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It Takes a Village to Build a Society with 100% More Seniors
Free Speech Movement Cafè, Moffitt Library
Thursday, October 27, 2016
5:00-6:30pm
As baby-boomers reach retirement age, how is society preparing for the 100% growth in the number of seniors in America (from 35 million in 2000 to 72 million in 2030)? Forty years ago, there used to be 5 workers for each retiree. If present trends continue, there will be only 2 workers for every retiree by the year 2030. How is the system going to cope with a doubling in the linear growth of social security expenses and the exponential growth in the costs of Medicare? Can we build a more efficient, socially-active and supporting society? We present a solution that empowers seniors around mutual-support local communities called “villages”.
Guest Speakers:
Manuel Acevedo – HelpfulVillage.com, Founder
Andrew Scharlach – UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare, Professor. Foremost scholar on the Village Movement
Lisa Brinkmann – Marin Villages, Executive Director
This event is free, open to the public, and all are invited to participate. For more information: fsmprograms@lists.berkeley.edu
Download the event flyer (PDF)
Sponsored by the University Library’s Free Speech Movement (FSM) Café Programs Committee.
The Library attempts to offer programs in accessible, barrier-free settings. If you think you may require disability-related accommodations, please contact the event sponsor — ideally at least two weeks prior to the event. The event sponsor is Jean Ferguson,fsmprograms@berkeley.edu, 510-768-7618.
Bancroft Roundtable: Whose Story Gets Told? Constructing a Biography When Sources Seem too Limited
October 20th
12PM
Lewis-Latimer Room, The Faculty Club
Presented by Michael Helquist, public historian
Public historian Michael Helquist argues that we lose an essential part of our history and a deeper sense of who we are by not knowing the life stories of marginalized people. He includes in that group women, racial minorities, working class and poor people, immigrants, political radicals and LGBTQ people. His talk will feature an early woman physician and political radical, Marie Equi, who is little known, although she was one of the most prominent activists on the West Coast in the WWI era, a heroine after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and one of the first publicly known lesbians on the West Coast. Mr. Helquist will consider why her full story had not been told and will recount his discovery of troves of primary sources. He will present images of Dr. Equi and her life, from working in a textile mill to doing time in San Quentin. His biography, Marie Equi: Radical Politics and Outlaw Passions, published by Oregon State University Press in 2015, was named a 2016 Stonewall Honor Book for Nonfiction by the American Library Association.
The Library attempts to offer programs in accessible, barrier-free settings. If you think you may require disability-related accommodations, please contact the event sponsor prior to the event. The event sponsor is Kathryn Neal, (510) 642-8173.
Post contributed by Kathryn Neal, Associate University Archivist, The Bancroft Library
November 8 CA ballot measure resources from the IGS Library
The Institute of Governmental Studies has released guides to the seventeen ballot measures on the November 8 General Election ballot on the California Choices website.
In addition to voter resources and analyses of the proposition, the site features a View Endorsements and Share Your Vote page where you can compare endorsements from political parties, newspapers, and other organizations, and share how you are voting with friends and family.
California Choices is a collaborative effort by the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley and the nonpartisan nonprofit organization Next 10.
For more information, contact Paul King.
Story Hour in the Library featuring Karen Joy Fowler
Date: Thursday, October 6, 2016
Time: 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Place: Morrison Library
Free and open to the public
Karen Joy Fowler, author of both novels and short story collections, has been described as “a captivating and good-hearted satirist.” Her six warmly-received novels include the bestselling The Jane Austen Book Club and most recently, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. Fowler’s books have received many awards including the Commonwealth Medal, Winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award, and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Fowler and her husband live in Santa Cruz, California.
We encourage you to purchase the book ahead of time, you may bring it to be signed
Story Hour in the Library is a monthly prose reading series held in UC Berkeley’s Morrison Library.
The Library attempts to offer programs in accessible, barrier-free settings. If you think you may require disability-related accommodations, please contact the event sponsor prior to the event. The event sponsor is Ashley Bacchi.
Lunch Poems: Michael Palmer
When: 12:10 pm – 12:50 pm, October 6, 2016
Where: Morrison Library
Cost: Free and open to the public
See the 2016-2017 series schedule.
From the Lunch Poems website:
Michael Palmer is a poet and translator who for over forty years has worked with the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company and has collaborated with many composers and visual artists. Among his numerous awards is the Arts and Letters Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into over thirty languages and he himself has translated poems and prose from French, Brazilian Portuguese, and Russian. He has taught at universities in the United States, Europe and Asia. His most recent publications are Active Boundaries: Selected Essays and Talks, Madman With Broom (selected poems with Chinese translations by Yunte Huang), and Thread. Palmer’s new book of poems, The Laughter of the Sphinx, was published in 2016 by New Directions.
Ecosystems of California: author celebration Oct. 7
Date: Friday, October 7
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm
Location: Marian Koshland Bioscience & Natural Resources Library, 2101 VLSB
Free and open to the public
The event will include a panel discussion with some of the UC Berkeley contributors; light refreshments will be offered.
Event sponsored by the UC Berkeley Library, Life & Health Sciences Division.
The Library attempts to offer programs in accessible, barrier-free settings. If you think you may require disability-related accommodations, please contact Bioscience Librarians, 510-642-0456; bios@library.berkeley.edu prior to the event.
Post submitted by:
Susan Koskinen, Becky Miller, Elliott Smith, Life & Health Sciences Librarians
Movies @ Moffitt, Oct. 5 – Forgetting Vietnam
The Movies @ Moffitt series features films selected by students for students, on the first Wednesday of each month.
Title: Forgetting Vietnam
Director: Trinh T. Minh-ha
Synopsis: Influential anti-imperialist and feminist theorist, filmmaker and Cal professor Trinh T. Minh-ha creates a dialogue between fact and fiction in this exploration of Vietnam four decades after the end of the war. Over the course of the film, she interweaves myth with observation, deconstructs national identity into its most basic symbolic elements and re-constructs personal and political memory of place, trauma and dynamism.
Date: Wednesday, October 5
Time: 7pm
Place: 150D Moffitt Library
Doors open @ 6:30pm
You must have a Cal Student ID to attend
The Library attempts to offer programs in accessible, barrier-free settings. If you think you may require disability-related accommodations, please contact the event sponsor prior to the event. The event sponsor is Tim Dilworth tdilwort@library.berkeley.edu
Post contributed by Tim Dilworth, First Year Coordinator, The Library
Book Talk with Ben Madley on An American Genocide – October 4
Please join us for an engaging talk by Professor Benjamin Madley, who will be visiting UC Berkeley to speak about his new book, An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (Yale University Press, 2016).
Date: Tuesday, October 4
Time: 5:00 – 6:00pm
Place: Morrison Library
UC Berkeley
This book takes readers into pre-contact California and through a Gold Rush which stirred white vigilante violence. Over the course of three decades in the 1800s, 80% of California Indians were slaughtered—over 120,000 people—with the complicity of state and federal government. As the US Army responded to local government and vigilante action, state and federal governments spent over $1,700,000 on campaigns against California Indians. Madley asks what makes a genocide, taking us through historical methods that can be used to explore other genocides in America and beyond.
Join us for this engaging and important presentation from Professor Madley. Copies of his book will be on sale at the event. The talk is sponsored by the UC Berkeley Library and the Ethnic Studies Library at UC Berkeley.
The Library attempts to offer programs in accessible, barrier-free settings. If you think you may require disability-related accommodations, please contact the event sponsor prior to the event.
The event sponsor is Celia Emmelhainz (510)642-5339 emmelhainz@berkeley.edu.
Post submitted by:
Celia Emmelhainz and Melissa Stoner
Research Advisory Service
Undergrads, get help with that research project from experts. Make an appointment for a 30-minute session with our library research specialists. We can help you narrow your topic, find scholarly sources, and manage your citations among other things. Make your appointment online!
Appointments are from 11am-5pm, Monday, September 26 – Friday, December 2. Meet your librarian at the Reference Desk, 2nd floor, Doe Library.
Post submitted by Lynn Jones, Reference Coordinator