• Publication
  • November 13, 2017

Public Health & Wealth in Post-Bankruptcy Detroit

The report reveals that water and sewer infrastructure and housing are key points of intervention to create better health for Detroiters.
  • November 10, 2017

The Power and Promise of Public Memory

MONUMENTS REFLECT SOMETHING MORE THAN IRON AND STONE: THEY ARE THE PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION OF A COMMUNITY’S UNDERSTANDING OF ITS OWN HISTORY. THEY ARE ALSO REFLECTIVE OF THE STORIES WE TELL—OR DON'T TELL—TO OURSELVES AND OUR CURRENT AND FUTURE...
  • Presentations
  • November 9, 2017

john a. powell at the Marin Equity Summit

On November 9th, 2017, professor john powell gave a keynote address at the Marin Equity Summit. The Summit was centered around youth development and solutions to homelessness in Marin County. john's keynote address focused on expanding the circle of...
  • Blog

Blog: Ensuring Fair Shares of Housing Across Local Jurisdictions

By Heather Bromfield and Eli Moore California has been in the national headlines in recent months because of its bafflingly high housing costs, which are unaffordable even to some of the highest income earners. In the Bay Area, where a booming tech...
Nov
9
  • November 9, 2017, 5:15pm - 6:45pm

Organizer Jonathan Smucker to present on his book, 'Hegemony How-To'

After decades of organizing against all odds, finally here in California we have a chance for breakthrough reforms. How can we inspire enough leaders? How can we speak beyond our choir of passionate activists? How can we truly contend for...
Oct
16
  • October 16, 2017, 4pm PST

Talk on the anti-Sharia Movement in the US

Within the broader context of rising Islamophobia, this presentation sheds light on the legalized othering of Muslim communities across the United States via anti-Muslim legislation and bills spanning the years 2000-2016. With a focus on the anti-Sharia movement in the...
Nov
17
  • November 17, 2017, 12pm - 1:30pm

Jovan Scott Lewis to speak on 'Reparations, Deferral, and the Promissory of Poverty'

FOR A VIDEO OF THE TALK CLICK HERE Jovan Scott Lewis, a member of the Haas Institute's Economic Disparities cluster, will be speaking on the November 17 as part of the Institute's Research to Impact colloquium series. The title of...
Dec
1
  • December 1, 2017, 12pm - 1:30pm

Paul Frymer on 19th Century policies to remove Natives & African Americans

FOR A VIDEO OF THE TALK CLICK HERE Professor Paul Frymer of Princeton University is set to speak on "The Politics of Mass Deportation in the United States: State Authority, Public Activism, and Government Removal Policies Targeting Native Americans and...
Oct
19
  • October 19, 2017, 4pm - 6pm

Screw Consent: Horses, Corpses, Kink & Cannibals

FOR A VIDEO AND WRITE-UP OF THE TALK CLICK HERE When it comes to sex, why are we magnetized by consent? Instead of renovating consent to make it sexy, affirmative, or enthusiastic, Professor Joseph Fischel argues we should get rid...
Oct
5
  • October 5, 2017, 12:10pm - 1:30pm

Patrisia Macías-Rojas to present on 'From Deportation to Prison'

The Haas Institute is co-sponsoring a talk by Patrisia Macías-Rojas, a sociologist who teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago, on her book, From Deportation to Prison: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America. The book unpacks...
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