Events
Week of Events
2026 Festival of Monsters
Monsters play a role in the representation of some of the most challenging problems facing our world: matters of race and religion, social justice, and environmental threats. The Center for Monster Studies at UC Santa Cruz aims to explore the role of monsters in culture and humanities. Each year, the Center for Monster Studies presents […]
Sunday, October 11, 2026
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October 11, 2026 -Min Jin Lee – American Hagwon
Min Jin Lee – American Hagwon
Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute welcome Min Jin Lee, the National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko, who returns with American Hagwon—a breathtaking contemporary epic, by turns sweeping and intimate, that reckons with ambition and moderation, lust and loyalty, personal dreams and familial duty. "With her gift for […]
Monday, October 12, 2026
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October 12, 2026Slugs and Steins with Matt O’Hara – The Flying Death: Poison, Plunder, and the Quest for a Miracle Medicine in the Amazon
Slugs and Steins with Matt O’Hara – The Flying Death: Poison, Plunder, and the Quest for a Miracle Medicine in the Amazon
In the 1930s and 40s, amateur explorers and hardened plant hunters combed the Amazon in a race to unlock the secrets of curare, an Indigenous poison they hoped could cure many diseases. The poison they brought north had a major impact on the practice of medicine as it became routinely used in shock therapy to […]
Tuesday, October 13, 2026
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Wednesday, October 14, 2026
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October 14, 2026 -Hannah Cole – Beyond Monoculture: A Theoretical Framework for Caribbean Literature
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October 14, 2026 -PhD+ Workshop – Archives 101 for Graduate Students
Hannah Cole – Beyond Monoculture: A Theoretical Framework for Caribbean Literature
The history of the insular Caribbean has long been told in terms of the boom and bust of the monoculture plantation system. Indeed, monoculture has become a pervasive way of understanding not only the agriculture but also the societies, economies, and cultures of the Caribbean islands. Yet, as Kamau Brathwaite has written, "the plantation does […]
PhD+ Workshop – Archives 101 for Graduate Students
Feeling the archival impulse? Come get some hands-on experience in the Special Collections & Archives Reading Room, 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. Please RSVP so we can get an accurate headcount. […]
Thursday, October 15, 2026
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October 15, 2026Living Writers with Jason Magabo Perez
Living Writers with Jason Magabo Perez
Living Writers Fall 2026 - OPEN SEASON: WRITING ENACTS features writers, performers and artists who explore what it means to encounter invisibility and silence, while simultaneously engaging with the insistent specters of hypervisibility and experiences of race, gender, and sexuality. These writers and artists work on the page, screen, stage and beyond. Often targeted, they […]
Friday, October 16, 2026
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Saturday, October 17, 2026
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