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Event Date: October 15th, 2025
12:00pm-1:30pm
Patrice Douglass, “Engendering Blackness: Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence”
Please join us on October 15 from 12-1:30pm for an Authors Meet Critics panel on the book Engendering Blackness: Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence, by Patrice Douglass, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley. Professor Douglass will be joined in conversation by Salar Mameni, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and Henry Washington, Jr., Assistant Professor of African American Studies at UC Berkeley. Courtney Desiree Morris, Associate Professor of Gender and Womens Studies at UC Berkeley, will moderate.
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Recap
Published February 12, 2020
They Were Her Property
Recorded on January 29, 2020, this "Authors Meets Critics" panel featured a discussion of 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.
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Article
Published January 28, 2020
The Berkeley Protocol on Open Source Investigations
UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center is leading the way in the ethical use of open-source methods for investigating war crimes and human rights violations. We interviewed Dr. Alexa Koenig, executive director of the Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law and a pioneer in shaping the Berkeley Protocol.
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Recap
Published January 28, 2020
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Race for Profit
In a Matrix Distinguished Lecture, Princeton professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor explained how banks and the real estate industry have undermined black homeownership.
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Recap
Published December 18, 2019
Who’s on First? The Democratic Race at the End of the Invisible Primary
Recorded on December 12, 2019, this video features a panel on the state of the presidential race heading into the 2020 primary season.
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Published December 18, 2019
Q&A with David Harding: “On the Outside: Prisoner Reentry and Reintegration”
An interview with David Harding, Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley and co-author of the book On the Outside: Prisoner Reentry and Reintegration, which examines the lives of 22 people as they pass out of the prison gates and back into the world.
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Recap
Published December 12, 2019
In the Ruins of Neoliberalism
Watch the video from our "Authors Meet Critics" panel on Professor Wendy Brown's In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Anti-Democratic Politics in the West.
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