Events
Events
Fanon in Documentary Film: Algerian Legacies
Communications 150, Studio CFilm Screening: 5:30-7pm, Communications 150, Studio C Panel Discussion and Audience Q&A: 7-8pm, Communications 150, Studio C Reception: 8-9pm, Communications 139 Marking the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s birth, the Center […]
UC Maghreb Workshop
Virtual and In Person +1 moreThis workshop will bring together over a dozen scholars from the UC-system who research the Maghreb to share their work and exchange ideas. It is designed as a way of […]
Susan Slyomovics – Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States +1 moreIn this talk, Susan Slyomovics will discuss her new book, Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage. "Statuomania" overtook Algeria beginning in the nineteenth century as the French affinity for monuments […]
Saturday Shakespeare – Henry IV, Part 1
Virtual and In PersonSaturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on January 10, 17, 24, 31 & February 7, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library […]
Gregory O’Malley – The Escapes of David George
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop welcomes prize-winning historian and UC Santa Cruz professor Gregory O'Malley for a discussion about his new book The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the […]
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, […]
Mike McCarthy – A Theory of Late Populism: Popularism
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk identifies a critical feature of late populism: popularism. Traditional populism operates through articulation: actively constructing “the people” as a political category by linking heterogeneous demands together against an […]
A History of Families: Bosses, Bullies, and Dictators in the Modern Philippines
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States +1 moreThe Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) invites you to join them for their winter Slow Seminar, "A History of Families: Bosses, Bullies, and Dictators in the Modern Philippines […]
More-Than-Humanities Lab Early Career Scholars Share Session
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join the More-Than-Human(ities) Lab for our winter "share session.” Two of our early-career lab members will share their current projects and invite your feedback in an informal, interactive conversation. […]
Living Writers With Carlo Acevedo
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCraft Between Worlds Carlo Acevedo is a Colombian poet who is the author of Day's Fortune / Fortuna del día, a bilingual collection. His work won the 2018 Arcipreste de […]