Events
Hebron Seed Bank Study Session
The Greenhouse Project 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, United StatesJoin the Seeds of Resurgence Research cluster as they gather to discuss readings related to the Hebron Seed bank, which Israeli forces destroyed in August. Participants will think together about how colonial power targets food sovereignty and what can be done to resist those acts of destruction. This event will be hosted at The Greenhouse […]
Christine Padoch and Nancy Peluso – Return to Nanga Jela
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States +1 moreThe history of hinterland communities is largely written in remote landscapes that today are often targeted for infrastructural development that forcibly relocates existing residents and transforms the land, obliterating those histories, and weakening communities. In 1984/5 the Iban longhouse at Nanga Jela on Sarawak’s Engkari River in Malaysian Borneo, along with twenty-one other communities and […]
Living Writers Student Reading
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWonder as the Source 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 […]
John O. Jordan – Dickens and Soundscape: The Old Curiosity Shop
Virtual EventPlease join the Dickens Project for the rescheduled Dickens Universe talk by John Jordan, Dickens Project Co-Founder and Co-Director. Critics have long recognized and commented on the striking visual quality […]
The Act of Periodizing: The Sikh Tradition and the Promise of an Indic World
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesHistorians often narrate to periodize, which is an effort, Frederic Jameson writes, to ascertain "the sharing of a common objective situation." Yet what can the compulsion to periodize into "civilisational […]
Nurturing Difference – Parenting and Disability in a Careless Age
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJOIN US as we celebrate two distinguished members of our UCSC community and their new books. We'll be discussing Danilyn Rutherford’s Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World (Duke University […]
The Sheikh’s Jews: Muslim-Jewish Relations in Interwar Algeria
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Jewish Studies presents, The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies. Until the middle of the twentieth century, Algeria hosted an array of Jewish communities—some deeply-rooted, others […]
Gregory O’Malley – The Escapes of David George
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop welcomes prize-winning historian and UC Santa Cruz professor Gregory O'Malley for a discussion about his new book The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the […]
Oceans of Dissent: A Feminist Commons
UC Santa CruzWe gather to forge new vernaculars of the geopolitical, to assemble spatial imaginaries of the “oceanic” that refuse rather than relent to the insistent march of capital and empire. To dissent here is an invitation to think more […]
The Deep Read – A Conversation with Merlin Sheldrake
Quarry AmphitheaterJoin us for a free, public conversation with British mycologist and author, Merlin Sheldrake, at UC Santa Cruz's Quarry Amphitheater on May 31, 2026. He'll discuss his New York Times […]