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SUMMARY:The Trial of Spock — An Opera Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The creators of The Trial of Spock—An Opera In Three Acts present concert performances of five scenes from an opera-in-progress at the UC Santa Cruz Music Center Recital Hall. \nCaptain Christopher Pike is gravely injured. Lieutenant Spock is behaving strangely. Charged with protecting Pike in his state of extreme need\,Vulcan Commodore T’or suspects that Lieutenant Spock—once Captain Pike’s science officer—is up to no good. Spock’s Captain\, James T. Kirk\, doesn’t see the trouble until far too late\, and soon Spock holds all of them prisoner aboard a ship destined for the “forbidden planet” Talos IV. He refuses to say a word about their fate—not until his superiors agree to give him his trial. Under oath\, and with strange evidence\, Spock tells the story of Captain Pike’s first visit to Talos IV\, where illusion and artificial experiences plunge Pike and fellow captive Vina into uncharted dimensions of their memories\, and their concepts of self. \nJoin sopranos Nicole Koh\, Sheila Willey\, and Emily Sinclair; tenors Alex Boyer and Nicolas Vasquez-Gerst\, baritones Joseph Calzada and Michael Kuo\, and the Del Sol Quartet\, as they distort the myth of Orpheus\, in order to re-think our presumed relationships to freedom and reality\, and its augmentations. \n \nMusic by Ben Leeds Carson; libretto by Perre DiCarlo & Ben Leeds Carson and Lincoln & Lee Taiz; with contributions from John de Lancie\, based on teleplays by Gene Roddenberry. \nJoin us for “Questions that Matter – How to Live Long and Prosper: Lessons from a Star Trek Opera\,” a follow up conversation about the opera at Kuumbwa Jazz Center on March 13th. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-trial-of-spock-an-opera-workshop/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall
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SUMMARY:Elemental Encounters with Cymene Howe
DESCRIPTION:Cymene Howe\, the final guest of the Winter 2026 HistCon Research Colloquium will be joining us next week to give her talk “Elemental Encounters: how water\, ice and fire + earth\, spin and chemicals become us”. \nFrom chemical relations to the sweep of stormfronts\, the elements render a series of sensory\, scientific and semiotic coordinates that reveal material intimacies. The classical forms of western philosophy (earth\, air\, fire\, water) and the periodic table of chemical elements operate as tools of categorization. Eastern elemental philosophies and the many Indigenous elemental entities of world-making\, in their multiple capacities\, represent forces of encounter\, interaction and transformation. In this discussion\, I explore the analytic possibilities afforded through an engagement with elemental forms and I offer a preliminary set of coordinates to evaluate socioenvironmental phenomena through ethnographic engagement with elemental dispositions. Drawing from Alaimo and Starosielski’s conviction that the elements represent ‘lively forces that shape culture\, politics\, and communication\,’ I consider how human and nonhuman encounters through (and with) the elements can help us surface both the punctuations and the cadences of our times and how the elements themselves\, when heard as ethnographic interlocutors\, have much to tell us about our place in the world. \n \nThis event is in-person with a virtual option to join available. Register above to join virtually. \nCymene Howe is Professor of Anthropology and Co-Founder of the STS Program at Rice University. Her most recent books include Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene; Anthropocene Unseen; Solarities: Elemental Encounters and Refractions and The Johns Hopkins Guide to Contemporary Theory. She has conducted field research in Nicaragua and Mexico\, Iceland and Greenland\, the U.S. and South Africa and has been awarded The Berlin Prize for Transatlantic Dialogue in the Arts\, Humanities\, and Public Policy as well as a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residential Fellowship. Her current research focuses on the social impacts of glacier loss and sea level rise in coastal communities globally and she has co-created many public-facing events and art installations to raise climate awareness including the Okjökull Memorial (Iceland\, 2019). She is currently at work on a book entitled The Elemental Turn. \n\nThis event is part of the 2026 Winter Research Colloquium Series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/elemental-encounters-with-cymene-howe/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:How to Co-Create an AI Policy in Your Classroom
DESCRIPTION:It is well known that students are using AI\, that some uses undermine their learning\, and that bans are difficult and labor-intensive to enforce. To confront this\, Lauren Lyons asked students in her Ethics and Technology course to collaboratively build their own AI policy. In this session\, Lyons will describe how she structured the activity\, share what she learned (including what she would change)\, and then open a broader conversation about co-creating AI policies across disciplines\, both within and beyond the humanities. \nStudents ultimately chose a relatively restrictive policy\, allowing AI for mechanical editing but not for generating ideas or prose. Several takeaways emerged from the work they submitted for the activity\, ensuing discussions\, and course evaluations. First\, the discussion brought the pedagogically relevant reasons to the fore: students evaluated AI use in terms of its effects on their own learning rather than as a matter of compliance. Second\, specificity mattered. Distinguishing among different uses (e.g. brainstorming\, outlining\, generating text\, and editing) was necessary for students to understand the impact of AI on learning and articulate a clear policy. Finally\, the activity opened a broader conversation about the ethics of AI in education\, one students were eager to have and continued throughout the course. \nThere are a number of questions Lyons hopes to get into in the discussion portion of this session: How might different learning goals across fields shape what appropriate AI use looks like and so how to set bounds on co-creation? What should we do if a chosen AI policy goes against our own pedagogical judgement? How should we enforce AI policies\, and how might co-creation help with enforcement? Could this model apply to graduate courses? How can we co-create policy in large lecture courses? \nLauren Lyons is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy at Rutgers\, New Brunswick in 2024. She works in ethics\, social and political philosophy\, philosophy of law\, and their intersection. She is especially interested in the ethics of policing and punishment. Lyons recently wrote a paper arguing that we should “unbundle” the police\, reallocating powers and responsibilities from police to other institutions and reducing the footprint of policing. She is currently working on papers on prison abolition and crime prevention and the structure of functional critique (i.e. prisons function to maintain hierachies). Methodologically\, she aims to put ideas emanating from social movements into conversation with analytic ethics and political philosophy. \n\nThis event is presented by The Humanities Institute’s ± AI Initiative.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/how-to-co-create-an-ai-policy-in-your-classroom/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Anne Fadiman - Frog: And Other Essays
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes award-wining author Anne Fadiman (The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down) for a discussion about her latest book Frog: And Other Essays\, a new collection of evocative personal essays. “Affecting and often humorous . . . Fadiman has a knack for finding the extraordinary in the ordinary\, using everyday objects to explore such profound themes as grief\, loss\, and personal growth . . . Readers will be captivated.” —Publishers Weekly \n \nIn Frog\, Anne Fadiman returns to her favorite genre\, the essay\, of which she is one of our most celebrated practitioners. Ranging in subject matter from her deceased frog\, to archaic printer technology\, to the fraught relationship between Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his son Hartley\, these essays unlock a whole world–one overflowing with mundanity and oddity–through sly observation and brilliant wit. \nThe diverse subjects of Frog are bound together by the quality of Fadiman’s attention\, and subtly\, they come to form a slantwise portrait of the artist\, a writer dedicated to chronicling the world as it changes around her\, in ways small and large\, as time passes. \nAnne Fadiman is the author\, most recently\, of the essay collection Frog (2026). Her first book\, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (1997)\, won the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and the Salon Book Award. In 2017\, she published The Wine Lover’s Daughter\, a memoir about her father. Fadiman has also written two essay collections\, Ex Libris and At Large and At Small\, and edited Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love. She is Professor in the Practice of English and Francis Writer in Residence at Yale.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anne-fadiman-frog-and-other-essays/
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 II
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-ii/
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SUMMARY:Latinos\, Language\, and Change in New Destination Communities of the U.S. South
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to invite you to a talk with Dr. Stephen Fafulas (University of Mississippi). \nThe U.S. South has emerged as a major new destination for Latino populations\, reshaping local communities in ways that are still not fully understood. In this talk\, I draw on over a decade of community-based research to examine language choice and patterns of linguistic variation among Latinos in the U.S. South\, highlighting how local social contexts shape bilingual practices. \nDr. Stephen Fafulas is Associate Professor at the University of Mississippi. His research focuses on sociolinguistics\, bilingualism\, and language variation. \n  \n  \n\nSponsored by the University of Mississippi Faculty Laureates program.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/latinos-language-and-change-in-new-destination-communities-of-the-u-s-south/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Living Writers With Mary-Alice Daniel
DESCRIPTION:Craft Between Worlds \nMary-Alice Daniel is a Nigerian American poet and cross-genre writer born near the Niger/Nigeria border. Her debut poetry collection\, Mass for Shut Ins\, was selected by Rae Armantrout as a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. Her memoir A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing (Ecco\, 2022) was named one of Kirkus’s best nonfiction books of 2022 and explores religion\, migration\, myth\, and the uncanny across three continents. \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-mary-alice-daniel/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:On the Canon of the History of Philosophy: Critique & Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a day of presentations and conversation featuring: \nSilvestre Gristina (University of Padua / UC Santa Cruz) \nSilvestre Gristina is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Global Fellow between the University of Padua and the University of California\, Santa Cruz. As part of his MSCA project\, he will be spending a two-year research period at the History of Consciousness Department at UCSC. Silvestre received his PhD in Philosophy in June 2023 from the University of Padua. He carried out a one- year postdoctoral fellowship at the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies in Naples\, then completed a twenty-month postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Humanities of the University of Ferrara. His research interests include the history of German Classical Philosophy\, the philosophies of the Young Hegelians and Marx\, the history of twentieth-century Marxism\, and the development of twentieth-century French philosophy. He is currently engaged with methodological questions concerning the history of philosophy and the history of political thought. His research project\, “Temporalities\, Histories\, and Methods of Philosophy”\, intends to contribute to the studies on the critique of the Western Canon\, through specific reflection on the History of Philosophy and its political nature. \n\nElizabeth Millán Brusslan (DePaul University) presenting “Surprises and Hermeneutical Blindness: Elements of Philosophy’s Imperfect Canon” \nElizabeth Millán Brusslan is Chair and Professor in the Department of Philosophy at DePaul University. She works on aesthetics\, German Idealism/Romanticism and Latin American Philosophy. She is the author of Friedrich Schlegel and the Emergence of Romantic Philosophy (SUNY\, 2007) and several edited volumes on early German Romanticism and Latin American philosophy. She recently edited with Jimena Solé\, Fichte in the Americas\, a volume in the Fichte Studien Series (Leiden: Brill\, 2023) and is currently working on The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Philosophy\, which will be an inter-American collection of essays from scholars in the United States\, Canada\, and Latin America. She also recently completed an essay\, “Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre as Bildung The Tale of a Working Class Hero for Freedom” for Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre: A Critical Guide\, edited by Jeffery Kinlaw (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press\, forthcoming) and an essay\, “Walter Benjamin and Romantic Critique” for The Palgrave Handbook to Walter Benjamin\, edited by Nathan Ross (New York: Palgrave\, 2025). In 2004-5\, she was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for a project on Humboldt’s view of nature\, and she has published several articles on that topic especially on Humboldt’s views of America and is finishing a book-length study on Alexander von Humboldt’s view of nature. \n\nGiulia Valpione (École Normale Supérieure / CNRS / DePaul University) presening “The Subversive Canon of Political Ecology. A fragmented History?” \nGiulia Valpione is Marie Curie Fellow at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris) and Visiting Scholar at DePaul University (Chicago). She is the author of The Romantic Self. Sovereignty and the Politics of Nature (Cambridge University Press\, July 2026). She has published extensively on German Romanticismand Idealism\, environmental philosophy\, the politics/nature relationship\, and the history of women philosophers. She has worked and studied in Italy\, Germany\, France\, Brazil\, and the United States. Her texts have been published by\, among others: Oxford University Press\, Cambridge University Press\, DeGruyter\, the British Journal for the History of Philosophy\, and the Hegel Bulletin. She served as co-manager of the European Teacher Training Program: “Green Europe: Active Citizenship and the Environment” and is the co-founder and former co-editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Symphilosophie. International Journal of Philosophical Romanticism. \n\nBanu Bargu (UC Santa Cruz) presenitng “On Sea-Rovers: Althusser’s Montesquieu and the Colonial Unconscious of Materialism” \nBanu Bargu is Professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is a political theorist\, whose research also draws upon anthropology\, philosophy\, global history\, and Middle East studies around questions of the body\, power\, violence\, resistance practices\, authoritarianism and exceptional regimes\, carcerality and democracy. She is the author of two books: Disembodiment: Corporeal Politics of Radical Refusal (Oxford UP\, 2024)\, which is the recipient of the 2025 David Easton Award\, and Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (Columbia UP\, 2014)\, which was the recipient of the 2015 First Book Award\, both given by APSA’s Foundations of Political Theory section. Bargu’s curated collections include Turkey’s Necropolitical Laboratory (Edinburgh UP\, 2019)\, “The Political Encounter with Althusser” (2019 special issue of Rethinking Marxism\, co-edited with Robyn Marasco)\, and Feminism\, Capitalism\, and Critique (Palgrave\, 2017\, co-edited with Chiara Bottici). Bargu has previously taught at The New School for Social Research\, New York City\, and SOAS\, University of London. Her scholarship has been recognized by a number of fellowships\, including the Mercator fellowship\, ACLS fellowship\, and a residential fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton\, NJ. Bargu currently serves as the editor of Political Theory. \n\nRobert Nichols (UC Santa Cruz) presenting “Political Philosophy and /as Reception Theory” \nRobert Nichols is Professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His work in social and political thought takes up questions of power\, sovereignty\, property\, and historical consciousness\, especially as they inform and animate struggles at the intersection of anti-capitalism and anti-colonialism. Nichols has published several books and journal articles on these topics\, including Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory (2020); The Dispossessed: Karl Marx’s Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor\, ed. and trans.\, (2021); and The World of Freedom: Heidegger\, Foucault\, and the Politics of Historical Ontology (2014). Before joining UCSC\, Nichols held faculty posts at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) and the University of Alberta (Canada)\, and visiting scholar positions at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (Germany); École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris\, France); Columbia University (NYC); and the University of Cambridge (UK). He is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Fulbright\, Humboldt\, Killiam\, McKnight and Trudeau Foundations\, as well as the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. \n\nMassimiliano Tomba (UC Santa Cruz) \nMassimiliano Tomba (Ph.D. in Political Philosophy at the University of Pisa) taught Political Philosophy at the University of Padova (Italy). He specialized in German classical philosophy during his stay in Germany (University of Würzburg\, Münich\, and Hamburg). Since 2012\, he has been acting as co-director of an international project whose aim is to rethink the predominant schemes of interpretation of global society to overcome the prevailing Eurocentrism in conceptions of universalism\, space\, and time. Among his publications is Krise und Kritik bei Bruno Bauer. Kategorien des Politischen im nachhegelschen Denken\, Peter Lang\, 2005; La vera politica. Kant e Benjamin: la possibilità della giustizia\, Quodlibet\, 2006; Marx’s Temporalities\, Brill\, 2013; Attraverso la piccolo porta. Quattro studi su Walter Benjamin\, Mimesis\, 2017: Insurgent Universality. An Alternative Legacy of Modernity\, New York\, Oxford University Press\, 2019\, Co-winner of the 2021 David and Elaine Spitz Prize for the best book in liberal and/or democratic theory published in 2019. \n\nFor more information please contact Silvestre Gristina at silvestre.gristina@unipd.it \nThis event is Organized by University of Padua & UC Santa Cruz and Co-Funded by the European Union. This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and the History of Consciousness Department. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/on-the-canon-of-the-history-of-philosophy-critique-crisis/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 320
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SUMMARY:Questions that Matter - How to Live Long and Prosper: Lessons from a Star Trek Opera
DESCRIPTION:What do we need to live a fulfilling life? This essential question of the humanities feels especially pressing now\, on the precipice of profound changes to our planet\, our bodies\, and our sense of human exceptionality. Join us for a conversation — and a music-and-drama masterclass — about speculative fiction from the Star Trek world\, the myth of Orpheus\, and what the operatic form can teach us about intelligence\, humanity\, and the good life. The evening will feature UC Santa Cruz faculty\, Ben Leeds Carson (Professor of Music)\, Camilla A. Hawthorne (Associate Professor of Sociology)\, and Pranav Anand (THI Faculty Director and Professor of Linguistics)\, along with librettist Perre DiCarlo. \n \nThose attending Questions That Matter may be interested in the “The Trial of Spock — An Opera Workshop” on March 8th. This workshop is a rare opportunity for Trekkies and opera lovers to attend a recording of five scenes of an opera-in-progress: The Trial of Spock\, with members of the San Francisco and San Jose Opera companies accompanied by San Francisco’s Del Sol Quartet. \nQuestions That Matter is a public humanities series developed by The Humanities Institute and the community of Santa Cruz. It brings together\, in conversation\, two or more UC Santa Cruz scholars with community residents and students to explore questions that matter to all of us.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/question-that-matter-how-to-live-long-and-prosper-lessons-from-a-star-trek-opera/
LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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