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
Sir Joseph Banks (1743 – 1820) was an English naturalist and botanist who accompanied Captain James Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific. During the expedition, 30,000 plants were collected and The Banks Florilegium was created but not published until 1989. Banks is credited for introducing the genera Acacia, Banksia and Eucalyptus to the Western world. Approximately 80 species of plants were... More >
$12, $10 members (Price includes Garden Admission)
SOLD OUT.
Pathways to STEM: with Dr. Gentry Patrick
Lecture | February 1 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 245 Li Ka Shing Center
Professor Gentry Patrick, UC San Diego
How does one take a kid from Compton on a life journey and academic career path to Professor in Neurobiology at UC San Diego by way of UC Berkeley (B.A.), Harvard University (Ph.D.), and postdoctoral studies at California Institute of Technology?
The answer is simple: Access, Mentorship and Advocacy!
Professor Patrick is dedicated to driving the overall vision for the PATHS Program, a pilot... More >
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
Brian Porter-Szűcs, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, University of Michigan
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Center for Right-Wing Studies
There are obvious similarities between Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orbán, Recep Erdoğan, Jair Bolsonaro, Jarosław Kaczyński, Rodrigo Duterte, Donald Trump, and all the other politicians we have come to call ‘populists.’ Not only is that label misleading, but analyzing them as part of a single ideological movement can lead to confusion. This presentation will use the example of Poland to... More >
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
Siddharth Kara, The Blum Center for Developing Economies
Blum Center for Developing Economies, Institute for South Asia Studies
The Blum Center for Developing Economies & Institute of South Asia Studies invites you to the launch of the report "Tainted Garments: The Exploitation of Women and Girls in India’s Home-based Garment Sector" by Blum Center Research Fellow and renowned anti-trafficking expert Siddharth Kara. Lunch will be provided (RSVP required).
Kara's report offers the most comprehensive investigation yet... More >
Women's Activism in Cold War Pakistan: A Transnational History
Lecture | February 1 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 602 Barrows Hall
Elora Shehabuddin, Associate Professor of Humanities and Political Science, Rice University
Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Institute for South Asia Studies, The Subir & Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies
My current project traces the history of successive generations of urban Muslim Bengali women activists over the second half of the twentieth century. This allows me to examine how they have negotiated their identities—as Bengali, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Third World, secular, religious, and Muslim—at different moments and how transnational interactions and international interventions have shaped... More >
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
Rebecca Andersen, Career Services at the UC Berkeley Information School; RuthAnn Haffke, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Do you feel like you are in a rut in your career and long to do something that feels more fulfilling, even if you have no idea what that might be? Do you know you're in the wrong job but feel stuck by fear or self-doubt when you think about trying to make a change?
This workshop is tailored to help you find direction and outline steps to find (and achieve!) work you love.
In advance of the... More >
$50 $50 plus Strengthfinder Assessment
Monday, February 4, 2019
Design Field Notes: August de los Reyes
Lecture | February 4 | 4-5 p.m. | 220 Jacobs Hall
Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
August de los Reyes works as a Design Director at Google where he leads a team dedicated to harnessing technologies in the service of human well-being. Prior to joining Google, August led design at Pinterest and at Xbox for Microsoft. August is an active champion of Inclusive Design in the tech arena, as well as a pioneer in the Natural User Interface.
The Cutting Edge: Theory and the Avant-Garde in Ljubljana
Lecture | February 4 | 4-6 p.m. | B-4 Dwinelle Hall
Kaitlyn Tucker, Humanities Teaching Fellow, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
This talk examines the historical relationship between the Ljubljana School and the avant-garde. Beginning in 1967 with Slavoj Zizek’s and Rastko Mocnik’s first forays into concrete poetry and concluding with the School’s involvement in the Neue Slowenische Kunst movement during the 1980s, the talk analyzes the Ljubljana School's engagement with avant-garde aesthetics, and ultimately... More >
New York Times Deputy Editor Julie Bloom at the Berkeley Forum
Lecture | February 4 | 6-7:30 p.m. | 125 Morrison Hall
Julie Bloom, New York Times
In the first half of the twentieth century, the average New York Times editor might never see California, the average New York Times reader might not have either. Much has changed since then. The Times now has more than two dozen journalists based up and down the state and more readers in the state than anywhere else in the country, including New York. Ms. Bloom will talk about the evolution of... More >
$0
The Paris Review: Women at Work
Lecture | February 4 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Osher Theater
Emily Nemens
Arts + Design, Department of English, Art of Writing Program at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, Journalism School, Bay Area Book Festival
What does it mean to be a woman at work in the creative arts in 2019? The Paris Review's new editor, Emily Nemens, reflects on this question through the lens of the storied literary quarterly's Writers at Work interview series, the work of contemporary contributors, and her own creative practice as a writer and illustrator.
Emily Nemens joined The Paris Review as editor in 2018. Stories... More >
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
Anna Frisone, Visiting Scholar and Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of History, UC Berkeley
Institute of European Studies, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Department of History
Second-wave feminism is internationally known for its choice of refusing any engagement with gender-mixed political organizations, in favor of a deep commitment into women-only collectives. However, some women stubbornly decided to introduce a feminist approach within male-dominated organizations such as the trade unions, interrogating their allegedly neutral but on the contrary deeply gendered... More >
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)
Robert Train, Sonoma State University
Berkeley Language Center
Attacking education has long been a staple food in the conservative political regimen of the “culture wars” in the US. However, the assault on higher education takes an increasingly troubling and openly violent texture in the Trump era, particularly for immigrants and Latinos. In this talk, I will examine impacts of Trumpian discourse on how we language educators may address structural and... More >
Political Economy of Reforms in Europe’s Neighborhood
Lecture | February 5 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220
Sergei Guriev, Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES)
Continuing economic convergence in Europe’s neighborhood requires further structural reforms. We will discuss the political economy of reforms in specific transition countries including Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan.
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
Sherry Turkle, Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sherry Turkle will present the Hitchcock lectures on February 5 and February 6, 2019. The first lecture is titled "The Assault on Empathy: The Promise of a Friction-Free Life" and is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
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
Graduate School of Journalism, Berkeley Food Institute, UC Berkeley-11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship
Please join us for a special lecture series with celebrated author and scholar Marion Nestle. "Food Politics 2019: Food Policy in the Trump Era" What’s happening under the Trump administration to policies aimed at solving problems of undernutrition, obesity, and the effects of food production on the environment?
Photo: Bill Hayes
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)
Nicholas Tripcevich, Lab Manager, Archaeological Research Facility; Scott Byram, Owner, Feature Survey, Inc; José M. Capriles, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University; Calogero M. Santoro, Professor of Archaeology, Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Chile
Archaeological Research Facility
In the hyper-arid core of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile dozens of Terminal Pleistocene archaeological sites have been located in an area that previously held seasonal surface water channels and a riparian landscape. We present preliminary results from recent geophysical research at the site of Quebrada Mani 35.
Labor Regimes of Indenture – A Global Overview of Migrant Domestic Work
Lecture | February 6 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 554 Barrows Hall
Rhacel Parreñas, University of Southern California
Department of Ethnic Studies, Center for Race and Gender, Institute for Labor Relations and Employment
Across the globe, migrant domestic workers are unfree workers whose legal residency is contingent on their continued employment as a live-in worker with a designated sponsor. This talk examines the politics of their indenture. Providing a macro and micro perspective, it begins with a global overview of the incorporation of migrant domestic workers as indentured workers in key host countries in... More >
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
Townsend Center for the Humanities
Nylan explores the concept of “pleasure”—including both short-term delight and longer-term satisfaction—as understood by major thinkers of ancient China.
The Color of Law
Lecture | February 6 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse
2020 Addison St, Berkeley, CA 94704
Richard Rothstein, Haas Institute
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)
A forgotten history of how our government segregated America.
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
Konstantin Kakaes, The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
Science is complicated. So too are mathematics and engineering. (This talk will speak of these subjects as “science”, despite the imprecision in doing so, without loss of generality.) Most people do not understand most things—even scientists working in any given discipline often understand little about the work of their colleagues across campus.
Some popular writing by scientists is... More >
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
Steven Feldstein, Boise State University
Repressive regimes are implementing AI systems, accelerating the global resurgence of authoritarianism and a new era of surveillance and control. To counter both the spread of high-tech repression abroad and potential abuses at home, policy makers in democratic states must think seriously.
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
Karen Chapple
The availability of new forms of data on different aspects of everyday life, analyzed and shared via new data analytics, has created an opportunity to depart from the old routines of data collection, cleaning, variable construction, and regression analysis. Working with fine-grained, real-time data has inspired a new generation of researchers eager to design smarter cities (despite the cautions... More >
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
Karen Chapple
In this talk, Professor Karen Chapel uses the lens of my Urban Displacement Project to explore how new sources of data, such as geotagged Twitter data, upend our traditional understandings of neighborhood change, while also facilitating new forms of participatory action research and global comparative case studies.
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
Sherry Turkle, Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sherry Turkle will present the Hitchcock lectures on February 5 and February 6, 2019. The second lecture is titled "The Assault on Empathy: The Promise of Artificial Intimacy" and is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
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
Stan Lai
Written and directed by A+D Thursdays series co-curator Stan Lai, The Peach Blossom Land (1992) is the award winning film adaption of his groundbreaking 1986 play Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land. The film radically challenged the principles of filmed theater, featuring remarkable innovations in staging, the use of song and dialogue, and the convention of the "fourth wall." Two theater companies... More >
Sustainable Vikings - A Talk by Dr. Robert Strand
Lecture | February 7 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Dr. Robert Strand, Center for Responsible Business at Berkeley Haas
Institute of European Studies, Center for Responsible Business, Nordic Studies Program
How have the Nordics come to dominate virtually all measurements of sustainability? From the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), Nordic countries and companies always command the top - or very near the top - of sustainability measurements. Join Robert Strand as he shares lessons he has drawn from over 15 years of inquiry in the Nordic region and... More >
Dr. Robert Strand
Shoroon Bumbagar: Tombs with Mounds in Central Mongolia
Lecture | February 7 | 4 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Nancy S. Steinhardt , East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania
Patricia Berger, History of Art, UC Berkeley, Emerita
Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), UC Berkeley Mongolia Initiative
The talk begins with a tomb often known as Shoroon Bumbagar that was excavated in Bayannuur, Bulgan province, Mongolia, in 2011. Covered with murals but without an inscription or other information about its date, the tomb is studied alongside the better known tombs such as Pugu Yitu’s (d. 678), only five kms away, and tombs of Tang China and Sogdiana. Before drawing conclusions, the talk turns... More >
The Crooked, Windy, Pothole-Filled Road To Success
Lecture | February 7 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Dr. Geetha Murali, Room to Read
Institute of International Studies
Scripted career paths are over-rated, according to Dr. Geetha Murali, CEO of global nonprofit Room to Read. Instead of following an overly scripted career path, Murali advises you to assess opportunities as you go and identify where you can add the most value based on your skill set or an acquirable skill set. Then contribute effectively towards organizational priorities and beyond to become a... More >
Chinese Animal Gods
Lecture | February 7 | 5-7 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Meir Shahar, Tel Aviv University
Our ancestors depended upon beasts of burden for a living. In the Chinese case this dependence was reflected in the religious sphere. Chinese religion featured deities responsible for the wellbeing of draft animals. The two principal ones were the Horse King (divine protector of equines) and the Ox King (tutelary deity of bovines). This lecture will examine the ecological background and... More >
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
Townsend Center for the Humanities, Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, Department of History, Department of Sociology
Arlie Hochschild and Thomas Laqueur discuss the contributions that academic scholars can make to the public understanding of truth and its relation to politics.
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)
Jack L. Davis, Blegen Professor of Greek Archaeology, University of Cincinnati
Internationally recognized scholar of Bronze Age Greece offers a series of lectures showing how the archaeological record sheds light on culture and communal life of early Greece.
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
The colonial era witnessed a fevered quest for the healing flora of the equatorial latitudes. Subscribing to ancient Eden notions of plant-people relations, European physicians and scientists were motivated by the belief that God had planted botanical cures for diseases in their places of origin. While many colonial bioprospectors subscribed to the biblical Doctrine of Signatures, they discovered... More >
$12, $10 members (Price includes Garden Admission)
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
Tim Guertin, EECS ‘72, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors, Varian Medical Systems
Adapting to climate change: Generating new science-based design typologies
Lecture | February 8 | 12-1 p.m. | 534 Davis Hall
Dr. Kristina Hill, Associate professor, Department of landscape architecture & environmental planning and urban design, UC Berkeley
Queer Expectations: a genealogy of jewish women's poetry
Lecture | February 8 | 12 p.m. | Maude Fife Room Wheeler Hall
Zohar Weiman-Kelman
Center for the Study of Sexual Culture
Zohar Weiman-Kelman will be discussing their recently published book, Queer Expectations: a Genealogy of Jewish Women’s Poetry (SUNY Press, 2018). Bringing together Jewish women’s poetry in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew from late nineteenth century through the 1970s, this talk will explore how Jewish women writers turned to poetry to write new histories.
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)
Sarah Pinto, Professor of Anthropology, Tufts University
Lawrence Cohen, Professor in Anthropology and South and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
Institute for South Asia Studies, Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies, Townsend Center Working Group on Form and Formalism, Townsend Center for the Humanities Lecture Grant, The Berkeley South Asia Art Initiative
A talk by Professor Sarah Pinto, Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University.
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
Are there good soba noodle places nearby? How do I get to JFK by train? In this talk, Google Vice President of Engineering Luiz André Barroso and Google Earth Engine Co-founder Matt Hancher will describe the technical complexity of creating models that reflect the real world for tools such as Google Maps, Search and Google Earth.
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
Luiz André Barroso, VP of Engineering, Google
Matt Hancher, Co-founder, Google Earth Engine, Google
Berkeley Institute for Data Science
Are there good soba noodle places nearby? How do I get to JFK by train? When does this park close? Show me Stonehenge! Helping people explore and get things done in the real world is the task our team has taken on, and it is a rather challenging one. In this talk I will describe the technical complexity of creating models that reflect the real world for tools such as Google Maps, Search and... More >
Monday, February 11, 2019
Seismic Performance of Existing Tall Steel Framed Buildings
Lecture | February 11 | 12-1 p.m. | 502 Davis Hall
Robert Pekelnicky, SE, Principal, Degenkolb Engineers
AHMA Colloquium - Structured space, structured time, structured things: making digital research data reusable
Lecture | February 11 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 308A Doe Library
Adam Rabinowitz, University of Texas at Austin
Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, Graduate Group in
This paper is part of a larger lecture series entitled "Digital Humanities and the Ancient World." The series is co-sponsored by the Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology (AHMA) Colloquium and the Townsend Center for the Humanities.
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
Howard Stone, Professor, Princeton University
Department of Chemical Engineering
The flows of complex fluids link fundamental research questions to potential applications, both in industry and for understanding natural phenomena. In this talk I discuss two research questions that we have studied recently: (1) Although flows at modest Reynolds numbers at a T-shaped junction is a geometry where one should expect everything is known, nevertheless we uncover previously... More >
Beyond heteronormativity: Queer archaeology in Japan
Lecture | February 11 | 4-6 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Jun Mitsumoto, Associate Professor of Archaeology and Museum Studies, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Center for Research on the Dynamics of Civilizations, Okayama University, Japan
Archaeological Research Facility, Center for Japanese Studies (CJS), Department of Anthropology
This presentation focuses on issues of heteronormativity in Japanese archaeology, using case studies regarding same-sex relationships and cross-dressing in prehistoric and protohistoric Japan to explore how such practical studies can oppose heteronormative interpretations, and what new information and perspectives can be gained through a reconstruction of the past.
Beyond heteronormativity: Queer archaeology in Japan
Lecture | February 11 | 4-6 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Jun Mitsumoto, Associate Professor of Archaeology and Museum Studies, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Center for Research on the Dynamics of Civilizations, Okayama University, Japan
Archaeological Research Facility, Department of Anthropology
This presentation focuses on issues of heteronormativity in Japanese archaeology, using case studies regarding same-sex relationships and cross-dressing in prehistoric and protohistoric Japan to explore how such practical studies can oppose heteronormative interpretations, and what new information and perspectives can be gained through a reconstruction of the past.
Design Field Notes: Karen Nakamura
Lecture | February 11 | 4:30-5:30 p.m. | 220 Jacobs Hall
Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
Karen Nakamura is a cultural and visual anthropologist who researches disability in contemporary Japan at the University of California, Berkeley. Her first project was on sign language, identity, and deaf social movements and resulted in a monograph and edited volume. After that, her second project was on schizophrenia and community-based recovery in Japan and this resulted in a book, its... More >
News of the Future and the Future of News
Lecture | February 11 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Osher Theater, BAMPFA
Kevin Delaney, Quartz
Berkeley Center for New Media, Graduate School of Journalism
Kevin J. Delaney is editor in chief and co-CEO of Quartz, the global business news site at qz.com. Kevin cofounded Quartz in 2012 and has led its pioneering approach to journalism, which has won many awards and attracted a readership around the world. Prior to Quartz, Kevin was a Wall Street Journal reporter for a decade, with postings in Paris and San Francisco. He was managing editor of... More >
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
Kevin Delaney
Berkeley Center for New Media, Graduate School of Journalism
Berkeley Center for New Media
Kevin J. Delaney is editor in chief and co-CEO of Quartz, the global business news site at qz.com. Kevin cofounded Quartz in 2012 and has led its pioneering approach to journalism, which has won many awards and attracted a readership around the world. Prior to Quartz, Kevin was a Wall Street Journal reporter for a decade, with postings in Paris and San Francisco.... More >
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
As a part of our "Year of Ethnobotany" celebrations, the Garden will be hosting monthly lunch time lectures featuring the research of UC Berkeley graduate students, post-docs, and faculty.
In February join, Eric Harris to learn all about mosses and their use in human life.
Free with Garden Admission
Register online or by calling 510-664-7606
Sustainability – Why and How? The Nordic Way
Lecture | February 12 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Ambassador Ove Ullerup, Royal Danish Embassy in Sweden
Institute of European Studies, Center for Responsible Business, Nordic Studies Program
In his talk, the Danish ambassador to Sweden, Ove Ullerup, will focus on the relationship and cooperation between the public and private sector on the sustainability agenda in the Nordic countries.
The ambassador discusses challenges in changing concepts and how the Nordic countries will face these in the future. What role will the UN Sustainable Development Goals play and have they changed our... More >
Ove Ullerup
Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing From Empires To The Global Era
Lecture | February 12 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
T.V. Paul, McGill University
Institute of International Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Institute for South Asia Studies
This presentation is based on the book with the same title (Yale University Press, 2018) which examines a crucial element of state behavior -- the use of international institutions, informal alignments and economic instruments such as sanctions -- to constrain the power and threatening behavior of dominant actors. Much of International Relations scholarship fails to capture the use of these... More >
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
Stanislav Lvovsky, Auhtor
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Back then in the first half of 1990s new generation of Russian poets, — or its considerable part — found itself facing the challenge of inventing a new way to speak straightforwardly: readily available poetics either weren’t quite fit for the job or themselves were part of the problem to be resolved. Poetry optics, which has emerged at the time in the capacity of the solution, was the “new... More >
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
Lloyd B. Minor, Stanford University School of Medicine
How are medical schools adapting to today's greatest challenges? Join the Dean of Stanford University School of Medicine, Lloyd B. Minor M.D., for a discussion on the ways in which medical education is changing and responding to unique social demands. Dean Minor will specifically discuss the challenges in biomedical discovery and the vital importance of diversity in science, while showcasing how... More >
$0
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)
Graduate School of Journalism, Berkeley Food Institute, UC Berkeley-11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship
Please join us for a special lecture series with celebrated author and scholar Marion Nestle. "Food Politics 2019: Nutrition Science Under Siege." Nutrition science is under attack from statisticians and the food industry. Who stands to gain and what might be lost?
Surprising Evidence:: Revealing Vanished Landscapes Through Nontraditional Moving Images
Lecture | February 12 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Wurster Hall, Wurster Auditorium, RM 112
Rick Prelinger, University of California, Santa Cruz
Join us for our second Gallery Talk!
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Wurster Auditorium, Room 112
6:30 to 7pm - Light Refreshments
7 to 8pm - Lecture
Free to UC Berkeley Students, Staff, Faculty, and Friends of the EDA
Suggested $10 donation for those outside UC Berkeley
Historians, architects and planners often look to feature films as records of extinct environments. But few know... More >
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
Caren Kaplan, Professor of American Studies, University of California, Davis
Department of Gender and Women's Studies
At the close of the First Gulf War, feminist architectural historian Beatriz Colomina wrote that “war today speaks about the difficulty of establishing the limits of domestic space.” That conflict of 1990-91 is most often cited as the first to pull the waging of war fully into the digital age and therefore into a blurring of boundaries of all kinds.
The Exeter Anthology: Codicological Grace and Integrative Poetics
Lecture | February 13 | 12 p.m. | 306 Wheeler Hall
John Niles, Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley
A brown-bag presentation by John Niles on his most recent book *God's Exiles and English Verse: On the Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry.*
HearstCAVE: Immersive Visualization and Student Discovery Experiences
Lecture | February 13 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Chris Hoffman, Associate Director, Research IT
Archaeological Research Facility
This talk explores the role that visualization walls, photogrammetry, and virtual reality can play in research, scholarship, and student engagement, highlighting a series of projects led by Research IT and the Hearst Museum of Anthropology with a growing set of partners on campus and beyond.
Reimagining Labor Law
Lecture | February 13 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse
2020 Addison St, Berkeley, CA 94704
Catherine Fisk, Berkeley Law
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)
Transformation of work through the gig economy and through the decline of unions presents unprecedented challenges for regulating work for the common good. But it also presents opportunities for a fresh start. This lecture will examine some of the recent radical changes in the law of the workplace in California and nationwide.
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
Howard Stone, Professor, Princeton University
Department of Chemical Engineering
Fluid dynamics is a discipline with a long history, and has a distinctive feature that it links engineering, mathematics and physics, and provides many avenues for intersections with biology. In this talk I will provide one view of the ways that mechanics, and in particular fluid dynamics, yields insights into a wide variety of "multiphase" flow problems. The talk will begin with brief examples... More >
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
Philip Kitcher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
Philip Kitcher will present the Howison Lecture on February 13, 2019. The lecture is titled "Progress in the Sciences and in the Arts," and is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
Total Medicine: An Approach to the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Medical Texts
Lecture | February 13 | 5 p.m. | 300 Wheeler Hall
John Niles, Professor Emeritus, Berkeley English
When we enter the realm of Anglo-Saxon medicine we find ourselves in a landscape of total war, with all the curative plants of the earth and all beneficent animal extracts aligned with the physician, angels, archangels, and the almighty God against the attacks of wyrms, elves, witches, and flying venoms. We are also in a pre-Scholastic environment of experimental science where the curative... More >
Reetika Khera | Dissent on Aadhaar: Big Data Meets Big Brother
Lecture | February 13 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conference Room)
Reetika Khera, Associate Professor, Economics and Public Systems Group, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Lawrence Cohen, Professor in Anthropology and South and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
Institute for South Asia Studies, Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies
A talk by Walter Hakala, Associate Professor in the Asian Studies Program and Department of English at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, and author of Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia, published by Columbia University Press.
Docent Lecture: Berkeley Rep's "Paradise Square"
Lecture | February 13 | 5-5:45 p.m. | 330 Wheeler Hall
Dee Kursh, Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Come hear more about Berkeley Repertory Theatre's new musical, "Paradise Square: A New Musical."
It’s 1863 and in a 20-block area of Manhattan known as the Five Points, Black and Irish Americans live side by side, work together, marry, and for a brief period realize racial harmony. However, the intensifying Civil War soon results in the first-ever Federal draft, leading to riots as whites are... More >
JOINT ARCHITECTURE + AIA EAST BAY LECTURE: ALICE KIMM | JOHN FRIEDMAN ALICE KIMM ARCHITECTS
Lecture | February 13 | 7:30-9 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
WED, FEB 13, 7:30pm. Please join us for a talk with the co-founder and principal of JFAK, an internationally recognized firm based in Los Angeles. Co-sponsored by AIA East Bay. Open to all!
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
Joe Goode
Joe Goode will talk about how Buddhist philosophy has changed his working process from a preordained “vision” process to one of discovery. Goode is Artistic Director of Joe Goode Performance Group with whom he has performed in the U.S., Canada, Africa, South America, and the Middle East. His performance installations have been commissioned by the Krannert Art Museum, the M. H. DeYoung Museum,... More >
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
Richard Baldwin, Graduate Institute, Geneva
Clausen Center for International Business and Policy
Automation and robotics are changing our lives quickly - everyone knows that. But digital disruption goes much further. In The Globotics Upheaval, Richard Baldwin, one of the world's leading globalisation experts, explains that exponential growth in computing, transmission and storage capacities is also creating a new form of "virtual" globalisation that could undermine the foundations of... More >
Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration
Lecture | February 14 | 4 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Ana Raquel Minian
Center for Latin American Studies
In this talk, Professor Minian explores circular migration, which reshaped communities in the United States and Mexico, and shares stories of Mexicans who have been used and abused by economic and political policies of both countries.
Ana Raquel Minian is Assistant Professor of History and of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University.
A migrant farm worker in Virginia who returns to Mexico every year on a H2A visa. (Photo by Laura Elizabeth Pohl/Bread for the World.)
Optimization for Machine Learning
Lecture | February 14 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 210 South Hall
Yifan Sun
How good data models facilitate optimization and generalization in machine learning.
Modernism in Wartime: Avant-Gardes, Revolutions, Poetries
Lecture | February 14 | 5-7 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, 315, Maude Fife
Vincent Sherry, Howard Nemerov Professor of the Humanities, Washington University in St.Louis
C. D. Blanton, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley Department of English; Catherine Flynn, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley Department of English; Donna Jones, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley Department of English
Department of English, Institute of European Studies, Townsend Center for the Humanities
Vincent Sherry will speak about the experience of the First World War from the vantage of an international avant-garde, considering the alternate temporalities of the radical time of the prewar avant-garde event and the long and lengthening durée of the conflict. How does an avant-garde poetry respond to this difference, and what is the longer story of revolution it tells?
Farm and Field: Sather Lecture Series: A Bronze Age Greek State in Formation
Lecture | February 14 | 5:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Jack L. Davis, Blegen Professor of Greek Archaeology, University of Cincinnati
Internationally recognized scholar of Bronze Age Greece offers a series of lectures showing how the archaeological record sheds light on culture and communal life of early Greece.
Friday, February 15, 2019
Outsiders: The History of Refugees in an Enlarged Europe
Lecture | February 15 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Philipp Ther, Professor of Central European History, University of Vienna
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES)
Refugees have permeated European history and the receiving states and societies have almost always profited from taking them in. This talk analyzes the major causes of mass flight and the oft traumatic journeys en route. Tracing the paths of the refugees, the narrative crosses the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, and so provides a wider vision of European history that includes the United States.... More >
The key legal concepts that engineers face in environmental site remediation
Lecture | February 15 | 12-1 p.m. | 534 Davis Hall
Dr. Morgan Gilhuly, Environmental attorney at Barg Coffin
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)
Xandra Ibarra; Juana María Rodríguez
Center for the Study of Sexual Culture
Join us for a presentation of work by artist Xandra Ibarra and a dialogue between Ibarra and Professor Juana María Rodríguez about the nexus of art, performance and scholarship.
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
Walter Hakala, Associate Professor, Asian Studies Program, Department of English, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Gregory Maxwell Bruce, Lecturer in Urdu, Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
Institute for South Asia Studies, The Berkeley Urdu Initiative
A talk by Walter Hakala, Associate Professor in the Asian Studies Program and Department of English at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, and author of Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia, published by Columbia University Press.
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
Ana Elisa S. C. S. Ferreira, Visiting Scholar, Berkeley Language Center
In Spring 2018, Ana Elisa S. C. S. Ferreira coordinated a project called #askplevy at Instituto Federal Campus Cubatão (Brazil). During 3 months, professors, students, and staff used Twitter to post questions about education and technology to professor and author Pierre Lévy.
Mapping Race, Gendering Place: African American Roots Tourism in Bahia, Brazil
Lecture | February 15 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Patricia Pinho
Center for Latin American Studies
This talk will examine the major intersecting tropes that inform African American roots tourism in Brazil and demonstrate how the gendering of space, place, and time are tied to the geopolitics of the black diaspora.
Patricia de Santana Pinho is Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz
(Mapping Diaspora: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.)
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
Dan Werthimer, Berkeley SETI Research Center
Are Fast Radio Bursts signals from ET? Or are they signals from magnetars? Is `Oumuamua an alien space ship? Or is it a rock from another solar system? Are we alone in the universe? Current and future SETI projects may provide an answer.Berkeley SETI Research Center chief scientist Dan Werthimer will describe the rationale for past and future searches and will show how new technologies are... More >
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Ethnobotanical Insights into Biblical Life and Language
Lecture | February 19 | 10-11:30 a.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Metaphors drawn from nature and daily life helped the ancient Israelites to connect with the Bible, but modern readers often find them remote and difficult to understand. Why, for example, was Noah told to build an ark of “gopher wood”? There is no tree by that name. How did wormwood (Artemisia spp.) come to symbolize social corruption? What characteristics made olive trees the model of care for... More >
$12, $10 UCBG members (Price includes Garden Admission)
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
Flaviano Bianchini, Source International
Flaviano Bianchini is the founder and director of
Source International, which works with communities
facing environmental pollution and health problems
principally caused by extractive industries. They
provide high-level technological and scientific
support free of charge to partner communities,
helping them to assess damage to resources and
promote restorative actions.
Bianchini’s... More >
RSVP online by February 19.
The Struggle for Cuba: Race and Empire in the 18th-century Atlantic World
Lecture | February 19 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Elena Schneider
Center for Latin American Studies
In this talk, Elena Schneider will discuss her recent book The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World, as well as the broader theme of the relationship between Anglo-American imperialism and racial struggle in Cuba.
Elena Schneider is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at UC Berkeley.
(Image courtesy of UNC Press.)
Bowen Lectures: Lecture 1: Symmetries of polynomial equations
Lecture | February 19 | 4:10-5 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium
James McKernan, UC San Diego
The symmetries of systems of polynomial equations can be be understood in terms of the geometry of the variety of zeroes (or solution set) of the polynomials. Roughly speaking, there are 3 kinds of geometries corresponding to positive, zero and negative curvature giving rise to 3 different kinds of symmetry groups. In this lecture, I will discuss recent advances in algebraic geometry that lead to... More >
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)
Faiz Ahmed, Associate Professor of History, Brown University
Wali Ahmadi, Associate Professor of Persian Literature, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley
Institute for South Asia Studies, The Berkeley Urdu Initiative, The Berkeley Pakistan Initiative, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Center for British Studies
A talk by Assistant Professor of History at Brown University, Dr. Faiz Ahmed on his new book, Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires.
“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
Antje Postema, Lecturer, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Language, UC Berkeley
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES)
In Bosnia and Hercegovina, wartime artistic patterns of genre, image, and intertextual reference have set the terms for postwar memory-making. These versatile, enduring patterns also illuminate the reciprocal influence of memory and art in Bosnia from the 1990s to the present.
While wartime authors like Semezdin Mehmedinovic and Ozren Kebo infused the practical, didactic genres of the map and... More >
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
Graduate School of Journalism, Berkeley Food Institute, UC Berkeley-11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship
Please join us for a special lecture series with celebrated author and scholar Marion Nestle. "Food Politics 2019: An Agenda for the Food Movement." Recent government policy changes are eroding programs aimed at feeding the hungry, curbing obesity, and protecting the environment. What can consumers and citizens do?
We are at capacity for the event on 2/12. RSVP online
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Making Space for the Invisible
Lecture | February 20 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Michael Chazan, Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto
Archaeological Research Facility
This talk will consider the role of the invisible in human engagement with artifacts. This discussion draws heavily on comparative psychology research on the capacity of chimpanzees for abstract though in both the social (sense of self) and physical realms, as well as on Tim Ingold’s critique of hylomorphy. The first context in which hominins drew on invisibles was in the use of fracture for... More >
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
Townsend Center for the Humanities
Pirillo offers a new history of early modern diplomacy, centered on Italian religious refugees who left Italy in order to forge ties with English and northern European Protestants in the hope of inspiring an Italian Reformation.
Who Are You?: Racial Classification and the Census
Lecture | February 20 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse
2020 Addison St, Berkeley, CA 94704
Michael Omi, Berkeley Law
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)
How are individuals and groups racially classified, what are the meanings attached to different racial categories, and what impact do these categories have on a range of policies and practices? Taking the U.S. Census as a site of racial classification, we'll examine shifting state definitions of race and how individuals and groups negotiate different racial categories and identities.
The Mechanisms of Direct and Indirect Rule: Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa
Lecture | February 20 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Natalie Letsa, University of Oklahoma
A number of studies have found that British colonialism—specifically its policy of indirect rule—improved economic development relative to the French policy of direct rule. There is less consensus, however, as to why indirect rule would produce better economic outcomes. We argue that indirect rule produced better economic outcomes because it was more likely to decentralize decision-making, which... More >
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
Dr. Vandana Chadhry
Social Welfare, School of, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, Institute for South Asia Studies
Abstract: My research investigates the effects of neoliberal governance on disability and development policies in the context of postcolonial India. Through the ethnographic study of disability-oriented microfinance self-help group projects of the World Bank and digitally regulated state disability pension programs in rural districts of the South Indian state of Telangana, I analyze the changing... More >
Bowen Lectures: Lecture 2: On the birational classification of algebraic varieties
Lecture | February 20 | 4:10-5 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium
Christopher Hacon, University of Utah
Algebraic varieties are geometric objects defined by polynomial equations. The minimal model program (MMP) is an ambitious program that aims to classify algebraic varieties. According to the MMP, there are 3 building blocks: Fano varieties, Calabi-Yau varieties and varieties of general type which are higher dimensional analogs of Riemann Surfaces of genus 0,1 or at least 2 respectively. In this... More >
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
Morgan G. Ames
The One Laptop per Child project failed. So why do the same utopian visions that inspired it still motivate other projects to âdisruptâ education and development?
Artist and Curator: Silvia Gruner in conversation with Tarek Elhaik
Lecture | February 20 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | Dwinelle Annex, Room 126
Silvia Gruner
Artist & Curator: Silvia Gruner in conversation with Tarek Elhaik
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
5:30-7:30pm
Dwinelle Annex, Room 126
Co-sponsors: Arts Research Center and UCHRI.
ARCHITECTURE LECTURE: JOE HALLIGAN | ASSEMBLE
Lecture | February 20 | 6:30-8 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
WED, FEB 20, 6:30pm. Please join us for a talk with Joe Halligan of Assemble, a multi-disciplinary collective working across architecture, design and art. Presented by Room 1000. Open to all!
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
Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez, PhD candidate in History at Columbia University and Visiting Dissertation Research Scholar at the UC Berkeley Latinx Research Center
Farm work is the most hazardous industry for young workers. Yet, despite the implementation of a national child labor ban in 1938, Latinx children continue to toil in fields nationwide with an estimated 200,000-500,000 agricultural child laborers employed each year. Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez has identified the child labor ban's agricultural exemption as the reason for this disjuncture.
The Lewis-Latimer Room has a maximum capacity of 28 people. The doors will be shut and no more attendees may enter once the room is at capacity.
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
Black women account for over 60% of all new HIV incidences among women in the United States. The highest rates of HIV acquisition occur among Black women aged 25 and over, thus examining factors that may be associated with HIV risk among young Black women aged 18 to 24 is critical for HIV prevention efforts.
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
Marni Thomas Wood
After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in 1958, Marni Thomas Wood joined the Martha Graham Dance Company, toured and performed with the Company, taught at the Graham School, and was privileged to be part of the first generation of women to perform Ms. Graham’s own roles as Graham began choosing successors for her earlier repertory reconstructions. In 1968, with her husband/partner David... More >
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)
Margaret Nelson, Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change and Distinguished Sustainability Scholar in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University
Archaeological Research Facility
In this talk, Nelson looks at rare climate challenges and human-created vulnerabilities in the long-term history/prehistory of seven areas and evaluates the magnitude of changes to food security and social conditions following extreme climate events. Results of these analyses support the role of human-created vulnerabilities in the occurrence of “disasters” associated with climate extremes.
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
Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Professor and Chair, Department of English, Rutgers English
Grace Lavery, Assistant Professor, Berkeley English
Colleen Lye, Associate Professor, Berkeley English
Harsha Ram, Associate Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Department of English, Townsend Center for the Humanities, John F Hotchkis Chair in English
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
Isabelle Charleux, CNRS, Paris
Tang Center for Silk Road Studies, Mongolia Initiative, Center for Buddhist Studies
The cult of the Nepalese stupa of Bodnath (Tib. and Mo. Jarung Khashor) was very popular in 19th and early 20th century Mongolia and especially in Buryatia, as testifies the translation into Mongolian of a famous guidebook to Bodnath, a corpus of Mongolian oral narratives, the many thang-kas and amulets depicting the Bodnath Stupa along with a Tibetan prayer, and the existence of architectural... More >
The Longue Durée of 1989. Regime Change and Everyday Life in East Germany
Lecture | February 21 | 5-6 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Kerstin Brückweh, Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam (Germany)
Institute of European Studies, GHI West - Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington DC, Center for German and European Studies
1989 is often considered a key caesura of the 20th century. By looking at the long-term developments surrounding this historic event Brückweh analyzes the social changes that paved the way for and shaped all three stages: the late phase of the German Democratic Republic, the peaceful revolution, and the transformation that followed. Property, especially real estate, serves as an example to examine... More >
Kerstin Brückweh
Editing The Code Of Life: The Future Of Genome Editing
Lecture | February 21 | 5-6:30 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium
Dr. Jennifer Doudna
Institute of International Studies
Our technological capacity to make changes to genomic data has expanded exponentially since the 2012 discovery of CRISPR-Cas9 as an RNA-programmable genome editing tool. Over the past seven years, this genome editing platform has been used to revolutionize research, develop new agricultural crops, and even promises to cure genetic diseases. However, ethical and societal concerns abound, requiring... More >
A Truly Prehistoric Archaeology: Sather Lecture Series: A Bronze Age Greek State in Formation
Lecture | February 21 | 5:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Jack L. Davis, Blegen Professor of Greek Archaeology, University of Cincinnati
Internationally recognized scholar of Bronze Age Greece offers a series of lectures showing how the archaeological record sheds light on culture and communal life of early Greece.
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
Rachel Adler
Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, Robbins Collection
Rachel Adler is the David Ellenson Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles. She pioneered in integrating feminist perspectives into interpreting Jewish texts and law. Her book Engendering Judaism (1998) is the first by a female theologian to win a National Jewish Book Award for Jewish Thought. Rabbi Adler has a PhD in Religion and Social Ethics from University of... More >
