Events
Events
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 students in her Ethics and Technology course to collaboratively build their own AI policy. In this session, Lyons will describe how she structured the activity, […]
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 + earth, spin and chemicals become us”. From chemical relations to the sweep of stormfronts, the elements render a series of sensory, scientific and semiotic coordinates […]
The Trial of Spock — An Opera Workshop
Music Center Recital HallThe creators of The Trial of Spock—An Opera In Three Acts present concert performances of five scenes from an opera-in-progress at the UC Santa Cruz Music Center Recital Hall. Captain Christopher Pike is gravely injured. Lieutenant Spock is behaving strangely. Charged with protecting Pike in his state of extreme need,Vulcan Commodore T’or suspects that Lieutenant […]
Living Writers Student Reading
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCraft Between Worlds About the Living Writers Series The Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. […]
Traveling Film Southasia – Film Screening Festival Launch
Communications 150, Studio CJoin the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) for a celebratory film screening event to launch Travelling Film Southasia, a mobile film festival highlighting 19 exceptional nonfiction productions of the last two years, originally screened at Film Southasia 2024 in Kathmandu. This year’s festival encapsulates a range of experiences on the Subcontinent with films from […]
Planting Oceania & Healing Communities
Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlanting Oceania is a Oceanian/Indigenous Pacific Islander community organization that plants traditional foods in two gardens located at Filoli Historic House and Gardens in Woodside and at the UC Giltract Farms in Albany. Members of Planting Oceania will share stories about growing plants and stewarding the Land as an important cultural practice for building Oceania/Pacific […]
Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Two Noble Kinsmen – Episode I
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, the story of Theseus and Hippolyta, the disorienting experience of adolescent sexual desire, and the conflict of duties to sovereigns, parents, friends, […]
Kate Schatz – Where The Girls Were
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop welcomes bestselling author Kate Schatz (Do the Work: An Anti-Racist Activity Book) for a discussion about her latest novel Where the Girls Were. Schatz will be in conversation with activist-scholar Bettina Aptheker. They were sent away to be forgotten. This is their story. Where the Girls Were is a timely unearthing of a little-known […]
Kate Schatz – Where the Girls Were Talk & Reading
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesJoin UCSC alum Kate Schatz, bestselling author of the Rad Women series, for a reading from her new novel Where the Girls Were and a Q & A on writing, creativity, and growing up amid political and cultural change. Blending sharp cultural insight with emotional depth, Schatz’s work explores how young women navigate creativity, power, […]
Thiago Mota – In Search of Protection: Islam, Crocodiles, and Local Experiences of a Global Religion in Early Modern West Africa
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk proposes a new reading of Early Modern European sources for African history in light of Islamic African written records and oral traditions. It examines how Islam interacted with local religions and cultural practices in order to become meaningful and suitable for West African communities. Focusing on the need for protection against crocodile attacks […]