Changing Climates: Class, Culture, and Politics in an Era of Global Warming
April 11-13, 2008
18th Annual California Studies Conference
Berkeley City College
2050 Center Street
Berkeley, CA 94704
(1/2 block from BART)
Program
FRIDAY, April 11
7:00-9: 00 p.m.
Keynote: Matt Gonzales, Independent candidate for Vice-President of the United States
SATURDAY, April 12
Complimentary buffet of coffee and pastries.
8:45-10:15 a.m.
Ports and People: Jobs, Health, Power (room 51)
- Louise Dyble (chair), University of Southern California
- Margaret Gordon, Port of Oakland Commission
- Aditi Vaidya, EBASE
- Clarence Thomas, ILWU
- Peter Hall, Simon Fraser University
Organizing Community in the Silicon Valley (room 57)
- Ruben Abrica, De Anza College
- Chris Block, Charities Housing
- Raj Jayadev, Silicon Valley De-Bug Magazine
- Nari Rhee, University of California, Berkeley
Writing California (room 51)
- Susan McWilliams (chair), Pomona College
- Rick Wartzman, Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of The Grapes of Wrath
- Peter Richardson, American Prophet: The Life and Work of Carey McWilliams
- Philip Fradkin, Wallace Stegner and the American West
- Richard Walker, The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area
People, Place, and Water (room 57)
- Michael Warburton, Public Trust Alliance
- George Basye, Levee Historian and Water Policy consultant
- Mark Franco and Caleen Sisk-Franco, Winnemem Wintu Tribe
- Ruth Langridge, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Living Wage and Labor Power (room 14)
- Marty Bennett (chair), Living Wage Coalition of Sonoma County
- Wei-Ling Huber, Emeryville Living Wage/Woodfin Suites Campaign
- Sonya Mehta, San Francisco Living Wage Campaign
- Cesar Hernandez, CAUSE-Central Coast Organizing Project
12:00-12:30 P.M.
Lunch in atrium
Box lunch by Rick and Ann’s catering available through pre-registration, $15
12:30-1:30 P.M.
Luncheon address: Jackie Goldberg, “The Changing Climate of Our Schools: Put Students on the Endangered List” (auditorium)
1:45-3:15 P.M.
New California Literature: Breaking Into the Future (room 51)
- Julia Stein (chair), Santa Monica College
- Owen Hill, The Chandler Apartments
- Judy Juanita, We Got Work to Do
- Rip Rense, The Oaks
In Praise of Taxes (room 57)
- Jeff Lustig (chair), California State University, Sacramento
- Jackie Goldberg, UCLA Teach Compton
- Peter Schrag, California: America’s High-Stakes Experiment
- Mason Gaffney, University of California, Riverside
Immigration and the Border (room 14)
- Peter Richardson (chair), San Francisco State University
- Sasha Abramsky, American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment
- David Bacon, Illegal: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants
- Peter Laufer, Wetback Nation: The Case for Opening the Mexican-American Border
- Mary Moreno-Richardson, Episcopal Diocese of San Diego
3:30-5:00 P.M.
Climate Change: What’s in Store for California? (auditorium)
- Richard Walker (moderator), The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area
- Norman Miller, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
- David Beesley, Crow's Range: An Environmental History of the Sierra Nevada
- Tim Rainey, California Federation of Labor
- Max Aufhammer, University of California, Berkeley
5:10-5:45 P.M.
CSA business meeting (room 51)
8:00 p.m.
Ian Ruskin, “From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks: The Life and Times of Harry Bridges”
SUNDAY, April 13
Complimentary buffet of coffee and pastries.
9:00-10:30 A.M.
Working in the Green Economy (room 51)
- Enrique Davalos, San Diego City College
- Raquel Pinderhughes, San Francisco State University
- Ian Kim, Ella Baker Center, Oakland
- Kate Gordon, Apollo Alliance
Arts and Activism I (room 57)
- Randolphe Belle (chair), Artist and community development consultant
- Amanda Williams, Soul Salon 10 Collective
- Arthur Monrow, Oakland Museum of California
- Deborah Vaughan, Dimensions Dance Theater
10:45-12:15 P.M.
Green Media (room 51)
- Yumi Wilson (chair), San Francisco State University
- Rose Aguilar, KALW
- John Scott, Green 960AM
- Jonathon Rowe, KWMR
Sky as Commons: Pollution and Equal Rights (room 57)
- Tom Athanasiou, Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor
- Glenn Fieldman, San Francisco State University
- Christopher Lepe, De Anza College
- Ellen Choy, Environmental Justice and Climate Change
Arts and Activism II: Moral Imperative (room 14)
- Randolphe Belle (chair), Artist and community development consultant
- Robin Freeman, Merritt College
- Kim Anno, California College of the Arts
- Kristy Alfieri, The Crucible
- Greg Morozumi, Eastside arts Alliance
Registration
To pre-register for the conference send an email to changingclimates@gmail.com
$35.00 suggested donation
$10.00 suggested student donation
$15.00 for box lunch on Saturday - be sure to request a box lunch with your registration - lunches will only be available by pre-order.