UC Berkeley Extension has several free online events coming up via Zoom
April 29, 12-1 pm Power and the People: The US Census and Who Counts with Doe Library staff
The U.S. Census and Who Counts" as part of the Public Lecture Series. Join Doe Library’s Ann Glusker, Sociology, Demography, & Quantitative Research Librarian, and Natalia Estrada, Political Science and Public Policy Librarian, for a timely conversation on the U.S. Census.
In this talk, we will discuss the U.S. Census, including why the Census matters and its historical context, with a special focus on race/ethnicity and immigration. We'll also touch on additional topics, from the UC Berkeley Library Census Exhibit, including income, gender, and redistricting. Finally, we'll offer some
May 5, 12-1 pm US 2020 Census: How to be sure everybody counts in the time of Covid-19
Learn how Alameda County engages youth in a Student Census Challenge, partners with County’s Complete Count Committee to promote Census centers, and provides census information to students, families and the public via school districts (before and during COVID). The presenter will share a real time map of Census response rates thus far.
May 6, 9-10:15 am, Discussion with Dean Diana Wu, Covid-19 and the Media: The Role of Journalism in a Global Pandemic
In an era of fake news and social media influencers, the public has struggled with changing and conflicting information throughout the unraveling of the COVID-19 outbreak. While scientists often simply don’t know the answers that the public and policy makers are looking for, journalists struggle with the extreme reactions to their reporting, ranging from total denial to complete hysteria. In this unique panel discussion between two global thought-leaders in Public Health and Journalism, we explore the challenges of reporters and researchers to provide accurate information on a little known virus and a pandemic of historic proportions. This insider look behind the scenes will shed light on the collaborative efforts of scientists and journalists to support policy makers and the public in navigating the crisis. Our objective is to challenge your understanding of the crisis, to make you question your sources and to provoke your imagination of what the return to normalcy might look like.
Online panel Professor John Swartzberg and Dean Edward Wasserman, along with a welcome speech by Diana Wu, Dean of UC Berkeley Extension.
May 19, 12-1pm The Connection between Industrial Agriculture and Pandemics
In this presentation, evolutionary biologist Rob Wallace will present findings from his research on the evolution and spread of influenzas and other pathogens, and the strong connection between global industrial agriculture and global outbreaks.
Rob Wallace is an evolutionary epidemiologist at the Agroecology and Rural Economics Research Corps. He is author of Big Farms Make Big Flu and co-author of Neoliberal Ebola: Modeling Disease Emergence from Finance to Forest and Farm and Clear-Cutting Disease Control: Capital-Led Deforestation, Public Health Austerity, and Vector-Borne Infection. He has consulted for the Food and Agriculture Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.