Inquiry with impact
Understanding technology and its implications is essential to creating a more just and equitable future. How do we ensure the public is better served by the design and implementation of policies and services which anticipate the implications of technology? How can we include the next generation of computer scientists, information architects, engineers, data scientists, and …
Everything changed in March. UC Santa Cruz transitioned to remote teaching and learning seven months ago. Today we reflect on the lessons we have learned as teachers and learners. What has the shift to remote or fully online instruction revealed about the current state and possible future of higher education? How can we use this crisis …
For decades, Vandana Shiva and Bill McKibben have used their moral imaginations to envision a better world, articulate a global agenda for sustainable societies, advocate for policy advancements, and support social movements. Join Shiva and McKibben to imagine the future from the perspective of people and the planet, including a look at what Green New …
The third event in the Visualizing Abolition series brings together visual and cultural theorists Nicole Fleetwood, Herman Gray and Nicholas Mirzoeff to consider the roles of visual culture in normalizing mass incarceration and the racist brutalities of policing within the social landscape and political vision of America. Questions of visuality and formations moves beyond critiques …
You probably know about rideshare and food delivery apps as a service, but do you know about their workers? App-based deliveries and ride-hailing have become a ubiquitous part of daily life, from jumping in a ride-hail car to ordering pizza with the click of a button. The COVID pandemic has further highlighted how essential these …
Dr. Pascha Bueno-Hansen will provide a lunch time webinar lecture on the modalities of resistance of people of non-normative genders and sexualities to armed conflict, political repression, and authoritarian regimes in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. Dr. Bueno-Hansen is an Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware and earned her PhD …
CAFIN and UC Investments Speaker Series Financial Risks, Innovation and Inclusion in a Post-COVID World with Leora Klapper, Lead Economist, Finance and Private Sector Research Team, Development Research Group, World Bank Digital financial services have expanded opportunities for millions of women across the globe. Access to formal financial products can support women's financial resilience as …
The prevalence and social impacts of Covid-19 are taking different and more difficult forms in Watsonville compared to Santa Cruz, the two largest cities in Santa Cruz County. County and other resources are available to reduce incidence and impacts, but raise questions about how testing and public health response should be carried out to achieve …
Abolition Then & Now features Robin Kelley and Isaac Julien in conversation about the anti-slavery movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and current abolitionist uprisings against racist police brutality and the prison industrial complex. This event coincides with the presentation of Julien's Lessons of the Hour, 2019, a ten-screen film installation that explores the legacy …
Join us for the live-stream of the 2020 Right Livelihood Award Ceremony followed by a brief conversation amongst RLC Santa Cruz students and faculty, and friends of the RLC. The event includes moving artistic performances, speeches from the 2020 laureates, and guest appearances from previous laureates. More details to be announced. The 2020 Right Livelihood …
As Brazil faces the deepest political crisis of its recent history, marked by the election of a neo-fascist president and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed over 150,000 Brazilians, two webinars in Fall 2020 will bring together scholars and activists engaged in researching and resisting this complex political scenario: “Domestic Workers’ Resistance and …
Deportation is far more than a policy term; it is a threat and an act with explosive impact on families and communities. Four in five face persecution – including torture, rape, and murder – in their home countries. Nearly 6 million children are in the care of individuals vulnerable to deportation. Family separation has immediate …
