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  • Living Writers with Terri Witek

    Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    In Nourishment, Us. Terri Witek (Stetson University Emeritus). Poet/Visual Artist 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 […]

  • Prof Dr Laura Van Broekhoven – Indigenous-Led Regenerative Partnerships: Reframing Museum Ethics for Reconciliation and Societal Healing

    Social Sciences 1, Room 261 Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    For over a decade, the Pitt Rivers Museum has engaged in sustained, collaborative work with Indigenous peoples whose cultural belongings, acquired through histories of dispossession and colonial violence, are now held in Oxford. Part of the work has helped reposition the museum as a site of cultural care rather than a repository of extracted, well-preserved […]

  • Film Screening with Raed Rafei – “Tripoli: A Tale of Three Cities”

    Communications 150, Studio C

    Pre-Screening Reception: 5:30-7pm, Communications 139 Film Screening:  7-8:30, Communications, Studio C While living abroad, a filmmaker returns to Tripoli, Lebanon, to confront a hometown that once rejected him as a queer child. With a microphone in hand, he walks around coffee shops, public squares, and a park to ask the city's inhabitants about their cultural […]

  • Alyssa Battistoni – Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature

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

    Co-sponsored by the Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies Although capitalism is typically treated as a force for relentless commodification, it consistently fails to place value on vital aspects of the nonhuman world, whether carbon emissions or entire ecosystems. Free Gifts argues that to understand contemporary ecological problems from biodiversity collapse to climate change, […]

  • The Deep Read: Faculty Salon on Entangled Life

    Virtual and In Person

    Join us for a salon-style event at the Hay Barn on campus where our participating Deep Read faculty, Professors Benjamin Breen (History), Gregory Gilbert (Environmental Studies), and Donna Haraway (History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies) will give brief presentations and discuss Entangled Life with the Deep Read community in a Q&A moderated by Deep Read […]

  • Privacy’s Defender: Fight Against Digital Surveillance with Cindy Cohn

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

    Cindy Cohn has devoted her life to the fight for digital rights. She’s tangled with federal officials to keep our online conversations secure from the government’s prying eyes, fought to ensure that you are told when your information has been turned over to the government, and argued before judges to protect our right to speak […]

  • Saturday Shakespeare – Macbeth

    Aptos Library 7695 Soquel Dr, Aptos, United States +1 more

    Saturday 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 […]

  • CMENA’s Annual Concert Featuring Aza

    Woodhouse Brewery 119 Madrone St., Santa Cruz, United States

    CMENA is proud to present AZA for our 2026 Spring concert. AZA weaves the rich musical traditions of North Africa’s Tamazight culture with contemporary global influences, creating a unique and captivating sound. Led by Moroccan-born musician Fattah Abbou, AZA blends the intricate melodies and dynamic rhythms of styles like Ahwash, Rwais, and Gnawa. The band […]

  • An Evening with Journalist David Noriega

    Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    In partnership with City on a Hill Press and with support from The Humanities Institute and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Kresge's Media and Society Series presents an evening with award-winning journalist David Noriega. David Noriega is an award-winning journalist and National Correspondent for NBC News. He has reported from all across the United States […]

  • Living Writers with Erica Hunt, Tisa Bryant, and Tonya Foster

    Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    In Nourishment, Us. Erica Hunt (St. John’s University), Tisa Bryant (University of Iowa), and Tonya Foster (San Francisco State University), Poets, Critics, Artists 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 […]

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