Events
George Saunders – Vigil
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes George Saunders, recipient of the 2025 National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, for a discussion about his wise, playful, electric novel Vigil, […]
Kara Cooney – When Women Ruled the World
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAncient Studies presents the 2026 Carl Deppe Lecture featuring Kara Cooney, who will present her lecture "When Women Ruled the World." Who were the women who once ruled the richest […]
Marion Nestle – Sustainable Food in the Trump Era
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWhat is the state of sustainable food now, what are the forces affecting food choice, and what can we do about it? Join us for this year’s Peggy Downes Baskin […]
Of Body and Soul: Politics and Eschatology in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean
UC Santa CruzThis seminar explores how pre-modern debates over body and soulshaped political and eschatological thought in the Mediterranean. Each panel brings Jewish, Christian, and Islamic voices into dialogue, with Dante Alighieri's […]
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa – Kyi-dug, Tibetan Welfare Groups: Sharing Ups and Downs
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States +1 moreAs many as 80,000 Tibetans fled to India and Nepal in 1959 following the Chinese occupation of Tibet. The establishment of a Tibetan government in exile helped foster a sense […]
Kitchen Counterculture: A Conversation About Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and the Food that Fueled a Revolution
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz Presents Kitchen Counterculture: A Conversation About Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and the Food that Fueled a Revolution," featuring award-winning food writer Gabi Moskowitz and journalist, teacher, […]
Writing Hangout with Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIf we take a moment to examine our lives, we can find meaningful, even exciting connections between our mundane moments and the society we live in. In this workshop, we […]
Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Two Noble Kinsmen – Episode I
Virtual EventShakespeare returns to the characters and themes of A Midsummer Night's Dream in what may have been the last play he had a hand in writing: The Two Noble Kinsmen. […]
Traveling Film Southasia – Film Screening Festival Launch
Communications 150, Studio CJoin the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) for a celebratory film screening event to launch Travelling Film Southasia, a mobile film festival highlighting 19 exceptional nonfiction productions of the […]
The Trial of Spock — An Opera Workshop
Music Center Recital HallJoin us as the creators of The Trial of Spock — An Opera present five scenes from an opera-in-progress by Ben Leeds Carson, Perre DiCarlo, and Lincoln and Lee Taiz. […]