Events
Week of Events
Sunday, May 17, 2026
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Monday, May 18, 2026
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Tuesday, May 19, 2026
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May 19, 2026 -Privacy’s Defender: Fight Against Digital Surveillance with Cindy Cohn
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May 19, 2026The Deep Read: Faculty Salon on Entangled Life
Privacy’s Defender: Fight Against Digital Surveillance with Cindy Cohn
Cindy Cohn has devoted her life to the fight for digital rights. She’s tangled with federal officials to keep our online conversations secure from the government’s prying eyes, fought to ensure that you are told when your information has been turned over to the government, and argued before judges to protect our right to speak […]
The Deep Read: Faculty Salon on Entangled Life
Join us for a salon-style event at the Hay Barn on campus where our participating Deep Read faculty, Professors Benjamin Breen (History), Gregory Gilbert (Environmental Studies), and Donna Haraway (History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies) will give brief presentations and discuss Entangled Life with the Deep Read community in a Q&A moderated by Deep Read […]
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
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May 20, 2026 -Alyssa Battistoni – Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
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May 20, 2026 -Film Screening with Raed Rafei – “Tripoli: A Tale of Three Cities”
Alyssa Battistoni – Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
Co-sponsored by the Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies Although capitalism is typically treated as a force for relentless commodification, it consistently fails to place value on vital aspects of the nonhuman world, whether carbon emissions or entire ecosystems. Free Gifts argues that to understand contemporary ecological problems from biodiversity collapse to climate change, […]
Film Screening with Raed Rafei – “Tripoli: A Tale of Three Cities”
Pre-Screening Reception: 5:30-7pm, Communications 139 Film Screening: 7-8:30, Communications, Studio C While living abroad, a filmmaker returns to Tripoli, Lebanon, to confront a hometown that once rejected him as a queer child. With a microphone in hand, he walks around coffee shops, public squares, and a park to ask the city's inhabitants about their cultural […]
Thursday, May 21, 2026
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May 21, 2026 -Prof Dr Laura Van Broekhoven – Indigenous-Led Regenerative Partnerships: Reframing Museum Ethics for Reconciliation and Societal Healing
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May 21, 2026 -Living Writers with Terri Witek
Prof Dr Laura Van Broekhoven – Indigenous-Led Regenerative Partnerships: Reframing Museum Ethics for Reconciliation and Societal Healing
For over a decade, the Pitt Rivers Museum has engaged in sustained, collaborative work with Indigenous peoples whose cultural belongings, acquired through histories of dispossession and colonial violence, are now held in Oxford. Part of the work has helped reposition the museum as a site of cultural care rather than a repository of extracted, well-preserved […]
Living Writers with Terri Witek
In Nourishment, Us. Terri Witek (Stetson University Emeritus). Poet/Visual Artist About the Living Writers Series The 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 […]
Friday, May 22, 2026
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Saturday, May 23, 2026
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