Events

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...

The Disability Studies Cluster of the Haas Institute and the UCB Berkeley School of Social Work are pleased to announce the following talk on campus by Prof. Vandana Chaudhry (CUNY), on "Neoliberal Assemblages of Economy, Body and Society: Politics of...

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...

The Performativity of Land Acknowledgments and Settler Whiteness Colloquium: Lunch Talk | February 19 | 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. | TOLL ROOM, ALUMNI HOUSE (NOTE LOCATION CHANGE) Speaker/Performer: Dr. Selena Couture, University of Alberta Sponsors: Canadian Studies Program (CAN)), Department of...

Rethinking Diversity, Reintroducing Disability A Panel Discussion Register here Disability is too often left out of the academic and political discourse concerning equity, diversity and inclusion. Yet disability is a core aspect of these values and intersects with all other...

Click for a video recording of this event ----- Race—The Power of an Illusion: Teaching about Race and Racism using Resources to Change the Narrative A public event celebrating the launch of a new companion website for the groundbreaking documentary...

CripTech: Disability and Technology in Japan and the United States – an International Symposium December 7-8, 2018: David Brower Center Tamalpais Room Berkeley CA 9a-5pm Technology has the potential to greatly improve access and the full social participation of disabled...