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 […]
Exhibition Opening—Aesthetic Breach: Past and Present Struggles for Justice in North African Comics
The Center for Middle East and North Africa is pleased to share "Aesthetic Breach: Past and Present Struggles for Justice in North African Comics," an exhibit of graphic novels and comics from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region on display at the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery this fall. The exhibit, which is open […]
Sunday, October 18, 2026
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Monday, October 19, 2026
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October 19, 2026Delio Vasquez – Huey P. Newton’s Philosophy and the Structured Vehicle
Delio Vasquez – Huey P. Newton’s Philosophy and the Structured Vehicle
Delio Vasquez (New York University) will be in conversation with Darien Acero & xafsa ciise (UC Santa Cruz). This conversation and talk describes Huey P. Newton’s conception of reality and how it informed his development of strategies for the revolutionary organization, the Black Panther Party. Newton’s early approach was deeply influenced by skepticism, radical empiricism, […]
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
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October 20, 2026 -Lineages of Workers Inquiry in the U.S.
Lineages of Workers Inquiry in the U.S.
The 1970s saw a burst of working-class struggle in the United States. In a moment of crisis, workers responded with courage and determination to fight back. A wave of strikes and rank-and-file rebellion led a number of feminist scholars and activists to investigate, contextualize, and broadcast this activity. Some engaged in oral history, others in […]
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
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October 21, 2026 -Kirsten Keller, Megan Thomas, & Anna Tsing – The Clam, the Mud, and the Girl: Soft Coasts and the Story of Property
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October 21, 2026CANCELLED – Film Screening with Isaac Julien – Young Soul Rebels
Kirsten Keller, Megan Thomas, & Anna Tsing – The Clam, the Mud, and the Girl: Soft Coasts and the Story of Property
What if we considered Southeast Asia from the perspective of its muddy coasts and inland swamps? Precolonial “Soft coasts” supported a maritime world connecting diverse peoples by trade, kinship, and fealty. European ideas of property and governance brought land reclamation, destroying those wetlands. Reclamation continues in postcolonial guises. What are its social and ecological effects? […]
CANCELLED – Film Screening with Isaac Julien – Young Soul Rebels
Due to rain forecasted this Wednesday, we unfortunately have to cancel this event. We will be rescheduling for a later date. Thank you for your understanding. Join the Humanities Institute, the Moving Image Lab, and the Quarry Amphitheater for a screening of Isaac Julien’s 1991 film, Young Soul Rebels. Recently restored to its original director’s […]
Thursday, October 22, 2026
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October 22, 2026 -Mabel Denzin Gergan – Geological Surprises: Reading the Himalaya Otherwise
Mabel Denzin Gergan – Geological Surprises: Reading the Himalaya Otherwise
Drawing on research in Sikkim, India, with the Affected Citizens of Teesta movement, and with geoscientists across the Himalayan region, this talk asks: How have state powers used geological ways of seeing the Himalaya and with what consequences? What other geological imaginaries might offer an emancipatory, justice-centered approach to the earth? Centering the 2023 Glacial […]
Friday, October 23, 2026
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Saturday, October 24, 2026
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