2013 Spring InternatIonal House speaker serIesPredator Nation: A Daring Discussion with an Academy Award-winning Documentarian Charles ferguson aPrIl 11, 2013, 7:30 PM
Join Charles Ferguson (IH ‘73-’76), I-House Alumnus of the Year 2011, as he discusses his new book, Predator Nation that explores the fierce truth about the roots of the financial crisis, rising economic inequality and how we might reclaim the American Dream. His other books include, High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner’s Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars and Computer Wars: The Post-IBM World (co-authored with Charles Morris).
Charles Ferguson is the founder and president of Representational Pictures, Inc. He is director and
producer of Inside Job, winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2011, and No End In Sight: The American Occupation of Iraq, nominated in the same category in 2008. A book signing will follow the presentation.
Google’s Jolly Good Fellow Presents: Search Inside YourselfChaDe-Meng Tan May 2, 2013, 7:30 PM
Chade-Meng Tan (Meng) is a Google pioneer, an award-winning engineer, a bestselling author, a thought leader, and a philanthropist. He is also quite funny. Meng is Google’s Jolly Good Fellow (which nobody can deny) a title that began as a joke, but soon became a reality. He was one of Google’s earliest engineers for eight years, Head of Personal Growth for two, and now serves on Google’s Talent Team. His current role is to “enlighten minds, open hearts, create world peace.”
One of Meng’s major projects at Google is a groundbreaking mindfulness-based emotional intelligence course called Search Inside Yourself. The course, intended to transform the work and lives of the best and brightest behind one of the most innovative and successful businesses in the world, is also the title of Meng’s New York Times bestselling book. A book signing will follow the presentation.
Why the World’s Poorest Can Best Afford & Most Need Innovative, Renewable EnergyCarl PoPe february 21, 2013, 7:30 PM
A veteran environmental leader, Mr. Pope worked for the Sierra Club for more than thirty years. In that time he has served as Political Director, Conservation Director, Executive Director, and Chairman. He stepped down as Chairman in 2012 to become a Senior Strategic Advisor and established Inside Straight Strategies, a consulting firm focused on the intersection between climate, sustainability and economic development.
Mr. Pope also was a key catalytic leader in the effort to build a “Big Tent” progressive movement, taking the lead in creating partnerships between environmentalists and workers, which culminated in the 2011 merger of
two organizations which he had founded, The Blue Green Alliance and the Apollo Alliance, which now constitute the largest progressive membership coalition in the U.S.
The New Abolitionism: Challenging U.S. Deportation Practices
JaCquelIne sTevens MarCh 14, 2013, 7:30 PM The Department of Homeland Security’s kidnapping of U.S. residents is at record and heart-breaking levels. Often portrayed as efforts to thwart illegal migration, Professor Stevens’ talk will reveal the secretive and unlawful procedure government employees and private jails use to deport U.S. residents and the resistance organized by activists, attorneys, and law professors.
Dr. Stevens is a UC Berkeley alumna and a political theorist at Northwestern University. Her scholarship explores political theories of membership, with a focus on laws interpellating national, ethnic, and racial groups through family or kinship laws. Her most recent book is
States Without Nations: Citizenship for Mortals. Professor Stevens currently directs the Deportation Research Clinic at the Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies. This project engages a network of U.S. residents in deportation jails, attorneys, journalists, activists, scholars and students to study and challenge unlawful state violence.
TICKETSOrder Online: ihouse.berkeley.edu/speakers
Full Series: (4 lectures) $30Individual Lectures: $10I-House Residents & UCB Students: free
All sales are final. Speakers subject to substitution and/or rescheduling. Doors
open one hour before event.
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INFORMATIONTelephone: 510.642.9460Email: [email protected]
Location: Chevron auditorium, International house2299 Piedmont avenue at bancroft, berkeley
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speakerseries
SPRING 2013
Why the World’s Poorest Can Best Afford &
Most Need Innovative, Renewable Energy
February 21Carl Pope
The New Abolitionism: Challenging U.S.
Deportation Practices
March 14 Jacqueline stevens
Predator Nation: A Daring Discussion with an Academy
Award-winning Documentarian
April 11 Charles ferguson
May 2Chade-Meng Tan
Google’s Jolly Good Fellow Presents:
Search Inside Yourself
about International House
International House at UC Berkeley is a program center and campus residence that fosters cross-cultural experiences and leadership for a world of greater understanding.
Since 1930 “I-House” has daily served nearly 600 students and scholars from 60+ countries including the U.S. and offered a diverse array of vibrant programs to support our mission, many of which are open to the public.
Join us as a series of dynamic thought-leaders share their insights on our globalized world.
Learn more about International House at ihouse.berkeley.edu.
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