Lectures
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Hearst Museum Legacies: The Collections of L.L. Loud 1911-1946
Lecture | January 18 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Paolo Pellegatti, Research Archaeologist, University of California, Berkeley Phoebe Hearst Museum
Archaeological Research Facility
The Hearst Museum of Anthropology curates archaeological collections going back
more than 150 years. Under Kroeber's directorship (1904 - 1947) the museum had its own active field program separated from the Department of Anthropology and, often following tips from landowners, researchers or accidental discoveries, it dispatched a handful of archaeologists whose work will result in the discovery... More >
Sculpting the Frontal Cortex: The Brain's Topiary Arts: Faculty Lecture
Lecture | January 18 | 3-5 p.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall
Linda Wilbrecht, Associate Professor
I AM YOU: Volunteer Response to the Refugee Crisis
Lecture | January 18 | 6-8 p.m. | 125 Li Ka Shing Center
Rebecca Reshdouni, I AM YOU
Center for Global Public Health
In less than a year, I AM YOU has become one of the leading volunteer organizations operating within the refugee crisis in Greece. Over 400 volunteers from across the globe have joined the effort carrying out important assignments ranging from beach rescue operations, aid distribution and shelter allocation to camp management, education and medical transportation.
The organization was born on... More >
Free
Saturday, January 21, 2017
Science at Cal Lecture: The Really Big One: Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest
Lecture | January 21 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building
Diego Melgar, UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory
Most people think that in the United States, the area
around the San Andreas Fault poses the highest risk for a large earthquake. But the risk for a “great earthquake” and tsunami is highest in the Pacific Northwest. Join seismologist Diego Melgar and learn about the risks, the geologic forces behind the potential for a truly massive U.S. earthquake, and efforts underway to build warning systems... More >
Oregon coastline near Cannon Beach (photo: Abhinaba Basu)
Monday, January 23, 2017
Human Brain Imaging with fMRI Search
Lecture | January 23 | 2:50 p.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall
Kevin Weiner, PhD, Stanford University
"Mapping microns to minds: The cognitive neuroanatomy of high-level visual cortex"
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Subprime Babies: The Foreclosure Crisis and Initial Health Endowments
Lecture | January 24 | 12:40-2 p.m. | 714C University Hall
Janelle Downing, MS, PhD, Professor of Medicine in Residence, UCSF School of Medicine
This presentation introduces preliminary results from research on the influence of in-utero exposure to household mortgage default and subsequent foreclosure on birth outcomes and fetal death in California by linking birth certificate data from 2.2 million neonates born from 2005 to 2010 with foreclosure records.
Towards a Romantic Anthropology: River Life and Climate Change in Bangladesh
Lecture | January 24 | 5-7 p.m. | 470 Stephens Hall
Naveeda Khan, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
The Program in Critical Theory, Institute for South Asia Studies, The Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies
There is a quality of the chimerical to the silt islands that form and dissolve within the Jamuna River. Life on the islands never quite settles; the ground is constantly turned up, shifting, moving, and reforming elsewhere, a condition which inevitably grounds a particularly striking relationship with Nature. In this talk, I want think with this quality, through its manifestations in the... More >
Protecting Creative Professionals in the Age of the “Gig Economy”: SAG AFTRA National Executive Director David White at the Forum
Lecture | January 24 | 6-7:30 p.m. | 100 Boalt Hall, School of Law
David White, The Berkeley Forum
The Berkeley Forum
In this tech-savvy age, newer types of media have made creative expression more accessible, a convenience that has contributed to the rise of the gig economy, an environment in which temporary positions and short-term contracts are exceedingly common. This issue has since been the focus of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artist (SAG-AFTRA), one of the largest... More >
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Interdisciplinary Cognitive Science/Computational Cognition Search
Lecture | January 25 | 3 a.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall
Douglas Markant, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
"On choosing your own adventure: The cognitive foundations of active, uncertainty-driven learning"
Transforming High School Computer Science: The Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC)
Lecture | January 25 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, 310, Banatao Auditorium
Dan Garcia, UC Berkeley
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Please join us for the first CITRIS Research Exchange of the spring semester.
Abstract:
Our Beauty and Joy of Computing course was chosen as one of the national pilots for the new Advanced Placement (AP): Computer Science Principles (CSP) course to broaden participation in computing to traditionally underrepresented groups. Locally offered as a non-majors computing course, BJC was the first... More >
free
Free lunch available (limited #s). You must register by the Monday before the event for lunch. Register online
Reframing Violence through a Public Health Lens: How We See, Communicate, and Treat it: Health Communication Matters Webinar Series
Lecture | January 25 | 12-1:30 p.m. | MeetingBurner
Shannon Cosgrove, Director of Health Policy, Cure Violence; Michael Bakal, Strategic Communications Specialist, Berkeley Media Studies Group; Anne Marks, Executive Director, Youth ALIVE!
Center for Public Health Practice & Leadership
Join us in the next event in the Health Communications Matters Webinar Series from the Center for Public Health Practice & Leadership, as experts in the field discuss their approaches to communicating gun violence. In the first presentation, Shannon Cosgrove from Cure Violence will share the state of the health approach to violence, the centerpiece of a 2015 meeting of local and national health... More >
Many Ways of Working: Oral History, Archives, and Archaeology of the Arboretum Chinese Quarters, Stanford
Lecture | January 25 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Christopher Lowman, University of California, Berkeley
Archaeological Research Facility
Farmers, gardeners, builders, cooks, janitors, launderers, restaurant-owners: the Chinese diaspora community in nineteenth century Palo Alto, California, was made up of men, and a few women, who took on many ways of working to support themselves, their families, and their communities. Their integral role in the development of the Bay Area’s infrastructure is sometimes obscured because of... More >
Big Ideas: Beat Notes: From the Rat Bastards to the Mission School with Natasha Boas
Lecture | January 25 | 12 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
This opening lecture offers background to this year’s Big Ideas lectures by exploring the modernist avant-gardes that influenced the artistic and political language of California countercultures in the “long 1960s.” Looking closely at earlier twentieth-century movements such as Dada, Surrealism, Lettrism, and Situationism, Boas will discuss how artistic manifestos and practices such as collage,... More >
Free for BAMPFA members, UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, retirees; 18 & under + guardian | $10 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons | $12 General admission
Khojaly Tragedy: Beyond State Ideologies
Lecture | January 25 | 5-7 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall
Nona R. Shahnazarian, Social Anthropologist, Institute of Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Armenian Studies Program
Dr. Shahnazarian's research focuses on the recent history of ultra-nationalism and ethnic violence in Armenia and Azerbaijan, and its consequences for the local populations. It gives attention to the case of Khojaly. Khojaly was a settlement in Nagorno Karabakh situated on a major road and near the only airport in Karabakh, being the second largest town in Nagorno-Karabakh populated mainly by... More >
Thursday, January 26, 2017
The End of Life Option Act: Legal and Clinical Implications
Lecture | January 26 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 609 UC Berkeley Extension (SF Campus at 160 Spear St.)
Sarah Hooper, J.D., executive director, UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy; Lael Duncan, M.D., medical director of consulting services, Coalition for Compassionate Care of California
Understand the basics of the End of Life Option Act. At this event, our speakers dispel some common myths about the act's implementation, address the status of institutional policy development around California and discuss research data from the Oregon/Washington experience. These policy leaders also address some of the challenges encountered by health and mental health professionals in... More >
Free. Register online
The U.S. Chamber's role in helping to shape an environment conducive to economic growth: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Senior VP Rob Engstrom at the Forum
Lecture | January 26 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Haas School of Business
Rob Engstrom, The Berkeley Forum
The Berkeley Forum
With 2016 being a year marked by extraordinary economic events—from the U.S. presidential elections in the domestic economy to the ongoing Eurozone situation impacting the global economy—there has been a renewed urgency to revisit the current economic situation facing our nation. As the world's largest business organization representing the interests of more than 3 million businesses of all... More >
Friday, January 27, 2017
Jacobs Design Conversations: Alan Cooper
Lecture | January 27 | 12-1 p.m. | 310 Jacobs Hall
Alan Cooper
Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
Cooper founder and design pioneer Alan Cooper will speak at Jacobs Hall.
Hands-On 7: Reading the City
Lecture | January 27 | 4-6 p.m. | 210 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
FRI, Jan 27, 4:00pm - 6:00pm. Join us for a tactile evening with some of the beautiful artist books in the librarys collect.
Monday, January 30, 2017
Undergraduate Lecture Series (Math Monday): An Introduction to Analytic Number Theory
Lecture | January 30 | 5-6 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Cailan Li, UC Berkeley
In this talk we will first give a crash course in complex analysis and then talk about the beautiful Riemann zeta function and its generalization, obtaining $1+2+3+...= -\frac 1{12}$ as a corollary. We will then talk about the shiny objects known as modular forms, and some of their applications. In particular, we will discuss the role modular forms played in Andrew Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last... More >
Gender, Identity, Memoir: Judith Butler and Maggie Nelson in Conversation
Lecture | January 30 | 6:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Osher Theater
Townsend Center for the Humanities, Arts + Design
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley. Maggie Nelson is author of The Argonauts and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism.
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley. Her work has been influential in a variety of disciplines including critical... More >
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Matt Eisenbrandt: Assassination of a Saint: Book talk on assassination of Archbishop Romero of El Salvador
Lecture | January 31 | 12:45-2 p.m. | 170 Boalt Hall, School of Law
Matt Eisenbrandt, Canadian Centre for International Justice
Human Rights Center, Boalt Hall Committee for Human Rights, International Human Rights Law Clinic
Assassination of a Saint is the thrilling story of an international team of lawyers, investigators, and human-rights experts who fought to bring justice for the 1980 murder of El Salvador’s Archbishop Óscar Romero. Matt Eisenbrandt recounts how he and his colleagues searched for evidence against the killers as the team worked towards the only verdict ever reached for the murder – two decades... More >
Stabilizing Quality in Inner Mongolian Milk
Lecture | January 31 | 4 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Franck Bille, Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley Mongolia Initiative
Megan Tracy, Sociology and Anthropology James Madison University
Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), UC Berkeley Mongolia Initiative
In this paper, I examine how actors attempt to transfer material and symbolic value and transfer notions of “human quality” across other notions of quality, such as product quality and the presumed caliber of particular places where production occurs. This transference of quality is embedded, for example, in notions that ethnic Mongolians are pre-disposed to produce a quality dairy product. I... More >
Chern Lectures: On the reality of black holes
Lecture | January 31 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 310 Sutardja Dai Hall
Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton University
The gravitational waves detected recently by LIGO were produced in the final phase of the inward spiraling of two black holes before they collided to produce a more massive black hole. The experiment is entirely consistent with the so-called Final State Conjecture of general relativity, according to which general solutions of the initial value problem approach asymptotically, in any compact... More >
A Conversation with Larry Brilliant
Lecture | January 31 | 5-7 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room
Dr. Larry Brilliant, Chairman of the Board, Skoll Global Threats Fund
Dr. Larry Brilliant has spent his career working to improve lives—locally and globally—through his work helping eradicate smallpox with the UN, curing millions of people of blindness with Seva Foundation, and building technologies of the future with Google.org and public tech companies. Now he has written a memoir, Sometimes Brilliant: The Impossible Adventures of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary... More >
Katherine Rinne + Rabun Taylor - Rome: An Urban History from Antiquity to the Present
Lecture | January 31 | 7-8:30 p.m. | 210 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
WED JAN 31, 7:00pm. Rinne + Taylor discuss a study of the urban processes by which Romes people and leaders, both as custodians of its illustrious past and as agents of its expansive power, have shaped and conditioned its urban fabric.
