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.

Please join us on October 24 as three distinguished scholars—Mark Bevir, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for British Studies, Akasemi Newsome, Associate Director of the Institute of European Studies, and Ian Duncan, Florence Green Bixby Chair in the English Department—will discuss important questions about Brexit, when the United Kingdom is scheduled to leave the European Union. What's next for Brexit? Will a deal be reached, and if not, what are the implications of another delay? How will Brexit transform political and economic life in the United Kingdom, Europe, and the world?

Please join us on October 3, 2019 at 4pm for a book talk featuring Barry Eichengreen, Professor of Economics & Political Science, UC Berkeley, whose new book, The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era, places the global resurgence of populism in a deep historical context. Professor Eichengreen will be joined by Paul Pierson, Professor of Political Science, and Brad DeLong, Professor of Economics. This talk is presented as part of Social Science Matrix's new "Authors Meet Critics" book series, which features lively discussions about recently published books by social scientists at UC Berkeley.

This panel will explore the capabilities and limitations of AI technology. The panelists will be: Morgan Ames, Assistant Adjunct Professor in the School of Information and Interim Associate Director of Research for the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society; Jacob Steinhardt, Assistant Professor in Statistics and EECS; Peter Cihon, Research Affiliate, Center for the Governance of AI, Oxford; and Michael Carl Tschantz, Senior Researcher at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI).