Events
Week of Events
Isabel Allende – My Name Is Emilia del Valle
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 […]
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 […]
Murad Idris – Dialogue for Hate: A Global Genealogy
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]