Events

This event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series - Power, Politics, and Our Democracy UC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How […]

Organized by the Stanford Center for South Asia in collaboration with Art Forum SF, the South Asian Literature and Art Festival showcases contemporary reflections of literature and arts from the sub-continent and its diaspora. It features highly acclaimed contemporary South Asian Art collections as well as panel discussions that include Art, Literature, Poetry, and Cinema. […]

Join us for the 14th annual Latino Role Models Conference, designed to inspire students in grades six through college to achieve their dreams for college and career. No pre-registration is required. Presentations center the experiences of Latino professionals, college students, and community leaders who share the barriers they have overcome and strategies to persevere. This […]

Interwar Morocco was home to a thriving anti-fascist political scene with intimate connections to France and Spain. Politically active Moroccan Jews and Muslims were found in the ranks of many different anti-fascist organizations, above all the International League Against Antisemitism, or the LICA after its French acronym (Ligue internationale contre l’antisémitisme). Through organizations like the […]

The Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA) is an interdisciplinary academic organization that promotes the development and circulation of knowledge about Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans from the Puerto Rican islands and its broad diasporas. We are excited to host this year’s PRSA conference at UC Santa Cruz from Friday, August 23 to Sunday, August 25. […]

Dig deeply into our Shakespeare productions this season 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 […]

Delbert Anderson, a Diné jazz trumpet artist, composer, and educator, stands at the forefront of a vibrant Native American jazz scene. His work, deeply rooted in his Diné heritage, seamlessly integrates Navajo “spinning songs” of love, healing, and courtship with jazz and funk, thus marking him as a community-minded Indigenous individualist. Through his Delbert Anderson […]