Events
The Sheikh’s Jews: Muslim-Jewish Relations in Interwar Algeria
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Jewish Studies presents, The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies. Until the middle of the twentieth century, Algeria hosted an array of Jewish communities—some deeply-rooted, others […]
Geetha Sukumaran – Kanji Before and After Mullivaikkal: Resistance Histories of Jaffna
Virtual EventTamils in Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka endured a protracted civil war that ended in 2009 in Mullivaikkal. During the war’s end, hundreds of thousands of Tamils were murdered and […]
Gregory O’Malley – The Escapes of David George
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop welcomes prize-winning historian and UC Santa Cruz professor Gregory O'Malley for a discussion about his new book The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the […]
George Saunders – Vigil
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes George Saunders, recipient of the 2025 National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, for a discussion about his wise, playful, electric novel Vigil, […]
Marion Nestle – Sustainable Food in the Trump Era
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWhat is the state of sustainable food now, what are the forces affecting food choice, and what can we do about it? Join us for this year’s Peggy Downes Baskin […]
Of Body and Soul: Politics and Eschatology in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean
UC Santa CruzThis seminar explores how pre-modern debates over body and soulshaped political and eschatological thought in the Mediterranean. Each panel brings Jewish, Christian, and Islamic voices into dialogue, with Dante Alighieri's […]
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa – Kyi-dug, Tibetan Welfare Groups: Sharing Ups and Downs
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States +1 moreAs many as 80,000 Tibetans fled to India and Nepal in 1959 following the Chinese occupation of Tibet. The establishment of a Tibetan government in exile helped foster a sense […]
Writing Hangout with Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIf we take a moment to examine our lives, we can find meaningful, even exciting connections between our mundane moments and the society we live in. In this workshop, we […]
Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Two Noble Kinsmen – Episode I
Virtual EventShakespeare 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. […]
Traveling Film Southasia – Film Screening Festival Launch
Communications 150, Studio CJoin the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) for a celebratory film screening event to launch Travelling Film Southasia, a mobile film festival highlighting 19 exceptional nonfiction productions of the […]