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SUMMARY:The Deep Read: The Literature and Poetics of Fungi Salon
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a salon-style event at the Hay Barn on campus where we will hold a salon focused on the literary and poetic influence of fungi and its relation to Entangled Life. The salon will feature Professors Hannah Cole (Assistant Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz)\, Brenda Hillman (Professor Emerita of Poetry at Saint Mary’s College)\, A. Laurie Palmer (Professor Emerita of Art at UC Santa Cruz)\, and Jennifer Tseng (Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at UC Santa Cruz) in conversation with moderator Laura Martin and the Deep Read community. Participants can also attend virtually. \n \nIn person at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. Doors open at 5:30pm. \nEvent Logistics: Bicycling\, carpooling\, ridesharing\, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited on campus. If you drive to the event\, please plan to park in UCSC Lot #115 or #116. To reach these lots\, proceed through the main entrance to campus\, continue up the hill from the information kiosk on Coolidge\, then turn right at the Ranch View/Carriage House Road stoplight into the Carriage House/Campus Facilities parking lot. The Hay Barn is a 5-minute walk across the street from the parking lot. There will be directional signage to help you get to the correct parking lot and the Hay Barn entrance. Overflow parking will be available in lot #122. View the campus parking map here. \n\nAdditional Events of Interest: \nEntangled Life Faculty Salon: On May 19\, 2026\, at 6pm\, we will hold a salon-style event at the Hay Barn on campus where a group of Deep Read faculty—Professors Breen\, Gilbert\, and Haraway —will give brief presentations and discuss Entangled Life with moderator Laura Martin and the Deep Read community. Participants can also attend virtually. \nAuthor Event – A Conversation with Merlin Sheldrake:  On May 31\, 2026\, at 4pm\, we will welcome Merlin Sheldrake to the Quarry Amphitheater on campus where he will be in conversation with Associate Professor of History\, Benjamin Breen. This will be an in-person event\, and\, as always\, it will be free and open to the public. \n \nThe Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz made possible through the generous support of the Helen and Will Webster Foundation. We invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-deep-read-the-literature-and-poetics-of-fungi-salon/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Murad Idris – Against Hate: On the Politics of a False Diagnosis
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Global Political Thought Working Group \nThe idea that “hate” names a fundamental problem of our time has engulfed Anglophone public discourse. Republicans and Democrats\, university presidents and doxxing campaigns\, advocacy organizations and journalists\, scholarly experts and “hate glossaries” criticize what they oppose as hate\, demand standing against hate\, and seem to treat hate as a diagnosis—one that comes with its own institutional prescriptions. In recent years\, Gaza has put the pervasiveness and power of this discourse on full display. What is the long history of this way of diagnosing politics and the world? Who hates\, what counts as hating\, who is hated\, and what broader philosophical structures and shifts underlie the subject for whom hate is a cipher or a code for understanding the world? The presentation offers a genealogy of “hate” through the question of Palestine over the last six decades\, its transformations\, and its intersections with anti-Muslim racism. \n \nMurad Idris is Associate Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan and is currently a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. His award-winning book\, War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought (Oxford\, 2019)\, examines how philosophers fantasize about peace in order to promote hierarchy\, war\, and repression. He co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory (Oxford\, 2020)\, with Leigh Jenco and Megan Thomas\, and co-authored Political Theory: A Global and Comparative Introduction (SAGE\, 2025)\, with Leigh Jenco and Paulina Ochoa Espejo. He is completing projects about Sayyid Qutb’s global and critical thought\, the genealogies of racializing Islam\, and the politics of hate. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania with specializations in Political Theory and Middle East Politics. \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/murad-idris-dialogue-for-hate-a-global-genealogy/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Performing Shakespeare in Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Shakespeare Santa Cruz and the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop present an exhibit of materials from past productions of Much Ado about Nothing and Macbeth\, curated by student interns at Shakespeare Workshop from the Shakespeare Santa Cruz archive. The event will include opening remarks by Charles Pasternak & Paul Whitworth and light refreshments. \nTickets are now on sale for Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2026 Season\, featuring Much Ado About Nothing and Macbeth. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute. \nThe 2026 season runs from July 16 – August 30. \nMuch Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare’s wittiest and most beloved comedies. Of all the couples in Shakespeare\, perhaps none is more widely loved than Beatrice and Benedick. Their battle of wits\, their antagonism turned to eroticism\, their history. Before the play begins\, they already seem to define each other. The audience\, like the other characters in the play\, wait with excitement as their wits clash\, and eventually\, as their love blossoms. \nDark\, bloody\, brutal\, and magnificent\, William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is one of the greatest plays ever written. Its central couple\, ironically\, is one of Shakespeare’s happiest. At least at the beginning. Macbeth explores what we become when our second half is ripped away. A powerful unit\, wildly in love with each other\, the Macbeths follow the insinuations of the witches – the famous weird sisters – and commit murder in the name of their shared ambition: the throne of Scotland. But even with their goal achieved\, Macbeth’s paranoia and guilt lead him further down the road of blood. The central unit tears apart under the shadow of its deeds. Who are these two without each other? Slowly and surely\, the play shows us society’s ruin in the form of its leading pair. Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s production of Macbeth stars Dan Donohue in the title role and Paige Lindsey White as Lady Macbeth.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/performing-shakespeare-in-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:McHenry Library (3rd Floor)\, Special Collections
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SUMMARY:Jean Drèze - "Yummy: School Meals in India"
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for South Asian Studies for a virtual talk by Jean Drèze\, “Yummy: School Meals in India.” School meals have been a legal entitlement of Indian children since 2001. It took some years for this legal entitlement to translate into functional schemes\, but from then onwards school meals have made important contributions to child nutrition\, school attendance\, and social equity. From time to time\, they faced some resistance from the biscuit industry\, finance ministries\, upper-caste parents\, and other parties. School meals are alive and well today\, yet much scope remains to expand their nutritional\, educational\, and social benefit \n \nThis event is virtual. Register above. \nJean Drèze is a development economist based in Ranchi (Eastern India). His work focuses on various aspects of social policy\, from employment guarantee to school meals. He is also active in various campaigns for economic and social rights. \n  \n\nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jean-dreze-yummy-school-meals-in-india/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Amy Zhou - Unequal Worlds of Care: The Politics of Global Health in Malawi
DESCRIPTION:Unequal Worlds of Care examines how policymakers\, providers\, and patients in Malawi navigate a healthcare system transformed unevenly by foreign aid. Whether through engaging in political resistance\, refusing treatment\, or leveraging the opportunities available to them\, people contend with global health programs that only partially recognize their healthcare realities. Ultimately\, overlooking fundamental aspects of healthcare limits even the best-intentioned efforts to improve people’s health and well-being. \n \nAmy Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Barnard College\, Columbia University\, where she researches health inequalities\, development and humanitarianism\, and emergent technologies. Her book\, Unequal Worlds of Care: The Politics of Global Health in Malawi\, follows policymakers\, providers\, and patients as they respond to global health programs that target certain issues but not others. Her research has also examined how race is understood and operationalized in health service delivery. She also works with interdisciplinary groups to examine the societal impact of new technologies\, like gene drives and precision medicine. \nThis event is presented by the Global & Community Health Program and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/unequal-worlds-of-care-the-politics-of-global-health-in-malawi/
LOCATION:BioMed 200
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260530T120000
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SUMMARY:Office Hours Under the Sea
DESCRIPTION:Join Ronaldo Wilson and special guests for a site-specific\, endurance performance as part of there are no words\, but melodies. The exhibition emerges at the intersections of Black poetics\, performance\, and visual art to shuttle between verbal and non-verbal forms of language\, rendering the boundaries of identity and meaning slippery. \nDrop in and visit Wilson’s office hours any time between 12pm and 5pm. \nRonaldo V. Wilson is a poet\, interdisciplinary artist\, academic\, and the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man\, winner of the Cave Canem Prize; Poems of the Black Object\, winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry; Farther Traveler: Poetry\, Prose\, Other\, and Lucy 72. His latest books are Carmelina: Figures and Virgil Kills: Stories. He is the editor of three special issues of hybrid and experimental work in Interim: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics; and Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. He has shown work and performed most recently at the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics\, and The Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard. The recipient of numerous fellowships\, including Cave Canem\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, MacDowell\, and The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation\, Wilson is Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at U.C. Santa Cruz\, where he directs the Creative Writing Program\, and serves on the core faculty of the Creative Critical PhD Program; principal faculty member of CRES (Critical Race and Ethnic Studies); and affiliate faculty member of DANM (Digital Arts and New Media).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/office-hours-under-the-sea/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Roadmap Home - Affordable Housing Month Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Join Housing Santa Cruz County for Affordable Housing Month Keynote & 6th Anniversary Celebration\, an afternoon that brings together the big-picture vision and the on-the-ground reality of housing in California. \n \nThe Roadmap Home will explore a comprehensive\, solutions-driven framework for ending the housing crisis. New Affordable Housing Pipeline data will confront a stark truth: nearly 40\,000 affordable homes are ready to be built across California but without the funding to move forward. What does this mean for Santa Cruz County? And what will it take to ensure our community is ready to lead? Join leaders\, advocates\, and community members as we align around the next steps to move from possibility to production. Please join us for this educational and inspiring Affordable Housing Month Keynote event—which will also celebrates Housing Santa Cruz County’s 6th anniversary! \nSpeakers: \nChione Lucina Muñoz Flegal is CEO of Housing California\, a prominent nonprofit advocacy group and policy institute focused on addressing housing scarcity and homelessness across the state\, and that published Roadmap Home. Roadmap Home is a comprehensive policy framework and advocacy campaign intended to end homelessness\, create 1.2 million new affordable homes\, protect 1 million renters\, and close racial equity gaps by 2030\, throughout California. \nHeather Hood is Vice President and Northern California Market Leader of Enterprise Community Partners\, a national nonprofit that provides solutions\, capital\, and community development to address the U.S.’s shortage of affordable rental homes\, and that published the 2026 California Affordable Housing Production Pipeline. The 2026 California Affordable Housing Production Pipeline is a report that illustrates the progress cities\, counties\, and the state have made to encourage affordable housing in California—and also underscores that without necessary public funding\, these developments will not be built. \nElaine Johnson\, J.D.\, Executive Director of Housing Santa Cruz County\, the organization that will lead local action to implement the Roadmap Home and Affordable Housing Pipeline data in order to continue supporting the creation of the housing that Santa Cruz County and all its residents need to thrive. Housing Santa Cruz County’s work is a vital component of housing development in our county\, through its public advocacy\, support of democratic accountability\, and community education. \n  \n\nABOUT HOUSING SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: Housing Santa Cruz County\, launched in 2020\, is a coalition of stakeholders across a wide array of sectors\, working collaboratively to align the political and community will necessary to create the housing that Santa Cruz County and all its residents need to thrive. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/housing-santa-cruz-countys-affordable-housing-month-2026-keynote-6th-anniversary-celebration/
LOCATION:Temple Beth El\, 3055 Porter Gulch Road\, Aptos\, CA\, 95003\, United States
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SUMMARY:UCSC French and Japanese Student Performance Evening
DESCRIPTION:FREE – ALL WELCOME \nIn the spirit of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse\, students from the French and Japanese programs at UCSC will present an evening of theater and music performances. \nFrench: Dur dur la torture (Pure Torture)\, written by the students\, directed by Renée Cailloux. \nJapanese: “きぼうのうた” (Song of Hope)\, directed by Naoko Yamamoto. \nThis informal end-of-quarter performance celebrates the creativity\, dedication\, and collaborative work of UCSC language students \nFor more information\, contact Renée Cailloux at meip@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ucsc-french-and-japanese-student-performance-evening/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center
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SUMMARY:The Deep Read - A Conversation with Merlin Sheldrake
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free\, public conversation with British mycologist and author\, Merlin Sheldrake\, at UC Santa Cruz’s Quarry Amphitheater on May 31\, 2026. He’ll discuss his New York Times bestseller\, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds\, Change our Minds\, and Shape our Futures with Associate Professor of History Benjamin Breen and the Deep Read community. Together\, we’ll explore the dependence of all life—human\, plant\, animal\, and beyond—on fungal networks and how the resulting interconnections provoke us to reconsider our understanding of existence\, identity\, intelligence\, and more. \n \n\nAdditional Events of Interest: \nEntangled Life Faculty Salon: On May 19\, 2026\, at 6pm\, we will hold a salon-style event at the Hay Barn on campus where a group of Deep Read faculty—Professors Breen\, Gilbert\, and Haraway —will give brief presentations and discuss Entangled Life with moderator Laura Martin and the Deep Read community. Participants can also attend virtually. \nThe Literature and Poetics of Fungi Salon: On May 26\, 2026\, at 6pm\, we will hold a salon at the Hay Barn focused on the literary and poetic influence of fungi and its relation to Entangled Life. The salon will feature Professors Cole\, Hillman\, Palmer\, and Tseng in conversation with moderator Laura Martin and the Deep Read community. Participants can also attend virtually. \n \nThe Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz made possible through the generous support of the Helen and Will Webster Foundation. We invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-deep-read-a-conversation-with-merlin-sheldrake/
LOCATION:Quarry Amphitheater
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