Events
Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Life and Death of King John
Virtual EventJoin Santa Cruz Shakespeare, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop, and The Humanities Institute, as we launch Undiscovered Shakespeare: King John, the third installment of our annual virtual Shakespeare program. Over the course […]
Poetry and Protest: Writing Amidst Chaos with poet Alan Pelaez Lopez
Virtual EventIn this poetry reading and community conversation, Alan Pelaez Lopez will reflect on what it means to create art in the middle of legal and political violence. They'll read from their book, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien, and a manuscript-in-progress tentatively titled trans*imagination in the hope that the work can invite questions about […]
From the Margins: Dante 701 Years Later – Dante’s Mediterranean Awakening
Virtual EventDuring Dante’s lifetime, the maritime city-states of northern Italy consolidated their position at the center of Mediterranean transit and trade. Thanks to broader trends in the centuries before his birth – the Crusades, increasing trade in essential foods and luxury goods, and swift advances in naval architecture and financial supports for trade, for instance – […]
Engseng Ho – Dubai and Singapore: Asian Diasporics, Global Logistics, Company Rule
Virtual EventDubai and Singapore are emblematic of the contemporary global moment, embodying dizzying success, frenetic excess, spectacular crash. Are they global cities or port-states? Are they Asian nations or corporations descended from the East India Companies that became colonial governments? Their iconic status today as global cities is not simply a function of globalization, but can […]
University Forum: Beyond the Middle Passage: Slave Trading within the Americas, 1619-1807
Virtual EventDuring the American slave trade, more than 12 million enslaved African people endured the infamous Middle Passage across the Atlantic. For many, the forced migration didn’t end 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 from colony […]
Living Writers Series: Yuri Herrera
Virtual EventYuri Herrera’s first novel to appear in English, Signs Preceding the End of the World, received great critical acclaim in 2015 and was included in many Best-of-Year lists. Yuri is a political scientist, editor and contemporary Mexican writer who teaches at Tulane University in New Orleans. His prose was described as “stunning” and his novel as […]
Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Life and Death of King John
Virtual EventJoin Santa Cruz Shakespeare, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop, and The Humanities Institute, as we launch Undiscovered Shakespeare: King John, the third installment of our annual virtual Shakespeare program. Over the course of three sessions (February 10, 17, and 24), we will immerse ourselves in another rarely performed play and reflect on it both as a point […]
Bettina Aptheker, Julie Olsen Edwards and Dena Taylor – “Red Diaper Babies: Growing Up During the HUAC Years of the 1950s”
Virtual EventThe 2022 season of Our Community Reads from the Friends of the Aptos Library is featuring a series of special events related to themes in Red Letter Days by Sarah-Jane Stratford. All events aim to create a shared experience that will increase appreciation for our community libraries and for our local bookstores; foster pride in […]
Meena Kandasamy – Caste Fanaticism and Misogyny: The Hate Politics of Internet Hindutva
Virtual EventMeena Kandasamy (b. 1984) is an anti-caste activist, poet, novelist and translator. Her writing aims to deconstruct trauma and violence, while spotlighting the militant resistance against caste, gender, and ethnic oppressions. She explores this in her poetry and prose, most notably in her books of poems such as Touch (2006) and Ms. Militancy (2010), as […]
The Dickens Project and Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Bleak House
Virtual and In PersonThe Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms, students, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. Spontaneous human combustion! Evil lawyers! Detectives! Family intrigue! These all […]