First elected to Congress in 1980, Barney Frank represented Massachusetts’s 4th District for 32 years. He is known as a superb legislator and a pragmatic politician whose sharp intellect and sense of humor made him one of Washington’s most influential and colorful figures. While in Congress, Frank worked to adjust America’s spending priorities to reduce the deficit, provide less funding for the military and more for domestic programs. He argues here that the US could safely trim its military bud...
Apr 27, 2015•1 hr 16 min
Barney Frank, the 16-term former Congressman from Massachusetts joins Alex Gelber and Henry E. Brady of the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley for a no-holds-barred review of his feats (and colleagues) on Capitol Hill. From being the first Member of Congress to publicly identify himself as gay, to Dodd-Frank, his signature bill addressing the 2008 financial crisis, and on to a thorough assessment of President Obama and the Federal Reserve, Frank displays his famous biting wit and fea...
Apr 06, 2015•59 min
In the final installment of a four-part series, UC Irvine Public Health professor Brandon Brown and others help members of Lima's gay and transgender community overcome the stigma of HIV and get access to healthcare. This is no small feat in Peru, long considered the most homophobic country in South America. This outreach program is part of UCI's Global Health Research, Education and Translation (GHREAT) Initiative. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 25898]
Oct 15, 2013•14 min
David Del Tredici’s Bullycide is a piano sextet inspired by the suicides of five gay teenagers, and by the composer’s own memories of bulling in grammar and high school. Series: "La Jolla Music Society: SummerFest" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 25806]
Sep 27, 2013•39 min
For prosecutors, as well as priests, how we have sex has long been a matter of serious concern. So serious, in fact, that whenever community standards are challenged, the response is often repression, and, sometimes, severe punishment. Eric Berkowitz is an attorney in San Francisco who has studied this phenomenon. His new book is called “Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire” (Counterpoint, 2012). Berkowitz speaks with California Lawyer editor Martin Lasden. Series: "Legally ...
Sep 03, 2012•55 min
In 1995, twenty-five-year-old Samantha Nutt, a recent medical-school graduate and a field volunteer for UNICEF, touched down in Baidoa, Somalia, “the City of Death.” What she saw there would spur her on to a lifetime of passionate advocacy for children and families in war-torn areas around the world. Dr. Nutt shares her observations on providing hands-on care in some of the world’s most violent flashpoints and the building of her non-profit War Child. Series: "Ethics, Religion and Public Life: W...
Apr 02, 2012•1 hr 16 min
There is no federal law that consistently protects LGBT individuals from employment discrimination. Join a distinguished panelists as they present findings from the cutting edge of research on discrimination, including the most recent studies based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Topics include the effectiveness of public policy in reducing discrimination, as well as the next generation of discrimination research that branch out from the focus on wage differences by sexual orientation...
Aug 08, 2011•1 hr 22 min
Academic research focusing on marriage and the family rarely considers LGBT issues or same-sex couples and their families. This panel of prominent scholars considers the benefits and challenges to addressing LGBT issues, marriage equality, and same-sex couples more routinely in marriage and family research. Series: "Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 21906]
Aug 01, 2011•58 min
Explore LGBT rights from a social movement perspective. Turning outward to other movements sheds light on the possibilities and limitations of LGBT rights activism. Panelists consider what the LGBT rights movement can learn from other movement experiences and from the scholarly analysis of social movements. Series: "Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 21905]
Aug 01, 2011•58 min
Historian Nancy Cott, economist M.V. Badgett, and attorney David Boies discuss the changing landscape of same sex marriage as the issue winds its way through the state and national legal systems. Particular emphasis is given to historical context and the attempt to overturn California’s Proposition 8. Series: "Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 21085]
Aug 01, 2011•58 min
Gary Gates, William Distinguished scholar at The Williams Institute at UCLA, discusses his new study estimating LGBT population in the United States. Drawing on information from four recent national and two state-level population-based surveys, the analyses suggest that there are more than 8 million adults in the US who self identify themselves as lesbian, gay,bisexual or transgender comprising 3.5% of the adult population. However, Gates explains why those numbers only tell part of the story. S...
Jun 06, 2011•1 hr 12 min
Monica McWilliams, the Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and a signer of the historic 1998 Good Friday Agreement with Ireland, addresses the challenges of turning the promise of peace accords into stable post-conflict societies through the inclusion of women in political and civil leadership. McWilliams is presented as part of the 2010 Women’s Peacemakers Conference hosted by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego. Serie...
Oct 18, 2010•1 hr
The global community faces new challenges and needs to be able to imagine a truly diverse and multi-polar world in which shared leadership is the norm. Kavita N. Ramdas, President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women, discusses how we can look to the women’s movement globally as a source of innovation and inspiration that offers tangible examples to address the most pressing issues of our time. Series: "Ethics, Religion and Public Life: Walter H. Capps Center Series" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 1...
Jul 19, 2010•59 min
Learn to recognize the unique obstacles that LGBT survivors confront when they turn to the legal system for assistance. National experts on LGBT domestic violence provide practical information to better understand the experience of LGBT domestic violence survivors, to assess when a person is exercising systematic power and control in a relationship, and to use domestic violence restraining orders and other forms of legal relief to help survivors achieve safety, autonomy, and justice. Series: "Wi...
Jan 11, 2010•1 hr 28 min
Harry Kreisler welcomes historian Joan Wallach Scott who traces her intellectual odyssey and recalls the impact of the women's movement on her research and teaching. She describes the intellectual influences that led her to write the now classic article, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis." She also discusses the utility of critical history for elucidating contemporary policy debates with a focus on her recent book "The Politics of the Veil," an analysis of the political, cultural...
Jun 01, 2009•57 min
In Part 3 of of this annual conference on sexual orientation law and public policy from the Williams Institute at UCLA, experts change their focus from Europe to the United States as they assess domestic developments in same-sex marriage and other issues of interest to gay and lesbian couples. Series: "Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 12862]
Jun 18, 2007•57 min
In Part 2 of this annual conference on sexual orientation law and public policy, Yale Law School’s Bill Eskridge joins Lee Badgett of UCLA’s Williams Institute to share evidence that legalizing gay marriage in Denmark and the Netherlands has not led to a drop in heterosexual marriages, as some critics had predicted. Series: "Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 12860]
Jun 11, 2007•46 min
Boris Dittrich, a former member of the Netherlands Parliament, leads off this conference on sexual orientation law with a report on how well legalized gay marriage is working in his country. Series: "Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 12820]
Jun 04, 2007•46 min
Nobel Peace Laureate and lawyer Shirin Ebadi of Iran describes how education can lead to peace in the Middle East and calls for an end to discrimination against women in this riveting address presented by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice and the School of Law at the University of San Diego. Series: "Peace exChange -- Kroc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 11869]
Oct 02, 2006•57 min
Series of debates on extending marriage and adoption to same-sex couples co-sponsored by The Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law, Brigham Young University, and the UCLA Interdisciplinary Relationship Science Program. This installment of the series focuses on religion and education. Series: "Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 11913]
Sep 04, 2006•58 min
