Events
Events
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2026 Helene Moglen Lecture in Feminism and Humanities with Donna Haraway – Staying with the Trouble for Still Possible Times
Cultural Center at Merrill Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe sky has not fallen - yet. In troubled times, this lecture joins human and more-than-human companion species to ask how to think, really think, without either the apocalyptic violence […]
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Film Screening with Raed Rafei – Tripoli: A Tale of Three Cities
Communications 150, Studio CPre-Screening Reception: 5:30-7pm, Communications 139 Film Screening: 7-8:30, Communications, Studio C While living abroad, a filmmaker returns to Tripoli, Lebanon, to confront a hometown that once rejected him as a […]
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Laura Van Broekhoven – Indigenous-Led Regenerative Partnerships: Reframing Museum Ethics for Reconciliation and Societal Healing
Social Sciences 1, Room 261 Social Sciences 1 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFor over a decade, the Pitt Rivers Museum has engaged in sustained, collaborative work with Indigenous peoples whose cultural belongings, acquired through histories of dispossession and colonial violence, are now […]
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Living Writers with Terri Witek
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn Nourishment, Us. Terri Witek (Stetson University Emeritus). Poet/Visual Artist Living Writers Spring 2026: Our Nourishment, US features poets, writers, critics, visual and performance artists, who demonstrate how writing and […]
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Crowdsourcing Research on Language Variation and Change in Hong Kong
Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn this talk, Dr. Yu will present a collaborative research project examining large-scale variation and change in Cantonese in Hong Kong. Using crowdsourcing methodologies, the project collects speech data and […]
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Vivien Sansour – To Eat Alone is to Die Alone
Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Seeds of Resurgence cluster presents an artist talk with Vivien Sansour, founder of the Palestinian Heirloom Seed Library. Oftentimes when Palestinian farmers put seeds in the ground, they mutter a […]
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The Deep Read: The Literature and Poetics of Fungi Salon
Virtual and In PersonJoin us for a salon-style event at the Hay Barn on campus where we will hold a salon focused on the literary and poetic influence of fungi and its relation […]
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Murad Idris – Against Hate: On the Politics of a False Diagnosis
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCo-sponsored by the Global Political Thought Working Group The idea that “hate” names a fundamental problem of our time has engulfed Anglophone public discourse. Republicans and Democrats, university presidents and […]
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Jean Drèze – “Yummy: School Meals in India”
Virtual EventJoin the Center for South Asian Studies for a virtual talk by Jean Drèze, “Yummy: School Meals in India.” School meals have been a legal entitlement of Indian children since […]
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Amy Zhou – Unequal Worlds of Care: The Politics of Global Health in Malawi
BioMed 200Unequal Worlds of Care examines how policymakers, providers, and patients in Malawi navigate a healthcare system transformed unevenly by foreign aid. Whether through engaging in political resistance, refusing treatment, or […]