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MONDAY NOVEMBER 28TH RECEPTION,  5:00PM - 6:00PM  WURSTER GALLERY PANEL + DISCUSSION,  6:00PM - 8:00PM  112 WURSTER AUDITORIUM GUESTS :: SARA DALEIDEN  Founder + Director of MKE <-> LAX KOFI BOONE Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture North Carolina State Universtity College of Design AUSTIN ALLEN Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Lousiana State University College of Art & Design RESPONDENTS :: MALO HUTSON Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning College of Environmental Design ALMA DU SOLIER Landscape Designer MODERATOR :: WALTER HOOD Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design College of Environmental Design

Tuesday, 11/04/14 6:00pm – 8:00pm  121 Wurster Hall Event Program Reception - 6:00 - 6:30pm Lecture - 6:30 - 8:00pm Design as an Act of Love Architecture has significant potential to advance the common good and empower people and communities worldwide. With that conviction, Grant's work with the "Fetzer Institute" and the "Center for Contemplative Mind in Society" sought to catalyze personal growth and social change through reflective practices and strategic support of design projects that demonstrated beauty, compassion, democracy, inclusivity and innovation.

             Learn about ways to support someone hurt by sexual violence, what resources are available, and the recognizing the personal impact on you as a support person. Part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month.   For more info about the month's events, please go to geneq.berkeley.edu/ucbsaam . Next discussion: Wed, April 30, 2014 - 4-5pm - 202 Chavez Join us for this tea time discussion led by staff from the Asian Women’s Shelter. Bring your favorite mug or water bottle! For disability related accommodations, please go to access.berkeley.edu For info, contact ambrosio@berkeley.edu

The San Francisco Housing Action Coalition is a small organization that advocates for the development of well-designed housing at all levels of affordability in San Francisco. On May 14, next Tuesday, we are co-hosting an event with San Francisco Magazine titled "SF's Housing Crisis: Can the Tech Boom Help Us?" This topic could not be more relevant. We have an awesome panel that includes Enrico Moretti, a economics professor at CAL. The event will consist of a reception followed by a panel discussion. It is just two hours long and it would be a great experience for urban planning students. Tickets for students are only $15, which is under cost. They just need to bring a valid student ID.

Link: http://gspp.berkeley.edu/calendar/event/movie-screening-panel-forced-confes= sions-a-documentary-by-iranian-canadian *WHAT: *Movie Screening "Forced Confessions", a documentary by Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari, and Panel Discussion by Hadi Ghaemi and Omid Memarian *WHEN:* Tuesday, April 9th, 6-9pm *WHERE: *Goldman School of Public Policy, Room 250 For the first time on film, six victims of Iran's torture chambers speak. These are not criminals, but acclaimed writers, journalists, and scholars. The film is narrated by director *Maziar Bahari*, who was forced to falsely admit in front of a television audience of millions aborating with foreign intelligence agencies in helping to orchestrate Iran's popular uprising. *Hadi Ghaemi*, Executive Director of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, and *Omid Memarian*, journalist and a survivor of forced confessions featured in the film, will later answer questions from the audience. *FILM SYNOPS...

CED undergraduates - you are invited to attend the Architecture department colloquium from 2:10-4:00 pm on April 8th in 104 Wurster. Come learn more about what CED grad students are up to! The Architecture Colloquium is an event that gives graduate students a chance to present some of their research work or end of term papers to other graduate students, faculty, or other interested CED students. This event would be a great opportunity for undergraduates interested in graduate school- introducing them to the scope and method of research produced in grad. school. It could also be for those interested in learning what their GSI's are working on when not in section.

Dear STEM Colleagues and High School and College Students, Please join Science and Technology Forum members for the first-ever Commonwealth Club panel on women and under-represented populations in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). For panel purpose/ description and to register, please go to : http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2013-05-09/women-and-under-represented-students-color-stem-education The Commonwealth Club has allowed us to make the program free for students with valid IDs and offered a promotional code to receive member pricing for attendees that are affiliated with any of your institutions. The (case sensitive) code is levelplayingfieldforstem If there is any trouble redeeming the coupon online, it can also be used by calling our automated ticket line at 415-597-6705 . See you at the Commonwealth Club on Thursday, May 9.

Do you know undergrads who are interested in a career in health or unsure of what to do when they graduate? Then you should tell them to come to a graduate student panel hosted by the Center for Health Leadership's Mentorship Committee! What: Health in All Majors - a grad student panel on health careers for undergrads of every major When: Tuesday, November 27 from 6:30-8:30pm Where: 150 University Hall (enter from the Addison Street doors) Why: Because the health care field is expanding and offers great opportunities for students of all academic backgrounds...and there will be free refreshments!

Justice Stories, Resistance Stories and Just Good Stories: narrative and storytelling as critical pedagogy Wednesday, November 14th, 4-6pm  231 Wheeler Hall Presenters:  Jane Hammons, College Writing  Jen Schradie, Berkeley Center for New Media  Regina Mason, U.C. Berkeley Office of the Registrar   Storytelling is both an individual and collective task. It can transform localized and individual experiences and emotions into public knowledge and shared history. Stories can be useful and powerful ways of clarifying connections between subjects, of bringing many voices to the table and of understanding the complexity of American society. Storytelling can reveal the concealed, the silent and the multiple voices that often lie in the background.  And stories that are just good stories reveal themselves than more than that, as justice stories or resistance stories, as stories about race, social responsibility and being an active participan...

My name is Nathan Chan, and I am the Treasurer for Cal's Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). I just wanted to let you know that this Thursday (11/8) ITE and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) will be hosting a joint general meeting. We have invited three guest speakers, two from HNTB and one from Murakami Nelson Architectural Corporation. The presentation will be on the Presidio Parkway Project and there will be a landscape architecture component to the presentation. The presentation will be from 5-6pm at 534 Davis.

Reclaiming Our Voices at Cal: Womyn of Color Speak Out! Wednesday, November 7th 5:00-8:00pm Multicultural Community Center (Hearst Field Annex D-37) In 2007, the first Women of Color Festival "RECLAIM: Our Bodies, Minds, and Spirits," consisted of a day of events, hosted by GenEq, Multicultural Student Development and the Office of the Dean of Students, focusing on the experiences of women of color in our communities. It returned in 2009 and was cosponsored by GabNET, CalSLAM, RISE of UC Berkeley, Phi Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, GenEq, bridges Multicultural Resource Center and Cross-Cultural Student Development (CCSD). This semester we hope to bring back the spirit created by the Women of Color Festival in 2007 and 2009, but doing so with a critical lens, that analyzes the historical connotations of the word “festival.” This year, we are excited to invite you to an evening event that will consist of dialogue among womyn of color about their experiences o...

Brought to you by your fellow CED students: Drop by The Rest Stop! Thursdays 7-8pm 214B Wurster Hall Great work comes from Happy Students. Happy Students come from The Rest Stop. Combat burnout and stress to pursue balance, rest and happiness! As students, we need to learn how to process critiques in healthy ways, like peer to peer discussion. Our goal is to create a more successful, healthy CED student body. The Rest Stop is a safe space to hang out together and have healthy discussions about our struggles as CED students. We are all in this together; let’s actually talk what we are going through! (i.e. long nights, questioning abilities and future, feeling failure, issues about believing in your abilities) Drop by any week for some good food and real talk with CED students!

SAVE THE DATE! Thursday November 15, 5-7pm Wurster 112 Round table on FIAT LUX, by Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall A College-wide discussion on the past and future visions of UC Berkeley with Sam Davis, Janet Delaney, Kristina Hill, Malo Hutson, Ananya Roy, moderator, Andy Shanken, and Fiat Lux photo montage by Jason Miller NOW SHOWING: ‘Fiat Lux Redux,’ at the Bancroft Library A collection of Ansel Adams prints of the UC campuses in 1968