Environmental Justice with Julie Sze: Sparking Imagination and Hope
“Many people have always suffered and many more people are feeling the suffering,” Sze said of the last year. Environmental justice offers stories of non-naive, radical hope with which to face and mitigate that suffering.
“Media Matters” Column Spotlights Humanities Scholars
The DHI's new website feature brings attention to the many public sphere contributions of humanities faculty, students, and staff at UC Davis.
With assistance from Interdisciplinary Research Support in the UC Davis Office of Research, the workshop Grant Funding in the Humanities: What, Where, How on February 23 offers support for attendees to understand opportunities for grant funding in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Full details and registration information is here.
The Department of Native American Studies is sponsoring a talk by Dr. Sheryl Lightfoot of the University of British Columbia (UBC), who will be speaking about UBC's new Indigenous Strategic Plan to implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP) on their campus. The talk will take place on February 24; register here.
The Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Contemporary Struggle: Social Movements, Social Surveillance, Social Media featuring Zeynep Tufekci and Cory Doctorow is on February 24. Full details and link to register here.
The University of California, Santa Barbara's Interdisciplinary Humanities Center presents a Living Democracy talk, Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration with Reuben Jonathan Miller on February 25. Details and link to register here.
In her Valente Lecture on February 25, "Engaging Opera as Popular Culture and Social Justice," Naomi André will "outline some of the larger frameworks from my book Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement(2018)." Read full details and register here.
