Events
Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us
Virtual EventBookshop Santa Cruz, in partnership with The Humanities Institute, Marcus Books, and the NAACP Santa Cruz County Branch, present author Heather McGhee in conversation with Alicia Garza, Principal at Black […]
Deep Read Salon: Going Deep with There There
Professors Mayanthi Fernando (Anthropology), Katie Keliiaa (Feminist Studies & Indigenous Studies), and Renya Ramirez (Anthropology) will participate in a salon-style conversation about the novel, sharing their intelelctual approaches to the […]
Bryan K. Roby: Blackness in Israel
Virtual EventBryan K. Roby (University of Michigan) will speak in HIS 74B on his book titled The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion: Israel's Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle 1948-1966 (Syracuse University Press, 2015) and […]
Dr. Nitana Hicks Greendeer: Indigenous Feminism and Language Reclamation
Virtual EventDr. Nitana Hicks Greendeer joins us to speak about the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project, profiled in the documentary, "We Still Live Here." The film tells the story of the cultural […]
Living Writers: Danusha Lemeris and Tess Taylor
Virtual EventDanusha Laméris’ first book, The Moons of August (Autumn House, 2014), was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Autumn House Press poetry prize. Some of her […]
Deep Read Salon: A Discussion with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band
Virtual EventDiscuss the Tommy Orange's There There with members of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, the Indigenous tribe native to the Santa Cruz region. This salon is for Deep Read Community […]
Latinos Modelos Conferencia Virtual 2021 – Latino Roles Models 2021 Virtual Conference
Virtual EventUn evento anual gratuito para estudiantes del condado de Santa Cruz desde el sexto grado a la universidad y sus familias, con profesionales latinos, estudiantes universitarios y talleres de información. […]
Art, Abolition, and the University: Ashley Hunt and the Underground Scholars
Virtual EventVisualizing Abolition presents artist Ashley Hunt in conversation with MJ Hart, Joshua Solis, Alberto Lule, Ryan Flaco Rising, and Rodrigo Vazquez of the Underground Scholars Initiative. The Underground Scholars Initiative […]
Dard Neuman — Hindustani Music and the Politics of Creativity
Virtual EventThis talk discusses music and the politics of creativity in the context of South Asia more broadly and Hindustani music more specifically (what is today called “Indian classical music”). Neuman […]
FeaturedThe Deep Read: A Conversation with Tommy Orange
Virtual EventThe 2021 Deep Read Program will explore Tommy Orange’s novel There There. The novel depicts a variety of urban Native American characters living in Oakland, CA. We think this novel […]