Sep
26

Revolutionary Love Tour stops in Berkeley: Valarie Kaur in discussion with john a. powell

The 2024 Revolutionary Love Bus Tour is a healing odyssey across the United States calling people to rise up in courage, humanity, and love. Join visionary civil rights leader Valarie Kaur in an immersive experience of storytelling, music, song, ancestral...
Sep
20

Flipping the Script: Challenging the Arguments Against Black Reparations

Register for Free Attorney Donald Tamaki, a member of the California Black Reparations Task Force, examines the discursive strategies of critics of reparations and presents a counter-narrative that draws on the extensive historical and contemporary findings of the 1100-page California...
Oct
15

Book Talk with Sunaura Taylor on "Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert"

Join us on the UC Berkeley campus for a panel conversation with Sunaura Taylor on her new book, Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert — a powerful analysis and call to action that reveals disability as one of the...
Sep
9

Sunaura Taylor: "Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert" with Yomi Young

This event is free and open to the public. No reservations are required. Pegasus Books Downtown is excited to welcome Bay Area artist, writer, and UC Berkeley scholar Sunaura Taylor on Monday, September 9 at 6 p.m. to celebrate her...

Alyssa Samantha Christman Lee

Graduate Student Researcher

Lara Habboub

Communications Lead, Democracy & Belonging Forum
Jun
11

Reimagining Allyship: Reflecting on Where We Are and Where We Can Go From Here

The Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative is delighted to welcome Simran Jeet Singh to the UC Berkeley campus. Dr. Singh is Executive Director of the Religion and Society Program at the Aspen Institute and the author of the national...
Jun
4

The World is Not Enough: On Pluriverses and the Limits of the Democratic Project

In 2024, democracy is on the ballot, a principal story told by anxious news outlets worldwide. Yet, this focus on democracy's precarity obscures other urgent matters: the rise of AI and its challenge to a humanist account of intelligence, the...