Speakers include Morris Levy, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Southern California; Cecilia Mo, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley; and Cara Wong, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois. Moderated by Laura Stoker, Associate Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley. Sponsored by the Citrin Center for Public Opinion Research, Public Law & Policy @ Berkeley, Institute of International Studies (IIS), and Institute for the Study of Societal Issues.

Please join us: Monday, March 4th at 4:00 pm in 820 Barrows Hall for the Spring 2019 Social Science Matrix Distinguished Lecture, "The Rise of Illiberal Governance: Comparing Viktor Orban and Donald Trump," presented by

This semester, Social Science Matrix will be supporting the UC Berkeley Grad Division in presenting Grad Slam, a UC-sponsored competition designed to showcase graduate student research for a general audience in three-minute talks.

Sponsored by the Matrix Research Team on Queer Ecologies/Feminist Biologies, this presentation will feature Dr. Cleo Woelfe-Erskine discussing some of his most recent research, in a presentation entitled "With and For the Multitude: Cruising a Waterfront with José Esteban Muñoz."

A presentation by Sherene H. Razackis Distinguished Professor and the Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Gender Studies, UCLA. "In this paper, I pursue what race has to do with disposability through an examination of the death in custody of a Roma refugee. I end with comments about the connections that can be drawn between the processes of disposability for refugees, African Americans and Canadians and Indigenous peoples who die at the hands of the police. These connec­tions reveal disposability to be a racial and glob­al process orchestrated by states and sustained by professionals (medical, legal, police)."

The panel will review the outcomes of the 2018 midterm elections and provide an account of the factors producing this result.

Please join us on Thursday, November 15 from 10am-noon for the Social Science Matrix Distinguished Lecture, which will be delivered by Alondra Nelson, president of the Social Science Research Council and

This panel discussion will feature scientists in the life sciences who are working on critical research to push their fields in new directions. The panel will focus on scholarly contributions to upend histories of heterosexism, biological determinism, and environmental injustice.

Presented by the Citrin Center for Public Opinion Research, this panel discussion will offer insights and analysis focused on the 2018 mid-term elections.