Events
Events
Rick Steves: On the Hippie Trail
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz presents bestselling travel writer Rick Steves , who will join us for a special event at The Rio Theatre to discuss his new memoir On the Hippie […]
Story & Pictures By : A Benefit Film Screening for Santa Cruz County Public School Libraries
Santa Cruz High School Auditorium 415 Walnut Avenue, Santa CruzWith book bans skyrocketing across the country, let’s celebrate the value of children’s books by supporting our local public school libraries together. Children’s books are often one of the first […]
Ariella Azoulay – Crafting a Jewish Muslim World
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCrafting a potential history of the Jewish Muslim World means taking seriously the fact that we – Muslim Jews - are the living ruins of worlds that imperialism is committed […]
Center for South Asian Studies Meet and Greet
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for a Center for South Asian Studies Meet and Greet! Come have some food and refreshments with the CSAS community and tell us about your research and interests […]
Night of Ideas
Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Future We Share: Activism, Creativity, and Collective Imagination Join us on April 4, 2025 for the Night of Ideas in Santa Cruz, a nocturnal celebration of art, philosophy, and […]
Questions That Matter: Disability in Medicine and Memoir
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterWhat does it mean to talk and write about the experiences of our bodies? How do the stories told about us mediate the narratives we construct? What are the stakes […]
Cat Bohannon – Eve
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz presents author Cat Bohannon who will be in-conversation with Vicky Oelze about Bohannon's book Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution—a myth-busting, […]
How Fairy Tales Became White: A Conversation with Professors Kimberly Lau and Micah Perks
Santa Cruz Public Library - Downtown Branch 224 Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join Professors Micah Perks and Kimberly Lau for a conversation about fairy tales, fantasy, and the ways that historically and culturally specific ideas about race contribute to the making and maintenance of their white worlds. This is an after-hours event at Downtown Library. Refreshments will be served. Kimberly Lau is Professor of Literature at […]
Gary Young: A Retrospective – Exhibition Opening
McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special CollectionsJoin us on April 9th from 12-2 p.m. for the opening of Gary Young: A Retrospective Books, Broadsides, Prints & Ephemera at UCSC Special Collections and Archives. Gary will treat […]
Evyn Le Espiritu Gandhi – Southern Constellations: South Korea, South Vietnam, and the US South
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk proposes southern constellations as a method and political concept. To constellate is to bring together seemingly disparate spaces or objects into the same conceptual orbit, probing the new meanings and structures that emerge in the resultant constellation. To illustrate, this talk constellates three spaces often considered outside the purview of Global South studies: […]