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Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz welcome acclaimed author Colm Tóibín (Long Island, Brooklyn) for a discussion about The News from Dublin, a brilliant collection […] |
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Oceans of Dissent will serve as a feminist gathering to forge new vernaculars of the geopolitical, to assemble spatial imaginaries of the “oceanic” that refuse rather than relent to the […] |
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Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Suzanne Simard (Finding the Mother Tree), a scientist who pioneered the concept of sophisticated communication between trees. Simard will share her highly anticipated new […] 
This talk will look at various musical genres in North Africa to explore the history of a region that is at the crossroads of Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. […] |
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On April 6, 2026, the Graduate Training in Southeast Asia (GETSEA) consortium and UCSC’s Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions will host two short films highlighting the challenges to art […]
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What does the life of an ordinary working-class, Muslim woman look and feel like in modern India? Award-winning journalist Neha Dixit traces the story of one such faceless Indian woman, […] |
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All AI (algorithmic intelligence) companies claim they are pursuing the next logical step in digital—perhaps even human—evolution. But, the development of AI is clearly shaped by a wide range of […]
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Facilitated by SCC intern Rafael Revolorio, this report-back features community members and organizers Ana and Allan Fisher, Amy Argenal, Lupita Alvarado-Sanchez, and Cynthia Lopez-Fernandez who will reflect on their recent […]
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World Wounds: The Damming of the Nile River and the Transformation of Medicine The damming of the Nile River transformed agriculture and human health in twentieth-century Egypt. While dams enabled […] |
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This talk examines how urban planning, animal governance, and racial politics converge in the production of interspecies belonging in Singapore. Through this, it considers what drawing, as an analytic, might […] 
Please join us for a presentation on "Children's role in Language Documentation Efforts in Mexico". Cuando realizamos proyectos de documentación lingüística, nos encontramos con niñas y niños que quieren participar […] |
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This event engages the theme of articulation and James Clifford’s contributions to cultural studies, anthropology, and literary studies, addressing our current disconcerting cultural, historical, and ecological conjuncture. For more info, […] |
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The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution describes the life of a man born enslaved in colonial Virginia, whose repeated escape attempts made […] |
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This talk offers an ethnographic account of the structures of captivity that keep migrants and deportees in conditions of enforced immobility and precarity at the Mexico-U.S. border. Whereas much scholarship […]
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“Drink and make a happy day!” (New Kingdom Theben tomb) “Wine gladdens the heart of man…” (Psalm 104:15) At this ‘symposium’ event, three UCSC professors in Classical, Biblical, and Egyptian […] |
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A celebration of Santa Cruz County's creative community during arts and culture month in California! The arts community of Santa Cruz County is coming together for this exciting new 11-day […] The Center for Racial Justice is very proud to sponsor the second annual Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement series! Please join us for the following talk […]
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In Nourishment, Us. Joe De Vera (WSU) Visual Artist and Josen Diaz (UCSC) Critic and Archivist Joe deVera’s paintings and installations are attempts to clarify the absurd theaters of human […] |
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Join us for a nocturnal celebration of art, philosophy, and activism! As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its independence, the 2026 Santa Cruz Night of Ideas invites […] |
1 event,Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Macbeth by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on Aoril 18, 25, May 2, 9 & 16 2026 at 10:15 a.m in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community […] |
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3 events,During a time of escalating state violence, Pajaro Valley for Ethnic Studies and Justice (PVESJ) and Get The Flock Out Santa Cruz County invite you to join us for an […]
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Two lifelong peace activists and guides to Israel/Palestine, both of whom have lost family in the conflict, take readers on a revealing life-changing journey across this holy, bloodstained land and […]
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The Tallest Dwarf charts Julie Wyman’s quest to find her place within the little people (LP) community at a moment when dwarf identity is poised to radically change. Wyman’s work […] |
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Please join us for the American premiere of A Sacred Place (2026), a new film by Professor Dolly Kikon (Anthropology). The film tells the story of stones, spirits, and salt […] |
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This talk recalls the recent phenomena of the murder of physicians in Jordan and Yemen, and the rise in altercations in Saudi Arabia between physicians and patients and their family. […]
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The first Arts & Ecology Festival at UC Santa Cruz will bring together talks and panels featuring artists, scientists, and researchers. The April 22 program includes film screenings, live music, […]
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The lecture will focus on the history of Spanish-language writing and publishing in the United States with particular attention to a New York publisher in the early nineteenth century. Carmen […] |
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In celebration of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History’s 30 year anniversary, this exhibition will highlight some of the artwork and artifacts from the MAH's permanent collection. In […] |
2 events,Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Macbeth by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on Aoril 18, 25, May 2, 9 & 16 2026 at 10:15 a.m in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community […] “The ADL was born of the belief that the best protection from antisemitism was admission into the white racial state and waging a vigorous defense of capitalism, individual rights, and […] |
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Senderos presents the 21st annual Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza, a family friendly, Indigenous cultural festival. The Guelaguetza brings together food, music, dance, language, crafts, and community to celebrate the beautiful traditions of […] |
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The first guest of the History of Consciousness Spring 2026 Research Colloquium will be joining us next Monday, April 27th! This event brings Linda Zerilli to give her talk “The […] |
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Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes acclaimed author Karen Tei Yamashita (I Hotel) to celebrate the launch of her new novel Questions 27 & 28—a masterful polyvocal history of Japanese Americans before, […] |
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Co-sponsored by the Politics Department The last two decades have seen a flood of research on neoliberalism. Defined in multiple and even conflicting ways, the term nonetheless served as a […]
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Everyone’s got an Elon take. He’s a messiah. A menace; a genius; a clown. The verdicts differ, but they share one theme: they treat him as an individual. Muskism argues […] |
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In Nourishment, Us. Living Writers Spring 2026: Our Nourishment, US features poets, writers, critics, visual and performance artists, who demonstrate how writing and art enacts around the idea of freedom and […]
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Film Screening and Discussion: 5:30-7pm, Communications (Studio C) Reception: 7-8:30pm, Communications 139 Gabes Labess (All is well in Gabes) questions current development models by focusing on the Oasis of Gabes, […] |
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1 event,Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Macbeth by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on Aoril 18, 25, May 2, 9 & 16 2026 at 10:15 a.m in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community […] |