The Center for Middle East Studies will host a coworking space for graduate students to connect, focus, and grow in community. These sessions are open to all UCSB graduate students. Snacks will be provided.

The Academy Award-nominated Sugarcane is an empowering tribute to the resilience of Native peoples and a portrait of a community during an international reckoning. A post-screening conversation will follow with Caitlin Keliiaa, author of Refusing Settler Domesticity: Native Women’s Labor and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program, and Alex Lilburn, UCSB Film and Media Studies.

Adam McNeil, 2025–26 postdoctoral fellow at the American Philosophical Society, will discuss his work on creating podcasts highlighting new African American Studies books.

Kyli Goodman, a violin performance major at UCSB, will present Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue—a matinee featuring violin classics by Bruch, Puts, Gluck (arranged by Kreisler), and Dvořák. She began studying the violin at the age of six and currently trains under Pasha Sabouri.

Dontay M. Givens, a PhD student in medieval and early modern studies and Black studies at New York University, will discuss how conceptualism — an art movement that often emphasizes language — shapes form and perception in Harmonia Rosales’ works Dinis Dias: Land of the Negros and Strangler Fig: Adam and Eve.