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  • 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 […]

  • Camilla Hawthorne, Michael Whalen, Christina Zanfagna, and John Gennari – BLACKITALIAN: A Documentary Screening and Discussion

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

    What are the meanings of belonging and cultural identity at a time of resurgent white nationalism, large-scale transnational migration, and the increasingly convulsive dynamics of nation and imperium? We address this question in a screening and robust critical discussion of scenes from a documentary film-in-progress called BLACKITALIAN. A collaboration between cultural geographer Camilla Hawthorne, ethnomusicologist […]

  • Reyna Grande – Migrant Heart

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes award-winning author Reyna Grande (The Distance Between Us) back to the store to celebrate the release of her newest book Migrant Heart: Essays About Things I Can't Forget—an ambitious memoir in essays that illuminates the hidden cost of the American Dream and the complex journey of healing that follows survival. Grande […]

  • 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 […]

  • Gukha Amin — From the Margins: The Lives and Labor of Yemen’s “Undesirable” Subjects

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

    Join the Center for the Middle East and North Africa for a presentation by Gukha Amin.  Her talk follows the lives of social outcasts and marginalized Black people who lived and moved across Southern Arabia in the first half of the twentieth century using deportation records, petitions, and criminal cases. These include street performers, sex […]

  • Sanjay Barbora – Territorial Autonomy, States and Politics in the 21st Century: Notes from a Frontier

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

    How can we interpret the increasing centralisation of political authority and decision-making in the 21st century, and can movements for autonomy provide an answer to this question? The concept of territorial autonomy has been a complex issue in modern politics, especially since the emergence of postwar nation-states in the 20th century. While it provided a […]

  • Kuumbwa Jazz Presents – Gregorio Uribe

    Kuumbwa Jazz Center

    “Colombian artist Gregorio Uribe, whose blend of contemporary cumbia and timeless charisma has marked him as an artist to watch.” – Billboard Uribe was recognized by the Colombian government as one of “The 100 Most Successful Colombians Abroad”, and has received honors from the city of Boston and the state of Massachusetts for his contribution […]

  • 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 […]

  • Environmental Crisis in Gabes: Agriculture and Revolt in Tunisia

    Communications 150, Studio C

    Film Screening and Discussion:  5:30-7pm, Communications (Studio C) Reception:  7-8:30pm, Communications 139 Gabes Labess (All is well in Gabes) questions current development models by focusing on the Oasis of Gabes, the only coastal oasis in the world. What was once considered "The Paradise of the World" has been transformed into an economic, social, and ecological […]

  • Living Writers with Nathan Osorio

    Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    In Nourishment, Us. Nathan Osorio (Texas Tech) Poet and Critic UCSC Alum 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 […]

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