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 to campus through public events, informal gatherings, and classroom visits.
Visiting Scholars
2020 | Jacqueline Wernimont (Dartmouth College)
Sponsoring Partner: The Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)
Events:
- Cultural Studies Colloquium | “Numbered Lives: Quantum Mediations of Life in Early Anglo-America” | April 8, 2020
- CITL Convocation | “Quantified Education: Unpacking What We’re Tracking” | April 8, 2020
- PhD+ Workshop | “Feminist in the Academy” | April 10, 2020
2019 | Barry Lam (Vassar College)
Sponsoring Partner: Center for Public Philosophy
Events:
- “Fighting the Future: The Philosophy of Predictive Algorithms in Criminal Justice” | April 11, 2019
- Philosophy Department Conversation | “The Future of Public Philosophy”
- Graduate Student Conversation | “Doing Scholarship in Public: Hi-Phi Nation and More”
2018 | Robin Coste Lewis
Sponsoring Partner: Baskin Chair in Feminist Studies
Events:
- “Always Moving Uphill: Women in the Arts” Panel at Kuumbwa Jazz Center
- Santa Cruz Sentinel | “UC Santa Cruz Women in the Arts panel shares ideas, work”
- Cultural Studies Colloquium | “Voyage of the Sable Venus: Bodies, Art, Race, & Poetry”
- Robin Coste Lewis at Bookshop Santa Cruz
- Living Writers with Robin Coste Lewis
2017 | Tony Michels (University of Wisconsin)
Sponsoring Partner: Center for Jewish Studies
Events:
- Night at the Museum: “Radical Jewish Politics: From Marx to Bernie“
- UCSC News, “IHR’s Second ‘Night at the Museum’ Draws Capacity Crowd“
- “Soviet America: The Russian Revolution in Jewish Life“
- Listen to Dr. Michels and UCSC Professor Alma Heckman on Humanities Radio Hour