On October 28, 2021, UC Berkeley's Townsend Center for the Humanities, Cal Performances, the Black Studies Collaboratory, and Social Science Matrix will present a conversation with Angélique Kidjo, focused on the global circulation of African musical forms and musicians, its worldwide significance, and its social power. Kidjo will be joined in conversation by Tianna Paschel, Associate Professor in the UC Berkeley Department of African American Studies; Ivy Mills, Lecturer, Visual and Literary Cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora; and Victoria Grubbs, Lecturer and Black Studies Collaboratory Postdoctoral Fellow.
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Threading the Interdisciplinary Needle: Advancing your work across fields while maintaining your home base
Global Metropolitan Studies and Social Science Matrix invite you to a panel discussion: "Threading the interdisciplinary needle: Advancing your work across fields while maintaining your home base." Panelists include Marta Gonzalez, Civil Engineering and City & Regional Planning; Brandi Summers, Geography; and Desiree Fields, Geography. Register in advance to attend.
Matrix On Point
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Matrix on Point: New Directions in Studying Policing
Contemporary movements like Black Lives Matter and the prison abolition movement point to the long histories of police violence and mass incarceration in the United States and elsewhere, demanding new approaches to approaching the history and present of policing. In this Matrix on Point presentation, panelists — including Kimberly Burke, Matthew Guariglia, Brie McLemore, and Eduardo Duran — will discuss the impacts of policing on the lives and health of officers and the communities they serve, as well as how contemporary policing practices are related to an unjust past.
Affiliated Centers
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Critical Infrastructure Under Stress
The Center for Global Metropolitan Studies and Social Science Matrix invite members of the UC Berkeley community — including doctoral students, researchers, and faculty — to participate in a campus-wide, interdisciplinary research initiative entitled, “Critical Infrastructure Under Stress.” The objective of the year-long series of events is to build connections across disciplines and to define and enable an impactful research agenda that leverages the rich research community at UC Berkeley and beyond.
Affiliated Centers
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How Black Lives Matter Influenced the 2020 Presidential Election
The 2021 Citrin Award honors the scholarship of Diana Mutz, Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and Director of the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics, whose wide-ranging work using both surveys and experiments has enhanced knowledge in communication and persuasion in politics with a much-needed focus on the bases of civility and mutual understanding in American democracy.
Social Science / Data Science
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Doing Academic Research with Amazon Mechanical Turk
Please join us on October 1, 2021 at 12pm for a panel discussion focused on Amazon Mechanical Turk, a popular online tool for conducting social science research. The panel will will bring together researchers who will share their experience with the MTurk platform, as well as others who have written about the social and ethical aspects of this platform more generally.
Berkeley Conversation
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Defending Against the Ravages of Disinformation
The online Berkeley Conversation, “Defending Against Disinformation,” will be held on Tuesday Sept. 21 from 12 noon to 1:30 p.m. The event will be streamed live on YouTube and on Facebook. “Defending Against Disinformation” features a panel of elite scholars who specialize in democracy, law, racial justice, communication and technology: Geeta Anand, dean of the School of Journalism; Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of Berkeley Law; Hany Farid, associate dean and head of the School of Information; Susan D. Hyde, chair of the Department of Political Science; and john powell, director of the Othering & Belonging Institute. The panel will be moderated by Henry Brady, former dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy.
Affiliated Centers
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The Secular State and Religious Tolerance
Is secularism (laïcité) compatible with religious tolerance? Join us on September 13, 2021 as Professor Denis Lacorne, Senior Research Fellow at CERI (Centre d’Etudes et des Researches Internationales), Sciences Po, will explore the impact of secular regimes on religious tolerance, emphasizing religious symbols and the space granted to religious symbols in the public square.
Affiliated Centers
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California Votes: The Effort to Recall Governor Gavin Newsom
Moderated by Democratic strategist Katie Merrill, this September 10 panel discussion will feature LA Times political reporter Seema Mehta, USC Distinguished Professor of Sociology Manuel Pastor, and IGS Poll Director Mark Di Camillo, along with results from an IGS Poll that surveyed over 8,000 California voters in the final weeks leading up to the election.
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CCRM Seminar: Paul R. Schulman and Emery Roe
In the upcoming virtual meeting of the UC Berkeley Center for Catastrophic Risk Management (CCRM), Paul Schulman and Emery Roe propose to review and analyze not only the practical medical and public health challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, but also the challenges the pandemic poses to our understanding of basic concepts applied to public organizations, their administration and management.
Matrix On Point
Truth & Denial: Searching for Information in the Digital Era
Join us on April 22 for a "Matrix on Point" discussion, as a group of distinguished panelists will approach questions of objectivity, disinformation, and the construction of truth from a media-consumption (rather than media-production) perspective, focusing on how internet users find information, how algorithms play a deterministic role in search results, and how lies propagate and solidify.
Affiliated Centers
President Biden’s First 100 Days: An Assessment
Join us for a panel discussion on how President Joe Biden has fared during the first 100 days of his term. Panelists will include: Mark Z. Barabak, Vanessa Tyson, Terry Bimes, and George Breslauer.