All events
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Graduate Student Lounge
Miscellaneous | April 25 – December 12, 2018 every Wednesday | Anthony Hall
Graduate Students! Take advantage of the Graduate Student Lounge at Anthony Hall. Study, grade papers, meet with other grad students.
Graduate Students only! However, Anthony Hall can be made available to the entire campus and community for reservations at other times.
Blockchain Unlocked Executive Academy
Course | October 8 – 10, 2018 every day | 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. | Memorial Stadium, Executive Education Classroom
Berkeley Law Executive Education, Berkeley Executive Education (powered by Haas School of Business), Berkeley Center for Law & Business
Blockchain Unlocked is a three-day executive and certificate academy consisting of lectures, workshops, and guest presentations from the industry’s foremost educators and leaders.
Blockchain Unlocked is designed to train business leaders in blockchain technology and its many business applications. Participants will walk away with a foundational understanding of blockchain technology, a survey... More >
Let's Talk: Engaging in Cross-Cultural Communication: Beeqi004-181010
Workshop | October 10 | 9 a.m.-12 p.m. | 24 University Hall
Sidalia Reel
This workshop engages participants in conversations regarding “what gets in the way” when communicating across difference. This workshop reviews interactive communication theory and U.S. domestic dynamics of Human Diversity. Participants will work with each other in discussing and applying this information in varied situations. By the end of this workshop participants will: •Increase awareness of... More >
Wellness Wednesdays: Elemental Yoga with Eugenia Park
Sport - Recreational | October 10 | 9:30-10:30 a.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Come join Eugenia in reconnecting with our elemental bodies.
In this unique outdoor yoga class, we will explore our inner landscapes through breath, movement and stillness, surrounded by acres of sensational gardens. This class is for every body. No experience necessary. Bring yoga mat and/or blanket.
$15 / $10 UCBG Member, Free for UC Berkeley staff, students, and faculty
Household Composition and Child Outcomes in Peru: A Longitudinal Study: A Brown Bag Talk
Colloquium | October 10 | 12-1 p.m. | 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room
Sarah Reynolds, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
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.
An Analysis: Implementation of youth centers in Musanze, Rwanda: Presentation by Bixby Center Summer Award Recipient
Presentation | October 10 | 12-1 p.m. | University Hall, Room 440/Bixby Center
Kalee Singh, DrPH Student, SPH
Kalee will present her analysis on the implementation of
the Bixby Center’s youth center, based in the district of
Musanze, Rwanda. The youth center model aims to
utilize a multi-pronged approach–addressing both
structural and social determinants–to improve the health
and wellbeing of youth in Rwanda. The model, co-
designed and managed by youth, strives to empower
adolescents through... More >
Fascism Then and Now: Some Theoretical and Practical Reflections
Lecture | October 10 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Timothy Scott Brown, Northeastern University
The better part of a century after being relegated to the political fringes by its central responsibility for war and genocide, fascism is unmistakably making a comeback on both sides of the Atlantic. Of course, fascism never completely went away; but what has propelled it from the margins back to the center? Attempts to understand this phenomenon lead inevitably back to a question that has... More >
Plant and Microbial Biology Seminar: "A novel mechanism for viral host-range expansion revealed through experimental evolution"
Seminar | October 10 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall
Justin Meyer, UC San Diego
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
What changes to viral genomes would allow them to infect new species? And, what are the natural processes – mutation, recombination, and natural selection – that permit their evolution?
The Meyer Lab uses experimental evolution of viruses to find answers to these questions using a combination of methods from many fields of biology.
For a complete explanation of Meyer's research and a... More >
Noon Concert: Sappho’s Garden
Performing Arts - Music | October 10 | 12 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
Christine Brandes, soprano
Eric Moe, piano
DEBUSSY Trois Chansons de Bilitis
SCHOENBERG Das Buch der hängenden Gärten
Eric MOE from Tough Songs
Continuing its 66th season, the Noon Concert series features the Music Department’s varied and diverse performance activities. Inaugurated in 1953, these concerts are very popular and well attended by those on campus and in the wider community.... More >
Cell-cycle entry and exit: A tale of phosphorylation, transcription and degradation
Seminar | October 10 | 12-1 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Tobias Meyer, Ph.D., Stanford University
Mammals must regulate the proliferation of stem, progenitor and differentiated cells to build, maintain, and repair tissues. Control of cell-cycle entry has been conceptualized by the restriction point, a time when cells escape the need for mitogens to complete the cell cycle. Our recent single-cell microscopy studies revealed sequential decisions to activate cyclin-dependent protein kinases... More >
MVZ LUNCH SEMINAR - Teresa Feo: Shining new light on historic collections: How museum specimens and bright X-rays revealed one of the darkest materials known to man
Seminar | October 10 | 12-1 p.m. | Valley Life Sciences Building, 3101 VLSB, 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 >
Sleepless and alone: How does sleep loss affect our social life?
Colloquium | October 10 | 12:10-1:15 p.m. | 1104 Berkeley Way West
Eti Ben Simon, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Human Sleep Science
Institute of Personality and Social Research
Loneliness is a growing public health epidemic, reliably increasing mortality and morbidity risks in socially isolated individuals. A potential factor linking loneliness to poor health is disturbed sleep. Both lonely individuals as well as socially isolated animals suffer from worse sleep quality compared to socially connected controls. Focusing on the importance of sleep in modulating social... More >
Healthy Living For Your Brain and Body (BEUHS178)
Workshop | October 10 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Class of '42
Dori Sproul, Alzheimer's Association
For centuries, we’ve known that the health of the brain and the body are connected. But now, science is able to provide insights into how to optimize our physical and cognitive health as we age. Join us to learn about research in the areas of diet and nutrition, exercise, cognitive activity and social engagement, and use hands-on tools to help you incorporate these recommendations into a plan for... More >
Language Politics and Attitudes of the Genovese Variety
Lecture | October 10 | 12:10-1 p.m. | B-4 Dwinelle Hall
Gabriella Licata, PhD Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures, Berkeley
The current ideologies and politics of Genoese, a dialect of Ligurian in the Northwestern Italian region of Liguria, reflect the status of many of Italy’s “dialects”—lingering in unofficial status with little institutional support but vibrant ties to and representation in regional identity.
AmpEquity Speaker Series with Gloria Allred
Seminar | October 10 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Haas School of Business, Chou Hall, 6th Floor
Center for Equity, Gender, and Leadership
Gloria Allred (Founding Partner, AM&G) and Kellie McElhaney (Founding Executive Director, Center for Equity, Gender, and Leadership) will discuss Ms. Allred's lifelong career of fighting for women's rights, her proudest and most difficult moments, change she is seeing with the #metoo movement, and advice for the audience. Registration required.
Gender and Candidacy: Female Legislative Nominations in Zambia
Colloquium | October 10 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Melanie L. Phillips, PhD Candidate, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Melanie Phillips’ research agenda focuses on the progress of equity in politics. Specifically, her dissertation looks at the barriers to candidacy in sub-Saharan Africa. She has conducted multiple rounds of fieldwork in Zambia.
Ms. Phillips holds a Masters in Political Science from UC Berkeley and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies; Political Science with distinction from the... More >
2018 Fall Colloquium
The Lost Ethical Language of New Deal Public Works
Lecture | October 10 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse
2020 Addison St, Berkeley, CA 94704
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)
The Living New Deal has been identifying, mapping, and interpreting the vast physical matrix of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal for over a decade. Like those of a lost civilization, these artifacts speak to us in a language we have been made to forget of a time when government was designed to serve all of its citizens rather than those who could afford to buy it.
A Conversation with Supreme Court Litigator Deepak Gupta
Lecture | October 10 | 12:50-2 p.m. | 110 Boalt Hall, School of Law
Deepak Gupta, Gupta Wessler
American Constitution Society
Please join the Civil Justice Research Initiative, the Consumer Advocacy & Protection Society (CAPS), American Constitution Society (ACS), and the Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice, for a lunch event featuring prominent Supreme Court Litigator Deepak Gupta. Mr. Gupta is an accomplished appellate advocate who has argued before the Supreme Court on numerous occasions. Mr. Gupta’s current &... More >
Topology Seminar (Introductory Talk): Hamiltonian Floer theory and symplectic cohomology
Seminar | October 10 | 2-3 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall
Sara Venkatesh, Columbia University
Starting with closed symplectic manifolds, we introduce Hamiltonian Floer homology and discuss the dynamical information it encodes. We then translate this story to open symplectic manifolds, on which symplectic cohomology is defined.
Financing Study Abroad
Information Session | October 10 | 2-3 p.m. | 375 LeConte Hall
Do you want to study abroad, but don't know if you can afford it? Join our Financing Study Abroad workshop to learn how to locate and understand a program budget, how financial aid works for your term abroad, and what scholarships are available so you can get a jumpstart on the planning process.
Bay Area Microlocal Analysis Seminar: Trapping in perturbations of Kerr spacetimes
Seminar | October 10 | 2:30-3:30 p.m. | 383N Stanford
Building 380, Stanford, CA 94305
Peter Hintz, MIT
We study the trapped set of spacetimes whose metric decays to a stationary Kerr metric at an inverse polynomial rate. In the first part of the talk, I will focus on the dynamical aspects of this problem and show that the trapped set is a smooth submanifold which converges to that of the stationary metric at the same rate. In the second part, I will explain how to use this to prove microlocal... More >
Large deviations of subgraph counts for sparse Erd\H{o}s--R\'enyi graphs
Seminar | October 10 | 3-4 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Nicholas Cook, UCLA
For each fixed integer $\ell\ge 3$ we establish the leading order of the exponential rate function for the probability that the number of cycles of length $\ell$ in the Erd\H{o}s--R\'enyi graph $G(N,p)$ exceeds its expectation by a constant factor, assuming $N^{-1/2}\ll p\ll 1$ (up to log corrections) when $\ell\ge 4$, and $N^{-1/3}\ll p\ll 1$ in the case of triangles. We additionally obtain the... More >
Weekly Coffee Break
Social Event | September 12 – December 5, 2018 every Wednesday with exceptions | 3-4 p.m. | Cafe International House
Berkeley International Office(BIO))
Coffee Break is a weekly opportunity for UC Berkeley global students to meet and engage with one another in a relaxing environment. It’s a chance to enjoy free coffee, share stories about your experiences on campus, and get to know Berkeley International Office advisors. All UCB students are invited. Students are free to talk about anything, but we'll also have weekly discussion topics to... More >
Winter Light
Film - Feature | October 10 | 3:10-4:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAMPFA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Winter Light is the central film in Bergman’s so-called “God trilogy” (with Through a Glass Darkly and The Silence). Gunnar Björnstrand plays the doubting Tomas, pastor of a dwindling rural parish. Tomas is an isolated individual, haunted by “God’s silence” and indifferent to the physical, whether in the person of the schoolmistress Märta (Ingrid Thulin) or Christ himself. When a local fisherman... More >
Number Theory Seminar: The classical de Rham Witt complex and Zariski localization
Seminar | October 10 | 3:40-5 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
Ian Gleason, UC Berkeley
We will discuss the classical de Rham Witt complex and Zariski localization.
Seeing and Sounding Rural Citizenship
Colloquium | October 10 | 3:40-5 p.m. | 575 McCone Hall
Sheryl-Ann Simpson, University of California, Davis
Studies of urban citizenship practices – of active membership in decision making processes in place – have tended to focus on the role of encounters in defining citizenship. On the ways in which people bustle and clamour up against one another in dense urban environments. Limited studies in rural settings, however, suggest an important role for narrative, memories, and affective experiences in... More >
The Distributional Effects of Minimum Wages: Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data
Presentation | October 10 | 4-6 p.m. | 2521 Channing Way (Inst. for Res. on Labor & Employment), IRLE Director’s Room
John Voorheis, U.S. Census Bureau
Institute of Research on Labor & Employment
John Voorheis will discuss the implications of his research finding that minimum wage policies increase long-term earnings of low-wage workers, and possibly reasons for the persistence of those effects. Rising income inequality and stagnating economic mobility have prompted state and local governments to focus on higher minimum wages. As these policies expand, an understanding of how minimum wage... More >
Berkeley ACM A.M. Turing Laureate Lecture: A new Golden Age for Computer Architecture with David Patterson
Colloquium | October 10 | 4-5 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium
David Patterson, UC Berkeley and Google AI
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
In the 1980s, Mead and Conway democratized chip design and high-level language programming surpassed assembly language programming, which made instruction set advances viable. Innovations like Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC), superscalar, and speculation ushered in a Golden Age of computer architecture, when performance doubled every 18 months. The ending of Dennard Scaling and Moore’s... More >
The Distributional Effects of Minimum Wages: Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data, Jon Voorheis, US Census
Lecture | October 10 | 4-6 p.m. | 2521 Channing Way (Inst. for Res. on Labor & Employment), IRLE Directors Room
John Voorheis, U.S. Census Bureau’s Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications
Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
Voorheis will discuss the implications of his research finding that minimum wage policies increase long-term earnings of low-wage workers, and possibly reasons for the persistence of those effects. Rising income inequality and stagnating economic mobility have prompted state and local governments to focus on higher minimum wages. As these policies expand, an understanding of how minimum wage... More >
The Distributional Effects of Minimum Wages: Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data: IRLE Speaker Series
Lecture | October 10 | 4-6 p.m. | 2521 Channing Way (Inst. for Res. on Labor & Employment), Director's Room
John Voorheis, Howard University
IRLE
Join us for a discussion with John Voorheis, economist from the U.S. Census Bureau, on the effects of minimum wage on earnings and the implications for law-wage workers.
RSVP online by September 4.
Bay Area Microlocal Analysis Seminar: Long time propagation and fractal uncertainty principle
Seminar | October 10 | 4-5 p.m. | 383N Stanford
Building 380, Stanford, CA 94305
Semyon Dyatlov, UC Berkeley
I will show a frequency-independent lower bound on mass of eigenfunctions on surfaces of variable negative curvature. This was previously done in the case of constant curvature in joint work with Jin, relying on the fractal uncertainty principle proved in joint work with Bourgain. I will focus on the new components needed to handle the case of variable curvature, in particular propagation of... More >
To persist or not to persist?
Seminar | October 10 | 4-5 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Sebastian Schreiber, UC Davis
Two long standing, fundamental questions in biology are "Under what conditions do populations persist or go extinct? When do interacting species coexist?" The answers to these questions are essential for guiding conservation efforts and identifying mechanisms that maintain biodiversity. Mathematical models play an important role in identifying these mechanisms and, when coupled with empirical... More >
Extracting Material Properties from Relaxation Experiments
Colloquium | October 10 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Tan Hall
Sossina Haile, Northwestern University
Department of Chemical Engineering
Redox active oxides, with mixed ionic and electronic conductivity, are critical components in a wide range of energy technologies, serving as electrodes in fuel cells and batteries, and as reactive substrates in solar-driven thermochemical reactors. Accurate knowledge of the surface reaction rate constant, is essential for both optimal design of components using existing materials and rational... More >
From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back
Lecture | October 10 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Katya Cengel, journalist
Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Department of Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies
Journalist Katya Cengel will discuss her new book, Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back (Potomac Books, 2018) which follows the stories of four Cambodian families, as they confront criminal deportation 40 years after their resettlement in the U.S. Copies of the book will be available for sale at the event, courtesy of Eastwind Books.
Topology Seminar (Main Talk): Symplectic cohomology of subdomains
Seminar | October 10 | 4-5 p.m. | 3 Evans Hall
Sara Venkatesh, Columbia University
Mirror symmetry predicts the existence of Floer invariants that yield “local” information. Guided by this, we construct a quantitative symplectic cohomology theory that detects Floer-essential Lagrangians within subdomains. We illustrate the quantitative behavior of this theory by examining negative line bundles over toric symplectic manifolds.
Book Talk: In Defense of Troublemakers
Reading - Nonfiction | October 10 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Haviland Hall, 227 (Social Research Library)
Charlan Nemeth
Author Charlan Nemeth, Professor of Psychology (UC Berkeley), will discuss her book In Defense of Troublemakers: The Power of Dissent in Life and Business (Basic Books, 2018). She will explain why dissent should be cherished, not feared, because it leads to more creative and better decision-making. Lone objectors — from Twelve Angry Men to Edward Snowden — force people to question their... More >
Learning To Interact: Cybernetics and Play
Lecture | October 10 | 5-6:30 p.m. | Moffitt Undergraduate Library, BCNM Commons, 340 Moffitt
Timothy Stott, Dublin School of Creative Arts, Dublin Institute of Technology
Play was, and remains, a social technology for the cybernetic age. Advocated by many as a humanist corrective to a technocratic and automated post-war society, play also expanded cybernetic ideas of interaction, feedback, and systems modelling into the social domain. From the late nineteen-fifties on, especially, cybernetics and play converged through games, toys, and interactive... More >
Linguistic Anthropology and Literary and Cultural Studies: A Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar: Session 2: Sound
Conference/Symposium | October 10 – 11, 2018 every day | 5-7 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Miyako Inoue, Stanford University; Tom McEnaney, UC Berkeley; Amanda Weidman, Bryn Mawr College; Paja Faudree, Brown University; Dan Fisher, UC Berkeley
Department of Comparative Literature, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
This is the second of seven two-day meetings of a Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar that will take place throughout 2018-2019. The seminar aims to explore the potential of a set of concepts, tools, and critical practices developed in the field of linguistic anthropology for work being done in the fields of literary and cultural criticism.
Fronto-thalamic interaction in cognitive control and flexibility
Seminar | October 10 | 5:15-6:15 p.m. | 1104 Berkeley Way West
Michael Halassa, Assistant Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fronto-thalamic interaction in cognitive control and flexibility: Michael Halassa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Colloquium | October 10 | 5:15-6:15 p.m. | 1104 Berkeley Way West
Michael Halassa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gallery Talk: Olivia Young on Christina Quarles
Lecture | October 10 | 5:30-7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAMPFA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Join Olivia Young, PhD candidate in UC Berkeley’s Department of African Diaspora Studies, for insights into the work of Christina Quarles, including the dynamics of excess, visibility, and form as instruments of black queer longing.
Young’s writing has appeared in publications by the New Museum (New York), Antenna Gallery (New Orleans), and BAMPFA. Her dissertation asks how contemporary,... More >
Foreshadow: Breaking the Virtual Memory Abstraction with Transient Out-of-Order Execution
Lecture | October 10 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | 202 South Hall
Ofir Weisse
Ofir Weisse explains how the Foreshadow attack dismantles Intel's SGX security â previously considered the most secure feature of Intel chips â and also bypasses virtual machine isolation between users in the cloud.
The Demise of the Islamist Utopia: What's Next?
Lecture | October 10 | 6-7:30 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Hicham Alaoui, University of Oxford
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Islamist movements have dominated popular discussions of opposition and change within Arab politics for the past three decades. Uniquely positioned during the Arab Spring, some have since directly governed, while others have been co-opted or absorbed into existing political structures. Yet outside Tunisia, no Islamist group has been able to deliver upon its promise of political transformation.... More >
Anthony Marra in Conversation with Shannon Pufahl
Panel Discussion | October 10 | 6-8 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, 315, Maude Fife room
Anthony Marra; Shannon Pufahl, Lecturer, Stanford English
The Berkeley English Department is pleased to present a reading and conversation with Anthony Marra, author of The Tsar of Love and Techno and Constellation of Vital Phenomena, and recipient of the second annual Simpson Family Literary Prize.
The Simpson Family Literary Prize recognizes annually a mid-career writer who has earned a distinguished reputation and the approbation and gratitude of... More >
Toastmasters on Campus Club: Learn public speaking
Meeting | January 14, 2015 – December 18, 2019 every Wednesday | 6:15-7:30 p.m. | 3119 Etcheverry Hall
Toastmasters has been the world leader in teaching public speaking since 1924. Meetings are an enjoyable, safe, self-paced course designed to get you up and running as a speaker in only a few months.
A Fantastic Woman
Lecture | October 10 | 7-9 p.m. | 160 Kroeber Hall
Center for Latin American Studies
Marina, a young transgender actress and singer in Chile, and Orlando, an older man who owns a printing company, are in love and planning for the future. After Orlando suddenly falls ill and dies, Marina is forced to confront his family and society, and to fight to show them who she is: a complex, strong, forthright, and fantastic woman.
Daniela Vega in "A Fantastic Woman." (Image courtesy of Sony Pictures Classic.)
Ism, Ism, Ism: Recycled Film in Latin America
Film - Feature | October 10 | 7-8:15 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAMPFA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
A 1960 Cuban newsreel (Number 49) shows triumphant supporters of the Revolution atop the former offices of Warner Brothers and United Artists on the island, smashing the signage of those Hollywood distributors with sledgehammers. Over the images of the large, illuminated letters falling one by one, an unseen narrator intones soberly: “for many years, North American films poisoned the screens of... More >
Exhibits and Ongoing Events
ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION: PLACE, CULTURE, TIME - DESIGN IN DRASTICALLY CHANGING CHINA
Exhibit - Multimedia | August 29 – October 21, 2018 every day | 210 Wurster Hall
Environmental Design, College of
ON VIEW: AUG 29-OCT 21. Works of He Jingtang over the past three decades and their profound reflections on place, culture, time, and future urban development. Free and open to all!
Luminous Disturbances: Paintings by Kara Maria
Exhibit - Painting | September 10 – December 14, 2018 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | Stephens Hall, Townsend Center for the Humanities
Townsend Center for the Humanities
Kara Maria's "cheerfully apocalyptic" paintings engage with a host of political issues, including war and environmental destruction. On display at the Townsend Center for the Humanities Sept 10 - Dec 14, 2018.
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.
Immigration, Deportation and Citizenship, 1908-2018: Selected Resources from the IGS and Ethnic Studies Libraries
Exhibit - Artifacts | August 31 – December 10, 2018 every day | Moses Hall, IGS Library - 109 Moses
Institute of Governmental Studies Library, Ethnic Studies Library
"Immigration, Deportation and Citizenship, 1908-2018: Selected Resources from the IGS and Ethnic Studies Libraries" contains items from the Ethnic Studies Library and the Institute of Governmental Studies Library addressing historical attitudes and policy around immigration, deportation, and citizens' rights, as well as monographs and ephemera relating to current events.
The Handmaid's Tale: an exhibit at Moffitt Library
Exhibit - Multimedia | September 5 – December 31, 2018 every day | Moffitt Undergraduate Library, 3rd Floor near Elevators
The new Moffitt Library exhibit explores the themes and antecedents of The Handmaid’s Tale, this year’s On the Same Page program selection. On exhibit are library materials and quotes that demonstrate that not only were we wrong to say “it can’t happen here” - it has already happened, all over the world: Berlin, Nazi Germany, Argentina, and yes, here in the US.
UC Berkeley ID required for entrance to Moffitt Library.
Califas: Art of the US-Mexico Borderlands
Exhibit - Multimedia | September 11 – November 16, 2018 every day | Richmond Art Center (2540 Barrett Ave, Richmond, CA)
Environmental Design, College of
ON VIEW: SEPT 11-NOV 16 @ the Richmond Art Center. The exhibition, co-curated by Professors Michael Dear & Ronald Rael, explores representations of the US-Mexico ‘borderlands’ in contemporary art. Free & open to all!
Art for the Asking: 60 Years of the Graphic Arts Loan Collection at the Morrison Library
Exhibit - Artifacts | September 17, 2018 – February 28, 2019 every day | Doe Library, Bernice Layne Brown Gallery
Art for the Asking: 60 Years of the Graphic Arts Loan Collection at the Morrison Library will be up in Doe Library’s Brown Gallery until March 1st, 2019. This exhibition celebrates 60 years of the Graphic Arts Loan Collection, and includes prints in the collection that have not been seen in 20 years, as well as prints that are now owned by the Berkeley Art Museum. There are also cases dedicated... More >
Boundless: Contemporary Tibetan Artists at Home and Abroad
Exhibit - Painting | October 3, 2018 – May 26, 2019 every day | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Featuring works by internationally renowned contemporary Tibetan artists alongside rare historical pieces, this exhibition highlights the ways these artists explore the infinite possibilities of visual forms to reflect their transcultural, multilingual, and translocal lives. Though living and working in different geographical areas—Lhasa, Dharamsala, Kathmandu, New York, and the Bay Area—the... More >
Art Wall: Barbara Stauffacher Solomon
Exhibit - Painting | August 15, 2018 – March 3, 2019 every day | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The 1960s architectural phenomenon Supergraphics—a mix of Swiss Modernism and West Coast Pop—was pioneered by San Francisco–based artist, graphic and landscape designer, and writer Barbara Stauffacher Solomon. Stauffacher Solomon, a UC Berkeley alumna, is creating new Supergraphics for BAMPFA’s Art Wall. Land(e)scape 2018 is the fifth in a series of temporary, site-specific works commissioned for... More >
Old Masters in a New Light: Rediscovering the European Collection
Exhibit - Painting | September 19 – December 16, 2018 every day | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Since 1872, the University of California, Berkeley has been collecting works by European artists, building a collection that includes many rare and exceptional works distinguished by artistic innovation, emotional and psychological depth, and technical virtuosity. Consisting mostly of gifts from professors, alumni, and other supporters, the collection continues to evolve, representing artistic... More >
Bearing Light: Berkeley at 150
Exhibit - Artifacts | April 16, 2018 – February 28, 2019 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 8 a.m.-5 p.m. | Bancroft Library, 2nd Floor Corridor
This exhibition celebrates the University of California’s sesquicentennial anniversary with photographs, correspondence, publications, and other documentation drawn from the University Archives and The Bancroft Library collections. It features an array of golden bears, including Oski, and explores the illustrious history of UC Berkeley.
Face to Face: Looking at Objects That Look at You
Exhibit - Multimedia | March 10 – December 9, 2018 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. | Hearst Museum of Anthropology | Note change in date
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
For this Spring 2018 exhibit, entitled Face to Face: Looking at Objects that Look at You, the Hearst staff and 14 UC Berkeley freshmen have co-curated a global selection of objects that depict human faces in different ways. The exhibit asks: Why and how do crafting traditions of the world so often incorporate human faces, and how do people respond to those faces? Objects such as West African... More >
The Karaite Canon: Manuscripts and Ritual Objects from Cairo
Exhibit - Artifacts | August 28 – December 14, 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
The Karaite Canon highlights a selection from the over fifty manuscripts he brought to California, along with ritual objects belonging to Cairo’s Karaite community.
The Worlds of Arthur Szyk: The Taube Family Arthur Szyk Collection
Exhibit - Multimedia | August 28 – December 14, 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
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 >
Pièces de Résistance: Echoes of Judaea Capta From Ancient Coins to Modern Art
Exhibit - Multimedia | August 28 – December 14, 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 will be continuing in Spring 2019.
Notions of resistance, alongside fears and realities of oppression, resound throughout Jewish history. As a minority, Jews express their political aspirations, ideals of heroism, and yearnings of retaliation and redemption in their rituals, art, and everyday life.
Centering on coins in The Magnes Collection, this exhibition explores how... More >
Project “Holy Land”: Yaakov Benor-Kalter’s Photographs of British Mandate Palestine, 1923-1940
Exhibit - Photography | August 28 – December 14, 2018 every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 11 a.m.-4:05 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
For nearly two decades, Yaakov (Jacob) Benor-Kalter (1897-1969) traversed the Old City of Jerusalem, documenting renowned historical monuments, ambiguous subjects in familiar alleyways, and scores of “new Jews” building a new homeland. Benor-Kalter’s photographs smoothly oscillate between two worlds, and two Holy Lands, with one lens.
After immigrating from Poland to the British Mandate of... More >
