Author: Dan White
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Prominent trans rights advocate and bestselling author Jennifer Finney Boylan will deliver Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture
Jennifer Finney Boylan, a celebrated author, LGBTQ+ advocate, and prominent voice in the transgender rights movement, will invoke the spirit of American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart during her Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture on Tuesday, March 4. Boylan is currently Scholar In Residence at The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
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UCHRI grants advance Humanities research on campus
This year, UC Santa Cruz researchers are advancing cutting-edge projects that tackle critical issues such as antiracist education, environmental resilience, and the intersections of identity and power, with critical funding from the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI).
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Uncovering an ancient alphabet
Back when she was an intrepid graduate student, renowned University of California, Santa Cruz Egyptologist Elaine Sullivan contributed to the discovery of the world’s earliest known alphabet. This historic find has only recently come to light.
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Employing Humanities: Bridging the gap between the classroom and the workforce
Launched just a year ago, the Employing Humanities initiative at the University of California, Santa Cruz is already transforming the lives of undergraduate students. The initiative was made possible by a $1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation and is led by Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder.
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning author Marilynne Robinson to deliver 2024 Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson, renowned for her deeply reflective explorations of faith, humanity, and the divine, will deliver this year’s Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture on Dec. 3 at the Rio Theater in Santa Cruz.
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Creating enchantment in Senegal
UC Santa Cruz Humanities Professor Gina Athena Ulysse was invited to participate as a featured artist for the prestigious Dakar Biennale (Dak’Art), which the New York Times called “Africa’s hottest art event” and “Africa’s most prominent cultural gathering.”
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Dolly Kikon’s new film Abundance selected for South Asia Film Festival, showcasing Indigenous Worlds in Nagaland
UC Santa Cruz Anthropology Professor Dolly Kikon’s documentary highlights the ecological and cultural richness of Nagaland. The film will be screened on campus this Wednesday, November 13.
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A popular Humanities course is unwrapping the strange and fraught history and cultural afterlife of Egyptian mummies.
In their co-taught course, LIT 159M/HIS 159M: The Curse of the Mummy, UC Santa Cruz Associate Professor of Literature Renee Fox and Associate Professor of History Elaine Sullivan are looking into the strange pop-cultural afterlife of Egyptian mummies, which keep showing up as supernatural villains in movies and books.
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Award-winning poet and author Ellen Bass will be the honored guest speaker at the 15th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading on November 7 (UPDATE: EVENT CANCELED)
The celebrated poet and longtime Santa Cruz resident Ellen Bass is the latest in a long list of poetry luminaries to speak at the Morton Marcus Poetry Reading. The list of previous speakers includes Gary Snyder, Natasha Trethewey, Robert Hass and Dorianne Laux.
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Dickens Project gets prestigious $200,000 NEH grant to host institute for high school teachers
A $200,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities is funding a new Dickens Project initiative, an in-person institute for 25 high school teachers from across the United States. The institute will help teachers consider bold new approaches to teaching Charles Dickens’ classic 1861 novel Great Expectations
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UCSC artist micha cárdenas sounds the alarm on climate catastrophe in Toronto exhibition
micha cárdenas’s “Probability Engine,” opening in Toronto, explores climate tipping points through immersive art and augmented reality, urging audiences to imagine a more just and survivable future
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UC Santa Cruz Humanities Division welcomes new Associate Dean of DEI Eric Porter
Eric Porter, a professor of History, History of Consciousness, and Critical Race and Ethnic studies at UC Santa Cruz, has a longstanding fascination with power and resistance. His approach to history will inform his new position as Associate Dean of DEI for the Humanities.