Events
The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads with Kevin Anderson
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAnna Yegorova and Pablo Escudero will engage Professor Kevin Anderson on his recently published monograph, The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads. In this work, Anderson carries out a systematic analysis of Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks and related texts on Russia, India, Ireland, Algeria, Latin America, and ancient Rome, with an eye to how viewing the world beyond the […]
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. […]
John Freeman – California Rewritten
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes author, editor, and poet John Freeman for a conversation with Karen Tei Yamashita about his new book California Rewritten: A Journey Through the Golden State's New […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]