Social Consciousness
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Engage with “alternative Nobel” laureates this spring and summer
UC Santa Cruz is hosting a week-long summer institute with Right Livelihood Award laureate Nicanor Perlas, who received the “alternative Nobel” in 2003 for his work opposing corporate globalization.
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UCSC partners with LA Museum of Art for symposium on work of arts professor Isaac Julien
UC Santa Cruz is collaborating with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to present a daylong symposium on the works of influential British filmmaker and installation artist, Isaac Julien, who recently joined the campus as a distinguished professor of the arts.
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Regina Langhout honored for advocacy on behalf of those at risk of deportation
Regina Langhout, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is being recognized for her leadership in community psychology on behalf of people at risk of deportation.
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Night at the Museum in Silicon Valley to spotlight Anti-Semitism and the Internet
What is the relationship between anti-Semitism and the Internet? On May 9, The Humanities Institute and the Center for Jewish Studies will present ‘UC Santa Cruz Night at the Museum: Anti-Semitism & the Internet—Old Hatred and New’ at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.
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Making art in trying times: DANM exhibition examines culture, society, and the digital world
Thirteen graduate students from the Digital Arts and New Media M.F.A. program (DANM) will conclude two years of artistic study at UC Santa Cruz with “Receivership”—an exhibition of their work running on campus April 26 to May 12.
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UC Santa Cruz philosophy alumnus Jeffrey Stewart wins 2019 Pulitzer Prize for biography
UC Santa Cruz alumnus Jeffrey Conrad Stewart (Cowell College ’71, philosophy) has been awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for “The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke,” his definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance.
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‘Hi-Phi Nation’ philosophy podcast host to launch humanities residency at UC Santa Cruz
Barry Lam—an associate professor of philosophy at Vassar College and host of the philosophy podcast “Hi-Phi Nation” on Slate—is coming to UC Santa Cruz this week to begin a two-week residency.
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College Ten class connects students with Soledad Prison inmates
A first-ever class called “Transcommunal Cooperation and Peacemaking” brought together 14 undergraduates and 28 men incarcerated at the Soledad Correctional Training Facility for an extraordinary 10 weeks of learning and discovery.
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‘Blueprint Roundtable’ to discuss complexities of being black and male in U.S.
Students, faculty, and community leaders will respond to questions and issues raised by ‘Question Bridge: Black Males’—an exhibition currently on display at the Sesnon Gallery—at a “Blueprint Roundtable” on April 3 at Oakes College.
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New anthology of essays about Chicana and Chicano art edited by arts professor Jennifer González
“Chicano and Chicana Art: A Critical Anthology” offers an overview of the history and theory of Chicano and Chicana art from the 1960s to the mid-2000s.
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Sixth annual Climate Conference links science and justice
For the first time, the annual UC Santa Cruz Climate Conference will bring together prominent ocean scientists and leading social-justice advocates to discuss the environmental and equity dimensions of the crisis.
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Leading the charge for change
Alumna Amita Kuttner, a current graduate student in the Physics Department, is running as a Green Party candidate for a seat in Canada’s House of Commons in order to make policy around climate change—a quest sparked by a devastating loss