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 Bookshop 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 American Revolution—the dramatic story of a Black man's relentless search for freedom in Revolutionary America. This book tells the story of David George who in […] |
1 event, Bookshop 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, which takes place at the bedside of an oil company CEO in the twilight hours of his life as he is ferried from this world […] |
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 This talk identifies a critical feature of late populism: popularism. Traditional populism operates through articulation: actively constructing “the people” as a political category by linking heterogeneous demands together against an elite or other. Popularism, alternatively, functions through refraction: it seeks maximum resonance with pre-existing popular attitudes and treats “the people” as an already-coherent homogenous group, […] |
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 The Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) invites you to join them for their winter Slow Seminar, "A History of Families: Bosses, Bullies, and Dictators in the Modern Philippines Professor Steve McKay (Sociology) will facilitate our conversation drawing on a selection of classic and contemporary scholarship on regional politics in the Philippines. With the […] Please join the More-Than-Human(ities) Lab for our winter "share session.” Two of our early-career lab members will share their current projects and invite your feedback in an informal, interactive conversation. Our presenters will be: Pietro Autorino: Searching for 'contemporary agroecology' beyond Soilutionism: notes from a small on-farm experimental compost station in Italy Stephanie […]
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 Craft Between Worlds Carlo Acevedo is a Colombian poet who is the author of Day's Fortune / Fortuna del día, a bilingual collection. His work won the 2018 Arcipreste de Hita prize. Born in Barranquilla, Colombia in 1988, Acevedo holds a master's degree in Creative Writing in Spanish from the University of Iowa and is […] Ancient Studies presents the 2026 Carl Deppe Lecture featuring Kara Cooney, who will present her lecture "When Women Ruled the World." Who were the women who once ruled the richest and most successful state of the ancient Mediterranean and African Bronze Age? Ancient Egypt's female kings, including Hatshepsut and Nefertiti, ruled against all odds of […] |
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Join the Deep Read at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History (SCMNH) for Fungus February First Friday. We will celebrate the opening of Fungus February at the Museum with a night of science, art, and community exploring the vital role of fungi and fungal webs in our world, the subject of our Deep Read […] |
1 event, Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on January 10, 17, 24, 31 & February 7, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest speaker followed by a […] |
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Revolution and Restoration: A Conversation with Massimiliano Tomba, Ariella Patchen, and Shaun Terry
Revolution and Restoration: A Conversation with Massimiliano Tomba, Ariella Patchen, and Shaun Terry The History of Consciousness department invites you to the next talk in their Winter 2026 Research Colloquium series. This talk examines Tomba’s Revolution and Restoration as an expression of his philosophy of political time. Tomba argues that modernity consists of dynamic and overlapping temporal layers and that revolutionary change occurs when oppressed groups draw on […] |
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 Join the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) for a panel discussion that situates Islamophobia in a global context as a form of discrimination that shapes politics and culture in Europe, North Africa, and the United States. While it is largely acknowledged that the concept of Islamophobia refers to the racial discrimination […] |
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 This talk focuses on the development of a population science in the decade that preceded the Ferdinand Marcos regime in the Philippines and throughout the Marcos dictatorship. The regime's management of reproductive health, in particular, illustrates the construction of new technologies of measurement and containment. The talk focuses on readings of "family planning" archives that […] |
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Craft Between Worlds Rosie Stockton is a poet and scholar, author of the collections Permanent Volta (Nightboat Books, 2021) and Fuel (Nightboat Books, 2025). In Fuel, Stockton explores how capitalist extraction seeps into intimate life, traversing oil fields, domestic spaces, and painful retractions of love. Stockton is an organizer with the California Coalition for Women […]  What 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 Ethics Lecture featuring Marion Nestle — Mark Bittman's "guiding light" on nutrition and Alice Waters' "tireless warrior for public health” — for a bracing look […] |
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1 event, This 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 oeuvre as a recurring point of comparison. Our aim is to situate questions of embodiment, psychology, soteriology, and collective destiny in light of their historical […] |
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 In the spring of 1975, a 1,500-year-old Indigenous cemetery on Lee Road in Watsonville, California, was threatened by a development project. Members of the local Native American community with ties to this sacred site occupied the construction site in protest of the development. The local Sheriff called upon the newly formed well-armed County SWAT force, […] Curious about becoming a THI Graduate Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia, then you may be interested in THI’s Public Fellowship program. Public fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to […] |
2 events,Please join the More-Than-Human(ities) Lab for our winter book club meeting. We will be discussing Alexis Shotwell’s book Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times, which offers a framework for conceiving of our own complicity in the presence of toxicity, climate change, and other ongoing crises. Event attendees will be expected to have read the book. […]
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Craft Between Worlds Nathalie Khankan is a poet and scholar, author of quiet orient riot (Omnidawn). The collection won Omnidawn's 2019 1st/2nd Book Prize and received the 2021 California Book Award in Poetry. Fady Joudah calls the book “a flowering wound,” posing subversive questions about the body, motherhood, and settler colonialism while insisting on tenderness. […] |
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Join the Linguistics Department for Ethan Poole's talk “Syntactic Variables and Semantic Minimality” in collaboration with Zahra Mirrazi. In this talk, Poole argues that when two syntactic variables are "related" and stand in a c- command relationship at LF, a 3⁄4-pattern emerges: free/free, bound/bound, bound/free, and *free/bound. Several otherwise-disparate puzzles are shown to fall under […] |
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Achieve your dreams for college and career! A free annual event for Santa Cruz County students, grades 6 to college, and their families, featuring Latino professionals, college students, and resource information. Presented in Spanish with English translation. Attendees eligible for prizes. For more information: SCSenderos.org Presented by Cabrillo College, Live Oak School District, Mexican Consulate […] |
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 It is a common (aspirational) refrain that climate change “changes everything,” and equally common to note that climate-related transitions seem to be changing very little at all. What climate-related changes are happening now? And how might we grasp emergent trajectories while we’re in the midst of these transitions? With a substantive focus on the city-hinterland […] |
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As 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 of belonging, but it was also through mutual aid groups, such as the kyi-dug, that Tibetan refugees took care of one another. The word kyi-dug: […]
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Craft Between Worlds James Janko is an award-winning author of four novels, including Buffalo Boy and Geronimo, The Clubhouse Thief, What We Don't Talk About, and The Wire-Walker. His work is deeply informed by his experience as a combat medic in the Vietnam War, often probing the intertwined violences of war and environmental destruction. Janko […]  Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents Kitchen Counterculture: A Conversation About Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and the Food that Fueled a Revolution," featuring award-winning food writer Gabi Moskowitz and journalist, teacher, and author Jim Newton. This event is cosponsored by the UC Santa Cruz The Humanities Division, The Humanities Institute, and the UCSC Special Collections & […] |
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If 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 will write together to explore how we can find the words we need to create the communities we would like to be. All are welcome. […] |
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