Events

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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? […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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. […]