Events
Events
Saturday Shakespeare – Henry IV, Part 1
Virtual and In PersonSaturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on January 10, 17, 24, 31 & February 7, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest speaker followed by a […]
Deep Read at Fungus February First Friday
Santa Cruz Museum of Natural HistoryJoin the Deep Read at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History (SCMNH) for Fungus February First Friday. We will celebrate the opening of Fungus February at the Museum with a night of science, art, and community exploring the vital role of fungi and fungal webs in our world, the subject of our Deep Read […]
Kara Cooney – When Women Ruled the World
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAncient Studies presents the 2026 Carl Deppe Lecture featuring Kara Cooney, who will present her lecture "When Women Ruled the World." Who were the women who once ruled the richest and most successful state of the ancient Mediterranean and African Bronze Age? Ancient Egypt's female kings, including Hatshepsut and Nefertiti, ruled against all odds of […]
Living Writers With Carlo Acevedo
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCraft Between Worlds Carlo Acevedo is a Colombian poet who is the author of Day's Fortune / Fortuna del día, a bilingual collection. His work won the 2018 Arcipreste de Hita prize. Born in Barranquilla, Colombia in 1988, Acevedo holds a master's degree in Creative Writing in Spanish from the University of Iowa and is […]
More-Than-Humanities Lab Early Career Scholars Share Session
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join the More-Than-Human(ities) Lab for our winter "share session.” Two of our early-career lab members will share their current projects and invite your feedback in an informal, interactive conversation. Our presenters will be: Pietro Autorino: Searching for 'contemporary agroecology' beyond Soilutionism: notes from a small on-farm experimental compost station in Italy Stephanie […]
A History of Families: Bosses, Bullies, and Dictators in the Modern Philippines
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States +1 moreThe Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) invites you to join them for their winter Slow Seminar, "A History of Families: Bosses, Bullies, and Dictators in the Modern Philippines Professor Steve McKay (Sociology) will facilitate our conversation drawing on a selection of classic and contemporary scholarship on regional politics in the Philippines. With the […]
Mike McCarthy – A Theory of Late Populism: Popularism
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk identifies a critical feature of late populism: popularism. Traditional populism operates through articulation: actively constructing “the people” as a political category by linking heterogeneous demands together against an elite or other. Popularism, alternatively, functions through refraction: it seeks maximum resonance with pre-existing popular attitudes and treats “the people” as an already-coherent homogenous group, […]
George Saunders – Vigil
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes George Saunders, recipient of the 2025 National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, for a discussion about his wise, playful, electric novel Vigil, which takes place at the bedside of an oil company CEO in the twilight hours of his life as he is ferried from this world […]
Gregory O’Malley – The Escapes of David George
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop welcomes prize-winning historian and UC Santa Cruz professor Gregory O'Malley for a discussion about his new book The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution—the dramatic story of a Black man's relentless search for freedom in Revolutionary America. This book tells the story of David George who in […]
Saturday Shakespeare – Henry IV, Part 1
Virtual and In PersonSaturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on January 10, 17, 24, 31 & February 7, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest speaker followed by a […]