Events

Please join us for a lecture featuring Prof. Roald Hoffmann, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize, and a Holocaust survivor. This lecture will take place in conjunction with Prof. Nathaniel Deutsch’s […]

Since 2002, prisoners at Guantánamo Bay detention camp have been force-fed as punishment for hunger striking, prompting the question of how to understand the feeding tube’s various uses as both […]

LIVING WRITERS UCSC, SPRING 2022 presents: CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS showcases interdisciplinary writers who deeply engage in various sonic forms, whether the libretto and the operatic, sound and […]

About eight times each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, the College Nine & John Lewis College Programs Office and the College Nine Student Senate present: The 8th Annual AA/PIRC Comedy Night Featuring Maysoon Zayid at College Nine and Ten Multipurpose Room! Our doors open at 4:00 PM. If you are joining in person, we invite you all to […]

** This event has been rescheduled for July 24th ** Of all the immigrant groups who flocked to California in the last two hundred years, probably the least known are the Croatians of the Dalmatian Coast. Often identified as Austrians, Slavonians, or Dalmatians, they came from a glorious background of international traders, sailors, and political […]

Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Mieko Kawakami, bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs, for an online discussion of her new, extraordinary novel—All the Lovers in the Night, in which she demonstrates yet again why she is one of today's most uncategorizable, insightful, and talented novelists. Kawakami will be in conversation with acclaimed author Ruth Ozeki at […]

Readers have always been fascinated by Dante’s distinctive habit of placing episodes from Scripture side by side with ancient pagan myths, as though the latter had a comparable authority. As my reading shows, a popular medieval school text, known as the Eclogue of Theodulus (Ecloga Theoduli), supplied a fitting precedent and model for this practice […]