3rd Annual Everett Student Project Showcase: Embracing Change, Everett in Transition
Our students have remained resilient and persistent in advocating for social justice and social change locally and globally; and we are excited to celebrate their accomplishments together! As we transition back into in-person collaboration, this is a great opportunity for our students to articulate their project’s purpose, design, strengths, and challenges to the wider community, friends, and family.
Designing a UCSC Faculty Website on WordPress
Professional websites can boost your reputation and promote your research. UCSC provides free access to WordPress for faculty (with several design templates). This workshop will walk you through best practices and what to consider when creating your UCSC faculty website. Learn how journalists and media relations officers use websites and how you can optimize your online presence to gain media exposure for your work.
A Book Talk with Native Scholar: Professor Tsim D. Schneider
Professor Schneider’s book, The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse, explores the dual practices of refuge and recourse among Indigenous peoples of California. Applying theories of place and landscape, Schneider (Citizen of Graton Rancheria) argues for a new direction in the archaeology of colonialism. This book offers insight about the critical and ongoing relationships Indigenous peoples maintained to their homelands despite colonization and systematic destruction of their cultural sites. Professor Schneider will discuss the topic with Dr. Peter A. Nelson and Nick Tipon, fellow citizens of his tribe.
Alumni Achievement Award Celebration with UC Santa Cruz Alumna Dr. Barbara Ferrer
Join us for a special evening to celebrate the extraordinary work of alumna Dr. Barbara Ferrer (Rachel Carson ‘78 – Community Studies) who leads the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. As UCSC prepares to launch a new Global and Community Health program aimed at addressing challenges of ill-health both globally and locally, Grant Hartzog, professor of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology and Matt Sparke, professor of Politics will join our conversation to discuss Dr. Ferrer’s path from UC Santa Cruz to the Department of Public Health, the lessons learned over the last two years leading one of the largest counties in the country through a global pandemic, and the important role of global and community health in addressing the challenges of ill-health globally and locally.
Solidarity Economics
This short video talks about the book Solidarity Economics: Why Movements and Mutuality Matter, which uncovers why solidarity economics is so important right now and discusses the research we’ve done over the last 10 years. If you like what you see, please download your free copy of the book and subscribe to our newsletter for more interesting content about solidarity economics here.
A Book Talk with Native Scholar: Professor Tsim D. Schneider
Professor Schneider’s book, The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse, explores the dual practices of refuge and recourse among Indigenous peoples of California. Applying theories of place and landscape, Schneider (Citizen of Graton Rancheria) argues for a new direction in the archaeology of colonialism. This book offers insight about the critical and ongoing relationships Indigenous peoples maintained to their homelands despite colonization and systematic destruction of their cultural sites. Professor Schneider will discuss the topic with Dr. Peter A. Nelson and Nick Tipon, fellow citizens of his tribe.
Alumni Achievement Award Celebration with UC Santa Cruz Alumna Dr. Barbara Ferrer
Join us for a special evening to celebrate the extraordinary work of alumna Dr. Barbara Ferrer (Rachel Carson ‘78 – Community Studies) who leads the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. As UCSC prepares to launch a new Global and Community Health program aimed at addressing challenges of ill-health both globally and locally, Grant Hartzog, professor of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology and Matt Sparke, professor of Politics will join our conversation to discuss Dr. Ferrer’s path from UC Santa Cruz to the Department of Public Health, the lessons learned over the last two years leading one of the largest counties in the country through a global pandemic, and the important role of global and community health in addressing the challenges of ill-health globally and locally.
Precarity and Belonging Book Launch
Join us for a webinar book launch event with UC Santa Cruz co-editors (Catherine S. Ramírez, Sylvanna M. Falcón, Juan Poblete, Steven C. McKay, Felicity Amaya Schaeffer) of Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship (Rutgers University Press, 2021).
Precarity and Belonging examines how the movement of people and their incorporation, marginalization, and exclusion, under epochal conditions of labor and social precarity affecting both citizens and noncitizens, have challenged older notions of citizenship and alienage. This collection brings mobility, precarity, and citizenship together in order to explore the points of contact and friction, and, thus, the spaces for a possible politics of commonality between citizens and noncitizens.
Settling Climate Accounts: Navigating the Road to Net Zero
As drivers of climate action enter the fourth decade of what has become a multi-stage race, Net Zero has emerged as the dominant organizing principle. Hundreds of corporations and investors worldwide, together responsible for assets in the tens of trillions of dollars, are lining-up for the UN Race to Zero. This latest stage in the race to save civilization from heat, drought, fires, and floods, is defined by steering toward zeroing out greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Alicia Seiger discussed the material of her recent book, Settling Climate Accounts, which probes the practice of Net Zero finance. It elucidates both the state of play and a set of directions that help form judgements about whether Net Zero is going to carry climate action far enough. The book delves into technical analyses and activates the reader’s imagination with narrative accounts of climate action past, present, and future. Settling Climate Accounts offers context and foundation to ground the rapidly evolving practice of Net Zero finance.
Solidarity Economics: OUR Movement, OUR Economy
Solidarity Economics is an economic frame that recognizes that people are not just individuals, but also members of broader social groups and communities; that people are motivated not just by self-interest, but also by caring for others and a desire for belonging; and that we can and should build our economy not on an embrace of individuality and competition, but rather on a sense of the commons and our shared destiny.
This conversation with Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor on their forthcoming book delved deeply into the concept of Solidarity Economics, its meaning and how to enact change that is real in terms of policy and power. It also discussed how we can expand the notion of Solidarity Economics in our movements and how Solidarity Economics can provide a useful framework to change the narrative of OUR economy.
Precarity and Belonging Book Launch
Join us for a webinar book launch event with UC Santa Cruz co-editors (Catherine S. Ramírez, Sylvanna M. Falcón, Juan Poblete, Steven C. McKay, Felicity Amaya Schaeffer) of Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship (Rutgers University Press, 2021).
Precarity and Belonging examines how the movement of people and their incorporation, marginalization, and exclusion, under epochal conditions of labor and social precarity affecting both citizens and noncitizens, have challenged older notions of citizenship and alienage. This collection brings mobility, precarity, and citizenship together in order to explore the points of contact and friction, and, thus, the spaces for a possible politics of commonality between citizens and noncitizens.
Settling Climate Accounts: Navigating the Road to Net Zero
As drivers of climate action enter the fourth decade of what has become a multi-stage race, Net Zero has emerged as the dominant organizing principle. Hundreds of corporations and investors worldwide, together responsible for assets in the tens of trillions of dollars, are lining-up for the UN Race to Zero. This latest stage in the race to save civilization from heat, drought, fires, and floods, is defined by steering toward zeroing out greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Alicia Seiger discussed the material of her recent book, Settling Climate Accounts, which probes the practice of Net Zero finance. It elucidates both the state of play and a set of directions that help form judgements about whether Net Zero is going to carry climate action far enough. The book delves into technical analyses and activates the reader’s imagination with narrative accounts of climate action past, present, and future. Settling Climate Accounts offers context and foundation to ground the rapidly evolving practice of Net Zero finance.
Solidarity Economics: OUR Movement, OUR Economy
Solidarity Economics is an economic frame that recognizes that people are not just individuals, but also members of broader social groups and communities; that people are motivated not just by self-interest, but also by caring for others and a desire for belonging; and that we can and should build our economy not on an embrace of individuality and competition, but rather on a sense of the commons and our shared destiny.
This conversation with Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor on their forthcoming book delved deeply into the concept of Solidarity Economics, its meaning and how to enact change that is real in terms of policy and power. It also discussed how we can expand the notion of Solidarity Economics in our movements and how Solidarity Economics can provide a useful framework to change the narrative of OUR economy.
Building Back Better – Tools and Methods for a More Inclusive Recovery
The Center for Social Innovation at UC Riverside, along with the Institute for Social Transformation at UC Santa Cruz and Alianza Coachella Valley, hosted Building Back Better: Tools and Methods for a More Inclusive Recovery on Thursday, October 21.
The event included a panel discussion with experts on the different types of tools and methods that are available to help build a more inclusive economic recovery. In addition, the conversation was informed by a joint policy brief that was released, which drew on the collaborative work with UCSC and Alianza in the Salton Sea region (including prospects for lithium extraction and battery manufacturing). The brief also draws on Manuel Pastor and Chris Benner’s forthcoming book on Solidarity Economics and the Center for Social Innovation’s RISE and Ready framework that lays out pragmatic indicators to track progress on resilience, inclusion, sustainability, equity. The goal of this event was to help inform and ultimately transform the way we think about inclusive economic development at the local, state, and national level.
The Senate: From White Supremacy to Governmental Gridlock
In his new book The Senate: From White Supremacy to Governmental Gridlock, Wirls argues, from the founding era onward, the Senate constructed for itself an exceptional role in the American system of government that has no firm basis in the Constitution. This self-proclaimed exceptional status is part and parcel of the Senate’s problematic role in the governmental process over the past two centuries, a role shaped primarily by the combination of equal representation among states and the filibuster, which set up the Senate’s clash with modern democracy and effective government and has contributed to the contemporary underrepresentation of minority members.
If constitutional changes to our institutions are necessary for better governance, then how should the Senate be altered to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem? This book provides one answer.
By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution
Salon.com founder and former editor-in-chief David Talbot and his sister Margaret, a longtime staff writer at the New Yorker, explore the potential landscape of the 1960s and 1970s. Based on exclusive interviews, original documents, and archival research, By the Light of Burning Dreams explores critical moments in the lives of a diverse cast of iconoclastic leaders of the 20th-century radical movement.
This conversation is moderated by Nikki Silva as she explores with Margaret and David Talbot and our panelists Madonna Thunder Hawk, Heather Booth, Bill Zimmerman, and Dolores Huerta the epiphanies that galvanized these modern revolutionaries and created unexpected connections and alliances between individual movements and across race, class, and gender divides.SHOW LESS
Building Back Better – Tools and Methods for a More Inclusive Recovery
The Center for Social Innovation at UC Riverside, along with the Institute for Social Transformation at UC Santa Cruz and Alianza Coachella Valley, hosted Building Back Better: Tools and Methods for a More Inclusive Recovery on Thursday, October 21.
The event included a panel discussion with experts on the different types of tools and methods that are available to help build a more inclusive economic recovery. In addition, the conversation was informed by a joint policy brief that was released, which drew on the collaborative work with UCSC and Alianza in the Salton Sea region (including prospects for lithium extraction and battery manufacturing). The brief also draws on Manuel Pastor and Chris Benner’s forthcoming book on Solidarity Economics and the Center for Social Innovation’s RISE and Ready framework that lays out pragmatic indicators to track progress on resilience, inclusion, sustainability, equity. The goal of this event was to help inform and ultimately transform the way we think about inclusive economic development at the local, state, and national level.
The Senate: From White Supremacy to Governmental Gridlock
In his new book The Senate: From White Supremacy to Governmental Gridlock, Wirls argues, from the founding era onward, the Senate constructed for itself an exceptional role in the American system of government that has no firm basis in the Constitution. This self-proclaimed exceptional status is part and parcel of the Senate’s problematic role in the governmental process over the past two centuries, a role shaped primarily by the combination of equal representation among states and the filibuster, which set up the Senate’s clash with modern democracy and effective government and has contributed to the contemporary underrepresentation of minority members.
If constitutional changes to our institutions are necessary for better governance, then how should the Senate be altered to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem? This book provides one answer.
By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution
Salon.com founder and former editor-in-chief David Talbot and his sister Margaret, a longtime staff writer at the New Yorker, explore the potential landscape of the 1960s and 1970s. Based on exclusive interviews, original documents, and archival research, By the Light of Burning Dreams explores critical moments in the lives of a diverse cast of iconoclastic leaders of the 20th-century radical movement.
This conversation is moderated by Nikki Silva as she explores with Margaret and David Talbot and our panelists Madonna Thunder Hawk, Heather Booth, Bill Zimmerman, and Dolores Huerta the epiphanies that galvanized these modern revolutionaries and created unexpected connections and alliances between individual movements and across race, class, and gender divides.SHOW LESS
CAFIN and UC Investments Seminar Series: Net-Zero Carbon Portfolio Alignment
This talk will outline a simple and robust methodology for portfolio managers to align their portfolios with the carbon neutrality goals (Net Zero Targets) set out following the Paris Agreement in 2015. The approach is based on dynamically limiting the portfolio carbon footprint so that it satisfies a time-varying, science-based, carbon budget consistent with maintaining an average temperature rise to less than 1.5 oC. We show how the tracking error of a Net Zero Aligned portfolio with respect to a global market index can be maintained at a negligible level for large portfolios even as they progressively reduce their carbon footprints to remain within their carbon budget.
The 21st Century Revolution in Gender & Sexual Diversity: A New Generation Leads the Way
The 21st century has seen an explosion of new language and new understandings of gender and sexuality, with LGBTQ+ adolescents often depicted as harbingers of social change in gender and sexuality, challenging mainstream beliefs and values and using social media as tools for expression and community building. In this University Forum, Phillip Hammack, professor of psychology and Director of the Sexual and Gender Diversity Laboratory, will provide a historical framework to understand this current landscape and share research on identity labeling among adolescents in diverse communities in California. Adriana Manago, associate professor of psychology and head of the Culture and Tech Lab, will discuss recent research on how queer youth engage with master and alternative narratives for gender and sexuality via social media and how this process is mediated by affordances of different platforms, informed by offline contexts, and how it looks different at various intersections of gender, sexuality, and race/ethnicity.
The 21st Century Revolution in Gender & Sexual Diversity: A New Generation Leads the Way
The 21st century has seen an explosion of new language and new understandings of gender and sexuality, with LGBTQ+ adolescents often depicted as harbingers of social change in gender and sexuality, challenging mainstream beliefs and values and using social media as tools for expression and community building. In this University Forum, Phillip Hammack, professor of psychology and Director of the Sexual and Gender Diversity Laboratory, will provide a historical framework to understand this current landscape and share research on identity labeling among adolescents in diverse communities in California. Adriana Manago, associate professor of psychology and head of the Culture and Tech Lab, will discuss recent research on how queer youth engage with master and alternative narratives for gender and sexuality via social media and how this process is mediated by affordances of different platforms, informed by offline contexts, and how it looks different at various intersections of gender, sexuality, and race/ethnicity.
CAFIN and UC Investments Seminar Series: Investors are Waking Up to Climate Risk
The severity of this summer’s extreme weather events is creating a new sense of urgency for action to achieve a net-zero global economy by mid-century to avoid the most severe impacts of climate change. To achieve this, global carbon emissions must decline rapidly from their current levels. The changes required have huge implications for the energy sector, which is already facing mounting risks. Sensing a sea change in the importance of understanding climate risk in assessing firm valuation, institutional investors, large blockholder asset managers, and other investment advisors are clamoring for more detailed sustainability information and climate friendly stocks. Amy Myers Jaffe discusses the change in strategies across the energy investment landscape from private equity firms to large asset owners to the energy companies themselves and what it means for the future of the planet.
Why is an economy built on solidarity important at this time?
We need to rethink the way we view “the economy.” This video talks about why.
This video was created by Solidarity Economics in partnership with the Equity Research Institute at USC.
Solidarity Dividend
Paying people money just because they have low incomes seems impossible in our current American economic system, but if we shift our view with an understand of solidarity economics, we realize what a valuable idea it can be.
This video from Solidarity Economics explores movements for a universal basic income or universal guaranteed income from the perspective of solidarity economics.
Why is an economy built on solidarity important at this time?
We need to rethink the way we view “the economy.” This video talks about why.
This video was created by Solidarity Economics in partnership with the Equity Research Institute at USC.
Solidarity Dividend
Paying people money just because they have low incomes seems impossible in our current American economic system, but if we shift our view with an understand of solidarity economics, we realize what a valuable idea it can be.
This video from Solidarity Economics explores movements for a universal basic income or universal guaranteed income from the perspective of solidarity economics.
Careers in Social Sciences – UCSC Career Success
Watch this Zoom recording by the UCSC Career Center to learn how to make the most of your major and create your own career path with your Social Sciences degree!
UC Santa Cruz University Forum: Improving Outcomes of Tree Growing and Forest Restoration Efforts
Business leaders, politicians, celebrities and non-profit organizations are calling for the planting of millions, billions, or even trillions of trees to slow climate change. Is that really feasible? Dr. Karen Holl, professor of environmental studies, talks about what we can actually achieve from growing trees and how to improve the outcomes of forest restoration efforts, based on her nearly three decades of research on tropical forest restoration.
Building Belonging Program: Student Flash Talk Event & Celebration 2021
UC Santa Cruz students in the Building Belonging program share their research with the community at this online end-of-year celebration and student flash talk event. The Building Belonging program is designed to increase engagement and build a greater sense of belonging for under-represented students through faculty mentored service-learning and research projects. The program was developed to enable and expand engagement with faculty and also give undergraduate students a firmer sense of belonging and acceptance at the university. Sponsored by: The Institute for Social Transformation and the Division of Social Sciences.
For more information, visit https://transform.ucsc.edu/funding/building-belonging
UC Santa Cruz University Forum: Improving Outcomes of Tree Growing and Forest Restoration Efforts
Business leaders, politicians, celebrities and non-profit organizations are calling for the planting of millions, billions, or even trillions of trees to slow climate change. Is that really feasible? Dr. Karen Holl, professor of environmental studies, talks about what we can actually achieve from growing trees and how to improve the outcomes of forest restoration efforts, based on her nearly three decades of research on tropical forest restoration.
Building Belonging Program: Student Flash Talk Event & Celebration 2021
UC Santa Cruz students in the Building Belonging program share their research with the community at this online end-of-year celebration and student flash talk event. The Building Belonging program is designed to increase engagement and build a greater sense of belonging for under-represented students through faculty mentored service-learning and research projects. The program was developed to enable and expand engagement with faculty and also give undergraduate students a firmer sense of belonging and acceptance at the university. Sponsored by: The Institute for Social Transformation and the Division of Social Sciences.
For more information, visit https://transform.ucsc.edu/funding/building-belonging
ALL-IN: Seizing the Pandemic Portal: Transforming Universities for Community Engaged Scholarship
Join us for a discussion on how we can seize the moment to help transform universities in the post-pandemic world, to be truly powerful partners in co-creating knowledge for justice. As Arundhati Roy so powerfully articulated early on in the crisis, pandemics provide us an opportunity to imagine the world anew. What does this mean for universities? As we try to navigate the opportunities for ‘building back better’, how can we help expand the space for community engaged scholarship? How can we more effectively deploy our resources, to strengthen truly equitable community partnerships across all aspects of the research process? What does this mean for graduate students and early career faculty? For individual research centers? For university administrators, and cross-university networks?
Sites of Memory, Spaces of Dispute: Missions and Monuments in the United States
Our final event in our “Memory Studies in the Americas” thematic series explores how markers or symbols of memory are imagined and disputed. Listen to presentations on the San Gabriel mission in Tovaangar (known as Los Angeles today) by Dr. Catherine Ramírez (Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies) and Confederate monuments in Virginia by Dr. Kate Jones (Associate Professor, History), as they weave the personal with the scholarly to explore the contested terrain of memory in the United States. Dr. Rebecca Hernandez, Director of the American Indian Resource Center at UC Santa Cruz, will be the event’s discussant. Closed captioning and an ASL interpreter will be provided. This event is free and open to the public and co-sponsored with the Institute for Social Transformation and The Humanities Institute.
Katherine Quinteros: Building Belonging Through Researcher-Practitioner Collaboration
Katherine Quinteros is a second-year doctoral student in Social Psychology at UC Santa Cruz. She works with Dr. Rebecca Covarrubias researching issues of identity, culture, health, and education. Using critical frameworks, her research examines the experiences, challenges, and strengths of minoritized groups (e.g., students, faculty) in higher education. Kat received the Chancellor’s Graduate Internship/Campus Fellow Award for “Building Belonging through Research Engagement for Minoritized UCSC Students” and she is the winner of the Graduate Research Symposium Best of the Social Sciences Division Award this year.
Sites of Memory, Spaces of Dispute: Missions and Monuments in the United States
Our final event in our “Memory Studies in the Americas” thematic series explores how markers or symbols of memory are imagined and disputed. Listen to presentations on the San Gabriel mission in Tovaangar (known as Los Angeles today) by Dr. Catherine Ramírez (Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies) and Confederate monuments in Virginia by Dr. Kate Jones (Associate Professor, History), as they weave the personal with the scholarly to explore the contested terrain of memory in the United States. Dr. Rebecca Hernandez, Director of the American Indian Resource Center at UC Santa Cruz, will be the event’s discussant. Closed captioning and an ASL interpreter will be provided. This event is free and open to the public and co-sponsored with the Institute for Social Transformation and The Humanities Institute.
Katherine Quinteros: Building Belonging Through Researcher-Practitioner Collaboration
Katherine Quinteros is a second-year doctoral student in Social Psychology at UC Santa Cruz. She works with Dr. Rebecca Covarrubias researching issues of identity, culture, health, and education. Using critical frameworks, her research examines the experiences, challenges, and strengths of minoritized groups (e.g., students, faculty) in higher education. Kat received the Chancellor’s Graduate Internship/Campus Fellow Award for “Building Belonging through Research Engagement for Minoritized UCSC Students” and she is the winner of the Graduate Research Symposium Best of the Social Sciences Division Award this year.
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 and co-founder of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. Counterpoints brings together cartography, essays, illustrations, poetry, and more in order to depict gentrification and resistance struggles from across the San Francisco Bay Area. Compiled by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, each chapter reflects different frameworks for understanding the Bay Area’s ongoing urban upheaval, including: evictions and root shock, indigenous geographies, health and environmental racism, state violence, transportation and infrastructure, migration and relocation, and speculative futures.
Reparations for Black Americans: The Road to Racial Equality in California and Beyond
William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen, co-authors of From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century.
Anne Price, President of the Insight Center for Community Economic Development.
Barbara Lee, U.S. Representative for California’s 13th congressional district.
Moderated by Chris Benner, Director of the Institute for Social Transformation.
Co-sponsored by: The Institute for Social Transformation, Center for Racial Justice, and Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at UC Santa Cruz.
Homeless Garden Project’s 21 Day Racial Equity Habit Building Food Challenge Kickoff Event
HGP was pleased to welcome Representative Jimmy Panetta, music and dancing from Senderos, and our friends at Food Solutions New England for this informative and celebratory kickoff event on March 20, 2021 co-sponsored by IST.
Reparations for Black Americans: The Road to Racial Equality in California and Beyond
William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen, co-authors of From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century.
Anne Price, President of the Insight Center for Community Economic Development.
Barbara Lee, U.S. Representative for California’s 13th congressional district.
Moderated by Chris Benner, Director of the Institute for Social Transformation.
Co-sponsored by: The Institute for Social Transformation, Center for Racial Justice, and Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at UC Santa Cruz.
Homeless Garden Project’s 21 Day Racial Equity Habit Building Food Challenge Kickoff Event
HGP was pleased to welcome Representative Jimmy Panetta, music and dancing from Senderos, and our friends at Food Solutions New England for this informative and celebratory kickoff event on March 20, 2021 co-sponsored by IST.
Latino Role Models 2021 Conference keynote with Dr. Manuel Pastor: “Racial Justice and Education”
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. Co-sponsored by IST. More info at https://scsenderos.org/events/latino-role-models2021/
LASER Talks with Jasmine Alinder and Katharyne Mitchell
UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences LASER Talk with:
- Dr. Jasmine Alinder, Dean of the Humanities and professor of History: “Representing Japanese American Incarceration.”
- Dr. Katharyne Mitchell, Dean of the Social Sciences and professor of Sociology: “Sanctuary Space and Insurgent Memory.”
University Forum: V is for Veracity
Featuring 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 commonplace, can have their own problematic effects on how we imagine and act in the face of the pandemic. The “us vs. them” imagery that war metaphors promote pulls us away from veracity—“trustworthy truths” that foreground human (and nonhuman) relations and interdependencies. The pandemic provides an opportunity to mobilize veracity for a more just post-COVID-19 future.
LASER Talks with Jasmine Alinder and Katharyne Mitchell
UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences LASER Talk with:
- Dr. Jasmine Alinder, Dean of the Humanities and professor of History: “Representing Japanese American Incarceration.”
- Dr. Katharyne Mitchell, Dean of the Social Sciences and professor of Sociology: “Sanctuary Space and Insurgent Memory.”
University Forum: V is for Veracity
Featuring 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 commonplace, can have their own problematic effects on how we imagine and act in the face of the pandemic. The “us vs. them” imagery that war metaphors promote pulls us away from veracity—“trustworthy truths” that foreground human (and nonhuman) relations and interdependencies. The pandemic provides an opportunity to mobilize veracity for a more just post-COVID-19 future.
Back to school: What Elementary Schools need to Consider in Re-Opening their Doors
Slugs and Steins event 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 there is wide variation in the timing and formats with which schools plan to reopen, it is clear that when students reenter school buildings they will be eager to reconnect with friends and teachers. Because elementary school-aged children learn and grow through play, recess is an ideal time to support healing and to prepare students to return to the classroom ready to learn. When students are allowed to reenter school buildings, providing opportunities for play should be a priority; this talk discusses how schools can safely implement recess and harness the power of play to rebuild the school community and support the well-being of their students.
Changing Climate: The Role of Environmental Justice
A Conversation with Rhiana Gunn-Wright
Climate change. Racism. Disparities in health and livelihoods. The biggest challenges of our modern era are not as separate as they might seem. Rhiana Gunn-Wright wants to help others see how environmental degradation and social injustices are deeply intertwined. Because understanding these connections is a powerful starting place for meaningful change. Gunn-Wright, lead developer of the Green New Deal and current climate policy director at the Roosevelt Institute, shared her insights at a free public event hosted by the UC Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation on February 10, 2021.
Opening remarks and land acknowledgement can be viewed here >>
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 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 our well-being as we negotiate a balance between the risks and human needs of social connection.
Changing Climate: The Role of Environmental Justice
A Conversation with Rhiana Gunn-Wright
Climate change. Racism. Disparities in health and livelihoods. The biggest challenges of our modern era are not as separate as they might seem. Rhiana Gunn-Wright wants to help others see how environmental degradation and social injustices are deeply intertwined. Because understanding these connections is a powerful starting place for meaningful change. Gunn-Wright, lead developer of the Green New Deal and current climate policy director at the Roosevelt Institute, shared her insights at a free public event hosted by the UC Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation on February 10, 2021.
Opening remarks and land acknowledgement can be viewed here >>
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 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 our well-being as we negotiate a balance between the risks and human needs of social connection.
“Coded Bias” Panel Discussion
Coded Bias documentary film screening and panel discussion with UC Santa Cruz Faculty. Neda Atanasoski of the Humanities Institute Center for Racial Justice A.M. Darke of Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) Jody Greene of Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)sponsored by UCSC’s Privacy Office and Office for Diversity Equity and Inclusion. The award-winning documentary Coded Bias explores how machine-learning algorithms can perpetuate society’s existing class-, race-, and gender-based inequities. “Coded Bias” examines algorithmic bias as a modern civil rights issue, and sheds light on privacy and equity issues related to increasing reliance on artificial intelligence.
Talking about Chronic Illness, Care, and COVID: An Evening with Jennifer Brea and Megan Moodie
As the numbers of the chronically ill grow rapidly worldwide due to what is being called “long Covid,” there is much to be learned from the experience of those who were grappling with the effects of difficult-to-diagnose, understudied, and invisibilzed diseases long before the appearance of the novel coronavirus. What do the experiences of the chronically ill teach us about how to survive – not just physically, but emotionally and socially – in the face of huge knowledge gaps and medical disbelief? How can patients separated by vast distances and often unable to engage in traditional political organizing join together to demand answers and treatment? What do patient voices tell us about how the organization of medicine needs to change in order to better serve the well-being of us all?
Talking about Chronic Illness, Care, and COVID: An Evening with Jennifer Brea and Megan Moodie
As the numbers of the chronically ill grow rapidly worldwide due to what is being called “long Covid,” there is much to be learned from the experience of those who were grappling with the effects of difficult-to-diagnose, understudied, and invisibilzed diseases long before the appearance of the novel coronavirus. What do the experiences of the chronically ill teach us about how to survive – not just physically, but emotionally and socially – in the face of huge knowledge gaps and medical disbelief? How can patients separated by vast distances and often unable to engage in traditional political organizing join together to demand answers and treatment? What do patient voices tell us about how the organization of medicine needs to change in order to better serve the well-being of us all?
Suddenly Distant and Still in Flux: Implications of COVID-19 for K12 Teachers’ Work
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 19 pandemic forced the entire teacher workforce into distance teaching essentially overnight. Though a short-term crisis, the longevity of this pandemic is changing the context of teachers’ work in ways that are affecting the very nature of teachers’ work and the structure of K-12 schooling.
Read more about the Suddenly Distant Research Project here: http://bit.ly/SuddenlyDistantResearch…
