Events
Week of Events
Sunday, April 11, 2021
No events on this day.
Monday, April 12, 2021
- April 12, 2021 -How to Live Like Shakespeare
- April 12, 2021 -Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist
How to Live Like Shakespeare
This series of noontime conversations will feature key passages by Shakespeare, selected for what they reveal about life and living. What are the virtues or capacities that Shakespeare took to be essential to social, spiritual, and civic happiness? How do Shakespeare’s speakers think out loud about values and ends, and how does Shakespeare think in […]
Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist
NPR science reporter Lulu Miller will discuss her fantastic nonfiction debut Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss. Love, and the Hidden Order of Life (available in paperback on April 6th). This riveting book, begins with an account of biologist David Starr Jordan, and then goes down a rabbit hole of history, morality, and […]
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
- April 13, 2021 -Abolition from the Inside Out w/ jackie sumell, Albert Woodfox, and Tim Young
Abolition from the Inside Out w/ jackie sumell, Albert Woodfox, and Tim Young
The Institute of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to partner with the Legal Studies Program to present jackie sumell, Albert Woodfox, and Tim Young. Award-winning artist jackie sumell works collaboratively with people incarcerated across the U.S. to promote abolition. Albert Woodfox is an activist and author who spent decades in solitary confinement at the […]
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
- April 14, 2021 -Rebecca Hernandez — Categories, Identities, and Objects: Naming Native Art
Rebecca Hernandez — Categories, Identities, and Objects: Naming Native Art
This presentation will examine the inherent complexities in the academic study and public representation of American Indian culture(s), and how the categorization and defining of Native American objects aids in the construction of American Indian identity. RSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday, April 14th; you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM […]
Thursday, April 15, 2021
- April 15, 2021 -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, and the discrimination against freed slaves and their descendants from the end of the Civil War to the present. Although the movement for reparations extends […]
Friday, April 16, 2021
No events on this day.
Saturday, April 17, 2021
No events on this day.