'IMMIGRANT WORKERS, RIGHTS AND CITIZENSHIP': The Jewish Studies Program is presenting a daylong workshop Oct. 22 on "Immigrant Workers, Rights and Citizenship: Comparative Perspectives on Israel, Germany, the Gulf States and California."
Organizers said the program includes a paper by Matt Bakker, a graduate student in sociology; and comments by Jaimey Fisher, associate professor, German and Russian; Luis Guarnizo, professor and vice chair, Department of Human and Community Development; and David Kyle, associate professor, sociology.
The workshop is scheduled from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Institute for Governmental Affairs Reading Room, 360 Shields Library.
A HUMAN RIGHTS FOCUS IN UNDERGRAD CLASSES: Faculty and students are invited to a free workshop on integrating the study of human rights into the undergraduate experience.
"Human Rights in the Classroom: An Interdisciplinary Conversation on Research and Teaching" is scheduled for Oct. 27 in the Andrews Conference Room, 2203 Social Sciences and Humanities Building.
Scholars from 91¿´Æ¬ Berkeley, 91¿´Æ¬ San Diego and Stanford are on the program with several 91¿´Æ¬ Davis faculty members.
The 91¿´Æ¬ Davis participants: David Biale, professor, history; Victoria Langland, assistant professor, history; Benjamin Lawrance, assistant professor, history; Michael Lazzara, assistant professor, Spanish and classics; Almerindo Ojeda, professor, linguistics; Charles Walker, associate professor, history, and director of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas; and Keith David Watenpaugh, associate professor of modern Islamic studies and the 2008-09 Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow in International Peace at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C.
Sponsors: Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, Davis Humanities Institute, Religious Studies Program, Jewish Studies Program and the Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas.
PATENT LAW REFORM: Top patent law experts will explore the probable effects of patent law reform on innovation and the economy during a daylong symposium at the 91¿´Æ¬ Davis School of Law.
"The Perfect Storm of Patent Reform?" is scheduled from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Nov. 7. Organizers said all panel discussions are free and open to the public; the luncheon cost is $15 for students and $25 for others.
Organizers are asking people to RSVP by Oct. 29.
"The Perfect Storm of Patent Reform?" is the first in a five-year Technology, Entrepreneurship, Science and Law lecture series co-sponsored by the 91¿´Æ¬ Davis School of Law and Fenwick & West, a law firm serving technology and life sciences clients.
All seminars and colloquia:
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