Events
Week of Events
Right Livelihood International Conference
Join us April 23-27, 2024, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the UCSC Right Livelihood Center. We will inaugurate UCSC’s new role as Global Secretariat of the Right Livelihood College network, launch an international student network, launch faculty-laureate research clusters, and more. Events are free and open to the public. Learn more about the conference […]
Sunday, April 21, 2024
No events on this day.
Monday, April 22, 2024
- April 22, 2024Black Enlightenment with Surya Parekh
Black Enlightenment with Surya Parekh
The History of Consciousness department presents Black Enlightenment with Surya Parekh, Binghamton University. 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. Recordings of previous lectures are available in the HistCon Speaker Series Archive. To […]
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
No events on this day.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- April 24, 2024 -THI Coffee Hour
- April 24, 2024 -Carla Freccero – Do Animals Have History?
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 […]
Carla Freccero – Do Animals Have History?
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 […]
Thursday, April 25, 2024
- April 25, 2024 -The Deep Read: Bay Area Salon
The Deep Read: Bay Area Salon
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. […]
Friday, April 26, 2024
- April 26, 2024 -Yosimar Reyes’ One-Man Show: “Prieto”
Yosimar Reyes’ One-Man Show: “Prieto”
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 […]
Saturday, April 27, 2024
- April 27, 2024Saturday Shakespeare
- April 27, 2024Indian Midsummer
Saturday Shakespeare
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 […]
Indian Midsummer
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) […]