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SUMMARY:Timescape of Rings with Stephen David Engel
DESCRIPTION:Stephen David Engel will read from an experimental history called “Timescape of Rings.” In it\, he meditates on a 2\,200-year-old redwood round with markers for historical events affixed to its rings—the birth of Jesus\, the invention of gunpowder\, the drafting of the Magna Carta\, and on. By running his fingers over the rings\, he recalls histories not commemorated by these markers\, in particular revolts and egalitarian movements. From there\, Stephen’s daydreams carry him back deeper in time\, all the way back to the first woody trees some 385 million years ago. \n \nThis event is in-person and online. Register for the virtual option here. \nStephen David Engel is a transdisciplinary scholar who thinks across big scales of history and time and who writes about them using creative genres. His writing has appeared in Rethinking History\, ROAR Magazine\, The Anthology of Babel\, and other publications. He holds a PhD from the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where he received the Hayden White dissertation fellowship for excellence in historical theory. This spring\, he will serve as Visiting Professor at Deep Springs College\, an alternative liberal arts college in the California desert. \n\nThis event is presented by HisCon and part of the 2026 Winter Research Colloquium Series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/timescape-of-rings-with-stephen-david-engel-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:More-Than-Humanities Lab Reading Group: Against Purity
DESCRIPTION: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. \nAlexis Shotwell will join us on Zoom to answer your questions and discuss the impact of the book: Zoom link \n \nThe first 15 registrants will recieve free copies of the book from Professor Hannah Cole. Subsequent registrants can access a digital copy of the book through the UCSC Library. \nPlease arrive ready to discuss your questions\, thoughts\, and responses.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/more-than-humanities-lab-reading-group-against-purity/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Thiago Mota - In Search of Protection: Islam\, Crocodiles\, and Local Experiences of a Global Religion in Early Modern West Africa
DESCRIPTION:This talk proposes a new reading of Early Modern European sources for African history in light of Islamic African written records and oral traditions. It examines how Islam interacted with local religions and cultural practices in order to become meaningful and suitable for West African communities. Focusing on the need for protection against crocodile attacks along major Senegambian rivers\, the talk explores how History\, Anthropology\, and Islamic Studies can be brought into conversation to offer a fuller understanding of Islamization in West Africa. \nDr. Thiago Mota is an Assistant Professor of African History at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His research focuses on Islam in West Africa\, colonial encounters\, and the social history of knowledge production across Afro-Atlantic spaces. His next book\, Global Islam from Below: Islamic Political Culture in Senegambia and the Atlantic World\, 1400–1850\, is under contract with Cambridge University Press and examines how ordinary Muslims shaped political and religious life in Senegambia and its Atlantic connections. He has taught widely on African history\, including courses on Islamic manuscript cultures\, precolonial African history\, and debates on the restitution of African cultural heritage. \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/thiago-mota-in-search-of-protection-islam-crocodiles-and-local-experiences-of-a-global-religion-in-early-modern-west-africa/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kate Schatz - Where the Girls Were Talk & Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join UCSC alum Kate Schatz\, bestselling author of the Rad Women series\, for a reading from her new novel Where the Girls Were and a Q & A on writing\, creativity\, and growing up amid political and cultural change. \nBlending sharp cultural insight with emotional depth\, Schatz’s work explores how young women navigate creativity\, power\, and identity in a world shaped by social movements and personal reckonings. The event will include a reading\, followed by a Q & A conversation about her writing process\, themes\, and career. \nWhether you’re interested in creative writing\, social justice\, or just love a good story\, this event is a chance to hear from a working writer about how books actually come into the world. \nFree and open to the public. \n\nPresented by the UCSC Creative Writing Program. Want more? Kate Schatz will be speaking later in the evening at Bookshop Santa Cruz. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kate-schatz-where-the-girls-were-talk-reading/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kate Schatz - Where The Girls Were
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes bestselling author Kate Schatz (Do the Work: An Anti-Racist Activity Book) for a discussion about her latest novel Where the Girls Were. Schatz will be in conversation with activist-scholar Bettina Aptheker. \n \nThey were sent away to be forgotten. This is their story. Where the Girls Were is a timely unearthing of a little-known moment in American history\, when the sexual revolution and feminist movement collided with the limits of reproductive rights—and society’s expectations of women. As Baker finds her strength and her voice\, she shows us how to step into your power\, even when the world is determined to keep you silent. \nKate Schatz is a feminist author from California. She’s the New York Times bestselling author of Do the Work: An Anti-Racist Activity Book\, with W. Kamau Bell\, and the “Rad Women” book series (including Rad American Women A-Z\, Rad Women Worldwide\, and Rad American History A-Z). Her book of fiction\, Rid of Me: A Story\, was published as part of the cult-favorite 33 1/3 series. \nBettina Aptheker is Distinguished Professor Emerita\, Feminist Studies\, University of California\, Santa Cruz where she taught for more than 40 years. An activist-scholar she co-led the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley in 1964\, and the National Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. She played a leading role in the international movement to Free Angela Davis. She has been part of the LGBT movement since the late 1970s. She has published several books including a memoir\, Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red\, Fought for Free Speech\, and Became A Feminist Rebel. Her most recent book is called Communists in Closets: Queering the History. She and her wife\, Kate Miller\, have been together since 1979. They live in Santa Cruz. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Kate Schatz \n\nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Kate will be speaking earlier in the day at UCSC. We encourage the campus community to join her!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kate-schatz-where-the-girls-were/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Two Noble Kinsmen - Episode I
DESCRIPTION:Shakespeare returns to the characters and themes of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in what may have been the last play he had a hand in writing: The Two Noble Kinsmen. This time\, however\, the story of Theseus and Hippolyta\, the disorienting experience of adolescent sexual desire\, and the conflict of duties to sovereigns\, parents\, friends\, and spouses are no laughing matter. They are over-shadowed by the play’s source text — Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale\, in which chance foils Theseus’s best efforts to create order out of chaos and meaning out of loss — and by Shakespeare’s own experience writing tragedy and tragicomedy. \n \nThomas Luxon is Professor of English\, Emeritus at Dartmouth College\, where he was also the inaugural Cheheyl Professor and Director of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning. His teaching and scholarship focus on literature of the English Renaissance and Reformation\, with a particular interest in John Milton\, John Bunyan\, John Dryden\, and 17th-century English religion and politics. In his revelatory book\, Single Imperfection: Milton\, Marriage\, and Friendship (Duquesne UP\, 2005)\, Professor Luxon explores the impact of ancient theories of friendship on Milton’s conception of Reformation marriage\, and during the pandemic\, he contributed a lecture about the rivalry of friendship and marriage in Two Noble Kinsmen to Ian Doescher’s Shakespeare 2020 Project. \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-the-two-noble-kinsmen-episode-i/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Planting Oceania & Healing Communities
DESCRIPTION:Planting Oceania is a Oceanian/Indigenous Pacific Islander community organization that plants traditional foods in two gardens located at Filoli Historic House and Gardens in Woodside and at the UC Giltract Farms in Albany. Members of Planting Oceania will share stories about growing plants and stewarding the Land as an important cultural practice for building Oceania/Pacific Islander communities in California. Panelists will discuss being good guests and building good relations with Native California tribal leaders and communities–the Indigenous stewards of the Land–protocols they center in their land-based work. \nRefreshments will be provided. \nSpeakers\nWindsor Taro– (Belauan)\nJohn Holt (Kanaka Maoli/Native Hawaiian)\nLoa Niumeitolu (Tongan)\nFuifuilupe Niumeitolu (Tongan)\nAndria Takesy (Belauan and Chuukese)\nLeila Tamale (Tongan)\nSitiveni Heimuli (Tongan) \nFor more info: fniumeit@ucsc.edu \n\nSponsored by Rachel Carson College\, Center for Racial Justice\, Critical Race Ethnic Studies\, Asian American/ Pacific Islander Resource Center\, American Indian Resource Center\, People of Color Sustainable Collective\, and Mauna Kea Protectors
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/planting-oceania-healing-communities/
LOCATION:Namaste Lounge – College 9\, Namaste Lounge\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260305T170000
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SUMMARY:Traveling Film Southasia - Film Screening Festival Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) for a celebratory film screening event to launch Travelling Film Southasia\, a mobile film festival highlighting 19 exceptional nonfiction productions of the last two years\, originally screened at Film Southasia 2024 in Kathmandu. This year’s festival encapsulates a range of experiences on the Subcontinent with films from Nepal\, Bangladesh\, India\, Pakistan and Myanmar\, including CSAS Faculty Director Dolly Kikon’s recent film\, Abundance. \nFilm Southasia (FSA) is a biennial festival that began in 1997 with the goal of popularizing documentary films so that they entertain\, inform\, and change lives. In addition to the festival that takes place in Kathmandu every two years\, FSA organizes screenings\, discussions\, and workshops to promote Southasian non-fiction within the Subcontinent and around the world. Film Southasia believes that film is a powerful medium that not only helps better represent the region internationally\, but also contributes immensely to introspection and to initiatives that bring change at the local level. \nFor more information: Traveling FSA 2025. \nAfter the March 5 film festival launch event\, the festival films will be available for streaming until March 20. Link and instructions for viewing to follow. \nThis event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law. \n\nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored by the Department of Film and Digital Media and The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/traveling-film-southasia-film-screening-festival-launch/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260305T172000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Craft Between Worlds \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-student-reading-7/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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