Events
Week of Events
Sunday, February 1, 2026
No events on this day.
Monday, February 2, 2026
- February 2, 2026 -Gregory O’Malley – The Escapes of David George
Gregory O’Malley – The Escapes of David George
Bookshop welcomes prize-winning historian and UC Santa Cruz professor Gregory O'Malley for a discussion about his new book The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution—the dramatic story of a Black man's relentless search for freedom in Revolutionary America. This book tells the story of David George who in […]
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
- February 3, 2026George Saunders – Vigil
George Saunders – Vigil
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes George Saunders, recipient of the 2025 National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, for a discussion about his wise, playful, electric novel Vigil, which takes place at the bedside of an oil company CEO in the twilight hours of his life as he is ferried from this world […]
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
- February 4, 2026 -Mike McCarthy – A Theory of Late Populism: Popularism
Mike McCarthy – A Theory of Late Populism: Popularism
This talk identifies a critical feature of late populism: popularism. Traditional populism operates through articulation: actively constructing “the people” as a political category by linking heterogeneous demands together against an elite or other. Popularism, alternatively, functions through refraction: it seeks maximum resonance with pre-existing popular attitudes and treats “the people” as an already-coherent homogenous group, […]
Thursday, February 5, 2026
- February 5, 2026 -A History of Families: Bosses, Bullies, and Dictators in the Modern Philippines
- February 5, 2026 -Living Writers With Carlo Acevedo
- February 5, 2026Kara Cooney – When Women Ruled the World
A History of Families: Bosses, Bullies, and Dictators in the Modern Philippines
The Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) invites you to join them for their winter Slow Seminar, "A History of Families: Bosses, Bullies, and Dictators in the Modern Philippines Professor Steve McKay (Sociology) will facilitate our conversation drawing on a selection of classic and contemporary scholarship on regional politics in the Philippines. With the […]
Living Writers With Carlo Acevedo
Craft Between Worlds Carlo Acevedo is a Colombian poet who is the author of Day's Fortune / Fortuna del día, a bilingual collection. His work won the 2018 Arcipreste de Hita prize. Born in Barranquilla, Colombia in 1988, Acevedo holds a master's degree in Creative Writing in Spanish from the University of Iowa and is […]
Kara Cooney – When Women Ruled the World
Ancient Studies presents the 2026 Carl Deppe Lecture featuring Kara Cooney, who will present her lecture "When Women Ruled the World." Who were the women who once ruled the richest and most successful state of the ancient Mediterranean and African Bronze Age? Ancient Egypt's female kings, including Hatshepsut and Nefertiti, ruled against all odds of […]
Friday, February 6, 2026
No events on this day.
Saturday, February 7, 2026
- February 7, 2026Saturday Shakespeare – Henry IV, Part 1
Saturday Shakespeare – Henry IV, Part 1
Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on January 10, 17, 24, 31 & February 7, 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 speaker followed by a […]