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Celebrating the arts and humanities through creative, intellectual, and experiential learning at Santa Clara University's College of Arts and Sciences.

10/29/2026

Thank you to everyone who attended and participated in our 3rd annual CAH Pop Up Event in celebration of National Arts and Humanities Month!

Our event included tabling from departments and organizations in the arts and humanities (as well as campus at large), an interactive art and sound installation, an antique letterpress, and hands-on activities. It was a great day celebrating arts and humanities at SCU!

10/28/2026

Healing Power of Theater: An Interactive Talk and Workshop by Lesley Currier

Wednesday October 28, 2026
1 - 2 pm
Williman Room, Benson Center

Join us for an interactive talk and workshop by Lesley Currier, the founding Managing Director of the Marin Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare for Social Justice.

10/27/2026

Brown Bag Series in the Humanities Presents: Katie Dowse
(Theater and Dance)

Costume and Otherworldly Worlds

Wednesday, October 28
11:45 am -12:50 pm
Learning Commons 129

Theatre and Dance Professor Katie Dowse discusses the pedagogy developed in her course ‘THTR 152: Myth, Fantasy, and Fashion: Designing Otherworldly Worlds’. The course approaches costume design as an interdisciplinary interface between fantasy, technology, contemporary global conditions, and visual storytelling. The material explores costume as an agent of world-building across theatre, film, and television, reflecting systems of power, technological conditions, and cultural values. The course examines how visual design communicates identity, hierarchy, environment, and ideology, and how costume shapes relationships between body, space, material, and audience.

Please bring your lunch!

Address your questions to Daniel Turkeltaub at [email protected]

10/26/2026

Ontological Absence, and Social Death: A Fireside Chat with Patrice D. Douglass

Tuesday October 27, 2026
6 - 8 pm
Music Recital Hall

A public conversation on Black reproduction, social life, and the enduring legacies of anti-blackness, and what they mean for our present and future.

10/15/2026

Rap or Rapta?: Music and Dissent in Urban India

🗓️Friday October 23, 2026
⏰4 - 7 pm
📍LC129, Learning Commons

Join our CAH faculty fellow, Supurna Dasgupta (English) for a screening of the celebrated Bollywood film, Gully Boy. At this movie screening we will witness how joyful music-making forms communities of dissent and solidarity in India. As we watch this film, we will think about how new forms of popular music can dissent against social inequality and injustice. What kinds of new men and women are shaped through these communities? Which global artistic networks do they align themselves with and how?

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10/14/2026

Brown Bag Series in the Humanities featuring Greg Wigmore (History)

How to Lose Friends and Alienate Allies: Forging and Unraveling the Canada-U.S. Relationship

Wednesday, October 14, 2026
11:45 am -12:50 pm
Learning Commons 129

Since their founding era, Americans have periodically tried to convince their northern neighbors to join the Union, sometimes by force. This talk will offer a sweeping survey of the prospect (or threat) of the American annexation of Canada. It will highlight major turning points in a relationship long touted as a model for peaceful coexistence between neighbors. Extending the focus through the ongoing trade war, it will examine how Canadian politicians and opinion-makers have long harnessed fears of annexation for political purposes.

Please bring your lunch!

Address your questions to Daniel Turkeltaub at [email protected]

10/07/2026

Come listen to NYT Bestselling and award-winning co- authors of The Day The Books Disappeared Joanna Ho and Caroline Kusin Pritchard .

Book Signing and Discussion

Banned Books Week Spotlight: Talk by Co-Authors of The Day The Books Disappeared Joanna Ho and Caroline Kusin Pritchard

Friday October 9, 2026
9:15 -10:15 am (discussion),
10:15-10:45 am (book signing)
St. Clare Room, Learning Commons 3rd Floor

10/01/2026

Banned Books Week Event:

Film Screening - The Librarians
Monday, October 5, 2026
2:30-4:30 p.m.
LC129 in the Learning Commons

Come watch the 2025 documentary film The Librarians (the NYT: “gripping… as well-crafted as it is profoundly alarming”) and discuss the Krause List with SCU Librarian Sophia Mosbe!
Register here: bit.ly/thelibrariansscreening

10/01/2026

Be sure to tune in today and each week to Scot Hanna-Weir's new radio show, Bronco Shuffle, on KSCU! Today's special guest will be our very own CAH director, Danielle Morgan (English)!

Each week a faculty or staff member will bring a 30-minute playlist of music that excites them -- Scot will play the songs and they will chat about the music and about what the guest does at SCU.

Please listen Today (Thursday, 10/1) at noon (PDT) live on radio at 103.3 FM or online at KSCU.org and hear what songs are on Danielle's playlist and get some fantastic insights from Scot!

09/30/2026

Next week CAH has two events for Banned Books Week that you won’t want to miss:

Film Screening - The Librarians
Monday, October 5, 2026
2:30-4:30 p.m.
LC129 in the Learning Commons

Come watch the 2025 documentary film The Librarians (the NYT: “gripping… as well-crafted as it is profoundly alarming”) and discuss the Krause List with SCU Librarian Sophia Mosbe!

Register here: bit.ly/thelibrariansscreening

The Day the Books Disappeared - Book Signing and Discussion
Friday October 9, 2026
9:15 - 10:15 a.m Discussion
10:15 - 10:45 a.m. Book Signing
St. Clare Room, Learning Commons

Come listen to award-winning authors Joanna Ho and Caroline Kusin Pritchard discuss their writing and their “passion for anti-bias, anti-racism, and equity work.” Learn about how book banning impacts writers for kids!

Register here: bit.ly/JoannaCaroline

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