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<< April 2017 >>

Lecture | April 3 | 12-2 p.m. | Kroeber Hall, Gifford Room, 221

1924: The Year of Peace? Photography, Publics, and Weimar Republic Pacifism

Lecture | April 3 | 4-5 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall

From Anti-fascism to Anti-Zionism to Undeclared War: The West German Left, the East German Regime and Israel 1949-1989

Lecture | April 3 | 4:30-6:30 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall

Undergraduate Lecture Series (Math Monday): Elliptic curves and Hilbert's 10th problem

Lecture | April 3 | 5-6 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall

ATC Lecture – Tiffany Chung “Remapping History: The Unwanted Population”: Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium

Lecture | April 3 | 6:30-8:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Barbo Osher Theater | Canceled

ARCH Lecture: Keith Krumwiede

Lecture | April 3 | 6:30-8:30 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall

“Mediating Reality: The New Role of Visual Journalism,” Richard Koci Hernandez: ATC Lecture

Lecture | April 3 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive | Canceled

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

The Yugoslav Gulag: The Goli otok (Barren Island) Labor Camp, 1949-1956

Lecture | April 4 | 4-6 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall

Duterte’s Violent “Right” Populism in the Philippines

Lecture | April 4 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library

The Robbins Collection Center's Lecture in Islamic Law: Is Islamic Law "Religious" Law?

Lecture | April 4 | 5-7 p.m. | 170 Boalt Hall, School of Law

"Digital Doomsday: A Perspective from the Pathology Called Europe," Jan De Vos

Lecture | April 4 | 5-6 p.m. | Moffitt Undergraduate Library, 340, BCNM Commons

Recursive Archaeology: An ontological approach to anthropomorphic ceramics from first millennium CE northwest Argentina: ARF Spring Lecture

Lecture | April 4 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Improving Solar Energy Delivery to Homes

Lecture | April 5 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, 310, Banatao Auditorium

Austria and Migration: The Current Refugee Crisis in Historical Perspective

Lecture | April 5 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall

California Countercultures: Art/Politics/Aesthetics (notes from the field) with Stephanie Syjuco

Lecture | April 5 | 12 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

PopUp Exhibition: Ira Fink on El Lissitzky’s Had Gadya: Context and Meaning

Lecture | April 5 | 12-1 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)

Sacred Founders: Women, Men, and Gods in the Discourse of Imperial Founding, Rome through Early Byzantium: Townsend Book Chat with Diliana Angelova. Intro by Thomas Laqueur.

Lecture | April 5 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Codex Painting Practices and Technological Traditions in Ancient Mesoamerica: Non-Invasive Scientific Analyses of Pre-Hispanic and Early Colonial Pictorial Manuscripts

Lecture | April 5 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)

Learning from Legends: Ronn Guidi in conversation with Margaret Jenkins

Lecture | April 5 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse

Writing and Thinking in Two+ Languages: Interview with Adriana Lisboa

Lecture | April 5 | 3:30-5 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

View from the Top: Dan Rasky: Lessons Learned from Disrupting the Civilian Aerospace Industry

Lecture | April 5 | 4-5 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium, 3rd floor

Antinoupolis, yesterday and today

Lecture | April 5 | 5:30 p.m. | Doe Library, 101 (Morrison Library)

Master of Development Practice Spring Lecture 2017: Water, Food Supply and Disease Control in Africa, Southeast Asia and California

Lecture | April 5 | 6:30-7:30 p.m. | Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center

ARCH Lecture: Michael Maltzan

Lecture | April 5 | 6:30-8:30 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall

Thursday, April 6, 2017

The History of Higher Education in California: Big Data Approach

Lecture | April 6 | 10-11:30 a.m. | 180 Doe Library

LECTURE: Alvar Aalto and the International Modern Movement

Lecture | April 6 | 12-1 p.m. | 104 Wurster Hall

Global Health Inequalities, Justice and Governance: A Lecture by: Dr. Jennifer Prah Ruger

Lecture | April 6 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 545 Li Ka Shing Center

Europe: A Literary History (1559-1648)

Lecture | April 6 | 5-7 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall

Thomas Blom Hansen | Urban Theory goes South: On the Historicity of Space and Urban Imagination in South Asia

Lecture | April 6 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)

Dangerous Belief? Xin 信 in Occult Anecdotes in Tang and Song China: Berkeley Public Theology Lecture

Lecture | April 6 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room 220

ERG Annual Lecture: Arlie Hochschild: Pollution, the Political Divide and the Possibility of Common Ground

Lecture | April 6 | 5:30-7 p.m. | Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center

Friday, April 7, 2017

Jacobs Design Conversations: Elisa Giaccardi

Lecture | April 7 | 12-1 p.m. | 310 Jacobs Hall

Why the Berlin Painter? On Painting in the Dark: AHMA Noon Colloquium

Lecture | April 7 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 7205 Dwinelle Hall

Translation as Communication across Languages and Cultures

Lecture | April 7 | 3-5 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, B-4 (Classroom side)

Russian Strategic Calculus in Using Military Power

Lecture | April 7 | 4-6 p.m. | 109 Moses Hall

Airport Capacity Prediction Using Machine Learning and its Applications

Lecture | April 7 | 4-5 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building

Fact, Fiction, Data: Theory and Method in the Historiography of the Novel

Lecture | April 7 | 4-6 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, 4229 - French Department Library

Ramachandra Guha | India at Seventy - A Historian's Report Card: The Inaugural Bhattacharya Lecture on the "Future of India"

Lecture | April 7 | 6-8 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium

Black Life: Lynice Pinkard

Lecture | April 7 | 6 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Monday, April 10, 2017

Kicking out the Rogues: Should Federations be Able to Expel Member States?

Lecture | April 10 | 12-1 p.m. | Moses Hall

Diversified Farming Systems Roundtable with Matt Liebman

Lecture | April 10 | 4-5 p.m. | 112 Hilgard Hall

Dostoevsky And The Riddle Of The Self

Lecture | April 10 | 4-6 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, B-4 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley Language Center

Undergraduate Lecture Series (Math Monday): Quantum sets

Lecture | April 10 | 5-6 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall

ARCH Lecture: Kazuyo Sejima

Lecture | April 10 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall

ARCH Lecture: Kazuyo Sejima

Lecture | April 10 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Antisocial Computing: Explaining and Predicting Negative Behavior Online

Lecture | April 11 | 9:40-11 a.m. | 202 South Hall

Blind Love, Romanticism, and Rousseau’s Julie

Lecture | April 11 | 12-2 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, 4229 - French Department Library

Why Vikings, Frozen and Kahoot are Important for Norway’s Future – and What Norway can Learn from Silicon Valley

Lecture | April 11 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall

Blind Love, Romanticism, and Rousseau’s Julie

Lecture | April 11 | 12-2 p.m. | 4229 Dwinelle Hall

When Death Comes, He Steals the Infant: Children and Mortuary Practice on the Giza Plateau: AHMA Noon Colloquium

Lecture | April 11 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 7205 Dwinelle Hall

Annual Martin Meyerson Faculty Research Lectures

Lecture | April 11 | 4-5 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium

100 Years Later: The Lynching of Grandpa Crawford

Lecture | April 11 | 4-5:30 p.m. | D-37 Hearst Field Annex

Making Fit, Pricing Air: High-Rises Explode Across Phnom Penh

Lecture | April 11 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library

100 Years Later: The Lynching of (Grandpa) Anthony Crawford: Has racial difference ended or simply evolved?

Lecture | April 11 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Hearst Field Annex, Room D-37

Neighbourhood Perceptions of the Ukraine Crisis: From the Soviet Union into Eurasia?

Lecture | April 11 | 4:30-6:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall

“Advancing Human Rights in a Rightward World: Challenges for International Institutions and Civil Society”: A Talk By: NAVANETHEM PILLAY

Lecture | April 11 | 5-7 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, Goldberg Room

CALIFORNIA Live! A Dream Denied? The Immigrant Experience in the Campus Community

Lecture | April 11 | 7-9:15 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Howison Lectures in Philosophy

Lecture | April 12 | TBA Moses Hall

Invisible Hands: Townsend Book Chat with Jonathan Sheehan

Lecture | April 12 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Beyond the American Era in the Middle East: An Evolving Landscape of Turbulence: CMES Visiting Scholars Lecture Series

Lecture | April 12 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall

The Digital Dilemma and the Future of Archaeological Publication: Stories from the Gabii Excavation

Lecture | April 12 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)

USAID Learning Lab

Lecture | April 12 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, 310, Banatao Auditorium

California Countercultures: Diggers, Communes, and Counterculture and the Death of Hope with Peter Coyote

Lecture | April 12 | 12 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Reconsidering and Re-Framing Taiwan and its History: Aborigines, Colonial Rulers and Democratization

Lecture | April 12 | 12 p.m. | 180 Doe Library

Brexit and its Aftershocks: Reimagining British Politics

Lecture | April 12 | 12-1 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall

Learning from Legends: Bill Somerville in conversation with Margaret Jenkins

Lecture | April 12 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse

A Report from the Front Lines of Abortion Care: Lunch Talk with Julie Burkhart

Lecture | April 12 | 12:45-2 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, Room 110

if/when/how presents Julie Burkhart

Lecture | April 12 | 12:45-2 p.m. | 110 Boalt Hall, School of Law

At the Edge of the Nation: The Southern Kurils and the Search for Russia’s National Identity

Lecture | April 12 | 4-6 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall

Data Science and User Research at Facebook: The Two Cultures and the Hacker Way

Lecture | April 12 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 210 South Hall

Critical Theory in Times of Crisis Working Group | Historical Gestures in the Cinematic Present | A Talk by Noa Steimatsky

Lecture | April 12 | 5-7 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall

Strange Alliances: Demons, Exorcists, and the Fight against Unbelief in Eighteenth-Century Italy

Lecture | April 12 | 5-7 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall

Applied History And The Uses (And Misuses) Of The Past

Lecture | April 12 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall

Cicero’s De Officiis – Stoic Ethics for Non-Stoics: Howison Lectures in Philosophy by Gisela Striker

Lecture | April 12 | 5:10 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room

The Case Against the Supreme Court: Uci Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky at the Berkeley Forum

Lecture | April 12 | 6-7:15 p.m. | Haas School of Business, Hass C230

Thursday, April 13, 2017

EU State aid investigation into Apple's tax arrangement with Ireland

Lecture | April 13 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall

Roots of the Mongolian State: Genghis Khan's Survival and Pragmatism as Related in the Secret History of the Mongols

Lecture | April 13 | 4 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall

Vandals, Looters, Protestors, and Police: Consumer Culture and Street Politics Collide in Berlin, 1914-1945

Lecture | April 13 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall

We Have Two Hands: Coping with the Present While Building Toward the Future of College Opportunity

Lecture | April 13 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium,Sutardja Dai Hall

A Critical Theory of Justice

Lecture | April 13 | 5-7 p.m. | 220 Stephens Hall

HTNM Lecture with Eden Medina, "Technology and Forensic Evidence Chilean Human Rights Investigations": History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series

Lecture | April 13 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall

Breathing New Life Into Ancient Instruments: Ocarinas of Mesoamerica

Lecture | April 13 | 5:30 p.m. | Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology, Pacific School of Religion, Holbrook Hall

Friday, April 14, 2017

Can You Sing the Brabançonne? The Politics of Linguistic Nationalism in Belgium

Lecture | April 14 | 9-10 a.m. | 201 Moses Hall

Modeling the Impact of Major Technological and Infrastructural Changes on Travel Demand

Lecture | April 14 | 4-5 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building

Monday, April 17, 2017

Ashley Hunt, "Degrees of Visibility"

Lecture | April 17 | 12:30-2 p.m. | Moffitt Undergraduate Library, Rm. 340 - BCNM Commons

The Way Of The Strangers: Encounters With The Islamic State

Lecture | April 17 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall

Freeze, Die, Come to Life. The many paths to immortality in post-Soviet Russia

Lecture | April 17 | 2-4 p.m. | 221 Kroeber Hall

Why does everybody want to see “Skam”? Identity and Gender in a Norwegian TV Serial

Lecture | April 17 | 4-6 p.m. | B-4 Dwinelle Hall

Cultural Criticism in the Age of YouTube: Tiffany Shlain and Rolla Selbak, moderated by George Strompolos

Lecture | April 17 | 6:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Osher Theater

Arts + Design Mondays: Cultural Criticism in the Age of YouTube, with Tiffany Shlain and Rolla Selbak

Lecture | April 17 | 6:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

China and Global Governance: What Have We Learnt So Far?

Lecture | April 18 | 12:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library

The future of fMRI in cognitive neuroscience

Lecture | April 18 | 3:30-5 p.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall

"Shocking the Conscience of Mankind”: The Language of Transgression Before and After the Holocaust

Lecture | April 18 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall

Speaking Amongst Ourselves: Democracy and Law: Tanner Lectures on Human Values by Seana Valentine Shiffrin

Lecture | April 18 | 4:10-6:15 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room

Making Religious Peace: A Historical Perspective

Lecture | April 18 | 5-7 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall

“Queer Unhistoricism” and the Reception of Ancient Greece

Lecture | April 18 | 5 p.m. | 308A Doe Library

AIA Lecture - Early Hellenistic royal ideology in the marine thiasos of the neorion on Delos

Lecture | April 18 | 7 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Character: A Concept That Does Not Stand Still

Lecture | April 19 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall

California Countercultures: San Francisco Search and Destroy with V. Vale

Lecture | April 19 | 12 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Revising Our Ethics?: A Report and Open Discussion on Revising the SAA Ethics Principles

Lecture | April 19 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)

On Suicide Bombers: CMES Visiting Scholars Lecture Series

Lecture | April 19 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall

Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Foundations: Townsend Book Chat with Abigail De Kosnik

Lecture | April 19 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

PopUp Exhibition: Barbara Goldstein on Jewish Family Values in 19th-century Anti-Semitic Literature

Lecture | April 19 | 12-1 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)

Learning from Legends: Bella Feldman in conversation with Margaret Jenkins

Lecture | April 19 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse

From Theory to Practice: Empowering Users to Make Privacy Decisions in Mobile Environments

Lecture | April 19 | 1:10-2:30 p.m. | 202 South Hall

Acting Globally: Memoirs of Brazil’s Assertive Foreign Policy

Lecture | April 19 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Authoritarian Soft Power? Russia, International Cyber Conflict, and the Rise of “Information Warfare”

Lecture | April 19 | 4-6 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall

Conveying Climate Change: New Media Art, Science, and Activism

Lecture | April 19 | 4-5 p.m. | 250 Sutardja Dai Hall

Pauline Sperry Undergraduate Lecture: Where Number Theory Meets Network Optimization

Lecture | April 19 | 4-5 p.m. | Evans Hall, 60 Evans

At Scale and under Pressure: How Social Media Moderate, Choreograph, and Censor Public Discourse

Lecture | April 19 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 202 South Hall

Speaking Amongst Ourselves: Democracy and Law: Tanner Lectures on Human Values by Seana Valentine Shiffrin

Lecture | April 19 | 4:10-6:15 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room

Attention to Detail: A Conversation with Don Carson

Lecture | April 19 | 6-7:15 p.m. | UC Berkeley Campus

ARCH Lecture: Adam Nathaniel Furman

Lecture | April 19 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Wurster Hall

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