2024 Winter Research Justice Workshop Series

The research justice workshop series is comprised of 9 workshops led by the Research Justice Shop (RJS) co-directors and staff in the 2023-24 academic year. In each workshop, attendees will participate in experiential learning activities to gain exposure to and training in Community-based Research methods. Participants will also build community, develop research practice commitments, and experiment with meta-principles for Community-based Research and pedagogy.

Newkirk Faculty Fellow Lecture Series

Newkirk Faculty Fellow Lecture Series

The goals of Newkirk Faculty Fellowship are to: 1) provide a forum for cross-disciplinary interaction; 2) increase the visibility of UCI scholars and their activities within and outside the university; 3) build community around the strategic mission of the Newkirk Center for Science & Society.

SAVE THE DATES:

• Sanghyuk Shin, Monday, October 2, 2023, 4-5pm, Beckman Center, Huntington Room
  • “Omicron is Mild”: Sociopolitical Use and Misuse of Infectious Diseases in the Era of Infectious Disease Genomics
• Yanning Shen, Tuesday, October 10, 2023, 4-5pm, Beckman Center, Huntington Room
  • “Understanding and Mitigating Unfairness in Machine Learning over Networks”
• Hosun Kang, Friday, October 27, 2023, 4-5pm, Beckman Center, Huntington Room
  • “Reimagining science teaching and learning in the era of the climate crisis”
• Leigh Turner, Monday, November 13, 2023, 4-5pm, Beckman Center, Huntington Room
  • “Selling Stem Cells in a ‘Right-to-Try’ Era: Investigating the U.S. Direct-to-Consumer Marketplace for Purported Stem Cell Therapies“
• Diane Campbell, Thursday, November 30, 2023, 4-5pm, Beckman Center, Huntington Room
  • “Drought and fire: how will climate change affect plants and pollination?“
• Nicola Ulibarri, Thursday, December 7, 2023, 12-1pm, Beckman Center, Huntington Room
  • “An insider’s look at creating the US National Climate Assessment”

**Light refreshments and hors d’oeuvres will be served.

Newkirk Faculty Fellow Lecture Series

Jesse Jackson

“Art and Ecology in the Places We Live”

Wednesday, June 14, 2023, 12-1pm

THE BECKMAN CENTER | HUNTINGTON ROOM

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jesse Colin Jackson is a Canadian artist and designer based in Southern California. He explores the architectures we construct—from buildings to landscapes to virtual worlds—through objects and images made with digital visualization and fabrication technologies. His interactive Marching Cubes performances and installations (2016—present) have been featured in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Mexico City, Stockholm, and Tehran. His exhibitions focused on the places we live have been reviewed in The Globe and Mail (2014, 2019) and the LA Review of Books (2021). He was a 2014-15 Hellman Fellow at the University of California, Irvine,and a 2008-10 Howarth-Wright Fellow at the University of Toronto. Jackson is Associate Professor of Electronic Art & Design at the University of California, Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts, where he also serves as Associate Dean, Research and Innovation and Executive Director of the Beall Center for Art + Technology. 

Research Justice Workshop Module 9 for Graduate Students – SPRING 2023

The purpose of this year long workshop series is to provide a professional development setting and community for Graduate Students* who are interested in and/or conducting Community-based Research.

Participants who complete all 9 workshops will be awarded a Certificate in Community-based Research.

Module 9: Transitioning and Closing Out in Community-based Research
Friday, June 9, 2023 10 am – 12 pm, Student Center, Pacific Ballroom C

Lunch will be provided after the workshop session from 12-12:30 for workshop participants who RSVP, allowing time for further discussion and community building. Space is limited and participation can only be guaranteed to people who RSVP 48 hour before the workshop and as space allows.

• The workshop series is designed with graduate students in mind, but is open to the campus community and the broader public.

Newkirk Faculty Fellow Lecture Series

John Crawford

 “Art & Design for Eco Awareness”

Friday, June 2, 2023, 4-5pm

THE BECKMAN CENTER | HUNTINGTON ROOM

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
John Crawford is an intermedia artist, performance director and systems designer. Engaging directly with the emerging technologies of our time, he creates immersive environments, interactive experiences and media productions that are presented online as well as in theatres, galleries and other public spaces, featuring creative exploration of environmentalism, climate justice and community engagement. His work investigates how the human desire to transform our environment is unleashing destructive forces that endanger the world and everything in it, including ourselves. He is a Professor of Intermedia Arts in the UCI School of the Arts, where he directs the Embodied Media Research Group (EMRG). More information at http://emrg.embodied.net

2023-2024 PhD Fellowship in Climate Change, Environmental Justice, & Community-Engaged Research

Applications due May 31st

The UC Irvine Climate Justice Initiative (website under construction, but based in the ESS Department) and the Research Justice Shop are recruiting current and incoming UCI Ph.D. students for our 2023-2024 graduate fellowships in climate change, environmental justice, & community-engaged research. Fellows will join our new UC Irvine initiative, which seeks to develop a Cultural, Learning, and Institutional Model to Accelerate Transformations for Environmental Justice (CLIMATE Justice). These fully-funded fellowships are open to current and incoming UCI PhD students in any discipline with research interests in climate change and environmental justice.

The PhD Fellowship will include:

• Cross-disciplinary and justice-centered approaches to addressing climate change impacts, adaptation, and solutions
• Courses and workshops on community-engaged research practices and environmental justice
• Working closely with community partners on co-designed research projects that address environmental justice issues (our partners include Orange County Environmental Justice, Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples, GREEN-MPNA, and Crystal Cove Conservancy). 
• Tailored professional development & career training
• Guidance by a diverse network of mentors
• Becoming part of a diverse and multi-disciplinary community of students, researchers, faculty, and staff dedicated to centering social and environmental justice in climate change research. 

The CLIMATE Justice initiative strives to foster an inclusive and collaborative working environment that welcomes diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and life experiences.  We strongly encourage applications from members of historically marginalized communities.

Please email kathleen.johnson@uci.edu with any questions.

Newkirk Faculty Fellow Lecture Series

Golnaz Tabibnia, PhD

VIDEO OF PRESENTATION

Friday, May 19, 2023
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
THE BECKMAN CENTER | HUNTINGTON ROOM

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Golnaz Tabibnia, PhD is an affective neuroscientist. Her research focuses on the interplay of emotions and cognition (“passion and reason”) in the human brain – particularly emotion regulation, impulse control, social decision-making, and psychological resilience. Ultimately, her work centers around using insights from neuroscience to enhance behavioral tools for improving mental wellness. As a Newkirk Center fellow, she will explore the idea that learning about the neuroscience of self-regulation can improve self-regulation. She is currently assistant research faculty in the Department of Psychological Science at UCI. Prior to that, she was an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University (BA UC-Berkeley, PhD UCLA).

Newkirk Faculty Fellow Lecture Series

Adriana Briscoe, PhD

“Supernatural Caterpillars and the Butterflies of War: Mesoamerican Concepts of Valor, Sacrifice, and the Afterlife”

Adriana Briscoe, PhD is an evolutionary biologist and lepidopterist. She is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. Briscoe is known for studies of how color vision mediates ecological interactions between butterflies, host plants, and the environment, in the context of mimicry and species recognition. Her discoveries have been featured on television and in museums both in the USA and in Europe.

Wednesday, April 26, 20234:00 PM – 5:00 PM
THE BECKMAN CENTER | HUNTINGTON ROOM

CLEANR & Newkirk Center for Science and Society Speaker Series | Caroline Farrell | 3/23/2023

CLEANR and UCI Newkirk Center for Science & Society welcome Caroline Farrell, Executive Director of the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment (CRPE). CRPE is a national environmental justice organization that provides legal, organizing and technical assistance to low-income communities and communities of color.

March 23, 2023 at 12:00 – 1:00 PM (PDT)

Location: UCI Law | LAW 3750

Zoom webinar available for remote participation (link sent with registration confirmation)

CLEANR, Newkirk & Azul | Coastal Justice Lab – Public Launch | 3/9/2023

The Coastal Justice Lab is a joint program led by Azul, a Latinx-led and -serving environmental justice organization focused on coastal and marine conservation, and the Center for Land, Environment, and Natural Resources at UCI Law. 

Thursday, March 9, 2023 at 12:00 – 1:30 PM (PST)

Location: UCI Law | EDU 1111
Zoom webinar available for remote participation
(link sent with registration confirmation)

CLEANR & Newkirk Center for Science and Society Speaker Series | Jill Harrison: From the Inside Outide Out

The UCI Law Center for Land, Environment, and Natural Resources (CLEANR) and UCI Newkirk Center for Science & Society welcome Jill Harrison, Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Thursday, March 9 at 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: UCI Law, LAW 3750

Newkirk Faculty Fellows Program

Newkirk Faculty Fellows Program

The Newkirk Center for Science & Society is requesting applications for up to 10 Faculty Fellows to join the Center as scholars in residence. The goals of this program are to: 1) provide a forum for cross-disciplinary interaction; 2) increase the visibility of UCI scholars and their activities within and outside the university; 3) build community around the strategic mission of the Newkirk Center.

The fellowship term will start in Fall 2022 and extend through the end of Fall 2023. Newkirk Faculty Fellows will be expected to:

• Hold a UCI faculty appointment at any career stage
• Give a public lecture or workshop on a topic of their choosing
• Attend a monthly lunch discussion with other Fellows and center staff (food provided)
• Interact with Newkirk Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellows (e.g. as a guest speaker in the graduate workshop series or reviewer of fellowship applications)
• Be open to new collaborations and program development
• Provide a headshot and short bio for posting on the Newkirk Center website
• Receive a $5000 grant to a university account of their choosing

2022 Fall Quarter Research Justice Workshops

Module 1: Building Community through Community-based Research
Friday, October 14, 2022, 10 am – 12 pm, SBSG 1517

Module 2: Building a Relationship with your Community Partner: Strategies for Listening
Friday, November 4, 2022 ,10 am – 12 pm, SBSG 3260

Module 3: Engaging Dilemmas in Community-based Research
Friday, December 2, 2022, 10 am – 12 pm, Zoom/Async

Lunch will be provided after the workshop session from 12-12:30 for workshop participants who RSVP, allowing time for further discussion and community building. Space is limited and participation can only be guaranteed to people who RSVP 48 hour before the workshop and as space allows.

* The workshop series is designed with graduate students in mind, but is open to the campus community and the broader public.

Communicating Your Research to Public Audiences

A workshop series on how to communicate with non-specialist
audiences across a range of media types.

Mondays, 1-2pm, 351 Steinhaus Hall

FREE 2-DAY VIRTUAL CONFERENCE ON
COASTAL RESILIENCE

March 22 & 23, 2022

Participants will build understanding on how regions, states, and tribes are bringing together diverse stakeholders to accelerate solutions that create and leverage results for the coast, helping communities, ecosystems, and economies be more resilient to climate change.

Conference Attendees will Gain Insight into:
-Emerging coastal issues like resilient ports, restorative aquaculture, contaminated coastal lands and Super Fund sites, and shoreline adaptive management.

-Regional models demonstrating accelerated on-the-ground application and uptake of coastal solutions.
Inclusive, equitable planning, access, capacity building, and job training.

-Funding for climate adaptation and increasing the pace and scale of the permitting process allow adaptation projects to occur more quickly, simply, and cost-effectively.

-Insurance and financing solutions.

California Stories of Hope is:
on February, 3,10, and 17, from 9:30am-12:30pm PST
Free and Open to all

Join us for three days of, substantive, thought-provoking, interactive, meeting of the minds from across all sectors and professional roles within California post-secondary education. This series is being brought to you at no charge by the University of California Irvine and the John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education. From the creative team of John N. Gardner and John M. Whiteley.

California Stories of Hope: Advancing Social Justice Through Student Success

Join us on February 3rd to discuss the relationship between Social Justice and Student Success.

• What role does social justice play in the undergraduate experience?
• How have institutions used insights from data to improve undergraduate education to expand access and equity during troubled times?
• What are the findings of the Bill and Melinda Gates Postsecondary Value Commission? And more importantly, what does it mean for our shared efforts to help more of today’s students start and complete the path to an education that puts them on the path to a better living and a better life?

Joining Richard Arum and Jamey Rorison are:

• Michael Dennin, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Dean of Division of Undergraduate Education and Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning, University of California Irvine
• John Gardner, Founder, and Executive Chair, John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education
• Jillian Kinzie, NSSE Institute & NILOA Senior Scholar, Indiana University School of Education and Member Board of Directors, Gardner Institute
• Shari G. McMahan, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, California State University, San Bernardino
• Thomas Parham, President, California State University, Dominguez Hills
• Henry Shannon, Superintendent/President, Chaffey College
• John Whiteley, Professor of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine

This event is being offered free of charge, we ask that you share this information with all colleagues, faculty, and staff.

Research Justice Shop: 2020-2021 Newkirk Graduate Student Fellow Presentations

DETAILS

Tuesday, September 14, 2021
from 4:00PM-5:30PM via Zoom

• RJS Fellows will present the results of their 2020-2021 collaborative research projects with their community partners:
  • COVID-19 Community Narratives Research Project
  • Community-Based Organization Sustainability and Capacity Project
  • Community-campus collaborative for Community Air Monitoring Project
  • Environmental Justice Water Quality Photovoice Project
  • Community Science Organizing Case Study Project
• Graduate students who completed the Research Justice Workshop Series will be named and the certificates in Community-based Research will be emailed to the students.

VIDEO PRESENTATION

2020-2021 RJS Fellows:
Ian Baran, Urban and Environmental Planning and Policy, School of Social Ecology
David Banuelas, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences
Marilyn Garcia, Sociology, School of Social Sciences
Margaret Goldman, Criminology, Law and Society, School of Social Ecology
Veronica Valencia Gonzalez, Social Ecology, School of Social Ecology
Mulatwa Haile, Anatomy and Neurobiology, School of Medicine
Chengyuan Huang, Drama, School of Arts
Ethan Rubin, Education, School of Education
Tim Schütz, Anthropology, School of Social Sciences
Connie Valencia, Public Health, School of Health Sciences

Community Partners:
Madison Park Neighborhood – Getting Residents Engaged in Exercise and Nutrition (MPNA-GREEN)
Orange County Environmental Justice (OCEJ)

California Plastic Crisis Conference Series: Impacts and Solutions at Home and Beyond

DETAILS

Join us for this 4-part conference series, hosted by the Newkirk Center for Science and Society, the Center for Land, Environment, and Natural Resources (CLEANR) and the University of California, Irvine (UCI), that will engage the community in a discussion about the scope of the plastic problem, the impact of plastic pollution in California and beyond, as well as plastic alternatives, and policy solutions.Conference Series Themes
Participants will learn about: 

• Plastic Impacts and Solutions: An overview of the plastic pollution problem and impact on coastal ocean ecosystems, waterways, and public health.
• Plastic Health and Community Impacts, at Home and Abroad: Impacts of plastics on front-line communities in California and how California’s actions affect the global community. 
• California Plastic Legislation: The landscape of current and newly introduced California legislation on plastic pollution, specifically plastic waste, recycling and reuse, and reducing plastic. 
• Debunking Common Myths and Best Solutions: Debunk common myths and present environmental justice, community-based and regional solutions, best practices, plastic alternatives, and case studies. 

DATES
We will kick off the series with a special viewing of the film, The Story of Plastic, and a Q&A with Michael O’Heaney, Executive Director of the Story of Stuff, on April 29^th at 7pm PST.

Every Thursday in May from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm we will host a virtual panel presentation and discussion on a topic related to plastic pollution.  

• May 6th: Plastic Impacts and Solutions 
• May 13th: Plastic Health Impacts
• May 20th: Community Impacts, at Home and Abroad 
• May 27th: Debunking Common Myths and Best Solutions 

On Thursday, May 27th there will be a 30 minute “mingle” session after the conference that is open to all speakers and attendees to have an informal discussion on topics covered throughout the conference series.  

REGISTER

AGENDA

PRESENTED BYCoastal Quest
UCI Newkirk Center for Science and Society
UCI Law, Center for Land, Environment and Natural Resources (CLEANR)

As part of our 2020-2021 theme exploring cultural and ecological connections to oceans, the UCI Humanities Center will present a symposium exploring active interventions with the deep.

This symposium will be a collaborative effort bringing together the humanities and the sciences, as well as other STEAM fields from around the UCI campus.

Three sessions will provide practical approaches to studying our oceans, engaging our communities around fighting for their access and preservation, and inspiring future generations to protect these fragile ecological and cultural environments.

Session 1: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Environmental Justice
May 18 RSVP HERE

A panel of interdisciplinary scholars will discuss their experiences with engaging communities to tackle environmental problems.

Session 2: Environmental Justice in Action
May 20 RSVP HERE
This panel explores the model of community-based, participatory action research by featuring existing collaborations between UCI faculty, students, and staff and community organizations, most notably, with Crystal Cove Conservancy and Orange County Environmental Justice.

Session 3: Toolkits for Envisioning the Future
May 25 RSVP HERE
Learn from and envision the future with different student-led environmental education resources at UCI, including the development of the EcoSpuddies kindergarten curriculum and the undergraduate Environmental Justice Collective.

The symposium is co-sponsored by Ridge to Reef, Newkirk Center for Science and Society, the Orange County Regional History Center, UCI Libraries, and other partners.

Check out the Diving Deep video series. In this collection of interviews, humanists and scientists discuss how they examine our relationships with the oceans. A critical component of these dialogs is the collaboration between the humanities and the sciences to solve issues facing our oceanic and cultural environments.

Diving Deep Ep. 1 – “Thinking Botanically: a Conversation about Literature and Science” with Jon Pitt, Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies, and Alyse Larkin, Postdoctoral Researcher, Earth System Science. See it HERE.

Diving Deep Ep. 2 – “The Currents of Memory: A Conversation about Art and Oceans” with Patrick Rafter, Assistant Project Scientist, Earth Systems Science, and Kathie Foley-Meyer, Ph.D. Candidate, Visual Studies. See it HERE.

Diving Deep Ep. 3 – “Environmental Problem Solvers: A Conversation about History and Ecology” with Steve Allison, Ridge 2 Reef Director and Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and Earth Systems Science, and Juan Manuel Rubio, Ph.D. Candidate, History. See it HERE.

Newkirk Community-based Research Justice Workshop Series:

The research justice workshop series is comprised of 9 workshops led by the CbRI co-directors with NCbRI graduate student fellow co-facilitators in the 2020-2021 academic year. In each workshop students will participate in experiential learning activities to gain exposure to and abilities in Community-based Research methods. Participants will also build community, develop research practice commitments, and experiment with meta-principles for Community-based Research and pedagogy.

*Registered participants will be added to the Canvas Course Website. Please email newkirk@uci.edu if you have any questions.

2020-2021 Research Justice Workshop Dates

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and physical distancing practices, we anticipate holding the workshops remotely for winter quarter.

*Note that the workshop series is open to all graduate students and if students complete the series of workshops they are eligible to receive a certificate in Community-based Research, which will be awarded in September 2021.

Toward a Sustainable 21st Century Series
Coastal Resilience Workshop: Implementing and Scaling Resilient Solutions in Coastal California

DATES
Day 1 – Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 9am PST – 12:30pm PST
Day 2 – Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 9am PST – 12:30pm PST

DETAILS

University of California Irvine is hosting its 6th annual Coastal Resilience Conference on March 2 and 3, 9am – 12:30pm PST. Join us for this free virtual 2-day event to learn about coastal resilience needs, priorities, and strategies being employed across California and the nation from some of the leading policy makers, scientists, and local government leaders working on the forefront of solving these issues.

Coastal Resilience Conference Themes Include:

• State Priorities and Future Goals
• Best Practices to Prepare and Scale Solutions
• Approaches to Ensure Equity in Policy, Planning, and Implementation
• Shoreline Management
• Impacts from Wildfires
• Funding for Planning and Adaptation

AGENDA

PRESENTED BY
Coastal Quest
Toward a Sustainable 21st Century Series
UCI School of Social Ecology
UCI Newkirk Center for Science and Society
UCI Law, Center for Land, Environment and Natural Resources (CLEANR)

Toward a Sustainable 21st Century Series:
Extinction: Solutions for Species on the Brink

DATES
Day 1: Tuesday, February 9, 2021 at 10am – 1:30pm PST
Day 2: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 at 10am – 1:30pm PST

DETAILS
This free virtual conference brings together experts and advocates from across multiple fields of conservation to address threats to ecosystems and biodiversity, and the efforts being made, demanded, and imagined in order to protect and restore species in decline. The program presents a series of distinctively different approaches to species conservation and management from conservation action leaders and scientists. Keynote speaker is former US Senator Tom Udall.

Conference Themes:

• Framing the Magnitude of the Threats and Unmet Challenges
• Solutions: Saving Them in the Wild
• Solutions: Achieving 30 by 30
• COVID-19 – Opportunities to Save Species
• Ex-situ Conservation: The Role of Zoos and Reserves in Reducing Extinctions
• Experimenting with Technology to Stop or Reverse Extinction
• The Imperative for Action

AGENDA

SPEAKERS

• Tom Udall, Former US Senator, New Mexico
• John Baker, Chief Program Officer, Managing Director, WildAid
• Suzanne Case, Chairperson, Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources
• Kathy MacKinnon, Chair, IUCN’s World Commission of Protected Areas
• Jennifer Norris, Deputy Secretary of Biodiversity and Habitat, California Natural Resources Agency
• Carl Safina, Founding President, Ecologist and Author, The Safina Center
• Ronald Swaisgood, Brown Endowed Director of Recovery Ecology, San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research
• Charles R. “Chipper” Wichman, Jr., President, National Tropical Botanical Garden Lindsay Young, Executive Director, Pacific Rim Conservation

SMOKE BUT NO FIRE: Exploring No-Crime Wrongful Convictions

DATE
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 2PM (PST) via ZOOMSPEAKER
Jessica Henry, J.D., Montclair State UniversityDETAILS
SMOKE BUT NO FIRE tells the heartbreaking stories of innocent people convicted of crimes that simply never happened. A suicide is mislabeled a homicide. An accidental fire is mislabeled an arson. Corrupt police plant drugs on an innocent suspect.  A false allegation of assault is invented to resolve a custody dispute. With this book, former New York City public defender Jessica S. Henry sheds essential light on a deeply flawed criminal justice system that allows—even encourages—these convictions to regularly occur. Smoke but No Fire promises to be eye-opening reading for legal professionals, students, activists, and the general public alike as it grapples with the chilling reality that far too many innocent people spend real years behind bars for fictional crimes.

Trends in the Innocence Movement in Asia and the U.S.

DATE
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 from 4:30PM – 6:30PM (PST)

DETAILS
Discussion of recent developments in “Innocence” work in Asia and the United States. Experts from China, Japan, Taiwan and the U.S. will discuss significant trends in exonerating the innocent with special panels focusing on the exclusion of junk science from evidence and the positive and negative roles played by prosecutors, that is, sometimes supporting exonerations and contributing to wrongful convictions.

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

The Innocence Network
UCI Newkirk Center for Science & Society
台灣冤獄平反協會 (Taiwan Innocence Project)
えん罪救済センター (Innocence Project Japan)
尚权律师事务所 (Shangquan Law Office)
洗冤网 (xiyuanwang.net)

If you have any questions, please email yg823@nyu.edu for more information.

2019-2020 Newkirk Community-based Research Initiative (NCbRI) Graduate Student Fellow Presentations

Friday, September 18, 2020 from 11:30am-1:30pm via Zoom 

NCbRI Fellows presented the results of the 2019-2020 collaborative research projects with their community partners. Please click on links below for their video presentations.

• Building Membership-driven Environmental Justice with Orange County Environmental Justice (OCEJ)
  • Jazette Johnson, Informatics, School of Information and Computer Sciences
  • Jennifer Renick, Human Development, School of Education
  • Elizabeth Hanna Rubio, Anthropology, School of Social Sciences
• Supporting Resident-based Organizational Development with Madison Park Neighborhood (MPN-GREEN)
  • Marilyn Garcia, Sociology, School of Social Sciences
  • Emanuel Preciado, Urban Planning and Public Policy, School of Social Ecology
• Community Air Monitoring in a Disadvantaged Community & University/Community Collaboration with Madison Park Neighborhood (MPN-GREEN)
  • Brenna Biggs, Chemistry, School of Physical Sciences
  • Biblia Cha, Public Health, School of Health Sciences
  • Désirée Greenhouse, Public Policy, School of Social Ecology

Graduate students who completed the inaugural year of NCbRI’s Research Justice Workshop Series were presented with their certificates in Community-based Research.

Newkirk Community-based Research Justice Workshop Series
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Spring Quarter NCbRI workshops will be hosted via a Canvas course space over the summer.

Each of the workshops will be posted for a one week period. You will be able to complete the content asynchronously (estimated 1-1.5 hours). At the end of the week we will have a one hour optional synchronous check-in to debrief the workshop via Zoom. See the schedule below.

Workshop 7: Dilemmas in Community-based Research
Friday July 10th – Friday July 17th
Facilitators: Connie McGuire & Victoria Lowerson Bredow
Content will go live Friday July, 10th and close Friday July, 17th with the synchronous session on Friday July 17th via zoom (link provided via canvas).

Workshop 8: Producing and Communicating Knowledge in Community-based Research
Friday July 24th – Friday July 31st
Facilitators: Emanuel Preciado, Connie McGuire & Victoria Lowerson Bredow
Content will go live Friday July, 24 and close Friday July, 31 with the synchronous session on Friday July 31 via zoom (link provided via canvas).

Workshop 9: Transitioning and Closing Out in Community-based Research
Friday August 14th – Friday August, 21, 2020
Facilitators: Liz Rubio, Connie McGuire & Victoria Lowerson Bredow
Content will go live Friday August 14th and close Friday August 21st with the synchronous session on Friday August 21st st via zoom (link provided via canvas).

Co-Sponsored Event: THE VALUES OF STORIES STORIES OF VALUES – A TALK BY KEN LIU
Thursday, May 28, 2020, 2:00-3:00 PMDETAILS
Ken Liu is an American author of speculative fiction. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards, he wrote The Dandelion Dynasty, a silkpunk epic fantasy series, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, and The Hidden Girl and Other Stories. A lifelong fan of Star Wars, he authored The Legends of Luke Skywalker, a collection of myths and tall-tales about the legendary Jedi.Liu is also a prolific translator, single-handedly reshaping the global science-fiction landscape by introducing to English language readers the best works by today’s Chinese Science Fiction writers, including “Three Body” series by Liu Cixin (刘慈欣) and Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan (陈楸帆). This talk is sponsored by the Department of East Asian Studies, English Department, UCI Humanities Center, UCI Illuminations, Center for Asian Studies, International Center for Writing and Translation, and the Newkirk Center for Science and Society.

Co-Sponsored Event:

CROSSING THE BOUNDARIES:
A Conversation on Invisible Chinese Science Fiction
Featured Talk with Wang Yao (Penname Xia Jia)

May 14, 2020, 2-3PM

DETAILS
Wang Yao first began publishing science fiction as an undergraduate studying Atmospheric Sciences at Peking University. She later obtained her Master’s degree in Film Studies and her Doctorate in Comparative Literature, becoming the first Ph.D. in China with a specialization in science fiction. She now teaches at Xi’an University and is currently visiting UC Riverside. Several of her stories won the Galaxy Award and Nebula Award, China’s most prestigious SF honors. In English translation, she has been published in Clarkesworld and Upgraded. Her first story written in English, “Let’s Have a Talk,” was published in Nature in 2015. “A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight” won honorable mention in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards in 2013 and was selected for “Year’s Best” anthology. In addition to writing and teaching, Wang Yao is also a filmmaker, actor, painter, and singer.

This talk is sponsored by the Department of East Asian Studies, English Department, UCI Humanities Center, UCI Illuminations, Center for Asian Studies, International Center for Writing and Translation, and the Newkirk Center for Science and Society. RSVP to vportal@uci.edu by May 13 to receive zoom instructions.

Spring Quarter NCbRI workshops are on hold as we take time to adjust to the changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic.   

In lieu of the workshop on Friday, April 10th, we will host a facilitated virtual Community-check in on Friday, April 10th from 12:30 to 1:30. We will take an hour to touch base and talk about how we are adapting to distance practice in the immediate term as community-based researchers.

RACIAL VIOLENCE AND RESTORATIVE ENGAGEMENT IN A TIME OF PANDEMIC
Wednesday · April 15 · 3:30 – 4:30 PM PDT
After registering, you will receive a unique link on Tuesday, April 14, to log into the webinar on Wednesday, April 15. The webinar will be recorded and is intended for a public audience.

DETAILS
Racial inequality, and racial, gender and sexual violence-in forms both slow and spectacular have not only persisted through the coronavirus pandemic, but also become even more apparent.. This Webinar will discuss the need for universities and community partners to remain engaged in projects that map and respond to inequality and examine how to be responsive in ways that promote collaboration and understanding across axes of difference.

EVENT CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC.

Health, Truth, Authority
Thursday, April 9, 2020, 3:30pm-6pm
The Venture Cove, UCI Beall Applied Innovation

EVENT POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

Toward a Sustainable 21st Century Conference
Extinction: Solutions for Species on the Brink
March 12 & 13, 2020

Winter Quarter: Conducting Community-based Research

Workshop 4: On Being and Doing Community Based Research
Friday, January 10, 2020, 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Location: Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway Building Room 1517

Workshop 5: Community-based Research Practices: Documenting to Produce Shared Knowledge
Friday, February 7, 2020, 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Location: Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway Building Room 3260

Workshop 6: Community-based Research Practices: Reflecting to Support Community-based Research
Friday, February 28, 2020, 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Location: Social Ecology 1 Room 112

SPEAKERS
Drs. Victoria Lowerson Bredow and Connie McGuire.
DETAILS
The purpose of this year long workshop series is to provide a professional development setting and community for Graduate Students who are interested in and/or conducting Community-based Research.  Students who complete all 9 workshops will be awarded a Certificate in Community-based Research. If you have any questions or concerns email CbRI Co-Directors: Dr. Connie McGuire (cmcguire@uci.edu) or Dr. Victoria Lowerson Bredow (vlowerso@uci.edu).

The Future of the Future: The Ethics and Implications of AI
by The UCI Forum for the Academy and the Public

SCHEDULE
Pre-Conference Kick-Off: February 7, 2020 – The talk, “Race After Technology,” by Dr. Ruha Benjamin will be free and open to the public. No registration is necessary.

Conference Friday February 21 & 22, 2020 – The “The Future of the Future: The Ethics and Implications of AI” conference is free and open to the public. Registration enables us to estimate catering and seating for the event. Register for the conference via Eventbrite, here.

DETAILS
Artificial intelligence is emerging as an important element in almost every aspect of human life. Yet little has been said or done about the overall implications of this huge leap forward in technology. How will electoral procedures be protected from interference? Can any semblance of individual privacy be preserved in democratic settings, let alone authoritarian ones? Even the simplest questions still plague us: will we be able to control the intelligent machines we’ve created? will they outwit us?; will we rely on them for the most important things? (hint: we already do). At the Forum for the Academy and the Public’s 6th annual conference, The Future of the Future: The Ethics and Implications of AI, experts and thinkers of all kinds will come together to discuss these and other AI issues—for example, AI’s effects on climate, work, art, medicine, and war—and to help us understand what awaits the planet as humanity moves into a problematic technological future.

Science&Society@UCI Series – Viral Geopolitics: Emergency Responses to Ebola and Polio in West Africa
Friday, January 31, 2020, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pmLocation:
Calit2 Auditorium
California Institute for Telecommunication and Information Technology
4100 E Peltason Dr, Irvine, CA 92617Parking:Anteater Parking StructureSPEAKER
Kristin Peterson is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California Irvine. Her areas of expertise include science and technology studies, medicine and health, political economy, African studies, and political theory. Her first book, Speculative Markets: Drug Circuits and Derivative Life in Nigeria (Duke University Press, 2014) is based upon ethnographic work conducted in pharmaceutical markets in Lagos, Nigeria. Two other projects were conducted jointly with Dr. Morenike O. Folayan (Obafemi Awolowo University). One studied failed HIV related clinical trials in Nigeria and Malawi, and another analyzed the ethics and politics of Ebola clinical trials pertaining to the 2014 West African outbreak. Peterson is currently working on a research project about the relationship between Sahelian viruses (specifically HIV/AIDS, polio, Ebola, and Lassa Fever) and West African geopolitical security.DETAILS
In 2014, Ebola viral disease broke out in Sierra Leone and spread to other countries in West Africa. Up until then, Ebola outbreaks took place mostly in remote forest areas in Central Africa. But when it arrived to Lagos, Nigeria – the largest city on the African continent with a population of 20 million – health authorities around the world essentially panicked. This talk describes how a unique Nigerian initiated polio prevention program converted its expertise to respond to urgent geopolitical challenges while initiating one of the most impressive responses to Ebola that has ever taken place.

DR. JOSEPH L. WHITE LECTURE
Thursday, January 23, 2020 | 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
Crystal Cove Auditorium, Student Center
RSVP is highly encouraged as space is limited.
SPEAKER: YUSEF SALAAM
On April 19, 1989, a young woman in the prime of her life was brutally raped and left for dead in one of New York City’s most iconic spaces, Central Park. Five teens from Harlem—four black and one Latino—were tried and convicted of the crime in one of the most frenzied cases in the city’s history. The woman was dubbed the “Central Park jogger,” and the accused teens became known collectively as the “Central Park Five.” One of those boys, Yusef Salaam, was just 15-years-old when his life was upended and changed forever.
In 2002, after the Central Park Five spent between seven and 13 years of their lives behind bars, the sentences of the boys—now men—were overturned. A convicted murderer and rapist serving a life sentence confessed. The unidentified DNA in the Central Park Jogger case (unlinked to any of the five) had finally met its owner, and the Central Park Five were fully exonerated.
Ten years later, documentarian Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah Burns and her husband David McMahon released the award-winning film, The Central Park Five, which told of this travesty from the perspective of Yusef and his cohorts. In September 2014, the Central Park Five received a multi-million dollar settlement from the city of New York for its grievous injustice against them.
CO-SPONSORS:
School of Social Sciences
Office of Inclusive Excellence
School of Medicine
Newkirk Center for Science & Society, School of Social Ecology
Center on Law, Equality and Race, UCI Law
Student Life & Leadership

Newkirk Community-based Research Justice Workshop Series & Certificate for Graduate Students
Workshop 3: Creating Conditions for Research Justice: Establishing Agreements with Community Partners
DATE
Friday, November 22, 2019, 11:30 am – 1:30 pmList of Workshop Dates
LOCATION
UCI Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway Building Room 1517
SPEAKERS
Drs. Victoria Lowerson Bredow and Connie McGuire.
DETAILS
The purpose of this year long workshop series is to provide a professional development setting and community for Graduate Students who are interested in and/or conducting Community-based Research.  Students who complete all 9 workshops will be awarded a Certificate in Community-based Research. If you have any questions or concerns email CbRI Co-Directors: Dr. Connie McGuire (cmcguire@uci.edu) or Dr. Victoria Lowerson Bredow (vlowerso@uci.edu).

Science&Society@UCI and Views by Two Present: Eyewitness Identification ProceduresDATENovember 12, 2019, 5-7PM
LOCATIONUCI 1517 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Irvine, CA 92697SPEAKERSElizabeth Loftus, Ph.D., UCI Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior, Criminology, Law and Society, School of LawRachel Greenspan, Ph.D., Quattrone Center Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolMichael Farley, Investigator, OC District Attorney OfficeCO-SPONSORCenter for Psychology and LawDETAILSFor years, psychologists, lawyers and law enforcement have been studying and discussing what practices might be best for getting the most accurate information from eyewitnesses.  In a new scientific project, they have examined what law enforcement agencies are actually doing.  How often are they using best practices such as double-blind lineups, or documenting the initial confidence?  Are small agencies doing using them as much as large ones?  Their findings have implications for the fairness our justice system delivers in cases that hinge on eyewitness memory.

Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts 2019 | Experimental Engagements

DATENovember 7-9, 2019LOCATIONUCI Student Center, 311 W Peltason Dr, Irvine, CA 92697SPEAKERSKeynote speaker, Laura Kurgan, Associate Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia UniversityDETAILS

Welcome to the West Coast, where the University of California, Irvine will host the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. It will be held on the campus of UC Irvine, the #1 university doing the most for the American dream. The SLSA 2019 theme is “Experimental Engagements,” and presentations will include papers and panels, workshops, and  a special art exhibition.

Exhibit A: “The Tall Man” (S01E01, Exhibit A, 2019)

DATEWednesday, 11/06/2019, 5pm – 7pmLOCATIONMcCormick Viewing Room, 1070 Humanities Gateway, Irvine, CA 92697SPEAKERSKelly Loudenberg, Director
Forrest Borie, Editor
Samantha Culp, Supervising ProducerDETAILS

The Netflix Originals documentary series “Exhibit A” is an exploration into the American criminal justice system through the uncertainties of forensic science. Each episode in this four-part series delves into a particular forensic discipline, from scent-detecting dogs to bloodstain pattern to video surveillance to touch DNA, and reveals how often flawed or misapplied science can lead to wrongful convictions. It examines the dangerous grey areas of scientific interpretation and how evidence can be not only distorted through the bias of investigators, but fundamentally misunderstood by all actors in the criminal justice system.
TRAILER: https://www.netflix.com/title/80245117

Toward a Sustainable 21st Century: Planning and Implementing Resilient Solutions in Coastal California

DATEMon, 10/07/2019 – 9:00am to 5:30pmLOCATIONBeckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, 100 Academy Dr., Irvine, CA 92617SPEAKERSView the agenda.DETAILS

Save the date for the 5th annual workshop on coastal resilience.
Presented by UCI Newkirk Science and Society, the School of Social Ecology and UCI Oceans.

Join Victoria Bredow and Connie McGuire from the Newkirk Center for Science and Society as they discuss community engagement and science communication.

DATEMay 2 / 12 PM to 1 PMLOCATIONGSRC, Student CenterDETAILSFor more information visit: https://sustainability.uci.edu/events/sustainability-lunch-learn-series-2/

ECONOMIC TRANSITION IN THE ANTHROPOCENE:

DATEApril 24-26, 2019LOCATIONBeckman Center of The National Academies of Sciences & EngineeringDETAILSThis conference will explore today’s political-economy and its role in shaping the Anthropocene and our future. We’ll explore questions relating to power, such as who gets what and why, how power becomes concentrated, and how can we increase opportunity and fairness while displacing entrenched vested interests. We’ll also investigate whether and how business as usual can enable us to live safely within the boundaries of nature, the ultimate arbiter of human wellbeing.This conference is free and open to the public.Presented by:
Toward a Sustainable 21st Century Series
UCI Newkirk Center for Science and Society
UCI Law, Center for Land, Environment and Natural Resources (CLEANR)
Partners for a New Economy

How to Engage with Policymakers: a Science Policy Workshop for Graduate Students

DATEApril 11, 2019LOCATIONSBSG 1517

Screening of Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four

DATE
March 11, 2019 – 7:00 PM
LOCATION
McCormick Screening Room
(1070 Humanities Gateway, UCI)
DETAILS
Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four
After being wrongfully convicted of gang-raping two little girls during the Satanic Panic witchhunt of the 80s and 90s, four Latina lesbians fight against mythology, homophobia, and prosecutorial fervor in this now-classic gay rights  ‘True Crime’ tale that helped exonerate the ‘San Antonio Four’. The film received a Peabody Award, a GLAAD award for ‘Outstanding Documentary’, and a Critic’s Choice Award for ‘Best First Feature’.
Exonerees Anna Vazquez and Elizabeth Ramirez, two of the “San Antonio Four,” will answer questions about Southwest of Salem.
Click here for more information on Southwest of Salem

Burned – A Book Signing and Panel Discussions

DATE
March 12, 2019 – 5:00 PM
LOCATION
Newkirk Alumni Center
DETAILS
5:00 – 5:15  Introduction
Simon A. Cole, Director, Newkirk Center for Science & Society
5:15 – 5:30  Research
David Bjerk, Russell S. Bock Chair of Public Economics and Taxation, Claremont McKenna College, “Race and Wrongful Convictions”
5:30 – 6:15  Storytelling
Edward Humes, Pulitzer Prize and PEN award-winning author will talk about his new book BURNED: A Story of Murder and the Crime that Wasn’t (Dutton: January 8, 2019), a chilling and vivid narrative of a 30-year-old arson-murder conviction now being reopened as the science behind it is challenged as mere guesswork.  Click here for more information on “Burned” and Edward Humes.
6:15 – 7:00   Exoneration
“San Antonio Four” exonerees Anna Vazquez and Elizabeth Ramirez, interviewed by Professor Henry Weinstein, UCI School of Law.

Science&Society@UCI – “Increasing the Relevance and Social Impact of Climate Research at UC Irvine”

DATE
Wednesday, February 13, 2019, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
LOCATION
Newkirk Alumni Center
DETAILS
SCIENCE&SOCIETY@UCI
How does scientific knowledge move from the academic environment to the forum of public opinion and policy making? Join us to learn about UCI research that studies the relationship between science and action.
SPEAKERS
Valerie Olson
UCI Department of Anthropology
Steven D. Allison
UCI Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
UC Irvine is a global hub for research on climate science in fields ranging from ecology to atmospheric chemistry. Still the benefits of climate science for society remain limited, and current policies are insufficient to address the problem of climate change. Our study aims to identify the barriers to greater social impact of climate science, particularly at UC Irvine. We hypothesize that scientific researchers are isolated from other disciplines and communities, limiting the impact of research advances on climate change. We analyzed the connections among scientific and other fields on campus using survey and interview techniques. Results from these instruments reveal that many faculty members value interdisciplinary climate research but find obstacles to effective implementation. Also, most faculty members reported they don’t have a strong or clear sense of UCI research social (non-academic) impact other than what appears in news feeds.