January 12 | Leila Weefer – Cinematic Objects: Architecture, Embodiment and Black Eco-Geographies | THE FILM AND DIGITAL MEDIA DEPARTMENT | 11 AM – 12:30 PM | Communications Building, Room 150 (Theater C)
January 18 | Institute of the Arts and Sciences | Race and Catastrophe: Lessons from Palestine – Dr. Sherene Seikaly in Conversation with Dr. Gina Dent
| 7 PM – 8:30 PM | 100 Panetta Ave | RSVP
January 24 | In Conversation: Rachel Nelson and Ari Friedlaender Introduce “An Aesthetics of Resilience” | THE INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES |
7 PM | 100 Panetta Avenue | RSVP
January 25 | Reza Aslan – An American Martyr in Persia | THE CENTER FOR THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (CMENA) | 6 PM – 7:30 PM | Cowell Ranch Hay Barn | RSVP
January 25 | SEACoast Slow Seminar: – Jun Borras THE CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN COASTAL INTERACTIONS (SEACoast) | 1 PM – 3 PM | Room 261, SS1 and zoom | RSVP
February 1 | What Actually Happened in 1619: The Origins of Slavery in North America | THE HUMANITIES INSTITUTE | 6:30 PM – 8 PM | Music Center Recital Hall | RSVP
February 2 | First Friday Artist-led Workshop: Maria Gaspar’s Disappearance Jail | THE INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES |
5 PM – 7 PM | 100 Panetta Avenue | RSVP
Februrary 7 | ‘”Tripping on Utopia” and Locavore Research with History Professor Ben Breen | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | Special Collections in McHenry Library | RSVP
February 8 | A’ai (Beyond): Screening and Conversation with Louise Miranda Ramirez, Kalie Granier, and Alexandria Casares | THE INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES | 7 PM – 8:30 PM | 100 Panetta Avenue | RSVP
February 15 | The Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture – Lisa Lowe: Histories of the Colonial Present | THE HUMANITIES INSTITUTE | 5:30 PM | Cowell Ranch Hay Barn | RSVP
February 20 | Preview Screening – Ghosts of Adelanto: the Rise of Abolish ICE | THE INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES |
7 PM – 9 PM | Del Mar Theater | RSVP
February 22 | The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture with Maryana Iskander – Humans in the Loop: Wikipedia’s Future in the Age of AI | THE HUMANITIES INSTITUTE | 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM | Cowell Ranch Hay Barn | RSVP
February 28 | Mohamed Abdelaziz – Photogrammetry and Computer Graphics in archaeology: application on some terrestrial and underwater archaeological sites in the city of Alexandria, Egypt Persia | THE CENTER FOR THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (CMENA) | 2:30 PM – 4 PM | Humanities 1 room 210 | RSVP
March 1 | Let This Radicalize You | Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba in conversation with UCSC professors Gina Dent (FMST), Debbie Gould (SOC), and Christine Hong (CRES) | RESOURCE CENTER FOR NON VIOLENCE | 10 AM – 1 PM | 612 Ocean St, Santa Cruz | RSVP
March 1 | Night of Ideas | THE INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES |5 PM – 9 PM | 100 Panetta Avenue | RSVP
March 7 | Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky – Refugee Migration in the Ottoman Middle East | THE CENTER FOR THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (CMENA) |
5 PM – 6:30 PM | Humanities 1 room 210 | RSVP
March 8 | Omar Kasmani – Queer Religiously & Other Companion Stories| THE CENTER FOR SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES | 10 AM | Virtual event | RSVP
March 11 | Early Modern Cosmopolitanism: Steps on the Road to an Idea of Religious Tolerance | AURORA CHAIR IN SIKH AND PUNJABI STUDIES | Winter 2024 Aurora Lecture: Professor James Laine (Macalester College) | 4:30 PM – 6 PM | Humanities 1 Room 202
March 12 | James Laine on his Meta-Religion: Religion and Power in World History (2014) in Conversation with G.S. Sahota | AURORA CHAIR IN SIKH AND PUNJABI STUDIES | Winter 2024 Aurora Lecture: Professor James Laine (Macalester College) | 4:30 PM – 6 PM | Humanities 1 Room 202
For more events of interest see The Humanities Institute calendar.