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Mar
6

Elise C. Boddie: "Struggling for the Soul of Public Education"

For a video recording of this talk visit this page - Date: March 6, 2020 Time: 12pm - 1:30pm Location: Social Science Matrix Conference Room, Barrows Hall 8th Floor Title: Struggling for the Soul of Public Education: Lessons from the...
Mar
5

Opacities: Trans Visual Cultures

Opacities: Trans Visual Cultures with Tourmaline + Chris Vargas In conversation with Eric Stanley Thursday, March 5, 2020 | 5:00-7:00pm Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Co-sponsored by Arts Research Center, the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture...
Mar
5

Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley: 50 Years of Igniting the Future (March 5 & 6)

This academic year, 2019-2020, marks the 50th anniversary of the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. To celebrate this momentous occasion, the Department is organizing a 2-day symposium “Ethnic Studies at 50: Igniting the Future” featuring our distinguished graduates...
Feb
24

Khiara Bridges - Imagining an Ethnography of Pregnant Class-Privileged Women of Color

Date: February 23, 2020 Time: 12:45pm - 2 pm Location: Philip Selznick Seminar Room in 2240 Piedmont Ave. Berkeley, CA Part of: Center for the Study of Law & Society Speaker Series About the talk: Imagining an Ethnography of Pregnant...
Feb
21

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology (Deirdre Cooper Owens)

For a video recording of this talk visit this page. - This talk is part of the Othering & Belonging Institute's Research to Impact Series. It is supported by the Institute's Health Disparities Cluster Date: February 21, 2020 Time: 12:00...
Feb
18

Rodney Leon on Black Public Art

Visit this page for a video recording of this event. -- Talk Title: Rodney Leon on Black Public Art: Paying Homage to the Ancestors Location: BAMPFA, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley Date: Feb. 18, 2020 Time: 12pm - 2pm This event...
Feb
7

Mental Health and Refugees: the Eritrean Case

Talk by Yohannes Ferdinando Drar Clinician/Social Worker Practitioner MSW, RSW Royal Ottawa Hospital Mental health problems and suicide are two challenges facing the Eritrean community. The collective multi-generational trauma Eritreans experience is a direct result of continuous wars and human...
Jan
24

The Black Census and Redistricting Hub

The My Black Counts California Census and Redistricting Academic Roundtable A luncheon and conversation with a small group of academics and thought leaders from across California talking about the role of the 2020 census and redistricting process in determining the...
Dec
11

Film Screening - The Long Shadow, with john a. powell (rescheduled for Dec. 11)

Date: Dec. 11, 2019 Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Location: Banatao Auditorium in Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720) Lunch served on first come first serve basis. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/film-screening-the-long-shadow-tickets-718… (link is external) About the film: Of all the...
Dec
3

Black and Brown Organizing for Immigrant Justice

Sponsored by Big Ideas Course Migration in the Contemporary World; Department of Ethnic Studies; Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management; and the Othering & Belonging Institute The Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) believes that a thriving multiracial democracy...
Oct
23

Oct. 23: Judith Carney - In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Food Legacy in the Atlantic World

Part of: Haas Institute's Research to Impact Series, Co-Organized with The Geography Dept. 23rd Sauer Memorial Lecture, the Berkeley Food Institute and the African American Studies Department. About the Talk: A striking feature of plantation-era history is the number of...
Oct
18

Climate Crisis, Designer Babies, Our Common Future: An evening with john powell and Bill McKibben

Climate Crisis, Designer Babies, Our Common Future: An evening with john powell and Bill McKibben moderated by Osagie K. Obasogie FREE event | registration is required October 18, 2019 | 6:30-8:30pm School of Public Health, UC Berkeley First Floor Colloquium...
Oct
17

Ruha Benjamin: "The New Jim Code?"

Click for a video recording of this event. Part of the Haas Institute's Research to Impact Series Co-Organized with Citris Policy Lab and Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society CSTMS Date: October 17, 2019 Time: 3:00pm - 5:00pm Location...
Oct
15

INDIVISIBLE TOHONO: Infiltrating Spaces for the Empowerment of Our People

INDIVISIBLE TOHONO: Infiltrating Spaces for the Empowerment of Our People Tuesday, Oct 15 11:10AM-12:30PM Location: VLSB 2040 Speakers: April Ignacio and Elayne Gregg Facilitators (Intro/Questions): Fantasia Painter and Seth Holmes Indivisible Tohono is a grassroots organization working on issues that...
Oct
14

Book Talk: "The Lines Between Us," with Lawrence Lanahan and john a. powell

Join us on Monday, October 14 for a talk by Lawrence Lanahan, author of The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore's Racial Divide who will be in conversation with Haas Institute director john a. powell...