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SUMMARY:2026 Santa Cruz Fungus Fair
DESCRIPTION:Did you know that without fungus\, we’d have no bread\, cheese\, beer\, or wine? Or that anti-cholesterol medicine was developed from mushrooms? Come to the Santa Cruz Fungus Fair to learn fascinating and fun facts about beautiful and diverse species of mushrooms! This unique Santa Cruz area tradition draws thousands of visitors each January. View remarkable mushroom arts and crafts\, taste unusual and exceptionally good fungal fare\, and experience FFSC’s overriding mission: “We keep the fun in fungus!” \n \n\nThe Humanities Institute will be present at this event to promote the 2026 Deep Read\, which will feature Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds\, Change our Minds\, and Shape our Futures by British mycologist Merlin Sheldrake. We hope you’ll join us at the Fungus Fair and for this year’s Deep Read!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2026-santa-cruz-fungus-fair/
LOCATION:London Nelson Community Center\, 301 Center St.\, Santa Cruz\, United States
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SUMMARY:Christopher Chen - The Poetics of Racial Boundary Formation
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines how National Book Award-winning poet and translator Daniel Borzutzky and poet-essayist Wendy S. Walters explore the relationship between capitalism and racialization through poetics of spatial boundary formation. Mobilizing innovative poetic forms\, Borzutzky’s recursive\, translational syntax mirrors capitalist processes of abstraction and Walters’ sonnets are mapped onto suburban planning documents. Borzutzky’s poetry offers a sustained meditation on the globalized political economy of border walls\, revealing how the US-Mexico boundary\, debt walls\, and factory enclosures simultaneously divide and connect populations through transnational circuits of capital accumulation and neoliberal state violence. Walters’ Troy\, Michigan\, a book-length experimental autobiography in sonnets\, reads race as a set of bounded conditions of life in the post-Fordist Rust Belt structured by the history of residential segregation\, highway and transportation infrastructure\, and thwarted class mobility. \nChristopher Chen is Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He has published articles\, poetry\, and reviews in boundary 2\, Post45 Contemporaries\, South Atlantic Quarterly\, The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory\, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics\, Money and American Literature\, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. He is the author of Literature and Race in the Democracy of Goods (2022)\, a comparative study of contemporary Black and Asian North American experimental poetry. \n  \n\n \nWinter 2026 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 Winter 2026 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/christopher-chen-the-poetics-of-racial-boundary-formation/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Grants and Fellowships
DESCRIPTION:Grants and Fellowships for Humanities Scholars \nLearn how to make your fellowship and grant proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss what does and does not need to be in a research proposal\, the proper tone and form\, and ways to tease out the larger stakes of individual research projects and avoid the jargon of field-specific descriptions. This session will help you craft a research proposal that appeals to a broad academic audience. It will also be an opportunity for graduate students to learn about The Humanities Institute’s funding resources as well as strategies for acquiring extramural support. \nThe workshop will be led by Pranav Anand (THI Faculty Director and Professor of Linguistics)\, Banu Bargu (THI Steering Committee Member and Professor of History of Consciousness)\, and Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (THI Research Programs and Communications Director). \n  \nPlease RSVP using your UCSC email address: \nLoading… \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-grants-and-fellowships-5/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Prophetic Maharaja: Loss\, Sovereignty\, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia
DESCRIPTION:How do traditions and peoples grapple with loss\, particularly when it is of such magnitude that it defies the possibility of recovery or restoration? Rajbir Singh Judge offers new ways to understand loss and the limits of history by considering Maharaja Duleep Singh and his struggle during the 1880s to reestablish Sikh rule\, the lost Khalsa Raj\, in Punjab. \nSikh sovereignty in what is today northern India and northeastern Pakistan came to an end in the middle of the nineteenth century\, when the British annexed the Sikh kingdom and\, eventually\, exiled its child maharaja\, Duleep Singh\, to England. In the 1880s\, Singh embarked on an abortive attempt to restore the lost Sikh kingdom. Judge explores not only Singh’s efforts but also the Sikh people’s responses—the dreams\, fantasies\, and hopes that became attached to the Khalsa Raj. He shows how a community engaged military\, political\, and psychological loss through theological debate\, literary production\, bodily discipline\, and ethical practice in order to contest colonial politics. This book argues that Sikhs in the final decades of the nineteenth century were not simply looking to recuperate the past but to remake it—and to dwell within loss instead of transcending it—and in so doing opened new possibilities. \nBringing together Sikh tradition\, psychoanalysis\, and postcolonial thought\, Prophetic Maharaja provides bracing insights into concepts of sovereignty and the writing of history. \nRajbir Singh Judge is Associate Professor of History and Associate Member of Asian and Asian American Studies at California State University\, Long Beach. He specializes in the intellectual and cultural history of South Asia with a particular emphasis on Punjab and the Sikh tradition. His first book\, Prophetic Maharaja: Loss\, Sovereignty\, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia was published by Columbia University Press in 2024 and was awarded “Best First Book in the History of Religions” by the American Academy of Religion. He is currently working on his second book\, A Critique of Contextual Reason\, for which he was awarded membership at the Institute for Advanced Study in the 2024-2025 Academic Year. His publications have appeared in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion\, Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory\, Comparative Studies of South Asia\, Africa\, the Middle East\, Modern Asian Studies\, Theory & Event\, Cultural Critique\, the Journal of the History of Sexuality\, History & Theory\, among others. \n\nSponsored by Sarbjit Singh Aurora Endowed Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies\, Department of History\, and Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-act-of-periodizing-the-sikh-tradition-and-the-promise-of-an-indic-world/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Moulay Hicham Alaoui - Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Religion\, Politics\, and the Struggle for Freedom
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book talk by Dr. Hicham Alaoui in which he will deliver insights about the battle for democracy in the Middle East\, drawing upon his recent book\, Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Tunisia and Egypt in Comparative Perspective (Palgrave\, 2022)\, also available in French (Le Cherche Midi\, 2024) and Arabic (Dar Saqi\, 2025). Reflecting an ongoing research agenda\, the book provides a novel framework for imagining how democratic politics can emerge from social conflicts waged over religion and Islamism in the public sphere. Contrasting cases like Tunisia\, Egypt\, and other regional countries\, it further illuminates the novel and oft-ignored connections between secular opposition\, theological identity\, and authoritarian rule in the Arab world. A reception will be held from 5-6pm in Hum 1\, Room 202\, after the event. \nDr. Hicham Alaoui is a lecturer at Stanford University\, where he teaches political science. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He is the founder and director of the Hicham Alaoui Foundation\, which undertakes innovative social scientific research in the Middle East and North Africa. He is a scholar on the comparative politics of democratization and religion. His latest publications include Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Tunisia and Egypt in Comparative Perspective (Palgrave\, 2022)\, which has been translated into French and Arabic\, as well as various other books\, including the most recent co-edited book Political Economy\, Power\, and Cultural Heritage in the Arab World (Lynne Rienner\, 2025) and co-authored book Making Aid Work: Dueling with Dictators and Warlords in the Middle East and North Africa (Lynne Rienner\, 2025). He holds an A.B. from Princeton University\, M.A. from Stanford University\, and D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. \n\nCo-presented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and the Politics Department.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/moulay-hicham-alaoui-pacted-democracy-in-the-middle-east-religion-politics-and-the-struggle-for-freedom/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - Henry IV\, Part 1
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Henry IV\, Part 1 by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on January 10\, 17\, 24\, 31 & February 7\, 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 a volunteer read aloud of the play. On February 7\, the film The Hollow Crown\, Henry IV Part 1 will be shown. 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\nJan 10: Alexander Brondarbit\, A historian who specializes in kingship in late medieval and early modern England; author of two books on The Wars of the Roses. Readings: Act 1 – Act 2\, Scene 2\nJan 17: Patty Gallagher\, An actor and Professor of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz; Artistic Associate at Santa Cruz Shakespeare and the Rogue Theatre in Tucson\, Arizona. Readings: Act 2\, Scene 3 – Act 3\, Scene 2.\nJan 24: Julia Reinhardt Lupton\, Distinguished Professor of English at UC Irvine\, co-director of the UCI Shakespeare Center. She is the author of six books on Shakespeare. Readings: Act 3\, Scene 3 – Act 4.\nJan 31: Abigail Heald is currently teaching the Henriad (Richard II\, Henry IV\, Parts I and Part II\, and Henry V) at Stanford University. Readings: Act 5.\nFeb 7: Film Screening: The Hollow Crown\, Henry IV Part 1. Jeremy Irons-King Henry/ Tom Hiddleson-Prince Hal/ Simon Russell Beale-Falstaff\, directed by Richard Eyre.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-henry-iv-part-1-2/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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