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Our latest Media & Society event! Award winning journalists Martha Mendoza and Juliet Linderman will be discussing their jaw dropping investigation of a US Marine who abducted an Afghan child.
Join us Monday March 4th @ 7PM Humanties 210.
See you there! 🦉

Kresge is offering three types of scholarships this winter! One of the Reyna Grande Scholarships is available to a non-Kresge student. Deadline for all is 3/13/23!

Join us tonight!! Tuesday, February 21st from 5pm- 6:30pm in Humanities 1, room 210!

Kresge is offering 1 scholarship to all UCSC undergraduates as well as 1 scholarship for a Kresge student!

Kresge is offering 3 scholarships this winter quarter!

Please join us Tuesday, February 21st from 5pm- 6:30pm in Humanities 1, room 210!

Please join us tomorrow night!

Please join us on Tuesday 1/31 for a conversation with Joe Thompson! He’s the lead organizer of the recent unionization effort at Starbucks Santa Cruz. Pizza will be provided!

Pizza with the Provost was postponed to today! Be sure to drop by!

Pizza with the Provost is POSTPONED until tomorrow night!!

“When we love every day we do not need the eminent threat of sure death to be true to ourselves. Living with awareness and clarity of mind and heart we are able to embrace the realization of our dying in a manner that allows us to live more fully because we know death is always with us.”

And also…

“To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.”

Rest in peace bell hooks. A contributor of vast and invaluable thought. Irreplaceable.

PLEASE SHARE - Media and Society has entered its sixth year! We started off with Julie Snyder (18-year executive producer of /This American Life/, and co-creator of the /Serial/ podcast) and /On the Media/ producer Ellen Horne; then came Pulitzer-prize winners Jose Antonio Vargas and Martha Mendoza, later /Algorithms of Oppression/ author Safiya Noble, Democracy Now's Amy Goodman, Daniel Ellsberg of the Pentagon Papers' fame, and Teju Cole, the PEN/Hemingway Award winning author of /Blind Spot/.

This year our series lifts off with San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin (October 11), and continues with artist and game-maker A.M. Darke (November 16); on March 1 we are visited by social psychologist Craig Haney, and author of /Death By Design: Capital Punishment as a Social Psychological System/. We close the year on May 14 with the inimitable composer and media Pamela Z at UCSC's Music Center, in a project co-sponsored by the Institute for Arts and Sciences' Surge: Afrofuturism Festival.

All events are at 7 pm, and all events include lively discussion. Zoom and location info is at . PLEASE SHARE ... and mark your calendars!

Please join San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin, in conversation UCSC faculty Anjuli Verma (Politics) and Daniel Pearce (Kresge) in their convocation of the the Kresge course, Power and Representation, at Kresge's 50th Anniversary.

https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/94237203195

American Book Award winning Tongo Eisen-Martin combines incisive poetic vision with practical activism, confronting problems of justice in sound, word, and dialogue. Eisen-Martin’s poetry and education work to build conscientious and intellectual energy for prison-abolition and police-defunding movements by exposing criminal justice inequity, mass incarceration, and police atrocities, including the extrajudicial killing of Black people.

His collection //someone’s dead already// (Bootstrap Press, 2015) was nominated for a California Book Award; and //Heaven Is All Goodbyes// (City Lights, 2017) earned him accolades, including a shortlisting for the 2018 Griffin International Poetry Prize, whose judges exalted language that "moves between trenchant political critique and dreamlike association, demonstrating how, in the right hands, one mode might energize the other—keeping alternative orders of meaning alive in the face of radical injustice ... His poems are places where discourses and vernaculars collide and recombine into new configurations capable of expressing outrage and sorrow and love.”

Kresge’s resident great horned owl, teaching us street-lamp-assisted hunting techniques (Saturday night at Porter Meadow / Family Student Housing UCSC)