The Dickens Project at UC Santa Cruz invites the community to the 2026 Dickens Universe, held July 26–August 1, a weeklong scholarly gathering devoted to Charles Dickens’s Bleak House. The Universe brings together scholars, students, teachers, and lifelong learners for lectures, discussion groups, film screenings, Victorian tea, festive dance, and a variety of other immersive […]

Join us for a day-long retreat and reflection with artists Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel Atrib and Gina Athena Ulysse. The morning walk, starting at the UC Santa Cruz Quarry, will be a chance to reflect on individual and collective futures together as we move between the nodes of Gina Athena Ulysse’s exhibition […]