All times are listed in Pacific Time (PT). In compliance with the ADA/504, please direct your accommodation requests for any of these events to turnproject@scu.edu.
9:15 am — 10:15 am (online)
tUrn week Human Rights Keynote by Fabrice Cregut, Director of the Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue
RSVP for Geneva Center | Fabrice Cregut Headliner on zoom
Co-presented with tbd.
11:45 am — 12:45 pm (online)
Join Shannon Rivers, Akimel O’otham, for an exposé on the climate crisis from a committed and visionary Indigenous leader. Each tUrn week, Shannon offers perspectives on our moral responsibility in the face of eco-terrorism and predatory capitalism.
For tUrn14 in April 2026, Mr. Rivers will focus on working from a place of balance amidst the precarity and dismantling of nature, culture, and democracy.
Shannon Rivers calls us to recognize our role in all of this, before it is too late.
Co-presented with SCU ODI | Office of Diversity and Inclusion, de Saisset Museum, NACC | Native American Coalition for Change
Meet in Dance Studio A, in the Music & Dance Building for a sit and speak event!
Next to the Mayer Theatre, at the corner of Franklin and Lafayette Streets, Santa Clara.
Playwrights are at the forefront of communicating and foretelling the climate, ecological, environmental, social, and emotional realities of the climate crisis. Join an open reading of several short plays during this thought-provoking session. Two circles form, the inner circle group reads, the outer circle listens. You choose! All discuss.
RSVP to listen on zoom (link tbd)
The crisis of our environment stems from a legacy of economic, technical and racially oppressive premises and many other forms of othering which have been pursued in the absence of ecological knowledge or concern for the present or future. We need ECOTACTICS more than ever. Coined in 1970,. Ecotactics (ē-ko tak tiks) n. Pl. is defined as “the science of arranging and maneuvering all available forces in action against the enemies of the earth.” Policies, practices, and protests can ensure more friends of the earth’s voices are heard. Humanity shall make a u-turn, but not without exposure, engagement and education. Learn at tUrn. RSVP