Lectures
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Deepnets and Tools to Boost Human Creativity
Lecture | February 1 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, 310, Banatao Auditorium
Big Ideas: On the Left Edge: California's Renegade Tradition with Iain Boal
Lecture | February 1 | 12 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Persistent Places or Occupying Wild Open Spaces?: Alternative Pathways to 'Neolithization' in the Prehistory of the Near East
Lecture | February 1 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
The US, China, and Cross-Strait Relations
Lecture | February 1 | 12:15 p.m. | Women's Faculty Club, Lounge
Creating a Meaningful Life for Yourself and the World
Lecture | February 1 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse
Chern Lectures: Lecture 2 : Rigidity of black holes
Lecture | February 1 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 310 Sutardja Dai Hall
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Respect: A Developmental Science Approach to ‘Wise' Behavior Change in Adolescence
Lecture | February 2 | 12:15-1:30 p.m. | 3105 Tolman Hall
Gots’udi ní̜dé Dene xedə́ t’áodéʔa: Indigenous Language Resilience in Canada: Thomas Garden Barnes Lecture in Canadian Studies
Lecture | February 2 | 3-5 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Chern Lectures: Lecture 3 : The problem of stability
Lecture | February 2 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall
NOT a Theology of the New Testament
Lecture | February 2 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220
Professor Philipp Bleek at the Berkeley Forum: Disarming Syria’s Chemical Weapons and Lessons for Reducing Threats Elsewhere
Lecture | February 2 | 6-7:30 p.m. | 110 Boalt Hall, School of Law
Friday, February 3, 2017
Security talk: Keren Elazari -- The Cyber-Circus -- What The Rise of Hacking Everyday Things Means for All of Us
Lecture | February 3 | 1-2:45 p.m. | 132 Boalt Hall, School of Law
Traffic Estimation and Control in an Era of Mixed Human Piloted and Automated Vehicles
Lecture | February 3 | 4-5 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Chern Lectures: Lecture 4 : The problem of collapse
Lecture | February 3 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Cartooning the Landscape: Art, Nature and Consciousness
Lecture | February 3 | 6-8 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Sunday, February 5, 2017
Paz Encina: Artist Talk
Lecture | February 5 | 4:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Monday, February 6, 2017
Diversified Farming Systems Roundtable with V. Ernesto Méndez
Lecture | February 6 | 4-5:15 p.m. | 112 Hilgard Hall
Regents' Lecture - Paz Encina: Politics and Aesthetics in Paraguay Today
Lecture | February 6 | 5-7 p.m. | 5125 Dwinelle Hall
ATC Lecture — Pamela and Richard Kramlich, “Collecting the Uncollectible”: Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
Lecture | February 6 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Barbo Osher Theater
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
ACA and its Replacement: Effects on the Nongroup Insurance Market and Exchanges
Lecture | February 7 | 12:40-2 p.m. | 714C University Hall
Agribusiness from the Ashes: Land Governance Reform and Racialized Armed Territories in Burma
Lecture | February 7 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Reviving Virgil in Turkish
Lecture | February 7 | 5 p.m. | 7205 Dwinelle Hall
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Hellenistic Historiography in the Wake of Alexander the Great: AHMA Noon Colloquium
Lecture | February 8 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 7205 Dwinelle Hall
Revealing Social Relationships and Intersectional Identities in a Pre-Columbian Muisca Community Through Diet and Activity (Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia AD 1000-1400)
Lecture | February 8 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Software Engineering with Machine Learning
Lecture | February 8 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, 310, Banatao Auditorium
The Future of Sensory Perception
Lecture | February 8 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse
Open Space Design in the Public Realm
Lecture | February 8 | 6:30-7:45 p.m. | 505 UC Berkeley Extension (SF Campus at 160 Spear St.)
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Dominance and friendship during the transition to adulthood in male chimpanzees
Lecture | February 9 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 3105 Tolman Hall
Gun Fight: The Battle Over The Right To Bear Arms in America
Lecture | February 9 | 12:45-2 p.m. | 110 Boalt Hall, School of Law
The Political Crisis in Brazil: What Is at Stake for Public Policies?
Lecture | February 9 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Bad Transitions after Free Elections: 32nd Annual Colin and Elsa Miller Lecture
Lecture | February 9 | 5-7 p.m. | Faculty Club, Heyns Room
Linked Reading: Mapping a Global Renaissance with 53,829 Texts
Lecture | February 9 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 127 Dwinelle Hall
DCRP Lecture: Atul Pokharel, Planning for Fairness
Lecture | February 9 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall
No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity: Prof. Sarah Haley, University of California, Los Angeles
Lecture | February 9 | 5:30-8 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Multicultural Community Center
No word in vain: Reading Plato's dialogues (again): Sather Classical Lectures
Lecture | February 9 | 8:30 p.m. | Alumni House
Friday, February 10, 2017
An Introduction to Seed Propagation
Lecture | February 10 | 10-11 a.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Jacobs Design Conversations: Kate Sofis
Lecture | February 10 | 12-1 p.m. | 310 Jacobs Hall
Data Carpentry: Training to Enable More Effective and Reproducible Research
Lecture | February 10 | 1:10-2:30 p.m. | 190 Doe Library
On Dwelling in the Linguacene: Where Hypomnesic Monolingualism to Reactionary Multilingualism
Lecture | February 10 | 3-5 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, B-4 (Classroom side)
Coordinated Decentralized Optimal Control for Connected and Automated Vehicles
Lecture | February 10 | 4-5 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Monday, February 13, 2017
Local Governments and the Challenge to Autocratic Nationalism in Poland
Lecture | February 13 | 12-2 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall
The Peripheral Iconoclast: The Rise of Ibsen in the American Theatre
Lecture | February 13 | 4-6 p.m. | 6415 Dwinelle Hall
Undergraduate Lecture Series (Math Monday): Reflection groups, wallpaper groups, and orbifolds
Lecture | February 13 | 5-6 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Global Production Networks and Global Labour: Perspective from the South
Lecture | February 13 | 5-7 p.m. | 2521 Channing Way (Inst. for Res. on Labor & Employment), Large Conference Room
A talk with Ashim Roy, New Trade Union Initiative, India
Lecture | February 13 | 5-7 p.m. | 2521 Channing Way (Inst. for Res. on Labor & Employment), Large Conference Room
Body, Intellect, Resistance: Mark Greif and Linda Williams in Conversation
Lecture | February 13 | 6:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Osher Theater
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Mukulika Banerjee | The Social Imaginaries of Democracy: Scandal, Competition and Cooperation
Lecture | February 14 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Early detection and prevention in children at risk of future criminal behaviour
Lecture | February 14 | 1-2:30 p.m. | 240 Sutardja Dai Hall
Darwinian Sensualities: Havelock Ellis, Sexual Inversion, and Late Nineteenth-Century Evolutionary Theory
Lecture | February 14 | 3-4:30 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
The Art of Indonesian Batik
Lecture | February 14 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Hagan un Trencito: Siguiendo los Pasos de la Memoria Cumbianchera en Chile: With author Antonia Mardones-Marshall
Lecture | February 14 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 2334 Bowditch (Center for Latin American Studies)
Tech Policy Forecast: Digital Privacy and Net Neutrality under the Trump Administration: A talk by Heather West, Senior Policy Manager, Mozilla
Lecture | February 14 | 5-6:15 p.m. | 250 Goldman School of Public Policy
Pierluigi Serraino - The Creative Architect: Inside the Great Midcentury Personality Study
Lecture | February 14 | 7-8:30 p.m. | 210 Wurster Hall
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Tearing Down the Deep Learning Performance Wall
Lecture | February 15 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, 310, Banatao Auditorium
Knowing Plants in Cuneiform Cultures: Revisiting R.C. Thompson's “Dictionary of Assyrian Botany”
Lecture | February 15 | 12-1 p.m. | 254 Barrows Hall
Syria: Spaces of War: CMES Visiting Scholars Lecture Series
Lecture | February 15 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall | Note change in date
Civil Rights Movement Photography and Its Legacies, with Leigh Raiford
Lecture | February 15 | 12 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Queer(ing) Frontier Identities: Tracing Cultural Brokering at 19th century Fort Davis, Texas
Lecture | February 15 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
PopUp Exhibition: Elizabeth Rynecki on Moshe Rynecki’s Lost Art Legacy
Lecture | February 15 | 12-1 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
The Builders Association: Performance and Media in Contemporary Theater: Townsend Book Chat with Shannon Jackson
Lecture | February 15 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
States of Altered Consciousness
Lecture | February 15 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse
Post and Trauma: The Use of Social Media by Sexual Assault Victims
Lecture | February 15 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 202 South Hall
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Bancroft Library Roundtable: Views of the Women's Liberation and Feminist Movements of the 1970s and 1980s: Selections from the Cathy Cade Photograph Archive
Lecture | February 16 | 12-1 p.m. | Faculty Club, Lewis-Latimer Room
Development Perspectives: Fireside chat with the Director General of the World Agroforestry Center
Lecture | February 16 | 12-1:15 p.m. | 311 Wellman Hall
Ireland - The EU - Brexit
Lecture | February 16 | 12:30-2:30 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Watching the World Go By
Lecture | February 16 | 1:10-2 p.m. | 103 Mulford Hall
Theorizing Race, Gender and Citizenship in Black Europe: Issues, Debates and Frameworks, Inside and Outside the Academy: CRG Thursday Forum Series
Lecture | February 16 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 691 Barrows Hall
DCRP/IURD Lecture: Diane Davis
Lecture | February 16 | 5-7 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall
Bangladeshi Lawyer and Human Rights Activist, Sara Hossain delivers the Chowdhury Center Distinguished Lecture for 2017
Lecture | February 16 | 5-7 p.m. | Hearst Field Annex, D37 (Blanche du Bois Room)
The wandering "we": Sather Classical Lectures
Lecture | February 16 | 6 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Smart Nation: A Blueprint for Modern Armenia
Lecture | February 16 | 8-10 p.m. | Vasbouragan Hall
Friday, February 17, 2017
The Union of Intersections (UoI) Method for Interpretable Data-Driven Discovery and Prediction: Data Science Lecture Series
Lecture | February 17 | 1:10-2:30 p.m. | 190 Doe Library
Bending the Energy, Environmental, and Safety Curves Through Transportation Automation and Electrification
Lecture | February 17 | 4-5 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Lyric, Tragedy and History in Horace, Odes 2.1
Lecture | February 17 | 5 p.m. | 7205 Dwinelle Hall
Saturday, February 18, 2017
The Fast Radio Burst: An evolving cosmic mystery
Lecture | February 18 | 11 a.m. | 131 Campbell Hall
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
DCRP Lecture: Andrea Roberts
Lecture | February 21 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 106 Wurster Hall
Implementation and Impacts of LEAN Redesigns in Primary Care
Lecture | February 21 | 12:40-2 p.m. | 714C University Hall
The Russian Challenge In The Next Four Years
Lecture | February 21 | 5-6:30 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room | Note change in location
Czeslaw Milosz, T.S. Eliot, and the Generative Canon: a talk by Peter Dale Scott, with introduction by Robert Hass
Lecture | February 21 | 5:30 p.m. | D37 Hearst Field Annex
AIA Lecture - Embodying the Goddess: Revealing the practice of tattooing in ancient Egypt
Lecture | February 21 | 7 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Seven Modes of Uncertainty: Townsend Book Chat with Namwali Serpell
Lecture | February 22 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
PopUp Exhibition: Jeremiah Lockwood on the Lost and Found Art of Cantorial Music
Lecture | February 22 | 12-1 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Biomedical Instrumentation:: How do we measure what we want to measure, when and where we want it
Lecture | February 22 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, 310, Banatao Auditorium
California Countercultures: Hippie Modernism with Greg Castillo
Lecture | February 22 | 12 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Living in a Gender Creative World
Lecture | February 22 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse
Everyone Loses: The Ukraine Crisis and the Ruinous Contest for Post-Soviet Eurasia
Lecture | February 22 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Bowen Lectures: Lecture 1 : Galois representations and automorphic forms - an introduction to the Langlands program
Lecture | February 22 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 50 Birge Hall
Cleverness and Drive, or the Cybernetic Fantasy of Value: R.S. Hunt's "Two Kinds of Work"
Lecture | February 22 | 5-7 p.m. | 470 Stephens Hall
Ankhi Mukherjee | Unseen City: Travelling Psychoanalysis and the Urban Poor
Lecture | February 22 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Theoretically Speaking Series — Finding Hay in Haystacks: The Power and Limits of Randomness
Lecture | February 22 | 6-7:30 p.m. | David Brower Center
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Bowen Lectures: Lecture 2 : Attaching Galois representations to automorphic forms, and vice versa - recent progress
Lecture | February 23 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall
Ayesha Siddiqa | Pakistan: Civil-Military Relations in a Changing Domestic, Regional and Global Environment
Lecture | February 23 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conference Room)
Religious Realignments in the Trump Era
Lecture | February 23 | 5-7 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Beyond Coverage: After the ACA
Lecture | February 23 | 5-7 p.m. | 150 University Hall
The Wheel of Time: Tibetan Thoughts on the Buddha’s Anno Nirvanae: 2017 Khyentse Lecture
Lecture | February 23 | 5-6:30 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room
Parsing vision: Sather Classical Lectures
Lecture | February 23 | 6 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Friday, February 24, 2017
Dissertation Talk: Dan Calderone: Models of Competition for Smart Cities: Routing Games, Mean-field Games, and Varying Population Preferences
Lecture | February 24 | 9-10 a.m. | Cory Hall, 521 Hogan Room
Engineering at the Intersection of Productive Efficiency, Ideology, and Ethical AI in Wikipedia: Data Science Lecture Series
Lecture | February 24 | 1:10-2:30 p.m. | 190 Doe Library
Engineering at the Intersection of Productive Efficiency, Ideology, and Ethical AI in Wikipedia
Lecture | February 24 | 1:10-2:30 p.m. | 190 Doe Library
Multicopter Dynamics and Control: Surviving the complete loss of multiple actuators and quickly generating trajectories
Lecture | February 24 | 4-5 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Synaesthetics: Sound, Image, and Materialism: part of Syncing... Subject, Media, Society Conference
Lecture | February 24 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Faculty Club, Heyns Room
Bowen Lectures: Lecture 3 : An idiosyncratic survey of open problems
Lecture | February 24 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Working Group in Ancient Philosophy: The Immortality Argument in Republic X
Lecture | February 24 | 5-7 p.m. | 7205 Dwinelle Hall
Denise Dresser: Why Mexico Fell Apart, and How to Fix It
Lecture | February 24 | 6-7:30 p.m. | Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
