Aug. 4, 2021
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Register now for the 2021 O&B conference!
We're excited to announce that registration for our 2021 Othering & Belonging conference has officially opened! Our biennial O&B conferences are dynamic and uniquely-curated gatherings that advance cutting-edge scholarship, narratives, movements, systems, and policies that support a fully inclusive “we.”
This year's conference will take place October 18-19 and be virtually accessible. There will be an option for registrants to attend an in-person "Belonging Hub" at the Oakland Museum on the first day of the conference. All the conference details, including registration links, pricing, and what you can expect this year are posted online here. We'll soon be announcing the agenda and speakers.
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Director powell featured on John Oliver show
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver recently aired a segment on the history of housing discrimination in the United States. The segment includes an excerpt from a documentary featuring OBI Director john a. powell talking about the infamous wall that was constructed 80 years ago, in 1941, to separate black and white neighborhoods in Detroit. Watch the clip here.
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Should Non-citizens be Allowed to Vote in Local Elections?
Assistant Director Stephen Menendian authored a new piece on the question being debated in some cities about whether or not non-citizens should be able to vote in local elections. A radical idea? Not so much, Stephen explains. He writes: "Non-citizens were regularly permitted to vote in the antebellum periods and even the colonial periods. Specifically, white male non-citizens were permitted to vote in more than 22 states and territories in the 19th century. It was not until later in the 19th century and into the 20th century ... that states began to tether voting rights more closely to citizenship status." Read this article here.
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Meet our new staff!
Chih-Wei Hsu is a GIS and Visualization Analyst at the Institute's Equity Metrics program where he supports local and statewide projects related to zoning, segregation and fair housing issues. His past research and public policy work have focused on access to energy services and transportation infrastructure.
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Other OBI Updates
Upcoming events
- Aug. 26: Defending the Displaced: Border Justice & Migrant Rights
- Oct. 18-19: 2021 Othering & Belonging Conference
In the news
- Strategy Analyst Gerald Lenoir reflects on the resurgence of global uprisings against anti-Black racism in this interview published in the Critical Ethnic Studies Journal.
- Assistant Director Stephen Menendian is interviewed in this Christian Science Monitor story, titled, "Florida city paints a different racial portrait of America," and is quoted in this SF Chronicle story, titled, "East Bay city to look at allowing undocumented residents to vote in local elections."
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Opportunities at OBI
- Administrative Assistant (Full-time staff position in Berkeley)
- Data Scientist
- Transportation Equity Student Researcher (Open to current UC Berkeley students only)
- Student Assistant (Open to current UC Berkeley students only)
- Graduate Student Researchers (Open to current UC Berkeley students only)
- Transportation Equity Student Researcher (Open to current UC Berkeley students only)
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Othering & Belonging Institute
University of California, Berkeley
460 Stephens Hall
Tel: 510-642-3326
Berkeley, CA 94720
United States
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