About the Project Powerful narratives of China’s “rise” and “rejuvenation” in China and the U.S. have led to a heightened awareness of Chinese impacts outside its borders and around the […]
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The engagements that comprise the Mellon Sawyer Seminar “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine” interrogate the intersections among race, empire, and the environment, and their significance in the theory, practice, […]
About the Project The Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture Series is made possible by the support of the Thomas H. and Josephine Baird Memorial Fund, an endowment that supports […]
Launched in Fall 2019, the Human Rights Investigations Lab for the Americas is dedicated to training a new generation of human rights researchers in online open source investigations to support […]
A $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has enabled a five-year project, Expanding Humanities Impact and Publics, at The Humanities Institute. The project is designed to spark new […]
The Dissertation Proposal Development program trains doctoral students to apply an interdisciplinary approach in the early stages of their graduate careers. Participants in the program receive financial and mentoring support […]
About the Project Catastrophic environmental breakdown, mass species extinction, financial collapse, racist separatism, global nuclear war…there is much speculation these days that we are living at the end of democracy, […]
About the Project In recent decades, tens of thousands of people from the Mexican state of Oaxaca have immigrated to California, bringing their rich cultural traditions with them. While Oaxacan […]
About the Project Sanctuaries are not only about cities and spaces that shield the undocumented; they are also about practices and temporalities of resistance, experimentation, and insurgency. In the harshening […]
About the Project The Ethics Bowl is an alternative form of school debate which is rapidly growing in popularity across the country, due to the improvements it is thought to […]
About the Project Led by Associate Professor of Literature and Mediterranean Studies Juan Camilo Gómez-Rivas, this project explores the history of sovereignty in North Africa, its relationship to people’s notions […]
About the Project Led by Assistant Professor of History Elaine Sullivan, this project brings together scholars with 3D content, digital librarians, technologists, and academic publishers to strategize the needs for […]
Translating America/America Translated: A UC Faculty-Graduate Symposium This symposium on new hemispheric geographies and languages for American literary studies returns to historical moments that allow a reconsideration of language crossings […]
Museums: Humanities in the Public Sphere 4-week NEH Summer Institute for College and University Teachers Washington, DC, June 30-July 28, 2019 Co-Director: Professor Karen Bassi, University of California at Santa […]
The Morton Marcus Poetry Reading is an annual event series in honor of the late poet, teacher, and film critic. For 14 years, the series has been instrumental in bringing […]
The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies Every year, we honor Helen Diller, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz, by […]
This annual event features scholars in conversation in a museum setting. The juxtaposition of thematic discussion with the objects and exhibitions of the museum invite the public into the work […]
About the Project Questions That Matter is a public humanities series developed by The Humanities Institute and the community of Santa Cruz. It brings together, in conversation, two or more […]
We work to define the purpose and process of an education in a Humanities field, and to consider how to better use the tools available to us—including both scholarship and […]
About the Project Non-citizenship is a collaborative effort of the CLRC, Institute for Humanities Research, Division of Social Sciences, Division of Graduate Studies, Office of Research, and Latin American and Latino Studies Department. Visit Site Sawyer […]
About the Project The CHCI/IGHERT project, on the pilot theme of “Indigeneity in an Expanded Field,” involves both a set of structured research investigations and cross-institutional collaborations on this specific […]
About the Project What are we doing when we ‘do’ the Humanities? The Society of Fellows seeks to demonstrate the importance of the Humanities. We will examine the power of […]
About the Project The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Series is a lively forum for the discussion and exploration of ethics-related challenges in human endeavors. The Ethics Lecture is made […]
About the Project The UC Hastings Social Justice Speakers Series features UC Hastings professors giving lectures at UC Santa Cruz on important topics concerning social justice. Provost and Academic Dean Elizabeth Hillman will […]
