Lectures
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Voices of Vietnam: A Century of Radio, Red Songs, and Revolution
Lecture | October 1 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
From Revolution to Routine? Patterns of German Democracy in the 20th Century
Lecture | October 1 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Townsend Book Chat with Alva Noë: Infinite Baseball: Notes from a Philosopher at the Ballpark
Lecture | October 2 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens
What do Climate Change and Girls’ Education have to do with Food Security in the Sahel?
Lecture | October 2 | 12-2 p.m. | 5101 Berkeley Way West
Agricultural strategies and environmental change in the ancient eastern Mediterranean
Lecture | October 2 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Fung Institute presents: Engineering Leadership Speaking Series
Lecture | September 4 – November 20, 2019 every Wednesday with exceptions | 4-5:30 p.m. | 310 Sutardja Dai Hall
Ancient Amazons: Warrior Women in Myth, Art, and Archaeology
Lecture | October 2 | 5-7 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Janaki Bakhle | Gandhi, Savarkar and the Muslim Question: Celebrating the 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi
Lecture | October 2 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Thursday, October 3, 2019
Lecture and Lecture-Demonstration with Dr. I Wayan Dibia, I Wayan Suweca, and Ni Made Wirathini, moderated by Dr. Lisa Gold: New Trends and Current Directions in Balinese Performing Arts
Lecture | October 3 | 3 p.m. | 125 Morrison Hall
Moscow Has Ears Everywhere: Olga Ivinskaya and the loss of Pasternak’s 'will'
Lecture | October 3 | 5-6 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Deioces’ Ultimatum: How to Choose a King
Lecture | October 3 | 5:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Astronomy Night at UC Berkeley
Lecture | October 3 | 7-9:30 p.m. | 131 Campbell Hall
Friday, October 4, 2019
Julia Miele Rodas, “Autism and Narrative Invention in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe.”
Lecture | October 4 | 10 a.m.-12 p.m. | 330 Wheeler Hall
Narkomania: Drugs, HIV, and Citizenship in Ukraine
Lecture | October 4 | 12:30-2 p.m. | Kroeber Hall, Garron Reading Room (346)
Monday, October 7, 2019
Dark Pasts: Changing the State’s Story in Turkey and Japan
Lecture | October 7 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall
Lecture - The Law of the Sea: A Multi-Faceted Discipline and a Promising Field for Practitioners
Lecture | October 7 | 12:50-2 p.m. | Simon Hall, Warren Room (295)
BIDS Forum: Statistics and Machine Learning Forum
Lecture | October 7 | 1:30-2:30 p.m. | 190 Doe Library
Inequality and Habitus in Thailand
Lecture | October 7 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textile Images
Lecture | October 7 | 5 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Raghu Karnad | Reporting Against the Machine: Decoding 2019 and the Future of Indian Elections
Lecture | October 7 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
I Was Brought Here to Stay: Nona Faustine
Lecture | October 7 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Half-Earth Day: How to Save the Natural World
Lecture | October 7 | 7-9 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
From the Inside Out: (Some of) What I have learned in 23 years of Research with Youth Experiencing Homelessness
Lecture | October 8 | 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 5101 Berkeley Way West
Social Impact, Social Justice and Organizational Decisions with Robert Reich
Lecture | October 8 | 12-1 p.m. | B100 Blum Hall
Advancing the 60-year Curriculum: How long should the relationship between a student and their university last?
Lecture | October 8 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Oakland City Center’s Conference Center, Suite 105, Paramount Conference Room
The Problem of Democracy and the Politics of Neoliberalism
Lecture | October 8 | 4-6 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Neoliberalism, Ordoliberalism, and the Future of the European Union
Lecture | October 9 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Zelia Nuttall, The Drake Plate of Brass, and the Hunt for Drake's Fair Bay
Lecture | October 9 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility) | Canceled
EVENT CANCELED: Raj Rewal | Alternate Modernity: Space, Structures, Sustainability and Traditional Values
Lecture | October 9 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
LAEP Lecture Series: Brad Samuels
Lecture | October 9 | 6:30-8 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Aza Raskin: Human Protective Design
Lecture | October 10 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
EVENT CANCELED - Purushottam Agrawal | In Vernacular: Kabir, Mahabharata and much more
Lecture | October 10 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room) | Canceled
Poetry and the Senses Program Launch|Readings and Conversation: Featuring Indira Allegra, Chiyuma Elliott, and Robert Hass
Lecture | October 10 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | Doe Library, Morrison Library
Cleisthenes’ Wager: Democratic Rationality
Lecture | October 10 | 5:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Lecture - Sudan on the Path of Democratic Transition: Crises, Challenges, Solutions (Arabic)
Lecture | October 10 | 7-8:30 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Friday, October 11, 2019
CANCELED - Sandhya Gajjar and Rahul Gajjar | Champaner-Pavagadh: From the unknown to the well-known
Lecture | October 11 | 12-2 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room) | Canceled
How Language Centers Thrive: Notes from the Field
Lecture | October 11 | 3-5 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, B-4 (Classroom side)
Monday, October 14, 2019
Gauri Mahulikar | Ramakatha in the Oral Tradition of Maharashtra
Lecture | October 14 | 4-6 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Cities of the Dead: The Moscow and Paris Cemeteries
Lecture | October 14 | 4-6 p.m. | B-4 Dwinelle Hall
Contemporary Indigenous Arts Showcase with Tanya Lukin Linklater and Friends
Lecture | October 14 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Thermal thresholds increase the vulnerability of coastal Los Angeles to temperature-linked increases in West Nile virus transmission
Lecture | October 15 | 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 5101 Berkeley Way West
Book Talk with Michelle Steinbeck: My Father was a Man on Land and a Whale in the Water
Lecture | October 15 | 12-1 p.m. | 303 Doe Library
Ali Asgar (Tara) | In Between Lands and Territories: Love, Loss and Survival
Lecture | October 15 | 5-7 p.m. | 10 Stephens Hall
Beyond the Pressure to Perform: On the Concept of "Leistung" in 19th Century Germany
Lecture | October 15 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Blade(let) Makers and Communities of Practice at Kharaneh IV
Lecture | October 16 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Armenians in Ethiopia: Foreignness, Politics, and the Making of a Homeland in Diaspora
Lecture | October 16 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall
Townsend Book Chat with Stephen Best: None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life
Lecture | October 16 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens
Mind Reading and Telepathy for Beginners and Intermediates
Lecture | October 16 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 202 South Hall
Jefferson Memorial Lecture featuring Paul Butler: Prison Abolition, and a Mule
Lecture | October 16 | 4:10 p.m. | Bancroft Hotel, Great Hall
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Refik Anadol: Space in the Mind of a Machine
Lecture | October 17 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Bancroft Library Roundtable: An Invaluable Resource: Reporting on Recent Archival Processing of Environmental Collections at The Bancroft Library
Lecture | October 17 | 12-1 p.m. | Faculty Club, Lewis-Latimer Room
Nazism: A Dark Comedy in Liechtenstein
Lecture | October 17 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Tripodi Lecture on Research Methodologies: Developing Empathetic Tech with Communities of Color for Gun Violence Prevention: A social work approach
Lecture | October 17 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. | Haviland Hall, Haviland Commons
From Bat-Mitzvah to the Bar:: How Religion Shapes Women's Educational Aspirations and Attainment
Lecture | October 17 | 3-4 p.m. | Barrows Hall, 8th Floor, Social Science Matrix Conference Room
The New Jim Code?: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life
Lecture | October 17 | 3-5:30 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium
The Fiume Crisis: How It’s a Key to Rethinking post-WWI Europe
Lecture | October 17 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall
Douglas Hyde in California
Lecture | October 17 | 5-7 p.m. | 300 Wheeler Hall
Melos’ Prospects: Rational Domination
Lecture | October 17 | 5:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
The Great Decoupling and Sino-US Race for Technological Supremacy
Lecture | October 17 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Haas School of Business, Spieker Forum, 6th floor Chou Hall
Friday, October 18, 2019
Building a Forest Positive Future:: Strategies for Nature, Climate and People
Lecture | October 18 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Clark Kerr Campus, Garden Room
Climate Crisis, Designer Babies, Our Common Future.
Lecture | October 18 | 6:30-8:30 p.m. | Berkeley Way West, First Floor Colloquia
Saturday, October 19, 2019
Career Clinic: Making a Successful Career Transition: Roadmap for Change
Lecture | October 19 | 9 a.m.-3 p.m. | 207 UC Berkeley Extension (Golden Bear Center)
The Surprises of the Sunflower
Lecture | October 19 | 10-11 a.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building
Science Lecture - Exploring the local universe with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes
Lecture | October 19 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | Campbell Hall
What's Next for the Blue Bin?
Lecture | October 19 | 1:30-2:30 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building
Sunday, October 20, 2019
El Arte y la Política, y el Caso de César Vallejo: Poetry and the other Arts; Critique; Activism; Legacies
Lecture | October 20 | 12:30-2 p.m. | Latinx Research Center
AIA Lecture - Commerce in Color: the economy of Roman pigment shops
Lecture | October 20 | 2-4 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Monday, October 21, 2019
Industry 4.0 and the Extension of Malaysia's Economic Success Story: With Malaysia's Minister of Finance
Lecture | October 21 | 1-2 p.m. | B100 Blum Hall
BIDS Forum: Statistics and Machine Learning Forum
Lecture | October 21 | 1:30-2:30 p.m. | 190 Doe Library
CEE Distinguished Lecture: The Pathway towards the Deployment of Self-Driving Vehicle Technology
Lecture | October 21 | 4-5 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium
Jagdish Patel | Workers’ health and safety in the state of Gujarat, India
Lecture | October 21 | 4:30-6 p.m. | Berkeley Way West, Room 5400, 5th floor (2121 Berkeley Way / 1919 Shattuck Avenue), UC Berkeley School of Public Health
"Maybe Esther": Storytelling and the Unpredictability of the Past
Lecture | October 21 | 6-7:30 p.m. | Alumni House
Non-Human Art
Lecture | October 21 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Research to Regulation: A Physician-Scientist’s Search for Health Equity in Air Quality and Climate Change
Lecture | October 22 | 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 5101 Berkeley Way West
California’s Rising Incompetent to Stand Trial Population and its Implications for Psychiatric Treatment at the State Hospital: Renee Mack Doctoral Mock Job Talk
Lecture | October 22 | 2:10-3:30 p.m. | Haviland Hall, Commons 116 | Note change in date
Life at the Border: Farmers and Nomads at the Edges of the Bukhara Oasis during Antiquity
Lecture | October 22 | 5-7 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Rajmohan Gandhi | Hindu Nationalism in Gandhi's India: Celebrating the 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi
Lecture | October 22 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Julie Mehretu In conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson
Lecture | October 22 | 5-7 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, Maude Fife Room, Room 315
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Berkeley Boosts Webinar: SCOTUS Update and Constitutional Law Primer with Dean Erwin Chemerinsky
Lecture | October 23 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | Online Program
Sunflower Domestication in Space and Time
Lecture | October 23 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Townsend Book Chat with Mark Schapiro: Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
Lecture | October 23 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens, Townsend Center
i4Y CMYE Speaker Series: "1.8 billion reasons to meaningfully engage Adolescents and Youth in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights"
Lecture | October 23 | 1-2 p.m. | 5101 Berkeley Way West
Blending Implementation and Health Disparities Research to Improve the Health of Latinx with Serious Mental Illness
Lecture | October 23 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Haviland Hall, Commons 116
Blending Implementation and Health Disparities Research to Improve the Health of Latinx with Serious Mental Illness
Lecture | October 23 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Haviland Hall, Haviland Commons
In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Food Legacy in the Atlantic World - The 23rd Carl O. Sauer Memorial Lecture
Lecture | October 23 | 4 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium
Truth, Lies, and Cultural Appropriation: Christopher L. Miller on Impostors
Lecture | October 23 | 5-6:30 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Pub Science: Are Bilinguals Smarter?
Lecture | October 24 | Little Hill Lounge
Yanni Loukissas: All Data Are Local
Lecture | October 24 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Roman Decline and American Carnage: Considering Decline and Renewal in the Age of Trump
Lecture | October 24 | 1-2:30 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Brown Lecture in Education Research
Lecture | October 24 | 3-6 p.m. | Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
Capitalism and the Question of Genealogy
Lecture | October 24 | 4 p.m. | Barrows Hall, MATRIX/Room 820
Cultural Expertise on Southeast Asia and Asylum Expert Witnessing
Lecture | October 24 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Leading on the Edge of Change: Climate, Education and Politics in Alaska
Lecture | October 24 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Faculty Club, Seaborg Room
Agamemnon’s Cluelessness: Reason and Eudaimonia
Lecture | October 24 | 5:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Seeing Shamanic Practices in Ancient Peruvian Pottery
Lecture | October 24 | 6-7:30 p.m. | Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Friday, October 25, 2019
PLANTS + PEOPLE Lunchtime Talks: Biocultural Diversity in the Central Valley
Lecture | October 25 | 12-1 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Achieving California's water security given growing demands, diminishing snow, and increasing wildfire
Lecture | October 25 | 12-1 p.m. | 502 Davis Hall
Thinking about Composition: Creative Work, Scholarship, and the Art of Putting Things Together
Lecture | October 25 | 3 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Atif Mian | What to do about Pakistan’s Economy?: The Mahomedali Habib Distinguished Lecture for 2019
Lecture | October 25 | 6-8 p.m. | The Bancroft Hotel, The Great Hall
Monday, October 28, 2019
The Language of Incorporation: The Chinese Migrants in Central-Eastern Europe
Lecture | October 28 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall
The San Quentin Project
Lecture | October 28 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
