Events
LASER Talks with Paula Arai, Kyle Robertson, and Ruth Murray-Clay
Virtual EventJoin us for an online LASER Talk featuring Buddhist scholar Paula Arai, astrophysicist Ruth Murray-Clay, and public philosophy scholar Kyle Robertson. The wide-ranging presentations will explore subjects including the science […]
Living Writers Series: Student Reading
Virtual EventChange Me: Stories of Radical Transformation - A Living Writers Series After a long period of sheltering in place and an even longer period of restricting our daily movements, many […]
Aslı Bâli – “From Revolution to Devolution? Dilemmas of Decentralization in the Middle East”
Virtual EventThis seminar engages in a qualitative comparison of four experiences with decentralization in the Middle East to explore the ways in which decentralized governance arrangements might address governance crises, identity-based […]

War in Ukraine: Background, Context, Prospects and Implications
Virtual Eventhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_13RXbJpNw&ab_channel=UCSantaCruzArts%2CLectures%2CandEntertainment On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded its neighbor Ukraine, a former republic of the USSR and today an independent, democratic country. Join a panel of UC Santa Cruz faculty, […]
Digital Humanities Workshop Series: Digital Mapping
Virtual EventJoin us for the second meeting of the Digital Humanities Workshop series 2022 — “Digital Mapping” — on March 4 from 1-2 PM. The workshop will explore an open-source geospatial analysis tool, […]
Okinawa Memories Initiative, “Mobilizing the Reversion: A Geo-Political Perspective”
Virtual EventThe Okinawa Memories Initiative is pleased to invite you to our upcoming event, “Mobilizing the Reversion: A Geo-Political Perspective,” a roundtable discussion featuring Professor Mike Mochizuki from George Washington University […]

Erik Larson, The Splendid and the Vile
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes author Erik Larson for a discussion of his #1 New York Times bestseller The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During […]

Karen Joy Fowler, Booth
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Man Booker finalist and bestselling local author Karen Joy Fowler (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves) for a discussion of her highly-anticipated novel Booth—an epic and […]
Noel Q. King Annual Lecture: “People Love Dead Jews”
Cultural Center at Merrill Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease note: this event has been rescheduled for March 9th, 2022. The King Lecture Series, preserving the work of UCSC History and Comparative Religion professor Noel Q. King, promotes and […]
Living Writers Series: Sandra Lim
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSandra Lim is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection The Curious Thing (W.W. Norton, 2021). Her previous books of poetry are The Wilderness (W.W. Norton, 2014), winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize selected […]
