From Scarcity to Abundance—Israel’s Experience with Water Management
From Scarcity to Abundance—Israel’s Experience with Water Management Featuring Dr. Clive Lipchin, director of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies' Center for Transboundary Water Management Tuesday, October 30, 2018 1 - 2 p.m. Lunch will be served. RSVP required. Calit2 Auditorium 4100 Calit2 Building Irvine, CA. 92697 The Middle East is one of the world’s…
Rivers That Depend on Aquifers: Drafting Sustainable Groundwater Management Plans with Fisheries in Mind
UCI School of Law , United StatesRivers That Depend on Aquifers: Drafting Sustainable Groundwater Management Plans with Fisheries in Mind California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), enacted in 2015, requires that the pumping of groundwater avoid “undesirable results.” While much of the focus on these undesirable results has been on the problem of overdraft, pumping of groundwater that exceeds recharge, the…
Impacts of Family Separation and Other Immigration Policies on Families
Impacts of Family Separation and Other Immigration Policies on Families The next talk in the School of Education's series on "The Trump Presidency: Implications for Education in the US" will be on Thursday, November 1, 4:30-6 pm in room 2010, on the second floor of the School of Education. Feel free to distribute widely. All…
“The Body and the Body Politic”: An Inaugural Intellectual Summit
Humanities Gateway (HG 1030) , United States"The Body and the Body Politic": An Inaugural Intellectual Summit November 2, 2018 | 10:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. Humanities Gateway (HG 1030) University of California, Irvine campus Summit schedule, registration (by Oct. 30) and/or join the WGSHA listserv, by clicking below. For additional information or questions, please contact Judy Wu. Parking: Please park in the…
Solutions to Plastics
Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine , United StatesSolutions to Plastics Solutions to Plastics addresses the compelling problem of global plastic pollution. Plastic products are very cheap to make from petroleum but extremely difficult to extract from waste streams. 90% of plastics discharged by waterways come from only ten rivers, two of them in Africa and the rest in Asia. Different types of…
Anti -Racist Horizons: Zapatista Kuxlejal Politics and Indigenous Autonomy, by Mariana Mora
Humanities Gateway 1341 , United StatesAnti -Racist Horizons: Zapatista Kuxlejal Politics and Indigenous Autonomy, by Mariana Mora November 7, 2018 | 4:00-6:00 p.m. Humanities Gateway 1341 Anthropologist Mariana Mora is associate professor and researcher of Center for Higher Studies and Research in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico City. Over the past two decades, Zapatista indigenous community members in Mexico have…
Climate Change, Insect Biology, and the Challenges Ahead
Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine , United StatesClimate Change, Insect Biology, and the Challenges Ahead Our climate is changing. C02 levels in the atmosphere are growing at unprecedented rates and temperatures are increasing so quickly that in less than one hundred years humans will be living on a planet that will be hotter than at any time in the evolution of the…
The Vital Poetics of Zora Neale Hurston and Luisa Moreno: Settler Extraction and Florida’s Black Women Conifer Workers
Humanities Gateway, #3341 University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United StatesThe Vital Poetics of Zora Neale Hurston and Luisa Moreno: Settler Extraction and Florida's Black Women Conifer Workers This talk will discuss how Black women workers created forms of resistance and survival in Florida's extractive conifer industry during the Jim Crow Era. It will center the voices and experiences of Black women workers by juxtaposing…
Law and Social Movements
UCI School of Law , United StatesLaw and Social Movements: Race, Place & Climate Change Join UCI Community Resilience Projects for a new seminar on law and social movements. What: LAW 5681 Law and Social Movements: Race, Place & Climate Change Who: UCI Law and graduate* students When: Spring Semester 2019 (beginning January 9, 2019); Wednesdays, 3:45 – 5:45 pm Where: UCI Law School, classroom TBA Course…
What is CalFresh?
Dr. White Room, CCC , United StatesWhat is CalFresh? When: FRIDAY, JANUARY 11TH from 11AM - 1:30PM Where: Dr. White Room, Cross-Cultural Center RSVP: www.tinyurl.com/calfreshcccW19 Join us in community to learn more about CalFresh (SNAP), a nutrition assistance program sponsored by the USDA that helps people purchase healthy foods by issuing monthly electronic benefits on an EBT card that can be used…