Events
Week of Events
Festival of Monsters – Academic Conference
Rising from the darkness, monsters bring to light the parts of our world we might rather see hidden. They come forth in times of growing prejudice, discrimination and othering. The 2024 Festival of Monsters (Academic Conference October 16-18) —hosted by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies — explores the way monsters and tropes […]
Sunday, October 13, 2024
- October 13, 2024Kaveh Akbar: Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar: Martyr!
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes acclaimed and bestselling author Kaveh Akbar for a discussion and signing of his phenomenal fiction debut Martyr!, which Tommy Orange calls, "An absolute jewel of a novel. A diamond. I haven't loved a book this much in years. Kaveh's writing is so thoroughly powerful and gorgeous you can feel it from […]
Monday, October 14, 2024
- October 14, 2024 -Ecologies of Care Workshop
- October 14, 2024 -Laleh Khalili in conversation with Nidhi Mahajan–Palestine and the Maritime Politics of the Red Sea
- October 14, 2024 -Writing Psychology with Andrea Seeger
Ecologies of Care Workshop
The Center for South Asian Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites you to launch an international collaboration, the Ecologies of Care Initiative. In partnership with the University of British Columbia (UBC), Simon Fraser University (SFU), and Lincoln University (LU) this initiative invites scholars at the forefront of the social sciences, […]
Laleh Khalili in conversation with Nidhi Mahajan–Palestine and the Maritime Politics of the Red Sea
Thinking through the complexities of the Red Sea blockade, Professor Khalili will ask questions about how the entangled international and commercial control of maritime space deals with such disruptions in cargo and trade flows, and how the structure of global capital has to be taken into account in toto while waging a Gramscian war of position at […]
Writing Psychology with Andrea Seeger
Sometimes we can be our severest writing critics and biggest hindrances to writing success. Learn how to overcome psychological barriers and start writing in this interactive workshop. Participants will also learn about the VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center. This event has two sessions: Oct 14, 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, or Oct […]
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
- October 15, 2024 -Mapping Hydrocommons Cultures in the Americas
- October 15, 2024Huerta Center Graduate Scholar CART Alternative Spring Break – Info Session
- October 15, 2024Moving Money and Moving Power: Philanthropy Isn’t Neutral
Mapping Hydrocommons Cultures in the Americas
In this session, Lisa Blackmore and Alejandro Ponce de León will talk about a series of mapping processes that they’ve been engaged in with river communities in Latin America. They will explore how art and humanities research intersects with water activism and how collaborative editorial and curatorial work can support emergent and resilient practices that […]
Huerta Center Graduate Scholar CART Alternative Spring Break – Info Session
2024-2025 CART Alternative Spring Break: Huerta Center Graduate Scholars In Winter 2025, two graduate students will receive funding from the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas (Huerta Center) and be trained by the University Library’s Center for Archival Research and Training (CART) to assist a UC Santa Cruz Archivist based at the Dolores Huerta […]
Moving Money and Moving Power: Philanthropy Isn’t Neutral
This event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series - Power, Politics, and Our Democracy UC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How […]
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
- October 16, 2024 -Lisa Blackmore: Hydrocommoning
- October 16, 2024 -Curating Your Digital Reputation with Lisa Nielsen
Lisa Blackmore: Hydrocommoning
In this talk, Lisa will present 'hydrocommoning' as a concept to think with emergent water cultures by asking what work a theory and praxis of hydrocommoning might do to support transitions to alternative hydrosocial relations beyond modern urban and extractive paradigms. She will lay out a methodological route for interdisciplinary water research that takes seriously […]
Curating Your Digital Reputation with Lisa Nielsen
Your digital reputation refers to your presence on the internet, on social media platforms and on personal and professional websites. Learn tips on how to distinguish yourself from the crowd and create a lasting impression in an evolving digital communications landscape. This event has two sessions: Oct 16, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. via Zoom or […]
Thursday, October 17, 2024
- October 17, 2024 -WordPress Website Design with Jason Chafin
- October 17, 2024 -Living Writers with Stacey D’Erasmo
- October 17, 2024 -Dana Frank: What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?
WordPress Website Design with Jason Chafin
Professional websites can boost your reputation and aid your networking and job search. UCSC provides free access to WordPress (with several design templates) to faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students. Get design tips from Jason and get started using WordPress to make a blog or static website to showcase your graduate or postdoctoral work! This […]
Living Writers with Stacey D’Erasmo
Living Writers Series – Fall 2024 Growing Things ~ gardens, poems, emotions, relationships, stories, our artistic practices, carefully tended, beautifully ordered, rewilded and wild ~ 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 […]
Dana Frank: What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?
Bookshop welcomes Dana Frank, UC Santa Cruz Professor Emerita of History, for a discussion about her new book What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?: Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. "The most important book on the Great […]
Friday, October 18, 2024
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Saturday, October 19, 2024
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