Events
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Craig Haney – Media and Criminal Justice in the U.S.
Virtual EventCraig Haney is a social psychologist and criminologist whose work leverages interdisciplinary approaches to policy theory and practice in the pursuit of justice and equity within institutions of policing and […]