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SUMMARY:Julian Brave NoiseCat - We Survived the Night
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Julian Brave NoiseCat who will share his stunning debut We Survived the Night. Drawing from five years of on-the-ground reporting\, We Survived the Night paints a profound and unforgettable portrait of contemporary Indigenous life\, alongside an intimate and deeply powerful reckoning between a father and a son. Soulful\, formally daring\, indelible work from an important new voice. \nThis event is cosponsored by the American Indian Resource Center and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. It will take place at the London Nelson Community Center. A student reception will be held at 6:30pm. The first 30 registered student attendees will receive free entry and a copy of We Survived the Night. All other attendees may purchase tickets using the button below. \n \n“Written in gorgeous\, sparse prose\, We Survived the Night reads like a novel. Told with a blistering honesty\, the truth and grit create a beautifully woven coyote story we haven’t heard before. This is a love letter to Oakland\, to the Canim Lake Band Tsq’secen of the Secwepemc Nation\, to a father from his son\, to the act of being a Native person in the twenty first century finding ways to love even through all that wounds have opened and wrought. With this\, Julian Brave NoiseCat has written a book I’ve been waiting my whole life to read.” —Tommy Orange \nA stunning narrative from one of the most powerful young writers at work today—We Survived the Night (Knopf) interweaves oral history with hard-hitting journalism and a deeply personal father-son journey into a searing portrait of Indigenous survival\, love\, and resurgence. \nJulian Brave NoiseCat’s childhood was rich with culture and contradictions. When his Secwépemc and St’at’imc father\, an artist haunted by a turbulent past\, abandoned the family\, he and his non-Native mother were embraced by the urban Native community in Oakland\, California\, as well as by family on the Canim Lake Indian Reserve in British Columbia. In his father’s absence\, NoiseCat immersed himself in Native history and culture to understand the man he seldom saw—his past\, his story\, where he came from—and\, by extension\, himself. \nYears later\, NoiseCat sets out across the continent to correct the erasure\, invisibility\, and misconceptions surrounding the First Peoples of this land\, as he develops his voice as a storyteller and artist in his own right. \nJulian Brave NoiseCat is a writer\, Oscar-nominated filmmaker\, champion powwow dancer\, and student of Salish art and history. His writing has appeared in dozens of publications\, including The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and The New Yorker. NoiseCat has been recognized with numerous awards including the 2022 American Mosaic Journalism Prize and many National Native Media Awards. He was a finalist for the Livingston Award and multiple Canadian National Magazine Awards\, and was named to the TIME100 Next list in 2021. His first documentary\, Sugarcane\, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. Directed alongside Emily Kassie\, Sugarcane premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival\, where NoiseCat and Kassie won the Directing Award in U.S. Documentary. NoiseCat is a proud member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq̓éscen̓ and descendant of the Líl̓wat Nation of Mount Currie. We Survived the Night is his first book.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/julian-brave-noisecat-we-survived-the-night/
LOCATION:London Nelson Community Center\, 301 Center St.\, Santa Cruz\, United States
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SUMMARY:On the Field\, Making Archives - Music and Talks with Upatyaka Dutta
DESCRIPTION:Within the everyday workspaces of Assam’s tea plantations\, Adivasi tea tribes engage in listening\, sounding\, and music. At times\, these sounds and music flow into Adivasi living areas known as “lines.” Upatyaka explores the dynamic relationship between the sounds of the workplace and the sociocultural life woven through tea plantation labor. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted across Assam’s tea estates and her experiences as a singer from the region\, she listens to the voices of Adivasi women pluckers—their songs\, conversations\, and laughter; Adivasi and non-Adivasi interactions; and the broader soundscape in which they work. \nUpatyaka Dutta is a doctoral candidate in Ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto and a 2024 recipient of the Society for Ethnomusicology’s 21st-Century Fellowship. Her broader research interests include sounds studies and community and collaborative archival practices. \n  \n\nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Music Department\, The Kamil and Talat Hasan Endowed Chair for Classical Indian Music\, and the Ali Akbar Khan Endowment for Classical Indian Music
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/on-the-field-making-archives-music-and-talks-with-upatyaka-dutta/
LOCATION:Music Center Room 131\, 1156 HIGH STREET\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251028T130000
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SUMMARY:± AI Initiative Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a kick-off meeting about The Humanities Institute’s new ± AI Initiative. Learn about THI’s vision and funding opportunities and connect with colleagues who have overlapping interests in humanities and artificial intelligence. Bring your research ideas\, projects\, dreams\, and plans to the discussion as we look at ways to further advance humanistic work on new technologies. \nThis brown bag lunch is open to current UCSC faculty and staff across campus involved in humanistic research\, teaching\, and administration who are interested in the development\, uses\, and impacts of artificial intelligence. \nPlease make sure to RSVP here:
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ai-initiative-meeting/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251029T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251029T133000
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SUMMARY:Reading the Conjuncture with Dimitris Papadopoulos\, Jim Clifford\, Camilla Hawthorne\, Gail Hershatter\, Laurie Palmer\, and Vanita Seth
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness: earth ecologies x technoscience \nWhat a vital occasion it would be to receive intellectual gifts that enable us to better grasp our current socio-ecological moment\, especially as many of us feel short of interpretations. We are inspired by Stuart Hall’s conjunctural thinking\, as we face a situation where intensive and condensed contradictions unfold—not from a single primary cause\, but through intricate political and ecological\, economic and cultural\, social and geological articulations and re-articulations that shape the specificity of our present and reorder the coordinates of crisis and opportunity. This panel\, along with the discussion that will follow\, aims to be a moment of gift-giving—leaving behind conceptual\, narratological\, or visual gifts for those who seek to understand a present that is elusive and deeply troubling. \nJim Clifford\, Professor Emeritus in History of Consciousness and founding director of the Center for Cultural Studies\, is best known for his historical and literary critiques of anthropological representation\, travel writing\, and museum practices. His last book\, Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the 21st Century (2013)\, is the third in a trilogy which also includes The Predicament of Culture (1988) and Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late 20th Century (1997). Jim is currently investigating the colonial legacies and future possibilities of ethnological museums in the former First World. \nCamilla Hawthorne is a critical human geographer and associate professor of sociology and critical race and ethnic studies at UC Santa Cruz who studies migration\, citizenship\, racial capitalism\, and the insurgent abolition geographies of the Black Mediterranean. She is the author of Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean (2022)\, translated into Italian as Razza e cittadinanza. Frontiere contese e contestate nel Mediterraneo nero (2023)\, and co-editor of The Black Mediterranean: Bodies\, Borders\, and Citizenship (2021)\, The Black Geographic: Praxis\, Resistance\, Futurity (2023)\, and Heartbreak and Other Geographies: Collected Works of Katherine McKittrick (forthcoming 2026). She also serves as program director of the Black Europe Summer School\, an intensive course on citizenship\, race\, and the Black diaspora in Europe that is held for two weeks each summer in Amsterdam\, the Netherlands. \nGail Hershatter is Research Professor and Distinguished Professor Emer. of History at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and a former President of the Association for Asian Studies. Her books include The Workers of Tianjin (1986\, Chinese translation 2016)\, Personal Voices: China Women in the 1980s (1988\, with Emily Honig)\, Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution in Twentieth-Century Shanghai (1997\, Chinese translation 2003)\, Women in China’s Long Twentieth Century (2004)\, The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past (2011; Chinese translation 2017) and Women and China’s Revolutions (2019).  She is at work on a book provisionally entitled “Travels on the Revolution’s Edge.” \nA. Laurie Palmer is an artist\, writer\, and teacher whose research-based work focuses on undoing and re-crafting human practices of relating with the material world towards building just\, livable\, and joyful social and environmental relations. Palmer just retired after 10 years in the Art Department at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she helped her colleagues build the Environmental Art and Social Practice MFA program. \nDimitris Papadopoulos is a transdisciplinary scholar working at the intersections of science and technology studies\, the environmental humanities\, and cultural and visual studies. He is Professor of History of Consciousness in the History of Consciousness Department\, University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nVanita Seth is an associate professor in the Politics Department. \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. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/reading-the-conjuncture-with-dimitris-papadopoulos-jim-clifford-camilla-hawthorne-gail-hershatter-laurie-palmer-and-vanita-seth/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Humanities Grad School 101
DESCRIPTION:Are you curious about graduate school in the humanities? Join this Humanities Grad School 101 session\, where we’ll hear from Associate Dean of Research Pranav Anand and stellar UCSC  graduate students in History\, Linguistics\, Literature\, and Philosophy. We’ll discuss important considerations for deciding to pursue graduate school and what to look for in an academic program and advisor. You’ll leave knowing how to decide whether grad school is right for you and what you can do now to prepare. \n \nThis is a hybrid event and will be hosted both in-person and on Zoom. \nDinner will be provided for those joining in person. \n\nThis event is presented by the Humanities Division Employing Humanities initiative.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-grad-school-101/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251030T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251030T133000
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SUMMARY:When Human-Centered AI Encountered Digital Humanities: A Dialogue between Magy Seif El-Nasr and Minghui Hu
DESCRIPTION:What happens when the ethical and interpretive frameworks of the humanities meet the algorithmic and interactive architectures of artificial intelligence? This dialogue brings together two leading voices from distinct yet converging fields: Magy Seif El-Nasr\, a pioneer in human-centered AI\, game analytics\, and interactive narrative design\, and Minghui Hu\, a historian and digital humanist\, explores the cultural\, religious\, and intellectual history of China through computational and interpretive lenses. \nTogether\, they will explore shared concerns—from narrative design and agency to ethical modeling and epistemological boundaries—charting new possibilities at the intersection of technology and the humanities. This conversation is not only a meeting of disciplines\, but a reimagining of the collaborative future of AI and humanistic inquiry. \nThis event is sponsored by the Leading the Change Collaboration Series at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/when-human-centered-ai-encountered-digital-humanities-a-dialogue-between-magy-seif-el-nasr-and-minghui-hu/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Aracelis Girmay
DESCRIPTION:Wonder as the Source \nAracelis Girmay is a poet\, teacher\, and editor. Her poems trace the connections of transformation and loss across cities and bodies. She is the author of the poetry collections the black maria (2016)\, Kingdom Animalia (2011)\, and Teeth (2007). She was named a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. In 2011 Girmay was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and in 2015 she received a Whiting Award for Poetry. A Cave Canem Fellow and an Acentos board member\, she led youth and community writing workshops. Girmay is the Knight Family Professor of Creative Writing at Stanford University. \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-aracelis-girmay/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251030T190000
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Alice Waters
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz are delighted to welcome award-winning chef and food activist Alice Waters for a discussion about A School Lunch Revolution\, “A blueprint for the ways in which we should feed our kids organic foods\, both at home and at school.” (Epicurious) \nIn this wonderful\, multigenerational cookbook for adults and children alike\, Waters champions an empowered relationship between students and organic food\, offering delicious recipes that will nourish future generations—and ourselves—from the inside out. \n \nAll tickets include a donation to the Edible Schoolyard Project and Life Lab. \nAlice Waters is a chef and the founder/owner of Chez Panisse in Berkeley\, California. She has won numerous awards\, including the National Humanities Medal\, the French Legion of Honor Medal\, the Cavaliere of the Italian Republic\, the Julia Child Award\, and three James Beard Awards. As vice president of Slow Food International and founder of the Edible Schoolyard Project\, she has helped bring food awareness to people of all ages all over the world. \nMore information at Bookshop Santa Cruz – An Evening with Alice Waters
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/an-evening-with-alice-waters/
LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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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-5/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Seeds of Resurgence Cluster Meet and Greet
DESCRIPTION:Join the Seeds of Resurgence Research Cluster\, in conjunction with The Greenhouse Project (TGP)\, as they host a gathering where people interested in the cluster can meet and eat and do something together with their hands. Participants will also build a seed undercommons (as opposed to a bank).  Supplies will be provided.  If you have any seeds from past seasons you’d like to contribute\, please save them and bring them along. \nThanks to folks in TGP\, we’ll be able to add some seeds collected from last year’s harvest\, grown from seeds provided by the Palestinian Heirloom Seed Library. \n\nThis event will be hosted at The Greenhouse Project on the UCSC farm\, at 152 Farm Rd. Additional information below: \nUCSC Permitted and non-UCSC Pay-to-Park sites are available at Parking Lot 116 or Parking Lot 168. The closest bus access to the site is located at Hager Dr. and Village Rd. Please reach out if you have additional transportation needs in order to participate in programming. \nWe really want the space to be accessible to you\, so if that’s a challenge in some way\, please don’t hesitate to contact us. TGP is an outdoor community garden space within a farm setting. Accessible bathrooms are available on-site and limited accessible parking is available upon request. Please let us know if you have additional questions or requests related to accessibility. \n\nThis event is presented by the Seeds of Resurgence Research Cluster.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/seed-commons-build-getting-to-know-one-another/
LOCATION:The Greenhouse Project\, 152 Farm Rd\, Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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