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Event Date: March 10th, 2026
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM PT
New Directions: Colonial Legacies, Post-Colonial Perspectives
Colonial legacies continue to shape political, social, and intellectual life. While colonialism is often treated as a historical period, its structures and logics persist in contemporary debates around race, territory, knowledge, and power. This panel — part of the Social Science Matrix New Directions series — will bring together UC Berkeley graduate students from anthropology, geography, and sociology to examine how colonial histories are reproduced, contested, and reimagined across different contexts.
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Recap
Published September 21, 2020
Race and Public Opinion: Today in Historical Context
Recorded on September 10, 2020, this online panel discussion - presented by the University of California, Berkeley's Citrin Center for Public Opinion Research and Social Science Matrix - focused on the history of race and public opinion.
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Article
Published September 15, 2020
Social Science Prediction Platform
An interview with Stefano DellaVigna, Professor of Economics and Business Administration at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Article
Published August 26, 2020
Christopher Carter on Indigenous Autonomy
An interview with Christopher Carter, a PhD candidate in Political Science at UC Berkeley and a Research Associate at the Center on the Politics of Development, who has been announced winner of the 2020 Best Fieldwork Prize from the Democracy and Autocracy Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA).
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Article and News
Published July 29, 2020
Q&A: Dan Lindheim on Police and the Community
An interview with the former Oakland City Administrator — and member of a new Matrix Research Team on police and the community.
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News
Published June 25, 2020
2020-2021 Matrix Research Teams Announced
Seven new interdisciplinary teams will tackle emerging social-scientific topics
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Published June 2, 2020
2020 Social Science Division Distinguished Teaching and Service Awards
Raka Ray, Dean of the Division of Social Sciences, honors instructors for overcoming challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic
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