A conversation with Sankofa City filmmakers Ben Caldwell and Karl Baumann about their process designing a series of speculative media projects with the Leimart Park community of Los Angeles, moderated by MAC Prof. Amanda Tasse.
Learn about the new Health4All program, California politics, and the future of the state.
This event is sponsored by the Department of Politics.
The Womxn of Cinema and Television Club, Sustainable Oxy Citizens Club, and FEAST present a premiere of regenerative agriculture documentary The Big Raise (2024), developed as part of the Obama Fellowship. The showing will be followed by a Q&A with director and Oxy alumna Angelina Lee '22. The documentary explores the permaculture practices used to sustainably grow food at La Grande Raisandière, or the Big Raise, which includes soil repair, companion planting, rainwater capture, incorporating solar and EV chargers, and more.
Madrigal-Borloz is the former UN Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and former member of the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture and Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Madrigal-Borloz is also a Senior Visiting Researcher at Harvard University and was a former Legal Director of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
A pre-keynote reception will be held in the Johnson Hall Global Forum beginning at 5:15 pm.
Photo by Alexandre Leal de Freitas
The proclivity to think and feel deeply about complex social issues is a hallmark human achievement—a foundation of global society as well as of personal growth. This achievement rests on capacities for transcendent thinking, that is, on a person’s abilities and dispositions to consider the broader ethical and systems-level implications that transcend situations and pertain to bigger ideas, values and identities. In this talk, Dr.
Professor Shana Goffredi researches the beneficial symbiotic partnerships between bacteria and animals. She considers herself an explorer at heart and is committed to uncovering the unique diversity of life on Earth. For much of her career, Dr. Goffredi has used submersibles to study invertebrates on the ocean floor. More recent pursuits involve the depths of the jungle.
Omar Shakir currently serves as the Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch, where he investigates human rights abuses in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. He has authored several major reports, including a 2021 report comprehensively documenting how Israeli authorities are committing the crimes against humanity, of apartheid, and persecution against millions of Palestinians. As a result of his advocacy, the Israeli government deported Omar in November 2019.
The Media Arts and Culture Department and the Womxn of Cinema and Television Club present a screening of the new time travel drama Ingress
There will be a reception preceding the talk, from 6-7 p.m.