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SUMMARY:Nowruz
DESCRIPTION:Join AA/PIRC and the Iranian Student Union on Tuesday\, March 10th from 7:30-9:30pm at the Merrill Cultural Center to celebrate Nowruz — the Iranian/Afghan New Year! Come learn about the significance of Nowruz\, enjoy delicious food and activities\, be together in community\, and more. \nRegister at: bit.ly/nowruz26 \nYou Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all\, consistent with state and federal law\, as well as the University of California’s nondiscrimination policies. Every initiative—whether a student service\, faculty program\, or community event—is designed to be accessible\, inclusive\, and respectful of all identities. \nTo learn more\, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/nowruz/
LOCATION:Merrill Cultural Center\, 200 McLaughlin Dr\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Teaching Award Lecture — Teaching Week 2026
DESCRIPTION:Welcoming the Unknown Together\nJoin us as 2024-25 Distinguished Teaching Award recipient Laurie Palmer\, Professor Emerita of Art\, shares her insights on teaching. This lecture is one of the key events featured in Teaching Week 2026. \nArtist\, theorist\, scholar\, and activist\, A. Laurie Palmer is Professor Emerita of Art. Since joining UCSC in 2015\, she’s offered courses in sculpture\, writing\, forms and ideas\, mixed media and project-based art\, materiality of color\, materiality of time\, and environmental and racial justice. She has contributed significantly to establishing and guiding the Art Department’s Environmental Art and Social Practice graduate program during its first years. Before joining UCSC faculty\, Palmer taught sculpture and contemporary theory at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for 18 years. Her artwork has been shown nationally and internationally. She also lectures widely on her work\, and publishes writing as\, and about\, art in multiple formats and forums. \nStarting in 2018-2019\, the Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA) recognizes outstanding teaching on our campus. This annual award is an opportunity to acknowledge the pedagogical contributions of our colleagues that include—but also go beyond—any one particular course. It seeks to recognize an instructor that has made significant contributions to educational equity within and beyond UC Santa Cruz. \nHybrid Event\nPlease register to attend in person or to stream via Vimeo\nLearn more about the Distinguished Teaching Award
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/dta-lecture-26/
LOCATION:Merrill Cultural Center\, 200 McLaughlin Dr\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Teaching Symposium — Teaching Week 2026
DESCRIPTION:This is the kick-off event for Teaching Week 2026. The symposium will showcase the work of instructors (including grads\, lecturers\, senate faculty) presenting on a teaching innovation\, activity\, program\, or scholarly work. Presentation modalities include posters and short spoken presentations. \nApplication to Present \nRSVP here to attend
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/teaching-symposium-2026/
LOCATION:Merrill Cultural Center\, 200 McLaughlin Dr\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:"The Eternal Song" Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:About the Film\nThe Eternal Song is a cinematic journey through timeless lands and Indigenous cultures. Voices from across generations and traditions invite us to witness the enduring scars of colonization on lands and peoples\, and the healing pathways carried through ancestral wisdom. Entrusted with medicine stories\, the film grapples with colonial legacies\, intergenerational trauma\, and the culture of separation that fragments our lives. \nEvent Details:\nLocation: Merrill Cultural Center\nDoors Open: 6:30 PM\nFilm Begins: 7:15 PM\nTabling: 6:30–7:15 PM \nRSVP LINK \nHosted by the American Indian Resource Center and CoCo JRL/C10 \nNeed more information\, please contact: Angel Riotutar: ariotutar@ucsc.edu
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/the-eternal-song-film-screening-2/
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SUMMARY:"The Eternal Song" Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:The Eternal Song is a cinematic journey through timeless lands and Indigenous cultures. Voices from across generations and traditions invite us to witness the enduring scars of colonization on lands and peoples\, and the healing pathways carried through ancestral wisdom. Entrusted with medicine stories\, the film grapples with colonial legacies\, intergenerational trauma\, and the culture of separation that fragments our lives.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/the-eternal-song-film-screening/
LOCATION:Merrill Cultural Center\, 200 McLaughlin Dr\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:UC Santa Cruz NAI Chapter: From Campus to Commerce Winter Event
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an engaging gathering at the intersection of breakthrough science and real-world impact featuring: \n\n​A fireside chat with accomplished inventor and NAI Fellow David Schaffer – UC Berkeley Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering\, Director of QB3\, and Director of Bakar BioEnginuity Hub – with a conversation exploring translational research and commercialization successes as well as approaches to lab management and mentorship that encourage a culture of innovation impact\n​Induction of new chapter inventor and honorary members\n​Networking with chapter leaders and fellow campus inventors
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/uc-santa-cruz-nai-chapter-from-campus-to-commerce-winter-event/
LOCATION:Merrill Cultural Center\, 200 McLaughlin Dr\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Meetings & Conferences
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SUMMARY:Labor Against ICE
DESCRIPTION:Trump’s second term has been marked by a dramatic increase in immigration enforcement operations\, including the deployment of federal and national guard troops to major cities across the United States. Ramped-up ICE raids have resulted in injuries\, deaths\, and the disappearance of migrants and non migrants alike. As legal challenges demanding the cessation of indiscriminate workplace and neighborhood raids have largely failed\, how are workers and communities fighting back? This event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Refreshments provided. Immigrant and labor rights organizations will also be tabling. \nPlease join UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Labor and Community for a panel discussion with co-founder of LA Educators for Racial Justice (LAE4RJ)\, Denisha Jordan (United Teachers Los Angeles)\, founder of OEA Rapid Response Team and dual-language teacher\, Jessie Papalia (Oakland Education Association)\, Emergency Medicine Resident\, SatKartar Khalsa (SEIU 1021 Committee of Interns and Residents)\, Alex Quintero (@allthingslabor)\, and regional labor and community organizer Cesar Lara (California Federation of Labor) to learn how labor is organizing to defend migrants on the job. \nRSVP HERE \nEspañol_Labor_Against_ICE \nEnglish_Labor Against ICE \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/labor-against-ice/
LOCATION:Merrill Cultural Center\, 200 McLaughlin Dr\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:The Everett Program Presents: Envisioning Digital Justice Together | 7th Annual Project Showcase
DESCRIPTION:The Everett Program Presents: Envisioning Digital Justice Together | 7th Annual Project Showcase \nThis showcase aims to highlight the incredible work of our students\, who have completed a year-long practicum conceptualizing and using digital technology to work with nonprofit organizations on social justice issues from climate justice to the racist impacts of the carceral state. \nThis year\, Showcase is an event in which the audience can not only come together to support these wonderful students and their work\, but also to envision a range of digital futures together. \nAll are welcome! RSVP with the QR Code found on the poster\, we hope to see you there 🙂
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/the-everett-program-presents-envisioning-digital-justice-together-7th-annual-project-showcase/
LOCATION:Merrill Cultural Center\, 200 McLaughlin Dr\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Exhibits,Lectures & Presentations,Seminars
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SUMMARY:Ellen Bass: Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 15th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading\, featuring honored guest Ellen Bass. Poet Gary Young will host the program\, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1\,000 prize). \nEllen Bass’s most recent collection\, Indigo\, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020. Among her other books are Like a Beggar\, The Human Line\, and Mules of Love. Her poems appear frequently in The New Yorker\, American Poetry Review\, and many other journals. Among her awards are Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, The NEA\, and The California Arts Council\, The Lambda Literary Award\, and four Pushcart Prizes. She co-edited with Florence Howe the first major anthology of women’s poetry\, No More Masks!\, and her nonfiction books include the groundbreaking The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse and Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay\, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth. A chancellor emerita of the Academy of American Poets\, Bass founded poetry workshops at Salinas Valley State Prison and the Santa Cruz\, California jails\, and teaches in the MFA writing program at Pacific University \nGary Young is the author of several collections of poetry. His most recent books are That’s What I Thought\, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award from Persea Books\, and Precious Mirror\, translations from the Japanese. His other books include Even So: New and Selected Poems; Pleasure; No Other Life\, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award; Braver Deeds\, winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize; Days; The Dream of a Moral Life\, which won the James D. Phelan Award; and Hands. He has received a Pushcart Prize\, and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the California Arts Council\, and the Vogelstein Foundation\, among others. In 2009 he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Young was the first Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County\, and in 2012 he was named Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year. Since 1975 he has designed\, illustrated\, and printed limited edition letterpress books and broadsides at his Greenhouse Review Press. His fine print work is represented in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art\, the Victoria and Albert Museum\, The Getty Museum\, and special collection libraries throughout the U.S. and Europe. He teaches creative writing and directs the Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz. \nThis event is a part of the Fall UCSC Living Writers course\, which features poets\, novelists\, academics\, curators\, and artists in conversation with one another\, in person\, across genre and media. \nPurchase both poets’ works at: www.bookshopsantacruz.com \n\nParking Information \nThe Merrill Cultural Center is located in Merrill College\, in the northeast corner of the campus core. Those walking or arriving by Metro bus or campus shuttle can take the steep path heading northeast from the Crown/Merrill bus stop. \nFor those driving from the Main Entrance\, stay on Coolidge Drive. Shortly after Coolidge turns left and becomes McLaughlin Drive\, turn right at the sign for Merrill College. At the top of the hill\, veer right. There are ParkMobile parking spaces along the left side of the lot\, and parking for “A\,” “B\,” and “C” permits along the right. There are two accessible parking spaces if you turn left at the top of the hill and two more if you turn right. Parking attendants will be on site to sell parking permits to event attendees. \n\nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors poet\, teacher\, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009). Marcus was the 1999 Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year and a recipient of the 2007 Gail Rich Award. Among his published works are eleven volumes of poetry\, including The Santa Cruz Mountain Poems\, Pages from a Scrapbook of Immigrants\, Moments Without Names\, Shouting Down the Silence\, Pursuing the Dream Bone and The Dark Figure In The Doorway; a novel\, The Brezhnev Memo; and a literary memoir\, Striking Through the Masks. He taught English and Film at Cabrillo College for thirty years\, was the co-host of the radio program\, The Poetry Show\, and was the co-host of the television film review show\, Cinema Scene. Learn more at: www.mortonmarcus.com \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Archive can be found at UCSC Special Collections. Mort’s personal papers\, manuscripts\, and recordings reflect his legacy as a poet and educator\, and his collection of poetry books\, broadsides\, literary magazines and correspondence with other poets and writers illuminate his deep involvement in\, and passion for\, the literary art of poetry. \nOrganizing Committee: Danusha Laméris\, Donna Mekis\, Mark Ong\, Maggie Paul\, Farnaz Fatemi\, David Sullivan\, Irena Polić\, Teresa Mora\, and Gary Young. \nMorton Marcus Memorial Poetry Contest: Every year\, the annual reading coincides with the The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Prize\, a national poetry contest which honors Morton Marcus\, “whose life and work inspired the writing of many students\, friends\, and emerging poets.” The contest is hosted by The Hive Poetry Collective. The Hive is a group of Santa Cruz poets creating a weekly radio show and live poetry events featuring a diverse roster of poets and seeks to bring a diverse community together in appreciation of all kinds of poetry by all kinds of people. This year’s contest will be judged by Nancy Miller Gomez. For more information visit: https://hivepoetry.org/morton-marcus-prize/ \nSupport Poetry in Santa Cruz: The Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading is made possible due to campus and community co-sponsorships and generous contributions from members of our community\, like you. To ensure we can continue to offer this poetry reading free and open to the public in honor and memory of Morton Marcus\, and to have our lives deeply enriched by exceptional poetry\, please consider making a gift to The Morton Marcus Poetry Reading Fund: thi.ucsc.edu/projects/morton-marcus-poetry-reading. \nThis community event is presented by the The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by: \nBookshop Santa Cruz\nCabrillo College English Department\nCowell College\nDonna F. Mekis\nThe Hive Poetry Collective\nLiving Writers Series\nOw Family Properties\nMerrill College\nPoetry Santa Cruz\nPorter Hitchcock Modern Poetry Fund\nPorter College\nSanta Cruz Writes\nSide By Side Press\nSpecial Collections & Archives \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by October 31. \nPhoto by: Irene Young
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/ellen-bass-morton-marcus-poetry-reading/
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SUMMARY:Plenary Session for Crown Students: Chatbots on the Couch: AI\, Mental Health\, and the Ethics of Digital Empathy
DESCRIPTION:Location: Merrill/Crown Auditorium\nEvent Type: Panel Discussion / Plenary Session\nSponsor: Crown College\nOpen to: UCSC Students\, Faculty\, and Staff \n\nEvent Description: \nAs artificial intelligence increasingly shapes mental healthcare—from chatbots offering therapeutic support to algorithms detecting early signs of distress—we face urgent ethical questions about trust\, privacy\, bias\, and the future of human connection in care. \nJoin us for a compelling panel discussion featuring three distinguished experts who will explore the promises and perils of AI in mental health: \nPanelists: \nDr. Lisa A. Berkley – Director of Crown Resiliency Program and Founder Executive Director of the Center for Applied Values & Ethics in Advancing Technology (CAVEAT) at UCSC; Founder and President of the Institute for Inner Economy \nAlka Roy – Technology and product leader with deep expertise in Machine Learning/AI\, privacy\, and trust frameworks. Ms. Roy founded the Responsible Innovation Project\, serves on multiple open-source Responsible and Trusted AI committees\, and holds multiple patents for policy and security frameworks. She has received national recognition as a Rising Star and National Women of Color in Technology honoree. With degrees in both Electrical Engineering/Computer Science and an MFA in Creative Writing\, Ms. Roy brings a unique interdisciplinary perspective to questions of technology ethics and innovation. \nLinda MacDonald Glenn\, JD\, LLM\, Faculty at Crown College and co-founder of the Center for Applied Values and Ethics in Advancing Technologies (CAVEAT.UCSC.EDU) \nWhat We’ll Explore: \n\nWhen does AI complement human care\, and when does it replace it dangerously?\nHow do we address algorithmic bias in mental health interventions?\nWhat ethical guardrails are needed when bots mimic empathy?\nWho is accountable when AI-driven mental health tools cause harm?\n\nThis panel brings together perspectives from bioethics\, clinical practice\, student well-being\, and technology leadership to examine the real-world ethical challenges of AI deployment in mental healthcare—a topic of profound relevance given recent concerns about chatbot safety\, algorithmic bias\, and the commercialization of mental health technologies. \nThis event connects directly to critical questions about responsibility\, justice\, and the sociopolitical implications of emerging technologies. Come prepared to think critically about innovation that claims to heal—and to question whose interests are truly being served. \nAdmission: Free and open to the UCSC community \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/plenary-session-for-crown-students-chatbots-on-the-couch-ai-mental-health-and-the-ethics-of-digital-empathy/
LOCATION:Merrill Cultural Center\, 200 McLaughlin Dr\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Social Gathering
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SUMMARY:Fiesta on the Hill
DESCRIPTION:Join Merrill and Crown Programs Offices for an evening of food\, fun\, and community. Enjoy tamales\, Mexican corn\, music\, and piñata fun while connecting with fellow Slugs. \nThis festive event also features “Slugs Go Slow\,” an initiative focused on making safe choices and building meaningful connections. Come for the food and celebration—stay for the community and good vibes! \nYou Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all\, consistent with state and federal law\, as well as the University of California’s nondiscrimination policies. Every initiative—whether a student service\, faculty program\, or community event—is designed to be accessible\, inclusive\, and respectful of all identities. \nTo learn more\, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/fiesta-on-the-hill/
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