Events

Events

Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

  • Karen Tei Yamashita – Questions 27 & 28

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Bookshop 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 […]

  • This is Thirty Exhibition Opening

    Museum of Art & History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    In 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, […]

  • Aziz Abu Sarah & Maoz Inon – The Future is Peace

    Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Two lifelong peace activists and guides to Israel/Palestine, both of whom have lost family in the conflict, take readers on a revealing life-changing journey across this holy, bloodstained land and discover the mythic, political, and personal history that divides but also binds them and their peoples. In The Future Is Peace, Sarah and Inon take […]

  • Santa Cruz Night of Ideas

    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Join us for a nocturnal celebration of art, philosophy, and activism! As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its independence, the 2026 Santa Cruz Night of Ideas invites us not to celebrate the Enlightenment, but to interrogate it. Long associated with democracy, progress, and universal reason, the Enlightenment’s legacy remains deeply ambivalent - […]

  • Ritual Drinking in the Ancient World

    Stockwell Cellars 1100 Fair Ave, Santa Cruz, CA

    “Drink and make a happy day!” (New Kingdom Theben tomb) “Wine gladdens the heart of man…” (Psalm 104:15) At this ‘symposium’ event, three UCSC professors in Classical, Biblical, and Egyptian antiquity will tell stories about how various ancient cultures drank wine to commune with their gods, suspend the normal social rules, and prepare for the […]

  • New Articulations with James Clifford

    Humanities 1

    This event engages the theme of articulation and James Clifford’s contributions to cultural studies, anthropology, and literary studies, addressing our current disconcerting cultural, historical, and ecological conjuncture. With talks by Elizabeth Povinelli (Columbia), James Clifford (UCSC), and Kirin Narayan (ANU), and a panel with Mark Anderson (UCSC), Chris Connery (UCSC), Donna Haraway (UCSC), Gail Hershatter […]

  • Documentación Lingüística en México

    Humanities 1, Room 202

    Please join us for a presentation on "Children's role in Language Documentation Efforts in Mexico". Cuando realizamos proyectos de documentación lingüística, nos encontramos con niñas y niños que quieren participar en alguna actividad del proceso de documentación, sean o no hablantes o sean hablantes de herencia. Su colaboración es valiosa en los proyectos porque aportan […]

  • image of workers

    Nauenberg History of Science Lecture with Jennifer Derr

    Music Center Recital Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    World Wounds: The Damming of the Nile River and the Transformation of Medicine The damming of the Nile River transformed agriculture and human health in twentieth-century Egypt. While dams enabled year-round irrigation and provided hydroelectricity, the prevalence of parasitic disease also skyrocketed. Professor Derr explores the effects of damming the Nile on the health of […]

  • Chris Gray – The Fantasies Shaping Today’s AI

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    All AI (algorithmic intelligence) companies claim they are pursuing the next logical step in digital—perhaps even human—evolution. But, the development of AI is clearly shaped by a wide range of untethered belief systems from obscure German philosophy to The Lord of the Rings. There is nothing logical about it. It is unreasonable to make AI […]

  • Oceans of Dissent Workshop

    Humanities 1, Room 202 +1 more

    We gather to forge new vernaculars of the geopolitical, to assemble spatial imaginaries of the “oceanic” that refuse rather than relent to the insistent march of capital and empire. To dissent here is an invitation to think more about the messiness and stuckness of our intellectual labors across histories of slavery, indenture, colonialism and more. This event is open to the campus community. Register […]

To top