Events
Bright Torches – Shakespeare in Action
Santa Cruz Veterans Memorial Building 846 Front Street, Santa CruzWeek of Events
Bright Torches – Shakespeare in Action
At the heart of the weekend is a simple idea: Shakespeare is something to be DONE. Join Santa Cruz Shakespeare for their upcoming artist-educator workshops with Bright Torches. This weekend is designed for elementary, middle and high school educators, university educators and students, teaching artists, professional actors, arts education practitioners and Shakespeare enthusiasts. Participants will […]
Giving Day 2026
On November 18, 2026, UC Santa Cruz will celebrate the 11th anniversary of Giving Day, our signature 24-hour fundraising event that unites Slugs around the world in support of student success, research, and community programs. Over the past decade, thousands of donors have raised millions to provide scholarships, fuel groundbreaking research, strengthen basic needs programs, […]
Sunday, November 15, 2026
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Monday, November 16, 2026
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November 16, 2026 -Fall Slow Seminar: The Range of the River by Iftekhar Iqbal
Fall Slow Seminar: The Range of the River by Iftekhar Iqbal
UCSC’s Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) and the Center for South Asian Studies invite you to join us for a Slow Seminar to discuss Iftekhar Iqbal’s The Range of the River: Asia’s Great River Systems and the Making of a Transregional World. Spanning nearly four million square kilometers across eastern South Asia, mainland […]
Tuesday, November 17, 2026
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November 17, 2026 -Colonialism In Our Time – Film Screening & Discussion
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November 17, 2026 -Humanities Grad School 101
Colonialism In Our Time – Film Screening & Discussion
UCSC’s Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast), Film and Digital Media Department, and Mauna Kea Protectors (MKP) invite you to a special screening of Pig Feast (Pesta Babi): Colonialism in our Time (2026) The documentary, made by filmmakers at WatchDoc in collaboration with partners Pusaka, Jubi, Greenpeace, and Ekspedisi Indonesia Baru, is about the […]
Humanities Grad School 101
Are you curious about graduate school in the humanities? Join this Humanities Grad School 101 session, where we’ll hear from Associate Dean of Research Pranav Anand and stellar UCSC graduate students in History, Linguistics, Literature, and Philosophy. We’ll discuss important considerations for deciding to pursue graduate school and what to look for in an academic […]
Wednesday, November 18, 2026
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November 18, 2026 -Maywa Montenegro – Smart Glasses: Hands-Free Liberation or Surveillance on Your Face?
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November 18, 2026Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM): 20 Years in the Making
Maywa Montenegro – Smart Glasses: Hands-Free Liberation or Surveillance on Your Face?
Smart glasses promise to deliver AI's power to their wearers by capturing media, streaming audio, and projecting visual data in the field of view. The technology, Meta suggests, amounts to “the most frictionless way to get help, answers and suggestions—anytime, anywhere.” Smart glasses also aren’t new. The concept dates back to the 1960s, with multiple […]
Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM): 20 Years in the Making
The Center for Racial Justice is very proud to sponsor the Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement series. Please join us for the following event "PYM: 20 Years in the Making". 2026 marks 20 years since the creation of the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM). Its origins, trajectories, and goals have intervened in […]
Thursday, November 19, 2026
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November 19, 2026 -Pasang Yangjee Sherpa — Lessons from our Melting Mountains
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November 19, 2026Lee Herrick – Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
Pasang Yangjee Sherpa — Lessons from our Melting Mountains
How do we meditate on the interrelated crises of our times for collective survival on a warming planet? Drawing on two decades of community-centered research on human dimensions of climate change in the high Himalaya, this talk describes the signs and signals our rapidly melting mountains have been giving again and again over the years. […]
Lee Herrick – Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
The Humanities Institute is proud to present The Seventeenth Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading featuring California Poet Laureate, Lee Herrick. Lee Herrick is the first California Poet Laureateto be reappointed to a second term. He is the author of four books, most recently In Praise of Late Wonder: New and Selected Poems (2024). He co-edited […]
Friday, November 20, 2026
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Saturday, November 21, 2026
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