PROVOST’S FORUMS

Here is the speakers schedule for the rest of 2014-15, with the topics to be announced later:

• Nov. 20 — Haavi Morriem, professor of human values and ethics, University of Tennessee (her talk on the Davis campus will be streamed live to a related conference at the UC Davis Medical Center)
• Jan. 14 — Patricia Gándara, research professor of education, Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences, UCLA; and Gary Orfield, distinguished research professor of education, law, political science and urban planning, UCLA
• Feb. 9 — Chris Newfield, professor of literature and American studies, UC Santa Barbara
• March 6 — Bruce Alberts, professor emeritus, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UC San Francisco
• April 16 — Alessandro Duranti, dean of Social Sciences and distinguished professor of anthropology, UCLA
• May (date to be determined) — Wendy Brown, professor of political science and director of the Berkeley APEC Study Center.

Check the forum website for the latest information on topics, times, locations (and date for the May forum).

Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Ralph J. Hexter next week sponsors a forum on the topic of U.S. immigration policy and its role in the number of people who are available in this country for jobs in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM.

Teitelbaum

The presentation by Michael S. Teitelbaum, a senior research associate in Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program, launches the third year of The Provost’s Forums on the Public University and the Social Good.

Teitelbaum’s talk — “STEM, Immigration and Controversy: Does the U.S. Have Enough STEM Workers?” — is scheduled from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, in Kalmanovitz Appellate Courtroom, King Hall, and a reception will run from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. the King Hall Courtyard.

The provost’s forums are free and open to the public. See box for the rest of the year’s speakers. More information is available online.

Chancellor's Colloquium Distinguished Speaker Series

Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi's speakers series for 2014-15 is set to begin later in October with a talk by Hamid Dabashi, professor of Iranian studies and comparative literature at Columbia University. He is a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, as well as a founding member of the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia.

A Chancellor’s Colloquium with Dabashi had to be canceled last year due to illness. Now he’s rescheduled for 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, in the Vanderhoef Studio Theatre at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.

Check the Chancellor’s Colloquium website for the rest of the year’s programs. Admission is free and open to the public.

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