T.J. CLARK — Picasso and Truth: Lecture 1: Still Life in Front of a Window 

Lecture | November 2 | 7 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum

Featured Speaker: T.J. Clark

Speaker: Kaja Silverman

Sponsors: History of Art, Department of, Berkeley Art Museum, Program in Critical Theory

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Lecture at 7 p.m. in the Museum Theater

 of the Berkeley Art Museum, 2621 Durant Avenue, Berkeley.

Open to audience: All Audiences

Attendance restrictions: Registration for all three lectures has reached capacity. We do anticipate a limited number of “rush” tickets becoming available the night of each lecture. A “rush line” will form on a first-come, first-served basis.

T.J. CLARK — Picasso and Truth

Lecture | November 2 – 4, 2009 every day | 7 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum

Featured Speaker: T.J. CLARK

Speakers: Kaja Silverman; Judith Butler; Anthony Cascardi

Sponsors: History of Art, Department of, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Program in Critical Theory, Berkeley Art Museum

These three lectures by T.J. CLARK
treat three notable pictures by Picasso from the 1920s and 1930s.
With introductory comments by Kaja Silverman, Judith Butler, and Anthony Cascardi

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(For full details, please click above on the event title.)

Archaeology, National Identity and the Coup in Honduras: the Role of the Ancient Maya: Archaeological Research Facility Lecture

Lecture | November 3 | 4:10-6 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)

Speaker: Dario Euraque, Professor of History and International Studies, Trinity College

Sponsors: Archaeological Research Facility, Latin American Studies, Center for, Anthropology, Department of

On June 28th, the President of Honduras was ousted in a coup. Later, the Director of the Institute of Anthropology and History, was illegally removed from office by the de facto regime. This talk addresses the eerie question: what role did the Ancient Maya play in the aftermath of the coup in Honduras?

T.J. CLARK — Picasso and Truth: Lecture Two: Three Dancers

Lecture | November 3 | 7 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum

Featured Speaker: T.J. Clark

Speaker: Judith Butler

Sponsors: History of Art, Department of, Berkeley Art Museum, Program in Critical Theory

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Lecture at 7 p.m. in the Museum Theater

 of the Berkeley Art Museum, 2621 Durant Avenue, Berkeley.

Open to audience: All Audiences

Attendance restrictions: Registration for all three lectures has reached capacity. We do anticipate a limited number of “rush” tickets becoming available the night of each lecture. A “rush line” will form on a first-come, first-served basis. For more informati

T.J. CLARK — Picasso and Truth

Lecture | November 2 – 4, 2009 every day | 7 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum

Featured Speaker: T.J. CLARK

Speakers: Kaja Silverman; Judith Butler; Anthony Cascardi

Sponsors: History of Art, Department of, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Program in Critical Theory, Berkeley Art Museum

These three lectures by T.J. CLARK
treat three notable pictures by Picasso from the 1920s and 1930s.
With introductory comments by Kaja Silverman, Judith Butler, and Anthony Cascardi

.
(For full details, please click above on the event title.)

T.J. CLARK — Picasso and Truth: Lecture 3 — Guernica

Lecture | November 4 | 7 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum

Featured Speaker: T.J. Clark

Speaker: Anthony Cascardi

Sponsors: History of Art, Department of, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Berkeley Art Museum, Program in Critical Theory

Third of three lectures by
renowned art historian, author, and professor T.J. Clark,
extracted from a series of six he delivered as the
Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts at the National Gallery in Washington.
Professor Anthony Cascardi

 will provide introductory comments.
(For full details, click above on “Picasso and Truth”.

Open to audience: All Audiences

Attendance restrictions: Registration for all three lectures has reached capacity. We do anticipate a limited number of “rush” tickets becoming available the night of each lecture. A “rush line” will form on a first-come, first-served basis. For more informati

T.J. CLARK — Picasso and Truth

Lecture | November 2 – 4, 2009 every day | 7 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum

Featured Speaker: T.J. CLARK

Speakers: Kaja Silverman; Judith Butler; Anthony Cascardi

Sponsors: History of Art, Department of, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Program in Critical Theory, Berkeley Art Museum

These three lectures by T.J. CLARK
treat three notable pictures by Picasso from the 1920s and 1930s.
With introductory comments by Kaja Silverman, Judith Butler, and Anthony Cascardi

.
(For full details, please click above on the event title.)

La Nana: Directed by Sebastián Silva (Chile, 2009)

Film - Feature | November 9 | 7-9 p.m. |  Pacific Film Archive Theater

Sponsor: Latin American Studies, Center for

Raquel is a live-in maid who has served the Valdés family for 23 years. Threatened when her employers decide to bring in extra help, she engages in a series of increasingly frantic acts to hold on to her position in this sharp comedic drama. 95 minutes. Spanish with English subtitles.

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

Tickets not required

Comparative Aesthetics of Cityscapes: Havana and Trinidad, Cuba

Colloquium | November 20 | 4-6 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)

Speaker/Performer: Maki Tanaka, UC Berkeley

Sponsors: Townsend Center for the Humanities, Graduate Assembly

This paper reflects on aesthetic possibilities that materialize in the post-Soviet economy of Cuba. Cuban landscape has historically marked distinct aesthetics that were afforded by political economy of the times. More recently, as Cuba reinserted itself to the global economy after the collapse of the Soviet bloc, albeit in its own socialist manner, new cityscape began to emerge...   More >