Events
Week of Events
Sunday, March 8, 2026
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March 8, 2026The Trial of Spock — An Opera Workshop
The Trial of Spock — An Opera Workshop
The creators of The Trial of Spock—An Opera In Three Acts present concert performances of five scenes from an opera-in-progress at the UC Santa Cruz Music Center Recital Hall. Captain Christopher Pike is gravely injured. Lieutenant Spock is behaving strangely. Charged with protecting Pike in his state of extreme need,Vulcan Commodore T’or suspects that Lieutenant […]
Monday, March 9, 2026
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March 9, 2026Elemental Encounters with Cymene Howe
Elemental Encounters with Cymene Howe
Cymene Howe, the final guest of the Winter 2026 HistCon Research Colloquium will be joining us next week to give her talk “Elemental Encounters: how water, ice and fire + earth, spin and chemicals become us”. From chemical relations to the sweep of stormfronts, the elements render a series of sensory, scientific and semiotic coordinates […]
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
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March 10, 2026 -How to Co-Create an AI Policy in Your Classroom
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March 10, 2026 -Anne Fadiman – Frog: And Other Essays
How to Co-Create an AI Policy in Your Classroom
It is well known that students are using AI, that some uses undermine their learning, and that bans are difficult and labor-intensive to enforce. To confront this, Lauren Lyons asked students in her Ethics and Technology course to collaboratively build their own AI policy. In this session, Lyons will describe how she structured the activity, […]
Anne Fadiman – Frog: And Other Essays
Bookshop welcomes award-wining author Anne Fadiman (The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down) for a discussion about her latest book Frog: And Other Essays, a new collection of evocative personal essays. "Affecting and often humorous . . . Fadiman has a knack for finding the extraordinary in the ordinary, using everyday objects to explore […]
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
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March 11, 2026 -Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Two Noble Kinsmen – Episode II
Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Two Noble Kinsmen – Episode II
Shakespeare returns to the characters and themes of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in what may have been the last play he had a hand in writing: The Two Noble Kinsmen. This time, however, the story of Theseus and Hippolyta, the disorienting experience of adolescent sexual desire, and the conflict of duties to sovereigns, parents, friends, and spouses are […]
Thursday, March 12, 2026
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March 12, 2026Latinos, Language, and Change in New Destination Communities of the U.S. South
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March 12, 2026 -Living Writers With Mary-Alice Daniel
Latinos, Language, and Change in New Destination Communities of the U.S. South
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to invite you to a talk with Dr. Stephen Fafulas (University of Mississippi). The U.S. South has emerged as a major new destination for Latino populations, reshaping local communities in ways that are still not fully understood. In this talk, I draw on over a decade […]
Living Writers With Mary-Alice Daniel
Craft Between Worlds Mary-Alice Daniel is a Nigerian American poet and cross-genre writer born near the Niger/Nigeria border. Her debut poetry collection, Mass for Shut Ins, was selected by Rae Armantrout as a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. Her memoir A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing (Ecco, 2022) was named one […]
Friday, March 13, 2026
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March 13, 2026 -On the Canon of the History of Philosophy: Critique & Crisis
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March 13, 2026Questions that Matter – How to Live Long and Prosper: Lessons from a Star Trek Opera
On the Canon of the History of Philosophy: Critique & Crisis
Please join us for a day of presentations and conversation featuring: Silvestre Gristina (University of Padua / UC Santa Cruz) Silvestre Gristina is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Global Fellow between the University of Padua and the University of California, Santa Cruz. As part of his MSCA project, he will be spending a two-year research period […]
Questions that Matter – How to Live Long and Prosper: Lessons from a Star Trek Opera
What do we need to live a fulfilling life? This essential question of the humanities feels especially pressing now, on the precipice of profound changes to our planet, our bodies, and our sense of human exceptionality. Join us for a conversation — and a music-and-drama masterclass — about speculative fiction from the Star Trek world, […]
Saturday, March 14, 2026
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