Events
SOLD OUT: An Evening with Malcolm Gladwell – Talking to Strangers
San Mateo Performing Arts Center 600 N Delaware St, San Mateo, CA, United StatesEvent Photos by Crystal Birns: The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz, in partnership with Bookshop Santa Cruz, are delighted to present an evening with Malcolm Gladwell for the hardcover […]
Jacqueline Woodson: Red at the Bone
Peace United Church 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to present an evening with acclaimed author Jacqueline Woodson to celebrate the release of her newest book, Red at the Bone. This special book talk, Q+A, and book […]
Paul Gootenberg: From Teonanácatl to Miami Vice – Latin America’s Contribution to World Drug Culture
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesLong before today’s entanglements with coke, meth, and weed, the Americas were a proving ground of global drug cultures. This millennium of shamanistic and Aztec psychedelics, colonial and Atlantic stimulants […]
Living Writers: R. Zamora Linmark
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesR. Zamora Linmark is the author of The Importance of Being Wilde at Heart, his first novel for young adults from Delacorte/Random House. He has also published two novels, Rolling […]
Eli Yassif: Before Seinfeld – The Early Modern Roots of Jewish Humor
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for Eli Yassif's lecture "Before Seinfeld - The Early Modern Roots of Jewish Humor" Jewish humor has been described as one of the most outstanding characteristics of the Jewish People, and its history dates back to Biblical times. But is there really “Jewish Humor”, and if so, what are its major characteristics? […]
Cultural Studies Colloquium: Anjali Arondekar
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States“What More Remains: Sexuality, Slavery, Historiography" This talk engages a ‘small’ history of sexuality and slavery in Portuguese India. At stake are three questions: How do we call attention to the displacement of slave pasts within histories of sexuality that are themselves routinely displaced? How do we locate those displacements in itinerant archives of profit […]
Democratic Interpellations Conference (NOT CANCELLED)
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesPlease note: this is a two-day event.
Kresge’s Media and Society: Teju Cole (LOCATION/TIME CHANGED)
Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin Kresege for the first Media and Society lecture of Fall 2019 with Teju Cole, a photographer, novelist, art historian, and the New York Times Magazine photography critic. He has recently co-authored a book on refugees and displaced people, titled Human Archipelago, and several of his recent pieces for the New York Times focus on the […]
RESCHEDULED Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Beyond the End of the World Sawyer Seminar Series
Music Center Recital Hall - UCSC 402 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present the inaugural event in the Beyond the End of the World series. Due to unforeseen circumstances Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor had to reschedule her engagement in Santa Cruz for January 23, 2020. Click here for updated event information. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an award-winning author on […]
CANCELLED Living Writers: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is a poet, essayist, translator, and immigration advocate. He is the author of Cenzontle (BOA editions, 2018), chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy as the winner of the 2017 A. Poulin Jr. prize and winner of the 2018 Northern California Book Award. Cenzontle maps a parallel between the landscape of the border and the […]