Events

Falafel Welcome Lunch with The Center for the Middle East and North Africa
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for the Middle East and North Africa invites all CMENA affiliates and students to a falafel welcome lunch. Come catch up with one another, meet CMENA faculty, and […]

Humanities Division Experiential Learning Info Session
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States +1 moreJoin us for an info session with Kylie Rachwalski, Assistant Director of Experiential Learning in the UCSC Humanities Division to learn more about Humanities EXCEL and EXPLORE Programs for humanities […]

The Memoirs of Robert & Mabel Williams: African American Freedom, Armed Resistance, and International Solidarity
Oakes Learning Center, UCSCPresented by The Center for Racial Justice. Cosponsored by Oakes College. Free and open to the public. Born in Jim Crow–era Monroe, North Carolina, Robert F. Williams and Mabel R. […]

Master Class: Jaron Lanier – Music & The Future of Humanity
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterJaron Lanier is a musician, computer scientist, visual artist, writer, technologist, and futurist who is considered a founder of the field of virtual reality. In Music & The Future of Humanity Lanier will be […]

María Puig de la Bellacasa – Inheriting the Burdens of Human–Soil Belonging
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCo-sponsored by History of Consciousness: earth ecologies x technoscience This talk offers a speculative reading of practices that reclaim and reimagine human–soil relations within the legacies of anthropocentric, productionist, and […]

Talking Tales of the Undead
Santa Cruz Public Library - Downtown Branch 224 Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGet ready for the season with vampires, ghouls and zombies! Join UC Santa Cruz professors Michael Chemers (The Monster in Theater History), Renée Fox (The Necromantics), and Kimberly Lau (Specters […]

Sociality, Science, and Surveillance: Plantations in the 21st Century
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in partnership with Santa Clara University, invites you to a two-day academic workshop exploring the effects […]

Saturday Shakespeare – The Tragedy of King Richard II
Virtual and In PersonSaturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents The Tragedy of King Richard II by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on October 4, 11, 18, 25 & November 1, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. […]
Orientation to Community Archiving
Humanities 2, Room 259 +1 moreLearn about the importance of preserving and documenting the history and culture of our community through archiving. We will discuss how the rise of interest in Community Archives has transformed […]

Slugs and Steins with Professor Kimberly Lau – Race and the European Fairy Tale: The Making of a White Genre
Virtual EventIn this talk, Kimberly Lau offers intertwined readings of several cognate fairy tales that revolve around true and false brides, beginning with Black slaves and white fairies in 17th-century Naples […]
