The Philippine State Management of Domestic Worker Migration Rhacel Salazar Parreñas Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, University of Southern California Hosted by the Center for Southeast Asia Studies, UC Berkeley. Co-sponsored by the Department of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley This lecture examines the Philippine state’s management of domestic worker migration with a focus on migration to Arab States. Drawing...
THE CELINE ARCHIVE, a film by Ethnic Studies Alum Celine Shimizu is coming home to the Bay Area at CAAMFest for its California statewide virtual screening starting on October 14th at 10:00am until October 18, 2020 at 11:59pm. Get your tickets here! https://caamfest.com/forward/movies/the-celine-archive/ The CAAMFest screening will be followed by a convo with Celine Shimizu, esteemed historian Ethnic Studies...
Khiara Bridges, Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law, will discuss critical race theory and current issues. Dr. Bridges has written numerous articles concerning race, class, reproductive rights, and the intersection of the three. Dr. Bridges’s presentation is part of OLLI’s America’s Unfinished Work series featuring leaders on campus and in the community engaged in...
Please join us for a conversation Wednesday, October 7th from 12:00-1;30 PM PST on the historical, legal and activist perspectives of affirmative action with civil rights stalwarts Eva Patterson, Cheryl I. Harris, Thomas A. Saenz, Jerry Kang, and Cesar A. Cruz moderated by Vinay Harpalani. “From Prop 209 to Prop 16” is hosted by UCLA Law’s Critical...
Hear new work from National Book Award-winner Charles Johnson and scholar and author Beth Piatote, as well as stories from student authors who are creating short work under the theme “Unheard Voices.” This fundraiser is free to attend but registration is required. RSVP here: https://www.humanities.org/event/32668/ ...
RESTORING RIGHTS, RETURNING ANCESTORS, AND BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS Thirty years after the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), only one-third of Native American ancestral remains have been repatriated from museums. UC Davis NAGPRA Project Manager Megon Noble presents case studies and discusses ongoing consultation and repatriation efforts with Native American governments and communities, in conversation...
Register at: https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9LRgte2RS6mlgOI5ZD4zkA
Tiffany Lethabo King from Georgia State University
https://events.berkeley.edu/?event_ID=134102 ...
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Chancellor Carol Christ cordially invites you to a ceremony for the Chancellor’s Awards for Public Service View the list of 2019–20 award recipients. For special accommodations or questions, contact events1@berkeley.edu. Please respond by Friday, September 18. The Chancellor’s Awards for Public Service recognize students, faculty, staff, and community partners for their embodiment of UC Berkeley’s powerful tradition of public service and their extraordinary commitment to improving...
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Each year, the campus selects a book for the On the Same Page program that all incoming Freshmen are asked to read. This year’s book is Exit West by Mohsin Hamid, a book about displacement and migration. This Friday, August 21 at 8:00pm the author will be in conversation with Ethnic Studies Professor, Khatharya Um. ...
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Mae Ngai, Columbia University; Nayan Shah, University of Southern California; Lok Siu, University of California, Berkeley; Yasuko Takezawa, Kyoto University
Moderators: Albert Manke, Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington; Yufei Zhou, German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo) Sponsors: Institute of European Studies, Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington, Department of Ethnic Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Center for Chinese Studies (CCS), Max Weber Stiftung, Federal Ministry of Education and...