Events
Bright Torches – Shakespeare in Action
Santa Cruz Veterans Memorial Building 846 Front Street, Santa CruzWeek of Events
Generative AI and the Future of Judgment: A Symposium on Technology and the Humanities
Generative AI and the Future of Judgment: A Symposium on Technology and the Humanities will focus on generative AI/machine learning from a humanities perspective, particularly on the work of computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum and philosopher Hannah Arendt. Weizenbaum was a computer scientist who created the early chatbot ELIZA, after which the famous “ELIZA effect” is […]
Bright Torches – Shakespeare in Action
At the heart of the weekend is a simple idea: Shakespeare is something to be DONE. Join Santa Cruz Shakespeare for their upcoming artist-educator workshops with Bright Torches. This weekend is designed for elementary, middle and high school educators, university educators and students, teaching artists, professional actors, arts education practitioners and Shakespeare enthusiasts. Participants will […]
Sunday, November 8, 2026
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Monday, November 9, 2026
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November 9, 2026 -Arash Davari – Insurgent Witness: Archetypes of Action in Revolutionary Iran
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November 9, 2026Matt O’Hara – The Flying Death
Arash Davari – Insurgent Witness: Archetypes of Action in Revolutionary Iran
Please join us for a book talk with Prof. Arash Davari on his recently published Insurgent Witness: Archetypes of Action in Revolutionary Iran (Cambridge University Press). In this talk, he will revisit histories of the 1979 revolution in Iran and explore how millions of people defied expectations and joined popular assemblies to demand the fall […]
Matt O’Hara – The Flying Death
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes author Matt O'Hara for a reading and signing of The Flying Death—A dramatic tale of explorers of the 1930s racing to find and harvest a poisonous Amazon vine, and how their work plundered local tribes and spurred the invention of new medicines. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute. Your […]
Tuesday, November 10, 2026
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November 10, 2026 -Arash Davari – Iran is Not a Signifier: Reflections on Imperialism and Revolution in the 21st Century
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November 10, 2026 -Debasmita Bhattacharya – Code-switching in Text and Speech
Arash Davari – Iran is Not a Signifier: Reflections on Imperialism and Revolution in the 21st Century
CMENA invites you to a special talk with Dr. Arash Davari, “Iran is Not a Signifier: Reflections on Imperialism and Revolution in the 21st Century,” co-hosted by the Asian American/Pacific Islander (AA/PIRC) Resource Center. This lecture addresses representations of Iran, adopting a phrase from René Magritte’s “The Treachery of Images.” The aim is not to […]
Debasmita Bhattacharya – Code-switching in Text and Speech
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to invite you to an upcoming colloquium: Code-switching in Text and Speech Challenges Information-Theoretic Speaker Design In this work, we use language modeling to investigate the factors that influence insertional code-switching. Code-switching occurs when a speaker alternates between one language variety (the primary language) and another […]
Wednesday, November 11, 2026
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Thursday, November 12, 2026
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Friday, November 13, 2026
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November 13, 2026 -Linguistics Colloquium with Maria Gouskova
Linguistics Colloquium with Maria Gouskova
Join the Linguistics Department for Maria Gouskova's talk "Infixing Reduplication: Connecting Shape and Position". It is a matter of some disagreement whether phonological theory should aim to rule out unattested languages, and if so, how. Some theories are explicitly oriented toward typological restrictiveness, while others accept some overgeneration. In the latter view, the rare and […]
Saturday, November 14, 2026
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