Events
Events
Community Conversation with Author Randy Ribay
Watsonville Civic Plaza 275 Main Street, Watsonville, CA, United StatesPlease join us for a community conversation with Randy Ribay, young adult fiction writer and National Book Award Finalist. During the event, Randy will discuss his recent novel, Everything We Never Had (2024), […]

Colm Toibin – The News From Dublin
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop 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 […]

Oceans of Dissent Workshop
Humanities 1, Room 202 +1 moreOceans 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 […]

Suzanne Simard – When the Forest Breathes
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop 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 […]

Music in North Africa: From Cultural Mixity to Political Expression
Santa Cruz Public Library - CapitolaThis 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. […]
Neha Dixit — The Many Lives of Syeda X: A People’s History of Invisible India
Rachel Carson College Red Room Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWhat 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, […]

Chris Gray – The Fantasies Shaping Today’s AI
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesAll 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 […]

Nauenberg History of Science Lecture with Jennifer Derr
Music Center Recital Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWorld 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 […]

Dr. V. Chitra – Drawn to Life: Environments, Managerial Logics, and the Limits of Care
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis 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 […]

V. Chitra – Drawn to Life: Environments, Managerial Logics, and the Limits of Care
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis 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 […]
