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SUMMARY:Guelaguetza Cultural Festival
DESCRIPTION:Senderos presents the 21st annual Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza\, a family friendly\, Indigenous cultural festival. The Guelaguetza brings together food\, music\, dance\, language\, crafts\, and community to celebrate the beautiful traditions of Oaxaca\, Mexico. Local dancers from Senderos’ own Centeotl Danza y Baile will represent the eight regional traditions of Oaxaca\, accompanied by Oaxacan musicians from Los Angeles. Oaxacan food and beverage specialties such as mole\, tlayudas\, and tejate will be sold along with crafts and souvenirs. Senderos is a partner in the new Ripple Effect Santa Cruz Arts Festival and Guelaguetza will take place on the closing day of the festival. \n*Admission is $10; free for children 5 and under. No dogs\, alcohol\, smoking on school property. Bring blankets and lawn chairs and be transported to the sights and sounds of Oaxaca! \nMore information at: Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza | Senderos \nIsai Pazos\, Senderos Executive Director said\, “As we celebrate Guelaguetza in Santa Cruz\, we affirm our commitment to passing these cultural traditions to new generations\, ensuring that our heritage continues to thrive. Today more than ever this is critical. Together\, through culture and solidarity\, we continue to build a stronger\, more connected community.” The word Guelaguetza is derived from the Oaxacan Indigenous Zapotec language and signifies giving\, cooperation\, and community. The Guelaguetza is the major fundraising event for Senderos\, a nonprofit in Santa Cruz who has been providing free dance and music classes\, education support and scholarships for Latino youth since 2001. \nGuelaguetza in Santa Cruz was created by Senderos co-founders\, Fe Silva and Nereida Robles- Vasquez; starting small in the Civic Auditorium\, the festival moved outdoors to Harbor High School\, San Lorenzo Park and attracted 2000 attendees last year at current location Branciforte Small Schools. Even during COVID\, Senderos presented virtual full-length presentations with video of dancers and musicians in Santa Cruz and in Oaxaca. \nThis event is co-sponsored by: Santa Cruz City Schools\, Arts Council Santa Cruz County\, California Arts Council\, Chicana Latina Foundation\, Community Foundation Santa Cruz County\, County of Santa Cruz\, DCD Insurance and Financial Services\, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, Kaiser Permanente\, La Oaxaqueña\, Latino Community Foundation\, Mexican Consulate of San Jose\, Maverick Mailing\, Miller Maxfield\, Inc.\, Monterey Peninsula Foundation\, Ow Family Properties\, Santa Cruz City Arts\, Santa Cruz County Office of Education\, West Coast Community Bank\, and more. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vive-oaxaca-guelaguetza-3/
LOCATION:Branciforte Small Schools Campus\, 840 N Branciforte Ave\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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SUMMARY:Linda Zerilli - The Feminist Democratic Imaginary: Actualizing Pasts\, Creating Futures
DESCRIPTION:The first guest of the History of Consciousness Spring 2026 Research Colloquium will be joining us next Monday\, April 27th! This event brings Linda Zerilli to give her talk “The Feminist Democratic Imaginary: Actualizing Pasts\, Creating Futures”. \nFeminist historians have long challenged the progress narrative — the story in which each wave supersedes the last\, the arc bends toward justice\, and history moves only one way. Yet despite decades of critique\, no compelling alternative relationship to the past has emerged. We are caught in a double bind: premodern exemplarity is unavailable to us\, and the modern alternative forecloses the future by making it seem already scripted. This paper develops a third relationship — the feminist democratic imaginary — that returns us to action through history rather than offering an escape from action into it. Drawing on Arendt\, Koselleck\, Castoriadis\, Benjamin\, and Hartman\, it argues that the past is not a repository of recoverable resources but the site of an encounter — and the encounter is not a transfer across time but a creation. This reorientation has direct political consequences: if the past is an occasion for creation rather than a ground of conditions\, then authoritarian backlash is not a contraction of the possible but a new occasion — a moment of danger that makes defeated alternatives newly legible and calls for figures of the thinkable that neither the past nor the present alone could have generated. \n \nJoin us in-person on April 27th at 1pm in Hum 1 Rm 210\, or register to attend virtually at this link. \nLinda M. G. Zerilli is the Charles E. Merriam Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the College. Zerilli is the author of Signifying Woman (Cornell University Press\, 1994)\, Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom (University of Chicago Press\, 2005)\, A Democratic Theory of Judgment (University of Chicago Press\, 2016)\, A Democratic Theory of Truth (University of Chicago Press\, 2025)\, and articles on subjects ranging across feminist thought\, the politics of language\, aesthetics\, democratic theory\, and Continental philosophy. She has been a Fulbright Fellow\, a two-time Member of the Institute for Advanced Study\, and a Stanford Humanities Center Fellow\, and a Stanford Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences Fellow. She has served on the executive committee of Political Theory and the advisory boards of The American Political Science Review\, Philosophy and Rhetoric\, Constellations\, and Culture\, Theory and Critique. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-feminist-democratic-imaginary-actualizing-pasts-creating-futures-with-linda-zerilli/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Karen Tei Yamashita - Questions 27 & 28
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes acclaimed author Karen Tei Yamashita (I Hotel) to celebrate the launch of her new novel Questions 27 & 28—a masterful polyvocal history of Japanese Americans before\, during\, and after World War II. Yamashita will be in conversation with Alice Yang\, Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \nIn February 1942\, shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor\, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order authorizing the secretary of war to remove 120\,000 Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast and corral them into inland concentration camps. \n \nQuestions 27 & 28 reaches backward and forward from the time of the questionnaire\, chronicling the individuals who arrived in the US from Japan at the turn of the century\, their children who came of age during war and incarceration\, and their descendants who lived in its aftermath. Yamashita mixes fact with fiction and layers genres from James Bond movies to haiku to oral history\, transfiguring an enormity of archival research into a chorus of stories. With her signature wit and aplomb\, she gives voice to laborers\, artists\, scholars\, informants\, and activists who\, over three generations\, defined an immigrant community. \nKaren Tei Yamashita is the author of nine books\, including I Hotel\, finalist for the National Book Award. Recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 2021 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters\, she is Professor Emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. In 2024 Yamashita was inducted as a Literature Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nAlice Yang is Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She received her Ph.D. in history from Stanford University and currently co-directs the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories. She specializes in memories of the Pacific War\, Asian American history\, race\, gender\, oral history\, historical memory\, and twentieth-century America. Her publications include Historical Memories of the Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress (2007)\, Major Problems in Asian American History (2003\, 2017) and What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean? (2000). Her exhibit\, Never Again is Now: Japanese American Women Activists and the Legacy of Mass Incarceration\, appeared at UC Santa Cruz\, the Watsonville Public Library and the Japanese American Museum of San Jose. She also has served as chair of the UCSC History Department and provost of Stevenson College at UCSC. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Karen Tei Yamashita \n\nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-tei-yamashita-questions-27-28/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Quinn Slobodian - Whither Neoliberalism Studies?
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Politics Department \nThe last two decades have seen a flood of research on neoliberalism. Defined in multiple and even conflicting ways\, the term nonetheless served as a master category of analysis for scholars from history to geography and communications. Where does the field sit now as trends of authoritarianism and reterritorialization shatter long-standing axioms of rule? This question will be discussed in relation to my own engagement with the subfield of neoliberalism studies over many years. \nQuinn Slobodian teaches international history at Boston University. His books include Globalists\, Crack-Up Capitalism\, and Hayek’s Bastards. Out in April 2026 with Ben Tarnoff is Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. He is a Guggenheim Fellow for 2025-26. \n\nPresented by the Center for Cultural Studies and co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Department of Anthropology Colloquium. This event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law. \n\n \nSpring 2026 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Spring 2026 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/quinn-slobodian-whither-neoliberalism-studies/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Muskism - A Guide For The Perplexed
DESCRIPTION:Everyone’s got an Elon take. He’s a messiah. A menace; a genius; a clown. The verdicts differ\, but they share one theme: they treat him as an individual. Muskism argues otherwise. Elon Musk isn’t a glitch in the system—he is the system. His worldview promises sovereignty through technology: plug in\, power up\, and become self-reliant. But the more you connect\, the more he owns you. If Fordism defined the capitalism of the twentieth century\, Muskism may define the twenty-first. Fordism helped build the welfare state. Musk undoes it. He thrives on dependence while preaching freedom. His cars run on subsidies; his satellites run the battlefield; his social networks train the AI that trains us. Muskism sells itself as the future but entrenches age-old hierarchies. It offers autonomy for some and exclusion for others. It’s pro- natalist but anti-immigrant\, futurist but reactionary. It speaks of humanity but warns against empathy. Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff cut through the hype and the hate to reveal what Musk really represents: a new political economy\, where to be “free” means to serve a Techno- King. Muskism isn’t about the man. It’s about the machine that made him—and the world he’s making next. \nQuinn Slobodian is professor of international history at Boston University\, and the author or editor of seven books translated into ten languages including\, Hayek’s Bastards: Race\, Gold\, IQ and the Capitalism of the Far Right\, Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy\, and Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. \nBen Tarnoff is a writer and technologist based in Massachusetts and is the author of Internet for the People and the co-author of Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do—And How They Do It. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books\, and has also written for the New York Times\, The New Yorker\, and the New Republic\, among other publications. \n\nThis event is sponsored by Department of Politics\, Institute for Social Transformation\, The Humanities Institute\, Center for Cultural Studies\, and The Department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/muskism-a-guide-for-the-perplexed/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Nathan Osorio
DESCRIPTION:In Nourishment\, Us. \nNathan Osorio (Texas Tech) Poet and Critic UCSC Alum \nLiving Writers Spring 2026:  Our Nourishment\, US features poets\, writers\, critics\, visual and performance artists\, who demonstrate how writing and art enacts around the idea of freedom and the imaginary in the face of the constant threat of terror and erasure. In the presence of who we all are within marginalized yet expansively powerful fields of racialized and multiply lived complex and diverse identities\, please come as we convene in spirit\, deep celebration\, and resource with one another. \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Humanities Institute\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, and the Bay Tree Bookstore.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-nathan-osorio/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Environmental Crisis in Gabes: Agriculture and Revolt in Tunisia
DESCRIPTION:Film Screening and Discussion:  5:30-7pm\, Communications (Studio C) \nReception:  7-8:30pm\, Communications 139 \nGabes Labess (All is well in Gabes) questions current development models by focusing on the Oasis of Gabes\, the only coastal oasis in the world. What was once considered “The Paradise of the World” has been transformed into an economic\, social\, and ecological catastrophe by the construction\, in the 1970s\, of an industrial chemical complex that has deprived local farmers of their water\, arable land\, economic well-being\, and personal dignity. \nJoin us for a screening of this film by Habib Ayeb\, followed by a discussion with Jennifer Derr (UCSC) and Hossein Ayazi (UCB) on how models of development influence the lived environment\, public health\, and political contestation from California to North Africa. As climate change and rising temperatures dramatically alter landscapes around the world\, professors Derr and Ayazi will discuss how local populations adapt to these challenges and organize to demand accountability from the state. Reception to follow. \nHossein Ayazi\, PhD\, is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California\, Berkeley. His research\, teaching\, and policy work examine the U.S. and global political economy of agri-food systems and environmental change and their relationship to antiracist\, anticolonial\, and revolutionary-socialist movements from the twentieth century to the present. He has authored reports and peer-reviewed articles on U.S. and global agri-food and environmental policy\, state and corporate power\, trade and development\, labor and migration\, climate impacts and resilience strategies\, and food sovereignty and climate reparations. He is currently coordinating lead author on the California Fifth Climate Assessment topical report on Climate-Induced Human Displacement & Migration and has recently advised the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on “Global Recommendations to Prevent Loss of Nationality and Statelessness in the Context of Climate Change.” He holds a PhD in Environmental Science\, Policy\, and Management from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and has held resident fellowships and visiting professorships at Tufts University\, Williams College\, and Santa Clara University. \nJennifer L. Derr is Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz\, where she also served as the founding director of the Center for the Middle East and North Africa. Her research explores the intersections among medicine\, science\, the environment\, and capitalism\, particularly in the modern Middle East and North Africa. Prof. Derr’s book\, The Lived Nile: Environment\, Disease\, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt (Stanford University Press\, 2019)\, was awarded the 2020 Middle East Political Economy Book Prize. \n\nPresented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and co-sponsored by the Film and Digital Media Department.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/environmental-crisis-in-gabes-agriculture-and-revolt-in-tunisia/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - Macbeth
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Macbeth by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on Aoril 18\, 25\, May 2\, 9 & 16 2026 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 volunteer read aloud of the play. On May 16\,a video of a live stage production will be shown. This event series is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop. \nFor more information\, Zoom Link\, or to volunteer to be a reader\, contact: saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com \nGuest Speakers / Video Recording \n\nApril 18: Julia Reinhard Lupton\, Distinguished Professor Emerita of English & Comparative Literature & Co-Director of the New Swan Shakespeare Center at UC\, Irvine. Reading: Act 1\nApril 25: Charles Pasternak\, Acclaimed New York-based theatre director and actor\, Paul will direct Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2026 production of Macbeth. Reading: Act 2 through Act 3\, Scene 3\nMay 2: Abigail Heald\, Lecturer in Literature @ UC Santa Cruz & Stanford. She is writing a book on the relationship between art and emotion in Shakespeare’s work. Reading: Act 3\, Scene 4 through Act 4\, Scene 2\nMay 9: Paul Mullins\, Actor / Director\, Artistic Director of Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Reading: Act 4\, Scene 3 through Act 5\, Scene 8\nMay 16: Video recording of a live stage production at the Globe Theatre\, directed by Tony Award winning director Eve Best\, and starring Joseph Millson (Macbeth) and Samantha Spiro (Lady Macbeth).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-macbeth-may2/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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