Events
Megha Majumdar – A Guardian and a Thief
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Megha Majumdar (A Burning) who will share her electrifying new novel that has recently been long-listed for the National Book Award and received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers […]
Martabel Wasserman – Picturing California’s Carceral Landscape: Carleton Watkins’ Views of Alcatraz
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCarleton Watkins, an iconic photographer of the 19th Century American West, is best known for his images of Yosemite that were used as testimony in the formation of the National […]
Armen Khatchatourov – Artificial Intelligence and its “contexts”: between ethics and politics
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk will first examine the way in which the notion of context plays a central role in the history of the computer science and ubiquitous AI on the one hand, and in that of privacy and data protection on the other and, second, will examine the way in which this notion replays the conception […]
Hebron Seed Bank Study Session
The Greenhouse Project 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, United StatesJoin the Seeds of Resurgence Research cluster as they gather to discuss readings related to the Hebron Seed bank, which Israeli forces destroyed in August. Participants will think together about how colonial power targets food sovereignty and what can be done to resist those acts of destruction. This event will be hosted at The Greenhouse […]
Christine Padoch and Nancy Peluso – Return to Nanga Jela
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States +1 moreThe history of hinterland communities is largely written in remote landscapes that today are often targeted for infrastructural development that forcibly relocates existing residents and transforms the land, obliterating those histories, and weakening communities. In 1984/5 the Iban longhouse at Nanga Jela on Sarawak’s Engkari River in Malaysian Borneo, along with twenty-one other communities and […]
Living Writers Student Reading
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWonder as the Source About the Living Writers Series The Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There […]
John O. Jordan – Dickens and Soundscape: The Old Curiosity Shop
Virtual EventPlease join the Dickens Project for the rescheduled Dickens Universe talk by John Jordan, Dickens Project Co-Founder and Co-Director. Critics have long recognized and commented on the striking visual quality […]
Decolonial AI: Designing Technologies for Generative Justice
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe extraction of ecological value from nature, labor value from workers, and social value from communities constitutes the root cause of pollution, poverty and social domination. Indigenous traditions, commons-based production […]
2026 Santa Cruz Fungus Fair
London Nelson Community Center 301 Center St., Santa Cruz, United StatesDid you know that without fungus, we’d have no bread, cheese, beer, or wine? Or that anti-cholesterol medicine was developed from mushrooms? Come to the Santa Cruz Fungus Fair to […]
PhD+ Workshop – Grants and Fellowships
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesGrants and Fellowships for Humanities Scholars Learn how to make your fellowship and grant proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss what does and does not […]