Town Hall: Addressing Berkeley's History
UC Berkeley is admired worldwide as a bastion of innovation and a hub for progressive thought. Far less known is the campus's history involving plunder and warfare, from the desecration of graves and large-scale hoarding of Indigenous remains to the development of the racist pseudoscience of eugenics in the early twentieth century.
Join us on Friday, Sept. 29, 10:30–noon (PT) for a Town Hall discussion intended to shine a light on past wrongs and the steps being taken to correct them. Panelists are author and activist Tony Platt and Berkeley Law professors Nazune Menka and Seth Davis. Berkeley professor Darren Zook will facilitate.
About the Panelists
Seth Davis is a Professor of Law at the Berkeley School of Law. His research explores questions of sovereignty, responsibility, and redress as they arise in both public law and private law, focusing upon administrative law, the federal courts, federal Indian law, fiduciary law, and tort law.
Nazune Menka (Koyukon Athabascan & Lumbee), a Professor at Berkeley School of Law, served as the Tribal Cultural Resources Project Policy Fellow and has recently transitioned to the Environmental Law Clinic as a Supervising Attorney. In 2021, she designed a new undergraduate course “Decolonizing UC Berkeley.”
Tony Platt is a Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at Berkeley's Center for the Study of Law & Society. His experience as a political activist with Berkeley’s Truth and Justice Project shaped his new book, The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley.