UC Santa Cruz Virtual Alumni Week 2021
Celebrating Alumni Week in true 2021 style April 19-25th. Have fun, remember your roots, reignite your passions, and connect like never before as our first virtual Alumni Week zooms you back to campus.
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12 events found.
Diverse Voices 2021: Kelly Harkins Kincaid
"Living on the Edge of Your Comfort Zone: Women in Executive Leadership." Diverse Voices is a professional speakers series spotlighting industry leaders and Baskin Engineering Students.
Virtual Earth Day
There are many UCSC events happening on April 22nd, as well as the entire week around Earth Day and the month of April.
New Gen Learning: Community-Supported Learning by Children and Students during the Pandemic and Beyond
In this gathering, we share evidence-based insights into community-supported learning by children and students during and beyond the era of the COVID-19 pandemic. New Gen Learning is an interdisciplinary consortium that brings together faculty and students from all divisions on campus to work on research that identifies the strengths for learning in children and students …
UCSC AgTech Symposium
New technologies in our agro-food system hold both tremendous benefits and potential harms. This era will require inter-disciplinary expertise and cross-disciplinary dialogue to maximize benefits and minimize harms from technological change. UCSC is well-positioned to contribute. In October 2020, faculty from several departments at UC Santa Cruz met for a preliminary discussion about what a …
A Conversation with Terri McCullough, chief of staff to Nancy Pelosi, in memory of Gabe Zimmerman
Gabe Zimmerman (Stevenson '02, sociology) was U.S. Congresswoman Gabby Giffords's community outreach director. He organized the "Congress on Your Corner" event on January 8, 2011, in Tucson, Ariz., where he was among four people killed in a shooting that also severely wounded Giffords and 13 others. Gabe’s unofficial nickname on Giffords’s staff was “The Constituent …
Confronting Climate Change: Food Security in a Changing World
Wednesday & Thursday, April 28-29, 2021 from 5:30pm – 7:00pm. Confronting Climate Change is an annual public lecture series that brings together luminaries and the community to discuss the latest in climate science and policy, and share solutions to protect our planet's wellbeing. The series is free and encourages audience participation! This year's theme is Food …
How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens
Hillary Angelo, Author of How Green Became Good, is joined in conversation with Robin Wagner-Pacifici, Neil Brenner, and Claudio Benzecry. Join us on Friday, April 30th at 12:00 PST as Hillary Angelo, is joined in conversation with Robin Wagner-Pacifici, Neil Brenner, and Claudio Benzecry to discuss her new book, How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and …
Thinking and Rethinking our Actions: Nnimmo Bassey in Conversation
Join leading Nigerian environmental and human rights activist Nnimmo Bassey in Conversation. The interactive event is part of the Right Livelihood Community Conversations series aimed at connecting students and faculty from UC Santa Cruz with those at other Right Livelihood Colleges worldwide. Our conversation will probe issues surrounding our perceptions and interactions with our environment, the limits …
Documenting Justice
The Institute of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to present ‘Documenting Justice,’ a screening of short films curated by Dee Hibbert-Jones, professor, art, UCSC, and filmmaker Nomi Talisman, followed by a panel discussion by the filmmakers. The documentary films on prisons and justice will be available to watch online between April 30 - May …
Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance
On May 4th, 2021, we celebrate the launch of Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance (PM Press) by Erin McElroy, UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies alum and co-founder of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. Counterpoints brings together cartography, essays, illustrations, poetry, and more in order to depict gentrification and resistance struggles from across the …
Mark Massoud: “Shari’a, Inshallah – Finding God in Somali Legal Politics”
This book talk is presented by the Politics Department, the Centre for the Middle East and North African, and the Legal Studies Program. Speaker: Professor Mark Fathi Massoud, Politics and Legal Studies Discussant: Professor David Anthony, History Moderator: Professor Jennifer Derr, History Book Description: Western analysts have long denigrated Islamic states as antagonistic, even antithetical, …
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