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Hate In A Period of Political Turmoil

The Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy’s 2017-18 Colloquium Series Hate In A Period of Political Turmoil will launch on Friday, September 8, 2017 with a special event: Charlottesville: A Defining Moment in America, A Conversation with Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr. In this series we will focus on how government’s complicity with hate, violence, and law can harm vulnerable people and undermine humanity.

This year, the Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy will host conversations that explore the rise in hate speech and hate crimes in the United States. This academic year marks important milestones for these conversations, starting with the notorious 1927 United States Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell, which officially and legally launched the horrific practice of eugenics in the United States. Although eugenics was implemented in some states for as many as 20 years by that time, this shocking Supreme Court decision legalized the practice, opening the door for tens of thousands of poor Americans to be forcibly sterilized. Twenty years later, the trial of Nazi doctors who performed horrific atrocities on innocent people, leading to sterilizations, deaths, and the maiming of children, women, and men, began in Nuremberg.  Indeed, one line of defense used in the trials was that the doctors who participated in eugenics sterilizations did nothing different than what was occurring in the United States.

The 2017-18 academic year also marks the 50th year anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s death, exposing the frequently overlooked acts of domestic terrorism and racial backlash to civil rights.  We hope you will join us.

This 10-month colloquium series builds from our previous university and community based conversations that covered topics such as the modern U.S. family, women in politics, race and mental health, same sex families that sparked lively, important exchange.  

Please RSVP for each event below. Seating is limited and lunch is provided (with the exception of the Barclay event on September 8th).

Series Schedule

• Charlottesville: A Defining Moment in America, A Conversation with Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr.

  Friday, September 8, 2017
  12:00-1:30 p.m.
  Irvine Barclay Theatre
  
  The event is currently at capacity. Register on the Waitlist
  Featuring:

  • Dr. Rabbi Hillel Cohn, founding chairperson of the City of San Bernardino Human Relations Commission, board member of The Community Foundation of Riverside and San Bernardino, Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties, and The Brightest Star. 
  • T. Mychael Rambo, Actor, Orator, Activist
  • Professor Michele Goodwin, Chancellor's Professor of Law University of California, Irvine School of Law

• Hate Crimes: Origins and Meanings in The Era of Political Divide

  Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017
  12:05-1:15 p.m.
  LAW 3500

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  Featuring:

  Dr. Phyllis Gerstenfeld
  Professor and Chair, Criminal Justice, CSU Stanislaus

• Inside The Hateful Mind

  Thursday, October 19, 2017
  12:05-1:15 p.m.
  LAW 3500

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  Featuring:

  Dr. George Woods
  Former President, International Academy of Law and Mental Health

  Jonathan Odell
  Author, The Healing and Miss Hazel & The Rosa Parks League

• Women and Hate: Lynchings, Hate Groups, & Emmett Till

  Thursday, November 16, 2017
  12:05-1:15 p.m.
  LAW 3500

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  Featuring:

  Courtney R. Baker
  Associate Professor American Studies, Black Studies Initiative, Occidental College

• Nature vs. Nurture: Children, Violence, and Hate

  Thursday, January 18, 2018
  12:05-1:15 p.m.
  LAW 3500

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  Featuring:

  Professor Jodi Quas
  Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior & Nursing Science, University of California, Irvine

  Dr. Patricia Jones Blessman
  Expert on Children, Trauma, and Behavior
  

  
  
  

• Hate Crimes and the LGBTQ Community

  Thursday, February 15, 2018
  12:05-1:15 p.m.
  EDU 1131

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  Featuring:

  Valerie Jenness
  Professor, Department of Criminology, Law, and Society, University of California, Irvine

• Domestic Terrorism and Hate

  Thursday, March 15, 2018
  12:05-1:15 p.m.
  LAW 3500

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  Featuring:

  Professor Jody Armour
  Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law, University of Southern California

  Alfred Brophy
  J.D., Ph.D., D. Paul Jones Chairholder in Law, University of Alabama School of Law
  

  
  
  

• The Rise of Mainstream Hate

  Thursday, April 19, 2018
  12:05-1:15 p.m.
  LAW 3500

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  Featuring:

  Professor Michele Goodwin
  Chancellor’s Professor, University of California, Irvine

  Hussam Ayloush
  M.B.A., Executive Director, Council on American-Islamic Relations of Greater Los Angeles
  

  Professor Jody Armour
  Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law, University of Southern California