Events
Events

A History of Families: Bosses, Bullies, and Dictators in the Modern Philippines
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States +1 moreThe Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) invites you to join them for their winter Slow Seminar, "A History of Families: Bosses, Bullies, and Dictators in the Modern Philippines […]

Living Writers With Carlo Acevedo
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCraft Between Worlds Carlo Acevedo is a Colombian poet who is the author of Day's Fortune / Fortuna del día, a bilingual collection. His work won the 2018 Arcipreste de […]
Kara Cooney – When Women Ruled the World
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAncient Studies presents the 2026 Carl Deppe Lecture featuring Kara Cooney, who will present her lecture "When Women Ruled the World." Who were the women who once ruled the richest […]

Saturday Shakespeare – Henry IV, Part 1
Virtual and In PersonSaturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on January 10, 17, 24, 31 & February 7, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library […]

Islamophobia in a Global Perspective: A Panel Discussion
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesJoin the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) for a panel discussion that situates Islamophobia in a global context as a form of discrimination that shapes politics […]

Josen Masangkay Diaz – Population Crisis and the Reproductive Archive
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk focuses on the development of a population science in the decade that preceded the Ferdinand Marcos regime in the Philippines and throughout the Marcos dictatorship. The regime's management […]

Living Writers with Rosie Stockton
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCraft Between Worlds Rosie Stockton is a poet and scholar, author of the collections Permanent Volta (Nightboat Books, 2021) and Fuel (Nightboat Books, 2025). In Fuel, Stockton explores how capitalist […]

Marion Nestle – Sustainable Food in the Trump Era
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWhat is the state of sustainable food now, what are the forces affecting food choice, and what can we do about it? Join us for this year’s Peggy Downes Baskin […]

Of Body and Soul: Politics and Eschatology in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis seminar explores how pre-modern debates over body and soulshaped political and eschatological thought in the Mediterranean. Each panel brings Jewish, Christian, and Islamic voices into dialogue, with Dante Alighieri's […]

Martin Rizzo-Martinez – Wounded Lee: the Red Power movement in 1970s Santa Cruz in the wake of Alcatraz
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn the spring of 1975, a 1,500-year-old Indigenous cemetery on Lee Road in Watsonville, California, was threatened by a development project. Members of the local Native American community with ties […]
