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Dean Mathiowetz – Luxuriating as a Political Structure of Feeling

Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

According to premodern elites, the luxurious appetites of the poor were not only feminine and exotic but also the greatest threat to social order. Popular demands for better wages, sustenance, […]

Jane Smiley – A Dangerous Business

Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley (A Thousand Acres) will visit Bookshop to read and sign copies of her new novel A Dangerous Business—a rollicking murder mystery set in Monterey in […]

Bay of Life: From Wind to Whales Exhibition Opening

Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History

Bay of Life: From Wind to Whales is an exhibition by Frans Lanting and Chris Eckstrom that brings land and sea together for a unified view of Monterey Bay and […]

Living Writers – Jaime Cortez

Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Jaime Cortez is a writer and visual artist based in Watsonville, California, and the San Francisco Bay Area. His fiction, essays, and drawings have appeared in diverse publications that include […]

POSTPONED – Linguistics Colloquia: Fernanda Ferreira, UC Davis

Humanities 1, Room 202

Fernanda Ferreira, UC Davis Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please visit: […]

Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts XVI-XX

Virtual Event

Join Professor Karen Hattaway (San Jacinto College) for a series of discussions about the book that stunned Conrad and Dostoevsky.  Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens Sept. 25, Oct. 23, […]

Concrete Utopianism with Gary Wilder

Virtual and In Person

A discussion of excerpts from Wilder’s Concrete Utopianism: The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity. In his book, Wilder insists that we place solidarity and temporality at the center of our […]

Monique Allewaert – Ground Has Eye: Anansi and Animist Multinaturalism

Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

Drawing on an archive of nearly three hundred Anansi tales collected between 1814 and 1935, this talk documents the animist multinaturalism at stake in Jamaican Anansi tales. This form of […]