Please join us on January 29, 2020 from 12-1:30 pm for an engaging discussion about 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. In discussing her book, Jones-Rogers will engage with  two eminent colleagues: Bryan Wagner, Associate Professor in the Department of English, UC Berkeley; and Leslie Salzinger, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, UC Berkeley. RSVP HERE

Please join us on February 7, 2020 at 4pm as Jack Sidnell, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, will deliver a lecture entitled, "'Respect those above, yield to those below': Conceptualizing social hierarchy in Vietnamese interlocutor reference." This event is co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Department of Anthropology. RSVP HERE

Social Science Matrix, UC Berkeley’s flagship institute for cross-disciplinary social science research, is pleased to offer a Dissertation Proposal Development Workshop, led by Interim Director Michael Watts, Emeritus "Class of 1963" Professor of Geography and Development Studies at UC Berkeley. The workshop will be held on February 19, 2020 from 2-5 PM. The workshop is open only to post-MA students who are ideally in the process of working on a dissertation proposal or who are intending to meet upcoming funding deadlines (from the Social Science Research Council, the NSF, and other research foundations and organizations). Participation is limited; applications will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. SIGN UP HERE

Please join us on February 27, 2020 at 12pm for an “Authors Meet Critics” discussion of Eros Ideologies: Writings on Art, Spirituality, and the Decolonial (Duke University Press), by Professor Laura Eliza Pérez, Professor of Ethnic Studies and and Chair of the Latinx Research Center. Professor Pérez will be joined by Natalia Brizuela, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Literature & Culture, UC Berkeley; and Julia Bryan-Wilson, Professor, Modern and Contemporary Art, Department of Art History, UC Berkeley. This talk is presented as part of the Social Science Matrix “Authors Meet Critics” book talk series.

This Matrix On-Point, scheduled on Super Tuesday, will consider a wide range of issues related to the security and fairness of our elections. The panel will include Sarah Anzia, Michelle J. Schwartz Associate Professor of Public Policy & Associate Professor of Political Science; Bertrall Ross, Chancellor's Professor of Law; and Eric Schickler, Professor, Jeffrey & Ashley McDermott Endowed Chair of Political Science. Co-sponsored by the Institute of Governmental Studies. RSVP HERE

Please join us on March 4, 2020 at 12pm for a lecture by Alexandra Gillies, an expert on oil-sector corruption and author of the book Crude Intentions: How Oil Sector Corruption Contaminates the World. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Africa Studies and Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment. RSVP HERE

In her book, Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City, Brandi Thompson Summers, Assistant Professor of Geography and Global Metropolitan Studies at UC Berkeley, documents D.C.’s shift to a “post-chocolate” cosmopolitan metropolis by charting H Street’s economic and racial developments. Join us on March 17 as Thompson Summers will discuss the book with Nikki Jones, Professor in the Department of African American Studies at UC Berkeley. RSVP HERE

Please join us on March 18th, 2020 for a lecture by Jack Jackson, Assistant Professor of Politics at Whitman College, based on his book, Law Without Future: Anti-Constitutional Politics and the American Right. RSVP HERE

Once home to the most progressive tax system in the world, the United States now has a highly regressive tax system in which the richest Americans pay the lowest tax rate. What might increased taxes on the richest Americans look like? What would be the impacts of the different tax policies the Democratic presidential candidates are proposing? Join us for a talk about tax policy with Emmanuel Saez, Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley and co-author of The Triumph of Injustice; and Danny Yagan, Assistant Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley. RSVP HERE