Events

UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Cynthia Larive and Foundation Board Trustee Anuradha Luther Maitra invite you to the Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture: "How can India (and developing countries) grow? Navigating an […]

Bookshop Santa Cruz presents bestselling travel writer Rick Steves , who will join us for a special event at The Rio Theatre to discuss his new memoir On the Hippie […]

With book bans skyrocketing across the country, let’s celebrate the value of children’s books by supporting our local public school libraries together. Children’s books are often one of the first […]

Crafting a potential history of the Jewish Muslim World means taking seriously the fact that we – Muslim Jews - are the living ruins of worlds that imperialism is committed […]

Join us for a Center for South Asian Studies Meet and Greet! Come have some food and refreshments with the CSAS community and tell us about your research and interests […]

The Future We Share: Activism, Creativity, and Collective Imagination Join us on April 4, 2025 for the Night of Ideas in Santa Cruz, a nocturnal celebration of art, philosophy, and […]

What does it mean to talk and write about the experiences of our bodies? How do the stories told about us mediate the narratives we construct? What are the stakes […]

Bookshop Santa Cruz presents author Cat Bohannon who will be in-conversation with Vicky Oelze about Bohannon's book Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution—a myth-busting, […]

Join us on April 9th from 12-2 p.m. for the opening of Gary Young: A Retrospective Books, Broadsides, Prints & Ephemera at UCSC Special Collections and Archives. Gary will treat […]