Events

Name: Living Writers Student Reading
Start: 2026-06-04T17:20:00-07:00
End: 2026-06-04T18:55:00-07:00
Location: Humanities Lecture Hall

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0 events 17 0 events, 17	0 events 18 0 events, 18	0 events 19 0 events, 19	0 events 20 0 events, 20	2 events 21 2 events, 21 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Laura Van Broekhoven – Indigenous-Led Regenerative Partnerships: Reframing Museum Ethics for Reconciliation and Societal Healing May 21 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Laura Van Broekhoven – Indigenous-Led Regenerative Partnerships: Reframing Museum Ethics for Reconciliation and Societal Healing For 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 held in Oxford. Part of the work has helped reposition the museum as a site of cultural care rather than a repository of extracted, well-preserved […], 5:20 pm - 6:55 pm Living Writers with Terri Witek May 21 @ 5:20 pm - 6:55 pm Living Writers with Terri Witek In 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 art enacts around the idea of freedom and the imaginary in the face of the constant threat of terror and erasure. In the presence of […]	2 events 22 2 events, 22 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Crowdsourcing Research on Language Variation and Change in Hong Kong May 22 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Crowdsourcing Research on Language Variation and Change in Hong Kong In 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 survey responses from a broad participant base, alongside systematically designed metalinguistic judgment tasks. By integrating these data sources, the project aims to provide a comprehensive […], 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Artist Talk with Vivien Sansour – Palestinian Heirloom Seed Library May 22 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Artist Talk with Vivien Sansour – Palestinian Heirloom Seed Library The Seeds of Resurgence cluster presents an artist talk with Vivien Sansour, founder of the Palestinian Heirloom Seed Library. Vivien Sansour is the Founder and Executive Director of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library. As an artist, researcher, and writer, she uses installations, images, sketches, film, soil, seeds, and plants to enliven old cultural tales in […]	0 events 23 0 events, 23
0 events 24 0 events, 24	0 events 25 0 events, 25	1 event 26 1 event, 26 6:00 pm The Deep Read: The Literature and Poetics of Fungi Salon May 26 @ 6:00 pm The Deep Read: The Literature and Poetics of Fungi Salon Join 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 to Entangled Life. The salon will feature Professors Hannah Cole (Assistant Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz), Brenda Hillman (Professor Emerita of Poetry at […]	1 event 27 1 event, 27 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm Murad Idris – Against Hate: On the Politics of a False Diagnosis May 27 @ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm Murad Idris – Against Hate: On the Politics of a False Diagnosis Co-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 doxxing campaigns, advocacy organizations and journalists, scholarly experts and “hate glossaries” criticize what they oppose as hate, demand standing against hate, and seem to treat […]	0 events 28 0 events, 28	2 events 29 2 events, 29 10:00 am - 11:30 am Jean Drèze – “Yummy: School Meals in India” May 29 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am Jean Drèze – “Yummy: School Meals in India” Join 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 2001. It took some years for this legal entitlement to translate into functional schemes, but from then onwards school meals have made important contributions to […], 7:00 pm Miriam Ellis International Playhouse May 29 @ 7:00 pm Miriam Ellis International Playhouse FREE STAGE PERFORMANCES IN FRENCH, JAPANESE, AND SPANISH WITH ENGLISH TITLES FROM STUDENTS OF UCSC! For its 23rd season, the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse will present fully-staged performances in French, Japanese, and Spanish, with English super-titles projected above the stage. The program will be directed by Language lecturers and performed by Language students. French: Dur […]	3 events 30 3 events, 30 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm Office Hours Under the Sea May 30 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm Office Hours Under the Sea Join Ronaldo Wilson and special guests for a site-specific, endurance performance as part of there are no words, but melodies. The exhibition emerges at the intersections of Black poetics, performance, and visual art to shuttle between verbal and non-verbal forms of language, rendering the boundaries of identity and meaning slippery. Drop in and visit Wilson’s […], 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm The Roadmap Home – Affordable Housing Month Panel Discussion May 30 @ 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm The Roadmap Home – Affordable Housing Month Panel Discussion Join Housing Santa Cruz County for Affordable Housing Month Keynote & 6th Anniversary Celebration, an afternoon that brings together the big-picture vision and the on-the-ground reality of housing in California. The Roadmap Home will explore a comprehensive, solutions-driven framework for ending the housing crisis. New Affordable Housing Pipeline data will confront a stark truth: nearly […], 7:00 pm Miriam Ellis International Playhouse May 30 @ 7:00 pm Miriam Ellis International Playhouse FREE STAGE PERFORMANCES IN FRENCH, JAPANESE, AND SPANISH WITH ENGLISH TITLES FROM STUDENTS OF UCSC! For its 23rd season, the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse will present fully-staged performances in French, Japanese, and Spanish, with English super-titles projected above the stage. The program will be directed by Language lecturers and performed by Language students. French: Dur […]
2 events 31 2 events, 31 4:00 pm The Deep Read – A Conversation with Merlin Sheldrake May 31 @ 4:00 pm The Deep Read – A Conversation with Merlin Sheldrake Join us for a free, public conversation with British mycologist and author, Merlin Sheldrake, at UC Santa Cruz's Quarry Amphitheater on May 31, 2026. He'll discuss his New York Times bestseller, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds, Change our Minds, and Shape our Futures with Associate Professor of History Benjamin Breen and the Deep […], 7:00 pm Miriam Ellis International Playhouse May 31 @ 7:00 pm Miriam Ellis International Playhouse FREE STAGE PERFORMANCES IN FRENCH, JAPANESE, AND SPANISH WITH ENGLISH TITLES FROM STUDENTS OF UCSC! For its 23rd season, the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse will present fully-staged performances in French, Japanese, and Spanish, with English super-titles projected above the stage. The program will be directed by Language lecturers and performed by Language students. French: Dur […]