Events
Week of Events
Festival of Monsters
Held on the beautiful UC Santa Cruz campus, the 2025 Festival of Monsters academic conference (Oct. 15-18) includes panels on cannibalism, classic monsters, child monsters and the monsters of childhood, Chicanix Nuclear Gothic and more. David Livingstone Smith, Kim Lau and Jeffrey Jerome Cohen will give this year's keynote talks. The main conference will take […]
Orientation to Community Archiving
Learn about the importance of preserving and documenting the history and culture of our community through archiving. We will discuss how the rise of interest in Community Archives has transformed […]
Slugs and Steins with Professor Kimberly Lau – Race and the European Fairy Tale: The Making of a White Genre
In this talk, Kimberly Lau offers intertwined readings of several cognate fairy tales that revolve around true and false brides, beginning with Black slaves and white fairies in 17th-century Naples […]
Malcolm Gladwell—Revenge of the Tipping Point
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes #1 New York Times bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell for a discussion about Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering. In […]
Navyug Gill – Labor History and the Accumulation of Difference in Colonial Panjab
Within the British empire, Panjab has long been regarded as the quintessential agrarian province inhabited by a diligent, prosperous and “martial race” of peasants. Against such essentialist depictions, I explore the landowning peasant and landless laborer as novel subjects forged in the encounter between colonialism and struggles over culture and capital within Panjabi society. Company […]
PhD+ Workshop – Archives 101 for Graduate Students
Feeling the archival impulse? Come get some hands-on experiences with McHenry Library's Special Collections, chat about archives with your fellow grad students, and get your questions answered about archival research at UCSC and beyond. Curious undergrads are welcome, too! Space is limited. This event is presented by the Center for Archival Research & Training (CART) […]
Living Writers with Cindy Juyoung Ok
Wonder as the Source Cindy Juyoung Ok is the author of Ward Toward and the translator of The Hell of That Star by Kim Hyesoon. She was a finalist for a 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, has served as a Poetry Foundation Library Forms & Features visiting teaching artist, and was a […]
John Freeman – California Rewritten
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes author, editor, and poet John Freeman for a conversation with Karen Tei Yamashita about his new book California Rewritten: A Journey Through the Golden State's New Literature. This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. "In Freeman's hands, California is a literary mecca, and each essay a revelation." —Ingrid Rojas Contreras, […]
Saturday Shakespeare – The Tragedy of King Richard II
Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents The Tragedy of King Richard II by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on October 4, 11, 18, 25 & November 1, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest […]