Lectures
Thursday, June 1, 2017
Russell De Valois Memorial Lecture Series
Lecture | June 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 489 Minor Hall
William T. Newsome, PhD, Harman Family Provostial Professor, Vincent V.C. Woo Director of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute
Monitoring Covert Visual Decisions via Neural Population Dynamics in Frontal Cortex
Saturday, June 10, 2017
Carol Christ and David Neidorf in Conversation
Lecture | June 10 | 1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
UC Berkeley’s new chancellor and the president of Deep Springs College come together for a discussion of timely issues in undergraduate education.
Free for BAMPFA members, UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, retirees; 18 & under + guardian | $10 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons | $12 General admission Event is included with admission
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism, Dancing with Math, Video Art, Urban Humanities: Leonardo Art Science Evening
Lecture | June 14 | 7-9 p.m. | 310 Soda Hall
Karl Schaffer, Choreographer
Carmen Aguilar, Hyphen Labs; Susan Moffat, UC Berkeley; Evie Leder, Video artist
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Carmen Aguilar y Wedge (Hyphen Labs) on "NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism - A transmedia exploration told through speculative product design, emerging technologies, cognitive research, and transhumanism"
Karl Schaffer (Choreographer) on "Dancing with Mathematics"
Susan Moffat (UC Berkeley's Global Urban Humanities Initiative) on "The Albany Bulb: From Dump to Art Park...and Ecological Research... More >
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Water-Ropes and Lotus-Dragons: Netsuke in the Hearst Museum Collection
Lecture | June 15 | 6-8 p.m. | Kroeber Hall, Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, 103 Kroeber Hall
Christopher Lowman, UC Berkeley, Department of Anthropology
Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Netsuke, Japanese carvings used as fasteners for personal accessories, have enchanted artists, owners, collectors, and viewers for centuries. Beautiful and comical, surreal or mythological, they are practical objects transformed into symbols and stories, and representative of the people who have made and possessed them. Come explore some of those stories through examples from the collection now... More >
Limited to 30 spaces, please register to ensure a seat at https://tinyurl.com/netsukelounge
Admissions will be charged at the door. Register online or by calling 510-643-2776, or by emailing pahma-education@berkeley.edu
Water-ropes and Lotus-dragons: Netsuke in the Hearst Museum Collections
Lecture | June 15 | 6-8 p.m. | Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Christopher Lowman, UC Berkeley, Department of Anthropology
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Netsuke, Japanese carvings used as fasteners for personal accessories, have enchanted artists, owners, collectors, and viewers for centuries. Beautiful and comical, surreal or mythological, they are practical objects transformed into symbols and stories, and representative of the people who have made and possessed them. Come explore some of those stories through examples from the collection now... More >
Registration recommend. Event free with museum admission. Register online
Saturday, June 17, 2017
Science at Cal Lecture - Cars that coordinate with people
Lecture | June 17 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building
Anca Dragan, EECS
Autonomous cars tend to treat people like obstacles whose motion needs to be anticipated, so that the car can best stay out of their way. This results in ultra-defensive cars that cannot coordinate with people, because they miss on a key aspect of coordination: it’s not just the car interpreting and responding to the actions of people, people also interpret and respond to the car’s... More >
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Debate: North Korea's Nuclear Program
Lecture | June 20 | 5:30-8 p.m. | David Brower Center, Goldman Theater, Goldman Theatre
2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA
Paul Carroll, Director of Programs, Ploughshares Fund; Melissa Hanham, Senior Research Associate, East Asia Nonproliferation Program, James Martin Center; Kelly Magsamen, Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian Pacific and Security Affairs; John Warden, Senior Policy Analyst, SAIC
Nuclear Science and Security Consortium
The Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI), Ploughshares Fund, and the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium (at UC Berkeley) are pleased to invite you to the third in a debate series on a range of nuclear challenges and policy decisions the Trump administration will face in 2017. The debate series aims to provide a forum for in-depth exploration of arguments on both sides of key nuclear policy... More >
Friday, June 23, 2017
Black Life: D. Mark Wilson
Lecture | June 23 | 6 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
UC Berkeley Gospel Choir director D. Mark Wilson offers a presentation on the freedom songs of the black civil rights struggle of the 1960s. Drawing from his background as musical director of several churches, including, most recently, St. Columba’s in north Oakland, he will illustrate the roots of these protest songs in the musical traditions of the black church.
Free for BAMPFA members, UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, retirees; 18 & under + guardian | $10 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons | $12 General admission
Sunday, June 25, 2017
Gallery Talk: Apsara DiQuinzio on Charles Howard
Lecture | June 25 | 2 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Explore the enigmatic work of Charles Howard with Apsara DiQuinzio, BAMPFA’s curator of modern and contemporary art and Phyllis C. Wattis MATRIX Curator. DiQuinzio presents an overview of the painter’s life and art, focusing on his working through and between Surrealism and abstraction.
Free for BAMPFA members, UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, retirees; 18 & under + guardian | $10 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons | $12 General admission
