The Manchu conquest of China is arguable the greatest historical event of the 17th century, both for the changes it engendered within Asia and for its far-reaching implications in world history. This talk will focus on the process of formation of Manchu power in northeast Asia and on local, regional, and even global dimensions of the rise of the Manchus.

Moderator: Severin Borenstein, UC Berkeley Panelists: Raphael Bostic, Assistant Secretary, Policy Development and Research, HUD Bjorn Harsman, Royal Institute of Technology Stefano DellaVigna, UC Berkeley Jiro Yoshida, Penn State University & Japan Ministry of Finance http://urbanpolicy.berkeley.edu

Environmental Economics and Policy 145, 001 - Fall 2014 Health and Environmental Economic Policy - Michael Anderson Creative Commons 3.0: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

The talk will be a brief recounting of Diego Rivera's visits to San Francisco, which bookend the relatively short span of time he actually spent in the U.S. The talk will include little known anecdotes about the connections in the artist's world, material gleaned mainly from the Diego Rivera collection at City College of San Francisco's Rosenberg Library. Will Maynez is the Physics Department lab manager at the City College of San Francisco. Trained as a painter, he has spent the last 14 years investigating the college's Pan American Unity mural and Rivera's theme of the reconciliation of art and science.