This past year Kresge’s flagship lecture series, Media and Society, presented a slate of talks by luminaries ranging from former San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin to members of UCSC’s own faculty, including A.M. Darke (Games and Playable Media) and Craig Haney (Psychology). As always, the series featured lectures and public conversations about the role of media, journalism, popular culture, and representation in contemporary society, although we’ve used the pandemic’s restrictions on in-person events as an opportunity to increase our accessibility and reach an even wider audience through a variety of remote events, some of them co-presented by The Humanities Institute and Kresge’s core course, Power and Representation.
As part of our Spring Give campaign, we write to you today to humbly request your support for this vibrant series so that we can not only prepare an even more ambitious agenda for the year to come, but also remain a magnet for the campus’s intellectual energies and a powerful anchor for what it means to be a Kresge student. Please consider helping Media and Society by making a small donation.
In the past, your support has enabled Media and Society to host electrifying speakers on campus, including Teju Cole, Amy Goodman, José Antonio Vargas, Lawrence Bartley, Safiya Umoja Noble, and UCSC alumna Martha Mendoza. We’ll be closing the year with a historic collaborative concert-discussion featuring the great Pamela Z and co-hosted with IAS's Surge: Afrofuturism and the Department of Music's DMA program. We hope you’ll join us then and in many events to come.
Thanks, on behalf of the Kresge community, for your consideration and generosity.