Events

REGISTER HERE Join us for a lunchtime discussion and movie-screening with gender-equity specialist, Prof. Dr. Lucia M. Lanfranconi, currently a post-doctoral scholar at UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare. Lucia will showcase her Swiss documentary (with English subtitles) “Equality- A...

Race Town Hall (April 27) WHAT: A Conversation on Race Town Hall WHEN: Saturday April 27 from 12 – 130pm WHERE: Black Repertory Group Theater, 3201 Adeline Street Berkeley, CA 94703 WHO: Dr. Julia Chinyere Oparah, Ethnic Studies Professor at...

Click for a video of this event. This event will feature a discussion of Rucker C. Johnson’s new book Children of the Dream. Professor Johnson will appear in conversation with Dean Prudence Carter and Berkeley Law’s Chris Edley, Jr. While...

TRAP DOOR with Miss Major & CeCe McDonald Join us for a conversation on the anthology "Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility" (MIT 2017) Featuring: Miss Major: A veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, former sex...

​​The next Othering & Belonging conference will be held April 8– 10, 2019 in Oakland. Visit the conference website for updates on registration, scholarships, speakers, and all info related to the conference. Check out this video recap of our last...

Film Screening of Criminal Queers: directed by Chris Vargas and Eric A. Stanley Wednesday, April 3rd (12-2 pm) in 370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley Eric Stanley, Assistant Professor, Department of Gender and Women's Studies Criminal Queers visualizes a radical trans/queer...

Title: “Cultural Capital, Systemic Exclusion and Bias in the Lives of Black Middle-Class Women: A Conversation” Description: At this interactive event, Dawn Dow and Tina Sacks will discuss their new books on African American women. Dow’s book, Mothering While Black...

Public Forum: Stories of Migration Sun, Mar 17, Zellerbach Playhouse 11am-12:30pm Stories of Migration. Jimmy López's Dreamers evokes the realities of migration: the meaning of "home," the need and human impulse to migrate, the right to move, and the right...

The long run effects of childhood exposure to the Food Stamp program Hilary Hoynes, UC Berkeley MARCH 14 @ 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM After Social Security, the Food Stamp Program touches the lives of more American families than any...

In the year that we commemorate the 400th anniversary of the beginning of African enslavement in U.S. history, the annual Graduate School of Education Dean’s Forum will feature Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times best-selling author; 2016 National Book...

SUNAURA TAYLOR (NYU/UC BERKELEY) WHEN: TUESDAY MARCH 5, 3:00PM - 4:30PM WHERE: KROEBER HALL, RM 285 UC BERKELEY OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Abstract: Based on my current research, and crossing a range of disciplines, mediums, and audiences, this talk situates...

EVENT DETAILS What: Research to Impact Presentation titled “Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism” with Anne Case of Princeton University, and UC Berkeley respondents Mahasin Mujahid and Ron Lee (Economic Disparities and Health Disparities cluster collaboration) When: Friday...

Date/Time Thursday 28 Feb 2019 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Location Berkeley Way West Building, Room 5101 Event Type Colloquium Samuel Roberts Associate Professor of History & Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Please note the updated time and location of this...

The Disability Studies Cluster of the Haas Institute and the Graduate School of Education are pleased to announce the following talk on campus by Prof. Subini Ancy Annamma (U-Kansas), on "Excavating Possibilities: Disability Critical Race Theory (DisCrit) in Education." Who...

Anti-Black State Violence in the Americas: Power and Struggle in Brazil and the US UC Berkeley is hosting influential scholars and social movement leaders from Brazil and the United States—homes to the two largest Black populations outside the continent of...