Events
Events
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Living Writers with Erica Hunt, Tisa Bryant, and Tonya Foster
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn Nourishment, Us. Erica Hunt (St. John’s University), Tisa Bryant (University of Iowa), and Tonya Foster (San Francisco State University), Poets, Critics, Artists Living Writers Spring 2026: Our Nourishment, US features poets, writers, critics, visual and performance artists, who demonstrate how writing and art enacts around the idea of freedom and the imaginary in the face […]
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Bridging Divides in Oral and Written Language Research: Development and Disorders in Bilingual Learners
Humanities 1, Room 202Please join the LAAL (Languages & Applied Linguistics) Department for a presentation titled, "Bridging Divides in Oral and Written Language Research: Development and Disorders in Bilingual Learners" by Jiali Wang (Texas A&M University) on Thursday, May 14, at 2:00, in Hum 1, 202. Although oral and written language tap into many overlapping underlying skills, the […]
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PhD+ Workshop – CART Archives Reading Group
McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special CollectionsJoin the Center for Archival Research and Training (CART) and the Humanities Institute (THI) for the inaugural meeting of the CART Archives Reading Group! We will be discussing the 2021 essay "The House Archives Built" by Dorothy Berry. You’ll be introduced to some basic concepts of archival theory and practice, and be invited to think […]
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Camilla Hawthorne, Michael Whalen, Christina Zanfagna, and John Gennari – BLACKITALIAN: A Documentary Screening and Discussion
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesWhat are the meanings of belonging and cultural identity at a time of resurgent white nationalism, large-scale transnational migration, and the increasingly convulsive dynamics of nation and imperium? We address this question in a screening and robust critical discussion of scenes from a documentary film-in-progress called BLACKITALIAN. A collaboration between cultural geographer Camilla Hawthorne, ethnomusicologist […]
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Reyna Grande – Migrant Heart
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes award-winning author Reyna Grande (The Distance Between Us) back to the store to celebrate the release of her newest book Migrant Heart: Essays About Things I Can't Forget—an ambitious memoir in essays that illuminates the hidden cost of the American Dream and the complex journey of healing that follows survival. Grande […]
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Alexander Ghedi Weheliye – Schwarz-Sein: Elements of Black Life
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe final guest of the History of Consciousness Spring 2026 Research Colloquium will be joining us next Monday, May 11th. This event brings Alexander Ghedi Weheliye to give their talk “Schwarz-Sein: Elements of Black Life”. Schwarz-Sein: Elements of Black Life establishes the different ways Blackness operates as the ontological mattering of ungendering. This allows me […]
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Slow Seminar: More-than-Human Water Engineers
Humanities 1, Room 202The Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) at University of California, Santa Cruz and Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA) invite you to join us for our Spring Slow Seminar "More-than-Human Water Engineers" Professor Anna Tsing (Anthropology, UCSC) will facilitate our conversation drawing on a selection of scholarship on more-than-human water engineering in […]
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Saturday Shakespeare – Macbeth
Virtual and In PersonSaturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Macbeth by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on Aoril 18, 25, May 2, 9 & 16 2026 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 speaker followed by a volunteer read aloud […]
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The Strait of Hormuz and War in Iran: Film Screening and Discussion
Resource Center for Non ViolenceJoin us for a screening of Plate It With Silver and a discussion by Nidhi Mahajan (UCSC) and Stephen Zunes (USF) on the Strait of Hormuz. Doors open at 5:30 PM. Event begins at 6:00 PM. For 50 years, the Resource Center for Nonviolence (RCNV) has equipped our community with tools to build a just […]
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The Annual Maya K. Peterson Memorial Lecture with Matthew Bender
Alumni Room, University Center CA, United States"Colonizing Water: Empire, Commodification, and Appropriation in Africa" In early 2018, the city of Cape Town nearly ran out of water. South Africa’s “Mother City,” renowned for its cosmopolitan population and natural beauty, faced the prospect of a “Day Zero,” when it would be forced to close its taps and force millions to queue for […]