UC Berkeley Events Calendar

<< November 2018 >>

Thursday, November 1, 2018

On Routes of Slavery: The African Cultural Diaspora with Ahmad Sikainga

Lecture | November 1 | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

3rd i's 16th Annual SF Int'l South Asian Film Festival

Film - Series | November 1 – 17, 2018 every day with exceptions | Screenings at different locations: November 1-4 (San Francisco) November 17 (Palo Alto)

Talking with the Trees: John Muir’s Nature Spirituality

Lecture | November 1 | 10-11:30 a.m. | UC Botanical Garden

Applied Math Seminar: Rethinking Generalization and Robustness in Neural Networks: Breiman’s Dilemma and Huber’s Model

Seminar | November 1 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 732 Evans Hall

Real Estate/Finance joint seminar

Seminar | November 1 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | C210 Haas School of Business

Econ 235, Financial Economics Seminar: "Firms' Internal Networks and Local Economic Shock"

Seminar | November 1 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | C210 Haas School of Business

Seminar 271, Development: "Incentivizing Behavioral Change: The Role of Time Preferences"

Seminar | November 1 | 12-1:30 p.m. | C330 Haas School of Business

Oliver E. Williamson Seminar: "Incentivizing Behavioral Change: The Role of Time Preferences"

Seminar | November 1 | 12-1:30 p.m. | C330 Haas School of Business

Maresi Nerad on Are they converging? Doctoral Education Worldwide: Trends and Future Challenges

Seminar | November 1 | 12-1 p.m. | 768 Evans Hall

Lunch Poems: Tyehimba Jess

Reading - Literary | November 1 | 12:10-12:50 p.m. | Doe Library, Morrison Library

IB Graduate Students on Parade

Seminar | November 1 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building

Docent-led tour

Tour/Open House | January 6, 2017 – December 30, 2018 every Sunday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 1:30-2:45 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden

Seminar 251, Labor Seminar: The Local and Aggregate Effect of Agglomeration on Innovation: Evidence from High Tech Clusters

Seminar | November 1 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall

How to Email a Professor to Get a Positive Response: Workshop

Workshop | November 1 | 2-3 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall

Information Storage in Memory Engrams

Seminar | November 1 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition

Counter-memory and Justice in Armed Conflicts

Lecture | November 1 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 691 Barrows Hall

Dangerous Research: Reflections on fieldwork in an insecure context, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Colloquium | November 1 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 2538 Channing (Inst. for the Study of Societal Issues), Wildavsky Conference Roomt

Becoming More Productive: Workflow Strategies for Graduate Students

Workshop | November 1 | 4-5 p.m. | Valley Life Sciences Building, 2101, Bioscience Library Training Room

The Nicaraguan Crisis and the Battle over History

Lecture | November 1 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 2334 Bowditch (Center for Latin American Studies)

AHMA Colloquium - The Preservation of Disability

Lecture | November 1 | 4-5:15 p.m. | 7205 Dwinelle Hall

Jorde Symposium: James Forman, Jr.: Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

Lecture | November 1 | 4 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, Booth Auditorium

Becoming More Productive: Workflow Strategies for Graduate Students

Workshop | November 1 | 4-5 p.m. | Valley Life Sciences Building, 2101, Bioscience Library Training Room

Seminar 242, Econometrics: "Machine Learning Estimation of Heterogeneous Causal Effects: Empirical Monte Carlo Evidence"

Seminar | November 1 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall

Mathematics Department Colloquium: Riemann-Hilbert correspondence and Fukaya category

Colloquium | November 1 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall

Milton and the Problem of Belief

Colloquium | November 1 | 5-7 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, 330, English Department Lounge

Daniel M. Kammen | The Clean Energy Transition in Bangladesh - Local and Global Impacts and Opportunities: The Chowdhury Center Distinguished Lecture for 2018

Lecture | November 1 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room) | Note change in location

New Volunteer Information Session

Information Session | November 1 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden

Gold Country: Preserving your Family History

Social Event | November 1 | 5:30-9:30 p.m. | Holbrooke Hotel

CEDSOC General Meeting 2: Diversity Campaign

Meeting | November 1 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | 170 Wurster Hall

What to Expect When Expecting Grad School: L&S Workshop Series Ursa Major

Workshop | November 1 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall

Human Rights and Victories Over Impunity and Corruption: A conversation with human rights defenders Nadiezhda Henríquez Chacín, Helen Mack Chang, and Berta Zúñiga Cáceres

Presentation | November 1 | 5:30-7 p.m. | 105 Boalt Hall, School of Law

Food Systems Career Panel

Panel Discussion | November 1 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | Alumni House

QT Self Defense: Intro to Self Defense for LGBTQ+ Students

Workshop | November 1 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | César E. Chávez Student Center, Gender Equity Resource Center

UROC (Underrepresented Researchers of Color): Finding a mentor

Workshop | November 1 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | 14 Durant Hall

The Wonder of the World: Merleau-Ponty, Cezanne, and the meaning of painting

Lecture | November 1 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, Library of French Thought, 4229 Dwinelle

Insider’s View of the Faculty Search

Workshop | November 1 | 6-7:15 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall

Interdisciplinary Marxist Working Group

Meeting | September 20 – December 13, 2018 every other Thursday | 6-8 p.m. | 306 Wheeler Hall

Immigration, Imprisonment and Deportation: Movie Night at the IGS Library

Film - Series | November 1 | 6 p.m. | 109 Moses Hall

CSSL Speaker Series: Why some social startups succeed and others fail

Special Event | November 1 | 6-7:30 p.m. | Haas School of Business, Wells Fargo Room

Astronomy Night at UC Berkeley

Lecture | November 1 | 6:30-9:30 p.m. | 131 Campbell Hall

Searching for Dark Matter

Lecture | November 1 | 6:30-7:30 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall

Senso

Film - Feature | November 1 | 7-9 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich, pianos

Performing Arts - Music | November 1 | 8-10 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall

Friday, November 2, 2018

3rd i's 16th Annual SF Int'l South Asian Film Festival

Film - Series | November 1 – 17, 2018 every day with exceptions | Screenings at different locations: November 1-4 (San Francisco) November 17 (Palo Alto)

Essig Brunch: Nick Booster

Seminar | November 2 | 10-11 a.m. | 1101 Valley Life Sciences Building

Conversations Around Community College Research in California

Special Event | November 2 | 10-11:30 a.m. | Berkeley Way West, First floor, room 1102

When Capitalism Changes Direction: Political Engagements with our Invested Selves

Seminar | November 2 | 12-2 p.m. | 220 Stephens Hall

A World Alight: Tools of Illumination

Panel Discussion | November 2 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 242 César E. Chávez Student Center

Pathways to deep decarbonization in the US: Environmental Engineering Seminar

Seminar | November 2 | 12-1 p.m. | 534 Davis Hall

Higher Education Researchers Workgroup

Meeting | September 7 – December 7, 2018 the first Friday of the month every month | 12-1:30 p.m. | Evans Hall, 766/768 CSHE Conference Room

2018 Midterm Election: Blue Wave or Red Wall? A Pre-Election Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion | November 2 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Barrows Hall, 820, Social Science Matrix

ESPM Seminar: Using Behavioral Ecology in Wildlife Management

Seminar | November 2 | 12-1 p.m. | 103 Mulford Hall

Labor Lunch: Outside Options, Bargaining and Wages: Evidence from Coworker Networks

Seminar | November 2 | 12-1 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall

Dancing for Fun and Fitness (BEUHS605)

Workshop | November 2 | 12:10-1 p.m. | 251 Hearst Gymnasium

Diesel Emissions, Pollution, and Health Outcomes

Seminar | November 2 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. | 248 Giannini Hall

Strategies for Faculty Early Career Awards

Information Session | November 2 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 177 Stanley Hall

Talk featuring composer/performer/improviser Tyshawn Sorey

Lecture | November 2 | 12:30-2 p.m. | CNMAT (1750 Arch St.)

Managing Compute at Google Scale

Seminar | November 2 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Soda Hall, 430 (Woz)

Docent-led tour

Tour/Open House | January 6, 2017 – December 30, 2018 every Sunday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 1:30-2:45 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden