Laleh Khalili in conversation with Nidhi Mahajan--Palestine and the Maritime Politics of the Red Sea
2024-10-14 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual Event
Thinking through the complexities of the Red Sea blockade, Professor Khalili will ask questions about how the entangled international and commercial control of maritime space deals with such disruptions in cargo and trade flows, and how the structure of global capital has to be taken into account in toto while waging a Gramscian war of position at local levels to leverage transformations more broadly.
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Laleh Khalili is Al-Qasimi Professor of Gulf Studies and the Director of the Centre for Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter. Her most recent book is Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula (Verso 2020), which examines the role of maritime infrastructures as conduits of movement of technologies, capital, people, and cargo.
Nidhi Mahajan is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz. Her book project, Moorings: The Dhow Trade, Capitalism, and Sovereignty in the Indian Ocean, examines the marginalized mobile society of Muslim seafarers from Kachchh in western India who have become crucial intermediaries in global shipping as they move across South Asia, East Africa, and the Middle East.

Ecologies of Care Workshop
2024-10-14 09:30 - 16:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The Center for South Asian Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites you to launch an international collaboration, the Ecologies of Care Initiative. In partnership with the University of British Columbia (UBC), Simon Fraser University (SFU), and Lincoln University (LU) this initiative invites scholars at the forefront of the social sciences, arts, and humanities to address livability as a desired condition for all.
Situated in the Himalayan region, the Ecologies of Care Initiative will include conversations across the boundaries of contemporary nation-states, including Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Northeast India, and beyond. Known as the water towers of Asia, this region holds much of the world’s snow and ice beyond the North and South Pole. It is a site of incredible cultural and linguistic diversity, with hundreds of languages spoken and distinct colonial experiences that shape contemporary global Indigenous movements in South Asia. Ecologies of Care focuses on tracing how peoples along the Himalayas cobble together shifting livelihoods among rapidly shifting governmental-sponsored projects, including militarism, gender, environmentalism, and tourism.
For the Conference Program and more information, please visit: https://csas.ucsc.edu/ecologies-of-care-2024-25/

Kaveh Akbar: Martyr!
2024-10-13 19:00 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes acclaimed and bestselling author Kaveh Akbar for a discussion and signing of his phenomenal fiction debut Martyr!, which Tommy Orange calls, “An absolute jewel of a novel. A diamond. I haven’t loved a book this much in years. Kaveh’s writing is so thoroughly powerful and gorgeous you can feel it from where dreams come, and in all over your brain, and straight from the bottom of your heart. This book does everything. It is so entirely funny and sad and true and beautiful. Kaveh Akbar is one of my favorite writers. Ever.” This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.

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“Akbar is a dazzling writer, with bars like you wouldn’t believe . . . What Akbar pulls off in Martyr! is nothing short of miraculous.” —The New York Times Book Review
A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying, funny, and wholly original, Martyr! heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction.
Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed.
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others.
Kaveh Akbar’s poems appear in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the author of two poetry collections: Pilgrim Bell and Calling a Wolf a Wolf, in addition to a chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic. He is also the editor of The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine. He lives in Iowa City.

Dear Watsonville Screening and Q&A
2024-10-12 18:00 - 19:00 | PVA Porter Building, 280 Main Street, Watsonville, 95076, United States
In celebration of Filipino American History Month, join Watsonville is in the Heart and the Watsonville Film Festival for a screening of Dear Watsonville, a mixed-media documentary offering an intimate glimpse into the lives of the first generation of Filipino farmworkers to arrive in the Pajaro Valley as seen through the eyes of their children. A Q&A with the team who created the film will follow the screening.
Dear Watsonville was directed by Sandra Lucille and produced by Watsonville is in the Heart. It premiered in April 2024 as part of the art and history exhibition, Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley.

CLOTILDA: Resistance, Resilience, Remembrance, Rebuilding
2024-10-12 15:00 - 18:00 | Resource Center for Non Violence
Black divers were central to the reclamation of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to transport kidnapped Africans to the United States.
In our coastal area, the unceded territory of the Amah Mutsun people and a place where Black servicemen and their families resettled after fighting in U.S. wars in the Pacific, Santa Cruz Black holds space to engage with Kamau Sadiki, a master diver with the Slave Wrecks Project, and Joycelyn Davis, a direct descendant through Charlie Lewis of the 110 Africans who were violently uprooted from their homes and communities.

Through a multigenerational conversation facilitated by Santa Cruz Black with Black studies students at UC Santa Cruz, we will consider how the reclamation of the wreck was an act of resistance to the world-shattering racialized and colonial violence of chattel slavery, an act of remembrance prompting us to consider waterways as a Black geography, and an act of community resilience and rebuilding.
How does the resurfacing of the wreck challenge generations of secrecy and silence?
How does it upend the presumption of closure and healing?
How has it impacted–across generations–the people of Africatown (aka Magazine/Plateau) in Mobile, Alabama?
This event is co-sponsored by the Slave Voyages project, the Humanities Division, John R.Lewis/College 9, and The Humanities Institute.

Filipino American Heritage Month Festival
2024-10-12 12:00 - 17:00 | Watsonville City Plaza, 358 Main St., Watsonville, CA, 95076, United States
Join us for the 3rd annual Filipino American Heritage Festival on the Watsonville city plaza! Featuring vendors, performances, and food.
Co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.

1st Symposium on Spanish-English Bilingualism in California
2024-10-12 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The 1st Symposium on Spanish-English bilingualism in California brings together leading scholars investigating the linguistic practices and patterns of variation across Spanish-English bilinguals throughout the state of California. This inaugural symposium will serve to engage researchers in cross-campus collaborations and interdisciplinary initiatives. The symposium’s keynote address will be given by Professor Ana Celia Zentella (professor emerita, UC San Diego) on October 11th at the Music Recital Hall. Please visit the keynote event page to register and for more information.
Full symposium schedule here. The day’s program will feature:

Abel Cruz (Santa Clara University)
Talk title: “Expressing diminutive meaning in heritage Spanish: Linking the heritage experience to diminutive use in everyday speech”

Ana Sánchez-Muñoz (California State University, Northridge)
Talk title: Empowering Californian Bilinguals through Heritage Language Education

Anne L. Beatty-Martínez (University of California, San Diego)
Talk title: Understanding Bilingualism in Context

Claudia Holguín Mendoza (University of California Riverside)
Talk title: Spanish language ideologies within the Latinx community in California: Critical Sociolinguistics and Pedagogical Implications

Claudia Sánchez-Gutiérrez (University of California, Davis)
Talk title: Linguistic belongingness in an Emerging HSI

Covadonga Lamar Prieto (University of California Riverside)
Talk title: Code-Meshing, diglossia and diaglossia in Californio Spanish and California Spanish

Ernesto R. Gutiérrez Topete (Pomona College)
Talk title: Place-dependent stop salience among Spanish-English bilinguals: Evidence from code-switching

Eve Higby (California State University, East Bay)
Talk title: Disentangling cross-language facilitation and interference in Spanish-English bilinguals

Gabriela Simon-Cereijido (California State University, Los Angeles)
Talk title: Linguistic Skills and Perspectives of Spanish-English Students in Health Professions

Gabriella Licata (University of California, Riverside)
Talk title: Examining generational bias differences towards Californian Spanish features

Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez (California State University Long Beach)
Talk title: From Northern (white) Spanish to Southern Cool Spanglish: Perceptual Dialectology in California

Ji Young Kim (University of California, Los Angeles)
Talk title: Predicting areas of convergence and divergence between heritage and monolingual Spanish based on the phonological development of Spanish and English

Justin Davidson (University of California, Berkeley)
Talk title: Legitimizing Spanish-English Contact in U.S. Spanish: Sociophonetic Variation in Spanish Orthographic <b> and <v>

Lauren Schmidt (San Diego State University)
Talk title: Exploring lived language experiences of Spanish-English bilinguals in the San Diego border region and how these shape issues of identity

Mark Amengual (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Talk title: Intergenerational language shift and interlingual influence in the acoustic realization of Spanish-speaking Californians

This event is sponsored by the Bilingualism Research Lab, Multilingual Hispanic Speech in CA, the Comparative Language Sciences Project, the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, and UC MRPI

Bilingual California/California Bilingüe: Fronteras y Futuros
2024-10-11 18:00 | Music Center Recital Hall
Join us as we welcome Professor Ana Celia Zentella (professor emerita, UC San Diego) to discuss the political, social, and educational barriers that California’s Spanish-English bilinguals must overcome to ensure a bilingual future for themselves and their children. She suggests ways that students, parents, teachers, university faculty and community groups can contribute successfully.

This event is free and open to the public with free parking.
California is the state with the largest number of Spanish speakers in the USA; the approximately 15 million Spanish speakers represent 39.09 % of the state’s population (U.S. Census Bureau, 2024). The large numbers and long history of Spanish in California (as the official administrative language from 1542 to 1848) suggest the continuity of the language and bilingualism are ensured. But the state’s Spanish speakers, primarily of Mexican and other increasingly diverse origins, cross many political, economic, racial, and linguistic fronteras to arrive, survive, and thrive in California. The bilingual future of immigrants and their children and grandchildren is impeded by multiple barriers, beyond concrete walls at the border. We can and must ensure un futuro bilingüe with our teaching, research, and community outreach.
Major barreras include the demonization of Latinus and our Spanish and English by many – including political leaders – restrictive employment policies, and limited educational programs. In southern California, studies of border high school Latinus, Anglo university students, and transfronterizus – those who cross the border from Mexico to study in California – reveal that monolingual English speakers are not the only promoters of dismissive attitudes towards diverse ways of speaking Spanish and English. Labels like “fresas,” “nacos,” “sociales,” and “pochos mochos” build intra-Latinu walls and impede bilingual fluency, and Spanglish is widely misunderstood and maligned.
LEVANTA LA VOZ in the classroom and the community!
We must advocate for effective bilingual instruction that confronts these barriers, and organize parent workshops and dance and poetry projects that involve the community. Student and faculty research should be shared with political leaders, newspapers, and social media platforms. And let’s all celebrate International Mother Language Day on February 21st in creative ways. But what do you think will help guarantee el futuro bilingüe de California?
This event is the keynote address of the 1st Symposium on Spanish-English bilingualism in California, which will bring together leading scholars investigating the linguistic practices and patterns of variation across Spanish-English bilinguals throughout the state of California. This inaugural symposium will serve to engage researchers in cross-campus collaborations and interdisciplinary initiatives. Please visit the Symposium event page for more information.
Ana Celia Zentella, professor emerita (University of California, San Diego and Hunter College), is an anthro-political linguist recognized for her research on US Latinu languages, language socialization, “Spanglish,” and “English-only” laws. In 1996, Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger declared October 30 “Doctor Ana Celia Zentella Day” for “her leading role in building appreciation for language diversity and respect for language rights.” In 2015, the Latin American Studies Association’s Latino Section honored Zentella as Public Intellectual of the Year. In 2016, she received the Award for Public Outreach & and Community Service from the Society for Linguistic Anthropology. Professor Zentella was Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022, and received the Distinguished Career Award from the Association of Latina/o and Latinx Anthropologists in 2023.
This event is sponsored by the Bilingualism Research Lab, Multilingual Hispanic Speech in CA, the Comparative Language Sciences Project, and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics.
If you have disability-related needs, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by October 4, 2024.

Festival of Monsters Public Festival
2024-10-11 - 2024-10-12 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies presents the 2024 Festival of Monsters opens Oct. 11-12 with a weekend of free public events for all ages. Festivities begin 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, at the Museum of Art and History (705 Front St., Santa Cruz) with a reading and Q&A with Kiersten White, the New York Times Bestselling author of Hide. White will be reading from her new book Lucy Undying, a dark romantic fantasy novel that explores what happens to Lucy Westenra once she escapes Dracula’s thrall.
At 7 p.m., local company Circus of the Moon will perform Pluto’s Labryinth, a twisted journey of shadows and demons featuring aerialists, acrobats, and ensemble dance. Masks and memorabilia from horror design company Trick or Treat Studio will be on display.
At 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, there will be a free outdoor screening of the silent 1922 F.W. Murnau film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror on the Oakes College lower lawn (231 Oakes Road, Santa Cruz). Professor Emertius H.M. Leicester will introduce the classic vampire film, which stars Max Schreck as Count Orlok.
Events the weekend of Oct. 11-12 are free and first-come, first served.
Please visit here for registration and more information: https://www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/2024festpublic
The 2024 Festival of Monsters is grateful for the support of Porter College; Oakes College; The Arts Research Institute; The Humanities Institute; Sigfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment; University of California Humanities Research Institute; the UC Santa Cruz Department of Literature; the UC Santa Cruz Department of Performance, Play and Design; Crown College; Good Times; Trick or Treat Studios; Bookshop Santa Cruz; Atlantis Fantasyworld; James Gunderson and Peter Coha.

U.S. Elections and Democracy in Deeply Polarized Times: What are the Stakes and Opportunities?
2024-10-10 19:00 | Virtual and In Person
This event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series – Power, Politics, and Our Democracy
UC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How do power, politics, and the media landscape interact, disrupt, and reinforce one another? Join the conversation with our scholars and national thought leaders to learn more about how to think critically about our political processes and the nature of our democracy. There are six events in the series, all of them are offered online via Zoom, and three events have an in-person option. More information listed below. Events are free and open to the public.
For registration and full program information please visit: https://transform.ucsc.edu/events/2024-elections-forum-series/
Co-sponsored by: Institute for Social Transformation, Merrill College, The Humanities Institute, Science and Justice Research Center, Politics Department Democratic Discourse and Engagement Initiative, Kresge College, John R. Lewis College, and College Nine.

Living Writers with Julián Delgado Lopera
2024-10-10 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Living Writers Series – Fall 2024
Growing Things
~ gardens, poems, emotions, relationships, stories, our artistic practices, carefully tended, beautifully ordered, rewilded and wild ~
About The Living Writers Series
The 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.
About the Author
Julián Delgado Lopera is the author of The New York Times acclaimed novel Fiebre Tropical (Feminist Press 2020), the Winner of the 2021 Ferro Grumley Award and a 2021 Lambda Literary award; a finalist of the 2020 Kirkus Prize in Fiction and the 2021 Aspen Literary Prize. Julián is also the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and ¡Cuéntamelo! (Aunt Lute 2017) an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latinx immigrants which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award.
Julián’s received fellowships and residencies from The National Endowment for the Arts, Black Mountain Institute, Creative Work Fund, Hedgebrook, California Arts Council, San Francisco Arts Commission, Headlands Center for The Arts, Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts, Lambda Literary Foundation and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Their work has appeared in Granta, Teen Vogue, The Kenyon Review, McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, The White Review, LALT, Four Way Review, Broadly, TimeOut Mag to name a few. They are the former executive director of RADAR Productions and one of the founders of Drag Queen Story Hour. They have been curating Latinx history projects in San Francisco for over 10 years in partnerships with places such as the GLBT Historical Society, SF Public Library, El/la Para Translatinas, Galería de la Raza and Brava Theatre. Born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, Julián currently resides in San Francisco. Their second novel is forthcoming from Liveright. Watch their TED Talk here.

Sponsored by The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Laurie Sain Endowment, The Humanities Institute, Bookshop Santa Cruz, and Two Birds Books, which provides books for purchase at the readings.

Understanding October 7, 2023 and Israel’s War on the Gaza Strip
2024-10-10 12:30 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The UCSC Center for Jewish Studies presents an event with Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University.
How should we speak about the shocking October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas and its allies which killed 1,139 people, 61% of them Israeli civilians, in a single day? What is the appropriate context for understanding the attack, Israel’s massive military, intelligence, and first response failure and its vengeful retaliation which has resulted in nearly 42,000 confirmed Palestinian deaths in the Gaza Strip, some 2/3 of them women and children with plausible estimates rising as high as 186,000? Is it possible to acknowledge the reality of the categories of “terrorism” and “genocide” while placing them in a broader historical context?

Due to the anticipated high demand and limited space for this event, in person attendance at this event will be reserved for the UC Santa Cruz campus community (staff, faculty, and students with a ucsc.edu email address). We will be requiring registration at the door in order to attend in person.
For those in the community who would like to watch Professor Beinin’s presentation, we will be offering the event via livestream, which you can access at: https://vimeo.com/event/4619142
Joel Beinin is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University. His research and writing focus on the social and cultural history and political economy of modern Egypt, Palestine, and Israel, and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. He received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1970, A.M. from Harvard University in 1974, and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1982. He taught at Stanford from 1983 to 2019 with a hiatus as Director of Middle East Studies and Professor of History at the American University in Cairo in 2006-08. In 2002 he served as president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America.
He has written or edited twelve books and over fifty academic articles and book chapters. His most recent book is A Critical Political Economy of the Modern Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2020); co-edited with Bassam Haddad and Sherene Seikaly. His books on Israel/Palestine include: The Independent Left in Israel, 1967-1993: A Collection in Memory of Noam Kaminer [in Hebrew] (November Books, 2019); co-edited with Carmel Kaminer, Matan Kaminer, Smadar Nehab Kaminer, and others; The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005 (Stanford University Press, 2006); co-edited with Rebecca L. Stein; Was the Red Flag Flying There? Marxist Politics and the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Egypt and Israel, 1948-1965 (University of California Press, 1990); and Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Occupation (South End Press, 1989); co-edited with Zachary Lockman.

Mizanur Rahman--The Mass Uprisings in Bangladesh: Youth Mobilization, Political Possibility, and Precarity
2024-10-10 11:00 - 12:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Bangladesh’s recent student-led mass uprising which ousted the longstanding autocrat, Sheikh Hasina, from office is widely considered to have ushered in a new era in Bangladesh politics. How did the uprising, which began with a demand for student’s job quota reform, unfold, and eventually turn into a mass movement? What political possibilities and precarities lie ahead for post-uprising Bangladesh? What united people of different religions, regions, castes, classes, and generations to fight against authoritarian rule? What inspired them to fearlessly confront state violence and sacrifice their lives? This talk will treat these questions about recent and unfolding political events in Bangladesh and suggest that the mass uprising has been a struggle to reclaim people’s sovereignty and to recover their right to speak and reinstate their dignity.
Md Mizanur Rahman is a PhD candidate in Politics at UC Santa Cruz. His research focuses on liberalism and its critics, Islamic political thought, and religion and politics in South Asia. He is particularly interested in Bangladesh politics and has written on debates concerning Islam, modernity, and the politics of Islamic seminaries in Bangladesh.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Center for Cultural Studies

Identity in Focus: Media Representations and the 2024 Presidential Election
2024-10-09 19:00 | Virtual and In Person

Conflict Resolution with Anthony Keen-Louie
2024-10-09 15:00 - 16:30 | Graduate Student Commons, Room 204, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, 95064
Wherever there are groups of people, there will be conflict. However, conflict can be an opportunity to grow and improve if the right tools and resources are used. This workshop will explore conflict as a topic, share information about conflict resolution resources at UCSC, and provide some conflict resolution skills for participants to use in their careers that focus on building community.
This event is on Oct 9, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons. Register below to attend the session.

Anthony Keen-Louie (he/him/his) is a seasoned student affairs professional and mediator and has worked with the UCSC Ombuds Office since August 2023. Previously he served at UCSD for eight years in residential life leadership roles supporting inclusive student community development with initiatives for student residents, including graduate students and students with dependents. Anthony has a master’s degree in Dispute Resolution from the USC Gould School of Law, where he now serves as an adjunct lecturer in law, and is a mediator, trainer, and group format mediator with the National Conflict Resolution Center. He also has a master’s degree in Higher Education/Student Affairs from New York University and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from UC Riverside.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth 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.

More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory Cluster Meet and Greet
2024-10-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Join us for the inaugural More-than-humanities community gathering! Light refreshments will be served. This will be our chance to come together to get to know one another and shape the vision for the lab. We hope you will come, and we ask that you bring your 1-2 wishes for the lab to share with the community.
Learn more about the research cluster here.

The Informational Interview with Lorato Anderson
2024-10-09 13:30 - 15:00 | Graduate Student Commons, Room 204, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, 95064
An informational interview is one you conduct with someone working in a field for an institution or company that you want to consider working in and for. How do you conduct an informational interview? What questions should you ask to get the best information about what it’s like to do that job for that organization? How do you network to locate people to ask for an informational interview?
This event has two sessions: Oct 8, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, or Oct 10, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend either session.

As director of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the Division of Graduate Studies at UC Santa Cruz, Lorato Anderson focuses on advancing initiatives for minoritized graduate student support across multiple campus-wide projects and providing direct support to students, staff, faculty, and programs. Lorato graduated with a B.A. in Literature/Writing from UC San Diego and received her M.S. in Higher Education Administration and Policy from Northwestern University, where she researched and developed assessment models for English language learners and created multiple DEI programs that are still active. She has extensive experience in grant writing, teaching, advising, assessment, and creating long-lasting research-backed programs to promote minoritized undergraduate and graduate student success.
Lorato has worked on campus since 2016 and received the 2020 Outstanding Staff Achievement Award in Social Sciences. Her previous roles include graduate program adviser and coordinator for Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) and Politics and undergraduate advisor for Psychology. She takes pride in incorporating social justice and empathetic advising strategies and teaching pedagogies into her work in advising, administration, and grant and program development.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth 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.

T.J. Demos – Counterinsurgent: Cop City, Abolition Ecology, and the Aesthetics of Counterreform
2024-10-09 12:15 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
If “climate apartheid” is on the rise, as Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò warns, then Cop City Atlanta—the multimillion-dollar new police training facility built by clear-cutting the city’s largest green space—offers an ominous flashpoint. For not only is Cop City’s contested construction (which is ongoing) an exemplary story of the violent repression of community activism at the nexus of abolition, decolonization, and environmentalism. It also spotlights the forces of contemporary counterinsurgency—including its aesthetic modalities—that are operating to prevent any political transformation beyond the status quo. If the environmental movement is losing in the struggle to stop world-ending climate change, then continuing to focus on practices of ecological repair is increasingly myopic, even escapist, without taking into account the forces blocking any meaningful change. How might a prehensive climate-justice-directed art history, and an insurgent arts of the possible, meaningfully respond?
T. J. Demos is Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture, at University of California, Santa Cruz, and founding Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. Demos is the author of several books, including Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (Sternberg Press, 2017); Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology (Sternberg Press, 2016); and The Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary During Global Crisis (Duke University Press, 2013) – winner of the College Art Association’s 2014 Frank Jewett Mather Award. He co-edited The Routledge Companion on Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change (2021), was a Getty Research Institute Fellow (Spring 2020), and directed the Mellon-funded Sawyer Seminar research project Beyond the End of the World (2019-21). His new book, Radical Futurisms: Ecologies of Collapse, Chronopolitics, and Justice-to-Come, 2023, is out from Sternberg Press.
The 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.

Employing Humanities Resume and Cover Letter Career Workshop
2024-10-08 13:30 - 14:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Having a fantastic resume and cover letter are the first steps towards securing part-time, full-time, on-campus or off-campus work. Join us for this informative workshop to learn best practices and resources for creating or updating your resume and cover letter.
Register on Handshake here!
Open to all Humanities Majors and Minors. For more information please email humco@ucsc.edu.
Please visit the Humanities Student Events Calendar to see other exciting events happening for students in the Humanities Division.

Disrupting Imposter Phenomenon from the Inside Out with Silvia Austerlic
2024-10-08 11:30 - 13:00 | Virtual Event
Have you ever felt imposter phenomenon? Learn how to cultivate a growth mindset to disrupt it and move toward empowering ways of learning.
This event has two sessions: Oct 8, 11:30 – 1:00 p.m. via Zoom or Nov 5, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend either session.

Silvia Austerlic is an intercultural educator, facilitator and consultant, and founder of Senti-pensante Connections, whose mission is to bridge inner work and social justice in service of individual transformation, social change, and collective action. A lecturer at UCSC Oakes College, she developed and teaches “Building an Inner Sanctuary,” which fosters the cultivation of inner and outer resources needed to show up for community-oriented action and social justice; and facilitates campus-wide learning events surrounding critical interculturality, self-leadership, healing justice, and fostering resilience and care in the community.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth 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.

Educator Workshop with the Amah Mutsun
2024-10-05 09:00 - 15:00 | Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
Join the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History for a collaborative workshop connecting local educators with tribal leaders and scholars.
This workshop aims to deepen knowledge, clarify terminology, and provide a space for dialogue about incorporating a native perspective into K-12 curriculum.
Teachers will have the opportunity to work side-by-side with colleagues and tribal representatives as they consider the strengths and weaknesses of their current curriculum and consider ways that they might better incorporate an Indigenous perspective into future lessons.
Featuring: Valentin Lopez, Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band
Earn continuing education credit and join this FREE outdoor workshop on Saturday, October 5th from 9am-3pm at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History. Open to formal and informal educators of the Monterey Bay region. Light breakfast and lunch will be provided.
Learn more and register at: https://www.santacruzmuseum.org/10-5-educator-workshop-with-the-amah-mutsun/

This event is supported by The Humanities Institute, The History & Civics Project @ UC Santa Cruz, and The Bagelry.

Homage to Antoinette Swan & the Princes of Surf
2024-10-04 18:00 - 19:00 | Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Do you know about the three Hawaiian princes coming to Santa Cruz in 1885 and introducing surfing to the mainland? They didn’t come here by accident. Join historians Geoffrey Dunn and Kim Stoner and learn about Antoinette Swan and her ties to Hawaiian royalty. This talk is a sneak peek of more hidden stories we will share in an upcoming exhibition in 2025.

This event is presented by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.

Employing Humanities Internships and Research Info Session #2
2024-10-04 12:00 - 12:30 | Virtual Event
Learn about paid internships and undergraduate research opportunities for Humanities Students including applications, timelines, and program details. Info on how to join via Zoom can be found via the Humanities Division Linktree.
Open to all Humanities Majors and Minors. For more information please email humco@ucsc.edu.
Please visit the Humanities Student Events Calendar to see other exciting events happening for students in the Humanities Division.

Employing Humanities Internships and Research Info Session #1
2024-10-03 12:00 - 12:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Learn about paid internships and undergraduate research opportunities for Humanities Students including applications, timelines, and program details.
Open to all Humanities Majors and Minors. For more information please email humco@ucsc.edu.
Please visit the Humanities Student Events Calendar to see other exciting events happening for students in the Humanities Division.

Navigating the Media Landscape: Critical Media Literacy in the 2024 Elections
2024-10-02 19:00 | Virtual and In Person

Gary Griggs: California Catastrophes
2024-09-30 19:00 - 20:30 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Gary Griggs, local author and Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UC Santa Cruz, for a discussion and signing of his new book California Catastrophes: The Natural Disaster History of the Golden State. This comprehensive account of California’s numerous and perilous natural disasters explores how a unique combination of forces has affected Californians throughout the state’s history and carries a sobering message about our short disaster memories. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.

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“Griggs has long been a voice for being prepared for that extreme event just around the corner. He has done it again with California Catastrophes, a must-read for every long-term Californian.” —John Laird, California State Senator and former California Secretary for Natural Resources
California has more natural hazards per square mile than any other state, but this hasn’t deterred people from moving here. Entire California towns and regions frequently contend with destruction caused by earthquakes, floods, landslides and debris flows, and sea-level rise and coastal erosion. As Gary Griggs demonstrates in California Catastrophes, few years go by without a disaster of some kind, and residents often rebuild in the same locations that were just destroyed.
Considering the current climate crisis and increasing environmental inequalities, the stakes are growing ever higher. This book dives into the history of the state’s vulnerability to natural hazards, why and where these events occur, and how Californians can better prepare going forward. A mix of photographs and maps both historical and contemporary orients readers within the state’s sprawling landscapes and provides glimpses of some of the geologic risks in each region. With the final chapter, Griggs issues a call to action and challenges readers to envision a safer, more equitable, and sustainable future.
Gary Griggs is Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he has taught for more than fifty years. His research and teaching have focused on natural disasters and the California coast.

Falafel Welcome Lunch with The Center for the Middle East and North Africa
2024-09-30 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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.

SALA 2024: The South Asian Literature and Art Festival
2024-09-28 - 2024-09-29 | Stanford Center for South Asia, Encina Commons, 615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA, 94305
Organized by the Stanford Center for South Asia in collaboration with Art Forum SF, the South Asian Literature and Art Festival showcases contemporary reflections of literature and arts from the sub-continent and its diaspora. It features highly acclaimed contemporary South Asian Art collections as well as panel discussions that include Art, Literature, Poetry, and Cinema. Authors and artists across the globe will represent their experiences through keynotes, panels, and live presentations. The theme this year is “Plurality in community,” where ArtForum SF explores caste, class, gender, and borders to understand how individuality and collectivity can coexist and collide.
The Festival will take place September 28-29 at the Stanford Center for South Asia and is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies.
For more information, please visit the Festival website: https://www.salafestival.org/

Joseph Stiglitz - The Road to Freedom
2024-09-17 19:00 - 20:00 | London Nelson Center, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Bookshop Santa Cruz is joining forces with The Humanities Institute and the Institute for Social Transformation to present Joseph E. Stiglitz—one of the world’s leading economists and winner of the Nobel Prize—who will discuss his new book, The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society, a compelling new vision of personal and economic freedom. Professor Stiglitz will be in conversation with Dr. Chris Benner, Dorothy E. Everett Chair in Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship, and a Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at UC Santa Cruz.

We are a nation born from the conviction that people must be free. But since the middle of the last century, that idea has been co-opted. Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by cloaking it in the rhetoric of freedom, leading to pharmaceutical companies freely overcharging for medication, a Big Tech free from oversight, politicians free to incite rebellion, corporations free to pollute, and more. How did we get here? Whose freedom are we—and should we—be thinking about?
In The Road to Freedom, Nobel prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz dissects America’s current economic system and the political ideology that created it, laying bare their twinned failure. “Free” and unfettered markets have only succeeded in delivering a series of crises: the financial crisis, the opioid crisis, and the crisis of inequality. While a small portion of the population has amassed considerable wealth, wages for most people have stagnated. Free and unfettered markets have exploited consumers, workers, and the environment alike. Such failures have fed populist movements that believe being free means abandoning any obligations citizens have to one another. As they grow in strength, these movements now pose a real threat to true economic and political freedom.
As an economic advisor to presidents and as chief economist at the World Bank, Stiglitz has witnessed these profound changes firsthand. As he argues, the failures follow from the elites’ unshakeable dedication to “the neoliberal experiment.” Explicitly taking on giants such as Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman, Stiglitz exposes accepted ideas about our political and economic life for what they are: twisted visions that tear at the social fabric while they enrich the very few.
The Road to Freedom breaks new ground, showing how economics—including recent advances in which Stiglitz has played such an important role—reframes how to think about freedom and the role of the state in a twenty-first century society. Drawing on the work of contemporary philosophers, Stiglitz explains a deeper, more humane way to assess freedoms—one that considers with care what to do when one person’s freedom conflicts with another’s. We must reimagine our existing economic and legal systems and embrace forms of collective action, including regulation and investment, if we are to create an innovative society in which everyone can flourish. The task could not be more urgent, and Stiglitz’s latest book is essential reading for those committed to the American ideal of an economic and political system that delivers well-being, opportunity, and meaningful freedoms for all.
Joseph E. Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and the best-selling author of People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent; Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Age of Trump; The Price of Inequality; and Freefall. He was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton, chief economist of the World Bank, named by Time as one of the 100 most influential individuals in the world, and now teaches at Columbia University and is chief economist of the Roosevelt Institute.

14th Annual Latino Role Models Conference
2024-09-14 09:00 - 13:00 | Cabrillo College Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos, CA, 95003, United States
Join us for the 14th annual Latino Role Models Conference, designed to inspire students in grades six through college to achieve their dreams for college and career. No pre-registration is required. Presentations center the experiences of Latino professionals, college students, and community leaders who share the barriers they have overcome and strategies to persevere. This conference will be conducted in Spanish with English interpretation. Parents and guardians are encouraged to participate along with their students. Resource tables will share information about the pathway to higher education.
This year’s keynote speaker will be Jaime Cortez, Watsonville and San Francisco Bay Area based writer and visual artist. Jaime’s debut collection of short stories Gordo is a work of semiautobiographical fiction set in farm worker camps and farm towns near Watsonville, California in the 1970s. Cortez spent his early years in San Juan Bautista and Watsonville where he attended public schools and graduated from Watsonville High School. He received his B.A. in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania, and his fine art MFA at UC Berkeley. Jaime was the first in his family to graduate from college and is excited to share his story at the 2024 Latino Role Models Conference.
Other professional presenters will include:
Melida Alfaro, Business Consultant and Entrepreneur
Dr. Roberto (Bobby) Diaz, Orthopedic Surgeon, Sutter Health
Maria Elena de la Garza, Nonprofit Executive Director, Community Action Board
Jose Gonzalez, Attorney, Santa Cruz County Public Defender
Jaime Molina, Social Worker, Trainer, Parent Educator
Mayra Ochoa, Web and IT manager, Digital Nest
Roberto Zuniga, Spanish Teacher, Aptos High School
Yesenia Lopez Duran, Social Worker, Santa Cruz County Public Defender
Erandi Escareño, Media and Communications Professional, will moderate the conference
For more information about Latino Role Models:
Call: (831) 854-7740
email: info@SCSenderos.org
website: SCSenderos.org
The Latino Role Models Conference was created by Senderos in 2010 and is now presented in collaboration with: Cabrillo College, Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County, Consulado General de México en San José, Kaiser Permanente, Live Oak School District, Pajaro Valley Unified School District, San Lorenzo Unified School District, Santa Cruz City Schools, Santa Cruz County Office of Education, Santa Cruz County College Commitment, Scotts Valley Unified School District, Senderos, Soquel Union Elementary School District, UC Santa Cruz, Bay Federal Credit Union. This event is co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute.

Slugs and Steins with Professor Alma Heckman - Fascism and Anti-Fascism: Jewish and Muslim Politics in Interwar Morocco
2024-09-09 18:30 - 20:00 | Virtual Event
Interwar Morocco was home to a thriving anti-fascist political scene with intimate connections to France and Spain. Politically active Moroccan Jews and Muslims were found in the ranks of many different anti-fascist organizations, above all the International League Against Antisemitism, or the LICA after its French acronym (Ligue internationale contre l’antisémitisme). Through organizations like the LICA, Moroccan Jews and Muslims responded to rising fascism and antisemitism out of a sense of shared political values.

Alma Rachel Heckman is the Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies and Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her book The Sultan’s Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging was published by Stanford University Press in 2021.

Questions? Please contact University Events at specialevents@ucsc.edu.

Puerto Rican Studies Association Conference
2024-08-23 - 2024-08-25 | UC Santa Cruz
The Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA) is an interdisciplinary academic organization that promotes the development and circulation of knowledge about Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans from the Puerto Rican islands and its broad diasporas. We are excited to host this year’s PRSA conference at UC Santa Cruz from Friday, August 23 to Sunday, August 25.
This year’s theme is Scales of Solidarity and will think about the role of solidarity in building a freer and more just world. During the conference there will be panels, workshops, film screenings, performances, and a bombazo that will bring musicians from around California to participate. We are especially excited to be collaborating with the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery to mount an exhibit focused on Puerto Rican communities in California curated by Aurora Levins Morales.
Highlights include:
LUNCH AND KEYNOTE: Ileana Rodríguez Silva, University of Washington, Seattle
Friday, August 23 at 12:45PM–2:30PM, Stevenson Events Center
BOOK AND DISSERTATION AWARDS CEREMONY
Friday, August 23 at 6:15PM–7:30PM, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery
RECEPTION AND BOMBAZO
Saturday, August 24 at 6:30PM–9:00PM, Cowell Patio
You can find the full program here. Registration is now open. All UCSC students, staff, and faculty can register to attend the conference for free by clicking here.

Weekend with Shakespeare
2024-08-17 - 2024-08-18 | UCSC Arboretum
Dig deeply into our Shakespeare productions this season 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.
This year, Weekend with Shakespeare will be held at the UCSC Campus on August 17th (Hamlet) and August 18th (As You Like It).
Admission is free to all, but seating is limited! Please register below to reserve your seats.

Schedule for Weekend with Shakespeare
Saturday, 8/17 — Hamlet

11:00 Welcome (Sean Keilen, UCSC)
11:15 Actor Panel (Charles Pasternak and members of the company, SCS)
12:15 Boxed lunch (courtesy of Shakespeare Workshop)
1:00 Visiting Scholar (Claire McEachern, UCLA)
2:00 End of program

Sunday, 8/18 — As You Like It

11:00 Welcome (Sean Keilen, UCSC)
11:15 Actor Panel (Charles Pasternak and members of the company, SCS)
12:15 Boxed lunch (courtesy of Shakespeare Workshop)
1:00 Visiting Scholar (Claire McEachern, UCLA)
2:00 End of program

* On both days, the Visiting Scholar will be available in the Grove before the performance to do a “Five Things” talk.

Sean Keilen is Professor of Literature and UC Santa Cruz, the founder of Shakespeare Workshop, and Head of Dramaturgy at Santa Cruz Shakespeare.
Charles 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.
Claire 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).

Kuumbwa Jazz Presents - Delbert Anderson Quartet
2024-08-16 18:00 - 21:00 | Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Delbert Anderson, a Diné jazz trumpet artist, composer, and educator, stands at the forefront of a vibrant Native American jazz scene. His work, deeply rooted in his Diné heritage, seamlessly integrates Navajo “spinning songs” of love, healing, and courtship with jazz and funk, thus marking him as a community-minded Indigenous individualist. Through his Delbert Anderson Quartet, Anderson revives the improvised sounds of the Diné circle, blending them with jazz, funk, and hip-hop. His compositions are inspired by Navajo Nation landscapes, historical events, and the desire to preserve and educate about Diné history.

His commitment to community and education is evident through his “Build A Band” educational program, which teaches jazz improvisation to young students through a Diné and family curriculum, wellness programs, and community outreach initiatives aimed at evoking change for the well-being of all humans.
Anderson’s achievements have garnered recognition, including multiple awards from Chamber Music America, the Cultural Capital Fellowship from the First Peoples Fund, and the Jazz Road Program at South Arts. His contributions to music and culture have been featured in prominent outlets like The New York Times, JazzTimes, Grammy.com, and NPR.
Co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.

Slugs and Steins - Learning About Autism From Autistic People
2024-08-12 18:30 - 20:00 | Virtual Event
Most of the research on autism is conducted by non-autistic people. The neurodiversity movement centers autistic perspectives which contributes to a better understanding of autistic experiences and can counteract existing stereotypes about autistic people. In this presentation, we discuss two methods for centering autistic perspectives on autism—including autistic people on research teams and reading autistic autobiographies—and explore several potential benefits of doing so.

Nameera Akhtar is a Professor of Psychology, and Janette Dinishak is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz. After a fruitful decade of collaborating on autism-related topics, these two academics would like you to know that they are not experts on autism. In their presentation they will introduce you to some of the real experts.
Slugs & Steins: Lectures from UC Santa Cruz is a monthly series comprised of informal discussions highlighting UC Santa Cruz’s many amazing faculty members. Talks are held on the 2nd Monday of each month with topics ranging from organic artichokes to endangered zebras, self-driving cars to Shakespeare. All are welcome, and audience participation is encouraged. We encourage you to share the link far and wide as slugs and friends from around the world may join us.
Questions? Please contact University Events at specialevents@ucsc.edu

Filipino American Literature Reading @ AAPI Cultural Festival
2024-08-04 14:30 - 16:00 | The 418 Project, 155 River Street S, Santa Cruz, 95060, United States
Please join Watsonville is in the Heart on Sunday August 4, 2024 from 2:30- 4:00 pm for a Filipino American literature reading in celebration of the final day of the Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley exhibition. The event at The 418 Project will feature award-winning poets and authors, Karen Tei Yamashita, Randy Ribay, Shirley Ancheta, Robert Gomez, and Oscar Peñaranda. The writers will read new and published works about Filipino American and local farmworker history.
The reading will coincide with the Asian American Pacific Islander Cultural Festival hosted by the Asian American Pacific Coalition with generous sponsorship provided by The 418 Project, the Coastal Watershed Council, and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. The festival will run from 12:00-4:00pm and feature performances, music, artwork, food vendors, and community organization tables.
At 4:00pm, we welcome all guests to take part in a joyful procession across the street to the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (705 Front Street) to view Sowing Seeds and learn about local community-engaged research projects. Museum entrance will be free from 4:00- 7:00 pm.
The event is made possible with support from the UCSC Social Sciences Division, the Institute for Social Transformation, Center for Labor and Community, and California Humanities. We thank The 418 Project, The Tobera Project, and the Asian American Pacific Islander Coalition for this meaningful collaboration.
Event Seating: Seating at this event will be limited. Reserved seats will be available for guests with health conditions or impairments.
Event Parking: There are two paid parking garages with available disability parking spaces near The 418 Project. Other parking can be found at the Soquel/Front Garage (601 Front St. Santa Cruz, CA, 95060)

Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music - Unbound
2024-08-03 19:00 | Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
Maestro Cristian Măcelaru leads the Festival Orchestra in works by composers Daniel Kellogg, Nathaniel Heyder, Lembit Beecher, and Iván Enrique Rodríguez.
Daniel Kellogg: The Golden Spike (West Coast Premiere)
Nathaniel Heyder: unbound: Phase 1 (World Premiere | Festival Commission)
Lembit Beecher: Tell Me Again (Karen Ouzounian, cello) (West Coast Premiere)
Iván Enrique Rodríguez: Casting the Dice (World Premiere | Festival Commission
The Festival orchestra brings to life new works exploring historical and personal journeys. The Golden Spike by Daniel Kellogg marks the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad. unbound: Phase 1 by rising composer Nathaniel Heyder reflects on a period of artistic and personal freedom. Lembit Beecher’s Tell Me Again uses cello to portray a story of immigration, composed for the virtuosic cellist Karen Ouzounian. Casting the Dice, a powerful Festival commission by Iván Enrique Rodríguez explores the experiences of displaced people and human movement.
For more details visit: Unbound – Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
Folks under 35 can purchase discounted tickets for $20. Space is limited, so order your tickets today!
Order tickets online at https://cabrillomusic.org/order-tickets/

This event is a part of the 2024 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, where Music Director & Conductor, Cristian Măcelaru, and the intrepid festival orchestra give life to 4 world premieres, 9 West Coast debuts, with music by 15 Composers in Residence portraying powerful movements of change and showcasing music that moves beyond boundaries of place, time, style, and convention.
Co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County Bank, and Redtree Partners, L.P.

Dickens Universe
2024-07-21 - 2024-07-27 | UC Santa Cruz
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 one by Charles Dickens. In 2024, the Dickens Universe will feature Great Expectations, which since its publication in 1860-61, has been one of Dickens’s best-loved and most widely read works.
Now in its 44th year of operation, the Dickens Universe combines features of a scholarly conference, a festival, a book club, and summer camp. Participants include people of all ages and walks of life—distinguished scholars, graduate students, undergraduates, retirees, young professionals, high school teachers, anyone who loves to read and who enjoys long Victorian novels.
Here are some of the reasons why the Universe such a special experience:

The college lifestyle: participants live on campus, eat together in the student dining hall, have time to meet and come to know each other in different ways.
Everyone is reading the same book. We all have this one important thing in common.
The range of activities—formal lectures, small discussion groups, films, daily Victorian teas, performances, and Victorian dancing.

The Universe offers a week of total immersion in the world of Victorian fiction with friendly, like-minded colleagues in a beautiful setting. This year’s Dickens Universe will begin on Sunday, July 21, and end on Saturday, July 27.
Registration is now open for the 2024 Dickens Universe featuring Great Expectations. The conference will primarily be an in-person event, with the option to attend virtually from afar.
To register or learn about The Dickens Universe visit: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/universe/

Santa Cruz Shakespeare Opening Night
2024-07-18 20:00 | The Audrey Stanley Grove in Delaveaga Park, 501 Upper Park Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95065, United States
Tickets are now on sale for Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2024 Season, featuring As You Like It, Hamlet, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Glass Menagerie. This is the Season of Generations: of the inheritors of the new world; of the young finding, discovering, claiming their identities and their power; of forging a new path and changing the world. Each of the shows of the 2024 season deal directly with the next generation inheriting the world. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute.
The 2024 season runs from July 18 – September 28.

As You Like It by William Shakespeare | July 13 – Sept. 1 | Directed by Carey Perloff
Shakespeare’s As You Like It is a tale of banishment and escape to the forest of Arden, where a merry band find unity, love, and rebirth. The ensemble includes the melancholy Jacques (“All the world’s a stage…), the vigorous Orlando, and the brilliant Rosalind. Amidst a hurly of comedy, disguise, and discovery, love is sought, debated, and eventually learned. As You Like It is a hilarious journey into the heart of human foible and frailty, showing us the myriad ways that love can rebuild the world.
Hamlet by William Shakespeare | July 31 – Aug. 31 | Directed by Susan Dalian
In the most famous play ever written, Prince Hamlet contends with the ghost of his father, with the swift marriage of his mother to his uncle, with himself… most potently with himself. His questions throughout, of what it means to be a man, a son, a citizen of the world; what it means to be alive; what is owed; these questions have echoed through the last four hundred years and will no doubt echo for as long as we stand up on a stage and tell stories. Not to mention that it’s a thrilling tale of murder, revenge, madness, and betrayal. Artistic Director, Charles Pasternak, will play Hamlet, with former Artistic Director, Mike Ryan, as Claudius.
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde | July 14 – Sept. 7 | Directed by Paul Mullins
Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest has not been done in the 42-year history of Santa Cruz Shakespeare. It is one of the greatest comedies ever written, filled with some of the sharpest wit in the English language. The most iconic figure of this masterpiece is the formidable Lady Bracknell; obsessed with tradition and propriety, she cannot countenance her daughter Gwendolyn’s love of our titular Earnest. It’s not his money she objects to, of which he has plenty, but his bloodline: he has seemingly, and famously, descended from a HANDBAG. At least, that’s where he was discovered as an orphan. The young strain and contrive against their elder’s conservatism; through fantasy, imagination, and so much wit, they will reshape the world; redefining, and reNAMING, love’s conventions.
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams | Sept. 11‒28 | Directed by Charles Pasternak
Presented for the first time in the company’s history, Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie is an American masterpiece; an autobiographical “dream” play, Tom, the young Tennessee, struggles in his claustrophobic home life, caught between his controlling mother and his damaged sister. He loves them. His battle is actually not that he wants to leave, but that he wants to stay. But if he does, can he ever become the writer and the man he aspires to be? A thrilling expansion for Santa Cruz Shakespeare: Menagerie will open at the end of our traditional summer season, running in the Grove through September.

Family Day: Sowing Seeds
2024-07-13 12:00 - 18:00 | Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Join Watsonville is in the Heart for family-friendly fun and free admission to all current exhibitions including Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley. Participate in a community scrapbook project and take home your own photo. Lay mosaic tiles for a local public art project led by artist Kathleen Crocetti. Explore the Sowing Seeds exhibition and learn about community history from local organizations. For full program info and schedule click here.

Aurora Workshop Series
2024-07-02 14:00 - 15:30 | Virtual Event
Join us on July 2nd at 2:00 PM for the Summer 2024 Aurora Workshop Series with Virinder S. Kalra (Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick), Anne Murphy (Associate Professor of History, University of British Columbia), and G. S. Sahota (Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies, Associate Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz).
Join via Zoom here.
Featuring:
Radical Love: Gurbakhsh Singh Prīt Laṛī (1895-1977)
And His Vision For A New India
Paper by Anne Murphy
For the pre-circulated paper, please contact G.S. Sahota at sahota@ucsc.edu at least two days before the event.

Japanese Cultural Fair
2024-06-08 | Mission Plaza, 103 Emmett Street, Santa Cruz, 95060, United States
Since its founding in 1986, the Japanese Cultural Fair has provided an opportunity for members of the Santa Cruz County community to increase their awareness and understanding of Japanese culture, both traditional and contemporary. Through the arts, crafts, and culture of Japan, the fair has brought together thousands of people, improving their understanding of our Pacific Rim neighbor, as well as enriching the community of Santa Cruz.
Join us for this year’s wonderful showcase of Japanese Culture featuring crafts, music, and food!
Interested in volunteering? Volunteers are a major reason the festival has succeeded in becoming what it is today. Please consider being a part of that tradition and volunteer today at: https://www.jcfsantacruz.org/volunteer.
For more information visit: https://www.jcfsantacruz.org/

Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) 2024
2024-06-07 14:30 - 17:30 | London Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz, United States
The Linguistics Department’s annual Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) will be held Friday, June 7th, from 2:30 – 5:30 pm in Multipurpose Room 3 at the London Nelson Center in downtown Santa Cruz, 301 Center Street. The Distinguished Alumnus speaker will be Kirby Conrod, Assistant Professor at Swarthmore College.
Poster Presentations (2:30 – 4:30 PM)
Monique Aingworth, Samuel Almer, Cal Boye-Lynn, Jordy Chanon, E.Z. Dashiell, Amenia Denson, Melissa Garcia, Julia Helmer, Jennifer Hernandez, Millie Hacker, Andrew Kato, Killian Kiuttu, Valen Munson, Grace Nighswonger, Amanda Pollem, Brenn Simons, Ben Sommer
Keynote Speech (4:40 – 5:30 PM)
Kirby Conrod – Assistant Professor in Linguistics, Swarthmore College
For more info contact: mgong9@ucsc.edu

Celebrating the Humanities: Spring Awards
2024-06-06 16:00 - 19:00 | Virtual and In Person
Please mark your calendars for June 6th as we acknowledge the achievements of our outstanding students at the annual Celebrating the Humanities: Spring Awards event.
This year, the hybrid event will take place both at the Museum of Art and History and virtually on Zoom with the program beginning at 4 p.m. A reception will follow for in-person guests. Friends and families of awardees are welcome to attend either in person or online.

UCSC Night at the Museum - From the Archives: Conversations on Filipino America
2024-06-05 19:00 - 20:30 | Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Join us for The Humanities Institute’s annual Night at the Museum featuring Watsonville is in the Heart and highlighting Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley, a community-driven exhibition that uplifts stories of Filipino American migration and labor in Watsonville and the greater Pajaro Valley of the Central Coast. The exhibition brings together oral history, archival materials, and contemporary works of art.
Several of the most prominent thinkers in Filipino American history: Catherine Ceniza Choy, Richard “Rick” Baldoz, and Rudy Guevarra, Jr will present their academic insights.

Doors and exhibits open at 6pm, event program begins at 7pm
Dr. Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr. is Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. He is the author of Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego, and most recently, Aloha Compadre: Latinxs in Hawaiʻi. He is a former Ford Foundation Senior Fellow and UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Guevarra is also co-editor of the forthcoming book, Culinary Mestizaje: Racial Mixing, Migration and Foodways in the U.S.
Dr. Catherine Ceniza Choy is a writer, historian, and professor of ethnic studies at UC Berkeley. She is the author of the books Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History; Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America; and Asian American Histories of the United States. The daughter of Filipino immigrants, she was born and raised in New York City. She currently lives in Berkeley with her husband Greg Choy.
Dr. Rick Baldoz is a third-generation Filipino-American. His research focuses on race, immigration law, and the politics of citizenship. His first major book The Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in Filipino America 1898-1946 (NYU Press) examines the connection between the U.S. ascendancy as a global power and the racialization of Filipinos domestically. His book won book awards from the American Sociological Association and the American Library Association. His current book project is on US immigration policy over the past half century highlighting the interplay between US foreign policy entanglements and large scale population flows to the United States.
Enjoy an evening of conversation on the role of archives, the work of preserving memories, and the histories of Filipinos in the United States. THI’s annual Night at the Museum event welcomes members of the public to experience the ongoing exhibitions and gallery spaces at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History for free!
Night at the Museum is co-sponsored by I’m Just Nosy, a special collaboration between UCSC Special Collections & Archives and Watsonville is in the Heart (WIITH). I’m Jusy Nosy is a zine project highlighting the Pajaro Valley Filipino American community’s genealogical research and archiving expertise. As told by Maia Mislang (WIITH Undergraduate Public Fellow) with support from Meleia Simon Reynolds (Co-Director of the WIITH Community Digital Archive) and Sam Regal (Librarian in UCSC Special Collections), it spotlights Juanita Sulay Wilson, community matriarch and self-taught historian/archivist, whose work has been foundational to the Tobera Project and Watsonville is in the Heart. The zine is a resource for folks who wish to explore their own family and community histories. This project was generously supported by California Rare Book School’s Radical Librarianship Institute.

Watsonville is in the Heart and Sowing Seeds is presented with support from The Tobera Project, California Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Monterey Peninsula Foundation, UCSC Humanities Division, Arts Division, Division of Social Sciences, Center for Labor and Community, Office of Research, Arts Research Institute, Committee on Research, Society of Hellman Fellows, Institute for Social Transformation, and Dr. Rebecca S. Hernandez, member of Rise Together, Community Foundation Santa Cruz County. The exhibition is made possible with generous contributions from Cristana DeGuzman and Bryce Lee, Cathy and Greg Reyes, and Ow Family Properties.
This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a partner of the NEH. Visit www.calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibition do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

CANCELLED: Gabriel Winant - Service Economy Dilemmas
2024-06-05 12:15 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
This talk will explore the possible relationships between global economic restructuring and the emergence of new politics of family, gender, and sexuality. The rise of “service economies” in many forms around the world has had profound implications for individual life courses and the normative genders attached to them. Why is this, and what can we learn from it?
Gabriel Winant is assistant professor of history at the University of Chicago. His main interests include the history of work and class, political economy, and social policy. His prize-winning first book, The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America, was published by Harvard University Press in 2021 and offered a new account of the origins and meaning of the transition from industrial to service work in the United States.

The 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.

THI Coffee Hour
2024-06-05 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-05-29 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-05-22 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-05-15 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-05-08 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-05-01 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-04-24 11:00 - 12:00 | Humanities 1, Room 515, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students, faculty, staff, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays, 11am to noon.
We invite you to visit our team, meet our new Faculty Director, Pranav Anand, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how THI supports Faculty, Graduate Students, and Undergraduate Students, including fellowship and grant opportunities, and hear more about our ongoing research initiatives and partnerships. Enjoy a free cup of coffee, pick up a THI sticker, and be a part of our humanities community.
Come say hi to us at the THI Suite, on the 5th floor of the Humanities 1 building. We look forward to seeing you!

CANCELLED - Experiments in Vision and Abstraction: the Making of Mary's Amber Spyglass with Neda Genova
2024-06-03 12:00 | Virtual and In Person
The History of Consciousness department presents Experiments in Vision and Abstraction: the Making of Mary’s Amber Spyglass with Neda Genova, University of Warwick.
Join us Monday, June 3 at 12pm in Hum 1 Rm 420 or register below to attend virtually:

“A fresh instrument serves the same purpose as foreign travel; it shows things in unusual combinations.” (A. N. Whitehead 1948)
In this talk, I will look closely at the process of constructing a fictional visualising device alongside A.N. Whitehead’s formulation of abstraction as a relational process of interaction, objectification, and differentiation (1985). The presentation will focus specifically on an episode from part three of Philip Pullman’s children’s book trilogy “His Dark Materials” – a book that arguably dramatizes the struggle between what with Donna Haraway we may describe as the “god trick” of infinite vision and domination, and the quest to end domination, to learn and know in an entangled world of difference. In the story that I want to explore, physicist Mary Malone is tasked with helping the mulefa – beings from a world parallel to her own, whose delicate ecological balance has been disrupted. Unable to see the elementary particles that pollinate the trees on whose thriving the mulefa depend, Mary ventures to construct an imaging device. What eventually becomes the “amber spyglass” turns out to be the result of an experimental and speculative process of layering and discarding material surfaces, invested with meaning and affect that gain relevance in relation to the technico-political problem that Mary sees herself faced with. In the talk I would like to trace the construction of the spyglass and offer a reading of this episode through recourse to Whitehead’s discussion of abstraction as productive practice, bringing it into conversation with Felix Guattari’s work on machinic assemblages, as well as with Donna Haraway’s and Isabelle Stengers’ contributions to feminist epistemologies. My aim in doing so is to use the fictitious terrain charted out by Pullman to think afresh about practices of experimentation and visualisation, touching upon issues such as truth-making as an ethically grounded and politically committed practice; the interplay between imagination and making sense in common (Stengers 2023); and the role of entanglement and separation in fabricating the worlds we want to inhabit.
Neda Genova is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick (UK). Her research sits at the intersection of cultural, media and post-communist studies and explores questions such as visual culture and transformation of public space in contemporary Bulgaria; commoning as a political practice of imagination in a post-communist context; the production of abstraction; fiction and topology. Her first book, Politics of Surfaces, is forthcoming with Goldsmiths Press.
This event is a part of the Spring 2024 History of Consciousness Speaker Series.

The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse XXII
2024-06-02 19:00, 2024-06-01 19:00, 2024-05-31 19:00 | Stevenson Event Center
Cowell College, Stevenson College and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics will present the 22nd season of the Miriam Ellis international Playhouse (MEIP XXII), May 31, June 1, and June 2, 2024 at 7:00 PM in the Stevenson Event Center at UCSC.
Four fully-staged theater pieces will be presented in French, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish, with English supertitles, performed by Language students and directed by their instructors.
To learn more about MEIP XXII and past performances visit: Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
All are welcome! Admission is free; parking in adjacent lots is $5.00.

Saturday Shakespeare
2024-06-01 10:00 | Aptos Library, 7695 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 95003, United States
In collaboration with the Shakespeare Workshop at UCSC, the Saturday Shakespeare Group will host a Zoom only re-showing of part 2 of the DVD. This is for those who were not able to stay for both parts of the Hamlet screening on Saturday, May 25th. Start time is 10:00 am.
Zoom Information
This is a virtual event. The zoom link is:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89795220016?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 897 9522 0016
Passcode: [REDACTED]
All Scheduled Meetings

April 27 | Paul Whitworth
May 4 | Charles Pasternack
May 11 | Sean Keilen
May 18 | Michael Warren
May 25 | DVD showing
June 1 | Zoom only showing of DVD

Donations to Santa Cruz Shakespeare
Our meetings are free, but we suggest that members make a contribution to Santa Cruz Shakespeare.
To do this you can either make a donation by credit card or send a check payable to Santa Cruz Shakespeare:
Santa Cruz Shakespeare
501 Upper Park Rd
Santa Cruz, CA 95065
If you send a check, it would be helpful if you could indicate that this gift is on behalf of the Saturday Shakespeare Group.
New Members Wanted
We are always looking for new members. Everyone is welcome. If you know of anyone who would be interested in attending these meetings, please encourage them to do so. Contact saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com to be added to the mailing list.

Living Writers with Karen Tei Yamashita and Angie Sijun Lou
2024-05-30 17:20 - 18:55 | Virtual and In Person
Living Writers Series – Spring 2024
Imaginaries)Un(bound: Race, Justice, Writing: The Living Writers Series, the Center for Racial Justice, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) present poets, theorists, fiction and hybrid artists working at the nexus of creative-critical practice in the struggle for justice with the imperative of imaginatively undoing the academic and disciplinary strictures that bind critical scholarship.
*Venue Change: This event will take place off campus, held at the Resource Center for Nonviolence (612 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060)*
This event will also be livestreamed at: https://vimeo.com/event/425786

Karen 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.

Angie Sjiun Lou is a Kundiman Fellow and a Ph.D. Candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at UC Santa Cruz.

Martin Rizzo-Martinez: We Are Not Animals
2024-05-29 19:00 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Martin Rizzo-Martinez, assistant professor at UC Santa Cruz, for a discussion of We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California, now available in paperback. By examining historical records and drawing on oral histories and the work of anthropologists, archaeologists, ecologists, and psychologists, We Are Not Animals sets out to answer questions of who the Indigenous people in the Santa Cruz region were and how they survived through the nineteenth century.

About We Are Not Animals
Between 1770 and 1900 the linguistically and culturally diverse Ohlone and Yokuts tribes adapted to and expressed themselves politically and culturally through three distinct colonial encounters with Spain, Mexico, and the United States. In We Are Not Animals Martin Rizzo-Martinez traces tribal, familial, and kinship networks through the missions’ chancery registry records to reveal stories of individuals and families and shows how ethnic and tribal differences and politics shaped strategies of survival within the diverse population that came to live at Mission Santa Cruz.
We Are Not Animals illuminates the stories of Indigenous individuals and families to reveal how Indigenous politics informed each of their choices within a context of immense loss and violent disruption.
Martin Rizzo-Martinez is an Assistant Professor in the Film & Digital Media Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research focuses on the history of Indigenous resistance and survival in Santa Cruz County during the 19th century. He has worked closely with Bay Area Indigenous communities, like the Amah Mutsun, in his research and collaborative projects. His book has received multiple awards. Among other media projects, he co-produces a podcast entitled Challenging Colonialism. Learn more at https://rizzomartinez.com/.
Purchase your own copy of We Are Not Animals and learn more about the event at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – We Are Not Animals
This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.

Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics (LAAL) Colloquia: Dr. Elu Tu
2024-05-29 12:45 - 13:45 | Virtual Event
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Colloquium is pleased to present:
Dr. Elu Tu
UC Santa Cruz
speaking on
Analyzing Asynchronous Online Chinese Language Learning Materials under the PICRAT Technology Integration Model

Dr. Elu Tu will present on Wednesday, May 29th at 12:45 pm via Zoom.
Meeting ID: 981 3067 3074
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Abstract
The PICRAT framework is a model designed to explore the complex relationships between instructors, students, and technology in the context of teaching practices. This framework utilizes the PIC (Passive, Integrative, Creative) and RAT (Replaces, Amplifies, Transforms) axes to illustrate the dynamics of the student-teacher-technology relationship. Specifically, the PIC axis shows how students engage with technology, while the RAT axis illustrates how instructors use technology to enhance their teaching practices. These axes are used to construct a matrix that demonstrates the nine possible combinations of teaching practices that can occur. This study collected asynchronous online Chinese language instructional videos across three proficiency levels (i.e., Novice, Intermediate, and Advanced) and used content analysis to examine how the nine possibilities in teaching practices are implemented in each proficiency level under the PICRAT framework. The results demonstrated the similarities and differences between PICRAT practices at different proficiency levels. The data analysis will contribute to language instruction by providing pedagogical insights for different proficiency levels, which can enhance language teaching and learning outcomes.
Elu Tu is a Lecturer of Chinese Language in the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She earned her Ph.D. degree in the Curriculum and Instruction Department—World Language Education program from the University of Wisconsin- Madison. Her research focuses on instructional technology, self-directed learning, and digital literacy.

CANCELLED - Mjriam Abu Samra – New Horizons in Struggle: The Role of Transnational Palestinian Youth in Decolonial Politics
2024-05-29 12:15 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA)
It seems we are living and witnessing a historical moment in the politics of “the Palestine Question.” No matter what analytical framework or political perspective is invoked, no matter the profound disagreement that can emerge in reading not only the current phase but also the historical context, there is a shared agreement that this is a moment of rupture from the discourses and strategies that, for the past 30 years, have dominated the approach to, and understanding of, Palestine at the international level. A polarised environment has re-emerged with many comparing the current anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim discourse—pushed by the government and sustained by its support for Israel and stigmatisation of solidarity with Palestine—to the 9/11 context. At the popular level, however, a stronger movement keeps developing in solidarity with Palestinians, led by Palestinian youth movements transnationally. How has Palestinian youth political engagement been impacted by the current developments in Palestine and in the international system? What are the discourses they are articulating and how are they different from previous rhetoric? What are the strategies of mobilisation that they are using? Is there a rupture or can any continuity be identified with the political engagement of older Palestinian generations in Diaspora? My presentation attempts to answers these questions by analysing current and ongoing practices of political mobilisation of Palestinian youth in the US, discussing the potential role they can play in the political development of the Palestinian movement.
Mjriam Abu Samra will be joining the department of Anthropology at UC Davis with ties to the program in Middle East/South Asian Studies as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow through the cooperation with her hosting institution, the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy –Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage. Mjriam received her Ph.D. from the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, UK and her MA in Middle East Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK. Her research focuses on Palestinian transnational student and youth politics and Third World solidarities. Her work intervenes in the critical study of refugees, colonialisms, social movements and it is grounded on critical theories on subalternity and decolonization building on Gramsci and Fanon contribution to post-colonial studies. As a MSC Postdoctoral Fellow Mjriam will be exploring the political potential of contemporary Palestinian transnational youth activism in the United States and Europe through an historical comparative lens. Mjriam has publications in the Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

The 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.

Santa Cruz Pickwick Club
2024-05-26 13:00 - 15:00, 2024-04-28 13:00 - 15:00 | Virtual Event
Please join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our monthly Pickwick Club meeting. New this year, we will be devoting an entire year to one novel instead of two, and will dive deeply into Great Expectations. Join Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members for a series of discussions about this book.

Charles Dickens depicts how a gentleman is made, not born, in this novel. Presented as Pip’s confessional autobiography, Great Expectations describes his childhood at the forge, his infatuation with the beautiful Estella, his shame at his working-class origin and his eagerness to be a gentleman, and eventually his life as a young man-about-town with “great expectations” of inheriting a fortune. Recalling these events as an adult, Mr. Pirrip is frank about his mistakes and shortcomings.
Recommended Edition: We recommend the Penguin Classics edition of the novel for its appendices and notes, but other versions are fine. First-time readers should avoid the Introduction if they don’t want spoilers. Download the novel to read at Gutenburg.org or to listen at LibriVox.org.
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to reach out at dpj@ucsc.edu

Saturday Shakespeare
2024-05-25 10:00 | Aptos Library, 7695 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 95003, United States
In collaboration with the Shakespeare Workshop at UCSC, this in-person meeting of the Saturday Shakespeare Group will take place on Saturday, May 25th in the new Aptos Library, with a Zoom option for those who can not attend in person. The nominal meeting time is 10:00 am, library doors open at 10:00 am.
This meeting features a DVD showing. There are many productions to choose from, most of which cut the play considerably. We will see the 1996 Kenneth Branagh version which presents the play in its entirety. It has a star-studded cast.
The play is in two parts with an intermission: the first part lasts 2hrs. 37 min and the second part 1 hr. 24 min. We will proceed as follows:
10:00: View part 1
12:45 – 1:15: Break (light refreshments will be provided). We also suggest that people bring something light to share (mini-potluck).
1:15 – 2:45: View part 2
Note: For those who don’t want to view both parts in one sitting, we will reshow part 2, by Zoom only on June 1.
Zoom Information
For those who will be attending by Zoom, here is the Zoom information. The link is:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89795220016?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 897 9522 0016
Passcode: [REDACTED]
All Scheduled Meetings

April 27 | Paul Whitworth
May 4 | Charles Pasternack
May 11 | Sean Keilen
May 18 | Michael Warren
May 25 | DVD showing
June 1 | Zoom only showing of DVD

Directions
The Aptos library is easy to find –> Exit highway 1 at State Park Drive and go north to Soquel Drive. Turn left on Soquel Drive and the library is almost immediately on the right. The address is 7695 Soquel Dr, Aptos, CA 95003. There is free parking.
Donations to Santa Cruz Shakespeare
Our meetings are free, but we suggest that members make a contribution to Santa Cruz Shakespeare.
To do this you can either make a donation by credit card or send a check payable to Santa Cruz Shakespeare:
Santa Cruz Shakespeare
501 Upper Park Rd
Santa Cruz, CA 95065
If you send a check, it would be helpful if you could indicate that this gift is on behalf of the Saturday Shakespeare Group.
New Members Wanted
We are always looking for new members. Everyone is welcome. If you know of anyone who would be interested in attending these meetings, please encourage them to do so. Contact saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com to be added to the mailing list.
Note: It is strongly encouraged to attend in person if you possibly can. The lectures and readings will be much more vivid for those actually present, and the in-person interactions will restart the social aspect of the group.

POSTPONED - Art and Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Investigation with Alice Barale
2024-05-20 12:00 | Virtual and In Person
The History of Consciousness department presents Art and Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Investigation with Alice Barale, University of Milan.
Join us Monday, May 20 at 12pm in Hum 1 Rm 210 or register below to attend virtually:

It has been several years since the first artwork created with artificial intelligence was sold at the renowned auction house Christie’s in 2018. In the meantime, new types of artificial intelligence have emerged, enabling artists to conduct different experiments. However, the presence of AI in the artistic process continues to raise significant questions. How should its role be understood? And, more importantly, what new chances does it offer within the artistic field and beyond?

Alice Barale is a scholar of Aesthetics and Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural and Environmental Heritage at the University of Milan. She has extensively researched Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin, authors to whom she has dedicated several essays and two monographs (“La malinconia dell’immagine,” FUP, 2009, and “La prima impresa: Shakespeare in Warburg e Benjamin,” Jaca Book, 2021). For Benjamin, she has edited and translated a new Italian version of “Origin of the German Trauerspiel” (Carocci, 2018). Among her most recent research interests are the philosophy of color (“Il giallo del colore,” Jaca Book, 2020) and the relationship between art and artificial intelligence. She has curated the collected volume “Arte e intelligenza artificiale. Be my GAN” (Jaca Book, 2020) and is currently working on a new book on the topic, which will be released soon.
Talk co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute with Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

The Deep Read: A Conversation with Hernan Diaz
2024-05-19 16:00 - 17:30 | Kaiser Permanente Arena, 140 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060
*Venue Change: Join us at the Kaiser Permanente Arena in Downtown Santa Cruz*
3:00pm – Doors open
3:30pm – Chamber music performance by Astrophic Duo: Polly Malan (Viola) and Chris Pratorius-Gomez (Piano)
4:00pm – Program begins
Join us for a public conversation with author Hernan Diaz. He’ll discuss his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Trust with Deep Read Faculty Lead, Associate Professor of Literature Zac Zimmer. We’ll consider how the technologies of finance and fiction overlap in this novel about capitalism and its social, cultural, and political power in the United States.

Hernan Diaz
Hernan Diaz is the award-winning author of In the Distance, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and Trust, which was longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize and one of the winners of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Associate Professor Zac Zimmer
Zac Zimmer is an interdisciplinary scholar of literature, culture, and technology in the hemispheric Americas and serves as a faculty lead for this year’s Deep Read.

Parking information
CLICK HERE for information regarding Downtown Santa Cruz parking and a full city map of available parking lots.

Disabled Parking Lot 17: The Laurel Street Extension Parking Lot (200 Laurel Street, near Wheel Works)

Street Parking on Spruce Street where it intersects with Front Street.

Public Transportation Santa Cruz Metro has many routes that will drop off near Kaiser Permanente Arena. For bus routes and details CLICK HERE.

About the Deep Read
The Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Now in its fifth year, we invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.

Victorian Gaslighting with Professor Nora Gilbert
2024-05-19 13:00 - 15:00 | Virtual Event
Please join the Friends of the Dickens Project for our spring Friends Faculty Fellowship talk series by Associate Professor Nora Gilbert (University of North Texas) who will be discussing “Victorian Gaslighting”
Virtual Sessions:
April 14: Book Talk: Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice
May 19: Discussion: Gaslight (1944) –Directed by George Cukor

As someone who co-specializes in Victorian literature and early Hollywood film, I’ve long been a fan of the darkly disturbing 1944 film Gaslight starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. During the first session of this series, I will provide an overview of an essay collection that I’m currently co-editing with Diana Bellonby and Tara MacDonald called Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice, in which we trace the genealogy of gaslighting back to its Victorian roots by bringing together fourteen essays that examine a wide range of nineteenth-century literary texts through the lens of gaslighting. During the second session, we will have an in-depth discussion of the 1944 film version of Gaslight itself, which captures the “maddening” feeling of this particular form of emotional abuse so gut-wrenchingly well.
Nora Gilbert is an associate professor of English at the University of North Texas. She is the author of Better Left Unsaid: Victorian Novels, Hays Code Films, and the Benefits of Censorship (2013) and Gone Girls, 1684-1901: Flights of Feminist Resistance in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Novel (2023), as well as a number of other essays on Victorian literature and classical Hollywood film. Since 2017, she has served as the editor of the journal Studies in the Novel. She is the 2024 Spring Friends of the Dickens Project Faculty Fellow.

Santa Cruz County History Fair
2024-05-18 12:00 - 16:00 | Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park, 144 School Street, Santa Cruz, 95060, United States
This is the 6th History Fair for our County! This year’s Santa Cruz County History Fair will be hosted by the Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park on Saturday May 18th at 12pm. Admission in free for all ages.
We look forward to engaging a wide public audience in a diverse offering of inclusive local history stories and resources. With the aim to bring local history to our community, the event will feature tables hosted by local historians and history organizations. There will also be tours, lectures, a “Passport to the Past” scavenger hunt, and refreshments!
Sponsored by State Parks, Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks, the Capitola Historical Museum, & The Humanities Institute.

Saturday Shakespeare
2024-05-18 10:00 | Aptos Library, 7695 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 95003, United States
In collaboration with the Shakespeare Workshop at UCSC, this in-person meeting of the Saturday Shakespeare Group will take place on Saturday, May 18th in the new Aptos Library, with a Zoom option for those who can not attend in person. The nominal meeting time is 10:00 am, library doors open at 10:00 am.
The speaker for this meeting will be Michael Warren, Emeritus Professor of Literature at UCSC. Warren has been dramaturg for many productions of Santa Cruz Shakespeare and its predecessor, Shakespeare Santa Cruz. We are very grateful to him for sharing his knowledge of, and enthusiasm for, each of the plays that we study.
Readings: Act IV Scene 7 + all of Act 5
Reading Coordinator: Esther Chun | eechun1@gmail.com
If you would like to read please email the reading coordinator as soon as possible.
Zoom Information
For those who will be attending by Zoom, here is the Zoom information. The link is:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89795220016?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 897 9522 0016
Passcode: [REDACTED]
All Scheduled Meetings

April 27 | Paul Whitworth
May 4 | Charles Pasternack
May 11 | Sean Keilen
May 18 | Michael Warren
May 25 | DVD showing
June 1 | Zoom only showing of DVD

Directions
The Aptos library is easy to find –> Exit highway 1 at State Park Drive and go north to Soquel Drive. Turn left on Soquel Drive and the library is almost immediately on the right. The address is 7695 Soquel Dr, Aptos, CA 95003. There is free parking.
The Text
We will be using the Pelican edition. If you would like to read please get hold of a copy of this edition because there are differences between different editions. There are two sources for the play, the second quarto (Q2) of 1604-5 and the first folio (F) of 1623. The folio contains 70 lines not in Q2 and lacks 230 that are in Q2. Most editions combine them in a conflated text, thus making a long play even longer. The pelican edition does not do that, but sticks almost entirely to Q2. As a result there will be significant differences between the Pelican edition and an edition that uses a conflated text.
Unfortunately Bookshop Santa Cruz won’t order copies for the group (unless all copies are paid for in advance). You will therefore need to order a copy yourself. Alternatively you can buy it on Amazon. It is difficult to find the Pelican edition by searching on the Amazon site. Better is to google “Hamlet Pelican Edition Amazon”.
Donations to Santa Cruz Shakespeare
Our meetings are free, but we suggest that members make a contribution to Santa Cruz Shakespeare.
To do this you can either make a donation by credit card or send a check payable to Santa Cruz Shakespeare:
Santa Cruz Shakespeare
501 Upper Park Rd
Santa Cruz, CA 95065
If you send a check, it would be helpful if you could indicate that this gift is on behalf of the Saturday Shakespeare Group.
New Members Wanted
We are always looking for new members. Everyone is welcome. If you know of anyone who would be interested in attending these meetings, please encourage them to do so. Contact saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com to be added to the mailing list.
Note: It is strongly encouraged to attend in person if you possibly can. The lectures and readings will be much more vivid for those actually present, and the in-person interactions will restart the social aspect of the group.

POSTPONED - Humanities Division Graduate Awards Ceremony
2024-05-17 17:00 - 19:00 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
We are postponing the Humanities Division Graduate Awards. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Information about rescheduling to come.

Swag: A Creolised Alegropolitics of Resistance
2024-05-17 10:00 | Virtual Event
The UCSC Center for South Asian Studies presents Swag: A Creolised Alegropolitics of Resistance with Ananya Jahanara Kabir on May 17th. This virtual event will be held via Zoom | Register Here
Learn more about this event at: CSAS Crossings
Ananya Jahanara Kabir is Professor of English Literature at King’s College London. Her research spans creolisation across the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, critical philology, and the politics of pleasure. A Fellow of the British Academy, she has been awarded India’s Infosys Prize in the Humanities and Germany’s Humboldt Research Prize.
Co-sponsored by The Center for Cultural Studies and The Humanities Institute. This event is a part of The Center for South Asian Studies’ annual lecture series, Crossings.

Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode Fifteen – Global Perspectives, Part 2 & 3: Paradiso in World Religions & Spirituality and A Text that Fosters Interreligious Dialogue
2024-05-17 09:00 - 10:30 | Virtual Event
Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary, theological, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule.

Eileen Gardiner, a research fellow at the University of Bristol, specializes in medieval visions of the otherworld. She is the author of Visions of Heaven and Hell Before Dante and Medieval Visions of Heaven and Hell: A Sourcebook. She has also published on pilgrimage with her 2010 book on The Pilgrim’s Way to St. Patrick’s Purgatory. She has also published five volumes on hell in various religious traditions, including Hinduism and Buddhism. She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature and Medieval Studies. With Ron Musto, Eileen is a co-founder and co-publisher of Italica Press, the former co-director of ACLS Humanities E-Book and of the Medieval Academy of America and co-editor of its journal, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies.
Presented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, and Porter College

The 2nd Annual FMST Undergraduate Research Symposium
2024-05-16 - 2024-05-17 | Cowell Ranch Hay Barn, Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UCSC Feminist Studies Presents The 2nd Annual FMST Undergraduate Research Symposium. This year’s FMST Symposium will be a two-day event in celebration of Feminist Studies’ 50th Anniversary.
May 16 | Feminists in the World | 10am to 1pm
UCSC professors across the university – from anthropology and digital media to molecular biology and politics – in conversation about how feminist thought and theory has influenced their work.
May 17 | Radical Research: Feminists on the Rise | 10am to 4pm
A showcase of undergrad research exploring feminist theories and the FMST ethos of activism. Featuring oral presentations and posters exploring questions central to feminist studies. Plus food trucks, music, and live entertainment!

Women of Color Environmentalists Panel
2024-05-15 17:00 - 20:00 | Cowell Ranch Hay Barn, Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Join the UCSC community for an empowering panel that celebrates the voices, visions, and efforts of women of color environmentalists. Our panelists include inspiring women from UC Santa Cruz and external organizations.
After the panel, enjoy a special dinner with the panelists and all event attendees! UCSC community members and affiliates of all identities are invited to attend this free event.
This event is set to begin at 5:00pm in the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn, doors will open at 4:45pm. Dinner will be served from 6:30pm to 7:50pm. RSVP coming soon!
Save the date to your Google Calendar with https://bit.ly/savedate-WOC
This event is made possible with the collaboration and sponsorship of: The African American Resource & Cultural Center, The American Indian Resource Center (AIRC), The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, The Center for Coastal Climate Resilience, The Latin American and Latino Studies Department, The People of Color Sustainability Collective, The Student Alliance of Native American & Indigenous Peoples (SANAI), The Sustainability Office, and The Womxn’s Center.

Orit Bashkin: The Farhud - Gender, Memory, Reconstruction
2024-05-13 10:40 | Social Sciences 2, Room 71
Orit Bashkin will give her lecture, entitled The Farhud – Gender, Memory, Reconstruction on Monday, May 13 at 10:40am in Soc Sci II Rm 71. This guest lecture is a part of UCSC’s class, The Holocaust: A Global History, taught by Nathaniel Deutsch and Alma Rachel Heckman.
Orit Bashkin is Mabel Greene Myers Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University (2004), and her BA (1995) and MA (1999) from Tel Aviv University. Her publications deal with Iraqi history, Middle Eastern and Ottoman Jewry, Arab cultural revival movements, and the connections between history, memory, and literature. She authored three books published by Stanford University Press: Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel (2017); New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq (2012); The Other Iraq – Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq (2009). She coedited Jews and Journeys: Travel and the Performance of Jewish Identity, with Joshua Levinson (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2021).

Saturday Shakespeare
2024-05-11 10:00 | Aptos Library, 7695 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 95003, United States
In collaboration with the Shakespeare Workshop at UCSC, this in-person meeting of the Saturday Shakespeare Group will take place on Saturday, May 11th in the new Aptos Library, with a Zoom option for those who can not attend in person. The nominal meeting time is 10:00 am, library doors open at 10:00 am.
The speaker for this meeting will be Sean Keilen, Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Sean is a regular speaker to the group, and always presents original and stimulating ideas. He is also the founding Director of Shakespeare Workshop, a research center of The Humanities Institute.
Readings: Act III Scene 2 (starting with Hamlet “Why, let the stricken deer go weep”, line 266 in the Pelican edition) + Act III Scenes 3 and 4 + Act IV Scenes 1-6
Reading Coordinator: Bob Peterson | rpeterson@scu.edu
If you would like to read please email the reading coordinator as soon as possible.
Zoom Information
For those who will be attending by Zoom, here is the Zoom information. The link is:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89795220016?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 897 9522 0016
Passcode: [REDACTED]
All Scheduled Meetings

April 27 | Paul Whitworth
May 4 | Charles Pasternack
May 11 | Sean Keilen
May 18 | Michael Warren
May 25 | DVD showing
June 1 | Zoom only showing of DVD

Directions
The Aptos library is easy to find –> Exit highway 1 at State Park Drive and go north to Soquel Drive. Turn left on Soquel Drive and the library is almost immediately on the right. The address is 7695 Soquel Dr, Aptos, CA 95003. There is free parking.
The Text
We will be using the Pelican edition. If you would like to read please get hold of a copy of this edition because there are differences between different editions. There are two sources for the play, the second quarto (Q2) of 1604-5 and the first folio (F) of 1623. The folio contains 70 lines not in Q2 and lacks 230 that are in Q2. Most editions combine them in a conflated text, thus making a long play even longer. The pelican edition does not do that, but sticks almost entirely to Q2. As a result there will be significant differences between the Pelican edition and an edition that uses a conflated text.
Unfortunately Bookshop Santa Cruz won’t order copies for the group (unless all copies are paid for in advance). You will therefore need to order a copy yourself. Alternatively you can buy it on Amazon. It is difficult to find the Pelican edition by searching on the Amazon site. Better is to google “Hamlet Pelican Edition Amazon”.
Donations to Santa Cruz Shakespeare
Our meetings are free, but we suggest that members make a contribution to Santa Cruz Shakespeare.
To do this you can either make a donation by credit card or send a check payable to Santa Cruz Shakespeare:
Santa Cruz Shakespeare
501 Upper Park Rd
Santa Cruz, CA 95065
If you send a check, it would be helpful if you could indicate that this gift is on behalf of the Saturday Shakespeare Group.
New Members Wanted
We are always looking for new members. Everyone is welcome. If you know of anyone who would be interested in attending these meetings, please encourage them to do so. Contact saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com to be added to the mailing list.
Note: It is strongly encouraged to attend in person if you possibly can. The lectures and readings will be much more vivid for those actually present, and the in-person interactions will restart the social aspect of the group.

Living Writers with Graduate Alumni: Nathan Osorio and Kendall Grady
2024-05-09 17:20 - 19:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Living Writers Series – Spring 2024
Imaginaries)Un(bound: Race, Justice, Writing: The Living Writers Series, the Center for Racial Justice, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) present poets, theorists, fiction and hybrid artists working at the nexus of creative-critical practice in the struggle for justice with the imperative of imaginatively undoing the academic and disciplinary strictures that bind critical scholarship.
Nathan Xavier Osorio’s debut full-length poetry collection, Querida, was selected by Shara McCallum as the winner of the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press. He is the author of The Last Town Before the Mojave, selected by Oliver De la Paz for the Poetry Society of America’s 2021 Chapbook Fellowship. His poetry, translations, and essays have also appeared in BOMB, The Offing, Boston Review, Public Books, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. His writing and teaching has been supported by fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, The Kenyon Review, and Poetry Foundation. He is a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative/Critical Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Kendall Grady is a poet scholar working the couplet as microsystem– contact zone–associative monad– elective affinity– allocentrism– affective capillary—baroque structure of intimacy. Selected poems live with Jupiter 88, Dusie, and The Atlas Review.

The Deep Read: San Diego Salon
2024-05-08 18:30 - 20:30 | Stone Brewing Liberty Station, 2816 Historic Decatur Rd UNIT 116, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States

Dimitris Papadopoulos – Toxic Realism: 222 Photographs in 44’33”
2024-05-08 12:15 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness: GeoEcologies + TechnoScience Conversations
Through a series of 222 photographs and a separate conceptual narration, this intermedial and semi-performative presentation discusses the pervasive, toxic realism of anthropochemicals and the search for alternative substances.
Dimitris Papadopoulos is Professor of History of Consciousness in the Department of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz. His most recent books include Ecological Reparation: Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict (Bristol UP 2023); Reactivating Elements. Chemistry, Ecology, Practice (Duke UP 2021); Experimental Practice. Technoscience, Alterontologies and More-Than-Social Movements (Duke UP 2018). He is currently completing a monograph entitled Substance and its Milieu. Anthropochemicals, Autonomy, and Geo-Ecological Justice and a theory photobook entitled Landscape After the Event. Constructivist Photography and the Vision of Abolition.

The 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.

Angie Sijun Lou & Karen Tei Yamashita - Dark Soil: Fictions and Mythographies
2024-05-07 19:00 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Angie Sijun Lou and Karen Tei Yamashita for the launch of Dark Soil: Fictions and Mythographies—a new anthology edited by Lou and featuring ten new stories from Yamashita, all centered around Santa Cruz’s history, along with eight works of nonfiction from authors including Brandon Shimoda and Juliana Spahr.

About Dark Soil
Eight authors’ works of personal nonfiction join with ten new stories by Karen Tei Yamashita to illuminate the hidden histories of places large and small. Faced with a scant historical record in her urge to reconstruct the layered past of Santa Cruz, Karen Tei Yamashita turns to fiction set amidst its architecture. Ten stories explore the California city to animate what might have been, to build the fullness of lives forgotten, and to honor their living with story and possibility. Following this impulse into the realm of nonfiction, eight other writers chart their own counternarratives of place through the greater United States. Diverging and converging in their scale and scope, from an unnamed lot on the bank of the Ohio River to the territory of Guam, these works use language as an instrument of excavation, uncovering layers of hurt and desire concealed in the land.
Angie Sijun Lou is a Kundiman Fellow and a PhD candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her writings have appeared in the Kenyon Review, Joyland, Best Small Fictions, and Gulf Coast. She lives in Oakland.
Karen 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.
Purchase your own copy of Dark Soil at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Dark Soil
This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.

The Deep Read: Faculty Salon
2024-05-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Cowell Ranch Hay Barn, Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
On May 6, you’ll be able to join the conversation—either in person or online—at a salon-style event where our participating professors will lead a discussion of this year’s Deep Read book, Trust, with the Deep Read community.
Faculty Speakers

Lori Kletzer, Economics, Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor
Madhavi Murty, Feminist Studies
Dard Neuman, Music
Zac Zimmer, Literature and Deep Read Faculty Lead

Not in Santa Cruz? Sign up for the Zoom livestream.
Event Logistics
Bicycling, car pooling, ridesharing, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited. If you drive to the event, please plan to park in UCSC Lot #115 or 116. To reach these lots, proceed through the main entrance to campus, continue up the hill from the information kiosk on Coolidge, then turn right at the Ranch View/Carriage House Road stoplight into the Carriage House/Campus Facilities parking lot. The Hay Barn is a 5-minute walk across the street from the parking lot. There will be directional signage to help you get to the correct parking lot and Barn entrances. Overflow parking will be available at lot 122. Download a parking map here.

About The Deep Read
The Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Now in its fifth year, we invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.

Heidegger, Christian Eschatology & the Temporality of Being with Prashan Ransinghe
2024-05-06 12:00 | Virtual and In Person
The History of Consciousness department presents Heidegger, Christian Eschatology & the Temporality of Being with Prashan Ransinghe, University of Ottawa.
This talk is a part of the Spring 2024 History of Consciousness Speaker Series. The History of Consciousness Speaker series is a quarterly series of talks by distinguished guests. To learn more visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/hisc_speaker_series/.
Recordings of previous lectures are available in the HistCon Speaker Series Archive.

Cancelled - Humanities in the Age of AI Lunch meeting
2024-05-06 12:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The Humanities Institute Research cluster, “Humanities in the Age of AI,” is pleased to invite you to their lunch meeting scheduled for Monday, May 6th at 12pm in HUM 210.
To learn more about current cluster projects and further information about upcoming speakers, please consult our website the events tab. The research cluster boasts a diverse group of core participants. This includes six esteemed faculty members from various disciplines, graduate students representing politics, history, literature, philosophy, feminist studies, and film and visual studies, and undergraduate scholars from computer science, computational media, and creative writing.
Attendees are cordially invited to bring their lunch. We will gather with our meals and take our seats. The first 10 minutes have been set aside to elucidate the cluster’s overview. Following this, we will go ahead with individual introductions. After a short five-minute recess, speakers will commence their presentations, anticipated to last for approximately 20 minutes. A structured dialogue on the topic will follow.
For those who prefer to schedule in advance, please note the dates for our brown bag meetings throughout the academic year: 10/2 (lunch provided), 11/6, 12/11, 1/8 (lunch provided), 2/12 (featuring Davide Panagia), 3/4, 4/8 (lunch provided), and 5/6.
THI will graciously cater on the three specified dates. For the remaining meetings, attendees are cordially invited to bring their lunch.

Prahlad Singh Tipanya & Ensemble
2024-05-05 19:30 - 21:30 | Music Center Recital Hall – UCSC, 402 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Experience the vigorous and joyful folk music of Prahlad Singh Tipanya and his ensemble, singing the poetry of Kabir, the great iconoclastic mystic of 15th-century North India. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies.
Prahlad-ji is a locally, nationally, and internationally acclaimed folk singer from Lunyakhedi, a small village in Ujjain District, Madhya Pradesh. He is renowned for his singing and interpretation of Kabir and other Hindi poets associated with nirgun-bhakti—devotion to a God or ultimate reality beyond word and form. Kabir is famous for both his profound mystical insight and his sharp social commentary. His voice is often invoked as inspiring communal harmony and social equality.
Among Prahlad-ji’s many honors is the prestigious Padma Shri award given by the Government of India. He has delighted audiences in the USA on various visits since 2003. He is a featured figure in the book Bodies of Song: Kabir Oral Traditions and Performative Worlds in North India (Oxford University Press, 2015) by Linda Hess. Linda will be traveling with the group and offering onstage translation.
Admission
– Tickets available online at Eventbrite
– Seating is general admission
– Doors are scheduled to open at 7:00 pm.
* Ticket holders not seated by the event start time may forfeit their ticket/seat and refunds will not be issued
Parking
– Lot 126 is the closest parking lot to the event
– Parking is by UCSC permit, Park Mobile, or pay $5 cash/credit to the on-site parking attendant in Lot 126
– More visitor parking information here

Saturday Shakespeare
2024-05-04 10:00 | Aptos Library, 7695 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 95003, United States
In collaboration with the Shakespeare Workshop at UCSC, this in-person meeting of the Saturday Shakespeare Group will take place on Saturday, May 4th in the new Aptos Library, with a Zoom option for those who can not attend in person. The nominal meeting time is 10:00 am, library doors open at 10:00 am.
The speaker for this meeting will be Charles Pasternack, current Artistic Director of Santa Cruz Shakespeare. He will tell us about the ambitious program he has arranged for this summer, which includes Hamlet. Additionally, since he will also play the title role in Hamlet, he may give us some thoughts on the play and Hamlet’s character.
Readings: Act II scene 2 +Act III Scene 1 + Act III Scene 2 up to Polonius saying “lights, lights, lights” and all exit except for Horatio and Hamlet (this is line 265 in the Pelican edition)
Reading Coordinator: Linda Mandel | lindamandel@yahoo.com
If you would like to read please email the reading coordinator as soon as possible.
Zoom Information
For those who will be attending by Zoom, here is the Zoom information. The link is:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89795220016?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 897 9522 0016
Passcode: [REDACTED]
All Scheduled Meetings

April 27 | Paul Whitworth
May 4 | Charles Pasternack
May 11 | Sean Keilen
May 18 | Michael Warren
May 25 | DVD showing
June 1 | Zoom only showing of DVD

Directions
The Aptos library is easy to find –> Exit highway 1 at State Park Drive and go north to Soquel Drive. Turn left on Soquel Drive and the library is almost immediately on the right. The address is 7695 Soquel Dr, Aptos, CA 95003. There is free parking.
The Text
We will be using the Pelican edition. If you would like to read please get hold of a copy of this edition because there are differences between different editions. There are two sources for the play, the second quarto (Q2) of 1604-5 and the first folio (F) of 1623. The folio contains 70 lines not in Q2 and lacks 230 that are in Q2. Most editions combine them in a conflated text, thus making a long play even longer. The pelican edition does not do that, but sticks almost entirely to Q2. As a result there will be significant differences between the Pelican edition and an edition that uses a conflated text.
Unfortunately Bookshop Santa Cruz won’t order copies for the group (unless all copies are paid for in advance). You will therefore need to order a copy yourself. Alternatively you can buy it on Amazon. It is difficult to find the Pelican edition by searching on the Amazon site. Better is to google “Hamlet Pelican Edition Amazon”.
Donations to Santa Cruz Shakespeare
Our meetings are free, but we suggest that members make a contribution to Santa Cruz Shakespeare.
To do this you can either make a donation by credit card or send a check payable to Santa Cruz Shakespeare:
Santa Cruz Shakespeare
501 Upper Park Rd
Santa Cruz, CA 95065
If you send a check, it would be helpful if you could indicate that this gift is on behalf of the Saturday Shakespeare Group.
New Members Wanted
We are always looking for new members. Everyone is welcome. If you know of anyone who would be interested in attending these meetings, please encourage them to do so. Contact saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com to be added to the mailing list.
Note: It is strongly encouraged to attend in person if you possibly can. The lectures and readings will be much more vivid for those actually present, and the in-person interactions will restart the social aspect of the group.

Educator's Mixer: Pajaro Valley Filipino American History
2024-05-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
To kick of Asian American and Pacific Islander History Month, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) and Watsonville is in the Heart (WIITH) will co-host a free event for local educators.
The event provides educators with a chance to meet with WIITH team members who are working to produce educational resources about Filipino American history in Santa Cruz county.
Co-sponsored by UCSC’s Arts Division, Center for Labor and Community, History Department, Humanities Division, and Institute for Social Transformation

Conversation with Jennifer Lunden, author of American Breakdown
2024-05-03 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual Event
Join us on Friday, May 3 at 12:00PM for a virtual webinar with Jennifer Lunden, author of AMERICAN BREAKDOWN: Our Ailing Nation, My Body’s Revolt, and the Nineteenth Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life.

A Silent Spring for the human body, this wide-ranging, genre-crossing literary mystery interweaves the author’s quest to understand the source of her own condition with her telling of the story of the chronically ill 19th-century diarist Alice James—ultimately uncovering the many hidden health hazards of life in America.
In this meticulously researched and illuminating debut, Lunden interweaves her own experience with Alice’s, exploring the history of medicine and the effects of the industrial revolution and late-stage capitalism to tell a riveting story of how we are a nation struggling—and failing—to be healthy. Read More
Jennifer Lunden is an award-winning writer who explores the intersection of health and the environment. Her essays have been published in Creative Nonfiction, Orion, River Teeth, DIAGRAM, Longreads, and other journals; selected for several anthologies; and praised as notable in Best American Essays. A former therapist, she was named Maine’s Social Worker of the Year in 2012. She and her husband, the artist Frank Turek, live in a little house in Portland, Maine, where they keep several chickens, two cats, and some gloriously untamed gardens.

Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode Fourteen – Global Perspectives, Part 1: Paradiso in World Literature & Culture
2024-05-03 09:00 - 10:30 | Virtual Event
Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary, theological, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule.

Martin Eisner is Chair of Romance Studies and Professor of Italian at Duke University. He is the author of Dante’s New Life of the Book: A Philology of World Literature (Oxford UP, 2021), which won the Howard R. Marraro Prize from the Modern Language Association. His first book Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature: Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and the Authority of the Vernacular (Cambridge UP, 2013) was recently published in Italian as Boccaccio e l’invenzione della letteratura italiana (Salerno, 2022). He is currently working on a biography of Boccaccio for Reaktion Books’s Renaissance Lives series.

Presented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, and Porter College

Living Writers with Joseph Han
2024-05-02 17:20 - 18:55 | Virtual and In Person
Living Writers Series – Spring 2024
Imaginaries)Un(bound: Race, Justice, Writing: The Living Writers Series, the Center for Racial Justice, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) present poets, theorists, fiction and hybrid artists working at the nexus of creative-critical practice in the struggle for justice with the imperative of imaginatively undoing the academic and disciplinary strictures that bind critical scholarship.
This presentation will be both in person at the Humanities Lecture Hall and available via live stream at: https://vimeo.com/event/425786
Joseph Han is the author of Nuclear Family, named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a best book of the year by NPR and Time Magazine. He was selected as a 2022 National Book Foundation ‘5 Under 35’ honoree and received a Kundiman fellowship in fiction. His novel won the 2023 Asian/Pacific American Literature Award Adult Fiction Honor and the 2024 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award.
He is an editor for the West region of Joyland Magazine and an Affiliate Faculty in Fiction at the Antioch University Los Angeles low-residency MFA program.

The Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series & Thom Gentle Lecture
2024-05-02 15:00 - 16:30 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series & Thom Gentle Lecture will take place on Thursday, May 2nd, 2024, at 3:00pm at the Cowell Provost House. This event will also be livestreamed and recorded: Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series Lecture.
This year’s guest speaker is Bathsheba Demuth, Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Environment and Society, Brown University. Professor Demuth’s lecture is titled “The Reindeer Herd in the Ruins.”
Climate change is often described in apocalyptic terms: as Armageddon, or the end of the world. Nowhere is this more true than in the Arctic, where the rates of warming are twice that of temperate regions, and have been visible for decades. This talk looks to the history of the Chukchi Peninsula on the far northeastern edge of Russia — a place that has experienced radical changes in the past, first with the founding of the Soviet Union and then with its dissolution — to explore what kinds of narratives suit the experience of radical change. Weaving a story of devoted Bolsheviks, Chukchi nomads, and herds of reindeer, it asks what is lost when we emphasize rupture, and what is gained by paying attention to the ruins left by past ways of living, as we face a transformed Arctic – and planet.
Bathsheba Demuth is a writer and environmental historian specializing in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. Her interest in northern places and cultures began when she was 18 and moved to the village of Old Crow in the Yukon, where she trained huskies for several years. From the archive to the dog sled, she is interested in how the histories of people, ideas, and ecologies intersect. In addition to her prize-winning book Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, her writing has appeared in publications from The American Historical Review to The New Yorker and The Best American Science and Nature Writing. She is currently the Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University.

The Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series at UCSC honors the life and spirit of a brilliant scholar, teacher, and mentor whose career was cut short by her untimely death in 2021. A specialist in Russian, Central Asian and environmental history, Maya was a valued member of UCSC’s faculty in the History Department and the Humanities Division. The Explorations in History Seminar Series celebrates Maya’s passions for the study of history, for dialogue between the humanities and the sciences, and for innovative scholarship across disciplines—passions that she shared generously with students, colleagues, and communities around the globe.
This year’s event is being sponsored by The Maya K. Peterson Memorial Endowment, the Thom Gentle Endowment in History, and the UCSC History Department.

Dalit Histories, Gender Formations: A Conversation with Journalist Meena Kotwal
2024-05-01 17:00 | Virtual and In Person
This talk is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asia at Stanford University and the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz (CSAS).
On May 1, 2024 , Meena Kotwal will be in conversation with Anjali Arondekar (Professor in Feminist Studies, UCSC and Founding Director, CSAS) at the Stanford University campus. This talk will take place in Encina Commons, 123 (615 Crothers Way, Stanford University) at 5:00 PM PT. For more details visit Dalit Histories, Gender Formations
This event is hybrid:
To Attend In-person | Register Here
To Connect Virtually | Register Here
Meena Kotwal is a journalist and founder of Mooknayak, an online news channel and website that covers issues related to the persecution of the Dalit, tribal, and minority communities, and which advocates for social justice and democracy for the marginalized.

CANCELLED - TechnoScience Improv
2024-05-01 12:15 - 14:15 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Co-sponsored by Center for Cultural Studies, History of Consciousness: GeoEcologies + TechnoScience Conversations, Global and Community Health, and the Science & Justice Research Center
This two-hour roundtable improv (12.15-2.00pm) brings together ten UCSC scholars working on social, historical, and cultural studies of science, technology and medicine. The event will be structured around eight open, improvised conversations. Rather than structured around formal talks, each conversation will start with a question from a different panelist exploring emerging practices, speculative transformations, and critical imaginings of technoscience, health and ecology.
We welcome panelists: Dimitris Papadopoulos (convenor), Karen Barad, James Doucet-Battle, Kat Gutierrez, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Jenny Reardon, Warren Sack, Kriti Sharma, Matt Sparke, and Zac Zimmer.

ABOUT THE PANELISTS
Karen Barad is Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness.
James Doucet-Battle is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Co-Director of the Science & Justice Research Center.
Kat Gutierrez is an Assistant Professor in the History Department.
Dimitris Papadopoulos is Professor of History of Consciousness in the Department of History of Consciousness.
Maria Puig de la Bellacasa is Professor of History of Consciousness in the Department of History of Consciousness.
Jenny Reardon is a Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of the Science & Justice Research Center.
Warren Sack is Professor of the Software Arts in the Film + Digital Media Department.
Kriti Sharma is an Assistant Professor of Critical Race Science and Technology Studies in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies.
Matt Sparke is Professor of Politics in the Politics Department and Co-Director of Global and Community Health.
Zac Zimmer is an Associate Professor of Literature in the Literature Department.

The 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.

The Deep Read: Craft Salon
2024-04-30 18:00 - 19:30 | Zoom, CA, United States
Join us for a public, Zoom conversation about the writing craft of Hernan Diaz’s Trust, the 2024 Deep Read book selection. UC Santa Cruz-affiliated novelists Micah Perks (Professor of Literature and Creative Writing), Elizabeth McKenzie (Merrill ’81, Literature), and Maria Pachon (Literature PhD student in the Creative/Critical Writing Concentration) will discuss the techniques deployed in this experimental novel and highlight creative dimensions of the book.

About the Deep Read
The Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Now in its fifth year, we invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.

Making a Killing: Capitalism, Cops, & the War on Black Life with Robin Kelley
2024-04-29 12:00 | Virtual and In Person
The History of Consciousness department presents Making a Killing: Capitalism, Cops, & the War on Black Life with Robin Kelley, UC Los Angeles.
This talk is a part of the Spring 2024 History of Consciousness Speaker Series. The History of Consciousness Speaker series is a quarterly series of talks by distinguished guests. To learn more visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/hisc_speaker_series/.
Recordings of previous lectures are available in the HistCon Speaker Series Archive.

Indian Midsummer
2024-04-27 19:30 | Experimental Theater, Experimental Theater, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Karlton Hester has composed the music for Karen Tei Yamashita’s libretto that is a reading of the envisioned as an operetta within a dance/videographic play.
More info at: https://arts.ucsc.edu/news_events/indian-midsummer-april-santa-cruz-festival-event
Presented by:
Digital Arts and New Media
Music Department
This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
Emeritus Professor Karen Tei Yamashita, librettist (UCSC Literature Department)
Professor Karlton Hester, composer (“Santa Cruz Balledrama”, Music Department and DANM)
Professor Marianne Weems, Theatrical Consultant (Theater Arts Department)
Professor Yangxi, choreographer (& MUC students, Taotao Huang, and Yaxuan Xu)
Mandjou Kone, choreographer
Steph Layton, cinematographer
Heeyoung Choi, music stage manager
Ronaldo Lopes de Oliveira, artist
Amaya Walsh Saldivar, theatrical stage manager
Dramaturgy by Lucy Mae S.P. Burns

Saturday Shakespeare
2024-04-27 10:00 | Aptos Library, 7695 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 95003, United States
In collaboration with the Shakespeare Workshop at UCSC, the first in-person meeting of the Saturday Shakespeare Group in four years will take place on Saturday, April 27th in the new Aptos Library, with a Zoom option for those who can not attend in person. The nominal meeting time is 10:00 am, library doors open at 10:00 am.
The speaker for this meeting will be Paul Whitworth, distinguished Shakespearean actor and director.
His professional acting career began at the Royal Shakespeare Company (1976-1982). In 1984, he joined Shakespeare Santa Cruz where he played many major roles including Hamlet, Benedict in Much Ado About Nothing, Iago, Richard III, and last year, at Santa Cruz Shakespeare, King Lear. He was Artistic Director of Shakespeare Santa Cruz from 1996 to 2007.
Readings: All of Act I + Act II Scene 1
Reading Coordinator: Bob Morgan | rmorgan3135@gmail.com
If you would like to read please email Bob as soon as possible.
Zoom Information
For those who will be attending by Zoom, here is the Zoom information. The link is:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89795220016?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 897 9522 0016
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Future Meetings

April 27 | Paul Whitworth
May 4 | Charles Pasternack
May 11 | Sean Keilen
May 18 | Michael Warren
May 25 | DVD showing
June 1 | Zoom only showing of DVD

Directions
The Aptos library is easy to find –> Exit highway 1 at State Park Drive and go north to Soquel Drive. Turn left on Soquel Drive and the library is almost immediately on the right. The address is 7695 Soquel Dr, Aptos, CA 95003. There is free parking.
The Text
We will be using the Pelican edition. If you would like to read please get hold of a copy of this edition because there are differences between different editions. There are two sources for the play, the second quarto (Q2) of 1604-5 and the first folio (F) of 1623. The folio contains 70 lines not in Q2 and lacks 230 that are in Q2. Most editions combine them in a conflated text, thus making a long play even longer. The pelican edition does not do that, but sticks almost entirely to Q2. As a result there will be significant differences between the Pelican edition and an edition that uses a conflated text.
Unfortunately Bookshop Santa Cruz won’t order copies for the group (unless all copies are paid for in advance). You will therefore need to order a copy yourself. Alternatively you can buy it on Amazon. It is difficult to find the Pelican edition by searching on the Amazon site. Better is to google “Hamlet Pelican Edition Amazon”.
Donations to Santa Cruz Shakespeare
Our meetings are free, but we suggest that members make a contribution to Santa Cruz Shakespeare.
To do this you can either make a donation by credit card through their website or send a check payable to Santa Cruz Shakespeare:
Santa Cruz Shakespeare
501 Upper Park Rd
Santa Cruz, CA 95065
If you send a check, it would be helpful if you could indicate that this gift is on behalf of the Saturday Shakespeare Group.
New Members Wanted
We are always looking for new members. Everyone is welcome. If you know of anyone who would be interested in attending these meetings, please encourage them to do so. Contact saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com to be added to the mailing list.
Note: It is strongly encouraged to attend in person if you possibly can. The lectures and readings will be much more vivid for those actually present, and the in-person interactions will restart the social aspect of the group.

Yosimar Reyes' One-Man Show: "Prieto"
2024-04-26 19:30 - 22:00 | Stevenson Event Center
NATIONALLY ACCLAIMED POET, YOSIMAR REYES, BRINGS HIS FULL-LENGTH AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ONE-MAN SHOW TO UC SANTA CRUZ
Directed by Kat Evasco and Sean San José, Produced by The Living World Project

CRES 70u – (Un)docu Studies, in collaboration with the Cultural Arts and Diversity Resource Center (CADrc) and the Center for Racial Justice (CRJ) bring the captivating autobiographical one-man show written and performed by renowned artist Yosimar Reyes – “Prieto” to UC Santa Cruz.
Through the playful, lovably naive lens of an 8-year-old Reyes, Prieto tells the story of an overprotective grandmother who recycles bottles to support her family while her grandson wonders why they can’t have money like his friends. It tells the story of chismosa vecinas (gossipy neighbors) who peek through their windows and watch as the neighborhood boys tease young Reyes for “acting like a girl.” To escape from the taunting and the daily toil, Reyes creates an imaginary world for himself — one made up of books and ’90s R&B. Prieto saw its world premiere production at San Francisco’s Brava Theater in October 2022. Now on tour with The Living Word Project, Prieto has seen productions at San Jose Theater, and Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA) in San Jose, CA.
This event is free for UCSC Students, Faculty and Staff with Registration. Doors will open at 7:00 PM, show begins at 7:30PM.

Co-sponsored by Baskin School of Engineering, Center for Reimagining Leadership, Dean of Students Office, Division of Student Affairs and Success, El Centro – Chicanx Latinx Resource Center, The Lionel Cantú Queer Resource Center, HSI Initiatives, Social Science Division, The Humanities Institute, Humanities Division, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Education Department, and the Sociology Department.

The Deep Read: Bay Area Salon
2024-04-25 18:30 - 20:30 | San Rafael, CA
Meet Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder and UCSC faculty members for a special evening to learn about the Deep Read, this year’s featured book, and how you can get involved. The Deep Read, hosted annually by The Humanities Institute, invites curious minds to delve deeply into books guided by the expertise of UC Santa Cruz scholars. This year, we’re reading and thinking about Trust, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Hernan Diaz.
Our hosts, Mark Zemelman (Crown ’78, history) and Sarah Papazoglakis (Ph.D. ’18, literature), will provide dinner and refreshments.
Don’t miss this chance to connect with fellow Slugs, engage with literature, and participate in this year’s Deep Read.

Carla Freccero – Do Animals Have History?
2024-04-24 12:15 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
This talk, very much a meditation-in-progress, asks a series of questions about how we (in the Western European intellectual tradition) come to think about the categories of history and evolution and the various ways we might deconstruct this opposition, making way for co-constitutive material histories of the living. It also asks whether, in the time of the now, we are prepared to overcome a Cartesian inheritance to confront a shared, shattered, and shattering historical predicament together with other living others.
Carla Freccero is Distinguished Professor of Literature and History of Consciousness at UCSC, where she has taught since 1991. Trained in early modern continental European history and literature, she also publishes in US popular culture, queer and feminist theory, and, most recently, animal studies. Author of three books (on Rabelais; on popular culture; and on Queer Early Modernity) and co-editor of a number of journal issues dealing with sexuality, race and animality, her in-progress book is tentatively titled Animate Figures.

The 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.
