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SUMMARY:Donna Haraway - Thick\, Slimy\, Squishy\, Squiggly & Generative
DESCRIPTION:Join the UCSC Special Collections & Archives for a conversation with Donna Haraway titled “Thick\, Slimy\, Squishy\, & Generative\,” featuring History of Consciousness alumni Chela Sandoval (’93)\, Katie King (’87)\, and Caren Kaplan (’87). \n \nPlease register by May 20. Limited space is available; plan to arrive early for seating. The conversation will start promptly at 4:00pm and the event will continue afterwards with browsing in the archives. \nTogether with Haraway\, these History of Consciousness alums will revisit the collaborative\, interdisciplinary\, and transformative modes of thinking that shaped their time at UCSC in the 1980s and ’90s—and that continue to animate their work today. Reflecting on this shared historical moment\, the conversation will trace the intersections\, evolutions\, and generative entanglements of their ideas over time—and consider why collectivity\, friendship\, integrity\, and humor remain vital tools for navigating what Haraway has called the “thick and slimy” urgencies of our present. \nThis event also marks the opening of an exhibition that showcases select materials from the Donna Haraway Papers\, newly processed by the 2024-2025 CART Fellow and available for research at UCSC’s McHenry Library. \nOrganized by the University Library’s Elisabeth Remak-Honnef Center for Archival Research and Training (CART) and 2024-2025 CART Fellow Annika Berry.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/donna-haraway-thick-slimy-squishy-squiggly-generative/
LOCATION:McHenry Library (3rd Floor)\, Special Collections
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SUMMARY:Ussama Makdisi – Palestine\, Late Colonialism\, and the Question of Genocide
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) \nThis talk explores the relationship between modern philozionism in the West and the denialism of the Palestinians. The nineteenth-century European Zionist idea of implanting and sustaining an exclusively Jewish nationalist state in multireligious Palestine was a response to European racial antisemitism. But it was also premised\, from the outset\, on the erasure of native Palestinian history and the political significance of their centuries-old belonging on their own land. \nDr. Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley. He has published widely on Ottoman and Arab history as well as on U.S.-Arab relations and U.S. missionary work in the Middle East. Professor Makdisi’s most recent book\, Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World\, was published in 2019 by the University of California Press. He is also the author of Faith Misplaced: the Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations\, 1820-2001 (Public Affairs\, 2010)\, The Culture of Sectarianism: Community\, History\, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon (University of California Press\, 2000)\, and Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East (Cornell University Press\, 2008)\, which was the winner of the 2008 Albert Hourani Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association\, the 2009 John Hope Franklin Prize of the American Studies Association\, and a co-winner of the 2009 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize given by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. Professor Makdisi has also published articles in the Journal of American History\, the American Historical Review\, the International Journal of Middle East Studies\, Comparative Studies in Society and History\, and in the Middle East Report. He has held fellowships at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study\, Berlin)\, the Carnegie Corporation\, and the American Academy of Berlin. \n\n \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ussama-makdisi-palestine-late-colonialism-and-the-question-of-genocide/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Amending Worlds: Projects from the Coha-Gunderson Creativity Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Coha-Gunderson Creativity Workshop\, housed in The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, presents a multi-media exhibition by UCSC graduate and undergraduate students and alumni winners of the Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures. The Amending Worlds exhibition includes installations\, performances\, visual art\, film & video\, and a computer game\, distributed throughout the museum’s spaces. Prizewinners come from a range of disciplines\, including Anthropology\, Art\, Computational Media\, Environmental Art and Social Practice\, Film and Digital Media\, Literature\, and Politics. \nThe Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures prize was established by THI’s Speculatively Scientific Fictions of the Future project and is made possible by alumni Peter Coha (Kresge ’78\, Mathematics) and James Gunderson (Rachel Carson ’77\, Philosophy\, and UCSC Foundation Board Trustee). \nThe exhibition opens on June 5th\, 2025 and runs until June 15th\, 2025. The exhibition launches in conjunction with The Humanities Institute’s Night at the Museum event\, which will also feature a panel discussion about speculative fiction to engage scholars\, practitioners and publics in creative speculation with and about the works. \nExhibition Projects: \nShades of Fake Green Grass\, Hannah Barrett \nShades of Fake Green Grass is a collection of short stories that focus on the day-to-day lives of ordinary people\, and their ordinary problems\, through a technologically dystopian lens. \nHannah Barrett is a writer with a current focus on science fiction. She aims to compel readers toward internal dialogues that teach us how to better engage with the world. \na portal\, Yasmine Benabdallah \na portal includes a video installation and a micro-chapbook\, part of a project linking Brazil\, Morocco\, and Portugal through a shared history of colonization\, enslavement\, and a forced exodus across the Atlantic. a portal explores memory\, archives\, and non-linear time\, and foregrounds our bodies’ resonances through time and space\, calling on them to erode\, wash over\, and imagine liberatory futures. \nYasmine Benabdallah is a Moroccan filmmaker and visual artist whose work explores memory\, performance\, diaspora\, archives\, rituals\, and time travel. \nWhispers of Wear\, Kristine Buriel \nThe Selveger Collective gets its name from a portmanteau of “selvage”- a stitched edge that prevents a fabric from unraveling and “salvager”- those who prevent something from being lost. Walk into the archives and don the clothes of wearers’ past and hear the stories weaved into the threads. Scan to gain insight from those whose hands touched the cloth. \nKristine Buriel is an interdisciplinary artist focused on making and craft. She uses technology to preserve the process and human story so that it can be shared and not forgotten. \nNight Lights for Squid\, Chaelim Lim \nSquid are said to be attracted to light. Powerful lights are used during the night for squid fishing. However\, scientists aren’t able to explain why some squid hide away from the lights\, under the shadows of the vessel. Are the lights overwhelming for squid individuals? What if squid could create their own night lights? What stories would these lights tell? \nChaelim Lim is an artist based in Seoul who researches disaster investigation in a fictional manner. She explores architecture that amplifies the gestures of more-than-human beings in disaster discourse. \nA Martian Manifesto\, Jorge Antonio Palacios \nA Martian Manifesto is a text and series of installations experimenting with craft and new media to create outdoor social sculptures. Through re-enacting speculative practices of the deep future and on Mars\, this process-oriented work is metabolized into a manifesto of science fiction\, gesturing towards alternative ways of being with each other\, technology\, and the world. \nJorge Antonio Palacios is an artist from Yanawana/San Antonio\, Texas. They use foraging\, digital media\, writing\, and installation as methodologies for investigating relationships between land\, technology\, displacement\, and decolonization. \nThe Third Person\, Rowan Powell \nThe Third Person\, taken from the writing of the Diggers in 1649\, refers to someone who relates to land without private ownership. Drawing on this idea\, the work stages a hypothetical conversation between ‘ravers’ and ‘ranters\,’ old and new. Through exchanges of soil\, wood\, linen\, repurposed texts and symbols\, the installation journeys through political romanticism– hope and dissolution expressed through squatting\, trespassing\, free parties and intentional communities. \nRowan Powell is a writer and researcher currently working with trees\, chickens\, film\, and dancing. Their research draws on place(s)\, tracing attempts at reaching to what is buried. \nolam ha-ba (the world to come)\, Tyler Rai \nThis project is a growing conversation between Palestinian and Lebanese heirloom seeds\, the soils of coastal California\, and communities of seed savers. Through these seeds in exile\, the project explores how heirloom seeds encompass entire cosmologies and ancestral technologies for resistance\, hope\, and birthing the world to come. \nTyler Rai is a transdisciplinary artist whose work investigates cultural inheritance\, ecological entanglements and solidarity work as a form of ancestral memory. She collaborates with seeds\, stones\, bodies\, and soils. \nSea of Paint\, Hongwei Zhou \nSea of Paint is a narrative-driven video game that explores the issues around contemporary machine learning-based AI technology. The player engages in dialogue with a “spirit” conjured from the Sea — an ever-recording flow of data. The game asks how our ideas of memory\, labor and care are brought into tension with the prevalence of data-driven AI. \nHongwei Zhou is a video game educator and researcher. He is interested in thinking about the entanglement of game systems and technoculture. \nSupport Team: \nMatt Polzin\nGSR for the Coha-Gunderson Creativity Workshop\nMatt Polzin is a fiction writer and researcher whose work focuses on queer utopia\, interspecies relationships\, and the Midwest. \nValerie Sainz\n2024-25 Humanities EXPLORE Fellow\, The Coha-Gunderson Exhibition and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\nValerie Sainz is a History and History of Art & Visual Culture major (Museums\, Heritage\, and Curation concentration). \nCarla Freccero\nPI\, The Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures; Coordinator\, The Coha-Gunderson Creativity Workshop\nCarla Freccero is Distinguished Professor of Literature & History of Consciousness\, UCSC. \n– Special thanks – \n\nPeter Coha (Kresge College ’78\, Mathematics) and James Gunderson (Rachel Carson College ’77\, Philosophy and UCSC Foundation Board Trustee)\nMatt Polzin\, Graduate Student Researcher\nValerie Sainz\, EXPLORE Fellow\nThe Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (Marla Novo\, Deputy Director; Natalie Jenkins\, Exhibitions Manager; Shanti Nagwani\, preparator)\nThe Humanities Institute (Pranav Anand\, Faculty Director; Irena Polic\, Managing Director; Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell\, Research Programs & Communications Director; Jessica Guild\, Event and Operations Manager)\nUCSC Faculty Guests: Micah Perks (Literature); Alison Laurie Palmer (Art); Claudio Bueno (Art); Soraya Murray (History of Art & Visual Culture); Maria Puig del la Bellacasa (History of Consciousness)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/amending-worlds-exhibition/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Shakespeare Talk with Dr. Sean Keilen
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Sean Keilen\, professor of literature at UCSC and lead dramaturg at Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, for an exciting talk about SCS’ summer Shakespeare offerings: comic masterpiece\, A Midsummer Night’s Dream\, and thrilling romance\, Pericles. Artistic Director Charles Pasternak will be in attendance. Q&A to follow.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/shakespeare-talk-with-dr-sean-keilen/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Public Library – Downtown Branch\, 224 Church Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:UCSC Night at the Museum – Amending Worlds
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US for The Humanities Institute’s annual Night at the Museum featuring Amending Worlds\, a panel discussion about speculative fiction and a multi-media exhibition by UCSC graduate and undergraduate students and alumni winners of the Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures. The panel will feature Micah Perks (UC Santa Cruz)\, Cathy Thomas (UCSB)\, and Kim Tallbear (University of Alberta)\, moderated by Carla Freccero (UC Santa Cruz). \nThis year\, THI is marking our 25th anniversary. The celebration will culminate with Night at the Museum\, an event which welcomes members of the public to experience the ongoing exhibitions and gallery spaces at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History for free. \n \nDoors and exhibits open at 6pm\, event program will begin at 7pm. \nAMENDING WORLDS EXHIBITION RUNS JUNE 5-15\, 2025 – CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS.\nAmending Worlds includes installations\, performances\, visual art\, film & video\, and a computer game\, distributed throughout the museum’s spaces. Prizewinners come from a range of disciplines\, including Anthropology\, Art\, Computational Media\, Environmental Art and Social Practice\, Film and Digital Media\, Literature\, and Politics. \nCarla Freccero is Distinguished Professor of Literature and History of Consciousness at UCSC\, where she has taught since 1991. She is the author of Father Figures; Popular Culture: An Introduction; and Queer/Early/Modern. She has co-edited collections on Premodern Sexualities;  Species\, Race and Sex; and Animal Studies. She publishes in early modern literature\, queer and feminist theory\, and animal studies. \nMicah Perks is the author of a short story collection\, a memoir and two novels. Her most recent novel\, What Becomes Us\, won an Independent Publishers Book Award and was named one of the Top Ten Books about the Apocalypse by The Guardian. Her short stories and essays have appeared in many journals and anthologies. She has won a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and residencies at Blue Mountain Center and MacDowell. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University. She is a professor at UCSC in the Literature Department and has taught Women and the Apocalypse and US Feminist Utopias. \nKim TallBear (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate) is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples\, Technoscience\, and Society\, Faculty of Native Studies\, University of Alberta. She is the author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science. In addition to studying genome science disruptions to Indigenous self-definitions\, Dr. TallBear studies colonial disruptions to Indigenous sexualities. She is a regular panelist on the Media Indigena podcast and a regular media commentator on topics including Indigenous peoples\, science\, and technology; and Indigenous sexualities. You can also follow her Substack newsletter\, Unsettle: Indigenous affairs\, cultural politics & (de)colonization. \nCathy Thomas is a writer\, filmmaker\, and creative critical scholar whose work on the ‘Black Fantastic’ and decolonial feminist thought is enriched by discovering modes of play and resistance in comic books\, literature\, through cosplay\, while wining up at Caribbean Carnival. As she approaches tenure\, she is juggling 3 novels\, 2 comic books\, 1 trade book collaboration\, 1 scholarly monograph\, and 1 experimental textile+digital+sound art installation for a 2028 museum exhibition\, all in various states of completion\, delay\, ecstasy\, and exhaustion. She is an Asst Prof of English at UCSB and the Director of the UCSB Creative Critical Writing Initiative. \n\nThe Coha-Gunderson Creativity Workshop\, housed in The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, presents a multi-media exhibition by UCSC graduate and undergraduate students and alumni winners of the Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures. The Amending Worlds exhibition includes installations\, performances\, visual art\, film & video\, and a computer game\, distributed throughout the museum’s spaces. Prizewinners come from a range of disciplines\, including Anthropology\, Art\, Computational Media\, Environmental Art and Social Practice\, Film and Digital Media\, Literature\, and Politics. \nThe Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures prize was established by THI’s Speculatively Scientific Fictions of the Future project and is made possible by alumni Peter Coha (Kresge ’78\, Mathematics) and James Gunderson (Rachel Carson ’77\, Philosophy\, and UCSC Foundation Board Trustee). \nThe exhibition opens on June 5th\, 2025 and runs until June 15th\, 2025. The exhibition launches in conjunction with The Humanities Institute’s Night at the Museum event\, which will also feature a panel discussion about speculative fiction to engage scholars\, practitioners and publics in creative speculation with and about the works. \nExhibition Projects: \nShades of Fake Green Grass\, Hannah Barrett \nShades of Fake Green Grass is a collection of short stories that focus on the day-to-day lives of ordinary people\, and their ordinary problems\, through a technologically dystopian lens. \nHannah Barrett is a writer with a current focus on science fiction. She aims to compel readers toward internal dialogues that teach us how to better engage with the world. \na portal\, Yasmine Benabdallah \na portal includes a video installation and a micro-chapbook\, part of a project linking Brazil\, Morocco\, and Portugal through a shared history of colonization\, enslavement\, and a forced exodus across the Atlantic. a portal explores memory\, archives\, and non-linear time\, and foregrounds our bodies’ resonances through time and space\, calling on them to erode\, wash over\, and imagine liberatory futures. \nYasmine Benabdallah is a Moroccan filmmaker and visual artist whose work explores memory\, performance\, diaspora\, archives\, rituals\, and time travel. \nWhispers of Wear\, Kristine Buriel \nThe Selveger Collective gets its name from a portmanteau of “selvage”- a stitched edge that prevents a fabric from unraveling and “salvager”- those who prevent something from being lost. Walk into the archives and don the clothes of wearers’ past and hear the stories weaved into the threads. Scan to gain insight from those whose hands touched the cloth. \nKristine Buriel is an interdisciplinary artist focused on making and craft. She uses technology to preserve the process and human story so that it can be shared and not forgotten. \nNight Lights for Squid\, Chaelim Lim \nSquid are said to be attracted to light. Powerful lights are used during the night for squid fishing. However\, scientists aren’t able to explain why some squid hide away from the lights\, under the shadows of the vessel. Are the lights overwhelming for squid individuals? What if squid could create their own night lights? What stories would these lights tell? \nChaelim Lim is an artist based in Seoul who researches disaster investigation in a fictional manner. She explores architecture that amplifies the gestures of more-than-human beings in disaster discourse. \nA Martian Manifesto\, Jorge Antonio Palacios \nA Martian Manifesto is a text and series of installations experimenting with craft and new media to create outdoor social sculptures. Through re-enacting speculative practices of the deep future and on Mars\, this process-oriented work is metabolized into a manifesto of science fiction\, gesturing towards alternative ways of being with each other\, technology\, and the world. \nJorge Antonio Palacios is an artist from Yanawana/San Antonio\, Texas. They use foraging\, digital media\, writing\, and installation as methodologies for investigating relationships between land\, technology\, displacement\, and decolonization. \nThe Third Person\, Rowan Powell \nThe Third Person\, taken from the writing of the Diggers in 1649\, refers to someone who relates to land without private ownership. Drawing on this idea\, the work stages a hypothetical conversation between ‘ravers’ and ‘ranters\,’ old and new. Through exchanges of soil\, wood\, linen\, repurposed texts and symbols\, the installation journeys through political romanticism– hope and dissolution expressed through squatting\, trespassing\, free parties and intentional communities. \nRowan Powell is a writer and researcher currently working with trees\, chickens\, film\, and dancing. Their research draws on place(s)\, tracing attempts at reaching to what is buried. \nolam ha-ba (the world to come)\, Tyler Rai \nThis project is a growing conversation between Palestinian and Lebanese heirloom seeds\, the soils of coastal California\, and communities of seed savers. Through these seeds in exile\, the project explores how heirloom seeds encompass entire cosmologies and ancestral technologies for resistance\, hope\, and birthing the world to come. \nTyler Rai is a transdisciplinary artist whose work investigates cultural inheritance\, ecological entanglements and solidarity work as a form of ancestral memory. She collaborates with seeds\, stones\, bodies\, and soils. \nSea of Paint\, Hongwei Zhou \nSea of Paint is a narrative-driven video game that explores the issues around contemporary machine learning-based AI technology. The player engages in dialogue with a “spirit” conjured from the Sea — an ever-recording flow of data. The game asks how our ideas of memory\, labor and care are brought into tension with the prevalence of data-driven AI. \nHongwei Zhou is a video game educator and researcher. He is interested in thinking about the entanglement of game systems and technoculture. \nSupport Team: \nMatt Polzin\nGSR for the Coha-Gunderson Creativity Workshop\nMatt Polzin is a fiction writer and researcher whose work focuses on queer utopia\, interspecies relationships\, and the Midwest. \nValerie Sainz\n2024-25 Humanities EXPLORE Fellow\, The Coha-Gunderson Exhibition and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\nValerie Sainz is a History and History of Art & Visual Culture major (Museums\, Heritage\, and Curation concentration). \nCarla Freccero\nPI\, The Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures; Coordinator\, The Coha-Gunderson Creativity Workshop\nCarla Freccero is Distinguished Professor of Literature & History of Consciousness\, UCSC. \n– Special thanks – \n\nPeter Coha (Kresge College ’78\, Mathematics) and James Gunderson (Rachel Carson College ’77\, Philosophy and UCSC Foundation Board Trustee)\nMatt Polzin\, Graduate Student Researcher\nValerie Sainz\, EXPLORE Fellow\nThe Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (Marla Novo\, Deputy Director; Natalie Jenkins\, Exhibitions Manager; Shanti Nagwani\, preparator)\nThe Humanities Institute (Pranav Anand\, Faculty Director; Irena Polic\, Managing Director; Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell\, Research Programs & Communications Director; Jessica Guild\, Event and Operations Manager)\nUCSC Faculty Guests: Micah Perks (Literature); Alison Laurie Palmer (Art); Claudio Bueno (Art); Soraya Murray (History of Art & Visual Culture); Maria Puig del la Bellacasa (History of Consciousness)\n\n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ucsc-night-at-the-museum-amending-worlds/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Through the Decades: 50 Years of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Join Feminist Studies on June 6 in honoring 50 years at UC Santa Cruz. The event will be held at 3pm at the Stevenson Event Center\, with a reception to follow. \n \nThe event will be live-streamed for those who cannot attend in person. Click here to watch. \nFeminist Studies was established as the Women’s Studies program at UC Santa Cruz in 1974. Since its founding\, this pioneering department has been home to some of the field’s most prominent thinkers and has produced scores of alumni who have gone on to make contributions in a range of professions. \nFor this celebratory event\, we have assembled a panel of eight alums who will engage with Distinguished Feminist Studies Professor Emerita Bettina Aptheker to discuss what Feminist Studies has meant to their careers\, their lives\, and society at large. Our panelists: \nNancy Lemon (Kresge ’75\, Women’s Studies) – Retired Director of the Domestic Violence Practicum and Seminar at UC Berkeley School of Law and member of the first graduating class \nBlanca Tavera (Oakes ’86\, Women’s Studies) – Domestic violence activist\, founder of Defensa de Mujeres\, and retired professor at the San Jose State University School of Social Work \nNicole Nichols (nee Nasser) (Cowell ’99\, Literature and Women’s Studies) – Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner in Trauma Surgery and Surgical Critical Care at UC Davis Medical Center\, and adjunct faculty at University of Nevada\, Reno \nNaomi Marks (Merrill ’00\, Earth Sciences and Women’s Studies) – Geochemist\, Associate Program Leader for Nuclear Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation\, and Deputy Director of the Glenn T. Seaborg Institute at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory \nKate Schatz (Stevenson ’03\, Literature and Creative Writing) – New York Times bestselling author of the Rad Women series and Do the Work: An Anti-Racist Activity Book\, with W. Kamau Bell \nKim Angulo (Merrill ’13\, Feminist Studies) – Assistant Public Defender at the Sacramento County Public Defender’s Office \nSarah Elkotbeid (Crown ’18\, Environmental Studies and Feminist Studies) – Environmental Health Equity and Community Partnerships Advocate at the Natural Resources Defense Council \nHalima Kazem (Ph.D. ’22\, Feminist Studies) – Associate Director of Stanford’s Program in Feminist\, Gender & Sexualities Studies \nWe hope to see you as we mark the passage of 50 years and celebrate the generations of activists and feminist scholars who have contributed to the passionate pursuit and expansion of feminist thought and advocacy at UCSC!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/through-the-decades-50-years-of-feminist-studies-at-uc-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center
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SUMMARY:Abraham Verghese - The Covenant of Water
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz presents New York Times-bestselling author Abraham Verghese (Cutting for Stone) for a discussion and signing of The Covenant of Water\, available in paperback on May 6th. This stunning epic of love\, faith\, and medicine is set in Kerala\, South India\, and follows three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. Abraham Verghese will be in conversation with Rose Feerick. \n“One of the best books I’ve read in my entire life. It’s epic. It’s transportive . . . It was unputdownable!”—Oprah Winfrey \n \nAn instant New York Times and indie bestseller\, The Covenant of Water has sold more than two million copies worldwide and was widely named as a best book of the year. Spanning the years 1900 to 1977\, Abraham Verghese’s long-awaited\, masterful novel follows three generations of a Christian family in Kerala\, South India\, that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation\, at least one person dies by drowning. \nAbraham Verghese is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the author of the NBCC Award finalist My Own Country and the New York Times Notable Book The Tennis Partner. His most recent book\, Cutting for Stone\, spent 107 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and sold more than two million copies worldwide. It was translated into more than twenty languages and is being adapted for film by Anonymous Content. Verghese was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama\, has received six honorary degrees\, and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lives and practices medicine in Stanford\, California where he is the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor in the Stanford University School of Medicine. A decade in the making\, The Covenant of Water is his first book since Cutting for Stone. \nRose Feerick is Co-Director of Wisdom & Money\, a non-profit organization that offers retreats for affluent individuals who seek to align their financial resources with their spirituality in service of the common good. She also serves as one of the ministers of the Pescadero Community Church. Rose has a BA in Theology from Georgetown University and an MDiv from the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University. She lives in Santa Cruz\, California and is the mother of two young adult sons. \nMore information at:  Abraham Verghese\, The Covenant of Water | Bookshop Santa Cruz \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/abraham-verghese-the-covenant-of-water/
LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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SUMMARY:Slugs and Steins with Assistant Professor E. Hande Tuna - You Can Imagine Dragons… But Not That Female Infanticide Is Good? The Puzzling Limits of Imagination
DESCRIPTION:You can imagine flying on the back of a dragon. You can picture a talking rabbit solving crimes\, or a world where time runs backward. So why is it so hard to imagine that slavery is morally good\, or that killing your baby girl is the right thing to do? This talk explores a weird and wonderful puzzle in the philosophy of imagination known as imaginative resistance—the experience of hitting a mental wall when a story asks us to imagine not just impossible things\, but morally alien things. Why do our moral beliefs seem to stick\, even in fiction? If imagining is “just pretending\,” why do some make-believe scenarios feel off-limits or even offensive? Through examples from literature and film\, we’ll explore what this resistance reveals about how imagination works\, and how deeply our values shape what we’re able or willing to imagine. \nNo background in philosophy is required. Just bring your imagination and maybe a little skepticism. \n \nEmine Hande Tuna is a philosopher who spends her time thinking seriously about things that don’t exist—like square circles\, guilt-free villains\, and moral worlds where injustice is good. She’s an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz\, where she writes and teaches about imagination\, aesthetics\, and why some stories just won’t sit right with us. Her book on Kantian Art Criticism is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. She’s also at work on a second book\, Imaginative Resistance (under contract with Oxford University Press)\, which she’ll be developing next year as a Quinn Fellow at the National Humanities Center (a rare kind of fellowship—one that didn’t mysteriously disappear). \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-assistant-professor-e-hande-tuna-you-can-imagine-dragons-but-not-that-female-infanticide-is-good/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Late Night Editions: Isaac Julien
DESCRIPTION:The de Young is hosting\, Late Night Editions: Isaac Julien on Thursday\, June 12\, 2025\, a special after-hours event celebrating the powerful exhibition Isaac Julien: I Dream a World. \nEnjoy a vibrant evening exploring the cinematic world of Isaac Julien: I Dream a World — a stunning fusion of film\, politics\, and personal narrative — alongside live music\, food trucks\, a nostalgic glamour photo booth by Syd Studios\, and after-dark access to exhibitions and our sculpture garden. \nCome for the art. Stay for the vibes. Reserve your tickets now — limited availability! UC Santa Cruz community members get 20% off general admission with the code FIRSTEDITION at checkout. \n \nWhat’s included: \n\nSyd Studios nostalgic photo booth by Syd Yatco\nLive DJ sets curated by IN SESSION\nFood trucks from Off the Grid\nCash bar\nAccess to: Isaac Julien: I Dream a World\, Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm\, Matisse’s Jazz Unbound\, Osher Sculpture Garden & James Turrell’s Three Gems\n\n\nBanner Image Credit: Thousand Words Photobooth
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/late-night-editions-isaac-julien/
LOCATION:de Young Museum\, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr\, San Francisco\, 94118\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250702T190000
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SUMMARY:Rachel Kushner - Creation Lake
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Rachel Kushner\, two-time finalist for both the Booker Prize and National Book Award\, for a reading and signing of her acclaimed novel Creation Lake\, available in paperback July 1st. This “wickedly entertaining” (The Guardian) novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France is a propulsive page-turner filled with dark humor. \n \nCreation Lake is a novel about a secret agent\, a thirty-four-year-old American woman of ruthless tactics and clean beauty who is sent to do dirty work in France. “Sadie Smith” is how the narrator introduces herself to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs\, and to her lover\, Lucien\, a young and well-born Parisian she has met by “cold bump”—making him believe the encounter was accidental. Like everyone she targets\, Lucien is useful to her and used by her. Sadie operates by strategy and dissimulation\, based on what her “contacts”—shadowy figures in business and government—instruct. First\, these contacts want her to incite provocation. Then they want more. \nRachel Kushner is the author of the New York Times bestseller Creation Lake\, her latest novel; The Hard Crowd\, her acclaimed essay collection; and the internationally bestselling novels The Mars Room\, The Flamethrowers\, and Telex from Cuba\, as well as a book of short stories\, The Strange Case of Rachel K. She has won the Prix Médicis and been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Folio Prize\, and was twice a finalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Award in Fiction. Creation Lake was also longlisted for the National Book Award. She is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and the recipient of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her books have been translated into twenty-seven languages. \nMore information at: Rachel Kushner\, Creation Lake | Bookshop Santa Cruz \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rachel-kushner-creation-lake/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Princes of Surf 2025: Heʻe Nalu Santa Cruz Exhibit Opening
DESCRIPTION:The Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) is proud to present Princes of Surf 2025: Heʻe nalu Santa Cruz\, an exhibition that spotlights how three Hawaiian princes—David Kawananakoa\, Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana’ole\, and Edward Keliiahonui— introduced surfing to the U.S. mainland via Santa Cruz in 1885 and rode the wave of legacy and relevance to Santa Cruz County. \nThis exhibition will run from July 18\, 2025 – January 4\, 2026. \nSanta Cruz is the birthplace of surfing in North America\, and the original “Surf City.” Although historical evidence clearly documents its 1885 arrival and local adoption by 1896\, confusion about its origin remains. Its pioneers were Polynesian\, in contrast to the stereotype (reinforced by movies and TV) that it is a predominantly white male sport\, and despite the fact that many BIPOC individuals take part. Furthermore\, the tale of Antoinette Swan—who was also a surfer underscores the fact that women are an important part of surfing’s origins. \nMore information at: https://www.santacruzmah.org/exhibitions/hee-nalu-ma-2025
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/princes-of-surf-2025-he%ca%bbe-nalu-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Shakespeare Opening Night
DESCRIPTION:Tickets are now on sale for Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2025 Season\, “No One is Alone” featuring A Midsummer Night’s Dream\, Into the Woods\, Pericles\, and “Master Harold”…and the Boys. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute. \nThe 2025 season runs from July 18 – September 20. \n \n  \nA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare | July 13 – Sept. 31 \nInto the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine| July 15 – Sept. 7 \nPericles by William Shakespeare and George Wilkins | July 29 – Aug. 30 \n“Master Harold”…and the Boys by Athol Fugard | Sept. 4 – 20
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-shakespeare-2025-season-opening-night/
LOCATION:The Audrey Stanley Grove in Delaveaga Park\, 501 Upper Park Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95065\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dickens Universe - The Old Curiosity Shop
DESCRIPTION:The Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars\, teachers\, students\, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus of the University of California—all focused on one or two Victorian novels\, usually (but not always) one by Charles Dickens. \nIn 2025\, the Dickens Universe will feature The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens. Most people remember the novel for its famous and climactic death scene\, featuring one of Dickens’s most beloved (and reviled) girl heroines\, Little Nell. It is a novel full of interesting scenes\, themes\, and curiosities. Featuring a gallery of Dickens’s most grotesque characters\, it explores the idea of deformity\, especially as it contrasts with the angelic innocence and strangely embodied beauty of Little Nell. Its picaresque roots make it an adventure story as well as an allegory of moral journey; its interest in the urban landscape\, its pleasure and dangers\, suggest Dickens’s social concerns. \nNow in its 45th year of operation\, the Dickens Universe combines features of a scholarly conference\, a festival\, a book club\, and a summer camp. Participants include people of all ages and walks of life—distinguished scholars\, graduate students\, undergraduates\, retirees\, young professionals\, high school teachers\, and anyone who loves reading and enjoys long Victorian novels.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dickens-universe-2/
LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz
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SUMMARY:The Dickens Project: The Curiosity Gala
DESCRIPTION:Join The Dickens Project for The Curiosity Gala on July 25\, 2025\, as we celebrate the 45th annual Dickens Universe Conference! \nNow open to the public\, this enchanting evening invites community members to don their finest Victorian attire and enjoy a night of lively entertainment—including Victorian dance lessons\, casino tables\, a raffle\, postprandial potations\, and a live auction! \nHosted by The Dickens Project\, The Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars\, teachers\, students\, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus of the University of California—all focused on one or two Victorian novels\, with this year’s novel being Charles Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop. \n \nTickets are $50 with all purchases from the evening’s activities going to support The Dickens Project’s educational programs. \nGala Details (This event is 21+): \n\n6:30 PM: Doors Open\n7:00-8:00 PM: Live Auction – Bid on Dickens-related items\, including a first-edition of The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens\n8:00 PM: Announcement of the 2026 Dickens Universe Novel – Purchase a copy from local bookseller Liz Pollock of the Cook’s Bookcase\n8:15-11:00 PM: Victorian Ball and Gaming – Dance to nineteenth-century music performed by the Great Expectations Orchestra\, with dances led by dance instructor Annie Laskey\n\nQuestions about The Curiosity Gala? Email: mabingha@ucsc.edu \nAbout The Dickens Project: The Dickens Project is a Multi-campus Research Unit (MRU) of the University of California. Its research activities have been supported by extramural grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the U.S. Department of Education\, the California Council for the Humanities\, the California Arts Council\, the Exxon Education Foundation\, dues from member schools\, and private gifts. Activities for the general public are supported in part by contributions to a private\, non-profit organization\, the Friends of the Dickens Project.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-dickens-project-the-curiosity-gala/
LOCATION:College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room\, College Ten\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
DESCRIPTION:The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music presents the full spectrum of orchestral possibility\, illuminating vibrant hues of music today. This transformative season features over 20 composers\, nine in residence\, seven guest artists\, and the Festival Orchestra\, four Festival commissions and bringing three world premieres to life. \nIn celebration of the 50th Anniversary of LGBTQIA Pride in Santa Cruz and the legacy of queer voices that have shaped the Festival\, we present a co-commission by Jake Heggie. The season also showcases a new Creative Lab commission by Darian Donovan Thomas honoring the queer experience\, and pays tribute to luminaries who have influenced the Festival\, including Lou Harrison\, John Corigliano\, and Jennifer Higdon. \nThe 2025 Season: Colorful & Courageous runs from July 27 – August 10\, 2025. \n \nSeason highlights include: Guest Conductor Daniela Candillari to conduct first 2 concerts of the season\, 3 world premieres\, 5 West Coast premieres\, 9 composers in residence. Festival commissions include an orchestral song cycle by Stacy Garrop\, the second Creative Lab featuring a multidisciplinary work by Darian Donovan Thomas\, and a new co-commission by Jake Heggie featuring original text by Taylor Mac. \nLUMINA – Friday\, August 1\, 8pm\nThe 63rd season kicks off with guest conductor Daniela Candillari leading the Festival Orchestra in works by John Corigliano\, Nina Shekhar\, and Missy Mazzoli. \nCHASING LIGHT – Saturday\, August 2\, 7pm\nFor the second Festival concert\, guest conductor Candillari leads the Festival Orchestra in works by Rene Orth\, Stacy Garrop\, Aleksandra Vrebalov\, and Julia Wolfe\, presenting a palette of compositions that both illuminate and embolden. \nFAMILY CONCERT\, Sunday\, August 3\, 1pm\nThe Festival’s cherished free Family Concert program features Karen LeFrak‘s delightful Sleepover at the Museum\, an accessible and charming story for audiences of all ages. Alight with adventure\, it’s a scavenger hunt brought to life through clever instrumentation and musical motives. \nBECOMING – Saturday\, August 9\, 7pm\nThe second weekend of the Cabrillo Festival welcomes the return of Maestro Măcelaru with a program featuring the Cabrillo Festival’s second Creative Lab with a world premiere by Darian Donovan Thomas\, a tribute to the enduring legacy of Festival Co-Founder Lou Harrison\, and a powerful work by Anna Thorvaldsdottir. \nRISING – Sunday\, August 10\, 7pm\nThe Cabrillo Festival concludes with a vibrant symphonic tapestry featuring the bold musical palettes of composers Adolphus Hailstork\, Jennifer Higdon\, Tyson Gholston Davis\, and a new co-commissioned song cycle by Jake Heggie. \nAll events will be held at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium at 307 Church Street in Downtown Santa Cruz. \nMore information available here. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-cabrillo-festival-of-contemporary-music-2025/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Weekend with Shakespeare
DESCRIPTION:Dig deeply into this season’s Shakespeare productions with a special weekend of lectures\, discussions and hands-on activities. In partnership with UCSC’s Shakespeare Workshop and The Humanities Institute\, this is a wonderful opportunity to learn more about each play during the day and then enjoy the production that same evening. \nThis year\, Weekend with Shakespeare will be held at the UCSC Campus on August 16th (Pericles) and August 17th (A Midsummer Night’s Dream). \nAdmission is free to all\, but seating is limited. Please register below to reserve your seats. \n \nSchedule for Weekend with Shakespeare \nSaturday\, 8/16 — Pericles by William Shakespeare and George Wilkins \n\n11:00 – Welcome (Sean Keilen\, UCSC)\n11:15 – Actor Panel (Charles Pasternak and members of the company\, SCS)\n12:15 – Boxed lunch (courtesy of Shakespeare Workshop)\n1:00 – Visiting Scholar (Claire McEachern\, UCLA)\n2:00 End of program\n\nSunday\, 8/17 — A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare \n\n11:00 – Welcome (Sean Keilen\, UCSC)\n11:15 – Actor Panel (Charles Pasternak and members of the company\, SCS)\n12:15 – Boxed lunch (courtesy of Shakespeare Workshop)\n1:00 – Visiting Scholar (Claire McEachern\, UCLA)\n2:00 – End of program\n\n  \nSean Keilen is Professor of Literature and UC Santa Cruz\, the founder of Shakespeare Workshop\, and Head of Dramaturgy at Santa Cruz Shakespeare. \nCharles Pasternak is Artistic Director at Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, before which served as Artistic Director of The Porters of Hellsgate Theatre Co in Los Angeles for over fifteen years. He has had a wide-ranging career as an actor and director at theatres across this country including American Players Theatre\, Alabama Shakespeare Festival\, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey\, The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles\, three seasons with The Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis and four with Shakespeare Santa Cruz. \nClaire McEachern is Professor of English at the UC Los Angeles. She is the author of Believing in Shakespeare: Studies in Longing (Cambridge\, 2018); The Poetics of English Nationhood\, 1590-1612 (Cambridge\, 1996); and editor of eight of Shakespeare’s plays including the Arden 3 Much Ado About Nothing (2015). Her essay collections include the Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy (Cambridge\, 2nd edition\, 2015)\, and\, with Debora Shuger\, Religion and Culture in Renaissance England (Cambridge\, 1997).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/weekend-with-shakespeare-2025/
LOCATION:UCSC Arboretum
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SUMMARY:SALA 2025:  The South Asian Literature and Art Festival
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Menlo College in collaboration with Art Forum SF\, the South Asian Literature and Art Festival (SALA) showcases contemporary reflections on literature and art from the sub-continent and its diaspora. Showcasing South Asian culture and diasporic concerns\, it features highly-acclaimed\, contemporary South Asian speakers as well as over twenty panel discussions on art\, literature\, poetry\, cinema\, culinary arts\, and more. This year’s theme\, “thoughts without borders\,” draws our attention to the need to come together in our contemporary moment to examine the borders we create\, such as caste\, class\, gender\, and nationhood\, which can serve to separate instead of connect us. \nThe Festival will take place September 13-14 at Menlo College in Atherton\, and it is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies. \nFor more information\, please visit the Festival website: https://www.salafestival.org/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sala-2025-the-south-asian-literature-and-art-festival/
LOCATION:Menlo College\, 1000 El Camino Real\, Atherton\, CA\, 94027\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250918T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250918T200000
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SUMMARY:John Scalzi - The Shattering Peace
DESCRIPTION:  \nBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes acclaimed science fiction master John Scalzi who\, after a decade\, returns to the galaxy of the Old Man’s War series with the long awaited seventh book\, The Shattering Peace. This event is co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute. \n“John Scalzi writes science fiction that is fun\, intelligent\, and irreverent. I haven’t enjoyed science fiction this much in years.” —Christopher Paolini\, author of Eragon \n \nYour RSVP helps Bookshop plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. Thank you for registering! \nTHE PEACE IS SHATTERING: For a decade\, peace has reigned in interstellar space. A tripartite agreement between the Colonial Union\, the Earth\, and the alien Conclave has kept the forces of war at bay\, even when some would have preferred to return to the fighting and struggle of former times. For now\, more sensible heads have prevailed – and have even championed unity. \nBut now\, there is a new force that threatens the hard-maintained peace: The Consu\, the most advanced intelligent species humans have ever met\, are on the cusp of a species-defining civil war. This war is between Consu factions… but nothing the Consu ever do is just about them. The Colonial Union\, the Earth and the Conclave have been unwillingly dragged into the conflict\, in the most surprising of ways. \nGretchen Trujillo is a mid-level diplomat\, working in an unimportant part of the Colonial Union bureaucracy. But when she is called to take part in a secret mission involving representatives from every powerful faction in space\, what she finds there has the chance to redefine the destinies of humans and aliens alike… or destroy them forever. \nJohn Scalzi is one of the most popular science fiction authors of his generation. His debut\, Old Man’s War\, won him the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His New York Times bestsellers include The Last Colony\, Fuzzy Nation\, Redshirts (which won the Hugo Award for Best Novel)\, The Last Emperox\, The Kaiju Preservation Society\, and Starter Villain. Material from his blog\, Whatever\, has earned him two other Hugo Awards. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-scalzi-the-shattering-peace/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250929T120000
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SUMMARY:Doreen Lee - The Urban Grotesque
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) invites you to a Slow Seminar on the new book: The Urban Grotesque: Jakarta’s Financial Lives by Prof. Doreen Lee\, Associate Professor of Anthropology\, Northeastern University. Opening comments will be made by Dr. Kirsten Keller. \n \nAdvance copies of the reading will be made available to those who R.S.V.P. indicating that they plan to attend. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slow-seminar-the-urban-grotesque-with-prof-doreen-lee/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250930T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250930T133000
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SUMMARY:More-than-Human(ities) Lab Meet-and-Greet
DESCRIPTION:The More-than-Human(ities) Lab is a multidisciplinary “playgroup”–to borrow from Anna Tsing–dedicated to sharing resources in support of collaborative environmental humanities research. Launched in 2024 as a research cluster of The Humanities Institute\, MtH offers speaking events\, reading groups\, and manuscript “share seshes” for those interested in the more-than-human and with different intellectual\, artistic\, and community-engaged roots. From its start\, our sincere aim has been to make the group a collaborative place. \nTo this end\, we invite you to our lab’s meet-and-greet on Tuesday\, September 30 from 12:00-1:30pm in Humanities 1\, 210. Light refreshments will be served. This will be our chance to come together to get to know one another\, share one wish\, question\, and/or response for/to the lab\, and discuss lab activities for the year ahead. \nThe welcome will feature a reading by poet and essayist Pedro Uc Be from Buctzotz\, Yucatán. Pedro is one of the foremost voices against the development of the so-called Maya Train. His work explores how language is inseparable from land and how environmental ethics are frequently embedded within language itself. \nYou may also sign up for updates on the website linked above. This event is open to UCSC faculty\, students\, and staff only.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ore-than-humanities-lab-meet-and-greet/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251004T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251004T121500
DTSTAMP:20260403T120152
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - The Tragedy of King Richard II
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents The Tragedy of King Richard II by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on October 4\, 11\, 18\, 25 & November 1\, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. 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 volunteer read aloud of the play. This event series is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop. \nFor more information\, Zoom Link\, or to volunteer to be a reader\, contact: saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com \nGuest Speakers / Film Presentation \n\nOct 4: Sean Keilen: Professor of Literature\, UC Santa Cruz; founding Director of Shakespeare Workshop. Serves as dramaturg at Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Readings: Act I\, Scenes 1-4\nOct 11: Katie O’Hare: UCSC Graduate Dissertation on Shakespeare’s Henriad\, which includes Richard II. She will begin teaching at UCLA in Fall 2025. Readings: Act II\, Scene 1-4\, Act III\, Scene 1\nOct 18: Jessica Kubzansky: Artistic Director of Boston Court Pasadena\, author ‘R2’\, a re-envisioning of ‘Richard II’\, performed by SC Shakespeare in 2021. Readings: Act III\, Scenes 2-3\, Act IV Scene 1 to line 162\nOct 25: Paul Whitworth: Professor Emeritus Theater Arts\, UCSC. Began his career as an actor at the Royal Shakespeare Company 1976. Served as Artistic Director for Shakespeare Santa Cruz\, 1996-2007. Readings: Act IV\, Scene 1 line 163 to Act V\, Scenes 1-8\nNov 1: Film Screening: Richard II: The Hollow Crown directed by Rupert Goold with Ben Whishaw\, Rory Kinnear\, David Suchet\, Patrick Stewart\, 2012\, 148 minutes.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-the-tragedy-of-king-richard-ii/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251004T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251004T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120152
CREATED:20251001T203849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251001T204017Z
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SUMMARY:Filipino American History Month Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating Filipino American History Month with a powerful day of culture\, art\, food\, and community—honoring the legacy of the Manong Generation and the stories that shaped the Pajaro Valley. This event is presented by the Tobera Project and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and Watsonville is in the Heart. \nFeaturing: \n\nLive Performances\nFilipino Food\nLocal Makers & Artists\nCultural Showcases\nFamily-Friendly Fun
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/filipino-american-history-month-festival/
LOCATION:Watsonville City Plaza\, 358 Main St.\, Watsonville\, CA\, 95076\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251006T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251006T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120152
CREATED:20250917T222552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251002T173300Z
UID:10007732-1759752000-1759755600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Falafel Welcome Lunch with The Center for the Middle East and North Africa
DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Middle East and North Africa invites all CMENA affiliates and students to a falafel welcome lunch. Come catch up with one another\, meet CMENA faculty\, and learn about the Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS) Minor.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/falafel-welcome-lunch-with-the-center-for-the-middle-east-and-north-africa-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251007T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251007T163000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120152
CREATED:20250930T181640Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251001T200513Z
UID:10007756-1759852800-1759854600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Humanities Division Experiential Learning Info Session
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an info session with Kylie Rachwalski\, Assistant Director of Experiential Learning in the UCSC Humanities Division to learn more about Humanities EXCEL and EXPLORE Programs for humanities undergraduate students. \n\n\n\n\n\nHumanities EXCEL is a paid internship program for Humanities majors and minors\, connecting you with community organizations where you’ll gain hands-on experience\, mentorship\, and real-world skills.\nHumanities EXPLORE is a paid undergraduate research program where you work on faculty-led research projects\, deepening your academic experience while building career-ready skills.\n\n\n\n\n\nBoth programs pay $20/hour for working 10–15 hours per week. Some positions run September–June\, while others run January-June (or into the summer). \nMore information and zoom link at: Humanities EXCEL and EXPLORE Programs. \n\nThis Info Session is being led by the Humanities Division. The Mellon Foundation\, The Helen and Will Webster Foundation\, The Humanities Institute\, the UCSC Humanities Division\, and private donors generously support the Humanities EXCEL and EXPLORE Programs.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-division-experiential-learning-info-session/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251007T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251007T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120152
CREATED:20251001T221609Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251002T174545Z
UID:10007759-1759858200-1759858200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:The Memoirs of Robert & Mabel Williams: African American Freedom\, Armed Resistance\, and International Solidarity
DESCRIPTION:Presented by The Center for Racial Justice. Cosponsored by Oakes College. Free and open to the public. \nBorn in Jim Crow–era Monroe\, North Carolina\, Robert F. Williams and Mabel R. Williams were the state’s most legendary African American freedom fighters. \n\n\nThe Williamses’ leadership in Monroe was just the beginning of a lifelong pursuit of freedom and justice for Black people in the United States and for oppressed populations throughout the world. Their activism foreshadowed major developments in the civil rights and Black Power movements\, including Malcolm X’s advocacy of fighting oppression “by any means necessary\,” the emergence of the Black Panther Party\, and Black solidarity with Third World liberation movements. \nRobert documented his experiences in Monroe in his classic 1962 book\, NEGROES WITH GUNS\, and completed a draft of his memoir\, WHILE GOD LAY SLEEPING\, months before his death in 1996. Mabel began a memoir of her own before her death in 2014. The family selected John Bracey Jr.\, Akinyele K. Umoja\, and Gloria Aneb House to edit and complete the manuscripts\, which are presented together in this book\, offering a gripping portrait of these pioneering freedom fighters that is both deeply intimate and a fierce call to action in the ongoing fight against racial injustice. \n\n\n\nAkinyele K. Umoja is a professor of Africana studies at Georgia State University. \nLisa Williams is the daughter-in-law of Robert and Mabel Williams.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-memoirs-of-robert-mabel-williams-african-american-freedom-armed-resistance-and-international-solidarity/
LOCATION:Oakes Learning Center\, UCSC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251007T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251007T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120152
CREATED:20250925T185954Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250925T191420Z
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SUMMARY:Master Class: Jaron Lanier – Music & The Future of Humanity
DESCRIPTION:Jaron Lanier is a musician\, computer scientist\, visual artist\, writer\, technologist\, and futurist who is considered a founder of the field of virtual reality. In Music & The Future of Humanity Lanier will be joined by the Free Waves trio\, featuring Tim Jackson and Zack Olsen\, singer/songwriter Harper Simon\, Haruki Fujii and members of the Santa Cruz Symphony. \nCan’t make it in-person? You can stream it! Click here to register. \n\nThis event is presented by Kuumbwa Jazz Center\, and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/master-class-jaron-lanier-music-the-future-of-humanity-feat-free-waves-harper-simon-haruka-fujii-santa-cruz-symphony-members/
LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251008T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251008T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120152
CREATED:20250923T020912Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250923T024851Z
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SUMMARY:María Puig de la Bellacasa - Inheriting the Burdens of Human–Soil Belonging
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness: earth ecologies x technoscience \n\nThis talk offers a speculative reading of practices that reclaim and reimagine human–soil relations within the legacies of anthropocentric\, productionist\, and colonial ecologies. I explore how soils come to epitomize planet Earth\, life\, death and memory\, as well as the fraught significance of writing alternative stories of soil belonging amid the rise of white supremacist autochthonism. When nostalgic pasts and anticipated futures lose their appeal\, learning from soils becomes a way of surfacing time—bringing up temporalities that resist linearity. Soil-centered worlds reorient attention toward the mixed\, impure\, and generative potentialities of more-than-human belonging. \nMaría Puig de la Bellacasa works at the intersection of environmental humanities\, socio-cultural studies of science\, and feminist theory. Her book Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More-than-Human Worlds (University of Minnesota Press\, 2017) brings feminist materialist care theory into conversation with debates on more-than-human ontologies and ecological practices. She is also co-editor of Ecological Reparation (Bristol University Press\, 2023) and Reactivating Elements (Duke University Press\, 2022). Her talk draws from a manuscript in progress\, tentatively titled When the Word for World is Soil\, which explores shifting human-soil relations across science\, ecological movements\, and aesthetics in visual art and public culture.\n \n  \n\n \nFall 2025 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 Fall 2025 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/maria-puig-de-la-bellacasa-inheriting-the-burdens-of-human-soil-belonging/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251008T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251008T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120152
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SUMMARY:Talking Tales of the Undead
DESCRIPTION:Get ready for the season with vampires\, ghouls and zombies! \n\n\n\nJoin UC Santa Cruz professors Michael Chemers (The Monster in Theater History)\, Renée Fox (The Necromantics)\, and Kimberly Lau (Specters of the Marvelous) as they discuss the histories and politics of vampires\, ghouls\, zombies and other undead monsters in literature\, theater\, and pop culture. \n\nThe Center for Monster Studies at UC Santa Cruz aims to explore the role of monsters in culture and humanities. 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.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/talking-tales-of-the-undead/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Public Library – Downtown Branch\, 224 Church Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251009
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251011
DTSTAMP:20260403T120152
CREATED:20250917T225041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250917T225041Z
UID:10007735-1759968000-1760140799@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Sociality\, Science\, and Surveillance: Plantations in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:The Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, in partnership with Santa Clara University\, invites you to a two-day academic workshop exploring the effects and imprints of the plantation complex on life and land in South Asia and beyond. \nSouth Asia has had a long\, complicated history with plantations. The indentured world that it engineered took every form of life under its control. With its intact economic\, scientific\, social\, cultural aspects\, the plantation complex survived into the post-colonial period in South Asia and among its historically displaced communities worldwide. UC Santa Cruz’s Dolly Kikon and Sanjay Barbora and Santa Clara University’s Mythri Jegathesan will convene a lively discussion on the sociality\, science\, and surveillance that structure the plantation worlds of 21st-century South Asia. \nThe workshop will take place from 9am-4:00pm on Thursday\, October 9\, with a dinner and reception to follow\, and it will reconvene on Friday\, October 10\, from 9:30am-5:30pm. \nFor the full Conference Program and more information\, please visit: https://csas.ucsc.edu/2025-26-events/ \nPhoto credit: Dolly Kikon; Rani\, Assam; 2023
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sociality-science-and-surveillance-plantations-in-the-21st-century/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251011T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251011T121500
DTSTAMP:20260403T120152
CREATED:20250902T190247Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251002T181152Z
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - The Tragedy of King Richard II
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents The Tragedy of King Richard II by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on October 4\, 11\, 18\, 25 & November 1\, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. 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 volunteer read aloud of the play. This event series is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop. \nFor more information\, Zoom Link\, or to volunteer to be a reader\, contact: saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com \nGuest Speakers / Film Presentation \n\nOct 4: Sean Keilen: Professor of Literature\, UC Santa Cruz; founding Director of Shakespeare Workshop. Serves as dramaturg at Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Readings: Act I\, Scenes 1-4\nOct 11: Katie O’Hare: UCSC Graduate Dissertation on Shakespeare’s Henriad\, which includes Richard II. She will begin teaching at UCLA in Fall 2025. Readings: Act II\, Scene 1-4\, Act III\, Scene 1\nOct 18: Jessica Kubzansky: Artistic Director of Boston Court Pasadena\, author ‘R2’\, a re-envisioning of ‘Richard II’\, performed by SC Shakespeare in 2021. Readings: Act III\, Scenes 2-3\, Act IV Scene 1 to line 162\nOct 25: Paul Whitworth: Professor Emeritus Theater Arts\, UCSC. Began his career as an actor at the Royal Shakespeare Company 1976. Served as Artistic Director for Shakespeare Santa Cruz\, 1996-2007. Readings: Act IV\, Scene 1 line 163 to Act V\, Scenes 1-8\nNov 1: Film Screening: Richard II: The Hollow Crown directed by Rupert Goold with Ben Whishaw\, Rory Kinnear\, David Suchet\, Patrick Stewart\, 2012\, 148 minutes.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-the-tragedy-of-king-richard-ii-2/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251013T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251013T163000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120152
CREATED:20250930T185214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T202007Z
UID:10007757-1760367600-1760373000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Orientation to Community Archiving
DESCRIPTION:Learn about the importance of preserving and documenting the history and culture of our community through archiving. \nWe will discuss how the rise of interest in Community Archives has transformed the way collective memories are curated\, capturing forgotten and suppressed voices\, reshaping our understanding of what archives are and how they function\, and challenging long-held assumptions about the role of professionals in mediating and sharing history. \n\n\nRebecca Hernandez is currently the inaugural Community Archivist at the UC Santa Cruz University Library\, where she collaborates with community members to preserve the rich history and cultural heritage of Santa Cruz County. Her academic background includes a PhD in American Studies\, MA in American Indian Studies\, and an MFA in Design. \n \nA virtual option is available. Space is limited. \nMore information available here. \nThis event is presented by the The Humanities Division Employing Humanities Program and UC Santa Cruz Special Collections & Archives.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/orientation-to-community-archiving/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251013T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251013T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120152
CREATED:20250923T200635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T211109Z
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SUMMARY:Slugs and Steins with Professor Kimberly Lau - Race and the European Fairy Tale: The Making of a White Genre
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Kimberly Lau offers intertwined readings of several cognate fairy tales that revolve around true and false brides\, beginning with Black slaves and white fairies in 17th-century Naples and tracing their evolution into (implicitly raced but unmarked) kind and unkind girls in 19th-century Germany. Through her readings\, Lau illustrates some of the ways that culturally specific\, historical ideas about race\, racial thinking\, and racism have contributed to the development of the European fairy tale as a genre as well as to the creation of the fairy tale’s enduringly white world. \n\nKimberly J. Lau is Professor of Literature and Provost of College Nine and John R. Lewis College. She is the author of Specters of the Marvelous: Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale (2025); Erotic Infidelities: Love and Enchantment in Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber” (2015)\, Body Language: Sisters in Shape\, Black Women’s Fitness\, and Feminist Identity Politics (2011)\, and New Age Capitalism: Making Money East of Eden (2000)\, as well as articles in a number of interdisciplinary journals. Her research interests include fairy tales\, folklore\, and fantasy; feminist theory and critical race studies; the intersection of popular and political cultures and monster studies. \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-professor-kimberly-lau-race-and-the-european-fairy-tale-the-making-of-a-white-genre/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251014T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251014T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120152
CREATED:20250812T215526Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250812T215724Z
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SUMMARY:Malcolm Gladwell—Revenge of the Tipping Point
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes #1 New York Times bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell for a discussion about Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories\, Superspreaders\, and the Rise of Social Engineering. In this provocative new work\, Malcolm Gladwell returns for the first time in twenty-five years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points\, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena. \n \nThis event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz \n\nWhy is Miami…Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third\, and what does it mean for racial harmony? In this provocative new work\, Malcolm Gladwell returns for the first time in twenty-five years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points\, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena. \nThrough a series of riveting stories\, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering. He takes us to the streets of Los Angeles to meet the world’s most successful bank robbers\, rediscovers a forgotten television show from the 1970s that changed the world\, visits the site of a historic experiment on a tiny cul-de-sac in northern California\, and offers an alternate history of two of the biggest epidemics of our day: COVID and the opioid crisis. Revenge of the Tipping Point is Gladwell’s most personal book yet. With his characteristic mix of storytelling and social science\, he offers a guide to making sense of the contagions of modern world. It’s time we took tipping points seriously. \nMalcolm Gladwell is the author of eight New York Timesbestsellers: The Tipping Point\, Blink\, Outliers\, What the Dog Saw\, David and Goliath\, Talking to Strangers\, The Bomber Mafiaand Revenge of the Tipping Point. He is also the co-founder of Pushkin Industries\, an audio production company that produces audiobooks like Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon\, as well as podcasts including Revisionist History\, Broken Record\, The Happiness Lab\, Against the Rules\, and Medal of Honor: Stories of Courage. Gladwell has been included in the Time 100 Most Influential People list and was named one of Foreign Policy’s Top Global Thinkers. Previously\, he was a staff writer for The New Yorker. Gladwell was born in England and grew up in rural Ontario. He lives in New York.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/malcolm-gladwell-revenge-of-the-tipping-point/
LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251015
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251019
DTSTAMP:20260403T120152
CREATED:20250902T173145Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251014T035740Z
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SUMMARY:Festival of Monsters
DESCRIPTION:Held on the beautiful UC Santa Cruz campus\, the 2025 Festival of Monsters academic conference (Oct. 15-18) includes panels on cannibalism\, classic monsters\, child monsters and the monsters of childhood\, Chicanix Nuclear Gothic and more. David Livingstone Smith\, Kim Lau and Jeffrey Jerome Cohen will give this year’s keynote talks. \nThe main conference will take place on the UC Santa Cruz campus on Oct. 16-17\, with a reception and opening talk Oct. 15 at the Museum of Art and History and a day of public events in downtown Santa Cruz on Oct. 18. \nThe registration fee includes a welcome reception the evening of Oct. 15\, breakfast and lunch on Oct. 16 and 17\, a closing Monsters Ball on the evening of Oct. 17\, and all conference events. All conference presenters and attendees should register for the conference by Monday\, Sept. 15\, 2025. \nThe conference costs $275 for tenure track faculty and $225 for graduate students\, contingent faculty and independent scholars. Current UC Santa Cruz students\, staff and faculty may attend the conference for free. The free registration DOES NOT include food. \n \nPlease visit: https://www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/2025fest for registration and logistical information \nSponsors for the 2025 Festival of Monsters include Porter College; The Arts Research Institute; The Humanities Institute; the Sigfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment; the UC Santa Cruz Department of Literature; the UC Santa Cruz Department of Performance\, Play and Design; Bookshop Santa Cruz; Atlantis Fantasyworld; Game Santa Cruz; and James Gunderson.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/festival-of-monsters-4/
LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251015T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251015T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120152
CREATED:20250909T215811Z
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SUMMARY:Navyug Gill - Labor History and the Accumulation of Difference in Colonial Panjab
DESCRIPTION:Within the British empire\, Panjab has long been regarded as the quintessential agrarian province inhabited by a diligent\, prosperous and “martial race” of peasants. Against such essentialist depictions\, I explore the landowning peasant and landless laborer as novel subjects forged in the encounter between colonialism and struggles over culture and capital within Panjabi society. Company officials and ascendant Panjabis together disrupted existing forms of identity and activity to generate a new kind of hierarchy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through an interrogation of a disparate archive – settlement reports and legal judgments to labor contracts\, vernacular poetry and family budgets – I challenge the givenness of the peasant by explicating the ideological and material divisions that transformed the equation of rural power\, and thus reconfigured global capitalism. Weaving together economic logic with cultural difference\, this presentation offers a way to re-think comparative political economy alongside alternative possibilities for emancipatory futures. \n \nNavyug Gill is a historian of modern South Asia and global history. He is Associate Professor in the Department of History\, Philosophy and Liberal Studies at William Paterson University. His research explores questions of agrarian change\, labor politics\, caste hierarchy\, postcolonial critique and histories of capitalism. His first book\, Labors of Division: Global Capitalism and the Emergence of the Peasant in Colonial Panjab\, was published by Stanford University Press in 2024. A South Asia edition was released by Navayana in 2025. The book won the “Henry A. Wallace Award” for the best book on agricultural history outside the US from the AgriculturalHistory Society. Gill’s scholarly and public writings have appeared in venues such as Past and Present\, the Journal of Asian Studies\, Economic and Political Weekly\, Al Jazeera\, the Law and Political Economy Project and Trolley Times. \n  \n\n \nFall 2025 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 Fall 2025 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/navyug-gill-labor-history-and-the-accumulation-of-difference-in-colonial-panjab/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Archives 101 for Graduate Students
DESCRIPTION:Feeling the archival impulse? Come get some hands-on experiences with McHenry Library’s Special Collections\, chat about archives with your fellow grad students\, and get your questions answered about archival research at UCSC and beyond. \n \nCurious undergrads are welcome\, too! Space is limited. \n \n\nThis event is presented by the Center for Archival Research & Training (CART) in Special Collections & Archives and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the 10th year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/archives-101-for-graduate-students/
LOCATION:McHenry Library (3rd Floor)\, Special Collections
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Cindy Juyoung Ok
DESCRIPTION:Wonder as the Source \nCindy Juyoung Ok is the author of Ward Toward and the translator of The Hell of That Star by Kim Hyesoon. She was a finalist for a 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship\, has served as a Poetry Foundation Library Forms & Features visiting teaching artist\, and was a reviewer for Harriet Books in 2022-2023. Ok\, formerly a high school physics teacher\, now works as an assistant English professor. You can find Ok’s published work in The Nation\, The Yale Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, and elsewhere. \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-cindy-juyuong-ok/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251016T200000
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SUMMARY:John Freeman - California Rewritten
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes author\, editor\, and poet John Freeman for a conversation with Karen Tei Yamashita about his new book California Rewritten: A Journey Through the Golden State’s New Literature. This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. \n“In Freeman’s hands\, California is a literary mecca\, and each essay a revelation.” —Ingrid Rojas Contreras\, author of The Man Who Could Move Clouds \n \nYour RSVP helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. Thank you for registering! \nDive into the revelatory worlds of California’s most exciting writers\, and discover how their books uncover our history and can help us imagine our shared future. Percival Everett\, Rebecca Solnit\, Tommy Orange\, Michael Connelly\, Julie Otsuka: As John Freeman writes in California Rewritten\, “Literature of so many kinds and so many genres from so many different types of people—at the highest level—has been coming out of California and from Californians for decades now.” Freeman\, one of the sharpest editors working today\, has followed the evolution of California’s literary life since his teenage years in Sacramento. In over fifty essays inspired by his hosting of Alta Journal’s popular California Book Club\, he offers an essential road map to California literature now. He shows us how the state’s most exciting writers can unlock our understanding of the past\, and how they can deepen our imaginations as we confront the most pressing issues that face our society: labor and inequality\, migration and citizenship\, technology and its limits\, changing landscapes and climate catastrophe. Incisive and compulsively readable\, California Rewritten will be a source of empowering discovery for any book lover who cares about the Golden State. \nJohn Freeman has hosted Alta’s California Book Club since its founding in 2020. He is an executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf\, and he edited Freeman’s (2015-2023)\, a literary annual of new writing. His books include How to Read a Novelist and Dictionary of the Undoing\, as well as the anthologies Tales of Two Americas\, Tales of Two Planets\, The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story\, and Sacramento Noir. He is also the author of three poetry collections\, Maps\, The Park\, and Wind\, Trees. His work is translated into more than twenty languages\, and has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, and The New York Times. The former editor of Granta\, he lives in New York. \nKaren Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books (including I Hotel\, finalist for the National Book Award\, and most recently Sansei and Sensibility)\, all published by Coffee House Press. Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation\, the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature\, and a United States Artists’ Ford Foundation Fellowship\, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-freeman-california-rewritten/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - The Tragedy of King Richard II
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents The Tragedy of King Richard II by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on October 4\, 11\, 18\, 25 & November 1\, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. 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 volunteer read aloud of the play. This event series is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop. \nFor more information\, Zoom Link\, or to volunteer to be a reader\, contact: saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com \nGuest Speakers / Film Presentation \n\nOct 4: Sean Keilen: Professor of Literature\, UC Santa Cruz; founding Director of Shakespeare Workshop. Serves as dramaturg at Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Readings: Act I\, Scenes 1-4\nOct 11: Katie O’Hare: UCSC Graduate Dissertation on Shakespeare’s Henriad\, which includes Richard II. She will begin teaching at UCLA in Fall 2025. Readings: Act II\, Scene 1-4\, Act III\, Scene 1\nOct 18: Jessica Kubzansky: Artistic Director of Boston Court Pasadena\, author ‘R2’\, a re-envisioning of ‘Richard II’\, performed by SC Shakespeare in 2021. Readings: Act III\, Scenes 2-3\, Act IV Scene 1 to line 162\nOct 25: Paul Whitworth: Professor Emeritus Theater Arts\, UCSC. Began his career as an actor at the Royal Shakespeare Company 1976. Served as Artistic Director for Shakespeare Santa Cruz\, 1996-2007. Readings: Act IV\, Scene 1 line 163 to Act V\, Scenes 1-8\nNov 1: Film Screening: Richard II: The Hollow Crown directed by Rupert Goold with Ben Whishaw\, Rory Kinnear\, David Suchet\, Patrick Stewart\, 2012\, 148 minutes.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-the-tragedy-of-king-richard-ii-4/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads with Kevin Anderson
DESCRIPTION:Anna Yegorova and Pablo Escudero will engage Professor Kevin Anderson on his recently published monograph\, The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads. In this work\, Anderson carries out a systematic analysis of Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks and related texts on Russia\, India\, Ireland\, Algeria\, Latin America\, and ancient Rome\, with an eye to how viewing the world beyond the boundaries of Western modernity fundamentally alters our understanding of capitalism\, empire\, historical development\, and revolutionary possibilities\, past and present. \n \nKevin Anderson is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He is the author of numerous books and articles\, including The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads; Marx at the Margins; Foucault and the Iranian Revolution (with Janet Afary); and Lenin\, Hegel\, and Western Marxism. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-late-marxs-revolutionary-roads-with-kevin-anderson/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Mogannam - Palestinian-Lebanese Revolution-Making in Civil War Lebanon
DESCRIPTION:This talk offers a framework for understanding the entangled fate of Palestinian and Lebanese liberation by situating the 1970s Palestinian revolution and Lebanese Civil War opposition front through a shared narrative. This talk will show how these two efforts not only organized jointly\, but how their aspirations were shared and impactful of the social landscape in Lebanon. By situating these histories together\, this talk will reframe the notion of “civil war” in Lebanon and dissect the concept of revolution for a free Palestine. \n \nJennifer Mogannam is an Assistant Professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at UCSC and affiliate faculty with the Center for the Middle East & North Africa. Her research centers Palestinian and Arab movements of the 20th and 21st century. She also intervenes in the question of refugees\, colonialism and imperialism\, Palestinian feminism\, violence\, and third world solidarities. \n  \n\n \nFall 2025 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 Fall 2025 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/jennifer-mogannam-palestinian-lebanese-revolution-making-in-civil-war-lebanon/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Zine-Making Workshop with Christie George
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for this year’s first anthropology colloquium/Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice event! \n \nThis event is in-person and virtual. Register for virtual participation here. \nChristie George is a writer\, curator and producer who has beenworking at the intersection of media\, technology and social change for more than twenty years — first as a film distributor with Women Make Movies and later as the President of New Media Ventures for a decade. In her creative practice\, she is interested in collaborative art\, especially work that explores and expands the idea of collective authorship. Christie recently released “The Emergency Was Curiosity\,” a book report\, exhibition and event series about cultivating individual and collective creative attention. She has a BA from Yale University and an MBA with distinction from the University of Oxford where she was a Skoll Scholar and was awarded the Said Prize. Christie is a proud board member of the Indivisible Project. \n\nSponsored by the UCOP-sponsored MRPI in Disability Justice and Abolition Medicine\, The Humanities Institute\, and the Department of Anthropology
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/zine-making-workshop-with-christie-george/
LOCATION:Social Sciences 1\, Room 261\,  Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mary Roach - Replaceable You
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Roach for a discussion about Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy. In this irrepressible new work\, Mary Roach explores the remarkable advances and difficult questions prompted by the human body’s failings. When and how does a person decide they’d be better off with a prosthetic than their existing limb? Can a donated heart be made to beat forever? Can an intestine provide a workable substitute for a vagina? \n \nThe body is the most complex machine in the world\, and the only one for which you cannot get a replacement part from the manufacturer. For centuries\, medicine has reached for what’s available–sculpting noses from brass\, borrowing skin from frogs and hearts from pigs\, crafting eye parts from jet canopies and breasts from petroleum by-products. Today we’re attempting to grow body parts from scratch using stem cells and 3D printers. How are we doing? Are we there yet? Irrepressible and accessible\, Replaceable You immerses readers in the wondrous\, improbable\, and surreal quest to build a new you. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nMary Roach is the author of seven best-selling works of nonfiction\, including Grunt\, Stiff\, and\, most recently\, Fuzz. Her writing has appeared in National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine\, among other publications. She lives in California.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mary-roach-replaceable-you/
LOCATION:London Nelson Community Center\, 301 Center St.\, Santa Cruz\, United States
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium with Elsi Kaiser
DESCRIPTION:Join the Linguistics Department for Elsi Kaiser’s talk\, “Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Exploring Interpretation and Dissimilation of Third Person Pronouns in English and Finnish”. \nTransitive clauses with two personal pronouns in coargument position (e.g. “she saw her”\, “he helped him”) are perfectly natural in English. But perhaps surprisingly\, such two-pronoun sequences are highly dispreferred in Finnish. To further our understanding of the notion of ‘prominence\,’ I report a series of psycholinguistic studies and corpus analyses on two-pronoun sequences in English and Finnish. My recent work with Jina Song on English two-pronoun sequences shows that pronoun interpretation depends on referential structure in ways that cannot be reduced to Binding Theory: Interpretation of a subject pronoun depends on whether the clause contains a second pronoun. In other words\, two-pronoun sequences exhibit distinct patterns\, which we show are not reducible to semantic or syntactic parallelism. Furthermore\, in striking contrast to English\, I propose that Finnish is subject to a Pronoun Dissimilation Constraint: When two expressions in the same local domain are referentially distinct\, realizing both as personal pronouns is dispreferred (and crucially\, replacing one with an anaphoric demonstrative yields an acceptable sentence). I present evidence showing that the Pronoun Dissimilation Constraint cannot be reduced to a pure disambiguation phenomenon\, nor to linear proximity\, phonological similarity\, or the presence of another option in the language’s anaphoric paradigm. I explore this phenomenon from a typological perspective in relation to other dissimilation phenomena\, as well as obviation phenomena in languages with obviative-proximate systems. Time permitting\, I will also present new data from English exploring the notion of prominence in transitive clauses from the perspective of spatial orientation effects\, using a drawing task. \n \nThis event is in-person with an option to join virtually available. \nElsi Kaiser is a professor at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Southern California. She received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Elsi Kaiser’s primary research focus is in language processing and psycholinguistics. She investigates the processes and representations involved in comprehension and production\, especially in domains that involve multiple aspects of linguistic representation (syntax\, semantics\, pragmatics)\, such as reference resolution.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguists-colloquium-with-elsi-kaiser/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - The Tragedy of King Richard II
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents The Tragedy of King Richard II by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on October 4\, 11\, 18\, 25 & November 1\, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. 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 volunteer read aloud of the play. This event series is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop. \nFor more information\, Zoom Link\, or to volunteer to be a reader\, contact: saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com \nGuest Speakers / Film Presentation \n\nOct 4: Sean Keilen: Professor of Literature\, UC Santa Cruz; founding Director of Shakespeare Workshop. Serves as dramaturg at Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Readings: Act I\, Scenes 1-4\nOct 11: Katie O’Hare: UCSC Graduate Dissertation on Shakespeare’s Henriad\, which includes Richard II. She will begin teaching at UCLA in Fall 2025. Readings: Act II\, Scene 1-4\, Act III\, Scene 1\nOct 18: Jessica Kubzansky: Artistic Director of Boston Court Pasadena\, author ‘R2’\, a re-envisioning of ‘Richard II’\, performed by SC Shakespeare in 2021. Readings: Act III\, Scenes 2-3\, Act IV Scene 1 to line 162\nOct 25: Paul Whitworth: Professor Emeritus Theater Arts\, UCSC. Began his career as an actor at the Royal Shakespeare Company 1976. Served as Artistic Director for Shakespeare Santa Cruz\, 1996-2007. Readings: Act IV\, Scene 1 line 163 to Act V\, Scenes 1-8\nNov 1: Film Screening: Richard II: The Hollow Crown directed by Rupert Goold with Ben Whishaw\, Rory Kinnear\, David Suchet\, Patrick Stewart\, 2012\, 148 minutes.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-the-tragedy-of-king-richard-ii-3/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Día de los Muertos Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Día de los Muertos community celebration of traditional music\, dance\, and art at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.\nEnjoy live performances by Senderos’ Centeotl Danza y Baile and Ensamble Musical de Senderos. Stroll through the museum in a self-guided presentation of community altars. \nPerformances all day! \nThis event is presented by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History in collaboration with Senderos\, and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. For more details\, please visit the event page on the MAH’s website here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dia-de-los-muertos-celebration/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251027T200000
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SUMMARY:Julian Brave NoiseCat - We Survived the Night
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Julian Brave NoiseCat who will share his stunning debut We Survived the Night. Drawing from five years of on-the-ground reporting\, We Survived the Night paints a profound and unforgettable portrait of contemporary Indigenous life\, alongside an intimate and deeply powerful reckoning between a father and a son. Soulful\, formally daring\, indelible work from an important new voice. \nThis event is cosponsored by the American Indian Resource Center and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. It will take place at the London Nelson Community Center. A student reception will be held at 6:30pm. The first 30 registered student attendees will receive free entry and a copy of We Survived the Night. All other attendees may purchase tickets using the button below. \n \n“Written in gorgeous\, sparse prose\, We Survived the Night reads like a novel. Told with a blistering honesty\, the truth and grit create a beautifully woven coyote story we haven’t heard before. This is a love letter to Oakland\, to the Canim Lake Band Tsq’secen of the Secwepemc Nation\, to a father from his son\, to the act of being a Native person in the twenty first century finding ways to love even through all that wounds have opened and wrought. With this\, Julian Brave NoiseCat has written a book I’ve been waiting my whole life to read.” —Tommy Orange \nA stunning narrative from one of the most powerful young writers at work today—We Survived the Night (Knopf) interweaves oral history with hard-hitting journalism and a deeply personal father-son journey into a searing portrait of Indigenous survival\, love\, and resurgence. \nJulian Brave NoiseCat’s childhood was rich with culture and contradictions. When his Secwépemc and St’at’imc father\, an artist haunted by a turbulent past\, abandoned the family\, he and his non-Native mother were embraced by the urban Native community in Oakland\, California\, as well as by family on the Canim Lake Indian Reserve in British Columbia. In his father’s absence\, NoiseCat immersed himself in Native history and culture to understand the man he seldom saw—his past\, his story\, where he came from—and\, by extension\, himself. \nYears later\, NoiseCat sets out across the continent to correct the erasure\, invisibility\, and misconceptions surrounding the First Peoples of this land\, as he develops his voice as a storyteller and artist in his own right. \nJulian Brave NoiseCat is a writer\, Oscar-nominated filmmaker\, champion powwow dancer\, and student of Salish art and history. His writing has appeared in dozens of publications\, including The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and The New Yorker. NoiseCat has been recognized with numerous awards including the 2022 American Mosaic Journalism Prize and many National Native Media Awards. He was a finalist for the Livingston Award and multiple Canadian National Magazine Awards\, and was named to the TIME100 Next list in 2021. His first documentary\, Sugarcane\, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. Directed alongside Emily Kassie\, Sugarcane premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival\, where NoiseCat and Kassie won the Directing Award in U.S. Documentary. NoiseCat is a proud member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq̓éscen̓ and descendant of the Líl̓wat Nation of Mount Currie. We Survived the Night is his first book.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/julian-brave-noisecat-we-survived-the-night/
LOCATION:London Nelson Community Center\, 301 Center St.\, Santa Cruz\, United States
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SUMMARY:On the Field\, Making Archives - Music and Talks with Upatyaka Dutta
DESCRIPTION:Within the everyday workspaces of Assam’s tea plantations\, Adivasi tea tribes engage in listening\, sounding\, and music. At times\, these sounds and music flow into Adivasi living areas known as “lines.” Upatyaka explores the dynamic relationship between the sounds of the workplace and the sociocultural life woven through tea plantation labor. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted across Assam’s tea estates and her experiences as a singer from the region\, she listens to the voices of Adivasi women pluckers—their songs\, conversations\, and laughter; Adivasi and non-Adivasi interactions; and the broader soundscape in which they work. \nUpatyaka Dutta is a doctoral candidate in Ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto and a 2024 recipient of the Society for Ethnomusicology’s 21st-Century Fellowship. Her broader research interests include sounds studies and community and collaborative archival practices. \n  \n\nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Music Department\, The Kamil and Talat Hasan Endowed Chair for Classical Indian Music\, and the Ali Akbar Khan Endowment for Classical Indian Music
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/on-the-field-making-archives-music-and-talks-with-upatyaka-dutta/
LOCATION:Music Center Room 131\, 1156 HIGH STREET\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251028T120000
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SUMMARY:± AI Initiative Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a kick-off meeting about The Humanities Institute’s new ± AI Initiative. Learn about THI’s vision and funding opportunities and connect with colleagues who have overlapping interests in humanities and artificial intelligence. Bring your research ideas\, projects\, dreams\, and plans to the discussion as we look at ways to further advance humanistic work on new technologies. \nThis brown bag lunch is open to current UCSC faculty and staff across campus involved in humanistic research\, teaching\, and administration who are interested in the development\, uses\, and impacts of artificial intelligence. \nPlease make sure to RSVP here:
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ai-initiative-meeting/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251029T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251029T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120152
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SUMMARY:Reading the Conjuncture with Dimitris Papadopoulos\, Jim Clifford\, Camilla Hawthorne\, Gail Hershatter\, Laurie Palmer\, and Vanita Seth
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness: earth ecologies x technoscience \nWhat a vital occasion it would be to receive intellectual gifts that enable us to better grasp our current socio-ecological moment\, especially as many of us feel short of interpretations. We are inspired by Stuart Hall’s conjunctural thinking\, as we face a situation where intensive and condensed contradictions unfold—not from a single primary cause\, but through intricate political and ecological\, economic and cultural\, social and geological articulations and re-articulations that shape the specificity of our present and reorder the coordinates of crisis and opportunity. This panel\, along with the discussion that will follow\, aims to be a moment of gift-giving—leaving behind conceptual\, narratological\, or visual gifts for those who seek to understand a present that is elusive and deeply troubling. \nJim Clifford\, Professor Emeritus in History of Consciousness and founding director of the Center for Cultural Studies\, is best known for his historical and literary critiques of anthropological representation\, travel writing\, and museum practices. His last book\, Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the 21st Century (2013)\, is the third in a trilogy which also includes The Predicament of Culture (1988) and Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late 20th Century (1997). Jim is currently investigating the colonial legacies and future possibilities of ethnological museums in the former First World. \nCamilla Hawthorne is a critical human geographer and associate professor of sociology and critical race and ethnic studies at UC Santa Cruz who studies migration\, citizenship\, racial capitalism\, and the insurgent abolition geographies of the Black Mediterranean. She is the author of Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean (2022)\, translated into Italian as Razza e cittadinanza. Frontiere contese e contestate nel Mediterraneo nero (2023)\, and co-editor of The Black Mediterranean: Bodies\, Borders\, and Citizenship (2021)\, The Black Geographic: Praxis\, Resistance\, Futurity (2023)\, and Heartbreak and Other Geographies: Collected Works of Katherine McKittrick (forthcoming 2026). She also serves as program director of the Black Europe Summer School\, an intensive course on citizenship\, race\, and the Black diaspora in Europe that is held for two weeks each summer in Amsterdam\, the Netherlands. \nGail Hershatter is Research Professor and Distinguished Professor Emer. of History at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and a former President of the Association for Asian Studies. Her books include The Workers of Tianjin (1986\, Chinese translation 2016)\, Personal Voices: China Women in the 1980s (1988\, with Emily Honig)\, Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution in Twentieth-Century Shanghai (1997\, Chinese translation 2003)\, Women in China’s Long Twentieth Century (2004)\, The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past (2011; Chinese translation 2017) and Women and China’s Revolutions (2019).  She is at work on a book provisionally entitled “Travels on the Revolution’s Edge.” \nA. Laurie Palmer is an artist\, writer\, and teacher whose research-based work focuses on undoing and re-crafting human practices of relating with the material world towards building just\, livable\, and joyful social and environmental relations. Palmer just retired after 10 years in the Art Department at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she helped her colleagues build the Environmental Art and Social Practice MFA program. \nDimitris Papadopoulos is a transdisciplinary scholar working at the intersections of science and technology studies\, the environmental humanities\, and cultural and visual studies. He is Professor of History of Consciousness in the History of Consciousness Department\, University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nVanita Seth is an associate professor in the Politics Department. \n  \n\n \nFall 2025 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 Fall 2025 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/reading-the-conjuncture-with-dimitris-papadopoulos-jim-clifford-camilla-hawthorne-gail-hershatter-laurie-palmer-and-vanita-seth/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251029T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251029T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120152
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SUMMARY:Humanities Grad School 101
DESCRIPTION:Are you curious about graduate school in the humanities? Join this Humanities Grad School 101 session\, where we’ll hear from Associate Dean of Research Pranav Anand and stellar UCSC  graduate students in History\, Linguistics\, Literature\, and Philosophy. We’ll discuss important considerations for deciding to pursue graduate school and what to look for in an academic program and advisor. You’ll leave knowing how to decide whether grad school is right for you and what you can do now to prepare. \n \nThis is a hybrid event and will be hosted both in-person and on Zoom. \nDinner will be provided for those joining in person. \n\nThis event is presented by the Humanities Division Employing Humanities initiative.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-grad-school-101/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251030T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251030T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120152
CREATED:20250902T175347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250919T224652Z
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SUMMARY:When Human-Centered AI Encountered Digital Humanities: A Dialogue between Magy Seif El-Nasr and Minghui Hu
DESCRIPTION:What happens when the ethical and interpretive frameworks of the humanities meet the algorithmic and interactive architectures of artificial intelligence? This dialogue brings together two leading voices from distinct yet converging fields: Magy Seif El-Nasr\, a pioneer in human-centered AI\, game analytics\, and interactive narrative design\, and Minghui Hu\, a historian and digital humanist\, explores the cultural\, religious\, and intellectual history of China through computational and interpretive lenses. \nTogether\, they will explore shared concerns—from narrative design and agency to ethical modeling and epistemological boundaries—charting new possibilities at the intersection of technology and the humanities. This conversation is not only a meeting of disciplines\, but a reimagining of the collaborative future of AI and humanistic inquiry. \nThis event is sponsored by the Leading the Change Collaboration Series at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/when-human-centered-ai-encountered-digital-humanities-a-dialogue-between-magy-seif-el-nasr-and-minghui-hu/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251030T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251030T185500
DTSTAMP:20260403T120152
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Aracelis Girmay
DESCRIPTION:Wonder as the Source \nAracelis Girmay is a poet\, teacher\, and editor. Her poems trace the connections of transformation and loss across cities and bodies. She is the author of the poetry collections the black maria (2016)\, Kingdom Animalia (2011)\, and Teeth (2007). She was named a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. In 2011 Girmay was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and in 2015 she received a Whiting Award for Poetry. A Cave Canem Fellow and an Acentos board member\, she led youth and community writing workshops. Girmay is the Knight Family Professor of Creative Writing at Stanford 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-aracelis-girmay/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251030T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251030T200000
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Alice Waters
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz are delighted to welcome award-winning chef and food activist Alice Waters for a discussion about A School Lunch Revolution\, “A blueprint for the ways in which we should feed our kids organic foods\, both at home and at school.” (Epicurious) \nIn this wonderful\, multigenerational cookbook for adults and children alike\, Waters champions an empowered relationship between students and organic food\, offering delicious recipes that will nourish future generations—and ourselves—from the inside out. \n \nAll tickets include a donation to the Edible Schoolyard Project and Life Lab. \nAlice Waters is a chef and the founder/owner of Chez Panisse in Berkeley\, California. She has won numerous awards\, including the National Humanities Medal\, the French Legion of Honor Medal\, the Cavaliere of the Italian Republic\, the Julia Child Award\, and three James Beard Awards. As vice president of Slow Food International and founder of the Edible Schoolyard Project\, she has helped bring food awareness to people of all ages all over the world. \nMore information at Bookshop Santa Cruz – An Evening with Alice Waters
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/an-evening-with-alice-waters/
LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251101T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251101T121500
DTSTAMP:20260403T120152
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - The Tragedy of King Richard II
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents The Tragedy of King Richard II by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on October 4\, 11\, 18\, 25 & November 1\, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. 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 volunteer read aloud of the play. This event series is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop. \nFor more information\, Zoom Link\, or to volunteer to be a reader\, contact: saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com \nGuest Speakers / Film Presentation \n\nOct 4: Sean Keilen: Professor of Literature\, UC Santa Cruz; founding Director of Shakespeare Workshop. Serves as dramaturg at Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Readings: Act I\, Scenes 1-4\nOct 11: Katie O’Hare: UCSC Graduate Dissertation on Shakespeare’s Henriad\, which includes Richard II. She will begin teaching at UCLA in Fall 2025. Readings: Act II\, Scene 1-4\, Act III\, Scene 1\nOct 18: Jessica Kubzansky: Artistic Director of Boston Court Pasadena\, author ‘R2’\, a re-envisioning of ‘Richard II’\, performed by SC Shakespeare in 2021. Readings: Act III\, Scenes 2-3\, Act IV Scene 1 to line 162\nOct 25: Paul Whitworth: Professor Emeritus Theater Arts\, UCSC. Began his career as an actor at the Royal Shakespeare Company 1976. Served as Artistic Director for Shakespeare Santa Cruz\, 1996-2007. Readings: Act IV\, Scene 1 line 163 to Act V\, Scenes 1-8\nNov 1: Film Screening: Richard II: The Hollow Crown directed by Rupert Goold with Ben Whishaw\, Rory Kinnear\, David Suchet\, Patrick Stewart\, 2012\, 148 minutes.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-the-tragedy-of-king-richard-ii-5/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251101T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251101T160000
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SUMMARY:Seeds of Resurgence Cluster Meet and Greet
DESCRIPTION:Join the Seeds of Resurgence Research Cluster\, in conjunction with The Greenhouse Project (TGP)\, as they host a gathering where people interested in the cluster can meet and eat and do something together with their hands. Participants will also build a seed undercommons (as opposed to a bank).  Supplies will be provided.  If you have any seeds from past seasons you’d like to contribute\, please save them and bring them along. \nThanks to folks in TGP\, we’ll be able to add some seeds collected from last year’s harvest\, grown from seeds provided by the Palestinian Heirloom Seed Library. \n\nThis event will be hosted at The Greenhouse Project on the UCSC farm\, at 152 Farm Rd. Additional information below: \nUCSC Permitted and non-UCSC Pay-to-Park sites are available at Parking Lot 116 or Parking Lot 168. The closest bus access to the site is located at Hager Dr. and Village Rd. Please reach out if you have additional transportation needs in order to participate in programming. \nWe really want the space to be accessible to you\, so if that’s a challenge in some way\, please don’t hesitate to contact us. TGP is an outdoor community garden space within a farm setting. Accessible bathrooms are available on-site and limited accessible parking is available upon request. Please let us know if you have additional questions or requests related to accessibility. \n\nThis event is presented by the Seeds of Resurgence Research Cluster.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/seed-commons-build-getting-to-know-one-another/
LOCATION:The Greenhouse Project\, 152 Farm Rd\, Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251105
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SUMMARY:Giving Day 2025
DESCRIPTION:On November 5\, 2025\, UC Santa Cruz will celebrate the 10th anniversary of Giving Day\, our signature 24-hour fundraising event that unites Slugs around the world in support of student success\, research\, and community programs. Over the past decade\, thousands of donors have raised millions to provide scholarships\, fuel groundbreaking research\, strengthen basic needs programs\, and ensure every student has the resources to thrive. \nShow Your Love for the Deep Read!  \nSupport The Deep Read today and help us continue to provide free access for students and the public to our author events\, virtual and in-person salons with UC Santa Cruz faculty and community partners\, and email series exploring the Deep Read book. Your gift also means we can give free books to every interested student each year. \nGiving Day 2025 will feature eight humanities projects\, exciting matches and challenges that amplify every gift\, and a global community of Slugs rallying for one cause: expanding opportunity. Mark your calendar\, sign up to be an Advocate\, and join us as we make the 10th year of Giving Day our most impactful yet. \nFor more information: Giving Day 2025.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/giving-day-2025/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251105T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251105T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120152
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SUMMARY:Nora Khan - Discernment: Unruly Images\, Synthetic Media\, and Evolving Critical Impulse
DESCRIPTION:What can criticism offer us in a world of unruly generative images and synthetic media? What precise language might we use for machine learning’s impact\, or the wake of an algorithm? How must our practices of discernment and the critical impulse evolve in response to computational developments\, to perhaps be more resilient and responsive? \nThis talk invites one to consider how our language might move with ‘intelligent’ systems and beings that simulate liveness and likeness. To navigate a present and future dominated by synthetic media\, and created by predictive systems\, we take up a practice of seeing through systems. This talk first explores the craft of developing a hybrid\, strategic\, collective and dissident criticism of technology. It second reviews cases of baffling\, seemingly inarticulable experiences from early software experiments and artists’ interventions\, into AI/ML. Third\, it explores the evolution of language in response to material and symbolic systems that dramatically shape our creative approaches and cognition. Throughout\, the talk explores evolving critical methods that help us better situate ourselves to identify a vast range of hidden fictions and beliefs about what technology is meant to do and be. \nNora N. Khan is an independent critic\, essayist\, curator\, and educator based in Los Angeles. Her writing on philosophy of AI and emerging technologies is referenced heavily across fields. Formally\, this work attempts to theorize the limits of algorithmic knowledge and locate computation’s influence on critical language. She is currently History and Theory faculty at SCI-Arc; previously she was Arts Council Professor at UCLA in Design Media Arts (2024-2025)\, and professor in Digital + Media at Rhode Island School of Design\, where she was nominated for the John R. Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching (2018-2021). Her books are AI Art and the Stakes for Art Criticism (2025)\, Seeing\, Naming\, Knowing (2019) and Fear Indexing the X-Files (2017)\, with Steven Warwick. She is a member of the Curatorial Ensemble of the 2026 edition of Counterpublic\, one of the nation’s largest public civic exhibitions\, focused next on ‘Near Futures’. She was the Co-Curator with Andrea Bellini of the Biennale de L’Image en Mouvement 2024\, A Cosmic Movie Camera\, hosted by Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève\, and also curated Manual Override at The Shed (2020). \n  \n\n \nFall 2025 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 Fall 2025 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/nora-khan-discernment-unruly-images-synthetic-media-and-evolving-critical-impulse/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251105T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251105T150000
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SUMMARY:Nour Joudah - Palestine is the Countermap
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a talk with Nour Joudah at the second annual Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement series!\n \nThe Palestinian experience\, like that of many indigenous peoples\, is one unbound by time; it occupies a simultaneity of temporalities in any given moment and is constantly finding ways to escape the settler colonial temporal trap. Decolonial praxis in the production of present and future spaces can range from operationalizing colonial archives to the remappings of destroyed towns. But in this moment of heightened genocide\, this presentation argues that the most significant countermap to settler imaginaries and violence is Palestine itself. Beyond the rhetorical or symbolic power of the incredible survival of Palestinians\, Palestine as a physical space (and the Gaza Strip in particular) stands as a living countermap that not only confronts and unsettles power relations with the Zionist regime\, but serves as a counter-cartography on a global scale. \nNour Joudah is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at UCLA and a former President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Geography at UC-Berkeley (2022-23). Dr. Joudah’s work examines mapping practices and indigenous survival and futures in settler states\, highlighting how indigenous countermapping is a both cartographic and decolonial praxis. She also has a MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University. \n\nThis event is sponsored by The Center for Racial Justice.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nour-joudah-palestine-is-the-countermap/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251105T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251105T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120152
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SUMMARY:Heirloom Seed Keepers Study Session
DESCRIPTION:Farmers and gardeners have long appreciated a wide variety of plants and have nurtured them for meals\, healing\, and exchange. But diversity too often has been surrendered to monocultures of fields and spirits\, predisposing much of modern agriculture to uniformity and\, consequently\, vulnerability. Today it is primarily at the individual level—such as growing and saving a strange old bean variety or a curious-looking gourd—that any lasting conservation actually takes place. \nTo start building a common space of thinking together\, we’re going to meet up and discuss the first and third chapter of Virginia de Nazarea’s Heirloom Seeds and Their Keepers.  Nazarea studies seed-saving communities in the Philippines and the Global South\, with special attention to the way farmers on the margins have preserved biodiversity and cultural memory.  You can find the full text here.  We know that time can be scarce in the thick of the quarter\, so if you don’t get through all of the reading\, no stress. \n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be hosted at The Greenhouse Project on the UCSC farm\, at 152 Farm Rd. More information below: \nUCSC Permitted and non-UCSC Pay-to-Park sites are available at Parking Lot 116 or Parking Lot 168. The closest bus access to the site is located at Hager Dr. and Village Rd. Please reach out if you have additional transportation needs in order to participate in programming. \nWe really want the space to be accessible to you\, so if that’s a challenge in some way\, please don’t hesitate to contact us. TGP is an outdoor community garden space within a farm setting. Accessible bathrooms are available on-site and limited accessible parking is available upon request. Please let us know if you have additional questions or requests related to accessibility. \n\nThis event is presented by the Seeds of Resurgence Research Cluster.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/study-session-heirloom-seed-keepers/
LOCATION:The Greenhouse Project\, 152 Farm Rd\, Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251106T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251106T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120152
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SUMMARY:Campus to Career - Job Talk with Rebecca Hernandez
DESCRIPTION:Wondering what you can do with your Arts or Humanities degree? Hear from a real professional on our campus with a background in both. Rebecca Hernandez is the inaugural Community Archivist at the UCSC University Library. In this job talk\, she will tell us about her educational journey as a first-generation transfer student and share insights and reflections from her professional path. This event is intended for UCSC students interested in careers in higher education\, museums\, or archives. \n \nRebecca Hernandez earned a PhD in American Studies\, specializing in American Indian art and material culture. She also holds an MA in American Indian Studies and an MFA in Exhibition Design and Museum Studies. With a wealth of experience in higher education\, Rebecca has worked as both an administrator and a student affairs professional. Currently serving as the inaugural Community Archivist at the UC Santa Cruz University Library\, she collaborates with community members to preserve the rich history and cultural heritage of Santa Cruz County. \nHosted by UCSC Humanities Division and UCSC Arts Division
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/campus-to-career-job-talk-with-rebecca-hernandez/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251106T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251106T133000
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SUMMARY:Upatyaka Dutta - As We Sing\, So Shall We Pluck
DESCRIPTION:Within the everyday workspaces of Assam’s tea plantations\, Adivasi tea tribes engage in listening\, sounding\, and music. At times\, these sounds and music flow into Adivasi living areas known as “lines.” Upatyaka explores the dynamic relationship between the sounds of the workplace and the sociocultural life woven through tea plantation labor. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted across Assam’s tea estates and her experiences as a singer from the region\, she listens to the voices of Adivasi women pluckers—their songs\, conversations\, and laughter; Adivasi and non-Adivasi interactions; and the broader soundscape in which they work. \n \nUpatyaka Dutta is a doctoral candidate in Ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto and a 2024 recipient of the Society for Ethnomusicology’s 21st-Century Fellowship. Her broader research interests include sounds studies and community and collaborative archival practices. \n  \n\nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Music Department\, The Kamil and Talat Hasan Endowed Chair for Classical Indian Music\, and the Ali Akbar Khan Endowment for Classical Indian Music
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/as-we-sing-so-shall-we-pluck-music-and-talks-with-upatyaka-dutta/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251106T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251106T185500
DTSTAMP:20260403T120152
CREATED:20250923T185623Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Ariel Gore
DESCRIPTION:Wonder as the Source \nAriel Gore is an author\, editor\, and teacher. She makes books\, zines\, coloring books\, and tarot cards. She is the founding editor & publisher of the Alternative Press Award-winning magazine Hip Mama and the author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction. Her latest\, Hexing the Patriarchy\, is out from from Seal Press. Her shameless novel/memoir\, We Were Witches\, was published by The Feminist Press. Her memoir\, The End of Eve\, has been called “Terms of Endearment meets Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Her anthology Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City won the best “LGBT anthology” at the 22nd annual Lambda Literary Award in 2010. She teaches writing online at Ariel’s Gore’s School for Wayward Writers at the Literary Kitchen. \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-ariel-gore/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Crafting the Research-Based Essay with Ariel Gore
DESCRIPTION:Join award-winning author and editor Ariel Gore for a conversation and mini-workshop on translating your research for non-academic genres including personal essays\, fiction\, memoir/autofiction\, and journalism. What does your reader need to know? How do you find a balance between your own voice and the words of others? What do you do about things like citation? A master of deeply-researched personal narrative\, Gore will share decades of experience\, take questions\, and offer some tools to get started. \nThis event is open to graduate students as well as faculty. \n \nSpace is limited and first-come\, first-serve\, so register now! \nParticipants will receive a short excerpt of Ariel Gore’s new book\, Rehearsals for Dying (The Feminist Press) via email upon registration but may want to consider reading the whole book or attending Gore’s Living Writers reading on 11/6. \nAriel Gore is a LAMBDA Award-winning editor and author of 13 books of hybrid feminist fiction and nonfiction\, including the shameless novel/memoir We Were Witches\, the how-to guide Hexing the Patriarchy\, and the memoirs Atlas of the Human Heart\, The End of Eve\, and Rehearsals for Dying. She founded the American Press Award-winning zine Hip Mama. She also makes coloring books and tarot cards\, and teaches writing online at Ariel Gore’s School for Wayward Writers at the Literary Kitchen. She often lives in Oakland\, Santa Fe\, and Brooklyn. \n\nSponsored by the UCOP-sponsored MRPI in Disability Justice and Abolition Medicine and The Humanities Institute PhD+ series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/crafting-the-research-based-essay/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251112T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251112T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120152
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SUMMARY:Jay Afrisando - Shaping the Arts within Disability and Community of Diverse Bodies
DESCRIPTION:What does it look like when our creative process is driven by disability and community? How does the work develop\, change\, and differ from the already-established ways of making? In this talk\, Jay Afrisando will share his recent and upcoming works focusing on how disability and community of diverse bodies drive the ways such works are created. The results include forms and methodologies that continuously evolve and possess an antidisciplinary nature\, offering a new aesthetics that prioritizes humanity while questioning what it means to be an artist and what arts truly mean and represent. \nJay Afrisando\, a medium-skin-toned male with bunned hair\, sits on outdoor neighborhood concrete steps in a serious pose\, with his fingers clasped and arms on his thighs. He wears dark blue jeans\, a light gray sweatshirt\, and black shoes. Photo: © DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program / Diana Pfammatter.\nJay Afrisando is a composer\, multimedia artist\, researcher\, and educator. A neurodivergent\, he works on aural diversity\, disability\, accessibility\, and decolonizing arts through multisensory and antidisciplinary practice\, manifested in music-theater\, film\, installation\, witty storytelling\, and other genre-bending experiences. He is a 2024-25 DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Fellow and Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His collaborative exhibition\, “In Conversation\,” curated by Kate Brehme and in collaboration with numerous artists living in Berlin and other cities\, is currently on display at Galerie im Turm\, Berlin\, until November 23\, 2025. \n  \n  \n  \n\n \nFall 2025 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 Fall 2025 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/jay-afrisando-shaping-the-arts-within-disability-and-community-of-diverse-bodies/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251112T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251112T160000
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SUMMARY:Faculty Grants Session with UCHRI
DESCRIPTION:Interested in faculty funding opportunities from the UC Humanities Research Institute and want to know more about the advisory committee selection process? \nJoin UCHRI Director Jaimey Fisher and Research Grants Program Director Sara Černe for a grants presentation and Q&A. This year UCHRI is offering up to $25\,000 grants for collaborative research projects\, support for projects connected to its theme of Sustenance\, and expanded support for the UCHRI Manuscript Workshop and Research Development Program. \n \nPlease register in advance to receive the meeting link.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/faculty-grants-session-with-uchri/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251113T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251113T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120152
CREATED:20251106T203027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251106T211744Z
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SUMMARY:Campus to Career - Job Talk with Kim Angulo\, Assistant Public Defender
DESCRIPTION:Interested in an impact-driven career in law\, public policy\, or politics? Come hear from UCSC Humanities alum Kim Angulo\, an Assistant Public Defender with experience in both law and public policy work. You’ll gain insights into how to enter these fields\, considerations for knowing whether they’re a good fit for you\, and ideas for how to put your humanistic training to work for public service. \n \nThis is a hybrid event and will be hosted both in-person and on Zoom. \nKim Angulo (she/her) graduated from UCSC in 2013 with her BA in Feminist Studies. She worked in the California State Capitol on public policy and politics for three years\, focusing on courts\, criminal justice\, and human services. Kim attended UC Davis Law School from 2016 to 2019\, gaining experience in Public Defense\, Workers’ Rights\, and Civil Rights. Kim has been an Assistant Public Defender representing people who cannot afford to hire an attorney for six years. She has represented hundreds of clients facing criminal charges and conducted misdemeanor and felony jury trials. She currently works in Mental Health Diversion. \nThis event is organized by the Humanities Division as part of the Employing Humanities Initiative.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/campus-to-career-job-talk-with-kim-angulo-assistant-public-defender/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251113T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251113T185500
DTSTAMP:20260403T120152
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250925T170759Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Issa Quincy
DESCRIPTION:Wonder as the Source \nIssa Quincy is a British writer. He spent spent several years working as a film archivist. His poetry has appeared in The London Magazine and been anthologized by New Rivers Press. His fiction has appeared in Transition Magazine and The Kenyon Review. Quincy’s debut novel\, Absence\, is a haunting atmospheric exploration of memory\, connection\, and the lingering traces of the past. He is currently based in New York City. \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-issa-quincy/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251113T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251113T200000
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SUMMARY:Decolonizing Surfing: A View from Morocco
DESCRIPTION:Film Screening and Panel Discussion:  5:30-7pm\, Studio C\nReception:  Communications 139\, 7-8pm  \nSurfing is a sport dear to Santa Cruzians\, as the city has branded itself the “Original Surf City USA” for over two decades. Despite the awe-inspiring image of individuals “rid[ing] pulses of energy moving through the ocean\,” the sport is also embedded in a global history of colonization and displacement. The origins of surfing have been traced back to Peru and West Africa\, though a more familiar variant is that surfing “discovered” by Captain James Cook in Hawaii in the nineteenth century\, leading to a tourism craze that was disastrous for local populations. \nPresented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa\, this film screening and panel discussion will explore the history of surfing and the ramifications of surf tourism for Morocco. Surfing was imported to Morocco by North American soldiers based near Rabat in the 1940s. By the 1970s the sport became more common\, in large part thanks to the presence of European tourists. Americans also started flocking to Aghazout – an Amazigh fishing village as part of the so-called “hippie trail.” By the early 2000s\, the government started actively promoting surf tourism\, establishing official sporting organizations and dedicating resources to infrastructure and surf camps. This had a transformative effect on Moroccan youth culture as well\, as surfing has generally been associated with economically and socially marginal individuals in Morocco\, and female surfers have sought to challenge gender norms. In recent years\, activists and artists have been organizing against the destruction of cultural heritage (notably troglodyte houses) in the cities of Tifnit and Imsouane and the displacement of their inhabitants. There are also environmental concerns\, as waste and wastewater management are priorities for those who seek to protect the coast. \nThe film screening will feature a short documentary by Arté on gentrification and surfing in Morocco\, followed by two short films by the Moroccan director Ilias El Faris (Azayz and Sukar). The discussion will explore the history of surfing in Morocco and the ways that global capitalism has changed traditional sporting practices. How have gender\, class\, and race shaped ideas of surfing in Morocco? How does surfing help elucidate the contrasts and contradictions of Moroccan society\, and how have these norms shifted with the arrival of mass tourism? \nThe panel discussion will feature  Yasmine Benabdallah\, a PhD candidate in the Department of Film and Visual Media at UCSC\, whose work highlights questions of decolonization\, memory\, and history in Morocco; Michael Vann\, Professor of History at California State University\, Sacramento\, who is a specialist of French Indonesia as well as avid surfer who has written on the history of the sport for Jacobin; and Soufiane Belmkaddem\, a Moroccan surfer and activist who is a member of Black Surf Santa Cruz. \n \nParking Info: \nThis is the communications building on Google maps. \nThis is a map with parking information: https://transportation.ucsc.edu/parking/campus-parking-map/#interactive-map \nPark Mobile parking spots can be located in lot 139A. Alternative parking options include the Core West parking structure\, which is located down the hill from the communications building. \n\nPresented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) and and co-sponsored by the Film and Digital Media Department. \nPhoto Credit: Heatheronhertravels.com\, www.heatheronhertravels.com/ \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/decolonizing-surfing-a-view-from-morocco/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251115T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251115T160000
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SUMMARY:Building Alliances in Native American Education
DESCRIPTION:Are you an Indigenous leader or a public educator committed to fostering meaningful partnerships and enriching Indigenous education? \nJoin Cabrillo College for a free transformative one-day workshop designed to cultivate understanding\, share best practices\, and forge lasting alliances. “Building Alliances in Indigenous Education” offers a unique opportunity for dialogue and collaboration\, empowering participants to enhance educational opportunities for local students and integrate Indigenous perspectives more effectively into public education. \n \nWhy Attend?\n● Gain invaluable insights from leading regional voices in Indigenous education.\n● Discover regional assets and resources that can strengthen Indigenous-focused curricula.\n● Deepen your understanding of historical and literary knowledge and its critical role in contemporary education.\n● Engage in cross-institutional dialogue about innovative teaching practices and curriculum development.\n● Network with dedicated educators and Indigenous leaders to build a supportive community. \nLearn more here: Event Overview. \n\nPresented by Cabrillo College\, Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History\, Amah Mutsun Land Trust\, AIRC\, The History & Civics Project\, and THI.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/building-alliances-in-native-american-education/
LOCATION:Samper Hall\, Cabrillo College\, 6500 Soquel Dr\, Aptos\, 95003\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251115T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251115T180000
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SUMMARY:Broadsides No.2: Pairing Artworks with Poetry - Poetry Reading & Artist Talk
DESCRIPTION:Following the success of its 2023 debut\, Broadsides No. 2 returns this fall to MK Contemporary Art Gallery with a compelling exploration of the dynamic relationship between poetry and visual art. The exhibition pairs nine nationally recognized poets with nine distinguished visual artists\, presenting collaborative works that reveal the unexpected resonances between image and language. \nThe participating artists are celebrated for their ability to capture imagery with clarity and nuance\, each recognized nationally for their contributions to contemporary art. The poets featured in Broadsides No. 2 are equally accomplished literary voices\, with deep connections to the Santa Cruz community and beyond. Many are associated with the Morton Marcus Poetry Reading\, an annual event honoring the legacy of one of Santa Cruz’s most beloved poets. This year’s reading takes place on Thursday\, November 20 at UC Santa Cruz and features writer and poet Ellen Bass. \nThe exhibition is curated by Donna Mekis (poetry) and Rose Sellery (visual art)\, with broadside design by Gary Young\, Director of the Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz. Broadsides No. 2 is presented with support from The Humanities Institute and Special Collections & Archives at UC Santa Cruz. \n\nExhibition Events\n\nOpening Reception with Poetry Reading & Artist Talk: Saturday\, November 15\, 4:00-6:00\nFirst Friday Receptions: November 7 & December 5\, 6:00-8:00\n\n\nVisual Artists\n\nRandy Beckelheimer\nGlenn Carter\nLinda Christensen\nDavid Fleming\nMelissa Kreisa\nQuinn Peck\nMargaret Rinkovsky\nRose Sellery\nBobby Williams\n\nPoets\n\nKillarney Clary\nNancy Miller Gomez\nLee Herrick\nStephen Kessler\nRobin Magowan\nTom Meschery\nMagdalena Montagne\nAyaz Pirani\nTodd Turnidge\n\nImage credit: Twirl by Quinn Peck
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/broadsides-no-2-pairing-artworks-with-poetry-poetry-reading-artist-talk/
LOCATION:m.k. contemporary art\, 703 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251117T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251117T130000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED: Timescape of Rings with Stephen David Engel
DESCRIPTION:This event has been postponed. An updated date will be announced in the coming weeks. \nThe History of Consciousness department invites you to the next talk in their Fall 2025 Research Colloquium series. \nStephen David Engel will read from an experimental history called “Timescape of Rings.” In it\, he meditates on a 2\,200-year-old redwood round with markers for historical events affixed to its rings—the birth of Jesus\, the invention of gunpowder\, the drafting of the Magna Carta\, and on. By running his fingers over the rings\, he recalls histories not commemorated by these markers\, in particular revolts and egalitarian movements. From there\, Stephen’s daydreams carry him back deeper in time\, all the way back to the first woody trees some 385 million years ago. \n \nThis event is in-person and online. Register for the virtual option here. \nStephen David Engel is a transdisciplinary scholar who thinks across big scales of history and time and who writes about them using creative genres. His writing has appeared in Rethinking History\, ROAR Magazine\, The Anthology of Babel\, and other publications. He holds a PhD from the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where he received the Hayden White dissertation fellowship for excellence in historical theory. This spring\, he will serve as Visiting Professor at Deep Springs College\, an alternative liberal arts college in the California desert.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/timescape-of-rings-with-stephen-david-engel/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251118T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251118T143000
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SUMMARY:Writing Beyond the Academy: An Introduction to Trade Publishing for Senior Scholars
DESCRIPTION:Scholars are frequently called upon to share their expertise with a diverse range of publics outside academia—and this kind of engagement often begins with the publication of a book with a “trade press” (i.e.\, a commercial\, non-university/academic publisher\, with a powerful marketing and publicity apparatus). Not all academics want to do this kind of work. However\, for those who do\, there is often confusion about where to begin\, and a lack of resources to help with the process. This info session is designed to demystify the process of finding an agent\, landing a commercial book deal\, writing more accessibly\, and other skills related to making the transition into writing for the general public. \n \nScholars to Storytellers helps academics bridge the gap between university presses and commercial publishing\, turning specialized knowledge into books that reach mainstream audiences and transform careers. In February 2026\, Scholars to Storytellers will be leading a three-day retreat here in Santa Cruz to help senior academics write a trade book. This retreat will bring together scholars from across the country for a focused\, immersive experience designed to cultivate mastery of all aspects of trade publishing and turbo-charge the transition to writing for popular audiences. \nJohn Ghazvinian is a historian and author of “America and Iran: A History” (Knopf) named among the New York Times “100 Notable Books of 2021.” His work has appeared in Newsweek\, the Washington Post\, and The Nation. He is the founding director of Scholars to Storytellers — an initiative aimed at coaching senior scholars to reach wider readerships for their work.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/writing-beyond-the-academy-an-introduction-to-trade-publishing-for-senior-scholars/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251118T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251118T140000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Vietnamerica - A Simulcast Film Screening and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Due to the planned strike activities on campus\, this event has been cancelled. \nFollowing the wars in Vietnam\, over two million people fled to country with the collapse of the Republic of Vietnam. That exodus\, referred to by many as “the boat people” resulted in nearly half dying while in flight\, battling the elements\, starvation\, and pirates. Vietnamerica follows Master Nguyen Hoa as he returns to former refugee camps in Southeast Asia after three decades abroad to search for the graves of his wife and two children. Having fled Vietnam in 1981 on a boat with his family and friends\, Hoa was the only survivor. \nEach semester GETSEA brings together 20+ universities from across North America to watch a documentary film together\, simultaneously\, and then connect via Zoom for a discussion with the filmmakers afterwards. This fall\, they are showing Vietnamerica to coincide with the upcoming 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War / 4th Vietnamese Civil War. \nFor more information please visit: GETSEA Simulcast Film Screening. \n\nThis event is presented by SEACoast.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vietnamerica-a-simulcast-film-screening-and-discussion/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251118T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251118T170000
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SUMMARY:Dr. Lyla June Johnston - Indigenous Relationships with the Land: The Roots of Regenerative Agriculture
DESCRIPTION:To accomodate the planned strike action at UC Santa Cruz on November 18th\, this event will take place at the base of campus near the intersection of Bay and High Streets. \nPlease join the More-than-Human(ities) Laboratory as we co-host Dr. Lyla June Johnston and her timely talk on indigenous knowledge and agricultural practices. \nDr. Lyla June Johnston is an Indigenous musician\, scholar\, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo)\, Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Her messages focus on Indigenous rights\, supporting youth\, traditional land stewardship practices and healing inter-generational and inter-cultural trauma. She blends her study of Human Ecology at Stanford\, graduate work in Indigenous Pedagogy\, and the traditional worldview she grew up with to inform her music\, perspectives and solutions. Her doctoral research focused on the ways in which pre-colonial Indigenous Nations shaped large regions of Turtle Island (aka the Americas) to produce abundant food systems for humans and non-humans.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/indigenous-relationships-with-the-land-the-roots-of-regenerative-agriculture/
LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251119T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251119T133000
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SUMMARY:Carla Hernández Garavito - Rethinking South American Archaeology Through the Work of Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui: A Ch'ixi Approach
DESCRIPTION:South American Archaeology is living through a growing push towards a theoretical focus developed from within. Of particular influence is the concept of “coloniality”\, an enduring form of colonialism that affects the frameworks of reference the colonized have of themselves. However\, coloniality and the emphasis on “subaltern archaeologies” as a generalized category for the production of scholars hailing from then Global South can also paper over the hierarchies and inequalities within formerly colonized regions. In this paper\, I explore the work of the Andean Oral History Workshop and Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui as an avenue for centering Indigenous frameworks in South American Archaeology and moving beyond a universalizing approach to coloniality. I build on the concept of ch’ixi\, “a color that is the product of juxtaposition\, in small points or spots\, of opposed or contrasting colors” or “something that is and is not at the same time” (Rivera Cusicanqui 2020:65)\, and propose that a ch’ixi archaeology emphasizes the choices of people and communities to make sense of their worlds as a space of creativity and transformation that overcome the binary of colonizer/colonized. \n \nCarla Hernández Garavito is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. A Peruvian archaeologist trained in the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú\, she completed her PhD at Vanderbilt University. Her work investigates the ways in which Andean communities in Peru made sense\, transformed\, and reinvented\, colonial policies between the 15th century to the present. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation\, among others. Her work has been published in Spanish and English\, and in several peer-reviewed journals. Her first book will be published by the University of Arizona Press in 2026. \n  \n\n \nFall 2025 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 Fall 2025 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/carla-hernandez-garavito-rethinking-south-american-archaeology-through-the-work-of-silvia-rivera-cusicanqui-a-chixi-approach/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Humanities at Work: Informational Interviewing
DESCRIPTION:Are you curious about your career options as a humanities student? Wondering how the professionals around you got to where they are? Join this interactive workshop to learn about informational interviewing*\, a way you can use your curiosity to explore career possibilities and make meaningful professional connections. You’ll leave ready to reach out\, learn from your role models\, and build your network. \n \nThis event is virtual. Register here. \nAttendees will enter a raffle for a Humanities tumbler! \n*informational interview: a conversation with a professional you want to learn from about what they do and how they came to do it \n\nThis event is organized by the Humanities Division as part of the Employing Humanities Initiative. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-at-work-informational-interviewing-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Ellen Bass: Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 16th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading\, featuring honored guest Ellen Bass. Poet Gary Young will host the program\, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1\,000 prize). \n \nPhoto by: Irene Young\nEllen Bass’s most recent collection\, Indigo\, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020. Among her other books are Like a Beggar\, The Human Line\, and Mules of Love. Her poems appear frequently in The New Yorker\, American Poetry Review\, and many other journals. Among her awards are Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, The NEA\, and The California Arts Council\, The Lambda Literary Award\, and four Pushcart Prizes. She co-edited with Florence Howe the first major anthology of women’s poetry\, No More Masks!\, and her nonfiction books include the groundbreaking The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse and Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay\, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth. A chancellor emerita of the Academy of American Poets\, Bass founded poetry workshops at Salinas Valley State Prison and the Santa Cruz\, California jails\, and teaches in the MFA writing program at Pacific University. \nGary Young is the author of several collections of poetry. His most recent books are That’s What I Thought\, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award from Persea Books\, and Precious Mirror\, translations from the Japanese. His other books include Even So: New and Selected Poems; Pleasure; No Other Life\, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award; Braver Deeds\, winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize; Days; The Dream of a Moral Life\, which won the James D. Phelan Award; and Hands. He has received a Pushcart Prize\, and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the California Arts Council\, and the Vogelstein Foundation\, among others. In 2009 he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Young was the first Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County\, and in 2012 he was named Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year. Since 1975 he has designed\, illustrated\, and printed limited edition letterpress books and broadsides at his Greenhouse Review Press. His fine print work is represented in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art\, the Victoria and Albert Museum\, The Getty Museum\, and special collection libraries throughout the U.S. and Europe. He teaches creative writing and directs the Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz. \nThis event is a part of the Fall UCSC Living Writers course\, which features poets\, novelists\, academics\, curators\, and artists in conversation with one another\, in person\, across genre and media. \nPurchase both poets’ works at: www.bookshopsantacruz.com \n\nParking Information \nThe Merrill Cultural Center is located in Merrill College\, in the northeast corner of the campus core. Those walking or arriving by Metro bus or campus shuttle can take the steep path heading northeast from the Crown/Merrill bus stop. \nFor those driving from the Main Entrance\, stay on Coolidge Drive. Shortly after Coolidge turns left and becomes McLaughlin Drive\, turn right at the sign for Merrill College. At the top of the hill\, veer right. There are ParkMobile parking spaces along the left side of the lot\, and parking for “A\,” “B\,” and “C” permits along the right. There are two accessible parking spaces if you turn left at the top of the hill and two more if you turn right. Parking attendants will be on site to sell parking permits to event attendees. \n\nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors poet\, teacher\, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009). Marcus was the 1999 Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year and a recipient of the 2007 Gail Rich Award. Among his published works are eleven volumes of poetry\, including The Santa Cruz Mountain Poems\, Pages from a Scrapbook of Immigrants\, Moments Without Names\, Shouting Down the Silence\, Pursuing the Dream Bone and The Dark Figure In The Doorway; a novel\, The Brezhnev Memo; and a literary memoir\, Striking Through the Masks. He taught English and Film at Cabrillo College for thirty years\, was the co-host of the radio program\, The Poetry Show\, and was the co-host of the television film review show\, Cinema Scene. Learn more at: www.mortonmarcus.com \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Archive can be found at UCSC Special Collections. Mort’s personal papers\, manuscripts\, and recordings reflect his legacy as a poet and educator\, and his collection of poetry books\, broadsides\, literary magazines and correspondence with other poets and writers illuminate his deep involvement in\, and passion for\, the literary art of poetry. \nOrganizing Committee: Danusha Laméris\, Donna Mekis\, Mark Ong\, Maggie Paul\, Farnaz Fatemi\, David Sullivan\, Irena Polić\, Teresa Mora\, and Gary Young. \nMorton Marcus Memorial Poetry Contest: Every year\, the annual reading coincides with the The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Prize\, a national poetry contest which honors Morton Marcus\, “whose life and work inspired the writing of many students\, friends\, and emerging poets.” The contest is hosted by The Hive Poetry Collective. The Hive is a group of Santa Cruz poets creating a weekly radio show and live poetry events featuring a diverse roster of poets and seeks to bring a diverse community together in appreciation of all kinds of poetry by all kinds of people. This year’s contest will be judged by Nancy Miller Gomez. For more information visit: https://hivepoetry.org/morton-marcus-prize/ \nSupport Poetry in Santa Cruz: The Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading is made possible due to campus and community co-sponsorships and generous contributions from members of our community\, like you. To ensure we can continue to offer this poetry reading free and open to the public in honor and memory of Morton Marcus\, and to have our lives deeply enriched by exceptional poetry\, please consider making a gift to The Morton Marcus Poetry Reading Fund: thi.ucsc.edu/projects/morton-marcus-poetry-reading. \nThis community event is presented by the The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by: \nBookshop Santa Cruz\nCabrillo College English Department\nCowell College\nDonna F. Mekis\nThe Hive Poetry Collective\nLiving Writers Series\nOw Family Properties\nMerrill College\nPorter Hitchcock Modern Poetry Fund\nPorter College\nSide By Side Press\nSpecial Collections & Archives \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by October 31.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ellen-bass-morton-marcus-poetry-reading-2/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium with Liv Hoversten
DESCRIPTION:Join the Linguistics Department for Liv Hoversten’s talk “Is Language Control in Comprehension Applied Within or External to the Lexicon?” \nBilinguals need to continually monitor and select the appropriate language(s) for the current context in order to communicate efficiently. Prominent models of bilingual word recognition posit that this selection process\, known as language control\, occurs externally to the lexicon based on the output of the word recognition system. According to these models\, lexical representations from both languages are activated in parallel regardless of task demands or contextual cues that signal the relevance of each language. Only after this cross language activation has unfolded can nontarget language representations be suppressed\, via a task/decision module separate from the lexicon. \nIn this talk\, Hoversten will argue instead that task instructions and contextual cues\, such as the prevalence of each language\, operate directly within the lexicon to modulate the activation strength of lexical representations before and during word recognition. Using data from isolated word recognition and naturalistic sentence processing with eye- tracking and electroencephalography (EEG/ERPs) measures\, she shows that the earliest signatures of lexical activation already reflect suppression of representations from the nontarget language. These findings challenge the assumption in models like BIA+ and Multilink that top-down language control is applied only post-lexically\, suggesting instead that contextual relevance shapes lexical activation itself. While both languages remain potentially active\, she proposes that they are dynamically weighted within the lexicon to restrict cross-language activation early during word recognition. \n \nThis event is in-person with an option to join virtually available. \nLiv Hoversten is an Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at the Department of Psychology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She has a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from UC Davis and a B.A. in Chemistry from St. Olaf College. Liv Hoversten’s current work in progress examines the role of parafoveal processing (i.e.\, the word to the right of the currently fixated word) during reading in native and non-native readers. Her research aims to answer questions about how readers with different linguistic backgrounds extract information from text for successful comprehension.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-with-liv-hoversten/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Seeds of Resurgence Community Seed Dinner
DESCRIPTION:At the second community dinner of the year\, the afternoon is guided by Aaron Samuel Mulenga and Nkondelina Chileshe\, a couple from Zambia—a nation nestled in the heart of southern Africa. They carry with them the spirit of their Bantu ancestors\, whose journeys across the continent shaped not only language and culture but also the food that sustains generations. Among their favorite traditions is Ubwali\, a humble yet deeply meaningful dish made from cornmeal. Known as Ugali in Eastern Africa\, Pap in the south\, and Fufu in the west\, this staple tells a story of travel\, settlement\, and resilience—echoes of the great Bantu migrations that began in the mid–second millennium BCE. \nAs we gather\, our hands and senses will trace the journey of the corn seed—its soft grind into meal\, its transformation through patience and care. In this simple act of making\, we touch the wisdom of generations who have listened to the rhythm of grain and fire. Through the warmth of Zambian cuisine\, the flicker of film\, and the cadence of folklore\, we enter a world where food becomes memory\, and memory becomes story. \nUbwali carries with it the taste of home and the echo of history—from family tables to moments of upheaval\, like the 1990 riots sparked by a sudden rise in cornmeal prices. In its quiet strength\, this dish reminds us that nourishment is never just sustenance—it is resistance\, identity\, and the heartbeat of a people. \n \nAttendance is limited to the first 20 sign ups! \nNkondelina Chileshe works as a corporate lawyer\, but her main interests are rooted in the use of public policy to shape a better Zambia and Africa at large for the community of under-resourced individuals. Aaron’s work as an artist and a scholar seek to preserve and share Zambian cultural histories of marginalized individuals. \nAaron Samuel Mulenga is an artist and a scholar whose work seeks to preserve and share Zambian cultural histories of marginalized individuals. \n\nThis event will be hosted at The Greenhouse Project on the UCSC farm\, at 152 Farm Rd. More information below: \nUCSC Permitted and non-UCSC Pay-to-Park sites are available at Parking Lot 116 or Parking Lot 168. The closest bus access to the site is located at Hager Dr. and Village Rd. Please reach out if you have additional transportation needs in order to participate in programming. \nWe really want the space to be accessible to you\, so if that’s a challenge in some way\, please don’t hesitate to contact us. TGP is an outdoor community garden space within a farm setting. Accessible bathrooms are available on-site and limited accessible parking is available upon request. Please let us know if you have additional questions or requests related to accessibility. \n\nThis dinner is part of the Seeds of Resurgence research cluster and is supported by University of the Future Award\, ARI Collaborative Grant\, and the THI Research Cluster for ‘Seeds of Resurgence’.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/community-seed-dinner-with-tgp/
LOCATION:The Greenhouse Project\, 152 Farm Rd\, Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Glen Coulthard - Maoism without Guarantees: Third World Currents in Fourth World Anti-Colonialism with Glen Coulthard
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will provide a history of Red Power radicalization and Indigenous-Marxist cross-fertilization. It examines the political work undertaken by a small but dedicated cadre of Native organizers going by the name Native Alliance for Red Power (or NARP) in Vancouver\, British Columbia (BC)\, from 1967 to the 1975. It argues that their political organizing and theory-building borrowed substantively and productively from a Third World-adapted Marxism which provided an appealing international language of political contestation that they not only inherited but sought to radically transform through a critical engagement with their own cultural traditions and land-based struggles. Not unlike many radicalized communities of color during this period\, NARP molded and adapted the insights they gleaned from Third World Marxism abroad – with a focus on Maoism in particular – into their own internationalist critiques of racial capitalism\, patriarchy\, and internal colonialism at home. A focus will be placed on NARP’s application of a Red Power- Maoist critique of the political economy of extraction spanning from Palestine and the Middle East to Canada via the Oil Crisis of 1973. \n \nGlen Coulthard is Yellowknives Dene and an associate professor in the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program and the Departments of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Red Skin\, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press\, 2014)\, winner of the 2016 Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Book\, the Canadian Political Science Association’s CB Macpherson Award for Best Book in Political Theory\, published in English or French\, in 2014/2015\, and the Rik Davidson Studies in Political Economy Award for Best Book in 2016. He is also a co-founder of Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning\, a decolonial\, Indigenous land-based post-secondary program
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/aoism-without-guarantees-third-world-currents-in-fourth-world-anti-colonialism-with-glen-coulthard/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Megha Majumdar - A Guardian and a Thief
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Megha Majumdar (A Burning) who will share her electrifying new novel that has recently been long-listed for the National Book Award and received starred reviews from Kirkus\, Publishers Weekly\, and Booklist. A Guardian and a Thief\, a piercing and propulsive tour de force\, is set in a near-future Kolkata\, India\, ravaged by climate change and food scarcity\, in which two families trying to protect their children must battle one another. \n \nMegha Majumdar is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel A Burning\, which was nominated for the National Book Award\, the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize\, and the American Library Association’s Andrew Carnegie Medal. It was named one of the best books of the year by media including The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, NPR\, The Atlantic\, Vogue\, and TIME Magazine. A 2022 Whiting Award winner\, she was born and raised in Kolkata\, India\, and holds degrees in anthropology from Harvard and Johns Hopkins. She is the former editor in chief of Catapult Books\, and lives in New York. A Guardian and A Thief is her second novel. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Megha Majumdar \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bookshop-santa-cruz-presents-megha-majumdar-a-guardian-and-a-thief/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Martabel Wasserman – Picturing California’s Carceral Landscape: Carleton Watkins’ Views of Alcatraz
DESCRIPTION:Carleton Watkins\, an iconic photographer of the 19th Century American West\, is best known for his images of Yosemite that were used as testimony in the formation of the National Park system. This paper explores his previously understudied photographs of Alcatraz\, taken over approximately three decades beginning in 1861. Through close readings of the changing island and surrounding ecosystems\, I use Alcatraz to theorize how the carceral landscape took shape in California during and after the Civil War\, and the role photography played in the project. The landscape is being constantly reconfigured\, often by prison labor\, as San Francisco becomes a nexus of global capitalism. I theorize his photographs as they relate large-scale resource extraction\, surveillance and the eventual emergence of the prison industrial complex in California. \nMartabel Wasserman is an artist\, curator and scholar. Currently a Research Associate at the Center for Creative Ecologies\, she is working on a manuscript Picturing the Rock: Alcatraz\, Photography and the Making of California. She has exhibited at venues such as Human Resources in Los Angeles and the Museum of Art and Culture Santa Cruz. Curated exhibitions include Coastal/Border for the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time LA/LA and Reclaim Pride with the One Archives at University of Southern California. \nFeatured image: Carleton Watkins\, Alcatraz and Black Point from Russian Hill\, albumen silver print from glass negative\, negative c. 1873–80\, print c. 1879–85. \n\n \nFall 2025 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 Fall 2025 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/martabel-wasserman-picturing-californias-carceral-landscape-carleton-watkins-views-of-alcatraz/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Armen Khatchatourov - Artificial Intelligence and its "contexts”: between ethics and politics
DESCRIPTION:This talk will first examine the way in which the notion of context plays a central role in the history of the computer science and ubiquitous AI on the one hand\, and in that of privacy and data protection on the other and\, second\, will examine the way in which this notion replays the conception of subjectivity\, normativity and ethics. We will show how this evolution parallels the establishment of neoliberal – and more recently algorithmic – governmentality\, and how it confronts us not only to the ethical but also to the political significance of ubiquitous AI. Our approach aims to make two contributions: a complementary proposal for the classification of AI\, based on the evolving role that context plays in user’s action and ethos; and a renewed heuristic to grasp the articulation between the operationalization of AI systems and the preservation of socially constructed normativity. \nPlease register\, we will circulate readings related to the talk: \n \nArmen Khatchatourov is an Associate Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at the DICEN-IdF Lab\, University Gustave Eiffel\, Paris\, France. With a dual background in engineering and the philosophy of technology\, Armen has held research positions at leading institutions such as Institut Mines-Télécom and Sony Computer Science Lab Paris. His work spans digital identities\, privacy\, smart cities\, and the societal impacts of Big Data and AI. He published Digital Identities in Tension: Between Autonomy and Control (ISTE/Wiley\, 2019) and directed Corps Connectés. Figures\, Fragments\, Discours (Presses des Mines\, 2022)\, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Études Digitales. \n\nThis event is presented by The Humanities Institute’s ± AI Initiative. It is sponsored by Villa Albertine – Cultural Services of the French Embassy. The event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law. \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/armen-khatchatourov-artificial-intelligence-and-its-contexts-between-ethics-and-politics/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hebron Seed Bank Study Session
DESCRIPTION:Join the Seeds of Resurgence Research cluster as they gather to discuss readings related to the Hebron Seed bank\, which Israeli forces destroyed in August.  Participants will think together about how colonial power targets food sovereignty and what can be done to resist those acts of destruction. \n\nThis event will be hosted at The Greenhouse Project on the UCSC farm\, at 152 Farm Rd. Additional information below: \nUCSC Permitted and non-UCSC Pay-to-Park sites are available at Parking Lot 116 or Parking Lot 168. The closest bus access to the site is located at Hager Dr. and Village Rd. Please reach out if you have additional transportation needs in order to participate in programming. \nWe really want the space to be accessible to you\, so if that’s a challenge in some way\, please don’t hesitate to contact us. TGP is an outdoor community garden space within a farm setting. Accessible bathrooms are available on-site and limited accessible parking is available upon request. Please let us know if you have additional questions or requests related to accessibility. \n\nThis event is presented by the Seeds of Resurgence Research Cluster.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/study-session-on-hebron-seed-bank/
LOCATION:The Greenhouse Project\, 152 Farm Rd\, Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Christine Padoch and Nancy Peluso - Return to Nanga Jela
DESCRIPTION:The history of hinterland communities is largely written in remote landscapes that today are often targeted for infrastructural development that forcibly relocates existing residents and transforms the land\, obliterating those histories\, and weakening communities. \nIn 1984/5 the Iban longhouse at Nanga Jela on Sarawak’s Engkari River in Malaysian Borneo\, along with twenty-one other communities and a land area of 8500 ha disappeared because of the building of the Batang Ai Hydroelectric Dam and the creation of a 33 sq mile reservoir. With the drowning of these houses\, lands\, forests\, and of multiple rivers and streams\, the history of one of the longest-occupied and most historically rich Iban territories in Sarawak was gone. Many of the 3000 people who were displaced moved to government-created resettlement areas. Some left for other parts of Sarawak\, and their descendants scattered around the world. All of those who were forced to leave their Batang Ai and Engkari homelands found their livelihoods completely transformed; none were free to pursue the rice agriculture and forest- and river-centered lives that they had known since their childhoods. \nThree decades after this event\, the ex-residents and descendants of Nanga Jela engaged in a process of reconstructing that submerged history and reconstituting an Engkari and Nanga Jela identity. Rescuing and sharing what images exist of the longhouse and its surrounding land- and waterscapes\, collecting oral histories\, geographical memories\, genealogies\, and a plethora of other local data\, and employing multiple social media tools\, the increasingly diverse\, geographically dispersed community is regaining its history\, knowledge of the lost land- and riverscapes\, and its identity. \nA team comprising Bobby Anak Nyegang and Itin Anak Langit\, both born in Nanga Jela\, and Christine Padoch\, an anthropologist who spent more than two years in the longhouse\, led the effort to assemble these and other materials into an image-rich bilingual (English and Iban) book that would be accessible to all in the Nanga Jela community\, as well as a community-based archive. In this presentation\, Padoch will discuss that complex process of writing the book\, recently published as Pemulai ke NangaJela/Return to Nanga Jela and creating an archive together with the longhouse community to provide present and future descendants of the great longhouse on the Engkari River a written history of a landscape and a livelihood that has disappeared. \n \nThis event is both in-person and on zoom. Click above for virtual access. \nChristine Padoch is a Senior Curator Emerita in the Center for Plants\, People and Culture of the New York Botanical Garden. From 2011 to 2017 she was the Director of Research on Forests and Human Well-Being at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). An anthropologist by training\, she has spent about 50 years carrying out research on smallholder patterns of forest management\, agriculture\, and agroforestry in the humid tropics\, principally in Southeast Asia and Amazonia. Previous to her position at CIFOR\, Padoch was the Matthew Calbraith Perry Curator of Economic Botany at the NYBG. She is the author or editor of a dozen books and of approximately 100 scientific articles and book chapters. Christine Padoch has served as a scientific advisor to many international projects and has been a member of the boards of several international research institutions\, including the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)\, the Amazon Institute for Environmental Research (IPAM)\, and the Earth Innovation Institute (EII). She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University. \nNancy Lee Peluso is Professor of Environmental Social Science and Resource Policy in the College of Natural Resources and the Program Director of the Berkeley Workshop in Environmental Politics\, housed in the Institute of International Studies. She serves as a faculty member in the Society and Environment Division of the Department of Environmental Science\, Policy and Management\, where she teaches courses in Political Ecology. Her research since the 1980s has focused on Forest Politics and Agrarian Change in Southeast Asia\, primarily in Indonesia. She has done field research in various parts of Indonesia—West and Central Java\, East and West Kalimantan and in Sarawak\, Malaysia. Her work addresses questions of property rights and access to resources\, forest policy and politics\, histories of land use change\, and agrarian and environmental violence. She is the author or editor of three books: Rich Forests\, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance in Java (UC Press\, 1992 – still available); Borneo in Transition: People\, Forests\, Conservation and Development (Oxford Press\, 1996 and 2003\, ed. with Christine Padoch); and Violent Environments (Cornell Press\, 2001\, ed. with Michael Watts.)\, and nearly fifty journal articles and book chapters. Professor Peluso speaks or reads four languages besides English. In 2003\, she was awarded a Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship and is finishing a book manuscript tentatively titled\, “Ways of Seeing Borneo: Landscape\, Territory\, and Violence”. She is currently working on a comparative study on the formation of “political forests” in Malaysia\, Indonesia\, and Thailand as well as a book examining the entanglements of violence and territoriality in landscape history in West Kalimantan. \n\nPresented by SEACoast and THI’s More-than-Human(ities) Laboratory cluster.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christine-padoch-and-nancy-peluso-return-to-nanga-jela/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Wonder as the Source \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-student-reading-6/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:John O. Jordan - Dickens and Soundscape: The Old Curiosity Shop
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Dickens Project for the rescheduled Dickens Universe talk by John Jordan\, Dickens Project Co-Founder and Co-Director. \nCritics have long recognized and commented on the striking visual quality of Dickens’s writing\, including the ways in which his novels seem to have anticipated and even influenced the development of certain film techniques. With the exception of studies that focus on speech and voice\, relatively little attention has been paid to Dickens’s representation of sound more generally. In this paper\, Professor Jordan takes a sound studies approach to Dickens’s writing\, focusing on The Old Curiosity Shop and examining the various uses to which sound is put in this exceptionally “noisy” book. \n \nRegister for the talk on zoom here. \nJohn O. Jordan is a research professor of literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz and the Co-Director of the Dickens Project. His primary research interests include Victorian literature and culture\, Charles Dickens and narrative theory. John is the author of Supposing Bleak House and co-editor\, with Robert Patten and Catherine Waters\, of the Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-o-jordan-dickens-and-soundscape-the-old-curiosity-shop/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260106T120000
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SUMMARY:Decolonial AI: Designing Technologies for Generative Justice
DESCRIPTION:The extraction of ecological value from nature\, labor value from workers\, and social value from communities constitutes the root cause of pollution\, poverty and social domination. Indigenous traditions\, commons-based production and related alternatives offer models in which value is not extracted\, but rather circulated back to the human and non-human agencies that generated it. In this talk we will describe how this framework of “generative justice” can be used to design decolonized technologies. In Detroit our experiments develop AI and other applications in a platform for community-based economies. In Africa they are developed for a collective of crafters\, artists and other creatives. We find that establishing democratized\, regenerative value flows requires “full stack decolonization\,” because extraction occurs at every layer from infrastructure to machine learning algorithms. The transition to worker-owned systems\, in which they determine where AI will be located across the broad spectrum of human-machine agency possibilities\, is a key component in developing pathways for egalitarian and sustainable futures. \nRon Eglash is the Director of the Center for Generative Justice and a former Professor in the School of Information at University of Michigan. Audrey Bennett is a Professor in the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan and a University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/decolonial-ai-designing-technologies-for-generative-justice/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:2026 Santa Cruz Fungus Fair
DESCRIPTION:Did you know that without fungus\, we’d have no bread\, cheese\, beer\, or wine? Or that anti-cholesterol medicine was developed from mushrooms? Come to the Santa Cruz Fungus Fair to learn fascinating and fun facts about beautiful and diverse species of mushrooms! This unique Santa Cruz area tradition draws thousands of visitors each January. View remarkable mushroom arts and crafts\, taste unusual and exceptionally good fungal fare\, and experience FFSC’s overriding mission: “We keep the fun in fungus!” \n \n\nThe Humanities Institute will be present at this event to promote the 2026 Deep Read\, which will feature Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds\, Change our Minds\, and Shape our Futures by British mycologist Merlin Sheldrake. We hope you’ll join us at the Fungus Fair and for this year’s Deep Read!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2026-santa-cruz-fungus-fair/
LOCATION:London Nelson Community Center\, 301 Center St.\, Santa Cruz\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260110T101500
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - Henry IV\, Part 1
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Henry IV\, Part 1 by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on January 10\, 17\, 24\, 31 & February 7\, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest speaker followed by a volunteer read aloud of the play. On February 7\, the film The Hollow Crown\, Henry IV Part 1 will be shown. This event series is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop. \nFor more information\, Zoom Link\, or to volunteer to be a reader\, contact: saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com \nGuest Speakers / Film Presentation \n\nJan 10: Alexander Brondarbit\, A historian who specializes in kingship in late medieval and early modern England; author of two books on The Wars of the Roses. Readings: Act 1 – Act 2\, Scene 2\nJan 17: Patty Gallagher\, An actor and Professor of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz; Artistic Associate at Santa Cruz Shakespeare and the Rogue Theatre in Tucson\, Arizona. Readings: Act 2\, Scene 3 – Act 3\, Scene 2.\nJan 24: Julia Reinhardt Lupton\, Distinguished Professor of English at UC Irvine\, co-director of the UCI Shakespeare Center. She is the author of six books on Shakespeare. Readings: Act 3\, Scene 3 – Act 4.\nJan 31: Abigail Heald is currently teaching the Henriad (Richard II\, Henry IV\, Parts I and Part II\, and Henry V) at Stanford University. Readings: Act 5.\nFeb 7: Film Screening: The Hollow Crown\, Henry IV Part 1. Jeremy Irons-King Henry/ Tom Hiddleson-Prince Hal/ Simon Russell Beale-Falstaff\, directed by Richard Eyre.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-henry-iv-part-1/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Christopher Chen - The Poetics of Racial Boundary Formation
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines how National Book Award-winning poet and translator Daniel Borzutzky and poet-essayist Wendy S. Walters explore the relationship between capitalism and racialization through poetics of spatial boundary formation. Mobilizing innovative poetic forms\, Borzutzky’s recursive\, translational syntax mirrors capitalist processes of abstraction and Walters’ sonnets are mapped onto suburban planning documents. Borzutzky’s poetry offers a sustained meditation on the globalized political economy of border walls\, revealing how the US-Mexico boundary\, debt walls\, and factory enclosures simultaneously divide and connect populations through transnational circuits of capital accumulation and neoliberal state violence. Walters’ Troy\, Michigan\, a book-length experimental autobiography in sonnets\, reads race as a set of bounded conditions of life in the post-Fordist Rust Belt structured by the history of residential segregation\, highway and transportation infrastructure\, and thwarted class mobility. \nChristopher Chen is Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He has published articles\, poetry\, and reviews in boundary 2\, Post45 Contemporaries\, South Atlantic Quarterly\, The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory\, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics\, Money and American Literature\, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. He is the author of Literature and Race in the Democracy of Goods (2022)\, a comparative study of contemporary Black and Asian North American experimental poetry. \n  \n\n \nWinter 2026 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2026 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christopher-chen-the-poetics-of-racial-boundary-formation/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Grants and Fellowships
DESCRIPTION:Grants and Fellowships for Humanities Scholars \nLearn how to make your fellowship and grant proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss what does and does not need to be in a research proposal\, the proper tone and form\, and ways to tease out the larger stakes of individual research projects and avoid the jargon of field-specific descriptions. This session will help you craft a research proposal that appeals to a broad academic audience. It will also be an opportunity for graduate students to learn about The Humanities Institute’s funding resources as well as strategies for acquiring extramural support. \nThe workshop will be led by Pranav Anand (THI Faculty Director and Professor of Linguistics)\, Banu Bargu (THI Steering Committee Member and Professor of History of Consciousness)\, and Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (THI Research Programs and Communications Director). \n  \nPlease RSVP using your UCSC email address: \nLoading… \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-grants-and-fellowships-5/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Prophetic Maharaja: Loss\, Sovereignty\, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia
DESCRIPTION:How do traditions and peoples grapple with loss\, particularly when it is of such magnitude that it defies the possibility of recovery or restoration? Rajbir Singh Judge offers new ways to understand loss and the limits of history by considering Maharaja Duleep Singh and his struggle during the 1880s to reestablish Sikh rule\, the lost Khalsa Raj\, in Punjab. \nSikh sovereignty in what is today northern India and northeastern Pakistan came to an end in the middle of the nineteenth century\, when the British annexed the Sikh kingdom and\, eventually\, exiled its child maharaja\, Duleep Singh\, to England. In the 1880s\, Singh embarked on an abortive attempt to restore the lost Sikh kingdom. Judge explores not only Singh’s efforts but also the Sikh people’s responses—the dreams\, fantasies\, and hopes that became attached to the Khalsa Raj. He shows how a community engaged military\, political\, and psychological loss through theological debate\, literary production\, bodily discipline\, and ethical practice in order to contest colonial politics. This book argues that Sikhs in the final decades of the nineteenth century were not simply looking to recuperate the past but to remake it—and to dwell within loss instead of transcending it—and in so doing opened new possibilities. \nBringing together Sikh tradition\, psychoanalysis\, and postcolonial thought\, Prophetic Maharaja provides bracing insights into concepts of sovereignty and the writing of history. \nRajbir Singh Judge is Associate Professor of History and Associate Member of Asian and Asian American Studies at California State University\, Long Beach. He specializes in the intellectual and cultural history of South Asia with a particular emphasis on Punjab and the Sikh tradition. His first book\, Prophetic Maharaja: Loss\, Sovereignty\, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia was published by Columbia University Press in 2024 and was awarded “Best First Book in the History of Religions” by the American Academy of Religion. He is currently working on his second book\, A Critique of Contextual Reason\, for which he was awarded membership at the Institute for Advanced Study in the 2024-2025 Academic Year. His publications have appeared in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion\, Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory\, Comparative Studies of South Asia\, Africa\, the Middle East\, Modern Asian Studies\, Theory & Event\, Cultural Critique\, the Journal of the History of Sexuality\, History & Theory\, among others. \n\nSponsored by Sarbjit Singh Aurora Endowed Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies\, Department of History\, and Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-act-of-periodizing-the-sikh-tradition-and-the-promise-of-an-indic-world/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Moulay Hicham Alaoui - Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Religion\, Politics\, and the Struggle for Freedom
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book talk by Dr. Hicham Alaoui in which he will deliver insights about the battle for democracy in the Middle East\, drawing upon his recent book\, Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Tunisia and Egypt in Comparative Perspective (Palgrave\, 2022)\, also available in French (Le Cherche Midi\, 2024) and Arabic (Dar Saqi\, 2025). Reflecting an ongoing research agenda\, the book provides a novel framework for imagining how democratic politics can emerge from social conflicts waged over religion and Islamism in the public sphere. Contrasting cases like Tunisia\, Egypt\, and other regional countries\, it further illuminates the novel and oft-ignored connections between secular opposition\, theological identity\, and authoritarian rule in the Arab world. A reception will be held from 5-6pm in Hum 1\, Room 202\, after the event. \nDr. Hicham Alaoui is a lecturer at Stanford University\, where he teaches political science. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He is the founder and director of the Hicham Alaoui Foundation\, which undertakes innovative social scientific research in the Middle East and North Africa. He is a scholar on the comparative politics of democratization and religion. His latest publications include Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Tunisia and Egypt in Comparative Perspective (Palgrave\, 2022)\, which has been translated into French and Arabic\, as well as various other books\, including the most recent co-edited book Political Economy\, Power\, and Cultural Heritage in the Arab World (Lynne Rienner\, 2025) and co-authored book Making Aid Work: Dueling with Dictators and Warlords in the Middle East and North Africa (Lynne Rienner\, 2025). He holds an A.B. from Princeton University\, M.A. from Stanford University\, and D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. \n\nCo-presented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and the Politics Department.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/moulay-hicham-alaoui-pacted-democracy-in-the-middle-east-religion-politics-and-the-struggle-for-freedom/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - Henry IV\, Part 1
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Henry IV\, Part 1 by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on January 10\, 17\, 24\, 31 & February 7\, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest speaker followed by a volunteer read aloud of the play. On February 7\, the film The Hollow Crown\, Henry IV Part 1 will be shown. This event series is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop. \nFor more information\, Zoom Link\, or to volunteer to be a reader\, contact: saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com \nGuest Speakers / Film Presentation \n\nJan 10: Alexander Brondarbit\, A historian who specializes in kingship in late medieval and early modern England; author of two books on The Wars of the Roses. Readings: Act 1 – Act 2\, Scene 2\nJan 17: Patty Gallagher\, An actor and Professor of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz; Artistic Associate at Santa Cruz Shakespeare and the Rogue Theatre in Tucson\, Arizona. Readings: Act 2\, Scene 3 – Act 3\, Scene 2.\nJan 24: Julia Reinhardt Lupton\, Distinguished Professor of English at UC Irvine\, co-director of the UCI Shakespeare Center. She is the author of six books on Shakespeare. Readings: Act 3\, Scene 3 – Act 4.\nJan 31: Abigail Heald is currently teaching the Henriad (Richard II\, Henry IV\, Parts I and Part II\, and Henry V) at Stanford University. Readings: Act 5.\nFeb 7: Film Screening: The Hollow Crown\, Henry IV Part 1. Jeremy Irons-King Henry/ Tom Hiddleson-Prince Hal/ Simon Russell Beale-Falstaff\, directed by Richard Eyre.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-henry-iv-part-1-2/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Nurturing Difference - Parenting and Disability in a Careless Age
DESCRIPTION:We’ll be discussing Danilyn Rutherford’s Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World (Duke University Press) and Noah Wardrip-Fruin’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Can a game take care of us? (University of Chicago Press). Joined by Donna Haraway and Megan Moodie\, and moderated by THI Faculty Director\, Pranav Anand\, the panel will discuss caregiving\, parenthood\, disability\, language\, meaning\, and technology. \nIn an increasingly careless world where cruelty is celebrated and disability mocked\, these two highly-readable scholars remind us that beautiful relationships of compassion\, connection\, communication\, and empathy still exist. Rutherford recounts her experiences raising a high assistance-needs daughter\, Millie\, describing the importance of a web of caregivers who support and enrich their lives and the potential for human communication beyond words. Wardrip-Fruin writes about parenting in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic\, exploring how his own need for rest and care in the face of growing disablement reshaped his ideas about masculinity\, fatherhood\, and video game imaginaries. Both books speak to Wardrip-Fruin’s provocative question posed in the subtitle to Animal Crossing: New Horizons\, “Can a game take care of us?” If the “game” is a resource-stripped\, social media-driven capitalist competition where everyone must fight for survival\, where basic welfare programs are being destroyed\, what can we learn from care-centered disability worlds? At a time when we most need it\, these scholar-parents give us extraordinary insight into the form of attention in which all our hopes rest: love. \n \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by January 13\, 2026. ADA parking for this event will be available in lot 170\, directly adjacent to the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. Sign language interpretation will also be available during the event. \nAbout Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World: \nWhen Danilyn Rutherford and her husband Craig noticed that their six-month-old daughter Millie wasn’t making eye contact\, they took her to their pediatrician. And an optometrist. Then a neurologist. Later\, to a team of physical and occupational therapists. None of the doctors could give Millie a diagnosis\, but it was clear that her brain was not developing at the rate it should. At an age when some children take their first steps\, Millie had the cognitive ability and motor skills of a three-month-old. Three years later\, Craig died suddenly of a heart attack and Danilyn found herself on the precipice of her anthropology career as a widow and single mother\, still trying to solve the puzzle posed by Millie’s inaccessible mind. \nNow in her twenties\, Millie has never been able to express herself verbally\, but she has a thriving social environment rooted in the people around her and in things her companions and family can see\, hear\, smell\, and feel. Life in Millie’s world is far richer than might be immediately evident to those who think and communicate in conventional ways. \nBeautiful Mystery explores what it means to be a person in the spaces between what we can and cannot say\, and how we can fight to care for those we love when they don’t have the language to fight for themselves. Through her unique lens as a mother and an anthropologist\, Rutherford tells the story of arriving in Millie’s world\, what she found there\, and how Millie showed her that words aren’t always what makes us human. Enlightening and deeply felt\, Beautiful Mystery proves that you don’t have to understand someone to love them—a lesson that\, if we all learned it\, might allow us to live together in a fractured world. \nAbout Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Can a game take care of us? \nAnimal Crossing: New Horizons was released on March 20\, 2020—just as a pandemic kept many from family\, work\, restaurants\, and the rest of their regularly scheduled lives. At its height\, the game averaged one million copies sold per day\, as players sought comfort\, escape\, and a virtual means of connection. In this book\, game scholar Noah Wardrip-Fruin\, isolated with his family by both lockdown and disability\, explores the power of this game and the mixed emotions of a player and a parent trying to make it from one day to the next—while his kids’ obsession with Animal Crossing creates conflicts between them and pushback against family rules. \nWardrip-Fruin helps both Animal Crossing fans and newcomers understand the unexpected beneath the game’s surface: like the story of the first Animal Crossing\, codesigned by an absent father seeking connection; like the hallmarks of video game manipulation\, from “streak” bonuses to game-determined playtimes; like the appeal of endless shopping\, in a kind of “safe” capitalism; and\, of course\, like the character quirks of a raccoon dog\, Tom Nook\, who provides a world of both safety and strange paternalism. \nFor many\, this blockbuster game offered a comforting world compared to a reality of danger. In this first entry in the Replay series\, Wardrip-Fruin offers an absorbing investigation of a game’s role in contemporary social life and a book that belongs on the shelf of anyone who loves or is puzzled by this Nintendo sensation. \nDanilyn Rutherford is the president of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and a professor emerita of anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Raiding the Land of the Foreigners: The Limits of the Nation on an Indonesian Frontier (Princeton\, 2003)\, Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua (Chicago\, 2012)\, Living in the Stone Age: Reflections on the Origins of a Colonial Fantasy (Chicago\, 2018)\, and\, most recently\, Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World (Duke\, 2025). \nNoah Wardrip-Fruin is a Professor of Computational Media at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He studies and makes video games and electronic literature. Before his most recent book\, Noah authored or co-edited six books on games and digital media for the MIT Press\, including The New Media Reader (2003). His collaborative art projects have been exhibited by the Whitney Museum of American Art\, New Museum of Contemporary Art\, Krannert Art Museum\, and a wide variety of festivals and conferences. Noah holds both a PhD (2006) and an MFA (2003) from Brown University\, an MA (2000) from the Gallatin School at New York University\, and a BA (1994) from the Johnston Center at the University of Redlands. \nMegan Moodie is a Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz. She is chair of the Disabled Faculty Networking Group and a core member of the disability studies initiative on campus. meganmoodie.github.io \n\nThis event is presented by the Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice Project\, a UC Multicampus Research Program and Initiative and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and is a featured event of THI’s year of Nourishment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nurturing-difference-parenting-and-disability-in-a-careless-age/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cinthya Martinez - Toxic Caging!: Abolish ICE & Feminist Resistance
DESCRIPTION:This talk looks at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in California and the grassroots movement to abolish ICE led by formerly detained migrants and local activists. It focuses on the Adelanto Toxic Tours\, a community action where survivors and organizers guide people through the areas surrounding the detention center to share stories about environmental harm\, toxic exposure\, and violence inside detention. Through these tours\, activists connect damage to the land with harm to migrant bodies\, showing how detention impacts both people and their environments. The presentation highlights how organizing in Adelanto challenges detention and imagines futures beyond cages\, surveillance\, and border enforcement. \nCinthya Martinez is an Assistant Professor in the Latin American and Latino Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz. She earned her doctorate from the University of California\, Riverside in Ethnic Studies. Her teaching and research interests are sexual violence\, abolition theory/praxis\, and migrant detention. Her research and current book project\, ICE on Fire: Incinerating Prison/Border Violence through Feminist Abolition Geographies\, investigates sexual violence and reproductive (in)justice in ICE detention facilities\, while examining how affected communities\, and migrant activists more broadly\, are forging geographies of abolition through confronting the connections between bodies in resistance\, the carceral\, and border regimes. \n\n \nWinter 2026 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2026 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cinthya-martinez-toxic-caging-abolish-ice-feminist-resistance/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260124T101500
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - Henry IV\, Part 1
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Henry IV\, Part 1 by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on January 10\, 17\, 24\, 31 & February 7\, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest speaker followed by a volunteer read aloud of the play. On February 7\, the film The Hollow Crown\, Henry IV Part 1 will be shown. This event series is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop. \nFor more information\, Zoom Link\, or to volunteer to be a reader\, contact: saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com \nGuest Speakers / Film Presentation \n\nJan 10: Alexander Brondarbit\, A historian who specializes in kingship in late medieval and early modern England; author of two books on The Wars of the Roses. Readings: Act 1 – Act 2\, Scene 2\nJan 17: Patty Gallagher\, An actor and Professor of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz; Artistic Associate at Santa Cruz Shakespeare and the Rogue Theatre in Tucson\, Arizona. Readings: Act 2\, Scene 3 – Act 3\, Scene 2.\nJan 24: Julia Reinhardt Lupton\, Distinguished Professor of English at UC Irvine\, co-director of the UCI Shakespeare Center. She is the author of six books on Shakespeare. Readings: Act 3\, Scene 3 – Act 4.\nJan 31: Abigail Heald is currently teaching the Henriad (Richard II\, Henry IV\, Parts I and Part II\, and Henry V) at Stanford University. Readings: Act 5.\nFeb 7: Film Screening: The Hollow Crown\, Henry IV Part 1. Jeremy Irons-King Henry/ Tom Hiddleson-Prince Hal/ Simon Russell Beale-Falstaff\, directed by Richard Eyre.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-henry-iv-part-1-3/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Lisa Wedeen - Whose Dialectic? Thinking with Fanon\, Žižek\, and Al Attar
DESCRIPTION:This talk begins with a question inspired by the work of the anthropologist David Scott\, as to whether radical social transformation can remain a credible historical possibility if it is not undergirded by a belief in teleology. Does collectively willed transformation—the kind to which leftist and anticolonial movements have traditionally aspired—become unthinkable absent some degree of confidence in the arc of History bending toward social amelioration on its own? And if not\, how do we begin adjudicating what counts as an emancipatory politics today? Put another way\, this talk searches for forms that political hope might take in the disappointing and exhausted ruins of our postcolonial and post-socialist present. It approaches answers to these questions by examining a core concept in key narratives of leftist collective transformation\, that is\, by exploring anew the promise and limitations of “the dialectic.” It puts Frantz Fanon and Slavoj Žižek into conversation with the playwright Mohammad Al Attar\, whose play While I Was Waiting not only shows us the dialectic in action\, but in so doing offers a compelling approach to political transformation in the present. \n \nThis event will be hybrid. Register above to join via zoom. \nLisa Wedeen is a political scientist and the Mary R. Morton Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Known for her influential work on symbolic politics\, authoritarianism\, and the Middle East—particularly Syria—she combines interpretive methods with grounded ethnographic research. She is the author of Ambiguities of Domination\, Peripheral Visions\, and numerous widely cited articles that have shaped debates in comparative politics and political theory. \n\nCo-presented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and the History of Consciousness Department
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lisa-wedeen-whose-dialectic-thinking-with-fanon-zizek-and-al-attar/
LOCATION:Humanites 1\, Room 320\, Humanities and Social Science Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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