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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...
Oct
11

Ian Haney López - Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America

Click for a video recording of this event. This event is part of the Haas Institute's Research to Impact Series The Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at Berkeley Law, the Equal Justice Society, and the Haas Institute for...
Oct
11

Responding to the Public Charge Rule

You are here Responding to the Public Charge Rule: Immigrant Well-being and Access to Services The Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative (BIMI) is launching two policy reports and an interactive mapping website on Friday morning, October 11. This symposium brings together...
Oct
10

Film - The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement

Free Outdoor Screening: Inequality for All Date: Thursday, October 10, 2019 Time: 7 PM (114 mins) Location: BAMPFA, Free on the outdoor screen Part of the series: Berkeley Film Foundation: Celebrating Ten Years of Local Filmmaking About the Film: The...