Events
Week of Events
Futurescapes: Projects from the Coha-Gunderson Collective
The Humanities Institute presents "Futurescapes: Projects from the Coha-Gunderson Collective," a multi-media exhibition by UCSC students and alumni winners of the Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures. 13 winners of the Coha-Gunderson prize in Speculative Futures, a prize competition made possible by UCSC alumni Peter Coha (Kresge ’78, Mathematics) and James Gunderson (Rachel Carson ’77, Philosophy, […]
Dickens and Victorian Psychology: Introspection, First-Person Narration, and the Mind by Tyson Stolte
Dickens and Victorian Psychology: Introspection, First-Person Narration, and the Mind by Tyson Stolte
Please join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our May Pickwick Club talk by Associate Professor Tyson Stolte (New Mexico State University) who will […]
Sebastián Gil-Riaño – Stolen Evidence: Indigenous Children and Bio-historical narratives of the Western Hemisphere during the Cold War
Sebastián Gil-Riaño – Stolen Evidence: Indigenous Children and Bio-historical narratives of the Western Hemisphere during the Cold War
The talk is sponsored by the Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine This talk examines how anthropologists and human biologists used abducted Indigenous children in […]
Roxanne Euben – The Power of Humiliation: Rhetoric, Retaliation and Resistance
Roxanne Euben – The Power of Humiliation: Rhetoric, Retaliation and Resistance
From Trump to ISIS to the Arab uprisings, invocations of humiliation pervade the political landscape. But what does ‘humiliation’ mean exactly, and how does it work rhetorically? In this lecture […]
Sebastián Gil-Riaño Reading Group – Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine”
Sebastián Gil-Riaño Reading Group – Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine”
"Indigenous Health and Infrastructures of Race" - In the past few decades, biomedical researchers and human biologists have called for more ethical guidelines for conducting fieldwork on Indigenous groups in […]
Celebrating the Humanities Spring Awards
Celebrating the Humanities Spring Awards
Please mark your calendars for Thursday, June 1, 2022 as we acknowledge the achievements of our outstanding students and faculty at the annual Celebrating the Humanities Spring Awards event. This […]
Living Writers – Mai Der Vang
Living Writers – Mai Der Vang
Mai Der Vang is the author of Yellow Rain (Graywolf Press, 2021), winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, an American Book Award, and […]
Jairus Banaji Reading Group
Jairus Banaji Reading Group
The Vernaculars of Travel in South Asia and the Middle East cluster invites you to the final event of their THI working group, which will be a reading group (5:30 […]
Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC)
Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC)
The Linguistics Department's annual Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) will be held Friday, June 2nd, from 2:00 – 5:00pm in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge & Courtyard. The Distinguished Alumnus speaker […]