CUES Workshops, Events, Conferences
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Winter 2026
Workshop with Katharyne Mitchell and Dylan Tarleton
Friday, February 6, 2026
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Rachel Carson College Room 301 + ZoomJoin the Center for Critical Urban & Environmental Studies (CUES) in Rachel Carson College Room 301 and over Zoom for a workshop with Professor of Sociology Katharyne Mitchell and PhD student Dylan Tarleton, both of whose work engages questions of place, memory, and meaning.
Katharyne Mitchell is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Dylan Tarleton is a Graduate Student of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Workshop with Yannick Coenders on Racial Urban Governance in Europe
Friday, February 20, 2026
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Rachel Carson College Room 301 + Zoom
Join the Center for Critical Urban & Environmental Studies (CUES) and the UCSC Black Geographies Lab in Rachel Carson College Room 301 and over Zoom, for a workshop with Yannick Coenders.
Yannick Coenders, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis, is a historical sociologist of race, space, and politics. His work interrogates how race persists and continues to shape the social life of populations on both sides of the Atlantic, despite the global decline of institutions that brought it into being, such as European colonialism, slavery, and de jure segregation.
This event is part of a series co-sponsored by the Center for Critical Urban & Environmental Studies (CUES) together with the UCSC Black Geographies Lab.
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
On Weds, March 18, History of Consciousness PhD candidate Will Parrish and recent Sociology PhD James Sirigotis have organized a pair of panels on the “Santa Cruz School of Political Ecology, Pasts and Futures:”
12:50-2:10 PM Session 1: Institutional Histories
A panel discussion with UCSC faculty, alumni, and emeriti Erin McElroy, Julie Guthman, Miriam Greenberg, Brandi Thompson Summers, and Michael Goldman.
2:30-3:50 PM Session 2: New Directions
A paper session with Stefan Yong, Henry McLaughlin, Titas Dutta, and Ritwika Basu, with discussant Kai Bosworth.
A social gathering will follow the sessions.
Alcatraz Radical History Tour with Martabel Wasserman
Thursday, March 19, 2026
9:20 AM
On Thursday, March 19th, artist, writer, and curator Martabel Wasserman will facilitate a group tour of Alcatraz and special lecture on the histories of people’s struggles and representations of Alcatraz with participants from Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies (CUES) and affiliates, in partnership with Left in the Bay and in conjunction with the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting.
The group will take the 9:20am ferry.
Find parking instructions through ParkMobile and SpotHero. We encourage people to carpool.
By February 12th, fill out this form to express interest in participating. Up to 20 tickets will be pre-purchased by CUES for UCSC affiliates.