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Cervantes & Velasquez Room, Baytree Conference Center
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Chris Jadallah – What Could Be More Innocent Than Planting Trees? Land-Based Pedagogies as a Site of Contestation
Cervantes & Velasquez Room, Baytree Conference Center Bay Tree Conference Center, UC Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Racial Justice is proud to present What Could Be More Innocent Than Planting Trees? Land-Based Pedagogies as a Site of Contestation with Chris Jadallah, Assistant Professor of Environmental Justice and Education at UC Los Angeles. Land education, as both theory and pedagogy, works to unsettle the colonial dynamics that often remain quietly […]
Bettina Aptheker: “Women in the Arts”
Cervantes & Velasquez Room, Baytree Conference Center Bay Tree Conference Center, UC Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOpera Parallèle, a Bay Area opera company, founded by UCSC Music Professor Emerita, Nicole Paiement, who is its musical director and conductor, has commissioned an opera based on the life […]
Ethics and the Language of Conservation
Cervantes & Velasquez Room, Baytree Conference Center Bay Tree Conference Center, UC Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDaniel Guevara (Philosophy) and Claudio Campagna (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Wildlife Conservation Society) assert that we need to radically rethink the meaning of conservation. “Sustainable Development” is a failed term, and as a result, the crisis of conservation is fundamentally a philosophical crisis with real-world implications. Their goal is to give a compelling and […]
Facebook Employee Panel Discussion on Careers
Cervantes & Velasquez Room, Baytree Conference Center Bay Tree Conference Center, UC Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesInterested in working in tech but currently pursuing a degree outside the hard sciences? Come hear from a panel of Facebook content strategists who work in the field of user experience design. They'll share information about: • The content strategy profession • How their career paths have taken shape • Pursuing careers in tech with […]
FreeAmerican Indian Writers Series: Rain Archambeau-Marshall
Cervantes & Velasquez Room, Baytree Conference Center Bay Tree Conference Center, UC Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRain L. Archambeau Marshall (Yankton/Choctaw) is an attorney and professor in Native American Environmental Studies at Humboldt State University. Formerly Attorney General for the Rosebud Sioux tribe, Rain is a American Civil Liberties Union Ira Glasser Racial Justice Fellow. She will speak on civil rights in education. This project is co-sponsored by the American Indian […]
Manlio Argueta and Jorge Argueta: Beyond the Volcano
Cervantes & Velasquez Room, Baytree Conference Center Bay Tree Conference Center, UC Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Latino Literary Cultures Research Cluster presents: Manlio Argueta is a Salvadoran writer, critic, and novelist born in 1935. Although he considers himself first and foremost a poet, he is known in the English speaking world for his book Un día en la vida, One Day of Life. Argueta was born in San Miguel, El […]