UC Berkeley Events Calendar

<< February 2017 >>

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Deepnets and Tools to Boost Human Creativity

12-1 p.m.

Big Ideas: On the Left Edge: California's Renegade Tradition with Iain Boal

12 p.m.

Persistent Places or Occupying Wild Open Spaces?

12-1 p.m.

The US, China, and Cross-Strait Relations

12:15 p.m.

Creating a Meaningful Life for Yourself and the World

12:30-1:30 p.m.

Chern Lectures

4:10-5 p.m.

Thursday, February 2, 2017

Respect: A Developmental Science Approach to ‘Wise' Behavior Change in Adolescence

12:15-1:30 p.m.

Gots’udi ní̜dé Dene xedə́ t’áodéʔa: Indigenous Language Resilience in Canada

3-5 p.m.

Chern Lectures

4:10-5 p.m.

NOT a Theology of the New Testament

5-7 p.m.

Professor Philipp Bleek at the Berkeley Forum

6-7:30 p.m.

Friday, February 3, 2017

Security talk: Keren Elazari -- The Cyber-Circus -- What The Rise of Hacking Everyday Things Means for All of Us

1-2:45 p.m.

Traffic Estimation and Control in an Era of Mixed Human Piloted and Automated Vehicles

4-5 p.m.

Chern Lectures

4:10-5 p.m.

Cartooning the Landscape: Art, Nature and Consciousness

6-8 p.m.

Saturday, February 4, 2017

Sunday, February 5, 2017

Paz Encina: Artist Talk

4:30 p.m.

Monday, February 6, 2017

Diversified Farming Systems Roundtable with V. Ernesto Méndez

4-5:15 p.m.

Regents' Lecture - Paz Encina

5-7 p.m.

ATC Lecture — Pamela and Richard Kramlich, “Collecting the Uncollectible”

6:30-8 p.m.

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

ACA and its Replacement: Effects on the Nongroup Insurance Market and Exchanges

12:40-2 p.m.

Agribusiness from the Ashes: Land Governance Reform and Racialized Armed Territories in Burma

4-5:30 p.m.

Reviving Virgil in Turkish

5 p.m.

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Hellenistic Historiography in the Wake of Alexander the Great: AHMA Noon Colloquium

12-1:30 p.m.

Revealing Social Relationships and Intersectional Identities in a Pre-Columbian Muisca Community Through Diet and Activity (Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia AD 1000-1400)

12-1 p.m.

Software Engineering with Machine Learning

12-1 p.m.

The Future of Sensory Perception

12:30-1:30 p.m.

Open Space Design in the Public Realm

6:30-7:45 p.m.

Thursday, February 9, 2017

Dominance and friendship during the transition to adulthood in male chimpanzees

12-1:30 p.m.

Gun Fight: The Battle Over The Right To Bear Arms in America

12:45-2 p.m.

Brazil's Senate during the Rousseff impeachment vote, April 2016. (Photo by Douglas Gomes/Liderança do PRB na Câmara.)

The Political Crisis in Brazil: What Is at Stake for Public Policies?

4-5:30 p.m.

Bad Transitions after Free Elections

5-7 p.m.

Linked Reading

5-6:30 p.m.

DCRP Lecture: Atul Pokharel, Planning for Fairness

5-6:30 p.m.

No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity

5:30-8 p.m.

No word in vain: Reading Plato's dialogues (again)

8:30 p.m.

Friday, February 10, 2017

An Introduction to Seed Propagation

10-11 a.m.

Jacobs Design Conversations: Kate Sofis

12-1 p.m.

Data Carpentry: Training to Enable More Effective and Reproducible Research

1:10-2:30 p.m.

On Dwelling in the Linguacene: Where Hypomnesic Monolingualism to Reactionary Multilingualism

3-5 p.m.

Coordinated Decentralized Optimal Control for Connected and Automated Vehicles

4-5 p.m.

Saturday, February 11, 2017

Sunday, February 12, 2017

Monday, February 13, 2017

Local Governments and the Challenge to Autocratic Nationalism in Poland

12-2 p.m.

The Peripheral Iconoclast: The Rise of Ibsen in the American Theatre

4-6 p.m.

Undergraduate Lecture Series (Math Monday)

5-6 p.m.

Global Production Networks and Global Labour: Perspective from the South

5-7 p.m.

A talk with Ashim Roy, New Trade Union Initiative, India

5-7 p.m.

Body, Intellect, Resistance

6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Mukulika Banerjee | The Social Imaginaries of Democracy

12-1:30 p.m.

Early detection and prevention in children at risk of future criminal behaviour

1-2:30 p.m.

Darwinian Sensualities

3-4:30 p.m.

The Art of Indonesian Batik

4-5:30 p.m.

Cover image from Hagan un Trencito. (Image courtesy of Ceibo Producciones.)

Hagan un Trencito: Siguiendo los Pasos de la Memoria Cumbianchera en Chile

4-5:30 p.m.

Tech Policy Forecast: Digital Privacy and Net Neutrality under the Trump Administration

5-6:15 p.m.

Pierluigi Serraino - The Creative Architect: Inside the Great Midcentury Personality Study

7-8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Tearing Down the Deep Learning Performance Wall

12-1 p.m.

Knowing Plants in Cuneiform Cultures

12-1 p.m.

Syria: Spaces of War

12-1:30 p.m.

Civil Rights Movement Photography and Its Legacies, with Leigh Raiford

12 p.m.

Queer(ing) Frontier Identities

12-1 p.m.

PopUp Exhibition: Elizabeth Rynecki on Moshe Rynecki’s Lost Art Legacy

12-1 p.m.

The Builders Association: Performance and Media in Contemporary Theater

12-1 p.m.

States of Altered Consciousness

12:30-1:30 p.m.

Post and Trauma: The Use of Social Media by Sexual Assault Victims

4:10-5:30 p.m.

Thursday, February 16, 2017

Bancroft Library Roundtable: Views of the Women's Liberation and Feminist Movements of the 1970s and 1980s: Selections from the Cathy Cade Photograph Archive

12-1 p.m.

Development Perspectives: Fireside chat with the Director General of the World Agroforestry Center

12-1:15 p.m.

Ireland - The EU - Brexit

12:30-2:30 p.m.

Watching the World Go By

1:10-2 p.m.

Theorizing Race, Gender and Citizenship in Black Europe: Issues, Debates and Frameworks, Inside and Outside the Academy

4-5:30 p.m.

DCRP/IURD Lecture: Diane Davis

5-7 p.m.

Bangladeshi Lawyer and Human Rights Activist, Sara Hossain delivers the Chowdhury Center Distinguished Lecture for 2017

5-7 p.m.

The wandering "we"

6 p.m.

Smart Nation: A Blueprint for Modern Armenia

8-10 p.m.

Friday, February 17, 2017

The Union of Intersections (UoI) Method for Interpretable Data-Driven Discovery and Prediction

1:10-2:30 p.m.

Bending the Energy, Environmental, and Safety Curves Through Transportation Automation and Electrification

4-5 p.m.

Lyric, Tragedy and History in Horace, Odes 2.1

5 p.m.

Saturday, February 18, 2017

The Fast Radio Burst

11 a.m.

Sunday, February 19, 2017

Monday, February 20, 2017

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

DCRP Lecture: Andrea Roberts

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Implementation and Impacts of LEAN Redesigns in Primary Care

12:40-2 p.m.

The Russian Challenge In The Next Four Years

5-6:30 p.m.

Czeslaw Milosz, T.S. Eliot, and the Generative Canon

5:30 p.m.

AIA Lecture - Embodying the Goddess: Revealing the practice of tattooing in ancient Egypt

7 p.m.

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Seven Modes of Uncertainty

12-1 p.m.

PopUp Exhibition: Jeremiah Lockwood on the Lost and Found Art of Cantorial Music

12-1 p.m.

Biomedical Instrumentation:

12-1 p.m.

California Countercultures: Hippie Modernism with Greg Castillo

12 p.m.

Living in a Gender Creative World

12:30-1:30 p.m.

Everyone Loses: The Ukraine Crisis and the Ruinous Contest for Post-Soviet Eurasia

4-5:30 p.m.

Bowen Lectures

4:10-5 p.m.

Cleverness and Drive, or the Cybernetic Fantasy of Value: R.S. Hunt's "Two Kinds of Work"

5-7 p.m.

Ankhi Mukherjee | Unseen City

5-7 p.m.

Theoretically Speaking Series — Finding Hay in Haystacks: The Power and Limits of Randomness

6-7:30 p.m.

Thursday, February 23, 2017

Bowen Lectures

4:10-5 p.m.

Ayesha Siddiqa | Pakistan

5-7 p.m.

Religious Realignments in the Trump Era

5-7 p.m.

Beyond Coverage: After the ACA

5-7 p.m.

The Wheel of Time: Tibetan Thoughts on the Buddha’s Anno Nirvanae

5-6:30 p.m.

Parsing vision

6 p.m.

Friday, February 24, 2017

Dissertation Talk: Dan Calderone

9-10 a.m.

Engineering at the Intersection of Productive Efficiency, Ideology, and Ethical AI in Wikipedia

1:10-2:30 p.m.

Engineering at the Intersection of Productive Efficiency, Ideology, and Ethical AI in Wikipedia

1:10-2:30 p.m.

Multicopter Dynamics and Control: Surviving the complete loss of multiple actuators and quickly generating trajectories

4-5 p.m.

Synaesthetics: Sound, Image, and Materialism

4-5:30 p.m.

Bowen Lectures

4:10-5 p.m.

Working Group in Ancient Philosophy

5-7 p.m.

Denise Dresser: Why Mexico Fell Apart, and How to Fix It

6-7:30 p.m.

Saturday, February 25, 2017

The World in and out of Sync: Looking back at the long 18th century

1:30-2:50 p.m.

Sunday, February 26, 2017

Monday, February 27, 2017

DCRP Lecture: Earthea Nance

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Syrian Silos and Global Echo Chambers

12-1:30 p.m.

The Origin of Convict Leasing: Slavery and Incarceration in Kentucky

3-5 p.m.

Rethinking East Asia in the New Global Economy

4 p.m.

Understanding Silicon Valley

4-5 p.m.

A Litany for Survival: Black Lives Matter in the Age of Trump

5-7 p.m.

Undergraduate Lecture Series (Math Monday)

5-6 p.m.

Elizabeth Tyler lecture "England in Europe"

5-6:30 p.m.

Technology, Race, Popular Culture

6:30 p.m.

Arts + Design Mondays: Technology, Race, Popular Culture: Jenna Wortham and Nadia Ellis in Conversation

6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Germany as an Immigration Country

4-5 p.m.

The Steppe's Capital: the Meanings of Money in late-Qing Mongolia

4 p.m.

What’s Next for Romania? Political Activism as a Tool Against Political Corruption

4-6 p.m.

The Real ‘Skin in the Game’: The History of Naked, Sweaty, and Colorful Skin in the Human Lineage

4:10 p.m.

Why Non-Christians Should Study Christian Theology

5-7 p.m.

Ravinder Kaur | The Second Liberation

5-7 p.m.