Events
VIRTUAL EVENT: Laila Lalami, The Other Americans
Pulitzer Prize shortlisted author Laila Lalami presents her timely, powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant, shortlisted for the National Book Award: The Other Americans is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture. Laila Lalami is the […]
VIRTUAL EVENT: Pico Iyer in conversation with Alan Christy
Bookshop Santa Cruz invites you to join us for an online event with bestselling author Pico Iyer who will be in-conversation with Alan Christy about his new book, Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells—a far-reaching exploration of Japanese history and culture and a moving meditation on impermanence, mortality, and grief—and A Beginner's Guide to Japan, now in […]
VIRTUAL EVENT: Laurie R. King, Riviera Gold
Local, bestselling author Laurie R. King, will will celebrate the publication of her newest Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes mystery, Riviera Gold! The Riviera in 1925 is a playground for the rich built on corruption and greed. It is a place where treasure can be false, where love can destroy, and where life, as Mary […]
VIRTUAL: Celebrating the Humanities – Spring Awards
CA, United StatesWe hope you will join us for our annual celebration recognizing student and faculty academic achievement in the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz. Friends and family are welcome. Even though we are not able to celebrate together in person as we usually do, we can still come together online to honor the outstanding accomplishments […]
VIRTUAL: Special Session – The Pandemic and the University to Come – A Collective Action
Following on this quarter’s series of conversations about the historical space opened by the current pandemic, we will come together in a collective, active exercise of imagining the university to come. Prior to the meeting, please respond to five questions (click below) about the future university you would like to participate in post-pandemic; the questions […]
CANCELLED: Cultural Studies Colloquium
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies. All Center for […]
ZOOM TEACH IN: Anti-Asian Xenophobia in an Age of Covid-19
Anti-Chinese xenophobia inaugurated the United States as a gatekeeping nation in the late nineteenth century. Figured as dangerous to the public health, the Chinese—and successive Asian migrants—were likened to an invasive disease and subjected not only to exclusion laws but also to white vigilante violence. In this era of pandemic, a moment conditioned by phobia […]
VIRTUAL – Special Session: Thinking Through Television in a Pandemic
In this time of the COVID-19 pandemic, more and more people are tuning into television (across streaming platforms, web series, and of course also pay, cable, and network TV) for news and information, comfort and company, narrative pleasure and imaginative stimulation—though also often getting misinformation, alienation, or discouragement. How is TV working, producing ways of […]
CANCELLED: Cultural Studies Colloquium
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies. All Center for […]
VIRTUAL: MAH Beyond the World’s End – Meet the Artists
Join Beyond the World’s End exhibiting artists Laurie Palmer, Amy Balkin, Krista Franklin, Newton Harrison, Super Futures Haunt Qollective, and the Rasquache Collective for a group discussion and Q&A. In the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History's current exhibition, Beyond the World's End, visionary artists reflect on the social and environmental injustices happening around […]