Events
Week of Events
Festival of Monsters
The 2022 UCSC Festival of Monsters is a weekend of scholarship, social events, and art focused on monsters and their hidden meanings. Anyone interested in monsters, those tantalizing creatures that lurk in our collective cultural psyches, will enjoy this investigation and celebration of the strange and macabre. Scholarly presentations are framed by a film screening, […]
Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
Cowell College, Stevenson College and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics will present the 20th season of the Miriam Ellis international Playhouse (MEIP XX), May 20, 21, and 22, 2022 at 8:00 PM in the Stevenson Event Center at UCSC. Several fully-staged theater pieces in different languages (TBA), with English supertitles, performed by Language students and directed […]
Sunday, May 15, 2022
- Featured May 15, 2022 -Featured The Deep Read: A Conversation with Yaa Gyasi
The Deep Read: A Conversation with Yaa Gyasi
Join us for a live discussion May 15 at the Quarry Amphitheater with novelist Yaa Gyasi and UC Santa Cruz Professor Emerita of Literature Karen Tei Yamashita, as we close the book on the 2022 Deep Read exploration of Transcendent Kingdom. We’ll discuss the conditions of cultural assimilation for immigrants to the United States, religious faith vs. […]
Monday, May 16, 2022
No events on this day.
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
- May 17, 2022 -The Stories of Pilipino Migrant Labor in San Jose: Challenging the Neoliberal Export Labor Policy of the Philippines
The Stories of Pilipino Migrant Labor in San Jose: Challenging the Neoliberal Export Labor Policy of the Philippines
Pilipinx Historical Dialogue: The purpose of this course is to foster an interactive conversation and space of political education amongst participants regarding Pilipinx history, diaspora, organizing, and culture. Presented by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Racial Justice.
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
- May 18, 2022 -Adom Getachew – Africa for the Africans: A History of Self-Determination before Decolonization
- May 18, 2022 -Madhavi Murty – Stories that Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India
Adom Getachew – Africa for the Africans: A History of Self-Determination before Decolonization
From the mid-nineteenth century into the twentieth, Africa for the Africans was the banner under which a range of pan-Africanists imaginaries and political projects were articulated. This lecture charts the transformations of this pan-African motto, examining in particular the shifting conceptions of “Africa” in the first two decades of the twentieth century. This event is […]
Madhavi Murty – Stories that Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India
Join us to celebrate the publication of a new book by Feminist Studies Prof. Madhavi Murty, in conversation with Prof. Gina Dent. Stories that Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India (Rutgers University Press) examines the assertion of authoritarian nationalism and neoliberalism backed by the authority of the state, and argues that contemporary India […]
Thursday, May 19, 2022
- May 19, 2022 -Living Writers: Senior Projects Reading
Living Writers: Senior Projects Reading
LIVING WRITERS UCSC, SPRING 2022 presents: CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS showcases interdisciplinary writers who deeply engage in various sonic forms, whether the libretto and the operatic, sound and visual art, acoustic music and songwriting, or embodied meditations to explore the possibilities in being attentive to sound, as action and celebrant through writing. This […]
Friday, May 20, 2022
No events on this day.
Saturday, May 21, 2022
- May 21, 2022 -Abolition. Feminism. Now. with Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, and Beth Richie.
Abolition. Feminism. Now. with Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, and Beth Richie.
Join us for a conversation with abolitionist scholars Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, and Beth Richie as they discuss their new book, Abolition. Feminism. Now. This event is free and open to the public. Free tickets available online. Tickets and admission details to be announced. Please familiarize yourself in advance with the full COVID-19 […]