Events
The Virtual Dickens Universe
UC Santa CruzWhile the originally planned program focusing on David Copperfield and Iola Leroy will still take place in 2021, this week of online programming will feature a range of conversations that discuss the occasion of the pair and the insights that bringing them together can offer. Over the week, scholars from Victorian studies and early African […]
VIRTUAL: Santa Cruz Pickwick Club presents Waverley
Santa Cruz Pickwick Club presents Waverley by Sir Walter Scott. Join Dickens Project Director, John O. Jordan, and Friends of the Dickens Project Board Member, David Brownell for a series of virtual discussions about how one of the first historical novels may have inspired Charles Dickens. RSVP for a Zoom link and password for the […]
VIRTUAL – Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses – Henry VI, Part 2
Join actors, scholars, and friends for ten live readings and discussions focused on the plays about a divided society and a civil war that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop, and The […]
VIRTUAL – Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses – Henry VI, Part 2
Join actors, scholars, and friends for ten live readings and discussions focused on the plays about a divided society and a civil war that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop, and The […]
VIRTUAL – Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Presents: Suffrage + the Struggle for Voting Rights
As we approach the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment and stand at the threshold of a presidential election, "Celebrating Woman Suffrage + the Struggle for Voting Rights” is a panel discussion examining the complex history of enfranchisement in the United States and its relevance to the ongoing anti-racist struggle against voter […]
Slugs & Steins – Beyond the Middle Passage: Slave Trading within the Americas, 1619-1807
More than 12 million enslaved African people endured the infamous Middle Passage across the Atlantic in the slave trade, but for many, the forced migration was not yet over when they reached an American port. Demand for enslaved labor was so rampant in the Americas, that speculators purchased many arriving people only to ship them […]
VIRTUAL – Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses – Henry VI, Part 3
Join actors, scholars, and friends for ten live readings and discussions focused on the plays about a divided society and a civil war that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop, and The […]
VIRTUAL – Karen Tei Yamashita: Sansei and Sensibility
Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz invite you to join us for a free online event with Karen Tei Yamashita who will celebrate her newest book, Sansei and Sensibility. Generations of Japanese Americans merge with Jane Austen's characters in these lively stories, pairing uniquely American histories with reimagined classics. This […]
VIRTUAL – Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses – Henry VI, Part 3
Join actors, scholars, and friends for ten live readings and discussions focused on the plays about a divided society and a civil war that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop, and The […]
VIRTUAL – Santa Cruz Pickwick Club presents Waverley
Santa Cruz Pickwick Club presents Waverley by Sir Walter Scott. Join Dickens Project Director, John O. Jordan, and Friends of the Dickens Project Board Member, David Brownell for a series […]