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

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 January 24, 2020 from 12pm-1:30pm for a Matrix Lecture by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. She will discuss her book, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, which was published in 2019 by University of North Carolina Press and has been longlisted for a National Book Award for nonfiction. RSVP HERE

Presented by the Jack Citrin Center for Public Opinion Research, this panel discussion will assess the state of the Democratic presidential race. Panelists include: John Zaller, Professor of Political Science at UCLA; author of the acclaimed book, The Party Decides; Terri Bimes, Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley; and Thomas Mann, Senior Fellow in Governance, The Brookings Institution; Distinguished Resident Scholar, UC Berkeley

Please join us for a discussion of the Professor Wendy Brown’s book, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Anti-Democratic Politics in the West, which casts the hard-right turn as animated by socioeconomically aggrieved white working- and middle-class populations, but contoured by neoliberalism’s multipronged assault on democratic values. Presented as part of Social Science Matrix “Authors  Meet Critics” Series, the talk will feature Professor Brown along with two colleagues: Gillian Hart, Professor Emerita, Department of Geography, UC Berkeley; and Tianna Paschel, Professor in the Departments of African American Studies and Sociology at UC Berkeley. 

Members of the UC Berkeley community are invited to join a Matrix Pop-Up Writing Workshop to discuss a new paper by Emily Mackil, Associate Professor in the Department of History, entitled “Property Confiscation in the Ancient Greek World: Uncertainty, Probability, and Quantification in Historical Analysis.”

With the 2020 general elections looming, the nominee for the Democratic Party undetermined, and a defiant and volatile president at the helm, the impeachment inquiry is sure to heat up in the weeks ahead. At stake in this topsy-turvy political theater are our democratic institutions, which may be forever altered. Join us on November 5 for this important Matrix On Point, which features two prominent scholars: Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of Berkeley Law, and Robert B. Reich, Carmel P. Friesen Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy.

Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the ultra-rich have had their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s.