The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz

Join us this Thursday at 6 for an event spotlighting our "Watsonville is in the Heart" oral history project. Panelists will share what draws them to this work and why these stories are so important. #ucsc #history #humanities #watsonville #montereybay https://thi.ucsc.edu//watsonville-is-in-the-heart-oral-hi/

Tomorrow at 4, the Towards Justice Lecture Series continues with "Bombay Katta: The City and its Poor." Juned Shaikh and Sheetal Chhabria speak to histories of labor, poverty and caste in colonial and postcolonial Bombay. #southasia #bombay #UCSC https://thi.ucsc.edu/ev/bombay-katta-the-city-and-its-poor/

Tomorrow at 12:15, join the Center for Cultural Studies at UC Santa Cruz for a conversation with Yasmeen Daifallah - "Theorize and Decolonize: Critiques of Colonial Subjectivity in Contemporary Arab Thought." See you there! #colonialism #decolonization #culture https://thi.ucsc.edu//yasmeen-daifallah-theorize-and-deco/

This week, our 2021 Memory Series continues with a piece from Alan Christy (History). "Okinawa Isn't Small" explores the ethos of the Okinawa Memories Initiative and the enormity of small places. Follow the link below to read it! #memory #humanities #okinawa https://thi.ucsc.edu/memory-series-alan-christy/

Tomorrow, the UC Santa Cruz Division of Graduate Studies will present the esteemed writer, scholar, and pedagogue bell hooks with a 2021 Distinguished Graduate Student Alumni Award. Find more info and register here: #humanities #ucsc https://thi.ucsc.edu/honoring-uc-santa-cruzs-2021-distingu/

This Friday, join student organizers, HistCon, and CRES for "Political Prisoner & UCSC Grad Student: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal." The event will feature a conversation with Prof. Johanna Fernandez and film screening. Link below! #mumia #ucsc #abolition https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSennQWi9NPgCDe31/viewform

Check out this Good Times Santa Cruz interview with Tommy Orange on his role in the #UCSCDeepRead this year! https://goodtimes.sc//bay-area-author-tommy-orange-mythma/ Here's Orange on being part of the Deep Read: "Getting into the schools was a really cool piece for me... And that’s what college is for, to be thinking about things in a layered, nuanced way where fiction can enter the conservation.

Our month-long exploration of Tommy Orange’s novel, There There, will culminate in a free, live, online event with the author in conversation with UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Professor Micah Perks. All curious minds are welcome. ... RSVP Required: https://thi.ucsc.edu//the-deep-read-a-conversation-with-t/

This Wednesday, join us for the Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies - featuring Sarah Abrevaya Stein. She'll be joined by Professor Alma Heckman for a conversation about lived history, memory, and family. #ucsc #jewishstudies #family #memory https://thi.ucsc.edu//family-papers-a-conversation-about-/

This week we kicked off the #UCSCDeepRead with the first of four weekly explorations of Tommy Orange's novel, There There. Dig in here: https://thi.ucsc.edu/lets-find-the-there-there/

TOMORROW, the amazing Lauren Groff will be joining us for a conversation about her work. This event is free and open to the public. We hope to see you there, and just follow the link below to register! #literature #ucsc #writers #Authors https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-lauren-groff/