Lectures
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Berkeley Boosts Webinar: SCOTUS Update and Constitutional Law Primer with Dean Erwin Chemerinsky
Lecture | October 23 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | Online Program
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, Berkeley Law
Berkeley Law Executive Education
Berkeley Boosts is a monthly series of free webinars (with MCLE credit) and articles for legal practitioners and organizational leaders. Berkeley Boosts content is carefully curated by the Berkeley Center for Law and Business and Berkeley Law Executive Education to ensure engaging discussions on subjects that matter.
Sunflower Domestication in Space and Time
Lecture | October 23 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Benjamin Blackman, Assistant Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley
Archaeological Research Facility
This talk will focus on how the genomic libraries obtained from a time series of archaeological samples and from ethnographic collections from the historic period are proving fruitful for examining hypotheses about where in North America sunflower was domesticated and for highlighting reductions in sequence diversity at multiple time points in the history of sunflower cultivation.

Townsend Book Chat with Mark Schapiro: Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
Lecture | October 23 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens, Townsend Center
Townsend Center for the Humanities
Three-quarters of the seed varieties on earth in 1900 are now extinct, and more than half of the remaining commercial seeds are owned by three large companies. Schapiro examines the fate of our food supply under the pressures of corporate consolidation.

i4Y CMYE Speaker Series: "1.8 billion reasons to meaningfully engage Adolescents and Youth in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights"
Lecture | October 23 | 1-2 p.m. | 5101 Berkeley Way West
Dr. Joannie Marlene Bewa, MD, MPH, Young Beninese Leaders Association
Please join us for the next speaker in the i4Y Child Marriage & Youth Empowerment Speaker Series:
Title: "1.8 billion reasons to meaningfully engage Adolescents and Youth in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights"
Speaker: Dr. Joannie Marlene Bewa, MD, MPH is a physician, global health advocate and researcher. She founded the Young Beninese Leaders Association (YBLA) in Benin, an... More >
Blending Implementation and Health Disparities Research to Improve the Health of Latinx with Serious Mental Illness
Lecture | October 23 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Haviland Hall, Commons 116
Dr. Leo Cabassa, Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis
Implementing health care interventions in public mental health clinics is a pressing need since people with serious mental illness (e.g., schizophrenia) face persistent health disparities. Local adaptations and customization are needed to increase the reach and impact of these interventions in the public mental health system and across racial and ethnic minority communities. In this talk, Dr.... More >
Blending Implementation and Health Disparities Research to Improve the Health of Latinx with Serious Mental Illness
Lecture | October 23 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Haviland Hall, Haviland Commons
Leo Cabassa, PhD, Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis
Implementing health care interventions in public mental health clinics is a pressing need since people with serious mental illness (e.g., schizophrenia) face persistent health disparities. Local adaptations and customization are needed to increase the reach and impact of these interventions in the public mental health system and across racial and ethnic minority communities. In this talk, Dr.... More >
In the Shadow of Slavery: Africas Food Legacy in the Atlantic World - The 23rd Carl O. Sauer Memorial Lecture
Lecture | October 23 | 4 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium
Judith Carney, Department of Geography, UCLA
Department of Geography, Department of African American Studies, Center for African Studies, Center for Research on Social Change, Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, and Mgmt. (ESPM), Berkeley Food Institute, 400 Years of Resistance to Slavery and Injustice
A striking feature of plantation era history is the number of first-person accounts that credit the enslaved with the introduction of specific foods, all previously grown in Africa. This lecture
lends support to these observations by identifying the crops that European witnesses attributed to slave agency and by engaging the ways that African subsistence staples arrived, and... More >
Truth, Lies, and Cultural Appropriation: Christopher L. Miller on Impostors
Lecture | October 23 | 5-6:30 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Christopher L. Miller, Yale University
Department of French, Department of Comparative Literature, Townsend Center for the Humanities
Christopher L. Miller, Frederick Clifford Ford Professor of African American Studies and French at Yale University, will give a public lecture related to his most recent book, Impostors (Chicago University Press, 2018).