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Monsters play a role in the representation of some of the most challenging problems facing our world: matters of race and religion, social justice, and environmental threats. The Center for Monster Studies at UC Santa Cruz aims to explore the role of monsters in culture and humanities. Each year, the Center for Monster Studies presents […]
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The history of the insular Caribbean has long been told in terms of the boom and bust of the monoculture plantation system. Indeed, monoculture has become a pervasive way of understanding not only the agriculture but also the societies, economies, and cultures of the Caribbean islands. Yet, as Kamau Brathwaite has written, "the plantation does […]
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Feeling the archival impulse? Come get some hands-on experience in the Special Collections & Archives Reading Room, chat about archives with your fellow grad students, and get your questions answered about archival research at UCSC and beyond. Curious undergrads are welcome, too! Space is limited. Please RSVP so we can get an accurate headcount. […] |
2 events,Living Writers Fall 2026 - OPEN SEASON: WRITING ENACTS features writers, performers and artists who explore what it means to encounter invisibility and silence, while simultaneously engaging with the insistent specters of hypervisibility and experiences of race, gender, and sexuality. These writers and artists work on the page, screen, stage and beyond. Often targeted, they […] |
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2 events,The Center for Middle East and North Africa is pleased to share "Envisioning Justice through North African Comics," an exhibit of graphic novels and comics from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region on display at the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery this fall. The exhibit, which is open October 20th to December 4th, 2026, […] Delio Vasquez (New York University) will be in conversation with Darien Acero & xafsa ciise (UC Santa Cruz). This conversation and talk describes Huey P. Newton’s conception of reality and how it informed his development of strategies for the revolutionary organization, the Black Panther Party. Newton’s early approach was deeply influenced by skepticism, radical empiricism, […] |
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The 1970s saw a burst of working-class struggle in the United States. In a moment of crisis, workers responded with courage and determination to fight back. A wave of strikes and rank-and-file rebellion led a number of feminist scholars and activists to investigate, contextualize, and broadcast this activity. Some engaged in oral history, others in […] |
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What if we considered Southeast Asia from the perspective of its muddy coasts and inland swamps? Precolonial “Soft coasts” supported a maritime world connecting diverse peoples by trade, kinship, and fealty. European ideas of property and governance brought land reclamation, destroying those wetlands. Reclamation continues in postcolonial guises. What are its social and ecological effects? […] 
Join the Humanities Institute, the Moving Image Lab, and the Quarry Amphitheater for a screening of Isaac Julien’s 1991 film, Young Soul Rebels. Recently restored to its original director’s cut, the film is a coming-of-age thriller set in London in 1977, the year of the Sex Pistols’ debut and Queen Elizabeth II’s Silver Jubilee. It […] |
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Drawing on research in Sikkim, India, with the Affected Citizens of Teesta movement, and with geoscientists across the Himalayan region, this talk asks: How have state powers used geological ways of seeing the Himalaya and with what consequences? What other geological imaginaries might offer an emancipatory, justice-centered approach to the earth? Centering the 2023 Glacial […] |
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1 event,Further information to come. Register above to attend virtually. Marco Cavallaro is Assistant Professor at the Husserl Archives and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cologne, where he leads a DFG-funded research project on the history and development of Italian phenomenology. His research focuses on Husserlian phenomenology, Italian phenomenology, and the intersections of […] |
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The panel examines themes animating Isaac Julien’s 1991 film Young Soul Rebels. In the presentations and the discussion, the panelists explore questions of temporality, memory, Black culture, and film theory. Rizvana Bradley: Interval of the Abandoned Over the two decades since Young Soul Rebels and Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask were first screened, Isaac […] 
El coloquio de Spanish Studies presenta "Language of the Law - How Non-English Speakers Lose their Rights in the Criminal Justice System" by Bradly deMoll, Deputy Public Defender, Santa Cruz County. This talk will be in English and is open to all UCSC undergraduates, graduates, faculty, and staff.
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Congressional elections are central to American democratic representation. Their importance underpins recent concerns about partisan gerrymandering in the states and makes civic participation even more critical given the narrow majorities in Congress. Indeed, the outcome of congressional elections has significant consequences for whose voices are reflected in state and federal policymaking, especially when both parties […]
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Join the Center for the Middle East and North Africa for a reading and talk with award-winning poet and translator Fady Joudah. In Exhibit G: Fady Joudah writes from the split perspective of a Palestinian American physician caring for the sick while watching the destruction of Gaza from the United States, a nation complicit in […] |
1 event,Living Writers Fall 2026 – OPEN SEASON: WRITING ENACTS features writers, performers and artists who explore what it means to encounter invisibility and silence, while simultaneously engaging with the insistent specters of hypervisibility and experiences of race, gender, and sexuality. These writers and artists work on the page, screen, stage and beyond. Often targeted, they create […] |
1 event,Join us for a conference celebrating the academic legacy of David Hoy, an esteemed colleague and professor of Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz. The event will be presented in person and virtually. In person attendees are invited to join us in Humanities 1, Room 210. The program will start at 2:00pm. Registration is required for […] |
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