Events
Events
Elemental Encounters with Cymene Howe
Humanities 1, Room 202 +1 moreCymene Howe, the final guest of the Winter 2026 HistCon Research Colloquium will be joining us next week to give her talk “Elemental Encounters: how water, ice and fire + […]
How to Co-Create an AI Policy in Your Classroom
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIt is well known that students are using AI, that some uses undermine their learning, and that bans are difficult and labor-intensive to enforce. To confront this, Lauren Lyons asked […]
Anne Fadiman – Frog: And Other Essays
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop welcomes award-wining author Anne Fadiman (The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down) for a discussion about her latest book Frog: And Other Essays, a new collection of evocative […]
Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Two Noble Kinsmen – Episode II
Virtual EventShakespeare returns to the characters and themes of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in what may have been the last play he had a hand in writing: The Two Noble Kinsmen. This time, however, […]
Latinos, Language, and Change in New Destination Communities of the U.S. South
Humanities 1, Room 202The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to invite you to a talk with Dr. Stephen Fafulas (University of Mississippi). The U.S. South has emerged as a major […]
Living Writers With Mary-Alice Daniel
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCraft Between Worlds Mary-Alice Daniel is a Nigerian American poet and cross-genre writer born near the Niger/Nigeria border. Her debut poetry collection, Mass for Shut Ins, was selected by Rae […]
On the Canon of the History of Philosophy: Critique & Crisis
Humanities 1, Room 320Please join us for a day of presentations and conversation featuring: Silvestre Gristina (University of Padua / UC Santa Cruz) Elizabeth Millán Brusslan (DePaul University) presenting "Surprises and Hermeneutical Blindness: […]
Questions that Matter – How to Live Long and Prosper: Lessons from a Star Trek Opera
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterWhat do we need to live a fulfilling life? This essential question of the humanities feels especially pressing now, on the precipice of profound changes to our planet, our bodies, […]
Karen Russell – The Antidote
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Karen Russell (Swamplandia!) for a discussion about her latest novel The Antidote, which will be available in paperback on the night of the event. […]
Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Two Noble Kinsmen – Episode III
Virtual EventShakespeare returns to the characters and themes of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in what may have been the last play he had a hand in writing: The Two Noble Kinsmen. This time, however, […]