Events
Events

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 […]

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 […]

Hillary Angelo – Climate Change as Large-Scale Social Transformation
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIt is a common (aspirational) refrain that climate change “changes everything,” and equally common to note that climate-related transitions seem to be changing very little at all. What climate-related changes […]
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa – Kyi-dug, Tibetan Welfare Groups: Sharing Ups and Downs
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States +1 moreAs many as 80,000 Tibetans fled to India and Nepal in 1959 following the Chinese occupation of Tibet. The establishment of a Tibetan government in exile helped foster a sense […]

Living Writers with James Janko
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCraft Between Worlds James Janko is an award-winning author of four novels, including Buffalo Boy and Geronimo, The Clubhouse Thief, What We Don't Talk About, and The Wire-Walker. His work […]

Kitchen Counterculture: A Conversation About Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and the Food that Fueled a Revolution
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz Presents Kitchen Counterculture: A Conversation About Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and the Food that Fueled a Revolution," featuring award-winning food writer Gabi Moskowitz and journalist, teacher, […]
Writing Hangout with Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIf we take a moment to examine our lives, we can find meaningful, even exciting connections between our mundane moments and the society we live in. In this workshop, we […]
