Events Calendar
Reparations for Black Americans:
The Road to Racial Equality in California and Beyond
Poetry in the Garden
The Friends of the UCSC Farm & Garden present an afternoon of poetry in the beautiful (virtual) setting of the Alan Chadwick Garden at UC Santa Cruz. Poetry by Nikia Chaney, Kim Scheilblauer, …
Find out more »Tech For Social Good Project Showcase
Please join us on June 4th from 2:30 until 4:00 pm for a showcase of UCSC’s Tech For Social Good teams from both the 2019 and 2020 funding periods. Teams from …
Find out more »Diverse Voices 2021: Sheldon Logan
"My Journey from Jamaica to Google: From Majority to Minority." Diverse Voices is a professional speakers series spotlighting industry leaders and Baskin Engineering Students.
Find out more »Building Belonging Student Flash Talk Event & Celebration
The Institute for Social Transformation is excited to host an online end-of-year celebration and student flash talk event to honor the work that has been accomplished in the Building Belonging …
Find out more »Global Community Health Wellbeing Fellows 2020-2021 Research Panel Presentations
Please join in celebrating this year’s GCH Wellbeing Fellows as they present their research projects! Jonathan Chavez, Mentoring Latino Youth During the Covid-19 Pandemic Abby Cunniff, Working Conditions of Incarcerated …
Find out more »Plastic Justice: A Conversation with Kristal ‘Ocean’ Ambrose
Please join us for a screening of "Plastic Warriors" and a critical conversation with Kristal ‘Ocean’ Ambrose, recipient of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Award, on the importance of youth-led, Caribbean …
Find out more »Music for Abolition: Artist Panel
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 …
Find out more »Bookshop Santa Cruz: Julia Alvarez, Afterlife
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 …
Find out more »Sites of Memory, Spaces of Dispute: Missions and Monuments in the United States
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 …
Find out more »Diverse Voices 2021: Jossie Haines
"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 …
Find out more »Futures
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 …
Find out more »All-In All-Together Spring Webinar
Seizing the Pandemic Portal: Transforming Universities for Community Engaged Scholarship. As Arundhati Roy so powerfully articulated early on in the crisis, pandemics provide us an opportunity to imagine the world …
Find out more »Mark Massoud: “Shari’a, Inshallah – Finding God in Somali Legal Politics”
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 …
Find out more »Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance
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 …
Find out more »Documenting Justice
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 …
Find out more »Thinking and Rethinking our Actions: Nnimmo Bassey in Conversation
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 …
Find out more »How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens
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 …
Find out more »Confronting Climate Change: Food Security in a Changing World
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 …
Find out more »A Conversation with Terri McCullough, chief of staff to Nancy Pelosi, in memory of Gabe Zimmerman
Gabe Zimmerman (Stevenson '02, sociology) was U.S. Congresswoman Gabby Giffords's community outreach director. He organized the "Congress on Your Corner" event on January 8, 2011, in Tucson, Ariz., where he …
Find out more »UCSC AgTech Symposium
New technologies in our agro-food system hold both tremendous benefits and potential harms. This era will require inter-disciplinary expertise and cross-disciplinary dialogue to maximize benefits and minimize harms from technological …
Find out more »New Gen Learning: Community-Supported Learning by Children and Students during the Pandemic and Beyond
In this gathering, we share evidence-based insights into community-supported learning by children and students during and beyond the era of the COVID-19 pandemic. New Gen Learning is an interdisciplinary consortium …
Find out more »Virtual Earth Day
There are many UCSC events happening on April 22nd, as well as the entire week around Earth Day and the month of April.
Find out more »Diverse Voices 2021: Kelly Harkins Kincaid
"Living on the Edge of Your Comfort Zone: Women in Executive Leadership." Diverse Voices is a professional speakers series spotlighting industry leaders and Baskin Engineering Students.
Find out more »UC Santa Cruz Virtual Alumni Week 2021
Celebrating Alumni Week in true 2021 style April 19-25th. Have fun, remember your roots, reignite your passions, and connect like never before as our first virtual Alumni Week zooms you …
Find out more »Reparations for Black Americans: The Road to Racial Equality in California and Beyond
In 2020, California established the nation’s first state task force to study and make recommendations on reparations for the institution of slavery, the atrocities that followed the end of slavery, …
Find out more »Abolition from the Inside Out
The Institute of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to partner with the Legal Studies Program at UC Santa Cruz for the next Visualizing Abolition event: 'Abolition from the Inside …
Find out more »A Virtual Conversation with James Doucet-Battle and Edward Hawthorne: Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes
In launching the new book, Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes, James Doucet-Battle, a medical anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Sociology at the UC Santa Cruz, takes …
Find out more »Diverse Voices 2021: Mothusi Pahl
"Spring Board: A UCSC Founder's Path on Driving Change in Heavy Industry." Diverse Voices is a professional speakers series spotlighting industry leaders and Baskin Engineering Students.
Find out more »Abolition Beyond the State
w/ Sadie Barnette, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Zoé Samudzi, and Eric Stanley. What role can the arts take in the movement to abolish prisons in addition to abolishing the society that upholds them? How can …
Find out more »21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge with the Homeless Garden Project
You’re invited to join the Homeless Garden Project (HGP) in a transformative 21-day challenge to learn, reflect and discuss how we can build a thriving and inclusive community, workforce, and …
Find out more »LASER Talks with Jasmine Alinder & Katharyne Mitchell
Jasmine Alinder, "Representing Japanese American Incarceration." Katharyne Mitchell, "Sanctuary Space and Insurgent Memory." Leonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is an international program bringing together artists, scientists, and scholars …
Find out more »Gateways Event Series: Re Imagine Everything
Join us for a series of conversations on March 1, 3, and 10 designed to inform and inspire us as we fight to change our culture’s attitudes towards crime and …
Find out more »University Forum: V is For Veracity
University Forum featuring SJRC Founding Director and Professor of Sociology Jenny Reardon with introductions and Q&A moderation by Assistant Professor of Sociology James Doucet-Battle. Metaphors of war and battle in fighting COVID-19, now …
Find out more »Popular Culture and the Radical Imaginary
Visualizing Abolition is pleased to present Popular Culture and the Radical Imaginary, a discussion with Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network and artist and activist Maxwell Addae. …
Find out more »Back to School: What Elementary Schools Need to Consider in Re-Opening their Doors
March Slugs and Steins talk with Professor Rebecca London. As elementary schools reopen after prolonged physical closure due to COVID-19, attention to healing the school community will be essential. Although …
Find out more »Art, Abolition, and the University
Visualizing Abolition presents artist Ashley Hunt in conversation with MJ Hart, Joshua Solis, Alberto Lule, Ryan Flaco Rising, and Rodrigo Vazquez of the Underground Scholars Initiative. The Underground Scholars Initiative …
Find out more »Latino Role Models Conference 2021 with Keynote Speaker Manuel Pastor
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. …
Find out more »Toward a political economy of public safety power shutoff: Politics, ideology, and the limits of regulatory choice in California
Speaker: Les Guliasi, researcher in the UC Santa Cruz Sociology Department. California utilities have chosen to shut off electricity delivery to consumers by employing a “Public Safety Power Shutoff” (PSPS) …
Find out more »Abolitionist Feminisms w/ Beth Ritchie, Erica Meiners, and Sonya Clark
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— …
Find out more »37th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation with Mariame Kaba
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 …
Find out more »UCSC Civic Innovation Forum: Housing and Homelessness
What are the most effective current approaches to helping people experiencing homelessness? What technological innovations are having an impact? Join us and gain a deeper understanding of this pervasive challenge …
Find out more »Changing Climate: The Role of Environmental Justice
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 …
Find out more »Material and Memory with Sanford Biggers and Leigh Raiford
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 …
Find out more »Navigating Stress, Anxiety, and Isolation in the midst of a Pandemic
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 …
Find out more »Surveillance and Cinematics w/ American Artist, Simone Browne and Ruha Benjamin
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 …
Find out more »CAFIN and UC Investments Speaker Series: Financial Risks, Innovation and Inclusion in a Post-COVID World
Exiting the Great Recession and entering the Pandemic Recession, we study the high-frequency real-activity signals provided by a leading nowcast, the ADS Index of Business Conditions produced and released in …
Find out more »“Coded Bias” Documentary Film Screening and Panel Discussion
FREE virtual screening and panel discussion of the award winning documentary film Coded Bias, which explores how machine-learning algorithms can perpetuate society’s existing class-, race-, and gender-based inequities. While working …
Find out more »Prisons and Poetics with Reginald Dwayne Betts and Craig Haney
The Institute of the Arts and Sciences and The Humanities Institute are pleased to present a poetry reading and conversation with award-winning American poet Reginald Dwayne Betts and renowned social psychologist Craig …
Find out more »Generations Together: Learning from young activists and adult allies
A global conversation with young activists from Bolivia, Senegal, Togo, and the United States about intergenerational collaboration and how adults can most effectively support youth activism. Bridging diverse contexts and …
Find out more »Socio-ecological Trade-offs in Urban Garden Management and Ecosystem Services
Ecosystem services, such as pollination, pest control, climate regulation, and food production are essential for human well-being, especially in urban areas where ~ 60% of the world’s population will live …
Find out more »Prisons, Histories and Erasures with Joanne Barker, Maria Gaspar, and Kelly Lytle Hernández
For the next Visualizing Abolition event, Joanne Barker, Maria Gaspar, and Kelly Lytle Hernández join us to discuss the histories and present struggles that disappear within the labyrinthian network of …
Find out more »CAFIN and UC Investments Speaker Series: Violence and Economic Activity: Evidence from African American Inventors, 1870-1940
Speaker: Lisa Cook, Professor of Economics and International Relations, Michigan State University. Recent studies have examined the effect of political conflict and domestic terrorism on economic and political outcomes. This …
Find out more »An Evening with Jennifer Brea and Megan Moodie – Talking about Chronic Illness, Care, and COVID
Join Academy-Award Nominated Filmmaker Jennifer Brea and anthropologist and writer Megan Moodie for an evening of conversation and reflection on chronic illness, the global crisis of care, and Covid-19. As …
Find out more »Suddenly Distant and Still in Flux: The Implications of COVID-19 for K12 Teachers’ Work and Schooling
The UC Santa Cruz University Forum presents The Implications of COVID-19 for Teachers’ Work and K-12 Schooling with Professor Lora Bartlett and the Suddenly Distant Research Project Team. The COVID …
Find out more »Better World Book Party
Please join us for the 2nd annual Better World Book Party. We will honor authors from the division of Social Sciences who published in 2020:
Find out more »Immigration policies in the United States: Understanding violence nation-wide and in Santa Cruz
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, …
Find out more »LGBTQ Resistance in Brazil: From the Military Dictatorship to the Current Reactionary Wave
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 …
Find out more »2020 Right Livelihood Award Ceremony
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 …
Find out more »Abolition Then and Now with Isaac Julien and Robin D.G. Kelley
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 …
Find out more »Managing A Pandemic Without Making Inequality Worse: The Case of Santa Cruz County, California
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 …
Find out more »Advancing Women’s Digital Financial Inclusion
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 …
Find out more »Dissident Genders and Sexualities in the Andes
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 …
Find out more »On-the-Edge: App-Based Ride-Hail and Delivery Workers—A San Francisco Labor Study
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 …
Find out more »Visualizing Abolition: Visuality and Carceral Formations with Nicole Fleetwood, Herman Gray and Nicholas Mirzoeff
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 …
Find out more »Bill McKibben & Vandana Shiva in Conversation: Social Transformation – Visions & Mobilizations
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 …
Find out more »University Forum: Teaching & Learning in the time of COVID 19
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 …
Find out more »PIT-UN 2020 Virtual Convening
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 …
Find out more »Domestic Workers’ Resistance and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil
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 …
Find out more »The CITRIS Policy Lab: Supporting Interdisciplinary Research to Inform Evidence-Based Policymaking
PIT-UN Speaker Series with Brandie Nonnecke, Founding Director of the CITRIS Policy Lab. Join us to learn about the CITRIS Policy Lab’s recent research, how it draws upon this research to support …
Find out more »New Gen Learning Flash Talks
Graduate students who are part of the New Generation Learning collaborative will present one-minute flash talks about their research findings. Moderators:- Su-hua Wang, Professor of Psychology and Director- Barbara Rogoff, …
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University Forum: Election Series
Elections: What They Are Good For
Democracy, Dilemmas & Decisions
Join us for this special four-part series as we explore the issues at stake in the 2020 elections in the context of longer term struggles for democratic accountability, racial justice, equal citizenship, and economic equality. Learn more>>
The Evolving Practice of Human Rights Accountability: The New Terrain for Justice
November 9, 2020 at 6:30 – 8 PM
Dr. Sylvanna M. Falcón, founder of UC Santa Cruz’s Human Rights Investigations Lab for the Americas, will explain how human rights accountability has shifted in the digital realm and the ways in which a new generation of human rights activists are needed with critical digital literacy skills in search for the truth.
The Morning After: A (Post)Election Conversation
November 4, 2020 at 12:15 PM
The U.S. presidential election is on Nov 3. We will gather as a community the morning after to process the preceding night (and preceding years) and to think together about the weeks, months, and years to come. Gina Dent, Debbie Gould, and Savannah Shange will start off the conversation. And if it makes more sense to take to the streets on this Wednesday, then that’s what we’ll do.
Images, Memory, and Justice with Bryan Stevenson
October 27, 2020 from 4-5:30 PM
Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), is the featured speaker for the second event in Visualizing Abolition. Stevenson will join Professor Gina Dent for a conversation about art, culture, and activism, as well as how re-envisioning history can enliven contemporary struggles against racial inequality and the criminal justice system.
All-In All-Together:
Community based research navigating the turbulent time and places of political and biological pandemics
October 23, 2020, 11:00-1:00 PM (PST)
We know that the turbulence of our time and places can only be navigated safely when we are ‘all-in’ ‘all-together’ to find creative ways to deploy our resources, resist the ongoing assaults on vulnerable communities, and renew our bonds of connection that sustain us. We invite our growing network(s) of scholars, organizers, community leaders, funders, and students to join a series of virtual events.
Lily Balloffet: Argentina in the Global Middle East
October 23, 2020, 12:00-1:00 PM
Lily Pearl Balloffet (Latin American and Latino Studies, UC Santa Cruz) will discuss her recent book, Argentina in the Global Middle East, in conversation with Devi Mays (University of Michigan). By following the mobile lives of individuals with roots in the Levantine Middle East, Balloffet sheds light on the intersections of ethnicity, migrant–homeland ties, and international relations.
Visualizing Abolition with Angela Y. Davis and Gina Dent
October 20, 2020 from 4-5:30 PM
Join Angela Y. Davis and Gina Dent, noted antiprison activists, scholars, and educators, for an online conversation about critical issues in the arts, visual culture, and abolition. This is the first in a series of events that questions what it means to think of abolitionism as a vision—one that challenges the social, economic, and political worldviews that prisons promote.
Examining Media Representations of Mass Incarceration
Two Workshop Sessions:
Session 1: October 17th and 18th
Session 2: October 24th and 25th
This two day workshop will explore the history of mass incarceration in California and examine the roles media played in influencing public opinion, policy, and more.
California: Our criminal justice system and political possibilities
October 19, 2020 at 5:30-7 PM
This series installment connects increased incarceration in the 1980s and 1990s to racist policies and politics at the time, with Black Lives Matter and movements on reform and abolition now, to Prop 16 (affirmative action). With Anjuli Verma and Craig Haney.
Back to the Future: Inequality, Austerity, and the Political Economy of New York City
October 16, 2020 from 12 – 1:30 PM
with Richard McGahey, Visiting IST Faculty and Senior Fellow at the New School for Social Research.
New York City faces a severe budget crisis driven by the Covid recession. But the pandemic and recession are illuminating long-standing inequalities in the city’s economy, in spite of decades of policy aimed at supporting private sector development and restraining city spending and investment. The city’s situation and future prospects are shaped by underlying forces including industry changes, federal and state policy, a politically fragmented region, and structural racism. Like others in the U.S., New York cannot solve these problems on its own. It also lacks a progressive movement with a unified approach to economic development, complicating its future prospects.
The CITRIS Policy Lab: Supporting Interdisciplinary Research to Inform Evidence-Based Policymaking
October 13, 2020 at 12 – 1 PM
PIT-UN Speaker Series with Brandie Nonnecke, Founding Director of the CITRIS Policy Lab. Join us to learn about the CITRIS Policy Lab’s recent research, how it draws upon this research to support policymakers’ decisions in the public and private sectors, and strategies to help you translate your research into policy deliverables that can inform the ethical development and deployment of technology.
Unapologetically Employed: An Intersectional Approach to the Job Market
October 9, 2020 at 12-3 PM
Free online workshop for PhD students in the humanities and social sciences, with a special focus on scholars of race, power, and difference. Deadline for applications is September 12th.
Medha Patkar & Nnimmo Bassey: Global Dialogue on Livelihoods, Solidarity & Transformation
October 6, 2020 from 8-10 AM
Urgent and complex global problems of modern times including, COVID 19 at one end and the sharpening of inequities on the other is creating multiple marginalities and livelihood insecurities. This calls for a deeper understanding of the society and the need to reimagine strategies for sustaining local livelihood practices and creating global solidarities for social transformation that envisions the ideas of justice and equity. The global dialogues on livelihoods, solidarity, and transformation is an effort in this direction to surface such urgent questions in this arena to build that collective global dialogue towards co-production of ‘knowledges’.
California: Changing Demographics, Youth, and Integrated Voter Engagement
October 5, 2020 at 5:30-7 PM
This series installment will explore how demographic changes—particularly within the larger Latin@ population and youth—have shifted politically in California. With Veronica Terriquez, Randy Villegas, Martin Higuera, and Ines Garcia.
CAFIN and UC Investments Speaker Series: Financial Risks, Innovation and Inclusion in a Post-COVID World
October 2, 2020 – December 4, 2020
The economic crisis associated with COVID-19 pandemic has altered all aspects of our lives. In a new CAFIN speaker series, we will focus on financial challenges and developments. Among the questions that are relevant are: What are the risks to the global financial system in the medium to long run? Is the banking system robust enough? What kinds of future policy interventions might be necessary? What changes to payment systems and other financial innovations have been accelerated by the crisis? How do contagion control policies affect populations that are traditionally underserved by the financial sector? Will financial inclusion be more difficult to achieve after the pandemic?
Announcing the 2020 Right Livelihood Award Laureates
October 1, 2020 at 10:00 AM
Join Right Livelihood colleagues for a conversation about the newly announced 2020 laureates. We will watch the short press briefing and have an open conversation.
Elections, the Constitution, and Institutional Reform
September 23, 2020 at 5:30 PM
University Forum Election Series with Daniel Wirls (Professor of Politics) and Kathay Feng (National Redistricting Director of Common Cause).
University Forum: Community partnerships in the time of COVID
September 23, 2020 at 12-1:30 PM
Partnerships formed quickly during this evolving health crisis. Salud Para La Gente, the Santa Cruz Community Foundation, Santa Cruz Community Health Clinics, and the UC Santa Cruz Molecular Diagnostic Lab are working jointly to test and treat the most vulnerable in Santa Cruz County. Join us for a conversation with community health leaders as they take us inside the collaborative response to address the pandemic. Moderated by Ryan Coonerty.
How to Use Twitter for Social Impact
September 22, 2020 at 12-1 PM
This workshop for UCSC faculty and graduate students will explore Twitter as a tool for social impact. The presenters will share tips and guidance about how to reach influencers and policy makers, how to communicate research via Twitter, and how to gain followers.
Hope, Fear, and Desire for Democracy on the Eve of an Election
September 15, 2020 at 5:30 PM
University Forum Election Series with Dean Mathiowetz (Associate Professor of Politics), Debbie Gould (Associate Professor of Sociology), and Cristina Beltrán (NYU Associate Professor).
Slugs and Steins: Online Groceries: ecommerce, the pandemic & the future of work in retail food
September 14, 2020 at 6:30 PM
Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, millions of Americans have started ordering groceries online for the first time. Levels of ecommerce for major grocery chains, including Walmart, Kroger’s and AmazonFresh/Whole Foods have doubled or tripled since last year, building on double digit growth from previous years. What are the implications of this trend for the people doing the work of fulfilling online orders and delivering food? Featuring Dr. Chris Benner, Dorothy E. Everett Chair in Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship, and a Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology.
Solidarity Economics: Solutions for Scaling Up Consumer Cooperatives & Local Economic Empowerment
August 6, 2020 at 5:30 PM
With Right Livelihood Laureates Miyuki Kinoshita of Seikatsu Club Consumers’ Cooperative (Japan) and Helena Norberg-Hodge of Local Futures (Global).
University Forum: Small businesses hit hardest by the pandemic
August 4, 2020 at 5:30 PM
Restrictions meant to slow the spread of the coronavirus have an outsized impact on small businesses and entrepreneurs. Stores, factories and many other businesses and services have closed by policy mandate, reduced demand, and health concerns, among other factors. What are the disproportionate effects on female, minority and immigrant business owners? Governmental responses have been disparate. Featuring Rob Fairlie, professor of economics.
University Forum: The lessons of COVID for global and community health
July 20, 5:30 PM
While we are all in this together as human beings it has become clear that our unequal conditions of being human have made for vast variations in how the pandemic has been experienced. Featuring Matt Sparke, professor of politics and member of the team at UCSC developing the new global and community health program at UC Santa Cruz, and Nancy Chen, professor of anthropology and former director of the UCSC Blum Center on poverty, social enterprise, and participatory governance.
University Forum: Solidarity Economics for the Coronavirus Crisis and Beyond
June 22, 5:30 PM
In the long term, not just in the current emergency, mutuality matters, not only morally but economically too. An ethos of mutual caring and support not only leads to better health outcomes, but also helps to generate a more prosperous and resilient economy and society. Professor Chris Benner discusses how we urgently need to think long-term—both about the things that got us into this crisis, and how we can refashion our economy and society as we eventually emerge.
World Localization Day
June 21, 2020
Right Livelihood College at UC Santa Cruz is pleased to partner with Local Futures for World Localization Day. A world-changing programme of inspirational talks, interviews, films, humour and music with Russell Brand, Vandana Shiva, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Alice Waters, and many more.
Las Nuevas Estrategias del Extractivismo
June 9, 3:00 PM
La Acción del Estado y la Defensa Socio-territoral en Tiempos del Coronavirus. Co-sponsored by the UCSC Research Center for the Americas.
The Fire This Time: Race at Boiling Point
June 5, 1:00 PM
The nation and the world are bearing witness to yet another spate of police violence against Black people. This is an urgent moment, one that calls for resolve, thought, and action. Join us on Zoom for a conversation with Angela Y. Davis (Emerita, UCSC), Herman Gray (Emeritus, UCSC), Gaye Theresa Johnson (UCLA), Robin D. G. Kelley (UCLA), and Josh Kun (USC). Hosted by UCHRI.
New Gen Learning Flash Talks
May 29, 2:00 – 4:00 PM
Graduate students in the collaborative (previously ALSiNG) will present one-minute flash talks about their interdisciplinary research, identifying the cultural strengths of learning by children and students from historically underserved populations and ways to leverage those strengths.
The Coronavirus Crisis and Social Change: Flash Talks on Social and Economic Dimensions of the COVID-19 Pandemic
May 27, 12:00 – 1:00 PM
Please join us for flash talks by Social Sciences faculty on current work related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Moderated by Dean Katharyne Mitchell.
Inequality and Vulnerability in Crisis
May 27, 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
With Right Livelihood Laureates, Glorene Das / Tenaganita (Malaysia) & Manfred Nowak / Global Campus for Human Rights (Austria).
Reconfiguring Lifelines: Exploring Science & Technology Policy Landscapes in an Era of Bioengineering and the “Bioeconomy”
May 20, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
PIT-UN Speaker Series with Cheryl Holzmeyer, Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley. This talk will discuss emerging landscapes of bioengineering, and of science and technology policies (or lack thereof), with an eye to social determinants of health and health equity.
The Housing/Habitat Project:
Tracing Impacts of the Affordability Crisis in the Wildlands of Exurban California
May 15, 12:30 – 2:00 PM
With Sociology Professor Miriam Greenberg. The increase of California wildfires has raised awareness of the dangerous spread of housing development in the Wildlands Urban Interface (WUI).
Current Threats to Democracy
May 13, 8:00 AM
With Right Livelihood Laureates Frances Moore-Lappé (USA) & Vesna Teršelič (Croatia)
Water Justice in the Age of Coronavirus and Beyond
May 6, 8:00 AM
With Right Livelihood Laureates Maude Barlow (Canada), Robert Bilott (USA) & Andy Szasz (USA, moderator)
UC Global Health Day 2020
May 2, 9:00 AM
The year’s conference marks the 10th anniversary of the UC Global Health Institute and will feature talks related to COVID-19 that highlight the One Health perspective, gender, and socioeconomic disparities, and panelists from Africa, India, and South America.
Public Interest Technologies – Kick Off Event
April 24, 12:00 PM
UC Santa Cruz was recently accepted as a member of the national Public Interest Technology – University Network (PIT-UN), run by the nonprofit New America foundation.
