Dan White
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Quarry Amphitheater to Present Sir Isaac Julien’s Landmark Film Young Soul Rebels
A newly restored director’s cut of Sir Isaac Julien’s acclaimed 1991 film Young Soul Rebels is coming to the Quarry Amphitheater on Wednesday, October 21. Following the screening, Julien, Distinguished Professor of the Arts and Humanities, will join The Humanities Institute (THI) and the Moving Image Lab for a discussion of the film’s origins, its…
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The Festival of Monsters returns to Santa Cruz
As Halloween draws near, the monsters are about to descend on Santa Cruz. From Wednesday, October 14, through Sunday, October 18, the UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies will bring together more than 80 scholars, artists, writers and makers for the fifth annual Festival of Monsters, the center’s largest conference yet.
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Humanities students get real-world experience through summer programs
This past summer, 26 UC Santa Cruz humanities students had immersive work experiences across California in media offices, city government, museum curatorial work, nonprofit organizations and literary publishing— the result of two university programs, the Summer Humanities EXCEL program and HumLaunch. Both are designed to translate humanistic study into professional experiences.
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$350,000 UC grant will expand support for doctoral students at UC Santa Cruz
A new $350,000 University of California grant will help UC Santa Cruz build a more welcoming and supportive environment for doctoral students, as part of the campus’s national leadership as a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI).
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Learning beyond the classroom: ten UC Santa Cruz students immerse themselves in Japanese art and culture
Ten students took part in an intense and immersive ten-day trip to Japan. Throughout the journey, they engaged in translanguaging, a practice that allows students to shuffle between two languages or more to deepen comprehension, express complex ideas, and build linguistic proficiency rather than treating languages as separate systems.
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Shining a light on Bleak House: 46th annual Dickens Universe embraces Charles Dickens’s dark masterpiece
Bleak House, a 377,000-word page turner about family intrigue, wicked lawyers, and grinding legal bureaucracy, will be the focus of the 46th annual Dickens Universe this summer.
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From Homer to Hollywood: The enduring fascination with The Odyssey
Ahead of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film release, UC Santa Cruz classics professors discuss the enduring fascination with The Odyssey
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What can you do with a humanities degree? A new UC Santa Cruz course has answers
Launched this spring by the Humanities Division, “What Can I Do with My Degree? Humanities-Powered Jobs” introduces students to the professional possibilities of a humanities education while helping them develop collaboration, leadership, and communication skills that extend far beyond the classroom.
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Celebrating the Humanities at UC Santa Cruz
The annual Celebrating the Humanities gathering was more than just a way to recognize excellence across the division. This event, which filled the Merrill Cultural Center, was also a strong reminder of the relevance and career power of humanistic studies in an era of artificial intelligence.
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Humanities students are rethinking incarceration through VAST and EXCEL programs
Humanities students at UC Santa Cruz are finding new ways to think about incarceration through art, literature, journalism, and community internships.
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Art, research, and Night at the Museum: The flourishing partnership between UC Santa Cruz Humanities and the Museum of Art and History
Over the past ten years, the Humanities Division and The Humanities Institute have had a unique and successful partnership with the Museum of Art and History, working closely on exhibitions, public programming, student fellowships, and research initiatives that connect the university with the broader Santa Cruz community.
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A reckoning in fiction: Karen Tei Yamashita returns to Bookshop Santa Cruz with acclaimed new novel Questions 27 & 28
Bookshop Santa Cruz will host the celebrated novelist and Emeritus Professor of Literature Karen Tei Yamashita for the launch of her new book, Questions 27 & 28, in conversation with History Professor Alice Yang.