Please find below a list of CRISJ-related or -sponsored events that have been held on or for the Sacramento State community over the past several academic years. To learn more about these events check out the CRISJ Annual Activities Reports.

Interested in our current schedule of events? Please see our comprehensive list of current or upcoming Events & Activities.

Academic Year 2021 – 2022

• April 7, 2021: Too Close to Slavery: Essential Labor in California Agriculture
  • Watch Keynote
  • Watch Panel
• October 12th, 2021 Advancing Equity in Higher Education: From the Margins Watch Keynote
• October 13th, 2022: Chicanx Indigeneity and Resistance: Art for Social Justice
• November 4th, 2021: US Neo-Colonialism and Migration to El Norte Watch Keynote
• March 8th, 2022: Violence Against Indigenous Women Across The Americas
  • Watch Panel
  • Watch Keynote
• May 13th, 2022: Un/Equal Freedoms Exhibition

Academic Year 2020 – 2021

• October 15th, 2020: Panel on Environmental Justice. THE WORLD ON FIRE: Environmental Justice Now! Watch Oct 15, 2020 Keynote speech video & Watch Oct 15, 2020 Panel presentation video
• October 16th, 2020: Panel on Solidarity in the Americas: Dismantling Borders Fall 2020 Brown Bag Series
• Dismantling Borders Panel:The Impact of U.S. Election Results in Latin America
  Watch Dismantling Borders video presentation
• September 29, 2020: Panel. Uprooting Racism & Intersectional Oppression in Higher Ed.
• March 24, 2020: Honoring the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero.

Academic Year 2019 – 2020

• June 12, 2020: Social Justice Work Sin Fronteras: Celebrating the life of Oscar Romero in light of the 40^th Anniversary of his martyrdom in El Salvador Watch June 12, 2020 video presentation
• April 17, 2020: Essential Labor: Farmworkers During the Pandemic. Watch April 17, 2020 video presentation
• February 27, 2020: Dhoolpet Ganesha Film Screening
• November 12, 2019: Race, Borders, and Belonging
• October 7, 2019: Guapinol Water Protectors at Sac State
• February 19, 2020: Poor People’s Campaign Forum – Viewing of video We Cried Power

Academic Year 2018 – 2019

• May 23, 2019: Building Bridges
  • Watch May 23, 2019 Keynote presentation
  • Watch May 23, 2019 panel presentation
• April 18, 2019: Race and Its Societal Impact
• April 17, 2019: Community Empowerment Faire
• March 6, 2019: Neo-colonialism and Resistance
  • March 6, 2019 Keynote presentation
  • March 6, 2019 Panel presentation
• November 8, 2018: The Forced Separations of Loved Ones: State Violence, Terror, and Trauma
  • WatchNovember 8, 2018 video presentation
• October 11, 2018: Decolonizing Education
  • Video October 11, 2018 presentation
• September 11, 2018: ICE Detention Centers

Academic Year 2017 – 2018

• April 18th, 2018: Forum Promoting Social Justice: Challenging Exclusion and Removals in the United States, Global Lounge, Sacramento State.
• March 14th, 2018: Forum Crisis in Honduras: Report on the 2018 Honduran Election, Global Lounge, Sacramento State.
• February 28th, 2018: Forum The March Continues: The Poor People’s Campaign, Global Lounge, Sacramento State.
• November 2nd, 2017: Forum From Dreams to Social Justice: Comprehensive Immigration Reform NOW! Library Gallery, Sacramento State.
  • Video 1: Nov. 2 2017 Forum
  • Video 2: Nov. 2 2017 Forum
• September 14, 2017: Forum Charlottesville: Trumpism and White Supremacy.

Academic Year 2016 – 2017

• May 3, 2017: Forum Policing Black and Brown Bodies. Video May 3 2017 Forum
• April 11, 2017: Forum in collaboration with the Department of Sociology. Immigrant and Refugee Realities and Mobilization
• December 7, 2016: A symposium on Social Justice in a Trump Presidency.