In The Handmaid's Tale (1985), Margaret Atwood imagined the future as an authoritarian, environmental, and reproductive dystopia. To what extent have we heeded her cautionary tale? How well did her dystopian imaginings predict our present moment? And what dangers and promises does our own future hold? This panel approaches the...
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Tue, 10/30/2018 - 6:30pm
Osher Theater, BAM/PFA, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley
Join us for a free screening of the award-winning documentary film Tomorrow, followed by a discussion with two of the scientists featured in the film, Anthony Barnosky and Liz Hadly.Â
The filmmakers, Melanie Laurent and Cyril Dion, have expressed their purpose in this way: "TOMORROWÂ is not just a film, it...
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Sat, 10/13/2018 - 9:00am
Banatao Auditorium. Sutardja Dai Hall
Following Emancipation, Lucrecia and Marshall Perryman settled on the outskirts of Mobile to raise their family. After Marshall’s death, Lucrecia turned to lay midwifery to support her family and...
Mon, 09/17/2018 - 3:30pm
Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall
moreA surveillance society is taking hold. Video cameras, satellites, drones peer constantly from the skies. Smartphones, license-plate cameras...
Mon, 09/10/2018 - 4:00pm
The Toll Room at the Alumni House
The choice to reproduce (or not) is mediated through an increasingly complex set of social, legal and medical encouragements and barriers for different members of our society. This panel brings together a panel of scholars to discuss the legal, social and medical issues surrounding choice in reproductive decision making and ways to...
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Thu, 08/23/2018 - 7:00pm
Zellerbach Hall
We are honored to host Margaret Atwood for this keynote address.Â
Admission is free to anyone with a Cal i.d. We will begin giving out tickets at 5:30 on lower Sproul--one per Cal ID. Doors open at 6:00. At 6:45 we will open the doors to people without an affiliation to Cal, if seats remain by that point.Â
This event is made...
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