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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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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UCSC Free Performance Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
Stevenson Event CenterFREE STAGE PERFORMANCES IN FRENCH, JAPANESE, AND SPANISH WITH ENGLISH TITLES FROM STUDENTS OF UCSC! For its 23rd season, the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse will present fully-staged performances in French, Japanese, and Spanish, with English super-titles projected above the stage. The program will be directed by Language lecturers and performed by Language students. French: Dur […]
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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 Free Performance Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
Stevenson Event CenterFREE STAGE PERFORMANCES IN FRENCH, JAPANESE, AND SPANISH WITH ENGLISH TITLES FROM STUDENTS OF UCSC! For its 23rd season, the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse will present fully-staged performances in French, Japanese, and Spanish, with English super-titles projected above the stage. The program will be directed by Language lecturers and performed by Language students. French: Dur […]
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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 […]
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UCSC Free Performance Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
Stevenson Event CenterFREE STAGE PERFORMANCES IN FRENCH, JAPANESE, AND SPANISH WITH ENGLISH TITLES FROM STUDENTS OF UCSC! For its 23rd season, the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse will present fully-staged performances in French, Japanese, and Spanish, with English super-titles projected above the stage. The program will be directed by Language lecturers and performed by Language students. French: Dur […]
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Jean Drèze – “Yummy: School Meals in India”
Virtual EventJoin the Center for South Asian Studies for a virtual talk by Jean Drèze, “Yummy: School Meals in India.” School meals have been a legal entitlement of Indian children since 2001. It took some years for this legal entitlement to translate into functional schemes, but from then onwards school meals have made important contributions to […]
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Murad Idris – Against Hate: On the Politics of a False Diagnosis
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCo-sponsored by the Global Political Thought Working Group The idea that “hate” names a fundamental problem of our time has engulfed Anglophone public discourse. Republicans and Democrats, university presidents and doxxing campaigns, advocacy organizations and journalists, scholarly experts and “hate glossaries” criticize what they oppose as hate, demand standing against hate, and seem to treat […]