Dialogue Across Difference

The State of Hate - Part One: Hate and the Brain (Three-Part Virtual Series)
2024-06-10 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
The State of Hate is a multi-part online series co-sponsored by the Friends of Semel Institute and the UCLA Initiative to Study Hate. The series brings together UCLA experts to share new ways of understanding and mitigating hate.
The first installment in the series, “The Brain and Hate” will examine what we know about how hate takes rise in the human brain. Professors Adriana Galván and Mario Mendez will join in the conversation to explore the opportunities and challenges of studying the neuroscience of hate. They will also discuss some of the cognitive processes that advance hateful behavior and how we can counter them.
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Transforming Self and Society With Compassion
2021-05-04 08:00 - 17:00
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Looking Ahead: Science, Facts and the Public Debate
2021-01-11 08:00 - 17:00
Looking Ahead: Science, Facts and the Public Debate
Thursday, January 14
6:00 p.m. PST | 9:00 p.m. EST
As a new U.S. presidential administration prepares for the four years ahead, coping with intersecting challenges including a pandemic, persistent inequality, climate change policy and a sea of misinformation, UCLA experts discuss what role institutions of higher learning will play in addressing the crises of our times.
How can universities help champion science and evidence in a skeptical society where fact-based professions like journalism and medicine are under attack? When we are often divided into disconnected and conflicting media bubbles, how can universities help inspire people to embrace reliable facts as a means to heal our economy, our planet and our culture?
UCLA environmental humanities scholar Ursula K. Heise, public health researcher Gilbert Gee, and internet and society expert Safiya U. Noble come together in a discussion moderated by storyteller and curator Chon Noriega.
Opening remarks by UCLA Chancellor Gene Block
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World Kindness Day Film Screening of The Antidote Documentary
2020-11-10 08:00 - 17:00
World Kindness Day is Friday, November 13. The Bedari Kindness Institute is hosting a virtual film screening in partnership with The Antidote Movie – a documentary that weaves together stories of kindness, decency, and the power of community in America.
To screen the movie, please RSVP here.

Truth and Nonviolence in Post-Truth Times: An International Conference on Mohandas Gandhi
2020-01-30 08:00 - 2020-02-02 17:00
The UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute is a co-sponsor of Truth and Nonviolence in Post-Truth Times: An International Conference on Mohandas Gandhi, Thursday 30 January – Sunday 2 February 2020 at UCLA; more information at https://gandhi2020ucla.weebly.com/
