Events

What does a politics based on the rehabilitation of Black bodies and their subsequent inclusion leave out of focus? In what ways might Blackness exceed the conditions of its violent formulation? What if justice gets in the way of the transformations we yearn for?

Speaker/Performer: Jennifer James, Assistant Professor, Institute for Health & Aging, Dept. of Social & Behavioral Sciences, and UCSF Bioethics, University of California, San Francisco Sponsors: Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, Center for the Study of Law and Society, Center for...

Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books, including I Hotel, finalist for the National Book Award, and most recently, Sansei and Sensibility. Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation, the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a U.S. Artists’ Ford Foundation Fellowship, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Register Here One might argue that the heart of modern civilization, its supreme fetish, is the notion of the individual. The independent self. The liberal rationalist self. Cut off from ecological relations, pixelated within a flattened space designed for human...

Join us for a special in-person, Dr. Martin Luther King holiday edition of Belonging: A Weekly Practice Space, hosted by the Othering & Belonging Institute ( RSVP HERE). Over the last year, this online practice space has provided an opportunity...

A unique end-of-year opportunity to connect online with each other and our deepest yearnings to build a vibrant planet based on belonging.

How do our concepts of trauma and violence matter today? What does it mean to be safe in times of exposure? Is there an iteration of forgiveness that is a political refusal to reinscribe the conditions that needed forgiving? Are there limits to saying sorry?

The 1982 landmark decision of the Supreme Court in Board of Education v. Rowley set a standard for the support public schools must provide to students with disabilities, but the legacy is complex.

Register Here Join us Thursday, October 20, 10:00 am-11:30 am PT, for a briefing on the expected impact of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on fossil fuel-dependent communities, what an equity and justice approach could look like in the bill’s...

Join us Thursday, Oct. 13 for a virtual event to announce the results of our 2022 Inclusiveness Index and provide a demonstration of our new interactive data table.

Join us on Thursday, Sept. 29 for a conversation on the promise and practice of reparations being undertaken for Black Americans.

Journalists around the world play an important role in upholding human rights and building democracy. They often are met with life threatening conditions and jail times for just doing their job. Today more than a dozen Eritreans are the longest...

Join us for a conversation featuring john powell, Manuel Pastor, and Jung Hee Choi that will explore the intersections of belonging and solidarity - the tools we need to create thriving families and communities.

What if the very indigestibility of the other calls for new ways of framing identity and the promise of politics? Where are the thirst-quenching waters in a time of fire and fury? Is belonging possible in a world rooted in othering?

This workshop will feature Marina Magalhães and will be centered on the topic of Radical Embodiment and Systems Change.