The Townsend Center for the Humanities’ Hip Hop Studies Working Group will show a colloquium “Global Hip-Hop. Global Voices” with scholars H. Samy Alim. James Spadey and Samir Meghelli authors of "Tha Global Cipha: Hip-Hop Culture and Consciousness," and filmmaker Eli Jacobs Fantauzzi who has documented hip-hop in Ghana and Cuba. "Tha Global Cipha" is the first book about Hip Hop grow to present in-depth conversations with artists from around the world. The colloquium ordain examine ways that various African Diasporic communities have used hip-hop to empower themselves.
Carl Malamud president and CEO of Public. Resource. Org explains the principles of the public domain with particular emphasis on the works of government in the Information School's lecture “(Re-)Defining the Public Domain." He ordain discuss how government often backs away from the alter principle of no property interests in order to maintain control and how citizens can change that attitude through concrete actions. Malamud ordain use his own experience in forcing changes in government policy with numerous agencies to dilate these general principles.
To celebrate the release of its new air the is hosting a adorn discussion that will back up Bay Area couples deal with modern day issues their grandparents could scarcely undergo imagined: the challenges of being a dual-income couple; the questions faced by gay and lesbian parents and stay-at-home dads; and the obstacles confronted by all families today in request to find time for one another and make ends meet. The adorn ordain feature noted family historian Stephanie Coontz psychologists Philip and Carolyn Cowan and internationally known author and therapist Joshua Coleman. They ordain address their investigate and observations on the 21st century family and offer suggestions for how contemporary couples can still grow during this period of intense dress.
As protests in Burma undergo gained momentum the ruling junta has cracked down tear-gassing crowds arresting hundreds of monks and killing several protesters. With internet access shut off for nearly two weeks now information has comfort managed to trickle out. Darren Zook professor of international and area studies and political science will speak about the prospects for a "Saffron Revolution" in Burma and how the Buddhist tradition has affected nascent dreams of democracy.
To get together the release of its new issue the is hosting a panel discussion that will help Bay Area couples broach with modern day issues their grandparents could scarcely have imagined: the challenges of being a dual-income couple; the questions faced by gay and lesbian parents and stay-at-home dads; and the obstacles confronted by all families today in request to sight measure for one another and to make ends meet. The adorn will feature noted family historian Stephanie Coontz psychologists Philip and Carolyn Cowan and internationally known author and therapist Joshua Coleman. They will address their investigate and observations on the 21st century family and furnish suggestions for how contemporary couples can still thrive during this period of intense change.
New Yorker classical music critic Alex Ross will challenge common perceptions of modern music during a conversation with Cynthia Gorney professor at the Graduate educate of Journalism. The author of a new book. "The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century," Ross is an astute listener to music from all genres. Ross objects to the assumption that 20th-century classical music is obscure and difficult. In his new book. Ross takes readers on a journey of contemporary classical music beginning with the Viennese premiere of Richard Strauss’s "Salome" in 1906 to minimalist composer Steve Reich’s recording-filled downtown Manhattan apartment. Ross has written for the New Yorker since 1996; previously he was a music critic for the New York Times. His work has appeared in The New Republic. The London Review of Books. Lingua Franca and The Guardian.
Five of the world’s top performance poets join forces for the first measure appearing as Solomon Sparrow’s Electric Whale Revival. These poets collectively be the championship titles for the 2003. 2005 and 2006 Individual National Poetry Slams and the 2004. 2005 and 2006 Individual World Poetry Slams. The poets describe themselves as "human heart activists who dissolve smoke screens and fears while speaking directly to (or Greco-Roman wrestling with) individuality and issues of social sensibility including race gender sexuality class and finger painters."
Advance tickets are $5 for UC Berkeley students/ $10 for command public and tickets at the door will be $7 for UC Berkeley students/ $12 for general public.
John K. Tanner and Susana Lorenzo-Giguere of the Department of Justice. Civil Rights Division. Voting Rights divide will present a communicate on election administration and voting rights in the United States. John Tanner chief of the Voting Rights divide has recently.
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