Events

Please join us in a celebration of Karen Tei Yamashita's Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Foundation. Karen's books will be for sale at the event through Bookshop Santa Cruz. For more information contact: meperks@ucsc.edu. Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, the Literature Department, and Cowell College.

LIVING WRITERS UCSC, SPRING 2022 presents: CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS showcases interdisciplinary writers who deeply engage in various sonic forms, whether the libretto and the operatic, sound and visual art, acoustic music and songwriting, or embodied meditations to explore the possibilities in being attentive to sound, as action and celebrant through writing. This […]

Toni Morrison said a book is not "This is what I believe," because that would be “just a tract.” Rather, a book is "I don't know what it is, but I am interested in finding out what it might mean to me, as well as to other people." This talk's "I don't know" is a […]

A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It is the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met. The story details […]

About eight times each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

The Sikh tradition produced some of the earliest vernacular prose narratives beginning in the mid-sixteenth century known as Janamsakhis. These accounts of Guru Nanak Sahib’s life remain central to the lives of Sikhs across the globe today. This talk reviews scholarly debates about Janamsakhi’s and argues that examining the Janamsakhis from a critical literary perspective […]

Readers have always been fascinated by Dante’s distinctive habit of placing episodes from Scripture side by side with ancient pagan myths, as though the latter had a comparable authority. As my reading shows, a popular medieval school text, known as the Eclogue of Theodulus (Ecloga Theoduli), supplied a fitting precedent and model for this practice […]

Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Mieko Kawakami, bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs, for an online discussion of her new, extraordinary novel—All the Lovers in the Night, in which she demonstrates yet again why she is one of today's most uncategorizable, insightful, and talented novelists. Kawakami will be in conversation with acclaimed author Ruth Ozeki at […]