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Dr. Lyla June Johnston – Indigenous Relationships with the Land: The Roots of Regenerative Agriculture
UC Santa CruzTo accomodate the planned strike action at UC Santa Cruz on November 18th, this event will take place at the base of campus near the intersection of Bay and High […]
Festival of Monsters
UC Santa CruzHeld on the beautiful UC Santa Cruz campus, the 2025 Festival of Monsters academic conference (Oct. 15-18) includes panels on cannibalism, classic monsters, child monsters and the monsters of childhood, Chicanix Nuclear Gothic and more. David Livingstone Smith, Kim Lau and Jeffrey Jerome Cohen will give this year's keynote talks. The main conference will take […]
Dickens Universe – The Old Curiosity Shop
UC Santa CruzThe Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars, teachers, students, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus of the University of California—all focused on one or two Victorian novels, usually (but not always) one by Charles […]
The Center for Cultural Studies 35th Anniversary Conference
UC Santa CruzJoin us for a celebratory conference in collaborative form, including a conversation with founding director Jim Clifford, lightning talks on Cultural Studies keywords, dialogues, reflections by former graduate student affiliates, and a collective imagining of CCS’s next chapter. Events begin Thursday, October 24 at 5:00 PM and run through Friday evening in Humanities 210 and […]
Festival of Monsters – Academic Conference
UC Santa CruzRising from the darkness, monsters bring to light the parts of our world we might rather see hidden. They come forth in times of growing prejudice, discrimination and othering. The 2024 Festival of Monsters (Academic Conference October 16-18) —hosted by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies — explores the way monsters and tropes […]
Puerto Rican Studies Association Conference
UC Santa CruzThe Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA) is an interdisciplinary academic organization that promotes the development and circulation of knowledge about Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans from the Puerto Rican islands […]
Dickens Universe
UC Santa CruzThe Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars, teachers, students, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus of the University of California—all focused on one or two Victorian novels, usually one by Charles Dickens. In 2024, […]
Public Philosophy Network Conference
UC Santa CruzThe 7th Public Philosophy Network Conference, on the theme of "Facing Technology: The Role of Public Philosophy," will be hosted by the Center for Public Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in partnership with the Baskin School of Engineering and the UC Santa Cruz Humanities Division. The conference is co-sponsored by the Humanities […]
Festival of Monsters
UC Santa CruzThe 2022 UCSC Festival of Monsters is a weekend of scholarship, social events, and art focused on monsters and their hidden meanings. Anyone interested in monsters, those tantalizing creatures that lurk in our collective cultural psyches, will enjoy this investigation and celebration of the strange and macabre. Scholarly presentations are framed by a film screening, […]
The Virtual Dickens Universe
UC Santa CruzWhile the originally planned program focusing on David Copperfield and Iola Leroy will still take place in 2021, this week of online programming will feature a range of conversations that discuss the occasion of the pair and the insights that bringing them together can offer. Over the week, scholars from Victorian studies and early African […]