Events

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

w/ Sora Han, adrienne maree brown and Savannah Shange “I believe that all organizing is science fiction - that we are shaping the future we long for and have not yet experienced.” -Adrienne Maree Brown For the next Visualizing Abolition event, join legal and popular culture theorist Sora Han, author and activist adrienne maree brown, and …

"Retaining Women in Tech: The Skills Needed by Women to Help Face the Challenges of Staying and Thriving in the Tech Industry." Diverse Voices is a professional speakers series spotlighting industry leaders and Baskin Engineering Students.

The Research Center for the Americas is proud to host “Memory Studies in the Americas,” a thematic series exploring how markers or symbols of memory are imagined and disputed. Listen to presentations on the San Gabriel mission in Tovaangar (known as Los Angeles today) by Dr. Catherine Ramírez (Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies) and Confederate monuments …

Bestselling author Julia Alvarez (In the Time of the Butterflies, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents) will be in conversation with Sylvanna Falcón about Alvarez's most recent novel, Afterlife, now available in paperback. This event is cosponsored by Research Center for the Americas at UC Santa Cruz.

Music for Abolition, directed and curated by Terri Lyne Carrington, is a project bringing together musicians across a variety of genres to create a soundtrack—and provide a heartbeat—to our shared struggle for abolition. Expressing grief, rage, exhaustion, and resolution in the face of the U.S. history of racism and oppression, the music resonates with calls …