Events

Welcome to the City: San Diego
2025-11-14 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Jacob and Cushman San Diego Food Bank, 9850 Distribution Ave, San Diego, CA, 92121, United States
Join us for Welcome to the City in Santa Diego, hosted in partnership with the Jacob and Cushman San Diego Food Bank. The project will be held Friday, November 14 from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. at the Food Bank (9850 Distribution Avenue, San Diego, CA 92121). Please register in advance to help us and our non-profit partner plan accordingly.
Project Description:
Volunteers primarily work at the Food Bank’s warehouse, completing a variety of essential tasks, most of which involve inspecting, sorting, and packing food for distribution.
Welcome to the City is an annual series of regional events which help graduates connect with their local UCSC community. While the program is designed with recent grads in mind, all are welcome to participate.
Please contact alumni@ucsc.edu with questions.

Korean Experimental Music Festival—Featuring the National Gugak Center and Del Sol Quartet
2025-11-14 17:00 - 19:00 | Music Center Recital Hall, 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
The National Gugak Center—Korea’s foremost institution for traditional music—joins forces with the Bay Area’s acclaimed Del Sol String Quartet to offer California audiences a rare and resonant experience. The festival blends traditional Korean musical practices, Western classical instrumentation, and cutting edge music technology in the world premiere of a over 20 newly commissioned works by faculty and graduate student composers from UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley, and Stanford University.
Two concerts on Fri., Nov. 14 feature a first-of-its-kind ensemble pairing two gayageums—Korea’s zither-like string instrument—with a Western string quartet. In two additional performances on Sat., Nov. 15, traditional Korean wind instruments—the piri, saenghwang, and daegeum—are transformed through real-time computer sound processing into a striking electroacoustic experience.
The festival culminates a two-year collaboration among the National Gugak Center, the UC Santa Cruz Music Department, UC Berkeley’s Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), and Stanford’s Department of Music and Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). We hope you enjoy these concerts of new works shaped by deep intercultural dialogue and inspired by the enduring legacy of traditional Korean music.
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ADMISSION
– Open admission/first-come, first-served seating (no ticket required)
– Free and open to the public
– Doors are scheduled to open 30 minutes prior to event start time
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FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Korean Experimental Music Festival includes two-days of events at UC Santa Cruz, each with two back-to-back concerts, including:
KEMF: Traditional Korean Gayageum with String Quartet Part I
Fri. Nov. 14, 5:00 p.m., UCSC Music Center Recital Hall
New works for Korean gayageums—traditional zither-like stringed instruments—and Western string quartet, by Maisha Lani, Ben Dorfan, Michael J. Fleming, Nina Barzegar, Siamak Barghi, Chris Everingham, and Jinwei Sun. Featuring musicians from the National Gugak Center in Seoul, and San Francisco’s Del Sol Quartet.
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KEMF: Traditional Korean Gayageum with String Quartet Part II
Fri. Nov. 14, 8:00 p.m., UCSC Music Center Recital Hall
New works for gayageums—traditional zither-like stringed instruments—and Western string quartet, by UC Santa Cruz Professor Ben Leeds Carson, and by UC Berkeley faculty Cindy Cox, Edmund Campion, and Jean Ahn. Featuring musicians from the National Gugak Center in Seoul, and San Francisco’s Del Sol Quartet.
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KEMF: Korean Winds and Electronics Part I
Sat. Nov. 15, 5:00 p.m., UCSC Music Center Recital Hall
Music for traditional Korean wind Instruments, including piri (a traditional Korean double-reed instrument similar to a shawm or oboe), saenghwang (a traditional Korean free-reed mouth organ, like a large, complex harmonica), and daegeum (a large, traditional transverse bamboo flute)—all of which are combined with experimental electronics. New works by UC Santa Cruz Professor Emeritus David Evan Jones, and by composers Michael J. Fleming, Mat Muntz, and Dion Nataraja. Featuring musicians from the National Gugak Center in Seoul.
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KEMF: Korean Winds and Electronics Part II
Sat. Nov. 15, 8:00 p.m., UCSC Music Center Recital Hall
Music for traditional Korean wind Instruments, including piri (a traditional Korean double-reed instrument similar to a shawm or oboe), saenghwang (a traditional Korean free-reed mouth organ, like a large, complex harmonica), and daegeum (a large, traditional transverse bamboo flute)—all of which are combined with experimental electronics. New works by UC Santa Cruz Professors Matt Schumaker and David Evan Jones; UC Berkeley Professors Ken Ueno and Edmund Campion; and Stanford Professor Jarosław Kapuściński. Featuring musicians from the National Gugak Center in Seoul.
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Additional events at Stanford and at UC Berkeley Nov. 7–12
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VISITOR PARKING AT UCSC
– Parking by permit, ParkMobile, or $5 cash/credit via the on-site parking attendant
– Arts Lot #126 is the closest parking lot to the event
– Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces, Medical spaces, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.
– More information provided by UCSC Transportation & Parking Services (TAPS)
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ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The festival is the culmination of a two-year collaboration between the National Gugak Center, the UC Santa Cruz Music Department, UC Berkeley’s Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) and the Department of Music at UC Berkeley, and Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).
The Korean Experimental Music Festival is supported by: The National Gugak Center; the UC Santa Cruz Music Department; The Hellman Fellows Program; The Arts Research Institute, UC Santa Cruz; Porter College, UC Santa Cruz; the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, UC Berkeley; the UC Berkeley Music Department; CCRMA at Stanford University, and others.
This program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.

Film Screening: Shimmering with Matte Hewitt, MFA
2025-11-14 16:00 - 18:00 | Communications Building, 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
The Center for Documentary Arts and Research (CDAR) and the UCSC American Indian Resource Center (AIRC) are honored to invite you to the Shimmering Film Screening and Q&A Discussion with invited Guest Panelists, on Friday, November 14th, 2025 in Studio C of the Communications Building at UC Santa Cruz.
SHIMMERING (2025, 20 min) is an essay film poetically investigating creation, extraction, and second lives. Guided by the luminous figure of Hummingbird, SHIMMERING moves through place-based ways of knowing, tracing the entanglement between biological studies of hummingbirds and the rise of military drone technology. The film also features storytelling and insights from Mutsun Ohlone and Tribal Chair of Indian Canyon, Kanyon “Coyote Woman” Sayers-Roods. Through interwoven narratives of land, militarization, taxidermy, Native regalia, the filmmaker’s relationship with their trans identity—and with a hummingbird they name Anna–the filmmaker learns about Central California Native Land and culture. Blurring the lines between documentary, personal letter, and ecological study, the film invites viewers to consider new forms of kinship across species, systems, and histories.Gentle yet provocative, SHIMMERING offers a multispecies meditation on knowledge, power, and connection.
Following the film screening will be a Q&A Discussion facilitated by Associate Professor Selmin Kara who will be joined by the filmmaker, Matte Hewitt, a film participant, Gizelle Hurtado, and a film interlocutor Angel Riotutar, Director of the UCSC American Indian Resource Center. With respect to Native American Heritage Month, Angel will speak with us about learning as a non-Native person. How do we do so respectfully and with reciprocity?

Road Trip! Light in the American West, from Baja to the Yukon
2025-11-14 12:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-13 12:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-12 12:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-11 12:00 - 17:00 | Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, 11 Cowell Service Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
The photographs in this exhibition, made between 2004 and 2025, span across the American West from the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico to The Yukon territory in Canada. Paul Schoellhamer’s (Cowell ‘69) color photographs invite us to travel with him and reflect on our relationship to land, the light that shapes it, and the freedom – contested but essential – to move across it.
The exhibition draws on voices across time and perspective that frame the American landscape as more than a stage for beauty and awe. For Chief Satanta of the Kiowa Nation, to roam the land freely was life itself. For N. Scott Momaday, land must be “believed to be seen.” For Eliot Porter, light and reflection imparted magic to Glen Canyon’s waters. For Wallace Stegner, saving natural places meant saving fragments of our collective sanity. For Brook M. Thompson, the Klamath River is recognized with personhood. Alongside these perspectives, Paul’s images press us to see public land not as scenery to extract or aestheticize, but as sustenance and history. Land is alive and contested. To see closely is not to linger on a romanticized vision of the American landscape, but to reckon with responsibility: how we safeguard access, how we imagine “wildness,” and how we hold space for futures beyond our own. For Paul, this exhibition is a call for students to encounter land and light firsthand and let those encounters be their teachers.
Opening Reception
October 4, 2025
1-4pm
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Join us every Friday for Art Fridays.
No experience necessary. Supplies and snacks provided.

Sep 26 Snail Mail/Postcards
Oct 3 Souvenir Keychains
Oct 10 Stamp Magnets
Oct 17 Cyanotype Totebags/Pouches/Pencil cases
Oct 24 Candy Around The World Linocuts
Oct 31 Abstract Felt Collages
Nov 7 Phone Photos/Buttons
Nov 14 Travel Related Patches With Upcycled Materials
Nov 21 Thanksgiving Break! No Art Friday
Nov 28 Unexpected Landscape Surrealist Collage

Please note that the date and the project is subject to change.

Info Session: UCEAP Summer at University College London
2025-11-14 12:00 - 13:00 | CA
Thinking about studying abroad this summer?
Discover what it’s like to spend your summer at University College London (UCL)—one of the world’s leading universities, located in the heart of London.
Join us for a special info session on the UCEAP Summer at University College London program! Hear from Charlotte Murphy, Senior Student Recruitment and Partnerships Officer at UCL.
Friday, November 14
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Classroom Unit Building, 101 (Global Engagement Conference Room)
Sign Up to Attend
Why attend?

Get the inside scoop from a UCL Summer School representative
Learn about the different course options
Find out how to apply and make it happen
Connect with Global Learning advisors and start planning your summer abroad

Whether you’re just curious or ready to go, this is your chance to get inspired and take the next step toward studying abroad at University College London!
Questions? Contact us at globallearning@ucsc.edu.

Slugs at Sundown -- Humanity at the Helm: Thriving in an AI-Driven World
2025-11-13 17:30 - 19:00 | Silicon Valley Campus, 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, 95054, United States
Artificial intelligence is transforming the way we work, live, and connect — but it doesn’t define the future. What matters most are the skills and strengths that only humans bring: creativity, empathy, adaptability, and big-picture thinking. Join fellow UC Santa Cruz alumni for an evening of conversation and connection as we explore how to stay relevant, resilient, and future-ready in an AI-driven world.

College Night: Cozy Cabin with KC
2025-11-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Porter/Kresge Dining Hall, 411 Porter-Kresge Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
Kresge College, in collaboration with UCSC Dining, present Cozy Cabin with KC. Join us Thursday, November 13, from 5–7 p.m. at the Porter/Kresge Dining Hall for a night of activities, fun, community, and a special themed menu. Standard dining hall entry pricing applies, and all students, faculty, and staff are invited.
Please note: The dining hall will be closed from 2–5 p.m. for event preparation.
Learn more about College Nights at dining.ucsc.edu/events.
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You Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all, consistent with state and federal law, as well as the University of California’s nondiscrimination policies. Every initiative—whether a student service, faculty program, or community event—is designed to be accessible, inclusive, and respectful of all identities.
To learn more, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications.

Leveraging UC Resources To Launch Your Biotech Company
2025-11-13 16:30 - 19:00 | Hay Barn, 94 Ranch View Road, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Are you a UCSC faculty member, postdoc, or graduate student with an entrepreneurial mindset?
Join us for an insightful panel discussion on how to turn your biotech research into a successful startup. Learn how to tap into the University of California’s robust innovation ecosystem—from research commercialization and funding opportunities to mentorship and startup incubation.
Hear firsthand from UC-affiliated founders, investors, and innovation experts who have successfully navigated the path from lab discovery to market launch. Stay afterward for a networking reception to connect with peers, panelists, and campus innovation partners.
Open to: UCSC faculty, postdocs, and graduate studentsLight refreshments provided.
Registration requested: https://luma.com/2gmhjlbo

Successful Slug Workshop: Reading & Notetaking Strategies (on Zoom!)
2025-11-13 14:00 - 15:00
Reading & Notetaking Strategies
Thursday, November 13, 2:05 p.m.– 2:50 p.m.
Location: Zoom
Learn reading and note-taking methods and why they work to help you learn.
Successful Slug Workshop Series
Join Learning Support Services (LSS) for Successful Slug Workshops on Mondays at 11:40 a.m. and Wednesdays at 2:05 p.m.
These 45-minute workshops are open to all UCSC students and offer tools and strategies to support your academic success. Each session highlights best practices for effective, long-lasting learning and is led by LSS professional staff.
To get first priority, sign up on TutorHub or simply drop in. You can also sign up on TutorHub to receive email reminders.
Learn more and sign up: learningsupport.ucsc.edu/programs/workshops/

You Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all, consistent with state and federal law, as well as the University of California’s nondiscrimination policies. Every initiative—whether a student service, faculty program, or community event—is designed to be accessible, inclusive, and respectful of all identities.
To learn more, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications.

Applied Microeconomics and Trade Seminar Series presents: Giovanni Peri
2025-11-13 13:40 - 15:00 | Engineering 2, Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
Applied Microeconomics and Trade Seminar
Date: Thursday, November 13, 2025
Time: 1:40-3:00 p.m.
Location: E2-499

Speaker: Giovanni Peri
Title: C. Bryan Cameron Distinguished Professor in International Economics
Affiliation: UC Davis
Host: Gueyon Kim

Seminar title: How the1942 Japanese Exclusion Impacted U.S. Agriculture

ABSTRACT: In the early 1940s, Japanese American farmers and farm workers represented an important part of agriculture-specific human capital in the United States. In 1942 all those living in the “exclusion zone” along the WestCoastwereforcefully relocated to internment camps and most of them never returned to farming. Using county-level panel data from historical agricultural censuses and a triple-difference (DDD) estimation approach we find that, by 1960, counties in the exclusion zone experienced 12% lower cumulative growth in farm value for each percentage point loss of their 1940 share of Japanese farm workers, relative to counties outside the exclusion zone. Farm revenues, farm productivity, adoption of high-value crops, mechanization, and farm wages were also correspondingly lower. Taken together, these findings are consistent with Japanese farmers representing hard-to-replace human capital, rather than replaceable labor, in US agriculture.

Visiting Theater Artists 2-Day Residency with Torange Yeghiazarian and Evren Odcikin from MENA
2025-11-13 13:30 - 15:30, 2025-11-12 15:00 - 16:30 | Digital Arts Research Center, 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
Visiting theater artists from MENA Theater Makers Alliance—Torange Yeghiazarian and Evren Odcikin—and the Department of Performance, Play & Design’s IRIS LAB invite attendees to participate in the 2-day residency, including a conversation with the artists and a workshop. MENA’s mission is to amplify the voices of Middle Eastern and North African theater makers and expand how stories from and about these communities are told on U.S. stages.
Wed. Nov. 12, 3:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
DARC 108 (Digital Arts Research Center at UC Santa Cruz)
“MENA Theater Makers Modeling Possibility and Resistance”
– An Intergenerational conversation with Playwright, Director, Arts Leader Torange Yeghiazarian and Director, Playwright, and Arts Leader Evren Odcikin
– Moderated by Lisa Marie Rollins, Assistant Professor of Playwriting & Black Drama, Department of Performance Play and Design and Artistic Director of The Iris Lab
– This event will be live streamed for those who would prefer to attend online.
Thur. Nov 13, 1:30–3:30 p.m.
DARC 108 (Digital Arts Research Center at UC Santa Cruz)
“Master Class: Theatrical Play, Staging Language and Poetry Creative workshop”
– for theater makers and interdisciplinary performance researchers with Torange Yeghiazarian and Evren Odcikin .
ADMISSION
– FREE and open to the public
– Donations to the IRIS LAB are welcomed and appreciated
– Registration required
– Wed. Nov 12: live streamed on Howlround Theater Commons; use THIS LINK to stream and join online.
– Thu. Nov 13: registration is required for the Master Class/Workshop; Register online here
PARKING
– Parking by permit or ParkMobile
– Arts Lot #126 is the closest parking lot to the event
– Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces, Medical spaces, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.
– More information provided by UCSC Transportation & Parking Services (TAPS)
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This program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.

Campus to Career: Job Talk with Kim Angulo, Assistant Public Defender
2025-11-13 12:30 - 13:30 | Humanities 1 Building, 257 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Interested in an impact-driven career in law, public policy, or politics? Come hear from UCSC Humanities alum Kim Angulo, an Assistant Public Defender with experience in both law and public policy work. You’ll gain insights into how to enter these fields, considerations for knowing whether they’re a good fit for you, and ideas for how to put your humanistic training to work for public service.
This is a hybrid event and will be hosted both in-person in Humanities 1, Room 210 and on Zoom. All attendees will enter a raffle for a Humanities tumbler, and pizza will be provided for those joining in person!
Register on Handshake here
Learn more about Kim:
Kim Angulo (she/her) graduated from UCSC in 2013 with her BA in Feminist Studies. She worked in the California State Capitol on public policy and politics for three years, focusing on courts, criminal justice, and human services. Kim attended UC Davis Law School from 2016 to 2019, gaining experience in Public Defense, Workers’ Rights, and Civil Rights. Kim has been an Assistant Public Defender representing people who cannot afford to hire an attorney for six years. She has represented hundreds of clients facing criminal charges and conducted misdemeanor and felony jury trials. She currently works in Mental Health Diversion.

Haunting Interruptions: Race, Infrastructural Violence, and Spatial Memory in Ferguson, Missouri
2025-11-13 12:00 - 13:15 | Rachel Carson College, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
On Thursday, November 13th from 12:00-1:15pm, join the Sociology Department together with the Center for Critical Urban & Environmental Studies (CUES), The Black Geographies Lab, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, and History in the Rachel Carson College Red Room, to welcome speaker Rashad Timmons (UC PPFP) for a discussion on Race, Infrastructural Violence, and Spatial Memory in Ferguson, Missouri moderated by Camilla Hawthorne (UC Santa Cruz).
This presentation engages the racial politics of infrastructural violence and spatial memory in Ferguson, Missouri—the historically-white suburb of St. Louis and site of the tragic police killing of Black, 18-year-old Michael Brown, Jr. in August 2014. It critically examines the use of blockades, space-based protests, and other forms of infrastructural disruption by Black subjects in Ferguson before and after Michael Brown Jr.’s execution, paying specific attention to the mnemonic work these practices perform. It argues that Black subjects in Ferguson deploy these tactics of spatial intervention not only to claim space in Ferguson’s suburban landscape but to haunt its collective memory. These disruptive practices—what I call “haunting interruptions”—disturb or interfere with the normative function of infrastructures such as roads and highways to reveal, indict, and account for the historical racist logics underlying (sub)urban life. The presentation grounds haunting interruptions in an examination of historical and contemporary protests in the notorious apartment complex where Michael Brown Jr. perished and finds that Black subjects use protest and blockage as spatial tactics not simply to force state, institutional, or corporate entities to act but to surface the memory of persistent racial suffering that exceeds reparation and is acutely sedimented in the suburban geography.
Rashad Arman Timmons (he/him) is a community builder, musician, writer, scholar, and educator from Detroit, Michigan, the ancestral and present homelands of the Anishinaabeg. The proud son of factory workers, he teaches and writes broadly about race, urban infrastructure, mobility, and power in the midwestern United States, es Black people’s longstanding use of the built environment to imagine a freer and more just world. Rashad earned his Ph.D. in African American and African Diaspora Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, where he researched the violent and racist history of infrastructural development (e.g., railways, roads, telecommunications) and policing in Ferguson, Missouri. Rashad is currently a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Black Studies at UC Santa Barbara, where he is writing a book about the plunder and persistence of Black geographies in Ferguson.
Alongside his scholarly work, Rashad serves and organizes with the Michael Brown Sr. Chosen for Change Organization to uplift the life and legacy of Michael “Mike Mike” Brown Jr. In this role, Rashad leads public history and community engagement projects dedicated to uncovering and preserving Black history in Ferguson and St. Louis. He also writes grants to support the Brown family’s healing and racial justice efforts throughout the St. Louis metropolitan area. As lead grant writer, Rashad has secured more than a half a million dollars of direct funding to the family’s non-profit organization.
Rashad currently lives in Oakland, California—the unceded lands of the Lisjan Ohlone—where he delivers political education to Bay Area youth and supports organizations working to end police terrorism in the U.S. and abroad.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Critical Urban & Environmental Studies (CUES) together with The Black Geographies Lab, the Sociology Department, Critical Race and Ethic Studies, and History.

Petety, A. (CSE) - New Algorithmic Methods for Uncertain Inputs
2025-11-13 10:00 - 12:00 | CA
This dissertation focuses on designing and proving performance guarantees on algorithms when there is uncertainty in the input. The uncertainty could be from the user being unsure or future inputs that have not arrived yet. We look at different methods in which algorithms can be designed to be competitive against the optimal. One of the assumptions that helps in this is to assume that the input arrival order is completely random. We study the online load/graph balancing problem when the input arrival order is uniformly random. We show lower bounds for the greedy algorithm and the general case. In the next part, we study the online scheduling problem under the assumption that the online algorithm has an additional ϵ speed compared to the machines in offline optimal. We show a meta algorithm generalizing Shortest Remaining Processing Time that gives a scalable algorithm for minimizing total weighted flow time. We show that it achieves scalability for minimizing total weighted flow time when the residual optimum exhibits supermodularity. In the final part we look at the online caching problem when the algorithm has access to ML-augmented predictions. We propose an algorithm that achieves a O(logb k) competitive ratio even when using just b predictions per cache miss. We also prove its robustness and consistency.
Event Host: Aditya Petety, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Sungjin Im

Plenary Session for Crown Students: Chatbots on the Couch: AI, Mental Health, and the Ethics of Digital Empathy
2025-11-12 19:15 - 20:45 | Merrill Cultural Center, 200 McLaughlin Dr, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
Location: Merrill/Crown Auditorium
Event Type: Panel Discussion / Plenary Session
Sponsor: Crown College
Open to: UCSC Students, Faculty, and Staff

Event Description:
As artificial intelligence increasingly shapes mental healthcare—from chatbots offering therapeutic support to algorithms detecting early signs of distress—we face urgent ethical questions about trust, privacy, bias, and the future of human connection in care.
Join us for a compelling panel discussion featuring three distinguished experts who will explore the promises and perils of AI in mental health:
Panelists:
Dr. Lisa A. Berkley – Director of Crown Resiliency Program and Founder Executive Director of the Center for Applied Values & Ethics in Advancing Technology (CAVEAT) at UCSC; Founder and President of the Institute for Inner Economy
Alka Roy – Technology and product leader with deep expertise in Machine Learning/AI, privacy, and trust frameworks. Ms. Roy founded the Responsible Innovation Project, serves on multiple open-source Responsible and Trusted AI committees, and holds multiple patents for policy and security frameworks. She has received national recognition as a Rising Star and National Women of Color in Technology honoree. With degrees in both Electrical Engineering/Computer Science and an MFA in Creative Writing, Ms. Roy brings a unique interdisciplinary perspective to questions of technology ethics and innovation.
Linda MacDonald Glenn, JD, LLM, Faculty at Crown College and co-founder of the Center for Applied Values and Ethics in Advancing Technologies (CAVEAT.UCSC.EDU)
What We’ll Explore:

When does AI complement human care, and when does it replace it dangerously?
How do we address algorithmic bias in mental health interventions?
What ethical guardrails are needed when bots mimic empathy?
Who is accountable when AI-driven mental health tools cause harm?

This panel brings together perspectives from bioethics, clinical practice, student well-being, and technology leadership to examine the real-world ethical challenges of AI deployment in mental healthcare—a topic of profound relevance given recent concerns about chatbot safety, algorithmic bias, and the commercialization of mental health technologies.
This event connects directly to critical questions about responsibility, justice, and the sociopolitical implications of emerging technologies. Come prepared to think critically about innovation that claims to heal—and to question whose interests are truly being served.
Admission: Free and open to the UCSC community

Women In Academia
2025-11-12 16:00 - 18:00 | Rachel Carson College Red Room
Join the UCSC Women’s Center for Women in Academia featuring Dr. Cindy Wong (Global & Community Health, Merrill College). This event highlights Dr. Wong’s journey as a woman of color into academia, her path to becoming a lecturer, and her ongoing research in planetary health, sustainability, and community-based public health. Through her story, students will gain insight into nontraditional academic pathways and the impact of women scholars shaping inclusive and applied research.
RSVP By: November 10th
Please email: srostami@ucsc.edu for accommodations and questions.

Book Talk with Winnie Wong—VMCC Series
2025-11-12 16:00 - 17:30 | Porter College, D-Building, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
In this public talk, Winnie Wong presents and discusses her most recent book, The Many Names of Anonymity: Portraitists of the Canton Trade. She explores two countervailing urgencies in contemporary cultural politics: the drive to recognize all individuals as artists so that they may be granted the rights and privileges of authorship; and, at the same time, the inadequacy of the modern figure of “the artist” to contain the ingenuity, imagination, and originality of anonymous workers. It does so by focusing on a long marginalized but ubiquitous genre of painting: portraits produced by Chinese artisans in the port of Guangzhou for European merchants at the height of the Qing dynasty. In this relationship, makers are anonymized, while merchants’ lives are preserved in vivid detail, but portraiture occasions the empirical scene of their encounter. This book charts a framework for understanding visual production and trade across overlapping imperial spaces, and demonstrates how contemporary art historical inquiry can yet decouple authorial names from authorial works, a step necessary to looking anew at anonymity, multiplicity, and the ingenuity of nameless artisans.
Winnie Wong is a professor of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an art historian with a special interest in fakes, forgeries and counterfeits.
This event is presented as part of the Visual & Media Cultures Colloquium (VMCC) series.
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ADMISSION
– Open seating/admission (no ticket or registration required)
– FREE and open to the public.
– Located at Porter College D245
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FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
– Wed., Nov 12: Book Talk with Winnie Wong
– Additional dates to be announced
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PARKING
– Lot 124 & 125 are the closest parking lots to the event
– Parking by permit or ParkMobile
– TAPS provides additional parking information
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ABOUT THE SERIES
This event is presented as part of the Visual & Media Cultures Colloquium (VMCC), an annual lecture series that brings cutting-edge scholars to speak on a broad range of subjects related to visual and media culture. The series is co-sponsored with the graduate programs in the History of Art & Visual Culture (HAVC) and the Film & Digital Media departments. Each year, the students and a faculty coordinator are responsible for selecting, inviting and hosting speakers from a list of suggested names submitted by their peers and HAVC faculty. Together they share the unique challenge and opportunity of creating a program that brings to campus an array of cutting-edge scholars to speak on a broad spectrum of subjects.
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Image Credit: Peabody Essex Museum
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This program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.

Words That Impress: Creating a Great Résumé & Cover Letter
2025-11-12 12:15 - 13:15 | Career Success Student Lounge (125 Hahn), 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Crafting a fantastic Resume and Cover Letter are the key to getting an interview and landing a job! Join us for this informative workshop that will cover best practices for resume and cover letter development. You’ll gain understanding about the perfect format, navigating AI filters, and how to write captivating resume bullet points and engaging cover letter paragraphs. The presentation will be 30 minutes, followed by 30 minutes of optional worktime here in our office with coaches to give you brief input.
We will provide captions for the presentation. If you have disability-related needs, please contact the Career Success office at csuccess@ucsc.edu or (831) 459-4420 as soon as possible.
YOU BELONG HERE
Programs and services are open to all, consistent with state and federal law, as well as the University of California’s nondiscrimination policies. Every initiative—whether a student service, faculty program, or community event—is designed to be accessible, inclusive, and respectful of all identities. To learn more, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications.

Neolithic by Sea: the social ecology of the spread of farming in the Adriatic - a view from Dalmatia
2025-11-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Social Sciences 1, Social Sciences 1, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
Prof. Sarah B. McClure (UC Santa Barbara) will present Neolithic by Sea: the social ecology of the spread of farming in the Adriatic – a view from Dalmatia at the Archaeology and Biological Anthropology (Arch/BioAnth) Lunch Talk on Wednesday, November 12th at noon in 261, Social Sciences 1.
Presentation Abstract: The last 20 years of research have provided new insights on Mesolithic foragers and early Neolithic farmers in the Adriatic. Excavations, material analyses, and the application of new methodologies have characterized a diversity of late Mesolithic and early Neolithic lifeways and the role of trans-Adriatic interactions for the spread of farming. Discoveries of underwater sites have also highlighted some of the taphonomic challenges for Mesolithic and Neolithic sites presented by post-glacial environmental change. This presentation highlights our current understanding of the Mesolithic to Neolithic transition in the Adriatic and the roles played by foraging populations, social interactions, and environment for the spread of farming beginning 8,000 years ago. Our research on the Dalmatian coast of Croatia seeks to characterize Neolithic farming societies and ultimately explore the processes underlying the eventual dominance of domestic plant and animal-based subsistence in the region.
About the Presenter: Sarah B. McClure is a Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Mediterranean Prehistory and Paleoecology Laboratory, and Associate Dean in the Division of Undergraduate Education at UC Santa Barbara. She is also a National Geographic Explorer and Public Voices Fellow of the OpEd Project and UCSB.

Work for California - Your State Career
2025-11-12 12:00 - 13:00 | CA
The Work for California — Your State Career presentation will give you an opportunity to learn about the benefits of California state service, the range of career opportunities with the State of California, and the process for searching and applying for state jobs. We will provide resources and be here to answer your questions. Join this session to learn why you should work for California’s largest employer and make an impact. The session will be led by Anthony Bonilla, a Recruitment Analyst from the CA State Parks.

Hosted by UC Alumni Career Network, and open to UC alumni at all career stages.

Engineering Teaching Community (Faculty)
2025-11-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Jack Baskin Engineering, Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
During the chaos of a quarter, is it hard to find time to reflect and improve as an instructor? Would you like to be a part of an inclusive, supportive group of engineering instructors who do this in community? ETC is for sharing teaching experiences, classroom ideas, research on learning, and methods that support instructors and students. All are welcome, and lunch is provided. Please reach out to Jenny Quynn with questions.

Research Lunch & Learn: Research Development Explained, or How to Get Grants Funded
2025-11-12 12:00 | CA
Join members of the UCSC Research Development (RD) team as they discuss how they work in advance and alongside their colleagues in the Office of Sponsored Projects to ensure PIs submit the most compelling and competitive proposals.
Engage early with RD to develop long-term fundraising strategies, build interdisciplinary teams, interact with sponsors, and project manage large grant submissions. As sponsor deadlines approach, RD can help with templates fo
r proposal components, sharing successful proposals, aligning proposal content with solicitations, and reviewing drafts. We will review our services, timelines, and how best to work with the RD team.
Presenters: Molly McCarthy (RD Director); Mark Snyder, Eva Hrabeta-Robinson, Nick Sizemore (RD Specialists); and Cindy Ziker (Education Grants & Evaluation Specialist)

Join Zoom Meeting:
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CSE Colloquium - Neurosymbolic AI: from research to industry
2025-11-12 11:00 - 12:15 | Engineering 2, Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
Presenter: Luis Lamb, Catholic Institute of Technology

Abstract:
Neurosymbolic AI brings together the statistical nature of machine learning with the formal reasoning capabilities of symbolic AI. It seeks to offer a balanced approach to contemporary AI technologies, by combining the ability to learn from data, with the capacity to reason upon knowledge acquired from an environment. The main criticism of neural machine learning lies in its lack of explainability and semantics, which are key requirements in safety-critical applications, yet inherent strengths of logic-based methods. Recently, several corporations have publicly announced products and technologies grounded in neurosymbolic AI methodologies. This talk provided a concise review of the foundations, frameworks and tools underlying neurosymbolic AI, along with illustrative applications. It concludes by highlighting current trends and research directions in the field.

Bio:
Luis Lamb is Professor of Computer Science and Vice President of Research at the Catholic Institute of Technology. His research interests include: Artificial Intelligence, Neurosymbolic AI, Innovation Strategies, and Applied Logics. Lamb has co-authored two research monographs, including Neural-Symbolic Cognitive Reasoning, with d’Avila Garcez and Gabbay (Springer 2009). He organized two Dagstuhl Seminars on Neursymbolic AI, published widely in AI, and has worked in the area for over 20 years. Lamb also has extensive experience leading research planning, strategy, and university wide research & infrastructure grant applications, and strategic academic-industry partnerships. He has been a Professor in Brazil and has experience in industry as a former Senior Manager of AI and Machine Learning at Boeing. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Imperial College London and an MBA from MIT.

Hosted by: Professor Mohsen Lesani

Location: Engineering 2, E2-180

*Refreshments such as coffee and pastries will be provided.

Zoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/93445911992?pwd=[REDACTED]

Visual & Media Cultures Colloquium (VMCC) Series
2025-11-12 00:00 | Porter College, D-Building, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
The Visual & Media Cultures Colloquium (VMCC) is an annual lecture series that brings cutting-edge scholars to speak on a broad range of subjects related to visual and media culture. The series is co-sponsored with the graduate programs in the History of Art & Visual Culture (HAVC) and the Film & Digital Media departments. Each year, the students and a faculty coordinator are responsible for selecting, inviting and hosting speakers from a list of suggested names submitted by their peers and HAVC faculty. Together they share the unique challenge and opportunity of creating a program that brings to campus an array of cutting-edge scholars to speak on a broad spectrum of subjects.
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ADMISSION
– Open seating/admission (no ticket or registration required)
– FREE and open to the public.
– Refer to individual event listings for more information.
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FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
– Wed., Nov 12, 4:00 p.m.: Book Talk with Winnie Wong
– Additional event dates to be announced
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This program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.

Drop-In Figure Drawing
2025-11-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Elena Baskin Visual Arts Center, Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
Drop-In Draw provides a live model and room monitor. There is no formal lesson and only dry media is allowed (no paints).
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ADVISORIES
– These events contain mature content and nudity.
– Drop-In Draw is subject to the possibility of last-minute cancellation without notification, and sessions are not guaranteed.
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ADMISSION
– FREE and open to the public
– UCSC Art Department Room L-101
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
This series occurs weekly on Tuesday evenings during fall quarter, including the following:
– Tue., Sep. 30, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
– Tue., Oct. 7, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
– Tue., Oct. 14, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
– Tue., Oct. 21, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
– Tue., Oct. 28, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
– Tue., Nov. 4, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
– Tue., Nov. 18, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
– Tue., Nov. 25, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
Additional dates to be announced for winter and spring quarter.
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PARKING
– Parking by permit or ParkMobile.
– Arts Lot #126 is the closest parking lot to the event.
– Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces, Medical spaces, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.
– More information provided by UCSC Transportation & Parking Services (TAPS).
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This program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.

CANCELLED - November Slugs and Steins with Associate Professor Mircea Teodorescu
2025-11-10 18:30 - 20:00
Slugs & Steins is a monthly series of informal discussions highlighting UC Santa Cruz’s amazing faculty members. Talks are held on the 2nd Monday of each month with topics ranging from organic artichokes to endangered zebras, self-driving cars to Shakespeare.
All are welcome, and audience participation is encouraged. We encourage you to share the link far and wide as slugs and friends from around the world may join us.
This month, we welcome Associate Professor Mircea Teodorescu.
