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  • Faculty Grants Session with UCHRI

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    Interested in faculty funding opportunities from the UC Humanities Research Institute and want to know more about the advisory committee selection process? Join UCHRI Director Jaimey Fisher and Research Grants Program Director Sara Černe for a grants presentation and Q&A. This year UCHRI is offering up to $25,000 grants for collaborative research projects, support for projects connected […]

  • Campus to Career – Job Talk with Rebecca Hernandez

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    Wondering what you can do with your Arts or Humanities degree? Hear from a real professional on our campus with a background in both. Rebecca Hernandez is the inaugural Community Archivist at the UCSC University Library. In this job talk, she will tell us about her educational journey as a first-generation transfer student and share […]

  • Giving Day

    Giving Day 2025

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    On November 5, 2025, UC Santa Cruz will celebrate the 10th anniversary of Giving Day, our signature 24-hour fundraising event that unites Slugs around the world in support of student success, research, and community programs. Over the past decade, thousands of donors have raised millions to provide scholarships, fuel groundbreaking research, strengthen basic needs programs, […]

  • Kimberly J. Lau

    Slugs and Steins with Professor Kimberly Lau – Race and the European Fairy Tale: The Making of a White Genre

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    In this talk, Kimberly Lau offers intertwined readings of several cognate fairy tales that revolve around true and false brides, beginning with Black slaves and white fairies in 17th-century Naples and tracing their evolution into (implicitly raced but unmarked) kind and unkind girls in 19th-century Germany. Through her readings, Lau illustrates some of the ways […]

  • Slugs and Steins with Associate Professor Muriam Davis – What Does it Mean to “Decolonize” Knowledge?

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    The country of Algeria, located in North Africa, experienced one of the most violent struggles for independence of the twentieth century. The war against France, which lasted from 1954–62 has become a paradigmatic case study of the historical process known as decolonization and inspired classic films such as the Battle of Algiers, as well as […]

  • Amanda Batarseh – Rooted Movements: The Radical Poetics of Palestinian Space

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    The Center for Racial Justice (CRJ) is proud to present Rooted Movements: The Radical Poetics of Palestinian Space with Amanda Batarseh, Assistant Professor of Literature at UC San Diego. Analyses of Palestinian poetics often expose the violent structure of ongoing-Nakba — the Zionist settler-colonial uprooting and removal of Palestinians (both physically from the land and […]

  • Deep Read Salon: The Craft of James

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    Join us for a virtual Deep Read salon on Percival Everett's James featuring UC Santa Cruz Professors of Literature and Creative Writing, Micah Perks and Karen Tei Yamashita. Professors Perks and Yamashita will discuss the writing craft and techniques of the novel, offering insights on the book from their perspective as novelists and memoirists. Their […]

  • Asaf Elia-Shalev – Israel’s Black Panthers: How a Left-Wing Uprising Helped Pave the Way to Israel’s Right-Wing “Revolution”

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    In Zionism's early decades, Mizrahim, or Jews from Arab and Muslim-majority countries, were largely an afterthought for the movement. Soon after Israel's founding, however, they became the majority of the new country’s Jewish population—both essential and marginalized by an elite intent on preserving Israel’s European identity. This virtual lecture explores how the Mizrahim, led by […]

  • Frances Malino – Rediscovering Mazaltob: A Century-Old Feminist Sephardi Novel

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    Prof. Frances Malino (Emerita, Wellesley College) will discuss Blanche Bendahan’s Mazaltob: A Novel, Edited by Yaëlle Azagury & Frances Malino (Brandeis University Press, 2024). Raised in the juderia or Jewish quarter of Tetouan, Morocco at the turn of the 20th century, sixteen-year-old Mazaltob finds herself betrothed to José a man from her own community who […]

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