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  • Office Hours Under the Sea

    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Join Ronaldo Wilson and special guests for a site-specific, endurance performance as part of there are no words, but melodies. The exhibition emerges at the intersections of Black poetics, performance, and visual art to shuttle between verbal and non-verbal forms of language, rendering the boundaries of identity and meaning slippery. Drop in and visit Wilson’s […]

  • Amy Zhou – Unequal Worlds of Care: The Politics of Global Health in Malawi

    BioMed 200

    Unequal Worlds of Care examines how policymakers, providers, and patients in Malawi navigate a healthcare system transformed unevenly by foreign aid. Whether through engaging in political resistance, refusing treatment, or leveraging the opportunities available to them, people contend with global health programs that only partially recognize their healthcare realities. Ultimately, overlooking fundamental aspects of healthcare […]

  • Jean Drèze – “Yummy: School Meals in India”

    Virtual Event

    Join the Center for South Asian Studies for a virtual talk by Jean Drèze, “Yummy: School Meals in India.” School meals have been a legal entitlement of Indian children since 2001. It took some years for this legal entitlement to translate into functional schemes, but from then onwards school meals have made important contributions to […]

  • Performing Shakespeare in Santa Cruz

    McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special Collections

    Santa Cruz Shakespeare and the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop present an exhibit of materials from past productions of Much Ado about Nothing and Macbeth, curated by student interns at Shakespeare Workshop from the Santa Cruz Shakespeare archive. The event will include opening remarks by Charles Pasternak & Paul Whitworth and light refreshments. Tickets are […]

  • Murad Idris – Against Hate: On the Politics of a False Diagnosis

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Co-sponsored by the Global Political Thought Working Group The idea that “hate” names a fundamental problem of our time has engulfed Anglophone public discourse. Republicans and Democrats, university presidents and doxxing campaigns, advocacy organizations and journalists, scholarly experts and “hate glossaries” criticize what they oppose as hate, demand standing against hate, and seem to treat […]

  • The Deep Read: The Literature and Poetics of Fungi Salon

    Virtual and In Person

    Join us for a salon-style event at the Hay Barn on campus where we will hold a salon focused on the literary and poetic influence of fungi and its relation to Entangled Life. The salon will feature Professors Hannah Cole (Assistant Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz), Brenda Hillman (Professor Emerita of Poetry at […]

  • Vivien Sansour – To Eat Alone is to Die Alone

    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The Seeds of Resurgence cluster presents an artist talk with Vivien Sansour, founder of the Palestinian Heirloom Seed Library. Oftentimes when Palestinian farmers put seeds in the ground, they mutter a quiet prayer, “may we eat and may we feed others”. This and many other linguistically profound sayings provide a lens into a cultural design based […]

  • Crowdsourcing Research on Language Variation and Change in Hong Kong

    Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    In this talk, Dr. Yu will present a collaborative research project examining large-scale variation and change in Cantonese in Hong Kong. Using crowdsourcing methodologies, the project collects speech data and survey responses from a broad participant base, alongside systematically designed metalinguistic judgment tasks. By integrating these data sources, the project aims to provide a comprehensive […]

  • Living Writers with Terri Witek

    Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    In Nourishment, Us. Terri Witek (Stetson University Emeritus). Poet/Visual Artist Living Writers Spring 2026: Our Nourishment, US features poets, writers, critics, visual and performance artists, who demonstrate how writing and art enacts around the idea of freedom and the imaginary in the face of the constant threat of terror and erasure. In the presence of […]

  • Laura Van Broekhoven – Indigenous-Led Regenerative Partnerships: Reframing Museum Ethics for Reconciliation and Societal Healing

    Social Sciences 1, Room 261 Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    For over a decade, the Pitt Rivers Museum has engaged in sustained, collaborative work with Indigenous peoples whose cultural belongings, acquired through histories of dispossession and colonial violence, are now held in Oxford. Part of the work has helped reposition the museum as a site of cultural care rather than a repository of extracted, well-preserved […]

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