UCEAP January Application Deadline: Summer, Fall and Year 2015-16 (Select Programs)

Deadline | January 5 | 160 Stephens Hall

Sponsor: Berkeley Study Abroad

The application deadline for select summer, fall, and academic year 2015-16 options on the UC Education Abroad Program is Monday, January 5.

This deadline includes select options in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Ghana, Hong King, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia,...   More >

"Tevanik": Award Winning and Academy Award Nominee Armenian Film Screening, San Francisco

Film - Feature | January 10 | 7-9:30 p.m. |  Khachaturian Armenian Community Center, Saroyan Hall 825 Brotherhood Way, San Francisco, Ca. 94132

Location: 825 Brotherhood Way, San Francisco, CA 94127

Speaker/Performer: "Tevanik": Award Winning and Academy Award Nominee Armenian Film Screening, San Francisco, Hamazkayin San Francisco

Sponsor: Hamazkayin San Francisco

Hamazkayin San Francisco invites you to join us for "Tevanik" - the film screening in San Francisco next Saturday, January 10, 2015!

TEVANIK is an acclaimed feature movie about the Artsakh liberation in a village with 3 youngsters. Director Jivan Avetisyan will be in the US during the screenings to personally greet the audience, conduct Q&A and present his next project "The Last Inhabitant"...   More >

Whither the World: The Political Economy of the Future

Lecture | January 21 | 12-2 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall

Speaker/Performer: Grzegorz W. Kolodko, Former Finance Minister of Poland

Sponsors: Institute of International Studies, Institute of European Studies, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Professor Kolodko was a key architect of the successful Polish economic reforms and served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in 1994-1997 and in 2002-2003. He will talk about his latest book where he proposes an interdisciplinary and comprehensive methodology to understand the evolution of the world in the 21st century. What are the biggest challenges and opportunities? What are...   More >

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

Otar Iosseliani’s Early Films (USSR, 1958–1964): Discovering Georgian Cinema

Film - Short | January 22 | 7:30 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Imported Prints!

A rare chance to see the early films by one of the great Georgian filmmakers Otar Iosseliani. Akvareli is a portrait of a poor family whose lives are changed by art. Song About a Flower is a poetic rumination on progress. April continues the critique of modernism, depicting a young couple who move to a new housing estate. The film was banned by the Soviet government, after...   More >

Tickets required:$5.50 BAM/PFA members; UC Berkeley students, $6.50 UC Berkeley faculty, staff, and retirees; Non-UC Berkeley students; Senior citizens (65 & over); Disabled persons; Youth (17 & under), $9.50 General Admission

Ticket info: Buy tickets online, or by calling 510-642-5249.

Falling Leaves (Otar Iosseliani; USSR, 1967): Discovering Georgian Cinema

Film - Feature | January 24 | 6:30 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

A young boy gets his first job (in a wine factory!), and soon observes that corruption is the best way to get by. Falling Leaves is typical of the best Georgian films in seeming light and low-key at first, until the satire begins to cut very deep. (80 mins)

Tickets required:$5.50 BAM/PFA members; UC Berkeley students, $6.50 UC Berkeley faculty, staff, and retirees; Non-UC Berkeley students; Senior citizens (65 & over); Disabled persons; Youth (17 & under), $9.50 General Admission

Ticket info: Buy tickets online, or by calling 510-642-5249.

Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird (Otar Iosseliani USSR, 1971): Discovering Georgian Cinema

Film - Feature | January 24 | 8:15 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Iosseliani’s wry comedy, set in Tbilisi, follows a young musician who is perpetually in a hurry and late for every appointment because his life is so full of chance encounters. A genial, uplifting song to all those who choose life and love over lesser things, like work. (80 mins)

Tickets required:$5.50 BAM/PFA members; UC Berkeley students, $6.50 UC Berkeley faculty, staff, and retirees; Non-UC Berkeley students; Senior citizens (65 & over); Disabled persons; Youth (17 & under), $9.50 General Admission

Ticket info: Buy tickets online, or by calling 510-642-5249.

The Anti-Populism of the Late- and Post-Socialist Intellectuals

Lecture | January 26 | 4-6 p.m. | 160 Dwinelle Hall

Speaker: Rossen Djagalov, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Koç University

Sponsors: Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

The first lecture of the Slavic Colloquium series for Spring 2015.

Indigenous Challenges during 400 Years: The Sami of Northern Sweden

Lecture | January 27 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall

Featured Speaker: Peter Sköld, Professor and Director, Arctic Research Centre, Umeå University, Sweden

Sponsors: Institute of European Studies, Consulate General of Sweden

The Sami are the only acknowledged indigenous people in Sweden, and in the European Union. However, despite the Sami’s attempts to gain recognition and improved rights to use their traditional land, discrimination and derogative attitudes common 400 years ago are still in place today. This presentation offers a historical survey of Sami population development and surveys Sami political...   More >

Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein; USSR, 1925): Film 50: History of Cinema

Film - Feature | January 28 | 3:10 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Speaker: Emily Carpenter

Performer: Judith Rosenberg

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

(Bronenosets Potyomkin). Instructed to make a film to commemorate the 1905 revolution, Sergei Eisenstein chose to base his script on the mutiny on the battleship Potemkin of the Black Sea Fleet and the ensuing involvement of the people of Odessa. (70mins)

Tickets required:$5.50 UC Berkeley students, $7.50 BAM/PFA Members, $8.50 Seniors; Disabled persons; UC Berkeley faculty and staff; Non-UC Berkeley students; Youth 17 and under, $11.50 General Admission

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-5249.

Pastorale (Otar Iosseliani; USSR, 1975): Discovering Georgian Cinema

Film - Documentary | January 29 | 7:30 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

In this exquisite film by Georgian director Otar Iosseliani, a string quartet’s visit to a small village is treated with the gentle satire usually associated with the Czech New Wave. “Iosseliani is (Georgia’s) greatest director” (Tom Luddy). (94 mins)

Tickets required:$5.50 BAM/PFA members; UC Berkeley students, $6.50 UC Berkeley faculty, staff, and retirees; Non-UC Berkeley students; Senior citizens (65 & over); Disabled persons; Youth (17 & under), $9.50 General Admission

Ticket info: Buy tickets online, or by calling 510-642-5249.

Some Interviews on Personal Matters (Lana Gogoberidze; USSR, 1977): Discovering Georgian Cinema

Film - Feature | January 31 | 5 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Speaker: Lana Gogoberidze

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Imported Print! Lana Gogoberidze in person. A bold mixture of documentary and social-psychological drama—and the first film to make mention of Stalin’s camps—Some Interviews on Personal Matters makes powerful statements about women, work, family, and marriage that earned it international acclaim as the first feminist film of Soviet cinema. (95 mins)

Tickets required:$5.50 BAM/PFA members; UC Berkeley students, $6.50 UC Berkeley faculty, staff, and retirees; Non-UC Berkeley students; Senior citizens (65 & over); Disabled persons; Youth (17 & under), $9.50 General Admission

Ticket info: Buy tickets online, or by calling 510-642-5249.