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SUMMARY:Giving Day 2025
DESCRIPTION:On November 5\, 2025\, UC Santa Cruz will celebrate the 10th anniversary of Giving Day\, our signature 24-hour fundraising event that unites Slugs around the world in support of student success\, research\, and community programs. Over the past decade\, thousands of donors have raised millions to provide scholarships\, fuel groundbreaking research\, strengthen basic needs programs\, and ensure every student has the resources to thrive. \nShow Your Love for the Deep Read!  \nSupport The Deep Read today and help us continue to provide free access for students and the public to our author events\, virtual and in-person salons with UC Santa Cruz faculty and community partners\, and email series exploring the Deep Read book. Your gift also means we can give free books to every interested student each year. \nGiving Day 2025 will feature eight humanities projects\, exciting matches and challenges that amplify every gift\, and a global community of Slugs rallying for one cause: expanding opportunity. Mark your calendar\, sign up to be an Advocate\, and join us as we make the 10th year of Giving Day our most impactful yet. \nFor more information: Giving Day 2025.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/giving-day-2025/
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SUMMARY:Nora Khan - Discernment: Unruly Images\, Synthetic Media\, and Evolving Critical Impulse
DESCRIPTION:What can criticism offer us in a world of unruly generative images and synthetic media? What precise language might we use for machine learning’s impact\, or the wake of an algorithm? How must our practices of discernment and the critical impulse evolve in response to computational developments\, to perhaps be more resilient and responsive? \nThis talk invites one to consider how our language might move with ‘intelligent’ systems and beings that simulate liveness and likeness. To navigate a present and future dominated by synthetic media\, and created by predictive systems\, we take up a practice of seeing through systems. This talk first explores the craft of developing a hybrid\, strategic\, collective and dissident criticism of technology. It second reviews cases of baffling\, seemingly inarticulable experiences from early software experiments and artists’ interventions\, into AI/ML. Third\, it explores the evolution of language in response to material and symbolic systems that dramatically shape our creative approaches and cognition. Throughout\, the talk explores evolving critical methods that help us better situate ourselves to identify a vast range of hidden fictions and beliefs about what technology is meant to do and be. \nNora N. Khan is an independent critic\, essayist\, curator\, and educator based in Los Angeles. Her writing on philosophy of AI and emerging technologies is referenced heavily across fields. Formally\, this work attempts to theorize the limits of algorithmic knowledge and locate computation’s influence on critical language. She is currently History and Theory faculty at SCI-Arc; previously she was Arts Council Professor at UCLA in Design Media Arts (2024-2025)\, and professor in Digital + Media at Rhode Island School of Design\, where she was nominated for the John R. Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching (2018-2021). Her books are AI Art and the Stakes for Art Criticism (2025)\, Seeing\, Naming\, Knowing (2019) and Fear Indexing the X-Files (2017)\, with Steven Warwick. She is a member of the Curatorial Ensemble of the 2026 edition of Counterpublic\, one of the nation’s largest public civic exhibitions\, focused next on ‘Near Futures’. She was the Co-Curator with Andrea Bellini of the Biennale de L’Image en Mouvement 2024\, A Cosmic Movie Camera\, hosted by Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève\, and also curated Manual Override at The Shed (2020). \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/nora-khan-discernment-unruly-images-synthetic-media-and-evolving-critical-impulse/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nour Joudah - Palestine is the Countermap
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a talk with Nour Joudah at the second annual Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement series!\n \nThe Palestinian experience\, like that of many indigenous peoples\, is one unbound by time; it occupies a simultaneity of temporalities in any given moment and is constantly finding ways to escape the settler colonial temporal trap. Decolonial praxis in the production of present and future spaces can range from operationalizing colonial archives to the remappings of destroyed towns. But in this moment of heightened genocide\, this presentation argues that the most significant countermap to settler imaginaries and violence is Palestine itself. Beyond the rhetorical or symbolic power of the incredible survival of Palestinians\, Palestine as a physical space (and the Gaza Strip in particular) stands as a living countermap that not only confronts and unsettles power relations with the Zionist regime\, but serves as a counter-cartography on a global scale. \nNour Joudah is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at UCLA and a former President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Geography at UC-Berkeley (2022-23). Dr. Joudah’s work examines mapping practices and indigenous survival and futures in settler states\, highlighting how indigenous countermapping is a both cartographic and decolonial praxis. She also has a MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University. \n\nThis event is sponsored by The Center for Racial Justice.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nour-joudah-palestine-is-the-countermap/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Heirloom Seed Keepers Study Session
DESCRIPTION:Farmers and gardeners have long appreciated a wide variety of plants and have nurtured them for meals\, healing\, and exchange. But diversity too often has been surrendered to monocultures of fields and spirits\, predisposing much of modern agriculture to uniformity and\, consequently\, vulnerability. Today it is primarily at the individual level—such as growing and saving a strange old bean variety or a curious-looking gourd—that any lasting conservation actually takes place. \nTo start building a common space of thinking together\, we’re going to meet up and discuss the first and third chapter of Virginia de Nazarea’s Heirloom Seeds and Their Keepers.  Nazarea studies seed-saving communities in the Philippines and the Global South\, with special attention to the way farmers on the margins have preserved biodiversity and cultural memory.  You can find the full text here.  We know that time can be scarce in the thick of the quarter\, so if you don’t get through all of the reading\, no stress. \n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be hosted at The Greenhouse Project on the UCSC farm\, at 152 Farm Rd. More 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/study-session-heirloom-seed-keepers/
LOCATION:The Greenhouse Project\, 152 Farm Rd\, Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Campus to Career - Job Talk with Rebecca Hernandez
DESCRIPTION:Wondering what you can do with your Arts or Humanities degree? Hear from a real professional on our campus with a background in both. Rebecca Hernandez is the inaugural Community Archivist at the UCSC University Library. In this job talk\, she will tell us about her educational journey as a first-generation transfer student and share insights and reflections from her professional path. This event is intended for UCSC students interested in careers in higher education\, museums\, or archives. \n \nRebecca Hernandez earned a PhD in American Studies\, specializing in American Indian art and material culture. She also holds an MA in American Indian Studies and an MFA in Exhibition Design and Museum Studies. With a wealth of experience in higher education\, Rebecca has worked as both an administrator and a student affairs professional. Currently serving as the inaugural Community Archivist at the UC Santa Cruz University Library\, she collaborates with community members to preserve the rich history and cultural heritage of Santa Cruz County. \nHosted by UCSC Humanities Division and UCSC Arts Division
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/campus-to-career-job-talk-with-rebecca-hernandez/
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SUMMARY:Upatyaka Dutta - As We Sing\, So Shall We Pluck
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. \n \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/as-we-sing-so-shall-we-pluck-music-and-talks-with-upatyaka-dutta/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Ariel Gore
DESCRIPTION:Wonder as the Source \nAriel Gore is an author\, editor\, and teacher. She makes books\, zines\, coloring books\, and tarot cards. She is the founding editor & publisher of the Alternative Press Award-winning magazine Hip Mama and the author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction. Her latest\, Hexing the Patriarchy\, is out from from Seal Press. Her shameless novel/memoir\, We Were Witches\, was published by The Feminist Press. Her memoir\, The End of Eve\, has been called “Terms of Endearment meets Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Her anthology Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City won the best “LGBT anthology” at the 22nd annual Lambda Literary Award in 2010. She teaches writing online at Ariel’s Gore’s School for Wayward Writers at the Literary Kitchen. \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-ariel-gore/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Crafting the Research-Based Essay with Ariel Gore
DESCRIPTION:Join award-winning author and editor Ariel Gore for a conversation and mini-workshop on translating your research for non-academic genres including personal essays\, fiction\, memoir/autofiction\, and journalism. What does your reader need to know? How do you find a balance between your own voice and the words of others? What do you do about things like citation? A master of deeply-researched personal narrative\, Gore will share decades of experience\, take questions\, and offer some tools to get started. \nThis event is open to graduate students as well as faculty. \n \nSpace is limited and first-come\, first-serve\, so register now! \nParticipants will receive a short excerpt of Ariel Gore’s new book\, Rehearsals for Dying (The Feminist Press) via email upon registration but may want to consider reading the whole book or attending Gore’s Living Writers reading on 11/6. \nAriel Gore is a LAMBDA Award-winning editor and author of 13 books of hybrid feminist fiction and nonfiction\, including the shameless novel/memoir We Were Witches\, the how-to guide Hexing the Patriarchy\, and the memoirs Atlas of the Human Heart\, The End of Eve\, and Rehearsals for Dying. She founded the American Press Award-winning zine Hip Mama. She also makes coloring books and tarot cards\, and teaches writing online at Ariel Gore’s School for Wayward Writers at the Literary Kitchen. She often lives in Oakland\, Santa Fe\, and Brooklyn. \n\nSponsored by the UCOP-sponsored MRPI in Disability Justice and Abolition Medicine and The Humanities Institute PhD+ series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/crafting-the-research-based-essay/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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