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  • Marion Nestle – Sustainable Food in the Trump Era

    Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    What is the state of sustainable food now, what are the forces affecting food choice, and what can we do about it? Join us for this year’s Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture featuring Marion Nestle — Mark Bittman's "guiding light" on nutrition and Alice Waters' "tireless warrior for public health” — for a bracing look […]

  • Kara Cooney – When Women Ruled the World

    Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Ancient Studies presents the 2026 Carl Deppe Lecture featuring Kara Cooney, who will present her lecture "When Women Ruled the World." Who were the women who once ruled the richest and most successful state of the ancient Mediterranean and African Bronze Age? Ancient Egypt's female kings, including Hatshepsut and Nefertiti, ruled against all odds of […]

  • The Sheikh’s Jews: Muslim-Jewish Relations in Interwar Algeria

    Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The Center for Jewish Studies presents, The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies. Until the middle of the twentieth century, Algeria hosted an array of Jewish communities—some deeply-rooted, others more recently settled—that played important roles in North African society. French colonial rule, however, brought changes that profoundly reshaped Jews’ relationship to their Muslim neighbors. […]

  • Nurturing Difference – Parenting and Disability in a Careless Age

    Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    We’ll be discussing Danilyn Rutherford’s Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World (Duke University Press) and Noah Wardrip-Fruin’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Can a game take care of us? (University of Chicago Press). Joined by Donna Haraway and Megan Moodie, and moderated by THI Faculty Director, Pranav Anand, the panel will discuss caregiving, parenthood, disability, language, meaning, and technology. In an increasingly […]

  • The Deep Read: Faculty Salon on James

    Virtual and In Person +1 more

    Join us for a salon-style event at the Hay Barn on campus where our participating Deep Read faculty, Professors Susan Gillman (Literature), akua naru (Music), and Greg O'Malley (History), will give brief presentations and discuss James with the Deep Read community in a Q&A moderated by Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead, Laura Martin. Participants can also […]

  • The Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture – Fred Moten: Theory and Practice of Contradiction

    Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The Humanities Division and The Humanities Institute invite you to join us for the Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture, featuring Fred Moten. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the lecture will begin at 6:00 p.m. This talk will consider some theoretical and historical issues that come more fully to light when we meditate on […]

  • Casting the Dice: A Dialogue on Migration Through Music

    Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Join us for a special event with composer Iván Enrique Rodríguez and UC Santa Cruz scholar Amy Argenal to discuss the complex experiences of migrants, the many challenges of seeking asylum and refuge in the United States, and the power of music as a tool for social change. Presented by The Humanities Institute and the […]

  • Jasbir Puar – Field Notes: Colonial Power at the Thresholds of Gender Studies

    Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The Feminist Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz is pleased to host Jasbir Puar, Distinguished Faculty of Arts Professor, Global Race Studies at the University of British Columbia, presenting Field Notes: Colonial Power at the Thresholds of Gender Studies. Jasbir Puar's research focuses on how the liberal state, sexuality, and bio-politics bear on our understanding […]

  • The 2nd Annual FMST Undergraduate Research Symposium

    Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    UCSC Feminist Studies Presents The 2nd Annual FMST Undergraduate Research Symposium. This year’s FMST Symposium will be a two-day event in celebration of Feminist Studies’ 50th Anniversary. May 16 | Feminists in the World | 10am to 1pm UCSC professors across the university – from anthropology and digital media to molecular biology and politics – […]

  • Women of Color Environmentalists Panel

    Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Join the UCSC community for an empowering panel that celebrates the voices, visions, and efforts of women of color environmentalists. Our panelists include inspiring women from UC Santa Cruz and external organizations. After the panel, enjoy a special dinner with the panelists and all event attendees! UCSC community members and affiliates of all identities are […]

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