Lectures
Friday, February 1, 2019
SOLD OUT - Gallery Talk: Joseph Banks and the Golden Age of Botanical Exploration
Lecture | February 1 | 10-11:30 a.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Pathways to STEM: with Dr. Gentry Patrick
Lecture | February 1 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 245 Li Ka Shing Center
The Devil Really is in the Details: Why Specificity Matters in Understanding the Global Radical Right
Lecture | February 1 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 2538 Channing (Inst. for the Study of Societal Issues), Wildavsky Conference Room
Tainted Garments: The Exploitation of Women and Girls in India’s Home-based Garment Sector: Research Launch Event
Lecture | February 1 | 12-1:30 p.m. | B100 Blum Hall
Women's Activism in Cold War Pakistan: A Transnational History
Lecture | February 1 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 602 Barrows Hall
Saturday, February 2, 2019
Career Clinic: Finding a New Career Direction: Steps to Finding Work You Love
Lecture | February 2 | 9 a.m.-3 p.m. | UC Berkeley Extension (SF Campus at 160 Spear St.), Room 613
Monday, February 4, 2019
Design Field Notes: August de los Reyes
Lecture | February 4 | 4-5 p.m. | 220 Jacobs Hall
The Cutting Edge: Theory and the Avant-Garde in Ljubljana
Lecture | February 4 | 4-6 p.m. | B-4 Dwinelle Hall
New York Times Deputy Editor Julie Bloom at the Berkeley Forum
Lecture | February 4 | 6-7:30 p.m. | 125 Morrison Hall
The Paris Review: Women at Work
Lecture | February 4 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Osher Theater
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
"We want bread and roses!": Trade union feminism across borders: a comparative perspective on 1970s Italian and French experiences
Lecture | February 5 | 12 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Experiencing Language, Language Education and Social Justice in Times of Violence and Resistance
Lecture | February 5 | 3-5 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, B-4 (Classroom side)
Political Economy of Reforms in Europe’s Neighborhood
Lecture | February 5 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220
The Assault on Empathy: The Promise of a Friction-Free Life: Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures by Sherry Turkle
Lecture | February 5 | 4:10 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium
Food Politics 2019: Food Policy in the Trump Era with Marion Nestle
Lecture | February 5 | 6-8 p.m. | Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center | Note change in location
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
GPR and Gradiometry in the Hyper-Arid Atacama: Assessing Features Among Fossil Channels, Paleosols, and Lithic Dispersions at Quebrada Mani 35, Chile
Lecture | February 6 | 12-1 p.m. | 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Labor Regimes of Indenture – A Global Overview of Migrant Domestic Work
Lecture | February 6 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 554 Barrows Hall
Townsend Center's Berkeley Book Chat with Michael Nylan: The Chinese Pleasure Book
Lecture | February 6 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
The Color of Law
Lecture | February 6 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse
When Scientists Write for the Public: Objective Consideration of Contemporary Phenomena
Lecture | February 6 | 2-3 p.m. | Calvin Laboratory (Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing), Calvin Lab auditorium
How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Repression: With Prof. Steven Feldstein, Frank and Bethine Church Chair of Public Affairs at Boise State University and fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Democracy and Rule of Law Program.
Lecture | February 6 | 2:15-3:30 p.m. | 10 Boalt Hall, School of Law
Towards an Equitable Data-Driven Urbanism: Transforming Urban Theory and Practice via Data Science
Lecture | February 6 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 202 South Hall
Towards an Equitable Data-Driven Urbanism: Transforming Urban Theory and Practice via Data Science
Lecture | February 6 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 202 South Hall
The Assault on Empathy: The Promise of Artificial Intimacy: Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures by Sherry Turkle
Lecture | February 6 | 4:10 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium
Thursday, February 7, 2019
Peach Blossom Land: A Film by Stan Lai
Lecture | February 7 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Osher Theater
Sustainable Vikings - A Talk by Dr. Robert Strand
Lecture | February 7 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Shoroon Bumbagar: Tombs with Mounds in Central Mongolia
Lecture | February 7 | 4 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
The Crooked, Windy, Pothole-Filled Road To Success
Lecture | February 7 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Chinese Animal Gods
Lecture | February 7 | 5-7 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
The Politics of Truth: A Way Forward: Arlie Hochschild and Thomas Laqueur in Conversation
Lecture | February 7 | 5-6:30 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room 220 Stephens Hall
Settlement, Culture, Identity in the Pale of Pylos: Sather Lecture Series: A Bronze Age Greek State in Formation
Lecture | February 7 | 8 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, Maud Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall)
Friday, February 8, 2019
The Ethnobotany of Eden: The Colonial Quest for Green Gold in the Humid Tropics with Robert A. Voeks
Lecture | February 8 | 10-11:30 a.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Minner Distinguished Lecture: Engineering Ethics in Action: Experiences from the Medical Device Industry
Lecture | February 8 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium, 3rd floor
Adapting to climate change: Generating new science-based design typologies
Lecture | February 8 | 12-1 p.m. | 534 Davis Hall
Queer Expectations: a genealogy of jewish women's poetry
Lecture | February 8 | 12 p.m. | Maude Fife Room Wheeler Hall
Sarah Pinto | The Doctor and Mrs. A.: Ethics and Counter-Ethics in an Indian Dream Analysis
Lecture | February 8 | 2-4 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conference Room)
Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science: A Planet-Scale Playground for Data Scientists – Google Maps: Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science
Lecture | February 8 | 2-3 p.m. | Doe Library, 190 Doe Library
A planet-scale playground for data scientists - Google Maps: Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science
Lecture | February 8 | 2:10-3 p.m. | 190 Doe Library
Monday, February 11, 2019
Seismic Performance of Existing Tall Steel Framed Buildings
Lecture | February 11 | 12-1 p.m. | 502 Davis Hall
AHMA Colloquium - Structured space, structured time, structured things: making digital research data reusable
Lecture | February 11 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 308A Doe Library
Berkeley Lectures in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering presented by The Dow Chemical Company: Traditional Fluid Flow Configurations: Unexpected Responses
Lecture | February 11 | 4-6 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium
Beyond heteronormativity: Queer archaeology in Japan
Lecture | February 11 | 4-6 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Beyond heteronormativity: Queer archaeology in Japan
Lecture | February 11 | 4-6 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Design Field Notes: Karen Nakamura
Lecture | February 11 | 4:30-5:30 p.m. | 220 Jacobs Hall
News of the Future and the Future of News
Lecture | February 11 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Osher Theater, BAMPFA
News of the Future and the Future of News
Lecture | February 11 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Osher Theater
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Plants and People Lunchtime Lectures: The Ethnobotany of a Medicinal Moss
Lecture | February 12 | 12-1 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Sustainability – Why and How? The Nordic Way
Lecture | February 12 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing From Empires To The Global Era
Lecture | February 12 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Sincerity out, Authenticity in: Poetry on the Quest for Trust in the times of Post-Truth
Lecture | February 12 | 5:30-7 p.m. | B-4 Dwinelle Hall
Discovery and Diversity: Critical Factors in Tomorrow's Health Care: Dean of the Stanford School of Medicine Lloyd B. Minor
Lecture | February 12 | 6-7:30 p.m. | 125 Morrison Hall
Food Politics 2019: Nutrition Science Under Siege with Marion Nestle
Lecture | February 12 | 6-8 p.m. | North Gate Hall, Logan Multimedia Center (Room 142)
Surprising Evidence:: Revealing Vanished Landscapes Through Nontraditional Moving Images
Lecture | February 12 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Wurster Hall, Wurster Auditorium, RM 112
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
“Bringing the War Home”: Visual Aftermaths and Domestic Disturbances in the Era of Modern Warfare
Lecture | February 13 | 12-2 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
The Exeter Anthology: Codicological Grace and Integrative Poetics
Lecture | February 13 | 12 p.m. | 306 Wheeler Hall
HearstCAVE: Immersive Visualization and Student Discovery Experiences
Lecture | February 13 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Reimagining Labor Law
Lecture | February 13 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse
Berkeley Lectures in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering presented by The Dow Chemical Company: Seeking Intersections Between Disciplines: “Boundaries” in Multiphase Flows
Lecture | February 13 | 4-6 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium
Howison Lectures in Philosophy Presented by Philip Kitcher: Progress in the Sciences and in the Arts
Lecture | February 13 | 4:10 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room
Total Medicine: An Approach to the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Medical Texts
Lecture | February 13 | 5 p.m. | 300 Wheeler Hall
Reetika Khera | Dissent on Aadhaar: Big Data Meets Big Brother
Lecture | February 13 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conference Room)
Docent Lecture: Berkeley Rep's "Paradise Square"
Lecture | February 13 | 5-5:45 p.m. | 330 Wheeler Hall
JOINT ARCHITECTURE + AIA EAST BAY LECTURE: ALICE KIMM | JOHN FRIEDMAN ALICE KIMM ARCHITECTS
Lecture | February 13 | 7:30-9 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall
Thursday, February 14, 2019
The Undefeated Heart: Buddhism and Performance and Practice with Joe Goode
Lecture | February 14 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Osher Theater
The Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, Robotics, and the Future of Work
Lecture | February 14 | 3-4:30 p.m. | Haas School of Business, Spieker Forum, Chou Hall
Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration
Lecture | February 14 | 4 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Optimization for Machine Learning
Lecture | February 14 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 210 South Hall
Modernism in Wartime: Avant-Gardes, Revolutions, Poetries
Lecture | February 14 | 5-7 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, 315, Maude Fife
Farm and Field: Sather Lecture Series: A Bronze Age Greek State in Formation
Lecture | February 14 | 5:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Friday, February 15, 2019
Outsiders: The History of Refugees in an Enlarged Europe
Lecture | February 15 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
The key legal concepts that engineers face in environmental site remediation
Lecture | February 15 | 12-1 p.m. | 534 Davis Hall
There's the Rub: Making Art and Scholarship Bang: A Conversation between Xandra Ibarra and Juana María Rodríguez
Lecture | February 15 | 12-2 p.m. | Durham Studio Theater (Dwinelle Hall)
CANCELED Walter Hakala | Vernacular Literacy and the Urdu Public Text: Examples from Gujarat and the Deccan
Lecture | February 15 | 2-4 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conference Room) | Canceled
Can Social Media Be Used As a Teaching Tool?: A Conversation With Pierre Lévy on Twitter
Lecture | February 15 | 2:30-3:30 p.m. | B-4 Dwinelle Hall
Mapping Race, Gendering Place: African American Roots Tourism in Bahia, Brazil
Lecture | February 15 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Saturday, February 16, 2019
Science at Cal Lecture - Is anybody out there?
Lecture | February 16 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 131 Campbell Hall
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Ethnobotanical Insights into Biblical Life and Language
Lecture | February 19 | 10-11:30 a.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Investigation and Prosecution of Environmental Crime as a Crime Against Humanity with Flaviano Bianchini
Lecture | February 19 | 2:45-4 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, Goldberg Room, 297 Simon Hall
The Struggle for Cuba: Race and Empire in the 18th-century Atlantic World
Lecture | February 19 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Bowen Lectures: Lecture 1: Symmetries of polynomial equations
Lecture | February 19 | 4:10-5 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium
Faiz Ahmed | Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires
Lecture | February 19 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
“my petites madeleines are water canisters” : The Genres, Images, and Intertexts of Bosnia’s Remembered War
Lecture | February 19 | 5-7 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Food Politics 2019: An Agenda for the Food Movement with Marion Nestle
Lecture | February 19 | 6-7:30 p.m. | Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center | Note change in location
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Making Space for the Invisible
Lecture | February 20 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Townsend Center's Berkeley Book Chat with Diego Pirillo: The Refugee-Diplomat: Venice, England, and the Reformation
Lecture | February 20 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Who Are You?: Racial Classification and the Census
Lecture | February 20 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse
The Mechanisms of Direct and Indirect Rule: Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa
Lecture | February 20 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Neoliberal Assemblages of Economy, Body and Society: Politics of Microfinance and Disability Pensions in India
Lecture | February 20 | 3-4:30 p.m. | 116 Haviland Hall
Bowen Lectures: Lecture 2: On the birational classification of algebraic varieties
Lecture | February 20 | 4:10-5 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium
The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child
Lecture | February 20 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 202 South Hall
Artist and Curator: Silvia Gruner in conversation with Tarek Elhaik
Lecture | February 20 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | Dwinelle Annex, Room 126
ARCHITECTURE LECTURE: JOE HALLIGAN | ASSEMBLE
Lecture | February 20 | 6:30-8 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Bancroft Library Roundtable: Migrants in the Making: Invisible Agricultural Child Labor and the Limits of Citizenship, 1938-1965
Lecture | February 21 | 12-1 p.m. | Faculty Club, Lewis-Latimer Room
Emerging Scholar Lecture: Jaih Craddock, "Social Interactions as a Mechanism in HIV Prevention"
Lecture | February 21 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Haviland Hall, Commons/116
Martha Graham Speaking to the Moment: Creative Invention in Dance with Marni Thomas Wood
Lecture | February 21 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Osher Theater
It’s not a NATURAL disaster: looking from past to future through archaeology
Lecture | February 21 | 4:30-6:30 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Future Reading: What Is Anglophone Fiction in the 21st Century?
Lecture | February 21 | 4:30-6:30 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, 315, Maude Fife room
Mongol ‘Translations’ of a Nepalese Stupa: Architectural Replicas and the Cult of Bodnāthe Stūpa/Jarung khashar in Mongolia
Lecture | February 21 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
The Longue Durée of 1989. Regime Change and Everyday Life in East Germany
Lecture | February 21 | 5-6 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Editing The Code Of Life: The Future Of Genome Editing
Lecture | February 21 | 5-6:30 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium
A Truly Prehistoric Archaeology: Sather Lecture Series: A Bronze Age Greek State in Formation
Lecture | February 21 | 5:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Robbins Collection Annual Lecture in Jewish Law, Thought, and Identity: Jewish Law and the #MeToo Movemement: A Feminist Perspective
Lecture | February 21 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | 100 Boalt Hall, School of Law
