Santa Cruz County\, California Arts Council\, Chicana Latina Foundation\, Community Foundation Santa Cruz County\, County of Santa Cruz\, DCD Insurance and Financial Services\, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, Kaiser Permanente\, La Oaxaqueña\, Latino Community Foundation\, Mexican Consulate of San Jose\, Maverick Mailing\, Miller Maxfield\, Inc.\, Monterey Peninsula Foundation\, Ow Family Properties\, Santa Cruz City Arts\, Santa Cruz County Office of Education\, West Coast Community Bank\, and more. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vive-oaxaca-guelaguetza-3/
LOCATION:Branciforte Small Schools Campus\, 840 N Branciforte Ave\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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SUMMARY:Linda Zerilli - The Feminist Democratic Imaginary: Actualizing Pasts\, Creating Futures
DESCRIPTION:The first guest of the History of Consciousness Spring 2026 Research Colloquium will be joining us next Monday\, April 27th! This event brings Linda Zerilli to give her talk “The Feminist Democratic Imaginary: Actualizing Pasts\, Creating Futures”. \nFeminist historians have long challenged the progress narrative — the story in which each wave supersedes the last\, the arc bends toward justice\, and history moves only one way. Yet despite decades of critique\, no compelling alternative relationship to the past has emerged. We are caught in a double bind: premodern exemplarity is unavailable to us\, and the modern alternative forecloses the future by making it seem already scripted. This paper develops a third relationship — the feminist democratic imaginary — that returns us to action through history rather than offering an escape from action into it. Drawing on Arendt\, Koselleck\, Castoriadis\, Benjamin\, and Hartman\, it argues that the past is not a repository of recoverable resources but the site of an encounter — and the encounter is not a transfer across time but a creation. This reorientation has direct political consequences: if the past is an occasion for creation rather than a ground of conditions\, then authoritarian backlash is not a contraction of the possible but a new occasion — a moment of danger that makes defeated alternatives newly legible and calls for figures of the thinkable that neither the past nor the present alone could have generated. \n \nJoin us in-person on April 27th at 1pm in Hum 1 Rm 210\, or register to attend virtually at this link. \nLinda M. G. Zerilli is the Charles E. Merriam Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the College. Zerilli is the author of Signifying Woman (Cornell University Press\, 1994)\, Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom (University of Chicago Press\, 2005)\, A Democratic Theory of Judgment (University of Chicago Press\, 2016)\, A Democratic Theory of Truth (University of Chicago Press\, 2025)\, and articles on subjects ranging across feminist thought\, the politics of language\, aesthetics\, democratic theory\, and Continental philosophy. She has been a Fulbright Fellow\, a two-time Member of the Institute for Advanced Study\, and a Stanford Humanities Center Fellow\, and a Stanford Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences Fellow. She has served on the executive committee of Political Theory and the advisory boards of The American Political Science Review\, Philosophy and Rhetoric\, Constellations\, and Culture\, Theory and Critique. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-feminist-democratic-imaginary-actualizing-pasts-creating-futures-with-linda-zerilli/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Karen Tei Yamashita - Questions 27 & 28
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes acclaimed author Karen Tei Yamashita (I Hotel) to celebrate the launch of her new novel Questions 27 & 28—a masterful polyvocal history of Japanese Americans before\, during\, and after World War II. Yamashita will be in conversation with Alice Yang\, Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \nIn February 1942\, shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor\, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order authorizing the secretary of war to remove 120\,000 Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast and corral them into inland concentration camps. \n \nQuestions 27 & 28 reaches backward and forward from the time of the questionnaire\, chronicling the individuals who arrived in the US from Japan at the turn of the century\, their children who came of age during war and incarceration\, and their descendants who lived in its aftermath. Yamashita mixes fact with fiction and layers genres from James Bond movies to haiku to oral history\, transfiguring an enormity of archival research into a chorus of stories. With her signature wit and aplomb\, she gives voice to laborers\, artists\, scholars\, informants\, and activists who\, over three generations\, defined an immigrant community. \nKaren Tei Yamashita is the author of nine books\, including I Hotel\, finalist for the National Book Award. Recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 2021 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters\, she is Professor Emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. In 2024 Yamashita was inducted as a Literature Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nAlice Yang is Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She received her Ph.D. in history from Stanford University and currently co-directs the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories. She specializes in memories of the Pacific War\, Asian American history\, race\, gender\, oral history\, historical memory\, and twentieth-century America. Her publications include Historical Memories of the Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress (2007)\, Major Problems in Asian American History (2003\, 2017) and What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean? (2000). Her exhibit\, Never Again is Now: Japanese American Women Activists and the Legacy of Mass Incarceration\, appeared at UC Santa Cruz\, the Watsonville Public Library and the Japanese American Museum of San Jose. She also has served as chair of the UCSC History Department and provost of Stevenson College at UCSC. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Karen Tei Yamashita \n\nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-tei-yamashita-questions-27-28/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Quinn Slobodian - Whither Neoliberalism Studies?
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Politics Department \nThe last two decades have seen a flood of research on neoliberalism. Defined in multiple and even conflicting ways\, the term nonetheless served as a master category of analysis for scholars from history to geography and communications. Where does the field sit now as trends of authoritarianism and reterritorialization shatter long-standing axioms of rule? This question will be discussed in relation to my own engagement with the subfield of neoliberalism studies over many years. \nQuinn Slobodian teaches international history at Boston University. His books include Globalists\, Crack-Up Capitalism\, and Hayek’s Bastards. Out in April 2026 with Ben Tarnoff is Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. He is a Guggenheim Fellow for 2025-26. \n\nPresented by the Center for Cultural Studies and co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Department of Anthropology Colloquium. This event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law. \n\n \nSpring 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 Spring 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. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/quinn-slobodian-whither-neoliberalism-studies/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Muskism - A Guide For The Perplexed
DESCRIPTION:Everyone’s got an Elon take. He’s a messiah. A menace; a genius; a clown. The verdicts differ\, but they share one theme: they treat him as an individual. Muskism argues otherwise. Elon Musk isn’t a glitch in the system—he is the system. His worldview promises sovereignty through technology: plug in\, power up\, and become self-reliant. But the more you connect\, the more he owns you. If Fordism defined the capitalism of the twentieth century\, Muskism may define the twenty-first. Fordism helped build the welfare state. Musk undoes it. He thrives on dependence while preaching freedom. His cars run on subsidies; his satellites run the battlefield; his social networks train the AI that trains us. Muskism sells itself as the future but entrenches age-old hierarchies. It offers autonomy for some and exclusion for others. It’s pro- natalist but anti-immigrant\, futurist but reactionary. It speaks of humanity but warns against empathy. Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff cut through the hype and the hate to reveal what Musk really represents: a new political economy\, where to be “free” means to serve a Techno- King. Muskism isn’t about the man. It’s about the machine that made him—and the world he’s making next. \nQuinn Slobodian is professor of international history at Boston University\, and the author or editor of seven books translated into ten languages including\, Hayek’s Bastards: Race\, Gold\, IQ and the Capitalism of the Far Right\, Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy\, and Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. \nBen Tarnoff is a writer and technologist based in Massachusetts and is the author of Internet for the People and the co-author of Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do—And How They Do It. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books\, and has also written for the New York Times\, The New Yorker\, and the New Republic\, among other publications. \n\nThis event is sponsored by Department of Politics\, Institute for Social Transformation\, The Humanities Institute\, Center for Cultural Studies\, and The Department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/muskism-a-guide-for-the-perplexed/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sumud Behind Bars: Palestinian Women and the Politics of Everyday Resistance
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Racial Justice is very proud to sponsor the second annual Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement series! Please join us for the following talk with Samah Saleh: \nThis talk examines resistance inside Israeli prisons through the experiences of Palestinian women who practice sumud (steadfastness) as an everyday form of political agency. Rather than an abstract idea\, sumud emerges as a lived reality within the prison’s suspended time\, where women confront isolation\, violence\, and attempts at erasure. Through collective organization\, shared learning\, embroidery\, reading\, writing\, and emotional solidarity\, everyday survival becomes a form of resistance. Despite gendered violence such as strip searches and harassment\, women reclaim dignity and political identity by supporting one another and creating informal spaces for learning and memory-sharing. Drawing on testimonies of former Palestinian women prisoners\, this talk highlights how solidarity itself becomes a powerful strategy for survival\, resistance\, and the continuation of political struggle. \nSamah Saleh is Visiting Professor of Gender Studies at UCLA and Assistant Professor at An-Najah National University in Palestine. \n  \n  \n\nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, Students for Justice in Palestine\, People’s University\, UCSC Sociology\, CSAS\, Center for Cultural Studies\, Center for Racial Justice\, CRES\, Feminist Studies\, Institute for Social Transformation
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sumud-behind-bars-palestinian-women-and-the-politics-of-everyday-resistance/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Nathan Osorio
DESCRIPTION:In Nourishment\, Us. \nLiving Writers Spring 2026:  Our Nourishment\, US features poets\, writers\, critics\, visual and performance artists\, who demonstrate how writing and art enacts around the idea of freedom and the imaginary in the face of the constant threat of terror and erasure. In the presence of who we all are within marginalized yet expansively powerful fields of racialized and multiply lived complex and diverse identities\, please come as we convene in spirit\, deep celebration\, and resource with one another. \nNathan Xavier Osorio’s debut collection of poetry\, Querida (University of Pittsburgh Press)\, won the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize selected by Shara McCallum\, was a finalist for the California Book Award in Poetry\, and was selected by Phillip B. Williams as a finalist for Poetry Society of America’s Norma Faber First Book Award. He was selected as a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Irvine and his work has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books\, BOMB\, Gulf Coast\, The\nSlowdown\, and elsewhere. He is the 2025 Dartmouth Poet-in-Residence at The Frost Place and an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Texas Tech 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-nathan-osorio/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Film Screening - Environmental Crisis in Gabes: Agriculture and Revolt in Tunisia
DESCRIPTION:Film Screening and Discussion:  5:30-7pm\, Communications (Studio C) \nReception:  7-8:30pm\, Communications 139 \nGabes Labess (All is well in Gabes) questions current development models by focusing on the Oasis of Gabes\, the only coastal oasis in the world. What was once considered “The Paradise of the World” has been transformed into an economic\, social\, and ecological catastrophe by the construction\, in the 1970s\, of an industrial chemical complex that has deprived local farmers of their water\, arable land\, economic well-being\, and personal dignity. \nJoin us for a screening of this film by Habib Ayeb\, followed by a discussion with Jennifer Derr (UCSC) and Hossein Ayazi (UCB) on how models of development influence the lived environment\, public health\, and political contestation from California to North Africa. As climate change and rising temperatures dramatically alter landscapes around the world\, professors Derr and Ayazi will discuss how local populations adapt to these challenges and organize to demand accountability from the state. Reception to follow. \nHossein Ayazi\, PhD\, is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California\, Berkeley. His research\, teaching\, and policy work examine the U.S. and global political economy of agri-food systems and environmental change and their relationship to antiracist\, anticolonial\, and revolutionary-socialist movements from the twentieth century to the present. He has authored reports and peer-reviewed articles on U.S. and global agri-food and environmental policy\, state and corporate power\, trade and development\, labor and migration\, climate impacts and resilience strategies\, and food sovereignty and climate reparations. He is currently coordinating lead author on the California Fifth Climate Assessment topical report on Climate-Induced Human Displacement & Migration and has recently advised the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on “Global Recommendations to Prevent Loss of Nationality and Statelessness in the Context of Climate Change.” He holds a PhD in Environmental Science\, Policy\, and Management from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and has held resident fellowships and visiting professorships at Tufts University\, Williams College\, and Santa Clara University. \nJennifer L. Derr is Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz\, where she also served as the founding director of the Center for the Middle East and North Africa. Her research explores the intersections among medicine\, science\, the environment\, and capitalism\, particularly in the modern Middle East and North Africa. Prof. Derr’s book\, The Lived Nile: Environment\, Disease\, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt (Stanford University Press\, 2019)\, was awarded the 2020 Middle East Political Economy Book Prize. \n\nPresented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and co-sponsored by the Film and Digital Media Department.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/environmental-crisis-in-gabes-agriculture-and-revolt-in-tunisia/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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