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Memorial Corridor at The National Memorial for Peace and Justice

Reparations for Black Americans:

The Road to Racial Equality in California and Beyond


Join us on April 15, 2021 at 4pm Pacific Time (7pm Eastern) for a conversation with some of the country’s leading experts and advocates for reparations. Learn more>>

Diverse Voices 2021: Sheldon Logan

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.

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26 May Wednesday
Building Belonging Student Flash Talk Event & Celebration

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 …

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26 May Wednesday
Music for Abolition: Artist Panel

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 …

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18 May Tuesday
Sites of Memory, Spaces of Dispute: Missions and Monuments in the United States

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 …

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13 May Thursday
Diverse Voices 2021: Jossie Haines

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 …

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11 May Tuesday
All-In All-Together Spring Webinar

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 …

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07 May Friday
How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens

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 …

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30 Apr Friday
Confronting Climate Change: Food Security in a Changing World

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 …

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28 Apr Wednesday
A Conversation with Terri McCullough, chief of staff to Nancy Pelosi, in memory of Gabe Zimmerman

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 …

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24 Apr Saturday
New Gen Learning: Community-Supported Learning by Children and Students during the Pandemic and Beyond

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 …

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23 Apr Friday
UCSC AgTech Symposium

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 …

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23 Apr Friday
Diverse Voices 2021: Kelly Harkins Kincaid

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.

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21 Apr Wednesday
UC Santa Cruz Virtual Alumni Week 2021

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 …

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19 Apr Monday
Reparations for Black Americans: The Road to Racial Equality in California and Beyond

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, …

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15 Apr Thursday
Abolition from the Inside Out

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 …

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13 Apr Tuesday
A Virtual Conversation with James Doucet-Battle and Edward Hawthorne: Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes

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 …

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07 Apr Wednesday
Diverse Voices 2021: Mothusi Pahl

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.

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06 Apr Tuesday
Abolition Beyond the State

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 …

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06 Apr Tuesday
21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge with the Homeless Garden Project

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 …

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20 Mar Saturday
LASER Talks with Jasmine Alinder & Katharyne Mitchell

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 …

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11 Mar Thursday
Gateways Event Series: Re Imagine Everything

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 …

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10 Mar Wednesday
University Forum: V is For Veracity

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 …

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09 Mar Tuesday
Popular Culture and the Radical Imaginary

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. …

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09 Mar Tuesday
Back to School: What Elementary Schools Need to Consider in Re-Opening their Doors

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 …

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08 Mar Monday
Art, Abolition, and the University

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 …

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02 Mar Tuesday
Latino Role Models Conference 2021 with Keynote Speaker Manuel Pastor

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. …

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27 Feb Saturday
Toward a political economy of public safety power shutoff: Politics, ideology, and the limits of regulatory choice in California

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) …

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26 Feb Friday
Abolitionist Feminisms w/ Beth Ritchie, Erica Meiners, and Sonya Clark

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— …

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23 Feb Tuesday
37th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation with Mariame Kaba

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 …

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12 Feb Friday
UCSC Civic Innovation Forum: Housing and Homelessness

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 …

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11 Feb Thursday
Changing Climate: The Role of Environmental Justice

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 …

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10 Feb Wednesday
Material and Memory with Sanford Biggers and Leigh Raiford

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 …

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09 Feb Tuesday
Navigating Stress, Anxiety, and Isolation in the midst of a Pandemic

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 …

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04 Feb Thursday
Surveillance and Cinematics w/ American Artist, Simone Browne and Ruha Benjamin

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 …

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02 Feb Tuesday
CAFIN and UC Investments Speaker Series: Financial Risks, Innovation and Inclusion in a Post-COVID World

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 …

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29 Jan Friday
“Coded Bias” Documentary Film Screening and Panel Discussion

“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 …

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28 Jan Thursday
Prisons and Poetics with Reginald Dwayne Betts and Craig Haney

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 …

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26 Jan Tuesday
Generations Together: Learning from young activists and adult allies

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 …

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23 Jan Saturday
Socio-ecological Trade-offs in Urban Garden Management and Ecosystem Services

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 …

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22 Jan Friday
Prisons, Histories and Erasures with Joanne Barker, Maria Gaspar, and Kelly Lytle Hernández

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 …

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19 Jan Tuesday
CAFIN and UC Investments Speaker Series: Violence and Economic Activity: Evidence from African American Inventors, 1870-1940

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 …

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15 Jan Friday
An Evening with Jennifer Brea and Megan Moodie – Talking about Chronic Illness, Care, and COVID

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 …

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14 Jan Thursday
Suddenly Distant and Still in Flux: The Implications of COVID-19 for K12 Teachers’ Work and Schooling

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 …

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13 Jan Wednesday
Better World Book Party

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:

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09 Dec Wednesday
Immigration policies in the United States: Understanding violence nation-wide and in Santa Cruz

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, …

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07 Dec Monday
LGBTQ Resistance in Brazil: From the Military Dictatorship to the Current Reactionary Wave

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 …

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04 Dec Friday
2020 Right Livelihood Award Ceremony

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 …

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03 Dec Thursday
Abolition Then and Now with Isaac Julien and Robin D.G. Kelley

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 …

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01 Dec Tuesday
Managing A Pandemic Without Making Inequality Worse: The Case of Santa Cruz County, California

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 …

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20 Nov Friday
Advancing Women’s Digital Financial Inclusion

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 …

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20 Nov Friday
Dissident Genders and Sexualities in the Andes

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 …

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19 Nov Thursday
On-the-Edge: App-Based Ride-Hail and Delivery Workers—A San Francisco Labor Study

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 …

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18 Nov Wednesday
Visualizing Abolition: Visuality and Carceral Formations with Nicole Fleetwood, Herman Gray and Nicholas Mirzoeff

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 …

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17 Nov Tuesday
Bill McKibben & Vandana Shiva in Conversation: Social Transformation – Visions & Mobilizations

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 …

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17 Nov Tuesday
University Forum: Teaching & Learning in the time of COVID 19

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 …

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16 Nov Monday
PIT-UN 2020 Virtual Convening

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 …

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12 Nov Thursday
Domestic Workers’ Resistance and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil

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 …

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06 Nov Friday
The CITRIS Policy Lab: Supporting Interdisciplinary Research to Inform Evidence-Based Policymaking

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 …

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13 Oct Tuesday
New Gen Learning Flash Talks

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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29 May Friday

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.

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                        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?

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                              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.

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                                          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

                                                  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.

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                                                    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.

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                                                            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. 

                                                              View Dr. Holzmeyer slides here.

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                                                                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).

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                                                                  Current Threats to Democracy

                                                                  May 13, 8:00 AM

                                                                  With Right Livelihood Laureates Frances Moore-Lappé (USA) & Vesna Teršelič (Croatia)

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                                                                    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

                                                                      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. 

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