Introduction by Prof. Alena Williams, Associate Director, Environmental Studies Program

Join a thought-provoking evening as the Mandeville Art Gallery at UC San Diego delves into the legacy of pioneering eco-artists Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison – founding faculty members in the Department of Visual Arts – whose work centers on the intersection of art and ecology. Known for their dedication to the wellbeing of life’s interconnections, the Harrisons reimagined how art can respond to the unfolding global environmental crisis.

Authors Anne Douglas and Chris Fremantle will critically explore material from their 2024 publication on the Harrisons’ poetics, drawing parallels with contemporary rethinking in the philosophy of science. This keynote is for anyone passionate about the role of art, science, and ecological thinking in reimagining public life and our environment.

Presented on the occasion of Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work, this event celebrates the multi-venue retrospective exhibition in San Diego organized by Tatiana Sizonenko (UC San Diego, PhD '13) as part of the Getty Foundation’s PST ART: Art and Science Collide. 

Please note: The Structural & Materials Engineering Building is located on the North side of the Epstein Family Amphitheater. UCSD Main Campus trolley stop is a close walking distance. Visitor parking is available at Gilman Parking Structure on Gilman Drive and Russell Lane. 

We are excited to announce the launch of Muir Residency artist Aleesha Anderson’s interactive public artwork! 

Aleesha is a Muir Alumni, graduating in 2016 with a degree in ICAM (Interdisciplinary Computing in the Arts and Media), and minoring in Visual Arts and Psychology. She was a MOMer, Muirista & HA during her time in Muir. Since graduating, she's traveled the world building stages and art installations for music festivals with many different artists on many different teams. 

Aleesha is genuinely inspired by nature, geometry, and the way that people thrive and grow through playing with the world around them. Her goal when creating art is to connect people to their inner child, aiming to inspire joy, curiosity, exploration, wonder, and the feeling of being small. Now, she is beginning to bring her own ideas to life, and returns to Muir to install her own permanent piece as Muir's Artist in Residence. 

Join us in a series of workshops, talks, and activities as we envision the future of climate change and the role of the University in meeting the challenges of our planet's climate crisis, while providing the UC San Diego community with tools and resources to give students the climate education they deserve!

This event features several of our program's affiliates, including Professors Veerabhadran Ramanathan (SIO), Fonna Forman (Political Science), and Cathy Gere (History) and includes remarks from Provost K. Wayne Yang, Director of the Environmental Studies Program, on the late UCSD-SIO climate educator Jane Teranes's campus legacy, as well as participation of Congressman Scott Peters, and more.

Organized by Ke'La Kimble, Moon Pankam, Sherice Clarke, Richard Madsen, Steve Parish, Leslie Lewis, and Eva Peschel.

Join us to hear from Dr. Lin at the upcoming UC Alumni Career Network online panel event: 

Dr. Cindy Lin is an ecologist, environmental engineer, environmental and data scientist, and expert on the environmental impacts of land use, human activities on ecological habitats, and the Clean Water Act who worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for two decades. She is the President and Co-Founder of the San Diego Environmental Film Festival; and CEO and Co-Founder of Hey Social Good, a social impact tech company working to revolutionize social good for people, planet, and profit. This year Lin has joined the core faculty of the Environmental Studies Program at UC San Diego.

Join us for Tim Patterson’s Take a Triton to Class talk!

Tim Patterson has over forty years of litigation-based experience and has been a core faculty member in the Environmental Studies Program at UC San Diego since 2019. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from UC Santa Barbara and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Santa Clara School of Law. As a Deputy Attorney General and later as a Supervising Deputy Attorney General of the Environment Section of the California Attorney General’s Office in San Diego, Patterson was fortunate to be able to participate in the development of significant legal precedents in several subject areas of federal and state environmental law. 

Join us for Kellie Uyeda’s Take a Triton to Class talk!

Dr. Kellie Uyeda is a research scientist at the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve. She has a Ph.D. in Geography from San Diego State University / University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests are focused around multidisciplinary approaches to ecosystems and their management, ranging from landscape-level patterns assessed using satellite imagery to mechanistic understanding of factors shaping plant distributions using manipulative experiments. She is also interested in community-based science, both as a participant and data user. Dr. Uyeda has been a lecturer in Environmental Studies since 2020.

Saturday, February 3, 2023 from 11am - Noon

Birch Aquarium, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 2300 Expedition Way, La Jolla, CA 92037

Join us at the Triton Leaders Conference Saturday, February 3, 2024, where student awardees Antonio Catanzarite and Julianne Luong of the Jim and Julie Lin Environmental Justice in Underserved Communities Award will be present, as well as donor Emeritus Professor Jim Lin!

Register Here

Co-sponsored by John Muir College, UC San Diego 

Opening night 

Friday, November 17, 2023 from 6-10pm 

Digital Gym Cinema, 1100 Market Street, San Diego, CA 92101

All-day Screenings 

Saturday, November 18, 2023 from 12-9pm

Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts, MOSAIC Hall (Room 0113), 9605 Scholars Drive North, La Jolla, CA 92093, UC San Diego 

Parking info here

The San Diego Environmental Film Festival (SDEFF) is a registered 501c3 nonprofit created to inspire and effect social change through the mediums of film, art and storytelling. We hope you will join us to build a community working together to learn, inspire, and act to effect change.

Co-sponsored by the UCSD Environmental Studies Program at John Muir College, UC San Diego and the UCSD Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts

Image: sdeff.org

Sixth College invites you to this year's Culture Art Technology Conversation with Dr. Carolyn Finney, author of Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors (University of North Carolina Press, 2014). 

Dr. Carolyn Finney is a storyteller extraordinaire, author, cultural geographer and self-described accidental environmentalist. She is an artist-in-residence and the Environmental Studies Professor of Practice in the Franklin Environmental Center at Middlebury College.  

The event is free and open to the public, but we encourage you to RSVP here.

CAT Conversations is an annual program in which students read, discuss, and converse with an author on a topic that examines prevailing and longstanding inequities or social challenges.

Image: Sixth College, CAT Conversations

Sixth College invites you to this year's Culture Art Technology Conversation with Dr. Carolyn Finney, author of Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors (University of North Carolina Press, 2014). 

Dr. Carolyn Finney is a storyteller extraordinaire, author, cultural geographer and self-described accidental environmentalist. She is an artist-in-residence and the Environmental Studies Professor of Practice in the Franklin Environmental Center at Middlebury College.  

The event is free and open to the public, but we encourage you to RSVP here.

CAT Conversations is an annual program in which students read, discuss, and converse with an author on a topic that examines prevailing and longstanding inequities or social challenges.

Image: Sixth College, CAT Conversations

Organized by Dr. Joy Siapno in collaboration with UCSD Environmental Studies, ENVR 140: Wilderness and Human Values (Spring 2023)

Michael Tan is a medical anthropologist, veterinarian, and scholar focusing on the regions of Southeast Asia and East Asia at the University of the Philippines at Diliman. Sponsored by the Environmental Studies Minor at John Muir College.

UC San Diego's Environmental Studies Program at John Muir College and the San Diego Environmental Film Festival invite you to the screening of The Seeds of Vandana Shiva, a documentary film about the remarkable life of the eco-activist exposing the corporate control of global food systems. 

Vandana Shiva is a modern-day revolutionary, and for forty years has been fighting a heroic battle on behalf of humanity and the ecologically besieged natural systems that support us. But she is opposed by powerful multinational corporations invested in continuing their degenerative but lucrative agricultural practices. By profiling one of the greatest activists of modern times, the film looks at the epic struggle over who controls the world’s food systems, and asks the question, who will prevail? 

Seating is limited. Please reserve at the following link.

Panel conversation on local food justice at 5pm will include:

Ellee Igoe - Foodshed Small Farm Distro

Dr. Heather Ponchetti Daly - Environmental Studies & Indigenous Studies, UC San Diego

Margaret Chiu - San Diego Food System Alliance

Introductory short film: "Growing a Food Movement: Foodshed Small Farm Distro"

Light vegetarian snacks and refreshments will be served.

Please note: Structural Materials & Engineering Theater is located on the North side of the Epstein Family Amphitheater. UCSD Main Campus trolley stop is a close walking distance. Parking available at Gilman Parking Structure on Gilman Drive and Russell Lane. 

Harriet A. Washington will be presenting her recent book A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind (Little, Brown, 2019) at UC San Diego. From injuries caused by lead poisoning to the devastating effects of atmospheric pollution, infectious disease, and industrial waste, Americans of color are harmed by environmental hazards in staggeringly disproportionate numbers. This systemic onslaught of toxic exposure and institutional negligence causes irreparable physical harm to millions of people across the country—cutting lives tragically short and needlessly burdening our health care system. But these deadly environments create another insidious and often overlooked consequence: robbing communities of color, and America as a whole, of intellectual power. Washington is the author of Medical Apartheid, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, the 2007 PEN Oakland Award, and the 2007 American Library Association Black Caucus Nonfiction Award. She has been a fellow in medical ethics at the Harvard Medical School, a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University, a fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, and the recipient of a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University.

Eighteenth Annual “Love Your Wetlands Day” hosted by the UC San Diego Natural Reserve System in collaboration with the San Diego Audubon Society will take place at the Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve on the northern edge of Mission Bay in San Diego, California took place on February 4, 2023 at 9am.

Environmental Studies Lecturer and Director of the UCSD Natural Reserve System Heather Henter searches for volunteers, please circulate this announcement widely.

https://today.ucsd.edu/story/california-volunteers-joins-uc-san-diegos-annual-love-your-wetlands-day-celebration

Photo by Karina Ornela

Co-organized by Dr. Joy Siapno and UCSD Global South Studies 

Participants: 

Sheila Coronel, professor and journalist at Columbia University; Demetrio de Carvalho, an environmental justice activist and Goldman Prize winner from East Timor; Therese Tham Nguyen, community development theorist and organizer based in Timor; and Kim Ninh, former Country Representative for Myanmar/Burma and Vietnam, Asia Foundation. Co-sponsored by the Environmental Studies Minor; Science Studies Program; Nature, Space, and Politics Working Group; Green New Deal at UCSD; I-House; and Muir College.

Recorded event link: https://youtu.be/HyUXJz-IdbU