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This film screening event is in celebration of International Palestine Cinema Day put on by Film Labs Palestine. Foragers by Jumana Manna depicts the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine. Shot in the Golan Heights, the Galilee, and Jerusalem, it employs fiction, documentary, and archival footage. This event is co-sponsored by the Center […] |
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CITRIS and the Banatao Institute at UC Santa Cruz and the Humanities Institute invite you to a faculty panel and workshop discussing the evolving role of artificial intelligence in education. All students, faculty, and staff are welcome, and admission is free. Registration is not required to participate, but it will help us estimate attendance and […] |
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Featured Presenters: Dimitris Papadopoulos & Maria Puig de la Bellacasa: Ecological Worldmaking: Field Notes from Speculative Science and More Than Human Aesthetics This session brings art, science, and ecological thought into an open conversation around a shared question: What more-than-human modes of knowing, sensing, imagining, and world-making may serve our thinking and practice in current […]
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Join us at UC Santa Cruz for the exciting screening of the highly anticipated film, GAAVANI: Her Journey Home, which celebrates the female voice in Sikh music and spirituality. Co-sponsored by Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair of Sikh and Punjabi Studies, Department of Film and Digital Media, Center for South Asian Studies, and UCSC Sikh Student Association. |
2 events,Living Writers Fall 2026 – OPEN SEASON: WRITING ENACTS features writers, performers and artists who explore what it means to encounter invisibility and silence, while simultaneously engaging with the insistent specters of hypervisibility and experiences of race, gender, and sexuality. These writers and artists work on the page, screen, stage and beyond. Often targeted, they create […]
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Forty-five years ago, survivors and descendants of the WWII Japanese American incarceration, testified before the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC), helping set in motion what would become one of the largest reparations efforts in U.S. history. This year’s Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics lecture marks that anniversary with the launch and premiere […] |
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This event celebrates and highlights the work of UCSC graduate students in all academic divisions. Any enrolled graduate student is welcome to present either a poster, talk, or mixed media presentation. The event is free and open to the public.
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This exhibition brings together comics and graphic narratives from Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco, introducing a broad range of contemporary artists while centering the works of Sadri Khiari, a major figure of the antiracist left in Tunisia and France, and Salim Zerrouki, an Algerian cartoonist whose drawings combine ferocious satire and nostalgia. Across different forms, […] |
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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 […] 
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 […] |
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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 […]
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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 […] |
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1 event,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 […] |
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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 […] |
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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 […] |
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UCSC’s Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) and the Center for South Asian Studies invite you to join us for a Slow Seminar to discuss Iftekhar Iqbal’s The Range of the River: Asia’s Great River Systems and the Making of a Transregional World. Spanning nearly four million square kilometers across eastern South Asia, mainland […] |
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UCSC’s Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast), Film and Digital Media Department, and Mauna Kea Protectors (MKP) invite you to a special screening of Pig Feast (Pesta Babi): Colonialism in our Time (2026) The documentary, made by filmmakers at WatchDoc in collaboration with partners Pusaka, Jubi, Greenpeace, and Ekspedisi Indonesia Baru, is about the […]
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Are you curious about graduate school in the humanities? Join this Humanities Grad School 101 session, where we’ll hear from Associate Dean of Research Pranav Anand and stellar UCSC graduate students in History, Linguistics, Literature, and Philosophy. We’ll discuss important considerations for deciding to pursue graduate school and what to look for in an academic […] |
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On November 18, 2026, UC Santa Cruz will celebrate the 11th anniversary of Giving Day, our signature 24-hour fundraising event that unites Slugs around the world in support of student success, research, and community programs. Over the past decade, thousands of donors have raised millions to provide scholarships, fuel groundbreaking research, strengthen basic needs programs, […]
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Smart glasses promise to deliver AI's power to their wearers by capturing media, streaming audio, and projecting visual data in the field of view. The technology, Meta suggests, amounts to “the most frictionless way to get help, answers and suggestions—anytime, anywhere.” Smart glasses also aren’t new. The concept dates back to the 1960s, with multiple […] The Center for Racial Justice is very proud to sponsor the Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement series. Please join us for the following event "PYM: 20 Years in the Making". 2026 marks 20 years since the creation of the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM). Its origins, trajectories, and goals have intervened in […] |
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How do we meditate on the interrelated crises of our times for collective survival on a warming planet? Drawing on two decades of community-centered research on human dimensions of climate change in the high Himalaya, this talk describes the signs and signals our rapidly melting mountains have been giving again and again over the years. […] 
The Humanities Institute is proud to present The Seventeenth Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading featuring California Poet Laureate, Lee Herrick. Lee Herrick is the first California Poet Laureateto be reappointed to a second term. He is the author of four books, most recently In Praise of Late Wonder: New and Selected Poems (2024). He co-edited […] |
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1 event,Few people understand that the United States militarily occupies the Korean peninsula to this day. In August, twenty-six antiwar and anti-imperialist organizers, artists, media workers, and educators traveled across South Korea as part of the first-ever Jaju Solidarity Brigade. They protested outside U.S. bases, visited sites of military atrocities, and learned from local organizers about […] |
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Please join us for a festive evening honoring the career and legacy of beloved UC Santa Cruz professor Bruce Thompson. For almost four decades, Bruce Thompson has been a legendary instructor and engaging lecturer at UC Santa Cruz. He has mentored countless undergraduate students and shaped the trajectories of so many others who took his […] |
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A record and rendition of the land posits the racialized body as a porous, unfixed site and embodied geography through which cultural histories of memory and place are inscribed and rearticulated. Working in self-portraiture, film, and poetry, Stone's images enter a dialogue with her ancestors by reimagining their presence within the American landscape. Working extensively […] |
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The artificial imaginary is what artificial intelligence (AI) is popularly imagined to be or become. Its origins are in science fiction, journalism and the long intellectual tradition of philosophy and psychology that has compared the workings of the human mind and brain to the latest technologies. While the artificial imaginary has been relatively stable throughout […] Living Writers Fall 2026 – OPEN SEASON: WRITING ENACTS features writers, performers and artists who explore what it means to encounter invisibility and silence, while simultaneously engaging with the insistent specters of hypervisibility and experiences of race, gender, and sexuality. These writers and artists work on the page, screen, stage and beyond. Often targeted, they create […] |
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