Events

On February 12, 2004, San Francisco began issuing marriage licenses for all couples. Within a month, about 4,000 marriage licenses were issued to same sex couples, but then the Supreme Court of California put a stop to the practice. Many credit this period as being instrumental in leading to same-sex marriage becoming legal throughout the United States in 2015.

REGISTER One of the hidden aspects of the Black Panther Party in the California Bay Area was its contributions to the nascent disability rights movement in the 1970s. In 1977, the Party famously supported a 26-day occupation of a federal...

How do we catch people where they fall? How do we respond to this crisis in a way that doesn’t reinforce its architecture? What kind of politics is being summoned at this time?

Join us for a virtual walkthrough of OBI's new Climate Displacement and Resilience Database and a discussion on the “Right to Stay” as an organizing principle for climate justice.

The Othering & Belonging Conferences are dynamic and uniquely-curated gatherings that advance scholarship, narratives, movements, policies, and practices that support a more fully inclusive “we.” Our first of two conferences will take place in Berlin. Click through to sign up for updates.

RSVP Here Did you know that immigrant voting has long existed in the United States? And that San Francisco just won a court battle to resume noncitizen voting in local school board elections? Knowing this history and the current initiatives...

Join the Goldman School of Public Policy, the Othering and Belonging Institute, and the Berkeley Population Center for an important conversation on activism, advocacy, and America’s legacy of state-sanctioned segregation.

This talk excavates the ways that the US “opioid crisis” of the past two decades came to be seen as white. Based on over a decade of participant observation in the field of addiction medicine, which has evolved in tandem...

Immigration and migration management have been controversial topics across Europe for many years. Hostile rhetoric around refugees and other migrants has escalated and the subject has become deeply politicized.

We invite you to join us for a live webinar on Saturday, September 23 at 10:00 am California, 1 pm New York, 6 pm Eritrea, 7 pm Cape Town. Eritrean diaspora professionals with different views will discuss the current developments. Representative of the Eritrean government have also been invited to participate. Please follow the webinar at ERISAT, SETIT Media or ASSENNA TV on the date and time listed above.

Join the authors of these reading packs as they engage in conversation on how to challenge discourses and actions that discriminate against Muslims and how to ultimately foster a world of belonging worldwide.

On the Same Page presents: CRIP CAMP Directors and Producers Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht: A Film Screening and Conversation

Marking the release of the Othering & Belonging Institute's research brief, “Climate Refugees: Facts and Findings, and Strategies for 'Loss and Damage,'” this panel aims to bridge these Global South “movements”--of climate-induced displaced peoples, and for c​limate refugee protections and climate reparations.

What does democracy and belonging mean in the context of the Anthropocene, amidst warming skies, broken floodgates, pandemics, red tide algal blooms, bleached reefs, and migrant borders?

Join us later this month to hear from legal experts about the implications of this decision on university student bodies, its wider social significance, and what can be done to help universities and other institutions better reflect the diversity of our country.