Lectures
Monday, April 1, 2019
Latinx History In California: New Research from LRC Visiting Scholars Ivón Padilla-Rodriguez And Lilia Soto
Lecture | April 1 | 12-1 p.m. | The Shorb House
Europe and Global Governance
Lecture | April 1 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
New Research from the Latinx Research Center
Lecture | April 1 – 29, 2019 every Monday with exceptions | 12-1 p.m. | The Shorb House
Lecture by Shirley Thompson: Race, Property, and Belonging in Creole New Orleans
Lecture | April 1 | 3-5:15 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, 315, Maude Fife room
Behind the Curtain Translational Medicine Lecture
Lecture | April 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 410 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Again for the First Time with Rhonda Holberton
Lecture | April 1 | 6:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Adventures in extracting punctuated histories at Çatalhöyük
Lecture | April 2 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
How Safe Are We?: Homeland Security Since 9/11
Lecture | April 2 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Goldman School of Public Policy, Room 250
Inside the Black Box of Organizational Life: The Gendered Language of Performance Assessment
Lecture | April 2 | 4-6 p.m. | 2521 Channing Way (Inst. for Res. on Labor & Employment), Large Conference Room
Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science: C++: an invisible foundation
Lecture | April 2 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 190 Doe Library
Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science: C++: an invisible foundation
Lecture | April 2 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 190 Doe Library
Jorge Flores | Unwanted Neighbors: The Mughals, the Portuguese, and their Frontier Zones
Lecture | April 2 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Robert Morrison: Scientific Exchange at the Courts of Mehmed II and Bayezid II
Lecture | April 2 | 5-7 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Fascism’s Global Moments: New Perspectives on Entanglements and Tensions between Fascist Regimes in the 1930s and 1940s
Lecture | April 2 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Jewish Identities in Israel: Confrontations, Crises and Novel Conceptions
Lecture | April 2 | 5:30 p.m. | Doe Library, Morrison Library
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
The Importance of Being Aryan:: Confronting Nazi Racial Law and the Determination of Iranian National Identity
Lecture | April 3 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 254 Barrows Hall
If by Literally You Mean Figuratively: Pierre Bersuire’s Grammar of Allegory in the Latin Moralized Ovid
Lecture | April 3 | 5 p.m. | 6415 Dwinelle Hall
Haroon Mirza | The Creative Repercussions of Counterculture
Lecture | April 3 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 220, Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities
Water is Another Word for Life: with Isha Ray
Lecture | April 3 | 6:30-7:30 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium
Thursday, April 4, 2019
The Village: Weaving Local Stories into Theater Epics with Stan Lai
Lecture | April 4 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Osher Theater
View from the Top: Judy Chou: Being a Biotech Entrepreneur in a 155-Year-Old Company
Lecture | April 4 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium, 3rd floor
The Village: Weaving Local Stories into Theater Epics with Stan Lai
Lecture | April 4 | 12 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Will China Save The Planet?
Lecture | April 4 | 4-5 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
POSTPONED - Narratives of Progress and Protection, Contradiction and Refusal: Indigeneity, Gender and Citizenship
Lecture | April 4 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 691 Barrows Hall
Brexit, Britain, Scotland: The Future of the UK
Lecture | April 4 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 220 (Geballe Room)
The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science and the Great War
Lecture | April 4 | 5-6:30 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, 142 (Nestrick Room)
Avalokitasvara / Avalokiteśvara, Amitābha / Amitāyus and pratyekabuddha / pratyayabuddha: Misinterpretations of Gāndhārī Buddhism by Sanskrit Composers of the Mahāyāna Scriptures
Lecture | April 4 | 5-7 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
DCRP Lecture: Devanne Brookins
Lecture | April 4 | 5:30-7 p.m. | 106 Wurster Hall
Astronomy Night at UC Berkeley
Lecture | April 4 | 7-10 p.m. | 131 Campbell Hall
Caliban's Curse: with Viet Thanh Nguyen (2019 Jonathan Bedri Distinguished Writer in English)
Lecture | April 4 | 8 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, 315, Maude Fife
Friday, April 5, 2019
Herta Müller, the Aktionsgruppe Banat, and Literary Cartographies in Late 20th-Century Romanian Literature
Lecture | April 5 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall
Household Reservoirs of Enteric Pathogens in Rural Bangladesh: Environmental Engineering Seminar
Lecture | April 5 | 12-1 p.m. | 534 Davis Hall
Language as Symbolic Power: What's in it for Foreign Language teachers?
Lecture | April 5 | 3-5 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, B-4 (Classroom side)
Tony Stewart | Subjunctive Explorations - Fictive Sufi Tales of Early Modern Bengal: The 2nd ISAS-VSB Lecture on Religion in the Modern World
Lecture | April 5 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Monday, April 8, 2019
The Two-Tier Faculty System: Is It Here To Stay?
Lecture | April 8 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 402 Barrows Hall
Authoritarianism Accepted: Contextualizing EU and Russian Involvement in the Balkans
Lecture | April 8 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Discrete Models of Concrete Materials and Structures
Lecture | April 8 | 12-1 p.m. | 502 Davis Hall
The Key to Shambhala: The Mystifier as a Cultural Problem
Lecture | April 8 | 4-6 p.m. | B-4 Dwinelle Hall
John Ashbery, Non-Performer?: Prosody and Voice Studies
Lecture | April 8 | 5-6:30 p.m. | Barrows Hall, D-Lab Convening Room
Berkeley Journalism Showcase
Lecture | April 8 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Osher Theater
The Threat of Fascism and How to Fight It
Lecture | April 8 | 7:15-9:15 p.m. | 101 Moffitt Undergraduate Library
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Plants and People Lunchtime Lectures: Evolution and domestication of the pre-Columbian crop plant Bomarea edulis
Lecture | April 9 | 12-1 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Europe’s "Refugee Crisis" and the Colonial Archive or Is Art Universal?
Lecture | April 9 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
GUH Lecture: Showing is Knowing: The Curator as Designer & Scholar
Lecture | April 9 | 12-1 p.m. | 106 Wurster Hall
Objects of Special Note(s): Constructions of Containment, Writers and Readers by Late Roman Ivory Writing Tablets
Lecture | April 9 | 4-5 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Rules for Wrongdoers: Tanner Lectures on Human Values by Arthur Ripstein
Lecture | April 9 | 4:10-6:15 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room
Baxter Liberty Initiative: Power and the Politics of Education Reform: Learning from Katrina
Lecture | April 9 | 4:15 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium
Dimitri Gutas | The Qur'an of the Elite: Avicenna's "Isharat" and the Development of Paraphilosophy as "Islamic" Philosophy
Lecture | April 9 | 5-7 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
NOTE NEW DATE: Sadia Saeed | Politics of Desecularization: Law and the Minority Question in Pakistan
Lecture | April 9 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room) | Note change in date
Heavy Metal Bamboo: Making Archaic Bamboo Instruments Modern in Bandung, Indonesia
Lecture | April 9 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
The Economic and Political Impact of Migration in Romania
Lecture | April 9 | 5:15-6:45 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall
Environmental Design Archives Gallery Talk - Edit Heath: Design is a System of Values
Lecture | April 9 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Wurster Hall, Room 112
Edith Heath: Design is a System of Values
Lecture | April 9 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Wurster Hall, Wurster Gallery, Room 121
2019 Taubman Lectures: The Navel of the Dream: Freud's Jewish Languages
Lecture | April 9 | 7-9 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Townsend Center's Berkeley Book Chat: Looking for Law in all the Wrong Places: Marianne Constable, Leti Volpp, and Bryan Wagner, eds
Lecture | April 10 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
German and U.S. Second World War Soldiers’ Cemeteries in Italy - Cultural Perspectives
Lecture | April 10 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
BIDS Data Science Lecture: Do as eye do: efficient content-adaptive processing and storage of large fluorescence images
Lecture | April 10 | 3:10-4 p.m. | 190 Doe Library
Marijuana Legalization as Frontier Capitalism
Lecture | April 10 | 3:30-5 p.m. | Barrows Hall, 820/Social Science Matrix
Just Compost: Pathways to Social Equity and Community Engagement through Soil-carbon Sequestration
Lecture | April 10 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Morgan Hall, Morgan Lounge
Rules for Wrongdoers: Tanner Lectures on Human Values by Arthur Ripstein
Lecture | April 10 | 4:10-6:15 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room
ARCHITECTURE LECTURE: Caroline O’Donnell
Lecture | April 10 | 6:30-8 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Organic Design: A Dream like a Dream and Ago with Stan Lai and Sandra Woodall
Lecture | April 11 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Osher Theater
Tripodi Lecture on Research Methodologies: The Afterlife of Incarceration
Lecture | April 11 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. | Haviland Hall, Haviland Commons
Staging Justice
Lecture | April 11 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 691 Barrows Hall
Rules for Wrongdoers: Tanner Lectures on Human Values by Arthur Ripstein
Lecture | April 11 | 4:10-6:15 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room
Buddhist Contemplation and Higher Education: Researching and Adapting Contemplation in Modern Universities
Lecture | April 11 | 5-7 p.m. | Goldman Theater, Brower Center
Over Sixty in the Sixties: The Older Generation and Youth Protest in West Germany
Lecture | April 11 | 5-6 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
2019 Taubman Lectures: The Navel of the Dream: Freud's Jewish Languages
Lecture | April 11 | 7-9 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Charles Mills Gayley lecture with Dorothy Hale
Lecture | April 11 | 8-10 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, 315, Maude Fife room
Friday, April 12, 2019
Plants, Bugs, and Molecules: The Chemistry of Plants and Insects with Greti Séquin
Lecture | April 12 | 10 a.m.-12 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Problems, problem-solvers, and local impacts: A view from Peruvian Amazonia: Environmental Engineering Seminar
Lecture | April 12 | 12-1 p.m. | 534 Davis Hall
From Enigma to Virtual Splendor - The Nazi-Era Theft and Restitution of Guillaume de Machaut’s Extraordinary Medieval Manuscript, the Ferrell-Vogüé
Lecture | April 12 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Catherine B. Asher | The Qutb Complex: India and the Persianate World
Lecture | April 12 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Confronting Chance: Models of Medicine in the Hippocratic Corpus
Lecture | April 12 | 5-7 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
ERG 25th Annual Lecture with Thomas Lovejoy
Lecture | April 12 | 6-7:30 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium
Saturday, April 13, 2019
Cal Day Keynote: Storytelling, Design, and Social Change
Lecture | April 13 | 9:30-10:15 a.m. | 112 Wurster Hall
How to Apply Design Thinking to Your Career and Your Life: Cal Day
Lecture | April 13 | 10:45 a.m.-12 p.m. | UC Berkeley Extension (Golden Bear Center), Room 206
Monday, April 15, 2019
Who Dreams of Us? Reading, Inclusivity, and Contemporary Swedish-Language Literature
Lecture | April 15 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
New Research from the Latinx Research Center
Lecture | April 1 – 29, 2019 every Monday with exceptions | 12-1 p.m. | The Shorb House
Design Field Notes: Tom di Maria
Lecture | April 15 | 4-5 p.m. | 220 Jacobs Hall
From 'Daang Matuwid' Gone Crooked to 'Build Build Build': The Politics of Transport Infrastructure in the Philippines, 2010 to the Present
Lecture | April 15 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Behind the Curtain Translational Medicine Lecture
Lecture | April 15 | 4-5 p.m. | 410 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Chilean Education Today: New Regulations, Social Movements, and Uncontested Emergencies
Lecture | April 15 | 4:30 p.m. | 2334 Bowditch (Center for Latin American Studies)
CANCELED - Neelam Khoja | Qandahar and New Sovereign Claims in Early Modern Iran and Hindustan
Lecture | April 15 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room) | Canceled
Gaining More Control Of Your Time: Strategies and tactics for living the life you'd like to live
Lecture | April 15 | 6:30-8 p.m. | UC Berkeley Extension (Golden Bear Center), Room 207
Hate Speech, Algorithms, and Digital Connectivity
Lecture | April 15 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Osher Theater
Hate Speech, Algorithms, and Digital Connectivity with Zeynep Tufekci: Digital Humanities Faire Keynote
Lecture | April 15 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Ernest S. Kuh Distinguished Lecture: From Cory Hall to Silicon Valley: Building a Startup that Thrives
Lecture | April 16 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium, 3rd floor
Deceptive Stability? Germany in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Last Term
Lecture | April 16 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Dancing Loyalty: Revolutionary Movements in Cuba after 1959
Lecture | April 16 | 4 p.m. | 2334 Bowditch (Center for Latin American Studies)
The Last Whalers: Telling the Story of One of the World's Last Whaling Tribes
Lecture | April 16 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Knowing Me, Knowing You: Self-Knowledge, Authority, and Dialogue in Early Plato
Lecture | April 16 | 5-7 p.m. | 7205 Dwinelle Hall
Lunacy Administration: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry: A Lecture by Mab Segrest
Lecture | April 16 | 5-6:30 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, 315, Maude Fife room
Lunacy Administration: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry: A Lecture by Mab Segrest
Lecture | April 16 | 5-6:30 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler
Lunacy Administration: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry
Lecture | April 16 | 5 p.m. | 315 Wheeler Hall
2019 Taubman Lectures: The Navel of the Dream: Freud's Jewish Languages
Lecture | April 16 | 5:30-9 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
A Greek officer and an Egyptian lady: Ethnic diversity in a wealthy household in Hellenistic Egypt
Lecture | April 16 | 5:30-8 p.m. | Doe Library, Morrison Library
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
The Power of Plurality: Encounters, Emergence, and Boundary-Making in the Nineteenth-Century Industrial Far West
Lecture | April 17 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Townsend Center's Berkeley Book Chat with Timothy Hampton: Bob Dylan's Poetics: How the Songs Work
Lecture | April 17 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Through the Window: People, Data, Technology, and National Security
Lecture | April 17 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 202 South Hall
Through the Window: People, Data, Technology, and National Security
Lecture | April 17 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 202 South Hall
Visual bilingualism and the funerary space: Keys to understanding the spatial semiotics of Central Asian tombs in 6th century China
Lecture | April 17 | 5-7 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
The Great Chernobyl Acceleration
Lecture | April 17 | 6-7:30 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Fact, Fiction, and Film: Turning History into Narrative: with Hallie Rubenhold
Lecture | April 17 | 6 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, 330, Berkeley English Lounge
