Events
Rachel Kushner – Creation Lake
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Rachel Kushner, two-time finalist for both the Booker Prize and National Book Award, for a reading and signing of her acclaimed novel Creation Lake, available in paperback July 1st. This "wickedly entertaining" (The Guardian) novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France is a propulsive […]
Late Night Editions: Isaac Julien
de Young Museum 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr, San Francisco, United StatesThe de Young is hosting, Late Night Editions: Isaac Julien on Thursday, June 12, 2025, a special after-hours event celebrating the powerful exhibition Isaac Julien: I Dream a World. Enjoy a vibrant evening exploring the cinematic world of Isaac Julien: I Dream a World — a stunning fusion of film, politics, and personal narrative — […]
Slugs and Steins with Assistant Professor E. Hande Tuna – You Can Imagine Dragons… But Not That Female Infanticide Is Good? The Puzzling Limits of Imagination
Virtual EventYou can imagine flying on the back of a dragon. You can picture a talking rabbit solving crimes, or a world where time runs backward. So why is it so hard to imagine that slavery is morally good, or that killing your baby girl is the right thing to do? This talk explores a weird […]
Abraham Verghese – The Covenant of Water
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz presents New York Times-bestselling author Abraham Verghese (Cutting for Stone) for a discussion and signing of The Covenant of Water, available in paperback on May 6th. This stunning epic of love, faith, and medicine is set in Kerala, South India, and follows three generations of a family seeking the answers to a […]
Through the Decades: 50 Years of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz
Stevenson Event CenterJoin Feminist Studies on June 6 in honoring 50 years at UC Santa Cruz. The event will be held at 3pm at the Stevenson Event Center, with a reception to follow. The event will be live-streamed for those who cannot attend in person. Click here to watch. Feminist Studies was established as the Women's Studies […]
UCSC Night at the Museum – Amending Worlds
Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History 705 Front St., Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJOIN US for The Humanities Institute’s annual Night at the Museum featuring Amending Worlds, a panel discussion about speculative fiction and a multi-media exhibition by UCSC graduate and undergraduate students and alumni winners of the Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures. The panel will feature Micah Perks (UC Santa Cruz), Cathy Thomas (UCSB), and Kim Tallbear […]
Shakespeare Talk with Dr. Sean Keilen
Santa Cruz Public Library - Downtown Branch 224 Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin Dr. Sean Keilen, professor of literature at UCSC and lead dramaturg at Santa Cruz Shakespeare, for an exciting talk about SCS' summer Shakespeare offerings: comic masterpiece, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and thrilling romance, Pericles. Artistic Director Charles Pasternak will be in attendance. Q&A to follow.
Amending Worlds: Projects from the Coha-Gunderson Creativity Workshop
Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History 705 Front St., Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Coha-Gunderson Creativity Workshop, housed in The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz, presents a multi-media exhibition by UCSC graduate and undergraduate students and alumni winners of the Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures. The Amending Worlds exhibition includes installations, performances, visual art, film & video, and a computer game, distributed throughout the museum’s spaces. Prizewinners […]
Ussama Makdisi – Palestine, Late Colonialism, and the Question of Genocide
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCo-sponsored by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) This talk explores the relationship between modern philozionism in the West and the denialism of the Palestinians. The nineteenth-century European Zionist idea of implanting and sustaining an exclusively Jewish nationalist state in multireligious Palestine was a response to European racial antisemitism. But it […]
Donna Haraway – Thick, Slimy, Squishy, Squiggly & Generative
McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special CollectionsJoin the UCSC Special Collections & Archives for a conversation with Donna Haraway titled "Thick, Slimy, Squishy, & Generative," featuring History of Consciousness alumni Chela Sandoval (’93), Katie King (’87), and Caren Kaplan (’87). Please register by May 20. Limited space is available; plan to arrive early for seating. The conversation will start promptly at […]