Events
Events
Community Conversation with Author Randy Ribay
Watsonville Civic Plaza 275 Main Street, Watsonville, CA, United StatesPlease join us for a community conversation with Randy Ribay, young adult fiction writer and National Book Award Finalist. During the event, Randy will discuss his recent novel, Everything We Never Had (2024), about four-generations of Filipino American men grappling with identity, masculinity, and father-son relationships. The characters’ stories traverse histories of Filipino America, including those of Watsonville […]
Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Two Noble Kinsmen – Episode III
Virtual EventShakespeare returns to the characters and themes of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in what may have been the last play he had a hand in writing: The Two Noble Kinsmen. This time, however, the story of Theseus and Hippolyta, the disorienting experience of adolescent sexual desire, and the conflict of duties to sovereigns, parents, friends, and spouses are […]
Karen Russell – The Antidote
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Karen Russell (Swamplandia!) for a discussion about her latest novel The Antidote, which will be available in paperback on the night of the event. "The Antidote blends speculative and fantasy elements with rich language and vivid characters in an effort not to escape reality but to comment even more […]
Questions that Matter – How to Live Long and Prosper: Lessons from a Star Trek Opera
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterWhat do we need to live a fulfilling life? This essential question of the humanities feels especially pressing now, on the precipice of profound changes to our planet, our bodies, and our sense of human exceptionality. Join us for a conversation — and a music-and-drama masterclass — about speculative fiction from the Star Trek world, […]
On the Canon of the History of Philosophy: Critique & Crisis
Humanities 1, Room 320Please join us for a day of presentations and conversation featuring: Silvestre Gristina (University of Padua / UC Santa Cruz) Silvestre Gristina is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Global Fellow between the University of Padua and the University of California, Santa Cruz. As part of his MSCA project, he will be spending a two-year research period […]
Living Writers With Mary-Alice Daniel
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCraft Between Worlds Mary-Alice Daniel is a Nigerian American poet and cross-genre writer born near the Niger/Nigeria border. Her debut poetry collection, Mass for Shut Ins, was selected by Rae Armantrout as a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. Her memoir A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing (Ecco, 2022) was named one […]
Latinos, Language, and Change in New Destination Communities of the U.S. South
Humanities 1, Room 202The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to invite you to a talk with Dr. Stephen Fafulas (University of Mississippi). The U.S. South has emerged as a major new destination for Latino populations, reshaping local communities in ways that are still not fully understood. In this talk, I draw on over a decade […]
Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Two Noble Kinsmen – Episode II
Virtual EventShakespeare returns to the characters and themes of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in what may have been the last play he had a hand in writing: The Two Noble Kinsmen. This time, however, the story of Theseus and Hippolyta, the disorienting experience of adolescent sexual desire, and the conflict of duties to sovereigns, parents, friends, and spouses are […]
Anne Fadiman – Frog: And Other Essays
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop welcomes award-wining author Anne Fadiman (The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down) for a discussion about her latest book Frog: And Other Essays, a new collection of evocative personal essays. "Affecting and often humorous . . . Fadiman has a knack for finding the extraordinary in the ordinary, using everyday objects to explore […]
How to Co-Create an AI Policy in Your Classroom
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIt is well known that students are using AI, that some uses undermine their learning, and that bans are difficult and labor-intensive to enforce. To confront this, Lauren Lyons asked students in her Ethics and Technology course to collaboratively build their own AI policy. In this session, Lyons will describe how she structured the activity, […]