A PhD candidate in UC Berkeley’s Department of Political Science researches the causes and consequences of indigenous autonomy in the Americas

An interview with Sarah Vaughn, Assistant Professor in the UC Berkeley Department of Anthropology, on how different communities prepare for and respond to pandemics and disasters.

 COVID-19 is blind to legal status, but can still disproportionately hurt immigrants, argue Jasmijn Slootjes and Irene Bloemraad from the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative

 A Q&A with Carlos Schmidt-Padilla, PhD Candidate in the UC Berkeley Department of Political Science, on his research showing the staggering economic toll of living within gang-controlled territory.

Recorded on March 6, 2020, this panel discussion focused on the book "Immigration and the American Ethos," by Morris Levy, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern California, and Matthew Wright, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. Joining the authors as discussant was Nicholas Valentino, Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan. The panel chair was Irene Bloemraad, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative at UC Berkeley.

Recorded on February 27, 2020, this “Authors Meet Critics” discussion focused on Professor Laura Eliza Pérez's book Eros Ideologies: Writings on Art, Spirituality, and the Decolonial (Duke University Press). Pérez, Professor of Ethnic Studies and and Chair of the Latinx Research Center, was joined by Natalia Brizuela, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Literature & Culture, UC Berkeley; and Julia Bryan-Wilson, Professor, Modern and Contemporary Art, Department of Art History, UC Berkeley.

Watch the inaugural "Authors Meet Critics" panel, which centered on Professor Barry Eichengreen's book, The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era.

A video featuring panel discussion with four distinguished political scientists discussing the role of the economy in the 2020 elections. This event was co-sponsored by Social Science Matrix and the Jack Citrin Center for Public Opinion Research.

A Q&A with Professor Barry Eichengreen, author of The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era.

How do we move forward after an incident of sexual violence or harassment involving members of our community? What does a trauma-informed community look like? Recorded on May 13, 2019, this video features a panel discussion addressing these and other questions, featuring representatives from different resource centers on the UC Berkeley campus.