“Collective Futures, Local Mobilizations” is a series of virtual conversations that profile models of solidarity.
“Imagining Solidarity” is the first in the series and brings together labor studies scholars who will share historical and contemporary models of organizing and creating solidarity.
Thursday, March 5, 2026
3:30 – 5:00 PM
Speakers
- Kevan Aguilar, UC Irvine, “Archiving Multiracial Labor Solidarities in the Inland Empire”
- Toby Higbie, UCLA, “‘Organizing is constant learning:’ Lessons from labor history for universities in crisis”
- Lilly Irani, UC San Diego, “Flock Out of Everywhere: Solidarities on and off Campus against
- Municipal Surveillance”
- Marissa Brookes, UCR, Moderator
Sponsored by the UCR Center for Society and Ideas, the UC Riverside Faculty Association, the UCR Society, Environment and Social Equity Department, and the UCR Labor Studies Program