For thirty years, the UCB California Studies Dinner Seminar has presented the work of authors, scholars, and observers of California history, society, and culture to knowledgeable university and community audiences. Supported by grants from the university’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and the Townsend Humanities Center, the seminar meets at the Labor Institute, 2521 Channing Ave. just east of Telegraph Ave. from 7-9:15 p.m. Here is the 2018/2019 seminar schedule.
September 12 Gray Brechin, UC Berkeley, on the Cal Stadium, “A Monumental Memorial to Denial”
October 16 Diane North, University of Maryland, on her new book “California at War: the State and the People During World War I”
November 15 Dick Walker, UC Berkeley, on his new book, “Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area”
January 17 Rachel Brahinsky, University of San Francisco, on her forthcoming progressive/radical guidebook to San Francisco
February 20 Joe Blum, photographer and former iron worker, on photographing iron workers building San Francisco’s Salesforce Tower
March 19 Bob Cherny, San Francisco State, on “The Party’s Over: Former Communist Party Members in the Bay Area”
April 18 Tom Dalzell, lawyer and historian, on his forthcoming book on the history of Peoples Park, Berkeley
May 15 Susan Anderson, African American Museum and Library at Oakland, on her forthcoming history of African Americans in California
California Studies Association 
January 18, 2019 at 12:40 am
I believe that I had signed up for attending tonight’s presentation but will not be able to make it. Sorry for the inconvenience
Inge Horton