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SUMMARY:Orientation to Community Archiving
DESCRIPTION:Learn about the importance of preserving and documenting the history and culture of our community through archiving. \nWe will discuss how the rise of interest in Community Archives has transformed the way collective memories are curated\, capturing forgotten and suppressed voices\, reshaping our understanding of what archives are and how they function\, and challenging long-held assumptions about the role of professionals in mediating and sharing history. \n\n\nRebecca Hernandez is currently the inaugural Community Archivist at the UC Santa Cruz University Library\, where she collaborates with community members to preserve the rich history and cultural heritage of Santa Cruz County. Her academic background includes a PhD in American Studies\, MA in American Indian Studies\, and an MFA in Design. \n \nA virtual option is available. Space is limited. \nMore information available here. \nThis event is presented by the The Humanities Division Employing Humanities Program and UC Santa Cruz Special Collections & Archives.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/orientation-to-community-archiving/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:Slugs and Steins with Professor Kimberly Lau - Race and the European Fairy Tale: The Making of a White Genre
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Kimberly Lau offers intertwined readings of several cognate fairy tales that revolve around true and false brides\, beginning with Black slaves and white fairies in 17th-century Naples and tracing their evolution into (implicitly raced but unmarked) kind and unkind girls in 19th-century Germany. Through her readings\, Lau illustrates some of the ways that culturally specific\, historical ideas about race\, racial thinking\, and racism have contributed to the development of the European fairy tale as a genre as well as to the creation of the fairy tale’s enduringly white world. \n\nKimberly J. Lau is Professor of Literature and Provost of College Nine and John R. Lewis College. She is the author of Specters of the Marvelous: Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale (2025); Erotic Infidelities: Love and Enchantment in Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber” (2015)\, Body Language: Sisters in Shape\, Black Women’s Fitness\, and Feminist Identity Politics (2011)\, and New Age Capitalism: Making Money East of Eden (2000)\, as well as articles in a number of interdisciplinary journals. Her research interests include fairy tales\, folklore\, and fantasy; feminist theory and critical race studies; the intersection of popular and political cultures and monster studies. \nSlugs and Steins are free informal lectures served up over Zoom. Brought to you by the UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association\, each talk will engage one of our favorite professors in discussion with you\, the local community of Silicon Valley\, and beyond. We will cover everything from organic artichokes to endangered zebras\, self-driving cars to Shakespeare. All are welcome. Audience participation is encouraged. \nWatch past Slugs and Steins events here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slugs-and-steins-with-professor-kimberly-lau-race-and-the-european-fairy-tale-the-making-of-a-white-genre/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Malcolm Gladwell—Revenge of the Tipping Point
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes #1 New York Times bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell for a discussion about Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories\, Superspreaders\, and the Rise of Social Engineering. In this provocative new work\, Malcolm Gladwell returns for the first time in twenty-five years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points\, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena. \n \nThis event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz \n\nWhy is Miami…Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third\, and what does it mean for racial harmony? In this provocative new work\, Malcolm Gladwell returns for the first time in twenty-five years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points\, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena. \nThrough a series of riveting stories\, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering. He takes us to the streets of Los Angeles to meet the world’s most successful bank robbers\, rediscovers a forgotten television show from the 1970s that changed the world\, visits the site of a historic experiment on a tiny cul-de-sac in northern California\, and offers an alternate history of two of the biggest epidemics of our day: COVID and the opioid crisis. Revenge of the Tipping Point is Gladwell’s most personal book yet. With his characteristic mix of storytelling and social science\, he offers a guide to making sense of the contagions of modern world. It’s time we took tipping points seriously. \nMalcolm Gladwell is the author of eight New York Timesbestsellers: The Tipping Point\, Blink\, Outliers\, What the Dog Saw\, David and Goliath\, Talking to Strangers\, The Bomber Mafiaand Revenge of the Tipping Point. He is also the co-founder of Pushkin Industries\, an audio production company that produces audiobooks like Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon\, as well as podcasts including Revisionist History\, Broken Record\, The Happiness Lab\, Against the Rules\, and Medal of Honor: Stories of Courage. Gladwell has been included in the Time 100 Most Influential People list and was named one of Foreign Policy’s Top Global Thinkers. Previously\, he was a staff writer for The New Yorker. Gladwell was born in England and grew up in rural Ontario. He lives in New York.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/malcolm-gladwell-revenge-of-the-tipping-point/
LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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SUMMARY:Festival of Monsters
DESCRIPTION:Held on the beautiful UC Santa Cruz campus\, the 2025 Festival of Monsters academic conference (Oct. 15-18) includes panels on cannibalism\, classic monsters\, child monsters and the monsters of childhood\, Chicanix Nuclear Gothic and more. David Livingstone Smith\, Kim Lau and Jeffrey Jerome Cohen will give this year’s keynote talks. \nThe main conference will take place on the UC Santa Cruz campus on Oct. 16-17\, with a reception and opening talk Oct. 15 at the Museum of Art and History and a day of public events in downtown Santa Cruz on Oct. 18. \nThe registration fee includes a welcome reception the evening of Oct. 15\, breakfast and lunch on Oct. 16 and 17\, a closing Monsters Ball on the evening of Oct. 17\, and all conference events. All conference presenters and attendees should register for the conference by Monday\, Sept. 15\, 2025. \nThe conference costs $275 for tenure track faculty and $225 for graduate students\, contingent faculty and independent scholars. Current UC Santa Cruz students\, staff and faculty may attend the conference for free. The free registration DOES NOT include food. \n \nPlease visit: https://www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/2025fest for registration and logistical information \nSponsors for the 2025 Festival of Monsters include Porter College; The Arts Research Institute; The Humanities Institute; the Sigfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment; the UC Santa Cruz Department of Literature; the UC Santa Cruz Department of Performance\, Play and Design; Bookshop Santa Cruz; Atlantis Fantasyworld; Game Santa Cruz; and James Gunderson.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/festival-of-monsters-4/
LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz
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SUMMARY:Navyug Gill - Labor History and the Accumulation of Difference in Colonial Panjab
DESCRIPTION:Within the British empire\, Panjab has long been regarded as the quintessential agrarian province inhabited by a diligent\, prosperous and “martial race” of peasants. Against such essentialist depictions\, I explore the landowning peasant and landless laborer as novel subjects forged in the encounter between colonialism and struggles over culture and capital within Panjabi society. Company officials and ascendant Panjabis together disrupted existing forms of identity and activity to generate a new kind of hierarchy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through an interrogation of a disparate archive – settlement reports and legal judgments to labor contracts\, vernacular poetry and family budgets – I challenge the givenness of the peasant by explicating the ideological and material divisions that transformed the equation of rural power\, and thus reconfigured global capitalism. Weaving together economic logic with cultural difference\, this presentation offers a way to re-think comparative political economy alongside alternative possibilities for emancipatory futures. \n \nNavyug Gill is a historian of modern South Asia and global history. He is Associate Professor in the Department of History\, Philosophy and Liberal Studies at William Paterson University. His research explores questions of agrarian change\, labor politics\, caste hierarchy\, postcolonial critique and histories of capitalism. His first book\, Labors of Division: Global Capitalism and the Emergence of the Peasant in Colonial Panjab\, was published by Stanford University Press in 2024. A South Asia edition was released by Navayana in 2025. The book won the “Henry A. Wallace Award” for the best book on agricultural history outside the US from the AgriculturalHistory Society. Gill’s scholarly and public writings have appeared in venues such as Past and Present\, the Journal of Asian Studies\, Economic and Political Weekly\, Al Jazeera\, the Law and Political Economy Project and Trolley Times. \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/navyug-gill-labor-history-and-the-accumulation-of-difference-in-colonial-panjab/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Archives 101 for Graduate Students
DESCRIPTION:Feeling the archival impulse? Come get some hands-on experiences with McHenry Library’s Special Collections\, chat about archives with your fellow grad students\, and get your questions answered about archival research at UCSC and beyond. \n \nCurious undergrads are welcome\, too! Space is limited. \n \n\nThis event is presented by the Center for Archival Research & Training (CART) in Special Collections & Archives and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the 10th year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/archives-101-for-graduate-students/
LOCATION:McHenry Library (3rd Floor)\, Special Collections
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251016T172000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Cindy Juyoung Ok
DESCRIPTION:Wonder as the Source \nCindy Juyoung Ok is the author of Ward Toward and the translator of The Hell of That Star by Kim Hyesoon. She was a finalist for a 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship\, has served as a Poetry Foundation Library Forms & Features visiting teaching artist\, and was a reviewer for Harriet Books in 2022-2023. Ok\, formerly a high school physics teacher\, now works as an assistant English professor. You can find Ok’s published work in The Nation\, The Yale Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, and elsewhere. \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Humanities Institute\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, and the Bay Tree Bookstore.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-cindy-juyuong-ok/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:John Freeman - California Rewritten
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes author\, editor\, and poet John Freeman for a conversation with Karen Tei Yamashita about his new book California Rewritten: A Journey Through the Golden State’s New Literature. This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. \n“In Freeman’s hands\, California is a literary mecca\, and each essay a revelation.” —Ingrid Rojas Contreras\, author of The Man Who Could Move Clouds \n \nYour RSVP helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. Thank you for registering! \nDive into the revelatory worlds of California’s most exciting writers\, and discover how their books uncover our history and can help us imagine our shared future. Percival Everett\, Rebecca Solnit\, Tommy Orange\, Michael Connelly\, Julie Otsuka: As John Freeman writes in California Rewritten\, “Literature of so many kinds and so many genres from so many different types of people—at the highest level—has been coming out of California and from Californians for decades now.” Freeman\, one of the sharpest editors working today\, has followed the evolution of California’s literary life since his teenage years in Sacramento. In over fifty essays inspired by his hosting of Alta Journal’s popular California Book Club\, he offers an essential road map to California literature now. He shows us how the state’s most exciting writers can unlock our understanding of the past\, and how they can deepen our imaginations as we confront the most pressing issues that face our society: labor and inequality\, migration and citizenship\, technology and its limits\, changing landscapes and climate catastrophe. Incisive and compulsively readable\, California Rewritten will be a source of empowering discovery for any book lover who cares about the Golden State. \nJohn Freeman has hosted Alta’s California Book Club since its founding in 2020. He is an executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf\, and he edited Freeman’s (2015-2023)\, a literary annual of new writing. His books include How to Read a Novelist and Dictionary of the Undoing\, as well as the anthologies Tales of Two Americas\, Tales of Two Planets\, The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story\, and Sacramento Noir. He is also the author of three poetry collections\, Maps\, The Park\, and Wind\, Trees. His work is translated into more than twenty languages\, and has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, and The New York Times. The former editor of Granta\, he lives in New York. \nKaren Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books (including I Hotel\, finalist for the National Book Award\, and most recently Sansei and Sensibility)\, all published by Coffee House Press. Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation\, the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature\, and a United States Artists’ Ford Foundation Fellowship\, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-freeman-california-rewritten/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251018T101500
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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-4/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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