Events
Week of Events
Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza
The Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza is an authentic cultural festival with food, dance, music, and crafts presented each spring by Senderos. This local festival is like the traditional fiestas celebrated each summer in Oaxaca, Mexico. Guelaguetza is a Zapotec word that means “a commitment of sharing and cooperation.” Guelaguetza is a celebration that honors the gods […]
Carolyn Fornoff – Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change
In this talk, Carolyn Fornoff will discuss her recent book, Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change (Vanderbilt Press, 2024). Her book assesses contemporary trends in the representation of environmental crisis in order to suggest that there has been a shift away from evidentiary modes focused on proving the existence of […]
The Deep Read: Faculty Salon on James
Join us for a salon-style event at the Hay Barn on campus where our participating Deep Read faculty, Professors Susan Gillman (Literature), akua naru (Music), and Greg O'Malley (History), will give brief presentations and discuss James with the Deep Read community in a Q&A moderated by Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead, Laura Martin. Participants can also […]
Tricia Rose – Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives – And How We Break Free
UCSC Feminist Studies and the UCSC Music Department proudly present Tricia Rose—an internationally respected speaker, award-winning writer, and leading scholar of African American culture, racial inequality, and gender—for a conversation about her book Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives – And How We Break Free. On May 2nd, UCSC Feminist Studies and the UCSC […]
M. Ty – It Is Time to Say to the Water, “Disobey”: Reflections with the Art of Jumana Emil Abboud
Perhaps water is a mouth that runs toward unwritten histories. This possibility comes closer to the senses in the work of Jumana Emil Abboud, an artist whose practice is grounded in Palestinian landscapes—and the refusal to cede them to their brutal equation with narratives of damage that colonial occupation programmatically inflicts. For some time, Abboud […]
The Deep Read: East Bay Alumni Salon
The Deep Read is coming back to the East Bay! The Humanities Institute invites East Bay alumni and Deep Readers to a special event at the home of UC Santa Cruz alumna and Foundation Trustee SB Master (Cowell ’75) to discuss this year's Deep Read book, the 2024 National Book Award-winning novel James by Percival […]
Lifting As We Rhyme: 50 Years of Black Feminist Sonic World Making with Tricia Rose, Gina Dent, and akua naru
UCSC Feminist Studies and the UCSC Music Department proudly present Lifting As We Rhyme: 50 Years of Black Feminist Sonic World Making—a roundtable discussion featuring Tricia Rose, internationally respected speaker, award-winning writer, and leading scholar of African American culture, racial inequality, and gender. Rose will be joined by Humanities professor Gina Dent and Music professor […]
Saturday Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents A Midsummer Night's Dream, featuring a series of readings and conversations held Saturday mornings from April 26 to May 24, 2025. The 1st hour will be spent in conversation with a guest speaker, and during the 2nd hour volunteers will read aloud part of the play. During the final […]