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Welcome back everyone! Please join the Center for Middle East and North Africa for a falafel lunch. We will welcome our students and faculty members back for the 2026-27 school year, and meet with new interested affiliates. We hope to see you there. |
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Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Miriam Pawel for a reading and signing of her new book California Dreams: The Making and Remaking of the University of California—an epic story of one of the world's elite public universities, its sweeping social impact, and hopeful lessons about endurance in troubled times. […] |
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The Oaxacan Languages of the Transnational Central Coast project is holding a pop-up at October First Friday at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH). This pop-up presents a collage of the overlapping experiences of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Mexican immigrants who sustain their communities in the U.S. and Mexico through their work, language, and culture. Across […] |
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Join us in celebrating Filipino American History Month with a powerful day of culture, art, food, and community—honoring the legacy of the Manong Generation and the stories that shaped the Pajaro Valley. This event is presented by the Tobera Project and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and Watsonville is in the Heart. The event will […] |
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Synthetic prayer flags have been enthusiastically embraced throughout Tibet, the Himalayas, and Buddhist communities around the world in the last three decades. Originally intended to carry prayers and blessings on the wind and express the responsibility Tibetan and Himalayan communities have toward the land, water, and air, the mass production of synthetic prayer flags have […] |
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The screening is now sold out, but you can still donate to the fundraiser here. Every contribution helps us get more banned books onto our public school library shelves. Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute present a special Banned Books Week screening of The Librarians documentary in support of Santa Cruz City Schools. Following […] |
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Departing from the recent experience of the launch of the Spanish edition of their book Abolition.Feminism.Now (co-authored with Erica Meiners and Beth Richie) in Mexico City, this conversation addresses the challenge of what intersectionality across regions, struggles, and identities might mean in this moment, as well as the expansion of global anti-carceral work. With an […] |
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Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute welcome Min Jin Lee, the National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko, who returns with American Hagwon—a breathtaking contemporary epic, by turns sweeping and intimate, that reckons with ambition and moderation, lust and loyalty, personal dreams and familial duty. "With her gift for […] |
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In the 1930s and 40s, amateur explorers and hardened plant hunters combed the Amazon in a race to unlock the secrets of curare, an Indigenous poison they hoped could cure many diseases. The poison they brought north had a major impact on the practice of medicine as it became routinely used in shock therapy to […] |
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Monsters play a role in the representation of some of the most challenging problems facing our world: matters of race and religion, social justice, and environmental threats. The Center for Monster Studies at UC Santa Cruz aims to explore the role of monsters in culture and humanities. Each year, the Center for Monster Studies presents […]
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The history of the insular Caribbean has long been told in terms of the boom and bust of the monoculture plantation system. Indeed, monoculture has become a pervasive way of understanding not only the agriculture but also the societies, economies, and cultures of the Caribbean islands. Yet, as Kamau Brathwaite has written, "the plantation does […]
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Feeling the archival impulse? Come get some hands-on experience in the Special Collections & Archives Reading Room, chat about archives with your fellow grad students, and get your questions answered about archival research at UCSC and beyond. Curious undergrads are welcome, too! Space is limited. Please RSVP so we can get an accurate headcount. This […] |
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1 event,Delio Vasquez (New York University) will be in conversation with Darien Acero & xafsa ciise (UC Santa Cruz). This conversation and talk describes Huey P. Newton’s conception of reality and how it informed his development of strategies for the revolutionary organization, the Black Panther Party. Newton’s early approach was deeply influenced by skepticism, radical empiricism, […] |
2 events,The Center for Middle East and North Africa is pleased to share "Envisioning Justice through North African Comics," an exhibit of graphic novels and comics from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region on display at the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery this fall. The exhibit, which is open October 20th to December 4th, 2026, […]
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The 1970s saw a burst of working-class struggle in the United States. In a moment of crisis, workers responded with courage and determination to fight back. A wave of strikes and rank-and-file rebellion led a number of feminist scholars and activists to investigate, contextualize, and broadcast this activity. Some engaged in oral history, others in […] |
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What if we considered Southeast Asia from the perspective of its muddy coasts and inland swamps? Precolonial “Soft coasts” supported a maritime world connecting diverse peoples by trade, kinship, and fealty. European ideas of property and governance brought land reclamation, destroying those wetlands. Reclamation continues in postcolonial guises. What are its social and ecological effects? […] 
Join the Humanities Institute, the Moving Image Lab, and the Quarry Amphitheater for a screening of Isaac Julien’s 1991 film, Young Soul Rebels. Recently restored to its original director’s cut, the film is a coming-of-age thriller set in London in 1977, the year of the Sex Pistols’ debut and Queen Elizabeth II’s Silver Jubilee. It […] |
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Drawing on research in Sikkim, India, with the Affected Citizens of Teesta movement, and with geoscientists across the Himalayan region, this talk asks: How have state powers used geological ways of seeing the Himalaya and with what consequences? What other geological imaginaries might offer an emancipatory, justice-centered approach to the earth? Centering the 2023 Glacial […] |
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The panel examines themes animating Isaac Julien’s 1991 film Young Soul Rebels. In the presentations and the discussion, the panelists explore questions of temporality, memory, Black culture, and film theory. Rizvana Bradley: Interval of the Abandoned Over the two decades since Young Soul Rebels and Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask were first screened, Isaac […] 
El coloquio de Spanish Studies presenta "Language of the Law - How Non-English Speakers Lose their Rights in the Criminal Justice System" by Bradly deMoll, Deputy Public Defender, Santa Cruz County. This talk will be in English and is open to all UCSC undergraduates, graduates, faculty, and staff.
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Join the Center for the Middle East and North Africa for a reading and talk with award-winning poet and translator Fady Joudah. In Exhibit G: Fady Joudah writes from the split perspective of a Palestinian American physician caring for the sick while watching the destruction of Gaza from the United States, a nation complicit in […] |
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1 event,Join us for a conference celebrating the academic legacy of David Hoy, an esteemed colleague and professor of Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz. The event will be presented in person and virtually. In person attendees are invited to join us in Humanities 1, Room 210. The program will start at 2:00pm. Registration is required for […] |
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