All events
Friday, February 16, 2018
Sara Ahmed Talk and Conversation
Lecture | February 16 | Location TBA
Sara Ahmed
Center for the Study of Sexual Culture
Join us for a talk with renowned scholar Sara Ahmed, whose work lives at the intersections of feminist, queer, postcolonial, and critical race theory. We will also be hosting a conversation with Professor Ahmed for graduate students only. Contact the CSSC for more details.
Qigong with Director Eric Siegel
Workshop | February 16 | 10-11 a.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Join UCBG Director, Eric Siegel, for a morning practice in Qigong (pronounced cheegong), a form of meditative exercise with repeated movements, gently stretching the core and limbs and building body awareness.
Free with Garden Admission
A Methodologically Integrative Approach to Predicting the Seismic Performance of Structures on Liquefiable Ground
Seminar | February 16 | 10-11 a.m. | 542 Davis Hall
Shideh Dashti, Ph.D
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
Dr. Dashti’s research includes the study of interactions and interdependencies among infrastructure systems during disasters; seismic performance of underground structures; and consequences and mitigation of the liquefaction hazard facing structures in isolation and in urban settings.
Representing Linguistic Knowledge With Probabilistic Models
Colloquium | February 16 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall
Stephan Meylan, UC Berkeley
Ph.D. Exit Talk
Application of Causal Analyses for Diagnosing Environmental Problems: Environmental Engineering Seminar
Seminar | February 16 | 12-1 p.m. | 534 Davis Hall
Dr. Charles Menzie, Global Executive Director, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Yoga for Tension and Stress Relief (BEUHS664)
Workshop | February 16 | 12:10-1 p.m. | 251 Hearst Gymnasium
Laurie Ferris, Yoga Instructor, Be Well at Work - Wellness Program
Practicing yoga can release tension in your joints, give you greater range of movement, soothe your back, and grant you increased comfort in all aspects of your life. Learn how pranayama breathing can enhance your practice, and help liberate your mind in surprising ways. Yoga mats are provided, or you can bring your own. Comfortable clothing and bare feet recommended.
Trees of the Garden: Docent-led Tour
Tour/Open House | February 16 | 1-2 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Discover the signature trees from around the world at the UC Botanical Garden.
Free for Members or with Garden Admission
Register online or by calling 510-664-9841, or by emailing gardenprograms@berkeley.edu
Solid State Technology and Devices Seminar: Silicon Quantum Photonics
Seminar | February 16 | 1-2 p.m. | Cory Hall, 521 Hogan Room
Mark Thompson, University of Bristol
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Quantum information technologies offer a new and powerful ways to processing and communicating information. Of the various approaches to quantum technologies, photons are appealing for their low-noise properties and ease of manipulation at the single qubit level; while the challenge of entangling interactions between photons can be met via measurement induced non-linearities. Historically bulk... More >
Talking About Combinatorial Objects Student Seminar: Finite Reflection Groups
Seminar | February 16 | 1-2 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
Max Hlavacek, UC Berkeley
Guardamar Summer Abroad Information Session
Information Session | February 16 | 1-1:50 p.m. | 305 Wurster Hall
Discover the impact that tourism and urbanism have on a city's architectural identity while living in Spain this summer! In Guardamar, students will broaden their architecture experience by stepping into a town where culture, food, ritual, and environment significantly impact urban design.
Join us at 1:00 pm for an informational session Guardamar's Summer Abroad program: "Imagining and... More >
Docent-led tour
Tour/Open House | January 6, 2017 – December 30, 2018 every Sunday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 1:30-2:45 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Join us for a free, docent-led tour of the Garden as we explore interesting plant species, learn about the vast collection, and see what is currently in bloom. Meet at the Entry Plaza.
Free with Garden admission
Advanced registration not required
Tours may be cancelled without notice.
For day-of inquiries, please call 510-643-2755
For tour questions, please email gardentours@berkeley.edu... More >
Exploring the Nanoworld Inside Cells: Nano Seminar Series
Seminar | February 16 | 2-3 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall | Note change in time and location
Prof. Eric Betzig, UC Berkeley / LBNL, Physics
Berkeley Nanosciences and Nanoengineering Institute
A single mammalian cell is a complex yet robust machine self-assembled from approximately 100 million copies of tens of thousands of distinct proteins, each only a few nanometers in size. Reverse engineering this system is a daunting task, not only because of the small size and shear number of components, but also because the system is exquisitely sensitive to perturbation, either by scientific... More >
Zeyu Zheng - Top-Down Statistical Modeling
Seminar | February 16 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 3108 Etcheverry Hall
Zeyu Zheng, Stanford University
Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
Abstract: In this talk, we will argue that data-driven service systems engineering should take a statistical perspective that is guided by the decisions and performance measures that are critical from a managerial perspective. We further take the view that the statistical models will often be used as inputs to simulations that will be used to drive either capacity decisions or real-time decisions... More >
Chile Summer Abroad Information Session
Information Session | February 16 | 2-3 p.m. | Stephens Hall, IAS Conference Room 101
Come learn how you can study abroad with UC Berkeley faculty this summer! Join us for an informational session and learn how you can check off breadth requirements while immersing yourself in an international experience!
Student Probability/PDE Seminar: Large Deviation Principle for Stochastic Growth Models IV
Seminar | February 16 | 2:10-3:30 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Fraydoun Rezakhanlou, UC Berkeley
Clark Kerr Garden Open Hours
Tour/Open House | February 2 – May 11, 2018 every Friday | 2:30-4:30 p.m. | Clark Kerr Campus
The Clark Kerr Garden is managed by Gardener Susanne Weisman along with the Cal Dining Sustainability Team Garden Coordinators and committed volunteers. Clark Kerr contains a culinary garden, an orchard, and continually growing edible landscaping.
Our goal is to be a space where anyone can hang out, pass through, learn something, collaborate, and enjoy food together. We hold skills training... More >
MENA Salon: Egypt's Upcoming "Election"
Workshop | February 16 | 3-4 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Egyptians are expected to go to the polls next month to vote in the presidential election. However, the process has already been tainted by the suppression of competitors of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. What can Egyptians expect from this election?
Study of Private Sector Research and Data Sharing Practices
Seminar | February 16 | 3:10-5 p.m. | 107 South Hall
Elaine Sedenberg
Preliminary research results about companiesâs internal research practices in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and behavioral analytics.
Film: Alexander Nevsky
Film - Feature | February 16 | 4 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Alexander Nevsky also screens on April 11 (with a lecture by Anne Nesbet) as part of the series In Focus: Eisenstein and His Contemporaries.
On February 10, enjoy a Film to Table dinner at Babette, the cafe at BAMPFA. Join an intimate group of fellow filmgoers for a four-course, prix-fixe meal in a convivial, dinner-party atmosphere. Purchase dinner tickets in advance at babettecafe.com (film... More >
"Race Play: Racialized Gender and Sexuality in Settler Colonial North America”
Lecture | February 16 | 4-6 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Department of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Department of Ethnic Studies
"Race Play: Racialized Gender and Sexuality in Settler Colonial North America” brings together two scholars who work at the intersections of racialization and gender and sexual identities—C Winter Han and Scott Morgensen—to consider how these issues become co-constituted in contemporary settler colonial North America.
The conversation will be followed by an audience Q&A.
This event is free... More >
Sara Ahmed: Queer Use
Lecture | February 16 | 4-5 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
This lecture by scholar Sara Ahmed explores the queerness of use as well as uses of queer.
Coordination Chemistry of +3 Actinides
Seminar | February 16 | 4-5 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Stosh Kozimor, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Actinides in the +3 oxidation state occupy central roles in many areas that are important for our quality of life. These range from developing targeted alpha therapy in treating cancer to processing spent nuclear fuel. Hence, there is pressing need to advance
fundamental understanding of +3 actinide coordination chemistry. While numerous
heroic efforts have advanced AnIII chemistry, two main... More >
Student / postdoc PDE seminar: Multivalued harmonic functions 3
Seminar | February 16 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Brian Krummel, UC Berkeley
Still more on how multivalued harmonic functions arise in regularity theory for minimal surfaces and on the basic theory of multivalued Dirichlet energy minimizing functions.
Google Lightning Talks
Information Session | February 16 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | Bechtel Engineering Center, Sibley Auditorium
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Join us for a session featuring a series of lightning talks from Googlers (and
Berkeley alum!).They’ll share their paths to Google, current projects, and
helpful advice. You will also learn about summer internship and full time
opportunities that are available at Google. Be sure to bring your questions
and we'll bring the food and swag!
Benefit Performance of The Vagina Monologues + Our Monologues: 2018 Authenticity without Apology
Performing Arts - Theater | February 16 – 18, 2018 every day | 7 p.m. | Wheeler Auditorium
Gender Equity Resource Center, VDay at Berkeley
Benefit double feature: first show is The Vagina Monologues, and the second show is Our Monologues! Proceeds go to help support local organization that work to end gendered violence.
$12 General, $20 VIP
Tickets go on sale January 22. Buy tickets online
Film: Notfilm
Film - Feature | February 16 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In 1965 Samuel Beckett released his only film, a collaboration with Buster Keaton that obliquely explored cinema and perception. Ross Lipman’s fascinating kino-essay examines the production and implications of the resulting Film. Drawing on outtakes, audio recordings, and other rare archival materials, Notfilm is “a brilliant examination of its significance in relation to Beckett’s dramatic works... More >
Berkeley Dance Project 2018
Performing Arts - Dance | February 15 – 17, 2018 every day | 8-10 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
Department of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
Berkeley Dance Project 2018 features new choreography by Katie Faulkner and James Graham, as well as TDPS students Madeline Aragon and Hillary Tang. Faulkner explores the physical changes that women undergo as they progress through puberty, childbearing, aging, and illness, while Graham’s new work questions our experiences with gender, sexuality, and identity.
$13 Students, Cal Staff & Faculty, Seniors (online in advance), $15 Students, Cal Staff & Faculty, Seniors (At the door. ID required), $18 General Admission (Online in advance), $20 General Admission (At the door)
Dorothea Röschmann, soprano
Performing Arts - Music | February 16 | 8-10 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
Program:
Schubert/Mignon Lieder
Mahler/Rückert Lieder
Schumann/Maria Stuart Lieder
Wagner/Wesendonck Lieder
$68
Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Dorothea Röschmann performs on February 16 at 8pm in Hertz Hall.
Counting Sheep: A Guerilla Folk Opera
Performing Arts - Theater | February 16 | 8-10 p.m. | Oakland Metro Operahouse
522 2nd Street, Oakland, CA 94607
The eclectic Toronto-based “guerilla-folk party-punk band,” Lemon Bucket Orkestra, leads a call to arms in the immersive and interactive Ukrainian folk-opera, Counting Sheep. Sung in traditional Ukrainian polyphony and bolstered by first-hand video footage from the streets of Kiev, the production invites audience members to dance, sing, and eat—and hurl foam bricks, dodge men with guns, witness... More >
$58 general admission (prices subject to change)
Buy tickets online or by calling Cal Performances at 510-642-9988, or by emailing Cal Performances at tickets@calperformances.org
Exhibits and Ongoing Events
Veronica De Jesus/ MATRIX 268
Exhibit - Multimedia | October 25, 2017 – February 25, 2018 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
De Jesus's memorial portraits honor artists, writers, and diverse cultural figures, testifying to the fact that each life is valuable and worthy of recognition.
Buddhist Realms
Exhibit - Multimedia | October 25, 2017 – April 22, 2018 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
This presentation showcases exquisite examples of Buddhist art from the Himalayan region.
Art Wall: Karabo Poppy Moletsane
Exhibit - Painting | November 22, 2017 – July 15, 2018 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Moletsane’s vibrant, large-scale portraits for the Art Wall draw on both traditional African visual culture and Afrofuturism.
Fiat Yuks: Cal Student Humor, Then and Now
Exhibit - Artifacts | October 16, 2017 – June 3, 2018 every day | Bancroft Library, Rowell Cases, 2nd floor corridor between The Bancroft Library and Doe Library
Let there be laughter! This exhibition features Cal students’
cartoons, jokes, and satire throughout the years selected
from their humor magazines and other publications.
Environmental Design Archives Exhibition: Hollywood and Vine
Exhibit - Multimedia | January 22 – May 15, 2018 every day | 210 Wurster Hall
Environmental Design, College of
See the homes of the STARS!! Or more precisely, designs for the homes and gardens of film stars, directors, screen writers, and designers curated by head archivist at the Environmental Design Archives, Waverly Lowell.
Way Bay
Exhibit - Multimedia | January 17 – May 6, 2018 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Way Bay is a sweeping exploration of the creative energies that have emerged from the San Francisco Bay Area over the past two hundred years. The exhibition features nearly two hundred works of art, film, performance, poetry, and archival materials by Bay Area artists and others whose work engages with the region’s geographic, social, and cultural landscape.
The exhibition takes a nonlinear... More >
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Avant Dictee
Exhibit - Multimedia | January 31 – April 22, 2018 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Avant Dictee offers viewers an opportunity to experience the work of this prolific artist in a new way, through her best-known work, the artist’s book Dictee. Placing the book as a point of entry into her wider creative production, the exhibition explores resonances between Dictee’s ten thematic sections (nine of them named for the Greek muses) and artworks drawn from the... More >
The Invisible Museum: History and Memory of Morocco
Exhibit - Artifacts | January 23 – June 29, 2018 every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
Since its inception in 1962, the former Judah L. Magnes Museum distinguished itself by directing its collecting efforts outside the focus on European Jewish culture and history that was prevalent among American Jewish museums at the time. During the 1970s and 1980s, its founders, Seymour and Rebecca Fromer, actively corralled an informal team of activist collectors and supporters. Together, they... More >
The Worlds of Arthur Szyk | The Taube Family Arthur Szyk Collection: Auditorium installation of enlarged reproductions of select collection items
Exhibit - Multimedia | January 23 – June 29, 2018 every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
Acquired by The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life in 2017 thanks to an unprecedented gift from Taube Philanthropies, the most significant collection of works by Arthur Szyk (Łódź, Poland, 1894 – New Canaan, Connecticut, 1951) is now available to the world in a public institution for the first time as the Taube Family Arthur Szyk Collection.
Born into a middle-class Polish... More >
Fiat Yuks: Cal Student Humor, Then and Now
Exhibit - Artifacts | October 13, 2017 – May 30, 2019 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Bancroft Library, Rowell Cases, near Heyns Reading Room, 2nd floor corridor between The Bancroft Library and Doe
Let there be laughter! This exhibition features Cal students’ cartoons, jokes, and satire from throughout the years, selected from their humor magazines and other publications.
¡Viva La Fiesta! Mexican Traditions of Celebration
Exhibit - Artifacts | October 13, 2017 – February 28, 2018 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | Bancroft Library, The Bancroft Library Gallery
¡Viva la Fiesta! explores the cycle of traditional religious and
patriotic celebrations that have for centuries marked the
Mexican calendar. The exhibition draws on unique historical
representations of the fiestas and examines their relationship
to communal identities, national politics, religious practices,
and indigenous customs. These original materials, which are
preserved in the... More >
High Holy Days at the Luna Park: Show-card Posters from the Firschein Press (Brooklyn, NY, 1920-1974)
Exhibit - Artifacts | January 23 – June 29, 2018 every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 11 a.m.-4 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
This exhibition presents a selection from the over one hundred “show-card” posters printed by the Firschein Press, a small business operated by East European Jewish immigrants, that served local Jewish and non-Jewish communities in Brooklyn for the better half of the 20th century. Oscar Firschein brought the posters to California once the Press ceased its activities. He and his wife, Theda,... More >
The Karaite Canon: Manuscripts and Ritual Objects from Cairo
Exhibit - Artifacts | January 23 – June 29, 2018 every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 11 a.m.-4 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
A selection from the over fifty manuscripts collected by The Magnes in Cairo, Egypt, during an expedition led by the museum’s founder, Seymour Fromer, in 1971. At the time, the aim of The Magnes was to salvage unique documents during a period of great turmoil in the Middle East.
The manuscripts are accompanied by a variety of ritual objects, original ketubbot (marriage contracts), and by... More >
