Events
TechnoScience Improv
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCo-sponsored by History of Consciousness: GeoEcologies + TechnoScience Conversations, Global and Community Health, and the Science & Justice Research Center This two-hour roundtable improv (12.15-2.00pm) brings together ten UCSC scholars […]
Bookshop Santa Cruz presents: | LOVE LETTER TO A GARDEN: A QUEST FOR A GARDEN
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDebbie Millman, award-winning artist, designer, and the host of the podcast Design Matters, will discuss her beautiful new book Love Letter to a Garden, a visual story of falling in […]
TLC Convocation 2025 – The High Cost of Outsourcing Thought: On the Ideology of Artificial Intelligence
Cultural Center at Merrill Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis year’s Convocation speaker will be Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan. His talk, "The High Cost of Outsourcing Thought: On the Ideology of Artificial Intelligence" will examine the ideas that have motivated […]
Carolyn Fornoff – Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn this talk, Carolyn Fornoff will discuss her recent book, Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change (Vanderbilt Press, 2024). Her book assesses contemporary trends in […]
Bookshop Santa Cruz presents: Isabel Allende | MY NAME IS EMILIA DEL VALLE
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesNew York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende (A Long Petal of the Sea and The House of the Spirits) will join us to celebrate the release of My Name Is […]
Nick Kawa and Alisa Keesey – Microbes at Work: The Vital Role of Bacteria and other Microbial Life in Sanitation Systems in the US and Uganda
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesWastewater treatment operators in the American Midwest wryly describe their job as “bacteria farming,” but they also insist that microbes are the ones who “do all the work” at treatment […]
Soraya Murray – Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesSoraya Murray’s forthcoming Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination (MIT, 2026) is the first dedicated examination of popular movies classified as “thrillers” that channel societal anxiety or dread about advanced […]