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Sunday, November 11, 2018
50th Anniversary Birthday Weekend
Special Event | November 10 – 12, 2018 every day | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. | Lawrence Hall of Science
Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)
The Hall is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year! Join us for a Weekend of CelebratINg the Hall's past accomplishments and look forward to the future.
Chinatown Rising: A Documentary in Progress
Social Event | November 11 | 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. | Alumni House
Cal Alumni Association, CAA Chinese Chapter
Against the backdrop of the Civil Rights movement of the mid-1960s, a young San Francisco Chinatown resident armed with a 16mm camera and leftover film scraps from a local TV station, turned his lens onto his community. Totaling more than 20,000 feet of film (10 hours), Harry Chuck's exquisite unreleased footage has captured a divided community's struggles for self-determination. Chinatown Rising... More >
Docent-led tour
Tour/Open House | January 6, 2017 – December 30, 2018 every Sunday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 1:30-2:45 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Join us for a free, docent-led tour of the Garden as we explore interesting plant species, learn about the vast collection, and see what is currently in bloom. Meet at the Entry Plaza.
Free with Garden admission
Advanced registration not required
Tours may be cancelled without notice.
For day-of inquiries, please call 510-643-2755
For tour questions, please email gardentours@berkeley.edu... More >
Chamber Orchestra Concert
Performing Arts - Music | November 11 | 3 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy
Wagner - Siegfried Idyll
Jennifer Huang, conductor
Mozart - Symphony No. 39
Kyle Ko, Grady Lai, conductors
free
Infinite Football
Film - Feature | November 11 | 3:30-4:40 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Perhaps the purest expression of one of Porumboiu’s favorite themes, rules vs. freedom, Infinite Football documents an unassuming bureaucrat with a unique extracurricular passion. Inspired by a life-changing injury he suffered playing soccer as a teen, Laurentiu Ginghină embarked on a quixotic quest to improve the game. Variety’s Jessica Kiang observes, “His endlessly evolving ideas for... More >
Trees and Tones - Wooden Instrument Traditions: Sitars and Tamburas
Presentation | November 11 | 4-6:30 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Learn all about sitars and tamburas with instrument maker J. Scott Hackleman. For over 40 years Scott has been studying sitar, travelling to India, and making and repairing hundreds of Indian instruments for artists all over the world. This talk will be accompanied by sitar, tambura, and tabla performances.
$40 / $35 UCBG Members / $20 student
Register online or or by emailing gardenprograms@berkeley.edu
The Cow
Film - Feature | November 11 | 7-8:40 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
“The first Iranian film to deal with the small-scale, the unredeemed, and the unheroic” (Hamidreza Sadr). An extraordinary film marking the beginning of the Iranian New Wave, The Cow is a portrait of village life where isolation and the most extreme poverty create their own abiding social structure. The story moves from tragedy to absurdity without a wink of the eye: this is the thoroughly... More >
Tana String Quartet
Performing Arts - Music | November 11 | 8-10 p.m. | CNMAT (1750 Arch St.)
Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT)
CNMAT presents the Tana String Quartet in concert. The program (TBA) features new works by UC Berkeley student composers.
The Tana String Quartet was formed to promote contemporary repertoire and enhance the relationship between composer and performer; they place no boundaries when selecting style or genre and often present classical repertoire alongside contemporary works.
Monday, November 12, 2018
Seminar 231, Public Finance: Holiday
Seminar | November 12 | Evans Hall | Canceled
Tana Quartet
Colloquium | November 12 | Hertz Concert Hall
TIME TBA
Tana invented the quartet of the twenty first century. The are audacious, pioneers and precursors. Tana foresee the new sounds of the modern string quartet.
Recognized by The Guardian as "impeccable players", the quartet is a recipient of an array of international awards, from the Pro Quartet - CEMC Foundation in Paris, the Verbier Festival Academy and the Union of Belgian... More >
50th Anniversary Birthday Weekend
Special Event | November 10 – 12, 2018 every day | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. | Lawrence Hall of Science
Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)
The Hall is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year! Join us for a Weekend of CelebratINg the Hall's past accomplishments and look forward to the future.
Nordic Food Policy Lunch
Panel Discussion | November 12 | 12:30-2 p.m. | Haas School of Business, N340 Chou Hall
Afton Halloran, The Solutions Menu
Center for Responsible Business
For the first time, the most innovative food policy solutions in the Nordic Region have been brought together in a single document. The Solutions Menu includes 24 policies that aim to change food consumption and intends to inspire new and robust policy responses to the societal and environmental challenges caused by our current food systems.The Solutions Menu is produced by the Nordic Food Policy... More >
The Science and Practice of Mindfulness: An Introductory Workshop
Workshop | November 12 | 1-4 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
This workshop has been designed to give you a practical introduction to the science and practice of mindfulness, with a focus specifically on how you can integrate these practices into the busyness of everyday life. These three hours are packed with a variety of foundational practices, exercises, and concepts that Joshua has carefully selected to help you deal with stress and enhance well-being.
$30 / $25 UCBG Member / $15 student
Seminar 208, Microeconomic Theory: Holiday (No Meeting)
Seminar | November 12 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall
Seminar 271, Development: No Seminar.
Seminar | November 12 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
San Francisco World History Reading Group: Myanmar's Enemy Within by Francis Wade
Meeting | November 12 | 5-7 p.m. | Civic Center Secondary School
727 Golden Gate Ave, San Francisco, CA
ORIAS (Office of Resources for International and Area Studies)
Teachers in ORIAS World History Reading Groups read one book each month within a global studies theme. Participants meet monthly to eat and spend two hours in collegial conversation. It is a relaxing, intellectually rich atmosphere for both new and experienced teachers.
This event is for k-14 teachers.
Register online or or by emailing Shane Carter at orias@berkeley.edu
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Fall 2018 Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science
Lecture | October 30 – December 4, 2018 every Tuesday | 190 Doe Library
Deb Agarwal, Department Head, Data Science and Technology, Computational Research Division, LBNL; Rosemary Gillespie, Professor, Environmental Science, Policy & Management; Rachel Slaybaugh, Assistant Professor, Nuclear Engineering
Kristina Hill, Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Urban Design
The Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science, co-hosted by the The Berkeley Division of Data Sciences and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), return for the Fall 2018 series. Lectures feature Berkeley faculty doing visionary research that illustrates the character of the ongoing data revolution.
SAC Staff Coffee Hour
Reception | November 13 | 9-10 a.m. | 5101 Berkeley Way West
Yasmin Wofford, Staff Advisory Council
Staff Advisory Council
Coffee, tea and treats with the Staff Advisory Council (SAC)
Come discuss the annual SPH Climate survey, and any other issues, concerns or suggestions you may have.
Earth Writing: ISAS Faculty Workshop led by Prof. Sharad Chari
Workshop | November 13 | 9 a.m.-6 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Lenore Manderson, Public Health and Medical Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; Sumathi Ramaswamy, James B. Duke Professor of History and International Comparative Studies, Duke University; Amita Baviskar, Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi; Kath Weston, Anthropology, University of Virginia; Geeta Patel, Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Virginia
Sharad Chari, Geography, UC Berkeley
Institute for South Asia Studies, Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Department of Geography, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Alan Dundes Distinguished Chair in Folklore
In our time of unprecedented instrumentalization and transformation of earthly and worldly processes, from the scale of the body to the planet, the Earth-Writing Symposium returns to the question of ‘geography’ as the praxis of ‘Earth-writing.’ Attention to the ‘graphia’ in ‘geography’ points us to a variety of forms of writing or inscription with, through or alongside material, earthly or... More >
November Open Berkeley Site Builder Training
Workshop | November 13 | 9:30-11:30 a.m. | 104A Banway Building
2111 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
Information Services and Technology (IST)
Open Berkeley Site Builder Training sessions cover the fundamentals of the Open Berkeley turnkey website solution.
Industry-UCB-UEC Workshop 2018 (IUUWS 2018)
Conference/Symposium | November 13 | 10 a.m.-5:40 p.m. | 3110 Etcheverry Hall
Center for Japanese Studies (CJS), Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME)
Workshop Day 1: November 13 (Tues)
10:00 -10:30 Registration
10:30 -10:35 Opening Address:
Prof. Kazuo UCHIDA, Executive Committee Chairman of IUUWS
Department of Computer and Network Engineering, Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, UEC
10:35 -10:45 Welcome Speech:
Prof. Masayoshi TOMIZUKA
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Dean of... More >
Seminar 217, Risk Management: Putting the 'I' in IPO
Seminar | November 13 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Speakers: Chi Zhang, Kamyar Kaviani, Nikita Vemuri, and Simon Walter, UC Berkeley
Consortium for Data Analytics in Risk
As an alternative to traditional loans, young people could issue securities that pay dividends that depend on their future financial success in life. This type of a personal IPO is especially desirable for young people, who for example may need money for a college education, because it allows them to shift the risk of repayment to investors who bet on their future success, unlike in a traditional... More >
Student Hosted Colloquium: Peering into the Lipid World
Seminar | November 13 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Neal Devaraj, Department of Chemistry, UC San Diego
Lipids remain one of the most enigmatic classes of biological molecules. Lipids were likely one of the first components necessary for life, yet our understanding of how lipid membranes could have arisen spontaneously is a mystery. Human cells produce thousands of unique lipid species, but the purpose for such diversity remains unknown. Dysregulation of lipid metabolism is a key factor in some of... More >
Could It Happen Here? Canada in the Age of Trump and Brexit
Colloquium | November 13 | 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. | Moses Hall
Michael Adams, https://www.environicsinstitute.org/michael-adams
Canadian Studies Program (CAN))
From award-winning author Michael Adams, Could It Happen Here? draws on groundbreaking new social research to show whether Canadian society is at risk of the populist forces afflicting other parts of the world.
Americans elected Donald Trump. Britons opted to leave the European Union. Far-right, populist politicians channeling anger at out-of-touch “elites” are gaining ground across Europe. In... More >
GUH Lecture: Neutralizing Poverty: Governing Homelessness in San Francisco
Colloquium | November 13 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 170 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
Since the 1980s anti-homeless laws criminalizing sleeping, sitting, and panhandling in public spaces have increased across the US and abroad, with the most rapid rise occurring in the past decade. While legal studies have tracked the spread of these... More >
Certificate Program in Accounting Online Information Session
Information Session | November 13 | 12-1 p.m. | Online
Ashish Mukharji, Program Director, UC Berkeley Extension
Discover how this certificate can help you change careers into the accounting field, understand accounting concepts and techniques to better perform your current non-accounting work or prepare you to take the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Exam.
Precarious Inclusion as a Strategy of Government
Lecture | November 13 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 691 Barrows Hall
To what extent and how can those excluded from membership in the welfare state, but who are still present within its territorial borders, be lives to be cared for? How is the decision to care for certain lives made? What role do front line service providers play in (re)producing, defining, and negotiating state borders?
SURF Summer Research Scholarships Info Session
Information Session | November 13 | 12-1 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Sean Burns, Director, Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarships
Office of Undergraduate Research
OURS Staff will discuss eligibility criteria for SURF programs, benefits of the fellowship and tips for a successful application
Student Faculty Macro Lunch - "A New Keynesian Model with Wealth in the Utility Function"
Presentation | November 13 | 12-1 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall
Emmanuel Saez, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley
This workshop consists of one-hour informal presentations on topics related to macroeconomics and international finance, broadly defined. The presenters are UC Berkeley PhD students, faculty, and visitors.
** MUST RSVP**
RSVP by emailing jgmendoza@berkeley.edu by November 8.
Historiography and Migration: Explaining the Present through the Lens of History
Lecture | November 13 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Paul Voerkel
Discussions about migration have dominated the public discourse in Germany since the “refugee crisis” of 2015. There is a growing acceptance of empiric data on migration, collected by research institutions like the IMIS at Osnabrück University. On the other hand, the public discourse – including from the government – is getting more emotional and often denies proven facts and figures.
After a... More >
Neutralizing Poverty: Governing Homelessness in San Francisco
Colloquium | November 13 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 170 Wurster Hall
Since the 1980s anti-homeless laws criminalizing sleeping, sitting, and panhandling in public spaces have increased across the US and abroad, with the most rapid rise occurring in the past decade. While legal studies have tracked the spread of these laws, we know very little about their on-the-ground implementation, impact on the unhoused, or role in the broader reproduction of poverty and... More >
Mindfulness Meditation Group
Meeting | February 20, 2018 – January 5, 2021 every Tuesday | 12:15-1 p.m. | 3110 Tang Center, University Health Services
Tang Center (University Health Services)
The Mindfulness Meditation Group meets every Tuesday at 12:15-1:00 pm at 3110 Tang Center on campus. All campus-affiliated people are welcome to join us on a drop-in basis, no registration or meditation experience necessary. We start with a short reading on meditation practice, followed by 30 minutes of silent sitting, and end with a brief discussion period.
Using Machine Learning to Understand Physician Decisions
Colloquium | November 13 | 12:40-2 p.m. | 1205 Berkeley Way West
Ziad Obermeyer
As the complexity of patients and the health care system grows, the human mind struggles to keep pace. Even with perfect incentives, medical decision making is maddeningly difficult, and it’s not surprising that doctors get many of these decisions wrong—with the end result of low-value care. Machine learning can help improve decision making in health care. I’ll present results suggesting that... More >
Imperfect Interactions: a lecture/workshop on improvisation-based intermedia
Performing Arts - Music | November 13 | 1-4 p.m. | CNMAT (1750 Arch St.)
Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT)
Imperfect Interactions: a lecture/workshop on improvisation-based intermedia collaboration between dancers, musicians, and technologists.
Led by Scott Rubin, with special guests TBA
This lecture-workshop is geared for dancers, musicians/improvisers, composers, and technologists.
Building a Nation, Effacing a Race: The "Chinaman" Question of the U.S. in the Philippines, 1898-1905
Lecture | November 13 | 1-2:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Richard Chu, Five College Associate Professor of History, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Filipino and Philippine Studies Working Group
The lecture focuses on the first few years of American colonial rule in the Philippines. In particular, it looks into the “Chinaman” labor question facing the colonial rulers. How were the Chinese exclusion laws applied in the Philippines? How were the Chinese and other ethnic groups racialized to justify these laws in the Philippines?
Richard Chu
Trees of the Garden
Tour/Open House | November 13 | 1-2 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Discover some the UC Botanical Garden's signature trees from around the world on this special docent-led walk.
Free with admission; Registration suggested to guarantee a spot.
Free with Garden Admission
Register online or by calling 510-664-7606
Environmental Justice: What can we do about the disproportionate impact of climate change on low-income communities?: By Van Jones, President and Founder, Dream Corps
Lecture | November 13 | 1:30-2:30 p.m. | David Brower Center, Goldman Theater
2150 ALLSTON WAY, SUITE 100, Berkeley, CA 94720
Van Jones, Dream Corps
Across America, low-income and minority communities are being hit hardest by the economic and health impacts of climate change. Join us for an afternoon with Van Jones—news commentator, author, and founder of Dream Corps —and learn how we can seek environmental justice for the country’s most vulnerable communities.
Van Jones is president and founder of the nonprofit, Dream Corps, a social... More >
Seminar 218, Psychology and Economics: Job Seekers' Perceptions and Employment Prospects: Heterogeneity, Duration Dependence and Bias
Seminar | November 13 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Johannes Spinnewijn, LSE
3-Manifold Seminar: Tait colorings and foams
Seminar | November 13 | 2:10-3:30 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Ian Agol, UC BERKELEY
We'll continue to discuss Kronheimer and Mrowka's invariant $J^\sharp (G,\Gamma )$ for planar webs $G$, and show that it is spanned by foams with appropriate coefficients.
Anthropology from Portugal, on Portugal and beyond Portugal: racialized relations and representations
Lecture | November 13 | 3-5 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Paula Mota Santos; Cristiana Bastos
Institute of European Studies, Portuguese Studies Program
Paula Mota Santos will speak about "Slavery as dark heritage in Post-colonial Portugal". The Lagos, Southern Portugal slavery exhibition is only the second European-located museum space dedicated to the transatlantic slave trade, and one institutionally linked to UNESCO’s Slave Route program. I will carry out an analysis of the images, texts and forms of display of the Lagos exhibition will be... More >
Student Harmonic Analysis and PDE Seminar (HADES): On the problem of interacting bodies (Part I)
Seminar | November 13 | 3:40-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Nima Moini, UC Berkeley
The state of a system in the low density limit should be described (at the statistical level) by the kinetic density, i.e. by the probability of finding a particle with position x and velocity v at time t. This density is expected to evolve under both the effects of transport and binary elastic collisions, which are expressed in the Boltzmann equation. The Cauchy problem for this equation is... More >
Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar: The Chordal Loewner Equation and Monotone Probability Theory
Seminar | November 13 | 3:45-5:45 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
Ian Charlesworth, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow UC Berkeley
I will present recent work of Schleißinger and its connections with monotone probability theory. In 2004, O. Bauer interpreted the chordal Loewner equations as the non-autonomous versions of evolution equations for semigroups in monotone and anti-monotone probability theory. We also look at the corresponding equation for free probability theory.
Rewriting History in the Age of #MeToo
Lecture | November 13 | 4-6 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Amy Stanley, Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University
Department of History, Center for Japanese Studies (CJS), Department of History Committee on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (CEDI), History Graduate Association (HGA)
The #MeToo movement is now over a year old, but over the past few weeks its stakes have become increasingly clear, not only in American culture and politics but also in many of our intellectual lives as historians. This talk considers how the rallying call “believe women” challenges our epistemology and might lead us to a different approach to our evidence. The sources are drawn from an early... More >
Why Autonomy is Hard
Seminar | November 13 | 4-5 p.m. | Soda Hall, HP Auditorium, 306
Dr. Brandon Basso, Director of Autonomy at Uber Advanced Technologies Group (ATG), UBER
Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME)
Dr Brandon Basso is a former UC Berkeley graduate from the ME department and the Director of Autonomy at Uber Advanced Technologies Group (ATG). In this talk he will give an overview of the autonomous car program at UBER and focus on the challenges associated to delivering safe autonomous cars.
BIOGRAPHY
Brandon Basso is a Director of Autonomy at Uber Advanced Technologies Group... More >
Presence and Memory: Commemorating the Buddha in Late Burmese Wall Paintings
Lecture | November 13 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Alexandra Green, Henry Ginsburg Curator for Southeast Asia, British Museum
Center for Buddhist Studies, Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Department of History of Art, Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies
This presentation draws upon art historical, anthropological, and religious studies methodologies to analyze Burmese temple wall paintings from the late 17th to early 19th centuries and elucidate the contemporary religious, political, and social concepts that drove the creation of this lively art form.
The bodhisatta Bhuridatta meditating
Undergraduate Social Hour
Social Event | November 13 | 4-5 p.m. | Soda Hall, 430 Soda Hall
Recent Advances in Biomedical Surface Analysis: Proteins and Nanoparticles
Seminar | November 13 | 4-5 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
David G. Castner, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington
Surface analysts have benefited from the significant and numerous advances that have occurred in the past 40 years in terms of improved instrumentation, introduction of new techniques and development of sophisticated data analysis methods, which has allowed us to perform detailed analysis of increasing complex samples. For example, comprehensive analysis of surfaces and surface immobilized... More >
How to Email a Professor to Get a Positive Response: Workshop
Workshop | November 13 | 4-5 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Leah Carroll, Haas Scholars Program Manager/Advisor, Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarships
Office of Undergraduate Research
Do you need to email a professor you've never met before to ask for their help, but you don't know where to start? Have you ever written a long email to a professor, only to receive no response, or not the one you hoped? If so, this workshop is for you! We will discuss how to present yourself professionally over email to faculty and other professionals ... More >
Integrating eco-evolutionary data from islands to infer biodiversity dynamics: Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science
Lecture | November 13 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 190 Doe Library
Rosemary Gillespie, Professor, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley
Berkeley Institute for Data Science
A central challenge in understanding the origins of biodiversity is that, while we can observe and test local ecological phenomena, we must usually infer the longer-term outcomes of these ecological forces indirectly. My colleagues and I have been developing inferential models at the interface between macroecology and population-level processes, and applying them to data from geological... More >
Seminar 221, Industrial Organization: CANCELLED
Seminar | November 13 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
CANCELLED
Gold Country: Big Game Party
Social Event | November 13 | 5-9 p.m. | Tofanelli's
302 W Main St., Grass Valley, CA 95945
Twentieth-Century Anti-Utopianism and its West German Antidote
Lecture | November 13 | 5 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Jennifer Allen, Yale University
Institute of European Studies, Center for German and European Studies, GHI West, the Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington DC
This talk picks up a melancholic thread in assessments of the end of the Cold War, when the triumph of liberal democracy and capitalism over “really existing socialism” led academics and public intellectuals to pronounce the end of utopian ambitions. Margaret Thatcher captured this idea in her claim that “there is no alternative.” Some West Germans, however, resisted this logic. Facing the... More >
Poland at 100: The Continuing Challenges of Nationhood
Lecture | November 13 | 5:30-7 p.m. | Graduate Theological Union, Dinner Board Room
John Connelly, Professor, History, UC Berkeley
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), SF-Krakow Sister City Association, Taube Philanthropies, Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies, Graduate Theological Union
This talk will consider the meanings and consequences of the reemergence of a Polish state in 1918 in new boundaries, after 125 years of rule by foreign powers. The event is celebrated as liberation, but what did it mean for ethnic minorities like Jews and Ukrainians? What did it mean for women? That Poland lasted barely twenty years before being overwhelmed by its totalitarian neighbors. Could... More >
Career Series: Environmental Lawyers of Color
Seminar | November 13 | 6-7 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Suite # 220
Professor Roger Lin, UC Berkeley Boalt School of Law; Luna Martinez, Law Student at Boalt School of Law; Candice Youngblood, Law Student at Boalt School of Law; Eddie Ahn, Executive Director, Brightline Defense
Student Environmental Resource Center, Multicultural Community Center
Join us in discussing the challenges and opportunities for people of color in enrolling and getting into Law school. Additionally, we will have a dialogue on the role lawyers have in supporting grassroots environmental justice movements.
International Student Career Success Series: No Offer Yet. Now What?
Workshop | November 13 | 6-7 p.m. | Career Center (2440 Bancroft Way), Gold Room
Tried applying for positions in Handshake, the career fairs and other activities you should through this recruiting season but still not getting anything? Or are you just getting started with your job/internship search at this time? Come and learn the tips, strategies, and resources for job/internship search at this time of year. And yes, networking during Thanksgiving week is one of... More >
Women Who Lead: A Storytelling Salon
Panel Discussion | November 13 | 6-9 p.m. | Alumni House
The Cal Alumni Association's The Berkeley Network, and the Berkeley Haas Center for Equity, Gender, and Leadership proudly present this year's Alumnae Career Advancement event - WOMEN WHO LEAD: A STORYTELLING SALON.
Join us for a panel of notable business women as they tell personal stories, offer life hacks, share their wisdom on the topics of leadership, career, and inclusion.
Moderated by... More >
Summary Execution: The Seattle Assassinations of Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes: Book Talk with Michael Withey
Reading - Nonfiction | November 13 | 6-7:30 p.m. | 2521 Channing Way (Inst. for Res. on Labor & Employment), Large Conference Room
Human rights lawyer Michael Withey
Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes were Filipino American labor activists and officers of ILWU Local 37 who were murdered in their Seattle union office in 1981. Mike Withey, lead attorney on the case, demonstrates in his book the legal twists and turns of citing the Philippine government as the culprit.
“Some lawyers shamelessly seek attention. And some lawyers deserve attention because they... More >
The Archaeology of Megiddo: New Light on the History of Ancient Israel
Lecture | November 13 | 6-7:30 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, 310 Banatao Auditorium
Israel Finkelstein, Tel Aviv University
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
By far the most important ancient city in Israel, Megiddo has worn many hats over the past five thousand years. During the Bronze Age, the city hosted cosmopolitan Canaanite kings whose relationships extended to Egypt, Turkey, and Mesopotamia. One thousand years later, ancient Israel's kings garrisoned the city, noting its strategic military position. Later writers so revered the city that they... More >
Career Connections: Bio Tech Connect
Social Event | November 13 | 6:30-8 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Cal Alumni Association, Career Center
Alumni and student networking event.
Respect + Rebellion: A Purple America
Panel Discussion | November 13 | 7-8:30 p.m. | 2060 Valley Life Sciences Building
Berny and Geston, Respect + Rebellion
Bridge USA
In a time when blue and red seem so divided, two people with very similar backgrounds but divergent political beliefs prove that friendship is possible and raise hopes for a Purple America. Join BridgeUSA in welcoming Berny and Geston, a Democratic pastor and Republican politician respectively, as they discuss issues such as:
1. Immigration laws
2. Stand Your Ground Laws vs Consitutional... More >
