Events
Week of Events
Of Body and Soul: Politics and Eschatology in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean
This seminar explores how pre-modern debates over body and soulshaped political and eschatological thought in the Mediterranean. Each panel brings Jewish, Christian, and Islamic voices into dialogue, with Dante Alighieri's oeuvre as a recurring point of comparison. Our aim is to situate questions of embodiment, psychology, soteriology, and collective destiny in light of their historical […]
Sunday, February 15, 2026
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Monday, February 16, 2026
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Tuesday, February 17, 2026
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Wednesday, February 18, 2026
- February 18, 2026 -Martin Rizzo-Martinez – Wounded Lee: the Red Power movement in 1970s Santa Cruz in the wake of Alcatraz
- February 18, 2026PhD+ Workshop – THI Public Fellowship Information Session
Martin Rizzo-Martinez – Wounded Lee: the Red Power movement in 1970s Santa Cruz in the wake of Alcatraz
In the spring of 1975, a 1,500-year-old Indigenous cemetery on Lee Road in Watsonville, California, was threatened by a development project. Members of the local Native American community with ties to this sacred site occupied the construction site in protest of the development. The local Sheriff called upon the newly formed well-armed County SWAT force, […]
PhD+ Workshop – THI Public Fellowship Information Session
Curious about becoming a THI Graduate Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia, then you may be interested in THI’s Public Fellowship program. Public fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to […]
Thursday, February 19, 2026
- February 19, 2026More-Than-Humanities Lab Reading Group: Against Purity
- February 19, 2026 -Living Writers with Nathalie Khankan
More-Than-Humanities Lab Reading Group: Against Purity
Please join the More-Than-Human(ities) Lab for our winter book club meeting. We will be discussing Alexis Shotwell’s book Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times, which offers a framework for conceiving of our own complicity in the presence of toxicity, climate change, and other ongoing crises. Event attendees will be expected to have read the book. […]
Living Writers with Nathalie Khankan
Craft Between Worlds Nathalie Khankan is a poet and scholar, author of quiet orient riot (Omnidawn). The collection won Omnidawn's 2019 1st/2nd Book Prize and received the 2021 California Book Award in Poetry. Fady Joudah calls the book “a flowering wound,” posing subversive questions about the body, motherhood, and settler colonialism while insisting on tenderness. […]
Friday, February 20, 2026
- February 20, 2026 -Linguistics Colloquium with Ethan Poole
Linguistics Colloquium with Ethan Poole
Join the Linguistics Department for Ethan Poole's talk “Syntactic Variables and Semantic Minimality” in collaboration with Zahra Mirrazi. In this talk, Poole argues that when two syntactic variables are "related" and stand in a c- command relationship at LF, a 3⁄4-pattern emerges: free/free, bound/bound, bound/free, and *free/bound. Several otherwise-disparate puzzles are shown to fall under […]
Saturday, February 21, 2026
- February 21, 2026 -Latino Role Models Conference
Latino Role Models Conference
Achieve your dreams for college and career! A free annual event for Santa Cruz County students, grades 6 to college, and their families, featuring Latino professionals, college students, and resource information. Presented in Spanish with English translation. Attendees eligible for prizes. For more information: SCSenderos.org Presented by Cabrillo College, Live Oak School District, Mexican Consulate […]