Events

Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary, theological, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire […]

Join us on Friday, May 3 at 12:00PM for a virtual webinar with Jennifer Lunden, author of AMERICAN BREAKDOWN: Our Ailing Nation, My Body's Revolt, and the Nineteenth Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life. A Silent Spring for the human body, this wide-ranging, genre-crossing literary mystery interweaves the author’s quest to understand the […]

Experience the vigorous and joyful folk music of Prahlad Singh Tipanya and his ensemble, singing the poetry of Kabir, the great iconoclastic mystic of 15th-century North India. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies. Prahlad-ji is a locally, nationally, and internationally acclaimed folk singer from Lunyakhedi, a small village in Ujjain […]

On May 6, you’ll be able to join the conversation—either in person or online—at a salon-style event where our participating professors will lead a discussion of this year’s Deep Read book, Trust, with the Deep Read community. Faculty Speakers Lori Kletzer, Economics, Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Madhavi Murty, Feminist Studies Dard Neuman, Music […]

Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Angie Sijun Lou and Karen Tei Yamashita for the launch of Dark Soil: Fictions and Mythographies—a new anthology edited by Lou and featuring ten new stories from Yamashita, all centered around Santa Cruz's history, along with eight works of nonfiction from authors including Brandon Shimoda and Juliana Spahr. About Dark Soil […]