Academic
Friday, January 18, 2019
MeToo: One Year Later
Conference/Symposium | January 18 | 1-4 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, Booth Auditorium 175
Kathryn R. Abrams, Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor of Law, Berkeley Law; Leah Benavides, Writer and Director; Aya Gruber, Professor of Law, University of Colorado Boulder; Lara Stemple, Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies and International Student Programs, UCLA School of Law
Roxane Gay, Author of Bad Feminist and Hunger
Russell Robinson, Walter Perry Johnson Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
Center on Race, Sexuality & Culture, Center for Race & Gender, The Division of Equity & Inclusion’s Campus Climate, Affirmation and Empowerment Series
Center on Race, Sexuality & Culture and Center for Race & Gender present:
Friday, January 18, 2019
#MeToo: One Year Later
1:00pm to 4:00pm
Booth Auditorium 175, Berkeley Law
RSVP by January 11 for a free lunch:
https://berkeleylaw.wufoo.com/forms/metoo-one-year-later/
Women's March Poster Workshop with the BAMPFA Art Lab and Masako Miki
Workshop | January 18 | 1 p.m. | Pier 35, San Francisco
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
For Untitled, San Francisco, the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) presents a pop-up installation of its Fisher Family Art Lab, a participatory art-making space housed within the museum. Continuing the tradition of collaborating with artists and activists to create political poster art using the museum's Risograph print resource, the Art Lab has partnered with Bay Area... More >

MENA Salon: A Middle East New Deal? US Withdrawal from Syria
Workshop | January 18 | 3-4 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
In December, President Trump ordered the withdrawal of all US forces in Syria, believed to number around 2,000. His announcement, which came after a phone call with Turkish President Erdogan, has been criticized on a number of fronts. On January 10, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered an address at the American University in Cairo, which aimed to reassure regional partners that a withdrawal... More >
Job Market Seminar: "Can You Move to Opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration"
Seminar | January 18 | 3:10-4:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Ellora Derenoncourt, Harvard Economics
Field(s): Labor, Economic History, Public Economics
QB3 Postdoc Seminar
Seminar | January 18 | 4:30-5:30 p.m. | 177 Stanley Hall
QB3 - California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences
Speaker 1: Lisa Alexander (Bustamante lab)
Kinetic analysis of cotranslational protein folding via single molecule techniques
Summary
Multidomain proteins may have altered folding kinetics on the ribosome compared to in solution. Using optical tweezers, we compare the folding of truncated and full-length isolated versions of a multidomain calcium-binding protein with stalled,... More >