Events
Mizanur Rahman–The Mass Uprisings in Bangladesh: Youth Mobilization, Political Possibility, and Precarity
Humanities 1, Room 202Bangladesh’s recent student-led mass uprising which ousted the longstanding autocrat, Sheikh Hasina, from office is widely considered to have ushered in a new era in Bangladesh politics. How did the […]
Understanding October 7, 2023 and Israel’s War on the Gaza Strip
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Center for Jewish Studies presents an event with Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University. How should […]
Living Writers with Julián Delgado Lopera
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLiving Writers Series – Fall 2024 Growing Things ~ gardens, poems, emotions, relationships, stories, our artistic practices, carefully tended, beautifully ordered, rewilded and wild ~ About The Living Writers Series […]
U.S. Elections and Democracy in Deeply Polarized Times: What are the Stakes and Opportunities?
Virtual and In PersonThis event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series - Power, Politics, and Our Democracy UC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to […]
Festival of Monsters Public Festival
Museum of Art & History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies presents the 2024 Festival of Monsters opens Oct. 11-12 with a weekend of free public events for all ages. Festivities begin 5 […]
Bilingual California/California Bilingüe: Fronteras y Futuros
Music Center Recital HallJoin us as we welcome Professor Ana Celia Zentella (professor emerita, UC San Diego) to discuss the political, social, and educational barriers that California’s Spanish-English bilinguals must overcome to ensure […]
1st Symposium on Spanish-English Bilingualism in California
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe 1st Symposium on Spanish-English bilingualism in California brings together leading scholars investigating the linguistic practices and patterns of variation across Spanish-English bilinguals throughout the state of California. This inaugural […]
Filipino American Heritage Month Festival
Watsonville City Plaza 358 Main St., Watsonville, CA, United StatesJoin us for the 3rd annual Filipino American Heritage Festival on the Watsonville city plaza! Featuring vendors, performances, and food. Co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
CLOTILDA: Resistance, Resilience, Remembrance, Rebuilding
Resource Center for Non ViolenceBlack divers were central to the reclamation of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to transport kidnapped Africans to the United States. In our coastal area, the unceded territory […]
Dear Watsonville Screening and Q&A
PVA Porter Building 280 Main Street, Watsonville, United StatesIn celebration of Filipino American History Month, join Watsonville is in the Heart and the Watsonville Film Festival for a screening of Dear Watsonville, a mixed-media documentary offering an intimate […]