We hope you will join us for office hours, a masterclass, a talk, or a workshop. All of our events are free and open to the campus community and the public. Click on individual listings for more information about past events and speakers, and for registration info. for upcoming events.

October 27 and 28, 2026
Two-Day Residency with Artist Nicole Updegraff
Gallery Talk:  6 PM, October 27, Humanities Gateway 1030
Masterclass: 5:30 PM, October 28, Humanities Gateway 1010
Event registration opens in September

April 29, 2026
"Finding Your Voice": A Masterclass with Award-Winning Audio Journalist Natalie Tso
5:30-7 PM
Humanities Gateway 1010

March 12, 2026
"Writing about Medicine, Grief, and Loss": A Masterclass with Dr. Sunita Puri and Professor Erika Hayasaki
4-5:30 PM
Humanities Gateway 1010

MAY 14, 2025
Office Hours with Michaela Ternasky-Holland

A poster for office hours with Michaela Ternasky-Holland

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

MAY 14, 2025

"Emerging Digital Narratives": A Masterclass with Michaela Ternasky-Holland

A poster for a talk by Michaela Ternasky-Holland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


APR 8, 2025
New Yorker Contributing Writer E. Tammy Kim on Writing Narratives Off the News

A poster for a masterclass by E. Tammy Kim

 

JAN 29, 2025
"Chinese Calligraphy and Brush Painting": A Drop-In Workshop with Y.C. Pan
 

OCT 10, 2024
Audio Storytelling: A Master Class with Myron Kaplan

Myron Kaplan Flyer

 

MAY 13, 2024
"Visual Storytelling": A Workshop with Osvaldo Reyes of OZR Media
 

NOV 2, 2023
“Into The Bright Sunshine: Hubert Humphrey and the Forgotten Civil Rights Movement of the 1940s” with Samuel G. Freedman

Samuel Freedman Into the Bright Sunshine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


FEB 10, 2023
"Writing the Past, Reporting the Present": A Master Class with Jonathan M. Katz
 

JAN 24, 2023
"Writing for Science and Medicine": A Master Class with Dr. Michael T. Longaker, Stanford University School of Medicine


MAY 25, 2022
A Reading by Peter Briscoe, Associate University Librarian Emeritus, UC Riverside


MAY 10, 2022
Is Travel Writing Dead? Pico Iyer in Conversation with Amy Wilentz

A poster for a talk by Pico Iyer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

APR 25, 2022
"Italian Journalism Today," with Junko Terao and Pietro Del Soldà, in Conversation with Jeffrey Wasserstrom (Co-sponsored with The Forum for the Academy and the Public)
 

FEB 28, 2022
"The Art of Podcasting":  Christopher Goffard in Conversation with Barry Siegel