Events

On Tuesday, December 10, at 5pm PT / 8pm ET, OBI Director john a. powell will be joined on Sounds True One with mindfulness teacher and author Jon Kabat-Zinn for a conversation on powell's new book, The Power of Bridging...

The Belonging Resident Company is offering dance and theater workshops until December 9th. Workshops are open to the public! Click through to learn more.

Join us in john powell's hometown of Detroit, Michigan to celebrate the launch of his new book, The Power of Bridging. We will gather on the Wayne State University campus for an evening of celebration and inspiration. Meet john as...

Othering & Belonging Institute Director john a. powell will serve as the keynote speaker at the 2024 Global Opportunity Youth Network (GOYN) convening in Pune, Maharashtra, India! The fifth annual convening will be livestreamed from Nov 17 to 21. In...

We all yearn for connection and community, but we live in a time when calls for division and hierarchy along the lines of religion, race, ethnicity, sexuality and more are growing. Belonging without Othering: How We Save Ourselves and the...

Ron Lee, Hilary Hoynes, Jenna Nobles will be discussing “Population Issues and the 2024 Election” on Wednesday, October 16 at 12pm. Join us in-person in Room 310 of the Social Sciences Building or virtually on Zoom. This event is free...

Join us on the UC Berkeley campus for a panel conversation with Sunaura Taylor on her new book, Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert — a powerful analysis and call to action that reveals disability as one of the...

Register here Reimagining Planning is a monthly series of public webinars that focuses on the edge of innovation in urban planning and policy. Traditionally Urban Planning has had a long legacy of harming communities of color, developing and implementing racist...

Join us to celebrate the launch of Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects with co-author and artist Chris E. Vargas alongside two artist-activists and contributors to the book, Ralowe Ampu and Craig Calderwood. This fantastic panel will be moderated by Professor...

The 2024 Revolutionary Love Bus Tour is a healing odyssey across the United States calling people to rise up in courage, humanity, and love. Join visionary civil rights leader Valarie Kaur in an immersive experience of storytelling, music, song, ancestral...

Register for Free Attorney Donald Tamaki, a member of the California Black Reparations Task Force, examines the discursive strategies of critics of reparations and presents a counter-narrative that draws on the extensive historical and contemporary findings of the 1100-page California...

This event is free and open to the public. No reservations are required. Pegasus Books Downtown is excited to welcome Bay Area artist, writer, and UC Berkeley scholar Sunaura Taylor on Monday, September 9 at 6 p.m. to celebrate her...

The Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative is delighted to welcome Simran Jeet Singh to the UC Berkeley campus. Dr. Singh is Executive Director of the Religion and Society Program at the Aspen Institute and the author of the national...

In 2024, democracy is on the ballot, a principal story told by anxious news outlets worldwide. Yet, this focus on democracy's precarity obscures other urgent matters: the rise of AI and its challenge to a humanist account of intelligence, the...

The Othering & Belonging Conferences are dynamic and uniquely-curated gatherings that advance scholarship, narratives, movements, policies, and practices that support a more fully inclusive “we.” Our second of two conferences will take place in Oakland. Click through to sign up for updates.