Lectures
Thursday, August 1, 2019
Astronomy Night at UC Berkeley
Lecture | August 1 | 7:30-10:30 p.m. | 131 Campbell Hall
Josh Dillon, UC Berkeley
The August 2019 installment of our Astro Night series will be on August 1. UC Berkeley postdoctoral fellow Josh Dillon will talk about using radio telescopes to make 3D maps of hydrogen in the early universe.
As always, come join us at Campbell Hall on the UC Berkeley campus for a FREE night of astronomy and stargazing on the roof with our fleet of telescopes.
News from the Ice Age: Mobility, Connectivity and Home or How Our Ice Age Ancestors Might Tell Us Something about Adapting to Climate Challenges
Lecture | August 1 | 7:30-9 p.m. | Hillside Club
2286 Cedar, Berkeley, CA 94709
Meg Conkey, Professor emerita, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Archaeological Research Facility
I will relate some of this research that has focused on what we call a landscape archaeology, and on trying to understand the lives and life-spaces of our ancestors in a wider social context.
Sunday, August 4, 2019
Partition and Generational Impacts of PTSD: The 1947 Partition Archive
Lecture | August 4 | 2-4 p.m. | The 1947 Partition Archive Berkeley HQ, Suite 1
1840 Alcatraz Ave, Berkeley, CA 94703
Shaili Jain MD
Institute for South Asia Studies
Dr. Shaili Jain, M.D. (Stanford University) on 'The Unspeakable Mind: Stories of Trauma and Healing from the frontlines of PTSD Science
Saturday, August 10, 2019
Ways of Seeing Tobacco in Cultures, Past and Present
Lecture | August 10 | 1-4 p.m. | Hearst Museum of Anthropology | Canceled
Kathleen Harrison, Botanical Dimensions
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Explore the historical, cultural, spiritual and protective aspects of this complex plant teacher from various traditions around the world.
Domesticated from the wild by indigenous people of South America, tobacco has been a sacred tool for native people for millennia. In the animist view, tobacco may be both powerful prayer medicine and a very tricky spirit being. Tobacco use took the European... More >
$70
Spotlight on Iran-US Relations: A talk by Karim Sadjadpour
Lecture | August 10 | 3-5 p.m. | 145 Dwinelle Hall
Karim Sadjadpour, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies
Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies, San Francisco State University proudly presents the first lecture in its new series, “Spotlight on Iran-US Relations,” featuring a talk by Iran scholar Karim Sadjadpour . This event is co-sponsored by UC Berkeley Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Berkeley Lecture Series, and Persian Center. “Spotlight on Iran-US Relations” aims to bring experts and our local... More >
$0 free
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Yogendra Yadav | Politics after Modi: Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony
Lecture | August 13 | 12-2 p.m. | 10 Stephens Hall
Yogendra Yadav, Indian politician, psephologist and academic
Pranab Bardhan, Professor of Graduate School at the Department of Economics
Institute for South Asia Studies, Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies, Master of Development Practice, Institute of International Studies
A talk by Yogendra Yadav, Indian politician, activist and well known election analyst.
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Science Lecture - Black Holes, Big and Small- A laser-guided adaptive optics view
Lecture | August 17 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 131 Campbell Hall
Jessica Lu, Department of Astronomy
Black holes come in at least two varieties. Supermassive black holes lay at the centers of galaxies and, while not theoretically predicted, have been definitively proven to exist using observations of stars’ orbits at the heart of the Milky Way. Stellar mass black holes are predicted to exist in large numbers — 100 million in our Galaxy alone — but only two dozen have been found, all in binaries.... More >
A laser beam directed toward the centre of the Milky Way. Image:ESO/Yuri Beletsky
Thursday, August 22, 2019
Lecture by Harvard Prof. David Wilkins
Lecture | August 22 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, Warren Room
Professor Wilkins is the Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession, and Faculty Director of the Center on the Legal Professor and the Center for Lawyers and the Professional Services Industry at Harvard Law School.
His lecture will be introduced by Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.
The Archaeology of Beer
Lecture | August 22 | 6-7:30 p.m. | Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Christine Hastorf, Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Join us for a lecture from Christine Hastorf, Ph.D. on the history of beer through an archaeological lens. How long have people been making beer? Where did beer making traditions first begin? How do ancient beer making traditions compare to those in practice around the world today? This lecture is hosted alongside the Hearst Museum's current exhibit - Pleasure, Poison, Prescription, Prayer: The... More >
$6-14
Monday, August 26, 2019
A Conversation with Tommy Orange: An On the Same Page event
Lecture | August 26 | 7:30-9 p.m. | Haas Pavilion
Tommy Orange, Author
Beth Piatote, Professor, Native American Studies, UC Berkeley
Tommy Orange, whose novel There There is the featured text for On the Same Page 2019, will be interviewed onstage by Professor Beth Piatote.
Free and open to all.
Tommy Orange, photo credit Elena Siebert
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Marzana Kamal | Wives Left Behind: A Study of the Impact of Men’s International Labour Migration on their Wives in Bangladesh
Lecture | August 27 | 12-2 p.m. | 10 Stephens Hall
Marzana Kamal, PhD Candidate, Sociology and Social Policy, Bangor University, Gwynedd, UK
Sanchita Saxena, Director, Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies; Executive Director, Institute for South Asia Studies
Institute for South Asia Studies, The Subir & Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, Berkeley Master of Development Practice, Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice, Center for Initiative on Political Conflict, Gender and People's Rights Race and Gender, American Medical Women's Association at Berkeley
A talk by Marzana Kamal on the intersectionality of migration, patriarchy and religion in Bangladesh through an exploration of male labour migration and it's impact on the wives that get left behind in Bangladesh.
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
MVZ Lunch Seminar - Jochen Wolf
Lecture | August 28 | 12-1 p.m. | Valley Life Sciences Building, 3101 VLSB, Grinnell-Miller Library
Join us for our first MVZ Lunch Seminar of the semester this Wednesday, August 28 at 12 pm,.
Speaker: Jochen Wolf, Chair and Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Title: "Birds of a feather flock together: Speciation genomics in crows. Location: 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, Grinnell-Miller Library – please let the receptionist know you... More >
Thursday, August 29, 2019
Mimi Zeiger: Design, Citizenship, and the Need to Envision Tomorrow
Lecture | August 29 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Mimi Zeiger
Mimi Zeiger, critic, editor, and curator
Cocurator of the US Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, Mimi Zeiger will give insight into the curatorial practices and research that led to the Biennale exhibition, Dimensions of Citizenship, as well as the upcoming exhibition Soft Schindler at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture.
Interrogating the spatial conditions of design and... More >
Friday, August 30, 2019
Members' Walk: Asia
Lecture | August 30 | 2-3 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Eric Hupperts
Garden members are invited to take a free in-depth look into the Asian Collection with Horticulturist Eric Hupperts. This stunning collection includes much of the Asian continent with the majority coming from temperate climate and subtropical areas of China, Japan, Korea, Siberia, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Himalayas.
Please note that this walk may feature pathways with stairs and... More >
