All events
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Workplace Civility: Respect in Action
Workshop | February 15 | 9 a.m.-12 p.m. | University Hall, Room 24
Julia Horvath, Staff Ombuds Office
Learn practical steps for promoting civility at work, including guidelines for considerate conduct and ideas for creating a more inclusive work environment. Participants will also learn how to help their unit establish group norms and effective ways to respond to rudeness.
Global Internships Program Information Session
Information Session | February 15 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Earn academic credit while gaining practical internship experience domestically or abroad. Learn more about UC Berkeley Global Internships at this event and see how your summer can transform you!
A Medieval Gospel Book from Genocide to Restitution: Toros Roslin’s Zeytun Gospels, 1915-2015
Lecture | February 15 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall
Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh, Associate Professor of Art History, UC Davis
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Armenian Studies Program
The destruction of art, especially religious art, is one of the components of the genocidal phenomenon. Claims for the restitution of surviving religious and artistic objects form part post-conflict processes of survival or reconciliation. The widespread destruction of religious art is a well known dimension of the Armenian Genocide, yet its has rarely attracted critical attention. A rare example... More >
Graduate Student Workshop with Middle Eastern Studies Librarian
Workshop | February 15 | 12-2 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Mohamed Hamed, Middle Eastern & Near Eastern Studies Librarian, UC Berkeley
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
This workshop is an opportunity for graduate students to meet the new Middle Eastern & Near Eastern Studies Librarian and discover the library's collections for the Middle East and North Africa.
RSVP online by February 13.
Post-Baccalaureate Program for Counseling and Psychology Professions Online Information Session
Information Session | February 15 | 12-1 p.m. | Online
Whether you are a career changer or already working in the field, understand how this program can help you plan an academic program of study and initiate the graduate- school application process.
2018 ESPM Seminar Series - Angela Hodge
Seminar | February 15 | 12-1 p.m. | 132 Mulford Hall
Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, and Mgmt. (ESPM)
Angela Hodge, Dept.of Biology, University of York (UK)
"Plastic plants, patchy soils, and ancient fungi"
Coffee will be served from 11:30 to 12:00 in 139 Mulford Hall.
This event is open to the public.
Bancroft Library Roundtable: Solving Mysteries at The Bancroft Library: The Fifth (Floor) Dimension
Lecture | February 15 | 12-1 p.m. | Faculty Club, Lewis-Latimer Room
Kenna Fisher, MLIS, Manuscripts Cataloger, The Bancroft Library
Ever wonder how Bancroft's wonderful collections are made ready for the public? Go behind the scenes with Bancroft manuscripts cataloger Kenna Fisher as she takes you on a journey through special collections processing. Fisher will discuss how she solved mysteries contained in two new acquisitions: a Gold Rush-era journal and a World War I collection.
Eating Well to Energize (BEUHS641): Nutrition Events at Tang
Workshop | February 15 | 12:10-1 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Section Club
Kim Guess, RD, Wellness Program Dietitian, Be well at Work - Wellness
Balanced meals can help keep your energy steady throughout the day and as a bonus, these meals are also good for weight management and long-term health! Learn how to combine food groups in a tasty way that will help you focus on work through the morning, avoid the afternoon slump, and have the energy to do what you want to do when you get home from work. Lecture, brief cooking demonstration, and... More >
Seminar 217, Risk Management: Digitally-driven change in the insurance industry—disruption or transformation?
Seminar | February 15 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Speaker: Jeffrey Bohn, Swiss Re
Center for Risk Management Research
As technology continues to insinuate itself into all facets of financial services, the insurance industry faces a slow-motion parade of promise, possibilities, prematurity, and pared-down expectations. Digitization, the birth of InsurTech, machine intelligence, and the collection & curation of (orders of magnitude) more structured & unstructured data are changing (and will continue to change) the... More >
IB Seminar: Sympatric speciation, diabolical extinction, and gene flow in some of the simplest ecosystems on earth
Seminar | February 15 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building
Christopher Martin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Is There A Future for International Criminal Justice?
Lecture | February 15 | 12:45-2 p.m. | 140 Boalt Hall, School of Law
Stephen J. Rapp, former US Ambassador-at-Large, Office of Global Crimnial Justice, US State Dept
Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law
Stephen Rapp was Ambassador-at-Large (2009-2015) heading the Office of Global Criminal Justice in the US State Department, where he coordinated US Government support to international criminal tribunals, and to hybrid and national courts responsible for prosecuting persons charged with genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
Econ 235, Financial Economics: Persistent Financial Distress After the Great Recession
Seminar | February 15 | 1-2 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
Francis Wong, UC Berkeley
Docent-led tour
Tour/Open House | January 6, 2017 – January 4, 2019 every Sunday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 1:30-2:45 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Join us for a free, docent-led tour of the Garden as we explore interesting plant species, learn about the vast collection, and see what is currently in bloom. Meet at the Entry Plaza.
Free with Garden admission
Advanced registration not required
Tours may be cancelled without notice.
For day-of inquiries, please call 510-643-2755
For tour questions, please email gardentours@berkeley.edu... More >
ISF 110 - Free Speech in the Public Sphere: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Course | January 16 – May 3, 2018 every Tuesday & Thursday | 2-3:30 p.m. | 102 Wurster Hall
Division of Undergraduate Education
In this spring 2018 class, we shall take up the nature of public speech from Socrates' public dissent to social media messaging today. The course reading will combine classic philosophical statements about the value of free, subversive and offensive speech; histories of the emergence of public spheres; and sociologies of technologically-mediated speech today.
Madrid Summer Abroad Information Session
Information Session | February 15 | 2-3 p.m. | 442 Stephens Hall
Come learn how you can study abroad with UC Berkeley faculty this summer! Join us for an informational session and learn how you can check off breadth requirements while immersing yourself in an international experience!
Seminar 251, Labor Seminar: NO Seminar
Seminar | February 15 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall | Canceled
2018 College of Environmental Design Career Fair
Career Fair | February 15 | 3-7 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union
College of Environmental Design
The annual College of Environmental Design Career Fair brings together wide ranging employers and design firms to meet and recruit UC Berkeley students in the disciplines of architecture, planning, urban studies and other environmental design fields.
Netherlands and Belgium Summer Abroad Information Session
Information Session | February 15 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Come learn how you can study abroad with UC Berkeley faculty this summer! Join us for an informational session and learn how you can check off breadth requirements while immersing yourself in an international experience!
Mathematics Department Colloquium: Stark's conjectures and Hilbert's 12th problem
Colloquium | February 15 | 4-5 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall
Samit Dasgupta, UC Santa Cruz
In this talk we will discuss two central problems in algebraic number theory and their interconnections: explicit class field theory (also known as Hilbert's 12th Problem), and the special values of L-functions. The goal of explicit class field theory is to describe the abelian extensions of a ground number field via analytic means intrinsic to the ground field. Meanwhile, there is an abundance... More >
Seminar 242, Econometrics: "Three principles of data science: predictability, stability, and computability"
Seminar | February 15 | 4-5 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
Bin Yu, UCB
More than Bystanders, Microglia Destruct Synapses in Alzheimer’s Disease
Seminar | February 15 | 4-5 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition
**Soyon Hong**, Harvard University
Barbarians at the Gate: Socialist University, Upward Mobility, and New Intelligentsia in Postwar Poland
Lecture | February 15 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall
Agata Zysiak, Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Study
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES)
After the social revolution brought on by WWII and a new political order, Polish society started on a path of intense reconstruction. A freshly established university in the "Polish Manchester" - Łódź - serves as a case study to examine postwar visions of academia, reforms of higher education, and upward mobility. The socialist university project was designed for the people and was a... More >
Testing for two-stage experiments in the presence of interference
Seminar | February 15 | 4-5 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Guillaume Basse, Harvard University
Many important causal questions concern interactions between units, also known as interference. Examples include interactions between individuals in households, students in schools, and firms in markets. Standard analyses that ignore interference can often break down in this setting: estimators can be badly biased, while classical randomization tests can be invalid. In this talk, I present recent... More >
Enabling Data Science for the Majority
Seminar | February 15 | 4 p.m. | Soda Hall, 306 Soda Hall
Aditya Parameswaran, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
The driving goal of our research is to help individuals and teams--regardless of programming or analysis ability--manage, analyze, make sense of, and draw insights from large datasets. Over the past three years, we've been building (with collaborators at MIT, UMD, and UChicago) a number of tools that empower individuals and teams to perform data science more effectively and effortlessly.
Measuring Subgenres: Quantitative Approaches to Paratextual Labeling and Readers’ Expectations
Lecture | February 15 | 4-6 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, 4125A (level D)
Nicholas Paige, UC Berkeley French
This event will feature two presentations of ongoing quantitative research into the adoption of labels for novelistic subgenres — phrases such as “a novel of manners” and “a historical novel.” Is the appearance of generic subtitles on title pages a reliable indicator of a novel’s content? Do such subtitles spread in a predictable fashion, and to what extent does their use traverse national and... More >
Ireland Summer Abroad Informational Session
Information Session | February 15 | 5-6 p.m. | 44B Dwinelle Hall
Come learn how you can study abroad with UC Berkeley faculty this summer! Join us for an informational session and learn how you can check off breadth requirements while immersing yourself in an international experience!
The Ito Sisters: An American Story
Film - Documentary | February 15 | 5-7 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Multicultural Community Center
Antonia Grace Glenn, Director/Producer; Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley; Michael Omi, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley
Center for Japanese Studies (CJS), Department of Ethnic Studies
Join us for a screening of the film "The Ito Sisters: An American Story," followed by Q&A with the Director/Producer Antonia Grace Glenn and Processor Evelyn Nakano Glenn and Michael Omi.
THE ITO SISTERS captures the rarely told stories of the earliest Japanese immigrants to the United States and their American-born children. In particular, the film focuses on the experiences of Issei (or... More >
The Merit of Words and Letters: Sutra Recitation in Japanese Zen
Lecture | February 15 | 5-7 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Erez Joskovich, UC Berkeley
Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Center for Japanese Studies (CJS)
Classical Chan/Zen literature is famous for its disparagement of scriptural authority, ranging from the well-known slogan “separate transmission outside the scriptures...,” attributed to Bodhidharma, to stories of renowned Zen masters abusing Buddhist scriptures. Nevertheless, similar to other Buddhist schools, incantations of sutras and invocation of dhāranī have been a significant... More >
Fatum: Destiny in Greece and Rome: Sather Lecture #2
Lecture | February 15 | 5:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall | Note change in time and location
Maurizio Bettini, Università degli Studi di Siena
The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam - Ula Taylor
Colloquium | February 15 | 5:30-7 p.m. | Hearst Field Annex, Fannie Lou Hamer Center
Ula Taylor
The CRG Thursday Forum presents...
The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam
Ula Taylor, African American Studies More >
Amazon Info-Session
Information Session | February 15 | 6-7:30 p.m. | Soda Hall, Wozniak Lounge (430)
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
A team of recruiters and software engineers from Amazon will be on campus to discuss their company, technologies, and positions they are hiring for. Dinner will be served!
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At Amazon, we are working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptional talent, bright, and driven people. Amazon is continually evolving and is a place where motivated employees... More >
SOLD OUT - The Science of Cannabis: The Neuroscience of Cannabis
Lecture | February 15 | 6-7:30 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
How does Cannabis affect our brain, mind, and behavior? The subjective experiences, therapeutic uses, and potential for abuse associated with Cannabis are related to the plant’s complex botanical chemistry and the impact of this chemistry on body and psyche.
$30 / $25 UCBG Members / $15 Current students
SOLD OUT.
Film: Cries and Whispers
Film - Feature | February 15 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Cries and Whispers depicts the final day of Agnes (Harriet Andersson), who lies in bed with cancer. Her most dear ones—her sisters, Maria (Liv Ullmann) and Karin (Ingrid Thulin), and a companion, Anna (Kari Sylwan)—watch over her. In a film as formal as a clock’s tick, Bergman restricts his palette to colors of blood, his close-ups to the image of the soul. The four women want strength to face... More >
Transient Canvas
Performing Arts - Music | February 15 | 8-10 p.m. | CNMAT (1750 Arch St.)
Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT)
Transient Canvas presents Wired, a portrait of technology’s integration into modern life.
$10 General, $5 Students and seniors
CNMAT Users Group presents: Transient Canvas
Performing Arts - Music | February 15 | 8 p.m. | CNMAT (1750 Arch St.)
CNMAT (Center for New Music and Technology)
Transient Canvas presents Wired, a portrait of technology’s integration into modern life. As people try to emulate computers and we build computers that emulate people, the question of who is controlling whom becomes ambiguous. With musical inspiration ranging from Aphex Twin to electronic dance music, this program features music by Lainie Fefferman, David Ibbett, Peter Van Zandt Lane, Rudolf... More >
$10 G.A., $5 seniors and students
Berkeley Dance Project 2018
Performing Arts - Dance | February 15 – 17, 2018 every day | 8-10 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
Department of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
Berkeley Dance Project 2018 features new choreography by Katie Faulkner and James Graham, as well as TDPS students Madeline Aragon and Hillary Tang. Faulkner explores the physical changes that women undergo as they progress through puberty, childbearing, aging, and illness, while Graham’s new work questions our experiences with gender, sexuality, and identity.
$13 Students, Cal Staff & Faculty, Seniors (online in advance), $15 Students, Cal Staff & Faculty, Seniors (At the door. ID required), $18 General Admission (Online in advance), $20 General Admission (At the door)
Exhibits and Ongoing Events
Veronica De Jesus/ MATRIX 268
Exhibit - Multimedia | October 25, 2017 – February 25, 2018 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
De Jesus's memorial portraits honor artists, writers, and diverse cultural figures, testifying to the fact that each life is valuable and worthy of recognition.
Buddhist Realms
Exhibit - Multimedia | October 25, 2017 – April 22, 2018 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
This presentation showcases exquisite examples of Buddhist art from the Himalayan region.
Art Wall: Karabo Poppy Moletsane
Exhibit - Painting | November 22, 2017 – July 15, 2018 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Moletsane’s vibrant, large-scale portraits for the Art Wall draw on both traditional African visual culture and Afrofuturism.
Fiat Yuks: Cal Student Humor, Then and Now
Exhibit - Artifacts | October 16, 2017 – June 3, 2018 every day | Bancroft Library, Rowell Cases, 2nd floor corridor between The Bancroft Library and Doe Library
Let there be laughter! This exhibition features Cal students’
cartoons, jokes, and satire throughout the years selected
from their humor magazines and other publications.
Environmental Design Archives Exhibition: Hollywood and Vine
Exhibit - Multimedia | January 22 – May 15, 2018 every day | 210 Wurster Hall
Environmental Design, College of
See the homes of the STARS!! Or more precisely, designs for the homes and gardens of film stars, directors, screen writers, and designers curated by head archivist at the Environmental Design Archives, Waverly Lowell.
Way Bay
Exhibit - Multimedia | January 17 – May 6, 2018 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Way Bay is a sweeping exploration of the creative energies that have emerged from the San Francisco Bay Area over the past two hundred years. The exhibition features nearly two hundred works of art, film, performance, poetry, and archival materials by Bay Area artists and others whose work engages with the region’s geographic, social, and cultural landscape.
The exhibition takes a nonlinear... More >
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Avant Dictee
Exhibit - Multimedia | January 31 – April 22, 2018 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Avant Dictee offers viewers an opportunity to experience the work of this prolific artist in a new way, through her best-known work, the artist’s book Dictee. Placing the book as a point of entry into her wider creative production, the exhibition explores resonances between Dictee’s ten thematic sections (nine of them named for the Greek muses) and artworks drawn from the... More >
The Invisible Museum: History and Memory of Morocco
Exhibit - Artifacts | January 23 – June 29, 2018 every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 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 >
The Worlds of Arthur Szyk | The Taube Family Arthur Szyk Collection: Auditorium installation of enlarged reproductions of select collection items
Exhibit - Multimedia | January 23 – June 29, 2018 every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
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 the Taube Family Arthur Szyk Collection.
Born into a middle-class Polish... More >
¡Viva La Fiesta! Mexican Traditions of Celebration
Exhibit - Artifacts | October 13, 2017 – February 28, 2018 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | Bancroft Library, The Bancroft Library Gallery
¡Viva la Fiesta! explores the cycle of traditional religious and
patriotic celebrations that have for centuries marked the
Mexican calendar. The exhibition draws on unique historical
representations of the fiestas and examines their relationship
to communal identities, national politics, religious practices,
and indigenous customs. These original materials, which are
preserved in the... More >
High Holy Days at the Luna Park: Show-card Posters from the Firschein Press (Brooklyn, NY, 1920-1974)
Exhibit - Artifacts | January 23 – June 29, 2018 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
This exhibition presents a selection from the over one hundred “show-card” posters printed by the Firschein Press, a small business operated by East European Jewish immigrants, that served local Jewish and non-Jewish communities in Brooklyn for the better half of the 20th century. Oscar Firschein brought the posters to California once the Press ceased its activities. He and his wife, Theda,... More >
The Karaite Canon: Manuscripts and Ritual Objects from Cairo
Exhibit - Artifacts | January 23 – June 29, 2018 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
A selection from the over fifty manuscripts collected by The Magnes in Cairo, Egypt, during an expedition led by the museum’s founder, Seymour Fromer, in 1971. At the time, the aim of The Magnes was to salvage unique documents during a period of great turmoil in the Middle East.
The manuscripts are accompanied by a variety of ritual objects, original ketubbot (marriage contracts), and by... More >
