Events

If there ever was a time to read together, to run our fingers through the unlaminated pages of human longings, to revisit the scorched landscapes of our contested concepts and disagreements, to linger in the devilish spaces between the lines, it is now.

Co-Sponsors: UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender’s Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project (IRDP), Center for Islamic Studies at GTU, Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies, Northern California Islamic Council, University of Leeds, UK, Islamophobia Studies Journal & Re-Orient Journal, Islamophobia Studies Center, Othering Belonging Institute, Asian American Research Center and UMR.

Strewn through the web of considerations, readings, narratives, and analyses that make up the recent sixth assessment report of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a discernible (though faint) current of hope in the face of overwhelming loss.

A talk by Eboo Patel, followed by discussion with john a. powell and Allison Briscoe-Smith. Free event but registration is required.

Join Dr. Jovan Scott Lewis in conversation with Dr. Brandi Summers about Lewis' recently published book Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa.

Join us as we explore what it means to bridge in a way that builds empathy and understanding while centering justice and our common humanity.

Popular discourse suggests that there is an insurmountable and unprecedented intergenerational divide. Young people are often assumed to be at the forefront of the fight for progressive causes while elders in the movement are assumed to be at the back. However...

How do we switch sustainability education from a study of replacements and alternatives to a study of processes and practices? How has sustainability education transformed since its birth?

What does a politics based on the rehabilitation of Black bodies and their subsequent inclusion leave out of focus? In what ways might Blackness exceed the conditions of its violent formulation? What if justice gets in the way of the transformations we yearn for?

Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books, including I Hotel, finalist for the National Book Award, and most recently, Sansei and Sensibility. Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation, the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a U.S. Artists’ Ford Foundation Fellowship, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

A unique end-of-year opportunity to connect online with each other and our deepest yearnings to build a vibrant planet based on belonging.

How do our concepts of trauma and violence matter today? What does it mean to be safe in times of exposure? Is there an iteration of forgiveness that is a political refusal to reinscribe the conditions that needed forgiving? Are there limits to saying sorry?