Future Histories Lab offers community-engaged, project-based courses. Dig into hidden local histories and envision better futures in our exciting courses focused on social justice, race, place, and the arts. Take just three courses (in summer or other times) and earn a Certificate in Urban Humanities.

On Dec. 5, 1867, California Governor Henry Huntly Haight used his inaugural speech to rail against the citizenship and voting rights of formerly enslaved Africans, Native Americans, and to oppose immigration from Asia. On December 5, 2017, 150 years later, Rasheed Shabazz contacted the Haight Elementary School PTA and encouraged them to initiate the process ... Read moreFrom Haight to Love: Renaming an Alameda Elementary School in an Era of Racial Reckoning

Meet professors Dr. Pablo Gonzales and Raymond Telles, and get more detailed information on the courses: Public Art and Social Justice: Mapping Mural Art and NarrativesHUM C132/ENV DES C132 (4 units)Instructor: Dr. Pablo Gonzalez Stories of Place: Documentary Filmmaking WorkshopETHSTD 180 001 (4 units) + ETHSTD 199 005 (2 units)Instructor: Raymond Telles

Meet professors Dr. Juan Berumen and Chris Marino, and get more detailed information on the courses: Reimagining Us/Education through Speculative FictionHUM C132/ENV DES C132 (4 units), humanities studio courseInstructor: Dr. Juan Berumen Archives to Action: The Power of Primary Resources at a Richmond, CA Public Housing ProjectHUM C132/ENV DES C132 (4 units), humanities studio courseInstructor: ... Read more2/2 Oakland Street School + Richmond Housing History: Lecture + Summer Infosession

Spend your summer in community-engaged, project-based courses. Dig into hidden local histories and envision better futures in our exciting courses focused on social justice, race, place, and the arts. Take just three courses (in summer or other times) and earn a Certificate in Urban Humanities. Register in advance for this meeting: After registering, you will ... Read more2/9 Future Histories Lab Summer Courses + Certificate in Urban Humanities Infosession

Meet professors Erika Chong Shuch and Lynne Horiuchi to learn about summer courses: Performing (in) Place: Experimental Ethnography, Spatial History, and Creative Mutual AidC132 001 (#15722) / ENVDES  C132 001 (#15725) / THEATER 166 001 (#15335) 4 units, Humanities Studio CourseSummer Session A: May 24 – July 2, 2021Instructors: Erika Chong Shuch, Rowena Richie and ... Read more2/10 Oakland’s Hoover Durant Library + Performing (in) Place: Lecture + Summer Info Session

Future Histories Lab offers community-engaged, project-based courses. Dig into hidden local histories and envision better futures in our exciting courses focused on social justice, race, place, and the arts. Take just three courses and earn a Certificate in Urban Humanities.  You can earn an Undergraduate or Graduate Certificate in Urban Humanities by taking one humanities studio course and two electives. We offer ... Read moreUrban Humanities Certificate Info Session

The 2020 pandemic scattered us into disconnected spaces, interrupting our physical interactions along with our art-making. Responding to these times, performance makers Erika Chong Shuch and Amara Tabor-Smith have each created intimate connections within their communities of artistic practice, among isolated elders and individuals. Join us as we take the temperature of these artists, looking ... Read more3/15 Against Isolation: Pandemic Connections through the Arts

A panel discussion and virtual open house to celebrate the launch of Counterpoints. Counterpoints combines work from within the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP) with contributions from dozens of local artists, organizers, scholar-activists, and residents—from longtime community members who have been fighting multiple waves of racial dispossession to elementary school youth envisioning decolonial futures. Future Histories ... Read moreCounterpoints: An Atlas of Displacement and Resistance by Anti-Eviction Mapping Project

Future Histories Lab offers community-engaged, project-based courses. Dig into hidden local histories and envision better futures in our exciting courses focused on social justice, race, place, and the arts. Take just three courses (in summer or other times) and earn a Certificate in Urban Humanities. Come and learn more about Future Histories Lab at the upcoming Golden Bear ... Read moreGolden Bear Orientation Resource Fair

Future Histories Lab and Aurora Theatre Company present a dialogue in association with Stoop Stories by Dael Orlandersmith at the Aurora Theatre Part of the Aurora Connects series, register here to attend via Zoom What wisdom do stoops and porches hold? Where is urban knowledge stored and shared? Do different cities provide different kinds of ... Read morePorch Stories: Conversations about Urban Change

Venue: East Courtyard, Bauer Wurster (formerly Wurster Hall) Future Histories Lab offers community-engaged, project-based courses. Dig into hidden local histories and envision better futures in our exciting courses focused on social justice, race, place, and the arts. Take just three courses (in summer or other times) and earn a Certificate in Urban Humanities. Attend our open house ... Read moreFuture Histories Lab Open House