Events
Living Writers Student Reading
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa CruzWeek of Events
Sunday, March 1, 2026
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Monday, March 2, 2026
- March 2, 2026Timescape of Rings with Stephen David Engel
Timescape of Rings with Stephen David Engel
Stephen David Engel will read from an experimental history called “Timescape of Rings.” In it, he meditates on a 2,200-year-old redwood round with markers for historical events affixed to its rings—the birth of Jesus, the invention of gunpowder, the drafting of the Magna Carta, and on. By running his fingers over the rings, he recalls […]
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
- March 3, 2026More-Than-Humanities Lab Reading Group: Against Purity
More-Than-Humanities Lab Reading Group: Against Purity
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. […]
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
- March 4, 2026 -Thiago Mota – In Search of Protection: Islam, Crocodiles, and Local Experiences of a Global Religion in Early Modern West Africa
- March 4, 2026 -Kate Schatz – Where the Girls Were Talk & Reading
- March 4, 2026 -Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Two Noble Kinsmen – Episode I
- March 4, 2026 -Kate Schatz – Where The Girls Were
Thiago Mota – In Search of Protection: Islam, Crocodiles, and Local Experiences of a Global Religion in Early Modern West Africa
This talk proposes a new reading of Early Modern European sources for African history in light of Islamic African written records and oral traditions. It examines how Islam interacted with local religions and cultural practices in order to become meaningful and suitable for West African communities. Focusing on the need for protection against crocodile attacks […]
Kate Schatz – Where the Girls Were Talk & Reading
Join UCSC alum Kate Schatz, bestselling author of the Rad Women series, for a reading from her new novel Where the Girls Were and a Q & A on writing, creativity, and growing up amid political and cultural change. Blending sharp cultural insight with emotional depth, Schatz’s work explores how young women navigate creativity, power, […]
Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Two Noble Kinsmen – Episode I
Shakespeare returns to the characters and themes of A Midsummer Night's Dream in what may have been the last play he had a hand in writing: The Two Noble Kinsmen. This time, however, the story of Theseus and Hippolyta, the disorienting experience of adolescent sexual desire, and the conflict of duties to sovereigns, parents, friends, […]
Kate Schatz – Where The Girls Were
Bookshop welcomes bestselling author Kate Schatz (Do the Work: An Anti-Racist Activity Book) for a discussion about her latest novel Where the Girls Were. Schatz will be in conversation with activist-scholar Bettina Aptheker. They were sent away to be forgotten. This is their story. Where the Girls Were is a timely unearthing of a little-known […]
Thursday, March 5, 2026
- March 5, 2026 -Planting Oceania & Healing Communities
- March 5, 2026 -Traveling Film Southasia – Film Screening Festival Launch
- March 5, 2026 -Living Writers Student Reading
Planting Oceania & Healing Communities
Planting Oceania is a Oceanian/Indigenous Pacific Islander community organization that plants traditional foods in two gardens located at Filoli Historic House and Gardens in Woodside and at the UC Giltract Farms in Albany. Members of Planting Oceania will share stories about growing plants and stewarding the Land as an important cultural practice for building Oceania/Pacific […]
Traveling Film Southasia – Film Screening Festival Launch
Join the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) for a celebratory film screening event to launch Travelling Film Southasia, a mobile film festival highlighting 19 exceptional nonfiction productions of the last two years, originally screened at Film Southasia 2024 in Kathmandu. This year’s festival encapsulates a range of experiences on the Subcontinent with films from […]
Living Writers Student Reading
Craft Between Worlds About the Living Writers Series The Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. […]
Friday, March 6, 2026
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Saturday, March 7, 2026
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