Events
Julian Brave NoiseCat – We Survived the Night
London Nelson Community Center 301 Center St., Santa Cruz, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Julian Brave NoiseCat who will share his stunning debut We Survived the Night. Drawing from five years of on-the-ground reporting, We Survived the Night paints a profound and unforgettable portrait of contemporary Indigenous life, alongside an intimate and deeply powerful reckoning between a father and a son. Soulful, formally daring, indelible […]
Día de los Muertos Celebration
Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History 705 Front St., Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for the Día de los Muertos community celebration of traditional music, dance, and art at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. Enjoy live performances by Senderos’ Centeotl Danza y Baile and Ensamble Musical de Senderos. Stroll through the museum in a self-guided presentation of community altars. Performances all day! This event […]
Saturday Shakespeare – The Tragedy of King Richard II
Virtual and In PersonSaturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents The Tragedy of King Richard II by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on October 4, 11, 18, 25 & November 1, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest […]
Linguistics Colloquium with Elsi Kaiser
Humanities 1, Room 202 +1 moreJoin the Linguistics Department for Elsi Kaiser's talk, "Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Exploring Interpretation and Dissimilation of Third Person Pronouns in English and Finnish". Transitive clauses with two personal pronouns in coargument position (e.g. “she saw her”, “he helped him”) are perfectly natural in English. But perhaps surprisingly, such two-pronoun sequences are […]
Mary Roach – Replaceable You
London Nelson Community Center 301 Center St., Santa Cruz, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Roach for a discussion about Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy. In this irrepressible new work, Mary Roach explores the remarkable advances and difficult questions prompted by the human body's failings. When and how does a person decide they'd be better off with a […]
Zine-Making Workshop with Christie George
Social Sciences 1, Room 261 Social Sciences 1 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for this year's first anthropology colloquium/Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice event! This event is in-person and virtual. Register for virtual participation here. Christie George is a writer, curator and producer who has beenworking at the intersection of media, technology and social change for more than twenty years -- first as a film […]
Jennifer Mogannam – Palestinian-Lebanese Revolution-Making in Civil War Lebanon
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk offers a framework for understanding the entangled fate of Palestinian and Lebanese liberation by situating the 1970s Palestinian revolution and Lebanese Civil War opposition front through a shared narrative. This talk will show how these two efforts not only organized jointly, but how their aspirations were shared and impactful of the social landscape […]
The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads with Kevin Anderson
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAnna Yegorova and Pablo Escudero will engage Professor Kevin Anderson on his recently published monograph, The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads. In this work, Anderson carries out a systematic analysis of Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks and related texts on Russia, India, Ireland, Algeria, Latin America, and ancient Rome, with an eye to how viewing the world beyond the […]
Saturday Shakespeare – The Tragedy of King Richard II
Virtual and In PersonSaturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents The Tragedy of King Richard II by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on October 4, 11, 18, 25 & November 1, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest […]
John Freeman – California Rewritten
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes author, editor, and poet John Freeman for a conversation with Karen Tei Yamashita about his new book California Rewritten: A Journey Through the Golden State's New Literature. This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. "In Freeman's hands, California is a literary mecca, and each essay a revelation." —Ingrid Rojas Contreras, […]