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  • Bibliography as Biography – Recovering Early-Nineteenth-Century Latinx Figures

    Humanities 1, Room 202

    The lecture will focus on the history of Spanish-language writing and publishing in the United States with particular attention to a New York publisher in the early nineteenth century. Carmen E. Lamas is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature, […]

  • Arts and Ecology Festival

    Digital Arts Research Center 407 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz

    The first Arts & Ecology Festival at UC Santa Cruz will bring together talks and panels featuring artists, scientists, and researchers. The April 22 program includes film screenings, live music, artworks, a clothing swap, a poetry slam, a solar powered mobile projection system, and groups like the Norris Center of Natural History, The Fábrica community […]

  • Ashwak Hauter – Physics of Affinity: Violence, Love, & Affinity in the Physician-Patient Relationship

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

    This talk recalls the recent phenomena of the murder of physicians in Jordan and Yemen, and the rise in altercations in Saudi Arabia between physicians and patients and their family. Aiming to work on the physics of affinity, the binding and unbinding of ethical relationalities, within the patient-doctor relationship the physicians claim to be prophets […]

  • Film Screening with Dolly Kikon – A Sacred Place

    Communications, Studio C, Room 150 Communications Bldg‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States +1 more

    Please join us for the American premiere of A Sacred Place (2026), a new film by Professor Dolly Kikon (Anthropology). The film tells the story of stones, spirits, and salt springs in Makhel. The film focuses on intergenerational storytellers and their relationship with the land. It integrates visual ethnography, oral tradition, and geological features of […]

  • A group of six LP (little people) performers regard their paper body cut outs on the wall.

    Film Screening with Julie Wyman – The Tallest Dwarf

    Communications 150, Studio C

    The Tallest Dwarf charts Julie Wyman’s quest to find her place within the little people (LP) community at a moment when dwarf identity is poised to radically change. Wyman’s work engages issues of embodiment, body image, and the possibilities and problematics of media spectatorship—all informed by her experience of living with hypochondroplasia dwarfism. Julie Wyman […]

  • Aziz Abu Sarah & Maoz Inon – The Future is Peace

    Temple Beth El 3055 Porter Gulch Road, Aptos, CA, United States

    Two lifelong peace activists and guides to Israel/Palestine, both of whom have lost family in the conflict, take readers on a revealing life-changing journey across this holy, bloodstained land and discover the mythic, political, and personal history that divides but also binds them and their peoples. In The Future Is Peace, Sarah and Inon take […]

  • ICE Surveillance is Not Safety / La Vigilancia de ICE No es Seguridad

    Santa Cruz County Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    During a time of escalating state violence, Pajaro Valley for Ethnic Studies and Justice (PVESJ) and Get The Flock Out Santa Cruz County invite you to join us for an evening of community education and resistance against automated license plate readers (ALPR) that track us and endanger migrant members of our community. At this freedom […]

  • Saturday Shakespeare – Macbeth

    Virtual and In Person

    Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Macbeth by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on Aoril 18, 25, May 2, 9 & 16 2026 at 10:15 a.m in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest speaker followed by a volunteer read aloud […]

  • Santa Cruz Night of Ideas

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

    Join us for a nocturnal celebration of art, philosophy, and activism! As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its independence, the 2026 Santa Cruz Night of Ideas invites us not to celebrate the Enlightenment, but to interrogate it. Long associated with democracy, progress, and universal reason, the Enlightenment’s legacy remains deeply ambivalent - […]

  • Living Writers with Joe De Vera and Josen Diaz

    Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    In Nourishment, Us. Joe De Vera (WSU) Visual Artist and Josen Diaz (UCSC) Critic and Archivist Joe deVera’s paintings and installations are attempts to clarify the absurd theaters of human tragedy — examining the possible relationships between historiography and art objects — while simultaneously investigating the resonant aftermath of mass conflict. Having emigrated from the […]

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