Events

Join us for the next conversation for Visualizing Abolition focusing on technology, surveillance, and contemporary art with American Artist, Ruha Benjamin, and Simone Browne. American Artist is a contemporary artist working in video, installation, new media, and writing to consider how structures of racism and labor intersect with networked life and digital systems. Ruha Benjamin is …

As we approach 12 months of living with a global pandemic, the stress, anxiety, and for some, the isolation is taking its toll. Join Psychology Professor Craig Haney and UC Santa Cruz alumna Dr. Alison Holman for an important discussion about early psychological responses, loneliness, isolation, and how the distortion of time may be affecting …

Sanford Biggers is a Harlem-based artist whose work speaks to current social, political and economic happenings. For this Visualizing Abolition event, Biggers will be joined by visual culture theorist Leigh Raiford for a conversation about art, materiality, violence, and possibility. Visualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized by Professor Gina Dent, Feminist Studies and …

A Conversation with Rhiana Gunn-Wright Please join us on February 10th as we discuss meaningful climate policy and environmental justice reform. In this conversation, Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Director of Climate Policy at the Roosevelt Institute and an architect of the Green New Deal, will speak to: Why climate policy must include environmental justiceWhy climate must be …

Please join us for the 37th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation featuring activist and organizer Mariame Kaba in conversation with Gina Dent, associate professor of feminist studies. Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator, curator, and prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. Kaba is …

Beth Richie, University of Illinois, Chicago, Erica Meiners, Northeastern Illinois University, and Soyna Clark, Amherst College, Western Massachusetts, join us for a conversation on feminist―queer, anti-capitalist, grassroots, and women of color— organizing and abolition for the next Visualizing Abolition event.

Inspiring Students to Achieve their Dreams for College & Career. Latino Role Models is a FREE conference for Santa Cruz County students from grade 6 to college and their families. LRM features Latino college students and professionals plus workshops.  The conference is conducted in Spanish with English translation. Presented by:Senderos; Cabrillo College; Community Foundation of …