Latest Past Events

In Conversation: All This Safety is Killing Us

Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz

Join us for a conversation between Aminah Elster, Jennifer James, and Carlos Martinez on the intersection of prison abolition and healthcare. In 2025 Martinez co-edited All This Safety Is Killing Us: Health Justice Beyond Prisons, Police, and Borders to which Elster and James contributed the chapter "Medical Neglect as Carceral Violence." Aminah Elster is a […]

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Rasanblé/Rasanblaj: Call & Response

Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz

Join us for an evening of call and response between Portsha Jefferson, dancer and artistic director of Rara Tou Limen, and artist-scholar Gina Athena Ulysse. Jefferson will offer a Haitian dance response to Redwoods Rasanblaj: Origins & Disentanglements and screen her short film IMAMOU: Hotô to Shore... Agbe | Agwe, and Ulysse will read from her […]

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Webinar: Performative Meetings: 20 Years of Collaborations Between Social and Artistic Movements

The lecture Performative Meetings: 20 Years of Collaborations Between Social and Artistic Movements is part of the exhibition Seeing Through Stone, which explores artistic and activist practices aimed at abolishing carceral structures and questioning historically ingrained systems of oppression. The event focuses on two decades of collaborations between social and artistic movements, highlighting how these […]

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