Events
Jennifer Egan, The Candy House
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Jennifer Egan, one of the most celebrated writers of our time, who will discuss The Candy House (in paperback March 7th), her "inventive, effervescent" (Oprah Daily) novel about the memory and quest for authenticity and human connection. This event will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn on […]
Dr. Agnieszka Otwinowska-Kasztelanic – Do L2 and L3 learners benefit from training their awareness of cross- linguistic similarity?
Humanities 1, Room 202The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Winter Colloquium Words whose form is similar across languages: cognates (formally and semantically similar) and false cognates (formally similar) are claimed to be […]
Elizabeth McKenzie, The Dog of the North
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFREE IN-PERSON EVENT: Acclaimed local writer Elizabeth McKenzie will be in conversation with Karen Joy Fowler about McKenzie's highly-anticipated new novel, The Dog of the North. This event is cosponsored […]
Jessica Marglin – The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn the winter of 1873, Nissim Shamama, a wealthy Jew from Tunisia, died suddenly in his palazzo in Livorno, Italy. His passing initiated a fierce lawsuit over his large estate. […]
Zakir Hussain: Masters of Percussion at the Rio Theatre
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvery other year since 1996, Zakir Hussain has served as curator, conductor and producer to bring the very cream of Indian music and world percussion to tour America and Europe […]
Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore
Virtual EventThe Friends of the Dickens Project invites you to participate in "Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore." The three sessions will offer […]
Indigenous Border/lands Symposium
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Peggy and Jack Baskin Presidential Chair of Feminist Studies, in collaboration with the Indigenous Border/lands Collective, present "Indigenous Border/lands," an exploration of the border/lands from the perspective of Indigenous […]
The MARCH Continues, An Evening with Andrew Aydin
University Center University Center University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Arts Division, John R. Lewis College, and The Humanities Institute present: The MARCH Continues, An Evening with Andrew Aydin. Co-Author with John R. Lewis, of the award wining […]
Dr. Wangui Muigai Reading Group – Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesDr. Wangui Muigai will be leading a reading group exploring three distinct frameworks (theoretical, methodological, and analytic) for understanding the causes of racial health disparities. Two articles take us back to the […]
Zac Zimmer – An Internet Built of Books
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesOn the Internet, the book is a drag: a literal metaphor that pulls us back to the material world. This talk focuses on three examples of the book-object’s material drag […]