Events
Week of Events
Amending Worlds: Projects from the Coha-Gunderson Creativity Workshop
The Coha-Gunderson Creativity Workshop, housed in The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz, presents a multi-media exhibition by UCSC graduate and undergraduate students and alumni winners of the Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures. The Amending Worlds exhibition includes installations, performances, visual art, film & video, and a computer game, distributed throughout the museum’s spaces. Prizewinners […]
Slow Seminar: Moorings by Nidhi Mahajan
Slow Seminar: Moorings by Nidhi Mahajan
The Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast), the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA), invite you to a Slow Seminar on the new book: Moorings: Voyages of Capital Across the Indian Ocean by Nidhi Mahajan, Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Reception to follow. Opening […]
Isaac Blacksin – Making Death Meaningful: On Journalism’s Humanitarian Desire
Isaac Blacksin – Making Death Meaningful: On Journalism’s Humanitarian Desire
The final guest of the Spring 2025 HistCon Speaker Series will be one of HistCon’s own, alumnus Isaac Blacksin! He will be joining us on Monday, June 2nd, to give his talk “Making Death Meaningful: On Journalism's Humanitarian Desire” at 1pm in Hum 1 Rm 420. If you are unable to make it in person, […]
Donna Haraway – Thick, Slimy, Squishy, Squiggly & Generative
Donna Haraway – Thick, Slimy, Squishy, Squiggly & Generative
Join the UCSC Special Collections & Archives for a conversation with Donna Haraway titled "Thick, Slimy, Squishy, & Generative," featuring History of Consciousness alumni Chela Sandoval (’93), Katie King (’87), and Caren Kaplan (’87). Please register by May 20. Limited space is available; plan to arrive early for seating. The conversation will start promptly at […]
Ussama Makdisi – Palestine, Late Colonialism, and the Question of Genocide
Ussama Makdisi – Palestine, Late Colonialism, and the Question of Genocide
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) This talk explores the relationship between modern philozionism in the West and the denialism of the Palestinians. The nineteenth-century European Zionist idea of implanting and sustaining an exclusively Jewish nationalist state in multireligious Palestine was a response to European racial antisemitism. But it […]
Shakespeare Talk with Dr. Sean Keilen
Shakespeare Talk with Dr. Sean Keilen
Join Dr. Sean Keilen, professor of literature at UCSC and lead dramaturg at Santa Cruz Shakespeare, for an exciting talk about SCS' summer Shakespeare offerings: comic masterpiece, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and thrilling romance, Pericles. Artistic Director Charles Pasternak will be in attendance. Q&A to follow.
UCSC Night at the Museum – Amending Worlds
UCSC Night at the Museum – Amending Worlds
JOIN US for The Humanities Institute’s annual Night at the Museum featuring Amending Worlds, a panel discussion about speculative fiction and a multi-media exhibition by UCSC graduate and undergraduate students and alumni winners of the Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures. The panel will feature Micah Perks (UC Santa Cruz), Cathy Thomas (UCSB), and Kim Tallbear […]
Through the Decades: 50 Years of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz
Through the Decades: 50 Years of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz
Join Feminist Studies on June 6 in honoring 50 years at UC Santa Cruz. The event will be held at 3pm at the Stevenson Event Center, with a reception to follow. The event will be live-streamed for those who cannot attend in person. Click here to watch. Feminist Studies was established as the Women's Studies […]