Let's connect! Meet the fun, fascinating folks uncovering hidden urban histories and envisioning better futures. At this social event we'll get to know each other and brainstorm a bit about future projects. It will be a reunion for past Global Urban Humanities Initiative participants and a kickoff of the new Future Histories Lab program. https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/98911417881

Photo Courtesy: Hallie Q. Brown Community Center In the 1950s, the Minnesota Department of Transportation routed the highway connecting the downtowns of Minneapolis and St. Paul through a predominantly Black neighborhood called Rondo, ultimately displacing 750 families through eminent domain. For over 50 years now, Rondo residents have asserted and reasserted control over their own narrative ... Read moreDisplacement Stories: Lessons from a Community History Harvest

In this talk presented by the Townsend Center, Anthony Cascardi and Catherine Gallagher ask how narrative gives sense to events, and whether narrative forms that have served in times of past crisis (the novel, the epic, history writing) might provide meaning in the pandemic era.

Looking Back, Seeing the Future: Photographer Janet Delaney’s Eye on South of MarketFriday Nov 6 For more than 40 years, fine art photographer Janet Delaney has chronicled change in the San Francisco neighborhood where she lived as a young woman and has been revisiting ever since.  Through her  photographs of the district now known as ... Read moreLooking Back, Seeing the Future: Photographer Janet Delaney’s Eye on South of Market

If you're interested in making social justice films next summer, learn which spring courses will help you do preparatory research. The summer course will be taught by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Raymond Telles. Zoom link: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/92188320189?pwd=L0ZKUFppKzNNb1JOTHhla1VpRnpYZz09 Sponsored by Future Histories Lab. Check out our courses here. Learn more about our Certificate in Urban Humanities here.

Future Histories Lab offers community-engaged, project-based courses. Dig into hidden local histories and envision better futures in our exciting courses focused on social justice, race, place, and the arts. Take just three courses (in summer or other times) and earn a Certificate in Urban Humanities. Come and learn more about Future Histories Lab at the upcoming Golden ... Read moreFuture Histories Lab + Certificate in Urban Humanities Golden Bear Orientation Resource Fair

Future Histories Lab offers community-engaged, project-based courses. Dig into hidden local histories and envision better futures in our exciting courses focused on social justice, race, place, and the arts. Take just three courses (in summer or other times) and earn a Certificate in Urban Humanities.

On Dec. 5, 1867, California Governor Henry Huntly Haight used his inaugural speech to rail against the citizenship and voting rights of formerly enslaved Africans, Native Americans, and to oppose immigration from Asia. On December 5, 2017, 150 years later, Rasheed Shabazz contacted the Haight Elementary School PTA and encouraged them to initiate the process ... Read moreFrom Haight to Love: Renaming an Alameda Elementary School in an Era of Racial Reckoning

Meet professors Dr. Pablo Gonzales and Raymond Telles, and get more detailed information on the courses: Public Art and Social Justice: Mapping Mural Art and NarrativesHUM C132/ENV DES C132 (4 units)Instructor: Dr. Pablo Gonzalez Stories of Place: Documentary Filmmaking WorkshopETHSTD 180 001 (4 units) + ETHSTD 199 005 (2 units)Instructor: Raymond Telles

Meet professors Dr. Juan Berumen and Chris Marino, and get more detailed information on the courses: Reimagining Us/Education through Speculative FictionHUM C132/ENV DES C132 (4 units), humanities studio courseInstructor: Dr. Juan Berumen Archives to Action: The Power of Primary Resources at a Richmond, CA Public Housing ProjectHUM C132/ENV DES C132 (4 units), humanities studio courseInstructor: ... Read more2/2 Oakland Street School + Richmond Housing History: Lecture + Summer Infosession

Spend your summer in community-engaged, project-based courses. Dig into hidden local histories and envision better futures in our exciting courses focused on social justice, race, place, and the arts. Take just three courses (in summer or other times) and earn a Certificate in Urban Humanities. Register in advance for this meeting: After registering, you will ... Read more2/9 Future Histories Lab Summer Courses + Certificate in Urban Humanities Infosession

Meet professors Erika Chong Shuch and Lynne Horiuchi to learn about summer courses: Performing (in) Place: Experimental Ethnography, Spatial History, and Creative Mutual AidC132 001 (#15722) / ENVDES  C132 001 (#15725) / THEATER 166 001 (#15335) 4 units, Humanities Studio CourseSummer Session A: May 24 – July 2, 2021Instructors: Erika Chong Shuch, Rowena Richie and ... Read more2/10 Oakland’s Hoover Durant Library + Performing (in) Place: Lecture + Summer Info Session