Events

CURRENT EVENTS

In-Person Grad Student Mixer & Solidarity Event When: Monday, December 5th, 2022, 5-6 pm Where: Palo Verde Clubhouse (by UCI Parking Lot 40) After your hard work at the picket line, come join us for a relaxing evening of networking, games, food, and refreshments! Intended Audience: Graduate Students but open to all students! Sponsors: UCI Associated Graduate Students & DECADE Council for the School of Social Sciences Contact: Genesis Mazariegos AGS First-Gen Graduate Student Engagement Chair DECADE School of Social Sciences Council Chair firstgen@ags.uci.edu / decadesocialsciences@uci.edu

In-Person Grad Student Mixer Where: Rise Suite Student Center South Building, G458 When: May 26th, 2022 5-7 pm Please RSVP at https://cglink.me/2eo/r1605620 Description: Are you a First Generation Graduate Student or an Undocu-ally? Do you want to learn more about the resources that exist on campus to support you and connect with other grad students? Join AGS and the DREAM Center in person on May 26th for a grad student mixer at the new RiSE Suite in the Student Center! Come learn about the DREAM Center, the Womxn's Center for Success, the Sustainability Resource Center, and the Latinx Center, and enjoy a fun evening of arts and crafts and networking! Contact: Genesis Mazariegos (gmazari@uci.edu / firstgen@ags.uci.edu) or Diana Carreno (undoc@ags.uci.edu) Intended Audience: Target audience is Graduate Students but open to all students! Sponsors: UCI DREAM Center, UCI Associated Graduate Students, UCI DECADE Student Council in the School of Social Sciences.

 

PAST EVENTS

“Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition” Featuring: Joshua Myers (Howard University), Françoise Cromer (Saint Elizabeth University), Temitope Famodu (UCI) Time: 5pm, Thursday May 5th, virtual Zoom presentation Zoom link: https://uci.zoom.us/j/99729051367 Description: This event will feature a presentation by Joshua Myers on his recently released biography of Black Studies scholar Cedric Robinson. Myers will also be in conversation with one of Robinson’s former students, Dr. Françoise Cromer, and UC Irvine Global Studies PhD student, Temitope Famodu. Cedric Robinson – political theorist, historian and activist – was one of the greatest black radical thinkers of the twentieth century, whose work resonates deeply with contemporary movements such as Black Lives Matter. In this powerful work, the first major book to tell the story of Cedric Robinson, Joshua Myers shows how Robinson's work interrogated the foundations of Western political thought, modern capitalism, and the changing meanings of race. Tracing the course of Robinson's journey from his early days as an agitator in the 60s against the US's reactionary foreign policy to his publication of such seminal works within Black Studies as Black Marxism, Myers frames Robinson's mission as one that aimed to understand and practice resistance to "the terms of order." In so doing, Robinson excavated the Black radical tradition as a form of resistance that imagined that life on wholly different terms was possible. Contact: Yousuf Al-Bulushi, yalbulus@uci.edu Intended Audience: Open to everyone Sponsors: UCI School of Humanities Equity Advisor, UCI DECADE Student Councils in the School of the Arts, School of Public Health, and School of Social Sciences.

"Abolition Now: Bridging Scholar-Practitioner Divides" Friday, April 15, 2022 The Social Sciences Council is hosting an event, to engage in a community-wide conversation on what abolition is, how it can be achieved, and how those interested can be involved. UCI’s very own Dr. Sora Han and Dr. Sandra Harvey will be presenting, as well as presenters from Initiate Justice and Transforming Justice OC. Register here: https://uci.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAtdeiprD8rG9KtWxL0p89JkIgfnUksmZgE.