The Anti-DEI Movement: Subverting the Law and Destroying Equal Opportunity 10.30.2025 | 1 - 2 PM | 105 Law Building with
Gina Ann Garcia, Professor, Berkeley School of Education, UC BerkeleyUma M. Jayakumar, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, UC Riverside Russell K. Robinson, Walter Perry Johnson Professor of Law, and Faculty Director, Center On Race, Sexuality & Culture, Berkeley Law Alex Thomson, Associate, Covington & Burlington LLP and...
History for Peace: Experiments in Counter-Memory in India 10.24.2025 | 5 -6:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room) with Meena Megha Malhotra, The Seagull Foundation for the Arts, Kolkata, India
Meena Megha Malhotra, Director of History for Peace, shares about the initiative of The Seagull Foundation for the Arts, a network of educators and members of civil society. The History for Peace project serves as a platform for discussion, debate and the exchange of...
Big Tech, Democracy and Human Rights in South Asia 11.12.2025 | 3 - 6:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room)
Technologies connect nations, regions, communities,and peoples in a world that is increasingly polarized and in conflict with itself. The digital age is surfeit with disinformation and ideological and political extremes that are weaponized by authoritarian regimes across the globe. The transmission of disinformation and hate within and across borders in the contemporary era significantly relies on digital media platforms that...
Human Rights Defenders and Accountability in a Changing World 10.22.2025 | 5:00 PM | UC Berkeley with Binaifer Nowrojee, President, Open Society Foundations
In conversation with Angana P. Chatterji, Chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative, Center for Race and Gender; and Research Anthropologist, UC Berkeley Munis D. Faruqui, Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies and Associate Professor, Dept. of South and Southeast Asian Studies; and Director, Institute for South Asia...
10.19.2023 | 12:50 - 2:00 PM | Hybrid - 100 Law Building & Zoom Webinar
Join us for a discussion on affirmative action, debt relief, and anti-wokeness laws with Tolani Britton (Associate Professor, School of Education, UC Berkeley), Cary Franklin (McDonald/Wright Chair Of Law; Faculty Director, The Williams Institute; Faculty Director, The Center On Reproductive Health, Law, And Policy; UCLA School Of Law), Jonathan D. Glater (Professor of Law; Faculty...
“Hierarchies of Color: Transnational Perspectives on the Social and Cultural Significance of Skin Color” is a conference designed to bring together scholars to examine the social, cultural, and economic significance of skin color and of social hierarchy based on skin tone. Through the conference, we seek to explore colorism not in isolation, but in its intersection and...
What can the fight for reproductive justice learn from the struggle for trans justice? What are the costs of the failure of those movements to be in close conversation with one another? What should we make of claims in the New York Times and elsewhere that gender-neutral descriptions of reproductive rights “erase women”? Khiara M. Bridges (...
Join us for a special evening with a live reading and interview on poetic practice and healing with Ariana Brown.
Speaker Bio:
Ariana Brown is a queer Black Mexican American poet from the Southside of San Antonio, Texas. Ariana holds a B.A. in African Diaspora Studies and Mexican American Studies from UT Austin as well as an MFA in Poetry from the...
Families on the Faultlines: Re-Imagining Race, Kinship, Care
04.29 & 30.2010 | 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Families who live on the fault lines of economic insecurity, geographic displacement, and ideological battles over who counts as a “family” are particularly at risk for suffering the fallout of current economic disasters, environmental crises, and local and global wars. These ruptures present not only profound challenges for the survival of kinship structures, but also opportunities for uncovering new or hidden...
