All events
Thursday, October 11, 2018
Rita Moreno: From Puerto Rico to Stardom with Fernanda Fisher
Lecture | October 11 | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Fernanda Fisher
Fernanda Fisher has been involved in the arts throughout her life. She grew up in NYC with both her father, Leonard Gordon, a cardiologist and her mother, Rita Moreno, an actress. Fisher will talk about Puerto Rico, her mother’s rise to stardom, and her own creative career. She attended Brearley School and danced under George Balanchine at the School of American Ballet. After moving to Los... More >
Celebrate Ombuds Day – Staff Ombuds Morning Coffee
Special Event | October 11 | 8-10:30 a.m. | Fox Cottage, 2350 Bowditch Street
Please join us for coffee in celebration of the first national Ombuds Day! If you don't know what an ombuds is or would like to learn more about ombuds services, please stop by the Fox Cottage to say hello, chat with your campus Staff Ombuds, and grab a cup of coffee . . .
Hardy Californians: The Life of Lester Rowntree
Lecture | October 11 | 10-11:30 a.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Lester Gertrude Rowntree (1878-1978) was a pioneering California native plant botanist and horticulturalist who popularized the study, use, and protection of native flora through voluminous writings, lectures, and photographs. As testimonial to Lester's important role she was named life-long honorary president of the California Native Plant Society (CNPS) upon its creation in 1965. However, the... More >
Free with Garden admission ($12); Free for UCBG members, UC Berkeley students, staff, and faculty
WMware Tabling in 3rd Floor, Soda Hall
Miscellaneous | October 11 | 11 a.m.-3 p.m. | Soda Hall, In front of HP Auditorium (306 Soda Hall)
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Please join VMware for 1:1 conversation with University Talent and engineers including Berkeley Alum. University Talent will be on hand and ready to review your resume and interest in VMW.
Applied Math Seminar: Reduced order modeling of multiscale problems using the Mori-Zwanzig formalism
Seminar | October 11 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 732 Evans Hall
Karthik Duraisamy, University of Michigan
This talk will address the issue of closure in reduced order models (ROMs) and large eddy simulations (LES), leveraging ideas from non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. The approach is based on the Variational Multi-Scale method (VMS) and the Mori-Zwanzig (M-Z) formalism, which provides a framework to perform formal scale separation and re-cast a high-dimensional dynamical system into an... More >
Econ 235, Financial Economics Seminar: "TBA"
Seminar | October 11 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | C210 Haas School of Business
Michaela Pagel, Columbia Business School
Joint with the Haas Finance Seminar
From One War to Another. The Armenian Experience and Its Impact on Germany
Lecture | October 11 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall
Raymond Kévorkian, Emeritus director of research, Institut Français de Géopolitique, Université Paris VIII, Saint-Denis
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Armenian Studies Program
Our knowledge of the impact of the 1915 genocide on German society has long been characterized by Germany’s commitment to the Eastern Front and by the experience of mass violence experienced by several thousand soldiers and officers who witnessed the extermination of the Armenians. But the most recent works, in particular Stefan Ihrig’s two books, have opened new avenues for studying the... More >
Oliver E. Williamson Seminar: "How Does Competition Affect Innovation?Evidence from U.S. Antitrust Cases"
Seminar | October 11 | 12-1:30 p.m. | C330 Haas School of Business
Hyo Kang, UC Berkeley
The Oliver E. Williamson Seminar on Institutional Analysis, named after our esteemed colleague who founded the seminar, features current research by faculty, from UCB and elsewhere, and by advanced doctoral students. The research investigates governance, and its links with economic and political forces. Markets, hierarchies, hybrids, and the supporting institutions of law and politics all come... More >
Finding Health Statistics and Data: A Hands-on workshop at the D-Lab
Workshop | October 11 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Barrows Hall, 356: D-Lab Convening Room
Michael Sholinbeck, Public Health Librarian, Marian Koshland Bioscience, Natural Resources & Public Health Library
Marian Koshland Bioscience, Natural Resources & Public Health Library
Participants in this workshop will learn about some of the issues surrounding the collection of health statistics, and will also learn about authoritative sources of health statistics and data. We will look at tools that let you create custom tables of vital statistics (birth, death, etc.), disease statistics, health behavior statistics, and more. The focus will be on U.S. statistics, but sources... More >
Rita Moreno: From Puerto Rico to Stardom with Fernanda Fisher
Lecture | October 11 | 12-1 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Rita Rita Moreno
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The daughter of celebrated actress Rita Moreno, Fernanda Fisher has been involved in the arts throughout her life. In this event hosted by Kathryn Roszak, Fisher will talk about Puerto Rico, her mother’s rise to stardom, and her own creative career.
Fernanda Fisher grew up in New York City, where she attended Brearley School and danced under George Balanchine at the School of American Ballet.... More >
IB Seminar: Elucidating the evolution and effects of the distinctive gut microbiome of bees
Seminar | October 11 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building
Nancy Moran, University of Texas at Austin
Econ 235, Financial Economics Student Seminar: "TBA"
Seminar | October 11 | 1-2 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
Dayin Zhang, Jun Aoyagi, UC Berkeley
Docent-led tour
Tour/Open House | January 6, 2017 – January 4, 2019 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 >
Seminar 251, Labor Seminar: "Disability Insurance: Gender Differences and Incentive Costs"
Seminar | October 11 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford
with Hamish Low
i4y Speaker Series: Anita Raj
Presentation | October 11 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 5422 Berkeley Way West
Anita Raj
Innovations for Youth (i4Y)
Dr. Anita Raj - International Day of the Girl Child (IDGC)
This presentation will offer findings from qualitative and quantitative research on the effects of parent-child relationship, family violence and girls’ voice and choice on early marriage of girls across national settings. Implications for local to national policies and programs will be discussed
The Berkeley Stem Cell Center Director's Special Seminar: “From blood to brain: how do circulatory proteins regulate brain function?”
Seminar | October 11 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition
Tony Wyss-Coray, Stanford University School of Medicine
Video Game Playtest - Meet with game developers!
Special Event | October 11 | 4-6 p.m. | Etcheverry Hall, Rm 3106
Nuclear Science and Security Consortium
The Nuclear Science and Security Consortium (NSSC) invites you to playtest a video game (SIGNAL) developed in partnership between UC Berkeley students and scientists from both Sandia and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. This game will be used as part of a research effort toward studying conflict escalation and strategic stability of nations. Players will take the role of their nation's... More >
What’s New about New Materialism?: Black and Indigenous Scholars on Science, Technology and Materiality
Lecture | October 11 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 691 Barrows Hall
As the “New Materialisms” discourse continues to gain traction across multiple fields of inquiry, we come together as scholars of Xicanx/Latinx Studies, Native American/Indigenous Studies and postcolonial African Studies to open up a space of dialogue on the subject.
Guardians, Aliens, Or Robot Overlords? Security In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence
Lecture | October 11 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium | Note change in location
Edward W. Felten, Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs at Princeton University
Institute of International Studies
Edward W. Felten is Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs at Princeton University. His research interests include computer security and privacy, and public policy issues relating to information technology.
He is the Director of Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP), a cross-disciplinary effort studying digital technologies in public life. CITP... More >
Berkeley Certificate in Design Innovation Fall 2018 Information Session
Information Session | October 11 | 4-5 p.m. | 310 Jacobs Hall
Berkeley Certificate in Design Innovation
Join us for an Information and Q&A session (and plenty of Pizza) on Thursday, October 11th at 310 Jacobs Hall, 4-5pm, to learn more about the certificate and have your questions about Spring 2019 course enrollment and availability, scheduling, etc..., answered by the BCDI Student Services Advisor and Academic Committee. The event is open to the entire Berkeley community. You can RSVP through the... More >
RefWorks: Save and Cite Your Sources
Workshop | October 11 | 4-5 p.m. | Valley Life Sciences Building, Bioscience Library Training Room, 2101 VLSB
Susan Koskinen, Head, Life & Health Sciences Division, Library
This hands-on workshop will give you practice in importing citations and creating bibliographies using the citation manager RefWorks. You can bring your own laptop or use our PCs.
TDPS Speaker Series: Rulan Tangen, Choreographer and Dance Artist: Indigenous Dance Making : Process and Performance : Growing Collaboration Between Earth and Her Peoples
Special Event | October 11 | 4-5 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, Conference Room 44B
Rulan Tangen, Choreographer and Dance Artist, Founding Artistic Director of Dancing Earth
Department of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
Rulan Tangen, Founding Artistic Director of Dancing Earth, a Kennedy Center Citizen Artist, and one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch Artists” brings us on an experiential, multi-sensory journey to ignite imagination and intuition around movement building - centering diverse global Indigenous worldviews of herself and collaborators as a circle of solidarity in the face of environmental challenges.... More >
TDPS Speaker Series: Rulan Tangen, Choreographer and Dance Artist
SCREENING SERIES: URBAN RIGHTS IN BRAZIL
Film - Series | October 11 | 4-8 p.m. | 305 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
Organized by Laura Belik, Ph.D. Student in Architecture
Mathematics Department Colloquium: o-minimal GAGA and applications to Hodge theory
Colloquium | October 11 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall
Jacob Tsimerman, University of Toronto
(joint with B.Bakker and Y.Brunebarbe) One very fruitful way of studying complex algebraic varieties is by forgetting the underlying algebraic structure, and just thinking of them as complex analytic spaces. To this end, it is a natural and fruitful question to ask how much the complex analytic structure remembers. One very prominent result is Chows theorem, stating that any closed analytic... More >
Identity and Social Bonds: Howison Lectures in Philosophy by Joseph Raz
Lecture | October 11 | 4:10 p.m. | Bancroft Hotel, Great Hall
2680 Bancroft Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704
Joseph Raz, Professor, Columbia Law School
Joseph Raz will present the Howison lecture on October 11, 2018. His lecture is titled "Identity and Social Bonds" is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
Joseph Raz
Linguistic Anthropology and Literary and Cultural Studies: A Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar: Session 2: Sound
Conference/Symposium | October 10 – 11, 2018 every day | 5-7 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Miyako Inoue, Stanford University; Tom McEnaney, UC Berkeley; Amanda Weidman, Bryn Mawr College; Paja Faudree, Brown University; Dan Fisher, UC Berkeley
Department of Comparative Literature, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
This is the second of seven two-day meetings of a Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar that will take place throughout 2018-2019. The seminar aims to explore the potential of a set of concepts, tools, and critical practices developed in the field of linguistic anthropology for work being done in the fields of literary and cultural criticism.
Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust
Lecture | October 11 | 5:15-7 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Jason Wittenberg, Associate Professor, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Center for Jewish Studies
Jason Wittenberg is associate professor of political science at UC Berkeley and a former Academy Scholar at Harvard University. He is the co-author of Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust (Cornell, 2018). His first book, Crucibles of Political Loyalty: Church Institutions and Electoral Continuity in Hungary (Cambridge, 2006), won the 2009 Hubert... More >
UROC (Underrepresented Researchers of Color): Research opportunities for who? FOR YOU!!
Workshop | October 11 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | 14 Durant Hall
Office of Undergraduate Research
Learn about the different research opportunities on campus from students and how to best prepare for applying to them. Food will be provided!
Escritura, Trama Y Deseo (Writing, Plot And Desire) with Diamela Eltit
Lecture | October 11 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, Townsend Center
Diamela Eltit
Escritura, Trama Y Deseo (Writing, Plot And Desire) with Diamela Eltit
Thursday, October 11, 2018
5:30-7:30pm
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities
Diamela Eltit
VmWare Panel Discussion
Information Session | October 11 | 5:30-7 p.m. | Soda Hall, Wozniak Lounge (430)
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Please join VMW and AWE for a presentation on our business past, present, and futures and a panel discussion with engineers from our business including Berkeley alumni! University Talent will be on hand and ready to review your resume and interest in VMW.
Dinner will be provided and VMW will offer a raffle prize to one lucky person!
Human Rights and International Gender Justice: A conversation with Navi Pillay, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and international judge
Presentation | October 11 | 5:30-7 p.m. | 132 Boalt Hall, School of Law
Navi Pillay
In less than a generation, world opinion has shifted from viewing wartime rape as a crime of passion to a weapon of war and social control. As an international criminal court judge, Pillay authored the landmark case that recognized rape as a crime of genocide. On the 20th anniversary of the creation of the International Criminal Court, Pillay will help us reflect on the international achievements... More >
RSVP online by October 10.
James Bay
Performing Arts - Music | October 11 | 6 p.m. | Hearst Greek Theatre
Three-time GRAMMY® Award-nominated and BRIT Award-winning multiplatinum singer-songwriter James Bay will release his anxiously awaited second full-length album, Electric Light on Friday, May 18, 2018 via [Republic Records].
Playtime: An Introduction to BDSM as a Feminist Practice
Workshop | October 11 | 6-8 p.m. | César E. Chávez Student Center, 202 (Gender Equity Resource Center)
Come and enjoy the closing event for National Coming Out Day with some sex positive conversations! Wonder Womxn Weekly and The Exiles (https://theexiles.org/) team up to provide an introductory workshop about Feminist BDSM practice and a conversation of about power dynamics within sexual pleasure.
This class will also introduce you to the basics of getting started:
*Terminology
*How to get... More >
The Challenge for Progressives in Latin America
Lecture | October 11 | 6-8 p.m. | 250 Goldman School of Public Policy
Giorgio Jackson
Center for Latin American Studies
Giorgio Jackson is a transformative political figure in Chile. As a student at the Catholic University in Santiago, Jackson was a key leader of the Chilean student protests in 2011. As a 25 year old, Jackson founded the Democratic Revolution political party in 2012, and was elected to Congress representing Santiago in 2013. He was re-elected in 2017 with the highest plurality of any member... More >
A Reading by Paul Muldoon
Reading - Literary | October 11 | 6-7:30 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, 315 - Maude Fife Room
Institute of European Studies - Irish Studies Program, Irish Arts & Writers Festival, Consulate General of Ireland in San Francisco, Department of English
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish poet and recipient of HM Queen Elizabeth’s Gold Medal for Poetry for 2017 visits the UC Berkeley campus for a reading of his recent and classic work.
The Spring River Flows East
Film - Feature | October 11 | 7-10 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Part I: Wartime Separation (Ba nian li luan); Part II: Darkness and Dawn (Tianliang qian-hou). Included on the Hong Kong Film Awards list of the greatest Chinese-language films of all time, this decades-spanning epic has been termed China’s Gone with the Wind. A married couple in Shanghai are separated during the chaos of the 1937 Japanese invasion and the Sino-Japanese War, with their fates... More >
East Bay Science Cafe - How to make a topological quantum fluid
Presentation | October 11 | 7-8:30 p.m. | Cafe Leila
1724 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley, CA 94702
Kayleigh Cassella, Department of Physics
Since the mid-90s, scientists have been cooling atoms to temperatures lower than that of any other system in the known Universe. These quantum fluids are new materials in which questions from many realms of science, like quantum information and superconductivity, can be studied experimentally. Faced with the short-comings of atoms that have already been made into such a quantum fluid, we have set... More >
Titanium Crystals
Alianza’s Latinx Heritage Month Celebration
Social Event | October 11 | 7:15-10 p.m. | La Peña Cultural Center Theater, 3105 Shattuck Avenue
College of Environmental Design
In celebration of Latinx Heritage Month, join Cal students, staff and community members in this celebration of social justice, arts participation, and intercultural understanding. Featuring live music by Caña, dance music by DJ Lautaro, Danza Mexica by In
Alianza's Latinx Heritage Month Celebration
Social Event | October 11 | 7:15-10 p.m. | La Peña Cultural Center Theater, Theater
3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705
Alianza Staff Association, Chicanx Latinx Student Development, UC Berkeley Chicanx Latinx Alumni Association, La Colectiva, Danza In Xochitl In Cuicatl
Join the Alianza Staff Association at an established community venue that promotes "social justice, arts participation, and intercultural understanding" where we will celebrate the complex story of Latinx peoples.
Featuring live music by Caña, dance music by DJ Lautaro, Danza Mexica by In Xochitl In Cuicatl, refreshments, and more!
$0 Suggested donations of $10+ to cover costs of event
70 Scenes of Halloween: A play by Jeffrey M Jones
Performing Arts - Theater | October 11 – 13, 2018 every day | 8-9 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
Department of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
70 SCENES OF HALLOWEEN is a spooky, scrambled, and sly comedy that transforms the unraveling of a marriage into a frighteningly funny romp. A young couple seems set to spend Halloween on their couch in a state of mild boredom. But dark forces emerge and they must contend with ghosts and witches banging on windows and wielding butcher knives!
$13-$20
Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-1677, or by emailing tdps@berkeley.edu
70 SCENES OF HALLOWEEN, a play by Jeffrey M Jones
Exhibits and Ongoing Events
ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION: PLACE, CULTURE, TIME - DESIGN IN DRASTICALLY CHANGING CHINA
Exhibit - Multimedia | August 29 – October 21, 2018 every day | 210 Wurster Hall
Environmental Design, College of
ON VIEW: AUG 29-OCT 21. Works of He Jingtang over the past three decades and their profound reflections on place, culture, time, and future urban development. Free and open to all!
Luminous Disturbances: Paintings by Kara Maria
Exhibit - Painting | September 10 – December 14, 2018 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | Stephens Hall, Townsend Center for the Humanities
Townsend Center for the Humanities
Kara Maria's "cheerfully apocalyptic" paintings engage with a host of political issues, including war and environmental destruction. On display at the Townsend Center for the Humanities Sept 10 - Dec 14, 2018.
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.
Immigration, Deportation and Citizenship, 1908-2018: Selected Resources from the IGS and Ethnic Studies Libraries
Exhibit - Artifacts | August 31 – December 10, 2018 every day | Moses Hall, IGS Library - 109 Moses
Institute of Governmental Studies Library, Ethnic Studies Library
"Immigration, Deportation and Citizenship, 1908-2018: Selected Resources from the IGS and Ethnic Studies Libraries" contains items from the Ethnic Studies Library and the Institute of Governmental Studies Library addressing historical attitudes and policy around immigration, deportation, and citizens' rights, as well as monographs and ephemera relating to current events.
The Handmaid's Tale: an exhibit at Moffitt Library
Exhibit - Multimedia | September 5 – December 31, 2018 every day | Moffitt Undergraduate Library, 3rd Floor near Elevators
The new Moffitt Library exhibit explores the themes and antecedents of The Handmaid’s Tale, this year’s On the Same Page program selection. On exhibit are library materials and quotes that demonstrate that not only were we wrong to say “it can’t happen here” - it has already happened, all over the world: Berlin, Nazi Germany, Argentina, and yes, here in the US.
UC Berkeley ID required for entrance to Moffitt Library.
Califas: Art of the US-Mexico Borderlands
Exhibit - Multimedia | September 11 – November 16, 2018 every day | Richmond Art Center (2540 Barrett Ave, Richmond, CA)
Environmental Design, College of
ON VIEW: SEPT 11-NOV 16 @ the Richmond Art Center. The exhibition, co-curated by Professors Michael Dear & Ronald Rael, explores representations of the US-Mexico ‘borderlands’ in contemporary art. Free & open to all!
Art for the Asking: 60 Years of the Graphic Arts Loan Collection at the Morrison Library
Exhibit - Artifacts | September 17, 2018 – February 28, 2019 every day | Doe Library, Bernice Layne Brown Gallery
Art for the Asking: 60 Years of the Graphic Arts Loan Collection at the Morrison Library will be up in Doe Library’s Brown Gallery until March 1st, 2019. This exhibition celebrates 60 years of the Graphic Arts Loan Collection, and includes prints in the collection that have not been seen in 20 years, as well as prints that are now owned by the Berkeley Art Museum. There are also cases dedicated... More >
Bearing Light: Berkeley at 150
Exhibit - Artifacts | April 16, 2018 – February 28, 2019 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 8 a.m.-5 p.m. | Bancroft Library, 2nd Floor Corridor
This exhibition celebrates the University of California’s sesquicentennial anniversary with photographs, correspondence, publications, and other documentation drawn from the University Archives and The Bancroft Library collections. It features an array of golden bears, including Oski, and explores the illustrious history of UC Berkeley.
Face to Face: Looking at Objects That Look at You
Exhibit - Multimedia | March 10 – December 9, 2018 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. | Hearst Museum of Anthropology | Note change in date
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
For this Spring 2018 exhibit, entitled Face to Face: Looking at Objects that Look at You, the Hearst staff and 14 UC Berkeley freshmen have co-curated a global selection of objects that depict human faces in different ways. The exhibit asks: Why and how do crafting traditions of the world so often incorporate human faces, and how do people respond to those faces? Objects such as West African... More >
The Karaite Canon: Manuscripts and Ritual Objects from Cairo
Exhibit - Artifacts | August 28 – December 14, 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
The Karaite Canon highlights a selection from the over fifty manuscripts he brought to California, along with ritual objects belonging to Cairo’s Karaite community.
The Worlds of Arthur Szyk: The Taube Family Arthur Szyk Collection
Exhibit - Multimedia | August 28 – December 14, 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
Auditorium installation of high-resolution images of select collection items.
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... More >
Pièces de Résistance: Echoes of Judaea Capta From Ancient Coins to Modern Art
Exhibit - Multimedia | August 28 – December 14, 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 will be continuing in Spring 2019.
Notions of resistance, alongside fears and realities of oppression, resound throughout Jewish history. As a minority, Jews express their political aspirations, ideals of heroism, and yearnings of retaliation and redemption in their rituals, art, and everyday life.
Centering on coins in The Magnes Collection, this exhibition explores how... More >
Project “Holy Land”: Yaakov Benor-Kalter’s Photographs of British Mandate Palestine, 1923-1940
Exhibit - Photography | August 28 – December 14, 2018 every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 11 a.m.-4:05 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
For nearly two decades, Yaakov (Jacob) Benor-Kalter (1897-1969) traversed the Old City of Jerusalem, documenting renowned historical monuments, ambiguous subjects in familiar alleyways, and scores of “new Jews” building a new homeland. Benor-Kalter’s photographs smoothly oscillate between two worlds, and two Holy Lands, with one lens.
After immigrating from Poland to the British Mandate of... More >
Exhibit Opening: Does Dog Have a Buddha Nature?
Exhibit - Multimedia | October 11 | 5-7 p.m. | Hearst Museum of Anthropology
332157 Liza DalbyPhoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Japanese Studies, Center for (CJS)
Come join us to help celebrate the opening of Does Dog Have a Buddha Nature?, an exhibition hosted in the lobby of Kroeber Hall in collaboration with curator Liza Dalby and the Center for Japanese Studies at UC Berkeley.
Does a dog have buddha nature?
Jōshū replied "MU!"
Inspired by this well-known Zen kōan, the MU KORABO (Mu Collaboration) project has joined calligraphy... More >
Exhibit Opening: Does Dog Have a Buddha Nature?
Exhibit - Multimedia | October 11 | 5-7 p.m. | Hearst Museum of Anthropology
332162 Liza DalbyJapanese Studies, Center for (CJS), Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Come join us to help celebrate the opening of Does Dog Have a Buddha Nature?, an exhibition hosted in the lobby of Kroeber Hall in collaboration with curator Liza Dalby and the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC Berkeley.
Does a dog have buddha nature?
Jōshū replied "MU!"
Inspired by this well-known Zen kōan, the MU KORABO (Mu Collaboration) project has... More >
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