Events

Mary Roach – Replaceable You
London Nelson Community Center 301 Center St., Santa Cruz, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Roach for a discussion about Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy. In this irrepressible new work, Mary Roach explores the remarkable advances and difficult questions prompted by the human body's failings. When and how does a person decide they'd be better off with a […]
Linguistics Colloquium with Elsi Kaiser
Humanities 1, Room 202 +1 moreJoin the Linguistics Department for Elsi Kaiser's talk, "Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Exploring Interpretation and Dissimilation of Third Person Pronouns in English and Finnish". Transitive clauses with two personal pronouns in coargument position (e.g. “she saw her”, “he helped him”) are perfectly natural in English. But perhaps surprisingly, such two-pronoun sequences are […]

Saturday Shakespeare – The Tragedy of King Richard II
Virtual and In PersonSaturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents The Tragedy of King Richard II by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on October 4, 11, 18, 25 & November 1, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest […]

Día de los Muertos Celebration
Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History 705 Front St., Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for the Día de los Muertos community celebration of traditional music, dance, and art at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. Enjoy live performances by Senderos’ Centeotl Danza y Baile and Ensamble Musical de Senderos. Stroll through the museum in a self-guided presentation of community altars. Performances all day! This event […]

Julian Brave NoiseCat – We Survived the Night
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Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Julian Brave NoiseCat who will share his stunning debut We Survived the Night. Drawing from five years of on-the-ground reporting, We Survived the Night paints a profound and unforgettable portrait of contemporary Indigenous life, alongside an intimate and deeply powerful reckoning between a father and a son. Soulful, formally daring, indelible […]
On the Field, Making Archives – Music and Talks with Upatyaka Dutta
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Within the everyday workspaces of Assam’s tea plantations, Adivasi tea tribes engage in listening, sounding, and music. At times, these sounds and music flow into Adivasi living areas known as “lines.” Upatyaka explores the dynamic relationship between the sounds of the workplace and the sociocultural life woven through tea plantation labor. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork […]

± AI Initiative Meeting
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for a kick-off meeting about The Humanities Institute's new ± AI Initiative. Learn about THI's vision and funding opportunities and connect with colleagues who have overlapping interests in humanities and artificial intelligence. Bring your research ideas, projects, dreams, and plans to the discussion as we look at ways to further advance humanistic work […]

Reading the Conjuncture with Dimitris Papadopoulos, Jim Clifford, Camilla Hawthorne, Gail Hershatter, Laurie Palmer, and Vanita Seth
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCo-sponsored by History of Consciousness: earth ecologies x technoscience What a vital occasion it would be to receive intellectual gifts that enable us to better grasp our current socio-ecological moment, especially as many of us feel short of interpretations. We are inspired by Stuart Hall's conjunctural thinking, as we face a situation where intensive and […]

Humanities Grad School 101
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesAre you curious about graduate school in the humanities? Join this Humanities Grad School 101 session, where we’ll hear from Associate Dean of Research Pranav Anand and stellar UCSC graduate students in History, Linguistics, Literature, and Philosophy. We’ll discuss important considerations for deciding to pursue graduate school and what to look for in an academic program and advisor. […]
When Human-Centered AI Encountered Digital Humanities: A Dialogue between Magy Seif El-Nasr and Minghui Hu
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesWhat happens when the ethical and interpretive frameworks of the humanities meet the algorithmic and interactive architectures of artificial intelligence? This dialogue brings together two leading voices from distinct yet converging fields: Magy Seif El-Nasr, a pioneer in human-centered AI, game analytics, and interactive narrative design, and Minghui Hu, a historian and digital humanist, explores […]
