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SUMMARY:Gregory O'Malley - The Escapes of David George
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes prize-winning historian and UC Santa Cruz professor Gregory O’Malley for a discussion about his new book The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery\, Freedom\, and the American Revolution—the dramatic story of a Black man’s relentless search for freedom in Revolutionary America. \nThis book tells the story of David George who in 1762 at the age of 19 escaped from a plantation in Virginia thus becoming a fugitive enslaved person. Using archival records and David’s own brief account of his life\, which is the earliest written testimony by a fugitive enslaved person in North America\, the book tells the story of David George’s relentless search for freedom in Revolutionary-era America and presents a unique perspective on our nation’s origins\, principles\, and contradictions. \nPiecing together archival records and David George’s own brief account of his life—the earliest written testimony by a fugitive enslaved person in North America—Gregory O’Malley presents a thrilling narrative and a unique perspective on our nation’s origins\, principles\, and contradictions. \n \nGregory E O’Malley is professor of history at UC Santa Cruz and the author of The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery\, Freedom\, and the American Revolution. His first book\, Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America\, 1619-1807\, won the Forkosch\, Rawley\, Owsley\, and Elsa Goveia awards. He is a key contributor to the SlaveVoyages.org\, consulted on The 1619 Project\, and lectures widely on the slave trade and related subjects. \n\nCosponsored by The Humanities Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gregory-omalley-the-escapes-of-david-george/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:George Saunders - Vigil
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes George Saunders\, recipient of the 2025 National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters\, for a discussion about his wise\, playful\, electric novel Vigil\, which takes place at the bedside of an oil company CEO in the twilight hours of his life as he is ferried from this world into the next. \n \nNot for the first time\, Jill “Doll” Blaine finds herself hurtling toward earth\, reconstituting as she falls\, right down to her favorite black pumps. She plummets towards her newest charge\, yet another soul she must usher into the afterlife\, and lands headfirst in the circular drive of his ornate mansion. She has performed this sacred duty 343 times since her own death. Her charges\, as a rule\, have been greatly comforted in their final moments. But this charge\, she soon discovers\, isn’t like the others: the powerful K. J. Boone will not be consoled\, because he has nothing to regret. He lived a big\, bold life\, and the world is better for it. Isn’t it? \nVigil transports us\, careening\, through the wild final evening of an epic\, complicated life. Crowds of people and animals—worldly and otherworldly\, alive and dead—arrive\, clamoring for a reckoning. Birds swarm the dying man’s room\, a black calf grazes on the love seat\, a man from a distant\, drought-ravaged village materializes\, two oil-business cronies from decades past show up with chilling plans for Boone’s postdeath future. \nGeorge Saunders is the author of thirteen books\, including the novel Lincoln in the Bardo\, which won the Man Booker Prize\, and five collections of stories\, including Tenth of December\, which was a finalist for the National Book Award\, and the recent collection Liberation Day (selected by former President Obama as one of his ten favorite books of 2022). Three of Saunders’s books—Pastoralia\, Tenth of December\, and Lincoln in the Bardo—were chosen for The New York Times’s list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Saunders hosts the popular Story Club on Substack\, which grew out of his book on the Russian short story\, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain. In 2013\, he was named one of the world’s 100 Most Influential People by Time. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University. \n\nThis event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/george-saunders-vigil/
LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mike McCarthy - A Theory of Late Populism: Popularism
DESCRIPTION:This talk identifies a critical feature of late populism: popularism. Traditional populism operates through articulation: actively constructing “the people” as a political category by linking heterogeneous demands together against an elite or other.  Popularism\, alternatively\, functions through refraction: it seeks maximum resonance with pre-existing popular attitudes and treats “the people” as an already-coherent homogenous group\, simultaneously distorting the ones it claims to embody. While these modes of political practice diverge\, they are two contradictory sides of the same political phenomena. The talk will explain what popularism is; why left and right populisms have increasingly converged on anti-immigrant and culturally conservative positions\, and why popularism commits a fundamental error when it attempts to reflect popular common sense. \nMike McCarthy is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Community Studies here at UC Santa Cruz. At the center of his work is a focus on class and democracy. His first book Dismantling Solidarity: Capitalist Politics and American Pensions since the New Deal was published with Cornell University Press in 2017 and was awarded the Paul Sweezy Book Award as well as an honorable mention for the Labor and Labor Movements Book Award. His most recent book is The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (and a Radical Plan to Rebuild It)\, which was published by Verso Books in 2025. In addition to academic publishing\, his work has been featured in Boston Review\, The Guardian\, Hammer & Hope\, Jacobin\, The New York Times\, The New Left Review\, and The Washington Post. He is currently writing about class and political identity. \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/mike-mccarthy-a-theory-of-late-populism-popularism/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:A History of Families: Bosses\, Bullies\, and Dictators in the Modern Philippines
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) invites you to join them for their winter Slow Seminar\, “A History of Families: Bosses\, Bullies\, and Dictators in the Modern Philippines \nProfessor Steve McKay (Sociology) will facilitate our conversation drawing on a selection of classic and contemporary scholarship on regional politics in the Philippines. With the present Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. presidency and the International Criminal Court case against former president Rodrigo Duterte in mind\, we look forward to a critical discussion of historical and contemporary Southeast Asian politics. \n\nPlease register for the Slow Seminar. Registered guests will receive copies of the selected readings via email. This is a Hybrid event. Participants may join in-person or by Zoom. The Zoom link will be sent out at least 1 hour before the event. \nNew to Slow Seminars? Check out SEACoast’s definition here. \n\nPresented by SEACoast
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-history-of-families-bosses-bullies-and-dictators-in-the-modern-philippines/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:More-Than-Humanities Lab Early Career Scholars Share Session
DESCRIPTION:Please join the More-Than-Human(ities) Lab for our winter “share session.” Two of our early-career lab members will share their current projects and invite your feedback in an informal\, interactive conversation. \nOur presenters will be: \nPietro Autorino: Searching for ‘contemporary agroecology’ beyond Soilutionism: notes from a small on-farm experimental compost station in Italy \n  \n  \nStephanie Lain: Negotiating a Rainforest’s Ransom – A role play game in development.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/more-than-humanities-lab-early-career-scholars-share-session-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers With Carlo Acevedo
DESCRIPTION:Craft Between Worlds \nCarlo Acevedo is a Colombian poet who is the author of Day’s Fortune / Fortuna del día\, a bilingual collection. His work won the 2018 Arcipreste de Hita prize. Born in Barranquilla\, Colombia in 1988\, Acevedo holds a master’s degree in Creative Writing in Spanish from the University of Iowa and is currently a Ph.D. student in the Interdisciplinary Humanities program at the University of California\, Merced. His poems have appeared in numerous national and international anthologies\, and the English translation of Day’s Fortune by Kelsi Vanada won the Sundial Literary Translation Award in 2024. \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-carlo-acevedo/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kara Cooney - When Women Ruled the World
DESCRIPTION:Ancient Studies presents the 2026 Carl Deppe Lecture featuring Kara Cooney\, who will present her lecture “When Women Ruled the World.” \nWho were the women who once ruled the richest and most successful state of the ancient Mediterranean and African Bronze Age? Ancient Egypt’s female kings\, including Hatshepsut and Nefertiti\, ruled against all odds of the patriarchy in which they lived with real\, unadulterated power. Yet many of these female leaders were judged harshly for taking power or erased from the historical record by the men who followed them\, leaving them elusive historical figures surrounded by mystery and myth. In this lecture\, Prof. Kara Cooney\, Egyptologist and author of When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt\, will go beyond the myths and shed light on these powerful female kings and their historical legacy. \n \nKara Cooney is a professor of ancient Egyptian art and architecture and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California\, Los Angeles. Specializing in social history\, gender studies\, and economies of the ancient world\, she received her PhD in Egyptology from Johns Hopkins University. Her books include The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt\, When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt\, and The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World. Her latest books include Recycling for Death: Coffin Reuse in Ancient Egypt and the Theban Royal Caches\, Ancient Egyptian Society: Challenging Assumptions\, Exploring Approaches\, and Coffin Commerce.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-kara-cooney-when-women-ruled-the-world/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Deep Read at Fungus February First Friday
DESCRIPTION:Join the Deep Read at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History (SCMNH) for Fungus February First Friday. We will celebrate the opening of Fungus February at the Museum with a night of science\, art\, and community exploring the vital role of fungi and fungal webs in our world\, the subject of our Deep Read book\, Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds\, Change Our Minds\, and Shape Our Futures. \nCome learn more about Entangled Life and connect with artists\, mycologists\, and community partners steeped in the world of fungi. This event will offer hands-on activities\, refreshments\, and special seasonal items in the Museum Store. Admission is free\, all are welcome\, and an open bar will be available for guests 21+. \nFor more information about First Friday\, see the Museum website.  There will be many other Fungus February events co-sponsored by THI’s Deep Read at the Museum this month.  See the SCMNH event calendar for details.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deep-read-at-fungus-february-first-friday/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
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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-1-5/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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