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Call for Proposals: THI Research Clusters 2026-2027
The Humanities Institute (THI) Research Clusters are experimental initiatives that can serve as incubators for larger projects in the future. Our institute offers groups of faculty seed funding, for up […]
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The Deep Read San Diego Salon
UC Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute (THI) invite you to a special event at Stone Brewing in Liberty Station to discuss this year’s Deep Read book, the New York […]
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The Current Status of the Torment Nexus, and how are those Stochastic Parrots?
Let’s check in on two of our old friends in the critical history of artificial intelligences. What’s the status of the torment nexus today? And how are those stochastic parrots? […]
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Arts and Ecology Festival
The first Arts & Ecology Festival at UC Santa Cruz will bring together talks and panels featuring artists, scientists, and researchers. The April 22 program includes film screenings, live music, […]
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Digital Arts Research Center
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United by loss, a Palestinian and Israeli walk together on a path to peace
By Dan White Aziz Abu Sarah, a Palestinian peacebuilder, and Maoz Inon, an Israeli entrepreneur and activist, will speak on Monday, April 20, in Santa Cruz about their work promoting understanding […]
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Graduate Profile: Kiley McLaughlin
Kiley McLaughlin is a Ph.D. Candidate in Literature with designated emphases in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Feminist Studies. She was a 2025-26 THI Summer Dissertation Fellow. Kiley’s dissertation […]
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2026 Dickens Universe
The Dickens Project at UC Santa Cruz invites the community to the 2026 Dickens Universe, held July 26–August 1, a weeklong scholarly gathering devoted to Charles Dickens’s Bleak House. The […]
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The Annual Maya K. Peterson Memorial Lecture with Matthew Bender
“Colonizing Water: Empire, Commodification, and Appropriation in Africa” In early 2018, the city of Cape Town nearly ran out of water. South Africa’s “Mother City,” renowned for its cosmopolitan population […]
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Muskism – A Guide For The Perplexed
Everyone’s got an Elon take. He’s a messiah. A menace; a genius; a clown. The verdicts differ, but they share one theme: they treat him as an individual. Muskism argues […]
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Emmaia Gelman – The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State
“The ADL was born of the belief that the best protection from antisemitism was admission into the white racial state and waging a vigorous defense of capitalism, individual rights, and […]
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Bibliography as Biography – Recovering Early-Nineteenth-Century Latinx Figures
The lecture will focus on the history of Spanish-language writing and publishing in the United States with particular attention to a New York publisher in the early nineteenth century. Carmen […]
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Office Hours Under the Sea
Join Ronaldo Wilson and special guests for a site-specific, endurance performance as part of there are no words, but melodies. The exhibition emerges at the intersections of Black poetics, performance, […]
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Rasanblaj as Spirit Turn: Gina Athena Ulysse in Conversation with Jennifer González
Please join us for a conversation between Gina Athena Ulysse and Jennifer González, discussing Ulysse’s solo exhibition Redwoods Rasanblaj: Origins & Disentanglements. The internationally-lauded work of humanities professor Gina Athena […]
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Film Screening with Dolly Kikon – A Sacred Place
Please join us for the American premiere of A Sacred Place (2026), a new film by Professor Dolly Kikon (Anthropology). The film tells the story of stones, spirits, and salt […]
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Graduate Profile: Sam Kahn
Sam Kahn is a second-year Ph.D. student in Philosophy and was a 2025 THI Summer Public Fellow. During his Public Fellowship, Sam collaborated with the Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization […]