Events

Join us for a free, public conversation with author, Percival Everett, at UC Santa Cruz's Quarry Amphitheater on May 4 at 4pm (doors open at 3pm). He'll discuss his National Book Award-winning novel James with Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead, Professor of Literature Vilashini Cooppan.  We'll consider how Everett depicts the possibility of humanity in this […]

Living Writers Series – Spring 2025 Insight, Writings: Third World and Other Imaginaries Tsering Wangmo Dhompa's most recent work is The Politics of Sorrow (Columbia University Press). Other works include the chapbook Revolute (Albion Books, 2021) three collections of poetry: My Rice Tastes Like the Lake, In the Absent Everyday and Rules of the House […]

Bookshop Santa Cruz presents New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende (A Long Petal of the Sea and The House of the Spirits) who will join us to celebrate the release of My Name Is Emilia del Valle, a spellbinding historical novel in which a young writer journeys to South America to uncover the truth […]

Living Writers Series – Spring 2025 Insight, Writings: Third World and Other Imaginaries Maria E. Ramirez is a woman of Chicana, Puerto Rican, and Apache ancestry. She was actively involved in the student movement in the late sixties, where students, along with their parents, marched and demanded that their community be part of all the […]

Wastewater treatment operators in the American Midwest wryly describe their job as “bacteria farming,” but they also insist that microbes are the ones who “do all the work” at treatment plants. Meanwhile, slum activists in Uganda suggest that they “work with microbes” to provide essential sanitation services where the state has failed to provide safe […]

Soraya Murray’s forthcoming Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination (MIT, 2026) is the first dedicated examination of popular movies classified as “thrillers” that channel societal anxiety or dread about advanced technologies like supercomputers, robotics, AI, biotech, military weaponry, and digital surveillance. Technothriller is about the changing imagination of technology within an American context and its […]

Living Writers Series – Spring 2025 Insight, Writings: Third World and Other Imaginaries Angel Dominguez is a Latiné poet of Yucatec Maya descent born in Hollywood and raised in Van Nuys, CA, by their immigrant family. They now live amongst the redwoods of Bonny Doon, CA. They’re the author of several books of poetry and […]

Join the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and Kuumbwa Jazz for a concert featuring Cheb Nasro, renowned Raï artist and performer. Doors open at 6pm, and the concert begins at 7pm. Fifty free student tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis; sign up here for a free student ticket. Other guests […]

Living Writers Series – Spring 2025 Insight, Writings: Third World and Other Imaginaries Sponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, the Laurie Sain Endowment, the Humanities Institute, The Literature Department, Creative Writing Program, and the Center for Racial Justice.