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Saturday Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Aptos Library 7695 Soquel Dr, Aptos, United States

Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents A Midsummer Night's Dream, featuring a series of readings and conversations held Saturday mornings from April 26 to May 24, 2025. The 1st hour will be spent in conversation with a guest speaker, and during the 2nd hour volunteers will read aloud part of the play. During the final […]

The Deppe Memorial Lecture with Professor Dan-El Padilla Peralta

Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

The UCSC Classical Studies Program presents The Deppe Memorial Lecture, taking place Friday, May 16th at the Cowell Provost house at 4:00pm (reception to follow). Professor Dan-El Padilla Peralta (Princeton University) will be giving a talk titled "The Bringer of Fire: Prometheus in Santo Domingo." This lecture will examine the Prometeo of the Dominican poet, […]

Graduate Research Symposium

McHenry Library, Information Commons

The 2025 Graduate Research Symposium will be held on Friday, May 16, 1-4 p.m. (Pacific) at McHenry Library, Information Commons (South on the Main Floor). The Graduate Division hosts the Graduate Symposium annually in the spring. All graduate students are eligible to participate and may do so in person or virtually via Zoom. (Recipients of […]

Living Writers with Maria Elena Ramirez

Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Living Writers Series – Spring 2025 Insight, Writings: Third World and Other Imaginaries Maria E. Ramirez is a woman of Chicana, Puerto Rican, and Apache ancestry. She was actively involved in the student movement in the late sixties, where students, along with their parents, marched and demanded that their community be part of all the […]

The Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series: Andy Bruno – An Environmental History of the Tunguska Mystery

Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

The third annual Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series will take place on Thursday, May 15th, 2025, at 12:30pm at the Cowell Provost House. This event will be livestreamed and recorded (link to be provided soon). This year's guest speaker is Andy Bruno, Stephen F. Cohen Chair of Russian History and Professor, Indiana University Bloomington. […]

Ying Jin – Nurturing Hearts and Minds: Implementing Social Emotional Learning Principles in World Language Classrooms

Humanities 2, Room 259

Join the Department of Applied Linguistics for a professional development workshop featuring Ying Jin, the 2018 ACTFL National Teacher of the Year, who will present her talk titled "Nurturing Hearts and Minds: Implementing Social Emotional Learning Principles in World Language Classrooms." Refreshments will be provided. This event is funded by the Peter Rushton and Jacqueline […]

CANCELLED: Murad Idris – Dialogue for Hate: A Global Genealogy

Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

This lecture posits hate, dialogue, and their conjunction as fundamental for the contemporary moralization of violence and hierarchy. It analyzes how the two terms operate through a series of disavowals, displacements, and transubstantiations, tracking their place in the history of political thought, structures of minoritization, and contemporary formations where they became rhetorical vehicles and conceptual […]

Contesting Techno Fascisms Now!

Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

This panel explores ways that fascism today manifests in unexpected sites and imaginaries, including visions of techno-utopia, nationalist movements for animal rights and calls to colonize outer space. The panelist assembled here will each take a keyword of the emergent fascist trends and think through ways to contest fascisms now. Panel Participants: Neda Atanasoski; Professor […]

Keith David Watenpaugh – Who Has the Human Right to Charge Genocide?

Porter 144 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, United States

Keith David Watenpaugh will deliver the first talk in the CMENA Student Choice Speaker Series, titled "Who Has the Human Right to Charge Genocide?: Reclaiming Genocide as a Powerful Justice Tool Requires Moving Beyond the 1948 Genocide Convention." The 1948 Genocide Convention doesn’t work – at least not for peoples seeking justice for mass atrocity. […]