Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, UC Berkeley
@ucberkeleyissi.bsky.social
Catalyzing Transformative Social Change Research at UC Berkeley and Beyond
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As we wrap up 2025, we're grateful for the community that made our work possible. A recent letter from the Asian American Research Center (AARC), based at ISSI, reflects on both the challenges and opportunities shaping AANHPI communities and what they mean for the year ahead.
AARC Wraps Up 2025
mailchi.mp
December 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
As we wrap up 2025, we're grateful for the community that made our work possible. A recent letter from the Asian American Research Center (AARC), based at ISSI, reflects on both the challenges and opportunities shaping AANHPI communities and what they mean for the year ahead.
Reposted by Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, UC Berkeley
Read the full message here and get a glimpse into what our community has been up to this fall: mailchi.mp/berkeley.edu...
Happy Holidays from all of us at CRWS!
Happy Holidays from all of us at CRWS!
Reflecting on 2025 at CRWS
mailchi.mp
December 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Read the full message here and get a glimpse into what our community has been up to this fall: mailchi.mp/berkeley.edu...
Happy Holidays from all of us at CRWS!
Happy Holidays from all of us at CRWS!
The video of @rhummanee.bsky.social's talk is now available. This event included powerful dance performances by Khmer Amathak Dance Troupe and moving poetry recitations by Hang, Critical Southeast Asian American Studies Artist-in-Residence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RHy...
Rhummanee Hang: "Khmae Amathak: Grounded & Guided by Ancestral Wisdom"
YouTube video by issi
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December 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The video of @rhummanee.bsky.social's talk is now available. This event included powerful dance performances by Khmer Amathak Dance Troupe and moving poetry recitations by Hang, Critical Southeast Asian American Studies Artist-in-Residence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RHy...
In this Berkeley Talks episode, Hannah Zeavin, a faculty affiliate, discusses how defining the “perfect mother,” substituting media for maternal presence, and punishing deviations from the norm continue to influence American family life today. news.berkeley.edu/2025/11/14/b...
Berkeley Talks: The complicated role of media in motherhood - Berkeley News
Berkeley Professor Hannah Zeavin explores how 20th-century ideals of motherhood and new media technologies became deeply intertwined, shaping and surveilling American family life.
news.berkeley.edu
December 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
In this Berkeley Talks episode, Hannah Zeavin, a faculty affiliate, discusses how defining the “perfect mother,” substituting media for maternal presence, and punishing deviations from the norm continue to influence American family life today. news.berkeley.edu/2025/11/14/b...
Merri Lopez-Keifer, affiliate of the Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues, is featured in this Thriving Community Snapshots interview. A member of the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians, her work bridges law, education, and community. thriving.berkeley.edu/news/thrivin...
Thriving Community Snapshot: Merri Lopez-Keifer of the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians | Thriving
thriving.berkeley.edu
December 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Merri Lopez-Keifer, affiliate of the Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues, is featured in this Thriving Community Snapshots interview. A member of the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians, her work bridges law, education, and community. thriving.berkeley.edu/news/thrivin...
🕘 Tomorrow: Marxism and Asian American Studies
Sponsor: ISSI's Asian American Research Center
Co-sponsors: @ucberkeleyenglish.bsky.social, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Program, Transpacific and Asian American Studies Colloquium, Robert Haas Chair, Materialist Institute for Research
Sponsor: ISSI's Asian American Research Center
Co-sponsors: @ucberkeleyenglish.bsky.social, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Program, Transpacific and Asian American Studies Colloquium, Robert Haas Chair, Materialist Institute for Research
Join us on Friday, December 5, 2025 for an all-day program on Marxism & Asian American studies.
Learn more & register: bit.ly/MarxismAARC
Sponsored by Asian American Research Center
Learn more & register: bit.ly/MarxismAARC
Sponsored by Asian American Research Center
Marxism and Asian American Studies: Past and Present | Institute for the Study of Societal Issues
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December 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
🕘 Tomorrow: Marxism and Asian American Studies
Sponsor: ISSI's Asian American Research Center
Co-sponsors: @ucberkeleyenglish.bsky.social, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Program, Transpacific and Asian American Studies Colloquium, Robert Haas Chair, Materialist Institute for Research
Sponsor: ISSI's Asian American Research Center
Co-sponsors: @ucberkeleyenglish.bsky.social, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Program, Transpacific and Asian American Studies Colloquium, Robert Haas Chair, Materialist Institute for Research
Check out this new article by @ucberkeleycrws.bsky.social faculty affiliate @cihantugal.bsky.social, "The Evolution of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and Syria’s Future: The Interplay between Islamism and Capitalist Geopolitics."
spectrejournal.com/the-evolutio...
@cihantugal.bsky.social writing on the interplay between HTS's movement dynamics and capitalist geopolitics shaping Syria's future.
@cihantugal.bsky.social writing on the interplay between HTS's movement dynamics and capitalist geopolitics shaping Syria's future.
The Evolution of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham and Syria's Future – Spectre Journal
Cihan Tuğal looks at the interplay between HTS's movement dynamics and capitalist geopolitics to analyze the prospects for Syria's future.
spectrejournal.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Check out this new article by @ucberkeleycrws.bsky.social faculty affiliate @cihantugal.bsky.social, "The Evolution of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and Syria’s Future: The Interplay between Islamism and Capitalist Geopolitics."
Check out the first article in The Lancet's "Cases in Global Social Medicine," led by the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine: bit.ly/4oKvJ7F
"Translational social medicine for global health" addresses the question: "Why treat people and send them back to the conditions that make them sick?"
"Translational social medicine for global health" addresses the question: "Why treat people and send them back to the conditions that make them sick?"
Translational social medicine for global health: introducing Cases in Global Social Medicine
“Why treat people and send them back to the conditions that make them sick?”, one
of us (Michael Marmot) has asked, based on overwhelming evidence that social forces
are among the strongest determinan...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Check out the first article in The Lancet's "Cases in Global Social Medicine," led by the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine: bit.ly/4oKvJ7F
"Translational social medicine for global health" addresses the question: "Why treat people and send them back to the conditions that make them sick?"
"Translational social medicine for global health" addresses the question: "Why treat people and send them back to the conditions that make them sick?"
Brian TaeHyuk Keum, faculty affiliate, has been awarded the Early Career Award for Research by the Asian American Psychological Association which recognizes "distinguished contributions to the field of Asian American Psychology." publichealth.berkeley.edu/articles/spo...
Brian TaeHyuk Keum honored by Asian American Psychological Association
This award recognizes ”distinguished contributions to the field of Asian American Psychology from a psychologist early in his or her career.”
publichealth.berkeley.edu
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Brian TaeHyuk Keum, faculty affiliate, has been awarded the Early Career Award for Research by the Asian American Psychological Association which recognizes "distinguished contributions to the field of Asian American Psychology." publichealth.berkeley.edu/articles/spo...
Marlena Robbins, Grad Fellow at the Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues, was a guest on KQED Forum and commented that the intersection of psychedelic medicine with Indigenous knowledge frameworks creates a legacy of biopiracy and bioprospecting: www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
What RFK Jr.’s Support for Psychedelic Therapy Means for Its Future | KQED
We check in with long-time researchers about how state and federal governments can influence the momentum of their field, how they’re reconciling the new right wing support, and what it all means for ...
www.kqed.org
November 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Marlena Robbins, Grad Fellow at the Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues, was a guest on KQED Forum and commented that the intersection of psychedelic medicine with Indigenous knowledge frameworks creates a legacy of biopiracy and bioprospecting: www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
Video of Guillaume Dumont's talk: "“Narco-Especulació”: Drug trafficking, speculative practices, and community organizing in Barcelona" is now up on YouTube. Dumont examines the role of “narco-especulació” to explain the surge in drug trafficking in the neighborhood. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxMW...
Guillaume Dumont: Drug trafficking, speculative practices, and community organizing in Barcelona
YouTube video by issi
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November 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Video of Guillaume Dumont's talk: "“Narco-Especulació”: Drug trafficking, speculative practices, and community organizing in Barcelona" is now up on YouTube. Dumont examines the role of “narco-especulació” to explain the surge in drug trafficking in the neighborhood. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxMW...
Join us on Friday, December 5, 2025 for an all-day program on Marxism & Asian American studies.
Learn more & register: bit.ly/MarxismAARC
Sponsored by Asian American Research Center
Learn more & register: bit.ly/MarxismAARC
Sponsored by Asian American Research Center
Marxism and Asian American Studies: Past and Present | Institute for the Study of Societal Issues
bit.ly
November 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Join us on Friday, December 5, 2025 for an all-day program on Marxism & Asian American studies.
Learn more & register: bit.ly/MarxismAARC
Sponsored by Asian American Research Center
Learn more & register: bit.ly/MarxismAARC
Sponsored by Asian American Research Center
Reposted by Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, UC Berkeley
CRWS affiliate Arlie Hochschild is featured in this PBS News Hour segment. Hochschild has spent more than 7 years getting to know the people in Pike County, Kentucky, highlighting how the residents are grappling with growing political divisions in their community. www.pbs.org/video/crossr...
PBS News Hour | In coal country, community works to heal political divisions | Season 2025
In Kentucky's coal country, a community is working to heal political divisions
www.pbs.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
CRWS affiliate Arlie Hochschild is featured in this PBS News Hour segment. Hochschild has spent more than 7 years getting to know the people in Pike County, Kentucky, highlighting how the residents are grappling with growing political divisions in their community. www.pbs.org/video/crossr...
Taesoo Song, Asian American Research Center Graduate Fellow, recently published an article in the Journal of Urban Affairs. The paper examines the evolution and impacts of Foreign Buyer Taxes (FBTs) in British Columbia and Ontario, Canada. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Anti-immigration and the politics of housing affordability: Examining the evolution and housing market impacts of Foreign Buyer Taxes in British Columbia and Ontario
This paper examines the evolution and impacts of Foreign Buyer Taxes (FBTs) in British Columbia and Ontario, Canada, introduced amid growing concerns over housing unaffordability. Drawing on media ...
www.tandfonline.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Taesoo Song, Asian American Research Center Graduate Fellow, recently published an article in the Journal of Urban Affairs. The paper examines the evolution and impacts of Foreign Buyer Taxes (FBTs) in British Columbia and Ontario, Canada. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Peter Nelson, Chair of the Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues, collaborated on Good Fire: Tending Native Land, an exhibit at the Oakland Museum of CA that explores how Native communities in NorCal have used controlled fire to care for the land. museumca.org/on-view/good...
Good Fire: Tending Native Lands - Oakland Museum of California (OMCA)
Good Fire: Tending Native Lands explores how Native communities in Northern California have used controlled fire—also called “good fire” or “cultural burning”—to care for the land and sustain traditio...
museumca.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Peter Nelson, Chair of the Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues, collaborated on Good Fire: Tending Native Land, an exhibit at the Oakland Museum of CA that explores how Native communities in NorCal have used controlled fire to care for the land. museumca.org/on-view/good...
Andrew Way Leong has been awarded a grant from The Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation in the amount of $152,435 for his project, which works to conserve and digitize an archive of Japanese-language literary journals published at the Tule Lake Segregation Center during World War II.
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Andrew Way Leong has been awarded a grant from The Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation in the amount of $152,435 for his project, which works to conserve and digitize an archive of Japanese-language literary journals published at the Tule Lake Segregation Center during World War II.
Kristina Lovato received funding from the Walter S. Johnson Foundation for her project, Empowering Child Welfare Practice at the Intersections of Immigration & Child Wellbeing, which aims to close the gap between policy guidance & implementation. socialwelfare.berkeley.edu/news/new-two...
New Two-Year Project to Strengthen Child Welfare Practice at the Intersection of Immigration and Child Wellbeing
The Center on Immigration and Child Welfare Initiative (CICW) led by Assistant Professor Dr. Kristina Lovato is excited to share that the Walter S. Johnson Foundation has awarded funding for Empowerin...
socialwelfare.berkeley.edu
November 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Kristina Lovato received funding from the Walter S. Johnson Foundation for her project, Empowering Child Welfare Practice at the Intersections of Immigration & Child Wellbeing, which aims to close the gap between policy guidance & implementation. socialwelfare.berkeley.edu/news/new-two...
Erwin Chemerinsky of @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social gave a powerful and moving talk yesterday on America's path to authoritarian rule. If you joined us in person or online, thank you! Stay tuned for the recording of this talk and Q&A portion and for upcoming events!
@ucberkeleycrws.bsky.social
@ucberkeleycrws.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Erwin Chemerinsky of @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social gave a powerful and moving talk yesterday on America's path to authoritarian rule. If you joined us in person or online, thank you! Stay tuned for the recording of this talk and Q&A portion and for upcoming events!
@ucberkeleycrws.bsky.social
@ucberkeleycrws.bsky.social
Join us for "From Chocolate City to Green City: The Political Ecology of Green Gentrification in Oakland" with @cnecorbin.bsky.social on Thur, November 20 at noon.
Zoom only
Register: bit.ly/48tKUwF
Sponsored by ISSI's Center for Research on Social
Change & co-sponsored by @natureatcal.bsky.social
Zoom only
Register: bit.ly/48tKUwF
Sponsored by ISSI's Center for Research on Social
Change & co-sponsored by @natureatcal.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Join us for "From Chocolate City to Green City: The Political Ecology of Green Gentrification in Oakland" with @cnecorbin.bsky.social on Thur, November 20 at noon.
Zoom only
Register: bit.ly/48tKUwF
Sponsored by ISSI's Center for Research on Social
Change & co-sponsored by @natureatcal.bsky.social
Zoom only
Register: bit.ly/48tKUwF
Sponsored by ISSI's Center for Research on Social
Change & co-sponsored by @natureatcal.bsky.social
Join us! "Food Circuits: Hidden Connections between Migrants & Societies" bit.ly/FOODCIRCUITS
Thur, Nov 13
132 Mulford Hall & Zoom
Sponsors: Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, Center for Ethnographic Research @natureatcal.bsky.social y.social @ucberkeleyfood.bsky.social #humanrights #environment
Thur, Nov 13
132 Mulford Hall & Zoom
Sponsors: Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, Center for Ethnographic Research @natureatcal.bsky.social y.social @ucberkeleyfood.bsky.social #humanrights #environment
ESPM Seminar Series: “FOOD CIRCUITS: Hidden Connections Between Migrants and Societies”
This weekly ESPM seminar will be held in 132 Mulford Hall and via Zoom. Featuring ESPM Faculty Seth Holmes and Mael Vizcarra, Alesandra Tatić, and...
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October 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Join us! "Food Circuits: Hidden Connections between Migrants & Societies" bit.ly/FOODCIRCUITS
Thur, Nov 13
132 Mulford Hall & Zoom
Sponsors: Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, Center for Ethnographic Research @natureatcal.bsky.social y.social @ucberkeleyfood.bsky.social #humanrights #environment
Thur, Nov 13
132 Mulford Hall & Zoom
Sponsors: Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, Center for Ethnographic Research @natureatcal.bsky.social y.social @ucberkeleyfood.bsky.social #humanrights #environment
Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani was recently appointed to serve on the Higher Education Committee Advisory Body of the California Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs, which will bring together representatives from K-12 schools, community colleges, & 4 year institutions. capiaa.ca.gov
California Commission on APIA Affairs | Empowering & Elevating AANHPI Communities In California
capiaa.ca.gov
October 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani was recently appointed to serve on the Higher Education Committee Advisory Body of the California Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs, which will bring together representatives from K-12 schools, community colleges, & 4 year institutions. capiaa.ca.gov
📣 Full-time Berkeley undergraduate and graduate students!
The Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues invites you to apply for grants.
💰Undergraduates may apply for grants up to $500. Graduate students may apply for grants up to $1,000.
📆Applications are due on Nov 17
Learn more below!
The Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues invites you to apply for grants.
💰Undergraduates may apply for grants up to $500. Graduate students may apply for grants up to $1,000.
📆Applications are due on Nov 17
Learn more below!
Small Grants - Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues | Institute for the Study of Societal Issues
issi.berkeley.edu
October 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
📣 Full-time Berkeley undergraduate and graduate students!
The Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues invites you to apply for grants.
💰Undergraduates may apply for grants up to $500. Graduate students may apply for grants up to $1,000.
📆Applications are due on Nov 17
Learn more below!
The Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues invites you to apply for grants.
💰Undergraduates may apply for grants up to $500. Graduate students may apply for grants up to $1,000.
📆Applications are due on Nov 17
Learn more below!
Rodolfo Torres, a visiting scholar, is a co-editor of a newly published volume of essays, titled 'Race & Class in the Southwest and Other Essays.' The essay collection focuses on the economic foundations of inequality as they have affected Chicanos in the Southwest. www.routledge.com/Race-and-Cla...
Race and Class in the Southwest and Other Essays: Studies in Political Economy
In Race and Class in the Southwest and Other Essays, Mario Barrera puts forth his seminal theory of racial inequality based on a synthesis of class and colonial analysis, together with several essays ...
www.routledge.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Rodolfo Torres, a visiting scholar, is a co-editor of a newly published volume of essays, titled 'Race & Class in the Southwest and Other Essays.' The essay collection focuses on the economic foundations of inequality as they have affected Chicanos in the Southwest. www.routledge.com/Race-and-Cla...
Ariana Thompson-Lastad is co-author of an article in the Journal of Primary Care & Community Health. The study tested the feasibility & acceptability of a randomized trial evaluating group-based non-pharmacologic approaches to increase access to primary care. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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October 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Ariana Thompson-Lastad is co-author of an article in the Journal of Primary Care & Community Health. The study tested the feasibility & acceptability of a randomized trial evaluating group-based non-pharmacologic approaches to increase access to primary care. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Cristiane Lopes Simão Lemos on "Determination vs.
Determinants of Health in the Context of Structural
Competency"
Thu, Nov 6, 5 pm
In-person + Zoom
bit.ly/CristianeBCSM
Sponsors/co-sponsors: Berkeley Center for Social
Medicine, Structural Competency Working Group, @ucbpublichealth.bsky.social
Determinants of Health in the Context of Structural
Competency"
Thu, Nov 6, 5 pm
In-person + Zoom
bit.ly/CristianeBCSM
Sponsors/co-sponsors: Berkeley Center for Social
Medicine, Structural Competency Working Group, @ucbpublichealth.bsky.social
Events at UC Berkeley
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October 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Cristiane Lopes Simão Lemos on "Determination vs.
Determinants of Health in the Context of Structural
Competency"
Thu, Nov 6, 5 pm
In-person + Zoom
bit.ly/CristianeBCSM
Sponsors/co-sponsors: Berkeley Center for Social
Medicine, Structural Competency Working Group, @ucbpublichealth.bsky.social
Determinants of Health in the Context of Structural
Competency"
Thu, Nov 6, 5 pm
In-person + Zoom
bit.ly/CristianeBCSM
Sponsors/co-sponsors: Berkeley Center for Social
Medicine, Structural Competency Working Group, @ucbpublichealth.bsky.social