Questions That Matter: Disability in Medicine and Memoir | THE HUMANITIES INSTITUTE | April 6 | 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM | Kuumbwa Jazz Center | Tickets
The Charisma of Anti-Satanism: Secularity and the 1980s Satanic Panic in America (With Susan Harding) | April 8 | THE UC SANTA CRUZ EMERITI ASSOCIATION PRESENTS | 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM | Music Recital Hall and via Zoom | Register here
Living Downstream of Yourself on the Mindanao River (With Alyssa Paredes) | THE CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN COASTAL INTERACTIONS | April 9 | 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM | Social Sciences 1 Room 261
The Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture – Fred Moten: Theory and Practice of Contradiction | THE HUMANITIES INSTITUTE | April 9 | 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM | The Hay Barn and via Zoom | Register here
julie ezette patton | THE LIVING WRITERS SERIES | April 10 | 5:20 PM – 6:55 PM | Humanities Lecture Hall
Indigenous Epistemologies for the Time Being (With Elspeth Iralu) | THE CENTER FOR SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES | April 16 | 12:00 PM | Humanities 1 Room 210 and via Zoom | Register here
Slow Seminar: Unmaking Botany (With Kathleen Gutierrez) | THE CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN COASTAL INTERACTIONS | April 25 | 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM | Humanities 2 Room 259
Community-Based Research Colloquium on Women’s Activism, Indigenous Rights and the Environment | THE RIGHT LIVELIHOOD CENTER | April 30 | 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM | Graduate Student Commons | Register here
2025 Right Livelihood Laureate Lecture: Women’s Activism, Indigenous Rights, and the Environment | THE RIGHT LIVELIHOOD CENTER | April 30 | 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM | UCSC Multipurpose Room | Register here
Metaracism: How systemic racism devastates black lives (With Tricia Rose) | FEMINIST STUDIES |
May 1 | 11:00 AM | Merrill Cultural Center
What’s Behind the Attacks on Diversity and Racial Justice? (With Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor) | COMMUNITY STUDIES | May 1 | 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM | The Hay Barn | See more here
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa | THE LIVING WRITERS SERIES | May 1 | 5:20 PM – 6:55 PM | Humanities Lecture Hall
Lifting as we Rhyme: 50 Years of Black Feminist Sonic World Making (With Tricia Rose) | FEMINIST STUDIES | May 2 | 3:00 PM | Merrill Cultural Center
The Deep Read: A Conversation with Percival Everett | THE HUMANITIES INSTITUTE | May 4 | 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM | Quarry Amphitheater | Register here
Film screening and Q&A: Untouchable: Laughing Out Caste (With Manjeet Sarkar) | FEMINIST STUDIES | May 9 | 5:30 PM | Oshman Hall, McMurtry Building @ Stanford University
Visiting Artist: Wendy Clarke | FILM AND DIGITAL MEDIA STUDIES | Week of May 12 | More details to follow
Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and our Fight for an Independent Future | THE HUMANITIES INSTITUTE | May 15 | 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Humanities 1 Room 210
Maria Elena Ramirez | THE LIVING WRITERS SERIES | May 15 | 5:20 PM – 6:55 PM | Humanities Lecture Hall
Radical Research: 2025 Feminist Studies Research Symposium | FEMINIST STUDIES | May 16 | 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Cowell Hay Barn
Angel Dominguez | THE LIVING WRITERS SERIES | May 22 | 5:20 PM – 6:55 PM | Humanities Lecture Hall
Du Boisian Double Consciousness, Sikh Diasporas and Sikh Studies (With Anneeth Hundle) | AURORA LECTURE SERIES | May 29 | 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM | Humanities 1 Room 202
Undergraduate Student Reading | THE LIVING WRITERS SERIES | May 29 | 5:20 PM – 6:55 PM | Humanities Lecture Hall
Slow Seminar – “Moorings: Voyages of Capital Across the Indian Ocean” (With Nidhi Mahajan) | CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN COASTAL INTERACTIONS | June 2 | 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM | TBD
Thick, Slimy, Squishy, Squiggly, and Generative: A Conversation with Donna Haraway | UCSC SPECIAL COLLECTIVES & ARCHIVES | June 3 | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM | UCSC Special Collections & Archives, McHenry Library 3rd Floor | See more here
UCSC Night at the Museum – Amending Worlds | THE HUMANITIES INSTITUTE | June 5 | 7:00 PM | Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History | See more here
Through the Decades: 50 Years of Feminist Studies at UCSC | FEMINIST STUDIES | June 6 | 3:00 PM | Stevenson Event Center