Events

The Friends of the Dickens Project invites you to participate in "Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore." The three sessions will offer the Friends a chance to examine Victorian responses to the environment, with a particular emphasis on Australia. The first session will involve a presentation on […]

Every other year since 1996, Zakir Hussain has served as curator, conductor and producer to bring the very cream of Indian music and world percussion to tour America and Europe with his series, Zakir Hussain and Masters of Percussion. Growing out of his renowned international tabla duet tours with his father, the legendary Ustad Allarakha, […]

In the winter of 1873, Nissim Shamama, a wealthy Jew from Tunisia, died suddenly in his palazzo in Livorno, Italy. His passing initiated a fierce lawsuit over his large estate. Before Shamama's riches could be disbursed among his aspiring heirs, Italian courts had to decide which law to apply to his estate—a matter that depended […]

FREE IN-PERSON EVENT: Acclaimed local writer Elizabeth McKenzie will be in conversation with Karen Joy Fowler about McKenzie's highly-anticipated new novel, The Dog of the North. This event is cosponsored by Catamaran Literary Reader and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. "Even funnier, even more romantic than McKenzie's wonderful last, The Portable Veblen, this […]

The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Winter Colloquium Words whose form is similar across languages: cognates (formally and semantically similar) and false cognates (formally similar) are claimed to be learned differently than non-cognates. Raising learners’ "cognate awareness" means consciously focusing their attention on cross-linguistic similarity between L1 and L2 words. However, it is unclear […]

Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Jennifer Egan, one of the most celebrated writers of our time, who will discuss The Candy House (in paperback March 7th), her "inventive, effervescent" (Oprah Daily) novel about the memory and quest for authenticity and human connection. This event will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn on […]

The Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMNEA) is hosting a talk by Mohamed Hamed geared to help students and faculty in the UC system advance their Arabic language research and locate sources. He will be offering an overview of online resources, and covering issues such as interlibrary loan as well as transliteration. […]

The Humanities Division and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz invite you to join us for the Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture, featuring Juan Gabriel Vásquez. Guests who attend in person are invited to join us for a reception with light refreshments and beverages at 5:00 p.m. In 1935, as Europe witnessed the […]

Join us for a Persian New Year Celebration, the rebirth of nature at the beginning of Spring, when Iranian people are combatting with darkness for a new day (Nowruz) with the slogan "Woman, Life, Freedom, Zan, Zendegee, Azadee." This Nowruz celebration is free! Presentations will be made by elected officials and Iranian speakers alongside music […]

Marc Garellek (UC San Diego) Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html