Additional Founders Celebration Events Include:

• Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture

  • Saturday, October 25, 2014
  • Rio Theatre, Santa Cruz
  • Time: 4 p.m.
  • Tickets: SOLD OUT!
    

  Toni Morrison

  "Literature and the Silence of Goodness"

  UC Santa Cruz Foundation Medal awardee Toni Morrison, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for Beloved, the Nobel Prize in 1993, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012, will deliver the Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture at the Rio Theatre. Read more »

• 14th Annual Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture

  • Friday, November 14, 2014
  • Time: 7:30 p.m.
  • Location: Music Center Recital Hall
  • Tickets: SOLD OUT

  Wade Davis

  "The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in a Modern World"

  Author, explorer, filmmaker and professor Wade Davis will lead a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world’s indigenous cultures and rediscover a new appreciation for the diversity of the human spirit. Read more »

• The Campaign for UC Santa Cruz

Toni Morrison is presented by the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Studies: