Events
Living Writers with Cindy Juyoung Ok
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWonder as the Source Cindy Juyoung Ok is the author of Ward Toward and the translator of The Hell of That Star by Kim Hyesoon. She was a finalist for a 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, has served as a Poetry Foundation Library Forms & Features visiting teaching artist, and was a […]
PhD+ Workshop – Archives 101 for Graduate Students
McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special CollectionsFeeling the archival impulse? Come get some hands-on experiences with McHenry Library's Special Collections, chat about archives with your fellow grad students, and get your questions answered about archival research at UCSC and beyond. Curious undergrads are welcome, too! Space is limited. This event is presented by the Center for Archival Research & Training (CART) […]
Navyug Gill – Labor History and the Accumulation of Difference in Colonial Panjab
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesWithin the British empire, Panjab has long been regarded as the quintessential agrarian province inhabited by a diligent, prosperous and “martial race” of peasants. Against such essentialist depictions, I explore the landowning peasant and landless laborer as novel subjects forged in the encounter between colonialism and struggles over culture and capital within Panjabi society. Company […]
Festival of Monsters
UC Santa CruzHeld on the beautiful UC Santa Cruz campus, the 2025 Festival of Monsters academic conference (Oct. 15-18) includes panels on cannibalism, classic monsters, child monsters and the monsters of childhood, Chicanix Nuclear Gothic and more. David Livingstone Smith, Kim Lau and Jeffrey Jerome Cohen will give this year's keynote talks. The main conference will take […]
Malcolm Gladwell—Revenge of the Tipping Point
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes #1 New York Times bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell for a discussion about Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering. In this provocative new work, Malcolm Gladwell returns for the first time in twenty-five years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time […]
Slugs and Steins with Professor Kimberly Lau – Race and the European Fairy Tale: The Making of a White Genre
Virtual EventIn this talk, Kimberly Lau offers intertwined readings of several cognate fairy tales that revolve around true and false brides, beginning with Black slaves and white fairies in 17th-century Naples and tracing their evolution into (implicitly raced but unmarked) kind and unkind girls in 19th-century Germany. Through her readings, Lau illustrates some of the ways […]
Orientation to Community Archiving
Humanities 2, Room 259 +1 moreLearn about the importance of preserving and documenting the history and culture of our community through archiving. We will discuss how the rise of interest in Community Archives has transformed […]
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. […]
Sociality, Science, and Surveillance: Plantations in the 21st Century
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in partnership with Santa Clara University, invites you to a two-day academic workshop exploring the effects and imprints of the plantation complex on life and land in South Asia and beyond. South Asia has had a long, complicated history with plantations. […]
Talking Tales of the Undead
Santa Cruz Public Library - Downtown Branch 224 Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGet ready for the season with vampires, ghouls and zombies! Join UC Santa Cruz professors Michael Chemers (The Monster in Theater History), Renée Fox (The Necromantics), and Kimberly Lau (Specters of the Marvelous) as they discuss the histories and politics of vampires, ghouls, zombies and other undead monsters in literature, theater, and pop culture. The Center for […]