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Saturday, October 14
Eveylynn Hammonds, Harvard
Toward Fair Cures: Integrating
the Benefits of Diversity in California's
Stem Cell Research Program
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Saturday, October 20, 9:00am-6:00pm
Toll Room, Alumni House
Celebrating the Institute for the
Study of Social Change: Thirty Years
of Research with a Conscience
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| Documenting Growth in Children's English Language Development:
Theoretical and Methodological Challenges |
| This talk seeks to bring attention to the challenges facing Latino/Hispanic ELLs who attempt to learn English in hypersegregated schools by providing data from an ongoing intervention program know as Ravenswood English. Structured as a design experiment, Ravenswood English focuses on developing the abilities of volunteers to provide English input to ELLs enrolled in kindergarten, first, and second grades in schools in which there are few opportunities for these children to interact frequently on a one-to-one basis with fluent English speakers. I first describe the assumptions underlying the design of Ravenswood English (e.g., the challenges encountered in linguistically isolated schools, the importance of access to English for language learners) and then present detailed examples of children's language in order to illustrate the theoretical and methodological difficulties encountered in measuring the development and acquisition of a second language. I conclude with broad recommendations for policymakers, researchers, and practitioners who are concerned about the enormity of the challenge of "teaching" English in settings in which ELLs are segregated from both their White and Black fluent English-speaking peers.
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Dr. Guadalupe Valdés is a Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and in the School of Education at Stanford University. She works in the areas of sociolinguistics and applied linguistics. Much of Dr. Valdés' work has focused on the English-Spanish bilingualism of Latinos in the United States and on discovering and describing how two languages are developed, used, and maintained by individuals who become bilingual in immigrant communities. Her research is concerned with examining language use in bilingual settings (e.g. code-switching, language accommodation, language maintenance, and the use of language in school and courtroom settings) and with applying the information obtained from such descriptions to the educational context. Dr. Valdés other work on language diversity has focused on language-based discrimination and on the policy problems that confront bilingual individuals who are residents of monolingual nations.
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| Recent publications in this area include: "Bilinguals and Bilingualism: Language Policy in an Anti-immigrant Age" (International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 1997) and "Bilingual Individuals and Language-Based Discrimination: Advancing the State of the Law on Language Rights" (forthcoming in Roseann D. Gonzalez, ed. Language Ideologies: Critical Perspectives on the Official English Movement. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English). Since the mid 1970's, Dr. Valdés has been involved in research surrounding efforts to maintain and preserve heritage languages among minority populations. Much of her work has focused on the teaching of Spanish to college and university Hispanophone students in this country. Valdés is also the co-author of two Spanish language textbooks that focus on the teaching of Spanish to Hispanic bilinguals. Español Escrito (first published by Scribners in 1978 and now published by Prentice Hall) is now in its fourth edition. Cómo se escribe: curso de secundaria para estudiantes bilingües was published by Scribners in 1982. Valdés other work in applied linguistics has concentrated on the teaching of Spanish to monolingual speakers of English. She is a co-author of the popular Spanish composition textbook Composición: Proceso y sí (published by McGraw Hill) now in its third edition. |
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| BDRI Distinguished Speaker at the
"Toward Fair Cures: Integrating the Benefits of Diversity in California's Stem Cell Research Program". |
| The conference will unite leaders from minority communities, academia, and
the sciences to discuss the importance of ethnic diversity at all levels
of stem cell research in California. Conference participants will consider
strategies for increasing the understanding of the economic and medical
potential of stem cell research among historically underserved minority
communities to ensure that California's stem cell research efforts serve
our state's diverse community. Dr. Hammonds will provide closing remarks, starting at 3:30 pm. |
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Dr. Evelynn M. Hammonds is Harvard's first Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity. Dr. Hammonds received a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Spelman College, in 1976 and a Bachelor's of Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology also in 1976. She earned a Master of Science in Physics from M. I. T. in 1980. with support from a Xerox Corporation Fellowship. For the next five years she worked as a computer software consultant in the Boston area including a year as a software applications consultant on Project Athena, the undergraduate computer project at M.I.T. In 1985 she entered the doctoral program in the History of Science at Harvard University and was awarded the Ph.D. in 1993 under the direction of Drs. Barbara G. Rosenkrantz and Everett Mendelsohn. Her graduate work at Harvard was supported by the Minority Prize fellowship and a Ford Foundation Dissertation fellowship. |
Prior to her Harvard appointment, Dr. Hammonds was an Associate Professor of the History of Science in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M. I. T.). She was Five College Minority Fellow (1989-1990) at the School of Natural Science, Hampshire College, and also Visiting Assistant Professor of the History of Science at Hampshire College (1990-1991). Prof. Hammonds was co-organizer of the 1994 Black Women in the Academy Conference held at M.I.T. During the academic year 1994-95 she was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow and member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Her research is in the history of science, medicine and public health in the United States, and race and gender in science studies.
Sponsored by: The Greenlining Institute, Office of the Chancellor, UC
Berkeley, Project on Stem Cells and Society, UC Berkeley Stem Cell
Program, Children's Hospital of Oakland Research Institute, Science,
Technology, and Society Center, International and Area Studies, Berkeley
Diversity Research Initiative
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Friday, March 3; 3:30-5:00pm; 2515 Tolman Hall; Reception following 5:00-6:00pm
Kenji Hakuta, the Founding Dean of the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts at the University of California, Merced
THE VALUES OF DIVERSITY IN EDUCATION: A Perspective from Research and Policy on Bilingualism and Linguistic Minority Education
An experimental psycholinguist by training, Kenji Hakuta is best known for his work in the areas of psycholinguistics, bilingualism, and the acquisition of English in immigrant students. He is the author and editor of several books, including
Mirror of Language: The Debate on Bilingualism (1986) and
In Other Words: The Science and Psychology of Second Language Acquisition (1994). He was the chair of a committee of the National Research Council which issued a report,
Improving Schooling for Language-Minority Children: A Research Agenda, published by the National Academy Press in 1997.
Hakuta is also professionally active in the areas of language policy, the education of language minority students, affirmative action in higher education, and improvement of quality in educational research. He has served as an expert witness in education cases involving language minority students, and his book (co-edited with Mitchell Chang, Daria Witt, and James Jones) Compelling Interest: Examining the Evidence on Racial Dynamics in Higher Education (Stanford University Press) was cited in the
U.S. Supreme Court decision on the University of Michigan Law School case on the use of race-conscious admissions policy.
Hakuta is a member of the National Academy of Education. He serves on the boards of the Spencer Foundation and the Educational Testing Service, and for 8 years, he chaired the National Educational Research Policy and Priorities Board of the U. S. Department of Education. Hakuta received his BA Magna Cum Laude in Psychology and Social Relations, and his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, both from Harvard University. Before joining UC Merced, he taught at Yale University, the University of California at Santa Cruz, and most recently, he was the Vida Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University.
Suggested Reading:
Chang, M. J., Witt, D., Jones, J. & Hakuta, K. (Eds.) (2003),
Compelling Interest: Examining the Evidence on Racial Dynamics in Higher Education, Stanford University Press; Wood, Peter,
Affirming Fraction: Diversity's multiple meanings", National Review Online, June 27, 2003;
The Effects of Racial Diversity on Cognitive Complexity in College Students:
A True Classical Experiment.
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Thursday, March 16, 4:00 pm, Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
Richard Tapia (University Professor, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University)
Successes and Challenges in Diversifying Research Universities and the National Science and Engineering Workforce.
Professor Tapia will focus on the general challenges that the country faces
today concerning increasing the representation of those groups that have
been traditionally underrepresented in mathematics, science, and
engineering. He will share relevant formative experiences encountered along his life's journey as a publically educated first generation Mexican American from the barrios of Los Angeles to a Rice University Mathematics Professor and a President Clinton appointee to the National Science Board. Reception following, hosted by Berkeley Diversity Research Initiative,
Garbarini Lounge, Bechtel Engineering Center
Recommended Reading: SACNAS Mentoring: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, SACNAS News, Volume 6, Number 1, Fall 2003;
More Than a Matter of Equity, Access Online, Volume 15, Number 3, December 10, 2002;
Diversifying the Science and Technology Community, presentation at
A White House Roundtable Dialogue for President Clinton's Initiative on Race: Proceedings of Panel Discussion and Position Papers, February 13, 1998;
NISE:Assessing and Evaluating the Evaluation Tool - The Standardized Test, 1998 [Online Transcription of Presentation]
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Wednesday, April 19, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm, Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Ave., Berkeley.
Dr. Camara P. Jones, MD, MPH, PhD, will be the Keynote as the Chancellor's Distinguished Diversity Lecturer.
Poverty, Race, Place: Research and Community-Based Interventions To Reduce Health
Disparities Conference
The fourth in the Center's Science & Society series, this April 19th conference will highlight the
latest place-, race-, and poverty-based research, as well as strategies and interventions to
reduce health inequities. All UC Berkeley faculty and students and those who have interests in
health disparities, health care, and community-based organizations doing work on these issues are
invited to attend. Join us as leading academics, practitioners, and community leaders highlight
frameworks, research tools, and both promising and evidenced-based intervention practices. See
enclosed flyer or go to healthresearch.berkeley.edu/disparities for a complete list of speakers.
Registration-$20 general and $10 students/seniors-is required in advance and includes lunch. Sponsored by the Center for Health Research and co-sponsored by: The Center for Health Research; the Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy; the Center for Public Health Practice (School of Public Health); the Office of the Chancellor, UC Berkeley; and the Pacific Public Health Training Center.
Dr. Camara P. Jones, MD, MPH, PhD, will be the Keynote as the Chancellor's Distinguished Diversity Lecturer. She is Research Director on Social Determinants of Health at the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Jones received an M.D. degree from Stanford University (1981), completed residencies in General Preventive Medicine (Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health) and Family Medicine (Residency Program in Social Medicine, Montefiore Hospital), and earned a masters degree in public health and a doctoral degree in epidemiology at Johns Hopkins, finishing in 1995.
Dr. Jones' research addreses the impacts of different types of racism on the health and well-being of American society. She emphasizes that definitions of race are arbitrary and that racism undermines the potential of society as a whole. She calls on the nation to examine the mechanisms of racism and to continue to keep race and racism on the national agenda for action..
Dr. Jones has received numerous awards, most recently spent nine months in New Zealand as an Ian Axford Fellow in Public Policy. She has held numerous leadership and advisory positions, including several in the American Public Health Association, and has served as
President of the Society for Analysis of African-American Public Health Issues since 1997. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the American College of Epidemiology. Sponsored by the School of Public Health.
Suggested Reading: Jones CP, "Levels of Racism: A Theoretic Framework and a Gardener's Tale," Am J Public Health 2000;90(8):1212-1215; Dr. Jones 2003 lecture on "Confronting Institutional Racism" is available on webcast through the following address: www.minority.unc.edu/sph/minconf/2003/webcast/webregist.cfm.
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Berkeley's Research in Diversity and Inclusion: A Multi-disciplinary Survey Seminar - Spring 2006
E198-4 (CCN: 27951)/ E298A-18 (CCN: 27948) |
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| Instructors: Professors Alice M. Agogino and Evelyn Nakano Glenn. Alice M. Agogino, Co-Chair, Berkeley Diversity Research Initiative (BDRI),Chair,
Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate, and Professor of Mechanical Engineering.
Evelyn Nakano Glenn is a Professor in both Women's Studies and Ethnic Studies and is also
Director of the
Center for Race and Gender.
For scheduling with Prof. Agogino: contact Marilyn Kwock , 510-643-5574
320 Stephens Hall 35842, 510-642-4226 (v); 510-642-8920 (f)
agogino@berkeley.edu. The course will be team-taught with other faculty in the BDRI in a broad range of departments across the campus (social sciences, education, engineering, law, chemistry, physical sciences, art practice, American cultures and public health). |
| Time: Friday noon-1:00 PM (first class meets on January 20) plus attendance at additional seminar or diversity event. |
| Location: 691 Barrows, Seminar Room for the Center for Race and Gender
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| Description: The Berkeley Diversity Research Initiative (BDRI) focuses on racial and ethnic diversity, supporting research into the nature of multi-cultural societies and the ways in which such societies - at the local, state, national, and international levels - might flourish. One major goal is to generate a more nuanced understanding of similarities and differences among multi-cultural societies and an identification of factors that contribute to their success . Another goal is to generate specific prescriptions for changes in policy and practice that are likely to draw upon the strengths and assets of a diverse community and reduce ethnic/racial disparities that are of concern to the State of California and the nation. Theme areas to be included in this research seminar include: K-12 Education, Access & Achievement: Health Disparities; Admissions, Mentoring and Achievement in Higher Education; Faculty Diversity; Civic Participation and Political Access; Global Cities: Diversity and Demographic Change; Race, Gender and Immigration in California; and Media, Art and Culture. The seminar will benefit from an external BDRI speaker series which will draw in top researchers nation-wide. The seminar will be team-taught by faculty with expertise in each of these theme areas.
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Every week will have assigned readings, thought questions and outside diversity research events to attend. See the schedule below for specific details. Friday seminars are colored in yellow.
The Diversity Research Seminars for Undergraduates were made possible through a gift from the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund. |
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Friday, 9/22
11:00am-3:00pm
103 Kroeber Hall, Hearst Museum |
California Indian Day
At 11am and 1pm, learn something new during docent tours of the Native California Cultures gallery with Cultural Attache Otis Parrish. From 11am-2pm, enjoy lunch by coming to the Indian Taco Sale. California Indian Craft Booths will be available from 11am-3pm. Concluding our celebration, California Indian Pomo dancers will perform near the Kroeber fountain.
Additional Sponsors:
Native American Studies Department, The Anthropology Department, The Archaeological Research Facility (ARF), Hearst Foundation,Phoebe A Hearst Museum of Anthropology |
Tuesday, 9/26
2:00pm
2515 Tolman Hall
| Samuel R. Lucas (Professor of Sociology; University of California, Berkeley)
The Challenge of Devising Policy When Findings Contain Surprise: the Case of Race and Track Location in U.S. Public Schools
Policy, Organization, Measurement & Evaluation (POME) students/faculty invite you to learn about issues of equity and school reform in a biweekly Colloquium Series with guest speakers |
Wednesday, 9/27
3:30-5:00 pm
2515 Tolman Hall | Chancellor's Distinguished Diversity Research Speaker: Guadalupe Valdes (Tenenbaum Professor of Education, Stanford University)
Documenting Growth in Children's English Language Development: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges
This talk seeks to bring attention to the challenges facing Latino/Hispanic ELLs who attempt to learn English in hypersegregated schools by providing data from an ongoing intervention program know as Ravenswood English. Structured as a design experiment, Ravenswood English focuses on developing the abilities of volunteers to provide English input to ELLs enrolled in kindergarten, first, and second grades in schools in which there are few opportunities for these children to interact frequently on a one-to-one basis with fluent English speakers. I first describe the assumptions underlying the design of Ravenswood English (e.g., the challenges encountered in linguistically isolated schools, the importance of access to English for language learners) and then present detailed examples of children's language in order to illustrate the theoretical and methodological difficulties encountered in measuring the development and acquisition of a second language. I conclude with broad recommendations for policymakers, researchers, and practitioners who are concerned about the enormity of the challenge of "teaching" English in settings in which ELLs are segregated from both their White and Black fluent English-speaking peers.
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Saturday, 9/30
9:00am
Barrows Hall |
National Lawyers Guild's Progressive Lawyering Day
The event will feature Angela Davis as the keynote speaker (@ 3pm) and includes panels from 9-3 on Immigration Reform, Torture/Human Rights Litigation, Youth Criminalization, Wiretapping, No Child Left Behind and Disabled Children's' Access to Public Education, Local Redevelopment Issues and Critical Race Theory. |
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Monday, 10/2
4:00pm
159 Mulford Hall |
Louise Fortmann, Professor (ESPM - Society and Environment)
So, Who is Going to Save the Planet?: Gender Analysis and the Environment
At 11am and 1pm, learn something new during docent tours of the Native California Cultures gallery with Cultural Attache Otis Parrish. From 11am-2pm, enjoy lunch by coming to the Indian Taco Sale. California Indian Craft Booths will be available from 11am-3pm. Concluding our celebration, California Indian Pomo dancers will perform near the Kroeber fountain.
Sponsor:
Environmental Science, Policy and Management |
Thursday, 10/5
4:00-5:30pm
691 Barrows Hall
| Frank Worrell,
Cultural Variation in American Families of African Descent
Eren Rueda,
Staying "good" kids and becoming "flunkies": Patterns of academic engagement in the transition from elementary to middle school among Mexican-origin students
Afternoon Forum Series of the
Center for Race and Gender. |
Friday, 10/13
9:00am
International House Auditorium
| Sid Reel (Director of Culture and Diversity, Hewlett-Packard)
Haas Diversity In Business Conference
The Haas Diversity In Business conference is an opportunity for students, alumni, and members of the business community to come together to discuss how people from typically underrepresented backgrounds achieve success in business. It will also highlight innovative strategies for creating and managing diverse organizations. $10 undergraduates, $20 graduate students, $30 Alumni. Agenda. |
Saturday, 10/14
10:00-4:30 pm
Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute | Chancellor's Distinguished Diversity Research Speaker: Evelynn M. Hammonds, Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity and Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
BDRI Keynote Speaker at the "Toward Fair Cures: Integrating the Benefits of Diversity in California's Stem Cell Research Program
The conference will unite leaders from minority communities, academia, and
the sciences to discuss the importance of ethnic diversity at all levels
of stem cell research in California. Conference participants will consider
strategies for increasing the understanding of the economic and medical
potential of stem cell research among historically underserved minority
communities to ensure that California's stem cell research efforts serve
our state's diverse community
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Thursday, 10/19
4:00-5:30pm
691 Barrows Hall
| Ethel Regis, Ethnic Studies,
Flight of Dreams: Transnational Phillipine Television and Re/presentations of Filipina/o Diaspora
Annie Fukushima, Ethnic Studies, Bodies Imagined: Race, Gender and Sexual Difference in Sex Industry Advertisements
Afternoon Forum Series of the
Center for Race and Gender. |
Saturday, 10/20
9:00am-6:00pm
Toll Room, Alumni House
| The Institute for the Study of Social Change
Celebrating the Institute for the Study of Social Change
Thirty Years of Research with a Conscience
This year, the Institute for the Study of Social Change (ISSC) will celebrate thirty years of research and graduate training dedicated to understanding the processes of social change in ways that contribute to transforming the conditions of inequality. On Friday, October 20, we will honor the distinguished life of the Institute with an all-day conference. The conference will offer a series of panels highlighting several of the many significant research projects undertaken at ISSC that have influenced academic research, public debate and social policy, and have helped to establish new research agendas and fields of study in the social sciences.
ISSC research projects that will be featured at the conference include: studies of dual work families; longshore workers and the management of labor disputes; exclusionary practices associated with genetic testing and screening; policy related to Chicanos and Latinos; affirmative action and diversity in higher education; and, more recently political and social issues involving immigrant youth. Faculty and graduate students who played a key role on these projects will reflect upon their involvement and the ways that their research impacted both their careers and the field. In addition, one current and three former graduate students will reflect upon the ways that their involvement in ISSC's Graduate Fellows Training Program has impacted their careers as scholars and teachers. A reception with light refreshments will immediately follow the conference. |
Wednesday, 10/25
12:00-1:30pm
ISSC Conference Room, 2420 Bowditch Street (at Haste)
| Peter Greenwood, Professor, Criminology, Law and Society, UC Irvine
with Franklin Zimring, William G. Simon Professor of Law and Wolfen Distinguished Scholar, Boalt Hall School of Law, as respondent
Effective Youth Violence Prevention
Culture, Immigration and Youth Violence Prevention Speaker Series of the
Institute for the Study of Social Change. |
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Wednesday, 11/1
12:00-1:30pm
ISSC Conference Room, 2420 Bowditch Street (at Haste)
| Irene Bloemraad, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley
with Taeku Lee, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California at Berkeley, as respondent
Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States
Book Colloquium sponsored by the
Institute for the Study of Social Change. |
Thursday, 11/2
4:00-5:30pm
691 Barrows Hall
| Hamsa Murthy,
Justice and the Foreigner: Undicumented Migrants and Dilemmas of Law and Government in Modern America
David Sklansky,
Making Sense of the New Demographics of American Law Enforcement
Afternoon Forum Series of the
Center for Race and Gender. |
Tuesday, 11/7
5:00-8:00pm
Bancroft Hotel
2680 Bancroft Way
Free and Open to the Public
| M. Jacqui Alexander
Race, Gender, and Sexuality:
Transnational Feminism as Radical Praxis
Distinguished Lecture, sponsored by the
Center for Race and Gender. |
Thursday, 11/16
12:00-1:30pm
ISSC Conference Room, 2420 Bowditch Street (at Haste)
| Gilberto Conchas, Associate Professor of Education, with joint appointments in Chicano/a Latino Studies and Sociology, UC Irvine
with Jabari Mahiri, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, as respondent
The Color of Success: Race and High-Achieving Urban Youth
Book Colloquium sponsored by the
Institute for the Study of Social Change. |
Thursday, 11/16
4:00-5:30pm
691 Barrows Hall
| Laura Mangels,
Racial Identification in Brazil: Discrepancies between Observed and Self-identified Race
Tianna Paschel, Ethnic Studies,
Fighting the Invisible: Racial Mobilization and Policy Shifts and in Columbia
Afternoon Forum Series of the
Center for Race and Gender. |
Thursday, 11/30
12:00-1:30pm
ISSC Conference Room, 2420 Bowditch Street (at Haste)
| Nancy Guerra, Professor of Psychology, UC Riverside and Director of the Southern California Center of Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention
Preventing Violence Among Latino Youth
Culture, Immigration and Youth Violence Prevention Speaker Series of the
Institute for the Study of Social Change. |
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Thursday, 12/7
4:00-5:30pm
691 Barrows Hall
| Maxine Craig, Sociology, California State University East Bay,
Racial Identification in Brazil: Discrepancies between Observed and Self-identified Race
Stephanie Sears,
Dancing Like a Black Girl: The Politics and Poetics of Dance
Afternoon Forum Series of the
Center for Race and Gender. |
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Week 1
Friday, 1/20
noon
691 Barrows, Seminar Room for the Center for Race and Gender
| BDRI Seminar with Moderators: Alice Agogino and Denise Herd
Introduction and Background; Review of history and goals behind the BDRI
Assignment: Attend seminar by Linda Darling-Hammond and review readings.
Thought Questions: What is "authentic" pedagogy or "authentic" assessment? Darling-Hammond's talk is on research methodologies. What are the implications to equity in K-12 education?
Lecture Slides: Slides of the history and motivation of the BDRI. (download pdf file)
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Monday, 1/23
3:30-4:45pm
2515 Tolman Hall
| Linda Darling-Hammond
(Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University)
Informing Policy on Teacher Quality: The Use (and Non-Use) of "Scientifically Valid" Research
Does teacher preparation matter? If so, how? And what kind? This presentation will examine recent policy debates about teacher quality and preparation and the research that has informed those debates, taking on issues of how questions are framed, how research is conducted, and how findings are represented by proponents of different points of view. Arguing that methodologically strong research finds substantial influences of teacher preparation on student learning, Darling-Hammond will also discuss recent work establishing the effects of well-qualified teachers and probing the nature of their preparation.
Recommended Readings:
Inequality in Teaching and Schooling: How Opportunity Is Rationed to Students of Color in America,_Linda Darling-Hammond;
"No Child Left Behind and High School Reform"; and Access to Quality Teaching: An analysis of inequality in California's public schools, L Darling-Hammond, J Luczak, M Hyler, LM Carlson.
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Week 2
Friday, 1/27
noon
691 Barrows, Seminar Room for the Center for Race and Gender
| BDRI Seminar with Moderators: Alice Agogino and Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Implications of "improving policy and teacher quality on racial/ethnic inequalities in teaching and schooling?"
Assignment: Attend diversity event and complete readings for next week.
Thought Questions: What is the research basis for CREDE's five standards for effective pedagogy. What is the implication on diversity and equity in education?
Lecture Slides: Review of Linda Darling-Hammond's talk and her
Edutopia interview on Teacher Preparation. (download pdf file of her interview) |
Monday, 1/30
noon
315 Wheeler, Maude Fife Room
| Andrew Lam
(Author of Perfume Dreams:_Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora, Heyday Books)
Other Voices: Multicultural Literary Perspectives
Reading and discussion. Book signing to follow. Andrew Lam is an award-winning syndicated writer, an editor with the Pacific News Service, and a regular commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. He co-founded New California Media, and his essays have appeared in dozens of newspapers and magazines across the country, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Baltimore Sun, the Atlanta Journal, the Chicago Tribune, Mother Jones, The Nation, and Earth Island Journal.
Recommended Readings:
'Do Your Own Homework': Asian Students Should Learn to Think for Themselves, Andrew Lam, Pacific News Service; The Politics of Climate Change Andrew Lam, San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 16, 2005.
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Week 3
Friday, 2/3
noon
691 Barrows, Seminar Room for the Center for Race and Gender
Roland Tharp and Trish Stoddart
| BDRI Seminar with Trish Stoddart (University of California, Santa Cruz and the
Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence (CREDE))
Five Standards for Effective Pedagogy for Diverse Students
Moderator: Michele DeCoteau, Director,
Multicultural Engineering Program
The Five Standards have been implemented with an enormously diverse range of students for many decades now, from native Hawaiian and Alaskan students to native Zuni- and Spanish-speaking students to students in rural and inner city schools. In recent years, CREDE researchers have taken the Five Standards around the world, from Greenland to Taiwan to Iraq.
Suggested Readings: Five Standards for Effective Pedagogy; also see video clips of the Five Standards in action; research findings in Mathematics and Diversity as well as Science and Diversity; Executive Summary of the final report of
A National Study of Teacher Education Preparation For Diverse Student Populations; From High Chair to High School: Research-Based Principles for Teaching Complex Thinking, Roland Tharp and Susan Entz.
Thought Question:What kinds of characteristics, knowledge and skill prepare teachers to work in classrooms with students from many different language and cultural backgrounds?
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Friday, 2/3
3-5:00 pm
Shorb House, Channing/Bowditch
| Jose Nanez and Scott Miller (Arizona State University)
On Identifying Gifted Latino Students
Jose Nanez is a Professor of Psychology at Arizona State University- West,
and Research Professor at the Hispanic Research Center, Arizona State
University-Tempe. Scott Miller is the Executive Director of the National Task Force on Early Childhood Education for Hispanics at Arizona State University-Tempe.
Presentations on: 'An Alternative Methodology for Identifying Gifted Latino Students'; and 'Increasing Latino Representation in High Achievement Programs.' Sponsored by the
Center for Latino Policy Research, a research project of the UC Berkeley's Institute for the Study of Social Change. Conference room at the Center for Latino Policy Research, which is located in the Shorb House at 2547 Channing Way, corner with Bowditch.
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Friday, 2/3
5:00 pm
Maude Fife Room, Wheeler Hall
| Brenda Marie Osbey (Poet Laureate, State of Louisiana)
After the Storm: New Orleans Culture and History
In Spring 2005, Brenda Marie Osbey was appointed Poet Laureate of Louisiana. She will be reading poetry and discussing cultural history and expressions pre and post hurricanes.
Brenda Marie Osbey is the author of All Saints: New and Selected Poems (LSU Press, 1997), which received the 1998 American Book Award. She is the author also of Desperate Circumstance, Dangerous Woman (Story Line Press, 1991), In These Houses (Wesleyan University Press, 1988) and Ceremony for Minneconjoux (Callaloo Poetry Series, 1983; University Press of Virginia, 1985).
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Monday, 2/6
4:00 pm
159 Mulford Hall
| Rachel Morello-Frosch (Brown University)
Embodying Social Inequality: Segregation and Community Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards
Rachel's research examines race and class determinants of the distribution of health risks associated with air pollution among diverse communities in the United States. Her current work focuses on: comparative risk assessment and environmental justice, developing models for community-based environmental health research, science and environmental health policy-making, children's environmental health, and the intersection between economic restructuring and environmental health. With colleagues in Southern California, Rachel is currently working on a 4-year community-academic research partnership with Communities for a Better Environment in Los Angeles on "Air Pollution, Toxics and Environmental Justice." Rachel is also collaborating with scientists at US EPA on research on children's health and air toxics, and recently completed a project with the Center for Third World Organizing in Oakland California on transportation justice, access to health care, and food security. Seminar is sponsored by Environmental Science, Policy and Management.
Suggested Readings: "Discrimination and the Political Economy of Environmental Inequality", Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 2002, volume 20, pp. 477-496; "Separate and Unequal: Residential Segregation and Estimated Cancer Risks Associated with Ambient Air Toxics in U.S. Metropolitan Areas," Environmental Health Perspectives, volume 114, no. 3, March 2006. |
Tuesday, 2/7
noon-5:00 pm
Shorb House, Channing/Bowditch
| Monique Morris (Director, Discrimination Research Center)
Unveiling Covert Racism
Monique W. Morris has over 15 years of professional and volunteer experience as an advocate in the areas of education, civil rights, juvenile justice, and social justice. From 1998-2003, Ms. Morris led a number of research and advocacy campaigns to address racial and gender disparities in the criminal justice system. She is a nationally recognized expert who is often called as a resource for the media, professional associations, as well as civil rights and social justice organizations. Ms. Morris is also the author of Too Beautiful for Words (Amistad Press, 2001) and several other publications addressing race, gender, and culture. She received her Bachelor of Arts and Master Science degrees from Columbia University.
Youth Violence Prevention Speaker Series. Sponsored by the
Center for Latino Policy Research, a research project of the UC Berkeley's Institute for the Study of Social Change. Conference room at the Center for Latino Policy Research, which is located in the Shorb House at 2547 Channing Way, corner with Bowditch.
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Wednesday, 2/8
noon pm
554 Barrows Hall
| Horacio Roque Ramirez (Assistant Professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Communities, Institutions, and (Academic) Survival
Offered by the Graduate Diversity Program and the Barbara T. Christian Lecture Series.
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Wednesday, 2/8
noon pm
554 Barrows Hall
| Horacio Roque Ramirez (Assistant Professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Communities, Institutions, and (Academic) Survival
Offered by the Graduate Diversity Program and the Barbara T. Christian Lecture Series.
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Thursday, 2/9
4:00-5:30pm pm
691 Barrows, Seminar Room for the Center for Race and Gender
| Waldo Martin (Professor, History, University of California, Berkeley) and Leigh Raiford (Professor, African-American Studies, University of California, Berkeley)
Black Cultural Politics
The afternoon forum with start with presentations by the two speakers:
"'Be Real Black For Me': Representation, Authenticity and The Problem of Modern Black Cultural Politics" (Martin) and "Restaging Revolution: The Black Panther Party and Photographic Memory" (Raiford). Refreshments provided.
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Week 4
Friday, 2/10
noon
691 Barrows, Seminar Room for the Center for Race and Gender
| BDRI Seminar with Jeffrey M. Romm Professor of Environmental Science, Policy & Management (ESPM) and Chair of the Academic Senate's Subcommittee on
American Cultures
Environmental Justice and Injustice
Prof. Romm will also summarize and lead a discussion on the 2/6 diversity lecture:
Embodying Social Inequality: Segregation and Community Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards, Rachel Morello-Frosch (Brown University)
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Saturday, 2/11
8:30am
Pauley Ballroom, MLK Student Union
| Davey D (UC Berkeley Alum, Hip Hop historian, journalist, deejay and community activist)
2nd Annual Bridging the Gap Conference: "Redefining Reparations with the Hip Hop Nation"
This year marks the 2nd Annual Bridging the Gap Conference sponsored by the Graduate Minority Students' Project (GMSP) of the Graduate Assembly of UC Berkeley. Every year the GMSP has provided the community with annual events and resources such as the Distinguished Lecture of Color Series as well as the Diversity and Excellence Resource Publication. In follow-up to a successful 1st Annual Bridging the Gap Conference last year, the GMSP is proud to announce their 2nd Annual Bridging the Gap Conference themed: "Redefining Reparations with the Hip Hop Nation." There will be workshops, speakers and entertainment.
Prof. Charles Henry, of the BDRI Steering Committee, is one of the scheduled panelists.
The conference will feature Hip Hop historian, journalist, deejay and community activist Davey D as well as Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. of the P.O.C.C. Also included: workshops, discussions, free food, live performances by local middle and high school students as well as panelists representing but not limited to the following organizations: National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA), Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, African People's Socialist Party, International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), California Coalition for H.R. 40, Black Radical Congress, Pan African Network, Jubilee Debt Cancellation Network, Jericho Amnesty Movement (for Political Prisoners), Prisoners of Conscience Committee (P.O.C.C.) and the Bay Area Local Organizing Committee (BayLoc). Pre-register online today through Feb. 11 at http://www.struggle4reparations.com or on-site beginning Feb 11th, 2006.
Suggested Readings: Hip Hop Historian Davey D on "The Clear Channeling" of America, Democracy Now, May 23, 2005; Davey D's Hip Hop Daily News. |
Thursday, 2/16
7:00 pm
101 Morgan Hall
| Hatem Bazian, Darren Zook (Lecturer Near Eastern Studies UC Berkeley, Lecturer Political Science UC Berkeley)
Much Ado About Nothing?: A Look at the Cartoon Controvers
...(cartoons) depicting Islam's most revered personality, the Prophet Muhammad (SA), in a way that was inaccurate, derogatory and intentionally provocative. Other than demonstrating visceral hatred toward Islam, the cartoons achieved little else.' --Parvez Ahmed, board chairman of CAIR. Dr. Bazian (Near Eastern Studies), and Dr. Zook (Political Science) will discuss the issues surrounding the recent cartoon controversy and the international and domestic responses to it. Sponsored by the Muslim Student Union |
Week 5
Friday, 2/17
noon
104 North Gate Hall
(School of Journalism)
| BDRI Seminar with William Drummond Professor of Journalism
Race and Ethnicity in Satellite Media, along with discussion of the
Davey D event on 2/11, the Graduate Minority Students' Project (GMSP) of the Graduate Assembly of UC Berkeley.
Suggested Readings:
American's for Radio Diversity, SIRIUS and XM Satellite Radio Comparison Chart, a guide to How Satellite Radio Works, new article XM Radio Signs 3-Year Deal with Oprah Winfrey, and Ellen Hume, Annenberg Senior Fell's treatise on
Tabloids, Talk Radio, and the Future of News: Technology's Impact on Journalism. Although not available on the web, Joseph C. Phillips' book titled
He Talk Like a White Boy has much relevance to this thread of research and the distinction between radio and video media.
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Friday, 2/17
3:00-5:00 pm
CLPR Conference Room, 2547 Channing (entrance is on Bowditch)
| Lisa Chavez (UC Berkeley)
California Community Colleges as a Viable Pathway to the University of California for Latino Students
Lisa Chavez is the Principal Analyst for the Office of
Student Research at UC Berkeley. Ms. Chavez received
her Ph.D. in Sociology from UC Berkeley. Her research
focuses on educational attainment and college choice among
Latinos.
Suggested Reading: Increasing African American, Latino, and Native American Representation among High Achieving Undergraduates at Selective Colleges and Universities by Miller, Ozturk, and Chavez; Creating An Inclusive Campus Climate And Fostering Leadership (pdf) from the UC Berkeley Chicano/ Latino Community, Jan. 20, 2005.
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Saturday, 2/18
9:00 am
I-House
2299 Piedmont Avenue
| I-House Special Event
Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD)
The Museum of the African Diaspora connects all people through the celebration and exploration of the art, culture and history of the African Diaspora. MoAD promotes, explores, and appreciates the contributions people of African descent have made across the globe. By reminding us that Africa is the birthplace of humankind, MoAD seeks to transform the way we perceive each other and ourselves. MoAD celebrates how we all, as one world, have changed and influenced the history and cultures of the African Diaspora. MoAD's goal is to foster a greater understanding of human history and promote cross-cultural communication. As a first voice museum, MoAD will capture the essence of the African Diaspora experiences. Through four universal themes-Origins, Movement, Adaptation and Transformation-MoAD will share the stories of the people of African descent that celebrate the strength of humanity. |
Tuesday, 2/21
5:00 pm
TBA
| Boalt Hall Center for Social Justice
Screening: Soul of Justice: Thelton Henderson's American Journey
A special showing of Soul of Justice: Thelton Henderson's American Journey. The new documentary film portrays the momentous life and career of U. S. District Judge Thelton Henderson '62, and focuses on the adversity he faced from his days as the first African-American attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division in the early 1960s to his noteworthy quarter-century of service on the federal bench. A reception will immediately follow. |
Wednesday, 2/22
3:30 pm
GenEq - 202 Cesar Chave
| Gender and Equity Resource Center/OSL
Screening: Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
Bayard Rustin was one of the first "freedom riders," an adviser to Dr. Martin Luther King and A. Philip Randolph, organizer of the March on Washington, intelligent, gregarious and charismatic, but was denied his place in the limelight for one reason - he was also gay. This is a film biography of his life. The historical aspects of the documentary are based on primary research in the Rustin papers and other archives, and incorporates archival footage, stills, posters and broadsheets, government propaganda films, paintings, and more. 84 minutes
Documentary Days is an exciting chance to see some exciting and powerful films about a wide variety of social justice issues. It is a semeser-long series, so make sure to check out what else is coming up! |
Thursday, 2/23
4:00 pm
402 Barrows Hall
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Alondra Nelson (Yale University)
Genealogical Brances, Genetic Roots, and the Pursuit Of African Ancestry
Recent advances in genetic science have begun to transform not only biomedical research practices
but our conceptions of human relatedness as well. One development contributing to this
rearrangement of the social world is the advent of genetic heredity tracing÷commercial testing to
assign or confirm racial/ethnic ancestry. These services hold particular appeal for African
Americans who desire to bridge the historical and psychological lacuna that resulted from the
dispersal of Africans during the slave trade. Genetic heredity tracing, somewhat like the
genealogical research used by Alex Haley in the 1970s, is a technique by which persons of African
descent can move beyond the more proximal branches of the family tree to temporally and spatially
distal African roots. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among African American genealogists who are
also consumers of genetic heredity tracing services, this talk explores the ways in which notions
of racial identity, history, and kinship are produced and contested when conventional genealogical
methods are employed alongside novel genetic techniques. The discussion will also raise broader
matters, including the public understanding of genetic science and recent scholarly debates over
the epistemological status of race.
Alondra Nelson is Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Yale
University. She is presently at work on Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Politics of
Race and Health, a forthcoming book about late-twentieth African American advocacy around issues
of genetic disease, medicalized models of social unrest, and reproductive rights. Her talk will be
drawn from an ethnographic study in progress that explores the transformation of African American
and Black British social identities attendant to the use of commercial genetic technologies to
trace ancestry.
Sponsored by:
Department of Sociology, Science, Technology, and Society Center, Center for Race and Gender
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Friday, 2/24
11:00-12:30
Satellite and
internet broadcast
| Meredith Minkler (School of Public Health, UC Berkeley)
Collaborative Research with Communities: Value Added and Challenges Faced
Satellite and internet broadcast from UNC Minority Health Conference: 8th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture
Latinos.
The complex nature of many minority health problems and the failure of much traditional research to acknowledge the strengths of communities of color as potential partners in research have lead to growing excitement over a new paradigm that stresses action-oriented research with, rather than on, minority communities. This Keynote presentation will use case studies to illustrate the value added for communities and health researchers by community-based participatory research approaches. Core principles of such collaborative research will be illustrated, as will the ways in which this approach builds community capacity, focuses research questions on health issues that matter to minority communities, improves cultural sensitivity in all phases of the research process, and helps translate findings into action to help eliminate health disparities. Ethical and methodological challenges of collaborative community-based research also will be discussed and illustrated, and a case made for grappling with these dilemmas as we work to foster true community-health researcher partnerships to improve minority health.
Suggested Reading: Minority Health Project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Week 6
Friday, 2/24
noon
221 Kroeber Hall (the Gifford Room)
| Keith Wailoo, PhD (Professor, History, Rutgers University).
How Cancer Crossed the Color Line: Race and Disease in America
Wailoo's lecture explores the relationship of disease and the biomedical sciences in 20th-century American culture to questions of race, health politics, and group identity. "Every cancer tells its own story".
Prof. Wailoo is an historian of medicine interested in the relationship of disease and the biomedical sciences to questions of race, health politics, group identity, and 20th century American culture. He is jointly appointed in History, and in the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, having joined the faculty at Rutgers after 9 years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Department of History and Social Medicine).
He is author of several books including Drawing Blood, and Dying in the City of the Blues. He is currently working on several new projects: How Cancer Crossed the Color Line, a study of race, science, and cancer in 20th century America; The Politics of Pain, a history of the politics of pain management and public policy in America since World War II; and The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine, a comparative study of sickle cell disease, Tay Sachs, and cystic fibrosis in America (co-authored with Stephen Pemberton). The Center for Health Research; the Departments of Anthropology and Sociology;
the Science, Technology, and Society Center, the Institute for the Study of Social Change;
the UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Degree Program; the Department of African American Studies; and
the Institute of International & Area Studies. Reception to follow talk.
Suggested Reading: Keith Wailoo and Stephen Pemberton, The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine:
Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs,
Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease . Book not yet released. Amazon.com review: Why do racial and ethnic controversies become attached, as they often do, to discussions of modern genetics? How do theories about genetic difference become entangled with political debates about cultural and group differences in America? Such issues are a conspicuous part of the histories of three hereditary diseases: Tay-Sachs, commonly identified with Jewish Americans; cystic fibrosis, often labeled a "Caucasian" disease; and sickle cell disease, widely associated with African Americans. In this captivating account, historians Keith Wailoo and Stephen Pemberton reveal how these diseases - fraught with ethnic and racial meanings for many Americans - became objects of biological fascination and crucibles of social debate. Peering behind the headlines of breakthrough treatments and coming cures, they tell a complex story: about different kinds of suffering and faith, about unequal access to the promises and perils of modern medicine, and about how Americans consume innovation and how they come to believe in, or resist, the notion of imminent medical breakthroughs. With Tay-Sachs, cystic fibrosis, and sickle cell disease as a powerful backdrop, the authors provide a glimpse into a diverse America where racial ideologies, cultural politics, and conflicting beliefs about the power of genetics shape disparate health care expectations and experiences.
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Week 6
Friday, 2/24
3:00-4:30
303 Doe Library
| Keith Wailoo, PhD (Professor, History, Rutgers University).
A Discussion of Dr. Wailoo's forthcoming book,
The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine:
Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs,
Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease
Meeting with Studens. Students from all disciplines welcome. The Center for Health Research; the Departments of Anthropology and Sociology;
the Science, Technology, and Society Center, the Institute for the Study of Social Change;
the UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Degree Program; the Department of African American Studies; and
the Institute of International & Area Studies
Suggested Reading: See readings in seminar above.
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Monday, 2/27
3-4:00 pm, 373 Soda Hal
| Orit Hazzan (Associate Professor, Education in Technology and Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology).
Enhancing Diversity - The Case of Gender Diversity in Computing
Diversity can be expressed in different ways, such as nationalities, world views, gender and minorities, cultures, skills and life styles. In general, studies tell us that no matter how diversity is expressed, it benefits with societies that foster it. Accordingly, and not surprisingly, diversity is also perceived as a powerful management practice. Based on this perspective, in the talk I discuss the idea according to which diversity is one possible solution for problems with which organizations and communities face. Therefore, if we allow for diversity, all benefit.
Specifically, to illustrate this idea I present several case studies, based on the following three stages:
a. a problem has been identified and it has been recognized that diversity can (at least partially) solve it;
b. a cultural change that allows for diversity takes place;
c. all benefit from the new culture.
In general, the argument that will be highlighted in the talk is that we should recognize that diversity is a means (rather than a target) for improving our communities (schools, teams, organizations, etc.). Accordingly, diversity should not be the concern only of the underrepresented groups, but of all of us. A focus will be placed on gender diversity in computer science and software engineering.
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M-F, 2/27-3/3
7:00 pm, 101 Moffitt Hall
(except for Friday)
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Speakers for Islam Awareness Week
Islam Awareness Week, sponsored by the Muslim Student Association and other student groups, is designed to educate and promote campus understanding about Islam and Muslims through invited speakers, activities on Sproul, and other chances for the campus to interact with its Muslim community. The events below begin at 7 p.m. in 101 Moffitt Hall except where noted.
Monday: "Rumi, Sufism, and Islam," Shaykh Mukhtar Ali, Ph.D. candidate in Near Eastern Studies at Berkeley.
Tuesday: "The Status of Human Rights in Palestine," Alison Weir, executive director of If Americans Knew.
Wednesday: "The Status of Women In Islam," Ameena Jandali of the Islamic Networks Group (ING).
Thursday: "Malcolm X and the Civil Rights Movement," Amir Abdel Malki Ali, imam of Oakland's Masjid Al-Islam mosque.
Friday: Open Jum'uah (Friday prayer), led by Hatem Bazian, lecturer, UC Berkeley, 1:15 p.m. East Pauley Ballroom, MLK Jr. Student Union.
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Wednesday, 3/1
noon
201 Moses Hall
| Daniel Sabbagh (Centre d'etudes et de recherches internationales [CERI-Sciences Po])
Comparing Affirmative Action Policies in the United States and France: The Case of Higher Education
Co-sponsored by French Studies and the Insitute of Governmental Studies.
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Thursday, 3/2
4:00-5:30pm
691 Barrows, Seminar Room for the Center for Race and Gender
| Kevin Fellezs (UC President's Post-doctoral Fellow, Music) and Francesca Rivera (Graduate Student, Music)
Music, Race and Nation
Refreshments provided. |
Thursday, 3/2
6:00 pm, 2060 Valley Life Sciences Building
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Hearing: Hostile climate at UC Berkeley?
At this public hearing, students and faculty will give testimony about hostile climate for underrepresented minority students at UC-Berkeley that has worsened since the end of affirmative action, as well as expert testimony about hostile climate and how to improve it. The members of the campus community who are present will then vote on a set of resolutions to address hostile climate. Everyone is invited to give testimony and/or participate in the hearing. Among those who will testify will be Eugene Garcia, former dean of UC-Berkeley's Graduate School of Education, Shanta Driver, attorney and national co-chair of BAMN, UC-Berkeley professors, and students.
The event is co-sponsored by BAMN, the ASUC, the Graduate Assembly, and other student organizations. A panel representing the campus community will hear the testimony, and a written transcript will be submitted to the University.
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Week 7
Friday, 3/3
noon
691 Barrows, Seminar Room for the Center for Race and Gender
| Kenji Hakuta
Policy, Practice, and Research in the Education of Linguistic Minority Children
Lunch discussion with Dr. Hakuta on key research issues in psycholinguistics, bilingualism, and the acquisition of English in immigrant students and their impact on diversity in education in California. Lunch will be provided for students and guests.
Suggested Reading: Goto-Butler, Y., Orr, J. E., Bousquet Gutierrez, M. & Hakuta, K. (2000), "Inadequate conclusions from an inadequate assessment: What can SAT-9 scores tell us about the impact of Proposition 227 in California?", Bilingual Research Journal, 24, 141-154; Chang, M. J., Witt-Sandis, D. & Hakuta, K. (1999).
The dynamics of race in higher education: An examination of the evidence, Equity and Excellence in Education, 32, 12-16; Chang, M. J., Witt, D., Jones, J. & Hakuta, K. (Eds.) (2003),
Compelling Interest: Examining the Evidence on Racial Dynamics in Higher Education, Stanford University Press; Read
Chapter 11 "Priorities for Research" of
Improving Schooling for Language-Minority Children: A Research Agenda, published by the National Academy Press in 1997;
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Chancellor's Diversity Lecture
Friday, 3/3
3:30-5:00pm
2515 Tolman Hall
Reception
5:00-6:00pm
| Kenji Hakuta, the Founding Dean of the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts at the University of California, Merced
THE VALUES OF DIVERSITY IN EDUCATION: A Perspective from Research and Policy on Bilingualism and Linguistic Minority Education
An experimental psycholinguist by training, Kenji Hakuta is best known for his work in the areas of psycholinguistics, bilingualism, and the acquisition of English in immigrant students. He is the author and editor of several books, including
Mirror of Language: The Debate on Bilingualism (1986) and
In Other Words: The Science and Psychology of Second Language Acquisition (1994). He was the chair of a committee of the National Research Council which issued a report,
Improving Schooling for Language-Minority Children: A Research Agenda, published by the National Academy Press in 1997.
Hakuta is also professionally active in the areas of language policy, the education of language minority students, affirmative action in higher education, and improvement of quality in educational research. He has served as an expert witness in education cases involving language minority students, and his book (co-edited with Mitchell Chang, Daria Witt, and James Jones) Compelling Interest: Examining the Evidence on Racial Dynamics in Higher Education (Stanford University Press) was cited in the
U.S. Supreme Court decision on the University of Michigan Law School case on the use of race-conscious admissions policy.
Hakuta is a member of the National Academy of Education. He serves on the boards of the Spencer Foundation and the Educational Testing Service, and for 8 years, he chaired the National Educational Research Policy and Priorities Board of the U. S. Department of Education. Hakuta received his BA Magna Cum Laude in Psychology and Social Relations, and his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, both from Harvard University. Before joining UC Merced, he taught at Yale University, the University of California at Santa Cruz, and most recently, he was the Vida Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University.
Suggested Reading:
Chang, M. J., Witt, D., Jones, J. & Hakuta, K. (Eds.) (2003),
Compelling Interest: Examining the Evidence on Racial Dynamics in Higher Education, Stanford University Press; Wood, Peter,
Affirming Fraction: Diversity's multiple meanings", National Review Online, June 27, 2003;
The Effects of Racial Diversity on Cognitive Complexity in College Students:
A True Classical Experiment.
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Saturday, 3/4
8:30 am
691 Barrows, Seminar Room for the Center for Race and Gender
| Beverly Wright (Director of Deep South Center for Environmental Justice)
Empowering Women of Color Conference
This year marks the 21st anniversary of the
Empowering Women of Color Conference (EWOCC), which is acknowledged to be the longest running women of color conference in the country. For the past 21 years EWOCC has hosted a myriad of phenomenal speakers. The 2006 conference is themed "Nourishing Mother E.A.R.T.H" will feature Dr. Beverly Wright,
Founder and Director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at Xavier University located in New Orleans, Louisiana.
EWOCC will also feature a panel with five amazing environmental justice women of color activists: Enei Begaye, Dr. Jenice View, Sarah James, Dr. Ann Aurelia L—pez and Carla M. Perez.
Also included: stimulating workshops, exceptional vendors, cultural performances, the Women of Color Film Festival March 2-5, 2006 and much more! Tickets: $10-15 sliding scale, $5 youth/seniors/students..
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Thursday, 3/9
4-5:30 pm
CSHE Library, South Hall Annex
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Christopher Edley Jr, Dean and Professor, Boalt School of Law
Facing the Hardest Questions About Diversity:
What Clinton's White House Decision Process
Can Teach Berkeley
Sponsored by the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE)
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Week 8
Friday, 3/10
noon
691 Barrows, Seminar Room for the Center for Race and Gender
| BDRI Seminar with Gibor Basri Professor of Astronomy and member of the UC President's Task Force on Faculty Diversity
Summary of the Final Report of the
UC President's Task Force on Faculty Diversity
The charge of the President's Task Force on Faculty Diversity is to conduct a comprehensive program review of faculty diversity efforts at each campus modeled after the Bureau of State Audit's review of faculty gender equity in 2001-02.
Suggested Reading: Creating an Inclusive Campus Climate and Fostering Leadership, U.C. Berkeley Chicano/Latino Community, January 2005; Diversity Briefing for New Chancellor; Vice Provost Christina Maslach, June 2004; and
Ethnic Diversity on the UC Berkeley Faculty, 1992-2002, Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Equity Angelica Stacy, May 2002.
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Friday, 3/10
3:00-5:00pm
CLPR Conference Room, 2547 Channing (entrance is on Bowditch)
| Leo Chavez (Professor of Anthropology, UC Irvine)
Race and Nation in Immigration Discourse: An Analysis of Media Representations
Does teacher preparation matter? If so, how? And what kind? This presentation will examine recent policy debates about teacher quality and preparation and the research that has informed those debates, taking on issues of how questions are framed, how research is conducted, and how findings are represented by proponents of different points of view. Arguing that methodologically strong research finds substantial influences of teacher preparation on student learning, Darling-Hammond will also discuss recent work establishing the effects of well-qualified teachers and probing the nature of their preparation.
Recommended Readings:
Covering Immigration: Popular Images And The Politics Of The Nation (web page on his new book), "Immigration and Medical Anthropology" (pdf), In American Arrivals: Anthropology Engages the New Immigration. Santa Fe: SAR Press, 2003, and
"A Glass Half Empty: Latina Reproduction and Public Discourse" (pdf) Human Organization 63.2 (2004):173-188.
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Wednesday, 3/15
4:30pm
Wozniak Lounge, Soda Hall
| Richard Tapia (University Professor, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University)
Math at Top Speed: Exploring and Breaking Myths in the Drag Racing Folklore
Talk for the Center for Underrepresented Engineering Students (CUES).
Recommended Reading: Drag-racing Math Prof Talks about Numbers Outside the Classroom, The Minnesota Daily, November 25, 2003; A Race That's About More Than Speed, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Volume 49, Issue 29, March 28, 2003. |
Thursday, 3/16
4:00pm
Booth Auditorium_Boalt Hall School of Law
| T. Alexander Aleinikoff (Professor of Law; Executive Vice President, Law Center Affairs; Dean of the Law Center)
Robert D. and Leslie-Kay Raven Lecture on Access to Justice
Moderator: Professor Leti Volpp_Boalt Hall School of Law
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Thursday, 3/16
4:00pm
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
| Richard Tapia (University Professor, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University)
Successes and Challenges in Diversifying Research Universities and the National Science and Engineering Workforce
Professor Tapia will focus on the general challenges that the country faces
today concerning increasing the representation of those groups that have
been traditionally underrepresented in mathematics, science, and
engineering. He will share relevant formative experiences encountered along his life's journey as a publically educated first generation Mexican American from the barrios of Los Angeles to a Rice University Mathematics Professor and a President Clinton appointee to the National Science Board. Reception following, hosted by Berkeley Diversity Research Initiative,
Garbarini Lounge, Bechtel Engineering Center
Recommended Reading: SACNAS Mentoring: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, SACNAS News, Volume 6, Number 1, Fall 2003;
More Than a Matter of Equity, Access Online, Volume 15, Number 3, December 10, 2002;
Diversifying the Science and Technology Community, presentation at
A White House Roundtable Dialogue for President Clinton's Initiative on Race: Proceedings of Panel Discussion and Position Papers, February 13, 1998;
NISE:Assessing and Evaluating the Evaluation Tool - The Standardized Test, 1998 [Online Transcription of Presentation].
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Friday, 3/17
9:00am - 5:00pm
Boalt Hall School of Law, Goldberg Room
| Spring Conference of the Center for Latino Policy Research
Citizenship Without Borders: Belonging and Exclusion in Immigrant America
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Friday, 3/17
10:30am-noon
Boalt Hall School of Law, location TBA
| Maria Echaveste (Boalt School of Law, UC Berkeley and Co-Founder, Nueva Vista Group)
Lunch Panel Discussion
Maria Echaveste joins Boalt Hall after co-founding a strategic and policy consulting group, serving as a senior White House and U.S. Department of Labor official, and working as a community leader and corporate attorney.
From 1998 to 2001, she served as assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff to President Bill Clinton. In this capacity, Echaveste managed domestic policy initiatives that focused on education, civil rights, immigration and bankruptcy reform. She also developed communications, legislative and public outreach strategies. In another area, she coordinated relief efforts within the White House for foreign and domestic disasters, and specialized in international issues related to Latin America.
Echaveste held the post of director of the Office of Public Liaison at the White House from 1997 to 1998. She previously was the administrator of the labor department's Wage and Hour Division from 1993 to 1997. Under her leadership, the Department of Labor's anti-sweatshop initiative received a 1996 Innovations in Government award from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and the Ford Foundation.
Suggested Readings:Recent testimony before the House Committee on Agriculture, On the Job with Maria Eschaveste
The Go-Between: Bill Clinton's emissary to Washington interest groups douses fires and soothes egos., Maria Echaveste wins the 2004 Farmworker Justice Award
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Week 9
Friday, 3/17
noon
691 Barrows, Seminar Room for the Center for Race and Gender
| Richard Tapia (University Professor, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University)
Minority Mathematics Professor: A Round Peg in a Square Hole?
Discussion centered around Tapia's Lecture on
Successes and Challenges in Diversifying Research Universities and the National Science and Engineering Workforce
See description of Prof. Tapia's
Regents' lecture for more details and suggested readings.
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Saturday, 3/18
8:00am - 10:00pm
Pauley Ballroom, MLK Student Union
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Berkeley Conference on African-Americans
Pipleline to Excellence: Recreating the Village
Taking as its theme "Pipeline to Excellence, Recreating the Village," the inaugural Berkeley Conference of African Americans invites African-American alumni, students, faculty and staff to gather and discuss issues pertinent to the African-American community at UC Berkeley. More than 100 African-American alumni panelists and professionals will lead and join participants in career workshops and networking sessions.
Scheduled speakers include Congresswoman Barbara Lee (pictured); author and professor Dennis Kimbro; economist and commentator Dr. Julianne Malveaux; UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau; Dean of Boalt Hall School of Law Christopher Edley, and UC Berkeley Director of Admissions Walter Robinson. To register for the conference or learn more, visit the
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Monday, 3/20
4-5:15 pm
159 Mulford Hall
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Philip Deloria (Professor of History and American Culture and Director of the American Culture Program at the University of Michigan)
Native Nations and the Cultural Geography of Colonialism
His research interests include issues of culture and representation, particularly concerning American Indian people, social and cultural relations in contact situations, and environmental and Western American history.
Prof. Phil Deloria is the author of
Indians in Unexpected Places (University Press of Kansas, 2004);
Playing Indian, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998; The Blackwell Companion to American Indian History, co-edited with Neal Salisbury (Cambridge: Blackwell, 2002). He has published articles in several journals including "Thinking Self and Subject in a Family Way," Journal of American History 89:1 (June 2002): 25-29; "Richard White and the Politics of Knowledge," Western Historical Quarterly 32:2 (Summer 2002); "Vine Deloria Sr.," The New Warriors: American Indian Leadership in the Twentieth Century ed. R. David Edmunds (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001); "I Am of the Body: Thoughts on My Grandfather, Sports, and Culture," South Atlantic Quarterly 95:2 (Summer 1996): 321-338. Environmental Science, Policy, and Management Colloquium
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Week 10
Friday, 3/24
noon
691 Barrows, Seminar Room for the Center for Race and Gender
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Evelyn Nakano Glenn (Director of the Center for Race and Gender and Professor of Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies)
Research Agenda of the Center for Race and Gender
Evelyn Nakano Glenn is Professor of Women's Studies and Ethnic Studies. Her teaching and research interests focus on transdisciplinary methods, political economy of households, the intersection of race and gender, immigration, and citizenship. Her articles have appeared such journals as Social Problems, Signs, Feminist Studies, Social Science History, Stanford Law Review, Contemporary Sociology, and Review of Radical Political Economy, as well as in numerous edited volumes. She is the author of Issei, Nisei, War Bride: Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service (Temple University Press), Mothering: Ideology, Experience and Agency (Routledge), and Unequal Freedom, How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizen and Labor (Harvard University Press).
Suggested Readings:
Unequal Freedom, How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizen and Labor (Harvard University Press); scan recent issues of
Faultlines, the CRG newsletter.
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Friday, 3/31
noon
691 Barrows, Seminar Room for the Center for Race and Gender
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Cesar Chavez Holiday (no class)
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| Date, Time, Location | Event Description |
Thursday, 4/6
noon-1:30 pm
ISSC Conference Room, 2420 Bowditch Street (at Haste)
| Mark Warren (Associate Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
White Racial Justice Activists in America
Mark Warren is a sociologist concerned with the revitalization of American democratic and community life. He studies efforts to strengthen institutions that anchor inner-city communities-churches, schools, and other community-based organizations-and to build broad-based alliances among these institutions and across race and social class. Warren is interested in the development of community leaders through involvement in multiracial political action as well as the outcomes of such efforts in fostering community development, social justice, and school transformation; and is committed to using the results of scholarly research to advance democratic practice. He was a fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard in 2002, where he worked on a project studying white Americans who are active in the struggle for racial justice and equality.
Suggested Reading: Improving Instruction Through Community Organizing, An interview with Mark Warren.
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Thursday, 4/6
4:00-5:30pm pm
691 Barrows, Seminar Room for the Center for Race and Gender
| Jennifer Jue-Steuck (Ethnic Studies) From Anne Shirley To Annie Warbucks: Changing Cultural & Racial Representations of Adoptees in the American & Canadian Medias
and Leslie Wang (Sociology), From 'Missing Girls' to America's Sweethearts: White American Parental Ideologies and the Construction of Cultural Identity in Adopted Chinese Daughters
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Week 11
Friday, 4/7
noon
691 Barrows, Seminar Room for the Center for Race and Gender
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Rachel Moran (Robert D. and Leslie-Kay Raven Professor of Law)
The Grutter v. Bollinger case
Following law school, Rachel Moran clerked for Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit and worked for the San Francisco firm of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe. She joined the Boalt faculty in 1983. Prof. Moran is a member of the American Law Institute and the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools. She sits on the Standing Committee of the Division of Public Education, American Bar Association; on the Board of Advisors for the Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy; and on the Executive Board of the Berkeley Law Foundation. In addition in 2003 she chaired the Planning Committee for Taking Stock: Women of All Colors in Law Schools for the Association of American Law Schools and the Steering Committee for UC ACCORD. In 2003 she also became the director of the Institute for the Study of Social Change at UC Berkeley. In 1995 she received the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award.
Suggested Readings:
Grutter v. Bollinger U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia;
University of Michigan Admissions Lawsuits; Brief of the
Civil Rights Project at Harvard University as Amicus Curiae in Support of Appelants and Reversal, and Rachel F. Moran, Diversity and Its Discontents: The End of Affirmative _Action at Boalt Hall, 88 Cal. L. Rev. 2241 (2000).
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Friday, 4/7
3:00-5:00 pm
CLPR Conference Room, 2547 Channing (entrance is on Bowditch)
| Gilbert Gonzalez (UC Irvine) and Raul Fernandez (UC Irvine)
A Century of Chicano History
Recommended Readings:
Orange Counter Organizer: Ending US Imperialism is the Only Solution to US immigration Woes says UCI Professor; Excerpts from
A Century of Chicano History by Gilbert Gonzalez and Raul A. Fernandez.
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Week 12
Friday, 4/14
noon
691 Barrows, Seminar Room for the Center for Race and Gender
| Maria Echaveste (Berkeley's School of Law - Boalt Hall)
Racialization of Ethnic Identity among Hispanics: implications to immigration, integration and assimilation
Maria Echaveste's talk will focus on a recent National Academy of Sciences report on Hispanics, particularly the point made about the racialization of ethnic identity among Hispanics and the implications, including those connected to immigration, integration and assimilation.
Maria Echaveste is co-founder of the Nueva Vista Group a strategic and policy consulting group specializing in a broad range of issues including immigration, health care, telecommunications, and labor, and financial issues. She served as a senior White House and U.S. Department of Labor official, and has worked as a community leader and corporate attorney. From 1998 to 2001, she served as assistant to the president and
deputy chief of staff to President Bill Clinton. In this capacity, Echaveste managed domestic policy initiatives that focused on education, civil rights, immigration and bankruptcy reform. She also developed communications, legislative and public outreach strategies. In another area, she coordinated relief efforts within the White House for foreign and domestic disasters, and specialized in international issues related to Latin America.
Echaveste held the post of director of the Office of Public Liaison at the White House from 1997 to 1998. She previously was the administrator of the labor department's Wage and Hour Division from 1993 to 1997. Under her leadership, the Department of Labor's anti-sweatshop initiative received a 1996 Innovations in Government award from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and the Ford Foundation.
Suggested Reading: Multiple Origins, Uncertain Destinies: Hispanics and the American Future (2006), National Academy of Science.
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Wednesday, 4/19
8:30am - 5:00pm
Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley
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Poverty, Race, Place: Research and Community-Based Interventions To Reduce Health
Disparities Conference
The fourth in the Center's Science & Society series, this April 19th conference will highlight the
latest place-, race-, and poverty-based research, as well as strategies and interventions to
reduce health inequities. All UC Berkeley faculty and students and those who have interests in
health disparities, health care, and community-based organizations doing work on these issues are
invited to attend. Join us as leading academics, practitioners, and community leaders highlight
frameworks, research tools, and both promising and evidenced-based intervention practices. See
enclosed flyer or go to healthresearch.berkeley.edu/disparities for a complete list of speakers.
Registration-$20 general and $10 students/seniors-is required in advance and includes lunch. Sponsored by the Center for Health Research and co-sponsored by: The Center for Health Research; the Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy; the Center for Public Health Practice (School of Public Health); the Office of the Chancellor, UC Berkeley; and the Pacific Public Health Training Center.
Dr. Camara P. Jones, MD, MPH, PhD, will be the Keynote as the
Chancellor's Distinguished Diversity Lecturer. She is Research Director on Social Determinants of Health at the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. |
Thursday, 4/20
8:00am - 6:00pm
Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley
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The "-isms" Conference - Privilege, Bias and Oppression: Addressing Barriers to Eliminating
Health Disparities Within Health Organizations
In recent years, people working on health disparity and cultural competence initiatives in Bay
Area public health and health care organizations have found that powerful and underlying "-isms"
sometimes limit their ability to move these initiatives forward. These "-isms" include racism,
class-ism, sexism, ageism, heterosexism, able-body-ism, etc., and involve issues of oppression,
bias, and privilege. Working on these "-isms" is a complex and long-term process. This conference
is a first step, a starting point for the development of community-based plans and support
networks. Its intended audience includes those working in public health or health care (including
mental health) organizations who are currently addressing the "-isms" within their organizations
or who are interested in beginning this work in the future. Registration-$20 general and $10
students/seniors-is required in advance and includes lunch and a post-conference reception.
URL:
healthresearch.berkeley.edu/disparities (for a complete list of speakers and the conference
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Week 13
Friday, 4/21
noon
691 Barrows, Seminar Room for the Center for Race and Gender
| Denise Herd (School of Public Health)
Poverty, Race, Place and Health Disparities
Prof. Herd's discussion will center around her research as well as talks at the Health Disparities 4/19 Conference at the School of Public Health. See conference listing for more details and suggested readings.
Dr. Herd is an Associate Professor of Behavior Sciences and Associate Dean for Student Affairs in UCB's School of Public Health. Her research interests include health disparities; images of alcohol, drugs and violence in rap music; activism in African American communities, drinking and drug use patterns and problems; social movements; and multicultural health.
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Monday, 4/24
noon
2 Le Conte
| Sylvia Marcos
Decolonizing Feminism: The Indigenous Women's Movement in Mexico
Co-sponsors: Chicano/Latino Studies Program, Center for Race and Gender, Department of Spanish and Portuguese |
Monday, 4/24
4:00-5:30 pm
159 Mulford Hall
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David Pellow (Ethnic Studies and Program on California Cultures in Comparative Perspective, UC San Diego)
Environmental Justice, Labor Rights, and Human Rights: From Silicon Valley to Eastern Europe
David Pellow is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and the Director of the Program on California Cultures in Comparative Perspective at the University of California, San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology at Northwestern University in 1998. His research interests include Environmental sociology; race and ethnicity; qualitative research methods; globalization; environmental justice; work and occupations; and immigration.
Professor Pellow is the author of Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago (MIT Press, 2002). He is the co-author of The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy (New York University Press, 2002) and of Urban Recycling and the Search For Sustainable Community Development (Princeton University Press, 2000). His forthcoming edited volume is entitled People, Power, and Resistance: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement. (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press). He has published in the journals Qualitative Sociology; Organization & Environment; and Ethnicities. |
Week 14
Friday, 4/28
noon
691 Barrows, Seminar Room for the Center for Race and Gender
New Orleans lunch provided
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Yehuda Kalay (Architecture),
Paul Grabowicz (Journalism), and
Steven Pitts (Labor Center)
Bringing 7th Street Back to Life: The Oakland Jazz & Blues Clubs Virtual Reality Project
During the 1940s and 1950s, Oakland's 7th Street was a vibrant stretch of jazz and blues clubs, a cultural mecca that drew musicians and music lovers from all over the country with a heavy influence from New Orleans. This seminar will integrate themes of music, food and architecture in capturing the cultural heritage of Jazz/Blues in the East Bay. The speakers will provide a public viewing of the "work in progress" bringing 7th Street Back to Life The Oakland Jazz & Blues Clubs Virtual Reality Project and explore historical connections that culturally link New Orleans to East Bay.
The larger East Bay community has historically been intimately linked with the larger South and New Orleans in particular through the great migrations of the 1920's to 1940s. As it turns out, much of this cultural heritage was lost during the "urban renewal" of the 60's and 70's in Oakland. How then today, does the social and economic landscape of the East Bay hold a place for recapturing and reworking these pasts? As a tribute to its cultural roots, New Orleans' food will be provided for the lunch seminar. The seminar is co-sponsored with the American Cultures Center.
Suggested Readings:
Remembering 7th Street: The Oakland Jazz & Blues Clubs Virtual Reality Project
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Thursday, 5/4
4:00-5:30pm
691 Barrows, Seminar Room for the Center for Race and Gender
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Brandi Cantanese (African-American Studies / Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies) and Thomas Biolsi (Native American Studies)
Professor Carrillo has published in the area of indigenous rights, and in the area of property law. She is co-editor of a university press book series mapping forms of racism in contemporary life.
Refreshments provided.
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Week 15
Friday, 5/5
noon
691 Barrows, Seminar Room for the Center for Race and Gender
| Final presentation by students on their recommendations for a research agenda for the Berkeley Diversity Research Initiative
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Friday, 5/5
3:00-5:00 pm
ISSC Conference Room
2420 Bowditch Street (at Haste)
| Center for Latino Policy Research (CLPC) (part of the Institite for the Study of Social Change)
Cinco de Mayo Celebration
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Tuesday, 5/9
8:30am-4:00pm
Pauley Ballroom, Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union |
DIVERSITY IN ACTION: Strengthening Excellence in our Workplace
This forum will launch a new project on equity and diversity focused on UC Berkeley staff. All staff, students, faculty, and administrators are invited to attend. Participants will be asked to provide input on the priorities and criteria that will guide this new project, as well provided with opportunities to learn about programs and services already on campus to support and develop a diverse Berkeley staff.
The keynote speaker will be Nancy "Rusty"Barcel—, Vice President and Vice Provost for Diversity at the University of Washington. Other speakers include Chancellor Robert Birgeneau, UC Berkeley; Professor Alice Agogino, chair of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate; Associate President Linda Williams, UC Office of the President; Professor Elaine Kim, Asian American & Comparative Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley; Associate Vice Chancellor--Student Affairs Harry Le Grande, UC Berkeley; and Professor Emeriti Carlos Cortes, UC Riverside.
This is also the place to receive updates on many diversity, equity and inclusion efforts on campus since last year's forum and the launching of the Berkeley Diversity Research Initiative (BDRI).
There will be several language interpreters on site to assist with translations and questions throughout the day.
Please sign up now by contacting Gina Abrams at gabrams@berkeley.edu or 642-9605. (Space will be limited.)
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Tuesday, 5/9
4-6:00pm
Multicultural Center Heller Lounge, MLK Student Union |
Undergraduate Research Presentations on Access and Equity
Following the forum described above (DIVERSITY IN ACTION: Strengthening Excellence in our Workplace), there will also be undergraduate student research presentations on access and equity in the Multicultural Center of the student union (downstairs from the Pauley Ballroom).
Welcome: Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Christina Maslach
Opening Remarks: Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau
Exploring Transfer Student Success:
Instructors: Professor Caroline Kane, MCB; Director Marsha Jaeger, Center for Educational Partnerships; Director Eva Rivas, Transfer, Re-entry and Student Parent Center.
Undergraduate Researchers: Sereeta Alexander; Bianca M. Cano; Sandra E. Gutierrez
Overcoming 209: Changing the Vote on Affirmative Action
Instructors: Professor David Montejano, Ethnic Studies; Professor Taeku Lee, Political Science.
Graduate Student Researcher: Christine Koronides, MPP Candidate, Goldman School of Public Policy.
Undergraduate Researchers: Adrian Barragan; Lauren Bundy; Stephanie Diaz; Jennifer Chacon Maloney; Oscar Medina; Juana Miranda; Barbara Lin; Miriam Ochoa; John Rodrigues; Melissa San Miguel; Matt Tokeshi; Claudia Valdivieso
Reception to Follow.
The Diversity Research Seminars for Undergraduates were made possible through a gift from the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund. |
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