Video: Rockford Conversation on Othering & Belonging with Dr. john a. powell

On October 22 and 23, 2020, Director john a. powell spoke to members of the communities of Rockford and DeKalb, Illinois, in events organized by the Center for Nonprofit Excellence at Northern Illinois University. Both communities have an interest in...

Video: Invitation to a Journey to Belonging

This virtual, city-wide address features john a. powell. john is one of the nation’s foremost public intellectuals and an internationally recognized expert in the areas of civil rights, civil liberties, housing, poverty, and democracy. He is the...

Video: Hopes and Fears in a Covid-19 world (Toward Belonging series)

On July 16, 2020, we hosted our second digital dialogue in our Toward Belonging initiative. The July webinar, "Hopes and fears in a COVID world" featured a conversation and new research about how the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed deep fractures in societies across the globe.

Video: Toward Belonging kick-off digital dialogue

This event featured a conversation with: john a. powell, Director of the Othering & Belonging Institute and Professor of Law, African American, and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley Catherine Fieschi, Director of Counterpoint UK, a comparative political...

Othering & Belonging Institute hosts symposium in Paris

On Jan. 24, more than 35 thought leaders from across Europe and the US gathered at Sciences Po in Paris for the Othering & Belonging Institute’s first European convening. Organized in partnership with More in Common, Queen Mary University of London...

Video: Building Belonging in a Time of Othering, with john a. powell

Haas Institute director john a. powell gives a keynote talk on how a belonging paradigm can reshape our world for the better, with an introduction by The California Endowment''s Tony Iton, on April 9, 2019 at the Othering and Belonging Conference...

Bridging - Towards A Society Built on Belonging: Animated Video + Curriculum

This animated explainer video gives a high-level snapshot of our analysis of bridging and breaking as possible responses in our current times.

Video: john a powell on MLK's legacy of belonging

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King was prepared to teach us to become a democracy where all people counted, Haas Institute Director john a. powell explained during a panel discussion at the King Center in Atlanta on April 5 marking the 50th anniversary of...

Video: john a. powell brings Belonging to Bioneers

john powell in his keynote at Bioneers, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2017. (Photo: Nikki Ritcher. Courtesy of Bioneers) Carrying his message of belonging to the 28th Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California, Haas Institute Director john a. powell urged an...

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No Other Land: Post-Screening Lunch & Processing Session

RSVP Here The Othering & Belonging Institute's Campus Bridging Project and Belonging Resident Company would like to invite any audience members from the Feb. 12 film screening of "No Other Land" at BAMPFA to a lunch and embodiment processing session...

Our Future Economy

What strategies, ideas, skills and relationships will build a future economy that ensures the wellbeing of all workers, communities, and ecosystems? How do we move from the pressing needs and harm today to structures that foster wellbeing for all?