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May 30, 2025 | BME80G Series: Joanna Radin

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Friday, May 30, 2025

1:20 – 2:25 pm 

Location TBD

On Friday, May 30 at 1:20 pm, you are invited to join S&J affiliate and Associate Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Karen Miga’s BME 80G Bioethics course for a talk by Joanna Radin – a panel discussion will follow.

A zoom option or recording may be available for members of the campus community who cannot attend in person. Register for the Zoom link here (TBD).

Joanna Radin is Associate Professor of History of Medicine and History, Yale University.

June 06, 2025 | BME80G Series: Tina Lasisi

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Friday, June 05, 2025

1:20 – 2:25 pm 

Location TBD

On Friday, June 06 at 1:20 pm, you are invited to join S&J affiliate and Associate Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Karen Miga’s BME 80G Bioethics course for a talk by Tina Lasisi – a panel discussion will follow.

A zoom option or recording may be available for members of the campus community who cannot attend in person. Register for the Zoom link here (TBD).

Tina Lasisi is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan.

January 23, 2025 | Book Celebration The Black Geographic: Praxis, Resistance, Futurity

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Wednesday, January 23, 2025

4:00-6:00 PM

Rachel Carson College, Red Room

Join Science & Justice scholars together with the Center for Critical Urban & Environmental Studies (CUES), the Black Geographies Lab, and Sociology Department to celebrate the The Black Geographic (Duke University Press, 2023).

About The Black Geographic

The Black Geographic
Praxis, Resistance, Futurity (Duke University Press, 2023)

Co-edited by S&J affiliate Camilla Hawthorne (Sociology, CRES), contributors to The Black Geographic explore the theoretical innovations of Black Geographies scholarship and how it approaches Blackness as historically and spatially situated. In studies that span from Oakland to the Alabama Black Belt to Senegal to Brazil, the contributors draw on ethnography, archival records, digital humanities, literary criticism, and art to show how understanding the spatial dimensions of Black life contributes to a broader understanding of race and space. They examine key sites of inquiry: Black spatial imaginaries, resistance to racial violence, the geographies of racial capitalism, and struggles over urban space. Throughout, the contributors demonstrate that Blackness is itself a situating and place-making force, even as it is shaped by spatial processes and diasporic routes. Whether discussing eighteenth- and nineteenth-century abolitionist print records or migration and surveillance in Niger, this volume demonstrates that Black Geographies is a mode of analyzing Blackness that fundamentally challenges the very foundations of the field of geography and its historical entwinement with colonialism, enslavement, and imperialism. In short, it marks a new step in the evolution of the field.

The Black Geographic  is available at Duke University Press.

Contributors. Anna Livia Brand, C.N.E. Corbin, Lindsey Dillon, Chiyuma Elliott, Ampson Hagan, Camilla Hawthorne, Matthew Jordan-Miller Kenyatta, Jovan Scott Lewis, Judith Madera, Jordanna Matlon, Solange Muñoz, Diana Negrín, Danielle Purifoy, Sharita Towne

January 15, 2025 | Potluck

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Wednesday, January 15, 2025

4:00-6:00pm

304 Dickens Way, Santa Cruz (sign-up to bring a dish to share)

SJRC invites you to gather over food and drink and to catch up more with everyone, and to hear from folks where their cares lie at the moment—this moment, with so many challenges—old and new.  How do we support each other, inspire each other, create anew out of the rubble of what has been and now is unfolding?

December 4, 2024 | The Lichen Walk with A. Laurie Palmer

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Wednesday, December 04, 2024

3:00pm

Meet in front of Humanities 1

A not to miss opportunity to explore the UC Santa Cruz Campus, on and off the footpaths with A. Laurie Palmer!

As a conceptual frame to slow and redirect attention, The Lichen Museum invites you to zero in on inhabitants of slowed, horizontal, colorful and complex worlds while imagining radical possibilities for human being and relating. This walk invites participants to bend down and look closely at inhabitants of the planet who are already doing things differently as part of the process of imagining alternate futures for the rest of us.

A. Laurie Palmer writes, makes art, and teaches art at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research-based work focuses on undoing and re-crafting human practices of relating with the material world towards building just, livable, and joyful social and environmental relations. Her most recent book, The Lichen Museum, explores lichens’ role as an anti-capitalist companion and climate change survivor. Palmer also works in collaboration with activist groups in solidarity across socioeconomic and racial difference in campaigns that employ imagination and art to resist and interrupt social and environmental injustice. Palmer collaborated with the art collective Haha for twenty years on site-based installation projects, and was a founding member of the Chicago Torture Justice Memorials Project (CTJM) from 2010 to 2015 . The work of CTJM contributed to a broad-based campaign that won the first municipal Reparations for police violence in the US. After being based in Chicago for 30 years, Palmer moved to Santa Cruz in 2015 where she helped start the new Environmental Art and Social Practice MFA program at UCSC, an innovative, student-centered, graduate program focusing on environmental and social
justice.

This walk is part of the earth ecologies x technoscience series in co-sponsorship with the History of Consciousness Department.

November 22, 2024 | UCSC-HBCU Pathways Research Symposium

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Friday, November 22, 2024

2:00 – 4:00 pm PST

Zoom (Registration)

Join us for a virtual symposium featuring undergraduate research presentations from UC Santa Cruz, North Carolina A&T State University, and Howard University. This symposium will be hosted on Friday, November 22 from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM PST. Come celebrate the cross-institutional connections and scholastic achievements of our talented cohort of students. Please register in advance for this event: bit.ly/UCSCHBCU. 

Thank you to our partners, North Carolina A&T State University and the UCSC Division of Graduate Studies, for your collaboration.

Co-sponsored with the Division of Graduate Studies and the Office of African, Black, and Caribbean (ABC) Student Success

November 20, 2024 | Giving Day: Building Just Genomics with HBCUs

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Wednesday, November 20, 2024

12:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Campaign Page (live day-of)

Join the Science & Justice Research Center with the Division of Graduate Studies and the Office of African, Black, Caribbean Student Success at UC Santa Cruz on Wednesday, November 20th, 2024 for Giving Day, a 24-hour online fundraising drive!

Help support the next cohort of student researchers by giving through the Experience Sciences at HBCUs: Building Just Genomics with HBCUs campaign. Incentives to give include matching funds: let us know if you are interested in matching funds.

Together, we are building intentional collaborations with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in order to improve the training and development of future scientific leaders. Currently, we are working with North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCATSU) to provide UCSC and NCATSU undergraduate and graduate students and faculty with important opportunities to gain valuable professional development experiences in the pursuit of research, community, and knowledge exchange.

SJRC Co-Director James Doucet-Battle with studentsLast year, through a grant secured by the Graduate Division from the University of California, SJRC Co-Director James Doucet-Battle seeded a research-focused collaboration with Dr. Joseph Graves, Jr. and Dr. Checo Rorie of Biological Sciences at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCATSU). In June 2024, the grant enabled Doucet-Battle to bring 8 undergraduate STEM students, 2 graduate STEM students, and three ABC staff to NCATSU for one-week. Participants learned about the history of Black science at HBCUs, experienced the environment at NCATSU, participated in research collaborations, and connected with UCSC and NCATSU students and faculty. Students not only found the experience productive and challenging, they urged us to find ways of making this a two-week trip in the future, even offering to help raise funds and recruit future applicants. To support these efforts, we have launched this Giving Day 2024 campaign and are plotting Summers 2025 and 2026.

With your support, we can: 

  • Expand this project to more HBCUs and more academic disciplines.
  • Invite more students and faculty to participate.
  • Extend the program schedule.
  • Provide continuity, mentorship, and graded levels of expertise supportive of UCSC / NCATSU student acculturation and retention.
  • Develop more mechanisms for co-teaching and learning exchanges.

We’d love to maximize the impact of this campaign by getting as many individual donors as possible during the following time slots. This will help us compete for additional funds by winning challenges. Even just a few dollars helps!

  • Early Riser: 7 – 8 AM
  • Mid-day Motivator: 12 – 2 PM
  • Mad Dash: 6 – 8 PM
  • Final Frenzy: All Day

Share our Campaign for Justice!

Thank you for making a more just world possible!

Science and Social Justice: Jenny Reardon featured on Digital Science

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Posted from Digital Science.

As the Aaron Sorkin global political drama that is 2024 reaches its season finale in the USA today, we are thrilled to share an interview about the problem of the politicization of science with Professor Jenny Reardon, Professor of Sociology at the University of California Santa Cruz, and the Founder of Science and Justice Research Center. Jenny and I [Suze] met back in June [2024] when we both attended a workshop on Science at Social Justice at the Lorenz Center in Leiden, The Netherlands, as a result of a session at Sci Foo 2023 where like-minded people gathered to talk about the state of research and its impact on all of society.

Read more and watch the interview on YouTube.

October 30, 2024 | Walking in the Ecotone with Jim Clifford

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Wednesday, October 30, 2024

2:30pm

Humanities 1

A not to miss opportunity to explore of the UC Santa Cruz Campus, on and off the footpaths with Jim Clifford! We’ll wander among the trees, down in the ravines, out in the meadows. Pooling our different knowledges of environmental, social, cultural, technological and architectural history, we will try to disentangle the overlapping layers that constitute a unique environment.
 
Jim Clifford is Emeritus Professor in the History of Consciousness Department. Since his retirement he has photographed the campus, co-curated an exhibition about its history https://exhibits.library.ucsc.edu/exhibits/show/an-uncommon-place and published a book of Images and texts, In the Ecotone , that evokes the site’s “poetics of space,” its planning/design history, and its utopian potential (in pdf here: https://people.ucsc.edu/~jcliff/books.html)
Co-sponsored by Geoecologies and Technoscience Conversations, History of Consciousness and the Science and Justice Research Center