Lectures

David Dunn

Lecture | March 18 | 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. |  McEnerney Hall (1750 Arch St.)

Sponsor:  Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT)

The CNMAT Users Group presents: David Dunn

David Dunn is a composer and sound artist. He will be presenting on his recent work in large-scale meta-soundscape recording and invertebrate intervention research.

This Event is Free and Open to the Public

Defining Roles. Representations of Lumumba and his Independence Speech in Congolese and Belgian Literature

Lecture | March 18 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall

Speaker/Performer:  Lieselot De Taeye, Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley

Sponsors:  Institute of European Studies, Center for African Studies

On June 30th 1960, Congo declared its independence from Belgium. In his speech at the ceremony, the Belgian King Baudouin applauded the work of his countrymen during the colonial period, calling his great-granduncle Leopold II, who was responsible for the death of approximately ten million Congolese people, a ‘genius’. Patrice Lumumba, the first Congolese Prime Minister, gave a now-famous speech...   More >

‘Don’t Fall off the Earth’: The Armenian Communities in China from the 1880s to 1950s

Lecture | March 18 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall

Speaker:  Khatchig Mouradian, Lecturer in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University

Sponsors:  Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Armenian Studies Program

Hundreds of Armenians journeyed eastward to China in the late 19th century in search of opportunity, anchoring themselves in major cities, as well as in Harbin, a town that rose to prominence with the construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway. A few thousand others arrived in the region escaping the Armenian Genocide and turmoil in the Caucasus in the years that followed. Many of these...   More >

Maxwell, Rankine, Airy and Modern Structural Engineering Design

Lecture | March 18 | 12-1 p.m. | 502 Davis Hall

Speaker/Performer:  Bill Baker, NAE, FREng, Partner, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Sponsor:  Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)

Behind the Curtain Translational Medicine Lecture

Lecture | March 18 | 4-5 p.m. | 410 Hearst Memorial Mining Building

Sponsor:  Bioengineering (BioE)

Mar. 18 – Rajan Patel and Kate Stephenson
iO Design

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.

Design Field Notes: Ben Allen

Lecture | March 18 | 4-5 p.m. | 220 Jacobs Hall

Sponsor:  Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation

Ben Allen is a PhD candidate in Stanford University’s interdisciplinary Modern Thought and Literature program, where he studies gender and the history of software. His current work focuses on the development of COBOL and other early business programming languages.

About Design Field Notes:
Each informal talk in this pop-up series brings a design practitioner to a Jacobs Hall teaching studio...   More >

Russian Nature Lyric, Short Forms: Tyutchev, Mandelstam, Glazova

Lecture | March 18 | 4-6 p.m. | B-4 Dwinelle Hall

Speaker:  Luba Golburt, Associate Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley

Sponsors:  Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Slavic Graduate Colloquium Spring 2019 Series

Spring 2019 Distinguished Guest Lecture: Renisa Mawani

Lecture | March 18 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. |  Anthony Hall

Sponsors:  Center for Race and Gender, Institute for South Asia Studies, Canadian Studies Program (CAN)), Townsend Center for the Humanities

The Center for Race & gender Presents its Spring 2019 Distinguished Guest Lecture:

Renisa Mawani
Across Oceans of Law

On Digital Colonialism and 'Other' Futures

Lecture | March 18 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Osher Theater

Speaker/Performer:  Morehshin Allahyari, Artist, Activist, Educator

Sponsors:  Berkeley Center for New Media, Art Practice Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Stanford University

Presented by Berkeley Center for New Media and co-sponsored with the Art Practice Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series, the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and Stanford University

For her talk Morehshin Allahyari will discuss some of her previous projects focused on topics such as 3D fabrication, activism, digital colonialism, monstrosity and...   More >

On Digital Colonialism and 'Other' Futures

Lecture | March 18 | 6:30-8 p.m. |  Osher Theater, BAMPFA

Speaker/Performer:  Morehshin Allahyari

Sponsors:  Berkeley Center for New Media, Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Stanford University

For her talk Morehshin Allahyari will discuss some of her previous projects focused on topics such as 3D fabrication, activism, digital colonialism, monstrosity and fabulation. She will use this talk as a platform to show the possibilities of art-making beyond aesthetics or visualization. She will posit and contextualize “a position outside” that asks difficult questions and suggests alternative...   More >