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  • CMENA Welcome Back Lunch

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

    Welcome back everyone! Please join the Center for Middle East and North Africa for a falafel lunch. We will welcome our students and faculty members back for the 2026-27 school year, and meet with new interested affiliates. We hope to see you there.

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    Susan Shillinglaw: Steinbeck’s Landscapes

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Susan Shillinglaw for a reading and signing of her new book Steinbeck's Landscapes: Where Story Meets Place, an in-depth look at John Steinbeck as a writer deeply connected to the natural world. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute. “An enthralling portrait of the places that shaped John Steinbeck and […]

  • Community Report Back: Saritaan Talk Story

    Cabrillo College Watsonville Center 318 Union St, Watsonville, United States

    Please join the Tobera Project and Watsonville is in the Heart for a heartfelt conversation and reflection on our recent journey to Pangasinan, Philippines. We will share stories tracing our parents' migration, reconnecting with long-lost family, and building new connections. Student research assistants funded by Humanities EXPLORE and the The Humanities Institute and our community […]

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    Nina Simon – My Sister Is Going To Kill Me

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    What's a family vacation without a little murder? Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes New York Times bestselling author Nina Simon (Mother-Daughter Murder Night) back to the store for a reading and signing of My Sister Is Going to Kill Me, another fun, family-centered whodunnit about two sisters who work together to find a killer as they […]

  • Weekend with Shakespeare

    UCSC Arboretum

    Dig deeply into this season’s Shakespeare productions with a special weekend of lectures, discussions and hands-on activities. In partnership with UCSC’s Shakespeare Workshop and The Humanities Institute, this is a wonderful opportunity to learn more about each play during the day and then enjoy the production that same evening. This year, Weekend with Shakespeare will […]

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    CANCELED: Where Are We Going?

    UC Santa Cruz

    Due to unforeseen weather this event has been canceled. Join us for a day-long retreat and reflection with artists Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel and Gina Athena Ulysse. The morning walk, starting at the Museum of Art and History, will be a chance to reflect on individual and collective futures together as we […]

  • Weekend with Shakespeare

    UCSC Arboretum

    Dig deeply into this season’s Shakespeare productions with a special weekend of lectures, discussions and hands-on activities. In partnership with UCSC’s Shakespeare Workshop and The Humanities Institute, this is a wonderful opportunity to learn more about each play during the day and then enjoy the production that same evening. This year, Weekend with Shakespeare will […]

  • Creative Kontrol: AI and the Future of Music

    Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium

    On August 8th, composer Clarice Assad's new commissioned work, Kontrol, will premiere at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. The afternoon before, Assad will join D. Riley Nicholson, Executive Director of the Cabrillo Festival, and Pranav Anand, Faculty Director of The Humanities Institute, for a pre-rehearsal discussion about the inspirations for the piece, which explores […]

  • Musical Storytelling: MLK’s Legacy Through the Lens of Music

    Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium

    On August 1st, composer James Lee III’s piano concerto Shades of Unbroken Dreams will receive its West Coast premiere at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. The concerto is inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, and the “shades” that Lee refers to “represent the various people of color […]

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    2026 Dickens Universe

    UC Santa Cruz

    The Dickens Project at UC Santa Cruz invites the community to the 2026 Dickens Universe, held July 26–August 1, a weeklong scholarly gathering devoted to Charles Dickens’s Bleak House. The Universe brings together scholars, students, teachers, and lifelong learners for lectures, discussion groups, film screenings, Victorian tea, festive dance, and a variety of other immersive […]

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