California Studies Dinner Seminars

The California Studies Dinner Seminars is a forum for the discussion of California politics, economy, and society that meets once a month on the Berkeley campus. It brings together scholars, students, and specialists from around the Bay Area to hear speakers talk about new books, research and ideas of note concerning California. The series has been going strong for twenty years (with a predecessor going back thirty years!), and is the finest intellectual forum on California history, geography and public affairs in Northern California.

We meet each month on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday evening. Buffet dinner from 7:00-8:00 p.m., followed by talk by a guest speaker at 8 p.m. An open and convival question/discussion period follows until c. 9:30-10 p.m.

There is no cost for the dinners.

California Dinners Schedule

The series is co-directed by Richard Walker (Professor, Department of Geography, UC Berkeley) and Charles Wollenberg (Berkeley City College, Berkeley), and is sponsored by the California Studies Center of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. It is funded with the generous support of the IRLE and the Townsend Center for the Humanities on the UC Berkeley campus.

Anyone interested in topics about the state of California is invited to attend these informal dinner gatherings. To become a participant and receive notices of forthcoming seminars, write or phone:

Delores Dillard
Department of Geography,
507 McCone Hall
UC Berkeley 94720-4740
(510) 642-3901
deloresd@berkeley.edu

Please notify Ms. Dillard if you are coming, preferrably before the day of the talk!

• UC Berkeley
• Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
• Department of Geography
• California Studies Association