Events
María Puig de la Bellacasa – Inheriting the Burdens of Human–Soil Belonging
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCo-sponsored by History of Consciousness: earth ecologies x technoscience This talk offers a speculative reading of practices that reclaim and reimagine human–soil relations within the legacies of anthropocentric, productionist, and […]
Talking Tales of the Undead
Santa Cruz Public Library - Downtown Branch 224 Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGet ready for the season with vampires, ghouls and zombies! Join UC Santa Cruz professors Michael Chemers (The Monster in Theater History), Renée Fox (The Necromantics), and Kimberly Lau (Specters […]
Sociality, Science, and Surveillance: Plantations in the 21st Century
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in partnership with Santa Clara University, invites you to a two-day academic workshop exploring the effects […]
Saturday Shakespeare – The Tragedy of King Richard II
Virtual and In PersonSaturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents The Tragedy of King Richard II by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on October 4, 11, 18, 25 & November 1, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. […]
Orientation to Community Archiving
Humanities 2, Room 259 +1 moreLearn about the importance of preserving and documenting the history and culture of our community through archiving. We will discuss how the rise of interest in Community Archives has transformed […]
Slugs and Steins with Professor Kimberly Lau – Race and the European Fairy Tale: The Making of a White Genre
Virtual EventIn this talk, Kimberly Lau offers intertwined readings of several cognate fairy tales that revolve around true and false brides, beginning with Black slaves and white fairies in 17th-century Naples […]
Malcolm Gladwell—Revenge of the Tipping Point
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes #1 New York Times bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell for a discussion about Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering. In […]
Festival of Monsters
UC Santa CruzHeld on the beautiful UC Santa Cruz campus, the 2025 Festival of Monsters academic conference (Oct. 15-18) includes panels on cannibalism, classic monsters, child monsters and the monsters of childhood, […]
Navyug Gill – Labor History and the Accumulation of Difference in Colonial Panjab
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesWithin the British empire, Panjab has long been regarded as the quintessential agrarian province inhabited by a diligent, prosperous and “martial race” of peasants. Against such essentialist depictions, I explore […]
PhD+ Workshop – Archives 101 for Graduate Students
McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special CollectionsFeeling the archival impulse? Come get some hands-on experiences with McHenry Library's Special Collections, chat about archives with your fellow grad students, and get your questions answered about archival research […]