Shakespeare returns to the characters and themes of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in what may have been the last play he had a hand in writing: The Two Noble Kinsmen. This time, however, […]

Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz welcome acclaimed author Colm Tóibín (Long Island, Brooklyn) for a discussion about The News from Dublin, a brilliant collection […]

We gather to forge new vernaculars of the geopolitical, to assemble spatial imaginaries of the “oceanic” that refuse rather than relent to the insistent march of capital and empire. To dissent here is an invitation to think more […]

World Wounds: The Damming of the Nile River and the Transformation of Medicine The damming of the Nile River transformed agriculture and human health in twentieth-century Egypt. While dams enabled […]

Join us for a nocturnal celebration of art, philosophy, and activism! As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its independence, the 2026 Santa Cruz Night of Ideas invites […]

Two lifelong peace activists and guides to Israel/Palestine, both of whom have lost family in the conflict, take readers on a revealing life-changing journey across this holy, bloodstained land and […]

In celebration of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History’s 30 year anniversary, this exhibition will highlight some of the artwork and artifacts from the MAH's permanent collection. In […]

“Colombian artist Gregorio Uribe, whose blend of contemporary cumbia and timeless charisma has marked him as an artist to watch.” – Billboard Uribe was recognized by the Colombian government as […]