Hopes and dreams for Gröbner bases with symmetry: Computational Algebraic Geometry

Seminar | May 23 | 3:20-4 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Speaker: Luke Oeding, UC Berkeley

Sponsor: Department of Mathematics

All talks will be 35 minutes sharp followed by a break of 5 minutes. Everyone is welcome to drop in and drop out at their convenience. After the last talk we'll go out for beer and pizza at Jupiter.

Tensor cumulants: Computational Algebraic Geometry

Seminar | May 23 | 4-4:40 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Speaker: Shaowei Lin, UC Berkeley

Sponsor: Department of Mathematics

All talks will be 35 minutes sharp followed by a break of 5 minutes. Everyone is welcome to drop in and drop out at their convenience. After the last talk we'll go out for beer and pizza at Jupiter.

Maximum likelihood for determinantal varieties: Computational Algebraic Geometry

Seminar | May 23 | 4:40-5:20 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Speaker: Jose Rodriguez, UC Berkeley

Sponsor: Department of Mathematics

All talks will be 35 minutes sharp followed by a break of 5 minutes. Everyone is welcome to drop in and drop out at their convenience. After the last talk we'll go out for beer and pizza at Jupiter.

Dietmaier's algorithm in numerical algebraic geometry: Computational Algebraic Geometry

Seminar | May 23 | 5:20-6 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Speaker: Jon Hauenstein, Texas A&M

Sponsor: Department of Mathematics

All talks will be 35 minutes sharp followed by a break of 5 minutes. Everyone is welcome to drop in and drop out at their convenience. After the last talk we'll go out for beer and pizza at Jupiter.

Working Group in African Political Economy (WGAPE)

Workshop | May 24 – 26, 2012 every day | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Blum Hall

Sponsor: Center for Effective Global Action

This year's event will explore the pathways to recovery in fragile states and conflict-affected countries throughout the world.
We will learn about the effectiveness of current efforts to rebuild civil institutions, promote governance, and reduce violence
in Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, and Iraq. We will also hear from policy-makers who are actively translating this evidence into social...   More >

Attendance restrictions: Meetings are built around in-depth discussions of papers that are circulated and expected to be read in advance. You can also read the archived papers from past WGAPE meetings (see link below).

Registration required

Registration info: Register online, or by calling Katie Wright at 510-643-3250, or by emailing Katie Wright at katiewright@berkeley.edu.

Berkeley Art Studio :: Summer Session: Classes in Ceramics, Drawing, Painting, Photography

Course | May 20 – June 4, 2012 every day | 12-10 p.m. | César E. Chávez Student Center, Berkeley Art Studio

Sponsor: ASUC Art Studio

Summer 2012 art classes are now posted online and open for registration! The Berkeley Art Studio will now offer one Summer session that has been extended to 9-weeks. Register on our website today!

Target audiences: Alumni, Faculty, Friends of the University, General Public, Staff, Students - Graduate, Students - Prospective, Students - Undergraduate, Cal Parents

Open to audiences: Alumni, Faculty, Friends of the University, General Public, Staff, Students - Graduate, Students - Prospective, Students - Undergraduate, Cal Parents

Attendance restrictions: Please note: The Berkeley Art Studio is closed from July 1, 2012-July 7, 2012

Registration info: Register online.

Research Hub Training Session: Getting Started

Workshop | January 26 – May 24, 2012 the fourth Thursday of the month every month | 1:10-2 p.m. | Tolman Hall, 1535 Section B (Microcomputing Facility)

Performer Group:

Sponsor: Information Services and Technology (IST)

Research Hub support staff will demonstrate how to accomplish common tasks, and will answer questions. Computers will be provided so that people can learn by doing.

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

Docent Tour

Tour/Open House | February 10, 2011 – December 26, 2013 every Thursday with exceptions | 1:30 p.m. |  Botanical Garden

Sponsor: Botanical Garden

With paid admission, we offer free docent-led tours year-round on Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays at 1:30 PM.

Plants of the World - General Tour of the Garden
Explore the Garden’s incredible diversity of plants from six continents, including environments as diverse as deserts, tropical forests, redwood forests, and wetlands.

Carbene Complexes: From Gas Phase Ion Chemistry to Catalysts for Metathesis and Cyclopropanation

Lecture | May 24 | 2-3 p.m. | 775B Tan Hall

Speaker/Performer: Prof. Peter Chen, ETH-Zurich

Sponsor: College of Chemistry

Certificate Program in Project Management

Information Session | May 24 | 6-7 p.m. |  UC Berkeley Extension (Golden Bear Center)

Sponsor: UC Berkeley Extension

Discover how you can excel in the expanding field of project management with a certificate that meets the high professional standards of the Project Management Institute.

Enrollment required: Free

Enrollment info: EDP 323766. Enroll online.

Professional Sequence in Agile Management

Information Session | May 24 | 7-8 p.m. |  UC Berkeley Extension (Golden Bear Center)

Sponsor: UC Berkeley Extension

Agile Management is a framework of values, principles and practices that allows managers to plan work, engage teams and leverage changing market conditions. Find out how the program can make a difference in your career as a manager.

Enrollment required: Free

Enrollment info: EDP 323774. Enroll online.

Gale Antokal: The Spill

Exhibit - Multimedia | January 22 – July 4, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday |  Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)

Speaker/Performer: Gale Antokal

Sponsors: The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, Bancroft Library

Starting from drawings in her series, We Are So Lightly Here (2003-2006), Gale Antokal, a Berkeley based artist, has created an original video piece, to be projected on the lobby wall. This video correlates to Antokal's drawings of milk pouring down a staircase, originally made with pastel, graphite, ash and flour.

Science On a Sphere®

Exhibit - Multimedia | May 4, 2012 – December 31, 2013 every day with exceptions |  Lawrence Hall of Science

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

Explore extreme phenomena best seen on a globe, including a climate change model for the next 100 years, glacial ice formation, the spreading of the supercontinent Pangea into today's continents, and realtime earthquake locations.

Target audiences: All Audiences, Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Heart of the Campus: Doe Library 1912-2012

Exhibit - Artifacts | March 12 – August 24, 2012 every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | Doe Library, Brown Gallery

Sponsor: Library

This exhibit of library history is held in conjunction with the centennial celebrations for Doe Library taking place this spring.

Dissolving Localities | Berkeley Jerusalem: A multimedia project by Emmanuel Witzthum

Exhibit - Multimedia | January 22 – July 4, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday |  Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)

Speaker/Performer: Emmanuel Witzthum

Sponsors: The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Department of Music

Dissolving Localities | Berkeley Jerusalem will extend Witzthum's recent project, where artists were invited to "perform" the city of Jerusalem as a musical/visual instrument. By interweaving recorded sights and sounds, they created an expanding open-source multimedia montage. During his residency in Berkeley, Witzthum will build an audiovisual dialogue between Jerusalem, his hometown, and...   More >

The Magnes Effect: Five Decades of Collecting

Exhibit - Artifacts | January 22 – August 10, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday |  Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)

Sponsors: The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, Bancroft Library

In its first five decades The Magnes has made a global impact on Jewish culture through pioneering collecting practices and communal activism. It incubated the first Jewish film festival in the world and inspired the international revival of Klezmer music. It established the model for the study of regional Jewish history in America, explored the visual and materials dimensions of Jewish life, and...   More >

Moffitt Library: Viewing the Past, Envisioning the Future

Exhibit - Multimedia | April 20 – August 17, 2012 every day with exceptions |  Moffitt Undergraduate Library | Note change in date

Sponsor: Library

Spread out over three cases on the third floor of the Moffitt Library, this exhibit will provide an overview of the history of Moffitt Library as well as expound on plans for its future.

Photographs, books, newspaper articles, blueprints, and video will chronicle the personalities and events that shaped Moffitt Library from its inception in the 1950s to its prospective revitalization.

Attendance restrictions: Anyone wishing to enter Moffitt Library must show a current UC ID, UC Berkeley Library Borrower's Card, or Stanford ID.

All Hail to the Chief: A History of US Presidential Visits to Cal, 1891-2002

Exhibit - Artifacts | April 9 – November 30, 2012 every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | Doe Library, Rowell Cases, 2nd Floor corridor between Doe Library and The Bancroft Library

Sponsor: Bancroft Library

Drawing on records and documents in the University Archives, this exhibition highlights campus visits by ten US Presidents.

Desert Mazar: Sacred Sites in Western China

Exhibit - Photography | March 1 – June 1, 2012 every day | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Center for Buddhist Studies, Near Eastern Studies, Silk Road Initiative, Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)

Wedged between the Mongol and Kazakh steppes, mainland China, and the high ranges of the Pamirs and Himalayas, the desert expanse of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has been a crossroads of languages, cultures and religions. Across the region, the spiritual landscape is marked by mazar, the Uighur term for tombs. Mazar may be as simple as a cave or flags secured to scraps of brush, but they...   More >

A Place at the Table: A Gathering of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Text, Image, and Voice

Exhibit - Multimedia | April 5 – July 9, 2012 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | Bancroft Library, Gallery

Sponsor: Bancroft Library

You have been invited to a grand party. Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas are your hosts. Gathered in one room there are over 150 years of Americans who embody a rainbow of diversity, but have one thing in common--a non-normative sexual orientation.

Shedding Light on the Layers of a Lamp: Creation, Production, and Symbolism at Tell en-Nasbeh

Exhibit - Artifacts | March 21 – October 5, 2012 every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 10 a.m.-3 p.m. | Badè Museum Gallery, Holbrook Building, Pacific School of Religion

Location: 1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94709

Speaker/Performer: Aaron Brody, Director, Badè Museum Gallery

Sponsor: Badè Museum

An exhibit running from March 21, 2012 to Fall, 2012 at the Badè Museum Gallery. The museum gallery is open Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays from 10am-3pm.

“A lamp is not merely that which gives light; it is the quintessence of cheer and security which, on a larger scale, the sun radiates upon the world”
~Smith, “The Household Lamp of Palestine in Old Testament Times,” 1964

Abstract Expressionisms: Paintings and Drawings from the Collection

Exhibit - Multimedia | January 18 – June 10, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Come spend some time with the work of seminal Abstract Expressionists this winter and spring at BAM/PFA. Forceful paintings by Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Hans Hofmann, William Baziotes, Asger Jorn, Philip Guston, and others hang in light-filled Gallery A, while Gallery C displays rarely seen works on paper by artists including Sam Francis, Mark Tobey, Antonio Saura, and Norman Bluhm.

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

The 42nd Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

Exhibit - Multimedia | May 18 – June 8, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Be among the first to encounter the work of seven exceptional artists as they embark on their careers in the Forty-Second Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition. The artists work not only with the committed faculty of the Department of Art Practice, but also with curators, registrars, editors, visitor liaisons, security staff, education programmers,...   More >

Tickets:FREE BAM/PFA Members and UC Berkeley, staff, students, and faculty, $7 non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, young adults (13-17), $10 Adults (18-64)

State Of Mind: New California Art circa 1970

Exhibit - Multimedia | February 29 – June 17, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Have you ever heard the sound of ice melting? State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970, part of Pacific Standard Time, offers an in-depth exploration of Conceptual art made by both Northern and Southern California artists during a pivotal period in contemporary art. The more than 150 works of art on display—many rarely seen or newly discovered—are organized by themes, such as the street, the...   More >

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

The Reading Room

Reading - Literary | January 15, 2012 – March 17, 2013 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses, including Kelsey Street Press, Atelos Books, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn, visitors are asked to replace that...   More >

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-0808.

Dana Davis: As Is: A Photography Exhibition

Exhibit - Photography | April 20 – June 4, 2012 every day | 12-10 p.m. | César E. Chávez Student Center, Berkeley Art Studio

Sponsor: ASUC Art Studio

Artist, and Berkeley Art Studio instructor, Dana Davis reveals his newest body of work: "As Is". Davis finds inspiration in discarded Barbie dolls found in thrift shops and photographed hanging in their bags; gestures cast in polyvinyl bags, heads down, eyes open, naked, mussed. The photographs engage the imagination, reflecting the familiar but also containing windows of ambiguity where...   More >

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

Attendance restrictions: Please note: The Berkeley Art Studio is closed from July 1, 2012-July 7, 2012

The National Cemetery of Finland in Photos: A Poignant Idyll

Exhibit - Photography | February 17 – June 4, 2012 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | 1-4 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall

Speaker/Performer: Eric Kotila, Institute of European Studies

Sponsors: Institute of European Studies, Finnish Studies Program (FSP), Department of Scandinavian, Finlandia Foundation

Expansive Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki manages in microcosm to present the history of Finland in an aesthetically magical, symbolically rich environment.

Working Group in African Political Economy (WGAPE)

Workshop | May 24 – 26, 2012 every day | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Blum Hall

Sponsor: Center for Effective Global Action

This year's event will explore the pathways to recovery in fragile states and conflict-affected countries throughout the world.
We will learn about the effectiveness of current efforts to rebuild civil institutions, promote governance, and reduce violence
in Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, and Iraq. We will also hear from policy-makers who are actively translating this evidence into social...   More >

Attendance restrictions: Meetings are built around in-depth discussions of papers that are circulated and expected to be read in advance. You can also read the archived papers from past WGAPE meetings (see link below).

Registration required

Registration info: Register online, or by calling Katie Wright at 510-643-3250, or by emailing Katie Wright at katiewright@berkeley.edu.

Berkeley Art Studio :: Summer Session: Classes in Ceramics, Drawing, Painting, Photography

Course | May 20 – June 4, 2012 every day | 12-10 p.m. | César E. Chávez Student Center, Berkeley Art Studio

Sponsor: ASUC Art Studio

Summer 2012 art classes are now posted online and open for registration! The Berkeley Art Studio will now offer one Summer session that has been extended to 9-weeks. Register on our website today!

Target audiences: Alumni, Faculty, Friends of the University, General Public, Staff, Students - Graduate, Students - Prospective, Students - Undergraduate, Cal Parents

Open to audiences: Alumni, Faculty, Friends of the University, General Public, Staff, Students - Graduate, Students - Prospective, Students - Undergraduate, Cal Parents

Attendance restrictions: Please note: The Berkeley Art Studio is closed from July 1, 2012-July 7, 2012

Registration info: Register online.

Health*Matters Walking Group

Social Event | March 9 – December 31, 2012 every Monday, Wednesday & Friday with exceptions | 12:10 p.m. |  Campanile (Sather Tower)

Sponsor: Health*Matters

The Walking Group meets every MWF, 12:10 pm, at the Campanile. Fit 30-40 minutes of walking into your work day for the benefits of social support, stress relief, and renewed energy. No enrollment required. Check the website for special events.

Open to audiences: Faculty, Staff

Transition Services Program: Job Club

Workshop | May 25 | 2-4 p.m. | Chase Bank Building, Suite 750

Location: 2150 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704

Sponsor: Human Resources

Job Search Roundtable with featured employers representing a variety of industries, emerging occupations and job search tips. Contact: transitions@berkeley.edu for meeting details.

Enrollment recommended

Enrollment info: Enrollment opens January 2. Enroll by June 30 by calling Linda Lundberg at 510-642-1621, or by emailing Linda Lundberg at transitions@berkeley.edu.

Characterization of local quadratic growth for strong minima in the optimal control of semilinear elliptic equations

Seminar | May 25 | 3:30-5:30 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Speaker: Terence Bayen, Universite Montpellier

Sponsor: Department of Mathematics

Lou Harrison/La Koro Sutro: L@TE Friday Nights at BAM/PFA

Lecture | May 25 | 7:30 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Join us in celebrating what would have been the ninety-fifth birthday of the brilliant and innovative California composer Lou Harrison. Our galleries reverberate, shimmer, and shake with no fewer than three choruses (the UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus, Sacred and Profane, and the USF Classical Choral Ensemble) and a large battery of handcrafted percussion instruments known as the American gamelan....   More >

Tickets:$Free BAM/PFA Members and UC Berkeley, staff, students, and faculty, $7 general admission

Heart of the Campus: Doe Library 1912-2012

Exhibit - Artifacts | March 12 – August 24, 2012 every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | Doe Library, Brown Gallery

Sponsor: Library

This exhibit of library history is held in conjunction with the centennial celebrations for Doe Library taking place this spring.

Moffitt Library: Viewing the Past, Envisioning the Future

Exhibit - Multimedia | April 20 – August 17, 2012 every day with exceptions |  Moffitt Undergraduate Library | Note change in date

Sponsor: Library

Spread out over three cases on the third floor of the Moffitt Library, this exhibit will provide an overview of the history of Moffitt Library as well as expound on plans for its future.

Photographs, books, newspaper articles, blueprints, and video will chronicle the personalities and events that shaped Moffitt Library from its inception in the 1950s to its prospective revitalization.

Attendance restrictions: Anyone wishing to enter Moffitt Library must show a current UC ID, UC Berkeley Library Borrower's Card, or Stanford ID.

The Magnes Effect: Five Decades of Collecting

Exhibit - Artifacts | January 22 – August 10, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday |  Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)

Sponsors: The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, Bancroft Library

In its first five decades The Magnes has made a global impact on Jewish culture through pioneering collecting practices and communal activism. It incubated the first Jewish film festival in the world and inspired the international revival of Klezmer music. It established the model for the study of regional Jewish history in America, explored the visual and materials dimensions of Jewish life, and...   More >

All Hail to the Chief: A History of US Presidential Visits to Cal, 1891-2002

Exhibit - Artifacts | April 9 – November 30, 2012 every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | Doe Library, Rowell Cases, 2nd Floor corridor between Doe Library and The Bancroft Library

Sponsor: Bancroft Library

Drawing on records and documents in the University Archives, this exhibition highlights campus visits by ten US Presidents.

Gale Antokal: The Spill

Exhibit - Multimedia | January 22 – July 4, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday |  Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)

Speaker/Performer: Gale Antokal

Sponsors: The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, Bancroft Library

Starting from drawings in her series, We Are So Lightly Here (2003-2006), Gale Antokal, a Berkeley based artist, has created an original video piece, to be projected on the lobby wall. This video correlates to Antokal's drawings of milk pouring down a staircase, originally made with pastel, graphite, ash and flour.

Science On a Sphere®

Exhibit - Multimedia | May 4, 2012 – December 31, 2013 every day with exceptions |  Lawrence Hall of Science

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

Explore extreme phenomena best seen on a globe, including a climate change model for the next 100 years, glacial ice formation, the spreading of the supercontinent Pangea into today's continents, and realtime earthquake locations.

Target audiences: All Audiences, Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Dissolving Localities | Berkeley Jerusalem: A multimedia project by Emmanuel Witzthum

Exhibit - Multimedia | January 22 – July 4, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday |  Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)

Speaker/Performer: Emmanuel Witzthum

Sponsors: The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Department of Music

Dissolving Localities | Berkeley Jerusalem will extend Witzthum's recent project, where artists were invited to "perform" the city of Jerusalem as a musical/visual instrument. By interweaving recorded sights and sounds, they created an expanding open-source multimedia montage. During his residency in Berkeley, Witzthum will build an audiovisual dialogue between Jerusalem, his hometown, and...   More >

Desert Mazar: Sacred Sites in Western China

Exhibit - Photography | March 1 – June 1, 2012 every day | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Center for Buddhist Studies, Near Eastern Studies, Silk Road Initiative, Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)

Wedged between the Mongol and Kazakh steppes, mainland China, and the high ranges of the Pamirs and Himalayas, the desert expanse of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has been a crossroads of languages, cultures and religions. Across the region, the spiritual landscape is marked by mazar, the Uighur term for tombs. Mazar may be as simple as a cave or flags secured to scraps of brush, but they...   More >

Shedding Light on the Layers of a Lamp: Creation, Production, and Symbolism at Tell en-Nasbeh

Exhibit - Artifacts | March 21 – October 5, 2012 every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 10 a.m.-3 p.m. | Badè Museum Gallery, Holbrook Building, Pacific School of Religion

Location: 1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94709

Speaker/Performer: Aaron Brody, Director, Badè Museum Gallery

Sponsor: Badè Museum

An exhibit running from March 21, 2012 to Fall, 2012 at the Badè Museum Gallery. The museum gallery is open Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays from 10am-3pm.

“A lamp is not merely that which gives light; it is the quintessence of cheer and security which, on a larger scale, the sun radiates upon the world”
~Smith, “The Household Lamp of Palestine in Old Testament Times,” 1964

A Place at the Table: A Gathering of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Text, Image, and Voice

Exhibit - Multimedia | April 5 – July 9, 2012 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | Bancroft Library, Gallery

Sponsor: Bancroft Library

You have been invited to a grand party. Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas are your hosts. Gathered in one room there are over 150 years of Americans who embody a rainbow of diversity, but have one thing in common--a non-normative sexual orientation.

The 42nd Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

Exhibit - Multimedia | May 18 – June 8, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Be among the first to encounter the work of seven exceptional artists as they embark on their careers in the Forty-Second Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition. The artists work not only with the committed faculty of the Department of Art Practice, but also with curators, registrars, editors, visitor liaisons, security staff, education programmers,...   More >

Tickets:FREE BAM/PFA Members and UC Berkeley, staff, students, and faculty, $7 non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, young adults (13-17), $10 Adults (18-64)

The Reading Room

Reading - Literary | January 15, 2012 – March 17, 2013 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses, including Kelsey Street Press, Atelos Books, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn, visitors are asked to replace that...   More >

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-0808.

Abstract Expressionisms: Paintings and Drawings from the Collection

Exhibit - Multimedia | January 18 – June 10, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Come spend some time with the work of seminal Abstract Expressionists this winter and spring at BAM/PFA. Forceful paintings by Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Hans Hofmann, William Baziotes, Asger Jorn, Philip Guston, and others hang in light-filled Gallery A, while Gallery C displays rarely seen works on paper by artists including Sam Francis, Mark Tobey, Antonio Saura, and Norman Bluhm.

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

State Of Mind: New California Art circa 1970

Exhibit - Multimedia | February 29 – June 17, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Have you ever heard the sound of ice melting? State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970, part of Pacific Standard Time, offers an in-depth exploration of Conceptual art made by both Northern and Southern California artists during a pivotal period in contemporary art. The more than 150 works of art on display—many rarely seen or newly discovered—are organized by themes, such as the street, the...   More >

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

Dana Davis: As Is: A Photography Exhibition

Exhibit - Photography | April 20 – June 4, 2012 every day | 12-10 p.m. | César E. Chávez Student Center, Berkeley Art Studio

Sponsor: ASUC Art Studio

Artist, and Berkeley Art Studio instructor, Dana Davis reveals his newest body of work: "As Is". Davis finds inspiration in discarded Barbie dolls found in thrift shops and photographed hanging in their bags; gestures cast in polyvinyl bags, heads down, eyes open, naked, mussed. The photographs engage the imagination, reflecting the familiar but also containing windows of ambiguity where...   More >

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

Attendance restrictions: Please note: The Berkeley Art Studio is closed from July 1, 2012-July 7, 2012

The National Cemetery of Finland in Photos: A Poignant Idyll

Exhibit - Photography | February 17 – June 4, 2012 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | 1-4 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall

Speaker/Performer: Eric Kotila, Institute of European Studies

Sponsors: Institute of European Studies, Finnish Studies Program (FSP), Department of Scandinavian, Finlandia Foundation

Expansive Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki manages in microcosm to present the history of Finland in an aesthetically magical, symbolically rich environment.

The Tenth International Conference on Neuroesthetics: The Importance of Being Playful

Conference/Symposium | May 26 | 8 a.m.-5 p.m. | 150 Stanley Hall

Sponsors: Optometry, School of, Minverva Foundation

We aim to highlight the importance of play as a fundamental expression of humanity, chart its ontological significance and stake out the role of play in the 21st century, while indulging in some play ourselves!

Registration required:Free

Registration info: Register online.

Working Group in African Political Economy (WGAPE)

Workshop | May 24 – 26, 2012 every day | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Blum Hall

Sponsor: Center for Effective Global Action

This year's event will explore the pathways to recovery in fragile states and conflict-affected countries throughout the world.
We will learn about the effectiveness of current efforts to rebuild civil institutions, promote governance, and reduce violence
in Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, and Iraq. We will also hear from policy-makers who are actively translating this evidence into social...   More >

Attendance restrictions: Meetings are built around in-depth discussions of papers that are circulated and expected to be read in advance. You can also read the archived papers from past WGAPE meetings (see link below).

Registration required

Registration info: Register online, or by calling Katie Wright at 510-643-3250, or by emailing Katie Wright at katiewright@berkeley.edu.

Berkeley Art Studio :: Summer Session: Classes in Ceramics, Drawing, Painting, Photography

Course | May 20 – June 4, 2012 every day | 12-10 p.m. | César E. Chávez Student Center, Berkeley Art Studio

Sponsor: ASUC Art Studio

Summer 2012 art classes are now posted online and open for registration! The Berkeley Art Studio will now offer one Summer session that has been extended to 9-weeks. Register on our website today!

Target audiences: Alumni, Faculty, Friends of the University, General Public, Staff, Students - Graduate, Students - Prospective, Students - Undergraduate, Cal Parents

Open to audiences: Alumni, Faculty, Friends of the University, General Public, Staff, Students - Graduate, Students - Prospective, Students - Undergraduate, Cal Parents

Attendance restrictions: Please note: The Berkeley Art Studio is closed from July 1, 2012-July 7, 2012

Registration info: Register online.

Flying High—1:00 p.m.: Planetarium Program

Presentation | February 4 – June 3, 2012 every Sunday & Saturday with exceptions | 1-1:45 p.m. | Lawrence Hall of Science, Planetarium

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

Take an imaginary trip into space. Start the excursion by speeding through a whole day in our planetarium "time machine" and then identifying the Big Dipper. Take off with the launch of a spaceship and learn how things move in space, how astronauts eat food in a weightless environment, and how satellites are put into orbit. Don’t worry, you’ll return safe and sound!

Tickets required:$4

Ticket info: Tickets are sold at the Visitor Services Desk on a first-come, first-served basis. Everyone must have their own ticket. Planetarium Passes must be exchanged at the Visitor Services Desk for tickets.

Docent Tour

Tour/Open House | February 12, 2011 – December 28, 2013 every Saturday with exceptions | 1:30 p.m. |  Botanical Garden

Sponsor: Botanical Garden

With paid admission, we offer free docent-led tours year-round on Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays at 1:30 PM.

Plants of the World - General Tour of the Garden
Explore the Garden’s incredible diversity of plants from six continents, including environments as diverse as deserts, tropical forests, redwood forests, and wetlands.

Transit of Venus—3:00 p.m.: Planetarium Program

Presentation | February 4 – June 3, 2012 every Sunday & Saturday with exceptions | 3-3:45 p.m. | Lawrence Hall of Science, Planetarium

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

On June 5, 2012, Venus will pass directly in front of the Sun—an event so rare, no human alive today will witness it again! Learn how studying transits taught us exactly how big our Solar System is, and how they may be the key to discovering other “Earths” in other star systems!

Tickets required:$4

Ticket info: Tickets are sold at the Visitor Services Desk on a first-come, first-served basis. Everyone must have their own ticket. Planetarium Passes must be exchanged at the Visitor Services Desk for tickets.

Gale Antokal: The Spill

Exhibit - Multimedia | January 22 – July 4, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday |  Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)

Speaker/Performer: Gale Antokal

Sponsors: The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, Bancroft Library

Starting from drawings in her series, We Are So Lightly Here (2003-2006), Gale Antokal, a Berkeley based artist, has created an original video piece, to be projected on the lobby wall. This video correlates to Antokal's drawings of milk pouring down a staircase, originally made with pastel, graphite, ash and flour.

Dissolving Localities | Berkeley Jerusalem: A multimedia project by Emmanuel Witzthum

Exhibit - Multimedia | January 22 – July 4, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday |  Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)

Speaker/Performer: Emmanuel Witzthum

Sponsors: The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Department of Music

Dissolving Localities | Berkeley Jerusalem will extend Witzthum's recent project, where artists were invited to "perform" the city of Jerusalem as a musical/visual instrument. By interweaving recorded sights and sounds, they created an expanding open-source multimedia montage. During his residency in Berkeley, Witzthum will build an audiovisual dialogue between Jerusalem, his hometown, and...   More >

The Magnes Effect: Five Decades of Collecting

Exhibit - Artifacts | January 22 – August 10, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday |  Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)

Sponsors: The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, Bancroft Library

In its first five decades The Magnes has made a global impact on Jewish culture through pioneering collecting practices and communal activism. It incubated the first Jewish film festival in the world and inspired the international revival of Klezmer music. It established the model for the study of regional Jewish history in America, explored the visual and materials dimensions of Jewish life, and...   More >

Moffitt Library: Viewing the Past, Envisioning the Future

Exhibit - Multimedia | April 20 – August 17, 2012 every day with exceptions |  Moffitt Undergraduate Library | Note change in date

Sponsor: Library

Spread out over three cases on the third floor of the Moffitt Library, this exhibit will provide an overview of the history of Moffitt Library as well as expound on plans for its future.

Photographs, books, newspaper articles, blueprints, and video will chronicle the personalities and events that shaped Moffitt Library from its inception in the 1950s to its prospective revitalization.

Attendance restrictions: Anyone wishing to enter Moffitt Library must show a current UC ID, UC Berkeley Library Borrower's Card, or Stanford ID.

Science On a Sphere®

Exhibit - Multimedia | May 4, 2012 – December 31, 2013 every day with exceptions |  Lawrence Hall of Science

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

Explore extreme phenomena best seen on a globe, including a climate change model for the next 100 years, glacial ice formation, the spreading of the supercontinent Pangea into today's continents, and realtime earthquake locations.

Target audiences: All Audiences, Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Desert Mazar: Sacred Sites in Western China

Exhibit - Photography | March 1 – June 1, 2012 every day | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Center for Buddhist Studies, Near Eastern Studies, Silk Road Initiative, Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)

Wedged between the Mongol and Kazakh steppes, mainland China, and the high ranges of the Pamirs and Himalayas, the desert expanse of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has been a crossroads of languages, cultures and religions. Across the region, the spiritual landscape is marked by mazar, the Uighur term for tombs. Mazar may be as simple as a cave or flags secured to scraps of brush, but they...   More >

Abstract Expressionisms: Paintings and Drawings from the Collection

Exhibit - Multimedia | January 18 – June 10, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Come spend some time with the work of seminal Abstract Expressionists this winter and spring at BAM/PFA. Forceful paintings by Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Hans Hofmann, William Baziotes, Asger Jorn, Philip Guston, and others hang in light-filled Gallery A, while Gallery C displays rarely seen works on paper by artists including Sam Francis, Mark Tobey, Antonio Saura, and Norman Bluhm.

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

The 42nd Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

Exhibit - Multimedia | May 18 – June 8, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Be among the first to encounter the work of seven exceptional artists as they embark on their careers in the Forty-Second Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition. The artists work not only with the committed faculty of the Department of Art Practice, but also with curators, registrars, editors, visitor liaisons, security staff, education programmers,...   More >

Tickets:FREE BAM/PFA Members and UC Berkeley, staff, students, and faculty, $7 non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, young adults (13-17), $10 Adults (18-64)

The Reading Room

Reading - Literary | January 15, 2012 – March 17, 2013 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses, including Kelsey Street Press, Atelos Books, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn, visitors are asked to replace that...   More >

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-0808.

State Of Mind: New California Art circa 1970

Exhibit - Multimedia | February 29 – June 17, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Have you ever heard the sound of ice melting? State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970, part of Pacific Standard Time, offers an in-depth exploration of Conceptual art made by both Northern and Southern California artists during a pivotal period in contemporary art. The more than 150 works of art on display—many rarely seen or newly discovered—are organized by themes, such as the street, the...   More >

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

Dana Davis: As Is: A Photography Exhibition

Exhibit - Photography | April 20 – June 4, 2012 every day | 12-10 p.m. | César E. Chávez Student Center, Berkeley Art Studio

Sponsor: ASUC Art Studio

Artist, and Berkeley Art Studio instructor, Dana Davis reveals his newest body of work: "As Is". Davis finds inspiration in discarded Barbie dolls found in thrift shops and photographed hanging in their bags; gestures cast in polyvinyl bags, heads down, eyes open, naked, mussed. The photographs engage the imagination, reflecting the familiar but also containing windows of ambiguity where...   More >

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

Attendance restrictions: Please note: The Berkeley Art Studio is closed from July 1, 2012-July 7, 2012

Constellations Tonight—2:00 p.m.: Planetarium Program

Presentation | February 4 – August 26, 2012 every day with exceptions | 2-2:45 p.m. | Lawrence Hall of Science, Planetarium

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

The lore of the stars and other treasures of the sky come to Earth in our planetarium. Using a simple star map, learn to identify the most prominent constellations of the season in the planetarium sky. Keep your map to help you find the constellations in the real nighttime sky.

Tickets required:$4

Ticket info: Tickets are sold at the Visitor Services Desk on a first-come, first-served basis. Everyone must have their own ticket. Planetarium Passes must be exchanged at the Visitor Services Desk for tickets.

Berkeley Art Studio :: Summer Session: Classes in Ceramics, Drawing, Painting, Photography

Course | May 20 – June 4, 2012 every day | 12-10 p.m. | César E. Chávez Student Center, Berkeley Art Studio

Sponsor: ASUC Art Studio

Summer 2012 art classes are now posted online and open for registration! The Berkeley Art Studio will now offer one Summer session that has been extended to 9-weeks. Register on our website today!

Target audiences: Alumni, Faculty, Friends of the University, General Public, Staff, Students - Graduate, Students - Prospective, Students - Undergraduate, Cal Parents

Open to audiences: Alumni, Faculty, Friends of the University, General Public, Staff, Students - Graduate, Students - Prospective, Students - Undergraduate, Cal Parents

Attendance restrictions: Please note: The Berkeley Art Studio is closed from July 1, 2012-July 7, 2012

Registration info: Register online.

Flying High—1:00 p.m.: Planetarium Program

Presentation | February 4 – June 3, 2012 every Sunday & Saturday with exceptions | 1-1:45 p.m. | Lawrence Hall of Science, Planetarium

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

Take an imaginary trip into space. Start the excursion by speeding through a whole day in our planetarium "time machine" and then identifying the Big Dipper. Take off with the launch of a spaceship and learn how things move in space, how astronauts eat food in a weightless environment, and how satellites are put into orbit. Don’t worry, you’ll return safe and sound!

Tickets required:$4

Ticket info: Tickets are sold at the Visitor Services Desk on a first-come, first-served basis. Everyone must have their own ticket. Planetarium Passes must be exchanged at the Visitor Services Desk for tickets.

Docent Tour

Tour/Open House | February 6, 2011 – December 29, 2013 every Sunday with exceptions | 1:30 p.m. |  Botanical Garden

Sponsor: Botanical Garden

With paid admission, we offer free docent-led tours year-round on Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays at 1:30 PM.

Plants of the World - General Tour of the Garden
Explore the Garden’s incredible diversity of plants from six continents, including environments as diverse as deserts, tropical forests, redwood forests, and wetlands.

Transit of Venus—3:00 p.m.: Planetarium Program

Presentation | February 4 – June 3, 2012 every Sunday & Saturday with exceptions | 3-3:45 p.m. | Lawrence Hall of Science, Planetarium

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

On June 5, 2012, Venus will pass directly in front of the Sun—an event so rare, no human alive today will witness it again! Learn how studying transits taught us exactly how big our Solar System is, and how they may be the key to discovering other “Earths” in other star systems!

Tickets required:$4

Ticket info: Tickets are sold at the Visitor Services Desk on a first-come, first-served basis. Everyone must have their own ticket. Planetarium Passes must be exchanged at the Visitor Services Desk for tickets.

Moffitt Library: Viewing the Past, Envisioning the Future

Exhibit - Multimedia | April 20 – August 17, 2012 every day with exceptions |  Moffitt Undergraduate Library | Note change in date

Sponsor: Library

Spread out over three cases on the third floor of the Moffitt Library, this exhibit will provide an overview of the history of Moffitt Library as well as expound on plans for its future.

Photographs, books, newspaper articles, blueprints, and video will chronicle the personalities and events that shaped Moffitt Library from its inception in the 1950s to its prospective revitalization.

Attendance restrictions: Anyone wishing to enter Moffitt Library must show a current UC ID, UC Berkeley Library Borrower's Card, or Stanford ID.

Heart of the Campus: Doe Library 1912-2012

Exhibit - Artifacts | March 12 – August 24, 2012 every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | Doe Library, Brown Gallery

Sponsor: Library

This exhibit of library history is held in conjunction with the centennial celebrations for Doe Library taking place this spring.

Science On a Sphere®

Exhibit - Multimedia | May 4, 2012 – December 31, 2013 every day with exceptions |  Lawrence Hall of Science

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

Explore extreme phenomena best seen on a globe, including a climate change model for the next 100 years, glacial ice formation, the spreading of the supercontinent Pangea into today's continents, and realtime earthquake locations.

Target audiences: All Audiences, Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

All Hail to the Chief: A History of US Presidential Visits to Cal, 1891-2002

Exhibit - Artifacts | April 9 – November 30, 2012 every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | Doe Library, Rowell Cases, 2nd Floor corridor between Doe Library and The Bancroft Library

Sponsor: Bancroft Library

Drawing on records and documents in the University Archives, this exhibition highlights campus visits by ten US Presidents.

Gale Antokal: The Spill

Exhibit - Multimedia | January 22 – July 4, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday |  Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)

Speaker/Performer: Gale Antokal

Sponsors: The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, Bancroft Library

Starting from drawings in her series, We Are So Lightly Here (2003-2006), Gale Antokal, a Berkeley based artist, has created an original video piece, to be projected on the lobby wall. This video correlates to Antokal's drawings of milk pouring down a staircase, originally made with pastel, graphite, ash and flour.

Dissolving Localities | Berkeley Jerusalem: A multimedia project by Emmanuel Witzthum

Exhibit - Multimedia | January 22 – July 4, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday |  Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)

Speaker/Performer: Emmanuel Witzthum

Sponsors: The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Department of Music

Dissolving Localities | Berkeley Jerusalem will extend Witzthum's recent project, where artists were invited to "perform" the city of Jerusalem as a musical/visual instrument. By interweaving recorded sights and sounds, they created an expanding open-source multimedia montage. During his residency in Berkeley, Witzthum will build an audiovisual dialogue between Jerusalem, his hometown, and...   More >

The Magnes Effect: Five Decades of Collecting

Exhibit - Artifacts | January 22 – August 10, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday |  Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)

Sponsors: The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, Bancroft Library

In its first five decades The Magnes has made a global impact on Jewish culture through pioneering collecting practices and communal activism. It incubated the first Jewish film festival in the world and inspired the international revival of Klezmer music. It established the model for the study of regional Jewish history in America, explored the visual and materials dimensions of Jewish life, and...   More >

Desert Mazar: Sacred Sites in Western China

Exhibit - Photography | March 1 – June 1, 2012 every day | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Center for Buddhist Studies, Near Eastern Studies, Silk Road Initiative, Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)

Wedged between the Mongol and Kazakh steppes, mainland China, and the high ranges of the Pamirs and Himalayas, the desert expanse of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has been a crossroads of languages, cultures and religions. Across the region, the spiritual landscape is marked by mazar, the Uighur term for tombs. Mazar may be as simple as a cave or flags secured to scraps of brush, but they...   More >

Abstract Expressionisms: Paintings and Drawings from the Collection

Exhibit - Multimedia | January 18 – June 10, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Come spend some time with the work of seminal Abstract Expressionists this winter and spring at BAM/PFA. Forceful paintings by Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Hans Hofmann, William Baziotes, Asger Jorn, Philip Guston, and others hang in light-filled Gallery A, while Gallery C displays rarely seen works on paper by artists including Sam Francis, Mark Tobey, Antonio Saura, and Norman Bluhm.

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

The 42nd Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

Exhibit - Multimedia | May 18 – June 8, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Be among the first to encounter the work of seven exceptional artists as they embark on their careers in the Forty-Second Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition. The artists work not only with the committed faculty of the Department of Art Practice, but also with curators, registrars, editors, visitor liaisons, security staff, education programmers,...   More >

Tickets:FREE BAM/PFA Members and UC Berkeley, staff, students, and faculty, $7 non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, young adults (13-17), $10 Adults (18-64)

The Reading Room

Reading - Literary | January 15, 2012 – March 17, 2013 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses, including Kelsey Street Press, Atelos Books, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn, visitors are asked to replace that...   More >

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-0808.

State Of Mind: New California Art circa 1970

Exhibit - Multimedia | February 29 – June 17, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Have you ever heard the sound of ice melting? State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970, part of Pacific Standard Time, offers an in-depth exploration of Conceptual art made by both Northern and Southern California artists during a pivotal period in contemporary art. The more than 150 works of art on display—many rarely seen or newly discovered—are organized by themes, such as the street, the...   More >

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

Dana Davis: As Is: A Photography Exhibition

Exhibit - Photography | April 20 – June 4, 2012 every day | 12-10 p.m. | César E. Chávez Student Center, Berkeley Art Studio

Sponsor: ASUC Art Studio

Artist, and Berkeley Art Studio instructor, Dana Davis reveals his newest body of work: "As Is". Davis finds inspiration in discarded Barbie dolls found in thrift shops and photographed hanging in their bags; gestures cast in polyvinyl bags, heads down, eyes open, naked, mussed. The photographs engage the imagination, reflecting the familiar but also containing windows of ambiguity where...   More >

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

Attendance restrictions: Please note: The Berkeley Art Studio is closed from July 1, 2012-July 7, 2012

Constellations Tonight—2:00 p.m.: Planetarium Program

Presentation | February 4 – August 26, 2012 every day with exceptions | 2-2:45 p.m. | Lawrence Hall of Science, Planetarium

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

The lore of the stars and other treasures of the sky come to Earth in our planetarium. Using a simple star map, learn to identify the most prominent constellations of the season in the planetarium sky. Keep your map to help you find the constellations in the real nighttime sky.

Tickets required:$4

Ticket info: Tickets are sold at the Visitor Services Desk on a first-come, first-served basis. Everyone must have their own ticket. Planetarium Passes must be exchanged at the Visitor Services Desk for tickets.

Holiday: Memorial Day

Holiday | May 28 |  Academic & Administrative Holiday

Sponsor: UC Berkeley

Berkeley Art Studio :: Summer Session: Classes in Ceramics, Drawing, Painting, Photography

Course | May 20 – June 4, 2012 every day | 12-10 p.m. | César E. Chávez Student Center, Berkeley Art Studio

Sponsor: ASUC Art Studio

Summer 2012 art classes are now posted online and open for registration! The Berkeley Art Studio will now offer one Summer session that has been extended to 9-weeks. Register on our website today!

Target audiences: Alumni, Faculty, Friends of the University, General Public, Staff, Students - Graduate, Students - Prospective, Students - Undergraduate, Cal Parents

Open to audiences: Alumni, Faculty, Friends of the University, General Public, Staff, Students - Graduate, Students - Prospective, Students - Undergraduate, Cal Parents

Attendance restrictions: Please note: The Berkeley Art Studio is closed from July 1, 2012-July 7, 2012

Registration info: Register online.

Health*Matters Walking Group

Social Event | March 9 – December 31, 2012 every Monday, Wednesday & Friday with exceptions | 12:10 p.m. |  Campanile (Sather Tower)

Sponsor: Health*Matters

The Walking Group meets every MWF, 12:10 pm, at the Campanile. Fit 30-40 minutes of walking into your work day for the benefits of social support, stress relief, and renewed energy. No enrollment required. Check the website for special events.

Open to audiences: Faculty, Staff

Science On a Sphere®

Exhibit - Multimedia | May 4, 2012 – December 31, 2013 every day with exceptions |  Lawrence Hall of Science

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

Explore extreme phenomena best seen on a globe, including a climate change model for the next 100 years, glacial ice formation, the spreading of the supercontinent Pangea into today's continents, and realtime earthquake locations.

Target audiences: All Audiences, Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Desert Mazar: Sacred Sites in Western China

Exhibit - Photography | March 1 – June 1, 2012 every day | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Center for Buddhist Studies, Near Eastern Studies, Silk Road Initiative, Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)

Wedged between the Mongol and Kazakh steppes, mainland China, and the high ranges of the Pamirs and Himalayas, the desert expanse of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has been a crossroads of languages, cultures and religions. Across the region, the spiritual landscape is marked by mazar, the Uighur term for tombs. Mazar may be as simple as a cave or flags secured to scraps of brush, but they...   More >

Dana Davis: As Is: A Photography Exhibition

Exhibit - Photography | April 20 – June 4, 2012 every day | 12-10 p.m. | César E. Chávez Student Center, Berkeley Art Studio

Sponsor: ASUC Art Studio

Artist, and Berkeley Art Studio instructor, Dana Davis reveals his newest body of work: "As Is". Davis finds inspiration in discarded Barbie dolls found in thrift shops and photographed hanging in their bags; gestures cast in polyvinyl bags, heads down, eyes open, naked, mussed. The photographs engage the imagination, reflecting the familiar but also containing windows of ambiguity where...   More >

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

Attendance restrictions: Please note: The Berkeley Art Studio is closed from July 1, 2012-July 7, 2012

The National Cemetery of Finland in Photos: A Poignant Idyll

Exhibit - Photography | February 17 – June 4, 2012 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | 1-4 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall

Speaker/Performer: Eric Kotila, Institute of European Studies

Sponsors: Institute of European Studies, Finnish Studies Program (FSP), Department of Scandinavian, Finlandia Foundation

Expansive Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki manages in microcosm to present the history of Finland in an aesthetically magical, symbolically rich environment.

Constellations Tonight—2:00 p.m.: Planetarium Program

Presentation | February 4 – August 26, 2012 every day with exceptions | 2-2:45 p.m. | Lawrence Hall of Science, Planetarium

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

The lore of the stars and other treasures of the sky come to Earth in our planetarium. Using a simple star map, learn to identify the most prominent constellations of the season in the planetarium sky. Keep your map to help you find the constellations in the real nighttime sky.

Tickets required:$4

Ticket info: Tickets are sold at the Visitor Services Desk on a first-come, first-served basis. Everyone must have their own ticket. Planetarium Passes must be exchanged at the Visitor Services Desk for tickets.

Towards Efficient and Expressive Design of Material Appearance - Hongzhi Wu

Seminar | May 29 | 10-11 a.m. | Soda Hall, Visual Computing Lab - 510 Soda

Speaker/Performer: Hongzhi Wu, Yale University - Graphics Group

Sponsor: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)

Material design is the process by which artists specify the reflectance properties of a surface, such as its diffuse color and specular roughness. In this talk, I will describe two projects motivated by challenges in appearance design

Marketing Yourself for Your Next Job: Cover Letters and Job Search Communication (BECAR302)

Workshop | May 29 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Class of 42'

Speaker/Performer: TBA, University Health Services

Sponsor: Tang Center (University Health Services)

This workshop focuses on creating a memorable cover letter.

Target audiences: Faculty, Staff

Open to audiences: Faculty, Staff

Enrollment required

Enrollment info: Enroll online.

Berkeley Art Studio :: Summer Session: Classes in Ceramics, Drawing, Painting, Photography

Course | May 20 – June 4, 2012 every day | 12-10 p.m. | César E. Chávez Student Center, Berkeley Art Studio

Sponsor: ASUC Art Studio

Summer 2012 art classes are now posted online and open for registration! The Berkeley Art Studio will now offer one Summer session that has been extended to 9-weeks. Register on our website today!

Target audiences: Alumni, Faculty, Friends of the University, General Public, Staff, Students - Graduate, Students - Prospective, Students - Undergraduate, Cal Parents

Open to audiences: Alumni, Faculty, Friends of the University, General Public, Staff, Students - Graduate, Students - Prospective, Students - Undergraduate, Cal Parents

Attendance restrictions: Please note: The Berkeley Art Studio is closed from July 1, 2012-July 7, 2012

Registration info: Register online.

Meditation Group

Miscellaneous | October 25, 2011 – December 25, 2012 every Tuesday | 12:10-12:50 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Health Promotion Conf. Rm 2nd fl

Sponsor: Tang Center (University Health Services)

Please join us for a free midweek meditation session with a short reading followed by 30 minutes of silent meditation.

Beginners welcome!

Knitting at Noon - Cancelled for Spring 2012

Miscellaneous | March 15, 2011 – June 26, 2012 every Tuesday with exceptions | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Free Speech Movement Café (Moffitt Library), Outside tables at Free Speech Movement Cafe | Canceled

Sponsor: Jill Marchant

This event has been canceled for Spring 2012.

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

RPM talk "Baryon Acoustic Oscillations with BOSS"

Seminar | May 29 | 4-5 p.m. |  LBL 50A-5132

Speaker/Performer: Cameron McBride, Harvard

Sponsor: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

In this talk, I will focus on the first cosmological constraints
utilizing the "standard ruler" of the baryon acoustic oscillation
(BAO) feature as detected in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic
Survey (BOSS) from the SDSS-III project. I will discuss the
cosmological constraints and the context of these results with
previous measurements to construct a cosmic distance ladder. This...   More >

Post-Baccalaureate Program for Counseling and Psychology Professions

Information Session | May 29 | 6-7:30 p.m. |  UC Berkeley Extension (Golden Bear Center)

Sponsor: UC Berkeley Extension

Learn how the program can prepare you to become more competitive for admission to graduate or professional schools in counseling and psychology. Whether you are a career changer or already working in the field, understand how this program can help you plan an academic program of study and initiate the graduate- school application process.

Enrollment required: Free

Enrollment info: EDP 444620. Enroll online.

Professional Program in Health Advocacy

Information Session | May 29 | 7:30-8:30 p.m. |  UC Berkeley Extension (Golden Bear Center)

Sponsor: UC Berkeley Extension

Gain a better understanding of the increasingly complex and dynamic health system in the United States, including how you can become an informed health advocate qualified to advise patients and their families. Staff members discuss how you can become a health advocate, geriatric case manager, discharge planner or family adviser.

Enrollment required: Free

Enrollment info: EDP 444604. Enroll online.

Science On a Sphere®

Exhibit - Multimedia | May 4, 2012 – December 31, 2013 every day with exceptions |  Lawrence Hall of Science

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

Explore extreme phenomena best seen on a globe, including a climate change model for the next 100 years, glacial ice formation, the spreading of the supercontinent Pangea into today's continents, and realtime earthquake locations.

Target audiences: All Audiences, Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Moffitt Library: Viewing the Past, Envisioning the Future

Exhibit - Multimedia | April 20 – August 17, 2012 every day with exceptions |  Moffitt Undergraduate Library | Note change in date

Sponsor: Library

Spread out over three cases on the third floor of the Moffitt Library, this exhibit will provide an overview of the history of Moffitt Library as well as expound on plans for its future.

Photographs, books, newspaper articles, blueprints, and video will chronicle the personalities and events that shaped Moffitt Library from its inception in the 1950s to its prospective revitalization.

Attendance restrictions: Anyone wishing to enter Moffitt Library must show a current UC ID, UC Berkeley Library Borrower's Card, or Stanford ID.

All Hail to the Chief: A History of US Presidential Visits to Cal, 1891-2002

Exhibit - Artifacts | April 9 – November 30, 2012 every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | Doe Library, Rowell Cases, 2nd Floor corridor between Doe Library and The Bancroft Library

Sponsor: Bancroft Library

Drawing on records and documents in the University Archives, this exhibition highlights campus visits by ten US Presidents.

Heart of the Campus: Doe Library 1912-2012

Exhibit - Artifacts | March 12 – August 24, 2012 every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | Doe Library, Brown Gallery

Sponsor: Library

This exhibit of library history is held in conjunction with the centennial celebrations for Doe Library taking place this spring.

Desert Mazar: Sacred Sites in Western China

Exhibit - Photography | March 1 – June 1, 2012 every day | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Center for Buddhist Studies, Near Eastern Studies, Silk Road Initiative, Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)

Wedged between the Mongol and Kazakh steppes, mainland China, and the high ranges of the Pamirs and Himalayas, the desert expanse of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has been a crossroads of languages, cultures and religions. Across the region, the spiritual landscape is marked by mazar, the Uighur term for tombs. Mazar may be as simple as a cave or flags secured to scraps of brush, but they...   More >

A Place at the Table: A Gathering of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Text, Image, and Voice

Exhibit - Multimedia | April 5 – July 9, 2012 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | Bancroft Library, Gallery

Sponsor: Bancroft Library

You have been invited to a grand party. Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas are your hosts. Gathered in one room there are over 150 years of Americans who embody a rainbow of diversity, but have one thing in common--a non-normative sexual orientation.

Shedding Light on the Layers of a Lamp: Creation, Production, and Symbolism at Tell en-Nasbeh

Exhibit - Artifacts | March 21 – October 5, 2012 every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 10 a.m.-3 p.m. | Badè Museum Gallery, Holbrook Building, Pacific School of Religion

Location: 1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94709

Speaker/Performer: Aaron Brody, Director, Badè Museum Gallery

Sponsor: Badè Museum

An exhibit running from March 21, 2012 to Fall, 2012 at the Badè Museum Gallery. The museum gallery is open Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays from 10am-3pm.

“A lamp is not merely that which gives light; it is the quintessence of cheer and security which, on a larger scale, the sun radiates upon the world”
~Smith, “The Household Lamp of Palestine in Old Testament Times,” 1964

Dana Davis: As Is: A Photography Exhibition

Exhibit - Photography | April 20 – June 4, 2012 every day | 12-10 p.m. | César E. Chávez Student Center, Berkeley Art Studio

Sponsor: ASUC Art Studio

Artist, and Berkeley Art Studio instructor, Dana Davis reveals his newest body of work: "As Is". Davis finds inspiration in discarded Barbie dolls found in thrift shops and photographed hanging in their bags; gestures cast in polyvinyl bags, heads down, eyes open, naked, mussed. The photographs engage the imagination, reflecting the familiar but also containing windows of ambiguity where...   More >

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

Attendance restrictions: Please note: The Berkeley Art Studio is closed from July 1, 2012-July 7, 2012

The National Cemetery of Finland in Photos: A Poignant Idyll

Exhibit - Photography | February 17 – June 4, 2012 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | 1-4 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall

Speaker/Performer: Eric Kotila, Institute of European Studies

Sponsors: Institute of European Studies, Finnish Studies Program (FSP), Department of Scandinavian, Finlandia Foundation

Expansive Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki manages in microcosm to present the history of Finland in an aesthetically magical, symbolically rich environment.