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Resmaa Menakem Commencement talk in 2024 was ❤️‍🔥 The baby and other sounds are an *intentional* backing soundtrack, btw!

Use our link in bio to see the full recording, *and* for the livestream to this weekend’s commencement!

Stay weird, @ciis_sf ❤️

Read caption⬇️Been wanting to finish your bachelor’s degree? Looking for a program as different as you are? Use @ciis_sus link in bio to sign up today for the May 14 6pm PT Info Session and learn more about the @ciis_sf bachelor’s completion program!

📹From “Changing the Conversation on Autism with Dr. Nick Walker” Nick is a faculty member in both @ciis_sus and @ciis_somatics and teaches courses on topics such as:

Human Sexuality
Introduction to Neurodiversity Studies
Psychodynamics
Psychology of Gender
Psychopathology & Psychological Assessment
Research Methods
Shadow Work
Social Psychology
Somatic Psychology in Theory & Practice
Somatics & Society
The Body Experienced, Conceptualized, & Verbalized
Theories of Personality

Qualifying applicants can earn a Bachelor’s Degree in 3 semesters, with options for an accelerated Master’s degree in great programs including @anthciis @ciismfa @east_west_psychology and many, many more!

June 4th, 6pm, in-person and online. Use the @anthciis link in bio to sign up! $11 - $32 sliding scale. @ciispubprograms member or happen to be a @ciis_sf prospective student? Get free admission!

A co-production of @blackbuddhiststudies and @ciispubprograms with book partner, @marcus.books

Join author Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad for a conversation exploring a Dharma of liberation, offering timely lessons to help us meet this moment, using the writings of Audre Lorde and James Baldwin to provide real world examples of this dharma in practice.

Dr. Vesely-Flad’s latest book The Fire Inside, examines the writings of Lorde and Baldwin through a Dharmic lens, and discusses how two of America’s greatest literary voices reflect—and expand—Buddhism’s most timeless truths toward justice and liberation. In this conversation with mindfulness teacher Rhonda V. Magee, she will share how the writers’ enduring legacies show that liberation depends not only on organizing and mass movements, but the generative power of inner well-being, authenticity, art, and embodiment. She invites us to examine Baldwin and Lorde through key Buddhist principles such as suffering as teacher, impermanence, karma, anger, and compassion in order to deepen and enhance our own understanding of Buddhism, and liberation.

Through her work and writing, Dr. Vesely-Flad centers and celebrates Black, queer, radical thought and invites us to embrace the ways our inner lives, creative fire, sensuality, and expressions of love can ignite and sustain revolutionary liberation.

1. The new book, The Fire Inside: The Dharma of James Baldwin & Audre Lorde on @natlanticbooks
2. Rima Vesely-Flad, PhD
3. Rhonda V. Magee, M.A., J.D.

June 4th, 6pm, in-person and online. Use the @anthciis link in bio to sign up! $11 - $32 sliding scale. @ciispubprograms member or happen to be a @ciis_sf prospective student? Get free admission!

A co-production of @blackbuddhiststudies and @ciispubprograms with book partner, @marcus.books

Join author Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad for a conversation exploring a Dharma of liberation, offering timely lessons to help us meet this moment, using the writings of Audre Lorde and James Baldwin to provide real world examples of this dharma in practice.

Dr. Vesely-Flad’s latest book The Fire Inside, examines the writings of Lorde and Baldwin through a Dharmic lens, and discusses how two of America’s greatest literary voices reflect—and expand—Buddhism’s most timeless truths toward justice and liberation. In this conversation with mindfulness teacher Rhonda V. Magee, she will share how the writers’ enduring legacies show that liberation depends not only on organizing and mass movements, but the generative power of inner well-being, authenticity, art, and embodiment. She invites us to examine Baldwin and Lorde through key Buddhist principles such as suffering as teacher, impermanence, karma, anger, and compassion in order to deepen and enhance our own understanding of Buddhism, and liberation.

Through her work and writing, Dr. Vesely-Flad centers and celebrates Black, queer, radical thought and invites us to embrace the ways our inner lives, creative fire, sensuality, and expressions of love can ignite and sustain revolutionary liberation.

1. The new book, The Fire Inside: The Dharma of James Baldwin & Audre Lorde on @natlanticbooks
2. Rima Vesely-Flad, PhD
3. Rhonda V. Magee, M.A., J.D.

June 4th, 6pm, in-person and online. Use the @anthciis link in bio to sign up! $11 - $32 sliding scale. @ciispubprograms member or happen to be a @ciis_sf prospective student? Get free admission!

A co-production of @blackbuddhiststudies and @ciispubprograms with book partner, @marcus.books

Join author Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad for a conversation exploring a Dharma of liberation, offering timely lessons to help us meet this moment, using the writings of Audre Lorde and James Baldwin to provide real world examples of this dharma in practice.

Dr. Vesely-Flad’s latest book The Fire Inside, examines the writings of Lorde and Baldwin through a Dharmic lens, and discusses how two of America’s greatest literary voices reflect—and expand—Buddhism’s most timeless truths toward justice and liberation. In this conversation with mindfulness teacher Rhonda V. Magee, she will share how the writers’ enduring legacies show that liberation depends not only on organizing and mass movements, but the generative power of inner well-being, authenticity, art, and embodiment. She invites us to examine Baldwin and Lorde through key Buddhist principles such as suffering as teacher, impermanence, karma, anger, and compassion in order to deepen and enhance our own understanding of Buddhism, and liberation.

Through her work and writing, Dr. Vesely-Flad centers and celebrates Black, queer, radical thought and invites us to embrace the ways our inner lives, creative fire, sensuality, and expressions of love can ignite and sustain revolutionary liberation.

1. The new book, The Fire Inside: The Dharma of James Baldwin & Audre Lorde on @natlanticbooks
2. Rima Vesely-Flad, PhD
3. Rhonda V. Magee, M.A., J.D.

Interested in our mostly online MA+PhD? Use our link in bio to sign up today for a special Info Session w/faculty+alums!
May 21, 5pm Pacific Time on Zoom!

About 1 of the 2 alums:
Adam Dolezal completed his Ph.D. in Anthropology and Social Change at CIIS, focusing on ethnography with communities taking direct action against extractive industries — a foundation that directly informs the investigative work he does today. He now works with the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA-US), an international nonprofit that conducts undercover investigations exposing environmentally destructive industries, from illegal logging and wildlife trafficking to climate pollutants.

Currently, Adam is tracing mercury smuggling from Mexico, China, Tajikistan, and Indonesia into the Amazon and Congo basins, where it fuels destructive gold mining and exposes communities to a potent neurotoxin. After investigations, the team works to turn findings into impact through media partnerships, enforcement actions, and policy change. He also teaches graduate seminars on ethics, advocacy, and environmental campaigning at Unity Environmental University.

Interested in our mostly online MA+PhD? Sign up today for a special online Info Session w/faculty+alums! May 21, 5pm Pacific Time on Zoom!

Train in ethnography in solidarity with populations everywhere from Chiapas to Exarcheia to Rojava. Join a department with a distinctive emphasis on nonstate spaces. Graduate with the tools to help create the better world we all know is possible!

Our program is “low residency,” with a four-day intensive in San Francisco in October and in February. Student build camaraderie with one another and attend workshops, talks, and our Visiting Professor Series talks. Remaining week to week courses are on Zoom and can be attended from anywhere in the world.

Sign up today to learn more!

Interested in our mostly online MA+PhD? Use our link in bio to sign up today for a special Info Session w/faculty+alums!
May 21, 5pm Pacific Time on Zoom!

About 1 of the 2 alums:
shah noor hussein is a writer, multimedia visual artist, and public scholar crafting narratives at the nexus of Black feminist thought and Queer diaspora studies. shah is a doctoral candidate, Cota-Robles Scholar, and Presidents Fellow in the Departments of Anthropology and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. They earned their masters in Anthropology and Social Change with a focus on queer Black feminism, liberatory pedagogy, and media production from California Institute of Integral Studies (2017).

shah’s life-work (re)centers marginalized voices in dialogues on alternative epistemologies and ways of being through a multimedia study of music and dance in their home country of Sudan.

A special course from Prof. Andrej Grubačić not taught in over 5 years, this Fall! Crosslisted between @ciismfa and @anthciis

10am to 1pm pacific time, Sept 4, Oct 2, Nov 6, and Dec 4!

ANTH-6126 Situationism: Everyday Revolutions in the Society of Spectacle (1-1 Credits)
Dada, Surrealism, Situationism. These movements were not simply theoretical interventions, and certainly not examples of bourgeois art. They were, and to an extent they continue to be, subversive political revolutions that resist cultural museification and ideological mummification. In our class on situationism, we will read the seminal works by and about the situationists, interrupted with the occasional brick-breaking dialectical film feature.

Interested in finishing your bachelor’s degree, or fast tracking from a BA to Master's program? @ciis_sus is the place for you! Link in @ciis_sus bio to sign up for the next Info Session April 16, 6pm Pacific Time, to learn more!

All of the unique degree completion programs offered at CIIS are student-centered and value the personal development of each individual. Our innovative cohort model allows students to remain with the same group throughout the program, building relationships and co-creating knowledge. The online format means adult learners can remain flexible while engaging in a rigorous, transformative program.
Whether the journey leads to a graduate program, a career promotion, deepened work in the community, arts or social justice work or a passion project, our programs support your dreams and visions.

Also, consider pursuing an accelerated graduate degree with possibilities including the following programs and many more!
@anthciis
@east_west_psychology
@ciismfa

Our Bachelor’s to Graduate Accelerated Pathways allow students to complete graduate courses as undergraduates. Students are able to double-count the units for both degrees and pay undergraduate tuition. Students can save an estimated $20k in graduate tuition with an accelerated pathway.
Sign up for the Info Session to learn more!”

Interested in our mostly-online MA+PhD in activist Anthropology? Sign up for the April 16 5pm pacific time Info Session in our link in bio!
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📹6 moments with our beloved department chair, currently on sabbatical, so we can remember what his face looks like! 🖤 🤓
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Join a department-wide commitment to solidarity with communities in revolutionary struggle. Take social movements as your partner and co-researcher. Learn ethnography with an emphasis on the practice of accompaniment and solidarity. Engage the full spectrum of anticapitalist, decolonial / anticolonial methodologies. Graduate with the tools to make a prefigurative contribution to a new world in the ashes of the old!
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Maybe one day we’ll be able to say the name of the scholar Andrej names as the greatest sociologist alive, without getting Zucked!

Interested in finishing your bachelor’s degree with @ciis_sf ? Use @ciis_sus link in bio to sign up for the next Info Session April 16, 6pm Pacific Time, to learn more!

All of the unique degree completion programs offered at CIIS are student-centered and value the personal development of each individual. Our innovative cohort model allows students to remain with the same group throughout the program, building relationships and co-creating knowledge. The online format means adult learners can remain flexible while engaging in a rigorous, transformative program.
Whether the journey leads to a graduate program, a career promotion, deepened work in the community, arts or social justice work or a passion project, our programs support your dreams and visions.

Also, consider pursuing an accelerated graduate degree with possibilities including the following programs and many more!
@anthciis
@east_west_psychology
@ciismfa

Our Bachelor’s to Graduate Accelerated Pathways allow students to complete graduate courses as undergraduates. Students are able to double-count the units for both degrees and pay undergraduate tuition. Students can save an estimated $20k in graduate tuition with an accelerated pathway.
Sign up for the Info Session to learn more!”

Use the @anthciis link in bio to register! A co-production of @seizethehospitals and @anthciis

@ciis_sf graduate course cross-listed between @anthciis and @ciis_ecospirit Swipe for book images!
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Political Ecology (3 credits)
Course description:
“In the last century we have entered a period of unprecedented environmental transformations leading to what many scholars believe is the biosphere on the brink. In this landscape of uncertainty and change, heated debates over environmental conservation, land use, and livelihoods dominate the contemporary socio-political arena. This course explores political ecology as an interdisciplinary approach to understanding socio-ecological processes of change. We start with an examination of the political stakes and dynamics of environmental access, management, and transformation. Through critiques of scholars and communities, we will challenge understandings of nature, resource use and degradation that have resulted as a consequence of colonialism and uneven capitalist development. The class will pay particular attention to political ecologies of our increasingly urbanized world, asking the questions: where does society end and nature begin? And, how are movements and communities reframing and constructing socio-natures in resistance? In so doing, our intention is to arrive at Paul Robbins’ conclusion in Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction (2012) that politics is inevitably ecological and ecology is inherently political.”

@ciis_sf graduate course cross-listed between @anthciis and @ciis_ecospirit Swipe for book images!
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Political Ecology (3 credits)
Course description:
“In the last century we have entered a period of unprecedented environmental transformations leading to what many scholars believe is the biosphere on the brink. In this landscape of uncertainty and change, heated debates over environmental conservation, land use, and livelihoods dominate the contemporary socio-political arena. This course explores political ecology as an interdisciplinary approach to understanding socio-ecological processes of change. We start with an examination of the political stakes and dynamics of environmental access, management, and transformation. Through critiques of scholars and communities, we will challenge understandings of nature, resource use and degradation that have resulted as a consequence of colonialism and uneven capitalist development. The class will pay particular attention to political ecologies of our increasingly urbanized world, asking the questions: where does society end and nature begin? And, how are movements and communities reframing and constructing socio-natures in resistance? In so doing, our intention is to arrive at Paul Robbins’ conclusion in Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction (2012) that politics is inevitably ecological and ecology is inherently political.”

@ciis_sf graduate course cross-listed between @anthciis and @ciis_ecospirit Swipe for book images!
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Political Ecology (3 credits)
Course description:
“In the last century we have entered a period of unprecedented environmental transformations leading to what many scholars believe is the biosphere on the brink. In this landscape of uncertainty and change, heated debates over environmental conservation, land use, and livelihoods dominate the contemporary socio-political arena. This course explores political ecology as an interdisciplinary approach to understanding socio-ecological processes of change. We start with an examination of the political stakes and dynamics of environmental access, management, and transformation. Through critiques of scholars and communities, we will challenge understandings of nature, resource use and degradation that have resulted as a consequence of colonialism and uneven capitalist development. The class will pay particular attention to political ecologies of our increasingly urbanized world, asking the questions: where does society end and nature begin? And, how are movements and communities reframing and constructing socio-natures in resistance? In so doing, our intention is to arrive at Paul Robbins’ conclusion in Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction (2012) that politics is inevitably ecological and ecology is inherently political.”

@ciis_sf graduate course cross-listed between @anthciis and @ciis_ecospirit Swipe for book images!
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Political Ecology (3 credits)
Course description:
“In the last century we have entered a period of unprecedented environmental transformations leading to what many scholars believe is the biosphere on the brink. In this landscape of uncertainty and change, heated debates over environmental conservation, land use, and livelihoods dominate the contemporary socio-political arena. This course explores political ecology as an interdisciplinary approach to understanding socio-ecological processes of change. We start with an examination of the political stakes and dynamics of environmental access, management, and transformation. Through critiques of scholars and communities, we will challenge understandings of nature, resource use and degradation that have resulted as a consequence of colonialism and uneven capitalist development. The class will pay particular attention to political ecologies of our increasingly urbanized world, asking the questions: where does society end and nature begin? And, how are movements and communities reframing and constructing socio-natures in resistance? In so doing, our intention is to arrive at Paul Robbins’ conclusion in Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction (2012) that politics is inevitably ecological and ecology is inherently political.”