Lectures
Monday, March 11, 2019
Design Field Notes: Caricia Catalani
Lecture | March 11 | 4-5 p.m. | 220 Jacobs Hall
Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
Dr. Caricia Catalani is a Director of Design for Health and Design Research at IDEO Palo Alto. Caricia’s passion for design and research science drives impactful ways to improve health and human rights around the world.
At IDEO, Caricia combines human-centered design and qualitative and quantitative research methods to build high-impact innovations in health. Caricia’s work at IDEO is focused... More >
Leading with Creative Confidence: Tom Kelley of IDEO in Conversation with Rich Lyons
Lecture | March 11 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Osher Theater
Tom Kelley; Rich Lyons
Arts + Design, Haas School of Business, Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
Tom Kelley is a Partner at IDEO, and Chairman of the Tokyo-based venture capital firm D4V (Design for Ventures). He is also the author of three successful books including The Art of Innovation and the New York Times bestseller Creative Confidence, which he wrote with his brother, IDEO founder David Kelley. As a leading speaker, Tom has addressed business audiences in more than thirty countries on... More >
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
New Approaches to the Prague Spring
Lecture | March 12 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Timothy Scott Brown, Northeastern University, Boston
Institute of European Studies, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES)
The Prague Spring, a movement of reform Communism instituted in Czechoslovakia under Alexander Dubcek in early 1968 and crushed by Soviet force of arms in August of the same year, has been interpreted overwhelmingly according to a liberal narrative ending in the “Velvet Revolution” of 1989. To be sure, the relevance of the experiment in “Socialism with a Human Face” for the Europe-wide uprisings... More >
Timothy Scott Brown
PLANTS + PEOPLE Lunchtime Lectures : Among the Marshes: The Tebtunis Papyri at The Bancroft Library
Lecture | March 12 | 12-1 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
The ancient Egyptian site of Tebtunis lies at the southern edge of the Fayum depression, a fertile region in the western desert fed by a branch of the Nile. Today, as in antiquity, this area was exploited for its rich agricultural production, which led to the establishment of new settlements by the Ptolemaic kings around the 4th century BCE. In her talk, Emily Cole will provide a glimpse into... More >
Free for Members or with Garden Admission; Free for UC Berkeley Students, Staff and Faculty
View from the Top: Gary Dickerson: Navigating the Perfect Storm: A New Semiconductor Playbook for the AI Era
Lecture | March 12 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium, 3rd floor
Gary Dickerson, President and CEO, Applied Materials
The pace of change is accelerating with technology promising an ever-brighter future. Artificial intelligence and big data will touch many areas of our lives, transforming industries and the global economy. To unlock the full potential of AI and Big Data, we need a new industry playbook for semiconductor design and manufacturing.
Emma Chubb | “Measured and Discrete: Artist-Architect Collaborations in Morocco"
Lecture | March 12 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Emma Chubb, Smith College
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
During the period of repression and emigration known as the Years of Lead, the Faraoui and de Mazières architecture firm in Rabat commissioned site-specific artworks for building projects across Morocco. Called “integrations” by the architects and praised by the art critic Toni Maraini as “measured and discrete,” the commissions included works by Farid Belkahia, Mohammed Chebaa, and Mohammed... More >
Chern Lectures: The (in)compatibility of 3 and 5 dimensional Heisenberg geometry with Lebesgue spaces
Lecture | March 12 | 4:10-5 p.m. | Simons Institute, Auditorium,
Assaf Naor, Princeton University
We will discuss the longstanding bi-Lipschitz embedding problem in $\mathbb R^k$, and how over the years it became intertwined with the embeddability properties of the Heisenberg groups into $L_p(\mu )$ spaces. We will explain a recent completion of this project, which exhibits unexpected twists, decisive applications to longstanding open questions in algorithms and metric geometry, and... More >
Mosse Lecture: Ulrike Ottinger
Lecture | March 12 | 6:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Filmmaker in residence Ulrike Ottinger presents an illustrated lecture discussing her approach to the visual design of her films, as well as her research methods for a nonfiction film project like Chamisso’s Shadow.
Life and Career of Aaron Green
Lecture | March 12 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Wurster Hall, Wurster Gallery, Room 121
Allan Wright Green; Jan Novie
Join us for our third Gallery Talk this academic year with Allan Wright Green and Jan Novie!
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Wurster Gallery, Room 121
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
Daily Life in the Abyss: Genocide Diaries, 1915-1918
Lecture | March 12 | 7-8:30 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Vahe Tachjian, Chief Editor of the Berlin-based Houshamdyan website, Houshamdyan
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Armenian Studies Program
In 1915, two Armenian families (the Bogharians and the Tavukjians) were deported from Ayntab (in the Ottoman Empire), together with many other Armenian inhabitants of the town. They were forcibly resettled, first in Hama and then in the nearby town of Salamiyya (today in Syria). Two diaries written by members of these families have come down to us: one by Father Nerses Tavukjian, the other by... More >
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
A Field of Autocratic Temptation: European Soccer and its Actors
Lecture | March 13 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Timm Beichelt, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)
While soccer officials often insist that sports and politics belong to different spheres, the opposite seems to be true. With frames like “success”, “unlimited competition”, and “team loyalty”, soccer heavily influences the pre-political sphere in European states. In the field of soccer, basic dispositions with regard to the legitimacy of an economized life and the definition of local or... More >
Timm Beichelt
Continuity and Change in Landscape Use: Examples from Iwate, Northern Japan
Lecture | March 13 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Junko Habu, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Townsend Center's Berkeley Book Chat with Anthony Long: How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life
Lecture | March 13 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Townsend Center for the Humanities
Born a slave, the ancient Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus taught that mental freedom is supreme, since it can liberate one anywhere, even in a prison. Long presents a new edition of Epictetus’s famed handbook on Stoicism.
CANCELLED: Mehnaz Afridi "The Role of Muslims in the Holocaust"
Lecture | March 13 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Dr. Mehnaz Afridi, Manhattan College
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Unfortunately, this event has been canceled due to unforeseen circumstances.
Self-fulfilling Prophecies in Schooling: Wherein Lies their Power
Lecture | March 13 | 3:15 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room
Rhona Weinstein, PH.D., Professor Emrtita, UC Berkeley, Department of Psychology
In this talk, I reflect on a career-long journey as a community psychologist, investigating the dynamics of how beliefs about ability can become self-fulfilling prophecies in educational settings. Such expectancy effects either foster growth or constrain it. From descriptive to intervention research (untracking a high school, new school design, and policy), I explore these discoveries in... More >
A Tribute to Political Activist Marielle Franco
Lecture | March 13 | 4-6 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Tiana Paschel, UC Berkeley; Cidinha da Silva
Department of History, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for the Study of Sexual Culture
A tribute to Marielle Franco, Brazilian politician and human rights activist.
Chern Lectures: Extension, discretization, and quantitative differentiation
Lecture | March 13 | 4:10-5 p.m. | Simons Institute, Auditorium,
Assaf Naor, Princeton University
We will discuss questions about the relation between discrete phenomena and their continuous counterparts. This relates to extension of partially defined functions, Bourgain’s work on discretization and almost extension for a quantitative version of Ribe’s rigidity theorem, and differentiation questions that are well understood as infinitesimal phenomena but their macroscopic counterparts... More >
What’s Theology Got to Do with It? An Eighteenth-Century Chinese Emperor Debating Religions and Christianity
Lecture | March 13 | 5-7 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Eugenio Menegon, Associate Professor of Chinese History, Boston University; Collaborative Scholar, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College
Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion
In his Lettres chinoises, indiennes et tartares, Voltaire republished “a note by the good Kangxi Emperor to the Peking Jesuits” as follows: “The emperor is surprised to see you so stubborn in your ideas. Why would you worry so much about a world where you have not been yet? Enjoy the present. Your God must be pained by your preoccupations... More >
Calculation and Cosmography: Formal Continuities in Buddhist Art along the Gansu Corridor, from Dunhuang to Labrang Monastery
Lecture | March 13 | 5-7 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Jon Soriano, UC Berkeley
Tang Center for Silk Road Studies
While the art history of the overland silk road seems distinguished by its continual flux, as disparate visual regimes flowed in and out over the centuries, the art in question is also marked by strong formal continuities specific to its regions, as well as certain adaptations to global paradigms. This talk adopts Kublerian concepts of 'shape' and 'sequence' to identify a formal series... More >
2019 Oppenheimer Lecture: Teaching for Learning: What I have learned from learning research
Lecture | March 13 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium
Helen R. Quinn, Professor Emeritus, SLAC
I will talk about the ideas and research base underlying the "Framework for k-12 Science Education" and the vision for "three-dimensional learning" as defined by that document.
Helen R. Quinn
How We Lived: the Houshamadyan Project
Lecture | March 13 | 7:30-9 p.m. | St. Vartan Church, John Marukian Hall
650 Spruce Street, Oakland, CA 94610
Vahe Tachjian, Chief Editor of the Berlin-based Houshamdyan website, Houshamdyan
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Armenian Studies Program
Houshamadyan was born from this simple and powerful idea: we should bring back to life the cities, towns, and villages in which Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire by reconstructing our inheritance – the rich memory of the lives of our ancestors. Houshamadyan is a non-profit organization founded in Berlin in 2010. The website www.houshamadyan.org appears in three languages: Armenian, English,... More >
Mario Savio Memorial Lecture and Young Activist Award: Free Speech in Angry Times
Lecture | March 13 | 8-10 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Pauley Ballroom
Robert Reich, Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy, UC Berkeley
College of Letters & Science, Goldman School of Public Policy, Library
The Mario Savio Memorial Lecture and Young Activist Award are presented annually to honor the memory of Mario Savio (1942-1996), a spokesperson for Berkeley's Free Speech Movement of 1964, and the spirit of moral courage and vision which he and countless other activists of his generation exemplified; to promote the ideas and values he struggled to advance throughout his life; and to recognize and... More >
Free admission. Open to the public; first come, first served.
Professor Robert Reich
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Making Dreamer: An Oratorio of Immigration with Nilo Cruz
Lecture | March 14 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Osher Theater
Nilo Cruz
Composer Jimmy López and playwright Nilo Cruz collaborate on a new oratorio for orchestra, chorus, and soprano, entitled Dreamer. Performed with the LA Philharmonic. The piece will explore the US immigrant experience, in particular that of Dreamers—undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children—and what it means for cities to provide sanctuary from prosecution and... More >
Yanbo Li: Surfing in Globalization: The Misplaced Urban Reaction and Community-Based Resilience in Shanghai
Lecture | March 14 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 170 Wurster Hall
Globalization is a universal context nowadays though which is not a new concept. China used to be an essential participant and even positive advocator among the earlier rounds of it. But in modern times, China became a passive follower in the globalization tides. For each time the country was trying to adapt itself to the outside world, a specific reaction could be seen. However, it is not an... More >
How to Challenge Scandinavian Colonial Amnesia
Lecture | March 14 | 12:45-2 p.m. | 308 A Doe Library
Elizabeth Hunter, African American Studies & African Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley
Leigh Raiford, African American Studies & African Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley
Jeannette Ehlers
Institute of European Studies, Nordic Studies Program, Department of African American Studies
Visual artist Jeannette Ehlers discusses artistic strategies of resistance to coloniality with Professor Leigh Raiford and Elizabeth Hunter (African Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley), focusing on counter-narratives to the Eurocentric writing of History.
Jeannette Ehlers is a Copenhagen-based artist of Danish and Trinidadian descent whose practice takes shape experimentally across photography, ... More >
Jeannette Ehlers
BIDS Data Science Lecture: The statistical mechanics of big data
Lecture | March 14 | 3:10-4 p.m. | 190 Doe Library
John Harte, Professor, Energy & Resources Group, UC Berkeley
Berkeley Institute for Data Science
Constrained maximization of information entropy yields least biased probability distributions and provides a framework for construction of complex systems theory. From physics to
Decolonizing World History
Lecture | March 14 | 3:30-5 p.m. | The Shorb House
2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94601
DR. ENRIQUE DUSSEL, National Autonomous University of Mexico
The Latinx Research Center, Chicana Studies Program
Join the Latinx Research Center and the Chicana/o Studies Program in hosting two historical events with a major Latin American and Third World intellectual. Dr. Enrique Dussel is an early critic of Eurocentric philosophy produced in the West and has become an invaluable archive to intellectuals of the global "south," and people of color throughout the United States.
Throughout his career,... More >
RSVP online by March 13.
World-renowned decolonialist and a founder of Liberation Philosophy,Dr. Dussel visits us from UNAM in Mexico!
Celebrating Black Girls in Libertaory Spaces
Lecture | March 14 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 691 Barrows Hall
Ree Botts, PhD Candidate in African American Studies
Kenly Brown, PhD Candidate in African American Studies
Derrika Hunt, PhD Candidate in School of Education, Graduate Student Wellness Project Director for the Graduate Assembly
Tiffani Johnson, PhD candidate of Education, Social & Cultural Studies
Shelby Mack, BA Candidate in American Studies
Exhibit Premiere: Pleasure, Poison, Prescription, Prayer: The Worlds of Mind-Altering Substances
Lecture | March 14 | 4-6 p.m. | Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Please join us for the opening reception of Pleasure, Poison, Prescription, Prayer: The Worlds of Mind-Altering Substances, a timely exhibit exploring the complex social and economic dynamics behind ten mind-altering drugs.
Performance Studies Graduate Speaker Series | Affective Publics: News Storytelling, Sentiment and Technology
Lecture | March 14 | 4-5 p.m. | 44B Dwinelle Hall
Zizi Papacharissi, Professor and Head of the Communication Department, Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois-Chicago
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Zizi Papacharissi is Professor and Head of the Communication Department, Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and University Scholar at the University of Illinois System. Her work focuses on the social and political consequences of online media. She has published nine books, over 70 journal articles and book chapters, and serves on the editorial board of fifteen... More >
Zizi Papacharissi
The Life and Times of a Gay Brazilian Revolutionary
Lecture | March 14 | 4-6 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
James N. Green, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of Latin American History, Brown University
Department of History, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for the Study of Sexual Culture
Priya Moorjani | Reconstructing South Asian Population History using Genetic Data
Lecture | March 14 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Priya Moorjani, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
Munis D. Faruqui, Director, Institute for South Asia Studies; Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies; Associate Professor, South & South East Asian Studies
Institute for South Asia Studies, Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies, Center for Computational Biology, Population Center, Population Science, Department of Demography
Talk by molecular biologist and geneticist, Professor Priya Moorjani.
Minoan Missionaries: Sather Lecture Series: A Bronze Age Greek State in Formation
Lecture | March 14 | 5:30 p.m. | 142 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.
Between the Money-Image and the Museum: Ulrich Peltzer's Theory of the (Contemporary) Work of (Installation) Art: Professor Richard Langston (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Lecture | March 14 | 5:30-7 p.m. | Moffitt Undergraduate Library, 340 Moffitt
Abstract: If money’s status as dominant medium guiding what Jochen Hörisch once called the ontosemiological framework of modern culture has really yielded to the empire of audio-visual media, then why is so much contemporary German literature still so obsessed with money? This presentation considers how one such example—Ulrich Peltzer’s 2015 novel Das bessere Leben, a work whose very title... More >
Jonathan Tate, Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Development + Design
Lecture | March 14 | 6-7:30 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
Jonathan Tate, Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Development + Design
Friday, March 15, 2019
Design Innovation from Nature Lecture: Robert Lang
Lecture | March 15 | 12-1 p.m. | 310 Jacobs Hall
College of Environmental Design
FRI, MAR 15, 12pm in 310 Jacobs Hall. Join us for a talk with origami artist and scientist Robert J. Lang titled From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes: The Art and Science of Origami. Open to all!
Opportunities for greywater reuse at different scales: Environmental Engineering Seminar
Lecture | March 15 | 12-1 p.m. | 534 Davis Hall
Dr. Eberhard Morgenroth, Professor, Process Engineer in Urban Water Management, Swiss Federal institute of Technology Zürich (ETH) and Aquatic Science and Technology(Eawag)
3D Modeling and Development of Cultural Heritage and Environmental Assets
Lecture | March 15 | 2-3 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Rossella Franchino, Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (Italy); Nicola Pisacane, Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (Italy)
Archaeological Research Facility
Survey and 3D modeling techniques today make possible the fruition and the sustainable renewal of buildings, objects, places even if inaccessible, destroyed or only partially preserved. The theme will be developed through the presentation of case studies in Campania Region - Italy.
Dennis Discher, 2019 Distinguished Lecture in Bioengineering: Mechanosensing: from Scaling in ‘Omics and Nuclear Rupture to a Macrophage Checkpoint in Cancer
Lecture | March 15 | 3-4 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Dennis Discher, University of Pennsylvania
The Department of Bioengineering is pleased to welcome distinguished professor and alumnus, Dennis E. Discher, as the 2019 Distinguished Lecturer in Bioengineering.
Reception to follow.
Chern Lectures: Nonpositive curvature is not coarsely universal
Lecture | March 15 | 4:10-5 p.m. | Simons Institute, Auditorium,
Assaf Naor, Princeton University
We will discuss coarse embeddings into Alexandrov spaces of nonpositive or nonnegative curvature. By studying subtle invariants that initially arose within the Ribe program and discretization questions, we will answer a question of Gromov (1993) about the coarse universality of Hadamard spaces. Connections to important questions such as the existence of super-expanders will be explained.
Jennifer Scappettone: Agitation of a Copper Lyre: Geopoetics of Entanglement vs./within the Wireless Imagination
Lecture | March 15 | 7 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, 315, Maude Fife room
Jennifer Scappettone, Associate Professor, University of Chicago English
Jennifer Scappettone works at the juncture of scholarly research, translation, and the literary arts, on the page and off. She is the author of the books From Dame Quickly: Poems (Litmus Press, 2009), Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice (Columbia University Press, 2014), and The Republic of Exit 43: Outtakes & Scores from an Archaeology and Pop-Up Opera of the Corporate Dump (Atelos,... More >
