Events
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 this provocative new work, Malcolm Gladwell returns for the first time in twenty-five years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time […]
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, Chicanix Nuclear Gothic and more. David Livingstone Smith, Kim Lau and Jeffrey Jerome Cohen will give this year's keynote talks. The main conference will take […]
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 the landowning peasant and landless laborer as novel subjects forged in the encounter between colonialism and struggles over culture and capital within Panjabi society. Company […]
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 at UCSC and beyond. Curious undergrads are welcome, too! Space is limited. This event is presented by the Center for Archival Research & Training (CART) […]
Living Writers with Cindy Juyoung Ok
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWonder as the Source Cindy Juyoung Ok is the author of Ward Toward and the translator of The Hell of That Star by Kim Hyesoon. She was a finalist for a 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, has served as a Poetry Foundation Library Forms & Features visiting teaching artist, and was a […]
John Freeman – California Rewritten
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes author, editor, and poet John Freeman for a conversation with Karen Tei Yamashita about his new book California Rewritten: A Journey Through the Golden State's New Literature. This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. "In Freeman's hands, California is a literary mecca, and each essay a revelation." —Ingrid Rojas Contreras, […]
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. 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 […]
The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads with Kevin Anderson
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAnna Yegorova and Pablo Escudero will engage Professor Kevin Anderson on his recently published monograph, The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads. In this work, Anderson carries out a systematic analysis of Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks and related texts on Russia, India, Ireland, Algeria, Latin America, and ancient Rome, with an eye to how viewing the world beyond the […]
Jennifer Mogannam – Palestinian-Lebanese Revolution-Making in Civil War Lebanon
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk offers a framework for understanding the entangled fate of Palestinian and Lebanese liberation by situating the 1970s Palestinian revolution and Lebanese Civil War opposition front through a shared narrative. This talk will show how these two efforts not only organized jointly, but how their aspirations were shared and impactful of the social landscape […]
Zine-Making Workshop with Christie George
Social Sciences 1, Room 261 Social Sciences 1 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for this year's first anthropology colloquium/Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice event! This event is in-person and virtual. Register for virtual participation here. Christie George is a writer, curator and producer who has beenworking at the intersection of media, technology and social change for more than twenty years -- first as a film […]