Events
Bilingual California/California Bilingüe: Fronteras y Futuros
Music Center Recital HallJoin us as we welcome Professor Ana Celia Zentella (professor emerita, UC San Diego) to discuss the political, social, and educational barriers that California’s Spanish-English bilinguals must overcome to ensure a bilingual future for themselves and their children. She suggests ways that students, parents, teachers, university faculty and community groups can contribute successfully. This event […]
Festival of Monsters Public Festival
Museum of Art & History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies presents the 2024 Festival of Monsters opens Oct. 11-12 with a weekend of free public events for all ages. Festivities begin 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, at the Museum of Art and History (705 Front St., Santa Cruz) with a reading and Q&A with Kiersten White, the […]
U.S. Elections and Democracy in Deeply Polarized Times: What are the Stakes and Opportunities?
Virtual and In PersonThis 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 […]
Living Writers with Julián Delgado Lopera
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLiving Writers Series – Fall 2024 Growing Things ~ gardens, poems, emotions, relationships, stories, our artistic practices, carefully tended, beautifully ordered, rewilded and wild ~ About The Living Writers Series The Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series […]
Understanding October 7, 2023 and Israel’s War on the Gaza Strip
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Center for Jewish Studies presents an event with Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University. How should we speak about the shocking October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas and its allies which killed 1,139 people, 61% of them Israeli civilians, […]
Mizanur Rahman–The Mass Uprisings in Bangladesh: Youth Mobilization, Political Possibility, and Precarity
Humanities 1, Room 202Bangladesh’s recent student-led mass uprising which ousted the longstanding autocrat, Sheikh Hasina, from office is widely considered to have ushered in a new era in Bangladesh politics. How did the uprising, which began with a demand for student’s job quota reform, unfold, and eventually turn into a mass movement? What political possibilities and precarities lie […]
Identity in Focus: Media Representations and the 2024 Presidential Election
Virtual and In PersonThis 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 […]
Conflict Resolution with Anthony Keen-Louie
Graduate Student Commons, Room 204 420 Hagar Dr, Santa CruzWherever there are groups of people, there will be conflict. However, conflict can be an opportunity to grow and improve if the right tools and resources are used. This workshop will explore conflict as a topic, share information about conflict resolution resources at UCSC, and provide some conflict resolution skills for participants to use in […]
More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory Cluster Meet and Greet
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for the inaugural More-than-humanities community gathering! Light refreshments will be served. This will be our chance to come together to get to know one another and shape the vision for the lab. We hope you will come, and we ask that you bring your 1-2 wishes for the lab to share with the […]
The Informational Interview with Lorato Anderson
Graduate Student Commons, Room 204 420 Hagar Dr, Santa CruzAn informational interview is one you conduct with someone working in a field for an institution or company that you want to consider working in and for. How do you conduct an informational interview? What questions should you ask to get the best information about what it’s like to do that job for that organization? […]