October 9, 2020 - The UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy hosted the inaugural event that marks the beginning of a year-long endeavor of public programs, residencies, and conversations affiliated with "Sanctuary Spaces: Reworlding Humanism," a Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar.
PROGRAM
Welcome:
Ananya Roy
Director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy
Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, Geography, UCLA
Opening:
Charles Sepulveda
(Tongva and Acjachemen)
Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of Utah
Introductions:
Gaye Theresa Johnson
Professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies, UCLA
Keynote:
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics
Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and American Studies, CUNY
Fellow Panelists:
Nick Estes
Citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe
Assistant Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico
Sarah Haley
Director of the Black Feminism Initiative
Associate Professor of African American Studies and Gender Studies, UCLA
