The Global Justice Program at UC Berkeley’s Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society invites you to an informal monthly-guided discussion on a wide range of issues related to Africa’s food systems. The Talk: Can Agroecology Brings Solutions to...
Fighting Exclusion: Innovative Approaches to Fair Housing Law Housing is the hub of opportunity, and the gateway to a better life. Californians are in the midst of a state-wide housing crisis while federal housing policy has entered a new phase...
Speakers/Performers: Elsadig Elsheikh, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society; Hossein Ayazi, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society Sponsor: Berkeley Student Food Collective Interested in public policy and food and agricultural legislations, and the resulting racial injustices...
Malo Hutson, Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning and associate director of the Institute of Urban and Regional Development will give an artist book talk on his new book, The Urban Struggle for Economic, Environmental and Social Justice (Routledge...
The documentary "Where Is Hope: The Art of Murder" chronicles disabled victims murdered by police as well as the activists/artists who have fought and are fighting against police brutality against people with disabilities. Emmitt H Thrower, a retired NY City...
Americans are engrossed in a deep conversation about the impact of racism in our educational, judicial, social and economic spheres. Come join one of the nation’s foremost leaders of the movement for universal justice, john a. powell, as he discusses...
Americans are engrossed in a deep conversation about the impact of racism in our educational, judicial, social and economic spheres. Come join one of the nation’s foremost leaders of the movement for universal justice, john a. powell, as he discusses...
Annual Perspectives on Contemporary Native Issues Symposium Traditional Knowledge in Contemporary Contexts Although traditional and indigenous practices are superficially separated from the contemporary and western sphere, a hybridization of these modes of knowledge have continuously existed for generations. As this...
Keltner will speak at the Jewish United Fund Agency Board Members & Non-Profit Professionals Dinner on Thursday, Feb. 25, at The Hyatt Regency Crystal Ballroom, 151 E. Wacker Dr., Chicago. The event begins at 5:30 p.m., and dietary laws will...
"Intergrating California's Climate Change and Fiscal Goals: The Known, the Unknown and the Possible" Register here: http://uccs.ucdavis.edu/events/2016-February-24-Chapple Few would disagree that California’s fiscal structure is complex, inflexible, and inefficient. As a global leader in climate policy and sustainability planning, California...
Anthropology Colloquium: "Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report", Saba Mahmood, Professor of Anthropology, University of California Berkeley Professor Mahmood teaches graduate courses on secularism and secularity; violence and hope; human rights and sovereignty; ethics and politics; modern...
Wisdom 2.0 addresses the great challenge of our age: to not only live connected to one another through technology, but to do so in ways that are beneficial to our own well-being, effective in our work, and useful to the...
Habitat III, a global UN conference on the ‘New Urban Agenda’, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), are two landmark events with the potential to shape the urban and global development agenda for years to come. Each have set lofty...
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February 17, 2016, 11:00am – 12:00pm PT / 2:00pm – 3:00pm ET
RSVP to dylan@safsf.org by February 16 In a new report examining the US Farm Bill—the cornerstone of food and agricultural legislation since its inception in 1933— UC Berkeley’s Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society finds that corporate control...
Join the Qualitative Methods Group (QMG) for a conversation with Dr. Irene Bloemraad about in-depth interviewing. Dr. Bloemraad will talk about how interviews can be used to gather data about lived experiences, motivations, feelings, and aspirations for the future, including...
