Achieving a Richmond Where Everyone Belongs Public release of a community research report and art and original poetry by Richmond residents exploring what it will take to achieve a city where everyone belongs January 20th, 9:30am to 11:30am Nevins Community...

Elizabeth Alexander of Columbia University is set to speak on 'Total Life is What We Need: Self-determination and Black Arts Collectives' This talk is a part of a new colloquium series launched by the Haas Institute called "Research to Impact."...

FOR A VIDEO OF THE TALK CLICK HERE Professor Paul Frymer of Princeton University is set to speak on "The Politics of Mass Deportation in the United States: State Authority, Public Activism, and Government Removal Policies Targeting Native Americans and...

The Oakland Public Library welcomes Haas Institute Senior Fellow Richard Rothstein to discuss, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, on Wednesday, November 29 at 6:00 p.m. In this groundbreaking history of the modern...

FOR A VIDEO OF THE TALK CLICK HERE Jovan Scott Lewis, a member of the Haas Institute's Economic Disparities cluster, will be speaking on the November 17 as part of the Institute's Research to Impact colloquium series. The title of...

After decades of organizing against all odds, finally here in California we have a chance for breakthrough reforms. How can we inspire enough leaders? How can we speak beyond our choir of passionate activists? How can we truly contend for...

Haas Director john a. powell will be one of several figures to provide a keynote address at the three-day National Bioneers Conference to be held October 20 - 22 in San Rafael. powell will speak on the final day of...

FOR A VIDEO AND WRITE-UP OF THE TALK CLICK HERE When it comes to sex, why are we magnetized by consent? Instead of renovating consent to make it sexy, affirmative, or enthusiastic, Professor Joseph Fischel argues we should get rid...

Haas Director john a. powell will be facilitating a panel on race and equity during a plenary session at the 2017 National Forum on Family Philanthropy annual conference. Conversations and clashes around race and equity are becoming more common in...

Within the broader context of rising Islamophobia, this presentation sheds light on the legalized othering of Muslim communities across the United States via anti-Muslim legislation and bills spanning the years 2000-2016. With a focus on the anti-Sharia movement in the...

Elsadig Elsheikh , the director of the Global Justice Program at the Haas Institute, will be presenting his recent report, " Moving Targets: An Analysis of Global Forced Migration " at a colloquium sponsored by the Center for African Studies...

Join us to listen to sociologist G. Cristina Mora talk about how Southwest Mexicans, Miami Cubans, and New York Puerto Ricans came to see themselves as not just distinct nationalities, but also as Hispanics - a national pan-ethnic group. Spoiler...

The Haas Institute is co-sponsoring a talk by Patrisia Macías-Rojas, a sociologist who teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago, on her book, From Deportation to Prison: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America. The book unpacks...

The symposium takes its name from the title of Jay Dolmage’s forthcoming book, Academic Ableism. “For too long,” Dolmage argues, “disability has been constructed as the antithesis of higher education, often positioned as a distraction, a drain, a problem to...