Inquiry with impact
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 …
The UC Santa Cruz Legal Studies Program, in partnership with the Santa Cruz County Office of the Public Defender, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), and the National Association for Public Defense, will host its first-ever National Public Defense Summit. The summit will feature a variety of nationally-recognized public defenders, including attorneys, social workers, and investigators, who are doing cutting-edge work …
Join us for the 20th Annual Practical Activism Conference! Practical Activism is a free day-long conference featuring speakers, performances, interactive workshops, and a variety of hands-on creative activities and opportunities on a wide range of social justice issues. The conference serves to provide information, tools, and opportunities to generate local and global change. Practical Activism …
Together we are forging new futures so that our communities are sustained and thriving. This labor of love often looks external: Changing the material conditions through organizing, educating, voting, and more. It is long and dedicated work. But what about the internal work? How does what happens internally impact our collective justice work? Are we …
The UC Santa Cruz Academic Senate is delighted to invite you to the 55th Annual Faculty Research Lecture featuring Professor Jennifer González, Department of History of Art and Visual Culture. In this talk, Professor González will explore speech and silence in the history of art, with a special emphasis on the role of art as …
Join us at the celebration of International Women's Day Symposium, hosted by the Dolores Huerta Research Center with keynote speakers Prof. Michelle Tellez and Prof. Esther Hernández-Medina. Together they will explore critical themes of resistance, survival, intersectionality, and reproductive justice in the Americas.
Conversations on Climate Justice featuring Dr. Lyla June Johnston, an Indigenous musician, scholar, and community organizer. Her research focuses on the ways in which pre-colonial Indigenous Nations gardened large regions of Turtle Island (aka the Americas) to produce abundant food systems for humans and non-humans.
