Events
Week of Events
Festival of Monsters Public Festival
The UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies presents the 2024 Festival of Monsters opens Oct. 11-12 with a weekend of free public events for all ages. Festivities begin 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, at the Museum of Art and History (705 Front St., Santa Cruz) with a reading and Q&A with Kiersten White, the […]
1st Symposium on Spanish-English Bilingualism in California
The 1st Symposium on Spanish-English bilingualism in California brings together leading scholars investigating the linguistic practices and patterns of variation across Spanish-English bilinguals throughout the state of California. This inaugural symposium will serve to engage researchers in cross-campus collaborations and interdisciplinary initiatives. The symposium's keynote address will be given by Professor Ana Celia Zentella (professor […]
Sunday, October 6, 2024
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Monday, October 7, 2024
No events on this day.
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
- October 8, 2024 -Disrupting Imposter Phenomenon from the Inside Out with Silvia Austerlic
- October 8, 2024 -Employing Humanities Resume and Cover Letter Career Workshop
Disrupting Imposter Phenomenon from the Inside Out with Silvia Austerlic
Have you ever felt imposter phenomenon? Learn how to cultivate a growth mindset to disrupt it and move toward empowering ways of learning. This event has two sessions: Oct 8, 11:30 - 1:00 p.m. via Zoom or Nov 5, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend either […]
Employing Humanities Resume and Cover Letter Career Workshop
Having a fantastic resume and cover letter are the first steps towards securing part-time, full-time, on-campus or off-campus work. Join us for this informative workshop to learn best practices and resources for creating or updating your resume and cover letter. Register on Handshake here! Open to all Humanities Majors and Minors. For more information please […]
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
- October 9, 2024 -T.J. Demos – Counterinsurgent: Cop City, Abolition Ecology, and the Aesthetics of Counterreform
- October 9, 2024 -The Informational Interview with Lorato Anderson
- October 9, 2024 -More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory Cluster Meet and Greet
- October 9, 2024 -Conflict Resolution with Anthony Keen-Louie
- October 9, 2024Identity in Focus: Media Representations and the 2024 Presidential Election
T.J. Demos – Counterinsurgent: Cop City, Abolition Ecology, and the Aesthetics of Counterreform
If “climate apartheid” is on the rise, as Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò warns, then Cop City Atlanta—the multimillion-dollar new police training facility built by clear-cutting the city’s largest green space—offers an ominous flashpoint. For not only is Cop City’s contested construction (which is ongoing) an exemplary story of the violent repression of community activism at the […]
The Informational Interview with Lorato Anderson
An informational interview is one you conduct with someone working in a field for an institution or company that you want to consider working in and for. How do you conduct an informational interview? What questions should you ask to get the best information about what it’s like to do that job for that organization? […]
More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory Cluster Meet and Greet
Join us for the inaugural More-than-humanities community gathering! Light refreshments will be served. This will be our chance to come together to get to know one another and shape the vision for the lab. We hope you will come, and we ask that you bring your 1-2 wishes for the lab to share with the […]
Conflict Resolution with Anthony Keen-Louie
Wherever there are groups of people, there will be conflict. However, conflict can be an opportunity to grow and improve if the right tools and resources are used. This workshop will explore conflict as a topic, share information about conflict resolution resources at UCSC, and provide some conflict resolution skills for participants to use in […]
Identity in Focus: Media Representations and the 2024 Presidential Election
This event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series - Power, Politics, and Our Democracy UC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How […]
Thursday, October 10, 2024
- October 10, 2024 -Mizanur Rahman–The Mass Uprisings in Bangladesh: Youth Mobilization, Political Possibility, and Precarity
- October 10, 2024 -Understanding October 7, 2023 and Israel’s War on the Gaza Strip
- October 10, 2024 -Living Writers with Julián Delgado Lopera
- October 10, 2024U.S. Elections and Democracy in Deeply Polarized Times: What are the Stakes and Opportunities?
Mizanur Rahman–The Mass Uprisings in Bangladesh: Youth Mobilization, Political Possibility, and Precarity
Bangladesh’s recent student-led mass uprising which ousted the longstanding autocrat, Sheikh Hasina, from office is widely considered to have ushered in a new era in Bangladesh politics. How did the uprising, which began with a demand for student’s job quota reform, unfold, and eventually turn into a mass movement? What political possibilities and precarities lie […]
Understanding October 7, 2023 and Israel’s War on the Gaza Strip
The UCSC Center for Jewish Studies presents an event with Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University. How should we speak about the shocking October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas and its allies which killed 1,139 people, 61% of them Israeli civilians, […]
Living Writers with Julián Delgado Lopera
Living Writers Series – Fall 2024 Growing Things ~ gardens, poems, emotions, relationships, stories, our artistic practices, carefully tended, beautifully ordered, rewilded and wild ~ About The Living Writers Series The Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series […]
U.S. Elections and Democracy in Deeply Polarized Times: What are the Stakes and Opportunities?
This event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series - Power, Politics, and Our Democracy UC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How […]
Friday, October 11, 2024
- October 11, 2024Bilingual California/California Bilingüe: Fronteras y Futuros
Bilingual California/California Bilingüe: Fronteras y Futuros
Join us as we welcome Professor Ana Celia Zentella (professor emerita, UC San Diego) to discuss the political, social, and educational barriers that California’s Spanish-English bilinguals must overcome to ensure a bilingual future for themselves and their children. She suggests ways that students, parents, teachers, university faculty and community groups can contribute successfully. This event […]
Saturday, October 12, 2024
- October 12, 2024 -Filipino American Heritage Month Festival
- October 12, 2024 -CLOTILDA: Resistance, Resilience, Remembrance, Rebuilding
- October 12, 2024 -Dear Watsonville Screening and Q&A
Filipino American Heritage Month Festival
Join us for the 3rd annual Filipino American Heritage Festival on the Watsonville city plaza! Featuring vendors, performances, and food. Co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
CLOTILDA: Resistance, Resilience, Remembrance, Rebuilding
Black divers were central to the reclamation of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to transport kidnapped Africans to the United States. In our coastal area, the unceded territory of the Amah Mutsun people and a place where Black servicemen and their families resettled after fighting in U.S. wars in the Pacific, Santa Cruz […]
Dear Watsonville Screening and Q&A
In celebration of Filipino American History Month, join Watsonville is in the Heart and the Watsonville Film Festival for a screening of Dear Watsonville, a mixed-media documentary offering an intimate glimpse into the lives of the first generation of Filipino farmworkers to arrive in the Pajaro Valley as seen through the eyes of their children. […]