Humanities
-
Isaac Julien’s ‘All That Changes You’ At Palazzo Te—A Visionary Dialogue Between Myth, Art And The Future
Acclaimed artist, filmmaker, and Distinguished Professor of The Arts and History of Consciousness Isaac Julien was featured in Forbes Magazine, which hailed his “breathtaking new film installation” at Palazzo Te in Mantua, Italy. The installation was commissioned to mark the 500th anniversary of Giulio Romano’s architectural masterpiece.
-
Benjamin Breen: How AI is changing higher education
Associate Professor of History Benjamin Breen contributed an op-ed about the impact of AI on learning and teaching practices, including essay assignments, in the latest issue of The Chronicle of HIgher Education.
-
Gina Athena Ulysse: rethinking images of Haiti through the lens of photographer Leonore Mau
Humanities Professor Gina Athena Ulysse, an artist and cultural anthropologist, collaborated on the conceptual development of Out of Focus, an exhibition that reexamines how German photographer Leonore Mau’s images of Haiti are presented and interpreted. Drawing on her expertise in Haitian culture and postcolonial critique, Ulysse helped shape the show’s critical framework.
-
Challenging the Myth of Firstness: John Rieder explores Zac Zimmer’s “First Contact: Speculative Visions of the Conquest of the Americas.”
Associate Professor of Literature Professor Zac Zimmer’s new book “First Contact: Challenging The Myth Of Firstness” received a detailed and laudatory review in The Los Angeles Review Of Books.
-
Isaac Julien: What’s on our cultural calendar this month
Distinguished Professor of the Arts and History of Consciousness Isaac Julien’s new exhibition in Mantua, Italy made the Elle Magazine editors’ picks for the “best design, art, and architecture happenings around.”
-
A Postcard from the Festival of Monsters
Alison G. Laurence, an adjunct professor at UC Santa Cruz, wrote a detailed feature story for Contingent Magazine about her experience attending the Festival of Monsters on campus this month.
-
Isaac Julien’s Sci-Fi Fantasy Takes Over Italian Palace
A feature story in Hypebeast spotlights the work of acclaimed artist, filmmaker, and Distinguished Professor of The Arts and History of Consciousness Isaac Julien, whose new work, “All That Changes You. Metamorphosis.,” opened at the Palazzo Te in Mantua, Italy in October.
-
Why Does the Trump Compact Talk About Grading?
Professor Jody Greene, who recently served as associate campus provost for academic success at UC Santa Cruz and was the founding director of its teaching center, says some conservative critiques of grading link to conservative efforts to abandon holistic admissions and dismantle DEI programs.
-
Amy Lonetree gives keynote address at Indigenous People’s Day celebration
Amy Lonetree, a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz and a Ho-Chunk Nation citizen, gave the keynote presentation, “Visualizing Native American Survivance: A Photographic History of the Ho-Chunk Nation, 1879-1960,” at UW La Crosse’s Indigenous People Day celebration. Lonetree’s talk covered the unexplored the visual history of the Ho-Chunk Nation.
-
2025 Festival of Monsters features horror panel, roleplaying game
A feature story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel highlighted the Festival of Monsters, including an event with Literature Professor Kimberly Lau, who will discuss her book Specters Of The Marvelous: Race and Development of the European Fairy Tale on Thursday.
-
2025 National Book Award Finalists Announced
Professor Emerita of Literature Karen Tei Yamashita was one of the judges for this year’s National Book Awards. Yamashita, who won the National Book Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021. Yamashita was a judge for works of translated literature.
-
Dialogs: Hope and Solidarity from Angela Davis, Nicole Mitchell, and the Black Earth Ensemble at the Chicago Humanities Festival
Author and activist Angela Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, had an on-stage dialogue in Chicago with world-renowned musician and Guggenheim Fellow Nicole Mitchell, who wrote a special composition for Davis.