Institute for the Study of Social Change (ISSC) UC Berkeley

CONFERENCES

Below are conferences that the Institute for the Study of Social Change has sponsored or is currently planning. Click on the link for more information.

Whose Poverty? Whose Crime? Unlocking the Criminalization of Poverty.
Thursday and Friday, March 6th and 7th, 2007
Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley

VIDEO OF CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

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PAST CONFERENCES

Law’s Violence, Ruptured Community: Justice and Healing for Immigrant Youth
Thursday and Friday, March 8th and 9th, 2007
Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley
Videos of this conference avalible through the above link.

Celebrating the Institute for the Study of Social Change:
Thirty Years of Research with a Conscience
Friday, October 20, 2006
Toll Room, Alumni House, University of California at Berkeley
This year, the Institute for the Study of Social Change (ISSC) will celebrate thirty years of research and graduate training dedicated to understanding the processes of social change in ways that contribute to transforming the conditions of inequality. On Friday, October 20, we will honor the distinguished life of the Institute with an all-day conference. The conference will offer a series of panels highlighting several of the many significant research projects undertaken at ISSC that have influenced academic research, public debate and social policy, and have helped to establish new research agendas and fields of study in the social sciences. The panels will feature studies of dual work families; longshore workers and the management of labor disputes; exclusionary practices associated with genetic testing and screening; policy related to Chicanos and Latinos; affirmative action and diversity in higher education; and, more recently political and social issues involving immigrant youth. Faculty and graduate students who played a key role on these projects will reflect upon their involvement and the ways that their research impacted both their careers and the field. In addition, one current and four former graduate students will reflect upon the ways that their involvement in ISSC's Graduate Fellows Training Program has impacted their careers as scholars and teachers.
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Citizenship Without Borders (Spring 2006)
This conference brought together leading scholars, immigrant rights activists and service providers, members of the legal community, and UCB and Boalt Hall faculty and students to evaluate the civic and political participation of immigrants; to share stories about the daily practices of citizenship engaged in and experienced by immigrants; and to consider the role that citizenship status plays and should play in mediating the legal rights and social benefits that immigrants receive in the United States. The conference provided a forum where participants debated the meaning of citizenship and the logic of entitlement that flows from citizenship status, challenged assumptions about who is and can be a "citizen" and redrew the conceptual boundaries used to define membership in civic and political life.