Author: Dan White
-
Upcoming exhibition will shine a light on vibrant Filipino American life on the Central Coast
Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley will run from April 12 through August 4 at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art And History in downtown Santa Cruz, highlighting the vitality, struggles, and resilience of the Central Coast’s Filipino migrant community
-
Distinguished Emerita Professor Angela Davis receives the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize for her contributions to architecture
University of California, Santa Cruz Distinguished Professor Emerita Angela Davis has been honored with the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize for her influence on architectural culture.
-
The future of Wikipedia in an era of AI
Maryana Iskander, Chief Executive Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation, is the featured speaker at this year’s Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture on Thursday, February 22, at the Cowell Hay Barn.
-
The Center For Public Philosophy garners national recognition for its unique Outreach Invitational High School Ethics Bowl
UC Santa Cruz’s Center For Public Philosophy is being honored for its Outreach Invitational High School Ethics Bowl program, which has received the Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs/
-
Three historians to share their insights on slavery’s origins in America at on-campus panel discussion.
Next week’s on-campus panel discussion, “What Actually Happened In 1619,” will provide a deeper understanding of the year 1619 as a turning point in slavery’s history. This talk takes place Thursday, February 1 at the Music Recital Hall on campus.
-
Historian Benjamin Breen explores the troubled birth of psychedelic science in acclaimed new book, Tripping On Utopia.
UC Santa Cruz Associate History Professor Benjamin Breen will read from his new book about the fraught history of Cold War-era psychedelic science at Bookshop Santa Cruz this Tuesday.
-
Sage Michaels (Rachel Carson, ‘22, Intensive History) is sharing her passion for history
Sage Michaels discovered her passion for history while taking Humanities courses at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Now she works as an interpretive guide at two Massachusetts museums, where she’s focusing on the American Revolutionary War while getting ready to start graduate school.
-
UCSC Humanities Division welcomes 11 new faculty members
The Humanities Division is proud to announce the recent hires of 11 outstanding new faculty members whose disciplines range from Critical Race & Ethnic Studies (CRES) to the History of Consciousness, Philosophy, Languages and Applied Linguistics.
-
Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder receives NEH grant to enrich teaching of Japanese-American incarceration during WWII
Jasmine Alinder, Humanities Dean at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a prestigious grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, making it possible for her to co-direct a summer institute that will enrich U.S. educators’ understanding of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and the aftermath of their…
-
Introducing The Humanities Institute’s 2024 Deep Read: Hernan Diaz’s Trust
Hernan Diaz’s bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Trust, The Humanities Institute’s latest Deep Read selection, is one of the most talked-about, praised, and bestselling works of historical fiction of the past few years. This book is a profound reflection on how power and wealth shape our stories about the global economy,
-
Award-winning author and poet Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni will be the honored guest speaker at this year’s Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
Chitra Divakaruni, known for her loving and vivid portraits of South Asian culture and the immigrant experience, will be the special guest at the 14th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading on Thursday, November 2 at Merrill College at 6 p.m. The late Morton Marcus was Divakaruni’s friend and early mentor.
-
Visualizing Abolition Studies certificate program launches this spring at UCSC
UCSC is set to launch its Visualizing Abolition Studies (VAST) certificate program this spring, helping undergraduates examine and question how society understands and responds to mass incarceration, detention, and policing in the United States and abroad.