WHAT ARE WE DOING WHEN WE DO THE HUMANITIES?

If you’ve ever wondered what it means to do the Humanities, or why the Humanities matter to the world – and to you – you are invited to the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) on Saturday, April 21 for an afternoon of exploration.

Starting at 1:00 p.m., the UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research will host a series of panels and poster presentations at the MAH to answer your questions about the Humanities, and to showcase the research of the Faculty and Graduate Fellows in the Humanities from across the University of California. Panel topics include the power of language, religion and modernity, and empire and nation. Poster presentations cover research on the ethnography of disasters, feminist art, slavery and cannibalism, the criminalization of religious practice, party-crashing in Arabic medieval literature, the inevitable fate of the novel, and more. The moderator of the panel on the power of language (2:00 – 2:45) will be the Linguistics Department’s own Pranav Anand.

The event and the museum will be free and open to the public. In conjunction with ‘What Are We Doing When We Do the Humanities’, the MAH is featuring the highly anticipated ‘All You Need Is Love’ exhibition, which explores the many ways that love is manifest in our everyday lives. Find out more about the event here.