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SUMMARY:Falafel Welcome Lunch with The Center for the Middle East and North Africa
DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Middle East and North Africa invites all CMENA affiliates and students to a falafel welcome lunch. Come catch up with one another\, meet CMENA faculty\, and learn about the Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS) Minor.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/falafel-welcome-lunch-with-the-center-for-the-middle-east-and-north-africa-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Humanities Division Experiential Learning Info Session
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an info session with Kylie Rachwalski\, Assistant Director of Experiential Learning in the UCSC Humanities Division to learn more about Humanities EXCEL and EXPLORE Programs for humanities undergraduate students. \n\n\n\n\n\nHumanities EXCEL is a paid internship program for Humanities majors and minors\, connecting you with community organizations where you’ll gain hands-on experience\, mentorship\, and real-world skills.\nHumanities EXPLORE is a paid undergraduate research program where you work on faculty-led research projects\, deepening your academic experience while building career-ready skills.\n\n\n\n\n\nBoth programs pay $20/hour for working 10–15 hours per week. Some positions run September–June\, while others run January-June (or into the summer). \nMore information and zoom link at: Humanities EXCEL and EXPLORE Programs. \n\nThis Info Session is being led by the Humanities Division. The Mellon Foundation\, The Helen and Will Webster Foundation\, The Humanities Institute\, the UCSC Humanities Division\, and private donors generously support the Humanities EXCEL and EXPLORE Programs.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-division-experiential-learning-info-session/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Memoirs of Robert & Mabel Williams: African American Freedom\, Armed Resistance\, and International Solidarity
DESCRIPTION:Presented by The Center for Racial Justice. Cosponsored by Oakes College. Free and open to the public. \nBorn in Jim Crow–era Monroe\, North Carolina\, Robert F. Williams and Mabel R. Williams were the state’s most legendary African American freedom fighters. \n\n\nThe Williamses’ leadership in Monroe was just the beginning of a lifelong pursuit of freedom and justice for Black people in the United States and for oppressed populations throughout the world. Their activism foreshadowed major developments in the civil rights and Black Power movements\, including Malcolm X’s advocacy of fighting oppression “by any means necessary\,” the emergence of the Black Panther Party\, and Black solidarity with Third World liberation movements. \nRobert documented his experiences in Monroe in his classic 1962 book\, NEGROES WITH GUNS\, and completed a draft of his memoir\, WHILE GOD LAY SLEEPING\, months before his death in 1996. Mabel began a memoir of her own before her death in 2014. The family selected John Bracey Jr.\, Akinyele K. Umoja\, and Gloria Aneb House to edit and complete the manuscripts\, which are presented together in this book\, offering a gripping portrait of these pioneering freedom fighters that is both deeply intimate and a fierce call to action in the ongoing fight against racial injustice. \n\n\n\nAkinyele K. Umoja is a professor of Africana studies at Georgia State University. \nLisa Williams is the daughter-in-law of Robert and Mabel Williams.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-memoirs-of-robert-mabel-williams-african-american-freedom-armed-resistance-and-international-solidarity/
LOCATION:Oakes Learning Center\, UCSC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251007T190000
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SUMMARY:Master Class: Jaron Lanier – Music & The Future of Humanity
DESCRIPTION:Jaron Lanier is a musician\, computer scientist\, visual artist\, writer\, technologist\, and futurist who is considered a founder of the field of virtual reality. In Music & The Future of Humanity Lanier will be joined by the Free Waves trio\, featuring Tim Jackson and Zack Olsen\, singer/songwriter Harper Simon\, Haruki Fujii and members of the Santa Cruz Symphony. \nCan’t make it in-person? You can stream it! Click here to register. \n\nThis event is presented by Kuumbwa Jazz Center\, and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/master-class-jaron-lanier-music-the-future-of-humanity-feat-free-waves-harper-simon-haruka-fujii-santa-cruz-symphony-members/
LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251008T121500
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SUMMARY:María Puig de la Bellacasa - Inheriting the Burdens of Human–Soil Belonging
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness: earth ecologies x technoscience \n\nThis talk offers a speculative reading of practices that reclaim and reimagine human–soil relations within the legacies of anthropocentric\, productionist\, and colonial ecologies. I explore how soils come to epitomize planet Earth\, life\, death and memory\, as well as the fraught significance of writing alternative stories of soil belonging amid the rise of white supremacist autochthonism. When nostalgic pasts and anticipated futures lose their appeal\, learning from soils becomes a way of surfacing time—bringing up temporalities that resist linearity. Soil-centered worlds reorient attention toward the mixed\, impure\, and generative potentialities of more-than-human belonging. \nMaría Puig de la Bellacasa works at the intersection of environmental humanities\, socio-cultural studies of science\, and feminist theory. Her book Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More-than-Human Worlds (University of Minnesota Press\, 2017) brings feminist materialist care theory into conversation with debates on more-than-human ontologies and ecological practices. She is also co-editor of Ecological Reparation (Bristol University Press\, 2023) and Reactivating Elements (Duke University Press\, 2022). Her talk draws from a manuscript in progress\, tentatively titled When the Word for World is Soil\, which explores shifting human-soil relations across science\, ecological movements\, and aesthetics in visual art and public culture.\n \n  \n\n \nFall 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Fall 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/maria-puig-de-la-bellacasa-inheriting-the-burdens-of-human-soil-belonging/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Talking Tales of the Undead
DESCRIPTION:Get ready for the season with vampires\, ghouls and zombies! \n\n\n\nJoin UC Santa Cruz professors Michael Chemers (The Monster in Theater History)\, Renée Fox (The Necromantics)\, and Kimberly Lau (Specters of the Marvelous) as they discuss the histories and politics of vampires\, ghouls\, zombies and other undead monsters in literature\, theater\, and pop culture. \n\nThe Center for Monster Studies at UC Santa Cruz aims to explore the role of monsters in culture and humanities. Monsters play a role in the representation of some of the most challenging problems facing our world: matters of race and religion\, social justice\, and environmental threats.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/talking-tales-of-the-undead/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Public Library – Downtown Branch\, 224 Church Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sociality\, Science\, and Surveillance: Plantations in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:The Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, in partnership with Santa Clara University\, invites you to a two-day academic workshop exploring the effects and imprints of the plantation complex on life and land in South Asia and beyond. \nSouth Asia has had a long\, complicated history with plantations. The indentured world that it engineered took every form of life under its control. With its intact economic\, scientific\, social\, cultural aspects\, the plantation complex survived into the post-colonial period in South Asia and among its historically displaced communities worldwide. UC Santa Cruz’s Dolly Kikon and Sanjay Barbora and Santa Clara University’s Mythri Jegathesan will convene a lively discussion on the sociality\, science\, and surveillance that structure the plantation worlds of 21st-century South Asia. \nThe workshop will take place from 9am-4:00pm on Thursday\, October 9\, with a dinner and reception to follow\, and it will reconvene on Friday\, October 10\, from 9:30am-5:30pm. \nFor the full Conference Program and more information\, please visit: https://csas.ucsc.edu/2025-26-events/ \nPhoto credit: Dolly Kikon; Rani\, Assam; 2023
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sociality-science-and-surveillance-plantations-in-the-21st-century/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251011T101500
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - The Tragedy of King Richard II
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents The Tragedy of King Richard II by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on October 4\, 11\, 18\, 25 & November 1\, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest speaker followed by volunteer read aloud of the play. This event series is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop. \nFor more information\, Zoom Link\, or to volunteer to be a reader\, contact: saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com \nGuest Speakers / Film Presentation \n\nOct 4: Sean Keilen: Professor of Literature\, UC Santa Cruz; founding Director of Shakespeare Workshop. Serves as dramaturg at Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Readings: Act I\, Scenes 1-4\nOct 11: Katie O’Hare: UCSC Graduate Dissertation on Shakespeare’s Henriad\, which includes Richard II. She will begin teaching at UCLA in Fall 2025. Readings: Act II\, Scene 1-4\, Act III\, Scene 1\nOct 18: Jessica Kubzansky: Artistic Director of Boston Court Pasadena\, author ‘R2’\, a re-envisioning of ‘Richard II’\, performed by SC Shakespeare in 2021. Readings: Act III\, Scenes 2-3\, Act IV Scene 1 to line 162\nOct 25: Paul Whitworth: Professor Emeritus Theater Arts\, UCSC. Began his career as an actor at the Royal Shakespeare Company 1976. Served as Artistic Director for Shakespeare Santa Cruz\, 1996-2007. Readings: Act IV\, Scene 1 line 163 to Act V\, Scenes 1-8\nNov 1: Film Screening: Richard II: The Hollow Crown directed by Rupert Goold with Ben Whishaw\, Rory Kinnear\, David Suchet\, Patrick Stewart\, 2012\, 148 minutes.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-the-tragedy-of-king-richard-ii-2/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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