Pang! is an evening of three short plays based on the oral histories of families living with hunger in Los Angeles CA, Miami FL and Cedar Rapids IA. Artists perform the plays amidst a forest of microphones, sound effects props and musical instruments, as if they are a radio theater company performing a live broadcast.
Lecture featuring Ute Lehrer on "The Quest for Public Space in the Millennial Metropolis of Toronto's Condoland" with a reception to follow.
Join Oscar winning artist, Common and Hall of Fame NBA player and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, Kareem Abdul Jabbar for an exclusive 1-1 conversation on issues, such as bail disparity, police brutality, and juvenile detention.
Please join us in a welcome reception for our two 2018 UCLA Activist-in-Residence Fellows: Manuel Criollo and Yvonne Yen Liu.
Join JusticeLA to discuss L.A. County's $3.5 billion jail expansion plan. Learn how you and/or your organization can help the JusticeLA coalition fight back against L.A. County’s failed criminal justice system and reclaim, reimagine and reinvest in our communities.
On Sunday, January 28, dozens of local museums are inviting visitors in, totally free of charge. The SoCal Museums Free-for-All is a joint partnership with Metro, and it’s good for general admission entrance at participating museums...
For the first Race and Capitalism Graduate Student Conference, the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (CSRPC) at the University of Chicago invites submissions from graduate students working on questions and on topics related more broadly to racial capitalism.
The UCLA Department of African American Studies and the Department of History presents "Why History Matters: Why Black Women’s Lives Matter"
Support for Black Reparations in the Early 21st Century Talk by Michael Dawson John D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science and the College The University of Chicago Monday, February 12, 2018 […]
In cities around the world, especially in the United States, processes of socio-spatial restructuring continue to unfold. Often understood as neoliberal urbanism and often identified through concepts such as gentrification, these processes entail the displacement of subaltern classes to the far edges of urban life. In this talk, Ananya Roy argues that it is necessary to analyse such transformations through a theorisation of racial capitalism.
