Events

Latinos and the Environment Summit 2018 Join the Latinos and the Environment Initiative for our first Latinos and the Environment Summit on April 5 & 6. Thursday April 5 : David Brower Center 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704 Friday...

Note: This talk has been CANCELLED. Anne Case of Princeton University is set to speak on “Morbidity and Mortality in Working Class America” at UC Berkeley. This talk is a part of the Research to Impact speaker series. More information...

Climate change may be the most far reaching manifestation of white privilege and class privilege yet to face humankind. Caused overwhelmingly by high-consuming people, climate change is wreaking death and destruction foremost on impoverished people who also are disproportionately people...

In celebrating the International Women’s Day, the Haas Institute invites you to join us engaging with Kathryn Moeller, the author of the recently published book The Gender Effect: Capitalism, Feminism, and the Corporate Politics of Development with University of California...

Two nights in the Bay Area. Two stellar panels. Join us as we revisit the film Gattaca and its vision of a vastly unequal future based on human genetic technologies. How does Gattaca continue to shape our imaginations 20 years...

We are hosting a special film screening of Whose Streets? followed by a discussion with co-director Sabaah Folayan Wednesday evening during our " Race & Inequality in America, the Kerner Commission at 50 conference." The film screening is free and...

A Conference exploring race, segregation, and inequality fifty years after the release of the historic Kerner Commission Report. From #BlackLivesMatter to the Supreme Court, issues of race, segregation, inequality, the legacy of slavery, and who belongs in America and who...

A Benefit Concert for the East Oakland Black Culture Zone! Beloved Oakland is a vehicle to bring the new and old Oakland residents together to teach about Oakland's social justice legacy and unite people around new social justice initiatives, especially...

Karen Nakamura, a cultural and visual anthropologist at UC Berkeley, will give a lecture on "Disability Studies as White Disability Studies / Disability Studies as Intersectional Disability Studies." Time: 12:00pm-1:30pm February 16th, 2018 UC Berkeley Women's Faculty Club, Lounge This...

A CONTINUATION OF THE CONVERSATION “RACISM & PRIVILEGE: WHAT’S UP AT CAL?” A discussion between john a. powell, Savala Trepczynski and Dr. Sid Reel about current events & strategies for talking about race, power and privilege at Cal. Presented by...

On February 15th, 2018, Haas Institute Director john a. powell joined a panel at Berkeley Law School discussing how to address institutional racism through the othering and belonging framework. Co-panelists included Savala Trepczynski from the Thelton E. Henderson Center for...

Mary Pattillo of Northwestern University and Jordan Conwell of the University of Wisconsin-Madison will speak on “Race, College Quality, and Intergenerational Mobility.” This talk is part of the Research to Impact series. Mary Pattillo is a Professor of Sociology and...

Please join us in welcoming author Gordon Whitman, Deputy Director of PICO National Network, for a discussion on his book, Stand Up! How to Get Involved, Speak Out, and Win in a World on Fire. He will be joined in...

Professor ​Victor Rios of UC Santa Barbara is set to speak on "The Mis-Education and Criminalization of Black and Latino Boys: The Role of Race, Culture and Resistance in the School-to-Prison Pipeline." Victor Rios is a Professor of Sociology at...

Registration information here DESCRIPTION Racism has been the blueprint and the foundation of the United States since its inception. Over centuries of struggle, the United States has been pushed to evolve on this issue and in many ways the Bay...