CSLS Speaker Series

CSLS SPEAKER SERIES

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SPRING 2026

In-Person in the Philip Selznick Seminar Room at 2240 Piedmont Ave. and Livestreamed via Zoom
Full calendar TBA.

Monday, January 26	LOÏC WACQUANT Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley	"Penal Power in Action: On the Tracks of County Prosecuters" Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom.
Monday, February 2	JACK PAINE Associate Professor of Political Science, Emory University	"The Partition of Africa, Phase II: Forming States after the Scramble" Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom.
Monday, Feburary 9	HARDEEP DHILLON Assistant Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania	"The Children of Immigrants Ineligible for Naturalization and Historical Struggle for Birthright Citizenship" Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom.
Monday, March 9	ED RUBIN University Distinguished Professor of Law and Political Science, Vanderbilt University	CSLS Special Event The Robert A. Kagan Lecture in Law and Regulation: Title TBA. Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom.
Monday, March 16	TBA.	Title TBA.
Monday, March 30	STEPHANIE CANZIALES Assistant Professor of Sociology and Faculty Director of the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, UC Berkeley	"Living Legal Trauma: How Punitive Immigration Policies Harm Community Helpers" Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom.
Monday, April 13	ALLISON HARRIS Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University	*Title TBA.*
Monday, April 20	POULAMI ROYCHOWDHURY Associate Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs, Brown University	*Title TBA.*
Monday, April 27	JONATHAN LEVY Professor of History, Sciences Po	*Title TBA.*