# The American Cultures Center

**Source**: https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/twtt
**Parent**: https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/

## Teaching and Working in Troubled Times

Background image: Facilitator and Two Workshop Panelists listen intently to another panelist

## About the Series

The [Teaching and Working in Troubled Times](https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/faculty/teaching-troubled-times) series (formerly '*Teaching in Troubled Times'*) began in 2017 as a series of timely dialogues elevating some of the most pressing social and political questions that enter our lives and our classrooms. The series has fermented vibrant discussion and delivered ‘on-the-ground’ tools to support our students’ complex lives.  The series is co-hosted by the American Cultures Center, [Center for Teaching and Learning](https://teaching.berkeley.edu/), and [Division of Equity & Inclusion](https://diversity.berkeley.edu/).

The Teaching in Troubled Times workshops will continue to build an arc of learning for the campus, bringing together experts from a cross-section of interests. The Teaching in Troubled Times workshop series will cumulatively present a unique opportunity to delve into the complications and opportunities our knowledge of student life at Berkeley brings. In this series of workshops, we will form a learning community that together will consider the meaning of inclusivity, acceptance, and belonging on and off our campus.

## Topics

- [Course Development topic page](/topics/course-development)
- [Event Resource Page topic page](/topics/event-resource-page)
- [Teaching & Working in Troubled Times topic page](/topics/teaching-working-troubled-times)
- [Food Insecurity topic page](/topics/food-insecurity)

## Upcoming Events

## [Campus Activism and Organizing: Past, Present and Future](https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/twtt/campus-activism-and-organizing-past-present-and-future)

**February 11, 2026**\
**12-2PM**

The role that universities play in social transformation has always been imbued with contradictions. On one hand, campuses serve as critical sites for radical re-imaginings of the world, community mobilization, and organizing. At the same time, the institutional structures that govern these campuses are often placed into an antagonistic and even counterinsurgent relationship to this work. [Read more](https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/teaching-working-troubled-times/campus-activism-and-organizing-past-present-and-future)

*No upcoming events currently scheduled. Please check back later.*

[## Resource Archive](https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/twtt/past-sessions-archive)

*Please visit our **[archive of past events](https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/twtt/past-sessions-archive)** to discover with teaching tools, materials, and recommendations for instructors.*