Events
Week of Events
SOLD OUT: Isabel Allende – My Name Is Emilia del Valle
SOLD OUT: Isabel Allende – My Name Is Emilia del Valle
Bookshop Santa Cruz presents New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende (A Long Petal of the Sea and The House of the Spirits) who will join us to celebrate the release of My Name Is Emilia del Valle, a spellbinding historical novel in which a young writer journeys to South America to uncover the truth […]
Sophia Azeb – Black Anticolonialism and Radical Relation
Sophia Azeb – Black Anticolonialism and Radical Relation
The History of Consciousness department is pleased to announce the next speaker in their Spring 2025 Speaker Series, Sophia Azeb, who will deliver her talk entitled “Black Anticolonialism and Radical Relation” on Monday, May 12th at 1pm in Humanities Building 1, Room 420. This talk explores the radical anticolonial subjectivities forged across what Richard Iton […]
A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Italy and Its Culture
A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Italy and Its Culture
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics and the Italian Language Program cordially invite you to a multidisciplinary event on Italy and its culture. Well-renowned UCSC professors from a variety of disciplines ranging from literature to history, from science to engineering and computer science will offer a multidisciplinary perspective on Italy and its culture. Participants […]
Slugs and Steins with Associate Professor Muriam Davis – What Does it Mean to “Decolonize” Knowledge?
Slugs and Steins with Associate Professor Muriam Davis – What Does it Mean to “Decolonize” Knowledge?
The country of Algeria, located in North Africa, experienced one of the most violent struggles for independence of the twentieth century. The war against France, which lasted from 1954–62 has become a paradigmatic case study of the historical process known as decolonization and inspired classic films such as the Battle of Algiers, as well as […]
Akum Longchari – Reimagining Humanization, Just Peace, and Healing through an Indigenous Lens
Akum Longchari – Reimagining Humanization, Just Peace, and Healing through an Indigenous Lens
Join the Center for South Asian Studies for a presentation by Aküm Longchari, the Center’s Scholar in Residence. From an Indigenous perspective, peace processes in the first quarter of the 21st century have been focused on State-building, where questions of justice and peace remained a matter of privilege and power rather than a right of […]
Keith David Watenpaugh – Who Has the Human Right to Charge Genocide?
Keith David Watenpaugh – Who Has the Human Right to Charge Genocide?
Keith David Watenpaugh will deliver the first talk in the CMENA Student Choice Speaker Series, titled "Who Has the Human Right to Charge Genocide?: Reclaiming Genocide as a Powerful Justice Tool Requires Moving Beyond the 1948 Genocide Convention." The 1948 Genocide Convention doesn’t work – at least not for peoples seeking justice for mass atrocity. […]
Contesting Techno Fascisms Now!
Contesting Techno Fascisms Now!
This panel explores ways that fascism today manifests in unexpected sites and imaginaries, including visions of techno-utopia, nationalist movements for animal rights and calls to colonize outer space. The panelist assembled here will each take a keyword of the emergent fascist trends and think through ways to contest fascisms now. Panel Participants: Neda Atanasoski; Professor […]
CANCELLED: Murad Idris – Dialogue for Hate: A Global Genealogy
CANCELLED: Murad Idris – Dialogue for Hate: A Global Genealogy
This lecture posits hate, dialogue, and their conjunction as fundamental for the contemporary moralization of violence and hierarchy. It analyzes how the two terms operate through a series of disavowals, displacements, and transubstantiations, tracking their place in the history of political thought, structures of minoritization, and contemporary formations where they became rhetorical vehicles and conceptual […]
Ying Jin – Nurturing Hearts and Minds: Implementing Social Emotional Learning Principles in World Language Classrooms
Ying Jin – Nurturing Hearts and Minds: Implementing Social Emotional Learning Principles in World Language Classrooms
Join the Department of Applied Linguistics for a professional development workshop featuring Ying Jin, the 2018 ACTFL National Teacher of the Year, who will present her talk titled "Nurturing Hearts and Minds: Implementing Social Emotional Learning Principles in World Language Classrooms." Refreshments will be provided. This event is funded by the Peter Rushton and Jacqueline […]
The Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series: Andy Bruno – An Environmental History of the Tunguska Mystery
The Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series: Andy Bruno – An Environmental History of the Tunguska Mystery
The third annual Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series will take place on Thursday, May 15th, 2025, at 12:30pm at the Cowell Provost House. This event will be livestreamed and recorded (link to be provided soon). This year's guest speaker is Andy Bruno, Stephen F. Cohen Chair of Russian History and Professor, Indiana University Bloomington. […]
Anita Say Chan – Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future
Anita Say Chan – Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future
Join us for a talk by Anita Say Chan, author of Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future (UC Press, 2025). This event will take place May 15th at 1pm in Humanities 1, Room 210. To attend the event via Zoom, join using the link below.
Living Writers with Maria Elena Ramirez
Living Writers with Maria Elena Ramirez
Living Writers Series – Spring 2025 Insight, Writings: Third World and Other Imaginaries Maria E. Ramirez is a woman of Chicana, Puerto Rican, and Apache ancestry. She was actively involved in the student movement in the late sixties, where students, along with their parents, marched and demanded that their community be part of all the […]
Graduate Research Symposium
Graduate Research Symposium
The 2025 Graduate Research Symposium will be held on Friday, May 16, 1-4 p.m. (Pacific) at McHenry Library, Information Commons (South on the Main Floor). The Graduate Division hosts the Graduate Symposium annually in the spring. All graduate students are eligible to participate and may do so in person or virtually via Zoom. (Recipients of […]
The Deppe Memorial Lecture with Professor Dan-El Padilla Peralta
The Deppe Memorial Lecture with Professor Dan-El Padilla Peralta
The UCSC Classical Studies Program presents The Deppe Memorial Lecture, taking place Friday, May 16th at the Cowell Provost house at 4:00pm (reception to follow). Professor Dan-El Padilla Peralta (Princeton University) will be giving a talk titled "The Bringer of Fire: Prometheus in Santo Domingo." This lecture will examine the Prometeo of the Dominican poet, […]
Saturday Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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 […]