Sept. 27, 2025: noon - 4 p.m.

Description: Teaching in Totalitarian Times A Panel Discussion This panel explores the challenges and responsibilities of educators working within today’s political climate. As shifting policies, heightened censorship, and increasing pressures on academic freedom reshape classrooms, educators are forced to adapt in real time. Together, we will discuss how teachers and cultural workers navigate these constraints, how they create spaces of resistance and care, and how their practices can serve as acts of resilience and transformation. The conversation will highlight strategies for maintaining integrity, fostering critical dialogue, and cultivating agency for students and educators at a moment when education itself is under siege. Panelists: Cassondra Curiel (President, United Educators of San Francisco) Sergio De La Torre (Professor, University of San Francisco) Asma Kazmi (Professor, UC Berkeley) Mores McWreath (Professor, UC Berkeley) Greg Niemeyer (Professor, UC Berkeley) Yulia Pinkusevich (Professor, Mills College at Northeastern University) Moderated by Altair Salmon (Professor, Stanford University) 120710 Gallery (1207 Tenth St., Berkeley) September 27 | 12:00–1:00 PM This event marks the closing of Teaching Practice, an exhibition highlighting the creative practices of educators in the Bay Area.