All Events
Race Matters Series
Democracy, Racial Regimes and Inequality: Ancient Athens to the Contemporary World (Michael Hanchard)
MCC Lounge
Is racial exclusion antithetical to democracy? Dr. Michael Hanchard, Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, explores how regimes of racial and ethno-national hierarchy have functioned as modalities for political membership and exclusion in societies ranging from the city-state of ancient Athens to the modern and contemporary nation-states in our world. Rather than treating racial and ethno-national regimes as anomalous to democratic practice, Dr. Hanchard’s research suggests that racial and ethno-national regimes have been constituted in and by the very practice of democracy. In so doing, he exposes the limits of democratic theory to address issues of racial inequality.
Cup of Culture
Trapped
MCC Theater
What remains of a woman’s right to choose? Since 2010, 288 laws regulating abortion providers have been passed by state legislatures. In total, 44 states and the District of Columbia have measures subjecting abortion providers to legal restrictions not imposed on other medical professionals. Unable to comply with these far-reaching and medically unnecessary laws, clinics have taken their fight to the courts. Trapped follows the clinic workers and lawyers who were on the front lines of the battle to keep abortion safe and legal for millions of American women. (English, 2016, 90 min)
Watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXFo0ELvGsg
Film courtesy of the UCSB Library. After the screening the DVD will be available in the Library's media collection.
The Wisdom of Winona LaDuke: We Have to Fight
Pollock Theater
Congregating at the Oceti Sakowin Camp in North Dakota, the largest historical gathering of Native American tribes rose to national and international attention as they and their allies stood in solidarity against the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Chumash Coastal Band will formally welcome Winona LaDuke, an internationally renowned indigenous activist, for a screening of Lucien Reed’s 2016 short Mni Wiconi. LaDuke, Executive Director and co-founder of Honor the Earth, will speak to the successes and continued struggles faced by those moving from Standing Rock to Washington, D.C. and beyond.
Lecture RSVP online: bit.ly/mcc-winona
There will be a reception for students and Winona at the American Indian Cultural Resource Center at the SRB on Mon, May 15, 5:30 pm.
Co-sponsored by EOP, The Global Environmental Justice Project, UCSB Critical Issues in America: 'Climate Futures: This Changes Everything,” and the Center for Black Studies Research.
Creative Writing Workshop
Letters to our Inner Child
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MCC Lounge
In this workshop, participants come together to write to their younger selves. Participants are asked to think of one moment in their childhoods in which they needed help, and they guide themselves through a specific moment of conflict. By visiting our past, this writing workshop aims at naming aspects of our lives in which we fall short on either receiving or accepting care, and how we can better be there for one another. Alan Pelaez Lopez is an Afro-Indigenous artist and community organizer from Oaxaca, Mexico. They write for Everyday Feminism on issues of Afro-Latinidad, undocumented immigration, and queer and trans activism.
