The Women's Building, San Francisco
Litanies is a ritual reading performance for Audre Lorde, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Lorde delivering her first poetry reading at the Women’s Building in the fall of 1974. A collaboration between Courtney Desiree Morris and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, it is the third installation in the Readings, a series of live ritual performance readings of the work of...
UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library
Victory is in the Struggle: The Scholar-Activism of Carlos Munoz Jr. Save the Date: Sept. 24th, 6pm-8pm, UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library Carlos Munoz Jr. ended his book on the Chicano Movement, Youth, Identity, and Power, with a reminder, “The most important lesson I have learned in the forty years that I have been marching for freedom and peace...
Ethnic Studies Library 30 Stephan's Hall UC Berkeley
In collaboration with UC Berkeley’s Ethnic Studies Library and the upcoming exhibit, Victory is in the Struggle: The Scholar-Activism of Profe Carlos Munoz Jr., the Culture Counts Reading Series (CCRS), will hold a poetry workshop linked to the broad themes of the exhibit: Self-Determination, Solidarity, and Ethnic Studies. The CCRS is a transformative pedagogy project that convenes...
820 Social Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA
Juana María Rodríguez
Join us on Sept. 16 for an Authors Meet Critics panel on the book “Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex,” by Juana María Rodríguez, Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. Professor Rodriguez will be joined in conversation by Clarissa Rojas, Assistant Professor of Chicana/o Studies at UC Davis, and Milena Britto, Associate...
Barbara Christian Conference Room (554 Social Sciences Building)
Mimi Thi Nguyen
“The Promise of Beauty” A Public Lecture by Mimi Thi Nguyen In this talk, I argue that beauty is a fruitful concept through which we engage narratives of crisis. Such narratives name an ongoing condition or an irruptive event through which the discrepancy between the world and what ought to be so often unfolds through citing beauty –whether found in children, coral...
Dr. Ignacio Ornelas Rodriguez (Stanford University), Wolney Oliveira (Federal University of Ceará/ Brazil)
“The Braceros and the Rubber Soldiers” is an exhibition of historical photographs that juxtaposes the histories of two of the most important joint governmental programs between the U.S., Brazil and Mexico during the Second World War. The WW2 Emergency Farm Labor Program, popularly known as the Bracero Program, operated between 1942 and 1964, bringing Mexican guest workers to the U.S....
Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall)
Let’s Talk about Palestine a UC Berkeley Teach-In Series Despite Obfuscation and Orientalism: Palestine in Modern History with Dr. Ussama Makdisi moderated by Dr. Samera Esmeir Tuesday, February 6, 2024 4 pm in the Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall) Islamophobia, Race, and the Racialization of Palestine with Dr. Hatem Bazian and Dr. Keith Feldman moderated by Dr. Ussama Makdisi Tuesday, February 20, 2024 4 pm in...
Bauer Wurster Hall
Dr. Ignacio Ornelas Rodriguez (Stanford University), Wolney Oliveira (Federal University of Ceará/ Brazil)
Photo exhibition: “The Braceros and the Rubber Soldiers: A History of labor and power in the Americas” Feb 15th – March 15th Location: Bauer Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley (Lobby) Curated by: Laura Belik (Architecture, UC Berkeley) Opening events [free and open to the public/ light refreshments provided]: Feb 15th 4:30pm, Bauer Wurster Hall, Elevator Lobby – Exhibition opening 5:30pm, Bauer Wurster Hall, Room 172 – Panel and reception 6:30pm, Bauer Wurster Hall, 112 Auditorium – Documentary Screening Launching events...
820 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley
AUTHORS MEET CRITICS The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, Memory, and Indigenous California By Andrew Garrett Friday, January 19, 3:30pm-5:00pm 820 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley IN-PERSON ONLY. REGISTER TO ATTEND. In January 2021, at a time when many institutions were reevaluating fraught histories, the University of California removed anthropologist and linguist Alfred Kroeber’s name from a building on its Berkeley campus. Critics...
Berkeley Public Library
Dr. Tenzin
Tibetan Americans and other Diaspora Tibetans are experiencing racism due to a recent sensationalized media story. Especially of concern are imm ...