Events
Week of Events
CruzHacks 2024 Hackathon
CruzHacks is the largest hackathon in Santa Cruz! Each year, hundreds of students are invited to develop solutions to real-world problems, pursue inclusion in tech, and kindle the spirit of innovation. CruzHacks was founded in 2013 as Hack UCSC by Mark Adams, Brent Haddad, and Doug Erickson. In 2018, Hack UCSC was rebranded as CruzHacks, […]
Sunday, January 14, 2024
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Monday, January 15, 2024
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Tuesday, January 16, 2024
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Wednesday, January 17, 2024
- January 17, 2024 -THI Coffee Hour
- January 17, 2024 -Muriam Haleh Davis – The Absent Preface: Algerian Readings of Frantz Fanon after Independence
- January 17, 2024 -Dr. D. B. Maroon – Black Lives, American Love: Essays on Race and Resilience
THI Coffee Hour
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 […]
Muriam Haleh Davis – The Absent Preface: Algerian Readings of Frantz Fanon after Independence
In 1959, Ferhat Abbas, the President of the GPRA (Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic), refused Frantz Fanon’s request to write a preface for L’An V de la révolution algérienne. This never-written preface is emblematic of a larger silence regarding the lively Algerian debates on Fanon’s writings after independence. By foregrounding North African interpretations of Fanon’s […]
Dr. D. B. Maroon – Black Lives, American Love: Essays on Race and Resilience
Our own UCSC alumna, Dr. D. B. Maroon (PhD Anthropology, 2006) will talk about her newly released book, Black Lives, American Love: Essays on Race and Resilience. This talk will take place in the Humanities Building, Room 210 on January 17th from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. D. B. Maroon is an author, anthropologist, and […]
Thursday, January 18, 2024
- January 18, 2024 -Living Writers with Graduate Alumni: Emma Wood, Jared Harvey, Eric Sneathen, Connor Bassett, Jose Antonio Villará
Living Writers with Graduate Alumni: Emma Wood, Jared Harvey, Eric Sneathen, Connor Bassett, Jose Antonio Villará
Living Writers - Winter 2024 - Return of the Beloved: An Alumni Series C Dylan Bassett's first novel, Gad's Book, was published in 2023. His writing has appeared in Chicago Review, Quarterly West, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is an assistant professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati. Jared Joseph’s most […]
Friday, January 19, 2024
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Saturday, January 20, 2024
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