Inquiry with impact
An investigation on the benefits and burdens of positionality, or the disclosure of how an author's racial, gender, class, or other self-identifications, experiences, and privileges influence research methods.
Join us for an evening with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and UC Santa Cruz alumna Laurie Garrett who will be discussing what it will take to prevent the next pandemic, and protect both health of our planet and the future of global health.
Each year, 4 people or organization are given the Right Livelihood Award. Join us on November 30 in honoring the world's foremost change-makers, Fartuun Adan and Ilwad Elman (Somalia), Oleksandra Matviichuk and the Center for Civil Liberties (Ukraine), the Africa Institute for Energy Governance (Uganda) and Cecosesola (Venezuela).
The Center for Integrated Spatial Research presents a talk with Dr. Christopher Wilmers, professor of Environmental Studies at UC Santa Cruz and lead investigator for the Santa Cruz Puma Project.
Evaluating Engaged Research in Promotion and Tenure: Not Everything that Counts Can Be Counted Lauren Wendling, Director of Institutional Success at Collaboratory This study investigated how school- and department-level promotion and tenure committees not only define and understand faculty’s engaged research, but how they evaluate it. This study explored what goes into making evaluative decisions, …
New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley will present his new book Silent Spring Revolution, which chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973). Brinkley will be joined by State Senator John Laird for a question and answer session, including questions from the audience.
This hybrid event will be a conversation with scholar Jarrod Shanahan about the history of prisons and jails in New York, the present arrangement of the carceral state, and the 2020 rebellion. How do the histories of capitalism and the carceral state inform how we understand the radical challenges that emerged in the summer of …
This webinar will bring together Brazilian social activists and Right Livelihood Award Laureates Cassia Bechara of the Movement of the Landless Rural Workers / MST, and Chico Whitaker, co-founder of the World Social Forum, to discuss the challenges and expectations for Brazil's social movements in light of the newly implemented presidency of Luiz Inácio Lula …
Nate Hagens is the Director of The Institute for the Study of Energy & Our Future (ISEOF). The Earth Futures Institute has invited Nate to give a lunchtime brown-bag seminar on Tuesday Feb 21 at UCSC in-person at the Center for Adaptive Optics, which is next to the Earth and Marine Sciences Building (map here). …
A documentary about Dolores Huerta, co-founder - with César Chávez - of the precursor to the United Farmworkers union.
The annual convocation celebrates the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by presenting speakers who discuss the civil rights issues of equality, freedom, justice, and opportunity. The convocation also seeks to build partnerships and develop dialogue within the campus community and with the local communities served by the university. This year we …
As we confront the fragility of California’s water system, a crucial question emerges: how can we adapt to water scarcity without jeopardizing farmer livelihoods? Join farmers, researchers, technical assistance providers, and policy advocates as we discuss dry farming in this community of practice! At this event, participants will: Sponsored by UCSC's Center for Agroecology Location …
