Events

On the week of National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG), the AIRC will be hosting a “Bring Her Home” Film Screening and a community “artivity” rooted in honoring all Native/Indigenous/First Nations/ Alaska Native women/two spirit/trans people across Turtle Island. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. T-shirts will be provided to the first 20 people who arrive!

Connect, network, inspire!

Any womxn who does research related to electrical engineering and/or computer science is welcome to join the weekly Womxn in ECE/CSE Lunch series, intended to build inclusion in the Baskin Engineering research community.

When: Thursdays at 12 p.m. during spring quarter, with the last lunch held on June 8th

Where: Baskin Engineering Lanai (if raining, join us in E2-599)

Join the mailing list: eecs-lunch-group@ucsc.edu

Artist and muralist Josué Rojas, currently artist-in-residence at UC Santa Cruz’s Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas, will be in conversation with award-winning artist John Jota Leaños, professor, film and digital media, at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences galleries in the Westside of Santa Cruz.

Drawing on Rojas’ twenty-five years experience creating murals and public art in the Bay Area, the conversation will focus on the roles that art can take in cultivating community by drawing attention to key social issues and celebrating communal resilience. From a recent project on Folsom Street commemorating the victims of gun violence as part of the Mission’s long culture of street art to a mural enacting intercultural solidarity at the Chinese Historical Society of America, Rojas has shown how public art can be a vital tool of civic engagement, particularly in the service of empowering marginalized and migrant communities.

The discussion will also examine how Rojas uses his art practice to empower Chicanx/Latinx communities at UC Santa Cruz. Currently, Rojas is working with students, faculty, and staff to create a mural in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas (formerly the Research Center for the Americas). Founded in 1992, and the first research center in the UC system to put in conversation the historically disconnected fields of Chicanx/Latinx and Latin American Studies, the Huerta Center has a long history of working to drive positive social change through multidisciplinary conversation, which Rojas’ mural will celebrate.

Rojas, whose work is rooted in both Central American and Chicanx traditions and who has collaborated with organizations like Mission Food Hub and the Ukiah Valley Youth Leadership Coalition, is ideally placed to commemorate the Huerta Center’s path-defining work. Celina Lucero, director of Horizons Unlimited, says: “his work has cultural resonance and centers the Latino culture in all its beauty and diversity.”

Dr. Martin Shapiro will talk about three phenomena that stand in the way of creating a health care system in American that is efficient, effective and just, as discussed in his new book. These are the commodification of health care by all participants, the consciousness--the attitudes, values, expectations, interests and competencies--of the various groups of actors, including doctors and their organizations, medical schools, hospitals and health systems, other corporations in health care, scientists and the NIH, and patients and the public, and the toxic interactions and problematic communication among these groups. He argues that meaningful change will require confronting all of these issues, in health care and throughout society.

No RSVP or registration requested for this event.

‌In The Force of Witness Dr. Rosa-Linda Fregoso examines the contra feminicide movement in Mexico and other  feminist efforts to eradicate gender violence. Drawing on interviews, art, documentaries, and her years of activism, Fregoso shows how different forms of witnessing—from activist-mothers, experts in court cases to communal and scholaractivist-citizens—are key to resisting feminicidal violence. She will be in dialogue with Dr. Sylvanna Falcón, Huerta Center director and Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) associate professor. This free and public event is co-sponsored with the LALS department.

Join us for a conversación about Campesinx justice and care. We will be hosting Irene and Maria, organizers of the Campesina Womb Justice mutual aid project. The platica aims to highlight the lived experiences of Campesinxs and the work that local activists and organizations are leading towards justice and care of Campesinxs. Join us to learn how you can get involved in advocacy and action for farm worker rights. Food will be provided!

The Politics of Care Conference will take place over 3 days on May 17-19, 2023 at UC Santa Cruz. Below is an overview of the conference schedule and program, including plenary sessions, special events, and meals.

We invite you to be part of interdisciplinary discussions centered around themes of neoliberalism, radical care, emotional justice, care in times of crisis, trans and queer care, global politics of care, gendered care, and communities of care. We hope the presentations during this conference will shed light on the often unseen, under-valued, and under-theorized labor involved in “care” and its associated social and political dynamics and conditions.

Graduate Student Call For Abstracts is closed. Selected submissions have been notified via email. We solicited innovative and inter/transdisciplinary, intellectual dialogue to happen in the following four tracks:

Neoliberalism, Capitalism, and CareGlobal Politics, Citizen-making, and CareEnvironmental Crisis and CareCare as Radical HealingConference Registration is free and open to the public. Meals and promotional items will be provided to all those who register. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP using this link tinyurl.com/CarePoliticsUCSC. The deadline to RSVP is May 8th, 2023 at 11:59pm. Please note that space is limited, and we encourage you to RSVP as soon as possible to secure your spot.

We'd like to thank all our co-sponsors for their generous support and for making this conference possible:

UCSC Division of Graduate Studies

UCSC Center for Labor and Community

UCSC Department of Sociology

UCSC Graduate Student Association

UCSC Department of Latin American & Latino Studies

UCSC Graduate Student Commons

UCSC American Indian Resource Center

UCSC Lionel Cantu Queer Center

UCSC Womxns Center

VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center

HSI Initiatives

Graduate Student Conference Committee:

Betania Santos (Chair, PhD Candidate, SOC & LALS DE, and El Centro Graduate Intern)

Boyeong Kim (PhD Candidate, LALS)

Brittney Jimenez (PhD Student, LALS)

Graciela Sierra-Moreno (PhD Student, Literature & AIRC Graduate Intern)

Koda Sokol (PhD Candidate, SOC & Cantu Queer Center Graduate Intern)

We hope to see you at 2023 El Centro Graduate Student Conference, The Politics of Care at UC Santa Cruz.

Connect, network, inspire!

Any womxn who does research related to electrical engineering and/or computer science is welcome to join the weekly Womxn in ECE/CSE Lunch series, intended to build inclusion in the Baskin Engineering research community.

When: Thursdays at 12 p.m. during spring quarter, with the last lunch held on June 8th

Where: Baskin Engineering Lanai (if raining, join us in E2-599)

Join the mailing list: eecs-lunch-group@ucsc.edu

The UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute is hosting a half-day symposium geared toward discussing how the genomics research community can advance anti-racist practices.

Registration is required. Capacity for the workshops and panels during the day is limited and priority will go to the Genomics Institute members and its affiliate labs. The keynote address by esteemed genomic scientist Dr. Erich Jarvis is free and open to the public. To see the full schedule or to register, please visit the Genomics Institute events page.

The UCSC Genomics Institute is excited to invite Erich Jarvis to speak to the UC Santa Cruz community on how we can advance anti-racism in genomics. Jarvis will give a lecture titled, “Surviving and thriving as an underrepresented minority scientist in a majority environment."

Jarvis is a professor at Rockefeller University, who focuses on the genetics underlying vocal learning. His talk will serve as the keynote lecture for the Genomics Institute's Advancing anti-racist practices in genomics symposium. While the bulk of the symposium is limited to Genomics Institute affiliates, this lecture is being livestreamed and is free and open to the public.

Please register for the webinar to attend virtually, or join us in BE 180 on Friday, May 19, at 4:15pm.

The UCSC Genomics Institute is excited to invite Erich Jarvis to speak to the UC Santa Cruz community on how we can advance anti-racism in genomics. Jarvis will give a lecture titled, “Surviving and thriving as an underrepresented minority scientist in a majority environment."

Jarvis is a professor at Rockefeller University, who focuses on the genetics underlying vocal learning. His talk will serve as the keynote lecture for the Genomics Institute's Advancing anti-racist practices in genomics symposium. While the bulk of the symposium is limited to Genomics Institute affiliates, this lecture is being livestreamed and is free and open to the public.

Please register for the webinar to attend virtually, or join us in BE 180 on Friday, May 19, at 4:15pm.

Connect, network, inspire!

Any womxn who does research related to electrical engineering and/or computer science is welcome to join the weekly Womxn in ECE/CSE Lunch series, intended to build inclusion in the Baskin Engineering research community.

When: Thursdays at 12 p.m. during spring quarter, with the last lunch held on June 8th

Where: Baskin Engineering Lanai (if raining, join us in E2-599)

Join the mailing list: eecs-lunch-group@ucsc.edu