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Get a sneak peek at this spring's coming attractions >  Healthcare: Robert Reich Tuesday, February 9 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | East Pauley Ballroom Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union
Film: Short Films by Alfred Leslie, with Alfred Leslie in person Tuesday, February 9 | 7:30 p.m. | Pacific Film Archive Theater
Photography: Pierre Toutain-Dorbec Collection January 15 – April 18, 2010 every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | North Entrance, First Floor Doe Library
Exhibit: Historic house pattern books and stock plan catalogs January 20 – April 20, 2010 every day with exceptions | 210, Environmental Design Library Wurster Hall
Lawrence Hall of Science: RACE: Are We So Different? January 30 – May 2, 2010 every day | Lawrence Hall of Science
Photography: Mud-larking, wetlands photos by Sally Mack January 28 – June 30, 2010 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. | 410 O'Brien Hall
  Author talk: The Cleanest Race, How North Koreans See Themselves and Why it Matters Wednesday, February 10 | 4 p.m. | Sixth Floor Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton)
Exhibit: Ahmet Öğüt’s Exploded City January 24 – April 11, 2010 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. | Gallery 1 Berkeley Art Museum
Exhibit: James Castle, a retrospective February 3 – April 25, 2010 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum
Buy tickets by emailing bampfa@berkeley.edu.  Story Hour: Dave Eggers Thursday, February 11 | 5-6 p.m. | 101 Doe--Morrison Library Doe Library
 University Symphony Orchestra: Brahms/Wagner/Prokofiev February 12 – 13, 2010 every day | 8 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
Tickets in advance through Zellerbach hall ticket office, or one hour prior to performance at Hertz. Buy tickets online, or by calling 510-642-9988.  World stage: Masters of Persian Music Saturday, February 13 | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
 Botanical Garden: Valentine’s Day high tea for kids Sunday, February 14 | 2-3:30 p.m. | Botanical Garden
 Frontline documentary: Up In Smoke with reporter Bagassi Koura and producer Matt Durning Tuesday, February 16 | 7 p.m. | Home Room International House
Panel discussion: Reporting on Mexico: Drugs, violence and the prospects for a nation’s future Wednesday, February 17 | 6 p.m. | Library North Gate Hall
Lecture: Kamala Harris on women and leadership Sunday, February 21 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Chevron Auditorium International House
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Alfred Leslie, a creative painter, performance artist, filmmaker, and videomaker, comes to Berkeley for a two-program series, 
In the aftermath of the “Vietnam War”, renewed conflict, revolution and mass atrocities provoked a refugee exodus on mainland Southeast Asia of an historically unprecedented scale. At the peak of the crisis, over 1 million refugees from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia sought refuge in camps in Thailand and along the border. Among them were close to half a million Cambodian survivors of the Khmer Rouge auto-genocidal regime, many of them children. In this exhibit, the work of French photographer Pierre Toutain-Dorbec gives us raw glimpses of life in the conflict zone.
Not many American homes are designed by architects. Most owe their layout and appearance to stock plan catalogs and house plan books rather than custom architect designs.The Stock Plans: Houses for Everyone exhibit is drawn from the Environmental Design Library’s extensive collection of house pattern books and stock plan catalogs, along with related original documents and drawings from the Environmental Design Archives. The exhibit covers their precedents, origins, and influence beyond California, and includes contemporary developments.
It’s a simple truth: People are different. Throughout history, these differences have been a source of community strength and personal identity. They have also been the basis for discrimination and oppression. This exhibit provides an opportunity to understand race from a biological, cultural, and historical perspective through engaging, hands-on science experiences; real artifacts; and videos that present people’s unique stories.
As a slang term, mudlark refers to a person who scavenges in river mud for items of value. This exhibit illustrates the value of mud as a photographic subject. The plants, water, and reflections at the river's edge, which comprise the remainder of the exhibit, could not exist without mud. Larking reflects Sally Mack's attitude when taking these pictures in the Guadalcanal Village wetlands restoration site on Mare Island (northern CA).
North Korea watchers who speak no Korean have confidently told the world what motivates Kim Jong Il. His country is poor, so he wants aid. We bombed his country flat in the Korean War, so he’s afraid of the United States. None of this is true says B.R. Myers, a North Korea analyst and contributing editor of the Atlantic Monthly. He argues that we know more of the North’s nuclear program than of the motivation behind it, more about Kim Jong Il’s potential successors than about the unique worldview that all of them share. Looking at public monuments, canonical texts of invented history, romance novels, films, and poster art, Myers presents a new and revealing understanding of today’s North Korea.
With Exploded City, Ahmet Öğüt envisions an imaginary metropolis comprising buildings, monuments, and vehicles that have figured in acts of violence and terrorism over the past two decades. Structures from Turkey, Ireland, India, Yugoslavia, Great Britain, and the United States, among other countries, form a unified urban scale model, reconstructing these sites in the moments before they were destroyed.
Born deaf and raised in rural Idaho, James Castle was a self-taught artist of remarkable range, subtlety, and graphic skill. Although as a child he attended the Idaho School for the Deaf and Blind, Castle did not learn to read, write, speak, sign, or lip-read, perhaps by choice. Other than his five years away at school, Castle lived within the circle of his immediate family, making artworks based on the scenes, surroundings, and imaginings of his daily life. This retrospective is the first comprehensive museum exhibition of Castle’s drawings, books, and paper constructions.
Story Hour, the campus's monthly prose-reading series, kicks off the semester with literary luminary Dave Eggers, whose most recent novel, Zeitoun, is the story of one man's life after Hurricane Katrina. Eggers is also the founder and editor of McSweeney’s, a publishing house based in San Francisco that produces a quarterly journal, monthly magazine The Believer, and Wholphin, a quarterly DVD of short films and documentaries.
The University Symphony Orchestra kicks off the Spring 2010 season with a collection of powerful, dark works under the baton of Maestro David Milnes. The concert opens with Brahms’ turbulent “Tragic Overture.” The work’s tormented nature is readily evident from the powerful opening chords to the shattering final coda. Next is Richard Wagner’s “Prelude und Liebestod” from his opera Tristan und Isolde. From its opening plaintive melodies to the powerful emotional climaxes, the work embodies the yearning and desire of the two lovers of Wagner’s opera. The concert closes with Sergei Prokofiev’s “Symphony No. 6,” a dark and tumultuous work written in the wake of World War II. Condemned by the Stalinist regime for not adhering to party lines, the energetic work has a decidedly somber mood, embodying what Prokofiev called “the painful results of war.”
Cal Performances presents the Masters of Persian Music in a new program that brings together Hossein Alizadeh, the tar (plucked lute) maestro who is considered an inspiration to an entire generation in his native Iran; Kayhan Kalhor, the kamancheh (spike-fiddle) virtuoso who has been instrumental in popularizing Persian music in the West through his many musical collaborations; and young vocalist Hamid Reza Nourbakhsh, a leading disciple of Mohammad Reza Shajarian.
Enjoy a special celebration of herbs and flowers at this UC Botanical Garden afternoon tea party. Use your senses to explore these fragrant edibles, talk about their uses and benefits, and see how they grow. Make fresh teas, herb finger sandwiches, taste lavender cookies and make valentines from pressed botanicals.
In Abidjan, capital of Cote d'Ivoire in West Africa, eighty percent of the country's vehicles are discarded cars shipped in from Western countries. Everywhere they belch thick, black smoke that burns your throat and leaves you queasy. Doctors began linking air pollution to rising rates of asthma in Abidjan for the first time and are now warning of a dangerous and costly increase in respiratory-related diseases if action is not taken. Enter Africa's first ever "green cops" -- a new anti-pollution police force in Abidjan called UNIPOL (l'Unite de Police Anti-Pollution). 
Mexico’s brutal drug war has rattled that country’s sense of security, deepened its economic crisis and shifted attention from other pressing concerns. A panel of journalists who have covered Mexico discuss their work and their observations. The journalists (Andrew Becker, Center for Investigative Reporting; Steve Fainaru, Washington Post; Susan Ferriss, Sacramento Bee) will be joined by Harley Shaiken, director of the Center for Latin American Studies, to go behind the headlines and talk about the political and economic forces shaping Mexico today. The panel will be moderated by Tyche Hendricks, San Francisco Chronicle reporter and lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism.
San Francisco district attorney, Kamala Harris, will present the first Sarah Kailath Memorial Lecture, a lecture series on the theme of women and leadership. Harris was elected in December 2003 as the first woman district attorney in San Francisco's history, and as the first African American woman in California to hold the office. Harris is the author of Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make us Safe.