Events
Week of Events
Sunday, April 20, 2025
No events on this day.
Monday, April 21, 2025
- April 21, 2025Giuseppe Longo – From the Alphabet to AI: Discretizing the World
Giuseppe Longo – From the Alphabet to AI: Discretizing the World
The History of Consciousness department, in collaboration with the Humanities in the Age of AI Cluster, is pleased to present "From the Alphabet to AI: Discretizing the World" delivered by Giuseppe Longo. The talk will take place April 21st at 1pm in Humanities 1 Room 210, with a virtual attendance option available. To attend virtually, […]
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
- April 22, 2025 -Deep Read Salon: The Craft of James
Deep Read Salon: The Craft of James
Join us for a virtual Deep Read salon on Percival Everett's James featuring UC Santa Cruz Professors of Literature and Creative Writing, Micah Perks and Karen Tei Yamashita. Professors Perks and Yamashita will discuss the writing craft and techniques of the novel, offering insights on the book from their perspective as novelists and memoirists. Their […]
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
- April 23, 2025 -TechnoScience Improv
- April 23, 2025 -Debbie Millman – Love Letter to a Garden
TechnoScience Improv
This roundtable improv (12.15-2.00pm) brings together ten UCSC scholars working on social, historical, and cultural studies of science, technology and medicine. The event will be structured around eight open, improvised conversations, each beginning with a question from a different panelist exploring emerging practices, speculative transformations, and critical imaginings of technoscience, health and ecology. Participants include: […]
Debbie Millman – Love Letter to a Garden
Bookshop Santa Cruz presents Debbie Millman, award-winning artist, designer, and the host of the podcast Design Matters, will discuss her beautiful new book Love Letter to a Garden, a visual story of falling in love with gardening—and the philosophies that work conjures. Debbie Millman always thought of herself as a bad gardener. Nevertheless, she kept […]
Thursday, April 24, 2025
- April 24, 2025 -Connections to land with Mercedes Dorame, joined by Aspen Mays, Unseen California
- April 24, 2025 -Amanda Batarseh – Rooted Movements: The Radical Poetics of Palestinian Space
- April 24, 2025 -Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan – The High Cost of Outsourcing Thought: On the Ideology of Artificial Intelligence
Connections to land with Mercedes Dorame, joined by Aspen Mays, Unseen California
Mercedes Dorame uses her artistic process to examine and rebuild her relationship with the land. This talk will explore personal, social, and institutional connections to home, site, and land. These concepts intersect within her work as an Indigenous artist as she addresses both the taught and erased histories the land holds, as well as its […]
Amanda Batarseh – Rooted Movements: The Radical Poetics of Palestinian Space
The Center for Racial Justice (CRJ) is proud to present Rooted Movements: The Radical Poetics of Palestinian Space with Amanda Batarseh, Assistant Professor of Literature at UC San Diego. Analyses of Palestinian poetics often expose the violent structure of ongoing-Nakba — the Zionist settler-colonial uprooting and removal of Palestinians (both physically from the land and […]
Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan – The High Cost of Outsourcing Thought: On the Ideology of Artificial Intelligence
Each year, the TLC hosts a convocation to bring together educators across the campus and from the local community to explore significant topics in teaching and learning in higher education. Each year’s keynote address is free and open to the public. This year’s Convocation speaker will be Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan, who will present his talk, […]
Friday, April 25, 2025
- April 25, 2025Linguistics Colloquia: Matt Wagers – Setting Healthy (mnemonic) Boundaries
Linguistics Colloquia: Matt Wagers – Setting Healthy (mnemonic) Boundaries
The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Matt Wagers, speaking on Setting Healthy (mnemonic) Boundaries. This is an in-person event. You can also join virtually via Zoom. Nearly 20 years ago, Lewis & Vasishth (2005) applied the ACT-R modeling framework to language processing by creating an English parser fragment embedded in an associative memory. […]
Saturday, April 26, 2025
- April 26, 2025Saturday Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Saturday Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents A Midsummer Night's Dream, featuring a series of readings and conversations held Saturday mornings from April 26 to May 24, 2025. The 1st hour will be spent in conversation with a guest speaker, and during the 2nd hour volunteers will read aloud part of the play. During the final […]