Videos of ISSI Events

The Department of African American Studies and the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues at UC Berkeley celebrate Professor Stephen Small’s 30-year campus career with presentations about his scholarship, teaching/mentorship, and contributions to campus administration.

Nov 20, 2024

Video now available of a talk by Laura Pulido, Collins Chair and Professor of Indigenous, Race, & Ethnic Studies and Geography at the University of Oregon. Pulido considers the relationship between U.S. white nationalism and the Republican Party’s (GOP) record of climate obstruction and suggests that “surplus” white nationalism has contributed to both climate denial and obstruction by focusing on three historical moments: the Tea Party movement (2009-15), the Trump Presidency (2015-19), and the War on Wokeness (2021-present).

Feb 12, 2024

FOUNDATIONS FOR CHANGE: Thomas l. Yamashita Prize and KIDS FIRST: David L. Kirp Prize Award Ceremony

Welcome: Stephen Small, Director, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues
2022 KIDS FIRST: David L. Kirp Prize Winner: Jordan Webb, BA, UC Berkeley, 2022, Political Science major
2022 KIDS FIRST: David L. Kirp Prize – Honorable Mention: Yadira Hernandez-Figueroa, BA, UC Berkeley, 2022, Political Science and Ethnic Studies major

Introduction of the Yamshita Prize: Bob Yamashita
2022 Thomas I. Yamashita Prize Winner: Jason Okonofua, Assistant Professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley
2022 Thomas I. Yamashita Prize – Honorable Mention was awarded to Nazineen Kandahari, medical student in the UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Medical Program, but she could not attend.

Keynote: Extrapolating From the Present

Paul Krugman, New York Times Columnist; Distinguished Professor, Graduate Center of City University of New York; and Recipient of 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Welcome: Jennifer Raab, President of Hunter College

Moderator: Martín Sánchez-Jankowski, Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley

04/06/2022

Harry Edwards, Professor Emeritus, Sociology, UC Berkeley

Welcome: Carol T. Christ, Chancellor, UC Berkeley

Moderator: Ty-Ron Douglas, Associate Athletic Director for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging, UC Berkeley

MC: Stephen Small, Professor of African American Studies and Director of the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, UC Berkeley

Welcome: Carol Christ, Chancellor, UC Berkeley

Moderator: Stephen Small, Director, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues; Professor, African American Studies, UC Berkeley

Speakers:

Victor Rios, Professor, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara

Lisa Lowe, Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies and Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, Yale University

Troy Duster, Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley

Michael Omi, Professor Emeritus, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley

10/01/2021

Welcome: Juana María Rodríguez, Professor and Chair, Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

Moderator: Lok Siu, Associate Professor, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley

Speakers:

Tomás Almaguer, Professor Emeritus, Latina/Latino Studies, San Francisco State University

Gary Okihiro, Visiting Professor, American Studies, Yale University

Nadia Y. Kim, Professor, Sociology and Asian & Asian American Studies, Loyola Marymount University

john a. powell, Director, Othering & Belonging Institute, and Robert D. Haas Chancellor’s Chair in Equity and Inclusion, UC Berkeley

10/01/2021

Welcome: Keith Feldman, Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

Moderator: Khatharya Um, Associate Professor, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley

Speakers: Edward Park, Professor and Chair of Asian and Asian American Studies, Loyola Marymount University

Jessica Vasquez-Tokos, Professor, Sociology, University of Oregon

Linda Trinh Vo, Professor, Asian American Studies, UC Irvine

Daniel Woo, American Culture Studies Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethnic Studies, Washington University in St. Louis

Concluding remarks: Howard Winant, Professor, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara

10/01/2021

September 25, 2021

Welcome: Carol Christ, Chancellor, UC Berkeley

Speakers:

Martín Sánchez-Jankowski, Chair, Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues, and Professor, Sociology, UC Berkeley

Shari Huhndorf, Class of 1938 Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

Christina Tlatilpa Inong, ASW, Program Specialist, California Indian Museum and Cultural Center, and former student of Professor Myers

Karen Biestman, Associate Dean and Director, Native American Cultural Center, Stanford University

Raquelle Myers, Joe's daughter and Executive Director, National Indian Justice Center

Nicole Myers-Lim, Joe's daughter and Director, California Indian Museum and Cultural Center

Anti-Trans Ideology in Male Supremacism

May 13, 2021

Emily Carian, California State University, San Bernardino

JE Sumerau, University of Tampa

Laurel Westbrook, Grand Valley State University

Heron Greenesmith, Political Research Associates

Facilitator: Blu Buchanan, University of California, Davis

May 11, 2021

Moderator: Stephen Small, Director, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues

Daniel HoSang, Yale University

Adrienne Davis, Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity at Washington University in St. Louis

Rokhaya Diallo, Gender+ Justice Initiative at Georgetown University

Kwame Nimako, Black Europe Summer School

FOUNDATIONS FOR CHANGE: Thomas l. Yamashita Prize & KIDS FIRST: David L. Kirp Prize Award Ceremony

Please join us as we honor Phenocia Bauerle and Boun Khamnouane, recipients of the FOUNDATIONS FOR CHANGE: Thomas I. Yamashita Prize, and Aurora Lopez and Tabitha Bell, recipients of the KIDS FIRST: David L. Kirp Prize. 

“Am I an American or Not? The Perils to Democracy When Racism Shouts Louder Than Facts, the Rule of Law, and the Constitution”

Keynote by Donald K. Tamaki, Senior Counsel at Minami Tamaki LLP.

04/28/2021

Welcome: Michael Drake, M.D, President of the University of California

Introduction: Stephen Small, Director of the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues and Professor of African American Studies, UC Berkeley

Moderator: Marisa Lagos, correspondent for KQED's California Politics and Government Desk and co-host of "Political Breakdown"

Featured Panelists:

California State Senator Anna Caballero, Senate District 12

Assemblymember David Chiu, Assembly District 17

Assemblymember James C. Ramos, Assembly District 40

California State Senator Nancy Skinner, Senate District 9

04/13/2021

The Honorable Sylvester Turner, Mayor of Houston

Introduction by: Ula Y. Taylor, Professor & H. Michael and Jeanne Williams Department Chair, Department of African American Studies & African Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley

Panel discussion moderated by Natasha Korecki, Politico National Correspondent

Panelists:

Pedro Noguera, Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California

Kathleen Yang-Clayton, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago

Dr. Gail Christopher, Executive Director of the National Collaborative for Health Equity

This event is part of a series on Black Mayors & Leadership in the United States; for more information on the series, click here.

03/16/2021

The Honorable Ras Baraka, Mayor of Newark

Introduction by: Stephen Small, Director, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, and Professor, Department of African American Studies, UC Berkeley

Panel discussion moderated by Tracy Jan, Reporter, The Washington Post

Panelists:

Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation

Paul Ong, Research Professor and Director, Center for Neighborhood Knowledge, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

Elsie Harper-Anderson, Associate Professor, Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University

This event is part of a series on Black Mayors & Leadership in the United States; for more information on the series, click here.

03/10/2021

The Honorable Lori Lightfoot, Mayor of Chicago

Introduction by: Teresa Córdova, Director, Great Cities Institute, and Professor, Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago

Moderator: Cheryl Corley, NPR National Correspondent

Panelists: Nikki Jones, Professor of African American Studies, UC Berkeley

Cid Martinez, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of San Diego

This event is part of a series on Black Mayors & Leadership in the United States; for more information on the series, click here.

03/04/2021

Alford Young, Jr., Edgar G. Epps Collegiate Professor of Sociology and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Departments of Sociology and Afroamerican and African Studies, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan

10/07/2020

Stephen Small, Interim Director, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, and Professor, African American Studies, UC Berkeley

09/16/2020

FOUNDATIONS FOR CHANGE: Thomas I. Yamashita Prize and KIDS FIRST: David L. Kirp Prize Award Ceremony 

Welcome: Deborah Lustig, Associate Director, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues

Awarding of 2020 KIDS FIRST: David L. Kirp Prize by David Kirp, Professor of the Graduate School, UC Berkeley Yvette Yao, Prize Winner: Introduction by David Levine

Awarding of 2020 FOUNDATIONS FOR CHANGE: Thomas I. Yamashita Prize by Deborah Lustig

Bernadette Lim, Prize Winner

"Engaging the Imagination in a Time of Pandemic" Keynote by Rupa Marya, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, and faculty director of the Do No Harm Coalition

05/26/2020

John Jennings, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside

For over a decade John Jennings has been a key figure in the archiving, creating, and cultivating of black popular culture in graphic novels, illustrated fiction, and graphic design. Jennings has contributed to creating a foundation of theory, community, and mentorship that has led to what some call the Black Speculative Arts Movement; his work has helped give a visual aesthetic to what some call Afrofuturism. This presentation will be a short retrospective of Jennings' work and current research and critical making projects. 

Part of the ISSI Graduate Fellows Colloquia Series.

04/14/2020

Qing Zhou, Associate Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley

09/24/2019

FOUNDATIONS FOR CHANGE: Thomas l. Yamashita Prize & KIDS FIRST: David L. Kirp Prize Award Ceremony

This event honored Joel Sati and Rosa M. Jiménez, recipients of the FOUNDATIONS FOR CHANGE: Thomas I. Yamashita Prize, and Gabriel Santamaria, Alejandra León Herrera, and Nolan Pokpongkiat, recipients of the KIDS FIRST: David L. Kirp Prize. 

Keynote: "Sanctuary & Educational Justice: Why Dismantling the Deportation Regime Must Be a Priority for All Advocates of Youth, Children & Families" by Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales, Associate Professor of Education, University of San Francisco 

05/03/2019

Monica Muñoz Martinez, Andrew Carnegie Fellow and the Stanley J. Bernstein Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University

 Part of the ISSI Colloquia Series.

03/13/2019

Trevor Gardner, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Washington, with Franklin E. Zimring, William G. Simon Professor of Law, UC Berkeley as respondant

Part of the ISSI Graduate Fellows Program Colloquia.

02/26/2019

Nikki Jones, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, UC Berkeley, with Clarence Ford, MPP as respondent

 Part of the ISSI Colloquia Series.

02/13/2019

ISSI Social Change Awards: Thomas I. Yamashita Prize & KIDS FIRST: David L. Kirp Prize Award Ceremony

Honoring Lauren Heidbrink, Elizabeth Clark-Rubio, Rassidatou Konate, Marisa L. Ahmed, Alankrita Dayal, and Yvonne Dorantes

Keynote: "Our Voice/Our Mobilization:The 21-foot Ladder for Life's 20-foot Borders"
by Dr. César A. Cruz, Co-Founder of Homies Empowerment and Bridge Fellow-TNTP

04/27/2018

Juan De Lara, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California

04/19/2018

Michael Burawoy, Professor, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley

02/21/2018

George Breslauer, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Emeritus, UC Berkeley

02/07/2018

Aryn Baxter, Assistant Research Professor and Director of the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at Arizona State University

Anne Campbell, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of International Policy & Management, Middlebury Institute for International Studies

Joan Dassin (via Skype), Professor of International Education and Development, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University

Robin Marsh, Senior Researcher, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, UC Berkeley

Discussant: Victor Okoro, UC Berkeley Senior, Development Studies and Logic, MasterCard Foundation Scholar, Nigeria

11/15/2017

Clara Mantini-Briggs, Departments of Anthropology and Demography, UC Berkeley

Even when health professionals embrace conceptions of health as a fundamental social right, health practitioners can embrace a framework that, in critical race scholar Denise Silva's terms, “produces and regulates human condition and establishes (morally and intellectually) a distinct kind of human being.” How can a professional commitment to prioritize the health of low-income racialized minority populations go hand-in-hand with efforts to justify the denial of effective and comprehensive health services? Wakahara de la Orqueta lies in the Delta Amacuro rainforest of eastern Venezuela, where indigenous Warao communities were affected by a cholera epidemic that started in August of 1992. Working there as a physician during the epidemic, I saw residents use their own hands, knowledge, and belief in new and better futures to face a preventable and treatable bacterial infection that can nonetheless kill in as little as eight hours, only to have health professionals literally crush their creative efforts. What was their logic? Paul Farmer has referred to appropriations of anthropological explanation by health professionals as "immodest claims of causality." Here I look more closely at such invocations of cultural reasoning by exploring how they emerge from what I refer to as an eternal recurrence of the syndrome of "chronic cultural impossibility."

11/08/2017

Franklin E. Zimring, William G. Simon Professor of Law, UC Berkeley

10/26/2017

Ann Swidler, Professor Emerita, Sociology, UC Berkeley

10/04/2017

"KIDS FIRST: David L. Kirp Prize and FOUNDATIONS FOR CHANGE: Thomas I. Yamashita Prize 2017 Award Ceremony"

Honoring Nicola McClung, Arturo Cortéz, Camila Cribb Fabersunne, Dylan Bush, and Ankita Joshi

Keynote:
Writing, Resisting and Research: The Role of Scholarship During the Trump Presidency
by Pedro Noguera, Distinguished Professor of Education, UC Los Angeles

05/09/2017

Lisa K. Bates, Associate Professor, Director, Center for Urban Studies, Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University

with Carolina Reid, Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley, as respondent

Black Portland is often portrayed through metrics of disparity and deficiency, without reference to particular regional structures of opportunity and disenfranchisement, and without hearing the voices of Black Portlanders themselves. Professor Bates uses Clyde Woods’ framework of blues epistemology as Black ways of knowing geography in order to elucidate the place history and justice claims of Black Portland. Black Portlanders’ experience is at once highly particular and universal in its blues narrative of enclosure, displacement, and the desecration of sacred spaces, expressed through stories of what artist Sharita Towne calls “joyful hardships.” Professor Bates considers how an emancipatory planning process, the Portland People’s Plan, can shift from recognition--the blues story of what might have been but for racial oppression-- to reclamation. By asking Black Portlanders to imagine what it would look like if their city loved Black people, the planning creates a space for both a counter-narrative of community history and a collectively developed pathway towards a more just future.  

Part of the ISSI Graduate Fellows Seminar series.

Co-sponsored by Center for Research on Social Change, Center for Race and Gender, Institute of Urban and Regional Development, Department of City and Regional Planning, and Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, UC Berkeley

04/06/2017

Juan Herrera, PhD, Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies, School of Language, Culture, and Society, Oregon State University 

Chris Zepeda-Millán, Assistant Professor and Chair, Center for Research on Social Change, UC Berkeley as a respondent

Part of the ISSI Graduate Fellows Seminar series.

Co-sponsored by Center for Ethnographic Research, Department of Ethnic Studies, Institute of Urban and Regional Development and Center for Latino Research Policy, UC Berkeley

03/15/2017

Samuel Cohn, Professor, Medieval History, University of Glasgow, UK

From an interdisciplinary array of scholars, a consensus has emerged: invariably, epidemics in past times provoked class hatred, blamed the ‘other’, and victimized the victims of epidemic diseases. Such hate and violence, moreover, more readily erupted when diseases were mysterious without known cures or preventive measures. The evidence for these proclamations, however, rests on a handful of examples--the Black Death, the Great Pox at the end of the sixteenth century, cholera riots of the 1830s, and AIDS, centred almost exclusively on the U.S. experience. From investigating thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back to one during Pharaoh Mempses’s First Dynasty (c. 2920 BCE) to the distrust and violence that erupted with Ebola in 2014-15, I argue that the trajectory and essence of epidemics' socio-psychological consequences across time differ radically from present notions. First, historians post-AIDS have missed a fundamental ingredient of the history of Epidemics. Instead of sparking hate and blame across time, epidemics have shown a remarkable power to unify societies across class, race, ethnicity, and religion and to spur self-sacrifice and compassion. Second, instead of spurring hate and violence when diseases were mysterious, that is, almost without exception before the ‘Laboratory Revolution’ of the late nineteenth century, modernity was the great incubator of a disease-hate nexus. Third, even with those diseases that have provoked hate as with smallpox, poliomyelitis, plague, and cholera, blaming ‘the other’ or victimizing diseased victims was rare. Instead, the history of epidemics and their socio-psychological consequences is more varied and richer than historians and pundits have heretofore allowed.

Part of the ISSI Colloquia Series.

Co-sponsored by Berkeley Center for Social Medicine

11/09/2016

Keramet Reiter, Assistant Professor, Criminology, Law & Society and Law, UC Irvine 

With an introduction by Jonathan Simon, Adrian A. Kragen Professor of Law, UC Berkeley 

Commentators: 
Francisco Casique, Lecturer, Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley 

Rebecca McLennan, Associate Professor, History, UC Berkeley  

Franklin E. Zimring, William G. Simon Professor, Law, UC Berkeley 

Originally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in U.S. prisons has become long term and common. Prisoners in solitary spend twenty three hours a day in featureless cells, with no visitors or human contact for years on end. They are held entirely at administrators’ discretion, with no judges or juries involved. In 23/7,legal scholar Keramet Reiter tells the history of an original “supermax,” California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, where extreme conditions sparked statewide hunger strikes in 2011 and 2013—the latter involving nearly 30,000 prisoners. Reiter describes how the Pelican Bay prison was created—with literally no legislative oversight—as a panicked response to the perceived rise of black radicalism in California prisons in the 1970s. Through stories of gang bosses, small-time parolees, and others, she portrays the arbitrary manner in which prisoners are chosen for solitary confinement, held for years, and routinely released directly onto the streets. Here we see the social costs and mental havoc of years in isolation. The product of fifteen years of research in and about prisons, this book is instant required reading on a topic that increasingly commands national attention.

 2240 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley, CA

Sponsored by Center for the Study of Law and Society

Co-sponsored by Center for Research on Social Change and Human Rights Center

11/03/2016

Erica Kohl-Arenas, Assistant Professor of Nonprofit Management, The New School

Can philanthropy alleviate inequality? Do antipoverty programs work on the ground? In this eye-opening analysis, Erica Kohl-Arenas bores deeply into how these issues play out in California’s Central Valley, which is one of the wealthiest agricultural production regions in the world and also home to the poorest people in the United States.  Through the lens of a provocative set of case studies, The Self-Help Myth reveals how philanthropy maintains systems of inequality by attracting attention to the behavior of poor people while shifting the focus away from structural inequities and relationships of power that produce poverty.  In Fresno County, for example, which has a $5.6 billion-plus agricultural industry, migrant farm workers depend heavily on food banks, religious organizations, and family networks to feed and clothe their families.  Foundation professionals espouse well-intentioned, hopeful strategies to improve the lives of the poor.  These strategies contain specific ideas—in philanthropy terminology, “theories of change”— that rely on traditional American ideals of individualism and hard work, such as self-help, civic participation, and mutual prosperity.  But when used in partnership with well-defined limits around what foundations will and will not fund, these ideals become fuzzy concepts promoting professional and institutional behaviors that leave relationships of poverty and inequality untouched.

Wildavsky Conference Room, ISSI, 2538 Channing Way, UC Berkeley

03/31/2016

Sam Friedman, Assistant Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science

The hidden barriers, or 'gender pay gap', preventing women from earning equivalent incomes to men is well documented. Yet in this talk we demonstrate that, in Britain, there is also a comparable 'class origin pay gap' in higher professional and managerial occupations. We find that even when those from working-class backgrounds are successful in entering high-status occupations, they earn sixteen percent less, on average, than those from privileged backgrounds. This class-origin pay gap translates to up to £7,350 ($11,000) lower annual earnings. This difference is partly explained by the upwardly mobile being employed in smaller firms and working outside London, but it remains substantial even net of a variety of important predictors of earnings. These findings illustrate how, even beyond occupational entry, the socially mobile often face a significant and previously undetected earnings "class ceiling" within high-status occupations. 

Part of the ISSI Colloquia Series.

02/16/2016

Torsten Heinemann, Professor of Sociology, Institute of Sociology, Universität Hamburg

Since the 1990s, many countries around the world have begun to use DNA analysis to establish biological relatedness in family reunification cases. To be reunited, family members have to prove their family status by official documents. Even if applicants possess the required documents, immigration authorities often reject the information as they question the authenticity of the documents. In this context, many countries resort to DNA tests to resolve cases in which they consider the information presented on family relations to be incomplete or unsatisfactory. In this talk, I present the results of an international research project on the use of DNA testing for family reunification in Europe and will compare them with the situation in the USA. I outline general trends of DNA analysis for family reunification and analyze the societal and political implications of parental testing in this context. I argue that DNA analyses for family reunification establish and strengthen a biological family model which is in contrast to the more pluralistic and social concepts of family in many societies in Europe and North America. I will then relate my findings to the ongoing debate on biological citizenship and show that biological criteria play an important role in decision-making on citizenship rights in nation-states. I argue that the use of parental testing for immigration endorses a biological concept of the family that is mobilized to diminish citizenship rights.The argument is based on an extensive document analysis as well as interviews with representatives of international governmental organizations, international and national NGOs and immigration authorities, lawyers specializing in immigration law, geneticists and those applying for family reunification.

Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine

10/20/2015

Michael Dumas, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education and African American Studies, UC Berkeley

Hegemonic notions of race, multiculturalism and diversity proffer an understanding of social progress that is generally linear, gradual, steady and earnest. The story we tell ourselves is that we are becoming ever more democratic and tolerant, that we are more sophisticated in our ability to synthesize and analyze information about race and racism, and that we are more committed to racial equity, justice and opportunity than ever before. However, in this historical moment, we also witness increasing economic inequality along racial lines, nearly weekly stories of anti-Black violence and death, massive urban deterritorialization and dispersal, erasing Black homeplaces and priming these spaces for white accumulation. Through it all, the discourse in the public sphere suggests an increasing sense of justification of economic and social inequality, a sense of corporate and white entitlement to (dis)possession of land, and a seething disgust and disregard for the lives of Black people. In this talk, Professor Dumas wants to briefly explore what it means to research and document contradictory historical moment(s) of official anti-racist progress and white innocence, on the one hand, and on the other hand, enduring white defensiveness and racial fragility in the face of material and psychic Black suffering. Most importantly, how do we refuse hegemonic constructions of historical racial memory in our own work, and how do we acknowledge and honor attempts by insurgent Black subjects to refuse antiblackness and put forward alternative notions of Black historicity and futurity?

09/24/2015

William Domhoff, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Sociology, University of California Santa Cruz

Part of the ISSI Colloquia Speaker Series.

04/14/2015

Gerardo Sandoval, Assistant Professor of Planning, Public Policy & Management, University of Oregon

Part of the ISSI Colloquia Speaker Series.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Research on Social Change

02/24/2015

Stefano M. Bertozzi, Dean and Professor of Health Policy & Management, Public Health, UC Berkeley

Lariza Dugan-Cuadra, Executive Director, CARECEN Central American Resource Center

Seth Holmes, Assistant Professor, Public Health and Medical Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Rubén Martínez, Journalist and Author of Desert America, Crossing Over, and The New Americans

Casey Peek, Producer of “New World Border”

Adrienne Pine, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, American University

Patricia Baquedano-López, Chair, Center for Latino Policy Research, and Associate Professor, Education, UC Berkeley, as moderator

Sponsored by Berkeley Center for Social Medicine and Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society. Co-sponsored by Center for Latino Policy Research, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues and School of Public Health

11/13/2014

Blas Pérez Henríquez, Director, Center for Environmental Public Policy, UC Berkeley

Moderator: Martín Sánchez-Jankowski, Director, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, and Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley

Part of the series "Rising Tide; Sinking Ships: Climate Change and Inequality"

10/24/2014

Jon Krosnick, Frederic O. Glover Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, Stanford

Moderator: Martín Sánchez-Jankowski, Director, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, and Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley

Part of "Rising Tide; Sinking Ships: Climate Change and Inequality"

10/24/2014

Cristiana Giordano, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, UC Davis

09/30/2014

Cristina Mora, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley

09/16/2014

Conference Welcome and Keynote

May 2, 2014

Jane Mauldon, Interim Director, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues

Claude Steele, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, UC Berkeley

Troy Duster, Chancellor's Professor, UC Berkeley

Breaking Barriers, Building Community: Panel 1: “Engaging Communities as Partners for Change: Race, Space, Place”

May 2, 2014

Moderator: Michael Omi, Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley         

Speakers:

Teresa Córdova, Professor, Urban Planning and Policy, and Director, Great Cities Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago

Hector Fernando Burga, Lecturer, Urban Studies and Planning, San Francisco State University; Visiting Scholar, ISSI

Eleanor Ramsey, President, Mason Tillman Associates

Breaking Barriers, Building Community: Panel 2: Race and the Material World: Bodies and Buildings

May 2, 2014

Moderator: David Montejano, Professor, Ethnic Studies and History, UC Berkeley

Speakers:

Willow Lung-Amam, Assistant Professor, Architecture Planning and Preservation, University of Maryland

Maxine Craig, Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies, UC Davis

Stephen Small, Associate Professor, African American Studies, UC Berkeley

Breaking Barriers, Building Community: Panel 3: Street, School, Work: Sites of Organizing and Il(legality)

Moderator and Closing Remarks: Rachel Moran, Dean and Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law, School of Law, UCLA

Speakers:

Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales, Assistant Professor, Education, University of San Francisco

Victor Rios, Associate Professor, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara

Jennifer Chun, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Toronto

05/02/2014

Doran Larson, Professor of English, Hamilton College

with responses from Jonathan Simon, Adrian A. Kragen, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Society, UC Berkeley

and Patricia Penn Hilden, Professor Emerita, Department of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

04/02/2014

Steven Raphael, Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley

02/19/2014

Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center

Moderated by Catherine Albiston, Professor of Law, Berkeley School of Law

02/16/2014

Edward Miguel, Oxfam Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics and Faculty Director of the Center for Effective Global Action, UC Berkeley

11/20/2013

Kelly Knight, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine, UCSF School of Medicine

10/23/2013

Cihan Tugal, Associate Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley

10/02/2013

Part of the series "Cuba and California: Prospects for Change and Opportunity"

10/23/2012

Barbara Lee (D-CA), U.S. Congresswoman

Part of the series "Cuba and California: Prospects for Change and Opportunity"

10/23/2012

Roundtable Discussion

Part of the series "Cuba and California: Prospects for Change and Opportunity"

10/23/2012

Moderated by Cristina Mora, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley

Rafael Hernandez, Publisher and Editor of Temas

Katherine Gordy, Assistant Professor of Political Science, San Francisco State University 

Arturo Lopez-Levy, Research Associate, Josef Korbel, School of International Studies, University of Denver

Part of the series "Cuba and California: Prospects for Change and Opportunity"

10/23/2012

Carlos Alzugaray Treto, Professor, Center for Hemispheric and United States Studies at University of Havana

Part of the series "Cuba and California: Prospects for Change and Opportunity"

10/23/2012