Latest Past Events

Energy Innovation Conference: UCLA Anderson

REGISTER HERE The Energy Innovation Conference brings together students, academics and professionals to showcase companies and technologies with the potential to reinvent the energy industry. This year’s presenters will focus on a number of topics, including energy finance, innovation and entrepreneurship, and resiliency and storage. Past keynote speakers and panelists include CEOs of established firms,...

Human Rights and the Climate Crisis (Promise Institute Annual Symposium)

New lawsuits and recent rulings are connecting human rights law to the climate crisis in increasingly urgent ways. Last week's Urgenda ruling in the Netherlands, the complaint filed by Greta Thunberg and 15 other children under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Juliana lawsuit against the U.S. government are a few...

The Flower World

La Kretz Garden Pavilion 707 Tiverton Avenue, Los Angeles

Explore the Flower World with Dr. David Shorter in the third lecture of our Plant Worlds Ethnobotany Seminar Series The Flower World was referenced in the pottery, codices, murals, songs, myths, and ceremonies across Mesoamerica. Contemporary Indigenous communities continue to speak of, about, and from this powerful realm of healing and sacrifice. Are we simply...