Ongoing

2026 Right Livelihood International Conference

Hybrid Event

The Right Livelihood International Conference is a five-week global conference exploring how education can strengthen democracy, collective intelligence, and just futures. Bringing together Right Livelihood Laureates, students, faculty, and community partners […]

Flow and Friction: Media Practices Across Global Asias

Cowell Conference Room 257 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz

Though flow and friction have their enmeshed problematic of combined colonial and imperial mechanisms, we also believe that they can be useful concepts to think through the transnational and deimperial techniques that Global Asias can offer. Global Asias offer an expansive model to consider the imaginary or symbolic Asia as a series of diasporic interpolations […]

FREE and open to UCSC affiliates

Run Like a Slug 5k

Upper East Field

The UC Santa Cruz Department of Athletics and Recreation is proud to announce the second annual Run Like a Slug 5k. Banana Slugs can register here for the race. Get ready to embrace your inner Banana Slug at the Run Like A Slug 5k Fun Run! Join fellow students, staff, and faculty members for a scenic and spirited […]

STEM Culture Festival

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Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz

Join us for a celebration of UCSC’s vibrant, innovative, and diverse STEM community featuring: Musical performances Dance lessons STEM-themed drag shows Inspirational talks Student organization tabling Student-led games & activities […]

UCSC Graduate Research Symposium

McHenry Library 1156 High St, Santa Cruz

Friday, May 15, 1:00-4:00 PM (PDT) McHenry Library | Information Commons South on the Main Floor We are delighted to invite you to the 22nd Annual Graduate Research Symposium! This […]

FREE

2026 Graduate Research Symposium

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McHenry Library 1156 High St, Santa Cruz

UCSC 22nd Annual Graduate Research Symposium Friday, May 15, 1:00-4:00 PM (PDT) McHenry Library | Information Commons South on the Main Floor This event celebrates and highlights the work of UCSC graduate students in all academic divisions. Any enrolled graduate student is welcome to present either a poster, talk, or mixed media presentation. The event is […]

FREE

Rasanblé/Rasanblaj: Call & Response

Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz

Join us for an evening of call and response between Portsha Jefferson, dancer and artistic director of Rara Tou Limen, and artist-scholar Gina Athena Ulysse. Jefferson will offer a Haitian dance response to Ulysse’s art exhibition Redwoods Rasanblaj: Origins & Disentanglements and screen her short film IMAMOU: Hotô to Shore… Agbe | Agwe. Ulysse will read from […]

UCSC Concert Choir

Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz

UCSC Concert Choir

Free – $12