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...

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...

Join Deepa Iyer, campus scholars and student activists for a discussion about the ongoing impact of post 9/11 narratives and policies on South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh communities – and what to do about it. Book signing to follow...

THE CRISIS OF MODERN AMERICA'S DEBTORS' PRISONS Almost 200 years ago the Supreme Court outlawed the practice of sending people to jail for failing to pay court fines. Though these so-called debtor's prisons were made illegal, today many Americans are...

Professor john a. powell will speak on COCC's Bend Campus to kick off the 2016 Season of Nonviolence. powell is an internationally recognized expert and author in the areas of civil rights, race and structural racism, ethnicity, housing, poverty, and...

Professor john a. powell will speak on COCC's Bend Campus to kick off the 2016 Season of Nonviolence. powell is an internationally recognized expert and author in the areas of civil rights, race and structural racism, ethnicity, housing, poverty, and...

The Haas Institute co-sponsored Deepa Iyer , author and activist, for her special panel discussion on the ongoing impact of post 9/11 narratives and policies on South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh communities – and how to address these topics...

As part of SESAME, the CMES's working group on Sustainability and Stewardship in North Africa and the Middle East, two researchers at the Haas Institute will speak about the global food system. Nadia Barhoum: The Political Economy of Wheat in...