Tag: Events
Maps and More 9/16/16: Introducing the Digital Globe
Please join us for the first Maps and More of the semester:
Introducing the Digital Globe
When: Friday, 9/16/16
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Where: Earth Sciences & Map Library, 50 McCone Hall
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 Sam Tepliztky.
Adam Hochschild Book Talk: Sept. 14
Adam Hochschild discusses the writing and research behind his new book: Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Date: Wednesday, September 14
Time: 5:00 PM
Place: Morrison Library
This event is free and open to the public
Award-winning author Adam Hochschild delved deeply into letters, diaries, memoirs and other documents, published and unpublished, to weave a compelling narrative in his new book Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. One of those Americans, Bob Merriman, was a graduate student at Berkeley. Hochschild will discuss how he found the story in a vast and complex array of sources, some of them from the Doe, Moffitt and Bancroft libraries.
Post submitted by Jennifer Dorner, Librarian for History and History of Science & Technology
Roundtable: Bobby Soxers in the Fields: Girls’ Emergency Farm Labor During World War II
September 15th
12PM
Lewis-Latimer Room, The Faculty Club
Presented by Jennifer Robin Terry, doctoral candidate, History, UC Berkeley
By early 1942, farmers across the United States clamored for congressional aid to supply an agricultural labor force sufficient to meet the food and fiber demands of World War II. Among the various solutions, Congress authorized youth labor programs that recruited urban minors to harvest the nation’s crops. During the peak farm labor year of 1944, child and youth volunteers outnumbered adult laborers in better-known programs, such as the Braceros and Women’s Land Army. Participation in emergency farm labor programs enabled young workers to become partners in the war effort, and many identified as citizen soldiers on a martial mission. Drawing on government documents, youth-serving organizations’ reports, recruitment material, popular media, and the writings and recollections of girl participants, this talk examines adolescent girls’ participation in two programs: the U. S. Crop Corps’ Victory Farm Volunteers and the Girl Scouts’ Farm Aides. Examining these programs through teenage girls’ experiences complicates our understanding of the wartime identities of these girls and reveals how gendered rhetoric influenced their nuanced affinity for situational masculinity.
Movies @ Moffitt, Sept. 7 – Men: A Love Story
The Movies @ Moffitt series features films selected by students for students, on the first Wednesday of each month.
Title: Men: A Love Story
Director: Mimi Chakarova
Synopsis: After covering the sex trade for over a decade, award-winning filmmaker and journalist Mimi Chakarova questioned her ability to love and be loved. This film documents her journey across the United States as she talks about love with men from all walks of life, laying bare men’s multifaceted relationship with tenderness and care. An unflinching and darkly comic look at American masculinity in all its complexity, Men: A Love Story is sure to ignite productive and probing discussion concerning both the political and personal registers of gender and sexuality.
Date: Wednesday, September 7
Time: 7pm
Place: 150D Moffitt Library
Doors open @ 6:30pm
Free with UCB ID
Post contributed by Tim Dilworth, First Year Coordinator, The Library
Story Hour in the Library featuring NoViolet Bulawayo
Date: Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016
Time: 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Place: Morrison Library
Free and open to the public
NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names, about a young girl’s journey out of Zimbabwe and to America, won numerous awards and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The New York Times called it a “deeply felt and fiercely written debut novel.” NoViolet earned her MFA at Cornell University, where she was a recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship. She was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford, where she now teaches as a Jones Lecturer in Fiction. NoViolet grew up in Zimbabwe.
Story Hour in the Library is a monthly prose reading series held in UC Berkeley’s Morrison Library.
Post contributed by Gigi Gillard, Donor Stewardship & Events Coordinator
Webinar: Achieving Health Equity – One Policy at a Time
Are you interested in hearing the tale of how one department of health used policy and administrative levers to to apply a health equity lens to proposed state legislation? Then you might want to attend this webinar. It features speakers from the Washington State Department of Health (DOH).
Washington’s DOH initiated efforts to apply a health equity lens to proposed state legislation. The department succeeded in adding two requirements to help focus the review process on health inequities for bill analysis:
• Describe any positive or negative impact the bill may have on health equity or health disparities.
• Describe any positive or negative impact the bill may have on tribal health concerns.
The speakers will describe the components of a health equity lens used to analyze proposed state legislation, talk about the opportunities and challenges involved in applying a health equity lens, and share examples of training and resource materials.
When: September 22, 2016
Time: 12:00-1:00pm PDT
Cost: Free
This webinar is part of the series: “Promoting Health Equity through Programs and Policies”. The series is sponsored by the National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities (NPA), an initiative led by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health. NPA promotes cross-sector, multi-level and systems-oriented approaches for tackling health disparities.
You can learn more about this including how to register here.
Putting the Party in Participatory Evaluation with Youth: an HPCB webinar
Do you need to evaluate youth programs as part of your work? Are you interested in ways to make these evaluations participatory? Want to learn how others do this? Then you might want to join this webinar from the Health Promotion Capacity Building (HPCB) team of Public Health Ontario.
According to the CDC, participatory evaluation approaches provide meaningful opportunities for involvement by the stakeholders in initiatives. Participatory evaluation may also provide stakeholders with opportunities to develop and enhance new skills.
The speakers for this will talk about a tool they’ve used which may aid in engaging youth in participatory evalution. The tool, 11 Principles of Youth Engagement, was developed by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. They will also be putting a particular emphasis on data collection.
When: September 22, 2016
Time: 7:30-9:00am PDT
Register here
The webinar will explore:
* Benefits of participatory evaluation with youth;
* Facilitators of a successful evaluation including youth;
* Tools and techniques for use in participatory data collection including questionnaires, interviews, digital storytelling, PhotoVoice and Most Significant Change.
NCBI bioinformatics tools: An introduction
A hands-on workshop introducing NCBI bioinformatics tools such as PubMed, Gene, Protein, Nucleotide, and BLAST:
- Starting with a disease, syndrome, or process, identify the genes/proteins involved
- Starting with an organism and a protein, find the protein sequence and gene coding region
- Starting with a sequence, identify the gene/protein and source
The workshop will cover selecting the proper tools for your question, navigating through the interlinked NCBI databases, and saving your results.
- Date: Wednesday, Sept. 7
- Time: 12 – 1 pm
- Location: Bioscience Library Training Room, 2189 VLSB (inside the library)
Open to all interested students and researchers; no registration is required.
Questions? Contact esmith@library.berkeley.edu
Achieving College Dreams: Author Book Talk, September 8
Please join us for a conversation about the recently published book Achieving College Dreams: How a University-Charter District Partnership Created an Early College High School (Oxford University Press, 2016).
- Thursday, September 8, 3:30 – 5:00pm
- Education/Psychology Library
- 2600 Tolman Hall
Edited by Professors Rhona S. Weinstein (Psychology) and Frank C. Worrell (Graduate School of Education), the book tells the story of a remarkable 10-year collaboration between UC Berkeley and Aspire Public Schools to develop and nurture the California College Preparatory Academy (CAL Prep). Framed by a longitudinal lens, findings from community-engaged scholarship, and a diversity of voices from students to superintendents, it charts the journey from the initial decision to open the school to the high school graduation of its first two classes. Readers are taken inside the workings of the partnership, the development of the school, and the spillover of effects across district and university.
Guerra Civil @ 80
September 1, 2016 – July 1, 2017
2nd floor corridor between The Bancroft Library and Doe Library
![Image citation: Josep Renau. Hoy más que nunca / Victoria, 1938. [Victory: Now more than ever.] Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Bay Area Post Records. The Bancroft Library, BANC MSS 71/105z, folder 40](https://update.lib.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/spanish-civil-war-poster.jpg)
INCITE THE SPIRIT: POSTER ART OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR will be on exhibit from September 6 – December 16, 2016 at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall
Please visit http://spanishcivilwar80.berkeley.edu to learn more about the UC Berkeley events commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Spanish Civil War.
Post submitted by Theresa Salazar, Curator for Western Americana, The Bancroft Library and Claude Potts, Librarian for Romance Languages, The University Library