On Wednesday, December 11th the UCSB Blum Center is hosting a follow-up workshop for UC graduate students who have been awarded short-term fellowships for research that addresses a wide range of issues at the intersections of poverty, inequality, and democracy, in order to engage in interdisciplinary discussions about these issues, as well as strengthen community among students and faculty working on the themes of poverty, inequality, and democracy at UCSB and across the UC system.

The aim of the this gathering is to consider a range of approaches to conceptualizing and studying poverty and inequality; discuss how poverty and inequality can be - and have been historically - framed as problems of democracy, understood as norms and institutions governing social as well as political rights, practices and protections; and strengthen community among studetns and faculty working on the themes of poverty, inequality, and democracy at UCSB and across the UC system.