Lectures
Thursday, March 9, 2017
Redefining Japaneseness: Japanese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland
Lecture | March 9 | 2-5 p.m. | 554 Barrows Hall
Dr. Jane H. Yamashiro, Author
Center for Japanese Studies (CJS), The Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Program
Lecture and Book Signing with Dr. Jane H. Yamashiro
Introduction by Michael Omi
Redefining Japaneseness chronicles how Japanese American migrants to Japan experience
both racial inclusion and cultural dislocation while negotiating between the categories of Japanese and foreigner. Drawing from extensive observations and interviews with Japanese Americans who are... More >

DiPerna Lecture: Regularity and asymptotics of solutions to the porous medium equation
Lecture | March 9 | 4-5 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall
Herbert Koch, Bonn University
The porous medium equation is one of the simplest equations describing the propagation of gas in a porous medium. Its most striking feature is the propagation of the front, which is the boundary of the area filled by gas. Many questions about its regularity are open.
In this lecture I will explain old and new results and open questions. Caffarelli devised a scheme for proving regularity of... More >
Staging Grounds: Camp and the Asian Female Body in Contemporary Dance
Lecture | March 9 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 44B Dwinelle Hall
Martha Nguyen Donohue
Center for Race and Gender, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Department of Ethnic Studies, The Institute of International Studies Interdisciplinary Faculty Program on Gender and the Transpacific World
Maura Nguyen Donohue shares her choreographic focus on the site of the Asian body as a staging ground for complex cultural, racial, and gendered projections in American culture by discussing her 2011 dance work, strictly a female female. She will share how the deployment of a camp aesthetic allows her to destabilize gender norms and traditional concert dance audience/performer relationships.... More >
States of Apology: The Culture of Commemoration: CRG Thursday Forum Series
Lecture | March 9 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 691 Barrows Hall
STATES OF APOLOGY: The Culture of Commemoration
Sexual Slavery and the Memorialization of Comfort Women
Amandu Su, English
Politics of Reconciliation in South Korean War and Peace Memorial Museums
Kristen Sun, Ethnic Studies
The Pilgrimage: Interethnic Coalitions and Cross-Race Solidarity at Former Sites of Japanese American Confinement
Desirée Valadares, Architecture
Excavating a Sacred Outcropping at Northwest Saqqara: The Ramesside Tomb of Isisnofret
Lecture | March 9 | 5-6 p.m. | 254 Barrows Hall
Nozomu Kawai, Associate Professor, Kanazawa University (Japan)
A Japanese mission has been excavating at a remote rocky outcropping to the North-west of the major cemetery in Saqqara since 1991. The team has discovered several important archaeological remains at the site. In this lecture, some major highlights will be represented and the most recent work in the Ramesside tomb of Isisnofret led by Nozomu Kawai will be discussed in detail.
Nozomu Kawai... More >
Ramesside tomb of Isisnofret
The Prison Church: Historical, Theological and Ethnographic Perspectives
Lecture | March 9 | 5-7 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Jason Sexton, Lecturer, Cal State Fullerton
Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion
Jason Sexton is a Lecturer in the Honors Program at Cal State Fullerton, where he teaches a variety of interdisciplinary courses. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of St. Andrews, and has written widely in the areas of California studies, prison studies, religious studies, and contemporary theology... More >
Plato's lexicon of logos: Sather Classical Lectures
Lecture | March 9 | 6 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Mary Margaret McCabe, King's College London
The fifth lecture in the 2017 Sather series "Seeing and Saying: Plato on Virtue and Knowledge"
ARCH Lecture: James Carpenter Light in the Public Realm
Lecture | March 9 | 6:30-8 p.m. | 102 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
THURS., MAR 9, 6:30pm, 102 Wurster -- At the intersection of art, engineering and architecture “Light in the Public Realm” will explore James Carpenter’s focus upon the phenomenological qualities of light as a central organizing principle of the public re
Palestine...it is something colonial
Lecture | March 9 | 6:30-9 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Ethnic Studies Library, 30 Stephens Hall
Dr. Hatem Bazian
Eastwind Books of Berkeley, The Ethnic Studies Library at UC Berkeley, and The Center for Race and Gender at UC Berkeley present
Palestine...it is something colonial
Dr. Hatem Bazian Book Launch Discussion
March 9, 2017
6:30pm - 9pm
Ethnic Studies Library
30 Stephens Hall
UC Berkeley
Registration
Professor Hatem Bazian (UC Berkeley) provides a decolonial analysis of... More >