Panel 1: 11:00am-12:30pm Chair: Pablo Gonzalez Alyssa Plascencia, Environmental Science Environmental Literacy for All: High School Environmental Education in California Elizabeth Figueroa, Chicano Studies Program Calling My mothers: A journey Through Memory and Writing Geremy D. Love, Ethnic Studies Decolonizing Global Health Violence; A Critical Analysis of Black Geographies in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro Panel 2: 12:30pm-2:00pm Chair: Keith Feldman Jasmine Sozi...
Join us for a powerful panel of landless/houseless, indigenous, and disabled peoples and students from across Mama Earth speaking and teaching on the complicit and explicit roles that academic institutions play in gentrification, homelessness, and the removal and desecration of Land, Culture and Ancestors. This panel will be on Zoom. Featuring: * Corrina Gould (West Berkeley Shellmound) * Tiny Gray-Garcia...
Every semester, the Latin American Leadership Society (LLS) at Berkeley has the great honor of hosting distinguished guests interested in Latin America and the Latinx community. This year’s event is titled “¡Represéntame! A Conversation Surrounding Latinx Representation in Media.” Speakers include our own Ethnic Studies professor and director Ray Telles; activist and co-director of the NYSYLC...
Chancellor Carol Christ and Vice Chancellor Oscar Dubón cordially invites you to an online ceremony honoring the 2020 recipient of the: Chancellor’s Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence and Equity Khatharya Um Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies Please respond by April 7 The Zoom link and detailed instructions will be provided a few days before the event. If you require an accommodation for effective...
We are excited to announce the next webinar sponsored by the Society of Black Archaeologists, Indigenous Archaeology Collective, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, SAPIENS, Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies, and the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology at the University of Michigan and hosted by our new hire in Native American Studies, Dr. Peter Nelson. Join us...
Joy Harjo, the 2020-21 Avenali Chair in the Humanities, engages in conversation with Beth Piatote (Comparative Literature and Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley). A writer, editor, and musician, Harjo is the 23rd US Poet Laureate. She is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and the first Native American to hold the position of Poet Laureate. Harjo discusses her...
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The Ethnic Studies Department is hosting an Open House and YOU are invited. Maybe this was your first Ethnic Studies class or maybe you have already made Ethnic Studies your academic home at Berkeley, in either case, come check out our Open House, Thursday, December 3rd at 4:30-5:45, and learn about becoming an Ethnic Studies major...
To view the message from Professor Michael Omi, Chair of the Asian American Research Center and invite, go here. Please respond by Wednesday, October 21st. A link for the Zoom event will be sent upon receipt of a favorable reply. ...
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For more information, please see link below: https://mailchi.mp/5b01cce2de8c/aaadshomecoming2020-4805242?e=6a9b7495c4 ...
Each week there will be a reading and a discussion on short stories from female authors at UCB. For the first two weeks, the short stories will be from our very own Ethnic Studies department – Professors Beth Piatote and Fae Ng. You will not want to miss this! Please RSVP by clicking onto the following link: https://slc.berkeley.edu/programs/language-exchange-program/formats-service#book-club ...