Planting Oceania is a Oceanian/Indigenous Pacific Islander community organization that plants traditional foods in two gardens located at Filoli Historic House and Gardens in Woodside and at the UC Giltract Farms in Albany. Members of Planting Oceania will share stories about growing plants and stewarding the Land as an important cultural practice for building Oceania/Pacific […]

Join UCSC alum Kate Schatz, bestselling author of the Rad Women series, for a reading from her new novel Where the Girls Were and a Q & A on writing, creativity, and growing up amid political and cultural change. Blending sharp cultural insight with emotional depth, Schatz’s work explores how young women navigate creativity, power, […]

Please join the More-Than-Human(ities) Lab for our winter book club meeting. We will be discussing Alexis Shotwell’s book Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times, which offers a framework for conceiving of our own complicity in the presence of toxicity, climate change, and other ongoing crises. Event attendees will be expected to have read the book. […]

Stephen David Engel will read from an experimental history called “Timescape of Rings.” In it, he meditates on a 2,200-year-old redwood round with markers for historical events affixed to its rings—the birth of Jesus, the invention of gunpowder, the drafting of the Magna Carta, and on. By running his fingers over the rings, he recalls […]

The Department of History invites you to join their talk about African Arts, Western Museums, and the debate over restitution. This lecture examines restitution as an ethical and epistemic process that goes beyond the physical return of objects from Western museums to African institutions. While repatriation often functions as a diplomatic practice, restitution is framed […]