Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes award-winning poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo for a discussion and signing of his new memoir about growing up undocumented in the United States. Children of the Land recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man’s attempt to build a future in a […]

This talk will focus on patterns of protest and the tightening of political controls in Hong Kong during the last few decades, paying particular attention to the 2014 Umbrella Movement and the dramatic events of 2019. Jeff Wasserstrom, a historian of China who has been visiting Hong Kong regularly since 1987, will draw on his […]

In the classroom and other campus spaces, scorn and indignation for people we disagree with are preventing productive discussion on contested issues. On especially hot-button topics, there's even a growing tendency to remain silent rather than risk rebuke. We've got to do better. But how? Join us for a presentation by and collaborative discussion with […]

Marc Herbst will be presenting a talk titled "Culture Beside Itself: On common sociality and its relation to more law-like cultural and governmental forms," based on his ongoing research on social movements and eco-social planning and his part in the collective efforts of the 11th issue of the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest. These efforts […]

During the 1920s, researchers from the New York natural history museum led by Roy Chapman Andrews spent nearly a decade exploring the Gobi Desert in Central Asia. But they were expelled from their base of operations in northern China when the Guomindang party created a new state in Nanjing. Whereas Chinese intellectuals accused American paleontologists […]