All events
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Paris/Berkeley/Bonn/Zürich Analysis Seminar: Planar Sobolev extension domains
Seminar | February 22 | 9:10-10 a.m. | 238 Sutardja Dai Hall
Yi Zhang, University of Bonn
A domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb R^2$ is called a $W^{1,\,p}$-extension domain if it admits an extension operator $E\colon W^{1,\,p}(\Omega ) \to W^{1,\,p}(\mathbb R^2)$ with controlled norm. A full geometric characterization of these domains for $p=2$ was given around 1980. The case $p >2$ was finally solved by P. Shvartsman in 2010. We discuss the remaining cases, and give some new... More >
Botanical Illustration: Trees with Catherine Watters
Workshop | February 22 – 23, 2018 every day | 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden | Note change in time
This two-day class will focus on trees and introduce you to the fascinating world of Botanical Art. Catherine Watters will teach you to observe, measure and draw plants in great detail and with botanical accuracy. Students will work with graphite, colored pencil and watercolors. All levels are welcome.
$190, $175 members
Register online or by calling 510-664-9841, or by emailing gardenprograms@berkeley.edu
Society for Conservation Biology - Meeting Conservation - Sue Townsend
Special Event | February 22 | 12-1 p.m. | 112 Hilgard Hall
Sue Townsend
Berkeley Chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology
Our 'Meeting Conservation' series is back by popular demand. In this series, we invite Bay Area scientists to share their non-academic career paths and experiences for students interested in conservation.
Next Thursday 2/22 from 12-1pm in 112 Hilgard, we welcome Dr. Sue Townsend. Dr. Townsend has been a wildlife ecologist and ecological consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past 18... More >
2018 ESPM Seminar Series - David Lewis
Seminar | February 22 | 12-1 p.m. | 132 Mulford Hall
Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, and Mgmt. (ESPM)
David Lewis, Department of Applied Economics, Oregon State University - "The intersection . between climate adaptation, mitigation and natural resources: An empirical analysis of forest management"
Coffee will be served at 11:30 in 139 Mulford Hall
This event is open to the public.
Oliver E. Williamson Seminar
Seminar | February 22 | 12-1:30 p.m. | C325 Haas School of Business
Supreet Kaur, Berkeley
The Oliver E. Williamson Seminar on Institutional Analysis, named after our esteemed colleague who founded the seminar, features current research by faculty, from UCB and elsewhere, and by advanced doctoral students. The research investigates governance, and its links with economic and political forces. Markets, hierarchies, hybrids, and the supporting institutions of law and politics all come... More >
Core Essentials for Better Posture (BEUHS402)
Workshop | February 22 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Class of '42
Greg Ryan, Campus Ergonomist, Be well at Work - Ergonimics
Improve your posture through awareness and exercise. Learn about common muscular imbalances and postural patterns. Practice strengthening, stretching, and stability exercises to promote healthy postures and better balance. Wear comfortable clothing. Enroll online through the UC Learning Center.
Designated Subjects Adult Education and Career Technical Education Teaching Credentials Online Information Session
Information Session | February 22 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Online
Find out how to succeed in a career teaching adults with diverse needs. Our classroom-based professional programs enable you to teach in adult education or career technical education, with or without a California Designated Subjects teaching credential.
Seminar 217, Risk Management: Solving the “curse of dimensionality” problem in multi-asset-class risk models
Seminar | February 22 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Speaker: Jose Menchero, Bloomberg
Center for Risk Management Research
Estimating a robust risk model risk for a portfolio that spans multiple asset classes is a challenging task due to the “curse of dimensionality” (i.e., the problem of estimating too many relationships from too few observations). While the sample covariance matrix is easily computed, it is susceptible to capturing spurious relationships that make it unsuitable for portfolio construction purposes.... More >
KEYS Track 2d- Communicating Goals and Expectations
Course | February 22 | 12:30-4:30 p.m. | 24 University Hall
Kathy Mendonca
Participants will learn how goals and performance standards fit into the performance management cycle and the performance evaluation process, understand the differences and similarities between setting goals and establishing performance standards, write goals and performance standards using SMART criteria, and align individual goals with department and organizational goals. This workshop... More >
IB Seminar: Sensorimotor control of balance: from flamingos to dancers
Seminar | February 22 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building
Lena Ting, Emory University
From Dada to Dystopia: A Brief Genealogy of Caribbean Engagement with the Non-Canonical
Workshop | February 22 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 4125A Dwinelle Hall
Corine Labridy-Stofle, Francophone Studies Working Group
Townsend Center for the Humanities
Preliminary considerations for an intervention at an ACLA panel titled “Monsters, Gumshoes, and Problematic Faves: Race and Genre Fiction in a Global Age.”
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
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.
Seminar 251, Labor Seminar: "Divergent Paths: A New Perspective on Earnings Differences Between Black and White Men Since 1940"
Seminar | February 22 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Kerwin Charles, University of Chicago Harris Public Policy
with Patrick Bayer, Duke and NBER
Bosnia, Serbia, and Croatia Summer Abroad Info Session
Information Session | February 22 | 3-4 p.m. | 6415 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!
Fast and slow learning from reviews: on the analysis and design of rating systems
Seminar | February 22 | 3-4 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium; 310 Sutardja Dai Hall
Ali Makhdoumi, Ph.D. Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
The amount of goods and services transacted on online platforms is set to grow several folds over the next decade. These platforms face several critical challenges in creating a seamless interaction between diverse sellers and service providers. In this talk, we investigate these issues theoretically.
i4Y Child Marriage and Youth Empowerment Group Speaker Series: Child Marriage in Development and Humanitarian Settings: Findings from the Human Rights Center
Seminar | February 22 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 2515 Tolman Hall
Julie Freccero, Director, Health and Human Rights Initiative, Health and Human Rights Program at the Human Rights Center, Berkeley School of Law; Audrey Whiting, Researcher and Fellowship Coordinator, Health and Human Rights Program at the Human Rights Center, Berkeley School of Law
Julie Freccero and Audrey Whiting of the Health and Human Rights Program at the Human Rights Center, Berkeley School of Law will present findings from a recently completed desk review conducted in partnership with Save the Children UK to inform future programming, research and advocacy aimed at preventing and responding to child, early and forced marriage in development and humanitarian settings.... More >
RSVP by emailing i4Y@berkeley.edu
Bio-Tech Connect: Networking with industry
Career Fair | February 22 | 3:30-6 p.m. | Stanley Hall, Atrium
The top talent of UC Berkeley and local biotech employers at the largest biomedical industry event on campus.
Meet representatives from local biotech companies, large and small! All majors and levels welcome - early undergrad to PhD. Not a career fair - some will be hiring, some just want to meet you. Bring your resume if you're job searching and meet some awesome companies.
Mathematics Department Colloquium: p-adic algebraic K-theory and topological cyclic homology
Colloquium | February 22 | 4-5 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall
Akhil Mathew, University of Chicago
Algebraic K-theory is a basic invariant of rings connected to deep phenomena in arithmetic, geometry, and topology. When one works with the p-adic K-theory of p-adic rings, the theory of trace maps and the apparatus of topological cyclic homology (TC) is often a highly effective approximation used in many computations. The theory TC, while more conceptually involved than K-theory, is often easier... More >
A Book is Born: Greil Marcus and Steve Wasserman
Lecture | February 22 | 4 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens
Townsend Center for the Humanities
Cultural critic Greil Marcus and publisher Steve Wasserman discuss their nearly half-century of collaboration.
A talk by Jasmin Miller: Teaching Teaching Discretio in Advice for the Contemplative Life
Lecture | February 22 | 4-5 p.m. | 330 Wheeler Hall
Jasmin Miller
Department of English, Medieval and Early Modern Coloquium
For pre-circulated materials contact marianhomansturnbull@berkeley.edu.
An Evening of Korean Poetry
Conference/Symposium | February 22 | 4-7 p.m. | Berkeley City Club
2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704
Sae-young Oh, poet
Jae Moo Lee, poet; Keutbyul Jeong, Ewha Womans University; David McCann, Harvard University
Youngmin Kwon, UC Berkeley
Center for Korean Studies (CKS), Literature Translation Institute of Korea
Please join us for an evening of Korean poetry with Oh Sae-young, Lee Jae Moo, and Jeong Keutbyul. Also joining us will be Professors David McCann (Harvard University) and Youngmin Kwon (UC Berkeley).
Dr. Aaron McKenna, Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington: Resolving whole organism cell fate with CRISPR/Cas9
Seminar | February 22 | 4-5 p.m. | Soda Hall, HP Auditorium 306
Center for Computational Biology, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Abstract: Multicellular organisms develop by way of a lineage tree, a series of cell divisions that give rise to cell types, tissues, and organs. However, our knowledge of the cell lineage and its determinants remains extremely fragmentary for nearly all species. This includes all vertebrates and arthropods such as Drosophila, wherein cell lineage varies between individuals; embryos and organs.
Arts in the Afternoon: Music from the Court of Queen Elizabeth I
Performing Arts - Music | February 22 | 4-6 p.m. | Women's Faculty Club, Stebbins Lounge
Louise Brugger Bidwell, Music Department
Keyboard Music composed by William Byrd for the Court of Queen Elizabeth I - performed by Lousie Brugger Bidwell on the harpsichord
Concert at 4:00 p.m. Q and A and reception follows concert
Make reservations by calling Front Desk at 510-642-4175, or by emailing Front Desk at womensfacultyclub@gmail.com by February 22.
Defending Liberty in the Age of Trump: Lessons from the Front: Jefferson Memorial Lecture featuring David Cole
Lecture | February 22 | 4:10 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium
David Cole, National Legal Director, American Civil Liberties Union
David Cole will present the Jefferson lecture on Thursday, February 22, 2018, entitled "Defending Liberty in the Age of Trump: Lessons from the Front." The lecture will be held in the Chevron Auditorium of International House and is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
David Cole
Importance of the Chinese Exclusion Act: Lessons for Today
Film - Documentary | February 22 | 4:30-6:30 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium #310
Rosemarie Nahm, Board member, Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation; Buck Gee, Board President, Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation; Catherine Choy, Professor, UC Berkeley; Leti Volpp, Professor, Center for Race & Gender
Irene Bloemraad, Professor, Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiatie & UC Berkeley
Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, Center for Race and Gender
We will show a 35-minute excerpt of the new PBS documentary 'The Chinese Exclusion Act' from award-winning documentary filmmakers Ric Burns and Li-Shin Yu’s story of the passing of the Chinese Exclusion Act, its implications for American civil liberties and the consequences, not just for Chinese American families, but also for American identity. The documentary will be accompanied by an... More >
"Doing" Political Theology Today: Promises and Pitfalls
Lecture | February 22 | 5-7 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Ruth Marshall, Associate Professor of the Study of Religion and Political Science, University of Toronto
Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion
Lecture details forthcoming.
Ruth Marshall received her DPhil in Politics from Oxford University, and joined both the Department for the Study of Religion and Political Science in 2008, after having spent 8 years living and researching in West Africa.
“Doing” Political Theology Today: Promises and Pitfalls
Lecture | February 22 | 5-7 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Ruth Marshall, Associate Professor of the Study of Religion and Political Science, University of Toronto
Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion
Lecture details forthcoming.
Ruth Marshall received her DPhil in Politics from Oxford University, and joined both the Department for the Study of Religion and Political Science in 2008, after having spent 8 years living and researching in West Africa. She is the author of Political Spiritualities: The Pentecostal Revolution in Nigeria (U. Chicago Press, 2009) and numerous scholarly... More >
From chan to Chan: Meditation and the semiotics of visionary experience in medieval Chinese Buddhism
Lecture | February 22 | 5-7 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Eric Greene, Yale University
In this talk Eric Greene argues that a distinguishing feature of “early Chan” discourse relative to mainstream Chinese approaches to “Buddhist meditation” (chan)was the rejection of the semiotic potential of visionary meditative experiences. Drawing from early Chan texts, contemporaneous non-Chan meditation manuals, and recently discovered stone inscriptions from Sichuan, he suggests that one way... More >
Geeta Anand | Reporting from India: Reflections on a Decade with the WSJ and NYT
Lecture | February 22 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Geeta Anand, Journalist; Visiting Faculty, UC Berkeley School of Journalism
Munis Faruqui, Director, Institute for South Asia Studies; Sarah Kailath Professor of India Studies; Associate Professor in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
Institute for South Asia Studies, Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies, Department of Political Science, Institute of International Studies
A lecture by journalist and former foreign correspondent for The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal in India, Geeta Anand.
The Column Monument in Bīsāpūr - a Roman Design for Sāpūr I?
Lecture | February 22 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 254 Barrows Hall
Anahita Mittertrainer, Ph.D Candidate, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
One of the most curious findings of the early Sasanian cities in Fars (modern southwest Iran) is the Roman style column monument of Bīsāpūr, which was discovered by Roman Ghirshman, the excavator of Bīsāpūr, in winter 1935/36. The monument was set up in the center of the city at the crossroads of the two main axes and consisted originally probably of two columns... More >
The U.S. - Israel Relationship Under President Donald Trump
Lecture | February 22 | 5-7 p.m. | 105 Boalt Hall, School of Law
Dennis Ross, The Washington Institute
Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies
In the first year of his administration, President Trump has met with key Middle East
leaders, imposed additional sanctions on Iranian officials, set a new tone for the U.S.
role at the UN, and, most recently, made the unprecedented decision to move the
American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. How do these tactical moves affect the
U.S. – Israel relationship and what else may be in store... More >
Fas: A Law with No Gods: Sather Lecture #3
Lecture | February 22 | 5:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall | Note change in time and location
Maurizio Bettini, Università degli Studi di Siena
VSR Social Mixer
Social Event | February 22 | 6-8 p.m. | Daily Pint
1828 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94709
Berkeley International Office(BIO))
On behalf of the Berkeley International Office, we would like to invite you to attend our Visiting Student Researcher (VSR) Social Mixer! All are welcome so feel free to invite friends,family or new colleagues.
Food and beverages will be available for purchase.
Location: Daily Pint (1828 Euclid Ave, Berkeley)
Date: February 22nd, 2018
Time: 6- 8 pm
We look forward to seeing you there!
(Dis)Oriented: A critical film screening and discussion
Film - Documentary | February 22 | 6-8 p.m. | 140 Boalt Hall, School of Law
Law Students for Justice in Palestine, Queer Caucus at Berkeley Law
Oriented explores the lives of three gay Palestinian friends living in Tel Aviv. The screening will be followed by a student panel that will aim to unsettle some of the assumptions presented in the film and move toward narratives of change that are neither narrow nor superficial, but rooted in deep work on sexual and gender diversity within our own communities and context.
SOLD OUT - The Science of Cannabis: The Ethnobotany of Cannabis
Lecture | February 22 | 6-7:30 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Cannabis has been in cultivation for millennia and used as a medicine, food, and for hemp fiber. This program will look at the historical uses of cannabis and how we might explore those uses in future research.
$30 / $25 UCBG Members / $15 Current students
SOLD OUT.
Video as Evidence: what can a civilian do?
Panel Discussion | February 22 | 6:15-7:30 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, Room 100
Kelly Matheson, Senior Attorney and Program Manager, WITNESS; Alexa Koenig, Executive Director, Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law; Felim McMahon, Technology and Human Rights Director, Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law
How can we better use the devices we have on hand to document
abuses of power, human rights violations, and potential war crimes? WITNESS’s Kelly Matheson, filmmaker and human rights attorney, joins the Human Rights Center's Alexa Koenig and Felim McMahon to discuss how to safely and effectively use video as evidence.
BERC Innovation Expo: Research Poster Exposition and Reception
Conference/Symposium | February 22 | 7-9 p.m. | Hearst Memorial Mining Building, Moore Lobby
Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative
Innovation Expo features the best energy-related research from UC Berkeley undergraduate and graduate students. Judges will award prizes totalling $2,500.
$20 2-Day Student Ticket [Post-docs eligible]
Register online or or by emailing energy_summit@berc.berkeley.edu
Film: Cinema: A Public Affair
Film - Feature | February 22 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
“A film begins when it ends. It begins in the conversation and exchange of opinions about it. That’s when the dream of what we’ve just seen crystallizes into reality. And in this process, we become better people, a little more free and open,” Naum Kleiman, an acclaimed film historian and Eisenstein expert, observes in this collage portrait of his twenty-five years as director of the vibrant,... More >
100 Years: One Woman's Fight For Justice (Elouise Cobell's Inspiring Story)
Film - Documentary | February 22 | 7:30-9:30 p.m. | ASUC Stores (King Student Union), Pauley Ballroom (West)
Melinda Janko, Director and Producer, A fire In the Belly Productions, Inc.
Equity and Inclusion, Vice Chancellor, Office of Chancellor, Human Resources, American Indian Graduate Student Association, Native American Studies, Joseph A. Myers for Research on Native American Issues
Melinda Janko, Director and Producer, A fire in the Belly Productions, Inc. comes to UCB, to present her 75-minute documentary.
RSVP by calling Carmen Foghorn or Cindy Andallo at 510-642-3228, or by emailing Carmen Foghorn or Cindy Andallo at aigp@berkeley.edu
Men's Basketball vs. Washington State
Sport - Intercollegiate - Basketball | February 22 | 8 p.m. | Haas Pavilion
Cal Bears Intercollegiate Sports
Cal Men's Basketball hosts Washington State in conference action at Haas Pavilion.
Berkeley Dance Project 2018
Performing Arts - Dance | February 22 – 24, 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 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)
Greener DeCal Fund Application Due
Miscellaneous | February 22 | 11:50 p.m. | online
2732 Durant Ave. , Berkeley, CA 94704
Annakaren Ramirez
Student Environmental Resource Center
SERC will provide the necessary tools and materials to ensure that the class designed is informative, creative, and relevant to the course content. Applications due on Friday February 2nd
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 >
Fiat Yuks: Cal Student Humor, Then and Now
Exhibit - Artifacts | October 13, 2017 – May 30, 2019 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Bancroft Library, Rowell Cases, near Heyns Reading Room, 2nd floor corridor between The Bancroft Library and Doe
Let there be laughter! This exhibition features Cal students’ cartoons, jokes, and satire from throughout the years, selected from their humor magazines and other publications.
¡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 >
ARCH Exhibition: Carme Pinós, 2018 Berkeley-Rupp Professor
Exhibit - Multimedia | February 22 – April 20, 2018 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. | 108 Wurster Hall
Environmental Design, College of
ON VIEW: FEB 22-APR 20, MON-FRI 10am-5pm. Recent designs of the internationally recognized 2018 Berkeley-Rupp Architecture Professor will be featured, ranging from cultural centers to educational institutions to urban landscapes. Open to the public!
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 >
Generation: 2018 UC Berkeley Art Alumni Exhibition
Exhibit - Multimedia | February 21 – March 8, 2018 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday | 12-5 p.m. | Kroeber Hall, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, 116 Kroeber Hall
Generation features 81 UC Berkeley alumni artists whose work addresses – practically or poetically – the extraordinary moment in which we find ourselves. The Art Alumni Group represents people of different generations, times, and experiences, with a broad range of relationships to history. But we create work in the present, a present where we clearly need to generate something new.
RSVP online.
