Events

Please join us for a screening of La Guerra Contra Nuestras Escuelas/ War Against our Schools, a documentary project exploring the short and long term impact of school closings and privatization in Puerto Rico. After the screening, we will unveil the collaborative viewing guide created by Defend Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rico Syllabus to […]

"choose to begin/ from the ground up, literally:" is a conversation whose title is borrowed from Ulysse’s mixed-media assemblage, “Woodswork/Rasanblaj,” digital photos—tree roots, exposed by sun, open field, capturing frey of feeling, living and striated bark— and poetry, where—“No One Could/Save me but you.” This presentation operates between urgencies, where Ronaldo V. Wilson will reflect […]

LIVING WRITERS UCSC, SPRING 2022 presents: CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS showcases interdisciplinary writers who deeply engage in various sonic forms, whether the libretto and the operatic, sound and visual art, acoustic music and songwriting, or embodied meditations to explore the possibilities in being attentive to sound, as action and celebrant through writing.  This hybrid […]

Keynote Lecture: Monica Popescu, McGill University - "Cold War Internationalism and Frayed Alliances," Thursday, May 26, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM. Join us virtually at by clicking here. Click here to download the Socialist World Cultures Conference Program. Monica Popescu is Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar of African Literatures in the Department of English […]

A native of New Orleans, Barbara McCullough has spent most of her life in southern California. Her initial interest was in photography but the moving image, immediacy, and possible forum for ideas set her on a path of exploration. McCullough's work progressed to examining the creative process of artists but always maintaining a fascination with […]

The Center for Racial Justice presents a conversation on The Celine Archive with Filmmaker and Arts Dean Celine Parreñas. In 1932, Celine Navarro was buried alive by her own community of Filipino Americans in northern California. Filmmaker Celine Parreñas Shimizu, finding kinship with Navarro's long-lost story, exhumes her tragic life story while trying to unravel […]

A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It is the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met. The story […]

Join us for a conversation with abolitionist scholars Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, and Beth Richie as they discuss their new book, Abolition. Feminism. Now. This event is free and open to the public. Free tickets available online. Tickets and admission details to be announced. Please familiarize yourself in advance with the full COVID-19 […]

Cowell College, Stevenson College and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics will present the 20th season of the Miriam Ellis international Playhouse (MEIP XX), May 20, 21, and 22, 2022 at 8:00 PM in the Stevenson Event Center at UCSC. Several fully-staged theater pieces in different languages (TBA), with English supertitles, performed by Language students and directed […]