In this presentation, Grace Taneri, Research Scholar from Cyprus and Resident at the UC Berkeley Center for Studies on Higher Education, will discuss ongoing debates about academic freedom in Asia and the Middle East, as well as value protection in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) of the West (i.e. North America and Western Europe). Some Western universities are concerned about risks to their reputation should they engage in joint projects with universities and governments in these regions. Yet many have proceeded with various globalization efforts, such as launching new universities, liberal arts colleges (LACs), branch campuses, alliances, or research and teaching partnerships. Join us for questions for debate, lessons to be taken away, and the possibility of making the globalization efforts success stories. Lunch will be served. This event is presented in partnership with the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE).

The Department of African American Studies at UC Berkeley presents its 24th annual St. Clair Drake Research Symposium, "Diaspora Across the Disciplines". Brainchild of the late Professor of African American Studies VèVè A. Clark, the St. Clair Drake Symposium is an opportunity for graduate students, artists, and community members to present recent papers, talks, projects, and performances that engage the African diaspora across the varying methods, media, and styles encountered and engaged in multi- and interdisciplinary Black Studies scholarship.

In this talk, Stephanie Beyer, Visiting Scholar from Germany and resident at Center for Studies in Higher Education, will present her dissertation, “Homo-Prestigious? University Status and the Academic Career”. Beyer analyzes how departmental prestige affects the perception of professors and PhD students; she investigates how distinctions among institutions shape different career trajectories and academic perceptions, includinng their views on autonomy, rankings, and competition for funding. Beyer applies a mixed-methods approach using geometrical data analysis and interviews conducted with faculty and PhD candidates from different prestigious departments. Join the conversation as we discuss the relationship between university status and the academic career.

The keynote presentation for "The [in]Justice System," a series focused on the crisis of mass incarceration in the United States, will feature Benjamin Todd Jealous, former president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization.

The annual Human Rights Interdisciplinary (HRI) Minor Conference features graduating HRI Minor students presenting their theses. This year's topics include “Responding to Mass Atrocity”; “Promoting Children’s Rights”; and “Human Rights in the United States: Advocacy, Education, and Debate”. As part of the event, Egyptian political scientist Amr Hamzawy will deliver a keynote address (at 2pm) focused on human rights in Egypt since 2011. The public is invited to attend any part of the program or the entire day.

UC Berkeley’s Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing is hosting a symposium on "New Directions in Computational Social Science and Data Science". In addition to presentations, this event will be discussion sessions and a panel session. Further information, including a link to a registration page, can be found at: https://simons.berkeley.edu/events/computational-social-science. Please note: this event is now full but you can view a livestream at https://simons.berkeley.edu/events/computational-social-science.

This conference, delivered by the Institute of European Studies and organized as part of a Social Science Matrix Research Team, will consider to what extent Europe appears to be polarizing along national, historiographic, social, economic, political, ethnic, and religious lines. The first panel, “Politics of Identity: Collective Memory, Conflict, Legality, and Solidarity,” examines the individual and collective aspects of identity in a changing Europe, the borders of which are constantly extending themselves beyond the initial EU countries.

Laura T. Hamilton is Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Merced, author of Parenting to a Degree: How Family Matters for College Women’s Success, and co-author of Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality. In this presentation, she will discuss her research of the role of college parents—frequently referred to as “helicopters”. Professor Hamilton followed the families of 41 young women as they moved through a public flagship. She interviewed the women every year for five years, asking about parental relationships and support, and interviewed both their mothers and fathers as women neared graduation.

Ami Zusman, Research Associate will plan to discuss her manuscript, Driving Change: Creating New Kinds of Professional Doctorates, which has recently been accepted for publication in The Journal of Higher Education.

This event is co-sponsored by Social Science Matrix and is presented by the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) as part of a 2016 Spring Colloquium Series. For more information, see the CSHE website.