Interview
Article and News
Published July 29, 2020
Q&A: Dan Lindheim on Police and the Community
An interview with the former Oakland City Administrator — and member of a new Matrix Research Team on police and the community.
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Article
Published May 6, 2020
Disaster Preparedness and Seeking Equity Amidst COVID-19
An interview with Sarah Vaughn, Assistant Professor in the UC Berkeley Department of Anthropology, on how different communities prepare for and respond to pandemics and disasters.
Learn More >Inclusion
Published April 22, 2020
COVID-19 is Blind to Legal Status, but Can Disproportionately Hurt Immigrants
COVID-19 is blind to legal status, but can still disproportionately hurt immigrants, argue Jasmijn Slootjes and Irene Bloemraad from the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative.
Learn More >Cities
Article
Published April 8, 2020
Gangs, Labor Mobility, and Development
A Q&A with Carlos Schmidt-Padilla, PhD Candidate in the UC Berkeley Department of Political Science, on his research showing the staggering economic toll of living within gang-controlled territory.
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Interview
Published March 30, 2020
Matrix Podcast: Interview with Desiree Fields
In this episode, Michael Watts talks with Desiree Fields, Assistant Professor of Geography and Global Metropolitan Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Fields' research explores the financial technologies, market devices, and historical and geographic contingencies that make it possible to treat housing as a financial asset, and how this process is contested at the urban scale.
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Recap
Published March 10, 2020
Election Manipulation
Recorded on March 3, 2020, this Matrix On Point panel consider a wide range of issues related to the security and fairness of our elections.
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Recap
Published February 12, 2020
They Were Her Property
Recorded on January 29, 2020, this "Authors Meets Critics" panel featured a discussion of They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South, by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, Associate Professor of History at UC Berkeley.
Learn More >Matrix Lecture
Recap
Published January 28, 2020
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Race for Profit
In a Matrix Distinguished Lecture, Princeton professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor explained how banks and the real estate industry have undermined black homeownership.
Learn More >Other Events
Recap
Published December 18, 2019
Who’s on First? The Democratic Race at the End of the Invisible Primary
Recorded on December 12, 2019, this video features a panel on the state of the presidential race heading into the 2020 primary season.
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Published December 18, 2019
Q&A with David Harding: “On the Outside: Prisoner Reentry and Reintegration”
An interview with David Harding, Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley and co-author of the book On the Outside: Prisoner Reentry and Reintegration, which examines the lives of 22 people as they pass out of the prison gates and back into the world.
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Recap
Published December 12, 2019
In the Ruins of Neoliberalism
Watch the video from our "Authors Meet Critics" panel on Professor Wendy Brown's In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Anti-Democratic Politics in the West.
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Recap
Published November 27, 2019
On IPCC, Climate Crisis
A "Matrix On Point" panel examined the climate crisis from diverse disciplinary perspectives.
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