Events

Join 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 a bilingual future for themselves and their children. She suggests ways that students, parents, teachers, university faculty and community groups can contribute successfully. This event […]

Join 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.

In 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 glimpse into the lives of the first generation of Filipino farmworkers to arrive in the Pajaro Valley as seen through the eyes of their children. […]

Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes acclaimed and bestselling author Kaveh Akbar for a discussion and signing of his phenomenal fiction debut Martyr!, which Tommy Orange calls, "An absolute jewel of a […]

The Center for South Asian Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites you to launch an international collaboration, the Ecologies of Care Initiative. In partnership with […]

Thinking through the complexities of the Red Sea blockade, Professor Khalili will ask questions about how the entangled international and commercial control of maritime space deals with such disruptions in […]

In this session, Lisa Blackmore and Alejandro Ponce de León will talk about a series of mapping processes that they’ve been engaged in with river communities in Latin America. They […]