Events

Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Colloquium: Manufacturing Freedom: Sex Work, Anti-trafficking Rehab, and the Racial Wages of Rescue

Professor Ming-sho Ho will deliver a presentation on his latest book, which explores Hong Kong's 2019–2020 pro-democracy movement, widely known as the Be Water Revolution. In the book, Ho proposes an agency-based explanation to understand how this unexpectedly prolonged and disruptive protest movement operated without centralized leadership. Triggered by a series of moral shocks, perceived threats, and reflections on past failures, collective improvisation emerged as a key mechanism. This process, driven by widespread peer production, enabled tactical innovation. He also explores how decentralized participation fostered creative cultural expressions, energized overseas diaspora communities, and sustained resistance against the police state enforced..

Are we witnessing a backlash to the progress of gender equality around the world? New research reveals a growing gender gap in attitudes across a range of topics, particularly striking among younger generations. From polarized views on social issues to contrasting expectations regarding marriage and family, this divergence in outlook between genders points to deeper societal fissures. This panel brings together experts to discuss the contours and complexities of this "new gender gap" and explore its ramifications for politics, demography, and societal cohesion. This panel will feature Joshua R. Goldstein, Professor of Demography and Director of the Berkeley Population Center..

The Annual R. Kirk Underhill Lecture will feature Sean Gailmard, Herman Royer Professor of Political Economy in the Political Science Department at UC Berkeley How did the core institutions of American government emerge and evolve? What political commitments are embedded in the foundation of these institutions? Drawing on his new book Agents of Empire, Sean Gailmard traces these questions to English colonial governance in North America. REGISTRATION REQUIRED

The innovation, use and experience, and exchange of new and emerging technologies today are influenced by the role that China plays in global politics and economy. This panel brings together experts of the Chinese political economy and law and society in a conversation to discuss the political, economic, security, and social dimensions and complexities of technology in China's internationalization during times of global tensions. Topics covered will include the institutional foundations of China's technological development, technology governance and industrial policy, global technology competition, and legal technology and societal impacts in today's China. This panel will feature Roselyn Hsueh, Professor of..