SQUASH THE BIASES presents the Black Lives Matter & Cultural Awareness Workshop UCI students, faculty, staff and community members are invited to engage with Pure Praxis Theater Group in a theatrical kinesthetic-based performance that challenges the way you think about unconscious and implicit biases. This performance will challenge, educate, and provide you with solutions that [...]
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 [...]
You're Invited! Celebration of Teaching Featuring: Richard Milner IV Vanderbilt University & President-Elect, AERA Thursday, May 6, 2021 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Virtual Zoom Event Registration is free and required REGISTER NOW! Note: This event will not be recorded or redistributed. The UCI Celebration of Teaching, presented by the UCI School of Education's [...]
Merawi Gerima and Sophia Nahli Allison "Channeling Collectivity and Cultural Memory" May 6, 2021, 4:00-5:30 p.m. Register here. Description: Dr. Philana Payton moderates a discussion with filmmakers Merawi Gerima (Spirit Award Nominated feature film “Residue”) and Sophia Nahli Allison (Academy Award Nominated Short Documentary “A Love Song for Latasha). Films streaming on Netflix: Residue & A Love [...]
1st Annual BMA Conference: Empowered to Lead, Equipped to Succeed May 1, 2021 9:00-3:00 p.m. Join us for the first annual Merage School Black Management Association Conference. This year’s conference theme is Empowered to Lead, Equipped to Succeed. There will be four focused sessions to bring this theme to life. Hear from industry leaders making an [...]
SQUASH THE BIASES presents the Black Lives Matter & Cultural Awareness Workshop UCI students, faculty, staff and community members are invited to engage with Pure Praxis Theater Group in a theatrical kinesthetic-based performance that challenges the way you think about unconscious and implicit biases. This performance will challenge, educate, and provide you with solutions that [...]
AICRE + PHILOSOPHY Rather than remain silent on race, Western philosophy has often situated African and Black life particularly as degraded, an exception, or outside life itself. What genealogies have enabled and continue this history? What genealogies, both within the academy and without, offer us tools for resistance? Aiming to cultivate vocabularies at precisely this [...]
UCI CHOCPrIDE (Program for Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity) and Health Equity Matters Discussion on Anti-AAPI Hate Crimes. For more information, contact Dr. Candice Taylor Lucas: taylorce@hs.uci.edu
Kirk Davis Jr. Public Shakespeare Lecture In this public conversation, Jeremie Harris will discuss his role as Claudio in New York Public Theatre’s 2019 production of Much Ado About Nothing, which featured an all-Black cast and was set in Atlanta during Stacy Abrams’ campaign for governor of Georgia. We will share clips from the production. Mr. [...]
The 1977 National Women's Conference Watch Party and Discussion Tuesday, April 20, 2021 8:00-9:30 p.m. REGISTER In 1977, 20,000 women and men from across the U.S. and the world gathered in Houston, Texas to define a national women's agenda. A team of students, alumni and faculty from CSU Sacramento, UC Irvine and UCSD have been [...]