Books & Talks
Mondavi Center: An Evening with Fran Lebowitz
Jackson Hall, Mondavi CenterIn a cultural landscape filled with endless pundits and talking heads, Fran Lebowitz stands out as one of our most insightful social commentators. Her essays and interviews offer her acerbic views on current events and the media as well as pet peeves including tourists, baggage-claim areas, after-shave lotion, adults who roller skate, children who speak […]
Valente Lecture: A Collaboration to Remember – Giacomo Meyerbeer, Pauline Viardot, and ‘Le Prophète’
Everson Hall, Room 266Presented by guest lecturer Hilary Poriss, an Associate Professor of Music at Northeastern University. Hilary received her bachelor's from Bates College and her master's and doctorate in music history from the University of Chicago. Her primary research interests reside in the 19th-century Italian and French opera, performance practice, diva culture, and musical culture aesthetics. She is […]
UC Davis Music: Lecture Demo – Concordian Dawn and Sarah Kay
Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center Hutchison Dr. & Cushing Way, Davis, CA, United StatesConcordian Dawn, ensemble for medieval music. Sarah Kay, troubadour scholar and Professor of French Literature, Thought, and Culture at New York University. At the UC Davis campus, Professor Kay and Concordian Dawn will perform a lecture with 12th–14th-century French music and texts. Highlighting material from their forthcoming publication/recording collaboration, Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera (Cornell […]
Pence Gallery Art History Lecture Series: Elaine O’Brien
Virtual CA, United StatesArt History Lecture Series: Elaine O’Brien (via Zoom) She Laughs Back: Feminist Wit in 1970s Bay Area Art Join us for the next talk in our free, virtual Art History Lecture Series on March 5! Elaine O’Brien, Professor of Modern & Contemporary Art at California State University, Sacramento, explores feminist wit and humor in […]
John Lescroart at The Avid Reader
The Avid Reader 617 2nd St.Best-selling local author John Lescroart is back with a new book, The Missing Piece. Join us for an in-person event at The Avid Reader.
Choosing the Right Bike for You
U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame 303 3rd Street, Davis, United StatesIf bicycling is on your bucket list, join the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame and Osher Lifelong Learning for this co-sponsored class. So much has changed in bicycle design to make this fitness and recreation activity accessible for everyone! See electric assist bicycles, learn how to choose a proper bike to suit your physical and […]
Mondavi Center: Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
Jackson Hall, Mondavi CenterCampus Community Book Project: How to be an Anti-Racist Mondavi Center Presenting Program Ibram X. Kendi is one of America’s foremost historians and leading antiracist scholars. In 2020, Time Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He is a National Book Award-winning and #1 New York Times-bestselling author of […]
Pence Gallery Artist Talk: Marsha Schindler
Pence Gallery (Pence) 212 D St., Davis, CA, United StatesJoin the Pence Gallery for an Artist Talk with Marsha Schindler on Saturday, April 2. For her talk, she will discuss how the installation process is a dialogue between her ideas and the mediums involved. The long evolving process of creating an immersive installation is different than creating individual works for her, and about the […]
Virtual Book Talk with Reyna Grande
Eventbright / Zoom Davis !Who is ready for an evening with a bestselling author? Reyna Grande will be in-conversation with Rigoberto Gonzalez to discuss her novel A Ballad of Love and Glory. The new novel is a sweeping historical saga that follows a Mexican army nurse and an Irish soldier who must fight for their survival and their love, […]
Faustin Rusanganwa at The Avid Reader
The Avid Reader 617 2nd St.Born in Rwanda, known as The Land of a Thousand Hills, Faustin Rusanganwa would have never thought he would one day become a refugee from his own country. What begins as a plan to see five countries, turns into a journey that that leads him to over a dozen, eventually ending in Europe. Some […]
An Evening with Richard Powers
Richard Brunelle Performance Hall 315 W 14th Street, Davis, CA, United StatesJoin Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers converses with local author Kim Stanley Robinson in Davis, CA.