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Event Date: March 17th, 2025
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM PT
Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba
Please join us on March 17 from 4pm-5:30pm for an Authors Meet Critics panel on the book "Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba," by Areej Sabbagh-Khoury, Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley. Professor Sabbagh-Khoury will be joined in conversation by Zeus Leonardo, Professor in the School of Education at UC Berkeley; and Keith Feldman, Associate Professor and Chair of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. Ussama Makdisi, Professor of History and Chair for the new Palestinian and Arab Studies Program at UC Berkeley, will moderate.
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Published August 6, 2014
ADHD Explosion
UC Berkeley Professors Stephen P. Hinshaw and Richard M. Scheffler argue that ADHD must be understood as a result of both social conditions and biology.
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Published August 6, 2014
A Critical Take on Cities
UC Berkeley's Critical Urbanisms Working Group draws upon diverse disciplines to re-examine cities and how they are planned and managed.
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Published August 6, 2014
Invited Interventions
Research by UC Berkeley Political Scientist Aila Matanock sheds light on why state-building interventions succeed in some nations and not others.
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Published August 6, 2014
Take No Prisoners
Through overcrowding, lockdowns, and medical neglect, the conditions in U.S. prisons have become unconstitutional, according to UC Berkeley legal scholar Jonathan Simon.
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Published August 6, 2014
Decline of the City-State
UC Berkeley historian Mark Peterson writes about the prominence—and ultimate decline—of city-states, using 18th- and 19th-century Boston as an example.
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Published August 4, 2014
The Happy App
Tchiki Davis, a Berkeley social psychology Ph.D. candidate, is building an app to boost happiness.
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