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SUMMARY:Homer's The Odyssey Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Homer’s Odyssey is becoming a major motion picture. Whether you like movies or not\, this is a great excuse to read this millennia-old story about a salty war hero who just wants to go home. Join us on June 24th and July 1 to discuss the Odyssey with UC Santa Cruz Ancient Studies faculty Anne Kreps and Martin Devecka where we’ll discuss the wild world of Odysseus and what this epic can teach us about talking to strangers\, lying\, and picking a good disguise. \n \nPlease register above to attend one or more of the webinars! \nThis program will be using the The Odyssey\, Emily Wilson 2018 edition and will cover Books 1-12 on June 24th and Books 13-24 on July 1st. \nMartin Devecka\, Associate Professor\, Ancient Studies & Literature \nAs a cultural historian\, Devecka writes on topics in ancient literature and society that range from robots to ruins. He is currently finishing a book manuscript on animal citizenship in the Roman Empire. \nAnne Kreps\, Associate Professor\, Ancient Studies & History \nAs a historian of the ancient Near East\, Kreps studies heresies\, Gnosticism\, and the politics of sacred texts. Her current work examines the Dead Sea Scrolls within New Religious Movements in the United States. \nImages: \n\nOdysseus and Circe (book 10): top-two men who have been turned into animals already\, Odysseus with sword\, Circe with headscarf\nOdysseus and Elphanor in underworld (book 11): Odysseus sits with chin on hand\, naked Elpanor (the crew member who dies in book 1) rises naked from the earth. The God Hermes stands behind Odysseus\nOdysseus draws the bow (book 21)\nOdysseus escapes the Cyclops (book 9): He ties himself to the belly of a goat.\n\nThis event is presented by The Humanities Institute and the UC Santa Cruz Ancient Studies Program. Co-sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/homers-the-odyssey-reading-group-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Shakespeare Opening Night
DESCRIPTION:Tickets are now on sale for Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2026 Season\, featuring Much Ado About Nothing and Macbeth. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute. \nThe 2026 season runs from July 16 – August 30. \nMuch Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare’s wittiest and most beloved comedies. Of all the couples in Shakespeare\, perhaps none is more widely loved than Beatrice and Benedick. Their battle of wits\, their antagonism turned to eroticism\, their history. Before the play begins\, they already seem to define each other. The audience\, like the other characters in the play\, wait with excitement as their wits clash\, and eventually\, as their love blossoms. \n \nMacbeth by William Shakespeare’s is one of the greatest plays ever written. Its central couple\, ironically\, is one of Shakespeare’s happiest. At least at the beginning. Macbeth explores what we become when our second half is ripped away. A powerful unit\, wildly in love with each other\, the Macbeths follow the insinuations of the witches – the famous weird sisters – and commit murder in the name of their shared ambition: the throne of Scotland. But even with their goal achieved\, Macbeth’s paranoia and guilt lead him further down the road of blood. The central unit tears apart under the shadow of its deeds. Who are these two without each other? Slowly and surely\, the play shows us society’s ruin in the form of its leading pair. \nSanta Cruz Shakespeare’s production of Macbeth stars Dan Donohue in the title role and Paige Lindsey White as Lady Macbeth. \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-shakespeare-opening-night/
LOCATION:The Audrey Stanley Grove in Delaveaga Park\, 501 Upper Park Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95065\, United States
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SUMMARY:Macbeth - Opening Night
DESCRIPTION:Dark\, bloody\, brutal\, and magnificent\, William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is one of the greatest plays ever written. Its central couple\, ironically\, is one of Shakespeare’s happiest. At least at the beginning. Macbeth explores what we become when our second half is ripped away. A powerful unit\, wildly in love with each other\, the Macbeths follow the insinuations of the witches – the famous weird sisters – and commit murder in the name of their shared ambition: the throne of Scotland. But even with their goal achieved\, Macbeth’s paranoia and guilt lead him further down the road of blood. The central unit tears apart under the shadow of its deeds. Who are these two without each other? Slowly and surely\, the play shows us society’s ruin in the form of its leading pair. \nSanta Cruz Shakespeare’s production of Macbeth stars Dan Donohue in the title role and Paige Lindsey White as Lady Macbeth. \n \nEach showing has a 2 and 1/2 hour runtime with one 20- minute intermission. \nFor more information\, and to see other times/dates: Macbeth \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/macbeth-opening-night/
LOCATION:The Audrey Stanley Grove in Delaveaga Park\, 501 Upper Park Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95065\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ocean Vuong - The Emperor of Gladness
DESCRIPTION:The hardest thing in the world is to live only once… \nBookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute are pleased to welcome critically acclaimed author and staff favorite Ocean Vuong (Time Is a Mother\, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous) for an event celebrating the paperback release of The Emperor of Gladness\, Vuong’s bighearted novel about chosen family\, unexpected friendship\, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. Vuong will be in conversation with UC Santa Cruz Professor Ronaldo V. Wilson. \n \nFollowing the cycles of history\, memory\, and time\, The Emperor of Gladness shows the profound ways in which love\, labor\, and loneliness form the bedrock of American life. At its heart is a brave epic about what it means to exist on the fringes of society and to reckon with the wounds that haunt our collective soul. Hallmarks of Ocean Vuong’s writing—formal innovation\, syntactic dexterity\, and the ability to twin grit with grace through tenderness—are on full display in this story of loss\, hope\, and how far we would go to possess one of life’s most fleeting mercies: a second chance. \nOcean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collections Night Sky with Exit Wounds and Time Is a Mother\, as well as the New York Times bestselling novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the American Book Award\, he was born in Saigon\, Vietnam\, and currently splits his time between western Massachusetts and New York City. The Emperor of Gladness is his latest novel. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Ocean Vuong \n\nCo-Sponsored by The Humanities Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ocean-vuong-the-emperor-of-gladness/
LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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SUMMARY:Daniel Mason - Country People
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason (North Woods) for a reading and signing of his new novel Country People—a rollicking\, lyrical year in the life of a family as they strike out into the unknown (aka Vermont)\, leaving all of the comforts of home behind. \nMiles Krzelewski is a devoted husband\, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories\, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also a bit lost\, twelve years late with his PhD on Russian folktales and increasingly haunted by a sense that he’s become a disappointment to his family. So when his wife\, Kate\, accepts a visiting professorship at a prestigious college in the faraway forests of Vermont\, he decides that this will be the year to finally move forward with his life. Joyous\, absurd\, and life-affirming\, Country People is a luminous exploration of marriage and parenthood\, the nature of belief and the power of stories\, and the ways in which we find connection in an increasingly fragmented world. \n \nDaniel Mason is the author of The Piano Tuner\, The Winter Soldier\, A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth—a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—and North Woods\, a New York Times and Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2023 and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages\, adapted for opera and the stage\, and awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship\, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize\, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is an associate professor in the Stanford University department of psychiatry. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Daniel Mason \n\nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/daniel-mason-country-people/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cabrillo Festival 2026 Opening Night
DESCRIPTION:“We the Dreamers is both an invitation and a responsibility”; says Music Director Cristian Măcelaru. “At this historic moment\, we are asking how music can help us imagine a more expansive ‘we’—one that listens deeply\, embraces complexity\, and dares to hope. These works remind us that dreaming is essential to shaping a more just and connected future.” \nThe Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music presents its 64th season\, We the Dreamers\, running July 26 through August 9\, 2026. Framed by the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, this transformative season asks one of the most resonant civic questions of our time: Who is the “we” of America—and who are “we” still becoming? The answers unfold across four world premiere Festival Commissions\, eight West Coast premieres\, and two U.S. premieres\, brought to life by a dynamic global roster of over 20 composers and an extraordinary array of guest artists. \nHighlights include the second-ever performance and West Coast premiere of Philip Glass’s Symphony No. 15 Lincoln\, which draws on Lincoln’s urgent reverence for the Constitution and his prescient warnings against internal division\, alongside an appearance by Former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove and new works by Clarice Assad\, Vivian Fung\, Sarah Hennies\, and Pedro Emanuel Pereira—together offering a compelling portrait of our contemporary moment through the lens of history\, civic reckoning\, and global perspective. \nFor more information: Cabrillo Festival 2026 \nCo-sponsored by the Humanities Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cabrillo-festival-2026/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:2026 Dickens Universe
DESCRIPTION:The Dickens Project at UC Santa Cruz invites the community to the 2026 Dickens Universe\, held July 26–August 1\, a weeklong scholarly gathering devoted to Charles Dickens’s Bleak House. The Universe brings together scholars\, students\, teachers\, and lifelong learners for lectures\, discussion groups\, film screenings\, Victorian tea\, festive dance\, and a variety of other immersive experiences—all set among the redwoods on the UCSC campus. This retreat celebrates the power of literature to build community\, spark conversation\, and connect readers across generations. \nFor more information please visit: 2026 Dickens Universe
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2026-dickens-universe/
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