All events
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Amos Gitai to Teach Seminar on Narrative and Form: Cinema and Architecture
Film - Series | August 29 – September 26, 2017 every day | 370 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
The Israeli film director Amos Gitai (Ph.D Architecture 79) will teach a five week course on film that explores the concepts of narrative and space. CLASS SIZE IS VERY LIMITED SO YOU MUST SIGN UP SOON. OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS ACROSS CAMPUS.
Fall 2017 Architecture Sustainability Colloquium
Colloquium | August 25 – December 1, 2017 every day | 112 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
FRIDAYS - AUG 25 through DEC 1. CHECK THE SCHEDULE FOR SPEAKERS. Bay Area Leaders discuss topics in sustainability.
BAIR-Nvidia AI Day
Conference/Symposium | September 20 | 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. | Memorial Stadium, University Club
Jensen Huang, CEO, Nvidia; Pieter Abbeel, Professor, EECS; Trevor Darrell, Professor, EECS; Bryan Catanzaro, VP of Applied Deep Learning Research, Nvidia; Sergey Levine, Professor, EECS; Larry Jackel, Autonomous Driving Consultant, Nvidia; Koushil Sreenath, Professor, CMU
Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab
Explore the future of AI Computing and learn how researchers in academia and industry are using artificial intelligence algorithms for applications such as robotics, self-driving cars, and computer vision.
NSF GRFP Applicant Workshop
Workshop | September 20 | 10-11:30 a.m. | 318 Sproul Hall
The workshop will provide valuable tips that will assist in strengthening applications. Speakers include one of UCB’s NSF Fellowship Coordinators, a UCB professor that served on a previous year's NSF panel, and current UCB NSF fellows.
Wellness Wednesdays in the Garden: Flower Power Yoga| Grow and Go with Chai!
Workshop | September 6 – October 25, 2017 every Wednesday with exceptions | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Grow - stretch to feel longer, stronger & more balanced.
Go - get back to your day w/renewed vitality
Yoga is an effective strategy to release tension, relax the nervous system, improve focus, & increase balance.Each class offers a healthy dosage of crisp fresh air, all natural organic floral aromas, vitamin D sunlight, blooming visions, stable grounding platform, direct &loving... More >
Free with Garden Admission
Diplomacy, Climate and U.S.-China Relations in the Age of Trump
Lecture | September 20 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | Doe Library, Morrison Library
The Honorable David Rank, Charge d'affaires and Former Acting Ambassador, China
Thomas B. Gold, Sociology, UC Berkeley
Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Library, Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)
Dave Rank resigned from his position as the senior American diplomat in China in the wake of the decision to withdraw from the Paris agreement on climate change. He will discuss the decision to end his 27-year career as a State Department Foreign Service Officer and the implications of this American disengagement on U.S. interests, our relationship with China and our standing in the world.
David Rank
Noon Concert: International Piano Masterworks
Performing Arts - Music | September 20 | 12 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
Eugenea Raychaudhuri, piano
Isabella Chow, piano
International Piano Masterworks
UCB students present works by Albéniz, Villa Lobos and Poulenc
ALBÉNIZ Iberia (ER)
VILLA LOBOS A Prole do Bebê, Book 1 (IC)
POULENC TBD (IC)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Featuring the Music Department’s varied and diverse performance activities, the Department of Music presents a series of free weekly... More >
Connect with the world, Be online: Integrating technology in Arabic classrooms
Lecture | September 20 | 12-1 p.m. | 254 Barrows Hall
Haitham Mohamed, Lecturer, Near Eastern Studies
Plant and Microbial Biology Plant Seminar: "Role of viruses in the microbiome"
Seminar | September 20 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall
David Pride, University of California, San Diego
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
Our laboratory focuses on the role that microbial communities play in human homeostasis, health and disease. We firmly believe that the various microbial components of human ecosystems including bacteria, viruses, archaea, and fungi are important factors that help determine the natural history of their hosts. Furthermore, their interactions with humans or their interactions with other microbial... More >
David Pride
Curating Participation: A Public Dialogue: Arts + Design Wednesdays at BAMPFA
Lecture | September 20 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Peter Samis, Associate Curator, Interpretation, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Kelly McKinley, Deputy Director, Oakland Museum of California; Laura E. Pérez, Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
In this public dialogue, we will explore how museums and other arts organizations are responding to the call for ‘participation’ in our current moment by placing the ‘visitor’ at the center of the museum experience. How does the ‘participatory turn’ change the role of the curator? How does participation change the divisions of labor within the organization itself? When does participation deepen... More >
“Engineering self-assembled nanobiomaterials for therapeutic immunomodulation”
Seminar | September 20 | 12-1 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Evan Scott, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University
Self-assembled nanobiomaterials that are engineered to achieve specific biodistributions and mechanisms of degradation hold great promise for controlled stimulation of the immune system. Through the use of such rationally designed nanomaterials, we aim to investigate the basic inflammatory and immunological processes contributing to diverse pathologies and develop targeted immunotherapies. We... More >
City as Nexus: Global Urban Humanities Fall 2017 Colloquium
Colloquium | August 30 – November 15, 2017 every Wednesday with exceptions | 12-1:30 p.m. | Wurster Hall, 494, South Tower
Various Guest Lecturers, Global Urban Humanities Initiative
Fall 2017 (1 Unit)
Rhetoric 198-3 (Class Nbr: 21377) and CYPLAN 198-2 (Class Nbr: 12006)
Rhetoric 244A (Class Nbr: 46989) and CYPLAN 298-2 (Class Nbr: 47047)
Instructor: Kevin Block
Instructor of record: Susan Moffat
Wednesdays, 12-1:30PM
Location: Cal Design Lab, Room 494 SE Wurster Hall
The city is a social nexus. It binds people, things, forces, ideas together as a crossroads, grid,... More >
AHMA Noon Colloquium - "Cancel the Debts! Redistribute the Land!" The History and Significance of Agitation for Socio-Economic Change in the Ancient Greek World
Lecture | September 20 | 12 p.m. | 7205 Dwinelle Hall
Emily Mackil, UC Berkeley
Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, Graduate Group in
The AHMA Noon Colloquium is a series of informal papers presented at noon in 7205 Dwinelle Hall.
Everybody Poops: Using Fecal Stanols to Track Cahokia Region Population Change and Evaluate Ideas on Cahokia’s Decline
Lecture | September 20 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
AJ White, University of California, Berkeley Department of Anthropology
Archaeological Research Facility
Fecal stanols provide a proxy of population change by identifying variations in the amount of trace human waste products retained in sediment. We used fecal stanol data from Horseshoe Lake, Illinois, as a population proxy to evaluate the role of flooding, droughts, and environmental degradation in Cahokia’s demographic decline. We find that both Mississippi River flooding and warm season droughts... More >
No MVZ Lunch Seminar
Seminar | September 20 | 12-1 p.m. | Valley Life Sciences Building, 3101 Grinnell-Miller Library
MVZ Lunch is a graduate level seminar series (IB264) based on current and recent vertebrate research. Professors, graduate students, staff, and visiting researchers present on current and past research projects. The seminar meets every Wednesday from 12- 1pm in the Grinnell-Miller Library. Enter through the MVZ's Main Office, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, and please let the receptionist... More >
How Games Move Us: Emotional Technology by Design with Katherine Isbister: CITRIS Fall 2017 Research Exchange Series
Seminar | September 20 | 12-1 p.m. | 310 Sutardja Dai Hall
Katherine Isbister, Professor, UC Santa Cruz
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Katherine Isbister is a Human Computer Interaction and Games researcher who creates and studies digital games and other playful computer-supported experiences. Her focus is emotion and social connection–understanding the impact of design choices on these qualities, and getting better at building and evaluating technology that supports and enhances social and emotional experience.
Inspiration in the writer-reader encounter: Creativity, transmission, contagion, and personality similarity
Colloquium | September 20 | 12:10-1:15 p.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall
Todd Thrash, Professor, College of William & Mary
Institute of Personality and Social Research
Inspiration is a motivational state in which an individual feels compelled to transmit, actualize, or express ideas. In this colloquium I present a series of studies of the role of inspiration in the writer-reader encounter. Key findings include the following: (a) Writer inspiration predicts the creativity of the resulting text, whereas writer effort tends to be a poor predictor. (b) Inspiration... More >
Costs of Work: Effects of Parental Work Scheduling on Childcare Arrangements: Peter Hepburn, UC Berkeley
Colloquium | September 20 | 12:10-1:10 p.m. | 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room
Peter Hepburn, Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Sociology Department
Population Science, Department of Demography
A lunch time talk and discussion session, featuring visiting and local scholars presenting their research on a wide range of topics of interest to demography.
EH&S 403 Training Session
Course | September 20 | 1:30-2:30 p.m. | 370 University Hall
Jason Smith, UC Berkeley Office of Environment, Health, & Safety
Office of Environment, Health & Safety
This session briefly covers the UC Berkeley specific radiation safety information you will need to start work. In addition, dosimeter will be issued, if required.
Topology Seminar (Introductory Talk): Background for research talk
Seminar | September 20 | 2-3 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Misha Kapovich, UC Davis
Background material on higher rank symmetric spaces and their discrete isometry groups.
Parking
Seminar | September 20 | 3:10-4 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Matthew Junge, Duke University
Parking functions were introduced by combinatorialists in the 1960s, and have recently been studied by probabilists. When the parking lot is an infinite graph and cars drive around at random, we will look at how many parking spots are needed for every car to eventually find a spot. Joint work with Michael Damron, Janko Gravner, Hanbeck Lyu, and David Sivakoff.
Cell Division: Mechanical Integrity with Dynamic Parts
Seminar | September 20 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building
Sophie Dumont, University of California, San Francisco
Moving from water quantity to quality: Exploring climate impacts on eutrophication
Colloquium | September 20 | 3:30-5 p.m. | 575 McCone Hall
Anna Michalak, Carnegie Institute for Science, Stanford University
Questions surrounding water sustainability, climate change, and extreme events are often framed around water quantity – whether too much or too little. The massive impacts of water quality impairments are equally compelling, however, and recent years have provided a host of examples of unprecedented harmful algal blooms and hypoxic dead zones. Linkages between climate change and water quality... More >
Berkeley Lectures in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering presented by The Dow Chemical Company: Nanolayered Drug Release Systems for Regenerative Medicine and Targeted Nanotherapies
Lecture | September 20 | 4-6 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room
Paula T. Hammond, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Chemical Engineering
Alternating electrostatic assembly is a tool that makes it possible to create ultrathin film coatings that contain highly controlled quantities of one or more therapeutic molecules within a singular construct. These release systems greatly exceed the usual ranges of traditional degradable polymers, ranging from 10 to as high as 40 wt% drug loading within the film. The nature of the layering... More >
Climate Change and Migration in the Midst of Elusion: Insights from Cambodia
Lecture | September 20 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Sara Vigil, Research Fellow, Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research, University of Liège; Research Fellow, International Institute for Social Studies (The Netherlands)
Center for Southeast Asia Studies
Drawing on case studies conducted in the Cambodian provinces of Koh Kong and Kampong Thom, this talk will analyse the variegated and complex interactions between climate change politics, land grabs, and migration.
Sara Vigil
Topology Seminar (Main Talk): Discrete isometry groups of higher rank symmetric spaces
Seminar | September 20 | 4-5 p.m. | 3 Evans Hall
Misha Kapovich, UC Davis
I will review basic geometry of higher rank symmetric spaces, and then discuss discrete isometry groups of such spaces, which are higher rank generalizations of Kleinian groups. We will see how some of the classical notions and results translate in the higher rank setting and how do they connect to the broader geometric group theory. For instance: What is the higher rank analogue of the... More >
Adaptation via convex optimization in two nonparametric estimation problems
Seminar | September 20 | 4-5 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Adityanand Guntuboyina, University of California, Berkeley
We study two convex optimization based procedures for nonparametric function estimation: trend filtering (or higher order total variation denoising) and the Kiefer-Wolfowitz MLE for Gaussian location mixtures. Trend filtering can be seen as a technique for fitting spline-like functions for nonparametric regression with adaptive knot selection. It can also be seen as a special case of LASSO for a... More >
Representation Theory and Mathematical Physics Seminar: Supports and tensor ideals in stable module categories.
Seminar | September 20 | 4-5 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Julia Pevtsova, University of Washington
Classifying modules up to direct sums in modular representation theory is usually a hopeless task – there are too many indecomposable modules (over a field of characteristic $p$) even for such a seemingly small group as $Z/3 \times Z/3$ or a three dimensional Heisenberg Lie algebra. Inspired by ideas from stable homotopy theory and algebraic geometry we suggest a different way of... More >
EECS Colloquium: Robots for Everyone Everywhere
Colloquium | September 20 | 4-5 p.m. | Soda Hall, 306 (HP Auditorium)
Ankur Mehta, UCLA
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Creating and using new robotic systems has typically been limited to experts, requiring engineering background, expensive tools, and considerable time. Instead, I am working to create systems to automatically design, fabricate, and control functional robots from a simple description of the problem at hand. By enabling the on-demand creation of integrated electromechanical systems by casual... More >
Understanding how we get fat: Dietary regulation of adipocyte stem cells
Seminar | September 20 | 4-5 p.m. | 114 Morgan Hall
Matt Rodeheffer, Yale
Climate Change and Migration in the Midst of Elusion: Insights from Cambodia
Lecture | September 20 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Sara Vigil, Research Fellow, Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research, University of Liège; Research Fellow, International Institute for Social Studies (The Netherlands), , Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research, University of Liège; Research Fellow, International Institute for Social Studies (The Netherlands)
Center for Southeast Asia Studies
Drawing on case studies conducted in the Cambodian provinces of Koh Kong and Kampong Thom, this talk will analyse the variegated and complex interactions between climate change politics, land grabs, and migration.
Sara Vigil
Premodern Arabic Concepts of Philosophy: A Text-Based Seminar
Seminar | September 20 | 4-6 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Ulrich Rudolph, Zurich University
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
A seminar in Arabic on text readings by Farabi, Shahrazuri and Shahrastani, led by Professor Ulrich Rudolph. This text-based seminar requires knowledge of Arabic. To RSVP and receive the texts, please contact cmes@berkeley.edu.
RSVP by calling 510-642-8208, or by emailing cmes@berkeley.edu
Applied Math Seminar: Topology Optimization of Nonlinear Problems in Solid and Fluid Mechanics
Seminar | September 20 | 4-5 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Kurt Maute, University of Colorado, Boulder
Accurately modeling nonlinear problems in solid and fluid mechanics and, at the same time, allowing for topological changes in the optimization process poses interesting challenges on the formulation of the optimization problem, the physics model, and the discretization method. This talk will provide an overview of topology optimization approaches for nonlinear mechanical problems, focusing on... More >
TE-29 California Traffic Engineering License Exam Review
Course | September 6 – October 11, 2017 every Wednesday | 5-7 p.m. | Online
Rafat Raie, PE, City Traffic Engineer, City of Walnut Creek; Joy Bhattacharya, PE, PTOE, Principal, Stantec; Crystal Killiam, PE, City of Los Angeles; Obaid Khan, PE, City Traffic Engineer, City of Dublin
Institute of Transportation Studies
This twelve-session live-online training course is intended to help transportation engineers prepare for the California Traffic Engineer exam to become a professional Traffic Engineer in California. The course includes a set of sample problems for each session with fully developed solutions to give examinees more opportunity to hone in their test-taking skills. The twelve sessions are designed to... More >
Egyptological Afternoon: Papers in Egyptian Studies
Conference/Symposium | September 20 | 5-7 p.m. | 254 Barrows Hall
Alexander Schütze, Munich University; Mélanie Flossmann-Schȕtze, Munich University; Andrzej Niwinski, Warsaw University
1) Statues, Stelae and Private Legal Documents: The Agency of Things in the Petition of Peteese (P. Rylands 9)
2) The Ptolemaic settlement of the Ibiotapheion at Tuna el-Gebel. Current research of the Joint Mission of Cairo and Munich Universities
3) The development of the iconographic repertoire of the 21st Dynasty coffins as new criterion for dating
Egyptological Afternoon
Conference/Symposium | September 20 | 5-7 p.m. | 254 Barrows Hall
Alexander Schütze, University of Munich; Melanie Flossmann-Schȕtze, University of Munich; Andrzej Niwinski, University of Warsaw
5:00 Alexander Schütze (Munich University) Statues, Stelae and Private Legal Documents: The Agency of Things in the Petition of Peteese (P. Rylands 9)
P. Rylands 9 contains the lengthy petition of a scribe of the temple of Amun at el-Hibe dating to the early reign of Dareios I. The papyrus is considered as an important source for the history, administration and society of Late Period Egypt. In... More >
Materializing Temporalities: Coloquio Internacional
Conference/Symposium | September 20 | 5-7 p.m. | 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Lisa M. Johnson, University of California, Berkeley Department of Anthropology; Rosemary A. Joyce, University of California, Berkeley Department of Anthropology
Archaeological Research Facility, Townsend Center for the Humanities
Roundtable event featuring two talks:
"From One Moment to the Next: Multiple Temporalities at Chak Sutz' House (Group IV, Palenque)"
"Structured Deposition and Ritual Practice: A Case Study from the Ulua Valley, Honduras"
Respondent: Francisca Zalaquett Rock (Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM)
Salesforce Info-Session
Information Session | September 20 | 6-7:30 p.m. | Soda Hall, Wozniak Lounge (430)
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Colin Garcia, a software engineer on the Storage Cloud, will be talking about the team, milestones, upcoming and ongoing work, and internship opportunities. There will also be an intern panel, where our summer interns will be discussing their experience at Salesforce.
Food, swag, and a demo of our VR app provided!
We’re hiring Futureforce interns and college grads throughout... More >
Toastmasters on Campus Club: Learn public speaking
Meeting | January 14, 2015 – December 18, 2019 every Wednesday | 6:15-7:30 p.m. | 3111 Etcheverry Hall
Toastmasters has been the world leader in teaching public speaking since 1924. Meetings are an enjoyable self-paced course designed to get you up and running as a speaker in only a few months.
ARCH Lecture: Neri&Hu
Lecture | September 20 | 6:30-8 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
WED, SEPT 20, 6:30pm. College of Environmental Design alumni Rossana Hu (B.A. Arch. 90) and Lyndon Neri (B.A. Arch. 87) discuss their work.
Zaytuna College Lecture Series with CAIR Director Zahra Billoo: Resisting the Muslim Ban
Lecture | September 20 | 7-9 p.m. | Zaytuna College, Sanctuary
2401 Le Conte Ave., Berkeley, CA 94709
Zahra Billoo, Director, Council on American-Islamic Relations
Graduate Theological Union
Zaytuna College invites you to their upcoming Lecture Series, occurring on Wednesday evenings from 7:00pm - 9:00pm at 2401 Le Conte Ave. Berkeley, CA 94709 throughout the Fall semester with renowned speakers such as UC Berkeley Anthropology Professor Laura Nader, Political Science Professor Steven Fish, CAIR Director Zahra Billoo, Stanford Comparative Literature and Classical Arabic Professor... More >
Sins of the Fleshapoids
Film - Feature | September 20 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Mike Kuchar’s sci-fi extravaganza is set far in the future, when highly evolved robots take care of the daily chores while their masters lead lives of pleasure. But when two robots fall in love, it’s not just their circuits that go haywire. Starring George Kuchar as an evil prince and Bob Cowan as a love-seeking robot, Sins helped launch American underground cinema.
Exhibits and Ongoing Events
People Made These Things: Connecting with the Makers of Our World
Exhibit - Multimedia | April 12 – December 17, 2017 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | Hearst Museum of Anthropology, 102 Kroeber Hall
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Why do we sometimes know a lot about who made things, and why do we sometimes not? Why does it sometimes matter to us, and why might it sometimes not? These are the questions that will be raised in the exhibit that will inaugurate the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology’s renovated Kroeber Hall Gallery. The Museum will display objects from the collection that urge visitors to think... More >
Free UC Berkeley Students, Faculty, Staff, Hearst Museum Members, and Youth under 18, $6 General Admisison, $3 Non-UC Berkeley Students and seniors over 65
Art Wall: Lawrence Weiner
Exhibit - Multimedia | March 1 – October 1, 2017 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAMPFA’s current commission for the Art Wall showcases the work of Lawrence Weiner, a central figure of Conceptual art. Like many other artists working in the late 1960s and ’70s, Weiner is deeply interested in methods of display that challenge the assumption that the work of art exists as a discrete object in the physical world.
Weiner decisively turned to language as the material object for... More >
Charles Howard: A Margin of Chaos
Exhibit - Painting | June 21 – October 1, 2017 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The work of Bay Area artist Charles Houghton Howard (1899–1978) spans five decades, beginning in the mid-1920s and continuing into the 1960s. During his active and distinguished career, Howard became known for enigmatic, meticulous paintings, often intimate in scale, that bridged figurative, Surrealist, and abstract currents in modern art across the United States and Europe. Fluid lines,... More >
Buddhist Realms
Exhibit - Artifacts | May 24 – October 8, 2017 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
This exhibition explores the many celestial realms represented in Tibetan Buddhist painting and sculpture through exquisite examples from the twelfth to nineteenth centuries. The exhibition will be presided over by a monumental gilt bronze sculpture of the historical Buddha, a fully realized and enlightened being who occupies the highest level of existence. The Buddha’s life story will be... More >
In-Between Places: Korean American Artists in the Bay Area
Exhibit - Painting | September 13 – December 10, 2017 every day | Mills College Art Museum
5000 MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland, CA 94613
In-Between Places (사이에 머물다) is the story of Korean American artists and their dreams, featuring new work by: Jung Ran Bae; Sohyung Choi; Kay Kang; Miran Lee; Young June Lew; Nicholas Oh; Younhee Paik; and Minji Sohn.
Street by Minji Sohn, 2016
Jennie Smith: New Drawings
Exhibit - Painting | September 18 – December 15, 2017 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | Stephens Hall, Townsend Center for the Humanities
Townsend Center for the Humanities
San Francisco artist Jennie Smith infuses her detailed drawings of the natural world with an imaginative sensibility.
Viewing hours are generally Monday through Friday, 9 am to 4 pm. The exhibit is located in a space also used for events and meetings; please call (510) 643-9670 or email in advance to confirm room availability.
The Russian Revolution Centenary: 1917-2017: Politics, Propaganda and People's Art
Exhibit - Multimedia | September 11, 2017 – January 8, 2018 every day | Moffitt Undergraduate Library
This exhibition is dedicated to the centenary of the Russian Revolution that took place in October of 1917. The exhibition will take place in the Moffitt Library, and it will highlight several print-items from the revolutionary times.
Access to the Moffitt Undergraduate Library is restricted and you'll need the UC Berkeley/ Cal Card for entry.
The Summer of Love 50th Anniversary
Exhibit - Artifacts | July 21 – December 29, 2017 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. | Bancroft Library, Bancroft Corridor between The Bancroft Library and Doe Library
Marking a 50th anniversary, Bancroft’s rare and unique collections documenting the 1967 “Summer of Love” are on exhibit in the corridor cases. Presented are images from the Bay Area alternative press, psychedelic rock posters and mailers, documentary photographs of the Haight-Ashbury scene and major rock concerts, and material from the personal papers of author Joan Didion and poet Michael... More >
The Invisible Museum: History and Memory of Morocco
Exhibit - Multimedia | August 29 – December 15, 2017 every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 11 a.m.-4 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
Since its inception in 1962, the former Judah L. Magnes Museum distinguished itself by directing its collecting efforts outside the focus on European Jewish culture and history that was prevalent among American Jewish museums at the time. During the 1970s and 1980s, its founders, Seymour and Rebecca Fromer, actively corralled an informal team of activist collectors and supporters. Together, they... More >
Sketching "Fiddler": Set Designs by Mentor Huebner
Exhibit - Multimedia | August 29 – December 15, 2017 every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 11 a.m.-4 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
The Power of Attention: Magic and Meditation in Hebrew "shiviti" Manuscript Art
Exhibit - Artifacts | August 29 – December 15, 2017 every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 11 a.m.-4 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
Created from the early-modern period and into the present, shiviti manuscripts are found in Hebrew prayer books, ritual textiles, and on the walls of synagogues and homes throughout the Jewish diaspora. Wrestling with ways to externalize the presence of God in Jewish life, these documents center upon the graphic representation of God's ineffable four-letter Hebrew name, the Tetragrammaton, and... More >
The Worlds of Arthur Szyk: The Taube Family Arthur Szyk Collection
Exhibit - Multimedia | August 29 – December 15, 2017 every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 11 a.m.-4 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
Auditorium installation of high-resolution images of select collection items.
Acquired by The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life in 2017 thanks to an unprecedented gift from Taube Philanthropies, the most significant collection of works by Arthur Szyk (Łódź, Poland, 1894 – New Canaan, Connecticut, 1951) is now available to the world in a public institution for the first time as... More >
"Authority" - The 2017 Open Call Student Exhibition: At Worth Ryder Art Gallery
Exhibit - Multimedia | September 14 – 21, 2017 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 12-5 p.m. | K116 Kroeber Hall
The premiere showcase for student art on campus, "Authority - The 2017 Open-Call Student Exhibition" celebrates the challenging and diverse art practices of the UC Berkeley community. Please join us for an Opening Reception on Wednesday, September 13th, from 4 - 7pm.
The 2017 Open Call Student Exhibition
Exhibit - Multimedia | September 13 – 21, 2017 every day | 4-7 p.m. | Kroeber Hall, Worth Ryder Art Gallery
All current UC Berkeley Students (Fall 2017 semester) are invited to propose an artwork, a small series, or any other creative project!
The annual open call exhibition is the premiere showcase for student art on campus, and the only open-call exhibition of the year at the gallery.
Taking cues from the successful exhibitions of years past including 2015’s I Know What You Did Last Summer and... More >
