Lectures
Monday, October 2, 2017
New Research in Oral History: Jacqueline Adams: Using music to denounce disappearances under a military regime
Lecture | October 2 | 12-1:15 p.m. | Bancroft Library, 267 -- Oral History Center Conference Room
Jacqueline Adams, Institute for the Study of Society Issues, UC Berkeley
Under repressive military regimes, it is not unusual for political dissidents to become the victims of enforced disappearance, whereby they are tortured and killed by the secret police, and all the while, their whereabouts are unknown to family members. How do the family members respond to this situation? In this paper, this question is addressed by examining the case of relatives of the... More >
New Research in Oral History: Jacqueline Adams: Using music to denounce disappearances under a military regime
Lecture | October 2 | 12-1:15 p.m. | Bancroft Library, 267 -- Oral History Center Conference Room
Jacqueline Adams, Institute for the Study of Society Issues, UC Berkeley
Under repressive military regimes, it is not unusual for political dissidents to become the victims of enforced disappearance, whereby they are tortured and killed by the secret police, and all the while, their whereabouts are unknown to family members. How do the family members respond to this situation? In this paper, this question is addressed by examining the case of relatives of the... More >
The Question of Tartar Textiles: Dante, Cangrande I della Scala, and the Vatican Archive
Lecture | October 2 | 4 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Mariachiara Gasparini, Academic Year Adjunct Lecturer, Santa Clara University
UC Berkeley Mongolia Initiative, Tang Center for Silk Road Studies, The Program for the Study of Italy, IES
The Chinese-Islamic cultural encounter in Central Asia found its maximum expression with the Pax Mongolica in territories that, although vast in area, became similar in aesthetic culture, and brought into existence a unique “dress code” among various social classes from China to Italy. Similarly to the Tang, in the thirteenth century, the Mongols established their domain with a multicultural... More >
St. Nikolai textile
On Implementing Arte Útil: Arts + Design Mondays at BAMPFA
Lecture | October 2 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Tania Bruguera, Artist and Activist
Tania Bruguera’s socially engaged, political projects apply the aesthetics of art to everyday life. Focusing on the transformation of social affect into political effectiveness, they are intensive interventions into the institutional structure of collective memory, education, and politics. In this talk, Bruguera will discuss her summer 2017 YBCA project, Arte Útil, and will explore the concept of... More >
Implementing Arte Útil with Tania Bruguera
Lecture | October 2 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Artist and activist Tania Bruguera discusses the concept of Arte Útil, or “useful art.”
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Towards a Sustainable Archaeology Praxis: Lesson from St. Croix, USVI
Lecture | October 4 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Justin Dunnavant, University of California, Santa Cruz
Archaeological Research Facility
The relationship between archaeologists and stakeholder communities has become a topic of introspection for researchers within the field. Throughout the years, communities have become increasingly involved in the various phases of research design, interpretation, and knowledge dissemination. Building upon these discussions, archaeologists and heritage professionals in St. Croix, USVI are... More >
On Curating Film: From theaters to galleries: Arts + Design Wednesdays at BAMPFA
Lecture | October 4 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Kate MacKay, Associate Film Curator, UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
Kate MacKay, Associate Film Curator at BAMPFA, will discuss her experience as a film curator - from festivals, to museum theatres to galleries - using specific case studies from her curatorial work
Biography
Kate MacKay is Associate Film Curator at the University of California Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive. She has served as the programmer and interim artistic director of The... More >
Curating the Moving Image: From Cinemas to Galleries with Kate MacKay
Lecture | October 4 | 12-1 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Kate MacKay, associate film curator at BAMPFA, discusses her experience as a film curator—from festivals to museum theaters to galleries—using specific case studies from her curatorial work.
Supreme Court 2017
Lecture | October 4 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse
2020 Addison, Berkeley, CA 94704
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)
Marshall Krause and Roy Ulrich will discuss the Supreme Court's 2017 term, including the ramifications of Neil Gorsuch's confirmation to the court.
Atrocities in Burma (Myanmar)
Lecture | October 4 | 1-2 p.m. | 134 Boalt Hall, School of Law
Brad Adams, Human Rights Watch
Boalt Hall Committee for Human Rights, Human Rights Center
Nearly half a million Rohingya have fled from Burma to neighboring Bangladesh to escape killings, arson, and other mass atrocities. The United Nations recently called the situation “a textbook case of ethnic cleansing.” Come learn about the mounting crisis in Burma’s Rakhine State from Brad Adams, executive director of Human Rights Watch’s Asia Division and professor of international human rights... More >
Design Innovation from Nature Lecture: "Learning from plants for livable architecture and sustainable building construction of the 21st century"
Lecture | October 4 | 4-5 p.m. | 2060 Valley Life Sciences Building
Thomas Speck, University of Freiburg
During the last decades biomimetics has attracted increasing attention as well from basic and applied research as from various fields of industry, architecture and especially from building construction. Biomimetics has a high innovation potential and offers the possibility for the development of sustainable technical products and production chains. The huge number of organisms with the specific... More >
Violent Passions: Polygamy and Power in Early America
Lecture | October 4 | 4-6 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Sarah Pearsall, University Senior Lecturer in the History of Early America and the Atlantic World, University of Cambridge
Sarah Pearsall is University Senior Lecturer in the History of Early America and the Atlantic World at Cambridge University. Her scholarship probes the intersections of gender, households, and sexuality with the development, maintenance, and end of colonies in a North Atlantic world. Her articles have appeared in Gender & History, the William & Mary Quarterly, the American Historical Review, and... More >
Sara Ogger: The Public Humanities and the Ph.D. in an Expanded Sphere
Lecture | October 4 | 5-7 p.m. | 4229 Dwinelle Hall
Sara Ogger, German Department
Zaytuna College Lecture Series with Professor Steven Fish: Are Muslims Distinctive?
Lecture | October 4 | 7-9 p.m. | Zaytuna College, Sanctuary
2401 Le Conte Ave., Berkeley, CA 94709
Professor Steven Fish, Professor, UC Berkeley
Graduate Theological Union
Zaytuna College invites you to their upcoming Lecture Series, occurring on Wednesday evenings from 7:00pm - 9:00pm at 2401 Le Conte Ave. Berkeley, CA 94709 throughout the Fall semester with renowned speakers such as UC Berkeley Anthropology Professor Laura Nader, Political Science Professor Steven Fish, CAIR Director Zahra Billoo, Stanford Comparative Literature and Classical Arabic Professor... More >
Mario Savio Memorial Lecture: Resistance: What does effective resistance look like and include today?
Lecture | October 4 | 8 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Pauley Ballroom
Annie Leonard, Greenpeace USA
Annie Leonard, Executive Director of Greenpeace USA, will be this year’s featured speaker at the Mario Savio Memorial Lecture: "Resistance: What does effective resistance look like and include today?"
This memorial lecture series honors the memory of the late Mario Savio, spokesperson for Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement, and the spirit of moral courage which he and other activists of his... More >
Free admission. Open to the public.
RSVP online or or by emailing LSevents@berkeley.edu by September 27.
Thursday, October 5, 2017
The World Out of Joint - The End of the West as we Know it?
Lecture | October 5 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Thomas Matussek, Former German Ambassador to the United Nations
There are more violent conflicts, civil wars, crises around the globe than ever since WW ll. New powers are testing their strength, established powers are inward looking. Global and regional governance, from the UN to the Brettonwood institutions, to NATO and EU, are under pressure. Autocrats, even in NATO and the EU, are undermining democratic institutions. What should a new world order look... More >
Alicia Garza Keynote Lecture
Lecture | October 5 | 5 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium
Alicia Garza, Black Lives Matter
Department of Gender and Women's Studies
Alongside Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza helped transform what was once a viral hashtag and social media force into a grassroots national organization and a global human rights movement. Currently the special projects director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Garza has dedicated her life and career to fighting for equality and justice for all.
free
This event is sold out!.
Astronomy Night at UC Berkeley
Lecture | October 5 | 7-9:30 p.m. | 131 Campbell Hall
Join us for our monthly Astro Night series at UC Berkeley! This month, come learn all about how astronomers image planets around other stars. After, you are invited on our rooftop for stargazing and a grew view of the city!
Doors to Campbell Hall open at 6:30pm, and lecture is on a first-come, first-serve basis. Feel free to come and go during stargazing.
7:00pm-8:00pm: Lecture "Imaging... More >
Lecture is aimed at a high school science level.
Astronomy Night is a monthly (first Thursday) lecture + stargazing event hosted by the astronomy department at UC Berkeley.
Friday, October 6, 2017
Bay Area Transportation 2050: Systems change in action
Lecture | October 6 | 4 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Ratna Amin, San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR)
Institute of Transportation Studies
Regional transportation planning is an art and not a science. SPUR, the Bay Area’s leading urban planning organization, has embarked on a Regional Strategy to answer the big planning questions facing the Bay Area through 2050. While transportation models and heuristics are commonly used to estimate future mobility needs, urban systems in the United States are actually shaped by a complex... More >
The Russian Revolution Under European Eyes
Lecture | October 6 | 4:30-6 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
John Connelly, Professor of History, UC Berkeley
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES)
Keynote address for the Graduate Student Workshop "100 Years Later: The Russian Revolution and its Consequences"
Brown Gallery Exhibit Opening: Love across the Global South: Popular Cinema Cultures of India and Senegal
Lecture | October 6 | 5-7 p.m. | Doe Library, Morrison Library (101 Doe Library)
Library, Center for African Studies
5-5:30: Brown Gallery viewing of the exhibit
5:30-5:45: Sugata Ray, Exhibition Co-curator: "Fields of Desire: Afro-Asian Networks and the Making of an Indian Ocean Art History"
5:45-6: Ivy Mills, Exhibition Co-curator: "Indo-Senegalese Cultural Formations: Curating Love across the Global South"
6-6:15: Liladhar Pendse, Exhibition Co-Curator (read by Adnan Malik in Liladhar's... More >
Saturday, October 7, 2017
Roundtable Discussion: Martin Wong in San Francisco
Lecture | October 7 | 1-2:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
This program explores both the formative and the final years of Martin Wong, who began and ended his career in California. With Mark Dean Johnson, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Sergio Bessa, Marci Kwon, and Charlie Ahearn.
Love, Hate and Comics— The Friendship That Would Not Die: Matt Groening and Lynda Barry
Lecture | October 7 | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
Matt Groening and Lynda Barry, Cal Performances
The creator of The Simpsons, Matt Groening, and cartoonist and author of Ernie Pook’s Comeek, Lynda Barry, reminisce about 40 years of friendship and creativity. An audience Q&A follows their talk.
$25 - 52
Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Cal Performances presents Matt Groening and Lynda Barry at Berkeley Talks, with Love, Hate & Comics—The Friendship That Would Not Die, on Saturday, October 7, 2017 in Zellerbach Hall.
Monday, October 9, 2017
Russian Management of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
Lecture | October 9 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall
Aghasi Yenokyan, Political Analyst on South Caucasian and Russian Affairs
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Armenian Studies Program
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is one of the oldest and bloodiest conflicts on the territory of the former Soviet Union. Since its inception, many states and international organizations have been involved in its regulation, but until now Russia remains the most active party in the negotiations and in the management of warfare among Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Karabakh. This presentation will outline... More >
Jerusalem, on the Moving Edge of Israeli Colonial Rule
Lecture | October 9 | 4:30-6 p.m. | 277 Cory Hall
Thomas Abowd, Tufts University
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
This presentation will analyze how colonialism and colonial urbanism remain a crucial component of contemporary Palestinian and Israeli realities. It seeks to illuminate everyday life as well as the broader institutional forces that comprise and enable Israeli urban policy in Jerusalem. What kinds of barriers—physical, legal, and discursive—operate to keep Israeli-occupied Jerusalem a city of... More >
Assembling a Native Commons: Arts + Design Mondays at BAMPFA
Lecture | October 9 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Tony Abeyta
Participating Units: Arts + Design Initiative; Arts Research Center; Ethnic Studies
Assembling a Native Commons with Tony Abeyta and Friends
Lecture | October 9 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
An evening with Abeyta, an acclaimed Navajo contemporary artist based in Berkeley and Santa Fe.
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Raissa Robles: “Living Dangerously: Investigative Reporting from Marcos to Duterte”
Lecture | October 10 | 12:30-2 p.m. | North Gate Hall, Library (Room 142)
A presentation by Raissa Robles followed by a conversation with John Temple, associate adjunct professor and director of the Investigative Reporting Program at the Graduate School of Journalism.
Recommended Reading:
Journalist Says Supporters Of Philippine President-Elect Threaten Her Online (NPR, June 2016)
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A New Past: Hidden Narratives of the Vietnam War from the North Vietnamese
Lecture | October 10 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Hai Nguyen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Vietnam Center, Texas Tech University
Center for Southeast Asia Studies
This talk will examine the motivations of some North Vietnamese fighters as derived from their personal memoirs, in particular unpublished documents collected from the battlefield by the CIA and U.S. allies. The analysis here seeks to show how personal memory may conflict or be compatible with collective memory, as well as how it may be used to shape or even reshape the stories of history.
Murzban F Shroff | From Diversity to Adversity: A Writer’s Journey into the Unknown
Lecture | October 10 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Murzban F Shroff, Author
Poulomi Saha, Assistant Professor of English
Institute for South Asia Studies, Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies, Department of English
Murzban F. Shroff, Author of Breathless in Bombay (stories) and Waiting for Jonathan Koshy (novel) shares his experiences of writing under threat.
Environmental Design Archives: Gallery Talks: Eichler Homes and the Reinvention of Affordable Housings in the Bay Area
Lecture | October 10 | 7-8 p.m. | Wurster Hall, Room 121
Matthew Gordon Lasner, Hunter College, CUNY
Join the Environmental Design Archives the second Tuesday of each month for Gallery Talks, a series of informal lectures given by scholars and practitioners whose research has drawn extensively from EDA’s vast collections. Topics range from affordable housing, Heath Ceramics, and landscape architect Robert Royston, to photography, and architectural competitions.
Free to UC Berkeley Students,... More >
Environmental Design Archives Gallery Talk: Matthew Gordon Lasner
Lecture | October 10 | 7-8 p.m. | 121 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
Matthew Gordon Lasner, Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at Hunter College, CUNY, discusses Eichler homes.
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
AHMA Noon Colloquium - From Alexander the Great to Imperial Kuṣāns: Iconography and Language of their Monetary Issues in Relation to Diverse Ethnic and Religious Populations in Central Asia and India
Lecture | October 11 | 12 p.m. | 7205 Dwinelle Hall
Osmund Bopearachchi, Paris IV-Sorbonne University
Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, Graduate Group in
The AHMA Noon Colloquium is a series of informal papers presented at noon in 7205 Dwinelle Hall.
Installing Dance/Curating Environments with Brenda Way
Lecture | October 11 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Way, founder and artistic director of ODC/Dance, discusses her long-term role as a leading Bay Area dance curator.
On Installing Dance/Curating Environments: Arts + Design Wednesdays at BAMPFA
Lecture | October 11 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Brenda Way, Artistic Director, ODC/Dance
Brenda Way, ODC Founder and Artistic Director, will discuss her long term role as a leading Bay Area dance curator, focusing on "Boulders and Bones" piece as a choreographic response to the work of site-specific artist Andy Goldsworthy, presented at Cal Performances the same evening.
Biography
Brenda Way is the Founder and Artistic Director of ODC/Dance and Creator of the ODC Theater and ODC... More >
Fray: Art and Textile Politics: Townsend Book Chat with Julia Bryan-Wilson
Lecture | October 11 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Townsend Center for the Humanities
Examining the role of handmaking amid the rise of global manufacturing, Fray explores how textiles inhabit the broad space between high and low, untrained and highly skilled, conformist and disobedient, craft and art.
Returning The Gift: A Case for Andean Reciprocity as a Foundation of Archaeological Research Design
Lecture | October 11 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Kat Huggins, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Archaeological Research Facility
This presentation outlines first the benefits of Mauss’ proposition of total social phenomenon, but goes on to critique and reject the widespread use of Mauss’ model in the Andean region
Litquake
Lecture | October 11 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse
2020 Addison, Berkeley, CA 94704
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)
Litquake with OLLI faculty writers: Tamim Ansary, Jannie Dresser, Elizabeth Fishel, Louise Nayer and Darren Zook.
Knowing, Judging, Calculating: Consumer Credit Surveillance and the Infrastructure of Prediction
Lecture | October 11 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 202 South Hall
Josh Lauer
The untold history of our modern credit scoring system and how it emerged from a 19th-century surveillance infrastructure with huge archives of personal information.
Strangers in Their Own Land: Challenges Climbing the “Empathy Wall”: Bernard Moses Memorial Lecture featuring Arlie Hochschild
Lecture | October 11 | 4:10 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium
Arlie Hochschild, Professor of the Graduate School, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Arlie Hochschild will present the Moses lecture on Wednesday, October 11, 2017. The lecture, entitled Strangers in Their Own Land: Challenges Climbing the “Empathy Wall”, will be held in the Chevron Auditorium of International House and is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
Arlie Hochschild
Zaytuna College Lecture Series with Professor Laura Nader: What the Rest Think of the West
Lecture | October 11 | 7-9 p.m. | Zaytuna College, Sanctuary
2401 Le Conte Ave., Berkeley, CA 94709
Professor Laura Nader, Professor, UC Berkeley
Graduate Theological Union
Zaytuna College invites you to their upcoming Lecture Series, occurring on Wednesday evenings from 7:00pm - 9:00pm at 2401 Le Conte Ave. Berkeley, CA 94709 throughout the Fall semester with renowned speakers such as UC Berkeley Anthropology Professor Laura Nader, Political Science Professor Steven Fish, CAIR Director Zahra Billoo, Stanford Comparative Literature and Classical Arabic Professor... More >
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Datasense: Sensor Technology and the Mediation of Sentience
Lecture | October 12 | 4-6 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 470 Stephens Hall
Natasha Schull, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University
Science, Technology, and Society Center (STSC)
This lecture with Natasha Schull, associate professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU, explores how wearable sensor technology might be altering the terms of human sentience, focusing on self-trackers’ experience—and experiments—with mood-modulating devices and apps.
Dynamic clustering, congestion propagation and perimeter control in large-scale urban networks
Lecture | October 12 | 4-5 p.m. | 212 O'Brien Hall
Nikolas Geroliminis, Urban Transport Systems Laboratory, EPFL
Institute of Transportation Studies
Abstract: Traffic is a strongly time-variant process and it needs to be studied in the spatiotemporal dimension. Investigating the clustering problem over time help us reveal the hidden information during the process of congestion formation and dissolution. The primary motivation of the research presented in this seminar is to study the spatiotemporal relation of congested links in large... More >
NATO: Obsolete Or Adapting?
Lecture | October 12 | 5-6:30 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room | Note change in location
Ambassador Douglas Lute, Harvard Kennedy School
Institute of International Studies
Ambassador Douglas Lute is the former United States Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council, NATO’s standing political body. Appointed by President Obama, he assumed the Brussels-based post in 2013 and served until 2017. During this period he was instrumental in designing and implementing the 28-nation Alliance’s responses to the most severe security challenges in Europe since the... More >
Friday, October 13, 2017
Germany's New Administration: Key Tasks and Problems
Lecture | October 13 | 10-11 a.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Patrick Keller, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Berlin
Institute of European Studies, Center for German and European Studies, American Council on Germany San Francisco Eric M. Warburg Chapter
On September 24, Germans elected a new federal parliament. This talk will offer first insights into the political dynamics of the new administration, with particular view to the current challenges in domestic politics, transatlantic affairs and the future of the EU.
Dr. Keller is the Coordinator of Foreign and Security Policy at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Berlin, Germany. His essays on... More >
Foreign Language Literacy: Affect, Aesthetics, and Ethics
Lecture | October 13 | 3-5 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, B-4 (Classroom side)
Chantelle Warner, University of Arizona
Berkeley Language Center
Over the past couple of decades “literacy” has emerged as a key term in L2 teaching and learning. This has been driven by a renewed and re-theorized interest in how text-based practices mediate and are mediated by human activity across diverse media, linguistic, and discursive channels often captured by the term “multiliteracies” (New London Group, 1996). By shifting attention to how language... More >
Designing Automated Vehicles to Avoid Collisions (and Make Good Decisions When They Can’t)
Lecture | October 13 | 4 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Chris Gerdes, Stanford University
Institute of Transportation Studies
Automated vehicles provide an unparalleled opportunity to reduce the approximately 35,000 fatalities that occur each year on US roads. With the ability to sense 360 degrees around the vehicle, avoid distraction, and react within milliseconds, automated vehicles possess some inherent advantages over human drivers when it comes to avoiding collisions. To realize this potential, however, the cars... More >
Monday, October 16, 2017
New Research in Oral History: Vic Geraci: Making Slow Food Fast in California Cuisine
Lecture | October 16 | 12-1:15 p.m. | Bancroft Library, 267 -- Oral History Center Conference Room
Victor Geraci, Independent Scholar
Dr. Geraci will be presenting findings from his new book, which follows the development of industrial agriculture in California and its influence on both regional and national eating habits. Early California politicians and entrepreneurs envisioned agriculture as a solution to the food needs of the expanding industrial nation. The state’s climate, geography, vast expanses of land, water, and... More >
Nation and State Vs. Europe: When the Sum of the Parts Is Larger Than the Whole
Lecture | October 16 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Josef Joffe, Regents Lecturer, Institute of Governmental Studies
Institute of European Studies, Institute of Governmental Studies
Brexit, the endless crisis of the euro and the suspension of „Schengenland“ are the symptoms of renationalization. So is the rise of anti-European populism - even in Germany, the traditional engine of integration. As always in its 65-years history, the EU will muddle through. But for all of its resilience, it cannot not transcend the nation-state and evolve into an „e pluribus unum.“ This lecture... More >
A Conversation on Music and Virtuosity: Kim Kashkashian, John Santos, Ken Ueno, moderated by Ben Ratliff
Lecture | October 16 | 4-5:45 p.m. | Morrison Hall, Albert Elkus Room, 125 Morrison Hall
Townsend Center for the Humanities
The Townsend Center brings together a selection of eminent figures in the field of music to explore what we mean when we talk about virtuosity.
Black Futures: On Race in Art, Curation, and Digital Engagement: Arts + Design Mondays at BAMPFA
Lecture | October 16 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Kimberly Drew, Social Media Manager for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Creator of the blog Black Contemporary Art
Drew has been dubbed an "international tastemaker in contemporary art" on account of her Tumblr blog Black Contemporary Art and her Instagram @museummammy; and as Social Media Manager at The Met, she has been pivotal in moving that venerated institution in directions both democratic and dialogical. Drew will discuss curation, social media, race, and institutions with Professor Stephen Best... More >
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
History and Theory 17 Oct, 2017 Between the Digital and the Political: New Ecologies of Mind
Lecture | October 17 | 1-5 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium, Rm 310
Erich Hörl, Leuphana University; Yuk Hui, Leuphana University; Luciana Parisi, Goldsmith College; Warren Sack, UC Santa Cruz; David Bates, UC Berkeley
Berkeley Center for New Media, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Dean of Arts and Humanities
When Gregory Bateson, the anthropologist and visionary cyberneticist, introduced his concept of an “ecology of mind” he was encouraging us to pay attention to the ways in which human thinking took place in and across complex networks of activity – biological, technical, social, and political. The individual was an active but ephemeral node in a striated eco-system of ideas and cognition that had... More >
Regents' Lecture: 'Making American Small Again: Donald Trump, the Threat to the Liberal Order and the Future of American Power'
Lecture | October 17 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Moses Hall, Room 109 - IGS Library
Josef Joffe, Publisher-Editor Die Zeit
Department of Political Science
Joffe's appearance is part of the 2017-18 Regents' Lectureship Program. This program has been running for 50 years and brings to the University distinguished speakers who have pursued careers in arts, letters, sciences, or business substantially outside the academic profession.
Ben Ratliff, Music Critic: Mere Virtuosity
Lecture | October 17 | 4 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler
Townsend Center for the Humanities
Music critic and author Ben Ratliff was for 20 years a jazz and pop critic at the New York Times. He is the author of four books, including Coltrane: The Story of a Sound.
The US-Russia Conflict: The New Normal?
Lecture | October 17 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Matthew Rojansky, Director, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Institute of International Studies
Dr. Rojansky will deliver remarks related to the ongoing US-Russia conflict.
Reetika Khera | Welfare Needs Aadhaar Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle?
Lecture | October 17 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Reetika Khera, Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Pranab Bardhan, Professor of Graduate School at the Department of Economics, UC Berkeley
Institute for South Asia Studies, Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies
A lecture on Aadhar by development economist, Dr. Reetika Khera.
Who will speak for the migrant? Migrant struggle in the age of illegality
Lecture | October 17 | 5:30-8 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Multicultural Community Center
The Center for Race & Gender Fall 2017 Distinguished Guest Lecture presents...
Who will speak for the migrant?
Migrant struggle in the age of illegality
Alicia Schmidt Camacho
Yale University More >
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Spectacular Disappearances: Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801: Townsend Book Chat with Julia Fawcett
Lecture | October 18 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Townsend Center for the Humanities
Julia Fawcett examines the stages, pages, and streets of eighteenth-century London as England's first modern celebrities performed their own strange and spectacular self-representations.
Honoring Goddesses in a Family of Ancient Egyptian Tomb Workers: the case for Anuket and Hathor
Lecture | October 18 | 12-1 p.m. | 254 Barrows Hall
Deanna Kiser-Go, Graduate Student Affairs Officer, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley
The Foreman Neferhotep and his immediate descendants held positions of influence in the Deir el-Medina workman’s community during the 19th Dynasty (c. 1307-1196 BCE). During their careers they oversaw the process of cutting and decorating the nearby royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings, but when it came time to design their own tombs their personal choices are apparent. This paper addresses how... More >
Dramaturgy as Curation: Bringing Literature to the Stage: Arts + Design Wednesdays at BAMPFA
Lecture | October 18 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Christopher Herold, Continuing Lecturer, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies; Director of Program, Summer Training Intensive, American Conservatory Theater, UC Berkeley; Nina Ball, Award-winning Set Designer, American Conservatory Theater, Aurora Theatre, Marin Theater Company, Shotgun Players
Christopher Herold and Nina Ball, director and designer for the fall 2017 TDPS production of Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses, will explore upon their process and decisions in bringing this work of literature to the stage-- how they visualized Zimmerman’s fantastic world where the human and the divine collide and where actors perform in a large pool of water.
Biography
Biological Kinship Variation at Campovalano and Alfedena, Iron Age, Central Italy
Lecture | October 18 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Evan Muzzall, University of California, Berkeley D-Lab
Archaeological Research Facility
Biological distance analysis (“biodistance”) is a powerful tool in the bioarchaeologist’s toolkit. Although burial organization does not mirror social organization, it can help us better understand how past humans structured death and in part society via systematic patterns in burial location. This presentation discusses biodistance analyses of cranial and dental metric and dental morphological... More >
President Putin and President Trump
Lecture | October 18 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse
2020 Addison, Berkeley, CA 94704
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)
How did the US-Russian relationship come to such a low point? What can we expect from the relationship between presidents Putin and Trump?
Robert Thurman | Why does the Dalai Lama say he is "Son of Nālandā"?: The inaugural ISAS-VSB Lecture on Religion in the Modern World
Lecture | October 18 | 5-7 p.m. | Bechtel Engineering Center, Sibley Auditorium
Robert A. F. Thurman, Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, Department of Religion, Columbia University; President, Tibet House U.S., President of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies
Jake Dalton, Khyentse Professor and Chair, Dept. of South and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
Institute for South Asia Studies, Vedanta Society Berkeley, Center for Buddhist Studies, Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies, Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, Himalayan Studies Program, Townsend Center for the Humanities, The Mira and Ajay Shingal Center for Dharma Studies-Graduate Theological Union, P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for Silk Road Studies
A lecture by Prof. Robert A. F. Thurman, professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies at Columbia University, and co-founder of Tibet House US, a nonprofit dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Tibetan civilization.
Movement as Research | Cursors: Undoing Bodies Moved by Language
Lecture | October 18 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | 308A Doe Library
Will Rawls
What moves us, writes us, and undoes us? Rawls reflects on his research-based practice of interrogating the matter of marked bodies and the tools of language. Reflecting on his current collaboration with poet Claudia Rankine, and his practices in multiple media, Rawls speculates on the social and aesthetic dimensions of how a racial imaginary operates in his choreographic work.
Theoretically Speaking Series — Black Holes, Firewalls, and the Limits of Quantum Computers
Lecture | October 18 | 6-7:30 p.m. | David Brower Center
2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
Scott Aaronson, University of Texas at Austin
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
Quantum computers are proposed devices that would exploit quantum mechanics to solve certain specific problems dramatically faster than we know how to solve them with today's computers. In the popular press, quantum computers are often presented not just as an exciting frontier of science and technology (which they are), but as magic devices that would work by simply trying every possible... More >
ARCH Lecture: Martyn Dade-Robertson
Lecture | October 18 | 6:30-8 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
WED, OCT 18, 6:30pm. Martyn Dade-Robertson
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Bancroft Library Roundtable: City of White Gold, San Francisco in the Gilded Age: Bringing Archival Images to Life through Film
Lecture | October 19 | 12-1 p.m. | Faculty Club, O'Neill Room
Geordie Lynch, filmmaker
Filmmaker Geordie Lynch will discuss his film-in-progress, City of White Gold, and how the discovery of silver in 1859 transformed San Francisco from a backwater boomtown into a world-class metropolis. The director will also detail the fine points of enriching a historical documentary with stunning and exciting visual imagery.
Seeing Necropolitics: The Work of Death in Philippine Photographs
Lecture | October 19 | 12-2 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Nerissa Balce, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, Stony Brook University
Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Filipino and Philippine Studies Working Group
Necropolitics is a theory about violence and the nation-state. It refers to the absolute power of the state to kill, to allow to live, or to dehumanize people. This talk will look at Filipino bodies as seen from the period of the Philippine-American War and also today, as the victims of President Duterte's drug war.
Nerissa Balce
SOLD OUT - Members' Walk: Crops of the World
Lecture | October 19 | 1-2:30 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden, Front Gate Entrance
Jason Bonham, UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
Join Horticulturalist Jason Bonham on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Crops of the World garden. Come and see fruits and vegetables that originated from all over the world. Everything from bizarre solanaceous berries from South America to giant tree kale from Europe.
Members' Walk: Crops of the World is exclusively available to current members. Admission is free and registration is strongly... More >
Beyond "Resistence": A Bold Plan for Work With Dignity via a Federal Job Guarantee
Lecture | October 19 | 4-6 p.m. | 2521 Channing Way (Inst. for Res. on Labor & Employment), IRLE Director's Room
Darrick Hamilton, Professor of Economics, The New School
Ken Jacobs, Chair, The Labor Center at IRLE; Steven Pitts, Associate Chair, The Labor Center at IRLE; Richard Walker, Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley Geography
Institute of Research on Labor & Employment, Department of Economics
In 2017, Liberals in the United States are calling for “resistance” to regressive policies. Grassroots movements like the Fight for $15 show a desire for an offensive strategy on the left, but Professor Hamilton suggests that they do not go far enough. Raising the minimum wage still leaves many workers unemployed or out of the workforce altogether, especially those stigmatized by race,... More >
David Gilmartin | Pakistan's Creation and the Contested Grand Narratives of 20th Century History: The 5th Mahomedali Habib Distinguished Lecture
Lecture | October 19 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
David Gilmartin, Distinguished Professor of History at the Department of History, North Carolina State University
Munis Faruqui, Chair, Institute for South Asia Studies, Associate Professor of South and Southeast Asian Studies
Institute for South Asia Studies, The Berkeley Pakistan Initiative, The Mahomedali Habib Distinguished Lecture
South Asian Historian, David Gilmartin delivers our fifth Mahomedali Habib Distinguished Lecture.
Alvaro Huerta: In Defense of People on the Move (Latina/o Immigrants) in the Racist Era of Trump
Lecture | October 19 | 5-8 p.m. | Wurster Hall, 112 Auditorium
Dr. Alvaro Huerta, Assistant Professor at Cal State Pomona, Departments of Urban & Regional Planning and Ethnic & Women's Studies, Department of City & Regional Planning, College of Environmental Design
Department of City and Regional Planning
Dr. Alvaro Huerta is an Assistant Professor at Cal State Pomona, Departments of Urban & Regional Planning and Ethnic & Women's Studies
Dr. Huerta is an author of the book Reframing the Latino Immigration Debate: Towards a Humanistic Paradigm and the lead editor of People of Color in the United States: Contemporary Issues in Education, Work, Communities, Health, and Immigration. As an... More >
Foucault's Enlightenment: Islamic Revolution and the Perils of Universal History
Lecture | October 19 | 5-7 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Anthropology
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi examines Foucault’s writings on the Iranian Revolution as an attempt to write the history of the present without binding commitments to a teleological historiography.
Close Up: Exploring Workshop Practices in Roman-Egyptian Portraits
Lecture | October 19 | 6-8 p.m. | Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Jane Williams, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Roman period mummy portraits are considered to be ancient antecedents of modern portraiture. However, the techniques and materials used in their manufacture are not thoroughly understood. The Phoebe Hearst Museum's collections from the site of Tebtunis, Egypt include one of the largest assemblages of mummy portraits to remain intact since their excavation, and form a remarkable resource for... More >
Friday, October 20, 2017
Vive la Revolution or Vive la Counterrevolution?
Lecture | October 20 | 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Peter Bartu, Ph.D.
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
The Gulf states seemed impermeable to the 2011 Arab uprisings, but saw regional developments as both threat and opportunity. Bartu will discuss Saudi Arabia, Oman, UAE, and Qatar in particular and their roles in an ongoing struggle for the heart and soul of a region.
Peter Bartu teaches political transitions in the Middle East, North Africa, the Gulf states, international organizations, and... More >
America and Germany - Old Friends or New Rivals?
Lecture | October 20 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Jan Philip Burgard, Deputy Bureau Chief of the German TV Network ARD
Institute of European Studies, Center for German and European Studies, American Council on Germany, San Francisco Eric M. Warburg Chapter
For decades, the USA and Germany have been the bulwark of the West. But like no other President before him, Donald Trump has raised questions about the nature of this key partnership. Shortly after the Bundestagswahl (federal elections) in Germany, TV correspondent, Dr. Jan Philipp Burgard, will provide an inside view of how the new political environment might change the translatlantic... More >
Jet Noise and The Production of Environmentalism(s) in the 1970's Bay Area: Disruptive: Noise as Material
Lecture | October 20 | 2-3 p.m. | 300 Wheeler Hall
Eric Porter, Professor in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz
UCHRI, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Arts Research Center
The UCHRI working group Counter-Production: Noise as Critical Research will be hosting several events across the UC’s this year that critically engage the field of Sound Studies through interdisciplinary research. Taking up the negative powers of noise, we argue that its disruptive, illegible and unintelligible attributes produce a critical lens for understanding sound’s interaction with the... More >
Blown across the Sea: Glass along the Maritime Silk Road
Lecture | October 20 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 141 McCone Hall | Note change in location
Sanjyot Mehendale, Tang Center for Silk Road Studies, UC Berkeley
Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Tang Center for Silk Road Studies
This lecture will highlight the results of underwater surveys of a 2000-year-old shipwreck uncovered off the coast of the small fishing village of Godavaya, Sri Lanka. The ship's cargo of glass ingots, among other objects, will be the starting point of a discussion on the movement of glass raw materials and finished objects along the intertwined maritime and overland trading networks commonly... More >
FlexPass: Incentives for reducing employee parking
Lecture | October 20 | 4 p.m. | 412 McLaughlin Hall
Dounan Tang, UC Berkeley
Institute of Transportation Studies
Most employers offer free or underpriced parking to employees even as they feel the pressure to reduce the number of employees driving alone to work. The FlexPass study is a parking incentive program that avoids employee discontent. We conducted a two-phase study during the year of 2015 and 2016, the FlexPass and FlexPass-Plus study.
Why Timber is the Construction Material of the 21st Century
Lecture | October 20 | 4:30-6:30 p.m. | Krutch Theatre (Clark Kerr Campus)
Ryan E. Smith, Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Utah
2017 S. J. Hall Lecture in Industrial Forestry
We are experiencing a wood construction revival. Steel and concrete were the material innovations of the industrial revolution. Wood, used to build houses for centuries, is the commercial construction innovation of the 21st century. Long valued for its affordability, timber is being embraced by building developers due to recent advances in... More >
Saturday, October 21, 2017
Making A Successful Career Transition: Roadmap for Change
Lecture | October 21 | 9 a.m.-3 p.m. | UC Berkeley Extension (SF Campus at 160 Spear St.), Room 504
Rebecca Andersen, Career Services at the UC Berkeley Information School; RuthAnn Haffke, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Making a career transition can be bewildering: how do you find jobs? How can you stand out as a candidate? And, if you finally get an interview, how do you showcase yourself as the best candidate? This workshop will walk participants through each step of making a career transition. Through interactive exercises, we will cover strategies in personal branding, networking, résumé and LinkedIn... More >
$50
Information and Consumer Choices: Studies Using Supermarket Data
Lecture | October 21 | 10:30-11:30 a.m. | Anthony Hall
Sofia Berto Villas-Boas, Ph.D. '02, Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, College of Natural Resources
How do consumers respond to changes in the information they’re presented with at the point of purchase? Evidence from retail field experiments in the wine category will be presented and discussed during this Homecoming 2017 CNR Faculty Lecture.
Science at Cal Lecture - Leave election integrity to chance
Lecture | October 21 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building
Philip B. Stark, Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
There’s no perfect way to count votes. To paraphrase Ulysses S. Grant and Richard M. Nixon, “Mistakes will be made.” Voters don’t always follow instructions. Voting systems can be mis-programmed. Ballots can be misplaced. Election fraud is not entirely unknown in the U.S. And the more elections depend on technology, the more vulnerable they are to failures, bugs, and hacking–domestic and... More >
Steven Feld; "Hearing Heat: An Anthropocene Acoustemology"
Lecture | October 21 | 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. | McEnerney Hall (1750 Arch St.)
Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT)
Steven Feld is Senior Scholar at the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico. An anthropologist, filmmaker, and sound artist, his books include Sound and Sentiment, Music Grooves (with Charles Keil), Senses of Place (with Keith Basso), Bosavi-English-Tok Pisin Dictionary (with Bambi Schiefflein), and most recently, Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra. His audio and video projects and sound... More >
A Tale of Two Fats: Fighting the Obesity Epidemic by Engineering Brown Adipose Tissue
Lecture | October 21 | 1:30-2:30 p.m. | Alumni House
Andreas Stahl, Professor and Chair, Department of Nutritional Sciences
This lecture will outline how we are developing and testing a novel anti-obesity approach based on the expansion of “brown fat,” a tissue type with a very high metabolic activity that might lead to the conversion of excess calories into heat.
Sunday, October 22, 2017
Berkeley Social Welfare Gerontology Alumni Reunion and Networking: Featuring keynote speaker Jennie Chin Hansen
Lecture | October 22 | 10 a.m.-12 p.m. | Haviland Hall, Social Research Library, 227 Haviland
Jennie Chin Hansen
School of Social Welfare Aging Advisory Committee
Join your alumni colleagues and those with an interest in aging for a Homecoming weekend event!
Monday, October 23, 2017
2017 Eastman Lecture: Unique Properties of Carbide and Bimetallic Catalysts
Lecture | October 23 | 775 Tan Hall
Jingguang Chen, Columbia University
Department of Chemical Engineering
2017 Eastman Lecturer, Professor Jingguang Chen, will present "Unique Properties of Carbide and Bimetallic Catalysts."
Unique Properties of Carbide and Bimetallic Catalysts
Lecture | October 23 | 4-5 p.m. | 775 Tan Hall
Jingguang Chen, Columbia University
American Artist and Muralist Zio Ziegler at the Berkeley Forum
Lecture | October 23 | 6-7:15 p.m. | 223 Dwinelle Hall
Zio Ziegler
From the Gallery to the Streets: The Evolution of Visual Art
Before the inception of the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain and America, visual art was a term restricted to the fine arts and was closely associated with upper class society. However, as society has evolved, so too has the medium of visual art. What was once limited to private displays and galleries has now found a home in the... More >
Free
Socially-engaged Internet-art. Aesthetics of Information Ethics: Arts + Design Mondays at BAMPFA
Lecture | October 23 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Paolo Cirio, Artist, Activist, and Cultural Critic
Society has become deeply affected by advanced distribution systems of information. The social fields of law, economics, and politics are increasingly interconnected, while social norms, relationships, and identities shift at fast pace. In this context, examining art from a broader social context means working with a multiplicity of social systems and processes that the Internet activates.... More >
Garrison Keillor: Just Passing through
Lecture | October 23 | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
Garrison Keillor, Cal Performances
"You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories"—a single line from one of Garrison Keillor's novels is a fitting introduction to the dry wit and folksy charisma of its author. The beloved radio personality and former host of NPR's A Prairie Home Companion (for more than 40 years!), Keillor holds court with his signature blend of self-deprecating humor and homespun wisdom, sharing... More >
$30 - 78
Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Cal Performances presents Garrison Keillor at Berkeley Talks, with Just Passing Through, on Monday, October 23, 2017 in Zellerbach Hall.
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
AHMA Noon Colloquium - Rock-cut Monuments in eastern Thrace: Gluhite Kamani and its Neighbours
Lecture | October 24 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 7205 Dwinelle Hall
Lynn Roller, UC Davis
Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, Graduate Group in
The Mobilization of South African Civil Society in the al-Bashir Matter
Lecture | October 24 | 12:45-2 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, Room 132
Professor Mia Swart, University of Johannesburg
Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law
Professor Mia Swart will speak about the South African litigation over Sudanese President Omar al Bashir, and the relationship between the African Union and the International Criminal Court.
Professor Swart coordinates and teaches the LLM program in international law at the University of Johannesburg. She previously worked as Research Fellow at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law in London... More >
The Language of Friendship: The Role of Talk in an Understudied Relationship: Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures by Deborah Tannen
Lecture | October 24 | 4:10 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium
Deborah Tannen, University Professor, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University
Deborah Tannen will present the Hitchcock lectures on October 24 and 25, 2017. The second lecture is titled "Conversations on the Small Screen: Talking over Social Media" and is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
About the lecture
Skin is the primary interface between ourselves and our environment, and changes in the... More >
Deborah Tannen
Stéphane Gros | Why Marry?: Comparative Perspectives on Kinship, the House, and Marriage in the Eastern Himalayas
Lecture | October 24 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Stéphane Gros, Visiting Scholar at the Institute for 2017; Researcher, Centre for Himalayan Studies, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Alexander von Rospatt, Professor for Buddhist and South Asian Studies, and director of the Group in Buddhist Studies
Institute for South Asia Studies, Himalayan Studies Program, Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS)
A talk by Dr. Stéphane Gros, Visiting Scholar at the Institute for 2017, is a Researcher at the Centre for Himalayan Studies, CNRS-France
Tissue of the World: On Stoic Sympathy
Lecture | October 24 | 5 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Brooke Holmes, Princeton University
The concept of cosmic sympathy, highly developed by the Stoics, is at once deeply foreign to us in its claims regarding a mind fully immanent in the world and intriguing, as we struggle anew with imagining communities that bring together humans and non-humans. This talk investigates the contours, the stakes, and the internal tensions of cosmic sympathy for the Stoics in order to argue that... More >
Erwin Chemerinsky: Free Speech on Campus
Lecture | October 24 | 5-8 p.m. | Wurster Hall, 112 Auditorium
Erwin Chemerinsky, Berkeley Law Dean, Department of City & Regional Planning, College of Environmental Design
Department of City and Regional Planning
When is speech protected on campus? And when can campuses restrict speech because it is hateful or it endangers public safety?
Erwin Chemerinsky is a Berkeley Law Dean, a Constitutional Law Scholar, and a Founding Dean of UC Irvine School of Law.
Erwin Chemerinsky became the 13th Dean of Berkeley Law on July 1, 2017, when he joined the faculty as the Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor... More >
Survival by Design: A Panel Discussion on Natural Restoration, Vernacular Architecture and Ecocities
Lecture | October 24 | 7-8:30 p.m. | Wurster Hall, 210 - Environmental Design Library Atrium
Richard Register, Ecocity Builders
Randolph Langenbach; Mark Rauzon
Hurricanes, earthquakes, extreme heat and climate change necessitate positive visions. Three thinkers will discuss their work in environmental design, architecture and urban planning.
Mark Rauzon is the author of Isles of Amnesia: The History, Geography, and Restoration of America's Forgotten Pacific Islands and Isles of Refuge. As a biologist he has worked in the field of island... More >
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Becoming comfortable with the uncomfortable: realistic impossibilities to prepare ourselves for the future: Arts + Design Wednesdays at BAMPFA
Lecture | October 25 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Andrea Bandelli, CEO, Science Gallery International
At times of great uncertainty and complex developments, our capacity to navigate through the unknown depends on how comfortable we are with what is different from us. How do we learn to shape our emotions and our reactions, to change our mindset and to take responsibility today over the future? The creative collisions of art, culture, science and design confront us with what it means to be... More >
The Rhetoric of Hiddenness in Traditional Chinese Culture: Townsend Book Chat with Paula Varsano
Lecture | October 25 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Townsend Center for the Humanities
This volume brings together fourteen essays that explore the role of hiddenness—as both an object and a mode of representation—in the history of cultural production in China.
The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race
Lecture | October 25 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Neda Maghbouleh, University of Toronto
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Race and Gender, Department of Ethnic Studies
In this talk, based on her new book The Limits of Whiteness (2017, Stanford University Press), sociologist Neda Maghbouleh shares the curious, under-theorized story of how Iranian Americans move across a white/not-white color line. By contextualizing ethnographic data with neglected historical and legal evidence, she offers new evidence for how a “white” American immigrant group can become... More >
Mortuary Culture and Ethnic Politics in Eleventh-Century Northeast Asia
Lecture | October 25 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Nicolas Tackett, Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley Department of History
Archaeological Research Facility
Due to an abundance of surviving textual sources, historians of
China's Song Dynasty (960-1279) have made relatively little use of the
archaeological record. In this talk, I will introduce a database I
have compiled of eleventh-century tombs excavated in a broad region
that spans the historical boundary between the Song state and its
northern neighbor, the Eurasian steppe-based Liao Empire.... More >
The Energy Grid of the Future
Lecture | October 25 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse
2020 Addison, Berkeley, CA 94704
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)
Professor Dan Kammen speaks about the energy grid of the future.
Electing Peace: From Civil Conflict to Political Participation: Aila Matanock
Lecture | October 25 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Aila Matanock
Center for Latin American Studies
Aila Matanock will discuss her new book Electing Peace, which presents a theory that explains both the causes and the consequences of these provisions. She draws on new international data on electoral participation provisions, case studies in Central America, and interviews with representatives of all sides of the conflicts.
Cover image from Electing Peace (By Christian Grooms for Cambridge University Press.)
The Afterlife of Migration: Balikbayans and the Return Economy in Contemporary Manila
Lecture | October 25 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Eric Pido, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, San Francisco State University
Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Department of Ethnic Studies
This presentation examines the role of Filipinos who return to their homeland, after living in the U.S. for several decades, in the economic development of the Philippines.
Eric Pido
2017 Eastman Lecture: Converting CO2 via Thermocatalysis and Electrocatalysis
Lecture | October 25 | 4-5 p.m. | 180 Tan Hall
Jingguang Chen, Columbia University
Department of Chemical Engineering
2017 Eastman Lecturer, Professor Jingguang Chen, will present "Unique Properties of Carbide and Bimetallic Catalysts."
Conversations on the Small Screen: Talking over Social Media: Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures by Deborah Tannen
Lecture | October 25 | 4:10 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium
Deborah Tannen, University Professor, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University
Deborah Tannen will present the Hitchcock lectures on October 24 and 25, 2017. The second lecture is titled "Conversations on the Small Screen: Talking over Social Media" and is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
About the lecture
Skin is the primary interface between ourselves and our environment, and changes in the... More >
Deborah Tannen
Visual Trumpery: Fighting Against Fake Data and Visualizations — From the Left and From the Right
Lecture | October 25 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 202 South Hall
Alberto Cairo
With facts and truth increasingly under assault, sifting through the visual information and misinformation is more critical than ever.
Gorbachev: His Life and Times: 33rd Annual Colin and Elsa Miller Lecture
Lecture | October 25 | 5-7 p.m. | Doe Library, Morrison Library
William Taubman, Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, Amherst College
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES)
In his Gorbachev biography William Taubman shows how a peasant boy turned into Soviet Communism’s gravedigger, why the Communist regime allowed him to destroy it, how Gorbachev’s dream of democratizing the USSR foundered, how he and President Ronald Reagan turned out to be almost perfect partners, and why Gorbachev permitted Eastern Europe to abandon Communism without firing a shot. Taubman’s... More >
Why Study the Russian Revolution?
Lecture | October 25 | 6-7:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
David North, International Youth and Students for Social Equality
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)
What was the Russian Revolution? How did it become the dominant event of the 20th century, forever altering history by given rise to the most powerful and progressive social movements of the last century? David North, author of The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century, will review the causes, consequences and enduring significance of the 1917 Russian Revolution.
Why Study the Russian Revolution?
ARCH Lecture: Philippe Block
Lecture | October 25 | 6:30-8 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
WED, OCT 25, 6:30pm. Philippe Block
Zaytuna College Lecture Series with Imam Dawood Yasin: Tayyib: The Foundation of Ethical Eating and Conscious Consumption
Lecture | October 25 | 7-9 p.m. | Zaytuna College, Sanctuary
2401 Le Conte Ave., Berkeley, CA 94709
Imam Dawood Yasin, Faculty, Zaytuna College
Graduate Theological Union
Zaytuna College invites you to their upcoming Lecture Series, occurring on Wednesday evenings from 7:00pm - 9:00pm at 2401 Le Conte Ave. Berkeley, CA 94709 throughout the Fall semester with renowned speakers such as UC Berkeley Anthropology Professor Laura Nader, Political Science Professor Steven Fish, CAIR Director Zahra Billoo, Stanford Comparative Literature and Classical Arabic Professor... More >
