Events
Week of Events
An Evening with Madeleine Albright
An Evening with Madeleine Albright
Bookshop Santa Cruz presents an evening with Madeleine Albright, the United States' first female Secretary of State, who will speak about her book, Fascism: A Warning, a personal and urgent examination of fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today's world. This ticketed event will take place at theKaiser Permanente Arena and […]
Desmond Jagmohan: “Candor and Courage: Ida B. Wells and Fearless Speech”
Desmond Jagmohan: “Candor and Courage: Ida B. Wells and Fearless Speech”
“Candor and Courage: Ida B. Wells and Fearless Speech” This paper explicates Ida B. Wells’s argument that journalists and leaders have a moral obligation to speak fearlessly. To do so, I unearth the normative relationship between candor, courage, and duty underlying Wells’s anti-lynching editorials and reporting during the Progressive Era. First, I recount Wells’s […]
Living Writers: Steven Church
Living Writers: Steven Church
Steven Church is the author of six books of nonfiction, most recently I'm Just Getting to the Disturbing Part: On Work, Fear, and Fatherhood, and he edited the essay anthology, The Spirit of Disruption: Selections from The Normal School. He's a Founding Editor and the Nonfiction Editor for The Normal School: a Literary Magazine as […]
Dickens and the Disaster of Marriage
Dickens and the Disaster of Marriage
On the occasion of Charles Dickens’s 207th birthday, please join us a festive evening of birthday cake, discussion about Victorian marriage with Dickens Project Co-Director Renee Fox, and a film screening. Charles Dickens is known for his marriage plots: no matter what kinds of twists and turns threaten the path of true love, in the […]
Elizabeth Allen: “Sanctuary and Medieval Kings”
Elizabeth Allen: “Sanctuary and Medieval Kings”
"Sanctuary and Medieval Kings" - Elizabeth Allen American nationalist discourse casts sanctuary as “illegal”, but actually the practice always bears a relation to the law: sanctuary cities, universities, and churches call law to account. Sanctuary has a long legal history. In the Middle Ages, felons could avoid death by running to the church, and kings bolstered […]
John Dizikes Memorial
John Dizikes Memorial
John Dizikes, a professor emeritus of American Studies and a founding member of the faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz, died at his home in Santa Cruz on December 26, 2018. He was 86. Dizikes was a Harvard-trained historian who joined UC Santa Cruz the summer before the campus first opened its doors […]