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SUMMARY:Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed
DESCRIPTION:Please join us as Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff discuss their new book\, Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed (April\, 2026). \n \nA Financial Times Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of the Year • A Kirkus Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of Spring 2026• A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year\n\nA pyrotechnic examination of Elon Musk as a symptom and avatar of our postliberal age \nEveryone’s got an Elon take. He’s a messiah. A menace; a genius; a clown. The verdicts differ\, but they share one theme: they treat him as an individual. Muskism argues otherwise. Elon Musk isn’t a glitch in the system—he is the system. His worldview promises sovereignty through technology: plug in\, power up\, and become self-reliant. But the more you connect\, the more he owns you. \nIf Fordism defined the capitalism of the twentieth century\, Muskism may define the twenty-first. Fordism helped build the welfare state. Musk undoes it. He thrives on dependence while preaching freedom. His cars run on subsidies; his satellites run the battlefield; his social networks train the AI that trains us. Muskism sells itself as the future but entrenches age-old hierarchies. It offers autonomy for some and exclusion for others. It’s pro-natalist but anti-immigrant\, futurist but reactionary. It speaks of humanity but warns against empathy. Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff cut through the hype and the hate to reveal what Musk really represents: a new political economy\, where to be “free” means to serve a Technoking. Muskism isn’t about the man. It’s about the machine that made him—and the world he’s making next. \nQuinn Slobodian is professor of international history at Boston University\, and the author or editor of seven books translated into ten languages including\, Hayek’s Bastards: Race\, Gold\, IQ and the Capitalism of the Far Right\, Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy\, and Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. \nBen Tarnoff is a writer and technologist based in Massachusetts and is the author of Internet for the People and the co-author of Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do—And How They Do It. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books\, and has also written for the New York Times\, The New Yorker\, and the New Republic\, among other publications.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/muskism-a-guide-for-the-perplexed/
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SUMMARY:Nonviolence\, Democracy and Climate Justice in Croatia with Laureate Katarina Kruhonja (Croatia)
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the 2026 Right Livelihood International Conference. This event is hosted by the Right Livelihood College in Zurich\, Switzerland\, as part of their Feminist Strategies for Change series. 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/nonviolence-democracy-and-climate-justice-in-croatia-with-laureate-katarina-kruhonja-croatia/
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SUMMARY:Women Workers\, Economic Power and Environmental Justice in India with Laureate Reema Nanavaty (India)
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the 2026 Right Livelihood International Conference. This event is hosted by the Right Livelihood College in Zurich\, Switzerland\, as part of their Feminist Strategies for Change series.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/women-workers-economic-power-and-environmental-justice-in-india-with-laureate-reema-nanavaty-india/
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SUMMARY:Conference Kick-Off
DESCRIPTION:Join for the global kick-off of the 2026 Right Livelihood International Conference. All conference participants and organizers are invited to a fun\, global meet-and-greet event on Zoom. \n  \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/conference-kick-off/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Beyond public and private: Collaborative governance in global education reform with Antoni Verger and René Espinoza Kissell
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to invite you to join us for a hybrid research talk on collaborative governance with international education scholar and sociologist Dr. Antoni Verger (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) in conversation with Dr. René Espinoza Kissell (UCSC) on Thursday\, April 2\, 2026 at 5pm. \nNeoliberal educational policies aimed at efficiency through competition have often resulted in greater inequality and fragmentation. Can empowering new stakeholders through collaborative networks challenge market logics? Professor of Sociology Antoni Verger will present evidence on international cases of collaborative governance\, where education leaders aim to convene stakeholders\, co-design supports\, and steer improvement collaboratively. Assistant Professor of Education René Espinoza Kissell will provide a local case study of school choice markets in Oakland\, California\, examining the racial politics of school closures and charter school regulation. This will be followed by a discussion on the opportunities and contradictions in global governance shifts\, as well as the tensions between public and private coordination in addressing enduring political challenges. \n Thursday\, April 2nd\, 2026\, 5-6:30PM \n: McHenry 3170 or via Zoom (Meeting ID: 980 6836 8045; Passcode: 330341) \nPlease complete this RSVP form if you plan to attend (food will be provided). \n  \nAbout the Speakers:\nAntoni Verger is Professor of Sociology at the UAB and research fellow at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA). With a cross-disciplinary training in sociology and education studies\, his research examines the relationship between global governance institutions and education policy – i.e. how education policies are internationally disseminated and enacted in different institutional settings\, and what effects this has on education quality and equity. In recent years\, he has specialized in the study of public-private partnerships\, school autonomy and accountability policies in education. He is one of the lead editors of the World Yearbook of Education and the Journal of Education Policy\, and academic director of the Erasmus Plus awarded Master programme Education Policies for Global Development – GLOBED. \nRené Espinoza Kissell is an Assistant Professor of Educational Policy Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her scholarship brings together policy\, politics\, and political economy to study issues of power and governance in education. Drawing on critical theories and qualitative methods\, her work centers on school choice and community engagement\, as well as the creation\, management\, and racialized surveillance of school district debt. She recently served as a research expert for the 2025 international evaluation of New Public Education Reform/La Nueva Educación Pública (NEP) in Chile. Her research has been published in Journal of Education Policy\, Educational Policy\, Urban Education\, and Educational Administration Quarterly.  \nWe hope you can join us in welcoming international education scholar Antoni Verger to the UCSC campus!
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/beyond-public-and-private-collaborative-governance-in-global-education-reform-with-antoni-verger-and-rene-espinoza-kissell/
LOCATION:McHenry Library\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Looking at School\, Fear\, and  Possibilities: Imagining Futures Under Authoritarian Rule
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in a conversation around School\, Fear\, & Possibilities: Imagining Futures Under Authoritarian Rule\, featuring two guest speakers: Manuel Espinoza Ph.D\, Muhammad Khalifa! \n  \nTitle: School\, Fear\, & Possibilities: Imagining Futures Under Authoritarian Rule Talk \nGuest speakers: Manuel Espinoza & Muhammad Khalifa. \nDate: Thursday\, February 5th\, 2026\, 5-6PM  \nLocation: McHenry 0266 or via Zoom (Meeting ID: 933 0685 4982; Passcode: 924285) \nPlease complete this RSVP form if you plan to attend \nFeb 5th guest speakers \nLearn about Manuel Espinoza \nManuel is a child of desegregation and a Chicano ethnographer working in the scholarly tradition that emerged during the 20th-century struggle against racism in the U.S. As the Director and Co-founder of the Right2Learn Dignity Lab\, now in its 15th year\, Manuel works with an undergraduate and graduate research collective to develop two interconnected strands of research: 1) an inquiry into the historical and legal origins of educational rights and 2) a social interactional method for studying the manifestations of dignity in educational activity. Presently\, the Dignity Lab is working to amend the “education clause” of the Colorado Constitution. Manuel has shared his expertise by contributing content on dignity in schools to the Cultivating Compassion for Ourselves and Others digital certificate. \n  \nLearn about Muhammad Khalifa \nHis research examines how urban school leaders enact culturally responsive leadership and anti-oppressive schooling practices. He is a leading expert on equity audits for school districts. He was previously a teacher and administrator in Detroit Public Schools\, and he has also contributed to community-informed education projects in Africa\, Latin America\, and Asia in various capacities. He formerly held the endowed Beck Chair of Ideas in Education at the University of Minnesota. He has contributed to education\, development\, or research programs in several contexts. \n  \nWe hope you can join us in this conversation with Manuel and Muhammad!
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/looking-at-school-fear-and-possibilities-imagining-futures-under-authoritarian-rule/
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SUMMARY:Labor Against ICE
DESCRIPTION:Trump’s second term has been marked by a dramatic increase in immigration enforcement operations\, including the deployment of federal and national guard troops to major cities across the United States. Ramped-up ICE raids have resulted in injuries\, deaths\, and the disappearance of migrants and non migrants alike. As legal challenges demanding the cessation of indiscriminate workplace and neighborhood raids have largely failed\, how are workers and communities fighting back? This event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Refreshments provided. Immigrant and labor rights organizations will also be tabling. \nPlease join UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Labor and Community for a panel discussion with co-founder of LA Educators for Racial Justice (LAE4RJ)\, Denisha Jordan (United Teachers Los Angeles)\, founder of OEA Rapid Response Team and dual-language teacher\, Jessie Papalia (Oakland Education Association)\, Emergency Medicine Resident\, SatKartar Khalsa (SEIU 1021 Committee of Interns and Residents)\, Alex Quintero (@allthingslabor)\, and regional labor and community organizer Cesar Lara (California Federation of Labor) to learn how labor is organizing to defend migrants on the job. \nRSVP HERE \nEspañol_Labor_Against_ICE \nEnglish_Labor Against ICE \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/labor-against-ice/
LOCATION:Merrill Cultural Center\, 200 McLaughlin Dr\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Open House: Oakes Collaborations
DESCRIPTION:Explore Our New Collaborative Spaces in Oakes College! \nWe’re excited to welcome you to the newly expanded spaces in the Oakes Academic Building\, now home to a vibrant community of Social Sciences research centers and programs. Connect with colleagues from the Institute for Social Transformation\, the Center for Labor and Community\, the Right Livelihood Center\, Campus + Community\, the Center for Economic Justice & Action\, and the Science & Justice Research Center. You’ll also have the chance to learn more about Oakes College and the CARA program (Community-based Action\, Research\, and Advocacy). \n\n\n\nStop by to meet the teams\, discover their work\, and tour our new conference rooms and collaborative spaces. \n\n\n\nOakes College Mission: Since its founding in 1972\, Oakes College has been committed to intellectual\, academic and personal inquiry rooted in the possibility of effecting positive social and political change. As a multi-ethnic community\, we provoke the exchange of cross-cultural perspectives. Our efforts to understand\, accept and celebrate human diversity are a source of exceptional strength. Through this committed inquiry\, we raise often unaddressed issues that the university community must examine. \nParking: There should be plenty of parking available in lots 160\, 161\, 162\, or the West Remote parking lot (permits required). \n\n\n\nHosted by: Institute for Social Transformation\, Center for Economic Justice and Action\, Center for Labor and Community\, Right Livelihood Center\, Oakes CARA Program\, and Oakes College.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/oakes-open-house/
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SUMMARY:Corporations at Climate Crossroads: Book Talk with Lily Hsueh
DESCRIPTION:With climate risks growing\, climate action facing political headwinds in many countries\, and international cooperation increasingly challenged\, Lily Hsueh’s Corporations at Climate Crossroads illuminates how and under what conditions the world’s largest corporations have taken proactive action on climate change during the years leading up to and after the Paris Agreement. \nDrawing on insights from economics\, political science\, and management\, the author uncovers how corporations and their leaders are key players in a nested structure of climate change governance. Hsueh shows that corporate leaders’ climate actions are shaped by bottom-up and top-down institutions and incentives involving firm\, regulatory\, and global governance. To navigate uncertainty\, corporate responses to the climate challenge are therefore an interplay of internal firm leadership\, complementary capabilities in adjacent areas\, and strategic and proactive engagement with regulatory process and global governance. Sophisticated large-N statistical analyses of global businesses’ climate mitigation and performance from 2011 to 2020 and illustrative company case studies substantiate the demand for\, and supply of\, global businesses’ climate mitigation\, across sectors\, and in developed and developing countries. \nPlease join us for this book talk in-person at the Interdisciplinary Sciences Building (ISB 102). Open to all. \nJoin online at: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/98816465544?pwd=Li4HOKSoaal6PCIJcyG5hBRl60hHfW.1 \nMeeting ID: 988 1646 5544\nPasscode: 860374 \nPreceded by a panel “The Role of Corporations in a+3ºC World” to be held on Zoom at 2 p.m. on November 18. \nMeeting ID: 684 546 2150\nPasscode: Karoli\nSponsored by \nInstitute for Social Transformation and Earth Futures Institute \nAbout the author: Dr. Lily Hsueh\, PhD \nLily Hsueh is Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Arizona State University\, where she is also a Senior Global Futures Scientist at the ASU Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. She is an affiliate scholar at the Stanford Woods \nInstitute for the Environment. She is the author of Corporations at Climate Crossroads: Multilevel Governance\, Public Policy\, and Global Climate Action (MIT Press\, 2025)\, and numerous scholarly articles on business and public policy\, environmental economics\, policy\, and governance\, and political economy. Her work has been featured in the Financial Times\, Fortune\, PBS NewsHour\, among other media outlets. Before academia\, she was a Senior Analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco where she was part of the team that prepared briefings for the Fed’s Federal Open Market Committee meetings. She holds a B.A. from the University of California\, Berkeley\, a master’s degree from University College London\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington \nBook discount codes \n\nUse code MITP30 on PenguinRandomHouse.com on September 2 (publication day) to receive 30% off Corporations at Climate Crossroads.\nUse code READMIT20 on PenguinRandomHouse.com anytime after publication to receive 20% off Corporations at Climate Crossroads.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/corporations-at-climate-crossroads-book-talk-with-lily-hsueh/
LOCATION:Interdisciplinary Sciences Building\, 7487 Red Hill Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:American Agitators Screening at Cabrillo
DESCRIPTION:American Agitators comes to Santa Cruz! We cordially invite you to the screening of American Agitators with a discussion and a Free Dinner! Spaces are limited\, so RSVP today! \nSponsored by Santa Cruz Local\, Cabrillo College\, COPA\, UCSC Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, UCSC Center for Labor and Community\, and UCSC Institute for Social Transformation. \nAMERICAN AGITATORS captures the remarkable story of organizing for social change in the U.S. through the work Fred Ross Sr. and many others such as iconic organizers Dolores Huerta and Fred Ross Jr. as well as current ones\, all of whom have devoted their lives to the pursuit of justice and equality. \nFor over 50 years Ross led a groundbreaking organizing approach that improved the lives of thousands and reverberates in organizing strategies today. From organizing Dust Bowl refugees to helping Japanese-Americans find jobs and housing after release from the internment camps to challenging KKK activity by organizing civil unity leagues in California that led to the integration of local school boards across California’s Citrus Belt\, Ross’ work with the Mendez case laid the foundation for the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown vs Board of Education and his mentorship of legendary organizers Cesar Chavez and Huerta led to the success of the United Farmworkers. \nGenerations of organizers and activists\, many of whom are featured in AMERICAN AGITATORS\, stand on the shoulders of Ross and his innovative organizing tactics. Evidence of Ross’ impact is illustrated in the case examples the film explores: in Atlanta\, where Fight For 15 organizers demand an increased minimum wage and the unionization of workers across the Southern states; in Las Vegas where hotel workers organize for fair wages and to get out the vote; in Oakland\, where teachers\, families and community members forged a fair contract with the Oakland school district. \nThe documentary demonstrates the efficacy of member-led movements built through patience and by listening. \nAward-winning filmmaker Raymond Telles has made American Agitators to illustrate how collective action can create long term\, positive change especially at a critical moment in American history. \n“Bringing Fred’s life to the screen is the medicine our society needs right now. He empowered people to be engaged in the democratic process.” \n-Dolores Huerta\, February 2022 \nView: American Agitators Premier Trailer \nCheck us out: American Agitators
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/american-agitators-screening-at-cabrillo/
LOCATION:Cabrillo College\, 6500 Soquel Dr.\, Aptos\, CA\, 95003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Campus Debt is a Labor Issue
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for Labor and Community on Friday\, October 24\, from 2-4pm at the Rachel Carson Red Room for a conversation on campus debt\, austerity\, and labor organizing in higher education. \nDrawing from his book\, Lend and Rule: Fighting Shadow Financialization of Public Universities (2024)\, Jason Wozniak\, of the Debt Collective and the Coalition Against Campus Debt\, will describe how institutional debt drives the erosion of public higher education and disciplines labor. \nThis event is FREE and open to the public. RSVP today!
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/campus-debt-is-a-labor-issue/
LOCATION:Rachel Carson College\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Campo-Sano Climate Action Conference
DESCRIPTION:Campo-Sano Climate Action: A Regional Conference on California Farmworkers and the Environment will be co-hosted on October 4th\, 2025\, by the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and community partners \nThe conference will address the challenges of resilience amid the impacts of climate changes and the many other compounding risks farmworkers face. We will first review lessons learned from developing practical remedies and health promoter training designed to protect farming communities. Next\, we will involve all attendees in deliberating ways to scale up these protective efforts and make them sustainable amid mounting social and political challenges. \nProgram Description \nThe daylong conference will start with a morning session including testimonies of health promoters from local community-based organizations (CBO’s) and UCSC students. The frontline community health workers will describe the challenges they face in trying to protect farmworkers from environmental stressors in a context that is also overshadowed by chronic but intensifying political and economic vulnerabilities. \nA report will also be delivered by faculty on the two-year effort supported by funding from a Californian Climate Action grant to develop the Campo-Sano data app. This app is designed to inform local farm communities on climate related risks from exposures to high temperatures\, flooding\, wildfire air pollution\, groundwater contamination and other risks. We will showcase how this application can be used on mobile phones to support farmworkers who want to report their experience of these risks anonymously to state agencies and legal advocacy groups. \nA keynote luncheon presentation will be followed by a dialogue between representatives of state agencies and local community-based partners. Discussion panels and breakout sessions will engage these CBO’s and state agency officials to explore the extension of workplace protections for farmworkers and further regulation enforcement\, as well as the possible scale-up of Campo-Sano trainings across the state. This dialogue is critical in the face of the federal government’s retreat from protecting agricultural workers\, their employers and the food security they support for our wider community.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/campo-sano-climate-action-conference/
LOCATION:Colleges Nine and John R. Lewis College Multi-purpose Room\, 615 College Nine Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Dismantling the Deportation Machine...
DESCRIPTION:Dismantling the Deportation Machine: A Conversation on Migration\, Expulsion\, and Xenophobia \nJoin Carlos Martinez as he moderates a powerful discussion with Megan Carney\, Heide Castañeda\, and Gilberto Rosas on the urgent U.S. and global trends shaping the politics of migration\, deportation\, and xenophobia.  \nAs authoritarianism and xenophobia intensify globally\, this distinguished panel will offer critical insights into the shifting terrain of border enforcement\, deportation policies\, and immigrant solidarity. Bringing together diverse expertise\, the speakers will help us make sense of how these dynamics are unfolding both at home and across the world. In conversation\, they will not only examine the harms of exclusionary policies and hateful rhetoric but also highlight strategies and practices of resistance\, care\, and collective organizing.  \nThese scholars are coming together to support the development of Carlos Martinez’s in-progress manuscript\, Captive States: Migration and Expulsion on the Carceral Frontier. This event and subsequent workshop are sponsored by the Institute for Social Transformation’s Emerging Scholar Manuscript Workshops. \n\nDr. Megan Carney\, Associate Professor of Anthropology at University of Arizona\, Invited Scholar\nDr. Heide Castañeda\, Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida\, Invited Scholar\nDr. Gilberto Rosas\, Chair & Professor\, Latina/Latino Studies\, Professor of Anthropology\, Professor of Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign\n\nDon’t miss this chance to engage with leading voices at the forefront of one of the most urgent conversations of our time. \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/dismantling-the-deportation-machine-a-conversation-on-migration-expulsion-and-xenophobia/
LOCATION:Bay Tree Building\, Student Union\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Fundraiser: Film Screening of "The Last Class"
DESCRIPTION:The UC Santa Cruz Education Department is hosting a screening of the film “The Last Class” at the Del Mar on September 30th.  The Last Class documents Robert Reich’s last time teaching his UC Berkeley class on wealth and poverty and has been called Reich’s “love letter to education.”\n  \nThis is currently the only local screening of “The Last Class.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAll net proceeds from this event will go directly to support student teachers in the UC Santa Cruz Master of Education/Teaching Credential program. We are raising funds to help all student teachers complete their preparation and enter their first classrooms in the fall of 2026 in the face of state funding budget cuts.\n  \nHosted by the Education Department with support from the Teaching & Learning Center and the Institute for Social Transformation.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/fundraiser-film-screening-of-the-last-class/
LOCATION:Landmark’s Del Mar Theatre
CATEGORIES:Fundraisers
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