Undergraduate Education in the Public Research University March 11th, 2016
Session 3: Cost and Capacity
Panel: Jane Wellman - College Futures, Joni Finney- University of Pennsylvania, Candace Thille - Stanford University
An open forum to promote dialogue among UC Berkeley students, API community organizations, and UC Berkeley faculty and administration invested in building a robust API language curriculum at Berkeley.
Keynotee Talk on API Linguistic Diversity by Scholar-Activist Ling-Chi Wang, Professor Emeritus of Asian American Studies, UC Berkeley
Speakers: Fiona Ma, California Assemblywoman, California State Assembly Democratic Caucus; Gibor Basri, Vice Chancellor of Equity and Inclusion, UC Berkeley; Elaine Kim, Professor of Asian American Studies, UC Berkeley
Co-sponsored by the Vice Chancellors Office of Equity and Inclusion, Asian American Studies Program, Center for Race and Gender, Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Center for South Asia Studies, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, Asian Pacific American Student Development Office, Asian Pacific American Coalition, Townsend Center Working Group on Asian Cultural Studies, Filipinos for Affirmative Action, Korean Community Center of the East Bay, Chinese for Affirmative Action
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Syria's civil war has entered an explosive third phase. Radical Islamist forces now lead the military campaign against the regime of President Bashshar al-Asad. The Islamists compete with one another for popular backing, but have alienated the general public by fighting with other militias and assaulting minority communities. In response, Kurds, 'Alawis and others have created armed formations to protect their co-religionists. As the conflict becomes increasingly brutal and sectarian in character, it threatens to inflame simmering tensions in neighboring states. This complicates US efforts to influence the outcome, an effort made even more difficult by the introduction of chemical weapons into the fighting.
Fred H. Lawson is Lynn T. White, Jr. Professor of Government at Mills College. His publications include Global Security Watch Syria (Praeger, 2013), Demystifying Syria (Saqi Books, 2009), Constructing International Relations in the Arab World (Stanford University Press, 2006) and Why Syria Goes to War (Cornell University Press, 1996). He was president of the Syrian Studies Association from 2009 to 2011, and spent the 1992-93 academic year at the University of Aleppo as Fulbright Lecturer in International Relations. In 2009-10, he was Visiting Fellow at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar.