Lectures
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Some Assembly Required: Using pXRF to Reconstruct the Production History of a Proto-Corinthian Helmet
Lecture | November 1 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Jesse Obert, University of California, Berkeley Department of History
Archaeological Research Facility
This paper will present new conclusions about the development of ancient Greek military equipment and a deeper understanding of ancient Mediterranean metalsmithing. In the summer of 2017, I studied a Proto-Corinthian helmet at the Hearst Museum, object 8-4597, with an X-Ray Florescence (pXRF) spectrometer. Although ancient historians and classical archaeologists often cite object 8-4597, very... More >
Arts and Science in a Public Learning Laboratory: Arts + Design Wednesdays at BAMPFA
Lecture | November 1 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Theo Watson, Partner/Creative Director, Design IO; Eric Siegel, Director, University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley
Science and art were not always considered separate disciplines, and many argue that the reintegration of art and science will foster new, more responsive, more humane, and more inclusive practices in both fields. Theo Watson will present his work at the intersection of art and science, followed by a dialogue with Eric Siegel.
Biography
Theodore Watson is an artist, designer and experimenter... More >
The Politics of Secularism: Religion, Diversity, and Institutional Change in France and Turkey
Lecture | November 1 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Murat Akan, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Boğaziçi University
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Join the CMES for a book talk by Murat Akan, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Boğaziçi University.
AEI's Arthur Brooks: How the Competition of Ideas Can Reunite the Country
Lecture | November 1 | 1-2 p.m. | Bancroft Hotel, Great Hall
2680 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94705
Arthur Brooks, American Enterprise Institute
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
Dr. Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, will blend social science, philosophy, and history to offer a better vision for American political discourse – and practical, actionable tactics that each of us can use to help heal the competition of ideas in this country.
This is an event for Berkeley students only. RSVP at https://ucbevents.wufoo.com/forms/r1cvpu3f0pubt1m/
Climate Change: The Defining Health Challenge and Opportunity of the 21st Century: A Lancet Countdown Event
Lecture | November 1 | 5-7 p.m. | David Brower Center, Goldman Theater and Wolf Gallery
2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
Gina Solomon, Deputy Secretary for Science and Health, California Environmental Protection Agency; Rachel Morello-Frosch, Professor, UC Berkeley; John Balmes, Professor, UC Berkeley and UCSF; Hector De La Torre, Member, California Air Resources Board
Linda Rudolph, Director, Center for Climate Change and Health, Public Health Institute
Public Health, School of, Berkeley Energy and Climate Institute, Public Health Institute
On October 31, the Lancet Countdown will release its first annual report tracking climate change and health indicators across five key domains. Our panelists will discuss the implications of the report and California’s role as the U.S. leader in climate change mitigation policy.
The Knowledge of/about Migrants: Preconceptions. Misconceptions. Limits.
Lecture | November 1 | 6-9 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Armin Nassehi, LMU Munich
Julie Weise, University of Oregon
Institute of European Studies, GHI West
30 years after opening its doors in the US capital, the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) is expanding its operations to the Pacific Coast. Please join us for the opening event of GHI West. Armin Nassehi's keynote is the first in a series of annual Bucerius lectures funded by the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, one of the major German private foundations active in the field of... More >
RSVP online or by calling Heike Friedman at 510-643-4558, or by emailing Heike Friedman at events-west@ghi-dc.org
ARCH Lecture: Amanda Williams
Lecture | November 1 | 6:30-8 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
WED, NOV 1, 6:30pm. Amanda Williams is a visual artist who trained as an architect.
Zaytuna College Lecture Series with Dr. William Barylo: Muslims in the West: Embodying the Change
Lecture | November 1 | 7-9 p.m. | Zaytuna College, Sanctuary
2401 Le Conte Ave., Berkeley, CA 94709
Dr. William Barylo, Sociologist, Film-Maker, Author, Light Inc.
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 >
Thursday, November 2, 2017
Genealogies of Syrian Ba‘thism: Michel ‘Aflaq and Modern Arab Intellectual History
Lecture | November 2 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Max Weiss, Princeton University
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Join the CMES for a lecture by Max Weiss, Associate Professor of History and Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He studies the social, cultural, and intellectual history of the modern Middle East. His research interests include transformations of law and society, religious culture, history of ideas, and the translation of contemporary Arabic literature into English. Raised in southern... More >
Bringing Atzlán and Borinquen to Chicago: Mexican and Puerto Rican Art in the City from 1968 to the Age of Trump
Lecture | November 2 | 2-4 p.m. | UC Berkeley Center for Latino Policy Research
2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
Marc Zimmerman, Professor Emeritus in Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago, and in World and Hispanic Culture and Literature at the University of Houston
Department of English, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, UC Berkeley Center for Latino Policy Research
Mexican and Puerto Rican Art in the City from 1968 to the Age of Trump
The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America
Lecture | November 2 | 4-6 p.m. | 2521 Channing Way (Inst. for Res. on Labor & Employment), IRLE Director's Room
Rick Wartzman, Director, KH Moon Center for a Functioning Society
James Lincoln, Haas School of Business; David Levine, Haas School of Business
Institute of Research on Labor & Employment
Once, big companies took responsibility for their workers’ wellbeing, with high pay and reliable benefits. But as precarious work expands and pensions dwindle, many workers no longer feel that their employers are looking out for them. Author Rick Wartzman follows four corporate giants – General Electric, General Motors, Kodak, and Coca-Cola – through the twentieth century’s booms and busts,... More >
Serge Lang Undergraduate Lecture: When the precision of mathematics meets the messiness of the world of people
Lecture | November 2 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall | Note change in date
Keith Devlin, Stanford
Almost all mathematicians are attracted to the subject by its certainty and precision. It’s one of the most finely sharpened blades in the human cognitive armory. It rules supreme in many parts of Physics and Engineering. It is almost as precise when applied to the activities of large populations of living creatures, including humans, though the precision then is a statistical one that applies... More >
How Everything Became War And The Military Became Everything
Lecture | November 2 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Rosa Brooks, Georgetown University
Institute of International Studies
Rosa Brooks is one of the nation’s top experts on national security and the changing nature of warfare. Her most recent book, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2016. A journalist and a law professor at Georgetown University, Brooks -- the daughter of left-wing anti-war activists and the wife of a US Army Special Forces officer --... More >
Nandini Sundar | Hostages to Democracy - India at 70: The Indo-American Community Lecturer at UC Berkeley for 2017
Lecture | November 2 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room) | Note change in location
Nandini Sundar, Professor of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University
Institute for South Asia Studies, Master of Development Practice, Department of Sociology, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Project on Political Conflict, Gender and People's Rights at the Center for Race and Gender, Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law, and Justice, South Asian Law Students Association
Lecture by noted social anthropologist and Professor of Sociology in the Delhi School of Economics, Dr. Nandini Sundar.
Making as Research | Artist Talk and DIY Couture Fashion Lab with Angie Wilson
Lecture | November 2 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | 126 Dwinelle Annex
Angie Wilson
Angie Wilson mines seismic cultural shifts and the subtleties of consciousness in her textile-based sculpture and installations. She will be discussing current and recent projects including Protest Curtains, collaborative projects resisting racism, xenophobia and inequality, as well as her woven meditations on space and time.
How Christians Think: A Conversation with Marvin Olasky at the Berkeley Forum
Lecture | November 2 | 6-7 p.m. | 102 Wheeler Hall
Marvin Olasky, WORLD Magazine
At a time of heightened political anxiety, the line that sets apart religion and politics is rarely defined. As WORLD Magazine Editor-in-Chief and a former advisor to President George W. Bush, Dr. Marvin Olasky has been at the forefront of interpreting world events through a Christian lens. On this 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Dr. Olasky will discuss the importance of understanding how... More >
Free
Astronomy Night at UC Berkeley
Lecture | November 2 | 7-9:30 p.m. | 131 Campbell Hall
Steve Croft, SETI
Join us for our monthly Astro Night series at UC Berkeley! This month, come learn all about the search for intelligent life in the Universe. After, you are invited on our rooftop for stargazing and a grew view of the city!
Doors to Campbell Hall open at 6:30pm, and lecture is on a first-come, first-serve basis. Feel free to come and go during stargazing.
Talk is aimed at a high school science level.
Friday, November 3, 2017
“I am a Parrot”: Socialization into Literacy and Epistemic Ideologies through Rote Learning in India
Lecture | November 3 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 33 Dwinelle Hall
Usree Bhattacharya, University of Georgia
Berkeley Language Center, Center for Ethnographic Research
Pervasive in rural and poorer schools in India, rote practices have received widespread criticism in educational literature for constraining the learning of English as well as educational content (e.g., Annamalai, 2004; Bhattacharya, 2013; Mohanty, 2008). Less studied, however, has been how rote practices 1) shape what students in such schools construct as learning, and 2) inform how they see... More >
Jacobs Design Conversations: Silvia Lindtner, "The Promise of Making: Desiring Alternatives, Hacking Capitalism and Prototyping Inequality"
Lecture | November 3 | 12-1 p.m. | 310 Jacobs Hall
Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
University of Michigan assistant professor Silvia Lindtner will speak at Jacobs Hall as part of the Jacobs Design Conversations series.
The Ambassador's Story: Henry Morgenthau, the Armenian Genocide, and the Problem of Humanitarian Intervention: The Gerald D. and Norma Feldman Annual Lecture
Lecture | November 3 | 4 p.m. | Bancroft Hotel
2680 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
Margaret Lavinia Anderson, Professor of History Emerita, University of California, Berkeley
Institute of European Studies, Department of History
Ambassador Morgenthau's Story (1918) depicts the horros visited on the Armenian people by the Young Turk regime, as well as author Henry Morgenthau's own efforts to thwart the genocide and alert the world. A Critical reading of his memoir and of German diplomatic documents suggest his story was less straightforward. What Morgenthau really said and did in 1915 raises questions about what a state... More >
Optimal Coordination of Connected and Autonomous Cars in Smart Cities
Lecture | November 3 | 4 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Ardalan Vahidi, Clemson University
Institute of Transportation Studies
Connectivity and autonomy of cars and roadside infrastructure is expected to transform urban transportation. For instance, cooperation between intelligent cars and intersection control units can harmonize traffic flow, increase energy efficiency, and enhance safety and passenger comfort.
This talk takes a closer look at some of these potentials. In one experimental case study, we demonstrate... More >
The Mongols and the Changing Patterns of Indian Ocean Connections
Lecture | November 3 | 5-7 p.m. | Alumni House
Tansen Sen, NYU Shanghai
Tang Center for Silk Road Studies, Mongolia Initiative, Institute for South Asia Studies
In the thirteenth century, the expansion of Mongol forces under Genghis Khan and his descendants resulted in the formation of a vast Eurasian empire stretching from the Korean peninsula to central Europe. Despite the eventual fragmentation of this Mongol empire into four contending khanates, the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries witnessed unprecedented interactions between polities and... More >
Saturday, November 4, 2017
Lecture by Patricia Berger: A Crisis of Faith: Chen Hongshou’s Buddhist Paintings
Lecture | November 4 | 1-2:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Art historian Patricia Berger explores Chen Hongshou’s enigmatic Buddhist paintings, which offer a glimpse into a cataclysmic moment in Chinese history. Followed by a discussion with Robert Sharf.
Monday, November 6, 2017
Dalí's Origins: Drawings and Paintings from the Cusí Collection
Lecture | November 6 | 12-1 p.m. | 5125 Dwinelle Hall
Jordi Falgàs, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí
Institute of European Studies, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Joaquim Cusí was a friend of Salvador Dalí’s father and he became an enthusiastic supporter of the young artist. Mr. Cusí was a successful pharmacist with no training in art, and yet he was the first one to purchase numerous paintings and drawings from Dalí’s earliest exhibitions. The works acquired by Mr. Cusí were not seen again on display during his lifetime, and scholars were never allowed to... More >
New Research in Oral History: Shanna Farrell: Bay Area Cocktails: An Oral History of Culture, Community and Craft
Lecture | November 6 | 12-1:15 p.m. | Bancroft Library, 267 -- Oral History Center Conference Room
Shanna Farrell, Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley
An American invention, the cocktail fluctuated in popularity following Prohibition and had firmly taken root in the culinary landscape by the 1990s. The Bay Area played a significant role in reviving it—as much as New York and London. From the distillers who pioneered craft spirits and Alice Waters’ revolutionary take on simple, fresh food at Chez Panisse to the bartenders who cared enough to... More >
When Conflicting Racisms Converge: Race, Nation and Segregation: Lecture with Rebecca Herman
Lecture | November 6 | 4 p.m. | 2334 Bowditch (Center for Latin American Studies), Conference Room
Rebecca Herman
Center for Latin American Studies
During World War II, workers from across Latin America and the Caribbean traveled to the Panama Canal to work on defense construction projects for the U.St. When they arrived, they encountered a binary system of segregation. that did not accord with their racial constructs and identities. This talk will consider how race, nation and segregation divided Allies engaged in a purported war for democracy.
The Gatun Locks of the Panama Canal in 1936. (Photo by E.O. Goldbeck/Library of Congress.)
The Power of Writing with Abandon: a Talk by Grant Faulkner
Lecture | November 6 | 5-7 p.m. | 300 Wheeler Hall
Grant Faulkner, Executive Director, National Novel Writing Month
Grant Faulkner, executive director of National Novel Writing Month, will discuss his new book, Pep Talks for Writers, and how writers must dive in, banish their inner editors, and take creative risks by writing with abandon. Come ready to write with abandon!
LAEP Lecture: Ferdinand Ludwig
Lecture | November 6 | 5:30-7 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
Monday, Nov 6, 6:00PM, Wurster Auditorium
We must conjure our Gods before we obey them: Arts + Design Mondays at BAMPFA
Lecture | November 6 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Michael Rock, Designer, 2x4, New York
Design has become so elastic it is applied universally from chromosomes to climate change. We design spoons and tables and rooms and houses and computer programs and cities and power grids and national identities and international treaties and defense systems and, when all else fails, military campaigns. If design is anything that is planned and brought to fruition by human ingenuity, we’ve... More >
We Must Conjure Our Gods Before We Obey Them
Lecture | November 6 | 6:30-8 p.m. | BAMPFA
Michael Rock, 2x4 Inc.
Michael Rock, acclaimed designer, educator, and author talks about the pervasive influence of design in contemporary life. He is a founding partner and creative director 2x4 Inc., a multi-disciplinary design studio in New York City, and Director of the Graphic Architecture Project at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Chasing the Shadows of the Past in Late Ottoman Argos
Lecture | November 6 | 8-9 p.m. | Alumni House
Jonathan M. Hall, University of Chicago
Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, Graduate Group in
If there is one sentiment that is common to nearly all the accounts written by European travelers to the Peloponnesian town of Argos during the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, it is one of profound disappointment and shock at the lack of visible remains of a city whose fame had been so lauded in antiquity. Inevitably, perhaps, imagination filled the void that autopsy was unable to... More >
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Slow Accretion: Producing Harm in Ulaanbaatar’s Air Pollution Crisis
Lecture | November 7 | 4 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Chisato Fukuda, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Franck Billé, Program Director, Silk Road Center, UC Berkeley
Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), UC Berkeley Mongolia Initiative, Public Health, School of
What counts as evidence of harm for those living in the midst of air pollution? Over the past two decades, air pollution has become a seasonal disaster in Ulaanbaatar, prompting widespread concerns about its harms to human bodies and the environment. These concerns have promoted various investments to document air pollution’s effects, from monitoring technologies, to interactive pollution maps,... More >
Pollution
The Russian Revolution and Soviet Durability
Lecture | November 7 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Lucan Way, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Institute of International Studies
The Soviet Union was one of the most durable authoritarian regimes in modern history. It not only endured 74 years, but survived multiple and severe crises -- from massive popular unrest in 1921 to deadly purges in the 1930s to the invasion of Germany in 1941. Professor Way argues that such robustness can be traced to the regime's origins in violent, revolutionary struggle. A history of violent... More >
Naisargi Dave | Life is Queerer Than a Chessboard: On Cows, Violence, and Love in Contemporary India
Lecture | November 7 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Naisargi N. Dave, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto
Lawrence Cohen, Professor of Anthropology and of South & Southeast Asian Studies
Institute for South Asia Studies, Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies, Department of Anthropology, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Project on Political Conflict, Gender and People's Rights
A talk by anthropologist and scholar of queer activism and animal rights in India Dr. Naisargi N. Dave.
Launching Undocumental: a talk and reception
Lecture | November 7 | 5-6:30 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, Goldberg Room
Joel Sati, Undocumental; Ramona Naddaff, UC Berkeley Rhetoric Department; Khaled Alrabe, Human Rights Center; Meng So, Undocumented Student Program; Michael Conti, Define American
Join us for the launch of Undocumental, an interdisciplinary and intersectional publication focused on "illegalization." The event will feature a Q&A with founder and executive director Joel Sati and members of the Undocumented editorial staff. We'll also hear brief introductory remarks from Khaled Alrabe, director of the Immigration Initiative at the Human Rights Center; Ramona Naddaff,... More >
"How to Work a Look"--a lecture by Madison Moore
Lecture | November 7 | 5-6:30 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, 315, Maude Fife
Madison Moore, ERC Postdoctoral Scholar, King's College, London
Department of English, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
How to Work a Look explores the relationships between queerness, spectacular style and resistance. The colloquial phrase “working a look” highlights the queer practice of using fashion to critique restrictive societal norms. For queer, trans and nonbinary people of color, style is resistance, a... More >
Waste Reduction Speaker Panel: Hosted by Food@Haas
Lecture | November 7 | 6-8 p.m. | Haas School of Business, Spieker Forum in Chou Hall
Dan Kurzrock, Regrained; Komal Ahmed, Copia; Nick Peters, DrawDown; Dylan Brody, Imperfect Produce
This is a Haas class, anyone who is not enrolled but wants to attend the class is welcome to join but will be asked to leave if we run out of seating capacity in the room (due to fire code).
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children: Townsend Book Chat with Alison Gopnik
Lecture | November 8 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Townsend Center for the Humanities
Alison Gopnik argues that the familiar 21st century picture of parents and children is profoundly wrong—it's not just based on bad science, it's bad for kids and parents, too.
Community Curating and the Maker Movement: Arts + Design Wednesdays at BAMPFA
Lecture | November 8 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Dale Dougherty, Founder and CEO, Maker Media; Eric Siegel, Director, University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley; Sherry Huss, Vice President, Maker Media; Co-creator, Maker Faire
From its inception in San Mateo California in 2006, Maker Faire has grown into a global phenomenon, a living exhibition of creativity, technology, and “do it yourself” culture that now thrives in over 130 cities throughout the world. The curation of each Maker Faire uses a community-building approach to support the participation of new makers. This decentralized approach to curation has helped to... More >
Overlapping Forms: Linking Material Culture and Environmental Knowledge
Lecture | November 8 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Daniel Niles, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Archaeological Research Facility
This presentation examines different forms of environmental knowledge, the role of this knowledge in cultural persistence through time, and its consequent significance to the intellectual challenges of the Anthropocene. The paper describes the activity of a master charcoal-maker in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, who works in a landscape recognized by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture... More >
Friends Don’t Let Friends Deploy Black-Box Models: The Importance of Intelligibility in Machine Learning for Bias Detection and Prevention
Lecture | November 8 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 202 South Hall
Rich Caruana, Microsoft Research
In machine learning often a trade-off must be made between accuracy and intelligibility: the most accurate models usually are not very intelligible (e.g., deep nets and random forests), and the most intelligible models usually are less accurate (e.g., linear or logistic regression). This trade-off often limits the accuracy of models that can be safely deployed in mission-critical applications... More >
Kashmiri Women in Resistance: Indian Occupation and Silenced Histories
Lecture | November 8 | 4:30-6:15 p.m. | 132 Boalt Hall, School of Law
Huma Dar; Idrisa Pandit
Unlearning India
A conversation about the agency of Kashmiri women in resisting the violence of Indian occupation.
Combinatory Digital Poetics in Electronic Literature and Film
Lecture | November 8 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 127 Dwinelle Hall
Scott Rettberg, Professor of Digital Culture, University of Bergen, Norway
Berkeley Center for New Media, Digital Humanities at Berkeley
Aleatory and combinatory poetic methods have been an ongoing concern of the avant-garde stretching back to the early 20th century, and have crystallised as one of the main threads of practice in electronic literature. Scott Rettberg will discuss how an interest in combinatory poetics reflected first in projects such as the poetry generators “Frequency,” “Tokyo Garage,” and “After Parthenope”... More >
Cosmic Knowledge and the Long-term Strategy of the Human Race: The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Astronomy
Lecture | November 8 | 6-8 p.m. | Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
Sandra Faber, Professor Emerita of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Thursday, November 9, 2017
Harjant Gill | On North Indian/Punjabi Masculinities: A Screening followed by Discussion with the Filmmaker
Lecture | November 9 | 5-7:30 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Harjant S. Gill, Documentary Filmmaker and Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Towson University
Karen Nakamura, Robert and Colleen Haas Distinguished Chair in Disability Studies and Professor of Anthropology Graduate advisor, UCB-UCSF Joint Program in Medical Anthropology
Institute for South Asia Studies, Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society - Disability Studies cluster, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Project on Political Conflict, Gender and People's Rights
A evening with Prof. Harjant S. Gill, an Indian documentary filmmaker who teaches visual anthropology at Towson University. His films explore topics related to gender, sexuality, religion and belonging in India and among Indians in diaspora.
Sheryl-Ann Simpson: Planning for Citizenship
Lecture | November 9 | 5-7 p.m. | Wurster Hall, 112 Auditorium
Sheryl-Ann Simpson, Department of City & Regional Planning, College of Environmental Design
Department of City and Regional Planning
Sheryl-Ann Simpson is an Assistant Professor in the Landscape Architecture & Environmental Design unit at the University of California, Davis. She examines the relationships between states and citizens, and explores variety of urban issues, including immigration, housing, and urban health. The connective thread in Simpson’s work is an interest in the voices, experiences, and ideas of individuals... More >
The Future of the EU after Brexit: Implications for Transatlantic Relations from a German Perspective
Lecture | November 9 | 5-7 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Jana Puglierin, Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Policy Studies at the German Council on Foreign Relations
Institute of European Studies, The San Francisco Eric M. Warburg Chapter of the American Council on Germany
This presentation will cover the future of the European integration process after the German elections with a focus on the role of Germany, Franco-German relations, the implications of Brexit on the cohesion of the EU-27, the common security and defense policy, and the impact of this process on transatlantic relations from the German point of view.
Dr. Jana Puglierin is head of the Alfred... More >
Can Nature Save Us? Stories from the Natural World
Lecture | November 9 | 7-8:30 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium
M. Sanjayan, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, Conservation International
2017 Horace M. Albright Lecture in Conservation
At a time when humanity’s demands on the natural world have never been greater, Dr. M. Sanjayan’s keynote address highlights nature’s essential role in creating a livable future for people everywhere.
Sunday, November 12, 2017
Forced into Genocide
Lecture | November 12 | 1-3 p.m. | St. Vartan Armenian Apostolic Church
+650 Spruce Street, Oakland, CA 94610
Adrienne G. Alexanian, Educator and daughter of Yervant Alexanian
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Armenian Studies Program, AGBU-Silicon Valley, AGBU-YPNC, St. Vartan Cultural Committee
Forced into Genocide is the riveting memoir of Yervant Edward Alexanian: an eye-witness to the massacre and dislocation of his family and countrymen in Ottoman Turkey during World War I. Incredibly, Alexanian experienced the Armenian Genocide as a conscript in the Turkish army. His memoir is a one-of-a-kind "insider's account," documenting the Genocide's astonishing cruelty, but also its... More >
Monday, November 13, 2017
Salim v. Mitchell and Jessen: Legal Accountability for Torture in US Courts
Lecture | November 13 | 12:45-2 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, Warren Room, 295 Boalt Hall
Paul Hoffman, Schonbrun Seplow Harris & Hoffman LLP
Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law
This lecture has been cancelled due to illness. We hope to reschedule for January 2018.
Towards Knowledge-Based Decision Support System using Propositional Analysis and Rhetorical Structure Theory
Lecture | November 13 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 107 South Hall
Cláudio Gottschalg-Duque, University of Brasilia
The project's leading objective is to develop a natural language interface for knowledge-based decision support system (KBDSS) using rhetorical structure theory (RST) and propositional analysis. KBDSS is a system that provides specialized expertise (problem-solving) stored as facts, rules, procedures, or in similar structures that can be directly accessed by the user. The idea is to develop an... More >
"Antifa: The History and Theory of Anti-Fascism”
Lecture | November 13 | 5-7 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Mark Bray, Dartmouth College
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
MARK BRAY is a historian of human rights, terrorism, and political radicalism in Modern Europe who was one of the organizers of Occupy Wall Street. He is the author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook and Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Critical Quarterly, ROAR Magazine, and numerous edited volumes. He is... More >
Devin Griffiths: The Ecology of Form
Lecture | November 13 | 5-7 p.m. | 300 Wheeler Hall
Devin Griffiths, Assistant Professor of English, University of Southern California
Based on Professor Griffiths's new book project, this talk is sponsored by the 19th Century and Beyond British Cultural Studies working group and the Florence Bixby Chair.
What is history?: the life and times of water hyacinth
Lecture | November 13 | 5-6:30 p.m. | Doe Library, Morrison Reading Room
Anna L. Tsing, Professor of Anthropology, UCSC Department of Anthropology
2017 Distinguished Lecture: Anna L. Tsing
Re-Assemblage (Theory, Practice, Form): Arts + Design Mondays at BAMPFA
Lecture | November 13 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Bill Brown, Deputy Provost for the Arts and Karla Scherer Distinguished Service Professor in American Culture, University of Chicago
Brown excavates relations between assemblage theory in the social sciences and assemblage practice, focusing on the ways that assembly (in the visual, plastic, and discursive arts) can complicate and clarify the theoretical conversation. He assembles the work of Robert Rauschenberg, William Burroughs, Noah Purifoy, Theaster Gates, Rina Banerjee, and Tan Lin into a conversation that is newly... More >
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
America's Next War and How to Prevent It
Lecture | November 14 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Dr. Paul Stares, Council on Foreign Relations
Institute of International Studies
Paul B. Stares is the General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and director of the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. The author or editor of nine books on U.S. security policy and international relations as well as a regular commentator on current affairs, Dr. Stares has worked at leading think tanks and universities in the United States,... More >
The Troubled Waters of Transformation: Shipyard Labor in East Central Europe from Late to Post Socialism
Lecture | November 14 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall
Ulf Brunnbauer, Director, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, University of Regensburg
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Institute of European Studies
Practitioners of East European labor history are at risk of falling into deep depression. Under state-socialism, industrial workers were apparently let down by regimes that claimed to rule in their name. After the end of communist rule, many workers experienced large-scale dispossession because of deindustrialization and the emerging hegemony of neo-liberalism. In my talk, which is based on the... More >
Causal Inference in the Age of Big Data: Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science
Lecture | November 14 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 190 Doe Library
Jas Sekhon, Professor of Political Science & Statistics
Creative Solutions for Social Innovation: A View from Africa
Lecture | November 14 | 5-7 p.m. | Haas School of Business, Wells Fargo Room
Center for African Studies, Center for Social Sector Leadership
Join us for a panel discussion and networking on Creative Solutions for Social Innovation: A View from Africa with three award-winning technology entrepreneurs who are driving social change and impact in Africa. The entrepreneurs, who are recipients of the King Baudouin African Development Prize, will share their innovative solutions to improve the lives of local communities through access to... More >
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Wednesday, November 15, 2017
CANCELLED! ARCH Lecture: Mary-Ann Ray
Lecture | November 15 | Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
CANCELLED! WED, NOV 15. Please note: This lecture has been CANCELLED!
Botanical Names Demystified
Lecture | November 15 | 10 a.m.-12 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Do plant names ever seem intentionally obscure and hard to remember? Do you wonder how they got their names and why? This program will break down botanical nomenclature, looking at some of the most common Greek and Latin vocabulary and the rules for plant naming. We will also examine the ways that names reflect politics, patronage, and advances in the science of botany.
Free with Garden Admission
Register online or by calling 510-664-9841, or by emailing gardenprograms@berkeley.edu
What is Adabiyāt?: Forging Persian Literature and Its Domain (1860-1920)
Lecture | November 15 | 12-1 p.m. | 254 Barrows Hall
Aria Fani, PhD Candidate, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley
What is literature? Posing this fundamental question allows me to critically delve into the conceptual history of literature in Persian in the mid-nineteenth and the early-twentieth centuries. In a way, this is a story of how a literary discourse was formed and later became an institution, casting its epistemic shadow over all modes of literary and cultural production in the Persian-speaking... More >
Curating and Collecting Across Media: Arts + Design Wednesdays at BAMPFA
Lecture | November 15 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Aebhric Coleman, Director, Kramlich Collection
In Curating and Collecting Across Media, Aebhric Coleman will discuss collecting and curating artwork that mixes media forms across visual art objects, film, performance, and new technologies.
Biography
Aebhric Coleman is Director of Kramlich Collection, a collection of art by Richard and Pamela Kramlich recognized as one of the most important private international collections of media,... More >
Life and Labor in the Industrial Frontier: Archaeology of the Samuel Adams Limekilns, Santa Cruz, California
Lecture | November 15 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
David Hyde, University of California, Berkeley Department of Anthropology
Archaeological Research Facility
Beginning in the 1850s a lime extraction and processing industry took root in Santa Cruz County, California, supplying the American West Coast with a critical construction and manufacturing material. Over the subsequent 70 years, the industry shifted from being comprised of number of independently owned and operated operations to being monopolized by a single regional conglomerate. Throughout... More >
Octavio Paz, Mexican Politics, and the Media: Lecture with Priscila Dorella
Lecture | November 15 | 4 p.m. | 2334 Bowditch (Center for Latin American Studies), Conference Room
Priscila Dorella
Center for Latin American Studies
The writing of Mexican poet Octavio Paz (1914-1998) reflects a constant engagement with social questions of his time. His ideas about the role of intellectuals, politics, and the media are expressed in poems, essays, radio programs, and television. In this lecture, Professor Dorella will present some of the controversies that were generated by Paz’s political position in the media.
Women in the Red Army, 1941-1945
Lecture | November 15 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall
Oleg Budnitskii, Professor of History, and Director, International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences, National Research University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES)
During the years of the Great Patriotic War about 500,000 women were called up to serve in the Red Army. In the Second World War, the Soviet Union was not the only country to enlist women in the military. But the Soviet experience was unique in the fact that a significant number of women served in combat units. Female pilots and snipers attained the greatest fame. Some women served as tank crew... More >
American Identity in the Age of Trump: Jefferson Memorial Lecture featuring George Packer
Lecture | November 15 | 4:10 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium
George Packer, Staff Writer, The New Yorker Magazine
George Packer will present the Jefferson lecture on Wednesday, November 15, 2017, in conjunction with the observance of Constitution Day. The lecture, entitled "American Identity in the Age of Trump," will be held in the Chevron Auditorium of International House and is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
George Packer
The Good Neighbor: Addressing Global Poverty in an Age of Xenophobia
Lecture | November 15 | 6-7 p.m. | David Brower Center, Tamalpais Room
2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94607
William Easterly
Goldman School of Public Policy
The fight against global poverty is connected to the contentious issue of migration from poor to rich countries. The connection of the war on poverty to the war on terror perpetrates a stereotype of poor people as violent, unintentionally fueling xenophobia and restrictions on migration. The good news is that economic ideas are the best antidote to xenophobia, opening the door again to migration... More >
The Clean Energy Emergency: with Daniel Kammen
Lecture | November 15 | 6:30-7:30 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium
Master of Development Practice
Professor Dan Kammen, a global thought leader for clean energy and energy access, reflects on lessons learned from three decades on the frontlines of the clean energy debates and what those lessons portend for the future of global energy and the planet.
Zaytuna College Lecture Series with Professor Alexander Key: Language Between God and the Poets
Lecture | November 15 | 7-9 p.m. | Zaytuna College, Sanctuary
2401 Le Conte Ave., Berkeley, CA 94709
Professor Alexander Key, Professor, Stanford University
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 >
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Bancroft Library Roundtable: Native Claims Across Nations: Indigenous Land Ownership in Mexican and U.S. California, 1840-1860
Lecture | November 16 | 12-1 p.m. | Faculty Club, Lewis-Latimer Room
Julia Lewandoski, doctoral candidate, History, UC Berkeley
The vast majority of indigenous Californians never received land promised to them after Mexico secularized California's missions in 1834. Drawing mainly from land case files in The Bancroft Library, Julia Lewandoski will trace the stories of those who did receive grants from Mexico in the 1840s. These communities used legal systems to gain and keep land after California became a U.S. state in 1850.
Benjamin Siegel | Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India
Lecture | November 16 | 3-4:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Benjamin Siegel, Assistant Professor of History, Boston University
Institute of International Studies, Institute for South Asia Studies
Benjamin Siegel is a historian of modern South Asia, with particular interests in the politics and economic life of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh in global contexts. His first book project, Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India (Cambridge University Press, 2018), interrogates the ways in which problems of food and scarcity has structured Indian citizens’... More >
Precarity and Dependence in the "Sharing" Economy
Lecture | November 16 | 4-6 p.m. | 2521 Channing Way (Inst. for Res. on Labor & Employment), IRLE Director's Room
Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology, Boston College
Ruth Berins Collier, Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley; Annette Bernhardt, Director, Low-Wage Work Program, The Labor Center at IRLE
Institute of Research on Labor & Employment, The Scholars Strategy Network
The sharing economy debuted to grand claims about its ability to change the world for the good--it would encourage social connection, use assets more efficiently, and be better for the environment. For earners on platforms, it promised flexibility, freedom and the ability to become a "micro-entrepreneur." Ten years in, the reality is far more complex. In this talk, Schor discusses her... More >
Phoebe's Cast Collection: Two Millennia of Copies and Replicas at the Hearst Museum
Lecture | November 16 | 6-8 p.m. | Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
This talk will provide an introduction to UC Berkeley's collection of nearly 300 casts of Greek and Roman sculptures from the Classical period - examining both how these plaster copies were made from original sculptures in Europe, and how they travelled to California at the turn of the 20th century. This will be contextualized within a larger discussion of the copying tradition, starting in the... More >
Cripping the Renaissance: Lamentation, Consolation, and Disability in Cervantes and Milton: a talk by Elizabeth B. Bearden
Lecture | November 16 | 6-8 p.m. | 300 Wheeler Hall
Elizabeth B. Bearden, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of English, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Program in Disability Studies
"In this talk, I focus on works by two disabled authors of the early modern period: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and John Milton. I propose that these authors draw on the art of consolation—particularly Petrarch’s De Remediis and the Psalms—to depict the lows and highs of their lived experience of disability. Furthermore, they employ transgressive reappropriation when responding to ablist... More >
Friday, November 17, 2017
The Moral Imperative of Better School Quality Measures
Lecture | November 17 | 10-11:30 a.m. | 2515 Tolman Hall
Jack Schneider, Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross
Today, parents and policymakers can access school- and district-level data in historically unprecedented quantities. Yet available information largely consists of student standardized test scores, which offer a limited picture of school performance and often indicate more about student demography than about educational practice. Consequently, such data may produce a distorted picture of school... More >
Postindustrial Language Socialization
Lecture | November 17 | 3-5 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, B-4 (Classroom side)
Elinor Ochs, UCLA
*Message form Claire Kramsch*
Foreign language teachers are used to seeing themselves as teaching language acquisition (SLA), not language socialization (LS). Success in second language acquisition is developing full command of the linguistic and communicative aspects of language, whereas for language socialization it is acculturation and blending into a speech community. However, in both cases,... More >
How Ride-Sharing Technology is Impacting Transportation in Africa: The case of Uber in Nairobi
Lecture | November 17 | 4 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Kagure Wamunyu, OxfordUniversity
Institute of Transportation Studies
Saturday, November 18, 2017
Science at Cal Lecture - How to Find a Habitable Planet
Lecture | November 18 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building
Courtney Dressing, Astronomy Department
Several decades of ground- and space-based investigations have revealed that our galaxy is teeming with planetary systems and that Earth-sized planets are common. Dr. Dressing will review our understanding of small planets and then chart a path towards the detection and characterization of habitable planets orbiting nearby stars.
Relative sizes of Kepler habitable zone planets discovered as of 2013 April 18. Except for Earth, these are artists' renditions. Image: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech
Monday, November 20, 2017
Denise Dresser: Mexico's 2018 Presidential Election: Democracy in Danger?
Lecture | November 20 | 6 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 220 (Geballe Room)
Denise Dresser
Center for Latin American Studies
Denise Dresser is a political analyst, columnist, and academic who writes for Reforma and Proceso, and teaches at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). She is currently a visiting scholar at the Center for Latin American Studies at UC Berkeley. Dresser is the author of numerous publications on Mexican politics and U.S.-Mexico relations and was recently named one of the 50 most... More >
The University of Guanajuato during Mexico’s Flag Day, 2017. (Photo by Ingrid Truemper.)
Hit Parade: Music as Public Knowledge: Arts + Design Mondays at BAMPFA
Lecture | November 20 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Josh Kun, Professor of Communication and American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
What does music tell us about the sustainability and precarity of publics? How can we use music— rehearsed, recorded, archived-- to engage histories of erasure and displacement while imagining new forms of community and collaboration? My talk will explore these ideas through my project “Hit Parade: Live in San Francisco” (for the SFMOMA/SFPL Public Knowledge series) which combines archival... More >
Monday, November 27, 2017
The Acquisition and the Consequences of Gender Stereotypes about Intellectual Ability
Lecture | November 27 | 3-4:30 p.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall
Lin Bian, Stanford University
Intellectual giftedness is culturally associated with men rather than women. I will describe a line of research that investigates the acquisition and the consequences of this “brilliance = men” stereotype. With respect to acquisition, I will present evidence that, by the age of 6, girls are already less likely than boys to believe that members of their gender are “really, really smart.” Next, I... More >
On the History of Religions and the Study of Islam
Lecture | November 27 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room 220
Travis Zadeh, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University
Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion
Islam plays a powerful role in American public discourse. Across this often contentious landscape, numerous voices can be heard defining and contesting the nature of Islam. This lecture addresses the place and history of Islam in the modern academic study of religion in light of discursive structures that are designed to contain and delimit the meaning of Islam.
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (70 min screening followed by Q and A): Arts + Design Mondays at BAMPFA
Lecture | November 27 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Isaac Julien, Artist and Filmmaker; Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley
Biography
Isaac Julien is an accomplished filmmaker and video installation artist, well-known for films like Looking for Langston, a poetic treatment of gay black poet Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance. His multi-screen installations and accompanying photographic works for museums and galleries explore fractured narratives of memory and desire, often uniting elements from dance,... More >
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
‘To Pay or Not to Pay’: WWI and WWII Reparations and their Impact on European (Dis)Integration
Lecture | November 28 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Spero Simeon Z. Paravantes, University of Luxembourg, Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH)
Due to the separation between the historical and legal fields which have examined the issue of WWII reparations, no generally accepted definition of their current status exists either in the historical, legal or political spheres. This lack of clarity has greatly contributed to this issue remaining unresolved until the present. In his talk, Spero Paravantes looks at the way the issue was used by... More >
Statistical Methods and Software for the Study of Olfactory Stem Cell Differentiation Using Single-Cell Transcriptome Sequencing
Lecture | November 28 | 4-5 p.m. | 190 Doe Library
Sandrine Dudoit
Berkeley Institute for Data Science
Single-cell transcriptome sequencing (scRNA-Seq), which combines high-throughput single-cell extraction and sequencing capabilities, enables the transcriptomes of large numbers of individual cells to be assayed efficiently. Profiling of gene expression at the single-cell level for a large sample of cells is crucial for addressing many biologically relevant questions, such as, the investigation of... More >
Solomon Darwin | Empowering the Bottom of the Pyramid with Open Innovation Business Models
Lecture | November 28 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Solomon Darwin, Executive Director Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Munis D. Faruqui, Director, Institute for South Asia Studies; Sarah Kailath Professor of India Studies; Associate Professor, South & Southeast Asian Studies
Institute for South Asia Studies, Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies
A talk by Dr. Solomon Darwin, the Executive Director of the
Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at the Haas School of Business, on his current research on Smart Villages and working with the government of India.
Birdmania: Author Talk and Book Signing
Lecture | November 28 | 6-8 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
There is no denying that many people are crazy for birds. Packed with intriguing facts and exquisite and rare artwork, Birdmania showcases an eclectic and fascinating selection of bird devotees who would do anything for their feathered friends.
In addition to well-known enthusiasts such as Aristotle, Charles Darwin, and Helen Macdonald, Brunner introduces readers to Karl Russ, the pioneer of... More >
Free with Garden admission; books available for purchase
Register online or by calling 510-664-9841, or by emailing gardenprograms@berkeley.edu
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Hail Paths and Springs: An Ontological Study of Indigenous Engagements in the Lake Titicaca Basin
Lecture | November 29 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Christine Hastorf, Director, Archaeological Research Facility, University of California, Berkeley Department of Anthropology
Jewell Soriano
Archaeological Research Facility
This project is gathering ethnographic information of how contemporary dwellers talk about, engage with, and conceive of their landscape.
Alumni Panel of Curators Across Disciplines: Arts + Design Wednesdays at BAMPFA
Lecture | November 29 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Patricia Cariño Valdez, Curator and Director of Public Programs, ICA, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art; René de Guzman, Director of Exhibition Strategy and Senior Curator of Art, Oakland Museum of California; Deena Chalabi, Barbara and Stephan Vermut Associate Curator of Public Dialogue, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Three alumni curators from different organizations explore the process of curating objects, new technologies, and public experiences with different goals and in varied locations. Speakers will also discuss their Berkeley education and share ideas for further collaboration with the university and with Berkeley students.
Grappling with goodness in infancy and childhood
Lecture | November 29 | 3-4:30 p.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall
Arber Tasimi, Stanford University
A fundamental question in cognitive science is how people weight and integrate competing considerations when deciding how to act. One of the most important everyday arenas of such conflict is the clash between moral considerations and self-interest––the familiar tension between wanting to do good and wanting to do well. In this talk, I will explore how children's judgments and memories reflect an... More >
What is Putinism?
Lecture | November 29 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Steve Fish, Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Institute of International Studies
Professor Fish will gives his insights on the concept of "Putinism."
Karabo Poppy Moletsane and Ashara Ekundayo in Conversation
Lecture | November 29 | 6 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Karabo Poppy Moletsane talks about her new Art Wall project with cultural strategist and curator Ashara Ekundayo.
Silence and Sanctuaries
Lecture | November 29 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
“For decades Nathaniel Dorsky has been making works of rare and sometimes startling beauty” (New York Times). He presents his latest, Abaton and Elohim, along with two hand-painted films by Stan Brakhage.
Zaytuna College Lecture Series with Dr. Khadija Harsolia: Captivity, Confinement and Resistance in Mudejar and Morisco Literature
Lecture | November 29 | 7-9 p.m. | Zaytuna College, Sanctuary
2401 Le Conte Ave., Berkeley, CA 94709
Dr. Khadija Harsolia, UC Riverside
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 >
Thursday, November 30, 2017
States of Exception and Sudden Democracies in 20th Century Germany
Lecture | November 30 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Kathleen Canning, University of Michigan
Institute of European Studies, Center for German and European Studies, GHI West
This talk is an extended think piece on the forging of democratic sensibilities as states of exception collapsed and democratic political forms were improvised and invented in 20th century Germany. The focus will be on 1918-19 with comparative reflections on 1945-48. In approaching democracy as a political form defined by recurrent crises of representation, I am interested in how democratic... More >
State-Building And Political Development In US Foreign Policy
Lecture | November 30 | 5-6:30 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room
Dr. Francis Fukuyama, Freeman Spogli Institute
Institute of International Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS)
Francis Fukuyama is Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University, and the Mosbacher Director of FSI's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. He is professor (by courtesy) of political science.
Dr. Fukuyama has written widely on issues in development and international politics. His book, The End of History... More >
