Date: January 23, 2020 Time: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Location:  Social Ecology I, Room 101 Who:  UCI students in CHC/LAT 152B, PUBHLTH 115 *For additionally interested, students, please see note below.   In this era of mass migration and mass gentrification, where do we call home? In this interactive filmmaking and creative activism workshop, led [...]

UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture’s Socio-Legal Studies Workshop will be held from 12:00 to 1:15 p.m. in Room 3500 of the Law School. Lunch will be provided. Ian Baran, Ph.D. candidate in Planning, Policy and Design, UCI School of Social Ecology, will discuss his paper, “Environmental Justice and Abolitionist Movements” Abstract: Environmental injustice has [...]

Grounded in people and places at the heart of the climate crisis, "Necessity" traces the fight in Minnesota against the expansion of pipelines carrying toxic tar sands oil through North America. The story unfolds in a setting where indigenous activists and non-indigenous allies make use of the necessity defense in making a moral case [...]

Drawing on E. O. Wilson's renaming of the Anthropocene as the Eremocene, or Age of Loneliness, Newman's talk will consider the crisis of climate change as a Constitutional crisis as well as a crucial moment for the intervention of the humanities. In other words, how can we consider the role of the humanities in [...]

Africana Institute for Creation Recognition and Elevation (AICRE) welcomes the 2.5 day Undoing Racism Workshop, presented by the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB), designed to create a level playing field where faculty, students, staff, administrators, and community members can enter into a shared experience, developing a common lense and shared language for [...]

Africana Institute for Creation Recognition and Elevation (AICRE) welcomes the 2.5 day Undoing Racism Workshop, presented by the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB), designed to create a level playing field where faculty, students, staff, administrators, and community members can enter into a shared experience, developing a common lense and shared language for [...]

Africana Institute for Creation Recognition and Elevation (AICRE) welcomes the 2.5 day Undoing Racism Workshop, presented by the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB), designed to create a level playing field where faculty, students, staff, administrators, and community members can enter into a shared experience, developing a common lense and shared language for [...]

Part I: Transforming the Inner Turmoil Around Race and Racism with Valerie Sheppard Valerie understands that, "All transformation begins with acknowledgement of what is real and present, and moves through additional stages of acceptance, forgiveness, and commitment." In this experiential, interactive session, attendees will be guided through a process that enables them to move [...]

Part II: Dancing the Diaspora: Exploring the African Diaspora is a Movement with Sakina Ibrahim This workshop allows us to engage with traditional and cultural movement practices such as West African dance, Latin dance, Social dance, and Hip-hop as a global art form. The Africanist aesthetic is found throughout American and non-American dance forms, [...]

We get great benefits from the energy we use now mostly from fossil fuels, but the resulting pollution threatens to cause highly damaging climate changes.  Very strong evidence shows that if we use this knowledge wisely, we can build a larger economy in a cleaner environment with more jobs, improved health and a greater national [...]

Click to download PDF Colette Pichon Battle is a generational native of Bayou Liberty, Louisiana. As founder and Executive Director of the Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP), she develops programming focused on Equitable Disaster Recovery, Global Migration, Community Economic Development, Climate Justice, and Energy Democracy. Pichon Battle works with [...]

Screening of the film, "Racing Extinction". Thursday, March 12, 2020 from 7:00pm - 8:45pm Crystal Cove Auditorium UCI Student Center 311 W Peltason Dr A, Irvine, CA 92697 and Extinction: Solutions for Species on the Brink Conference Friday, March 13, 2020 from 9:00am - 5:00pm Beckman of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering 100 [...]