'IMMIGRANT WORKERS, RIGHTS AND CITIZENSHIP': The Jewish Studies Program is presenting a daylong workshop Oct. 22 on "Immigrant Workers, Rights and Citizenship: Comparative Perspectives on Israel, Germany, the Gulf States and California."

Organizers said the program includes a paper by Matt Bakker, a graduate student in sociology; and comments by Jaimey Fisher, associate professor, German and Russian; Luis Guarnizo, professor and vice chair, Department of Human and Community Development; and David Kyle, associate professor, sociology.

The workshop is scheduled from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Institute for Governmental Affairs Reading Room, 360 Shields Library.

A HUMAN RIGHTS FOCUS IN UNDERGRAD CLASSES: Faculty and students are invited to a free workshop on integrating the study of human rights into the undergraduate experience.

"Human Rights in the Classroom: An Interdisciplinary Conversation on Research and Teaching" is scheduled for Oct. 27 in the Andrews Conference Room, 2203 Social Sciences and Humanities Building.

Scholars from UC Berkeley, UC San Diego and Stanford are on the program with several UC Davis faculty members.

The UC Davis participants: David Biale, professor, history; Victoria Langland, assistant professor, history; Benjamin Lawrance, assistant professor, history; Michael Lazzara, assistant professor, Spanish and classics; Almerindo Ojeda, professor, linguistics; Charles Walker, associate professor, history, and director of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas; and Keith David Watenpaugh, associate professor of modern Islamic studies and the 2008-09 Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow in International Peace at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C.

Sponsors: Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, Davis Humanities Institute, Religious Studies Program, Jewish Studies Program and the Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas.

PATENT LAW REFORM: Top patent law experts will explore the probable effects of patent law reform on innovation and the economy during a daylong symposium at the UC Davis School of Law.

"The Perfect Storm of Patent Reform?" is scheduled from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Nov. 7. Organizers said all panel discussions are free and open to the public; the luncheon cost is $15 for students and $25 for others.

More information, and seat and lunch reservations. Organizers are asking people to RSVP by Oct. 29.

"The Perfect Storm of Patent Reform?" is the first in a five-year Technology, Entrepreneurship, Science and Law lecture series co-sponsored by the UC Davis School of Law and Fenwick & West, a law firm serving technology and life sciences clients.

All seminars and colloquia: calendar.ucdavis.edu