Paint for Compassion ♥ ✚

Social Ecology 1

Come paint for #compassion in SE1 with artist Alex Cook on January 27 at 1-5 p.m. and January 28 at 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. All are welcome. "This mural will let students and everyone who sees it know that they matter." ⁠— Dean Nancy Guerra #YouAreLoved #SocialEcology --- You Are Loved Mural Project

BLM Discussion w/ Social Ecology Dean Guerra

Dear DECADE Community,   Students are invited to a discussion form with Social Ecology Dean Nancy Guerra this Friday, June 4th at 12pm. All students regardless of major or discpline are welcome to share their thoughts and emotions in regards to the Black Lives Matter movement.  Interested students may submit questions they would like addressed…

Parkside Chats: Compassion Fatigue ✚

Zoom

Parkside Chats: Compassion Fatigue How to stay happy when overloaded with sadness during the pandemic   DATE Fri, 06/05/2020 - 2:30pm to 3:30pm LOCATION Zoom Webinar DETAILS Join us for Parkside Chats featuring Dean Nancy Guerra and Richard Matthew, associate dean of the School of Social Ecology, professor of urban planning and public policy and director of the UCI Blum…

UCI in-prison B.A. program Memorandum of Understanding signing ★

Zoom

Join the University of California, Irvine Chancellor, Howard Gillman, and California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Secretary, Kathleen Allison, for the ceremonial signing of a Memorandum of Understanding that will extend access to currently incarcerated students, who have successfully completed an A.A. degree, to earn a Bachelor of Arts from UC Irvine. Tuesday, Dec. 15,…

Diversity & Justice Speaker Series: The Lynching Era and Contemporary Police Shootings of Blacks in the South ♥

Zoom

Diversity & Justice Speaker Series The Lynching Era and Contemporary Police Shootings of Blacks in the South DATE Mon, 02/08/2021 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm LOCATION Zoom DETAILS Abstract: The rate of police-involved killings in the U.S. greatly exceeds that of other industrialized nations and is highly racially disproportionate. Yet, we know relatively little about the antecedents of police violence, and even…

Daybreak Dialogues: Climate Change from the Streets: Is it a Racial Justice Issue? ♥

Zoom

Daybreak Dialogues: Climate Change from the Streets: Is it a Racial Justice Issue? Join the ChangeMakers as Michael Méndez, assistant professor of urban planning and public policy, tells a timely story of people, place, and power in the context of climate change and inequality. Thursday, March 4, 2021 8 – 9 a.m. Free and open to the public.…

Democratic Living in Fascist Time Undoing White supremacy and other lessons from Black feminist praxes ♥

Zoom

Democratic Living in Fascist Time Undoing White supremacy and other lessons from Black feminist praxes DATE Fri, 04/16/2021 - 11:00am to 12:30pm LOCATION Zoom Webinar RSVP https://uci.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0kdeqgqTooGtK_pB2cD_fw0EyTk8cZU410  DETAILS H.L.T. Quan (She/Her), Ph.D. a political theorist, an award-winning filmmaker, and an Associate Professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Her research centers on movements for…

Diversity and Justice Speaker Series: “Antiracism and Health Equity: Exploring the Relationship between Exclusionary School Discipline Law and Politics, Negative Health Outcomes, and Lifelong Hardships for Students of Color” ♥ ✚

Zoom

Diversity and Justice Speaker Series Professor Thalia González presents “Antiracism and Health Equity: Exploring the Relationship between Exclusionary School Discipline Law and Politics, Negative Health Outcomes, and Lifelong Hardships for Students of Color”   DATE Mon, 04/19/2021 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm LOCATION Zoom Webinar RSVP https://cls.soceco.uci.edu/webforms/rsvp-diversity-justice-thalia-gonzalez-research-talk   DETAILS The DJSS Committee is pleased to host Professor Thalia González…

Visualizing Abolition ♥ ★

Zoom

Visualizing Abolition A conversation on strategies, activism, and liberatory futures with Sora Han, Adrienne Maree Brown and Savannah Shange DATE Tue, 05/11/2021 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm LOCATION Zoom DETAILS Visualizing Abolition, the year-long program featuring artists, activists, scholars, and others united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition, concludes with a conversation on strategies, activism, and…

Queer and Present Danger Understanding the Disparate Impacts of Disasters on LGBTQ+ Communities ♥ ✚

Queer and Present Danger Understanding the Disparate Impacts of Disasters on LGBTQ+ Communities Thu, 12/02/2021 – 11:00am Webinar RSVP DETAILS This webinar will feature findings from a new study that explores how and why LGBTQ+ communities are impacted legally, psychologically, physically, and even theologically during disasters. The Director of External Affairs at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)…