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Film Series: Exit West — Immigration on FilmSeptember 8 November 20, 2020 every day | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive- OnlineThis selection of films addressing immigrant and refugee experiences is inspired by Mohsin Hamid’s 2017 book Exit West, which new UC Berkeley students are reading this fall as part of Cal’s On the Same Page program. MORE about Exit West — Immigration on FilmOnline Auditions for 'Berkeley Dance Project 2021'Wednesday, September 9 | 6-9 p.m. | Online Via ZoomThe Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) welcomes current UC Berkeley students to audition for Berkeley Dance Project 2021, directed by Latanya d. Tigner.MORE about Conference: Aging in Asia: Ethical and Policy Issues in Healthy Aging and End of Life Care Across the Asia-Pacific RegionSeptember 9 2020 every Wednesday | 6-8 p.m. | Online - webinarWith aging populations and dwindling birth rates in many developed countries. healthy aging and end of life care are becoming an increasing challenge.MORE about Aging in Asia: Ethical and Policy Issues in Healthy Aging and End of Life Care Across the Asia-Pacific RegionSeminar: The State of Fire Science in CaliforniaThursday, September 10 | 3-4 p.m. | via ZoomThis new online seminar series will cover the breadth of wildland fire research relevant to California and introduce researchers to new topics and research groups across the state.MORE about The State of Fire Science in CaliforniaPanel Discussion: The Future of Food — Genetic Improvement Meets Sustainable AgricultureFriday, September 11 | 12-1 p.m. | Virtual UC Berkeley CampusBrian Staskawicz (UC Berkeley) and Pam Ronald (UC Davis) discuss the latest advances in using genome editing and other genetic technologies to promote sustainable agriculture at scale, both promises and potential pitfalls, and how we move from lab to field safely and equitably.MORE about The Future of Food — Genetic Improvement Meets Sustainable AgricultureBerkeley Conversations: Race, The Power of an IllusionFriday, September 11 | 2-4 p.m. | Virtual, Berkeley ConversationsThis event will consist of a one-hour screening of the award-winning docuseries Race, The Power of an Illusion: The Difference Between Us (Part 1), followed by a one-hour live-streamed panel discussion on the biological versus social determinants of race.MORE about Race, The Power of an IllusionLecture: The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native StudiesThursday, September 24 | 12-1:30 p.m. | https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9LRgte2RS6mlgOI5ZD4zkAIn her recent book The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies, Tiffany Lethabo King uses the shoal—an offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor sea—as metaphor, mode of critique, and methodology to theorize the encounter between Black studies and Native studies. MORE about The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native StudiesPanel Discussion: Evolving News Media Landscapes in India and PakistanThursday, September 24 | 9-10:30 a.m. | Zoom EventA panel discussion on a recent report from the Atlantic Council that sheds light on the critical implications that reconfiguring the media ecosystem has on India and Pakistan’s domestic politics and foreign policy, and the geopolitics of South Asia.MORE about Evolving News Media Landscapes in India and PakistanLecture: The University of California Land Grab: A Legacy of Profit from Indigenous Land; Part 1 — Unearthing Indigenous Land Dispossession in the Founding of the University of CaliforniaFriday, September 25 | 9 a.m.-12 p.m. | Zoom Virtual ForumThis event examines the 150,000 acres of Indigenous land that funded UC, how this expropriation is intricately tied to California’s unique history of Native dispossession and genocide, and how UC continues to benefit from this wealth accumulation today.MORE about The University of California Land Grab: A Legacy of Profit from Indigenous Land; Part 1 — Unearthing Indigenous Land Dispossession in the Founding of the University of CaliforniaSymposium: Unearthing Indigenous Land Dispossession in the Founding of the University of CaliforniaFriday, September 25 | 9 a.m.-12 p.m. | Zoom Virtual ForumWide-scale U.S. higher education began in 1862 when the Morrill Act provided each state with “public” lands to sell for the establishment of university endowments. MORE about Unearthing Indigenous Land Dispossession in the Founding of the University of California

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