California's Neighborhoods: Recovery and Redevelopment
Panelist/Discussants: Rebecca Blanco, Specialist, Office of Community Planning and Development, US HUD Region IX; Kara Douglas, Principal Planner, Affordable Housing, Contra Costa County; John T. Nagle, Attorney at Law, Goldfarb & Lipman LLP
Sponsor: Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy
Expert panelists discuss federal efforts to stabilize neighborhoods in crisis and recent proposals by the Brown Administration to eliminate redevelopment programs.
Realizing the Vision of a High Speed Rail System in California
"A Futures Vision of HSR and Smart Growth"
Peter Calthrope
http://www.calthorpe.com/peter-calthorpe
This course is a seminar on the role of law in the management of international environmental problems. The course will begin with a brief introduction to public international law as it relates to the environment and a discussion of what international environmental law means. Participants in the course will study a range of environmental issues, legal sources, and institutions.
The Second panel discussed how research justice, community engaged scholarship, community-led research, and community-university partnerships move social justice forward and what these partnerships accomplish. Moderator Keith Feldman, featuring Paola Bacchetta (UC Berkeley and Dyketactics), Alma Leyva (Dream Resource Center), Kathleen Yep (Claremont Colleges) and Fabiola Santiago (Human Impact Partners).
The Supreme Court of California: Judicial Elections and Impartiality
Legal experts discuss the impact of having to be elected by voters to serve on the court in this panel sponsored by the UC Berkeley School of Law, Boalt Hall.
Sponsor: UC Berkeley School of Law, Boalt Hall http://www.law.berkeley.edu/
Patenaude will discuss his new book, Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary, which describes Leon Trotsky's last years in Mexico in the late 1930s. At the center of this gripping and tragic story are Trotsky's tumultuous friendship with painter Diego Rivera; his affair with Rivera's wife, artist Frida Kahlo; and his torment as his family and comrades become victims of the Great Terror and Stalin's assassins close in.
Bertrand Patenaude is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a lecturer in History and International Relations at Stanford University. He is the author and editor of several books, including most recently Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary (HarperCollins, 2009).