Events
Week of Events
White Supremacy in the Golden State: Sikh Targets, Responses, and Solidarities
White Supremacy in the Golden State: Sikh Targets, Responses, and Solidarities
On August 25, 2019, Paramjit Singh was murdered while going for his evening stroll in an affluent area of Tracy, CA. The case against the alleged perpetrator, who had affiliations with white supremacist groups, was quickly dropped by the judge and the Singh family has been left shocked. While specific political economic contingencies increase formations […]
Corrina Gould: Rematriation and the Land Back Movement
Corrina Gould: Rematriation and the Land Back Movement
The UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department invites you to join Professor Katie Keliiaa and her Indigenous Feminisms class for a public webinar. Guest speaker Corrina Gould is Co-Founder/Co-Director of the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, an urban Indigenous women-led organization that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people. Sogorea Te’ is centered in […]
Popular Culture and the Radical Imaginary: Patrisse Cullors and Maxwell Addae
Popular Culture and the Radical Imaginary: Patrisse Cullors and Maxwell Addae
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. Their conversation will focus on their collaborative project researching the media portrayals of Black women and incarceration as well the real-world impact of the […]
Feminism and Resistance: Afghan Women Moving Forward
Feminism and Resistance: Afghan Women Moving Forward
A discussion with Afghan scholars and activists about women's rights, feminism, and resistance in Afghanistan. Moderated by Halima Kazem-Stojanovic, Teaching Fellow for FMST 188 - Women and War. Presented by the Feminist Studies Department and supported by the Baskin Endowed Chair in Feminist Studies. Panelists: Lima Ahmad - PhD candidate in International Security and Human […]
Mistruth and Consequences: Feminist Scholars on “Comfort Women” Denialism and Grassroots Movements for Justice
Mistruth and Consequences: Feminist Scholars on “Comfort Women” Denialism and Grassroots Movements for Justice
In the three decades since Kim Hak-sun of South Korea first publicly identified herself as a former “comfort woman” of the Japanese Imperial Army, a global movement for long overdue justice has emerged, based on substantial survivor testimony and extant historical documents, of the existence of a regionally far-reaching imperial system of military sexual slavery. […]
LASER Talks with Deans Jasmine Alinder & Katharyne Mitchell
LASER Talks with Deans Jasmine Alinder & Katharyne Mitchell
Join the Institute of the Arts and Sciences for live, online LASER Talks with UC Santa Cruz Dean of the Humanities Jasmine Alinder, historian of photography, and Dean of the […]