All events
Monday, April 1, 2019
African Film Festival 2019
Film - Series | March 2 – May 10, 2019 every day | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
March 2–May 10, 2019
This year’s edition of the African Film Festival highlights the best of both new African cinema and films of the black diaspora. We pay tribute to the great director Bill Gunn—also an actor, playwright, and novelist—with new restorations of two genre-benders, his radical horror film Ganja & Hess and his “meta–soap opera” Personal Problems. The latter was conceived by... More >
Spring at the Hall
Special Event | March 21 – June 7, 2019 every day | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. | Lawrence Hall of Science
Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)
This spring, visit the Hall for interactive exhibits, special hands-on activities, intriguing Planetarium shows, and more!
An eye for detail: Attention and eye movements at the foveal scale
Seminar | April 1 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 489 Minor Hall
Dr. Martina Poletti
Latinx History In California: New Research from LRC Visiting Scholars Ivón Padilla-Rodriguez And Lilia Soto
Lecture | April 1 | 12-1 p.m. | The Shorb House
2547 Channing way, Berkeley, CA 94720
Ivón Padilla-Rodriguez, Columbia University; Lilia Soto, University of Wyoming
The Latinx Research Center
Two lectures on Latinx history in California.
“The Legal Origins of the U.S. Agricultural Child Labor Force: U.S. Child Labor Policy and the of Making Child Migrants in California and Beyond." by Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez.
The U.S. currently employs between 200,000 and 500,000 mostly Latinx agricultural child laborers a year, in spite of the fact that a federal child labor ban was... More >
SMART Fellowship Info Session
Information Session | April 1 | 12-1 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
UC Berkeley Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarships
The SMART program funds current UC Berkeley undergraduates to conduct research under the mentorship of a UC Berkeley graduate student. If you are selected as a SMART undergraduate mentee, you will receive a summer stipend in the amount of $3,500 for working 20 hours a week as a researcher over a 10-week period (200 hours of work carried out at times determined with your mentor). The application... More >
New Research from the Latinx Research Center
Lecture | April 1 – 29, 2019 every Monday with exceptions | 12-1 p.m. | The Shorb House
2547 Channing way, Berkeley, CA 94720
Over the past year, Latinx Studies faculty and doctoral students have been advancing their research at the LRC, with visiting post-doctoral and doctoral students joining campus scholars in focused working groups to advance dissertation and book projects. Join us biweekly every Monday in April, for our "Lunch on the LRC" lecture series to learn about interdisciplinary cutting edge Latinx Studies... More >
Europe and Global Governance
Lecture | April 1 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Carlo Monticelli, Vice Governor of the Council of Europe Development Bank, Paris
Barry Eichengreen, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley
Institute of European Studies, Department of Economics
Why has Europe played such a weak role in the transformation of global economic governance that was triggered by the 2008 financial crisis? Are there viable strategies to enhance Europe’s impact on world economic and financial affairs? Would a stronger European influence be detrimental or beneficial to global stability? Carlo Monticelli’s talk addresses these questions building on insights from... More >
Carlo Monticelli
Spectral Representation and Approximation of Solenoidal Fields: Fluids Seminar
Seminar | April 1 | 12-1 p.m. | 3110 Etcheverry Hall
Siavash Ameli, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME)
Abstract: Wide range of fluid flow applications are incompressible. Noise in flow measurements is the main source that violates the divergence free condition for such flows. Variety of approaches has been proposed to filter noise and reconstruct data. Proper Orthogonal Decomposition, Dynamics Mode Decomposition, radial basis functions and smoothing kernels, spectral filtering by Fourier... More >
The Role of Early School Experiences in the Development of Executive Function
Colloquium | April 1 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. | 1102 Berkeley Way West
Jennie Grammer, UCLA, Department of Education and Information Studies
Children’s Executive Function (EF) skills develop rapidly during early elementary school and play an important role in student success during the school transition period. Although these associations have been well documented, questions remain regarding the ways in which school shapes EF development, as well as the mechanisms underlying the associations between EF and academic performance. In... More >
Combinatorics Seminar: Cluster algebras and factorization
Seminar | April 1 | 12:10-1 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Ana Garcia Elsener, University of Graz
Cluster algebras were introduced and studied in a series of articles by Fomin and Zelevinsky in [FZ02,FZ03,FZ07] and by Berenstein–Fomin–Zelevinsky in [BFZ05]. They admit connections to several branches of mathematics such as representation theory, geometry, and combinatorics. These algebras are defined by generators obtained recursively form an initial data (a quiver or a matrix). During... More >
PERL Seminar: “Appointed public officials and local favoritism: Evidence from the German States”
Seminar | April 1 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Mariana Lopes, Max Planck Institute- Visiting Researcher Haas BPP
Political Economy Research Lunch:PERL is an opportunity for PhD students to present work in progress and receive valuable feedback from faculty and peers.
Berkeley Statistics and Machine Learning Forum
Meeting | April 1 | 1:30-2:30 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Berkeley Institute for Data Science
The Berkeley Statistics and Machine Learning Forum meets weekly to discuss current applications across a wide variety of research domains and software methodologies. All interested members of the UC Berkeley and LBL communities are welcome and encouraged to attend.
String-Math Seminar: Quantum Toroidal Algebras, Screenings and 3D Theories
Seminar | April 1 | 2-3 p.m. | 402 LeConte Hall
Yegor Zenkevich, University of Milano-Bicocca
Based on the representation theory of quantum toroidal algebras we propose a generalization of the refined topological vertex formalism incorporating additional "Higgsed" vertices and lines apparently corresponding to refined Lagrangian branes. We find rich algebraic structure associated to brane diagrams incorporating the new vertices and lines. In particular, we build the screening charges... More >
Seminar 231, Public Finance:
Seminar | April 1 | 2-4 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
Youssef Benzarti; Alisa Tazhitdinova
Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance
Youssef Benzarti - "Do Payroll Taxes Turn Workers Into Machines?"
Alisa Tazhitdinova - "Increasing Hours Worked: Moonlighting Responses to a Large Tax Reform"
Northern California Symplectic Geometry Seminar: Symplectic structures in derived algebraic geometry
Seminar | April 1 | 2:30-3:30 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Gabriele Vezzosi, University of Florence
After sketching the basics of derived algebraic geometry, I will explain how to define symplectic and lagrangian structures in this setting. A derived symplectic structure has a “shift” (or degree) that is zero for usual symplectic structures. This degree allows us a greater freedom, e.g. it leads to the fact that the derived intersection of two usual lagrangians is symplectic with a $-1$... More >
Lecture by Shirley Thompson: Race, Property, and Belonging in Creole New Orleans
Lecture | April 1 | 3-5:15 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, 315, Maude Fife room
Shirley Thompson, Associate Professor, Department of American Studies, UT Austin
EECS/CS Transfer Student Social
Social Event | April 1 | 3-4 p.m. | Soda Hall, 430 Wozniak Lounge
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
This event will be a great opportunity to socialize with your peers over free food! We will also have some resources available to you at this event, such as a CS Career Counselor and fellow transfer students who can share wisdom about their experiences getting into grad school, finding undergraduate research, etc.
This event is open to all junior transfer students involved with the EECS... More >
Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory RTG Seminar: Dwork Crystals and Related Congruences
Seminar | April 1 | 3-5 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall | Note change in location
Masha Vlasenko, IMPAN Warsaw
I will show a new, simple construction of crystals associated with toric hypersurfaces and exploit it to prove p-adic congruences for expansion coefficients of rational functions. This is joint work with Frits Beukers.
The exposition will be self-contained, but I shall explain that our ideas evolve from those of Bernard Dwork. Since he constructed an explicit Frobenius operator which does point... More >
Differential Geometry Seminar: Collapsed Manifolds With Ricci Curvature and Local Rewinding Volume Bounded Below
Seminar | April 1 | 3:10-4 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Xiaochun Rong, Rutgers University
We will give a brief review of the study of collapsed Riemannian manifolds with sectional curvature bounds, and we will report some recent progress on collapsed manifolds with Ricci curvature and local rewinding volume bounded below.
Zeyu Zheng - Non-stationary Markov processes: Approximations, simulation, and decision-making
Seminar | April 1 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 1174 Etcheverry Hall
Zeyu Zheng, University of California, Berkeley
Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
In many Markov modeling contexts, the system under consideration exhibits strong time-of-day effects, day-of-week effects, or seasonality effects. In fact, most real-world systems that are modeled as Markov processes exhibit such non-stationarities. Nevertheless, the great majority of the academic literature focuses on modeling and theory for Markov processes with stationary transition... More >
Seminar 291, Departmental Seminar: “Countering the Winner’s Curse: Optimal Auction Design in a Common Value Model”
Seminar | April 1 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Dirk Bergemann, Yale University
Co-authored with Benjamin Brooks and Stephen Morris. Joint with Economic Theory seminar.
Northern California Symplectic Geometry Seminar: Subleading asymptotics of ECH capacities
Seminar | April 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner, UC Santa Cruz
In previous work, Hutchings, Ramos and I studied the embedded contact homology (ECH) spectrum for any closed three-manifold with a contact form, and proved a “volume identity” showing that the leading order asymptotics recover the contact volume. I will explain recent joint work that sharpens this asymptotic formula by estimating the subleading term. The main technical point needed in our... More >
Learning Spaces for Experiential Learning
Colloquium | April 1 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Berkeley Way West, Room 1215, Berkeley Way West (2121 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94720)
Dr. David Ernesto Salinas Navarro, Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico City Region), Organizational Systems and Industrial Engineering Department
Dr. Salinas Navarro expands the conceptualization of learning spaces for higher education by integrating Experiential Learning (EL) and Challenge Based Learning (CbL). He offers a framework for shifting attention to domains of interaction in which students actively develop their specific learning outcomes. In these learning spaces, students learn-by-doing in real-world types of situations.
Pressure Cooker: Why Home Cooking Won't Solve Our Problems and What We Can Do About It.: A Talk By Sarah Bowen and Sinikka Elliott
Panel Discussion | April 1 | 4-6 p.m. | Women's Faculty Club, The Lucy Ward Stebbins Lounge
Sarah Bowen and Sinikka Elliot will discuss their new book, Pressure Cooker. Organized around the stories of nine families and based on extensive ethnographic research, Pressure Cooker takes on 7 foodie myths, showing how encouraging people to "get back into the kitchen" does not address the deeper problems in our food system.
Targeted Antisense Therapeutics for Modulation of Splicing or NMD
Seminar | April 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Adrian Krainer, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Behind the Curtain Translational Medicine Lecture
Lecture | April 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 410 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Apr. 1 – Verna Manty Rodriguez (BS ‘82)
Boston Scientific, Stanford Photonics, BTG
These lectures highlight real-world experiences of leaders in the health technologies space. Looking beyond the initial excitement of a concept, industry veterans discuss the heavy lifting on many fronts that gets new ideas out of the lab and into the clinic.
Population Diversity in Aging and Metabolic Stress: Using Systems Biology to Connect Molecular Networks and Phenotypic Outcomes: Dr. Evan Williams, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich
Seminar | April 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 114 Morgan Hall
Center for Computational Biology, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology
Abstract:
Interactions between individuals' genetic backgrounds and their environments over a lifetime drive variation in the incidence and severity of metabolic disorders and age-related co-morbidities. We have followed a highly diverse set... More >
Seminar 208, Microeconomic Theory (Departmental Seminar): Countering the Winner’s Curse: Optimal Auction Design in a Common Value Model
Seminar | April 1 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Dirk Bergemann, Yale
Analysis and PDE Seminar: The pointwise convergence problem for the free Schrödinger equation
Seminar | April 1 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
Ruixiang Zhang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Carleson proposed a problem on a.e. convergence for free Schrödinger solutions as time goes to zero. Recently it got a sharp answer (up to the endpoint) in all dimensions. We will talk about the new result in dimensions $n+1$ for all $n >2$ and ideas behind it (joint work with Xiumin Du).
Again for the First Time with Rhonda Holberton
Lecture | April 1 | 6:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
As artist Rhonda Holberton talks about her process—describing with her hands the arrangement and heft of the objects that appear in her images—it’s hard not to think of those things and that space as real. But everything, from the objects themselves to the flawlessly diffuse lighting and cool white marble ground, is digitally produced. Holberton makes 3D scans of real objects, then places them in... More >
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
African Film Festival 2019
Film - Series | March 2 – May 10, 2019 every day | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
March 2–May 10, 2019
This year’s edition of the African Film Festival highlights the best of both new African cinema and films of the black diaspora. We pay tribute to the great director Bill Gunn—also an actor, playwright, and novelist—with new restorations of two genre-benders, his radical horror film Ganja & Hess and his “meta–soap opera” Personal Problems. The latter was conceived by... More >
Garden Closed
Miscellaneous | January 1 – December 3, 2019 the first Tuesday of the month every month | UC Botanical Garden
The garden is closed on the first and third Tuesday of every month.
Employee Engagement: BPM201
Workshop | April 2 | 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 24 University Hall
James Dudek; Terrie Moore
This 3.5 hour in-person workshop is part of the BPM Grow Your Team series. In this interactive workshop, each participant’s experience is drawn upon for the learning. Ideally, to contribute to and enhance understanding, participants will come with current and/or previous people management experience.
The content covers an overview of employee engagement, new employee onboarding, the use of... More >
Spring at the Hall
Special Event | March 21 – June 7, 2019 every day | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. | Lawrence Hall of Science
Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)
This spring, visit the Hall for interactive exhibits, special hands-on activities, intriguing Planetarium shows, and more!
Exploring ligand binding space to discover new lipid biology
Seminar | April 2 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Ku-Lung Hsu, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Lipids represent a rich model system for understanding how nature maintains cellular architecture (membrane building blocks), bioenergetics (energy stores), and communication (secondary messengers) through fine adjustments in enzyme metabolism. Embedded within lipid structures is chemical information that define their metabolic fate and function. Elucidating structure-function relationships of... More >
Seminar 217, Risk Management: Robust Experimentation in the Continuous Time Bandit Problem
Seminar | April 2 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Speakers: Farzad Pourbabaee, UC Berkeley
Consortium for Data Analytics in Risk
We consider the experimentation dynamics of a decision maker (DM) in a two-armed bandit setup, where the agent holds ambiguous beliefs regarding the distribution of the return process of one arm and is certain about the other one. The DM entertains Multiplier preferences a la Hansen and Sargent [2001], thus we frame the decision making environment as a two-player differential game against nature... More >
UCB Startup Fair
Conference/Symposium | April 2 | 11 a.m.-4 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Pauley Ballroom
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Register here: http://tinyurl.com/ucberkeleystartupfairsp19
The UCB Startup Fair is back again!
Run by IEEE, HKN, and CSUA, students are introduced to small tech companies that typically rely on personal connections for hiring. It's a great way for students to find full-time and internship positions! Attendance is free for all UCB students, so please bring your student ID.
You must... More >
Restaurants and Reconciliation: The Representation of Indigenous Foodways in Canada
Colloquium | April 2 | 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
L. Sasha Gora
Canadian Studies Program (CAN))
Why are there so few Indigenous restaurants in Canada? Toronto has over 8,000 restaurants, but until October 2016 only one offered Indigenous cuisine. Since then, three more have opened, and others across the country. By narrowing in on restaurants, L. Sasha Gora’s talk will survey the relationship between food and land in Canada and emphasize the historic role of food as both a weapon of... More >
How Safe Are We?: Homeland Security Since 9/11
Lecture | April 2 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Goldman School of Public Policy, Room 250
Goldman School of Public Policy
Join UC President, former US Secretary of Homeland Security and former Governor of Arizona Janet Napolitano for a lunchtime talk on Homeland Security since 9/11.
A sushi lunch will be served at 12:00pm and the lecture will begin at 12:30pm. This event is free and open to the public but you must RSVP to attend.
RSVP online by April 1.
Student Faculty Macro Lunch - "Understanding Employment Effects of Sectoral Shocks"
Presentation | April 2 | 12-1 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall
Andres Rodriguez-Clare, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley
This workshop consists of one-hour informal presentations on topics related to macroeconomics and international finance, broadly defined. The presenters are UC Berkeley PhD students, faculty, and visitors.
** MUST RSVP**
RSVP by emailing jgmendoza@berkeley.edu by March 15.
Adventures in extracting punctuated histories at Çatalhöyük
Lecture | April 2 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Burcu Tung, Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley
Archaeological Research Facility
This talk will explore the preliminary results of the most recent dating program conducted at the Northern Area of the East Neolithic mound of Çatalhöyük. The results of this final excavation campaign have contributed greatly to the dating program, which utilizes a Bayesian statistics accentuated with an iterative approach to radiocarbon sampling and chronology modelling.
Webnet: Google Analytics and other Google goodies
Workshop | April 2 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 303 Doe Library
Jesse Loesberg, Web Designer, Library Communications Office
Director of Staff Learning and Development
Career Lab: Cover Letters
Workshop | April 2 | 12:15-1:30 p.m. | 177 Stanley Hall
QB3 - California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences
Interactive career labs will start with 15-20 minutes topic overview and discussion, then participants will have the opportunity to work on their own materials in peer-to-peer pairs, with career advisor assistance. Career Lab group size is capped at 20 participants, so please sign up early to ensure a spot! You are encouraged to bring printed copies of your materials and/or your laptop.... More >
Mindfulness Meditation Group
Meeting | February 20, 2018 – January 5, 2021 every Tuesday | 12:15-1 p.m. | 3110 Tang Center, University Health Services
Tang Center (University Health Services)
The Mindfulness Meditation Group meets every Tuesday at 12:15-1:00 pm at 3110 Tang Center on campus. All campus-affiliated people are welcome to join us on a drop-in basis, no registration or meditation experience necessary. We start with a short reading on meditation practice, followed by 30 minutes of silent sitting, and end with a brief discussion period.
H-1B Workshop
Workshop | April 2 | 2-4 p.m. | International House, Sproul Rooms
Berkeley International Office(BIO))
The main focus of this workshop are general H-1B eligibility requirements, eligible professional occupations, application process, and timing concerns.
Topics covered:
H-1B eligibility criteria
Types of jobs appropriate for H-1B
Minimum salary requirements
Employer's role
Application timing challenges
Options for F/J students/scholars
Seminar 271, Development, Joint with Seminar 218, Psychology and Economics: "Sleepless in Chennai: The Consequences of Improving Sleep among the Urban Poor"
Seminar | April 2 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Frank Schilbach, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
*Please note change in time/location seminar due to joint event.
Seminar 218, Psychology and Economics: Sleepless in Chennai: The Consequences of Improving Sleep among the Urban Poor
Seminar | April 2 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Frank Schilbach, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Seminar 237/281: Macro/International Seminar - "Lumpy Durable Consumption Demand and the State-Dependent Effects of Monetary and Fiscal Policy"
Seminar | April 2 | 2-4 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
Alisdair McKay, Senior Research Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
TBA
RSVP by emailing Joseph G. Mendoza at jgmendoza@berkeley.edu
Brexit and Beyond - Agriculture and Ecosystem Services in the UK
Seminar | April 2 | 2-3 p.m. | 260 Mulford Hall
Kate Hind, Exeter University
Join us for a Kate Hind's seminar providing insight into agriculture in the UK, the repercussions of Brexit, and the farmers' relationship with ecosystem services. After the presentation, there will be time for questions - so come curious!
Kate Hind from Exeter University is an impact fellow who has a wide experience of working with farmers and land managers on sustainable land use and... More >
Corrupted We Fall? Corruption in University Admissions in Eastern Europe
Panel Discussion | April 2 | 3-4 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Bechtel Conference Room 630
Center for Studies in Higher Education
Universities worldwide are charged with a mission of promoting meritocracy and honesty. Multiple cases of corruption in admissions and examinations undermine this important mission. In countries with weak social institutions and a high level of corruption in society, policymakers especially struggle to combat corruption in higher education. The discussion will provide insights into the dynamics... More >
Librarian Office Hours at the SPH DREAM Office
Miscellaneous | February 5 – April 30, 2019 every Tuesday with exceptions | 3-5 p.m. | Berkeley Way West, 2220 (DREAM Office)
Debbie Jan
Drop by during office hours if you need help with your literature reviews; setting up searches in PubMed, Embase, and other databases; using EndNote, RefWorks, or other citation management software; finding statistics or data; and answering any other questions you may have.
Student Harmonic Analysis and PDE Seminar (HADES): Real polynomials and the Fourier extension operator
Seminar | April 2 | 3:40-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Ruixiang Zhang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Fourier extension operator is a very interesting and difficult object to study in harmonic analysis. Stein conjectured that it is a bounded linear operator between some $L^p$ spaces. Recently people have found that auxiliary real polynomials can help one study Stein's above Restriction Conjecture. We will talk about a few interesting facts about zero sets of real polynomials, and why they can... More >
3-Manifold Seminar: Hyperbolic 4-manifolds with trivial Seiberg-Witten invariants
Seminar | April 2 | 3:40-5 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall
Ian Agol, UC Berkeley
We'll describe subgroup separability for arithmetic hyperbolic manifolds of simplest type and apply it to describe embedding results due to Kolpakov-Reid-Slavich. With this we can address a conjecture of Claude LeBrun that the Seiberg-Witten invariants of hyperbolic 4-manifolds vanish, by showing the existence of examples for which it is true. Joint with Francesco Lin.
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The Fellowship of the Ring: Quadratic Gorenstein rings and the Koszul property
Seminar | April 2 | 3:45-4:45 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Michael Stillman, Cornell University
An artinian local ring $(R,m)$ is called Gorenstein if it has a unique minimal ideal. If $R$ is graded, then it is called Koszul if $R/m$ has a linear $R$-free resolution. Any Koszul algebra is defined by quadratic relations, but the converse is false, and no one knows a finitely computable criterion. Both types of rings occur in many situations in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, and... More >
Inside the Black Box of Organizational Life: The Gendered Language of Performance Assessment
Presentation | April 2 | 4-6 p.m. | 2521 Channing Way (Inst. for Res. on Labor & Employment), IRLE Director’s Room
Shelley Correll, Professor of Sociology, Stanford University
Catherine Albiston, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law; Trond Peterson, Professor of Sociology, and Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley
Institute of Research on Labor & Employment, Department of Psychology
Do formal evaluation procedures really reduce bias? As an organizational practice, are they a smokescreen concealing bias or a great leveler that bolsters meritocracy?
While organizations formalize evaluation procedures to help achieve meritocratic outcomes, they often fail to eliminate bias in practice. Managers play a key role in applying such procedures, but researchers have been unable to... More >
RSVP by calling Christina McKay at 510-643-8140, or by emailing Christina McKay at christina.mckay@berkeley.edu
Cultural Capital, Systemic Exclusion and Bias in the Lives of Black Middle-Class Women: A Conversation
Colloquium | April 2 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room
Dawn Marie Dow, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park; Tina Sacks, Assistant Professor of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley
Amani Allen, Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Community Health Sciences, UC Berkeley
Center for Research on Social Change, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, American Cultures, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Department of Sociology, Center for Race and Gender, Social Welfare, School of
At this interactive event, Dawn Dow and Tina Sacks will discuss their new books on African American women: "Mothering While Black: Boundaries and Burdens of Middle-Class Parenthood" by Dow and "Invisible Visits: Black Middle Class Women in the American Healthcare System" by Sacks.
Tajima coalescent
Seminar | April 2 | 4-5 p.m. | 141 McCone Hall
Julia Palacios, Stanford University
In this talk I will present the Tajima coalescent, a model on the ancestral relationships of molecular samples. This model is then used as a prior model on unlabeled genealogies to infer evolutionary parameters with a Bayesian nonparametric method. I will then show that conditionally on observed data and a particular mutation model, the cardinality of the hidden state space of Tajima’s... More >
Representation Theory and Mathematical Physics Seminar: Matrix Orthogonal Polynomials and Representation Theory
Seminar | April 2 | 4-5 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
William Casper, Louisiana State University
We present a solution of the matrix Bochner problem, a long-standing open problem in the theory of orthogonal polynomials, with applications to diverse areas of research including representation theory, random matrices, spectral theory, and integrable systems. Our solution is based on ideas applied by Krichever, Mumford, Wilson and others, wherein the algebraic structure of an algebra of... More >
Inside the Black Box of Organizational Life: The Gendered Language of Performance Assessment
Lecture | April 2 | 4-6 p.m. | 2521 Channing Way (Inst. for Res. on Labor & Employment), Large Conference Room
Shelley Correll, Stanford University
Institute of Research on Labor & Employment, Department of Psychology, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Department of Sociology
Do formal evaluation procedures really reduce bias? As an organizational practice, are they a smokescreen concealing bias or a great leveler that bolsters meritocracy?
While organizations formalize evaluation procedures to help achieve meritocratic outcomes, they often fail to eliminate bias in practice. Managers play a key role in applying such procedures, but researchers have been unable to... More >
Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science: C++: an invisible foundation
Lecture | April 2 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 190 Doe Library
Bjarne Stroustrup, Morgan Stanley, Columbia University
Designer and implementer of the C++ Bjarne Stroustrup will briefly explain what technical aspects make it so useful. He will focus on design principles, but also touch upon resource management and what it takes to be efficient in various contexts.
Seminar 221, Industrial Organization: "Bidding frictions in ascending auctions"
Seminar | April 2 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
Bob Miller, Carnegie Mellon University
Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science: C++: an invisible foundation
Lecture | April 2 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 190 Doe Library
Bjarne Stroustrup, Creator/Designer of C++, Morgan Stanley, Columbia University
Berkeley Institute for Data Science
C++ is one of the key foundations of our software – including much of the open source software becoming fundamental for data science. It is invisible to most people because they use it only indirectly. It's in your computer and your
Robert Morrison: Scientific Exchange at the Courts of Mehmed II and Bayezid II
Lecture | April 2 | 5-7 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Robert Morrison, Bowdoin College
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
The courts of the Ottoman sultans Mehmed II (d. 1481) and Bayezid II (d. 1512) were, on one hand, the site of significant developments of earlier scientific traditions inherited from Iran and Central Asia. On the other hand, scholars at the Ottoman court were more interested than their predecessors in the scientific culture of non-Islamic societies. Important science came east while the science... More >
Jorge Flores | Unwanted Neighbors: The Mughals, the Portuguese, and their Frontier Zones
Lecture | April 2 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Jorge Flores, Professor of Early Modern Global History, Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute, Florence
Munis D. Faruqui, Director, Institute for South Asia Studies; Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies; Associate Professor, South & South East Asian Studies
Institute for South Asia Studies, Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies, Center for Portuguese Studies, Department of History
In December 1572 the Mughal emperor Akbar arrived in the port city of Khambayat. Having been raised in distant Kabul, Akbar had never in his thirty years been to the Ocean. Presumably anxious with the news about the Mughal military campaign in Gujarat, several Portuguese merchants in Khambayat rushed to Akbar’s presence. This encounter marked the beginning of a long, complex, and unequal... More >
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The Fellowship of the Ring: Equivariant completions of toric varieties and their degenerations
Seminar | April 2 | 5-6 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall | Canceled
Netanel Friedenberg, Yale University
I will tell the story of equivariant completion of toric varieties and their degenerations from the perspectives of algebraic geometry and combinatorics. We will start on the algebraic geometry side with results of Nagata and Sumihiro on completions of varieties. We will then move on to later combinatorial proofs that normal toric varieties admit completions. Finally, we will discuss recent... More >
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The Fellowship of the Ring: Equivariant completions for degenerations of toric varieties
Seminar | April 2 | 5-6 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Netanel Friedenberg, Yale University
After reviewing classical results about existence of completions of varieties, I will talk about a class of degenerations of toric varieties which have a combinatorial classification - normal toric varieties over rank one valuation rings. I will then discuss recent results about the existence of equivariant completions of such degenerations. In particular, I will show a new result about the... More >
Fascism’s Global Moments: New Perspectives on Entanglements and Tensions between Fascist Regimes in the 1930s and 1940s
Lecture | April 2 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Sven Reichard, University of Konstanz, Germany
GHI West - Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington DC, Center for German and European Studies, Department of History
In his talk, Professor Reichardt will discuss how a global perspective can help us understand the nature of different fascist empires and the general character of fascism up to the end of World War II. He will focus on cooperation as well as competition between different fascist regimes, especially with regard to their imperial and colonial aspirations during the 1930s and 1940s. While a transfer... More >
Jewish Identities in Israel: Confrontations, Crises and Novel Conceptions
Lecture | April 2 | 5:30 p.m. | Doe Library, Morrison Library
Tomer Persico, Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies, UC Berkeley
Library, Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies
Over the past three decades the Israeli society witnessed significant revisions in the way it understands itself and its Jewish identity. The collapse of the peace process, the "disengagement" from Gaza and the growing emphasis on self fulfillment have changed social structures that were taken for granted in the past, and have propelled each of the different Jewish "tribes" in Israel - the... More >
California State Taxes Workshop
Workshop | April 2 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | International House, Sproul Rooms
Berkeley International Office(BIO))
A representative from the California Tax Franchise Board will present on how to determine your California state tax residency and complete your nonresident alien tax forms. Collect your tax report forms (W-2 and/or 1042-S forms and/or 1099) and follow along as they take you through a step-by-step example for filing your state tax return.
*Complete your federal tax return via GTP before... More >
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Free Wednesday at the Garden
Special Event | January 2 – December 4, 2019 the first Wednesday of the month every month | UC Botanical Garden
Every first Wednesday at the Garden is free admission day.
African Film Festival 2019
Film - Series | March 2 – May 10, 2019 every day | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
March 2–May 10, 2019
This year’s edition of the African Film Festival highlights the best of both new African cinema and films of the black diaspora. We pay tribute to the great director Bill Gunn—also an actor, playwright, and novelist—with new restorations of two genre-benders, his radical horror film Ganja & Hess and his “meta–soap opera” Personal Problems. The latter was conceived by... More >
Spring at the Hall
Special Event | March 21 – June 7, 2019 every day | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. | Lawrence Hall of Science
Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)
This spring, visit the Hall for interactive exhibits, special hands-on activities, intriguing Planetarium shows, and more!
Discovery Station: Carnivorous Plants
Tour/Open House | April 3 | 11 a.m.-3 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Discover some of the fascinating and beautiful plants that can eat insects. Get up close with the amazing leaf adaptations as you learn more about them. Free with Garden admission.
Imaging correlates of early pathology in Parkinson’s disease
Seminar | April 3 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 1102 Berkeley Way West
Johannes Klein, Nuffield Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience, Oxford University
Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills
Parkinson’s disease affects around 1% of the population over 60, and the number of patients is rising with an aging population. To develop neurodegenerative therapies aiming to prevent conversion to or slow down progression of Parkinson’s, reliable biomarkers are needed to identify those at risk of PD, and to track disease progression. Detecting early pathology would allow for intervention before... More >
Diverging destinies? Changing family structures and inequality of opportunity in the United States: A Brown Bag Talk
Colloquium | April 3 | 12-1 p.m. | 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room
Diederik Boertien, Researcher, Centre for Demographic Studies, University of Barcelona
Population Science, Department of Demography
A lunch time talk and discussion session, featuring visiting and local scholars presenting their research on a wide range of topics of interest to demography.
Noon Concert: Horn Trio
Performing Arts - Music | April 3 | 12 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
Richard Liaw, violin
Kyle Ko, horn
Jolie Huang, piano
BRAHMS Horn Trio in Eb Major, op. 40
MOZART/Naumann Horn Quintet, K407
Commencing its 67th season, the Noon Concert series features the Music Department’s varied and diverse performance activities. Inaugurated in 1953, these concerts are very popular and well attended by those on campus and in the wider community. Traditionally on... More >
Memcomputing: a brain-inspired computing paradigm
Seminar | April 3 | 12 p.m. | 560 Evans Hall
Massimiliano Di Ventra, Dept of Physics, UC San Diego
Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills
Which features make the brain such a powerful and energy-efficient computing machine? Can we reproduce them in the solid state, and if so, what type of computing paradigm would we obtain? I will show that a machine that uses memory (time non-locality) to both process and store information, like our brain, and is endowed with intrinsic parallelism and information overhead – namely takes advantage,... More >
Certificate Program in Software Development and Programming Online Information Session
Information Session | April 3 | 12-12:30 p.m. | Online
Sean Butcher, LL.B., M.B.A.
Advance your technology career with our new software development and programming certificate. It combines theory and practice to give you a balanced mix of knowledge and skills in software development, databases, computer programming and Web development.
Secrets on the Way: The Poetry of Tomas Tranströmer. A Reading by Robert Hass and Screening of the Film "Secrets", Produced by Kathryn Roszak. Musical Prelude by Mads Tolling
Reading - Literary | April 3 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Robert Hass, Department of English, UC Berkeley; Kathryn Roszak, Artistic Director, Danse Lumière
Institute of European Studies, Nordic Studies Program, Department of English
Robert Hass reads from his selection of poems by Swedish Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer that he translated, and Kathryn Roszak screens and discusses her
short film “Secrets”, a post-modern “tango,” inspired by Tranströmer's great poem "Schubertiana," a love story with two dancers seeking trust in New York City. The presentation will be followed by a Q and A with the audience.
Robert Hass is... More >
Robert Hass
Film Screening of Criminal Queers: directed by Chris Vargas and Eric A. Stanley
Film - Feature | April 3 | 12-2 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Eric Stanley, Assistant Professor, Department of Gender and Women's Studies
Department of Gender and Women's Studies
Criminal Queers visualizes a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex and toward a world without walls. Remembering that prison breaks are both a theoretical and material practice of freedom, this film imagines what spaces might be opened up if crowbars, wigs, and metal files become tools for transformation.
Cyrus Farivar on "50 years of surveillance law in America"
Conference/Symposium | April 3 | 12-1 p.m. | 310 Sutardja Dai Hall
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
About the speaker:
Cyrus [suh-ROOS] is a Senior Tech Policy Reporter at Ars Technica, and is also an author and radio producer.
His second book, Habeas Data, about the legal cases over the last 50 years that have had an outsized impact on surveillance and privacy law in America, is due out May 8, 2018 from Melville House.
In 2017, Cyrus Farivar and Joe Mullin won the Technology... More >
MVZ LUNCH SEMINAR - Allison Shultz: Evolution across timescales: comparative and population genomics studies of host-pathogen co-evolution in birds
Seminar | April 3 | 12-1 p.m. | Valley Life Sciences Building, 3101 VLSB, Grinnell-Miller Library
Allison Shultz
MVZ Lunch is a graduate level seminar series (IB264) based on current and recent vertebrate research. Professors, graduate students, staff, and visiting researchers present on current and past research projects. The seminar meets every Wednesday from 12- 1pm in the Grinnell-Miller Library. Enter through the MVZ's Main Office, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, and please let the receptionist... More >
Noninvasive monitoring of chronic kidney disease using MR based pH and perfusion
Seminar | April 3 | 12-1 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Michael McMahon, John Hopkins University
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a cardinal feature of methylmalonic acidemia (MMA), a prototypic organic acidemia. Impaired growth, low activity, and protein restriction affect muscle mass and lower serum creatinine concentrations, which can delay the diagnosis and management of renal disease in this patient population. We have designed a general alternative strategy for monitoring renal function... More >
Plant and Microbial Biology Seminar: "Differentiating plant genetic from environmental drivers of plant microbiome structure and function"
Seminar | April 3 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall
Posy Busby, Oregon State University
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
Posy Busby is an assistant professor in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University. Research in the Busby lab focuses on plant-fungal interactions, plant disease, and community ecology. Their current research seeks to characterize communities of non-pathogenic fungi that live in plants, “endophytes,” and to test how endophytes influence plant disease severity.
What can computers teach us about creativity?
Colloquium | April 3 | 12:10-1:15 p.m. | 1104 Berkeley Way West
Justin Manley, Software Engineer, Google
Institute of Personality and Social Research
Since the 1950s, psychology and computer science have been stimulated and transformed by the mutual exchange of ideas about cognition. During this time, another aspect of the mind has occupied each field mostly in isolation: creativity. This talk surveys creative uses of computers in the arts and presents recent works using artifacts from studies at the Institute of Personality and Social... More >
Your Credit Score and More – Borrowing Basics (BEUHS352)
Workshop | April 3 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Section Club
Richard Ruiz, Bank of the West; Chris Lane, Bank of the West
This seminar provides a comprehensive overview of critical information related to consumer lending options. The session topics include a review of different credit types, costs associated with obtaining credit, your rights as a borrower, what creditors review when making a credit decision and ideas on how to manage your credit.
Guided Tours: Hans Hofmann
Tour/Open House | April 3 | 12:15 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Explore Hans Hofmann’s dynamic and influential work with guided tours on selected Wednesdays, Sundays, and Free First Thursdays.
Multidisciplinary Mapping: Human-Carnivore Conflict and Landscape Use by Carnivores and People in the Rift Valley, Kenya
Colloquium | April 3 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Christine Wilkinson, PhD Candidate, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Human-wildlife conflict is a global issue, which has complex causes and dynamics. The communities experiencing conflict are those most able to describe their experiences and most likely to present adequate solutions. In the Kenyan Rift Valley, rapid development and subdivision has isolated many protected areas, restricting corridors and resulting in a dramatic increase in human-carnivore... More >
EHS 201 Biosafety in Laboratories
Course | April 3 | 1:30-3:30 p.m. | 177 Stanley Hall
Office of Environment, Health & Safety
This training is required for anyone who is listed on a Biological Use Authorization (BUA) application form that is reviewed by the Committee for Laboratory and Environmental Biosafety (CLEB). A BUA is required for anyone working with recombinant DNA molecules, human clinical specimens or agents that may infect humans, plants or animals. This safety training will discuss the biosafety risk... More >
Docent-led tour
Tour/Open House | January 2 – December 4, 2019 the first Wednesday of the month every month | 1:30-2:45 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Join us for a free, docent-led tour of the Garden as we explore interesting plants from around the world, learn about the vast diversity in the collection, and see what is currently in bloom. Meet at the Entry Plaza.
Free with Garden admission. Advanced registration not required
Topology Seminar (Introductory Talk): Compactification of moduli spaces and point collision
Seminar | April 3 | 2-3 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Xuwen Zhu, UC Berkeley
Part of the Deligne–Mumford compactification of the moduli space of marked Riemann surfaces comes from the collision of marked points ("bubbling"). I will explain this kind of degeneration and then talk about a real analogue of such compactification in the study of constant curvature conical metrics, where a similar bubbling behavior appears.
Deformation Theory Seminar: The LG/CY correspondence
Seminar | April 3 | 2:30-3:30 p.m. | Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Baker Room
Benjamin Gammage, UC Berkeley
We will review Orlov’s construction of an equivalence of categories between certain Calabi-You complete intersection in weighted protective spaces and the equivariant matrix factorization of associated quasihomogeneois singularities
Weekly Coffee Break
Social Event | January 23 – May 1, 2019 every Wednesday with exceptions | 3-4 p.m. | Cafe International House
Berkeley International Office(BIO))
Berkeley International Office's Coffee Break is a weekly opportunity for UC Berkeley global students to meet and engage with one another in a relaxing environment. It’s a chance to enjoy free coffee, share stories about your experiences on campus, and get to know Berkeley International Office advisors. All UCB students are invited. Students are free to talk about anything, but... More >
Berkeley Grad Slam: Grad Students Present 3-Minute Talks on their Research
Special Event | April 3 | 3-5:30 p.m. | Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
Graduate Division, University of California Office of the President
Grad Slam is a showcase for graduate student research for a general audience in three-minute talks. Think mini-Ted Talks. The Berkeley finalists compete in this preliminary round on the UC Berkeley campus. Prizes are awarded at each stage of the selection process. The winner from the UC Berkeley Grad Slam will compete in the UC-wide competition on May 10, 2019 in San Francisco!
International Student Drop-In Career Advising
Meeting | January 23 – May 1, 2019 every Wednesday with exceptions | 3-5 p.m. | Career Center (2440 Bancroft Way), 3rd Floor
Students sign up on site for a 15-minute appointment. First come, first served.
These drop-in appointments can be helpful for your quick questions on the following topics:
-Resume/Cover Letter Critique
-Job or Internship Search
-Networking
-Career Fair Preparation
-Interview Preparation
-Graduate/Professional Program Application
-Others
Grace-like polynomials and related questions
Seminar | April 3 | 3-4 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
David Ruelle, IHES
We say that the multi-affine polynomial P(z1, . . . , zm, w1, . . . , wn) is Grace-like if it does not vanish when {z1, . . . , zm is separated from {w1, . . . , wn) by a circle in the complex plane. Such polynomials have many unexpected probabilistic properties related to the work of Borcea-Brändén.
Our Little Sister
Film - Feature | April 3 | 3:10 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Three sisters grieving their father’s death decide to “adopt” the teenage half-sister they’ve just met in Kore-eda’s captivating exploration of sibling ties, female relationships, and the passing of time, set in the idyllic, enchanting seaside town of Kamakura, Japan. As in much of the director’s work, the plot itself soon pleasurably dissolves in a string of documentary-like moments—family... More >
Number Theory Seminar: Absolute Hodge cycles on abelian varieties of CM-type III
Seminar | April 3 | 3:40-5 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
Dong Gyu Lim, UC Berkeley
Topology Seminar (Main Talk): Constant curvature conical metrics
Seminar | April 3 | 4-5 p.m. | 3 Evans Hall
Xuwen Zhu, UC Berkeley
The problem of finding and classifying constant curvature metrics with conical singularities has a long history bringing together several different areas of mathematics. This talk will focus on the particularly difficult spherical case where many new phenomena appear. When some of the cone angles are bigger than $2\pi $, uniqueness fails and existence is not guaranteed; smooth deformation is not... More >
EECS Colloquium: The Neural Code of Speech
Colloquium | April 3 | 4-5 p.m. | Soda Hall, 306 (HP Auditorium)
Edward Chang, Professor of Neurological Surgery, UC San Francisco
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Speaking is a defining behavior of our species. Our research seeks to understand the neural computations that govern our ability to speak and hear words. Advances in direct neurophysiological recordings from the human brain have led to a completely new view on the neural code that translates between sound and meaning. I will focus on our discoveries on the cortical representation of speech sounds... More >
SMART Fellowship Info Session
Information Session | April 3 | 4-5 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
UC Berkeley Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarships
The SMART program funds current UC Berkeley undergraduates to conduct research under the mentorship of a UC Berkeley graduate student. If you are selected as a SMART undergraduate mentee, you will receive a summer stipend in the amount of $3,500 for working 20 hours a week as a researcher over a 10-week period (200 hours of work carried out at times determined with your mentor). The application... More >
The Human Computer in the Stone Age: Technology, Prehistory, and the Redefinition of the Human after World War II
Special Event | April 3 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 340 Moffitt Undergraduate Library
Stefanos Geroulanos, New York University
About Stefanos Geroulanos
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Stefanos Geroulanos is Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of Transparency in Postwar France (2017), co-author of The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War (2018), and co-editor of The Scaffolding of Sovereignty (2017). He is also a Co-Executive Editor of the Journal of the History of... More >
The Importance of Being Aryan:: Confronting Nazi Racial Law and the Determination of Iranian National Identity
Lecture | April 3 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 254 Barrows Hall
Mohammad Rafi, PhD, UC Irvine
This lecture builds on Germany's historical relationship with Iran, specifically the politics of the Aryan discourse between Nazi-Germany and Iran in the 1930/40s, thereby exposing the tension between geopolitical strategy and racial politics. After an overview of the history of the term Aryan as it relates to Germany and Iran, this paper traces the Nazis struggle to
define the term Aryan in... More >
Academic Freedom: Past, Present and Future
Panel Discussion | April 3 | 5-7 p.m. | 402 Barrows Hall
Joan Scott, Professor Emerita, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton; Henry Reichman, Former Vice President, AAUP
Wendy Brown, Professor, Political Science, UC Berkeley; Khalid Kadir, Lecturer, UC Berkeley; I-Wei Wang, Librarian, UC Berkeley School of Law
Academic freedom, the collective condition necessary for the flourishing of scholarship and teaching, is under assault – both from within and without the university. From within the university by pressures towards privatization and risk management; from without by both mobilized citizens and wealthy sponsors. These threats to academic freedom affect all involved in the academic project:... More >
Linguistic Anthropology and Literary and Cultural Studies: A Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar: Session 6: Politics
Conference/Symposium | April 3 – 4, 2019 every day | 5-7 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Michael Silverstein, University of Chicago; Jackie Urla, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Tristram Wolff, Northwestern University; Judith Irvine, University of Michigan; Sarah Kessler, University of Southern California
Department of Comparative Literature, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
This is the sixth of seven two-day meetings of a Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar taking place throughout 2018-2019. The seminar aims to explore the potential of a set of concepts, tools, and critical practices developed in the field of linguistic anthropology for work being done in the fields of literary and cultural criticism.
If by Literally You Mean Figuratively: Pierre Bersuire’s Grammar of Allegory in the Latin Moralized Ovid
Lecture | April 3 | 5 p.m. | 6415 Dwinelle Hall
Justin Haynes, Dr., UC Davis
Haroon Mirza | The Creative Repercussions of Counterculture
Lecture | April 3 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 220, Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities
Haroon Mirza, Artist
Asma Kazmi, Assistant Professor, Practice of Art
Institute for South Asia Studies, Department of Art Practice Wiesenfeld Lecture Series, Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, South Asia Art Initiative, Asian Art Museum
A talk by Haroon Mirza that will examine how ideas seeded in the counterculture movement of the 1960s are now solidifying in contemporary culture and the influence that has had on his work.
Swahili Table
Social Event | January 23 – May 8, 2019 every Wednesday | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | Jupiter Taproom
2181 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704
Elizabeth Resor
Every Wednesdays speak Swahili with your fellow Swahili students and enthusiasts over a drink at Jupiter Taproom. This is an informal gathering to connect with other Swahili speakers on campus and in Berkeley. Each person will support their own beverage purchases, but we will provide the good company (don't worry- beverage/food purchases are NOT required). And of course, Swahili speaking... More >
Toastmasters on Campus Club: Learn public speaking
Meeting | January 14, 2015 – December 18, 2019 every Wednesday | 6:15-7:30 p.m. | 3111 Etcheverry Hall
Toastmasters has been the world leader in teaching public speaking since 1924. Meetings are an enjoyable self-paced course designed to get you up and running as a speaker in only a few months.
Water is Another Word for Life: with Isha Ray
Lecture | April 3 | 6:30-7:30 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium
Behemoth
Film - Feature | April 3 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Zhao Liang solidifies his status as one of China’s most unique talents with this politicized examination of China’s war on its own environment, a visionary combination of observational documentary, experimental essay, and Workingman’s Death–like vision of hell on earth. Moving from Mongolian coal mines to ironworks and blast furnaces, ending in a newly created suburb with no inhabitants, Zhao... More >
My Bolivia: Remembering What I Never Knew: Film Screening and Director's Talk
Film - Feature | April 3 | 7 p.m. | 160 Kroeber Hall
Center for Latin American Studies
Filmmaker Rick Tejada Flores unravels secrets of his family’s past in Bolivia, discovering his grandfather’s hidden role as President during one of the bloodiest wars in Latin America.
Behemoth
Film - Feature | April 3 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Zhao Liang solidifies his status as one of China’s most unique talents with this politicized examination of China’s war on its own environment, a visionary combination of observational documentary, experimental essay, and Workingman’s Death–like vision of hell on earth. Moving from Mongolian coal mines to ironworks and blast furnaces, ending in a newly created suburb with no inhabitants, Zhao... More >
The Rest I Make Up: April Movie at Moffitt
Film - Documentary | April 3 | 7-9 p.m. | 405 Moffitt Undergraduate Library
Maria Irene Fornes is one of America's greatest playwrights and most influential teachers, but many know her only as the ex-lover of writer and social critic Susan Sontag. The visionary Cuban-American dramatist constructed astonishing worlds onstage, writing over 40 plays and winning nine Obie Awards. At the vanguard of the nascent Off-Off Broadway experimental theater movement in NYC, Fornes is... More >
Must have a UCB student ID for entrance.
April's Movie at Moffitt
Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour: Featuring Cécile McLorin Salvant and Christian Sands, music director
Performing Arts - Music | April 3 | 8-10 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
Jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant returns to Berkeley with the Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour and music director Christian Sands, featuring Bria Skonberg, Melissa Aldana, Yasushi Nakamura, and Jamison Ross. Salvant won her second Grammy award in 2018, and sings with a presence that belies her young years. Her impressive repertoire traverses blues, folk music, and lesser-known jazz standards.
$36-92 (prices subject to change)
Tickets go on sale August 7. Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
