In 2018, world-renowned British installation artist and filmmaker, Sir Isaac Julien KBE RA, and his long-time creative collaborator, producer and international curator Mark Nash, started the Moving-Image Lab as part […]
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Although Sikhs have become a global community, they remain a minority almost everywhere. They are visible, but they are not well understood. If anything, attempts to establish a greater presence […]
Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of […]
A cross-divisional initiative to prepare graduate students in the Arts and Humanities from historically underrepresented groups to go on to the professoriate. Pathways to the Professoriate in the Arts and […]
About the Project Humanizing Technology is a Humanities Division certificate program that provides humanities training targeted to early-career engineering undergraduate students at UC Santa Cruz. Funded by the National Endowment […]
About the Project This project focuses primarily on “fictions” of the future, that is, on creative “worldings” that take, as their premise, the outcome of particular technological/scientific findings in the […]
Watsonville is in the Heart (WIITH) is a community-driven public history initiative to preserve and uplift stories of Filipino migration and labor in the city of Watsonville and greater Pajaro […]
The Deep Read is a program by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz that invites curious minds to think deeply about literature, art, and the most pressing issues of […]
Hayden V. White had a lasting influence on theoretical work across the human sciences. He maintained that history did not belong to the historians, but that it structured the everyday […]
The Humanities Institute partners with centers and clusters and other projects to bring scholars to Santa Cruz for extended engagements on campus. These visiting scholars bring new ideas and questions […]
About the Project Led by UCSC Professor of History Greg O’Malley and UC Irvine Professor of History Alex Borucki, The Intra American Slave Trade Database documents and makes publicly accessible […]
The Okinawa Memories Initiative (formerly The Gail Project) is a collaborative, international public history project that explores the founding years of the American military occupation of Okinawa. The project is […]
About the Project Linguists at UC Santa Cruz are partnering with Senderos, a non-profit organization in Santa Cruz County, to share the beauty and value of Oaxacan languages. Together, linguists and […]
