SCU Center for the Arts and Humanities

Engaging the arts and humanities through creative, intellectual, and experiential programming at @santaclarauniv @santaclaracas Director @curiousmonolith

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The SCU Digital Humanities Initiative invites you to its 11th Annual DHI Student Showcase on May 28, Thursday, 1-2.30 pm in California Mission Room in Benson basement, featuring and celebrating student projects from across campus.

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Come out to the Forge Gardens today, Wednesday, May 27th for a mural reveal party! SCU students will present live music, poetry, and art! Free Chipotle and bundt cakes will also be provided. You won't want to miss this joyful event.

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Brown Bag Series in the Humanities presents:

Tim Myers (English)

Wednesday, May 27 at 11:45-12:50 PM in Learning Commons 129

ChatGPT and Teaching Writing: There's a Way to Handle It!

Address your questions to Daniel Turkeltaub at [email protected]

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Thank you Cashea Airy for the beautiful article about our CAH Student Fellow Showcase and Ava Garcia's project.

You can read the full article here:

https://t.co/GouKADyrGU

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Faculty Lunch Time Conversation with Robin Tremblay-McGaw, Teaching Professor (English)

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

12-12:45 p.m.

Join us for the final Faculty Lunch Time Conversation of the academic year with Teaching Professor Robin Tremblay-McGaw (SCU Department of English).

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Brown Bag Series in the Humanities Presents:

Mohammad Ali Chaichian (Sociology)

Tuesday, May 19th
12:10-1:15 PM
Learning Commons 129

Competing Paradigms for the Management and Design of Maximum‑Security Prisons in the United States and Norway

Please bring your lunch!

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It’s time for Fellow Focus!
Meet our CAH student fellow Ayden Eways '27
Major: Honors Political Science, Music

Learn more about Ayden and her project by reading her profile in the link below:
https://t.co/Ek00NaDjTG

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Come see what our incredible student fellows have been up to at the CAH Student Fellow Showcase!

There will be refreshments and a raffle for prizes for all attendees.

Register below or just come by!

https://t.co/VCw6ijum6l

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Brown Bag Series in the Humanities Presents:

Kirstyn Leuner (English)

Thursday, April 30th
12:10-1:15
Learning Commons 129

Until Divorce Do Us Part?: The 18th-Century Divorce Plot and Women's Testimony in Literature

Please bring your lunch

Questions? [email protected]

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Building the Fitter Future
Wednesday April 29, 2026
12 - 1pm
Donohoe Board Room, Bannan Alumni House

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It’s time for Fellow Focus!
Meet our CAH student fellow Elise Fendon '26
Major: Studio Art

Learn more about Elise and her project, “Colors of Mourning” by reading her profile in the link below:
https://t.co/Ek00NaDjTG

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The CZU Santa Cruz Fires: Reimagining Community & Regenerating Ecosystems since 2020

Friday April 24, 2026
St. Clare Room, Learning Commons 3rd floor
8:30 am - 5:00 pm

Join us for all or part of this day-long series of talks during tUrn.

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It’s time for Fellow Focus!

Meet our CAH student fellow Ava Garcia '28

Major: Biology

Learn more about Ava and her project by reading her profile in the link below:

https://t.co/Ek00NaDjTG

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Faculty Lunch Time Conversation with Assistant Professor Daniel B. Summerhill

Wednesday, April 15, 2026
12-12:45 p.m.
de Saisset Museum

Join Daniel B. Summerhill (English) in a walk-through of Jonathan Calm’s exhibition To Wherever, Forever.

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Brown Bag Series in the Humanities Presents
Andrea Pappas (Art and Art History)

Wednesday, April 15th
1:00-2:05 pm
Learning Commons 129

Men Behaving Badly: Narrating the Old Testament
in Women's Embroidered Pictures circa 1812

Bring your lunch

Questions? [email protected]

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Nicholas Whittaker: Black Moon: A Phenomenology for the Negro Witch

Friday April 17, 2026
3:30 - 5:00pm
Benson B & C

Register here or just come by!

https://t.co/z45RWsxQVK

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We hope you will support the Center for the Arts and Humanities, which brings together faculty, students, staff, visiting artists, scholars, and community members to pursue meaningful expression and intellectual inquiry.

Donate here:
https://t.co/PWSLjVDI4x

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Exploration of Place & History
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
de Saisset Museum
4:00 - 6:30 p.m.

Please join us for a multi-tiered celebration of three exhibitions at the de Saisset Museum addressing varying and interrelated aspects of place and history. Co-presented by CAH.

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Humanities Brown Bags presents:
Benjamin Gillespie (Theater and Dance)
Wednesday, April 8th
1:00-2:05 pm in Learning Commons 129
Late Stage: Theatrical Perspectives on Age and Aging
Please Bring Your Lunch
Address your questions to Daniel Turkeltaub ([email protected])

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BROWN BAG SERIES IN THE HUMANITIES
presents

Monica Marcelli-Chu
Jesuit School of Theology

Aquinas and Ecology: Contemplating Wisdom
and Flux in the Created Order

Thursday, March 5
12:10-1:15 PM
Learning Commons 129

Please Bring Your Lunch!

Questions? [email protected]