Events
Events

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 […]
Revolution and Restoration: A Conversation with Massimiliano Tomba, Ariella Patchen, and Shaun Terry
Humanities 1, Room 202 +1 moreThe History of Consciousness department invites you to the next talk in their Winter 2026 Research Colloquium series. This talk examines Tomba’s Revolution and Restoration as an expression of his […]

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 […]
More-Than-Humanities Lab Reading Group: Against Purity
Humanities 1, Room 202Please join the More-Than-Human(ities) Lab for our winter book club meeting. We will be discussing Alexis Shotwell’s book Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times, which offers a framework for conceiving […]

Living Writers with Nathalie Khankan
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCraft Between Worlds Nathalie Khankan is a poet and scholar, author of quiet orient riot (Omnidawn). The collection won Omnidawn's 2019 1st/2nd Book Prize and received the 2021 California Book […]
