Events
Leta Hong Fincher: “The Feminist Awakening in China”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesOn the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for thirty-seven days. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre, […]
Jessica Bauman: “What Refugees Taught Me About Shakespeare”
Kresge Town HallNew York City theater director Jessica Bauman and UCSC Professor Cat Ramirez will explore the ways that the stories we hear and tell about refugees shape our responses to the […]
Living Writers: Ronaldo V. Wilson
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUCSC Professor Ronaldo V. Wilson is an award-winning writer, artist and performer and co-founder of the critically lauded performance group Black Took Collective.
Maitra Memorial Lecture / Foundation Medal with Janet Yellen
Join us as we present the Foundation Medal to Janet Yellen, distinguished fellow of Brookings Institution and former chair of the Federal Reserve. UC Santa Cruz is proudly recognizing influential […]
An Evening with Madeleine Albright
Bookshop Santa Cruz presents an evening with Madeleine Albright, the United States' first female Secretary of State, who will speak about her book, Fascism: A Warning, a personal and urgent […]
Desmond Jagmohan: “Candor and Courage: Ida B. Wells and Fearless Speech”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States“Candor and Courage: Ida B. Wells and Fearless Speech” This paper explicates Ida B. Wells’s argument that journalists and leaders have a moral obligation to speak fearlessly. To do […]
Living Writers: Steven Church
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSteven Church is the author of six books of nonfiction, most recently I'm Just Getting to the Disturbing Part: On Work, Fear, and Fatherhood, and he edited the essay anthology, […]
Dickens and the Disaster of Marriage
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesOn the occasion of Charles Dickens’s 207th birthday, please join us a festive evening of birthday cake, discussion about Victorian marriage with Dickens Project Co-Director Renee Fox, and a film […]
Elizabeth Allen: “Sanctuary and Medieval Kings”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States"Sanctuary and Medieval Kings" - Elizabeth Allen American nationalist discourse casts sanctuary as “illegal”, but actually the practice always bears a relation to the law: sanctuary cities, universities, and churches call […]
John Dizikes Memorial
Stevenson Event CenterJohn Dizikes, a professor emeritus of American Studies and a founding member of the faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz, died at his home in Santa Cruz on […]