Events
Events
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Film Screening – Environmental Crisis in Gabes: Agriculture and Revolt in Tunisia
Communications 150, Studio CFilm Screening and Discussion: 5:30-7pm, Communications (Studio C) Reception: 7-8:30pm, Communications 139 Gabes Labess (All is well in Gabes) questions current development models by focusing on the Oasis of Gabes, the only coastal oasis in the world. What was once considered "The Paradise of the World" has been transformed into an economic, social, and ecological […]
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Living Writers with Nathan Osorio
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn Nourishment, Us. Living Writers Spring 2026: Our Nourishment, US features poets, writers, critics, visual and performance artists, who demonstrate how writing and art enacts around the idea of freedom and the imaginary in the face of the constant threat of terror and erasure. In the presence of who we all are within marginalized yet expansively […]
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Muskism – A Guide For The Perplexed
Cultural Center at Merrill Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEveryone’s got an Elon take. He’s a messiah. A menace; a genius; a clown. The verdicts differ, but they share one theme: they treat him as an individual. Muskism argues otherwise. Elon Musk isn’t a glitch in the system—he is the system. His worldview promises sovereignty through technology: plug in, power up, and become self-reliant. […]
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Quinn Slobodian – Whither Neoliberalism Studies?
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCo-sponsored by the Politics Department The last two decades have seen a flood of research on neoliberalism. Defined in multiple and even conflicting ways, the term nonetheless served as a master category of analysis for scholars from history to geography and communications. Where does the field sit now as trends of authoritarianism and reterritorialization shatter […]
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Karen Tei Yamashita – Questions 27 & 28
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes acclaimed author Karen Tei Yamashita (I Hotel) to celebrate the launch of her new novel Questions 27 & 28—a masterful polyvocal history of Japanese Americans before, during, and after World War II. Yamashita will be in conversation with Alice Yang, Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC […]
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Linda Zerilli – The Feminist Democratic Imaginary: Actualizing Pasts, Creating Futures
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe first guest of the History of Consciousness Spring 2026 Research Colloquium will be joining us next Monday, April 27th! This event brings Linda Zerilli to give her talk “The Feminist Democratic Imaginary: Actualizing Pasts, Creating Futures”. Feminist historians have long challenged the progress narrative — the story in which each wave supersedes the last, […]
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Guelaguetza Cultural Festival
Branciforte Small Schools Campus 840 N Branciforte Ave, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSenderos presents the 21st annual Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza, a family friendly, Indigenous cultural festival. The Guelaguetza brings together food, music, dance, language, crafts, and community to celebrate the beautiful traditions of Oaxaca, Mexico. Local dancers from Senderos’ own Centeotl Danza y Baile will represent the eight regional traditions of Oaxaca, accompanied by Oaxacan musicians from Los […]
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Emmaia Gelman – The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State
Resource Center for Non Violence“The ADL was born of the belief that the best protection from antisemitism was admission into the white racial state and waging a vigorous defense of capitalism, individual rights, and the West against communists and barbarians. And it has never looked back.” –Robin D. G. Kelley The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) once sought to portray itself […]
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Saturday Shakespeare – Macbeth
Virtual and In PersonSaturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Macbeth by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on Aoril 18, 25, May 2, 9 & 16 2026 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 volunteer read aloud […]
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This is Thirty Exhibition Opening
Museum of Art & History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn celebration of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History’s 30 year anniversary, this exhibition will highlight some of the artwork and artifacts from the MAH's permanent collection. In addition, artist Joshua Moreno will create a site specific installation inspired by the MAH’s historical archives. The exhibition runs from April 24th to August 9th, […]
