Mar
21

The State of Eugenics - UC Berkeley Screening

Please join us at 5:00 pm on March 21, 2017 at UC Berkeley for a free screening of The State of Eugenics, the just-released film about the eugenic sterilization program North Carolina ran between the 1930's and 1970's. The film...

Thinking Ahead with J. Bradford DeLong

On March 14, 2017, J. Bradford DeLong gave a presentation for the talk, "Clearing the Way: How can government promote shared prosperity?" Download the presentation here or click on the image to your left. Note: This page is archived. It is kept only...

Opportunity, Race, and Low Income Housing Tax Credit Projects

Note: This page is archived. It is kept only for reference purposes, so it is no longer being updated, and the digital documents (PDF, PPT, etc.) found on this page may not meet accessibility standards. If you need these documents in a different...

2017 Population Health Forum

The 2017 Population Health Forum was held on March 13, 2017, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago – Detroit Branch. This year’s theme “The Impact of Spatial Racism on Health” featured presentations by john powell, Director of the Haas Institute for...
Mar
21

Under the Radar: Research and Technology in an Age of Surveillance

Under the Radar: Research and Technology in an Age of Surveillance Part of the Engaging Contradictions Workshop Series Surveillance presents challenges to researchers, particularly those engaged with organizations, social movements and targeted communities. Yet community-engaged research is as important as...
Mar
14

Thinking Ahead with Brad DeLong

What can we do to ensure everyone shares in the prosperity that they contribute to? Come hear economic historian Brad DeLong discuss how government has again and again help shift the economy towards greater shared prosperity. J. Bradford DeLong is...
Apr
6

How It Slips Away/We Still Here: A Blues Geography of Black Portland

ISSI Graduate Fellows Program presents: How It Slips Away/We Still Here: A Blues Geography of Black Portland. Black Portland is often portrayed through metrics of disparity and deficiency, without reference to particular regional structures of opportunity and disenfranchisement, and without...

Blog: For Undocumented Communities, Fear and Anxiety on the Trump Agenda

March 7, 2017 Barely one month into the new administration and President Trump has already demonstrated he is willing to make good on some of his most dangerous campaign promises. Immigration raids from Los Angeles to Atlanta, coupled with a...

Multnomah County's Trauma-informed Care Learning Series

On March 6, Director john a. powell, in partnership with HIFIS Senior Fellow Julie Nelson, presented a day long workshop on trauma-informed care for members of the Multnomah County Health and Human Services Departments. Click here to download the...
Feb
27

Teach-In: Loosening Institutional Constraints on Political Conflict

Ann Swidler, Haas Insitute Religious Diversity Cluster Member and Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley, will be hosting a teach-in on loosening institutional constraints on political conflict.