Events
Events
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Living Writers Student Reading
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 […]
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2026 Graduate Research Symposium
UCSCThis event celebrates and highlights the work of UCSC graduate students in all academic divisions. Any enrolled graduate student is welcome to present either a poster, talk, or mixed media presentation. (Recipients of qualifying fellowships, ARCS, PPPF, Dissertation Quarter, etc. are required to participate.) The event is free and open to the public. For more […]
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Jacqueline Gallant – Law For a More-Than-Human World
Humanities 1, Room 202Jackie Gallant will join the More-Than-Human(ities) Lab to discuss her work with the More-Than-Human Life (MOTH) Program, an interdisciplinary initiative dedicated to the advancement of rights and well-being for humans, nonhumans, and the web of life that sustains us all. The Program has two primary goals. First, using the tools of the law, MOTH offers answers […]
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Allen Riley – Critical Play with Large Language Models
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe idea of keeping the "human in the loop" is offered as a way to make AI "human-centered" and to safeguard against AI mischief, but how does being in a loop with AI shape our communication with each other? Over the last 20 years, Allen Riley created dozens of interactive artworks that explore mediated communication […]
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PhD+ Workshop with ARI — Grants and Fellowship Funding
Virtual EventArts Research Institute (ARI) workshop with Holly Unruh (ARI Executive Director) and Hannah Jasper (ARI Research Development Analyst) on finding funding to support your work, and proposal writing 101. This workshop is geared toward graduate students and early career faculty, and is appropriate for anyone wanting to hone their grant-seeking skills. **Please rsvp to Hannah (hannahjasper@ucsc.edu) […]
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CMENA Student Choice Lecture: Razan Ghazzawi -Carceral Geographies to Racialized Borders: A Queer Feminist Ethnography
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for the annual student choice lecture presented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa: Razan Ghazzawi, "Carceral Geographies to Racialized Borders: A Queer Feminist Ethnography." From a positionality of an exiled protestor in Europe and a former political prisoner in Syria, this project traces the journeys of eight self-identified Syrian […]
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The Deep Read – A Conversation with Merlin Sheldrake
Quarry AmphitheaterJoin us for a free, public conversation with British mycologist and author, Merlin Sheldrake, at UC Santa Cruz's Quarry Amphitheater on May 31, 2026. He'll discuss his New York Times bestseller, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds, Change our Minds, and Shape our Futures with Associate Professor of History Benjamin Breen and the Deep […]
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UCSC French and Japanese Student Performance Evening
Stevenson Event CenterFREE – ALL WELCOME In the spirit of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse, students from the French and Japanese programs at UCSC will present an evening of theater and music performances. French: Dur dur la torture (Pure Torture), written by the students, directed by Renée Cailloux. Japanese: “きぼうのうた” (Song of Hope), directed by Naoko Yamamoto. […]
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The Roadmap Home – Affordable Housing Month Panel Discussion
Temple Beth El 3055 Porter Gulch Road, Aptos, CA, United StatesJoin Housing Santa Cruz County for Affordable Housing Month Keynote & 6th Anniversary Celebration, an afternoon that brings together the big-picture vision and the on-the-ground reality of housing in California. The Roadmap Home will explore a comprehensive, solutions-driven framework for ending the housing crisis. New Affordable Housing Pipeline data will confront a stark truth: nearly […]
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Office Hours Under the Sea
Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin Ronaldo Wilson and special guests for a site-specific, endurance performance as part of there are no words, but melodies. The exhibition emerges at the intersections of Black poetics, performance, and visual art to shuttle between verbal and non-verbal forms of language, rendering the boundaries of identity and meaning slippery. Drop in and visit Wilson’s […]