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DESCRIPTION:What can we learn about building resilience from different academic subject 
 specialists?\n\nOur monthly series intended to help build community 
 resilience continues with a look at different academic approaches to the 
 study and understanding of resilience, and how these different perspectives 
 can be applied in our community during the current crises. Join local 
 academic researchers for a discussion focusing on Interdisciplinary 
 Approaches to Community Resilience. Let's consider how we can come out of 
 this crisis stronger than before. We invite people to come with questions 
 and ideas to help us build a more resilient community. \n\nRegister: 
 https://santacruzpl.libcal.com/event/7025394\n\nZoom participation links 
 will be sent upon registration.\n\nThe event will be moderated by Professor 
 Mike Rotkin. Panelists include:\nProfessor of History Dr. Robert 
 Strayer\nProfessor of Psychology Dr. Regina Longhout\nMedical 
 Anthropologist Dr. Nancy Chen\nProfessor of Politics Dr. Matt Sparke\nZoom 
 participation links will be sent upon registration.\n\nAbout the 
 presenters:\n\nMike Rotkin, Ph.D. is a community, labor, environmental, and 
 social justice activist. He is a former Santa Cruz City Councilmember and 
 five-time Mayor of the City of Santa Cruz. He has taught on community and 
 social change issues at UCSC since 1969, when he got his first Santa Cruz 
 Public Library card. \n\nRobert Strayer, Ph.D. is an historian with a 
 particular focus on World History. He has taught at the high school level 
 in Ethiopia with the Peace Corps and at the university level at SUNY: 
 Brockport, UCSC, CSU Monterey Bay, and Cabrillo College. In addition he was 
 a visiting professor of world and Soviet history at the University of 
 Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He has received awards for 
 excellence in both teaching and scholarship. His published works includes  
 books in African, Soviet, and World History. His most recent book is 
 “Ways of the World: A Brief Global History”, now in its 5th edition. 
 Bob and his wife Suzanne Sturn have been living in La Selva Beach since 
 2002.\n\nRegina Longhout, Ph.D. is a professor of psychology at UC Santa 
 Cruz. She received her PhD in community psychology from the University of 
 Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work focuses on empowerment in workplace, 
 educational, and neighborhood settings. She has published over 40 papers 
 and book chapters on these topics. In the majority of her work, she uses a 
 paradigm called participatory action research (PAR) to critically examine 
 schools and neighborhoods. She is best known for her youth participatory 
 action research with 9-12 year old Latinx children. Indeed, she has been 
 asked to speak about or has given workshops on yPAR with 8-12 year olds 
 across the Americas.  Her most recent inquiry is focused on violence 
 against immigrant communities and responses to that violence that focus on 
 solidarity and community building. She is a fellow of the Society for 
 Community Research and Action, and the 2019 recipient of the Special 
 Contributions to Community Psychology award, given by the Society for 
 Community Research & Action. She will be a keynote speaker for the 2021 
 conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology. 
 \n\nNancy Chen, Ph.D. is a medical anthropologist who focuses on healing 
 practices and health institutions. Her interests include the study of 
 healing narratives, chronic and infectious diseases, traditional medical 
 knowledge, and intersections between the body politic, gender, ethnicity, 
 and medicine. Chen’s recent research examines the role of biotechnology 
 and the pharmaceutical industries in Asian societies. She regularly teaches 
 on the anthropology of food and focuses on changing meanings of food and 
 medicine. \n\nMatt Sparke, Ph.D. is a Professor of Politics at UCSC. 
 Sparke's work focuses on the changing geography of politics and citizenship 
 in the context of globalization. In recent years, he has come to focus on 
 global health politics, examining the ways in which people become 
 disenfranchised of health rights, and what can be done to expand health 
 justice. Sparke's teaching interests include Global Politics, Global 
 Health, Global Studies, Globalization, Geopolitics, Geoeconomics, 
 Neoliberalism, Neo-Illiberalism and the Politics of Space.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/14/18836624.php
SUMMARY:Community Resilience Project: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Resilience
LOCATION:Online Event\nhttps://santacruzpl.libcal.com/event/7025394
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/14/18836624.php
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