RSS FeedUpcoming EventsCities and Wars: Roman Vishniac in Berlin and Jerusalem 1947/1967, Aug. 29<span class="lw_date_year">, 2023</span>https://events.berkeley.edu/Magnes/event/219853-cities-and-wars-roman-vishniac-in-berlin-and

Roman Vishniac (1897–1990), a Russian-Jewish modernist photographer, lived and worked in Berlin from 1920 to 1939. On the eve of the Second World War, he extensively documented Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe. After fleeing Nazi Germany, he found safety in New York City and became a US citizen in 1946. The Roman Vishniac Archive, which The Magnes acquired in 2018, also includes thousands of photographs taken after World War II in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.

Vishniac had been collaborating with New York’s Jewish Daily Forward—then the “world’s largest Jewish daily”—from Europe since 1938. In the summer of 1947, the newspaper sent him from the United States to France and Germany, to visit “various cities… to obtain photographs and stories of human and general interest,” and most notably, to photograph Jews living in displaced persons camps. The journey, sponsored by the American Joint Distribution Committee and the United Jewish Appeal, took him back to Berlin.

The haunting photographs of his former hometown devastated by the effect of the war show collapsed buildings and cathedrals, refugee camps, and civic parks turned into vegetable gardens. They also portray his old neighborhood, Charlottenburg, which had once housed many of the city’s Jewish residents; his home, now in ruins; and the timid resurgence of urban life in a city split across American, British, French, and Soviet-controlled sectors.

A few weeks after the Six-Day War in the summer of 1967, Roman Vishniac traveled to Israel. He met family, friends, and colleagues, and visited public institutions and natural sights. He also spent several days in Jerusalem, which had just fallen under Israeli control. There, he took color transparencies (slides), as visual eld notes for a never-realized future project to photographically document the still-emerging State of Israel in many of its already apparent contradictions.

Vishniac depicted the damage to buildings and the remaining fortifications of the siege of Mount Scopus; the former “no man’s land” between Israel and Jordan; the dire state of the area near the Western Wall in the Old City; and the rebuilding of the city across its contested borders. He also took a deep view of the conditions of the Arab residents in East Jerusalem, a perspective that is consistent with his ongoing focus on disenfranchised communities in Europe and the United States.

Cities and Wars follows Vishniac’s journeys to Berlin and Jerusalem, displaying large-format black & white photographic prints from negatives shot in Berlin, along with digital displays of color slides from Jerusalem. Both are cities that the photographer considered “home,” each in a very different and unique way: Berlin, a once fabled, and then lost, haven where he had begun his life as a documentary photographer; and Jerusalem, which catered to his deep connection with the Jewish experience. Most of the images included in the exhibition have never been seen in public before. Together they highlight the unique gaze of the photographer, along with a careful chronicling of the effects of war on urban life that remain all too familiar to the contemporary viewer.

Learn more

https://events.berkeley.edu/Magnes/event/219853-cities-and-wars-roman-vishniac-in-berlin-and
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, Sept. 8<span class="lw_date_year">, 2023</span>https://events.berkeley.edu/Library/event/196579-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/Library/event/196579-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, Sept. 13<span class="lw_date_year">, 2023</span>https://events.berkeley.edu/Library/event/212439-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/Library/event/212439-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, Oct. 24<span class="lw_date_year">, 2023</span>https://events.berkeley.edu/Library/event/222912-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/Library/event/222912-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Making Music: Math and Science Out Loud, Jan. 1https://events.berkeley.edu/lhs/event/208907-making-music-math-and-science-out-loud

Music means many things to many people, but at its core, all music is built on the same scientific and mathematic principles. In our latest exhibition, nurture your inner musician as you discover the math of music and the science of sound. The exhibition features a variety of instruments and other music-making tools that will help visitors uncover the science behind musical melodies, harmonies, beats, and more.

https://events.berkeley.edu/lhs/event/208907-making-music-math-and-science-out-loud
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, Jan. 10https://events.berkeley.edu/Library/event/236418-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/Library/event/236418-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
EXHIBIT: Voices for the Environment: A Century of Bay Area Activism, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/Library/event/210975-exhibit-voices-for-the-environment-a-century-of

Curated by the Oral History Center, Voices for the Environment: A Century of Bay Area Activism charts the evolution of environmental movements in the region through the recorded voices of the activists who shaped them. From tensions over preservation after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake to demands to address the disproportionate burdens of pollution and illness that some communities faced, environmentalism has long been part of the fabric of the Bay Area.

Smartphones and headphones are suggested.

The Bancroft Library Gallery


https://events.berkeley.edu/Library/event/210975-exhibit-voices-for-the-environment-a-century-of
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222949-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222949-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229231-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229231-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236473-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236473-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241445-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241445-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
Traffic Signal Operations: Isolated Intersections, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/ttp/event/207778-traffic-signal-operations-isolated-intersections

Description

This course covers the concepts, practical applications, and operations of isolated traffic signals. The course engages students through hands-on exercises and real-world examples of signal timing and operations. Class exercises and demonstrations are taught in a computer lab. A basic knowledge of EXCEL is needed to complete the exercises.

NOTE: This is an introductory course in a series of courses on traffic signal operations offered by the Technology Transfer Program. It is strongly recommended that students complete this course before taking either Traffic Signal Operations: Coordination for Corridors (TE-10) or Synchro and SimTraffic (TE-13). It is also helpful for students to complete this course before taking Type 170 & 2070 Traffic Signal Controllers (TE-25).

What this class is not:

  • You will not learn how to coordinate signals, this is covered in TE-10.
  • We will not teach you to use Synchro, this is covered in TE-13.
  • You will not learn how to program controllers and equipment - only partial instruction on timing sheets and detector settings, etc., this is covered in TE-25.
  • You will not learn how to design signals, only how to define specifications like detector setbacks, turn lane lengths, etc. Traffic signal design is covered in TE-02 and TE-41.

For other Tech Transfer courses for the above topics beyond this course, please see Traffic Signals.

 

Topics Include

  • types of traffic signals
  • principles of signal timing
  • timing of fixed and actuated signals
  • pedestrian considerations
  • introduction to signal coordination
  • detector logic
  • gap settings
  • recall and other features
  • signal timing using Excel Spreadsheet (PlanSig)
  • when to change timing settings
  • Synchro input
  • learn to understand Synchro output (PlanSig results will be compared to Synchro output for one of the in-class problems)
  • hands-on problems and filling timing sheets

What You Will Learn

Students learn how to time isolated signalized intersections focusing on how to apply basic principles in real-world situations.

Who Should Attend

The class is for traffic engineers, planners, consultants, and technicians who are new to traffic signal timing. Experienced practitioners who desire a “refresher” course might also benefit from this course.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ttp/event/207778-traffic-signal-operations-isolated-intersections
Celebrating SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) - Bay Area Open Science Group Monthly Meeting, March 19https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/12109712Zoom information registration
This month the Bay Area Open Science Group will celebrate the 10th anniversary of SCOAP3, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics, a groundbreaking partnership of libraries, funding agencies and research centers around the world to open the literature in the field of High-Energy Physics. Kamran Naim (Head of Open Science), Anne Gentil-Beccot (Open access coordinator and electronic resources manager, and Alexander Kohls (Scientific Information Service, Group Leader) of CERN will join us to discuss the SCOAP3 model, accomplishments and plans for the future, and will highlight data from participating US institutions.
Bay Area Open Science Group
The Bay Area Open Science Group is a growing community for Bay Area academics and researchers interested in incorporating open science into their research, teaching, and learning. Targeting students, faculty, and staff at UCSF, Berkeley, and Stanford, the goal of the community is to increase awareness of and engagement with all things open science, including open access articles, open research data, open source software, and open educational resources. Through this work the group hopes to connect researchers with tools they can use to make the products and process of science more equitable and reproducible.
Meetings:
We meet on the 4th Tuesday of the month.
NOTE: March meeting will take place at March 19 at 9 AM to accommodate multiple time zones.
All are welcome to attend and join the conversation!
Looking for info from past meetups?
Check out our collaborative notes
Find presentations from past meetups on Zenodo
Contact:
Interested in joining the group or learning about future events?
Join the discussion on our Slack Channel or email Sam Teplitzky (samteplitzky@berkeley.edu).
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/12109712
Celebrating SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) - Bay Area Open Science Group Monthly Meeting, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241879-celebrating-scoap3-sponsoring-consortium-for-openZoom information registration
This month the Bay Area Open Science Group will celebrate the 10th anniversary of SCOAP3, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics, a groundbreaking partnership of libraries, funding agencies and research centers around the world to open the literature in the field of High-Energy Physics. Kamran Naim (Head of Open Science), Anne Gentil-Beccot (Open access coordinator and electronic resources manager, and Alexander Kohls (Scientific Information Service, Group Leader) of CERN will join us to discuss the SCOAP3 model, accomplishments and plans for the future, and will highlight data from participating US institutions.
Bay Area Open Science Group
The Bay Area Open Science Group is a growing community for Bay Area academics and researchers interested in incorporating open science into their research, teaching, and learning. Targeting students, faculty, and staff at UCSF, Berkeley, and Stanford, the goal of the community is to increase awareness of and engagement with all things open science, including open access articles, open research data, open source software, and open educational resources. Through this work the group hopes to connect researchers with tools they can use to make the products and process of science more equitable and reproducible.
Meetings:
We meet on the 4th Tuesday of the month.
NOTE: March meeting will take place at March 19 at 9 AM to accommodate multiple time zones.
All are welcome to attend and join the conversation!
Looking for info from past meetups?
Check out our collaborative notes
Find presentations from past meetups on Zenodo
Contact:
Interested in joining the group or learning about future events?
Join the discussion on our Slack Channel or email Sam Teplitzky (samteplitzky@berkeley.edu).
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241879-celebrating-scoap3-sponsoring-consortium-for-open
People & Culture Inclusive Leadership Academy: Bridging Through Conversation & Active Allyship, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/deib/event/230603-people-culture-inclusive-leadership-academy

The Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging within People & Culture, will partner with the Center for Equity, Gender & Leadership in the Berkeley Haas School of Business, to host the People & Culture Inclusive Leadership Academy (PCLA). The purpose of the PCLA is to provide an intentional and meaningful learning experience that will equip leaders with the content knowledge, leadership behaviors, and support to effectively lead our diverse staff community and create a culture of belonging and inclusion.

https://events.berkeley.edu/deib/event/230603-people-culture-inclusive-leadership-academy
People & Culture Inclusive Leadership Academy: Bridging Through Conversation & Active Allyship, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/thriving/event/243512-people-culture-inclusive-leadership-academy

The Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging within People & Culture, will partner with the Center for Equity, Gender & Leadership in the Berkeley Haas School of Business, to host the People & Culture Inclusive Leadership Academy (PCLA). The purpose of the PCLA is to provide an intentional and meaningful learning experience that will equip leaders with the content knowledge, leadership behaviors, and support to effectively lead our diverse staff community and create a culture of belonging and inclusion.

https://events.berkeley.edu/thriving/event/243512-people-culture-inclusive-leadership-academy
[CDO] Open Office Hours with Judge Anthony Johnstone (9th Cir.), March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243551-cdo-open-office-hours-with-judge-anthony-johnstoneJudge Anthony Johnstone (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit) will be available for informal discussion with students. 
Judge Johnstone previously served as the Helen and David Mason Professor of Law and an affiliated Professor of Public Administration at the University of Montana, Alexander Blewett III School of Law in Missoula. As a professor he taught federal and state constitutional law and legislation, as well as a federal judicial clinic. Johnstone also has served as trial and appellate counsel in federal and state courts, including the Ninth Circuit and the Supreme Court of the United States, most recently with Johnstone PLLC. He served the Montana Department of Justice as state solicitor from 2008 to 2011 and assistant attorney general from 2004 to 2008. Johnstone entered practice as an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York from 2000 to 2003. Born to Montanans in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Johnstone received his Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1995 and his Juris Doctor, with honors, from the University of Chicago Law School in 1999. Following law school, he clerked for Ninth Circuit Judge Sidney R. Thomas in Billings, Montana from 1999 to 2000.
Questions?  Contact Anna Han (ahan@law.berkeley.edu) in the CDO.
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243551-cdo-open-office-hours-with-judge-anthony-johnstone
3-Manifold Seminar: Skein lasagna modules of link homology theories, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/243568-3-manifold-seminar-skein-lasagna-modules-of-linkOne can promote every TQFT-like link homology theory in $S^3$ (e.g. Khovanov homology, Heegaard/instanton knot Floer homologies restricted to $S^3$) to an algebraic invariant of a pair $(X,L)$ of compact smooth 4-manifold $X$ with a link $L$ on its boundary, called the skein lasagna module of $(X,L)$ (with respect to the input TQFT). We survey a few properties of this construction, for example how does the invariant change under connected sums, handle attachments, or more general gluings. As an example, we consider the “trivial” TQFT input for framed links, namely the Khovanov-Rozansky $\mathfrak _1$ homology, and show the skein lasagna module is roughly the second relative homology group of $(X,L)$. We also define a refinement of the skein lasagna module, which for the “trivial” TQFT is roughly the framed cobordism set of surfaces in $X\backslash B^4$ rel $L$. https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/93554741436https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/243568-3-manifold-seminar-skein-lasagna-modules-of-linkDesign Field Notes: Iulia Ionescu, Programme Director Creative Computing and Robotics Postgraduate (PG), University of the Arts London, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/Jacobs/event/243576-design-field-notes-iulia-ionescu-programme-director-c

Iulia Ionescu is an interdisciplinary artist and technologist with a keen interest in social phenomena that arise in the face of increased automation and algorithmic living. Her work delves into the intersection of technology and society, exploring the co-construction of meaning in human-AI interaction. In particular, she focuses on the relationship between anthropomorphic features and anthropomorphic perception in the design of AI systems.

She further develops these ideas through her role as Programme Director of Creative Computing and Robotics PG courses at the University of the Arts London. Additionally, she holds Visiting Senior Lecturer positions at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London. Iulia earned a Microsoft-sponsored PhD in AI design, an M.A. from the Royal College of Art, an M.Sc. from Imperial College London, and a BArch from Nottingham University.

https://events.berkeley.edu/Jacobs/event/243576-design-field-notes-iulia-ionescu-programme-director-c
Berkeley Boosts | Coffee Break with Irene Liu: Conversation with Ajeya Cotra, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243075-berkeley-boosts-coffee-break-with-irene-liuCoffee Break with Irene Liu is a Berkeley Boosts webinar series from Berkeley Law Executive Education featuring interviews with influential leaders on impactful events in their careers, lives, and organizations. Conversations will explore lessons learned and what listeners can take away from the guests’ experiences. In this episode, Irene speaks with Ajeya Cotra, Senior Research Analyst at Open Philanthropy Project.
 
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243075-berkeley-boosts-coffee-break-with-irene-liu
Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar: Zero Bias in the Free World, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/242953-probabilistic-operator-algebra-seminar-zero-biasIn sampling theory, bias plays an important role. Transforms to compensate for bias have wide use, with applications to normal approximation, waiting-time paradoxes, tightness, Skorokhod embedding, concentration of measure, and many other far-flung ideas. In the 1990s, Goldstein and Reinert introduced zero bias , an “infinitesimal” bias transform which connects to Stein’s method. It is an elegant tool for sharp approximation methods, thanks to a (non-linear) relation to independent sums. Recently, it has been shown to have an interesting connection to infinite divisibility. In this talk, I will discuss my current work (joint with Goldstein) to develop the free probability version of the zero bias transform. Using tools from complex analysis and subordination theory, we show interesting analogs of all the classical zero bias properties, and use the free zero bias to give a new and enlightening perspective on free infinite divisibility. Along the way, we discover a collection of surprisingly new results on combining Cauchy transforms that are of independent interest.https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/242953-probabilistic-operator-algebra-seminar-zero-biasConsolidation and Rifts in Current Israeli Society: New Findings from the Israeli Consensus Index, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/hdi/event/243062-consolidation-and-rifts-in-current-israeli-society

How has the Israel-Hamas War impacted Israeli society? Has it brought people together or deepened existing social fractures? This panel discussion will explore the findings of the recent February 2024 Israeli Consensus Index, a representative national survey that measures attitudes and relationships within the Jewish and Arab Israeli population. The panel of scholars will discuss key data results that reflect the challenges and opportunities within and across different segments of Israeli society.

PANELISTS

Ori Aronson, Professor of Law, Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law; Visiting Scholar, Harvard University

Julia Elad-Strenger, Assistant Professor of Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University

Shahar LifshitzFounder, Menomadin Center for Jewish and Democratic Law; Professor of Law, Former Dean, Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law

Tzili Elitzur Nae, Public Policy Director, Menomadin Center for Jewish and Democratic Law; Post-Doctoral Fellow, Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law

Masua Sagiv (Moderator), 2021–2024 Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies, UC Berkeley; Scholar-in-Residence, Shalom Hartman Institute

This program is in partnership with the Menomadin Center for Jewish & Democratic Law at Bar-Ilan University.

Register: https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ag_aDVFWSIWxguvixEv1fA

https://events.berkeley.edu/hdi/event/243062-consolidation-and-rifts-in-current-israeli-society
Consolidation and Rifts in Current Israeli Society: New Findings from the Israeli Consensus Index, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243065-consolidation-and-rifts-in-current-israeli-societyZoom Webinar
How has the Israel-Hamas War impacted Israeli society? Has it brought people together or deepened existing social fractures? This panel discussion will explore the findings of the recent February 2024 Israeli Consensus Index, a representative national survey that measures attitudes and relationships within the Jewish and Arab Israeli population. The panel of scholars will discuss key data results that reflect the challenges and opportunities within and across different segments of Israeli society. 
 
PANELISTS
Ori Aronson, Professor of Law, Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law; Visiting Scholar, Harvard University
Julia Elad-Strenger, Assistant Professor of Political Studies, Bar–Ilan University
Shahar Lifshitz, Professor of Law, Former Dean, Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law
Masua Sagiv, 2021–2024 Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies, UC Berkeley; Scholar-in-Residence, Shalom Hartman Institute
This program is in partnership with the Menomadin Center for Jewish & Democratic Law at Bar–Ilan University.
Register: https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ag_aDVFWSIWxguvixEv1fA
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243065-consolidation-and-rifts-in-current-israeli-society
Organic Chemistry Seminar, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230052-organic-chemistry-seminar

TBD

https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230052-organic-chemistry-seminar
The Relational Approach to Study of Processes of Health/disease/healthcare (Enfoque relacional en el estudio de los procesos de salud/enfermedad/atención médica), March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/bscm/event/236173-the-relational-approach-to-study-of-processes-of

The work of Eduardo Menéndez has powerfully shaped critical approaches to medical anthropology and public health (salud colectiva) in Latin America, Europe, and beyond. His relational framework breaks with fragmenting approaches that envision such binaries as patient vs. physician and biomedical vs. Indigenous perspectives as empirically-given entities; instead, he analyzes how they are continually produced through relations of opposition and subordination. X-raying the Hegemonic Medical Model (Modelo Médico Hegemónico) that infuses medical practice with claims to autonomy and scientific authority, Dr. Menéndez demonstrates how social scientists often unwittingly reproduce these premises, even in works that adopt critical stances. His wide-ranging analyses of processes of health/disease/healthcare in such areas as autoatención (roughly, forms of care provided by laypersons outside clinical settings), self-medication, alcoholism, infant mortality, news coverage of health, A-H1N1 and COVID-19 pandemics, and health and medicine in Indigenous and other racialized ethnic communities provide a model of critical ethnographic inquiry. In addition, he has provided trenchant reformulations of the work of Fanon and Gramsci and critiqued scholarly uses of multiculturalism and the concept of risk. In CIESAS (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Anthropología Social), the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, Spain, and elsewhere, Dr. Menéndez has trained many of the current leaders in health scholarship, practice, and policy. In addition to 108 chapters in edited volumes and 119 articles in journals, his 32 books include Poder, estratificación y salud: análisis de las condiciones sociales y económicas de la enfermedad en Yucatán; La parte negada de la cultura; participación social ¿Para qué?; De sujetos, saberes y estructuras: introducción al enfoque relacional en el estudio de la salud colectiva; y, con Renée B Di Pardo, De algunos alcoholismos y algunos saberesy Miedos, riesgos e inseguridades: Los medios, los profesionales y los intelectuales en la construcción social de la salud como catástrofe.

In this lecture, Dr. Menéndez will describe and analyze some of the main features of a relational approach to processes of health/disease/healthcare.

Las investigaciones del Dr. Eduardo L. Menéndez han impactado a los enfoques críticos de la antropología médica y la salud colectiva en América Latina, Europa y más allá. Su enfoque relacional rompe con análisis fragmentarios que visualizan binarios con paciente versus médico y perspectivas biomédicas versus Indígenas como entidades empíricamente dadas, en lugar de analizar cómo se producen continuamente a través de relaciones de oposición y subordinación. Analizando al fondo el Modelo Médico Hegemónico que infunde a la práctica médica con pretensiones de autonomía y autoridad científica, el Dr. Menéndez demuestra cómo los científicos sociales a menudo reproducen sin darse cuenta estas premisas, incluso en trabajos que adoptan posturas críticas. Sus amplios análisis de los procesos de salud/enfermedad/atención médica en áreas como la autoatención, la automedicación, el alcoholismo, la mortalidad infantil, la cobertura mediática de salud, las pandemias de A-H1N1 y COVID-19 y la salud y la medicina en comunidades Indígenas y otras comunidades étnicas proporcionan un modelo de investigación etnográfica crítica. Además, ha repensado el trabajo de Fanon y Gramsci y ha criticado los usos académicos de la interculturalidad y del concepto de riesgo. En CIESAS (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social), la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, España y otros lugares, el Dr. Menéndez ha capacitado a muchos de los líderes actuales en la investigación, la práctica y políticas de salud colectiva. Además de 108 capítulos en libros editados y 119 artículos en revistas, sus 32 libros incluyen Poder, estratificación y salud: análisis de las condiciones sociales y económicas de la enfermedad en Yucatán; La parte negada de la cultura; participación social ¿Para qué?; De sujetos, saberes y estructuras: introducción al enfoque relacional en el estudio de la salud colectiva; y, con Renée B Di Pardo, De algunos alcoholismos y algunos saberesy Miedos, riesgos e inseguridades: Los medios, los profesionales y los intelectuales en la construcción social de la salud como catástrofe.

En la conferencia describirá y analizará algunas de las principales características del enfoque relacional referidas a los procesos de salud/enfermedad/atención médica.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bscm/event/236173-the-relational-approach-to-study-of-processes-of
The Relational Approach to Study of Processes of Health/disease/healthcare (Enfoque relacional en el estudio de los procesos de salud/enfermedad/atención médica), March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/lacc/event/236758-the-relational-approach-to-study-of-processes-of

The work of Eduardo Menéndez has powerfully shaped critical approaches to medical anthropology and public health (salud colectiva) in Latin America, Europe, and beyond. His relational framework breaks with fragmenting approaches that envision such binaries as patient vs. physician and biomedical vs. Indigenous perspectives as empirically-given entities; instead, he analyzes how they are continually produced through relations of opposition and subordination. X-raying the Hegemonic Medical Model (Modelo Médico Hegemónico) that infuses medical practice with claims to autonomy and scientific authority, Dr. Menéndez demonstrates how social scientists often unwittingly reproduce these premises, even in works that adopt critical stances. His wide-ranging analyses of processes of health/disease/healthcare in such areas as autoatención (roughly, forms of care provided by laypersons outside clinical settings), self-medication, alcoholism, infant mortality, news coverage of health, A-H1N1 and COVID-19 pandemics, and health and medicine in Indigenous and other racialized ethnic communities provide a model of critical ethnographic inquiry. In addition, he has provided trenchant reformulations of the work of Fanon and Gramsci and critiqued scholarly uses of multiculturalism and the concept of risk. In CIESAS (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Anthropología Social), the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, Spain, and elsewhere, Dr. Menéndez has trained many of the current leaders in health scholarship, practice, and policy. In addition to 108 chapters in edited volumes and 119 articles in journals, his 32 books include Poder, estratificación y salud: análisis de las condiciones sociales y económicas de la enfermedad en Yucatán; La parte negada de la cultura; participación social ¿Para qué?; De sujetos, saberes y estructuras: introducción al enfoque relacional en el estudio de la salud colectiva; y, con Renée B Di Pardo, De algunos alcoholismos y algunos saberesy Miedos, riesgos e inseguridades: Los medios, los profesionales y los intelectuales en la construcción social de la salud como catástrofe.

In this lecture, Dr. Menéndez will describe and analyze some of the main features of a relational approach to processes of health/disease/healthcare.

Las investigaciones del Dr. Eduardo L. Menéndez han impactado a los enfoques críticos de la antropología médica y la salud colectiva en América Latina, Europa y más allá. Su enfoque relacional rompe con análisis fragmentarios que visualizan binarios con paciente versus médico y perspectivas biomédicas versus Indígenas como entidades empíricamente dadas, en lugar de analizar cómo se producen continuamente a través de relaciones de oposición y subordinación. Analizando al fondo el Modelo Médico Hegemónico que infunde a la práctica médica con pretensiones de autonomía y autoridad científica, el Dr. Menéndez demuestra cómo los científicos sociales a menudo reproducen sin darse cuenta estas premisas, incluso en trabajos que adoptan posturas críticas. Sus amplios análisis de los procesos de salud/enfermedad/atención médica en áreas como la autoatención, la automedicación, el alcoholismo, la mortalidad infantil, la cobertura mediática de salud, las pandemias de A-H1N1 y COVID-19 y la salud y la medicina en comunidades Indígenas y otras comunidades étnicas proporcionan un modelo de investigación etnográfica crítica. Además, ha repensado el trabajo de Fanon y Gramsci y ha criticado los usos académicos de la interculturalidad y del concepto de riesgo. En CIESAS (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social), la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, España y otros lugares, el Dr. Menéndez ha capacitado a muchos de los líderes actuales en la investigación, la práctica y políticas de salud colectiva. Además de 108 capítulos en libros editados y 119 artículos en revistas, sus 32 libros incluyen Poder, estratificación y salud: análisis de las condiciones sociales y económicas de la enfermedad en Yucatán; La parte negada de la cultura; participación social ¿Para qué?; De sujetos, saberes y estructuras: introducción al enfoque relacional en el estudio de la salud colectiva; y, con Renée B Di Pardo, De algunos alcoholismos y algunos saberesy Miedos, riesgos e inseguridades: Los medios, los profesionales y los intelectuales en la construcción social de la salud como catástrofe.

En la conferencia describirá y analizará algunas de las principales características del enfoque relacional referidas a los procesos de salud/enfermedad/atención médica.

https://events.berkeley.edu/lacc/event/236758-the-relational-approach-to-study-of-processes-of
The Relational Approach to Study of Processes of Health/disease/healthcare (Enfoque relacional en el estudio de los procesos de salud/enfermedad/atención médica), March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/clacs/event/240395-the-relational-approach-to-study-of-processes-of

The work of Eduardo Menéndez has powerfully shaped critical approaches to medical anthropology and public health (salud colectiva) in Latin America, Europe, and beyond. His relational framework breaks with fragmenting approaches that envision such binaries as patient vs. physician and biomedical vs. Indigenous perspectives as empirically-given entities; instead, he analyzes how they are continually produced through relations of opposition and subordination. X-raying the Hegemonic Medical Model (Modelo Médico Hegemónico) that infuses medical practice with claims to autonomy and scientific authority, Dr. Menéndez demonstrates how social scientists often unwittingly reproduce these premises, even in works that adopt critical stances. His wide-ranging analyses of processes of health/disease/healthcare in such areas as autoatención (roughly, forms of care provided by laypersons outside clinical settings), self-medication, alcoholism, infant mortality, news coverage of health, A-H1N1 and COVID-19 pandemics, and health and medicine in Indigenous and other racialized ethnic communities provide a model of critical ethnographic inquiry. In addition, he has provided trenchant reformulations of the work of Fanon and Gramsci and critiqued scholarly uses of multiculturalism and the concept of risk. In CIESAS (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Anthropología Social), the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, Spain, and elsewhere, Dr. Menéndez has trained many of the current leaders in health scholarship, practice, and policy. In addition to 108 chapters in edited volumes and 119 articles in journals, his 32 books include Poder, estratificación y salud: análisis de las condiciones sociales y económicas de la enfermedad en Yucatán; La parte negada de la cultura; participación social ¿Para qué?; De sujetos, saberes y estructuras: introducción al enfoque relacional en el estudio de la salud colectiva; y, con Renée B Di Pardo, De algunos alcoholismos y algunos saberesy Miedos, riesgos e inseguridades: Los medios, los profesionales y los intelectuales en la construcción social de la salud como catástrofe.

In this lecture, Dr. Menéndez will describe and analyze some of the main features of a relational approach to processes of health/disease/healthcare.

Las investigaciones del Dr. Eduardo L. Menéndez han impactado a los enfoques críticos de la antropología médica y la salud colectiva en América Latina, Europa y más allá. Su enfoque relacional rompe con análisis fragmentarios que visualizan binarios con paciente versus médico y perspectivas biomédicas versus Indígenas como entidades empíricamente dadas, en lugar de analizar cómo se producen continuamente a través de relaciones de oposición y subordinación. Analizando al fondo el Modelo Médico Hegemónico que infunde a la práctica médica con pretensiones de autonomía y autoridad científica, el Dr. Menéndez demuestra cómo los científicos sociales a menudo reproducen sin darse cuenta estas premisas, incluso en trabajos que adoptan posturas críticas. Sus amplios análisis de los procesos de salud/enfermedad/atención médica en áreas como la autoatención, la automedicación, el alcoholismo, la mortalidad infantil, la cobertura mediática de salud, las pandemias de A-H1N1 y COVID-19 y la salud y la medicina en comunidades Indígenas y otras comunidades étnicas proporcionan un modelo de investigación etnográfica crítica. Además, ha repensado el trabajo de Fanon y Gramsci y ha criticado los usos académicos de la interculturalidad y del concepto de riesgo. En CIESAS (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social), la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, España y otros lugares, el Dr. Menéndez ha capacitado a muchos de los líderes actuales en la investigación, la práctica y políticas de salud colectiva. Además de 108 capítulos en libros editados y 119 artículos en revistas, sus 32 libros incluyen Poder, estratificación y salud: análisis de las condiciones sociales y económicas de la enfermedad en Yucatán; La parte negada de la cultura; participación social ¿Para qué?; De sujetos, saberes y estructuras: introducción al enfoque relacional en el estudio de la salud colectiva; y, con Renée B Di Pardo, De algunos alcoholismos y algunos saberesy Miedos, riesgos e inseguridades: Los medios, los profesionales y los intelectuales en la construcción social de la salud como catástrofe.

En la conferencia describirá y analizará algunas de las principales características del enfoque relacional referidas a los procesos de salud/enfermedad/atención médica.

https://events.berkeley.edu/clacs/event/240395-the-relational-approach-to-study-of-processes-of
Applying to Graduate School: Discussing LGBTQ + & Women*’s Experiences*, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/geneq/event/243424-applying-to-graduate-school-discussing-lgbtq-amp

Ask questions and demystify the process at our “Applying to Graduate School” panels featuring current graduate students. The 1st panel will speak to LGBTQ+ experiences and the 2nd will focus on women*s experiences. Panelists will cover their experiences applying, application components, the difference in graduate degrees, and other essential things to consider.

If you require an accommodation for effective communication or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Joanna Villegas at (510) 230-3254 or joannavillegas@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.
Questions? Contact Patricia at pdgomes@berkeley.edu or Julie at jgrassian@berkeley.edu

https://events.berkeley.edu/geneq/event/243424-applying-to-graduate-school-discussing-lgbtq-amp
Applying to Graduate School: Discussing LGBTQ + & Women*’s Experiences*, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/Diversity/event/243468-applying-to-graduate-school-discussing-lgbtq-amp

Ask questions and demystify the process at our “Applying to Graduate School” panels featuring current graduate students. The 1st panel will speak to LGBTQ+ experiences and the 2nd will focus on women*s experiences. Panelists will cover their experiences applying, application components, the difference in graduate degrees, and other essential things to consider.

If you require an accommodation for effective communication or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Joanna Villegas at (510) 230-3254 or joannavillegas@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.
Questions? Contact Patricia at pdgomes@berkeley.edu or Julie at jgrassian@berkeley.edu

https://events.berkeley.edu/Diversity/event/243468-applying-to-graduate-school-discussing-lgbtq-amp
Applying to Graduate School: Discussing LGBTQ + & Women*’s Experiences*, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/thriving/event/243513-applying-to-graduate-school-discussing-lgbtq-amp

Ask questions and demystify the process at our “Applying to Graduate School” panels featuring current graduate students. The 1st panel will speak to LGBTQ+ experiences and the 2nd will focus on women*s experiences. Panelists will cover their experiences applying, application components, the difference in graduate degrees, and other essential things to consider.

If you require an accommodation for effective communication or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Joanna Villegas at (510) 230-3254 or joannavillegas@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.
Questions? Contact Patricia at pdgomes@berkeley.edu or Julie at jgrassian@berkeley.edu

https://events.berkeley.edu/thriving/event/243513-applying-to-graduate-school-discussing-lgbtq-amp
Applying to Graduate School: Discussing LGBTQ + & Women*’s Experiences*, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243605-applying-to-graduate-school-discussing-lgbtq-amp

Ask questions and demystify the process at our “Applying to Graduate School” panels featuring current graduate students. The 1st panel will speak to LGBTQ+ experiences and the 2nd will focus on women*s experiences. Panelists will cover their experiences applying, application components, the difference in graduate degrees, and other essential things to consider.

If you require an accommodation for effective communication or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Joanna Villegas at (510) 230-3254 or joannavillegas@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.
Questions? Contact Patricia at pdgomes@berkeley.edu or Julie at jgrassian@berkeley.edu

https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243605-applying-to-graduate-school-discussing-lgbtq-amp
SEM 217: Jaeyeon Lee, UC Berkeley Haas, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/241058-sem-217-jaeyeon-lee-uc-berkeley-haas

Abstract: This paper investigates the increase in adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) credit volume shares in the government-sponsored enterprise(GSE) commercial mortgage-backed securities(CMBS) market since the global financial crisis. We find evidence of borrowers exploiting prepayment options embedded in ARM contracts during low policy rate periods, which coincide with upside collateral value cycle. Moreover, we find that ARM borrowers, who are landlords, pass-through interest rate risks to renters during federal funds rate hike periods while they do not pass-through declines in interest rates. Through a stylized two-period model, we show that the two options triggered in two different monetary policy regimes can affect mortgage choice among borrowers in the GSE CMBS market.

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/241058-sem-217-jaeyeon-lee-uc-berkeley-haas
CTML Seminar Series: Causal Inference with Binarized Continuous Treatments, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/243358-ctml-seminar-series-causal-inference-with

Summary: The average treatment effect (ATE) is a common parameter estimated in causal inference literature, but it is only defined for binary treatments. Even so, and despite concerns raised by some researchers regarding violations of causal assumptions, many applied researchers working with continuous treatments choose to estimate the ATE by creating a new, binary treatment variable that represents “high” vs “low” values of treatment. In this talk, I will discuss work in which we affirm binarization as a statistically valid method for answering causal questions about continuous treatments by showing the equivalence between the binarized ATE and the difference in the average outcomes of two specific modified treatment policies. Through this equivalence, we clarify the assumptions underlying binarization and discuss how to properly interpret the resulting estimates.

Kaitlyn Lee is a MA/PhD student in Biostatistics at the University of California, Berkeley mentored by Alejandro Schuler. Her research interests are broadly in causal inference, machine learning, and methods research. She is interested in developing methods to answer real-world questions about health and social policy in a statistically rigorous manner. Her current work focuses on causal inference with continuous treatment variables and modified treatment policies.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/243358-ctml-seminar-series-causal-inference-with
Student Faculty Macro Lunch: “Optimal Debt Policy and Liquidity Taxation with Incomplete Markets”, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237173-student-faculty-macro-lunch-optimal-debt-policy-and-l

Abstract:

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237173-student-faculty-macro-lunch-optimal-debt-policy-and-l
Christian Voller | Messages in a Bottle: Recent Studies on the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/pct/event/240396-christian-voller-messages-in-a-bottle-recent

“Messages in a Bottle: Recent Studies on the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory” is a three-part virtual book talk series. The second book talk is presented by Christian Voller (Leuphana University Lüneburg) on his book In the Twilight: Studies in the Prehistory and Early History of Critical Theory (2022).

About the Series

“Messages in a Bottle: Recent Studies on the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory” is a three-part lecture series. Each lecture requires advance registration.

- February 27, 2024; 12 -1 pm PST; Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy (Brill/Haymarket) with Dirk Braunstein, Institue for Social Research Frankfurt am Main. Registration required.

- March 19, 2024; 12 - 1 pm PST; In the Twilight: Studies in the Prehistory and Early History of Critical Theory (Matthes & Seitz 2022) with Christian Voller, Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Register in advance at this link.

- April 16, 2024; 12 - 1 pm PST; The Archives of Critical Theory (Springer) with Isabelle Aubert, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Register in advance at this link.

Sponsors

Cosponsored by the Program in Critical Theory at UC Berkeley, the Department of History, and the Department of German.

Speakers

https://events.berkeley.edu/pct/event/240396-christian-voller-messages-in-a-bottle-recent
Zoom Author Talk: BRAVE THE WILD RIVER: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/241844-zoom-author-talk-brave-the-wild-river-the-untold

Join us for a fascinating lunchtime Zoom Author Talk!

BRAVE THE WILD RIVER: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon, by science journalist and writer Melissa L. Sevigny, is an evocative and beautifully written chronicle of botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter’s history-making journey through the Grand Canyon in the summer of 1938.

Clover and Jotter’s plant pressings, letters, and journal entries provide an unprecedented botanical map of a landscape then unsullied by colonial influence. Their work was the first formal survey of the otherworldly plant life that thrived in such a “barren and hellish” landscape—tough, fierce, spiny cacti that sprouted in the secret nooks and crannies of the canyon, clinging to sheer cliffs and shifting sandbars. Sevigny’s vibrant and sophisticated style brings the heart pounding drama of the women’s forty-three-day journey down the river
and the exquisite natural beauty of the canyon to life. Brave the Wild River is a loving tribute to two remarkable women—who valued their curiosity about the world more than their presumed place in it—and the adventure of a lifetime.

[A] marvelous history… Drawing on Clover and Jotter’s journals and letters, Sevigny recreates their expedition in novelistic detail, producing a narrative as propulsive as the current of the Colorado.
Readers will be swept away.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

Get you copy of Brave The Wild River today! Receive 10% off with code BRAVE2024.
About The Author:
Melissa L. Sevigny is a science journalist at KNAU (Arizona Public Radio). She has worked in water policy, sustainable agriculture, and space exploration, and is the author of Under Desert Skies and Mythical River. She lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/241844-zoom-author-talk-brave-the-wild-river-the-untold
Christian Voller | Messages in a Bottle: Recent Studies on the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243606-christian-voller-messages-in-a-bottle-recent

“Messages in a Bottle: Recent Studies on the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory” is a three-part virtual book talk series. The second book talk is presented by Christian Voller (Leuphana University Lüneburg) on his book In the Twilight: Studies in the Prehistory and Early History of Critical Theory (2022).

About the Series

“Messages in a Bottle: Recent Studies on the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory” is a three-part lecture series. Each lecture requires advance registration.

- February 27, 2024; 12 -1 pm PST; Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy (Brill/Haymarket) with Dirk Braunstein, Institue for Social Research Frankfurt am Main. Registration required.

- March 19, 2024; 12 - 1 pm PST; In the Twilight: Studies in the Prehistory and Early History of Critical Theory (Matthes & Seitz 2022) with Christian Voller, Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Register in advance at this link.

- April 16, 2024; 12 - 1 pm PST; The Archives of Critical Theory (Springer) with Isabelle Aubert, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Register in advance at this link.

Sponsors

Cosponsored by the Program in Critical Theory at UC Berkeley, the Department of History, and the Department of German.

Speakers

https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243606-christian-voller-messages-in-a-bottle-recent
Identifying How to Collaborate with Neurodivergent Family Members, Students, and Staff Who Learn Differently, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236676-identifying-how-to-collaborate-with-neurodivergent-fa

Join Christian Jacobs, MS, LMFT, as he facilitates a presentation on creating a psychologically safe work life balance. Up to 20% of employees and students have a neurodivergent condition such as dyslexia, autism, ADHD, and other mental health diagnoses. Neurodiversity means that people learn differently based on multiple mental factors and “there is no single way for a brain to be typical.” These unique skills and abilities can benefit organizations and society at large. However, many families face challenges in parenting or caring for loved ones who are neurodivergent.

Key Discussion Points:
- Understanding neurodiversity and its significance
- Recognizing the strengths and challenges of neurodivergent individuals
- Effective communication strategies
- Creating accommodating learning and work environments
- Promoting inclusivity and diversity in our community

This webinar will clearly define neurodiversity and provide tips on how to collaborate with neurodivergent family members, students, colleagues, and staff of color. The material will also provide tips on how to develop work inclusive environments in a remote/hybrid world for those who may learn differently.

Please Note: The Zoom link will be sent to the participants by email, and add it to this workshop description a day before the workshop.

All participants and hosts must sign into a Zoom account before joining meetings hosted by UC Berkeley. 

Participants who are not eligible for a UC Berkeley-provided Zoom account can use a Zoom account provided by their institution, can create a free consumer Zoom account (at https://zoom.us/freesignup/), or can dial in via the phone.

https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236676-identifying-how-to-collaborate-with-neurodivergent-fa
REI Colloquium: Against Muerto Rico: The Struggle for Life in Puerto Rico, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/igs/event/243290-rei-colloquium-against-muerto-rico-the-struggle-for-l

This talk examines the protests that rocked Puerto Rico during the summer of 2019, known as the Verano Boricua. The Verano Boricua is important not just because it resulted in the resignation of Ricardo Rosselló, the first time a democratically elected Puerto Rican governor has vacated their post. It is also important because it indexed a political praxis rooted in the idea of truly living in Puerto Rico –that is, living a life of dignity and respect that is free of degradation and violence. In a context where colonial capitalism creates conditions of vulnerability, harm, and death in the lives of many Puerto Ricans, I show how the Verano Boricua drew from a long radical tradition of feminist, queer, anti-racist, anti-capitalist and anti-colonial organizing in Puerto Rico and its diaspora in order to promote conditions that foster and affirm Puerto Rican life.

Marisol LeBrón is an Associate Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Marisol LeBrón is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research and teaching focus on race, social inequality, policing, violence, and protest. Prior to arriving at UCSC, she held appointments at the University of Texas at Austin, Dickinson College, and Duke University. She received her PhD in American Studies from New York University and her bachelor’s degree in Comparative American Studies and Latin American Studies from Oberlin College.

An active contributor to popular conversations about policing as well as Puerto Rico and its diaspora, she has published op-eds in The Washington Post, The Guardian and Truthout in addition to being interviewed by a number of news outlets. She is one of the co-creators and project leaders for the Puerto Rico Syllabus (#PRsyllabus), a digital resource for understanding the Puerto Rican debt crisis. She is also one of the editors for The Abusable Past, a digital project that features unique and original content related to the praxis of radical history in this social and political moment. She is currently the Vice President/President Elect of the Puerto Rican Studies Association and a member of the Executive Committee of the American Studies Association.

 

The Race, Ethnicity and Immigration Colloquium invites speakers from the Berkeley campus and other institutions to share research touching on various aspects of race, ethnicity, and immigration. One important theme explored by the colloquium is the changing shape of ethnic politics in the country. A second, closely related theme is the impact of immigration on the nation and on California’s political and economic life. Recent censuses show important changes in the country’s ethnic make-up: large increases in the Latinx population, the emergence of a group of residents who prefer to identify themselves as bi-racial, and changing patterns of naturalization among the various immigrant groups. These changes have altered the meaning of the civil rights revolution and have important implications for public opinion, electoral outcomes, and government policy. REI colloquia are open to all members of the campus community. For more information, contact the REI Faculty Coordinator, Michael Rodriguez-Muñiz, Associate Professor, Sociology, mrodriguezmuniz@berkeley.edu

https://events.berkeley.edu/igs/event/243290-rei-colloquium-against-muerto-rico-the-struggle-for-l
Re-Entry and Transfer Student Picnic, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/ASUC/event/243158-re-entry-and-transfer-student-picnic

Join us in the Student Union for a picnic with lawn games, mini canvas painting, snacks, and lemonade – all free for UC Berkeley Transfer and Re-Entry students.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ASUC/event/243158-re-entry-and-transfer-student-picnic
The Latest in Public Health Research at Berkeley Public Health: Asking MultiCrit questions: a reflexive and critical framework to promote health data equity for the multiracial population, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/239124-the-latest-in-public-health-research-at-berkeley-publ

Racial categories currently used in the United States and the persistent inequitable health gradient across them both arise from structural racism. However, increasingly clear health disparities between the Multiracial population and other racial groups complicates our understanding of racial health equity, as we continue to primarily study and serve monoracial groups. Limited resources exist for health researchers and professionals grappling with this complexity, likely contributing to the relative dearth of health literature describing the Multiracial population. We introduce a question-based framework built on core principles from Critical Multiracial Theory (MultiCrit) and Critical Race Public Health praxis, designed to encourage health data equity. The framework progresses in complexity and asks readers to reflect on their implicit biases about Multiracial people, sensible racial categorization approaches for their work, and what knowledge is gained or lost when work is organized around monoracial categories. We hope this framework helps those who believe in health equity for all groups – including Multiracial people – to decide how best to shape their work to achieve that goal.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/239124-the-latest-in-public-health-research-at-berkeley-publ
Faculty Seminar Lunch - Ned Augenblick, EAP, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/242933-faculty-seminar-lunch-ned-augenblick-eaphttps://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/242933-faculty-seminar-lunch-ned-augenblick-eapBCLB Art Talk: Hot Topics in Art Law with Heather Dunn and Aislinn Smalling, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242749-bclb-art-talk-hot-topics-in-art-law-with-heatherJoin BCLB and Art Law Society for a lively discussion with Heather Dunn, Partner at DLA Piper and Aislinn Smalling ’20, Associate at DLA Piper on hot topics in the art law world. Q&A to follow. The BCLB Art Talk is reserved for current law students, faculty and staff. Registration is highly recommended. Lunch will be provided on a first come, first serve basis.https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242749-bclb-art-talk-hot-topics-in-art-law-with-heatherSettler Violence in the West Bank, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243497-settler-violence-in-the-west-bankA conversation with investigative journalist Shane Bauer, author of the article, “The Israeli Setters Attacking Their Palestinian Neighbors, ” which was recently published by The New Yorker. Moderated by Tayyiba Bajwa, clinical supervisor with Berkeley Law’s International Human Rights Law Clinic.
Attendees must RSVP here and space is limited and only for Berkeley Law students and staff.
Lunch to be provided.
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243497-settler-violence-in-the-west-bank
Running on Empty: Will Chevron Make it Through the Year?, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243525-running-on-empty-will-chevron-make-it-through-theIn January, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo to decide whether to overrule, narrow, or reaffirm “Chevron deference,” one of the most consequential doctrines in administrative law and separation of powers jurisprudence. What can we expect from the Court, and what is the right approach? Join us for a moderated, back-and-forth discussion with Alison Somin, Legal Fellow at the Pacific Legal Foundation. Lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis. Sponsored by the Federalist Society.https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243525-running-on-empty-will-chevron-make-it-through-the1L Pre-Registration Workshop, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242747-1l-pre-registration-workshopJoin Dean Hirshen for the 1L Pre-Registration Workshop! She will be going over registration, class requirements for graduation, and more general academic planning (How do I fit everything in? How can I be strategic in enrollment? How many Bar classes do I really need to take?). Lunch will be provided.https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242747-1l-pre-registration-workshopBCLT Law & Tech Speaker Series: A Day in the Life of Life Sciences Attorneys, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242748-bclt-law-tech-speaker-series-wilson-sonsiniPlease join BCLT on March 19, 2024 from 1-2 PM in Room 100 for a dynamic lunch presentation from Wilson Sonsini attorneys-Ali Alemozafar, Jason Xu, Matthew Kovac, Tina Hanson– where they will discuss what it’s like to work at their firm and day-to-day life at their office.
Lunch will be provided on a first-come-first-served basis. RSVP now!
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242748-bclt-law-tech-speaker-series-wilson-sonsini
Public Defenders of Color Panel, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243518-public-defenders-of-color-panelThis panel will bring together four phenomenal attorneys of color from Contra Costa and Alameda Public Defenders Offices to discuss their experience as public defenders, their views on diversity in their profession, and the specific challenges and strengths of working in public defense as a person of color. Students in attendance will have the opportunity to ask the attorneys questions of their own. Questions can also be submitted ahead of time via the RSVP form. Food will be provided.https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243518-public-defenders-of-color-panelMakerspace Drop-in Hours, March 19https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877055Learn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877055
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235514-makerspace-drop-in-hoursLearn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235514-makerspace-drop-in-hours
Google Slides Fundamentals, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/219582-google-slides-fundamentals

This course demonstrates how to create and format presentations using Google Slides. Participants will learn how to organize and layout content, embed images and visual elements, apply object animation effects, and securely share files for viewing or co-authoring.

https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/219582-google-slides-fundamentals
CWN presents: Ergo & Wellness Refresher, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/cwn/event/242678-cwn-presents-ergo-wellness-refresher

Be Well at Work-Ergonomics will present information on setting up an ergonomic workstation and campus resources for making improvements.

Computer stretches, movement breaks, and workplace wellness will be discussed.

https://events.berkeley.edu/cwn/event/242678-cwn-presents-ergo-wellness-refresher
CWN presents: Ergo & Wellness Refresher, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/thriving/event/243514-cwn-presents-ergo-wellness-refresher

Be Well at Work-Ergonomics will present information on setting up an ergonomic workstation and campus resources for making improvements.

Computer stretches, movement breaks, and workplace wellness will be discussed.

https://events.berkeley.edu/thriving/event/243514-cwn-presents-ergo-wellness-refresher
Econ 218, Psychology and Economics Seminar: Susan Athey, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/236411-econ-218-psychology-and-economics-seminar-susan-athey

Susan Athey, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Building Discernment Among Social Media Users

Abstract: This presentation will review a series of three large-scale field experiments that evaluate a variety of techniques for teaching social media users about misinformation and disinformation. In all three experiments, subjects are recruited through advertising campaigns that lead to interactive chats on messaging apps. The subjects are drawn from several countries in Africa, where misinformation has been a large problem over the last decade, particularly around health information. All three studies evaluate outcomes using surveys of the participants that take place after the interventions, based on the participants’ expressed intent to share various pieces of misinformation and non-misinformation content. The first field experiment took place during the COVID-19 pandemic, involving over 14,000 participants, and it focused on health misinformation. The design of the experiment considered a large number of interventions that had been proposed in the literature, some providing warnings around headlines of shared content, while others provided general education to participants. The experiment included an adaptive phase where successful interventions were allocated a greater share of participants over time. We find that a nudge to remind participants to think about the accuracy of a “Placebo” headline was effective at increasing discernment, and we further found that targeting interventions based on participant characteristics had some benefit, but we precisely estimated null effects of interventions that added context to the headlines themselves. In the second experiment, which included over 10,000 social media users, we compared several alternative text message courses that taught participants about tactics used to manipulate or mislead social media users. We found that a course that focused on tactics for emotional manipulation performed better at reducing reported misinformation sharing than courses based on reasoning or facts about misinformation, and further, a follow-up survey showed that the results persisted several months. Finally, in our third experiment, we recruited over 40,000 social media users. We improved our emotions-based text message course based on learnings from the second experiment, and we found in both the short term and in a follow-up survey that the course substantially improved reported discernment relative to a fact-based course. We conclude that teaching social media users about common tactics that manipulate their emotions can be effective at increasing discernment.

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/236411-econ-218-psychology-and-economics-seminar-susan-athey
CRISPR: Opportunities and Challenges, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/brc/event/239132-crispr-opportunities-and-challenges

Speakers:

Jodi Halpern: Bioethics and Medical Humanities in the UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program, Co-Founder and Co-Lead Berkeley Group for Ethics and Regulation of Innovative Technologies.

Leah Witkowsky: molecular biologist by training who has applied her knowledge to a subsequent career in scientific governance, ethics, and multi-perspective engagement. Executive Director of the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public at UC Berkeley.

Jodi Halpern and Leah Witkowsky will address the ethical challenges CRISPR presents and a framework for how to address them.

https://events.berkeley.edu/brc/event/239132-crispr-opportunities-and-challenges
CRISPR: Opportunities and Challenges, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/242695-crispr-opportunities-and-challenges

Speakers:

Jodi Halpern: Bioethics and Medical Humanities in the UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program, Co-Founder and Co-Lead Berkeley Group for Ethics and Regulation of Innovative Technologies.

Leah Witkowsky: molecular biologist by training who has applied her knowledge to a subsequent career in scientific governance, ethics, and multi-perspective engagement. Executive Director of the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public at UC Berkeley.

Jodi Halpern and Leah Witkowsky will address the ethical challenges CRISPR presents and a framework for how to address them.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/242695-crispr-opportunities-and-challenges
Roundabouts: Balancing Safety & Mobility for All Users, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/ttp/event/228826-roundabouts-balancing-safety-mobility-for-all

Description

The course will guide transportation practitioners through the evaluation and design aspects for roundabouts within a multimodal and complete-street context. Topics to be covered include lane configuration, traffic operation evaluation, bike and pedestrian design, signing and striping, right of way, drainage, and landscaping consideration. Additionally, we will discuss planning and policy, safety, public involvement, operation, geometry, and other design components. The instructor will explain lessons learned from past practices in a variety of jurisdictions including California, other states and other counties. Students who wish to receive an evaluation of real life practice are encouraged to attend.

 

Topics Include

  • Benefits of roundabouts
  • FHWA and Caltrans policy and guidelines
  • Public involvement
  • Accessibility for all users
  • Roundabout vs Traffic Signal
  • Roundabouts vs Interchanges
  • Arterial roadway roundabouts
  • Mini and urban compact roundabouts
  • Odd shaped roundabouts
  • Roundabout constraints
  • Series of roundabouts
  • Traffic circles
  • Capacity analysis and traffic operations
  • Geometric parameters and concept design
  • Pedestrian crossings
  • Bicycle accommodation
  • Signing, striping, and other traffic control devices
  • Right-of-way considerations
  • Landscaping
  • Civil engineering considerations
  • Drainage
  • Maintenance
  • Ice procedures

What You Will Learn

At the end of this course, students will understand the principles and working concepts of roundabouts within contexts of policy, planning, public involvement, design and operation. Students will also learn about capacity analysis, crash rates, traffic calming, right of way impacts, geometric design principles, sight distance criteria, traffic operations, pedestrian and bicycle treatments, landscape, drainage as well as other system considerations. The class will evaluate many roundabouts implemented in the US, as well as other countries in Asia and Europe.

Who Should Attend

This course will benefit transportation professionals who are involved in planning, feasibility study and design of roadway projects that may incorporate proposed intersection modifications and traffic calming. Attendees will be able to quickly assess considerations for installing roundabouts as an alternative to traditional intersection controls. This course is targeted to expand the knowledge of individuals with some background in evaluation and design of intersections and other mobility improvement projects, although such background is not a prerequisite for attending this training.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ttp/event/228826-roundabouts-balancing-safety-mobility-for-all
Weekly Study Hall for 1Ls, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242746-weekly-study-hall-for-1lsAll 1Ls are invited to weekly study sessions (“labs”) with three of our amazing fellows. This semester, there are two labs and both are open to all 1Ls: Tuesdays 2:10-3:00 in Room 113 with Ben, and Wednesdays 2:10-3:00 in Room 113 with Vanessa and Celeste.
During the month of March, all labs will be study halls–a designated place to read, work on outlines or practice questions, or tackle your LRW brief. Snacks will be provided and ASP fellows will be on hand to answer questions! Come get some work done in community with other 1Ls!
Want more? Complete this Google form to join the ASP bCourses site and gain access to announcements, resources, and support:
http://tinyurl.com/SPRING24ASP.
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242746-weekly-study-hall-for-1ls
Seminar 281, International Trade and Finance; joint with Real Estate: “The Topography of Nations”, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/229454-seminar-281-international-trade-and-finance-joint-wit

Seminar 281

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/229454-seminar-281-international-trade-and-finance-joint-wit
Representation theory and tensor categories seminar: R matrices and shuffle algebras, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/243464-representation-theory-and-tensor-categoriesFor any quiver Q there is an associated shuffle algebra structure on the ring of symmetric functions, which can be realised as the cohomological Hall algebra of the category of representations of the quiver. Mimicking Green’s coproduct for finitary Hall algebras, one obtains also a kind of localised coproduct, along with an easy construction of an R-matrix for the resulting (localised) Hopf algebra. This provides a very flexible framework for producing new quantum groups, using the formalism of Faddeev, Reshetikhin and Takhtadzhyan, after a choice of favoured modules for the shuffle algebra. I will explain what is known: that using a specific variant of this construction we obtain the new Yangians defined by Maulik and Okounkov (via recent joint work with Botta). I will also present some conjectures regarding the algebra we obtain this way for certain other choices of cohomological Hall algebras and modules over them.https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/243464-representation-theory-and-tensor-categoriesMORS Colloquium - Stav Atir, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/230584-mors-colloquium-stav-atir
Join Zoom Meeting
https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/92676236723?pwd=dThHVmg2b3g5V3F4K3F6V3ErdTNKZz09

Meeting ID: 926 7623 6723
Passcode: 509180

https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/230584-mors-colloquium-stav-atir
Stitches in Revolutionary Time: Activism, Temporality, and Failure in Myanmar, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/cseas/event/242521-stitches-in-revolutionary-time-activism-temporality-a

About the Talk: This talk identifies the indeterminate nature of political activist time, as activists must assess any action both for what it does (relatively) immediately, and for what it might produce in the (relatively) longer term: provisional failures can be resources for future victories, while erstwhile successes can become sundered after their moment of apparent achievement. Activists engage the ever-presence of potential defeat by engaging two divergent temporalities divided by their respective orientations towards failure: in one, activists inoculate themselves against the possibility of ultimate failure by embedding themselves in perpetual struggles that efface ends through an embrace of means; in the other, activists embrace a contingent and open-ended temporality, in which victory is only one of several potential outcomes and absolute failure remains a perpetual potential conclusion. The talk concludes by positing that such destabilized temporality may (partially) explain a concomitant observation: that activist subjectivity remains forever open to mutability.  

About the Speaker: Elliott Prasse-Freeman, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at NUS, has conducted long-term fieldwork in Myanmar and it environs. His first book (Rights Refused, Stanford University Press) focuses on political activism in Burma, while his current book project examines Rohingya ethnogenesis amidst dislocation and mass violence. His work has appeared in American Ethnologist, Current Anthropology, Journal of Peasant Studies, Public Culture, and Comparative Studies in Society and History, and he’s the co-editor of Anthropological Theory Commons, a place where you should consider submitting your short-form anthro theory writings!

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Alexandra Dalferro at adalferro@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days before the event.

https://events.berkeley.edu/cseas/event/242521-stitches-in-revolutionary-time-activism-temporality-a
Research 101 (Virtual), March 19https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11964795Are you writing an annotated bibliography, but not sure where to start? Do you need to find peer-reviewed articles, but there don’t seem to be any? This virtual workshop is for you! Berkeley librarians will guide you through using the UC Berkeley Library strategically and honing your research skills. You’ll leave feeling empowered and prepared to take on research assignments with new skills and perspectives
Designed for students enrolled in a Reading & Composition (R&C) course with a research component. Open to the UC Berkeley community.
Location: Zoom (link will be sent to registrants on the morning of the workshop)
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11964795
Research 101 (Virtual), March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/237501-research-101-virtualAre you writing an annotated bibliography, but not sure where to start? Do you need to find peer-reviewed articles, but there don’t seem to be any? This virtual workshop is for you! Berkeley librarians will guide you through using the UC Berkeley Library strategically and honing your research skills. You’ll leave feeling empowered and prepared to take on research assignments with new skills and perspectives
Designed for students enrolled in a Reading & Composition (R&C) course with a research component. Open to the UC Berkeley community.
Location: Zoom (link will be sent to registrants on the morning of the workshop)
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/237501-research-101-virtual
Stress biomarkers in adolescent depression: toward predictors of treatment response, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/Psych/event/243172-stress-biomarkers-in-adolescent-depression-toward

Bio: Tiffany Ho is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Faculty Member of the Brain Research Institute and Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology at UC Los Angeles. Dr. Ho received her Ph.D. in Psychology (Cognitive Neuroscience) from UC San Diego in 2012 and completed postdoctoral training at UC San Francisco and Stanford University before beginning a faculty position at UC San Francisco in 2018. In 2023, she moved to UCLA, where she directs a lab focused on understanding how experiences and perceptions of stress play a role in shaping adolescent brain development, and how these changes contribute to the onset and maintenance of depression in youth. Dr. Ho and her team draw from principles of developmental psychology and affective science and use tools from clinical neuroscience–primarily magnetic resonance imaging–to understand the link between stress and depression in the adolescent brain.

Abstract: Adolescent-onset depression is a debilitating condition that is often triggered by stressful experiences that influence fronto-cingulate-limbic brain circuitry. Adolescence itself is a time where fronto-cingulate-limbic circuitry undergoes significant maturation; thus, it is critical that models of adolescent depression center neurodevelopmental processes if we are to improve our ability to treat this disorder more effectively. Prior research in animals have identified inflammatory and glutamatergic pathways through which stress affects neurodevelopment, with emerging evidence that these stress biomarkers are implicated in humans with depression. In this talk, I will present recent data demonstrating that many of the same fronto-cingulate-limbic circuits impacted by adolescent depression are also targets of inflammation. I will also show that higher levels of inflammation are associated with higher levels of glutamate in these circuits in depressed adolescents, with evidence that these factors may predict clinical course and treatment response to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (which are the first-line pharmacological treatments for this population). Finally, I will present recent data from an ongoing mechanistic R01 study designed to predict treatment response to first-line antidepressants from stress-related changes in peripheral inflammation and levels of glutamate in fronto-cingulate-limbic circuitry.

https://events.berkeley.edu/Psych/event/243172-stress-biomarkers-in-adolescent-depression-toward
Harmonic Analysis and Differential Equations Seminar: Modified scattering for the three dimensional Maxwell-Dirac system, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/243623-harmonic-analysis-and-differential-equationsAbstract: In this work we prove global well-posedness for the massive Maxwell-Dirac equation in the Lorentz gauge in $\mathbbR ^$, for small and localized initial data, as well as modified scattering for the solutions. In doing so, we heuristically exploit the close connection between massive Maxwell-Dirac and the wave-Klein-Gordon equations, while developing a novel approach which applies directly at the level of the Dirac equations. This is joint work with Sebastian Herr and Martin Spitz.https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/243623-harmonic-analysis-and-differential-equationsNick Romeo: “The Alternative: How To Build A Just Economy”, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/besi/event/239516-nick-romeo-the-alternative-how-to-build-a-just

Join us on March 19th from 4:00pm-5:30pm for a talk by Nick Romeo, New Yorker journalist and lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, focused on his book, The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy.

The discussant will be Sarang Shah, PhD student in the UC Berkeley Department of Political Science. The talk will be moderated by Steven Vogel, Il Han New Professor of Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science and Political Economy.

REGISTER

About The Book

Confronted by the terrifying trends of the early twenty-first century – widening inequality, environmental destruction, and the immiseration of millions of workers around the world – many economists and business leaders still preach dogmas that lack evidence and create political catastrophe: Private markets are always more efficient than public ones; investment capital flows efficiently to necessary projects; massive inequality is the unavoidable side effect of economic growth; people are selfish and will only behave well with the right incentives.

But a growing number of people – academic economists, business owners, policy entrepreneurs, and ordinary people – are rejecting these myths and reshaping economies around the world to reflect ethical and social values. Though they differ in approach, all share a vision of the economy as a place of moral action and accountability. Journalist Nick Romeo has spent years covering the world’s most innovative economic and policy ideas for The New Yorker. Romeo takes us on an extraordinary journey through the stories and successes of people working to build economies that are more equal, just, and livable.

About The Author

Nick Romeo is a journalist, critic, and essayist. His new book, The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy (January 2024 from PublicAffairs and Basic Books), uses extensive original reporting to provide a road map for a sustainable and survivable 21st-century economy. He has spent years covering policy and ideas for The New Yorker magazine, where he has explored the neuropsychologist Nicholas Humphrey’s novel theory of consciousness, reported on the world’s largest worker-owned cooperative in Mondragon, Spain, and examined a job guarantee experiment outside of Vienna, Austria.

Nick has contributed front page breaking news stories, profiles, and essays to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Scientific American, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, The New Republic, and many other venues.

https://events.berkeley.edu/besi/event/239516-nick-romeo-the-alternative-how-to-build-a-just
Physical Chemistry Seminar, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230068-physical-chemistry-seminar

Sabre Kais, Distinguished Professor, Purdue University

Journey with Quantum Information and Computing for Complex Chemical Systems

In this talk, I will give a brief overview of our research, then I will present our recent results for the development of quantum computing algorithms for electronic structure and open quantum dynamics for complex chemical systems. For electronic structure, the focus will be on quantum machine learning, particularly the Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM), as it emerged to be a promising alternative approach to electronic structure calculations of quantum and topological materials leveraging the power of quantum computers. Moreover, I will introduce and analytically illustrate that the imaginary components of out-of-time order correlators can provide unprecedented insight into the information scrambling capacity of a graph neural network. For open quantum dynamics, the focus will be on simulating the quantum master equation on quantum devices. Then, I will demonstrate the approach by simulating the dynamics of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex on a quantum computer and Dicke supper-radiance. Finally, I will present future directions and open problems that might lead to quantum advantage!

https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230068-physical-chemistry-seminar
Demand the Impossible: Robert Tsai in Conversation with Dean Chemerinsky, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242745-demand-the-impossible-robert-tsai-in-conversationThe Death Penalty Clinic, the American Constitution Society, and the Berkeley Law Clinical Program look forward to welcoming you to a conversation between Professor Robert Tsai and Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. Professor Tsai and Dean Chemerinsky will discuss Professor Tsai’s forthcoming book, Demand the Impossible, in which he traces Stephen Bright’s remarkable career as a civil rights litigator representing individuals facing the death penalty, advocating for legal representation for poor people accused of crimes, and challenging inhumane conditions in prisons and jails. Professor Tsai’s book explores the legal ideas that were central to Bright’s relentless pursuit of equal justice.
Robert L. Tsai is a professor of law at Boston University School of Law, where he teaches courses in constitutional law, presidential leadership, and individual rights. He is keenly interested in political culture, legal change, democratic design, inequality, and popular sovereignty. In addition to Demand the Impossible, Professor Tsai is the author of three books: Practical Equality: Forging Justice in a Divided Nation (W.W. Norton 2019); America’s Forgotten Constitutions: Defiant Visions of Power and Community (Harvard 2014); and Eloquence and Reason: Creating a First Amendment Culture (Yale 2008).
RSVP here by March 17.
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242745-demand-the-impossible-robert-tsai-in-conversation
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Welschinger Signs and the Wronski Map (New conjectured reality), March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/243546-commutative-algebra-and-algebraic-geometry-seminarA general real rational plane curve \( C \) of degree \( d \) has \( 3(d-2) \) flexes and \( (d-1)(d-2)/2 \) complex double points. Those double points lying in \( \mathbb ^2 \) are either nodes or solitary points. The Welschinger sign of \( C \) is \( (-1)^s \), where \( s \) is the number of solitary points. When all flexes of \( C \) are real, its parameterization comes from a point on the Grassmannian under the Wronskii map, and every parameterized curve with those flexes is real (this is the Mukhin-Tarasov-Varchenko Theorem). Thus to \( C \) we may associate the local degree of the Wronskii map, which is also \( 1 \) or \( -1 \). My talk will discuss work with Brazelton and McKean towards a possible conjecture that that these two signs associated to \( C \) agree, and the challenges to gathering evidence for this.https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/243546-commutative-algebra-and-algebraic-geometry-seminarSeminar 237 - Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics: “A Theory of Supply Function Choice and Aggregate Supply”, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237193-seminar-237-macroeconomicsmonetary-economics-a-theory

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https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237193-seminar-237-macroeconomicsmonetary-economics-a-theory
Pauline Sperry Lecture: Model theory and cardinal invariants of the continuum, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/243622-pauline-sperry-lecture-model-theory-and-cardinalCardinal invariants of the continuum give an interesting way of studying what was, early last century, the conjecturally nonempty region between $\aleph _1$ (the first uncountable cardinal) and the continuum. Even after Cohen’s invention of forcing, they continue to open up many subtle questions about infinity. In this lecture, we will start from the beginning and explore some of this world, including some surprising interactions with model theory.https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/243622-pauline-sperry-lecture-model-theory-and-cardinalTeaching the 2024 Election - Technology and Disinformation, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/ucbhssp/event/237701-teaching-the-2024-election-technology-and-disinformat

The UC Berkeley History Social Science Project is proud to invite you to join us in virtual conversation with scholars and educators discussing how we will teach the 2024 United States Elections. Over the course of 6 sessions this workshop series educators will convene to discuss the following topics:

  • Feb. 27 - Overview/Kickoff Session
  • Mar. 19 - Technology & Disinformation
  • May 21 - Constitutional Controversies
  • Aug. 27 - Immigration & Nationalism
  • Oct. 22 - Election Issues and Themes
  • Nov. 19 - Post-election & Healing
https://events.berkeley.edu/ucbhssp/event/237701-teaching-the-2024-election-technology-and-disinformat
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Relations between Poincare series for quasi-complete intersection homomorphisms, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/243545-commutative-algebra-and-algebraic-geometry-seminarQuasi-complete intersection (q.c.i.) homomorphisms are surjective homomorphisms of local rings for which the Koszul homology on a minimal generating set of the kernel is an exterior algebra. We study base change results for Poincare series along a q.c.i. homomorphism in situations that extend results known for complete intersection (c.i.) homomorphisms. The main new result is joint work with Josh Pollitz, and generalizes a well-known result of Shamash for c.i. homomorphisms which makes use of systems of higher homotopies. Our proof develops base change results involving Poincare series over the Koszul complex.https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/243545-commutative-algebra-and-algebraic-geometry-seminarFelix A. Jiménez Botta | The Central American insurgencies and the Human Rights Culture War in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1979 –1990, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/236747-felix-a-jimnez-botta-the-central-american-insurgencie

Did the human rights movement shun social justice and ignore the rise of neoliberalism in the 1970s–1980s? Using the example of human rights advocacy towards Central America in West Germany, this talk will explore conflicting visions of human rights in the 1980s, and explain why a market-conforming human rights movement emerged victorious by the end of the decade. Left-wing activists mobilized human rights rhetoric to support the Salvadoran guerrilla movement and the Sandinista state because they promised liberation and social justice. Market-friendly human rights activists challenged the left. They privileged negative freedoms, attacked social justice, and vilified the redistributive state and armed liberation movements. Leftist solidarity with armed liberation movements and their perceived indifference towards its victims undermined their moral stance. Market-friendly activists won the human rights culture war of the 1980s by associating their foes with insurgent violence, state socialism, and insouciance towards state-perpetrated human rights abuses.

Felix A. Jiménez Botta is Associate Professor of History at Miyazaki International University, Japan, and earned his Ph.D. from Boston College. He is currently completing his first book manuscript, entitled Moral Choices and Market Forces: Latin America Solidarity and the Politics of Human Rights in West Germany, 1973–1990, under contract with Cambridge University Press. The manuscript examines the contradictory uses of human rights in the advocacy campaigns towards in Chile, Argentina, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. He is also currently editing a special issue entitled The Multiple Meanings of Human Rights in Germany with the Journal of Contemporary History, which will appear this year. His work has appeared in the Journal of Contemporary History, Journal of Transatlantic Studies, Zeithistorische Forschungen, Contemporary European History, and Sports in Society.

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Ray Savord at rsavord@berkeley.edu or (510) 642-4555 with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days before the event.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/236747-felix-a-jimnez-botta-the-central-american-insurgencie
Colloquium: How Do Alien Kinds Become Family? The Literary Lives of the Yakshas in Classical Chinese Tales, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/ieas/event/238049-colloquium-how-do-alien-kinds-become-family-the

“The Yaksha Kingdom” (Yecha guo) in Liaozhai zhiyi聊齋誌異 (Liaozhai’s Records of the Strange) by Pu Songling 蒲松齡 (1640-1715) tells the story of a Chinese merchant who suffers a shipwreck, drifts to an island, and with no better options, establishes a family with a female islander whom he identifies as a yakshini (mu yecha母夜叉). This tale, intertwining fear, despair, reconciliation and humor, is a rewriting of earlier Chinese yaksha narratives, which emerged with the spread of Buddhism into China during the medieval period. Placing the tale within the context of cross-cultural encounters, this talk will examine the yakshas’ transition from Indian to Chinese culture and their various depictions in the Tang dynasty tales. It will also consider the recurring theme of the perils faced by shipwrecked merchant as portrayed in Yijian zhi 夷堅志 (Records of Yijian) from the Southern Song period. These two veins of investigation will enable us to further analyze how Pu Songling transforms the traditional horrific yaksha encounters into a nuanced story of separation and reunion, and to gain insight into the literary and cultural significance of this fantastic tale, which blends irony, ambivalence and shades of hope.

Chiung-yun Evelyn Liu is Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. She specializes in premodern Chinese literature, circa 1500-1800, with particular interests in literature of the fantastic, historical memory, book culture and knowledge production. She is completing a book manuscript tentatively titled Remembering the 1402 Usurpation: Media, Historical Sentiment and the Ethics of Memory. Her other research projects include “Form and Meaning: Rethinking the Interpretations of The Journey to the Westthrough Early Modern Chinese Book Culture”, and “Negotiating Boundaries: Records of Encounters with the Alien Kind in Early Modern China.”





https://events.berkeley.edu/ieas/event/238049-colloquium-how-do-alien-kinds-become-family-the
Singing Kabir | Prahlad Singh Tipanya and his ensemble sing the poetry of Kabir, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/239648-singing-kabir-prahlad-singh-tipanya-and-his-ensemble-

Prahlad Singh Tipanya and his ensemble sing the poetry of Kabir, the great iconoclastic mystic of 15th-century North India, in the vigorous and joyful folk style of Madhya Pradesh’s Malwa region.

Onstage translation of lyrics offered by Prof. Linda Hess, Senior Lecturer Emerita in Religious Studies, Stanford University.

Nora Koa, Lecturer of Hindi, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley

Prahlad-ji is a locally, nationally, and internationally acclaimed folk singer from Lunyakhedi, a small village in Ujjain District, Madhya Pradesh. He is renowned for his singing and interpretation of Kabir and other Hindi poets associated with nirgun-bhakti–devotion to a God or ultimate reality beyond word and form. Kabir is famous for both his profound mystical insight and his sharp social commentary. His voice is often invoked as inspiring communal harmony and social equality.

Among Prahlad-ji’s many honors is the prestigious Padma Shri award given by the Government of India. He has delighted audiences in the USA on various visits since 2003. He is a featured figure in the book Bodiesof Song: Kabir Oral Traditions and Performative Worlds in North India (Oxford University Press, 2015) by Linda Hess. Linda will be traveling with the group and offering onstage translation

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Linda Tabar | The Indigenous Anticolonial: Palestine, Memory, and Imaginaries of Liberation, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/pct/event/237537-linda-tabar-the-indigenous-anticolonial-palestine

The International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs presents “Thinking from Palestine: Dispossession, Liberation, and Return: Conversations on Three Recent and Forthcoming Books.”

The question that this book aims to answer might seem simple: how can a violent project of dispossession and discrimination be imagined, felt, and profoundly believed in as though it were the exact opposite––an embodiment of sustainability, multicultural tolerance, and democratic idealism? Despite well-documented evidence of racism and human rights abuse, Israel has long been embraced by the most liberal sectors of European and American society as a manifestation of the progressive values of tolerance, plurality, inclusivity, and democracy, and hence a project that can be passionately defended for its lofty ideals.

The Indigenous Anticolonial moves beyond the critique of Eurocentrism to analyze the overlooked role of anticolonial traditions in international politics and their contributions to political world-making. In conversation with Indigenous studies and drawing on Black study and the Black radical tradition, this work locates Palestine in the structural formations of modernity and the violent processes of settler conquest that have been an inextricable part of making the international order. By setting out to retrieve Palestinian anticolonial intellectual and political traditions, The Indigenous Anticolonial turns to a different set of archives and uses the transmission of memory to uncover a submerged tradition against the overlapping erasures of Zionist settler colonialism, the destruction of Palestinian archives, and the marginalization of non-western perspectives in international knowledges. To persist in a world that requires their continued absence, Palestinians live out radical anticolonial lives that defy matter and form, move through the impenetrable, and reassemble the seemingly irretrievable in ways that elude Zionist settler colonialism. Along the way, the dispossessed, resistance communities, artists, and intellectuals cultivate an enduring sense of presence that exceeds settler colonialism and create imaginaries of liberation that aspire to neither inclusion nor recognition, but liberation from Zionist settler colonialism and a world otherwise.

Linda Tabar is senior lecturer in the Department of International Relations in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. Situated in the fields of Middle East politics, international studies, and transnational feminist studies, her published work focuses on settler colonialism, violence, dispossession, feminist and decolonizing struggles, and transnational solidarity. She is currently completing a book entitled The Indigenous Anticolonial: Palestine, Memory, and Imaginaries of Liberation. The book deepens conversations between Palestine and Indigenous studies. Building on this work, her latest research examines the settler colonial and racial formations of the modern order and anti-colonial conceptions of the international order, focusing on the overlooked connections between Palestine and the Americas.

Sponsors

Presented by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, Berkeley. Co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Department of Rhetoric and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

Speakers

https://events.berkeley.edu/pct/event/237537-linda-tabar-the-indigenous-anticolonial-palestine
Linda Tabar | The Indigenous Anticolonial: Palestine, Memory, and Imaginaries of Liberation, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243607-linda-tabar-the-indigenous-anticolonial-palestine

The International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs presents “Thinking from Palestine: Dispossession, Liberation, and Return: Conversations on Three Recent and Forthcoming Books.”

The question that this book aims to answer might seem simple: how can a violent project of dispossession and discrimination be imagined, felt, and profoundly believed in as though it were the exact opposite––an embodiment of sustainability, multicultural tolerance, and democratic idealism? Despite well-documented evidence of racism and human rights abuse, Israel has long been embraced by the most liberal sectors of European and American society as a manifestation of the progressive values of tolerance, plurality, inclusivity, and democracy, and hence a project that can be passionately defended for its lofty ideals.

The Indigenous Anticolonial moves beyond the critique of Eurocentrism to analyze the overlooked role of anticolonial traditions in international politics and their contributions to political world-making. In conversation with Indigenous studies and drawing on Black study and the Black radical tradition, this work locates Palestine in the structural formations of modernity and the violent processes of settler conquest that have been an inextricable part of making the international order. By setting out to retrieve Palestinian anticolonial intellectual and political traditions, The Indigenous Anticolonial turns to a different set of archives and uses the transmission of memory to uncover a submerged tradition against the overlapping erasures of Zionist settler colonialism, the destruction of Palestinian archives, and the marginalization of non-western perspectives in international knowledges. To persist in a world that requires their continued absence, Palestinians live out radical anticolonial lives that defy matter and form, move through the impenetrable, and reassemble the seemingly irretrievable in ways that elude Zionist settler colonialism. Along the way, the dispossessed, resistance communities, artists, and intellectuals cultivate an enduring sense of presence that exceeds settler colonialism and create imaginaries of liberation that aspire to neither inclusion nor recognition, but liberation from Zionist settler colonialism and a world otherwise.

Linda Tabar is senior lecturer in the Department of International Relations in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. Situated in the fields of Middle East politics, international studies, and transnational feminist studies, her published work focuses on settler colonialism, violence, dispossession, feminist and decolonizing struggles, and transnational solidarity. She is currently completing a book entitled The Indigenous Anticolonial: Palestine, Memory, and Imaginaries of Liberation. The book deepens conversations between Palestine and Indigenous studies. Building on this work, her latest research examines the settler colonial and racial formations of the modern order and anti-colonial conceptions of the international order, focusing on the overlooked connections between Palestine and the Americas.

Sponsors

Presented by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, Berkeley. Co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Department of Rhetoric and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

Speakers

https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243607-linda-tabar-the-indigenous-anticolonial-palestine
What the Heck is an Animal Lawyer? Animal Law Panel & Networking Event, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243462-what-the-heck-is-an-animal-lawyer-animal-law-panelAnimal law is a blossoming field of law. It sits at the frontier of our moral and legal frameworks. And it encompasses diverse practices such as suing factory farms, defending activists from prosecution, and establishing legal personhood for animals. Join the Animal Legal Defense Fund to network with and hear directly from the lawyers who have dedicated their careers to these efforts!
RSVP here.
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243462-what-the-heck-is-an-animal-lawyer-animal-law-panel
Mitsuko Uchida in Conversation with Jeremy Geffen, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/243010-mitsuko-uchida-in-conversation-with-jeremy-geffen

As part of her residency at Cal Performances Mitsuko Uchida joins Cal Performances Executive and Artistic Director Jeremy Geffen for a conversation about her history with classical music, her unparalleled artistry, and the motivation and inspiration for her residency within the context of the UC Berkeley campus and broader Bay Area. Attendees will have an opportunity to submit questions for consideration in advance.

https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/243010-mitsuko-uchida-in-conversation-with-jeremy-geffen
Mitsuko Uchida in Conversation with Jeremy Geffen, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243608-mitsuko-uchida-in-conversation-with-jeremy-geffen

As part of her residency at Cal Performances Mitsuko Uchida joins Cal Performances Executive and Artistic Director Jeremy Geffen for a conversation about her history with classical music, her unparalleled artistry, and the motivation and inspiration for her residency within the context of the UC Berkeley campus and broader Bay Area. Attendees will have an opportunity to submit questions for consideration in advance.

https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243608-mitsuko-uchida-in-conversation-with-jeremy-geffen
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222948-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222948-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229230-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229230-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236472-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236472-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241444-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241444-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
Patient Handling Hazards and Prevention, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/243353-patient-handling-hazards-and-prevention

Manual patient handling tasks such as repositioning in bed, bed to chair transfers, and mobility assistance generate profound ergonomic stressors on healthcare workers, resulting in uniquely high rates of musculoskeletal injuries. Although effective equipment is available to prevent manual patient handling, it often goes unused. Join Dr. Kiydal in this free webinar to discuss how safe patient handling and mobility programs are systems-based solutions that can mitigate musculoskeletal risk when implemented comprehensively.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/243353-patient-handling-hazards-and-prevention
Putting Equitable Grading into Practice - Assignment Clinic, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/237882-putting-equitable-grading-into-practice-

Can you think of a particular course assignment that causes frustration and challenges for either you or your students? Would you like support in revising and improving this assignment, particularly to align with equitable grading practices? In this hands-on clinic, participants will work collaboratively with CTL consultants and instructor colleagues to review their chosen assignment and brainstorm possible changes. In the process, instructors will surface what they value most in teaching and learning as well as learn about existing strategies and frameworks for equitable assessment. This session is designed for the busy instructor who wants to focus on a particular teaching challenge, and leave with concrete ideas for the next time they teach.

At the end of this session, you will:

  • Receive feedback on where your course assignment increases or reduces student equity.

  • Compare and contrast approaches to equitable grading including alternative grading.

  • Describe how alternative grading can foster equitable student learning experiences.

  • Brainstorm steps to revise a component of a course to reflect equitable grading approaches.

Everyone in the UC Berkeley instructional community is welcome to join this event! This event is hosted by Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL) and the College of Engineering EMPOWER Program(link is external)

This hybrid event will be held in person in 117 Dwinelle Hall (Academic Innovation Studio) and also on Zoom. Please RSVP to get the Zoom invite.

Light breakfast refreshments will be available for in-person participants. We kindly request that you register no later than 3 days in advance if you’re attending in person, to help us arrange catering.

This hands-on clinic will run for two hours and participants may drop in at any time during that window. Please bring a specific assignment or syllabus from one of your courses to work on.

➡️ Register for this event here!(link is external)⬅️

***Registration for this session will close two hours before the session for remote participants***

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/237882-putting-equitable-grading-into-practice-
Disability Management: Understanding the Process, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236087-disability-management-understanding-the-process

This virtual workshop provides an Interactive, as well as informative look into the process of Disability Management. During our workshop we will use Scenario-based instruction to teach and reinforce subjects such as the Interactive Process; Essential Job Functions; Reading and analyzing Work Status notes; Transition back to work and Effectiveness of Accommodation(s) and documentation. We will refer to foundational concepts framed by University policy related to disability; State and Federal laws and leverage the ‘Stay at Work’ and ‘Return to Work’ program models, in order to practice developing plans which, support the accommodation needs of our employees with disabilities. This is part one of a two-part workshop, and the successful completion of a follow-up assignment is required. Please bring your Burning Questions and a willingness to engage with your peer learners during the workshop. We look forward to meeting you! Please Note: The zoom link will be sent to the participants by email and added to this workshop description a day before the workshop

Please Note: The Zoom link will be sent to the participants by email, and add it to this workshop description a day before the workshop.

All participants and hosts must sign into a Zoom account before joining meetings hosted by UC Berkeley. 

Participants who are not eligible for a UC Berkeley-provided Zoom account can use a Zoom account provided by their institution, can create a free consumer Zoom account (at https://zoom.us/freesignup/), or can dial in via the phone.

https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236087-disability-management-understanding-the-process
RAPDP - Intermediate Federal Cost Policy & Compliance, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/241189-rapdp-intermediate-federal-cost-policy-compliance

A 3-hour intermediate workshop on Federal cost policy that details how the OMB Circulars are implemented, covers the changes in the new Uniform Guidance, and explores some specific compliance issues like the Federal Acquisition Regulation and Participant Support. This workshop is intended for new and veteran RAs, as well as any other staff that assists Faculty in administering sponsored awards.

 

Learning Objectives:

 

- Identify the RA’s responsibilities regarding financial compliance

- Describe the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and identify FAR clauses that may appear in award terms

- Recognize and apply OMB A-21 (Cost Principles), OMB A-110 (Administration) and OMB A-133 (Audits) to sponsored awards

- Describe how the Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) and Standard Research Terms & Conditions (RTC) are implemented

- Identify changes in the Uniform Guidance that differ from the previous OMB Circulars

- Recognize the applicability of agency-specific guidelines to Federally sponsored awards

 

This workshop contains 2 parts*:

Part 1: 9 - 11 AM

Part 2: 1 - 2 PM

*you must attend both parts to get credit for this class

https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/241189-rapdp-intermediate-federal-cost-policy-compliance
Spring Research Review & IAB Meeting, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/bsac/event/232491-spring-research-review-iab-meeting

Open to BSAC Industrial Members, Researchers, and Directors, only.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bsac/event/232491-spring-research-review-iab-meeting
Spring Basketry Workshop with Judith Thomas, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/240910-spring-basketry-workshop-with-judith-thomas
Come to the Garden and learn to make two types of baskets: one a twined basket and the other a woven basket.
We will be using natural reed of several sizes and raffia, all of which have been dyed in muted colors by Judith ahead of time. You will learn how to source and dye these materials yourself for future projects. The end result of this hands-on workshop will be sweet little spring baskets, perfect for treasures or floral offerings. Once you learn to make a small basket, you will be able to enlarge the process to make a bigger one.
All levels welcome, and all materials will be provided.
Judith is a textile artist who has taught basketmaking for many years, often at the UC Botanical Garden. She teaches pine needle baskets in autumn, and this will be her first time teaching these techniques as a spring class.
https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/240910-spring-basketry-workshop-with-judith-thomas
A molecular perspective on the evolution of neuron types in the eye / Renewable Fertilizer by Low-Temperature Plasma-Enabled Manure Upcycling, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/243547-a-molecular-perspective-on-the-evolution-of-neuron-ty

A molecular perspective on the evolution of neuron types in the eye / Renewable Fertilizer by Low-Temperature Plasma-Enabled Manure Upcycling

https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/243547-a-molecular-perspective-on-the-evolution-of-neuron-ty
Applied Mathematics Seminar, Spring 2024: Fine-grained Theory and Hybrid Algorithms for Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/243477-applied-mathematics-seminar-spring-2024Randomized algorithms have gained increased prominence within numerical linear algebra and they play a key role in an ever-expanding range of problems driven by a breadth of scientific applications. In this talk we will explore two aspects of randomized algorithms by (1) providing experiments and accompanying theoretical analysis that demonstrate how their performance depends on matrix structures beyond singular values (such as coherence of singular subspaces), and (2) showing how to leverage those insights to build hybrid algorithms that blend favorable aspects of deterministic and randomized methods. A broad range of randomized algorithms will be considered, relevant motivating applications will be discussed, and numerical experiments will illuminate directions for further research.https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/243477-applied-mathematics-seminar-spring-2024ALEAB: Keeping Up with the Digital Economy, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243496-aleab-keeping-up-with-the-digital-economyJoin the Antitrust Law and Economics Association of Berkeley (ALEAB) for a conversation with Tommaso Giardini, Associate Director of Digital Policy Alert, and get a tutorial of a policy monitoring initiative that provides daily updates on digital policy developments across the globe. 
The Digital Policy Alert (DPA) is a policy monitoring initiative that provides daily updates on digital policy developments across the globe. Users can filter and download the data, as well as subscribe to a tailored notification service. The DPA digests the data in country-level and comparative analyses. 
The DPA also employs CLaiRK which is a suite of regulatory analysis tools that combines a (rapidly expanding) repository of AI policies with tools to navigate and compare policy text. CLaiRK Chat serves as an entry point to explore AI governance across jurisdictions, providing references for every answer. 
Wednesday, 20 March 2024, 11.30 – 12.30 
Zoom link: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/98701344499 
Please RSVP here.
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243496-aleab-keeping-up-with-the-digital-economy
Bioengineering Seminar: Toward Holistic Bioimaging to Elevate Human Health, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/bioe/event/217516-bioengineering-seminar-toward-holistic-bioimaging-to-

Abstract:


Holistic imaging of diverse functional, anatomical, and molecular architecture that span multiple levels, from cells to an entire system, remains a major challenge in biology. In this talk, I will introduce a series of technologies that enable integrated multiscale imaging and molecular phenotyping of both animal tissues and human clinical samples. I will discuss how we engineer (1) the physicochemical properties of biological tissues, (2) molecular interactions, and (3) molecular transport all together to achieve integrated organ-wide 3D molecular analysis at unprecedented speed and resolution. I will also discuss how these technologies can be commercialized and deployed synergistically to study a broad range of biological questions.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bioe/event/217516-bioengineering-seminar-toward-holistic-bioimaging-to-
Noon Concert: Faculty Recital, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235234-noon-concert-faculty-recital

Leçons de ténèbres pour le mercredi saint (Tenebrae Readings for Holy Wednesday), Couperin

Featuring David H. Miller on viola da gamba and Katherine Heater on harpsichord with guest sopranos Rita Lilly and Caroline Jou Armitage.

Admission to all Noon Concerts is free. Registration is recommended at music.berkeley.edu/register.

Safety
The UC Berkeley Department of Music is committed to the health and safety of our students, staff, and patrons. Measures to protect concertgoers and musicians will be informed by state, local, and UC Berkeley Public Health policies and are subject to change. Social distancing, masks, and proof of COVID 19 vaccination may be required. UC Berkeley does not promise or guarantee that all patrons or employees on site are vaccinated. Unvaccinated individuals may be present as a result of exemptions, exceptions, fraudulent verification, or checker error. None of these precautions eliminate the risk of exposure to COVID-19. Registration is strongly encouraged for noon concerts at music.berkeley.edu/register.

Accessibility
If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact the Hertz Hall Manager at 510.642.4864 or hertzhallmgr@berkeley.edu. with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

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Watch
Most concerts are available to stream live or watch later on the Berkeley Music YouTube channel. To watch visit music.berkeley.edu/watch

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235234-noon-concert-faculty-recital
Shock Without Therapy: The Political Economy of the Postsocialist Mortality Crisis, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/iseees/event/240481-shock-without-therapy-the-political-economy-of-the

Foreshadowing today’s epidemic of deaths of despair hitting the United States, an unprecedented mortality crisis ravaged Eastern Europe 30 years ago as the region transitioned to capitalism. In the first 15 years after the fall of Communism, Russia lost more than three times as many people as during World War I, with male life expectancy dropping 5.7 years from 1991-1994. Over the first decade, this translated into 7.3 million excess deaths in Eastern Europe. This mortality crisis represents one of the largest demographic catastrophes seen outside famine or war in recent history and offers insightful parallels with today’s America. Case and Deaton highlight that “it is no exaggeration to compare the long-standing misery of these Eastern Europeans with the wave of despair driving suicides, alcohol, and drug abuse among less-educated white Americans.” Leveraging the biggest data-gathering project on the postsocialist mortality crisis, the research underlying the lecture presents new quantitative and qualitative evidence on the role of deindustrialization, privatization, and welfare intervention in the post-socialist mortality crisis. The central thesis is that the varieties of economic shocks and policy therapies explain the intensity of the mortality crisis. The bigger the economic shock, the more people die from stress and despair. The better the therapy, the fewer people die from stress and despair. The lecture will conclude with a transatlantic comparison of deaths of despair and the future of democracy, focusing on the health crises in Hungary, Russia, and the United States.

https://events.berkeley.edu/iseees/event/240481-shock-without-therapy-the-political-economy-of-the
New Directions in Greening Infrastructure, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/ssm/event/242501-new-directions-in-greening-infrastructure

As the effects of climate change become more obvious, moving away from fossil fuels has only become more urgent. But to do so, new energy sources – and new infrastructure – are desperately needed.

Please join us on Wednesday, March 20 from 12:00pm-1:30pm for a panel discussion, “New Directions in Greening Infrastructure,” featuring three early-career scholars from UC Berkeley presenting their research on the greening infrastructure and the green energy transition. The panel will feature Johnathan Guy, PhD Candidate in Political Science; Caylee Hong, a PhD candidate in Anthropology, and Andrew Jaeger, PhD Candidate in Sociology. The panel will be moderated by Daniel Aldana Cohen, Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley.

Co-Sponsored by the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative (BESI) and the Berkeley Climate Change Network.

REGISTER TO ATTEND

Panelists

Johnathan Guy is a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley. He studies the political economy of development in South and Southeast Asia, focusing on the politics of climate change and the energy transition. His ongoing dissertation project, “Selecting for Solar: The Political Incentives Behind Power Generation Project Section,” attempts to understand the diverging trajectories of power sector buildouts in India and Indonesia.

Caylee Hong is an attorney, interdisciplinary researcher, and educator. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at UC Berkeley, where she researches urban oil production in the Los Angeles Basin. Her dissertation examines the ways that diverse stakeholders navigate the decommissioning and redevelopment of century-old oil fields in the heart of cities, including Los Angeles and Long Beach. She has published research on infrastructure finance, the environment, law, and citizenship in Antipode, Anthropological Theory, and Fieldsights.

Andrew Jaeger is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at UC Berkeley. His dissertation analyzes the political economy of climate change in California.

Daniel Aldana Cohen (moderator) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley, where he is Director of the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2, and serves as a faculty affiliate in the graduate program on Political Economy. Cohen works on the intersections of the climate emergency, housing, political economy, social movements, and inequalities of race and class in the United States and Brazil. As Director of (SC)2, he is leading qualitative and quantitative research projects on Whole Community Climate Mapping, green political economy, and eco-apartheid. He is the co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green Deal (Verso 2019), and is currently completing a book project called Street Fight: Climate Change and Inequality in the 21st Century City, under contract with Princeton University Press.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ssm/event/242501-new-directions-in-greening-infrastructure
New Directions in Greening Infrastructure, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/blum/event/243579-new-directions-in-greening-infrastructure

As the effects of climate change become more obvious, moving away from fossil fuels has only become more urgent. But to do so, new energy sources – and new infrastructure – are desperately needed.

Please join us on Wednesday, March 20 from 12:00pm-1:30pm for a panel discussion, “New Directions in Greening Infrastructure,” featuring three early-career scholars from UC Berkeley presenting their research on the greening infrastructure and the green energy transition. The panel will feature Johnathan Guy, PhD Candidate in Political Science; Caylee Hong, a PhD candidate in Anthropology, and Andrew Jaeger, PhD Candidate in Sociology. The panel will be moderated by Daniel Aldana Cohen, Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley.

Co-Sponsored by the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative (BESI) and the Berkeley Climate Change Network.

REGISTER TO ATTEND

Panelists

Johnathan Guy is a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley. He studies the political economy of development in South and Southeast Asia, focusing on the politics of climate change and the energy transition. His ongoing dissertation project, “Selecting for Solar: The Political Incentives Behind Power Generation Project Section,” attempts to understand the diverging trajectories of power sector buildouts in India and Indonesia.

Caylee Hong is an attorney, interdisciplinary researcher, and educator. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at UC Berkeley, where she researches urban oil production in the Los Angeles Basin. Her dissertation examines the ways that diverse stakeholders navigate the decommissioning and redevelopment of century-old oil fields in the heart of cities, including Los Angeles and Long Beach. She has published research on infrastructure finance, the environment, law, and citizenship in Antipode, Anthropological Theory, and Fieldsights.

Andrew Jaeger is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at UC Berkeley. His dissertation analyzes the political economy of climate change in California.

Daniel Aldana Cohen (moderator) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley, where he is Director of the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2, and serves as a faculty affiliate in the graduate program on Political Economy. Cohen works on the intersections of the climate emergency, housing, political economy, social movements, and inequalities of race and class in the United States and Brazil. As Director of (SC)2, he is leading qualitative and quantitative research projects on Whole Community Climate Mapping, green political economy, and eco-apartheid. He is the co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green Deal (Verso 2019), and is currently completing a book project called Street Fight: Climate Change and Inequality in the 21st Century City, under contract with Princeton University Press.

https://events.berkeley.edu/blum/event/243579-new-directions-in-greening-infrastructure
Staff Alliance for Disability Access General Membership Meeting, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/ADA/event/220033-staff-alliance-for-disability-access-general

Join the Staff Alliance for Disability Access at our monthly general membership meeting to discuss issues of interest to the community of disability and accessibility at UC Berkeley and listen to guest speakers/presenters.  Our meeting is open to staff and faculty.  Newcomers are welcome! 

Mission and Purpose

The Alliance for Disability Access (ADA) is a collaborative and supportive campus staff organization that addresses the needs of UC Berkeley staff members with disabilities. “Disabilities” may refer to any combination of physical, psychological, learning, and medical disabilities.

We look forward to being in community with our membership and answering any questions you may have.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ADA/event/220033-staff-alliance-for-disability-access-general
Berkeley Book Chat: Michael Iarocci, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/229982-berkeley-book-chat-michael-iarocci

The Art of Witnessing: Francisco de Goya’s ‘Disasters of War’

Widely acknowledged as a major turning point in the history of visual depictions of war, Francisco de Goya’s renowned print series The Disasters of War remains a touchstone for serious engagement with the violence of war and the questions raised by its artistic representation.

The Art of Witnessing (Toronto, 2022) provides a new account of Goya’s print series by taking readers through the forty-seven prints he dedicated to the violence of war. Drawing on facets of Goya’s artistry rarely considered together before, the book challenges the notion that documentary realism and historical testimony were the artist’s primary aims. Michael Iarocci (Spanish & Portuguese) argues that while the depiction of war’s atrocities was central to Goya’s project, the lasting power of the print series stems from the artist’s complex moral and aesthetic meditations on the subject.

Making novel contributions to longstanding debates about historical memory, testimony, and the representation of violence, The Art of Witnessing tells a new story, print by print, to highlight the ways in which Goya’s masterpiece extends far beyond conventional understandings of visual testimony.

Iarocci is joined by Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby (History of Art). After a brief discussion, they respond to questions from the audience.

https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/229982-berkeley-book-chat-michael-iarocci
Career Lab: Negotiating Job Offers (for non-faculty roles), March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/QB3/event/237419-career-lab-negotiating-job-offers-for-non-faculty

March 20, 2024, 12pm-1:30pm
Stanley Hall, Room 482

This workshop will provide a topic overview with advice/tips. You will gain insights into the dynamics of negotiating job offers that can serve you in the future. The primary focus of this session will be negotiating non-faculty job offers. You do not need to be currently on the job market to benefit from this event.

Register here

https://events.berkeley.edu/QB3/event/237419-career-lab-negotiating-job-offers-for-non-faculty
Theorizing and Measuring Racism as a Multifaceted, Interconnected, and Fundamental Cause of Health Inequities, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/crsc/event/241952-theorizing-and-measuring-racism-as-a-multifaceted
Racism is a multifaceted, interconnected, and fundamental cause of racialized health inequities. As such, racism impacts who gets sick, who dies, and who is able to live healthy. In this talk Dr. Pirtle will overview interventions of her empirical research, informed by critical race theory, that utilizes multidimensional measures of race and skin color, and structural measures of racism, to explore health outcomes for Black, Latinx, and other populations of color. The talk demonstrates that using theoretically informed measures of race and racism help us refine our understanding of racialized health associations and clarifies mechanisms of structural racism that shape contemporary racialized health inequities. Collectively, the discussion helps think through equitable interventions that can facilitate better health for more of us.
Dr. Whitney Pirtle is an Associate Professor of Sociology and MacArthur Foundation Chair in International Justice and Human Rights at the University of California, Merced, where she also directs the Sociology of Health and Equity (SHE) Lab. Dr. Pirtle is a sociologist with interdisciplinary and subject area expertise in race and racism; health disparities and health equity; social problems and social justice; Black feminist sociology and praxis; and mixed methodologies. Recent research includes writing on Covid-19 pandemic inequities, institutional anti-Blackness, and in 2021 she co-edited Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis with Zakiya Luna.
https://events.berkeley.edu/crsc/event/241952-theorizing-and-measuring-racism-as-a-multifaceted
Disability Justice and Community Archaeology at a 20th Century Eugenic Institution in Western Massachusetts (Laura Heath-Stout, Stanford University), March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/237236-disability-justice-and-community-archaeology-at-a-20t

This talk will take place in person at the ARF and on Zoom (you must have a Zoom account to attend). Register for online attendance here.

Abstract: “Nothing about us without us” has been a key rallying cry of the disability rights movement for decades, yet archaeologists regularly interpret past disabled people’s lives while excluding modern disabled people from archaeology careers. In my upcoming project, I seek to address both the epistemic limitations of an archaeology of disability done by nondisabled people and the injustices of systemic ableism in archaeology as a discipline. In collaboration with disabled activists in Massachusetts, I will be investigating the history of the Belchertown State School, where people with intellectual disabilities and others were institutionalized from 1922–1992, and contributing to the Belchertown community’s and Massachusetts’s state-wide reckonings with the histories of eugenics and abuse. In this talk, I will present the foundations of this new project and invite discussion of how to create a truly disability-justice-oriented archaeology project that contributes to both disability activism and archaeological knowledge production in meaningful ways.

https://events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/237236-disability-justice-and-community-archaeology-at-a-20t
The Paradox of Gender: Between Blindness and Insight in Social Perception, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/ipsr/event/242537-the-paradox-of-gender-between-blindness-and

The construct of gender is both deeply problematic and highly functional. On the one hand, gender constrains identity and reifies problematic stereotypes; but on the other, gender organizes social perception and facilitates sensemaking. My talk explores this paradox, and, more specifically, the tension between the belief that we shouldnot see gender and the stubborn reality that we do. I show that although people’s gender-blind attitudes (e.g., beliefs that we should de-emphasize or remove gender) predict positive outcomes for women and gender non-conforming individuals, the practical application of these beliefs undermines people’s ability to understand, connect with, and ultimately humanize others. In the first part of my talk, I discuss research demonstrating that people who endorse gender-blindness are more likely to support gender equality (e.g., less sexism, more advocacy). I then present studies revealing the fundamental importance and inescapability of gender in social cognition. This work demonstrates that gender is the primary social category people use to understand “humanness,” and this tendency to perceive gendered entities as more human generalizes across cultures and gender identities. I conclude by discussing the functions and dysfunctions of gender as a primary lens of social cognition.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ipsr/event/242537-the-paradox-of-gender-between-blindness-and
Cook Well Berkeley: Flavors Around the World, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236740-cook-well-berkeley-flavors-around-the-world

Ready for a trip around the world? We’re taking your taste buds on a journey through the bold spices, herbs and other exciting flavors used in nutritious international recipes. Learn to make a couple of delicious recipes and how to incorporate more spices into your food in general.

Please Note: The Zoom link will be sent to the participants by email, and add it to this workshop description a day before the workshop.

All participants and hosts must sign into a Zoom account before joining meetings hosted by UC Berkeley. 

Participants who are not eligible for a UC Berkeley-provided Zoom account can use a Zoom account provided by their institution, can create a free consumer Zoom account (at https://zoom.us/freesignup/), or can dial in via the phone.

https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236740-cook-well-berkeley-flavors-around-the-world
Advanced Zotero Week 4: Writing with Zotero, March 20https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11944539Advanced Zotero workshops are intended for Zotero users who want to go beyond the basics of collecting citations and exporting bibliographies. If you are new to Zotero, consider attending one of the Library’s Introduction to Zotero workshops being offered this term.
Advanced Zotero workshops are offered every other Wednesday, starting February 7th, from 12:10-1:00 via Zoom. Registration is required and the Zoom link will be provided to participants who register 24 hours in advance of the workshop. You must have a Calnet ID to register for a workshop.
Week 4: Writing with Zotero
- Locating and adding citation styles
- Zotero 6.0 Add note feature
- Editing citations with Zotero’s tools
- Changing the font/size of citations
- Why things go wrong (broken links to Library, unable to update document, etc.)
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11944539
Advanced Zotero Week 4: Writing with Zotero, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236987-advanced-zotero-week-4Advanced Zotero workshops are intended for Zotero users who want to go beyond the basics of collecting citations and exporting bibliographies. If you are new to Zotero, consider attending one of the Library’s Introduction to Zotero workshops being offered this term.
Advanced Zotero workshops are offered every other Wednesday, starting February 7th, from 12:10-1:00 via Zoom. Registration is required and the Zoom link will be provided to participants who register 24 hours in advance of the workshop. You must have a Calnet ID to register for a workshop.
Week 4: Writing with Zotero
- Locating and adding citation styles
- Zotero 6.0 Add note feature
- Editing citations with Zotero’s tools
- Changing the font/size of citations
- Why things go wrong (broken links to Library, unable to update document, etc.)
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236987-advanced-zotero-week-4
RWAP: Robert Lieberman: Research Workshop in American Politics, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/igs/event/239728-rwap-robert-lieberman-research-workshop-in

RWAP is pleased to welcome guest speaker, Robert Lieberman on 3/20.

https://events.berkeley.edu/igs/event/239728-rwap-robert-lieberman-research-workshop-in
BCLB Leadership Lunch Series: A Crash Course in Private Equity/ M&A with Kirkland & Ellis, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242744-bclb-leadership-lunch-series-practicing-law-inA conversation with Partner Benjamin Clinger from Kirkland and Ellis about Private Equity/ M&A. Registration is highly recommended. Lunch is provided on a first-come, first-served basis to registrants. Lunch talks are co-sponsored by the Berkeley Business Law Journal.https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242744-bclb-leadership-lunch-series-practicing-law-inGender Journal Meeting, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242743-gender-journal-meetingWould you rather be discussing intersectional feminism during your lunch? If so, please join us for our biweekly lunch meeting (lunch provided) and article discussion. Newcomers always welcome!
Email us at bglj@berkeley.edu to be added to our weekly listserv or for remote alternatives!
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242743-gender-journal-meeting
Judge John Gleeson at Berkeley Law, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243367-judge-john-gleeson-at-berkeley-lawPlease join us for a conversation on criminal justice and the power of pro bono with Judge John Gleeson, moderated by Chesa Boudin, Executive Director of the Berkeley Criminal Law & Justice Center.
Judge Gleeson will speak about his work as a United States District Court Judge, Commissioner of the United States Sentencing Commission, and role as Partner and Co- Chair of the Pro Bono Committee at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP. Judge Gleeson will speak specifically to his leadership of the firm’s compassionate release work through the The Holloway Project. Over the past three-plus years, the firm has obtained sentence reductions for 46 inmates serving so-called “stacked” sentences imposed pursuant to 18 USC 924(c). The reductions average 35 years in length.
Lunch will be served!
Please RSVP: tinyurl.com/JudgeGleesonBLaw by Thursday, March 14th to reserve a seat & lunch.
**Room details will be emailed a couple days before the event to those that complete the RSVP form.
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243367-judge-john-gleeson-at-berkeley-law
[CDO] Bridge & Public Interest Fellowship (PIF) Info Session, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243454-cdo-bridge-public-interest-fellowship-pif-infoThis session will provide an overview of Berkeley Law’s post-graduate funding programs for upcoming JD graduates in the Class of 2024: the Bridge & Public Interest Fellowship (PIF) programs. Come hear details about this year’s programs and get your questions answered about the application process.
We will be operating this as a hybrid event. Those who wish to join virtually can do so using this Zoom link. Those who wish to join in person may do so in Room 136. Lunch will be available for those participating in person, but it will be on a first come first served basis. Please RSVP here to indicate whether you’ll be attending in person or virtually, and to indicate food preferences for those attending in person.
Questions? Contact Lucy Benz-Rogers at Lucybr@berkeley.edu in the CDO.
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243454-cdo-bridge-public-interest-fellowship-pif-info
Dissertation Talk: A Data Converter Assisted Beamforming Method, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/eecs/event/243522-dissertation-talk-a-data-converter-assisted

Directional communication, a key feature in 5G technology and beyond, expands channel capacity by leveraging spatial information from a multiple-antenna front-end. Fully digital beamforming enables powerful signal processing techniques, such as spatial blocker suppression and beam search. However, in the presence of spatial blockers, the digital back-end requires high dynamic range data converters to preserve information. This has led to increased interest in research on spatial filtering or beamforming in the analog/RF front-end. While inserting a spatial filter in the signal path can attenuate spatial blockers at an early stage, it usually results in an increased power budget and additional noise. In this work, we propose a data converter-assisted beamforming method, which leverages the computational capability of the data converters and utilizes existing circuitry. The proposed method has low hardware and power overheads and is compatible with other spatial filtering methods.

https://events.berkeley.edu/eecs/event/243522-dissertation-talk-a-data-converter-assisted
WiTL Public Interest Event, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242742-witl-public-interest-eventAre you interested in learning more about the intersection between technology law and public interest? Join WiTL on Wednesday, March 20th from 1 – 2 PM in Room 140 to learn about potential career paths in the tech public interest space from Betsy Popken, Executive Director of the Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law and former co-founder and co-leader of the Business & Human Rights practice at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. Food provided, please RVSP here: https://forms.gle/N7bDWUaEx2kb3zyY9!https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242742-witl-public-interest-eventComparative Business Systems among the United States, Japan, and China, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243074-comparative-business-systems-among-the-unitedIn this talk, Professor Shishido will introduce his forthcoming book, Incentive Bargaining and Corporate Governance: Comparative Enterprise Law across Three Leading Economies (Cambridge University Press), co-authored with Professor Shen Wei. He will use several figures to show a general comparison of the business systems in the US, Japan, and China. This talk will enable the audience to grasp the overview of the business systems of the three countries.
Registration not required but highly encouraged: https://forms.gle/LvWvRWftgM1HXUsx6
 
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243074-comparative-business-systems-among-the-united
JBLP Real Talk: Former Alameda County Superintendent of Schools L.K. Monroe, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243279-jblp-real-talk-former-alameda-countyFounder of Teamed Up for Good and former Superintendent of Alameda County, L.K. Monroe, and Chief Operations Strategy Officer of Teamed Up for Good, Ruth Jones, will discuss pressing education issues impacting the Black community and what they’re doing to address them. Discussion will move to consider potential policy and community based solutions to close the achievement gap. 
Please RSVP if you plan to attend. Food will be provided. 
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243279-jblp-real-talk-former-alameda-county
Law, Organizing, and the Alchemy of Rights: LPE Society Lunch Discussion with Professor Diana Reddy, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243524-law-organizing-and-the-alchemy-of-rights-lpeAre you interested in the relationship between law and social movements? Curious about how organizing can lead to legal change, but also how the nature of those legal changes might affect subsequent organizing? Come join the Law and Political Economy (LPE) Society of Berkeley for a lunchtime discussion with Berkeley Law Professor Diana Reddy! We’ll be using her recent article, After the Law of Apolitical Economy: Reclaiming the Normative Stakes of Labor Unions, to make space to think through these questions and more. There’s no need to read the article to join us and engage in the discussion, but we highly encourage you to check it out. 
Lunch will be provided and the event is co-sponsored by the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law (BJELL). RSVP here. You don’t need to RSVP to attend, but it’ll help us plan the food order.
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243524-law-organizing-and-the-alchemy-of-rights-lpe
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, March 20https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877056Learn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877056
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235513-makerspace-drop-in-hoursLearn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235513-makerspace-drop-in-hours
E&I Seminar (Ramana Nanda), March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/235059-eampi-seminar-ramana-nandahttps://berkeley.zoom.us/j/92550462280?pwd=ZlVIeVZLcUV4WHZRRU5qMmdUWm9pdz09

Meeting ID: 925 5046 2280
Passcode: 134743
https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/235059-eampi-seminar-ramana-nanda
Weekly Study Hall for 1Ls, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242741-weekly-study-hall-for-1lsAll 1Ls are invited to weekly study sessions (“labs”) with three of our amazing fellows. This semester, there are two labs and both are open to all 1Ls: Tuesdays 2:10-3:00 in Room 113 with Ben, and Wednesdays 2:10-3:00 in Room 113 with Vanessa and Celeste.
During the month of March, all labs will be study halls–a designated place to read, work on outlines or practice questions, or tackle your LRW brief. Snacks will be provided and ASP fellows will be on hand to answer questions! Come get some work done in community with other 1Ls!
Want more? Complete this Google form to join the ASP bCourses site and gain access to announcements, resources, and support:
http://tinyurl.com/SPRING24ASP.
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242741-weekly-study-hall-for-1ls
Combinatorics Seminar: Type C combinatorics of two-pole centralizer algebras, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/243574-combinatorics-seminar-type-c-combinatorics-ofHecke algebras arise in one sense as deformations of Weyl groups, but in another sense as quotients of braid algebras. While some types of braid algebras can only loosely be associated to their namesake, some can be concretely imagined as braid diagrams on k strands, possibly in spaces with one or more punctures. The latter produces a connection to quantum group actions on tensor spaces of particular shapes. For example, the finite Hecke algebra of type A has a natural action on a tensor space $V^$, which commutes with the natural action of the quantum group of type A (this is precisely the q-deformation of classical Schur-Weyl duality). Closures of braids then correspond to traces of endomorphisms, giving rise to knot and link invariants via Hecke algebras; actions on tensor space have implications for lattice models in statistical mechanics; and on the connections go.
It is from this perspective of Schur-Weyl duality that our story takes place: classifying representations of the type-C affine Hecke algebra was once relegated to geometric methods. However, what one learns from studying two-pole braids, and the corresponding tensor spaces, unlocks a beautiful combinatorial classification of representation theory of the type-C affine Hecke and Temperley-Lieb algebras.
https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/243574-combinatorics-seminar-type-c-combinatorics-of
Film Screening: In Focus: They Shall Not Grow Old, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/239962-film-screening-in-focus-they-shall-not-grow-old

With his Lord of the Rings trilogy, Peter Jackson showcased how new digital effects could expand the arc of narrative filmmaking; with this 2018 collaboration with Britain’s Imperial War Museum (done for the one hundredth anniversary of World War I), he effectively does the same with the archival newsreel. Jackson and team took hours of silent war footage, digitally restored and retimed it, researched existing museum collections for correct colors, and added foley effects or veteran’s oral histories to create a contemporary epic of a century-old war and a snapshot of a society—and countless lives—now gone. “Jackson has done something quite remarkable: using 21st-century technology to put the humanity back into old movie stock. The result is utterly breathtaking” (Mark Kermode, The Observer).

-Jason Sanders
https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/239962-film-screening-in-focus-they-shall-not-grow-old
Probability seminar: An elementary approach to non-asymptotic random matrix theory for unitarily invariant matrices, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/probability-seminar/event/240846-probability-seminar-an-elementary-approach-to-non-asy

Classical random matrix theory focuses on the study of highly structured models (e.g. Wigner and Wishart matrices) which are presented as a sequence of random matrices defined for every dimension, whose asymptotic (i.e. as the dimension goes to infinity) spectral properties must be understood in detail. However, modern problems in data and computer science require only a coarser understanding of the random matrices in question, but necessitate nonasymptotic results in settings where the models are less structured and do not necessarily belong to a prescribed sequence of matrices.

In this work we provide new tools for analyzing the spectral distribution of self-adjoint noncommutative polynomials evaluated in arbitrary independent unitarily invariant Hermitian random matrices of a fixed dimension. With these tools we are able to recover some of Parraud’s results which quantify the distance of the spectral distribution of random matrices with the aforementioned structure from the spectral distribution of their free (in the sense of free probability) limit.


This is joint work with Chi-Fang Chen and Joel Tropp.

https://events.berkeley.edu/probability-seminar/event/240846-probability-seminar-an-elementary-approach-to-non-asy
How to Advocate for Yourself without Negative Repercussions, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/243411-how-to-advocate-for-yourself-without-negative

Professional development is key to career advancement, but what happens when your leadership or managers don’t support you? Join this upcoming workshop to learn effective strategies to advocate for yourself. Gain the knowledge and confidence you need to take control of your career growth. Register and take the next step towards achieving your professional goals.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/243411-how-to-advocate-for-yourself-without-negative
How to Advocate for Yourself without Negative Repercussions, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/thriving/event/243515-how-to-advocate-for-yourself-without-negative

Professional development is key to career advancement, but what happens when your leadership or managers don’t support you? Join this upcoming workshop to learn effective strategies to advocate for yourself. Gain the knowledge and confidence you need to take control of your career growth. Register and take the next step towards achieving your professional goals.

https://events.berkeley.edu/thriving/event/243515-how-to-advocate-for-yourself-without-negative
Skin Deep: Stem Cells at the Nexus of the Niche, Physiology, and the External Environment, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/208548-divisions-of-biochemistry-biophysics-andThe Hsu laboratory seeks to understand how tissue formation, regeneration, and repair are shaped by diverse stimuli at the level of the niche, physiology, and the external environment. The lab primarily focuses on the mammalian skin—an accessible organ with diverse cell types and multiple populations of somatic stem cells, but takes a multidisciplinary approach that blends stem cell biology with neurobiology, genetics, and physiology. In the seminar, I will share our findings on (1) how neuronal activities and hormonal changes modulate regeneration and repair, particularly when organisms experience stressful events, and (2) how to regenerate fully functional skin with diverse cell types after injury.
Division(s): Divisions of Biochemistry, Biophysics & Structural Biology, Division of Cell Biology, Development & Physiology, and Genetics, Genomics, Evolution & Development
https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/208548-divisions-of-biochemistry-biophysics-and
Research 101 (Virtual), March 20https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11964786Are you writing an annotated bibliography, but not sure where to start? Do you need to find peer-reviewed articles, but there don’t seem to be any? This virtual workshop is for you! Berkeley librarians will guide you through using the UC Berkeley Library strategically and honing your research skills. You’ll leave feeling empowered and prepared to take on research assignments with new skills and perspectives
Designed for students enrolled in a Reading & Composition (R&C) course with a research component. Open to the UC Berkeley community.
Location: Zoom (link will be sent to registrants on the morning of the workshop)
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11964786
Research 101 (Virtual), March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/237500-research-101-virtualAre you writing an annotated bibliography, but not sure where to start? Do you need to find peer-reviewed articles, but there don’t seem to be any? This virtual workshop is for you! Berkeley librarians will guide you through using the UC Berkeley Library strategically and honing your research skills. You’ll leave feeling empowered and prepared to take on research assignments with new skills and perspectives
Designed for students enrolled in a Reading & Composition (R&C) course with a research component. Open to the UC Berkeley community.
Location: Zoom (link will be sent to registrants on the morning of the workshop)
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/237500-research-101-virtual
Berkeley Geographers’ multifaceted perspectives on California’s environmental change, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/geog/event/242650-berkeley-geographers-multifaceted-perspectives-on
Berkeley Geographers have a long and proud history of research on the hydroclimate and geomorphology of California. In this talk by Geography faculty, we will feature work by Berkeley Geographers on this topic, including changes in the distant past, rainfall and other hydrological trends in modern times and future, and impacts on water resources and policy.
https://events.berkeley.edu/geog/event/242650-berkeley-geographers-multifaceted-perspectives-on
Berkeley Geographers’ multifaceted perspectives on California’s environmental change, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243609-berkeley-geographers-multifaceted-perspectives-on
Berkeley Geographers have a long and proud history of research on the hydroclimate and geomorphology of California. In this talk by Geography faculty, we will feature work by Berkeley Geographers on this topic, including changes in the distant past, rainfall and other hydrological trends in modern times and future, and impacts on water resources and policy.
https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243609-berkeley-geographers-multifaceted-perspectives-on
MCB Seminar;Developing the Toolkit for Investigating Multi-Organelles’ Interactome in Live Cells, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/HWNI/event/243494-mcb-seminardeveloping-the-toolkit-for
Host: Na Ji
 
Abstract: My presentation will highlight three recent breakthroughs in imaging, sensing, and modulating organelles’ interactome in live cells. Firstly, we address speed and throughput challenges by using a universal lipid-specific dye for ratiometric imaging of membrane-associated organelles, enabling segmentation of up to 15 structures. Secondly, we explore lanthanide-doped nanoparticles capable of up-converting infrared photons into intense visible light at the nanoscale, facilitating diverse bio-applications, including the tracking of single-molecule transport, super-resolution microscopy, nanoscale thermometry, and nanoscale optical tweezers. Lastly, we introduce nanoscale capacitive optoelectrodes for in vivo neuromodulation, offering high-efficiency optical neuromodulation with minimal side effects. These advancements enable super-resolution imaging, sensing, and modulation of single molecules and live cells in their physiological environment, providing insights into the nanoscale world inside living cells.

Bio: Dayong Jin is a distinguished professor at University of Technology Sydney, an ARC Laureate Fellow, Fellow of Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, and a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher, with expertise covering biomedical engineering, nanotechnology, microscopy, microfluidics, and analytical chemistry, to enable rapid detection, imaging and sensing of cells and molecules. He established the UTS Institute for Biomedical Materials & Devices (IBMD) to transform advances in phonics and materials into disruptive biotechnologies.
https://events.berkeley.edu/HWNI/event/243494-mcb-seminardeveloping-the-toolkit-for
2024 Irving Tragen Lecture in Comparative Law - “Lawyers, Judges and Justice”, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243567-2024-irving-tragen-lecture-in-comparative-law-

Justice Rosalie Abella.

https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243567-2024-irving-tragen-lecture-in-comparative-law-
CCB Industry Seminar: Predicting RNA-seq coverage from DNA sequence as a unifying model of gene regulation, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/CCB/event/243374-ccb-industry-seminar-predicting-rna-seq-coverage-from

Abstract: I will describe a neural network model, Borzoi, trained to predict cell- and tissue-specific RNA-seq coverage from DNA sequence. Statistics derived from Borzoi’s predicted coverage isolate and accurately score variant effects across multiple layers of regulation, including transcription, splicing, and polyadenylation. The wide availability of RNA-seq data across species, conditions, and assays profiling specific aspects of regulation emphasizes the potential of this approach to decipher the mapping from DNA sequence to regulatory function.

https://events.berkeley.edu/CCB/event/243374-ccb-industry-seminar-predicting-rna-seq-coverage-from
Developing the Toolkit for Investigating Multi-Organelles’ Interactome in Live Cells, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/243474-developing-the-toolkit-for-investigatingAbstract: My presentation will highlight three recent breakthroughs in imaging, sensing, and modulating organelles’ interactome in live cells. Firstly, we address speed and throughput challenges by using a universal lipid-specific dye for ratiometric imaging of membrane-associated organelles, enabling segmentation of up to 15 structures. Secondly, we explore lanthanide-doped nanoparticles capable of up-converting infrared photons into intense visible light at the nanoscale, facilitating diverse bio-applications, including the tracking of single-molecule transport, super-resolution microscopy, nanoscale thermometry, and nanoscale optical tweezers. Lastly, we introduce nanoscale capacitive optoelectrodes for in vivo neuromodulation, offering high-efficiency optical neuromodulation with minimal side effects. These advancements enable super-resolution imaging, sensing, and modulation of single molecules and live cells in their physiological environment, providing insights into the nanoscale world inside living cells.
Bio: Dayong Jin is a distinguished professor at University of Technology Sydney, an ARC Laureate Fellow, Fellow of Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, and a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher, with expertise covering biomedical engineering, nanotechnology, microscopy, microfluidics, and analytical chemistry, to enable rapid detection, imaging and sensing of cells and molecules. He established the UTS Institute for Biomedical Materials & Devices (IBMD) to transform advances in phonics and materials into disruptive biotechnologies.
Division(s): INFORMAL SEMINAR
https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/243474-developing-the-toolkit-for-investigating
CANCELED: ERG Colloquium Series Spring 2024: Melinda Adams, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/ERG/event/232265-erg-colloquium-series-spring-2024-melinda-adams

The 2021 IPCC report makes reference to how the combination of Indigenous Knowledge and contemporary scientific research are crucial to combatting climate change effects. In California, Tribes are leading efforts in strategizing solutions to the wildfire crisis. Elsewhere in the United States, Tribes are asserting governance to steward their Homelands with cultural fire (prescribed burns led with Traditional Knowledge), as a climate adaptation tool. This talk will synthesize the opportunities and barriers as well as policy-to -practice execution of cultural fire, concentrating first on California and then offering examples throughout the United States. Discussion will elucidate the significance of working with Indigenous fire practitioners and state agencies while offering decolonial frameworks to wildland fire management.


Melinda M. Adams, Ph.D. belongs to the San Carlos Apache Tribe and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science at The University of Kansas. Her research focuses on the revitalization of cultural fire with Tribal Nations in California and now with Tribes in the Midwest. Her lab group works at the intersection of ecology, environmental policy, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Broader implications of this research include deploying cultural fire as a climate adaptation strategy while mitigating the frequency and intensity of catastrophic wildfire. Adams holds her B.S. from Haskell Indian Nations University, M.S. from Purdue University, and PhD from UC Davis.

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https://events.berkeley.edu/ERG/event/232265-erg-colloquium-series-spring-2024-melinda-adams
ERG Colloquium Series Spring 2024: Paige Weber, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/ERG/event/232269-erg-colloquium-series-spring-2024-paige-weber

If cleaning up a local environment also raises prices, does that widen or narrow inequality? In this paper—joint with Danae Hernandez-Cortes, Kyle Meng, and Chris Timmins—we combine an equilibrium sorting model characterizing location choices with a new approach to causally estimate the impact of a cleaner environment on location utility to answer this question. We estimate the model leveraging a plausibly exogenous change in the local environment due to hydraulic fracking, together with spatially-granular bilateral migration, air quality, and emissions data. Our preliminary results characterize relative welfare changes by racial groups under the observed environmental quality improvements, as well as simulated under counterfactual environmental policies. Our paper aims to quantify the connection between environmental justice and residential location decisions.


Paige Weber uses methods in environmental economics, industrial organization, and urban economics to answer her research questions in energy and the environment. A primary goal of her research is to understand the determinants and solutions to environmental inequality. Her research studies topics in energy and electricity markets, climate change policy, local air quality, renewable energy, and transportation demand and urban form. She joined the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley as an Assistant Professor in 2023.

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https://events.berkeley.edu/ERG/event/232269-erg-colloquium-series-spring-2024-paige-weber
ERG Colloquium Series Spring 2024: Paige Weber, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/blum/event/243580-erg-colloquium-series-spring-2024-paige-weber

If cleaning up a local environment also raises prices, does that widen or narrow inequality? In this paper—joint with Danae Hernandez-Cortes, Kyle Meng, and Chris Timmins—we combine an equilibrium sorting model characterizing location choices with a new approach to causally estimate the impact of a cleaner environment on location utility to answer this question. We estimate the model leveraging a plausibly exogenous change in the local environment due to hydraulic fracking, together with spatially-granular bilateral migration, air quality, and emissions data. Our preliminary results characterize relative welfare changes by racial groups under the observed environmental quality improvements, as well as simulated under counterfactual environmental policies. Our paper aims to quantify the connection between environmental justice and residential location decisions.


Paige Weber uses methods in environmental economics, industrial organization, and urban economics to answer her research questions in energy and the environment. A primary goal of her research is to understand the determinants and solutions to environmental inequality. Her research studies topics in energy and electricity markets, climate change policy, local air quality, renewable energy, and transportation demand and urban form. She joined the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley as an Assistant Professor in 2023.

Giannini 141

https://events.berkeley.edu/blum/event/243580-erg-colloquium-series-spring-2024-paige-weber
American Thanatocracy vs Abolition Democracy: On Cops, Capitalism, and the War on Black Life, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/gradiv/event/239372-american-thanatocracy-vs-abolition-democracy-on

This lecture is part of the Jefferson Memorial Lecture series

About this lecture

This talk will examine how police in the neoliberal era–in tandem with other state and corporate entities—have become engines of capital accumulation, government revenue, gentrification, the municipal bond market, the tech and private security industry—in a phrase, the profits of death. The police don’t just take lives; they make life and living less viable for the communities they occupy. The growth of police power has also fundamentally weakened democracy and strengthened “thanatocracy”—rule by death– especially with respect to Black communities. And yet, these same communities have produced a new abolition democracy, organizing to advance a different future, without oppression and exploitation, war, poverty, prisons, police, borders, the constraints of imposed gender, sexual, and ableist norms, and an economic system that destroys the planet while generating obscene inequality.  

About Robin D.G. Kelley

Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the recipient of many awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and Freedom Scholar Award. His books include the award-winning, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original; Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression; Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination; Race Rebels: Culture Politics and the Black Working Class; Yo’ Mama’s DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America (Beacon Press 1997); Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times.

Kelley is currently completing two books, Making a Killing: Cops, Capitalism, and the War on Black Life and The Education of Ms. Grace Halsell: An Intimate History of the American Century (both forthcoming Metropolitan Books).

His essays have appeared in dozens of publications, including The Nation, New York Times,American Historical Review, American Quarterly, African Studies Review, Social Text, Metropolis, Journal of American History, New Labor Forum, and The Boston Review, for which he also serves as Contributing Editor.

https://events.berkeley.edu/gradiv/event/239372-american-thanatocracy-vs-abolition-democracy-on
2024 David E. Nelson Memorial Lecture & Spring Tech Careers Fair, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243276-2024-david-e-nelson-memorial-lecture-springWednesday, March 20, 2024 | 4:30 PM
University Club, California Memorial Stadium
Register to secure your seat at the lecture: https://bclt.wufoo.com/forms/2024-david-e-nelson-memorial-lecture/
Join BCLT for the 2024 David E. Nelson Memorial Lecture. This not-to-be-missed annual event will once again be held at the spectacular University Club, atop the California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley. Introductions will be made by Edlene Miguel from the IP Law Society and Women in Tech Law at the UC Berkeley School of Law. CLE will be offered.
How can we best fulfill the Constitution’s mandate to promote the “progress of science and the useful arts”? In this public lecture, Professor Colleen Chien will argue for a shift in our understanding of “progress” to emphasize the importance of a diversity of innovators to the enterprise of innovation. She’ll talk about the “innovator-inventor gap,” the much lower rate at which women and underrepresented innovators become inventors, and steps lawmakers, policymakers, and companies can take to ensure that the best ideas, from all innovators, are considered and developed. The lecture will also highlight the work of the Diversity Pilots Initiative (diversitypilots.org), a partnership among leading academics and companies to foster inclusion in innovation through empirical research methods, including randomized control trials.
The lecture will be given by Professor Colleen Chien (UC Berkeley School of Law) on her paper titled “Redefining Progress: The Case for Diversity in Innovation and Inventing.” Respondents for the lecture are Dean Erwin Chemerinsky (UC Berkeley School of Law) and Director Kathi Vidal (US Patent & Trade Office).
Reception to follow.
2024 BCLT Spring Tech Law Careers Fair
We continue our tradition of following our signature Nelson Memorial Lecture with a career fair to connect BCLT sponsors and Berkeley Law students.
BCLT is pleased to invite all Berkeley Law 1L students to this year’s Spring Tech Law Careers Fair from 6:30-8:30 P.M. at the Field Club, in the California Memorial Stadium. The purpose of this event is to introduce BCLT sponsor firms and Berkeley Law students for current and future hiring. This career fair is geared toward the 1Ls who would like more information on these firms and their approach to associate hiring, training, and development.
Register to attend the career fair: https://bclt.wufoo.com/forms/2024-bclt-spring-tech-career-fair/
The Nelson Lecture reception will help kick off conversations and the content of the lecture will provide great ice-breakers to connect with our sponsors.
For more information on the careers fair, contact Abril Delgado (abrildelgado@berkeley.edu).
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243276-2024-david-e-nelson-memorial-lecture-spring
Remembering and Forgetting in Ancient Mesopotamia: Ziggurats, Royal Sculpture, and the Shaping of the Akkadian Empire during the Ur III Period (c. 2100-2000 BCE), March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/AHMA/event/242557-remembering-and-forgetting-in-ancient-mesopotamia

The AIA San Francisco Society is pleased to welcome Dr. Marian Feldman to give the Ellen & Charles S. La Follette Lecture. This event will be held over Zoom. To register, please visit the following link: https://berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkcO6tqj4pG9ebjGjMx2sNvh6_EsGVN-i2#/registration

Abstract: 

This talk investigates the destruction and reconstruction of sacred space by the rulers of the so-called Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2100-2000 BCE), as well as their contrasting preservation and curation of royal monuments from the Akkadian dynasty that preceded them (c. 2350-2150 BCE). It proposes the imbricated nature of the Akkadian and Ur III periods, especially as we have come to understand each of them today, while also making an argument for the way architectural spaces generate bodily experiences that are central to collective identity and memory in contrast to representational monuments of a discursive nature. In doing so, I explore how people engage variously with spatial and representational experiences and the effects on shared memory thus generated in order to analyze how the two modes of memory making intertwined with one another in the sacred precincts of the Ur III rulers, and especially that of the temple complex of the god Enlil, known as the Ekur, at Nippur.

https://events.berkeley.edu/AHMA/event/242557-remembering-and-forgetting-in-ancient-mesopotamia
Choirs, Collectives, Collaboration: Polyphony and Parallax Memory as a Form of Activism in the Work of Three Japanese Artists, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/cjs/event/243027-choirs-collectives-collaboration-polyphony-and

*Note: Room changed from 370 Dwinelle*

Activism, in its collective form, has become a ubiquitous practice for those members in Japanese opposition or minority groups, using different methods and approaches to make their voice heard. Using theoretical tools that read into the choir and polyphony in Mikhail Bakhtin and Jacques Rancière’s writings, I argue that the choir is the immediate embodiment of polyphony, but also transformation of the silenced into the arena of activism and voicing of minorities who were silenced and left behind, in the name of Japanese homogeneity. In my presentation, I shall look into three video art/ photography projects that make innovative use of the medium of the chorus to express the multivocality and the parallax memory of the community, especially in relation to the silenced memories of the Asia-Pacific War.

First, I look into Koizumi Meirō’s project The Angels of Testimony (2019), in which he amplifies the confessional text of former Japanese imperial soldier Kondō Hajime, using a group of young actors who rehearse and recite the gruesome descriptions coming from Kondō’s testimony, while these voices are positioned in the public space; Then, Yamashiro Chikako’s project Chorus of Melodies (2011) uses multiple voices of the young and the elderly, to make their past story heard, after long years of silence; Lastly, Ishikawa Mao, has been working with the community for the past decade to create The Great Photographic Scroll of the Ryūkyū (2014-2023), a project that consists of Ishikawa’s direct engagement with her community on all levels: from thoughts and ideas, scripts, acting out and reenacting, as well as the preparation of display – celebrating the power of the community as a multivocal choir, vis-à-vis Japanese politics and US policies that have determined the fate of Ryūkyū islands.

https://events.berkeley.edu/cjs/event/243027-choirs-collectives-collaboration-polyphony-and
Remembering and Forgetting in Ancient Mesopotamia: Ziggurats, Royal Sculpture, and the Shaping of the Akkadian Empire during the Ur III Period (c. 2100-2000 BCE), March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243610-remembering-and-forgetting-in-ancient-mesopotamia

The AIA San Francisco Society is pleased to welcome Dr. Marian Feldman to give the Ellen & Charles S. La Follette Lecture. This event will be held over Zoom. To register, please visit the following link: https://berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkcO6tqj4pG9ebjGjMx2sNvh6_EsGVN-i2#/registration

Abstract: 

This talk investigates the destruction and reconstruction of sacred space by the rulers of the so-called Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2100-2000 BCE), as well as their contrasting preservation and curation of royal monuments from the Akkadian dynasty that preceded them (c. 2350-2150 BCE). It proposes the imbricated nature of the Akkadian and Ur III periods, especially as we have come to understand each of them today, while also making an argument for the way architectural spaces generate bodily experiences that are central to collective identity and memory in contrast to representational monuments of a discursive nature. In doing so, I explore how people engage variously with spatial and representational experiences and the effects on shared memory thus generated in order to analyze how the two modes of memory making intertwined with one another in the sacred precincts of the Ur III rulers, and especially that of the temple complex of the god Enlil, known as the Ekur, at Nippur.

https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243610-remembering-and-forgetting-in-ancient-mesopotamia
ORIAS San Francisco World History Reading Group, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/orias/event/224560-orias-san-francisco-world-history-reading-group

To register and to learn about monthly books, visit the WHRG program webpage.

https://events.berkeley.edu/orias/event/224560-orias-san-francisco-world-history-reading-group
The City Without Jews: A Centenary Film Soirée, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/236942-the-city-without-jews-a-centenary-film-soiree

Based on the controversial and best-selling novel by Austrian-Jewish writer Hugo Bettauer, H.K. Breslauer’s 1924 film adaptation of The City Without Jews (Die Stadt ohne Juden) was produced two years after the publication of the book, and, tragically, only a brief time before the satirical events depicted in the fictional story transformed into an all-too-horrific reality.

Set in the Austrian city of Utopia (a thinly-disguised stand-in for Vienna), the story follows the political and personal consequences of an antisemitic law passed by the National Assembly forcing all Jews to leave the country. At first, the decision is met with celebration, yet when the citizens of Utopia eventually come to terms with the loss of the Jewish population—and the resulting economic and cultural decline—the National Assembly must decide whether or not to invite the Jews back.

Though darkly comedic in tone, and stylistically influenced by German Expressionism, the film nonetheless contains ominous and eerily realistic sequences, such as the shots of freight trains transporting Jews out of the city. The stinging critique of Nazism in the film is part of the reason it no longer screened in public after 1933 (all complete prints were thought to be destroyed). Now, thanks to the discovery of a nitrate print in a Parisian flea market in 2015, as well as to the brilliant restoration efforts of the Filmarchiv Austria, this previously “lost” film can once again be appreciated in its unfortunately ever-relevant entirety.

The program will include a welcome by Austrian Consul Isabella Tomás, live original music composed and performed by world-renowned klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals and celebrated silent film pianist Donald Sosin, and a conversation with Professor Emerita Cynthia Walk and UC Berkeley’s DAAD Visiting Associate Professor of History and German Philipp Lenhard.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/236942-the-city-without-jews-a-centenary-film-soiree
The City Without Jews: A Centenary Film Soirée, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/Magnes/event/240947-the-city-without-jews-a-centenary-film-soiree

Join us for a special screening of the historic silent film The City Without Jews accompanied live with original music composed and performed by klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals and silent film pianist Donald Sosin. The screening will be followed by a conversation with the musicians, UC San Diego Professor Emerita Cynthia Walk, and UC Berkeley Professor Philipp Lenhard.

Wednesday, March 20, 2024 | 5:30pm

In person at The Magnes Collection, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA

5:00 pm: Doors open
5:30 pm: Program begins

Based on the controversial and best-selling novel by Austrian-Jewish writer Hugo Bettauer, H.K. Breslauer’s 1924 film adaptation of The City Without Jews (Die Stadt ohne Juden) was produced two years after the publication of the book, and, tragically, only a brief time before the satirical events depicted in the fictional story transformed into an all-too-horrific reality.

Set in the Austrian city of Utopia (a thinly-disguised stand-in for Vienna), the story follows the political and personal consequences of an antisemitic law passed by the National Assembly forcing all Jews to leave the country. At first, the decision is met with celebration, yet when the citizens of Utopia eventually come to terms with the loss of the Jewish population—and the resulting economic and cultural decline—the National Assembly must decide whether or not to invite the Jews back.

Though darkly comedic in tone, and stylistically influenced by German Expressionism, the film nonetheless contains ominous and eerily realistic sequences, such as the shots of freight trains transporting Jews out of the city. The stinging critique of Nazism in the film is part of the reason it no longer screened in public after 1933 (all complete prints were thought to be destroyed). Now, thanks to the discovery of a nitrate print in a Parisian flea market in 2015, as well as to the brilliant restoration efforts of the Filmarchiv Austria, this previously “lost” film can once again be appreciated in its unfortunately ever-relevant entirety.

The program will include a welcome by Austrian Consul Isabella Tomás, live original music composed and performed by world-renowned klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals and celebrated silent film pianist Donald Sosin, and a conversation with the musicians, Professor Emerita Cynthia Walk and UC Berkeley’s DAAD Visiting Associate Professor of History and German Philipp Lenhard.

The performance is made possible by the Sunrise Foundation for Education and the Arts.

 

About the musicians

Alicia Svigals, violinist/composer and a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics, is the world’s foremost klezmer fiddler. Alicia almost singlehandedly revived the tradition of klezmer fiddling, which had been on the brink of extinction until she recorded her debut album Fidl in the 1990’s. In May 2023, Svigals was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by the Jewish Theological Seminary for “extraordinary contributions to the arts and Jewish life.” Website: aliciasvigals.com

Pianist/composer Donald Sosin grew up in Rye, NY and Munich, Germany. Since 1971 has performed his silent film music at Lincoln Center, MoMA, BAM, the National Gallery, Yale, Harvard, and major film festivals here and abroad. He records for various DVD labels: Criterion, Kino, Milestone, Flicker Alley and his scores are heard frequently on TCM. Website: oldmoviemusic.com

 

About the speakers

Cynthia Walk, Associate Professor Emerita of German Literature and Film Studies at the University of California, San Diego, received her Ph.D. from Yale. Her research has focused on modern drama, theater, and film with publications on intermediality, race, and ethnicity in Weimar cinema. She also worked on the restoration of Jewish-themed films from the Weimar era and contributed to the restored version of “The City without Jews”.

Philipp Lenhard, DAAD Associate Professor of History and German at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in modern German and Jewish history and has recently published a new history of the Frankfurt School (in German).

Isabella Tomás is the Austrian Consul in San Francisco and Co-Director of Open Austria.

https://events.berkeley.edu/Magnes/event/240947-the-city-without-jews-a-centenary-film-soiree
The City Without Jews: A Centenary Film Soirée, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243611-the-city-without-jews-a-centenary-film-soiree

Based on the controversial and best-selling novel by Austrian-Jewish writer Hugo Bettauer, H.K. Breslauer’s 1924 film adaptation of The City Without Jews (Die Stadt ohne Juden) was produced two years after the publication of the book, and, tragically, only a brief time before the satirical events depicted in the fictional story transformed into an all-too-horrific reality.

Set in the Austrian city of Utopia (a thinly-disguised stand-in for Vienna), the story follows the political and personal consequences of an antisemitic law passed by the National Assembly forcing all Jews to leave the country. At first, the decision is met with celebration, yet when the citizens of Utopia eventually come to terms with the loss of the Jewish population—and the resulting economic and cultural decline—the National Assembly must decide whether or not to invite the Jews back.

Though darkly comedic in tone, and stylistically influenced by German Expressionism, the film nonetheless contains ominous and eerily realistic sequences, such as the shots of freight trains transporting Jews out of the city. The stinging critique of Nazism in the film is part of the reason it no longer screened in public after 1933 (all complete prints were thought to be destroyed). Now, thanks to the discovery of a nitrate print in a Parisian flea market in 2015, as well as to the brilliant restoration efforts of the Filmarchiv Austria, this previously “lost” film can once again be appreciated in its unfortunately ever-relevant entirety.

The program will include a welcome by Austrian Consul Isabella Tomás, live original music composed and performed by world-renowned klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals and celebrated silent film pianist Donald Sosin, and a conversation with Professor Emerita Cynthia Walk and UC Berkeley’s DAAD Visiting Associate Professor of History and German Philipp Lenhard.

https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243611-the-city-without-jews-a-centenary-film-soiree
Communicating Algorithmic Science to the Public, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/Simons/event/243102-communicating-algorithmic-science-to-the-public

Algorithms increasingly pervade every aspect of daily life. The importance of this societal development is widely acknowledged, but how much does the public understand about the underlying science? This panel discussion brings together a theoretical computer scientist with science communicators specializing in math and computer science, to explore the question of how to communicate algorithmic science to a broad audience.

Alex Bellos is a British popular-science writer whose books have sold more than a million copies and been translated into more than 20 languages. He is the puzzle columnist for The Guardian, as well as one of the main presenters of the YouTube channel Numberphile, and has presented science documentaries for BBC Radio. He is currently writing a book about theoretical computer science for the general reader, which will be published by Knopf in the United States.

Ananyo Bhattacharya is chief science writer at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences. During a 15-year career in journalism, he has worked as a senior editor at Nature, Chemistry World, and Research Fortnight, and as a community editor and science correspondent for The Economist. He is the author of The Man from the Future, an intellectual biography of John von Neumann.

Ben Brubaker is a New York City–based science journalist who covers theoretical computer science for Quanta Magazine. Before joining Quanta as a staff writer, he covered physics as a freelancer for publications including Scientific American and Physics Today. He holds a PhD in physics from Yale and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Sampath Kannan is the Henry Salvatori Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests are in the areas of algorithmic fairness, combinatorial algorithms, program reliability, streaming computation, and computational biology. He is a fellow of the ACM, and the recipient of the ACM SIGACT Distinguished Service Award. He is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.


Theoretically Speaking is a lecture series highlighting exciting advances in theoretical computer science for a broad general audience. Events are free and open to the public, with first-come, first-served seating. No special background is assumed. Registration is required. This lecture will be viewable on our YouTube channel following captioning.

Light refreshments will be provided before the talk, starting at 5:15 p.m.

The Simons Institute regularly captures photos and video of activity around the Institute for use in publications and promotional materials.

https://events.berkeley.edu/Simons/event/243102-communicating-algorithmic-science-to-the-public
Communicating Algorithmic Science to the Public, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/blum/event/243581-communicating-algorithmic-science-to-the-public

Algorithms increasingly pervade every aspect of daily life. The importance of this societal development is widely acknowledged, but how much does the public understand about the underlying science? This panel discussion brings together a theoretical computer scientist with science communicators specializing in math and computer science, to explore the question of how to communicate algorithmic science to a broad audience.

Alex Bellos is a British popular-science writer whose books have sold more than a million copies and been translated into more than 20 languages. He is the puzzle columnist for The Guardian, as well as one of the main presenters of the YouTube channel Numberphile, and has presented science documentaries for BBC Radio. He is currently writing a book about theoretical computer science for the general reader, which will be published by Knopf in the United States.

Ananyo Bhattacharya is chief science writer at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences. During a 15-year career in journalism, he has worked as a senior editor at Nature, Chemistry World, and Research Fortnight, and as a community editor and science correspondent for The Economist. He is the author of The Man from the Future, an intellectual biography of John von Neumann.

Ben Brubaker is a New York City–based science journalist who covers theoretical computer science for Quanta Magazine. Before joining Quanta as a staff writer, he covered physics as a freelancer for publications including Scientific American and Physics Today. He holds a PhD in physics from Yale and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Sampath Kannan is the Henry Salvatori Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests are in the areas of algorithmic fairness, combinatorial algorithms, program reliability, streaming computation, and computational biology. He is a fellow of the ACM, and the recipient of the ACM SIGACT Distinguished Service Award. He is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.


Theoretically Speaking is a lecture series highlighting exciting advances in theoretical computer science for a broad general audience. Events are free and open to the public, with first-come, first-served seating. No special background is assumed. Registration is required. This lecture will be viewable on our YouTube channel following captioning.

Light refreshments will be provided before the talk, starting at 5:15 p.m.

The Simons Institute regularly captures photos and video of activity around the Institute for use in publications and promotional materials.

https://events.berkeley.edu/blum/event/243581-communicating-algorithmic-science-to-the-public
Rozana Montiel: On materials. Voluntary Simpli(cities) | Architecture Lecture, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/ced/event/236261-rozana-montiel-on-materials-voluntary-simplicities

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

A spring 2024 Friedman Visiting Professor of Practice, Rozana Montiel is founder and director of Rozana Montiel Estudio de Arquitectura (REA), based in Mexico City. The studio focuses on architectural design, artistic reconceptualizations of space, and the public domain and works on a variety of scales and layers ranging from the city to the book, the artifact, and other micro-objects. Her research includes urban uses of public space, resignification of building materials with an emphasis on place-making, livability, and temporary uses of space.

Montiel is a recipient of the International Women Architects Prize (Paris, 2022); the MCHAP Emerging Architecture Prize (Chicago, 2018); and the Emerging Voices Award (2016), granted by The Architectural League of New York, among others. She is author of HU: Common Spaces in Housing Units (2018). With degrees from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, she has taught at Cornell, Columbia, and the Illinois Institute of Technology.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ced/event/236261-rozana-montiel-on-materials-voluntary-simplicities
Toastmasters on Campus: Learn to improve your public speaking skills, March 20/event/121289-toastmasters-on-campus-learn-to-improve-your

Founded in 1987, the Toastmasters on Campus club has been serving UC Berkeley students, faculty and staff for 35 years. Each Toastmasters meeting is a learn-by-doing workshop where members work through self-paced speech assignments designed to instill a solid foundation in public speaking.

Toastmasters on Campus meets every Wednesday evening, and guests are warmly welcomed. We currently meet remotely using Zoom software. The club has earned Toastmasters’ highest honor, the President’s Distinguished Club award, for the past 12 years.

Toastmasters International is a world leader in communication and leadership training with 300,000 members in 149 countries. We can help you too!

/event/121289-toastmasters-on-campus-learn-to-improve-your
Film Screening: The Echo, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/239963-film-screening-the-echo

Tatiana Huezo makes a visually arresting return to nonfiction filmmaking with this immersive portrait of multigenerational family life in the remote Mexican highlands. Focusing on a tight-knit trio of families, the film is named for the village where the families have farmed for generations, just hours from Mexico City but a world away in every other sense. Unfolding from the perspectives of the young women and children of El Eco, the film chronicles life’s many cycles—the seasons, the rhythm of planting and harvesting, death and birth—while painting a world in which women’s lives are inextricably linked to one another and to the land.

-Abbie Algar, AFI Fest
https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/239963-film-screening-the-echo
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222947-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222947-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229229-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229229-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236471-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236471-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241443-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241443-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
[On Zoom] Amrita Jhaveri + Manjari Sihare-Sutin | Vital Love: Collectors Speak Series, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/229483-on-zoom-amrita-jhaveri-manjari-sihare-sutin-vital-lov

Amrita Jhaveri, Co-Founder of Jhaveri Contemporary, in conversation with Manjari Sihare-Sutin, Vice President and Head of Sale, Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art at Sotheby’s.

Event moderated by Atreyee Gupta, Assistant Professor of Global Modern Art and South and Southeast Asian Art in the History of Art Department at UC Berkeley. 

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  • Day: Thu, March 21, 2024
  • Time: 9 am PST | Calculate your local time here.
  • Register on Zoom HERE 
  • This event will be live streamed on SAAI’s FB page - SAAIatUCBerkeley.

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SPEAKER BIO: Amrita Jhaveri has been working in the field of Modern and Contemporary Indian art since 1993. Having established Christie’s presence in India in the mid-1990s, she moved to London in 2000 and began to build her private collection of art from which she has loaned to museums worldwide. She has worked as an independent advisor, creating and managing private and corporate art collections; ambitious artist’s projects and large-scale commissions. In 2010, she established Jhaveri Contemporary, a gallery of Modern and Contemporary art, in Mumbai. Her research interests have resulted in exhibitions such as Thinking Tantra and South Asian Modernists, 1953- 63, and she is the author of 101: A Guide to 101 Modern and Contemporary Indian Artists.

Manjari Sihare-Sutin joined the Modern and Contemporary South Asian Department at Sotheby’s in 2015. Throughout her tenure, Sihare-Sutin has consistently innovated, focusing her curatorial and sales expertise to expand the global reach of modern and contemporary South Asian art.

Sihare-Sutin’s sales are comprehensive explorations of art in the region, bringing both known and fresh artists to market with exceptional results. From March 2022 to March 2023, the department achieved a total of 40 world auction records. In addition to major biannual sales, Sihare-Sutin spearheaded the department’s first online auction in 2017, A Lyrical Line: Paintings & Drawings by Francis Newton Souza, and two selling exhibitions, The Great Within: Photographs of India And The British Raj In The 19th Century in 2018 and Crafting Geometry: Abstract Art from South and West Asia in 2020.

Sihare-Sutin holds two graduate degrees, a master’s degree in art history from the National Museum Institute, New Delhi and a master’s degree in Visual Arts Administration from New York University, New York.

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The South Asia Art Initiative at the University of California, Berkeley promotes research-based conversations and collaborations around the arts of South Asia + its diasporas from the ancient period to the now. To read more about the Initiative and help support its various fundraising goals, please click HERE.
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Event made possible with the support of the Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies

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PARKING INFORMATION
Please note that parking is not always easily available in Berkeley. Take public transportation if possible or arrive early to secure your spot.

Event is FREE and OPEN to the public.

https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/229483-on-zoom-amrita-jhaveri-manjari-sihare-sutin-vital-lov
BPM 106 Taking Disciplinary Action, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/223315-bpm-106-taking-disciplinary-action

Access to registration is disabled two days prior to the event.

This 5.5-hour in-person workshop is part of the BPM Part 2: Grow Your Knowledge series. In this highly interactive workshop, each participant’s experience is drawn upon for the learning. Ideally, to contribute to and enhance understanding, participants will come with current and/or previous people management experience.

The content provides the information and skills needed to deal confidently with unacceptable employee behavior and performance.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
*Apply the Seven Tests of Just Cause as a framework for disciplinary action
*List disciplinary alternatives
*Determine which disciplinary alternatives are appropriate

This workshop addresses the following UC Systemwide Core Competency ABCs:
*Belonging and Community
*Stewardship
*Problem Solving
*Communication

https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/223315-bpm-106-taking-disciplinary-action
Punic women as ritual agents: evidence from material and visual culture (Dr. Mireia Lopez Bertran), March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/219463-punic-women-as-ritual-agents-evidence-from

This lecture is part of the series Women and Gender in the Phoenician Homeland and Diaspora. This program of public lectures takes place monthly on Thursdays at 9:30 AM Pacific, from October 2023 through May 2024. See the list of lectures and dates below.

Watch on the ARF YouTube channel here: https://bit.ly/arf-channel or watch later on the ARF & Badè YouTube channels.

 

November 2, 2023 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Bärbel Morstadt - “Ashtart and Co. as female role models in Phoenician society”

 

December 7, 2023 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Wissam Khalil and Karim Fadlallah - “The cult of Astarte within the coastal grottos of Adloun and Kharayeb in southern Lebanon”

 

January 25, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Becky Martin - “Gender representation on anthropoid coffins”

 

February 22, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Jessica Nitschke - “Dress and representation of women in Phoenician visual culture”

 

March 7, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Agnès Garcia Ventura and Dr. Mireia Lopez Bertran - “On Phoenician/Punic music and musicians: a gender approach”

 

March 21, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Mireia Lopez Bertran - “Punic women as ritual agents: evidence from material and visual culture”

 

March 28, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Maroun Khreich - “Phoenician women in textual documentation (epigraphical and literary)”

 

April 18, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Tatiana Pedrazzi - “Sitting on a throne or working with vases: from deities to ordinary women in Phoenicia”

 

May 2, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Adriano Orsingher - “Gender and masks. A look through the Phoenician/Punic lens”

 

May 16, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Ida Oggiano - “Ritual actions of Phoenician women in the Levant in the 1st millennium BC: purposes and modalities”

https://events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/219463-punic-women-as-ritual-agents-evidence-from
OPT Doc Check Workshop, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/bio/event/237435-opt-doc-check-workshop

Join Berkeley International Office as you prepare your OPT application! We will cover the required documents, how to fill out the forms, and common mistakes. There will also be a Q&A portion. Please have all of the required documents on hand for the webinar.

RSVP Here.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bio/event/237435-opt-doc-check-workshop
Law & Technology: Amazon’s Quiet Overhaul of the Trademark System, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242739-law-technology-amazons-quiet-overhaul-of-theSession 5: Amazon’s Quiet Overhaul of the Trademark System
Jeanne Fromer (NYU)
Room 134
Thursday, March 21, 2024
10:00 – 11:50 a.m. (PT)
Organized by Proj. Tejas Narechania & Prof. Colleen Chien
Abstract
Amazon’s Quiet Overhaul of the Trademark System
Amazon’s impact raises profound questions for trademark law, and for law more generally. There have been powerful players before, and other situations in which private dispute resolution procedures have affected parties’ behavior. But Amazon’s effect on the legal system is unprecedented in scale and scope. What does (and should) it mean that one private party can so significantly affect a legal system? Do we want the trademark system to have to continually adapt to Amazon’s rules? If not, how can the law disable Amazon from having such a profound impact? In this regard, we explore the ways in which Amazon’s practices might both help and hurt competition, be harmful to the trademark system, and reshape how we think about trademark law.
Colloquium. Description
In the context of technology, how can the law promote abundance, efficiency, and access while also advancing values like fairness, safety, and privacy? What institutional arrangements and governance structures best support the consistent and equitable application of the law? And what empirical and legal theoretical insights can be leveraged to explain or improve the development and operation of technology law and policy? In this colloquium, we will explore these and related questions through the lens of seven projects, whose subject matter will draw from intellectual property, telecommunications, and related bodies of technology law.
 
Full Colloquium Calendar Schedule:
[1/25] Open Government Data in an Age of AI
Erik Stallman (UC Berkeley)
[2/8] Talkin ‘Bout AI Generation
James Grimmelman (Cornell) – via Zoom
[2/22] Polycentric Healthcare Innovation (co-authored with Wendy Epstein)
Laura Pedraza-Farina (UCLA)
[3/7] Regulatory Disclosure of AI Use: The Case of Drug Discovery.
Arti Rai (Duke)
[3/21] Amazon’s Quiet Overhaul of the Trademark System
Jeanne Fromer (NYU)
[4/11] TBD
John Duffy (UVA)
[4/18] TBD
Tejas Narechania (UC Berkeley)
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242739-law-technology-amazons-quiet-overhaul-of-the
BJELL Symposium: The Current State and Future of Forced Arbitration in America, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242738-bjell-symposium-the-current-state-and-future-ofThis year’s BJELL symposium, in collaboration with Berkeley’s Center for Law and Work and Center for Consumer Law and Economic Justice, will focus on forced arbitration in America. It will include a keynote address by Justice Goodwin Liu, of the California Supreme Court, along with three panel discussions, featuring some of the most impactful scholars and advocates researching, litigating, and creating policy around forced arbitration today. Speakers include individuals who have argued landmark arbitration cases at the state and national level, including recent Supreme Court cases; individuals who have shaped California policy surrounding forced arbitration in crucial, often novel ways; and individuals who played a role in recent national legislation barring forced arbitration in the context of sexual harassment and sexual assault. Whether you are new to the topic of arbitration, looking to understand the cutting edge issues that will shape its future, or hoping to get involved in advocacy around it, this symposium is the perfect opportunity to get up to speed and to meet some of the most important individuals working on arbitration today.
Learn more about the event and RSVP here, or scan the QR code on the flyer.
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242738-bjell-symposium-the-current-state-and-future-of
Graduate Research Seminar, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/204468-graduate-research-seminar

Encapsulation and delivery of functional RNA using MS2 virus-like particles

https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/204468-graduate-research-seminar
Graduate Research Seminar, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/204469-graduate-research-seminar

Chemically recyclable polymers via ring-opening polymerization of cyclic alkyl phosphonates

https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/204469-graduate-research-seminar
External Finance Seminars: Philipp Schnabl - NYU, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/237049-external-finance-seminars-philipp-schnabl-nyuGuest:
Philipp Schnabl
NYU


Paper:

Do Banks Hedge Using Interest Rate Swaps?



https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/237049-external-finance-seminars-philipp-schnabl-nyu
The Loft Hour: Iggy Cortez + Juan David Rubio Restrepo, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/arc/event/218700-the-loft-hour-iggy-cortez-juan-david-rubio

The Loft Hour:
Iggy Cortez + Juan David Rubio Restrepo

in conversation with Salar Mameni


Thursday, Mar 21, 2024
12 – 1pm
ARC, Hearst Field Annex D23

Elevate your lunch break with The Loft Hour, a new year-long series that invites new arts faculty to riff on their work over lunch, in an informal conversation moderated by an ARC-affiliated faculty member. The March program features Iggy Cortez (Film & Media) and Juan David Rubio Restrepo (Music) in conversation with Salar Mameni (Ethnic Studies).

 

Iggy Cortez is a scholar of world cinema and contemporary art whose research and teaching are broadly concerned with diasporic thought and visual culture; racialization in relation to labour and technology; and questions of sexuality, cinematic performance, and embodiment. He is currently at work on a book project entitled Wondrous Nights: Global Cinema and the Nocturnal Sensorium that explores nighttime as a conceptual and sensory threshold across recent world cinema. His writing has appeared in The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, camera obscura, Film Quarterly, ASAP/J, caa: reviews, and several edited volumes. With Ian Fleishman, he is also the co-editor of Performative Opacity in the Work of Isabelle Huppert (Edinburgh University, 2023). He has also curated exhibitions and film series at  The Slought Foundation, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Penn Humanities Forum and The Lightbox Center. https://filmmedia.berkeley.edu/people/iggy-cortez/.

Juan David Rubio Restrepo’s research interests include theories of the human; decolonial theory; media studies; cultural and ethnic studies; critical theory; ethnomusicology; and Latin American, Chicanx, Caribbean and African-American thought. He is currently using multi-sited archival research and auto/ethnography in his current book project, which focuses on placing the music and figure of Ecuadorian singer Julio Jaramillo in a dialogue with popular music in its literal translation. In his own creative pursuits, he has performed at Angel City Jazz Festival; Festival Internacional de la Imagen; Festival Altavoz; and the Rock al Parque and Jazz al Parque festivals. Rubio Restrepo earned his BMus in jazz studies and drumkit performance from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia, before studying in California, where he received his MFA in integrated composition, improvisation, and technology from UC Irvine and Ph.D. in music with a focus on integrative studies from UC San Diego. https://artshumanities.berkeley.edu/news/juan-david-rubio-restrepo-joins-department-music-assistant-professor

Salar Mameni, Assistant Professor (Ethnic Studies), is an art historian specializing in contemporary transnational art and visual culture in the Arab/Muslim world with an interdisciplinary research on racial discourse, transnational gender politics, militarism, oil cultures and extractive economies in West Asia. Mameni’s first book Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics (Duke University Press, 2023), considers the emergence of the Anthropocene as a new geological era in relation to the concurrent declaration of the War on Terror in the early 2000s. Terracene engages contemporary art and aesthetic productions, paying particular attention to artists navigating the geopolitics of petrocultures and climate change. Research for Mameni’s second book project engages histories of medicine, in particular that of Transmedicine and the endocrine system. Mameni is currently conducting archival research to understand visual representations of fluid bodies within Islamic manuscripts prior to the rise of the scientific discipline of endocrinology in the early 20th century. https://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/people/sara-mameni/.

https://events.berkeley.edu/arc/event/218700-the-loft-hour-iggy-cortez-juan-david-rubio
The Loft Hour: Iggy Cortez + Juan David Rubio Restrepo, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/lacc/event/235998-the-loft-hour-iggy-cortez-juan-david-rubio

The Loft Hour:
Iggy Cortez + Juan David Rubio Restrepo

in conversation with Salar Mameni


Thursday, Mar 21, 2024
12 – 1pm
ARC, Hearst Field Annex D23

Elevate your lunch break with The Loft Hour, a new year-long series that invites new arts faculty to riff on their work over lunch, in an informal conversation moderated by an ARC-affiliated faculty member. The March program features Iggy Cortez (Film & Media) and Juan David Rubio Restrepo (Music) in conversation with Salar Mameni (Ethnic Studies).

Iggy Cortez is a scholar of world cinema and contemporary art whose research and teaching are broadly concerned with diasporic thought and visual culture; racialization in relation to labour and technology; and questions of sexuality, cinematic performance, and embodiment. He is currently at work on a book project entitled Wondrous Nights: Global Cinema and the Nocturnal Sensorium that explores nighttime as a conceptual and sensory threshold across recent world cinema. His writing has appeared in The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, camera obscura, Film Quarterly, ASAP/J, caa: reviews, and several edited volumes. With Ian Fleishman, he is also the co-editor of Performative Opacity in the Work of Isabelle Huppert (Edinburgh University, 2023). He has also curated exhibitions and film series at  The Slought Foundation, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Penn Humanities Forum and The Lightbox Center. https://filmmedia.berkeley.edu/people/iggy-cortez/.

 

Juan David Rubio Restrepo’s research interests include theories of the human; decolonial theory; media studies; cultural and ethnic studies; critical theory; ethnomusicology; and Latin American, Chicanx, Caribbean and African-American thought. He is currently using multi-sited archival research and auto/ethnography in his current book project, which focuses on placing the music and figure of Ecuadorian singer Julio Jaramillo in a dialogue with popular music in its literal translation. In his own creative pursuits, he has performed at Angel City Jazz Festival; Festival Internacional de la Imagen; Festival Altavoz; and the Rock al Parque and Jazz al Parque festivals. Rubio Restrepo earned his BMus in jazz studies and drumkit performance from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia, before studying in California, where he received his MFA in integrated composition, improvisation, and technology from UC Irvine and Ph.D. in music with a focus on integrative studies from UC San Diego. https://artshumanities.berkeley.edu/news/juan-david-rubio-restrepo-joins-department-music-assistant-professor

Salar Mameni, Assistant Professor (Ethnic Studies), is an art historian specializing in contemporary transnational art and visual culture in the Arab/Muslim world with an interdisciplinary research on racial discourse, transnational gender politics, militarism, oil cultures and extractive economies in West Asia. Mameni’s first book Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics (Duke University Press, 2023), considers the emergence of the Anthropocene as a new geological era in relation to the concurrent declaration of the War on Terror in the early 2000s. Terracene engages contemporary art and aesthetic productions, paying particular attention to artists navigating the geopolitics of petrocultures and climate change. Research for Mameni’s second book project engages histories of medicine, in particular that of Transmedicine and the endocrine system. Mameni is currently conducting archival research to understand visual representations of fluid bodies within Islamic manuscripts prior to the rise of the scientific discipline of endocrinology in the early 20th century. https://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/people/sara-mameni/.

https://events.berkeley.edu/lacc/event/235998-the-loft-hour-iggy-cortez-juan-david-rubio
Incorporating Equitable Aging into International Perspectives on Social Isolation and Loneliness among Older Adults: A Conceptual Framework with Dr. Angie Perone, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/socwel/event/243540-incorporating-equitable-aging-into-international

Incorporating Equitable Aging into International Perspectives on Social Isolation and Loneliness among Older Adults: A Conceptual Framework

We hope to use this session as a workshop to solicit feedback about a manuscript in preparation that has been invited for full submission for a special issue in Frontiers in Public Health. We will be presenting a conceptual framework on equitable aging in health that is illustrated by three case examples. The first case example applies an equitable aging conceptual framework to loneliness in rural and indigenous villages in Taiwan. The second case example applies this framework to community-level services and social isolation among older adults dwelling in communities in mainland China. The final case example applies this framework to social isolation and loneliness in nursing homes in Spain.

Dr. Angie Perone Bio

https://events.berkeley.edu/socwel/event/243540-incorporating-equitable-aging-into-international
Career Conversation with Alan Watts, Senior Exhibitions Creative Engineer at Meow Wolf, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/Jacobs/event/243575-career-conversation-with-alan-watts-senior-exhibition

Alan Watts has spent more than 30 years weaving his left and right brain together. In this Jacobs Institute Career Conversation, he will discuss his beginnings in the arts and how that developed into animation and game programming, database back-ends, and finally, large-scale immersive installations. He’ll then dive into his process of designing and building projects as Senior Exhibitions Creative Engineer at Meow Wolf, the arts and experiences production company.

https://events.berkeley.edu/Jacobs/event/243575-career-conversation-with-alan-watts-senior-exhibition
African Americans, History, Law: A Conversation between Robin D.G. Kelley and Dylan Penningroth, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243275-african-americans-history-law-a-conversationCo-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Law and Society, this event features a free-ranging conversation between Robin D.G. Kelley (Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History, UCLA) and Dylan Penningroth (Professor of Law and Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of History, UC Berkeley) on the subject of African Americans, Race, History, and the Law. Both Kelley and Penningroth are leading historians of African American life and experience, with many books between them. Each is expert in the general social interaction of race and law. 
We will begin with conversation between Penningroth and Kelley, then move to questions and commentary from the audience. Conversation begins 12:45 pm. LUNCH PROVIDED from 12:15 pm!  
Register for attendance and lunch with Vethea Cole: vetheacole@berkeley.edu. Registration is free.
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243275-african-americans-history-law-a-conversation
OEW Seminar - Student Presentations, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/236277-oew-seminar-student-presentationsPresenters:
Gabriel Granato: “TBD”
Silvia Barbareschi: “TBD”
https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/236277-oew-seminar-student-presentations
10+ Resources to 10x Your Career Planning, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/236302-10-resources-to-10x-your-career-planning

Looking to build your skills in your current or next role? Trying to figure out what resources exist and where to start? This workshop will
highlight 10+ resources to expand your results and support your career planning next steps. Attendees will learn/relearn at least four
programs to support you to advance to the next level in your role or career, three tools to research job and salary data, two resources
to access professional development learning modules available 24/7, plus, the one x factor that will multiply your efforts.

https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/236302-10-resources-to-10x-your-career-planning
Shansby Marketing Seminar - Deborah Small (Yale), March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/242981-shansby-marketing-seminar-deborah-small-yalehttps://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/242981-shansby-marketing-seminar-deborah-small-yaleThe EBCLC Advantage: Preparing Future Plaintiff-Side Champions, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242941-the-ebclc-advantage-preparing-futureJoin us for a dynamic discussion featuring EBCLC alumni and board members, who have found their calling in plaintiff-side work. Gain practical advice, industry insights, and inspiration as they share the ways in which they’ve leveraged their EBCLC training to carve out impactful careers in fields ranging from employment and consumer rights to housing advocacy.
Our panelists are: 
Amanda Karl, Partner at Gibbs Law Group, EBCLC Board Member and Berkeley Law, Class of 2014. 
Robert Salinas, Principal Attorney at Salinas Law Group, EBCLC Partner in Litigation, and Berkeley Law Class of 1996. 
Ines Diaz, Associate at Bursor & Fisher, P.A., EBCLC Immigration Alumni and Berkeley Law Class of 2023. 
The conversation will be moderated by current Berkeley Law 3L student and EBCLC Clean Slate alumni Sam Goity. 
This event is hosted by the East Bay Community Law Center and the Plaintiffs’ Law Association. 
Please RSVP here to let us know you’re joining! 
Thursday, March 21, 12:50-2pm 
Berkeley Law, Room 110
Lunch first come, first serve. 
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242941-the-ebclc-advantage-preparing-future
Che Abram: MicroAggressions, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/237373-che-abram-microaggressions

Participants in this workshop will be able to know the difference between micro and MACRO aggressions, their impact of micro and MACRO aggressions, and boundaries is an essential tool to addressing these forms of aggression and subsequently supports a restorative environment.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/237373-che-abram-microaggressions
CWN Professional Development Book Club, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/cwn/event/242589-cwn-professional-development-book-club

Virtual discussion on Work-Life Balance by Aisha Franz, translated by Nicholas Houde and Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder by Reshma Saujani.

Cal Women’s Network is open to all woman-identified staff and faculty.

 

Work-Life Balance by Aisha Franz
Nicholas Houde (Translator)

A cutting portrayal of the pursuit of work-life balance from the cartoonist, Aisha Franz

To achieve the proper work-life balance perhaps we just need the right therapist to coach us through our day-to-day. Anita, Sandra, and Dex have ambitions. Anita wants to move from making utility ceramics to fine art sculpture but her pent up dissatisfaction results in an outburst that puts her studio mate’s work at risk. Sandra juggles her practical administrative day job at a startup with her wellness influencer channel, finding both in jeopardy when a messy affair with her coworker comes to light. In another corner of the same startup, Dex’s innovative ideas are rejected, leading him to spend his days hacking and working as a bike courier. All three are disillusioned with their daily grinds. As the pressure for self-improvement builds they all end up looking to the same therapist for answers.

Soon the boundaries between work and life begin to bleed into each other and it becomes increasingly impossible to find balance. All the solace the characters expect their therapist to provide is obscured by her quirks, whims, and psycho-parlance, leading to sessions that are neglectful at best and actively inhibit growth at worst. In striking colors and trippy transformational sequences, Aisha Franz captures the comedic absurdity of contemporary work-life and wellness culture.

Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder by Reshma Saujani

Imagine if you lived without the fear of not being good enough. If you didn’t care how your life looked on Instagram. If you could let go of the guilt and stop beating yourself up for making human mistakes. Imagine if, in every decision you faced, you took the bolder path?

As women, too many of us feel crushed under the weight of our own expectations. We run ourselves ragged trying to please everyone, pass up opportunities that scare us, and avoid rejection at all costs.

There’s a reason we act this way, Saujani says. As girls, we were taught to play it safe. Well-meaning parents and teachers praised us for being quiet and polite, urged us to be careful so we didn’t get hurt, and steered us to activities at which we could shine. As a result, we grew up to be women who are afraid to fail.

It’s time to stop letting our fears drown out our dreams and narrow our world, along with our chance at happiness.

By choosing bravery over perfection, we can find the power to claim our voice, to leave behind what makes us unhappy, and to go for the things we genuinely, passionately want. Perfection may set us on a path that feels safe, but bravery leads us to the one we’re authentically meant to follow. In Brave, Not Perfect, Saujani shares powerful insights and practices to help us let go of our need for perfection and make bravery a lifelong habit. By being brave, not perfect, we can all become the authors of our best and most joyful life.

https://events.berkeley.edu/cwn/event/242589-cwn-professional-development-book-club
CWN Professional Development Book Club, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/thriving/event/243516-cwn-professional-development-book-club

Virtual discussion on Work-Life Balance by Aisha Franz, translated by Nicholas Houde and Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder by Reshma Saujani.

Cal Women’s Network is open to all woman-identified staff and faculty.

 

Work-Life Balance by Aisha Franz
Nicholas Houde (Translator)

A cutting portrayal of the pursuit of work-life balance from the cartoonist, Aisha Franz

To achieve the proper work-life balance perhaps we just need the right therapist to coach us through our day-to-day. Anita, Sandra, and Dex have ambitions. Anita wants to move from making utility ceramics to fine art sculpture but her pent up dissatisfaction results in an outburst that puts her studio mate’s work at risk. Sandra juggles her practical administrative day job at a startup with her wellness influencer channel, finding both in jeopardy when a messy affair with her coworker comes to light. In another corner of the same startup, Dex’s innovative ideas are rejected, leading him to spend his days hacking and working as a bike courier. All three are disillusioned with their daily grinds. As the pressure for self-improvement builds they all end up looking to the same therapist for answers.

Soon the boundaries between work and life begin to bleed into each other and it becomes increasingly impossible to find balance. All the solace the characters expect their therapist to provide is obscured by her quirks, whims, and psycho-parlance, leading to sessions that are neglectful at best and actively inhibit growth at worst. In striking colors and trippy transformational sequences, Aisha Franz captures the comedic absurdity of contemporary work-life and wellness culture.

Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder by Reshma Saujani

Imagine if you lived without the fear of not being good enough. If you didn’t care how your life looked on Instagram. If you could let go of the guilt and stop beating yourself up for making human mistakes. Imagine if, in every decision you faced, you took the bolder path?

As women, too many of us feel crushed under the weight of our own expectations. We run ourselves ragged trying to please everyone, pass up opportunities that scare us, and avoid rejection at all costs.

There’s a reason we act this way, Saujani says. As girls, we were taught to play it safe. Well-meaning parents and teachers praised us for being quiet and polite, urged us to be careful so we didn’t get hurt, and steered us to activities at which we could shine. As a result, we grew up to be women who are afraid to fail.

It’s time to stop letting our fears drown out our dreams and narrow our world, along with our chance at happiness.

By choosing bravery over perfection, we can find the power to claim our voice, to leave behind what makes us unhappy, and to go for the things we genuinely, passionately want. Perfection may set us on a path that feels safe, but bravery leads us to the one we’re authentically meant to follow. In Brave, Not Perfect, Saujani shares powerful insights and practices to help us let go of our need for perfection and make bravery a lifelong habit. By being brave, not perfect, we can all become the authors of our best and most joyful life.

https://events.berkeley.edu/thriving/event/243516-cwn-professional-development-book-club
Lunch Talk with Christina Tetrault: Deputy Commissioner, California Department Financial Protection & Innovation, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243523-lunch-talk-with-christina-tetrault-deputyWondering what all the fuss about fintech, blockchain and ai means for real people? Christina Tetreault, Deputy Commissioner Financial Technology Innovation at the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation – California’s top financial regulator – will be here to answer all your questions, and separate the real potential from the garden-variety ponzi scheme.
RSVP here.
 
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243523-lunch-talk-with-christina-tetrault-deputy
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, March 21https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877057Learn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877057
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235512-makerspace-drop-in-hoursLearn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235512-makerspace-drop-in-hours
Microsoft Access Action Queries, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/219583-microsoft-access-action-queries

This course demonstrates how to create and format presentations using Google Slides. Participants will learn how to organize and layout content, embed images and visual elements, apply object animation effects, and securely share files for viewing or co-authoring.

https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/219583-microsoft-access-action-queries
New Silicon Initiative: Women’s History Month Special Event, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/eecs/event/243361-new-silicon-initiative-womens-history-month

YOU MUST REGISTER HERE
(Zoom details will be shared with you upon registering)

Celebrate Women’s History Month with Anuja Banerjee, Silicon Engineering Group, and Heather Sullens, Exploratory Design Group — senior leaders from Apple’s hardware technologies.

Anuja and Heather will share their career journeys and offer insightful perspectives on what it’s like to lead teams at the forefront of solving some of the most complex engineering challenges.

Interested in opportunities at Apple?

Let us know by submitting your resume and application at Careers at Apple.

 

Register Here

https://events.berkeley.edu/eecs/event/243361-new-silicon-initiative-womens-history-month
Monthly Meditation and Mindfulness for Faculty and Staff, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/212178-monthly-meditation-and-mindfulness-for-faculty-and

The regular practice of mindfulness meditation has a demonstrable impact on psychological and physical health, improving mood, decreasing stress, strengthening the immune system, and supporting sleep.

Be Well at Work Employee Assistance(link is external) and Work/Life(link is external) invite faculty and staff to join us for a monthly meditation group which will offer a moment of relaxation and rejuvenation during the work day. Each month will focus on a beneficial intention to guide us.

No registration required and no prior experience with meditation necessary.

All are welcome.

Third Thursday of the month at 2 pm - 2:20 pm via Zoom

 

If you would like these sessions added to your bCal for scheduling notifications, please email kpatchell@berkeley.edu

https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/212178-monthly-meditation-and-mindfulness-for-faculty-and
Topics in Dynamical Systems: Lyapunov Exponents for Random Dynamical Systems, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/243565-topics-in-dynamical-systems-lyapunov-exponents-forMany dynamical systems encountered in celestial and statistical mechanics are expected to be chaotic. Mathematically speaking, a dynamical system is chaotic if it has a positive Lyapunov exponent. It is often a daunting task to show that a dynamical system has a positive Lyapunov exponent. As it turns out, the chaos is far more tractable when the system is subjected to random noise. As an example, we consider stochastic differential equations, and discuss formulas of Furstenberg-Khasminskii, and Bedrossian-Blumental-Punshon Smith for their top Lyapunov exponent.https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/243565-topics-in-dynamical-systems-lyapunov-exponents-forCANCELED: Seminar 251, Labor:, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/229408-seminar-251-labor

Seminar 251

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/229408-seminar-251-labor
MCB Seminar: Title To Be Announced, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/HWNI/event/239278-mcb-seminar-title-to-be-announced

TBA

https://events.berkeley.edu/HWNI/event/239278-mcb-seminar-title-to-be-announced
Neuroscience Student Seminar Series Seminar, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/209803-neuroscience-student-seminar-series-seminarDivision(s): Neuroscience Student Seminar Serieshttps://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/209803-neuroscience-student-seminar-series-seminarHerma Hill Kay Memorial Lecture | Constitutional Preconditions Featuring Martha Minow, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/241123-herma-hill-kay-memorial-lecture-constitutional

Beneath growing perceptions of constitutional crisis and democratic fragility in the United States lies a fundamental conundrum. Critical preconditions for effective self-government are either weak or missing in action, and our constitutional system at least for now stands in the way of actions to strengthen or build those preconditions. In tribute to Herma Hill Kay’s inspiring leadership, this lecture will focus on three essential predicates for constitutional democracy that face jeopardy: education, reliable news, and security against lethal violence. As basic as these elements may be, repeated efforts to secure a federal constitutional right to education have failed in the courts. Because of a confluence of legal, technological, and economic problems, once vibrant newspapers and magazines in the United States are rapidly shrinking or closing. Deaths and injuries due to guns mount yearly and courts block reform efforts to advance human safety. Why are these preconditions for self-government? Why are even earnest efforts at fortifying them blocked? And what are promising ways forward?

RSVP: https://hermahillkaylecture2024.eventbrite.com

https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/241123-herma-hill-kay-memorial-lecture-constitutional
Modernity and the Rediscovery of Buddhist Women in Korea, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/cks/event/242516-modernity-and-the-rediscovery-of-buddhist-women-in

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Talk Summary:

When we study modern Buddhist history, we often use “modernity” as a frame of reference. But in the case of women, how well-balanced is the picture of the period that the term “modernity” provides? There is a certain level of contradiction in evaluating modern women’s lives, especially those of Buddhist women, through the lens of modernity that urges us to revisit the very concept of modernity and its criteria. My argument is that assessing modernity through the creation of institutions and reforms does not tell the whole story of women’s history and their lives. To illustrate, I will briefly introduce a collection of oral interviews on the history of Korean Buddhist women. The interviews reveal that while these women lived on the margins of history, there is still a sense of direction to their lives, and with the changes of the modern period they too contributed to the exponential growth of Korean Buddhism in the 1970s.

Speaker Bio:

Eunsu Cho (Ph.D., Buddhist Studies, UC Berkeley) is professor emeritus of Buddhist philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at Seoul National University, South Korea.

https://events.berkeley.edu/cks/event/242516-modernity-and-the-rediscovery-of-buddhist-women-in
Polyglot Networks: Overseas Chinese Returnees and the Establishment of Indonesian Language Programs in China, 1945-1965, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/cseas/event/242527-polyglot-networks-overseas-chinese-returnees-and

About the talk: Language and language education are two central topics in the studies of Chinese diasporic culture. However, existing scholarship has overwhelmingly focused on how overseas Chinese populations deal with language politics in their hosting societies. This research adopts a different perspective by examining how overseas Chinese played central roles in establishing Indonesian language programs in mainland China between the mid-1940s and mid-1960s. Specifically, overseas Chinese “returnees” were indispensable in establishing the National College of Oriental Studies (NCOS) during World War II under the nationalist Guomindang government and several Indonesian language programs in the early years of the People’s Republic (PRC). While such programs served drastically different political purposes across time, they also reflect crucial yet often ignored aspects of, and surprising continuities in, China-Indonesia cultural exchange during the tumultuous period of decolonization, domestic conflicts, and the Cold War. On the one hand, such continuities reflect the persistent demands of top decision-makers in handling geopolitical issues concerning the neighboring region; on the other hand, they are also closely associated with the changing contexts of diaspora politics in the mid-20th century. Moreover, although such language programs’ primary objective was to fulfill the operational needs of various government agencies, they also actively promoted Indonesian cultures and stimulated Chinese people’s sustained interest in understanding the country in the long run.

About the Speaker: Kankan XIE (Ph.D., UC-Berkeley, 2018) is an assistant professor of Southeast Asian studies at Peking University, China. His research and teaching deal with various historical and contemporary issues of the broadly defined “Nusantara” (Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore), particularly the region’s leftwing movements, the intersection of colonialism, nationalism & decolonization, as well as China’s knowledge production about Southeast Asia throughout the 20th century. His current research, funded by China’s National Social Science Foundation and the Institute of Overseas Chinese History Studies, focuses on the history of Indonesian leftism and the Chinese diaspora. Kankan’s work has appeared in the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (BKI), Journal of Indonesian Social Sciences and Humanities, Dongnanya Yanjiu, and Nanyang Wenti Yanjiu.



If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Alexandra Dalferro at adalferro@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days before the event

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The Monroe Doctrine: Past, Present, & Future, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/lacc/event/242548-the-monroe-doctrine-past-present-future

Please join us on Thursday, March 21, from 4-6pm in 223 Philosophy Hall for a lecture by Jay Sexton, the Rich and Nancy Kinder Chair of Constitutional Democracy, Professor of History, and Director of the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri. A prolific historian of American foreign relations during the 19th century, Professor Sexton has published influential books on topics ranging from transnational finance in the Civil War Era to anti-imperialism and the centrality of international crises to American history from the eighteenth through the twenty-first centuries. His talk will concern yet another area of his research expertise: “The Monroe Doctrine: Past, Present, & Future.”

https://events.berkeley.edu/lacc/event/242548-the-monroe-doctrine-past-present-future
Polyglot Networks: Overseas Chinese Returnees and the Establishment of Indonesian Language Programs in China, 1945-1965, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243612-polyglot-networks-overseas-chinese-returnees-and

About the talk: Language and language education are two central topics in the studies of Chinese diasporic culture. However, existing scholarship has overwhelmingly focused on how overseas Chinese populations deal with language politics in their hosting societies. This research adopts a different perspective by examining how overseas Chinese played central roles in establishing Indonesian language programs in mainland China between the mid-1940s and mid-1960s. Specifically, overseas Chinese “returnees” were indispensable in establishing the National College of Oriental Studies (NCOS) during World War II under the nationalist Guomindang government and several Indonesian language programs in the early years of the People’s Republic (PRC). While such programs served drastically different political purposes across time, they also reflect crucial yet often ignored aspects of, and surprising continuities in, China-Indonesia cultural exchange during the tumultuous period of decolonization, domestic conflicts, and the Cold War. On the one hand, such continuities reflect the persistent demands of top decision-makers in handling geopolitical issues concerning the neighboring region; on the other hand, they are also closely associated with the changing contexts of diaspora politics in the mid-20th century. Moreover, although such language programs’ primary objective was to fulfill the operational needs of various government agencies, they also actively promoted Indonesian cultures and stimulated Chinese people’s sustained interest in understanding the country in the long run.

About the Speaker: Kankan XIE (Ph.D., UC-Berkeley, 2018) is an assistant professor of Southeast Asian studies at Peking University, China. His research and teaching deal with various historical and contemporary issues of the broadly defined “Nusantara” (Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore), particularly the region’s leftwing movements, the intersection of colonialism, nationalism & decolonization, as well as China’s knowledge production about Southeast Asia throughout the 20th century. His current research, funded by China’s National Social Science Foundation and the Institute of Overseas Chinese History Studies, focuses on the history of Indonesian leftism and the Chinese diaspora. Kankan’s work has appeared in the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (BKI), Journal of Indonesian Social Sciences and Humanities, Dongnanya Yanjiu, and Nanyang Wenti Yanjiu.



If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Alexandra Dalferro at adalferro@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days before the event

https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243612-polyglot-networks-overseas-chinese-returnees-and
Modernity and the Rediscovery of Buddhist Women in Korea, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243613-modernity-and-the-rediscovery-of-buddhist-women-in

Hybrid Event | RSVP / Registration Required

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Talk Summary:

When we study modern Buddhist history, we often use “modernity” as a frame of reference. But in the case of women, how well-balanced is the picture of the period that the term “modernity” provides? There is a certain level of contradiction in evaluating modern women’s lives, especially those of Buddhist women, through the lens of modernity that urges us to revisit the very concept of modernity and its criteria. My argument is that assessing modernity through the creation of institutions and reforms does not tell the whole story of women’s history and their lives. To illustrate, I will briefly introduce a collection of oral interviews on the history of Korean Buddhist women. The interviews reveal that while these women lived on the margins of history, there is still a sense of direction to their lives, and with the changes of the modern period they too contributed to the exponential growth of Korean Buddhism in the 1970s.

Speaker Bio:

Eunsu Cho (Ph.D., Buddhist Studies, UC Berkeley) is professor emeritus of Buddhist philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at Seoul National University, South Korea.

https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243613-modernity-and-the-rediscovery-of-buddhist-women-in
Haunting Loyalties: The Making and Unmaking of an Early Qing Family, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/ieas/event/237158-haunting-loyalties-the-making-and-unmaking-of-an

This talk will examine writings by and about the men and women of one Huzhou literati family to explore its fraught process of reinvention in the wake of personal and political disarray during the Qing conquest. The complex interplay of familial and political meanings of loyalty and disloyalty is a central theme of this story. Two brothers of the Fei family fought with Ming loyalist forces to defend their hometown against the Qing invaders, one dying valiantly, while a second went on to write a secret account of the region’s notorious literary inquisition in the 1660s that implicated thousands of people in a seditious history of the fallen Ming Dynasty. Their younger brother and his son worked assiduously to build political and economic foundations for success as officials loyal to the new dynasty. Yet the family’s traumas continued to haunt them, shaping personalities and priorities in gendered ways, complicating aspirations for family cohesion, and presaging the betrayals that would destroy the family in the mid-eighteenth century.

Janet Theiss is Associate Professor of History at the University of Utah. She is the author of Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century Chinaand co-author ofGender in Modern East Asia, China, Korea, Japan: An Integrated History.This talk comes from her current book project, Scandal and the Limits of Self-Invention in Qing China,which charts the rise to prominence of Zhejiang literati family in the wake of the Qing conquest and its destruction amidst a notorious sex and corruption scandal in the early years of the Qianlong reign.




https://events.berkeley.edu/ieas/event/237158-haunting-loyalties-the-making-and-unmaking-of-an
Seeing and Seafaring: Maritime Navigation and the Scopic Regime of Computation, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/bcnm/event/242406-seeing-and-seafaring-maritime-navigation-and-the

with Bernard Geoghegan
Reader in the History and Theory of Digital Media, King’s College, London

Aesthetic artifacts display a reality on par with the assemblages involved in their genesis. This talk considers one such assemblage, maritime navigation, and its role in fostering a new graphical culture characterized by points, vectors, and ratios. Dr. Geoghegan argues that this new graphical culture constituted a scopic regime of computation that is still on display in the varieties of objecthood and worldliness prominent in digital visual culture today.

About Bernard Geoghegan

Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan is a media theorist and historian of science researching how digital technologies shape science, culture, and the environment. He has also worked as a curator. Bernard earned a binational Ph.D. from Northwestern University and Bauhaus University Weimar. He has written on such topics as Orientalism in informatics, anxiety and vigilance shape networked communications, the political origins of interactive digital interfaces, how the rise cybernetics shaped fields such as French theory and family therapy, German media theory, and relations between new media and the occult. His essays appear in journals including Critical Inquiry, Grey Room, Representations, and Theory, Culture & Society. Bernard taught at Yale University, Coventry University, the Humboldt University of Berlin, and the American University of Paris.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bcnm/event/242406-seeing-and-seafaring-maritime-navigation-and-the
Haunting Loyalties: The Making and Unmaking of an Early Qing Family, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243614-haunting-loyalties-the-making-and-unmaking-of-an

This talk will examine writings by and about the men and women of one Huzhou literati family to explore its fraught process of reinvention in the wake of personal and political disarray during the Qing conquest. The complex interplay of familial and political meanings of loyalty and disloyalty is a central theme of this story. Two brothers of the Fei family fought with Ming loyalist forces to defend their hometown against the Qing invaders, one dying valiantly, while a second went on to write a secret account of the region’s notorious literary inquisition in the 1660s that implicated thousands of people in a seditious history of the fallen Ming Dynasty. Their younger brother and his son worked assiduously to build political and economic foundations for success as officials loyal to the new dynasty. Yet the family’s traumas continued to haunt them, shaping personalities and priorities in gendered ways, complicating aspirations for family cohesion, and presaging the betrayals that would destroy the family in the mid-eighteenth century.

Janet Theiss is Associate Professor of History at the University of Utah. She is the author of Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century Chinaand co-author ofGender in Modern East Asia, China, Korea, Japan: An Integrated History.This talk comes from her current book project, Scandal and the Limits of Self-Invention in Qing China,which charts the rise to prominence of Zhejiang literati family in the wake of the Qing conquest and its destruction amidst a notorious sex and corruption scandal in the early years of the Qianlong reign.




https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243614-haunting-loyalties-the-making-and-unmaking-of-an
The Monroe Doctrine: Past, Present, & Future, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/iis/event/242475-the-monroe-doctrine-past-present-future

Please join us on Thursday, March 21, from 4-6pm in 223 Philosophy Hall for a lecture by Jay Sexton, the Rich and Nancy Kinder Chair of Constitutional Democracy, Professor of History, and Director of the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri. A prolific historian of American foreign relations during the 19th century, Professor Sexton has published influential books on topics ranging from transnational finance in the Civil War Era to anti-imperialism and the centrality of international crises to American history from the eighteenth through the twenty-first centuries. His talk will concern yet another area of his research expertise: “The Monroe Doctrine: Past, Present, & Future.”

Since 2010, the Berkeley Global History Seminar has provided a venue to discuss cutting-edge work-in-progress on global, international, transnational, and borderlands history. The seminar is generously funded by the Institute for International Studies. Professor Sexton’s presentation is co-sponsored by the Berkeley History Department. 

https://events.berkeley.edu/iis/event/242475-the-monroe-doctrine-past-present-future
Herma Hill Kay Memorial Lecture | Constitutional Preconditions Featuring Martha Minow, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242737-herma-hill-kay-memorial-lecture-constitutionalBeneath growing perceptions of constitutional crisis and democratic fragility in the United States lies a fundamental conundrum. Critical preconditions for effective self-government are either weak or missing in action, and our constitutional system at least for now stands in the way of actions to strengthen or build those preconditions. In tribute to Herma Hill Kay’s inspiring leadership, this lecture will focus on three essential predicates for constitutional democracy that face jeopardy: education, reliable news, and security against lethal violence. As basic as these elements may be, repeated efforts to secure a federal constitutional right to education have failed in the courts. Because of a confluence of legal, technological, and economic problems, once vibrant newspapers and magazines in the United States are rapidly shrinking or closing. Deaths and injuries due to guns mount yearly and courts block reform efforts to advance human safety. Why are these preconditions for self-government? Why are even earnest efforts at fortifying them blocked? And what are promising ways forward?
Martha Minow has taught at Harvard Law School since 1981, where she served as dean for eight years. Her courses include civil procedure, constitutional law, fairness and privacy, family law, international criminal justice, jurisprudence, law and education, nonprofit organizations, and the public law workshop. An expert in human rights and advocacy for members of racial and religious minorities and for women, children, and persons with disabilities, she also writes and teaches about digital communications, democracy, privatization, military justice, and ethnic and religious conflict. Currently she teaches Fairness and Privacy: Perspectives from Law and Probability (offered in both the law school and the school of engineering and applied sciences), Nonprofit Organizations, and Constitutional Law.
Her books include Saving the News: Why The Constitution Calls for Government Action to Preserve the Freedom of Speech (2021); When Should Law Forgive? (2019); In Brown’s Wake: Legacies of America’s Constitutional Landmark (2010); Partners, Not Rivals: Privatization and the Public Good (2002; and Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence (1998). Recent publications include “Distrust of Artificial Intelligence: Sources and Responses from Computer Science and Law,” with Cynthia Dwork, Daedalus (2022), https://www.amacad.org/sites/default/files/publication/downloads/Daedalus_Sp22_22_Dwork-%26-Minow.pdf, and “Social Media, Distrust, and Regulation,” with Newton Minow, Nell Minow, and Mary Minow, in Lee. C. Bolling and Geoffrey R. Stone, eds., Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of Our Democracy (2022).
Minow served as Dean of Harvard Law School between 2009 and 2017 and as the inaugural Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor. She was appointed to the post of 300th Anniversary University Professor in 2018 as one of 25 individuals recognized for groundbreaking work crossing the boundaries of multiple disciplines, and authorized to pursue research and teaching at any of Harvard’s Schools.
About the Herma Hill Kay Memorial Lecture
The Herma Hill Kay Memorial Lecture was created by a generous seed gift from Professor Pamela Samuelson and her husband Dr. Robert Glushko. The annual lecture honors the iconic pioneer who taught at Berkeley Law for 57 years and was its first female dean. She died in 2017 at age 82.
Herma Hill Kay was a Berkeley Law institution. The school’s second woman faculty member, Herma became a popular professor and renowned scholar of family law, conflicts of law, and sex-based discrimination. A powerful advocate for diversity in legal education and women’s rights, she published numerous articles and book chapters on divorce, adoption, and reproductive rights.
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242737-herma-hill-kay-memorial-lecture-constitutional
The Monroe Doctrine: Past, Present, & Future, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/clacs/event/243453-the-monroe-doctrine-past-present-future

Please join us on Thursday, March 21, from 4-6pm in 223 Philosophy Hall for a lecture by Jay Sexton, the Rich and Nancy Kinder Chair of Constitutional Democracy, Professor of History, and Director of the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri. A prolific historian of American foreign relations during the 19th century, Professor Sexton has published influential books on topics ranging from transnational finance in the Civil War Era to anti-imperialism and the centrality of international crises to American history from the eighteenth through the twenty-first centuries. His talk will concern yet another area of his research expertise: “The Monroe Doctrine: Past, Present, & Future.”

Since 2010, the Berkeley Global History Seminar has provided a venue to discuss cutting-edge work-in-progress on global, international, transnational, and borderlands history. The seminar is generously funded by the Institute for International Studies. Professor Sexton’s presentation is co-sponsored by the Berkeley History Department. 

https://events.berkeley.edu/clacs/event/243453-the-monroe-doctrine-past-present-future
Mathematics Department Colloquium: Monotiling, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/239065-mathematics-department-colloquium-tbdThe discoveries of the Hat and Spectre — single shapes that can be used to form tilings of the plane, but only can form non-periodic ones — lay to rest the longstanding question of the existence of an “aperiodic monotile” but it remains an open question: How complex can the behavior of a single shape of tile be? Can we even tell whether or not a given shape will tile the plane — is the “monotiling problem” even decidable? We’ll survey the status of several related decision and existence problems, across a range of settings, such as hyperbolic space, subshifts on groups, or tilings by a single monotile.https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/239065-mathematics-department-colloquium-tbdHousing and Homelessness in California, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/pubpol/event/238109-housing-and-homelessness-in-california

Across the United States, homelessness is on the rise. In California, there are over 181,000 people without a stable place to call home—about 30 percent of the nation’s homeless population. During the COVID-19 pandemic, those numbers continued to rise as earnings dropped and the housing affordability crisis worsened.

What are the interventions that prevent people from becoming homeless? What lessons have we learned from local, regional, and statewide efforts to reduce unsheltered homelessness in the Bay Area and beyond?

Join the Terner Center for Housing and Innovation, the Goldman School of Public Policy, and a diverse panel of cross-sector experts and advocates for a discussion on reducing poverty and addressing homelessness in California.

https://events.berkeley.edu/pubpol/event/238109-housing-and-homelessness-in-california
UROC: Applying to Graduate School Series #3, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/OURS/event/242644-uroc-applying-to-graduate-school-series-3

Dispel misconceptions about graduate school and the application process.

https://events.berkeley.edu/OURS/event/242644-uroc-applying-to-graduate-school-series-3
Vasugi Kailasam | The Progressive Tamil novel in South Asia, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/229769-vasugi-kailasam-the-progressive-tamil-novel-in-south-

The Institute and Tamil@Berkeley, a campaign to broaden and deepen Tamil related research, teaching and programming at UC Berkeley, invite you for a lecture by
Vasugi Kailasam, Assistant Professor of Tamil Language and Literature in the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley. 

Event moderated by Munis D. Faruqui, Director, Institute for South Asia Studies; Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies; Associate Professor, South & South East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley

ABSTRACT: 

This presentation will examine the evolution of Tamil progressive novels in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka from the 1950s to the 1980s, emphasizing their distinctive development within South Asia. Although the Progressive Writers’ Association was established in India in 1936, the progressive movement in Tamil literature began significantly later, gaining traction in the 1950s. This talk will discuss how this belated yet impactful emergence of progressive writing, known as “muṟpōkku eḻuttu”, influenced by distinct political and literary factors in Tamil Nadu and the Tamil-speaking areas of Sri Lanka, helped shape the contours of the modern Tamil novel.

The discussion will analyze two significant novels of Tamil Progressive writing: Pañcum Paciyum (1953) by Indian Tamil writer, T.M.C. Raghunathan and Pañcamar (1972) by Sri Lankan Tamil writer, K. Daniel. The analysis will consider three key elements: (1) the incorporation of a realist style influenced by ideological and social class perspectives, (2) the portrayal of labor and caste within Tamil progressive narratives, and (3) the profound influence of international literary trends, particularly Soviet realism as exemplified in Maxim Gorky’s widely translated, iconic novel Mother (1906).

SPEAKER BIO

Vasugi Kailasam is an Assistant Professor (Tamil Studies) in the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. Her research concerns global Tamil literatures, postcolonial literature and filmic and digital cultures of contemporary South Asia and its diasporas. Specifically, her work examines narrative forms and its connections to South Asian cultural identity formations, race, and ethnic politics. Before arriving at UC Berkeley, Professor Kailasam was a lecturer of Tamil Studies at the South Asian Studies Programme (SASP) in the National University of Singapore from 2015- 2019.

Professor Kailasam’s first book project, The Tamil realist novel in South and Southeast Asia, investigates the growth and evolution of the postcolonial Tamil realist novel produced in India, Sri Lanka, and the Southeast Asian countries of Singapore and Malaysia from the 1940s to the 1980s. This research has been funded by grants from The Townsend Center of the Humanities, Humanities Research Fellowship (funded by the Andrew W. Mellon grant), Hellman Society of Fellows and an AIIS - NEH senior fellowship.


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Event made possible with the support of the Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies

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American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/jsp/event/238352-american-shtetl-the-making-of-kiryas-joel-a

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Settled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels in Jewish history—but many precedents among religious communities in the United States. Professors Nomi M. Stolzenberg (USC, Gould School of Law) and David N. Myers (UCLA) will relate the story of how a group of pious, Yiddish-speaking Jews has become a thriving insular enclave and a powerful local government in suburban New York. Their co-authored book, American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York (Princeton, 2022), was awarded the 2022 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish studies.

David N. Myers is Distinguished Professor of History and holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at UCLA, where he serves as the director of the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy. He also directs the UCLA Initiative to Study Hate. He is the author or editor of many books in the field of Jewish history. From 2018-2023, he served as president of the New Israel Fund.

Nomi Stolzenberg holds the Nathan and Lily Shapell Chair at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Her research spans a range of interdisciplinary interests, including law and religion, law and liberalism, law and feminism, law and psychoanalysis, and law and literature. She is currently working on the subject of religious liberty theory and “faith-based discrimination.”

Stolzenberg received her JD from Harvard University. She has taught at Tel Aviv University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Columbia Law School. At the USC Gould School, she helped establish the USC Center for Law, History, and Culture, which she currently codirects.



Stolzenberg and Myers document how this group of pious, Yiddish-speaking Jews has grown to become a thriving insular enclave and a powerful local government in upstate New York.

American Shtetl won the National Jewish Book Award, was a New Yorker Best Book of the Year, and received Honorable mention for the Saul Veiner Book Prize, American Jewish Historical Society.

https://events.berkeley.edu/jsp/event/238352-american-shtetl-the-making-of-kiryas-joel-a
American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243615-american-shtetl-the-making-of-kiryas-joel-a

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Settled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels in Jewish history—but many precedents among religious communities in the United States. Professors Nomi M. Stolzenberg (USC, Gould School of Law) and David N. Myers (UCLA) will relate the story of how a group of pious, Yiddish-speaking Jews has become a thriving insular enclave and a powerful local government in suburban New York. Their co-authored book, American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York (Princeton, 2022), was awarded the 2022 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish studies.

David N. Myers is Distinguished Professor of History and holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at UCLA, where he serves as the director of the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy. He also directs the UCLA Initiative to Study Hate. He is the author or editor of many books in the field of Jewish history. From 2018-2023, he served as president of the New Israel Fund.

Nomi Stolzenberg holds the Nathan and Lily Shapell Chair at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Her research spans a range of interdisciplinary interests, including law and religion, law and liberalism, law and feminism, law and psychoanalysis, and law and literature. She is currently working on the subject of religious liberty theory and “faith-based discrimination.”

Stolzenberg received her JD from Harvard University. She has taught at Tel Aviv University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Columbia Law School. At the USC Gould School, she helped establish the USC Center for Law, History, and Culture, which she currently codirects.



Stolzenberg and Myers document how this group of pious, Yiddish-speaking Jews has grown to become a thriving insular enclave and a powerful local government in upstate New York.

American Shtetl won the National Jewish Book Award, was a New Yorker Best Book of the Year, and received Honorable mention for the Saul Veiner Book Prize, American Jewish Historical Society.

https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243615-american-shtetl-the-making-of-kiryas-joel-a
La Marr Jurelle Bruce, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/pct/event/242911-la-marr-jurelle-bruce

La Marr Jurelle Bruce (B.A. Columbia, Ph.D. Yale) is a cultural and literary critic, Black/black studies devotee, first-generation college graduate, and Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. His scholarship explores and activates black expressive cultures—spanning literature, film, music, theatre, religion, and the art and aesthetics of quotidian black life. Throughout his work, he is especially attentive to blackness and feeling: the phenomenological, affective, erotic, and sensuous matters of life across the diaspora. More broadly, his interests include popular culture studies, performance theory, disability studies, queer theory, psychoanalysis, and theories and praxes of love. He is the author of How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind (Duke University Press, 2021), which was the winner of the 2022 Modern Language Association First Book Prize.

Presented by the Program in Critical Theory.

https://events.berkeley.edu/pct/event/242911-la-marr-jurelle-bruce
International House Celebration & Awards Gala, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/ihouse/event/239141-international-house-celebration-awards-gala

International House (I-House) at UC Berkeley will hold its Annual Celebration and Awards Gala on Thursday, March 21, 2024. I-House proudly celebrates and honors advocates and trailblazers who embody the purpose of I-House to promote a more just and peaceful world. This year we are pleased to highlight the contributions of the following individuals:

Chenming Hu (IH 1969-71) recipient of the Global Impact Award for his contributions to the semiconductor industry which have led to transformative improvements in computing and communications around the globe;

Chiara Medioli-Fedrigoni (IH 1993-94) recipient of the Alumna of the Year Award for promoting cultural heritage preservation efforts at universities, museums, archives, and libraries in Europe and throughout the world;

Okechukwu Iroegbu (IH 2022-24) recipient of the Executive Director’s Outstanding Community Leadership Award for his dedication to the mission of I-House and the positive impact his leadership has had on the resident community;

Ronald E. Silva (I-House Board Member) recipient of The Sherry and Betsey Warrick Mission Service Award for his dedication to the preservation and improvement of I-House.

Read their bios at ihouse.berkeley.edu/gala.

Proceeds from the Gala benefit The Fund for I-House. Shaun R. Carver, Executive Director I-House, points to this Fund as an important resource, providing for room and board scholarships and financial aid, mission-centered programming, and preservation of the historic 93-year-old building. “I-House, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, relies on philanthropic support from alumni, foundations, corporations and friends,” says Carver.

Reception and dinner will be provided by award-winning Executive Chef Abigail Serbins and our Dining, Catering and Events teams. Entertainment will be provided by the very talented residents of International House. For more information on our honorees, sponsorship opportunities, or to buy event tickets, visit ihouse.berkeley.edu/gala

https://events.berkeley.edu/ihouse/event/239141-international-house-celebration-awards-gala
McGuireWoods x APALSA Networking Event at Tupper & Reed, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242736-mcguirewoods-x-apalsa-networking-event-at-tupperJoin McGuireWoods and APALSA for a networking event at Tupper & Reed. Enjoy appetizers and drinks with lawyers from varied practice areas as we discuss strategies to help law students build lasting connections. Register here.
All students welcome! 
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242736-mcguirewoods-x-apalsa-networking-event-at-tupper
Why It’s Not Too Late: Rebecca Solnit and John King on the climate stories we tell, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/journalism/event/241302-why-its-not-too-late-rebecca-solnit-and-john-king

Join us for the first re-launched Herb Caen Lecture series, sponsored by Berkeley Journalism and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of twenty-five books on feminism, environmental and urban history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and catastrophe. She co-edited the 2023 anthology Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility. Her other books include Orwell’s Roses; Recollections of My Nonexistence; Hope in the Dark; Men Explain Things to Me; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; and A Field Guide to Getting Lost. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she writes regularly for the Guardian, serves on the board of the climate group Oil Change International, and in 2022 launched the climate project Not Too Late (nottoolateclimate.com).

John King is The San Francisco Chronicle’s urban design critic, a post that touches on everything from the city’s changing skyline to the urgent need for the Bay Area to take a more proactive and thoughtful approach to adapting our shorelines to future sea level rise. A two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism, he also is the author of “Portal: San Francisco’s Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities,” published in 2023 by W.W. Norton.

About the Herb Caen Lecture:

The Herb Caen/San Francisco Chronicle Lecture Fund was established in 1996 in honor of Herb Caen by the Chronicle Publishing Company. The Herb Caen Lecture features prominent speakers who have views on communications in America and their importance to our future. Speakers are drawn from diverse fields including journalism, the arts, the sciences, and business.

https://events.berkeley.edu/journalism/event/241302-why-its-not-too-late-rebecca-solnit-and-john-king
Why It’s Not Too Late: Rebecca Solnit and John King on the climate stories we tell, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/RausserCollege/event/243472-why-its-not-too-late-rebecca-solnit-and-john-king

Join us for the first re-launched Herb Caen Lecture series, sponsored by Berkeley Journalism and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of twenty-five books on feminism, environmental and urban history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and catastrophe. She co-edited the 2023 anthology Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility. Her other books include Orwell’s Roses; Recollections of My Nonexistence; Hope in the Dark; Men Explain Things to Me; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; and A Field Guide to Getting Lost. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she writes regularly for the Guardian, serves on the board of the climate group Oil Change International, and in 2022 launched the climate project Not Too Late (nottoolateclimate.com).

John King is The San Francisco Chronicle’s urban design critic, a post that touches on everything from the city’s changing skyline to the urgent need for the Bay Area to take a more proactive and thoughtful approach to adapting our shorelines to future sea level rise. A two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism, he also is the author of “Portal: San Francisco’s Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities,” published in 2023 by W.W. Norton.

About the Herb Caen Lecture:

The Herb Caen/San Francisco Chronicle Lecture Fund was established in 1996 in honor of Herb Caen by the Chronicle Publishing Company. The Herb Caen Lecture features prominent speakers who have views on communications in America and their importance to our future. Speakers are drawn from diverse fields including journalism, the arts, the sciences, and business.

https://events.berkeley.edu/RausserCollege/event/243472-why-its-not-too-late-rebecca-solnit-and-john-king
PWC Presents: Knives Out, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243495-pwc-presents-knives-outJoin Peer Wellness Coalition for a movie night! We’ll be playing Knives Out and will have free pizza, popcorn, and candy. https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243495-pwc-presents-knives-outFilm Screening: Kuxa Kanema: The Birth of Cinema, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/239964-film-screening-kuxa-kanema-the-birth-of-cinema

After five hundred years of Portuguese colonial rule, Mozambique was one of the last African countries to gain independence. President Samora Machel’s first cultural act was to establish the National Institute of Cinema, which produced weekly newsreels—Kuxa Kanema—for and about the people. Mobile cinema units reminiscent of Aleksandr Medvedkin’s cine-trains, traveled around the country to engage people with what it means to be free in an independent nation. When filmmaker Margarida Cardoso visited the institute, it was already in ruins, but she discovered newsreel footage in an abandoned building. Interviews with filmmakers who were involved with the institute—including Licínio Azevedo, Jose Cardoso, and Ruy Guerra—and sequences from the newsreels bear witness to the birth of Mozambique’s cinema in concert with the birth of the nation.

https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/239964-film-screening-kuxa-kanema-the-birth-of-cinema
Film Screening: Kuxa Kanema: The Birth of Cinema, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243616-film-screening-kuxa-kanema-the-birth-of-cinema

After five hundred years of Portuguese colonial rule, Mozambique was one of the last African countries to gain independence. President Samora Machel’s first cultural act was to establish the National Institute of Cinema, which produced weekly newsreels—Kuxa Kanema—for and about the people. Mobile cinema units reminiscent of Aleksandr Medvedkin’s cine-trains, traveled around the country to engage people with what it means to be free in an independent nation. When filmmaker Margarida Cardoso visited the institute, it was already in ruins, but she discovered newsreel footage in an abandoned building. Interviews with filmmakers who were involved with the institute—including Licínio Azevedo, Jose Cardoso, and Ruy Guerra—and sequences from the newsreels bear witness to the birth of Mozambique’s cinema in concert with the birth of the nation.

https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243616-film-screening-kuxa-kanema-the-birth-of-cinema
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222946-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222946-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229228-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229228-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236470-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236470-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Exploring Culturally Responsive Practices Through an Anti-Oppressive and Anti-Racist Lens, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/socwel/event/239703-exploring-culturally-responsive-practices-through

The Berkeley School of Education is hosting the” Exploring Culturally Responsive Practices Through an Anti-Oppressive and Anti-Racist Lens” School Psychology Spring Conference 2024 on Friday, March 22, 2024 in the West Pauley Ballroom.

Please join the school and it’s 3 speakers Dr. Stephanie D’Costa, Dr. Kamontá Heidelburg, and Dr. Patti Park

Dr. Stephanie D’Costa: Building an Anti-Oppressive School Psychology Practice: Moving Towards Justice

Dr. Kamontá Heidelburg: Promoting Culturally Responsive SEL for Racial/Ethnically Minoritized Students

Dr. Patti Park : Mindfulness in Action: An ACT and Anti-Oppressive Perspective in Supporting Minority Youth

Website: https://conference.gspp.berkeley.edu/website/57877/home/

https://events.berkeley.edu/socwel/event/239703-exploring-culturally-responsive-practices-through
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241442-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241442-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
POWER Conference on Energy Research and Policy, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/241904-power-conference-on-energy-research-and-policy

About the Conference:
Save the date for the Energy Institute’s annual POWER conference on energy research and policy taking place on Friday, March 22, 2024. POWER brings together outstanding scholars with policy and business professionals from around the world to exchange ideas and discuss research on energy markets and regulation. This is a full day event in Spieker Forum (6th floor of Chou Hall), at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. Registration will open in February 2024. Programs from previous years are available here. We look forward to an engaging and insightful POWER Conference!

Paper Submissions:
We invite researchers to submit papers for possible inclusion in the conference program. Of particular interest are papers on the following topics:

  • Electricity Retail Pricing and Policies
  • Electric Vehicle Markets and Policies
  • Building Electrification
  • Climate Change Adaptation in the Power Sector
  • Wholesale Electricity Market Design and Organization
  • Electricity Capacity Markets and Resource Adequacy
  • Renewable Electricity Generation and Integration
  • Wholesale and Retail Markets for Natural Gas
  • Market Power in Electricity and/or Natural Gas Markets
  • Environmental Regulation of Electricity and/or Natural Gas Markets
  • Energy Efficiency and Demand Response
  • The Economic Impacts of Electricity Storage

Draft papers (electronic submissions in pdf format) should be sent by January 5, 2024 to: ei-haas@berkeley.edu with the subject: POWER 2024 Submission.

Abstracts, speeches, and slide presentations will not be considered. Authors will be notified of the conference program in early February 2024. Final papers will be due by March 1, 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/241904-power-conference-on-energy-research-and-policy
Workshop on Tannishō Commentarial Materials, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/cjs/event/240522-workshop-on-tannish-commentarial-materials

The Centers for Japanese Studies and Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, together with Ōtani University and Ryūkoku University in Kyoto announce a workshop under the supervision of Mark Blum that will focus on critically examining premodern and modern hermeneutics of the Tannishō, a core text of the Shin sect of Buddhism, and arguably the most well-read religious text in postwar Japan. We plan to meet twice this year as before: in Berkeley from March 22 to 24, and in Kyoto at Ōtani University from June 28 to 30. Organized around close readings of the most influential materials produced in early modern, modern, and postmodern Japan, the workshop aims at producing a critical, annotated translation detailing the salient ways in which this text has been both inspirational and controversial, as well as a series of essays analyzing a wide spectrum of voices in Japanese scholarship and preaching that have spoken on this work. For the early modern or Edo period, the commentaries by Enchi (1662), Jukoku (1740), Jinrei (1808), and Ryōshō (1841) will be examined. Papers will also be given on receptivity of the text in the modern period. Note that there are travel funds available to assist graduate students attend either or both of these workshops.

Format: The language of instruction will be primarily English with only minimal Japanese spoken as needed, and while the texts will be primarily in Classical Japanese and Modern Japanese, with some outside materials in kanbun and English. Participants will be expected to prepare the assigned readings, and on occasion make relevant presentations in English about content.

Dates: For 2024, the seminar in Berkeley at the Jōdo Shinshū Center will take place from March 22 to 24, and the seminar at Ōtani University will take place in Kyoto from June 28 to 30. We anticipate the 2025 meetings to take place in Berkeley in March and in Kyoto in June; exact dates to be announced later. Note that participation in one meeting does not require participation in another.

Cost: There is no participation fee, but in recognition of the distance some will have to travel to attend, a limited number of travel fellowships will be provided to qualified graduate students, based on preparedness, need, and commitment to the project.

Participation Requirements: Although any qualified applicant will be welcome to register, graduate students will be particularly welcome and the only recipients of financial assistance in the form of travel fellowships. Affiliation with one of the three hosting universities is not required. We welcome the participation of graduate students outside of Japan with some reading ability in Modern and Classical Japanese and familiarity with Buddhist thought and culture as well as native-speaking Japanese graduate students with a scholarly interest in Buddhism. Although we welcome students attending both meetings each year, participation in only one is acceptable.

Application Procedure: Applications must be sent for each year that one wants to participate. To apply for the 2024 workshop in Berkeley, send C.V. and a short letter explaining your qualifications, motivations, and objectives to Kumi Hadler at cjs@berkeley.edu by February 29, 2024. Applications are by email only. Graduate students who apply for travel stipends should include the request in this letter with specifics of where you will be traveling from. Questions about the content of the workshop may be sent to Professor Blum at mblum@berkeley.edu. Communication regarding the Kyoto meeting may be sent to Professor Michael Conway at conway@res.otani.ac.jp.

https://events.berkeley.edu/cjs/event/240522-workshop-on-tannish-commentarial-materials
Workshop on Tannishō Commentarial Materials, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/bs/event/242476-workshop-on-tannish-commentarial-materials

The Centers for Japanese Studies and Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, together with Ōtani University and Ryūkoku University in Kyoto announce a workshop under the supervision of Mark Blum that will focus on critically examining premodern and modern hermeneutics of the Tannishō, a core text of the Shin sect of Buddhism, and arguably the most well-read religious text in postwar Japan. We plan to meet twice this year as before: in Berkeley from March 22 to 24, and in Kyoto at Ōtani University from June 28 to 30. Organized around close readings of the most influential materials produced in early modern, modern, and postmodern Japan, the workshop aims at producing a critical, annotated translation detailing the salient ways in which this text has been both inspirational and controversial, as well as a series of essays analyzing a wide spectrum of voices in Japanese scholarship and preaching that have spoken on this work. For the early modern or Edo period, the commentaries by Enchi (1662), Jukoku (1740), Jinrei (1808), and Ryōshō (1841) will be examined. Papers will also be given on receptivity of the text in the modern period. Note that there are travel funds available to assist graduate students attend either or both of these workshops.

Format: The language of instruction will be primarily English with only minimal Japanese spoken as needed, and while the texts will be primarily in Classical Japanese and Modern Japanese, with some outside materials in kanbun and English. Participants will be expected to prepare the assigned readings, and on occasion make relevant presentations in English about content.

Dates: For 2024, the seminar in Berkeley at the Jōdo Shinshū Center will take place from March 22 to 24, and the seminar at Ōtani University will take place in Kyoto from June 28 to 30. We anticipate the 2025 meetings to take place in Berkeley in March and in Kyoto in June; exact dates to be announced later. Note that participation in one meeting does not require participation in another.

Cost: There is no participation fee, but in recognition of the distance some will have to travel to attend, a limited number of travel fellowships will be provided to qualified graduate students, based on preparedness, need, and commitment to the project.

Participation Requirements: Although any qualified applicant will be welcome to register, graduate students will be particularly welcome and the only recipients of financial assistance in the form of travel fellowships. Affiliation with one of the three hosting universities is not required. We welcome the participation of graduate students outside of Japan with some reading ability in Modern and Classical Japanese and familiarity with Buddhist thought and culture as well as native-speaking Japanese graduate students with a scholarly interest in Buddhism. Although we welcome students attending both meetings each year, participation in only one is acceptable.

Application Procedure: Applications must be sent for each year that one wants to participate. To apply for the 2024 workshop in Berkeley, send C.V. and a short letter explaining your qualifications, motivations, and objectives to Kumi Hadler at cjs@berkeley.edu by February 29, 2024. Applications are by email only. Graduate students who apply for travel stipends should include the request in this letter with specifics of where you will be traveling from. Questions about the content of the workshop may be sent to Professor Blum at mblum@berkeley.edu. Communication regarding the Kyoto meeting may be sent to Professor Michael Conway at conway@res.otani.ac.jp.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bs/event/242476-workshop-on-tannish-commentarial-materials
Workshop on Tannishō Commentarial Materials, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243617-workshop-on-tannish-commentarial-materials

The Centers for Japanese Studies and Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, together with Ōtani University and Ryūkoku University in Kyoto announce a workshop under the supervision of Mark Blum that will focus on critically examining premodern and modern hermeneutics of the Tannishō, a core text of the Shin sect of Buddhism, and arguably the most well-read religious text in postwar Japan. We plan to meet twice this year as before: in Berkeley from March 22 to 24, and in Kyoto at Ōtani University from June 28 to 30. Organized around close readings of the most influential materials produced in early modern, modern, and postmodern Japan, the workshop aims at producing a critical, annotated translation detailing the salient ways in which this text has been both inspirational and controversial, as well as a series of essays analyzing a wide spectrum of voices in Japanese scholarship and preaching that have spoken on this work. For the early modern or Edo period, the commentaries by Enchi (1662), Jukoku (1740), Jinrei (1808), and Ryōshō (1841) will be examined. Papers will also be given on receptivity of the text in the modern period. Note that there are travel funds available to assist graduate students attend either or both of these workshops.

Format: The language of instruction will be primarily English with only minimal Japanese spoken as needed, and while the texts will be primarily in Classical Japanese and Modern Japanese, with some outside materials in kanbun and English. Participants will be expected to prepare the assigned readings, and on occasion make relevant presentations in English about content.

Dates: For 2024, the seminar in Berkeley at the Jōdo Shinshū Center will take place from March 22 to 24, and the seminar at Ōtani University will take place in Kyoto from June 28 to 30. We anticipate the 2025 meetings to take place in Berkeley in March and in Kyoto in June; exact dates to be announced later. Note that participation in one meeting does not require participation in another.

Cost: There is no participation fee, but in recognition of the distance some will have to travel to attend, a limited number of travel fellowships will be provided to qualified graduate students, based on preparedness, need, and commitment to the project.

Participation Requirements: Although any qualified applicant will be welcome to register, graduate students will be particularly welcome and the only recipients of financial assistance in the form of travel fellowships. Affiliation with one of the three hosting universities is not required. We welcome the participation of graduate students outside of Japan with some reading ability in Modern and Classical Japanese and familiarity with Buddhist thought and culture as well as native-speaking Japanese graduate students with a scholarly interest in Buddhism. Although we welcome students attending both meetings each year, participation in only one is acceptable.

Application Procedure: Applications must be sent for each year that one wants to participate. To apply for the 2024 workshop in Berkeley, send C.V. and a short letter explaining your qualifications, motivations, and objectives to Kumi Hadler at cjs@berkeley.edu by February 29, 2024. Applications are by email only. Graduate students who apply for travel stipends should include the request in this letter with specifics of where you will be traveling from. Questions about the content of the workshop may be sent to Professor Blum at mblum@berkeley.edu. Communication regarding the Kyoto meeting may be sent to Professor Michael Conway at conway@res.otani.ac.jp.

https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243617-workshop-on-tannish-commentarial-materials
POWER Conference on Energy Research and Policy, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/223136-power-conference-on-energy-research-and-policy

About the Conference:

Registration is now open for the Energy Institute’s annual POWER Conference on energy research and policy on March 22nd. POWER brings together outstanding scholars with policy and business professionals from around the world to exchange ideas and discuss research on energy markets and regulation. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to register at a reduced rate!

Registration, program, and additional information here: https://haas.berkeley.edu/energy-institute/events/power-conference/

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/223136-power-conference-on-energy-research-and-policy
POWER Conference on Energy Research and Policy, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/blum/event/243582-power-conference-on-energy-research-and-policy

About the Conference:

Registration is now open for the Energy Institute’s annual POWER Conference on energy research and policy on March 22nd. POWER brings together outstanding scholars with policy and business professionals from around the world to exchange ideas and discuss research on energy markets and regulation. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to register at a reduced rate!

Registration, program, and additional information here: https://haas.berkeley.edu/energy-institute/events/power-conference/

https://events.berkeley.edu/blum/event/243582-power-conference-on-energy-research-and-policy
“Professional in Residence” with Annie Tsong, PhD, Chief Strategy and Product Officer at Amyris, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/QB3/event/243287-professional-in-residence-with-annie-tsong-phd

March 22, 2024
Career Conversation with QnA
10:15-11:15am, Room 221 Stanley Hall


Plus! Small group mentoring sessions
Room TBA with registration

  • 1:00-1:40 - mentoring 1 - Navigating the transition to industry
  • 1:45-2:25 - mentoring 2 - Career paths in industry - moving through different roles in the same company, or moving between companies


Bio: Annie Tsong, PhD, is Chief Strategy and Product Officer at Amyris, a leading synthetic biology that was founded out of Jay Keasling’s lab at UC Berkeley in 2003. Annie’s role is to identify the intersection between market needs and areas where Amyris’ technology offers new value. Annie joined Amyris in 2008 in the Research and Development division, where she was central in establishing the company’s foundational microbial production platform. Annie is an inventor of many key patents in Amyris’ IP portfolio and a frequent speaker at international scientific conferences. Annie holds a Ph.D. in genetics from University of California, San Francisco, and was a Miller Fellow at University of California, Berkeley.

Register here

https://events.berkeley.edu/QB3/event/243287-professional-in-residence-with-annie-tsong-phd
Colloquium on Law and Geopolitics: March 22, Prof. Shirin Sinnar on “From Treason to Terrorism”, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243340-colloquium-on-law-and-geopolitics-march-22-profProfessor Katerina Linos and Professor Elena Chachko warmly invite you to their Spring 2024 Colloquium on Law and Geopolitics. Please see flyer for the workshop schedule. The workshops will be held in person Fridays, 11AM-12:40PM, Room 130, Berkeley Law School. Boxed lunches will be available (first come, first served). Berkeley Law and the wider campus community are welcome to attend the workshop sessions. Please RSVP(opens in a new tab)(opens in a new tab) to help with lunch orders.
The guest speaker on March 22 will be Professor Shirin Sinnar (Stanford), who will present a paper entitled “From Treason to Terrorism.”
 
RSVP(opens in a new tab) or contact the Miller Institute at MGCL@law.berkeley.edu for details and to get the paper. 
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243340-colloquium-on-law-and-geopolitics-march-22-prof
Holi Festival, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/student-events/event/129752-holi-festival

Get ready to add a burst of color to your day and celebrate the Hindu Festival of Colors in a unique and fun way! Create a beautiful rangoli craft that will brighten up any room, and indulge in some delicious treats while you’re at it!

🎊 Holi Festival
� March 22, 2024, 12 – 2 pm
📍MLK Game Zone Area

https://events.berkeley.edu/student-events/event/129752-holi-festival
Crafter Noon: Crafter noon going on every Friday. , March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/student-events/event/240720-crafter-noon-crafter-noon-going-on-every-friday-

Join us for free drop-in arts and crafts once a week in the Student Union!

🗓 Every Friday, 12pm- 2pm
📍 1st Floor of MLK Jr. Building, Game Zone Area

https://events.berkeley.edu/student-events/event/240720-crafter-noon-crafter-noon-going-on-every-friday-
Kadish Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory: Richard Tuck, Weinstein Fellow, Harvard University, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243550-kadish-workshop-in-law-philosophy-and-politicalRichard Tuck is Professor of Government Department. Professor Tuck is a premier scholar of the history of political thought. His works include Natural Rights Theories (1979), Hobbes (1989), and Philosophy and Government, 1572-1651 (1993). They address a variety of topics including political authority, human rights, natural law, and toleration, and focus on a number of thinkers including Hobbes, Grotius, Selden, and Descartes. His current work deals with political thought and international law, and traces the history of thought about international politics from Grotius, Hobbes, Pufendorf, Locke, and Vattel, to Kant. He is also engaged in a work on the origins of twentieth century economic thought; in it he argues that the ‘free rider’ problem was only invented, as a problem, in recent decades. Thus his interests to a remarkable degree span concerns in all subfields of the discipline.
Paper and Abstract:
Hobbes (and Weber) on the Jury
The theoretical basis of trial by jury has always been puzzling and contentious. Two major political theorists – Thomas Hobbes and Max Weber – have paid it some attention, and both have argued that the jury must be understood as interpreting the law as well as assessing the facts; but what does that imply about the relationship between the rule of law and trial by jury? What kind of decision does a jury come to? 
About the Workshop:
A workshop for presenting and discussing work in progress in moral, political, and legal theory. The central aim is to provide an opportunity for students to engage with philosophers, political theorists, and legal scholars working on normative questions. Another aim is to bring together people from different disciplines who have strong normative interests or who speak to issues of potential interest to philosophers and political theorists.
The theme for the Spring 2024 workshop is “Intelligence: Human, Animal, Artificial,” and we will host scholars working in Philosophy, Biology, Psychology, Law, and Engineering. Our underlying concern will be the normative implications of different ideas of what intelligence is and can do.
This semester the workshop is co-taught by Christopher Kutz and Josh Cohen.
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243550-kadish-workshop-in-law-philosophy-and-political
BETS Session Three: Disability Justice, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/deib/event/230615-bets-session-three-disability-justice

The Berkeley Equity Training Series (BETS) at UC Berkeley, is an intentional sequence of three-hour topical sessions facilitated by subject matter experts and equity practitioners. This program is a cohorted professional learning experience designed to equip staff members and managers at Cal about how to be more culturally fluent and racially literate. Research consistently shows that professional learning communities, including cohort-based models are impactful because they encourage self-reflection, collaboration, and refining one’s practices (Brooks 1998).

https://events.berkeley.edu/deib/event/230615-bets-session-three-disability-justice
BETS Session Three: Disability Justice, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/ADA/event/237387-bets-session-three-disability-justice

The Berkeley Equity Training Series (BETS) at UC Berkeley, is an intentional sequence of three-hour topical sessions facilitated by subject matter experts and equity practitioners. This program is a cohorted professional learning experience designed to equip staff members and managers at Cal about how to be more culturally fluent and racially literate. Research consistently shows that professional learning communities, including cohort-based models are impactful because they encourage self-reflection, collaboration, and refining one’s practices (Brooks 1998).

https://events.berkeley.edu/ADA/event/237387-bets-session-three-disability-justice
Norcal T-Camp, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/geneq/event/238308-norcal-t-camp
If you are based in Southern California, please check out SoCal T-Camp instead: http://out.ucr.edu/programs/t-camp.html

Please note that this year we anticipate the cost for each T-Camp attendee will be $180; the cost includes food and housing at the conference center (please note this does not include the cost of travel, to the retreat location). Ideally, your campus will be able to sponsor you. If your campus can’t cover you and you’re unable to afford the cost, please contact us at norcaltcamp@gmail.com and we’ll be happy to work with you!
https://events.berkeley.edu/geneq/event/238308-norcal-t-camp
Norcal T-Camp, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/Diversity/event/241265-norcal-t-camp
If you are based in Southern California, please check out SoCal T-Camp instead: http://out.ucr.edu/programs/t-camp.html

Please note that this year we anticipate the cost for each T-Camp attendee will be $180; the cost includes food and housing at the conference center (please note this does not include the cost of travel, to the retreat location). Ideally, your campus will be able to sponsor you. If your campus can’t cover you and you’re unable to afford the cost, please contact us at norcaltcamp@gmail.com and we’ll be happy to work with you!
https://events.berkeley.edu/Diversity/event/241265-norcal-t-camp
Labor Lunch Seminar: “Social Mobility and Higher Education in Brazil”, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/236145-labor-lunch-seminar-social-mobility-and-higher-educat

Labor Lunch

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/236145-labor-lunch-seminar-social-mobility-and-higher-educat
A Conversation on AI Governance, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/datasci/event/243070-a-conversation-on-ai-governance

Join us for a dynamic discussion about the future of Al governance - what’s behind the hype, who’s at the table, and what’s at stake for our society.

https://events.berkeley.edu/datasci/event/243070-a-conversation-on-ai-governance
A Conversation on Civil Justice: Social Media and Free Speech, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242735-a-conversation-on-civil-justice-social-media-andCJRI Berkeley Boost (webinar).
More information to come!
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242735-a-conversation-on-civil-justice-social-media-and
Certificate Program in Clinical Research Conduct and Management Online Information Session, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/extension/event/229095-certificate-program-in-clinical-research-conduct-and-

Master the practical aspects of running and managing a clinical trial, including trial design and phases, good clinical practices, the drug discovery and development process, and quality control and assurance. With this certificate, you’ll also become familiar with the legal and ethical side of clinical research, including FDA regulations and ICH guidelines, compliance and bioethics.

https://events.berkeley.edu/extension/event/229095-certificate-program-in-clinical-research-conduct-and-
A Conversation on AI Governance, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242734-a-conversation-on-ai-governanceMarch 22, 2025 | 1-2 PM (Doors open at 12:3o PM)
Booth Auditorium & Live-streamed
Admission is free. Registration is not required.
Join us for a dynamic discussion about the future of AI governance – what’s behind the hype, who’s at the table, and what’s at stake for our society. 
We are thrilled to welcome our guest discussants:
Martha Minow, 300th Anniversary University Professor, Harvard University
DJ Patil, First U.S. Chief Data Scientist
Jennifer Chayes, Dean of the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society
This event will be live-streamed on Zoom. Live-stream link
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242734-a-conversation-on-ai-governance
Radio CLACS: Brasil com André Nicolitt e Flávia Oliveira, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/clacs/event/243482-radio-clacs-brasil-com-andre-nicolitt-e-flavia

Descrição do evento

Radio CLACS é uma nova série que busca unir temas como democracia, movimentos sociais e neocolonialismo na região. Na última sexta-feira de cada mês teremos dois palestrantes para discutirem a situação política e social do seu país.

Cada episódio focará em um país diferente da América Latina e do Caribe, mas busca responder às mesmas perguntas:

  1. Democracia: ¿O que está acontecendo com a democracia no Brasil?
  2. Movimentos Sociais: Qual a sua relação e participação com a democracia?
  3. Economia: Como é percebido o neocolonialismo chinês no Brasil?

O evento será em português e será transmitido em nosso canal no YouTube às 14h na Califórnia e às 18h no horário de Brasilia.

Assista aqui à transmissão ao vivo do programa: https://youtube.com/live/eVV5cxQMjuE

Palestrantes

André Nicolitt é Professor da Universidade Federal Fluminense, no Brasil. É Juiz de Direito do Tribunal de Justiça do Estado do Rio de Janeiro e atualmente é Visiting Scholar na University of California Berkeley.

Flávia Oliveira é Jornalista, colunista do jornal O Globo, especializada em economia. Em 2003, recebeu o Prêmio Elizabeth Neuffer da Associação dos Correspondentes da ONU, por uma série de reportagens sobre desenvolvimento humano.

https://events.berkeley.edu/clacs/event/243482-radio-clacs-brasil-com-andre-nicolitt-e-flavia
Radio CLACS: Brasil com André Nicolitt e Flávia Oliveira, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243618-radio-clacs-brasil-com-andre-nicolitt-e-flavia

Descrição do evento

Radio CLACS é uma nova série que busca unir temas como democracia, movimentos sociais e neocolonialismo na região. Na última sexta-feira de cada mês teremos dois palestrantes para discutirem a situação política e social do seu país.

Cada episódio focará em um país diferente da América Latina e do Caribe, mas busca responder às mesmas perguntas:

  1. Democracia: ¿O que está acontecendo com a democracia no Brasil?
  2. Movimentos Sociais: Qual a sua relação e participação com a democracia?
  3. Economia: Como é percebido o neocolonialismo chinês no Brasil?

O evento será em português e será transmitido em nosso canal no YouTube às 14h na Califórnia e às 18h no horário de Brasilia.

Assista aqui à transmissão ao vivo do programa: https://youtube.com/live/eVV5cxQMjuE

Palestrantes

André Nicolitt é Professor da Universidade Federal Fluminense, no Brasil. É Juiz de Direito do Tribunal de Justiça do Estado do Rio de Janeiro e atualmente é Visiting Scholar na University of California Berkeley.

Flávia Oliveira é Jornalista, colunista do jornal O Globo, especializada em economia. Em 2003, recebeu o Prêmio Elizabeth Neuffer da Associação dos Correspondentes da ONU, por uma série de reportagens sobre desenvolvimento humano.

https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243618-radio-clacs-brasil-com-andre-nicolitt-e-flavia
Designing Advanced Nanocatalysts by Looking at Atoms and Molecules on Reactive Surfaces: Nano Seminar series, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/BNNI/event/237676-designing-advanced-nanocatalysts-by-looking-at

Clarification of the nature of active sites at both solid-gas and solid-liquid interfaces has been a long-standing question in surface chemistry, holding paramount significance in crafting innovative catalytic materials that demand minimal energy consumption. A bimetallic Pt alloy, or mixed catalyst, is an excellent platform to uncover the contentious role of the metal–metal oxide interface because the alloyed transition metal can coexist with the Pt surface layer in the form of an oxidized species on the bimetal surface during catalytic reactions. The real-time imaging of catalytically reactive atomic sites using operando surface techniques, including ambient pressure scanning tunneling microscopy, can reveal the nature of reactive sites on the catalytic surfaces.

In this talk, I present in-situ observation results of structural modulation on Pt-based bimetal catalysts and mixed catalysts and its impact on the catalytic activity. We utilized PtNi, and PtCo that includes both single crystal and nanoparticle surfaces as model catalysts, and showed the coexistence of Pt and metal oxide leads to the enhancement of catalytic activity, indicating these metal-oxide interfaces provide a more-efficient reaction path for CO oxidation. The mixed catalysts composed of Pt nanoparticles and the mesoporous cobalt oxide exhibit the enhancement of catalytic activity while Pt is encapsulated by the oxide thin layers forming the reactive metal-oxide interfaces. In addition, we address the fundamentals of the electrocatalytic process and on locating the real active sites at the solid-liquid interface by utilizing in-situ electrochemical scanning tunneling microscopy. Overall, the atomic-scale imaging of the reactive surfaces gives rise to the design rule of advanced bimetallic and mixed catalysts.

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Jeong Young Park (박정영) did his PhD in Physics at Seoul National University and postdoc at LBNL (Go Bears!) After some years as staff scientist here he returned to Korea and joined the Chemistry faculty at KAIST. Prof. Park has authored 320 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters in international journals.

 

https://events.berkeley.edu/BNNI/event/237676-designing-advanced-nanocatalysts-by-looking-at
Accounting Seminar with Phil Stocken, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/229789-accounting-seminar-with-phil-stockenPhil Stocken of Tuck | Dartmouthhttps://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/229789-accounting-seminar-with-phil-stockenComposition Colloquium: Anna Friz, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235705-composition-colloquium-anna-friz

Anna Friz creates media art, sound and transmission art, working across platforms to present installations, broadcasts, films and performances. Her creative and scholarly works often reflect upon media ecologies, land use, infrastructures, time perception, radio and transmission art histories, and critical fictions. She specializes in self-reflexive radio for broadcast, installation or performance, where radio is the source, subject, and medium of the work. Currently her focus is on a series of audiovisual works under the title We Build Ruins, which expressively consider mining and industrial corridors in the high altitude desert in northern Chile; Useful Radio, a live performance and installation created with Jeff Kolar based on Rick Prelinger’s radio listening archives; and Water Line/Estuary Almanac, a 365-day composition based on the tidal patterns of the Fraser River in Vancouver created with Absolute Value of Noise for DeutschlandFunk Kultur and ORF Kunstradio, of the German and Austrian public radio.

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235705-composition-colloquium-anna-friz
Film Screening: Sembène!, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/239966-film-screening-sembene

A former dockworker who rose to become a founding figure of African cinema and one of the greatest postwar filmmakers of any continent, Ousmane Sembène lived a life as dramatic as any of his characters’. Coming of age when all of Africa dreamed of independence from colonial rule, Sembène channeled the hopes and struggles of an entire continent into his novels and films. This documentary, co-helmed by his colleague and biographer, Samba Gadjigo, unveils the brilliance and complexities of an artist who fought to give Africans a voice and a way to be seen.

-Jason Sanders
https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/239966-film-screening-sembene
Two Presentations: Howard Besser & AnnaLee Saxenian, March 22https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2024/two-presentations-howard-besser-annalee-saxenianSpeakers: Howard Besser & AnnaLee Saxenian— “Preserving Digital Images and Data” and “Rethinking Antitrust for the Cloud Era”
More info: https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2024/two-presentations-howard-besser-annalee-saxenian
https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2024/two-presentations-howard-besser-annalee-saxenian
Ken Raymond Lectureship in Inorganic Chemistry, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230505-ken-raymond-lectureship-in-inorganic-chemistry

Keith Hodgson, David Mulvane Ehrsam and Edward Curtis Franklin Professor, Stanford University

Synchrotron X-rays – Revolutionizing X-ray Absorption and Diffraction Methods in Bioinorganic Chemistry and Structural Biology

Beginning in the early seventies, synchrotron x-rays from electron storage rings transformed the use of several x-ray based techniques for structural studies, enabling new discoveries in (among other areas) bioinorganic chemistry and structural biology. This talk will provide a brief introduction to the key properties of synchrotron radiation and explore the technology developments and innovations in methodologies that have led to significant impacts over the past decades. The particular focus will be in two areas where research in our group has made pioneering contributions. These are in x-ray absorption spectroscopy (edge and EXAFS) as applied to bioinorganic systems and in macromolecular crystallography and solution of the “phase problem” with multiple wavelength (MAD) phasing.

https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230505-ken-raymond-lectureship-in-inorganic-chemistry
Film Screening: Prayers for the Stolen, March 22https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/239967-film-screening-prayers-for-the-stolen

Acclaimed Mexican Salvadoran filmmaker Tatiana Huezo’s work (The Tiniest Place) is focused on “returning the faces” of Latin American women who have become mere statistics: of war, of sexual violence, of death. Her first fictional film, Mexico’s official Oscar submission in 2021, revolves around three young girls coming of age in a remote Mexican highland village dominated by the cartel, where childhood games are interrupted by shoot-outs, and friends, teachers, and whole families sometimes “disappear.” “An extraordinary, haunting first fiction feature” (Observer), Prayers for the Stolen “is a masterfully evocative portrait of coming of age in the shadow of Mexico’s narco wars” (Little White Lies).

-Jason Sanders
https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/239967-film-screening-prayers-for-the-stolen
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, March 23https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222945-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222945-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, March 23https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229227-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229227-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, March 23https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236469-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236469-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, March 23https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241441-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241441-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
FULL: FAMILY PROGRAM: Naturally Dyed Eggs (Morning Session), March 23https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/230613-full-family-program-naturally-dyed-eggs-morning-sessi

This hands-on workshop will introduce children to the joy of natural dyes while they make their own patterns on eggs with brilliant plant-based colors. Price includes 4 eggs per participant (adults included). Two session times available.

Children must be accompanied by a paid registered adult. All program fees include same day admission to the Garden. (An $18 value for adult admission.)

https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/230613-full-family-program-naturally-dyed-eggs-morning-sessi
FAMILY PROGRAM: Naturally Dyed Eggs (Afternoon Session), March 23https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/230614-family-program-naturally-dyed-eggs-afternoon

This hands-on workshop will introduce children to the joy of natural dyes while they make their own patterns on eggs with brilliant plant-based colors. Price includes 4 eggs per participant (adults included). Two session times available.

Children must be accompanied by a paid registered adult. All program fees include same day admission to the Garden. (An $18 value for adult admission.)

https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/230614-family-program-naturally-dyed-eggs-afternoon
Film Screening: Viva Varda!, March 23https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/239968-film-screening-viva-varda

For the first time, a film about the groundbreaking French filmmaker Agnès Varda, not made by herself: Gibert’s Viva Varda! reveals a new perspective on the influential filmmaker’s life and work, with never-before-seen archival footage and illuminating interviews with her family, friends, and collaborators. Varda herself is an instantly recognizable figure, and she cleverly branded herself and her unique sensibilities. This documentary offers biographical details of her early life and rebellious spirit, while shedding light on her creativity, pragmatism, and business acumen.

https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/239968-film-screening-viva-varda
Film Screening: Viva Varda!, March 23https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240560-film-screening-viva-varda

For the first time, a film about the groundbreaking French filmmaker Agnès Varda, not made by herself: Gibert’s Viva Varda! reveals a new perspective on the influential filmmaker’s life and work, with never-before-seen archival footage and illuminating interviews with her family, friends, and collaborators. Varda herself is an instantly recognizable figure, and she cleverly branded herself and her unique sensibilities. This documentary offers biographical details of her early life and rebellious spirit, while shedding light on her creativity, pragmatism, and business acumen.

https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240560-film-screening-viva-varda
Film Screening: A Brighter Summer Day, March 23https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/239969-film-screening-a-brighter-summer-day

Gangsters, musicians, lovers, and street punks populate the gorgeous frames of Edward Yang’s portrait of coming of age—or trying to—in the politically charged Taiwan of the 1960s. While the streets of Taipei are still rocked by conflicts between Mainlanders and Islanders, for young Xiao Si’r (Chang Chen, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Red Cliff), they also resonate with the sounds of Elvis Presley and rock and roll and the promise of love and escape. Giving as much detail to the quiet, languid interludes of a teenager’s life as to the more hectic moments, Yang creates a powerful, novelistic vision of a generation’s lives, loves, and dreams, dizzying in detail and scope, yet as ethereal and moving as a poem. “Furnished with more sheer physical presence (including characters, settings, and objects) than any other fiction film I know of from the 1990s,” wrote Jonathan Rosenbaum. 

-Jason Sanders
https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/239969-film-screening-a-brighter-summer-day
CANCELED: Crafter Dark: Join us for a night of free crafting. Theme: Bear Cup Cozy🐻, March 23https://events.berkeley.edu/student-events/event/129680-crafter-dark-join-us-for-a-night-of-free-crafting

Get crafty with us at our monthly Crafter Dark event! Featuring live music by UC Berkeley’s own, Aina Klimenko, who sings pop/alternate music. Students, staff, and faculty are all welcome to join us on March 23.

https://events.berkeley.edu/student-events/event/129680-crafter-dark-join-us-for-a-night-of-free-crafting
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, March 24https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222944-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222944-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, March 24https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229226-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229226-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, March 24https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236468-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236468-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, March 24https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241440-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241440-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
Discovery Station: Flowers & Seeds, March 24https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/242564-discovery-station-flowers-seeds

Come learn all about flowers, fruit, and seeds at this month’s botanical Discovery Station. Our docents will be stationed on the Tour Deck with an interactive display and a diversity of specimens to explore.

This program is Free with admission. Drop-in any time during Discovery Station hours. No registration required.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/242564-discovery-station-flowers-seeds
Film Screening: La Pointe Courte, March 24https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/239973-film-screening-la-pointe-courte

Historian Georges Sadoul called Agnès Varda’s 1955 debut, made outside the French film industry on a shoestring budget, “truly the first film of the nouvelle vague”; its innovative editing, location shooting, and use of nonprofessional actors seem as radical now as they did then. A sun-scarred Mediterranean fishing port is both background and plot element for a fractured tale of reunited lovers, inspired by William Faulkner’s The Wild Palms. For Varda the locale is as important as the plot, and her camera divides its time evenly between the lovers’ alienated monologues and more important things, like the way sunlight plays across white stones, and how villagers go about their lives amidst laundry-hung alleyways, boat jousts, and town dances. The film’s jarring, alienating editing (by Alain Resnais) conjures a world where public and private, love and society, are as bound together—and as far apart—as sun and shadow.

-Jason Sanders
https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/239973-film-screening-la-pointe-courte
Mahler Chamber Orchestra; Mitsuko Uchida, piano and director; José Maria Blumenschein, concertmaster and leader, March 24https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204192-mahler-chamber-orchestra-mitsuko-uchida-piano-and

Mitsuko Uchida and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra return to Berkeley after their March 2022 performance together for another concert highlighting Mozart’s piano concertos. Uchida leads from the keyboard throughout the performance. In both the Concerto No. 17 in G major and No. 22 in E-flat major, gaiety coexists with melancholy, and the profound tangles with the carefree. An international ensemble with flexible membership, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra has earned a reputation for playing even the most substantial repertoire with the intimacy and subtlety of chamber musicand here also performs a chamber orchestra arrangement of Jörg Widmann’s atmospheric String Quartet No. 2.

https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204192-mahler-chamber-orchestra-mitsuko-uchida-piano-and
Film Screening: Emitaï, March 24https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/239974-film-screening-emitai

Emitaï is the name for the Diola god of thunder. A story about the awakening of national consciousness, Emitaï takes place toward the end of World War II, in a village under French colonial rule. It is a tale of resistance among tribespeople who guard their traditions and refuse to give up their rice crop to the French authorities. “Rice is sacred to the Diolas, associated with their rituals and their gods, and to surrender it would imply that they were dishonoring or rejecting those gods. For an African, Emitaï is a direct challenge to deeply rooted beliefs, a challenge that makes no concessions to the expectations and desires of Western audiences” (Michael Popkin, Village Voice). The film was shot in seven weeks in the Casamance region of southern Senegal, with a supporting cast of nonprofessional actors drawn from local villages. Ousmane Sembène dedicated his film “to all militants of the African cause.”

-Susan Oxtoby
https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/239974-film-screening-emitai
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, March 25https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222943-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222943-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, March 25https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229225-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229225-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
[Spring Recess] No Physics Colloquium or Condensed Matter Seminar, March 25https://events.berkeley.edu/physics/event/229842-spring-recess-no-physics-colloquium-or-condensed-matt

[Spring Recess] No Physics Colloquium

https://events.berkeley.edu/physics/event/229842-spring-recess-no-physics-colloquium-or-condensed-matt
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, March 25https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236467-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236467-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, March 25https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241439-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241439-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
Spring Recess, March 25https://events.berkeley.edu/calparents/event/221143-spring-recess

Spring Recess

https://events.berkeley.edu/calparents/event/221143-spring-recess
Speakers: Ben Engel (Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland): Talk Title to be Announced; Christopher Obara (Janelia Research Campus): Talk Title to be Announced; Bronwyn A. Lucas (MCB and Center for Computational Biology, UC Berkeley): Visualizi..., March 25https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/237720-speakers-ben-engel-biozentrum-university-of-basel17th Annual CDP Spring Symposium: Cell Biology at the Nanoscale
This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH
Division(s): Division of Cell Biology, Development & Physiology
https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/237720-speakers-ben-engel-biozentrum-university-of-basel
Free Speech and Higher Education A Conversation with Secretary Condoleezza Rice and Chancellor Carol T. Christ, March 25https://events.berkeley.edu/udar/event/239680-free-speech-and-higher-education-a-conversation-with-

Monday, March 25, 2024

11 a.m.

Registration required: gobears.me/3u8Y9RJ

This event is free and open to the public. If you require an accommodation for effective communication or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact events1@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7–10 days in advance of the event.

There will be a livestream link of this event. Registration is required for the link. 

https://events.berkeley.edu/udar/event/239680-free-speech-and-higher-education-a-conversation-with-
TSWI Lunch on Us, March 25https://events.berkeley.edu/geneq/event/241221-tswi-lunch-on-us



we are back with the lunches y’all! now on Mondays from 12-2pm.

we’ve got a new process for this semester. before each trans lunch please fill out the rsvp form to reserve a lunch. we will close the form a few days ahead of time so don’t forget to fill it out (we will remind you 😘)

if you can’t make it on Monday 12-2pm let us know on the form and you can pick it up anytime before Tuesday at 5pm!!! just let an intern on duty know and they will grab it for you.

we will also be alternating locations each month between the MCC and GenEq. february and april at the MCC and march at GenEq :))

https://events.berkeley.edu/geneq/event/241221-tswi-lunch-on-us
External Finance Seminars: Ricardo De La O, March 25https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/243500-external-finance-seminars-ricardo-de-la-oGuest: Ricardo De La O

Paper: The Return of Return Dominance: Decomposing the Cross-section of Prices
https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/243500-external-finance-seminars-ricardo-de-la-o
Seminar 231, Public Finance: Spring Break, March 25https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/228790-seminar-231-public-finance-spring-break

Seminar 231

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/228790-seminar-231-public-finance-spring-break
Seminar 211, Economic History: Spring Break - NO SEMINAR, March 25https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237096-seminar-211-economic-history-spring-break-no-seminar

SPRING BREAK - No Seminar

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237096-seminar-211-economic-history-spring-break-no-seminar
Seminar 271: Spring Break, March 25https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237532-seminar-271-spring-break

No Seminar

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237532-seminar-271-spring-break
Nonlinear Algebra Seminar: The Two Lives of the Grassmannian, March 25https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/243505-nonlinear-algebra-seminar-the-two-lives-of-theThe Grassmannian parametrizes linear subspaces of a real vector space. It is both a projective variety (via Plücker coordinates) and an affine variety (via orthogonal projections). We examine these two representations, through the lenses of linear algebra, commutative algebra, and statistics.https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/243505-nonlinear-algebra-seminar-the-two-lives-of-theEXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, March 26https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222942-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222942-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, March 26https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229224-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229224-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, March 26https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236466-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236466-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, March 26https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241438-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241438-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
AI & Physical Sciences for Climate Innovation Symposium, March 26/event/243080-ai-physical-sciences-for-climate-innovation

Join us at the forefront of innovation and environmental stewardship at the University of California, Berkeley for a pivotal symposium on March 26-27, 2024. This gathering will convene experts across the fields of artificial intelligence and the natural sciences to explore groundbreaking interventions in climate change technology.

/event/243080-ai-physical-sciences-for-climate-innovation
AI and Science for Climate Symposium, March 26https://events.berkeley.edu/datasci/event/243229-ai-and-science-for-climate-symposium

Join us at the forefront of innovation and environmental stewardship at the University of California, Berkeley for a pivotal symposium on March 26-27, 2024. This gathering will convene experts across the fields of artificial intelligence and the natural sciences to explore groundbreaking interventions in climate change technology.

https://events.berkeley.edu/datasci/event/243229-ai-and-science-for-climate-symposium
Reactome introduction and Q&A, March 26https://berkeley.libcal.com/calendar/workshops/reactomeAn online introduction to Reactome (https://reactome.org/) by expert Reactome staff. Reactome is an open-source, manually-curated and peer-reviewed biological pathway knowledgebase which is freely available for educational and research purposes. For more information, please see What is Reactome?
A Zoom link will be sent to registrants in advance of the workshop.
https://berkeley.libcal.com/calendar/workshops/reactome
Reactome introduction and Q&A, March 26https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/240618-reactome-overview-and-qampaAn online introduction to Reactome (https://reactome.org/) by expert Reactome staff. Reactome is an open-source, manually-curated and peer-reviewed biological pathway knowledgebase which is freely available for educational and research purposes. For more information, please see What is Reactome?
A Zoom link will be sent to registrants in advance of the workshop.
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/240618-reactome-overview-and-qampa
Google Forms Section Workflows and Quizzes, March 26https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/219584-google-forms-section-workflows-and-quizzes

This course demonstrates how to design surveys with dynamic workflows using Google Forms. Participants will learn how to logically group questions in sections, define pathways based on responses, associate weighted point values, and return conditional answer feedback.

https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/219584-google-forms-section-workflows-and-quizzes
U.S. Health: The Insured and the Uninsured, March 26https://events.berkeley.edu/brc/event/239138-us-health-the-insured-and-the-uninsured

Series: Issues in Medical Ethics and Equity

Speaker: Richard Scheffler, Distinguished Professor of Health Economics and Public Policy at the School of Public Health and the Goldman School of Public Policy.

Professor Scheffler will address the current state of healthcare financing and the challenges of creating a healthcare system that is available for all.

https://events.berkeley.edu/brc/event/239138-us-health-the-insured-and-the-uninsured
The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann | Book Talk, March 26https://events.berkeley.edu/Simons/event/243638-the-visionary-ideas-of-john-von-neumann-book-talk

John von Neumann was one of the most influential mathematicians who ever lived. Though he was almost as famous as Einstein in his day, his name had, until recently, faded from view. When he, caricatured as the coldest of cold warriors, is remembered, it is largely for his legendary feats of mental gymnastics. In a 30-minute talk, author Ananyo Bhattacharya will gallop through some of von Neumann’s incredible ideas, demonstrating why his legacy is omnipresent in our lives today.

Ananyo Bhattacharya is a science communicator in residence at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, at UC Berkeley. He is also chief science writer at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences. During his 15-year career in journalism, he has worked as a senior editor at Nature, Chemistry World, and Research Fortnight, and as a community editor and science correspondent for The Economist. He is the author of The Man from the Future, an intellectual biography of John von Neumann.



Registration is required. Light refreshments will be available at 3 p.m., prior to the talk.

The Simons Institute regularly captures photos and video of activity around the Institute for use in publications and promotional materials.

https://events.berkeley.edu/Simons/event/243638-the-visionary-ideas-of-john-von-neumann-book-talk
No Bioengineering Seminar Today, March 27https://events.berkeley.edu/bioe/event/212029-no-bioengineering-seminar-today

No Bioengineering Seminar Today

https://events.berkeley.edu/bioe/event/212029-no-bioengineering-seminar-today
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, March 27https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222941-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222941-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, March 27https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229223-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229223-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, March 27https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236465-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236465-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, March 27https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241437-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241437-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
Foundations of Buddhist Chaplaincy: A Japan-US Dialogue, March 27https://events.berkeley.edu/cjs/event/240728-foundations-of-buddhist-chaplaincy-a-japan-us

The Institute of Buddhist Studies and the Center for Japanese Studies at U.C Berkeley are excited to announce this bilingual workshop, which brings together chaplaincy educators and working chaplains in Japan and the United States to reflect on how we connect Buddhist teachings with effective service. We will discuss the current state of chaplaincy in our respective countries, the practice of Buddhist chaplaincy on the ground, the training and education of Buddhist chaplains, as well as the role of chaplains in our changing world. Through a dialogical session format we intend to exchange ideas, create and strengthen relationships, and share resources that will equip and enrich Buddhist chaplaincy practice and education.

The event is co-sponsored by the Institute of Buddhist Studies; the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley; the Numata Foundation; and the Buddhist Ministry Working Group.

 

Translation will be provided into Japanese and English.

This in-person event is free and open to the public.

Register for the workshop here.

 

Speakers and Moderators:

  • Ram Appalaraju, Buddhist Eco Chaplain and faculty, Sati Center for Buddhist Studies
  • Dr. Mark Blum, Professor and Shinjo Ito Distinguished Chair in Japanese Studies, UC Berkeley
  • Dr. Lilu Chen, Field Education Director, Institute of Buddhist Studies
  • Dr. Gil Fronsdal, senior guiding teacher, Insight Meditation Center
  • Dr. Jitsujo T. Gauthier, CoChair, Buddhist Chaplaincy Department, University of the West
  • Rev. HIRANO Shunkō, former abbot of Chūgenji Temple; death row chaplain at Tokyo Jail
  • Dr. KASAI Kenta, Psychologist, Professor at the Graduate School for Applied Religious Studies, Sophia University
  • Dr. KAWAMOTO Kanae, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo
  • Prof. KIGOSHI Yasushi, Professor, Shin Buddhist Studies, Otani University
  • Jamie Kimmel, BCC, Staff Chaplain, UCSF Health
  • Rev. Dr. Daijaku Kinst, Professor Emerita, IBS; guiding co-teacher, Ocean Gate Zen Center; Kokusaifukyoshi (International Teacher), Soto Shu
  • Dr. Nancy G. Lin, Professor of Buddhist Chaplaincy, Tibetan and South Asian Studies, Institute of Buddhist Studies
  • Dr. Adam Lyons, Assistant Professor, Institute of Religious Studies, Université de Montréal
  • Dr. Leigh Miller, Director of the MDiv Degree and Chaplaincy Program, Maitripa College
  • Dr. Scott Mitchell, Dean of Students and Faculty Affairs, Institute of Buddhist Studies
  • Mary Remington, Director, Spiritual Care Department, Good Samaritan Hospital, Suffern, NY; Director, Buddhist Chaplaincy Training Program, Upaya Institute and Zen Center
  • Rev. Dr. Monica Sanford, Assistant Dean for Multireligious Ministry, Harvard Divinity School
  • Rev. TAKAHASHI Eigo, Abbot, Koryūzan Kichijōji Temple
  • Dr. TANIYAMA Yōzō, Professor, Practical Religious Studies, Tohoku University
  • Trent Thornley, Executive Director & CPE Educator, San Francisco Night Ministry
  • Dr. UCHIMOTO Koyu, Associate Professor, Ryukoku University
  • Jonathan Watts, Coordinator, International Buddhist Psychotherapy and Chaplaincy working group; Senior Research Fellow, Rinbutsuken Buddhist Chaplaincy Training Program, Tokyo, Japan
  • Evan Wong, BCC, Pediatric Palliative Care Chaplain, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland Medical Center
  • Dr. Pamela Ayo Yetunde, pastoral counselor and author, Marabella Storycraft; world traveler; spiritual care “crier”
  • Dr. Elaine Yuen, contemplative educator and chaplain; professor emerita, Naropa University

 

Workshop Schedule

Wednesday, March 27th

3:00 PM Welcoming remarks

  • Dr. Scott Mitchell, Dean of Students and Faculty Affairs, Institute of Buddhist Studies
  • Dr. Mark Blum, Professor and Shinjo Ito Distinguished Chair in Japanese Studies, UC Berkeley

3:15–5:15 Key Topics for Chaplaincy in the US and Japan

What developments in the field of chaplaincy are worth naming and/or celebrating? How is the work of chaplains evolving alongside the changing nature of our world? What are the key issues and challenges faced by chaplains and chaplaincy educators today? In this workshop, what do we hope to learn from each other in our respective approaches to chaplaincy?

  • Rev. HIRANO Shunkō, former abbot of Chūgenji Temple; death row chaplain at Tokyo Jail
  • Dr. Daijaku Kinst, Professor Emerita, IBS; guiding co-teacher, Ocean Gate Zen Center; Kokusaifukyoshi (International Teacher), Soto Shu
  • Prof. KIGOSHI Yasushi, Professor, Shin Buddhist Studies, Otani University
  • Rev. Mary Remington, Director, Spiritual Care Department, Good Samaritan Hospital, Suffern, NY; Director, Buddhist Chaplaincy Training Program, Upaya Institute and Zen Center

Moderator: Dr. Nancy G. Lin, Professor of Buddhist Chaplaincy, Tibetan and South Asian Studies, Institute of Buddhist Studies

5:15-6:15 Reception

 

Thursday, March 28th

10:00 AM–12:00 PM Education, Training, and Formation of Buddhist Chaplains

How are chaplains trained in Japan or the US? What goes into the formation process of future chaplains on the personal and institutional level? How is chaplaincy grounded in Buddhist teachings? How do we draw upon the Buddhist tradition to serve people of diverse backgrounds and situations? What challenges do chaplaincy educators face today? What kinds of training might better equip or enrich our work as chaplains?

  • Dr. TANIYAMA Yōzō, Professor, Practical Religious Studies, Tohoku University
  • Dr. Jitsujo T. Gauthier, CoChair, Buddhist Chaplaincy Department, University of the West
  • Dr. Leigh Miller, Director of the MDiv Degree and Chaplaincy Program, Maitripa College
  • Rev. Prof. Gil Fronsdal, senior guiding teacher, Insight Meditation Center

Moderator: Dr. Lilu Chen, Field Education Director, Institute of Buddhist Studies

1:30–3:30 Collective Crisis

Chaplains respond to natural disasters, pandemics, and tragedies that affect large groups of people. What challenges or issues arise for chaplains when responding to a collective crisis? How do chaplains draw upon the study and practice of the Dharma to shape their relationship to tragedy? How do chaplains interact with individuals and communities to facilitate healing and recovery? We will discuss some specific case studies.

  • Dr. Elaine Yuen, contemplative educator and chaplain; professor emerita, Naropa University
  • Rev. TAKAHASHI Eigo, Abbot, Koryūzan Kichijōji Temple
  • Ram Appalaraju, Buddhist Eco Chaplain and faculty, Sati Center for Buddhist Studies
  • Jamie Kimmel, BCC, Staff Chaplain, UCSF Health

Moderator: Dr. Scott Mitchell, Dean of Students and Faculty Affairs, Institute of Buddhist Studies

3:30-4:00 Tea and Snacks

4:00–6:00 Personal Crisis

Individuals often encounter personal crises when facing death, physical illness, addiction, and/or mental health challenges for themselves or their family members. What issues arise for chaplains when working closely with those experiencing a personal crisis? How do chaplains draw upon the study and practice of the Dharma to respond to the suffering of others? In what ways do chaplains interact with individuals and families to facilitate healing and recovery? We will discuss some specific case studies.

  • Dr. UCHIMOTO Koyu, Associate Professor, Ryukoku University
  • Trent Thornley, Executive Director & CPE Educator, San Francisco Night Ministry
  • Dr. KAWAMOTO Kanae, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo
  • Evan Wong, BCC, Pediatric Palliative Care Chaplain, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland Medical Center

Moderator: Dr. Adam Lyons, Assistant Professor, Institute of Religious Studies, Université de Montréal

 

Friday, March 29th

10:00-12:00 The Future of Chaplaincy

What is the role of the chaplain in our changing world? With shifting religious demographics, how do we imagine chaplains adapting to the unique needs of their communities? What new forms of chaplaincy are becoming relevant in both Japan and the U.S.?

  • Rev. Dr. Monica Sanford, Assistant Dean for Multireligious Ministry, Harvard Divinity School
  • Dr. Pamela Ayo Yetunde, pastoral counselor and author, Marabella Storycraft; world traveler; spiritual care “crier”
  • Dr. KASAI Kenta, Psychologist, Professor at the Graduate School for Applied Religious Studies, Sophia University
  • Jonathan Watts, Coordinator, International Buddhist Psychotherapy and Chaplaincy working group; Senior Research Fellow, Rinbutsuken Buddhist Chaplaincy Training Program, Tokyo, Japan

Moderator: Dr. Mark Blum, Professor and Shinjo Ito Distinguished Chair in Japanese Studies, UC Berkeley

12:00 PM–12:30 PM Closing discussion

Moderator: Dr. Nancy G. Lin, Professor of Buddhist Chaplaincy, Tibetan and South Asian Studies, Institute of Buddhist Studies

https://events.berkeley.edu/cjs/event/240728-foundations-of-buddhist-chaplaincy-a-japan-us
Foundations of Buddhist Chaplaincy: A Japan-US Dialogue (Courtesy Announcement), March 27https://events.berkeley.edu/bs/event/242477-foundations-of-buddhist-chaplaincy-a-japan-us-dialogu

The Institute of Buddhist Studies and the Center for Japanese Studies at U.C Berkeley are excited to announce this bilingual workshop, which brings together chaplaincy educators and working chaplains in Japan and the United States to reflect on how we connect Buddhist teachings with effective service. We will discuss the current state of chaplaincy in our respective countries, the practice of Buddhist chaplaincy on the ground, the training and education of Buddhist chaplains, as well as the role of chaplains in our changing world. Through a dialogical session format we intend to exchange ideas, create and strengthen relationships, and share resources that will equip and enrich Buddhist chaplaincy practice and education.

The event is co-sponsored by the Institute of Buddhist Studies; the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley; the Numata Foundation; and the Buddhist Ministry Working Group.

 

Translation will be provided into Japanese and English.

This in-person event is free and open to the public.

Register for the workshop here.

 

Speakers and Moderators:

  • Ram Appalaraju, Buddhist Eco Chaplain and faculty, Sati Center for Buddhist Studies
  • Dr. Mark Blum, Professor and Shinjo Ito Distinguished Chair in Japanese Studies, UC Berkeley
  • Dr. Lilu Chen, Field Education Director, Institute of Buddhist Studies
  • Dr. Gil Fronsdal, senior guiding teacher, Insight Meditation Center
  • Dr. Jitsujo T. Gauthier, CoChair, Buddhist Chaplaincy Department, University of the West
  • Rev. HIRANO Shunkō, former abbot of Chūgenji Temple; death row chaplain at Tokyo Jail
  • Dr. KASAI Kenta, Psychologist, Professor at the Graduate School for Applied Religious Studies, Sophia University
  • Dr. KAWAMOTO Kanae, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo
  • Prof. KIGOSHI Yasushi, Professor, Shin Buddhist Studies, Otani University
  • Jamie Kimmel, BCC, Staff Chaplain, UCSF Health
  • Rev. Dr. Daijaku Kinst, Professor Emerita, IBS; guiding co-teacher, Ocean Gate Zen Center; Kokusaifukyoshi (International Teacher), Soto Shu
  • Dr. Nancy G. Lin, Professor of Buddhist Chaplaincy, Tibetan and South Asian Studies, Institute of Buddhist Studies
  • Dr. Adam Lyons, Assistant Professor, Institute of Religious Studies, Université de Montréal
  • Dr. Leigh Miller, Director of the MDiv Degree and Chaplaincy Program, Maitripa College
  • Dr. Scott Mitchell, Dean of Students and Faculty Affairs, Institute of Buddhist Studies
  • Mary Remington, Director, Spiritual Care Department, Good Samaritan Hospital, Suffern, NY; Director, Buddhist Chaplaincy Training Program, Upaya Institute and Zen Center
  • Rev. Dr. Monica Sanford, Assistant Dean for Multireligious Ministry, Harvard Divinity School
  • Rev. TAKAHASHI Eigo, Abbot, Koryūzan Kichijōji Temple
  • Dr. TANIYAMA Yōzō, Professor, Practical Religious Studies, Tohoku University
  • Trent Thornley, Executive Director & CPE Educator, San Francisco Night Ministry
  • Dr. UCHIMOTO Koyu, Associate Professor, Ryukoku University
  • Jonathan Watts, Coordinator, International Buddhist Psychotherapy and Chaplaincy working group; Senior Research Fellow, Rinbutsuken Buddhist Chaplaincy Training Program, Tokyo, Japan
  • Evan Wong, BCC, Pediatric Palliative Care Chaplain, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland Medical Center
  • Dr. Pamela Ayo Yetunde, pastoral counselor and author, Marabella Storycraft; world traveler; spiritual care “crier”
  • Dr. Elaine Yuen, contemplative educator and chaplain; professor emerita, Naropa University

 

Workshop Schedule

Wednesday, March 27th

3:00 PM Welcoming remarks (Mitchell and Blum)

3:15–5:15 PM Session 1: Key Topics for Chaplaincy in the US and Japan

(Hirano, Kinst, Kigoshi, Remington; moderator: Lin)

5:15-6:15 PM Reception

 

Thursday, March 28th

10:00 AM–12:00 PM Session 2: Education, Training, & Formation of Buddhist Chaplains

(Taniyama, Gauthier, Miller, Fronsdal; moderator: Chen)

1:30–3:30 PM Session 3: Collective Crisis

(Yuen, Takahashi, Appalaraju, Kimmel; moderator: Mitchell)

3:30-4:00 PM Tea and Snacks

4:00–6:00 PM Session 4: Personal Crisis

(Uchimoto, Thornley, Kawamoto, Wong; moderator: Lyons)

 

Friday, March 29th

10:00 AM–12:00 PM Session 5: The Future of Chaplaincy

(Sanford, Yetunde, Kasai, Watts; moderator: Blum)

12:00 PM–12:30 PM Closing discussion (moderator: Lin)

https://events.berkeley.edu/bs/event/242477-foundations-of-buddhist-chaplaincy-a-japan-us-dialogu
RAPDP - HR for the RA, March 27https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/241191-rapdp-hr-for-the-ra

A 3-hour intermediate workshop that supplements the prerequisite eCourse - HR for the RA Basics, and explores the types of research appointments used on sponsored awards, as well as the compliance issues associated with PI effort and how the Effort Reporting System is used to track and report effort. This workshop is intended for all new and veteran RAs, as well as any other staff that assists Faculty in administering sponsored awards.

 

Learning Objectives:

- Define “Effort” as it relates to sponsored projects

- Understand the appointment types that are used with research funds

- Understand the most common types of faculty appointments

- Apply the appropriate Composite Benefit Rate for each personnel category

- Explain the impact of Uniform Guidance on commitment of faculty effort

- Interpret how the Effort Reporting System calculates effort

https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/241191-rapdp-hr-for-the-ra
Disability Management II: A Deeper Dive, March 27https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236090-disability-management-ii-a-deeper-dive

This virtual workshop is a hands-on continuation and application of concepts learned in the Disability Management: Understanding the Process workshop. Participants will have the opportunity to work through ‘real’ case scenarios, suggested by participants, we will… - Do detailed analysis of work restrictions - Identify need for accommodation including leave as an accommodation - Follow the life of an employee’s disability accommodation through return to work - Explore the features of Worker’s Compensation claims and impact on return to/stay at work; accepted/denied claim designations and permanent restrictions - Learn, identify, define, and prepare for next steps when all attempts at accommodation are exhausted, including reassignment. This presentation meets the requirement for the ADA Title II Self-Evaluation Section: Hiring and Employment Please Note: The zoom link will be sent to the participants by email and add it to this workshop description a day before the workshop.

Please Note: The Zoom link will be sent to the participants by email, and add it to this workshop description a day before the workshop.

All participants and hosts must sign into a Zoom account before joining meetings hosted by UC Berkeley. 

Participants who are not eligible for a UC Berkeley-provided Zoom account can use a Zoom account provided by their institution, can create a free consumer Zoom account (at https://zoom.us/freesignup/), or can dial in via the phone.

https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236090-disability-management-ii-a-deeper-dive
Esther Saltiel-Ragot | Categories and quotas: The selection of Jewish migrants from Greece by Zionist organisations in British Mandatory Palestine (1920-1939), March 27https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/243504-esther-saltiel-ragot-categories-and-quotas-the-select

In the early 1920’s, when the migrations of Greek Jews take a turn, Zionist organisations are multiplying themselves, especially in Salonika because of its large Jewish population. If Palestine is not their main destination, there is a growing interest for it throughout the period and more than 6 000 Greek Jews migrate to Palestine between the two world wars. They do so, despite the restrictive immigration quotas imposed by the British Mandatory administration in Palestine. Furthermore, they are not considered as a priority by the Jewish Agency.

This presentation outlines the administrative practices of the Jewish Agency towards a minority migration group that is not considered a priority, and those of the Palestinian Office in Salonika in organising migration despite the quotas. I will show how they interpreted the Jewish Agency’s categories and selected candidates for departure. The quantitative tools will also enlighten us on the social and professional profile of these candidates. We will also focus, in a gender perspective, on the specific practices toward the migrations of young single women.

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Ray Savord at rsavord@berkeley.edu or (510) 642-4555 with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days before the event.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/243504-esther-saltiel-ragot-categories-and-quotas-the-select
Berkeley Boosts | Skills Lab: Public Speaking and Listening, March 27https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243226-berkeley-boosts-skills-lab-public-speaking-andWhat role does listening play in convincing legislators to take action? Please join us for a talk on strategies for appealing to legislative audiences. Maiya Zwerling has spent more than 10 years coaching expert and community witnesses to effectively testify before federal and state legislatures in pursuit of policy change. She will draw from recent experiences on campaigns advocating to end racialized wealth extraction in the juvenile and criminal legal system to teach advocates how to get prepared — and to prepare their clients — to testify before state legislatures.
 
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243226-berkeley-boosts-skills-lab-public-speaking-and
Ergonomics for Managers & Supervisors, March 27https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236774-ergonomics-for-managers-supervisors

Learn how to support an ergonomic and safe working environment for your unit. The Ergonomics Matching Funds Program will be covered and how to utilize campus resources and planning to effectively and efficiently to prevent and reduce ergonomic risks.

Please Note: The Zoom link will be sent to the participants by email, and add it to this workshop description a day before the workshop.

All participants and hosts must sign into a Zoom account before joining meetings hosted by UC Berkeley. 

Participants who are not eligible for a UC Berkeley-provided Zoom account can use a Zoom account provided by their institution, can create a free consumer Zoom account (at https://zoom.us/freesignup/), or can dial in via the phone.

https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236774-ergonomics-for-managers-supervisors
Workplace Mental Health: Embracing a Population Health Framework, March 27https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/243354-workplace-mental-health-embracing-a-population

This free, online presentation by Leslie B. Hammer, PhD will explore the critical role of healthy leadership in supporting workers’ mental health through a population health framework. The session is designed to provide evidence-based insights and practical guidance on how leaders (i.e., senior leaders, managers, supervisors) can support and protect mental health through proactive and responsive supportive strategies. A review of workplace psychosocial risk factors will be included along with a general discussion about how the workplace is a missing link in understanding and promoting population mental health.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/243354-workplace-mental-health-embracing-a-population
Research spotlight event: The future of psychedelic science at UC Berkeley, March 27https://events.berkeley.edu/psychedelics/event/243288-research-spotlight-event-the-future-of-psychedelic

Explore contemporary psychedelic research and its exciting possibilities for the future with UC Berkeley professors Gül Dölen, Daniela Kaufer, Michael Silver, and Noah Whiteman at a special online event hosted by BCSP Executive Director Imran Khan, on March 27, 1 pm PST. 

Why did psychedelic compounds evolve? How do they produce such profound changes in behavior, physiology, perception, emotion, and social interactions? What enables them to have the potential to support healing and therapeutic advances?

The UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics (BCSP) is bringing together leading researchers who are investigating these questions and many more.

Despite historical challenges, including extensive regulatory requirements and societal stigma, the tide is turning for psychedelic science. Years of suppression mean that the contemporary resurgence of psychedelics research is still in its infancy. While clinical trials in humans are showing promising results of psychedelic-assisted therapy for treating a variety of mental health disorders, relatively little is known about the neural mechanisms of the actions of psychedelics, why plants, fungi, and animals evolved to produce psychedelic substances, or how psychedelics can be deployed as research tools to better understand the brain and mind.

The 2023 UC Berkeley Psychedelics Survey revealed that 78 percent of a sample of U.S. voters support making it easier for researchers to study psychedelic substances. At this event, the BCSP presents leading scholars and their visions for the future of psychedelic research — and why such research is necessary and timely.

At this event, hosted by BCSP’s Executive Director Imran Khan, our speakers will introduce the core concepts of their research and their hopes for the future of psychedelic science:

Professor Gül Dölen holds the Renee & U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Bob Parsons Endowed Chair in psychology, psychedelics, and neuroscience. Dr. Dölen joined the UC Berkeley faculty in January 2024, where she continues her groundbreaking work on the brain mechanisms underlying the therapeutic potential of MDMA and other drugs. Research in the Dölen laboratory on how psychedelics influence “critical periods” of neural plasticity and learning has substantial implications for the future development of psychedelic-assisted therapies. https://www.dolenlab.org/

Imran Khan is executive director of BCSP. He works closely with the faculty on strategy and manages the BCSP team. Prior to joining BCSP, Imran served as CEO of the British Science Association and as head of public engagement for Wellcome, the world’s third-largest philanthropic foundation. He has a BA in biology from the University of Oxford, a MSc in science communication from Imperial College London, and a MBA from Bayes Business School. Imran lives on a floating home and spends his free time trail running, rock climbing, gaming, enjoying science fiction, and trying to make the perfect daal.

Professor Daniela Kaufer is a faculty member in Integrative Biology and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, and she is the associate dean of biological sciences at UC Berkeley. Kaufer explores stress and resilience in the human brain and animal models. She investigates how psychedelics could alleviate stress-related disorders, aiming to unravel the intricate interactions between stress and the brain’s neurobiology. www.kauferlab.com

Professor Michael Silver is in the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and the Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science, and he also serves as the faculty director of the BCSP. Silver is overseeing UC Berkeley’s inaugural human subjects research studies on psilocybin, investigating both the immediate and enduring impacts of psychedelics on human visual perception and cognition and their neural substrates. He and his team endeavor to deepen our understanding of how the human brain constructs representations of the environment and how these representations are influenced by cognitive processes such as attention, expectation, and learning. https://argentum.ucbso.berkeley.edu/

Professor Noah Whiteman is in the departments of Integrative Biology and Molecular and Cell Biology. Work in the Whiteman laboratory explores the intricate evolutionary relationships among plants, fungi, and animals and seeks to answer why and how psychedelics came to be. Whiteman’s research sheds light on the evolutionary forces that led to the emergence of psychoactive compounds in nature, providing fascinating insights into the natural history of these substances. https://whitemanlab.org/

Please join us as we look forward to the future of psychedelic research.

https://events.berkeley.edu/psychedelics/event/243288-research-spotlight-event-the-future-of-psychedelic
Film Screening: In Focus: 1917, March 27https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/239989-film-screening-in-focus-1917

Two British soldiers must rush behind enemy lines to halt a doomed maneuver—and save thousands of lives—in this technically innovative blockbuster from the director of Skyfall and Spectre, which opened one year after Britain’s prolonged anniversary of “the Great War.” Notable for presenting the illusion of being filmed in only one long tracking shot (modern technology actually conceals several cuts), 1917 received ten Academy Award nominations and was a huge commercial success. “If you want to know what the front could be like in 1917, then [Sam] Mendes has done so much to satisfy you… . It is a ravishing, virtuoso experience” (David Thomson). 

-Jason Sanders
https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/239989-film-screening-in-focus-1917
CANCELED: Spectral Theory Seminar: Classical/Quantum correspondence in Lindblad evolution, March 27https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/243544-spectral-theory-seminar-classicalquantumAbstract. I will introduce and motivate the Lindblad master equation which models interaction of a quantum system with a larger “open” system. I will then show that (under some assumptions) the evolution of a quantum observable remains close to the classical Fokker–Planck evolution (in the Hilbert– Schmidt norm) for times vastly exceeding the Ehrenfest time (the limit of such agreement without coupling to the open system). This is based on joint work with Jeff Galkowski.https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/243544-spectral-theory-seminar-classicalquantumFilm Screening: A Confucian Confusion, March 27https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240285-film-screening-a-confucian-confusion

Edward Yang moved from existential angst to sharp-eyed wit in this biting satire on the material dreams of the Taiwanese nouveau riche. A group of twenty-something Taipei yuppies prefers cash value over Confucian values, unless the latter can also be monetized. Everyone’s living their dream (or at least society’s new capitalist dream), yet no one—from the harried ad execs to the businesspeople to the failed creatives—seems that happy about it. Viewed three decades from its making, A Confucian Confusion is both a fascinating snapshot of the Taiwanese boom of the mid-1990s and a still timely takedown of the seemingly eternal chase for material riches. 

-Jason Sanders
https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240285-film-screening-a-confucian-confusion
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, March 28https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222940-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222940-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, March 28https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229222-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229222-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, March 28https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236464-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236464-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, March 28https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241436-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241436-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
Berkeley Corporate + Climate Summit 2024, March 28https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242733-berkeley-corporate-climate-summit-2024Join us at the inaugural Berkeley Corporate + Climate Summit to explore the role of corporate governance in combatting climate change. Come hear from speakers in business, government, academia and non-profits who are transforming the role of corporations in the journey towards a more green economy. Email bclb@law.berkeley.edu to request an in-person pass. 
Virtual Day 1 –
Virtual Day 2 –
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242733-berkeley-corporate-climate-summit-2024
BPM 205 Delegation Skills, March 28https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/223650-bpm-205-delegation-skills

Access to registration is disabled two days prior to the event.

This 4-hour in-person workshop is part of the BPM Part 3: Grow Your Team series and is an elective option for the UC Systemwide People Management Certificate. In this highly interactive workshop, each participant’s experience is drawn upon for the learning. Ideally, to contribute to and enhance understanding, participants will come with current and/or previous people management experience.

The content covers planning and preparing to delegate a task or project, communicating effectively when delegating, and planning for the follow-up to ensure successful task or project completion.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
*Plan and prepare systematically to delegate a task or project
*Practice communicating effectively when delegating a task or project
*Create a follow-up plan to ensure the successful completion of a delegated task or project

https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/223650-bpm-205-delegation-skills
MCB Postdocs Research Showcase, March 28https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/243456-mcb-postdocs-research-showcase

Featuring talks and posters from current MCB Postdocs, keynote speaker Christopher Barnes (Stanford), a career panel, a postdoc/faculty lunch and evening postdoc social mixer.

https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/243456-mcb-postdocs-research-showcase
Phoenician women in textual documentation (epigraphical and literary) (Dr. Maroun Khreich), March 28https://events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/242462-phoenician-women-in-textual-documentation-epigraphica

This lecture is part of the series Women and Gender in the Phoenician Homeland and Diaspora. This program of public lectures takes place monthly on Thursdays at 9:30 AM Pacific, from October 2023 through May 2024. See the list of lectures and dates below.

Watch on the ARF YouTube channel here: https://bit.ly/arf-channel or watch later on the ARF & Badè YouTube channels.

 

November 2, 2023 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Bärbel Morstadt - “Ashtart and Co. as female role models in Phoenician society”

 

December 7, 2023 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Wissam Khalil and Karim Fadlallah - “The cult of Astarte within the coastal grottos of Adloun and Kharayeb in southern Lebanon”

 

January 25, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Becky Martin - “Gender representation on anthropoid coffins”

 

February 22, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Jessica Nitschke - “Dress and representation of women in Phoenician visual culture”

 

March 7, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Agnès Garcia Ventura and Dr. Mireia Lopez Bertran - “On Phoenician/Punic music and musicians: a gender approach”

 

March 21, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Mireia Lopez Bertran - “Punic women as ritual agents: evidence from material and visual culture”

 

March 28, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Maroun Khreich - “Phoenician women in textual documentation (epigraphical and literary)”

 

April 18, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Tatiana Pedrazzi - “Sitting on a throne or working with vases: from deities to ordinary women in Phoenicia”

 

May 2, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Adriano Orsingher - “Gender and masks. A look through the Phoenician/Punic lens”

 

May 16, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Ida Oggiano - “Ritual actions of Phoenician women in the Levant in the 1st millennium BC: purposes and modalities”

https://events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/242462-phoenician-women-in-textual-documentation-epigraphica
Webinar. Collaborators and Competitors–China and the US in the Current Geopolitics of International Higher Education, March 28https://events.berkeley.edu/cshe/event/243619-webinar-collaborators-and-competitors-china-and-the-u

Ever since China re-emerged on the global higher-education stage following the Cultural Revolution, it has had a close, sometimes symbiotic with the United States. U.S. Universities helped China rebuild its educational infrastructure, while talented Chinese students and scientists have filled U.S. classrooms and laboratories. For the past several decades, academics in each country have frequently regarded the other as key research and scholarly partners. But in recent years, the relationship between the two knowledge super-powers has become competitive and at times contentious. The speakers will look at how student mobility, research cooperation, and other forms of Sino-American academic collaboration have been complicated by a host of issues including domestic political pressures, geopolitics, economic imperatives, the safeguarding of intellectual property, and concerns about academic freedom.

https://events.berkeley.edu/cshe/event/243619-webinar-collaborators-and-competitors-china-and-the-u
Understanding Work Styles and Your Career with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, March 28https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/236312-understanding-work-styles-and-your-career-with-the-my

It’s a common observation that individuals have their unique ways of tackling tasks. Recognizing your tendencies, as well as those
prevalent in different professional roles can be incredibly beneficial in making choices that are both informed and effective. This
workshop uses the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a tool that identifies personality types based on individual perceptions and
decision-making styles. Pre-work Required. Instructions and a link for taking the MBTI will be sent 7 days in advance of the workshop and
must be completed within 3 days of the workshop to participate. Completing this pre-work will provide you with personalized results that
will serve as the foundation for our discussions and activities during the workshop.

https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/236312-understanding-work-styles-and-your-career-with-the-my
California Live! Will AI Be Humanity’s Last Act?, March 28https://www.eventbrite.com/e/will-ai-be-humanitys-last-act-tickets-721577185787https://www.eventbrite.com/e/will-ai-be-humanitys-last-act-tickets-721577185787Academic & Administrative Holiday (Cesar Chavez Day), March 29https://events.berkeley.edu/calparents/event/221144-academic-administrative-holiday-cesar-chavez

Academic & Administrative Holiday (Cesar Chavez Day)

https://events.berkeley.edu/calparents/event/221144-academic-administrative-holiday-cesar-chavez
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, March 29https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222939-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222939-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, March 29https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229221-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229221-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, March 29https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236463-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236463-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, March 29https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241435-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241435-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
Film Screening: Cléo from 5 to 7, March 29https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240286-film-screening-cleo-from-5-to-7

The film that established Agnès Varda’s international reputation, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a classic work of the French New Wave, distinguished by its original form and intimate portraiture. Presenting events that appear to unfold in real time, Cléo chronicles two hours in the life of a pop singer (Corinne Marchand), who is waiting to learn if she has cancer. Shot entirely on location in the streets of Paris, the film features a score by Michel Legrand (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and cameos by Legrand, Jean-Luc Godard, and Anna Karina. Cléo demonstrates one of Varda’s favorite themes—that “one isn’t born a woman, one becomes one.” In the New Yorker, Pauline Kael described Varda’s work as “one of the few films directed by a woman in which the viewer can sense a difference… . [It] sustains an unsentimental yet subjective tone that is almost unique in the history of movies.”

-Susan Oxtoby
https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240286-film-screening-cleo-from-5-to-7
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, March 30https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222938-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222938-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, March 30https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229220-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229220-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, March 30https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236462-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236462-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, March 30https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241434-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241434-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
Sunprint Kit Celebration, March 30https://events.berkeley.edu/lhs/event/236895-sunprint-kit-celebration

Celebrate Spring Break with solar science! We’ll have a printmaking station all week featuring our Sunprint® Kit paper in Forces That Shape the Bay. Use your creativity, a variety of fun materials, and the sun’s power to express yourself and create stunning art. On Sunday, April 7, come back from 1:00–3:00 p.m. to see your Sunprints on display for all to see and vote on your favorites to win a prize! Every visitor gets a free Sunprint Kit when they spend $40 The Discovery Store all week long!

https://events.berkeley.edu/lhs/event/236895-sunprint-kit-celebration
CANCELED: The Future of Food Prototyping, March 30https://events.berkeley.edu/lhs/event/236901-the-future-of-food-prototyping

Become an honorary member of The Lawrence Hall of Science exhibits team and help us develop our next exhibition, The Future of Food, opening this fall! Test out prototypes of future exhibits and provide valuable feedback to help us build the final products. Designers, tinkerers, and engineers welcome!

https://events.berkeley.edu/lhs/event/236901-the-future-of-food-prototyping
Through the Looking Glass Pilot, March 30https://events.berkeley.edu/lhs/event/236902-through-the-looking-glass-pilot

Help us test a new activity for your future scientists age 6 and under! Explore nature with various optical tools that can focus far beyond what our eyes typically see. Zoom in and zoom out with microscopes, periscopes, binoculars, and lenses carrying different magnifying powers. Which tools will you choose to help find what’s hidden in nature? The first hour each day (10:00–11:00 a.m.) is members only.

https://events.berkeley.edu/lhs/event/236902-through-the-looking-glass-pilot
Film Screening: Tótem, March 30https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240287-film-screening-totem

In the enormously poignant follow-up to her international breakthrough, The Chambermaid, director Lila Avilés nestles in with one family over the course of a single, meaningful day. Tótem is told largely from the perspective of seven-year-old Sol (the marvelously naturalistic Naíma Sentíes), as her mother and extended relatives prepare for the birthday party of the girl’s father. As the hours wear on, building to an event both anticipated and dreaded, the fragile bonds and unsure future of the family become ever clearer. Avilés confirms her formidable skill at expressing the subtlest contours of her characters’ inner lives in this emotionally expansive and affecting drama.

-Film at Lincoln Center
https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240287-film-screening-totem
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, March 31https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222937-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222937-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, March 31https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229219-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229219-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, March 31https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236461-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236461-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, March 31https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241433-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241433-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
Film Screening: Agnès Varda Shorts, Program 1, March 31https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240289-film-screening-agnes-varda-shorts-program-1

This collection of early short works finds Agnès Varda observing people, places, and spaces from France to Cuba. In L’opéra-Mouffe, she evokes the “imaginative world of pregnancy” with a dreamlike montage that combines poetic imagery with documentary portraits shot in the gritty neighborhood of Rue Mouffetard. Capturing azure waters and lobster-skinned tourists in the saturated hues of a vacation slide, the jaunty, witty Du côté de la côte celebrates the beauty and absurdity of the Côte d’Azur, while Ô saisons, ô chateaux, commissioned by the national tourism board to promote the medieval castles of the Loire Valley region, is equally colorful and playful. A collection of photographs Varda took on her visit to Cuba in the winter of 1962–63 forms the basis of the innovative Salut les Cubains, narrated by Varda and actor Michel Piccoli, which captures the revolutionary spirit and reveals individuals alive with hope for the future.

https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240289-film-screening-agnes-varda-shorts-program-1
Film Screening: Xala, March 31https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240290-film-screening-xala

“Ousmane Sembène has created one of the most sophisticated works of the new African cinema—at once comic satire and a deadly accurate polemic against the black bourgeoisie of Dakar” (Albert Johnson). Heavily censored in Senegal, Xala strips bare the myth of African independence and exposes ways in which ruling-class Senegalese have appropriated colonial bureaucracy for their own benefit. El Hadji (Thierno Leye) is an aging, affluent businessman about to marry his third wife. But on his wedding night, he is struck with the curse of xala (impotence). His physical affliction soon affects all aspects of his life. Xala becomes a metaphor for what’s wrong with contemporary Senegalese culture and what paralyzes much of modern Africa. With its satirical mix of Senegalese superstitions and customs with Western symbolism and values, Xala is reminiscent of the Surrealism of Luis Buñuel.

-Susan Oxtoby
https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240290-film-screening-xala
Game Night, March 31https://events.berkeley.edu/ASUC/event/240316-game-night

Grab a friend for a round cards and to play board games for Game Night! 🃏. There will be free snacks and drinks. See you all there!

� Thursday, March 31, 2024
⏰ 7:30pm – 9:30 pm
📍 MLK Game Zone Area

https://events.berkeley.edu/ASUC/event/240316-game-night
RISE! 2024 Women Leader Nominations DUE March 31, 2024, March 31https://events.berkeley.edu/geneq/event/229965-rise-2024-women-leader-nominations-due-march-31

Recognize women\ *leaders! RISE! 2024 Leader Awards Nominations are due March 31, 2024 at 11:59pm, and are open to UCB and non-UCB women* leaders. Awardees will be honored at the RISE: Celebrating Women, Community Love and Leadership event to be held in Fall 2024.

The RISE Leader Awards are about highlighting the exceptional endeavors and efforts of women\ *leaders as they continue to support and empower our community of Berkeley women through their participation and representation. Please take the time to nominate a woman* leader (community member, staff/faculty/visiting scholar/postdoctoral appointee and/or student) who has demonstrated strong leadership, care and love for the community, as well as, inspired and empowered other women.

Nomination link at https://tinyurl.com/RISE24 (Please use one form per submission, self nominations are welcome.)

*We welcome all who experience life through the lens of woman in body, spirit, identity - past, present, future, and fluid.

https://events.berkeley.edu/geneq/event/229965-rise-2024-women-leader-nominations-due-march-31
RISE! 2024 Women Leader Nominations DUE March 31, 2024, March 31https://events.berkeley.edu/gws/event/240713-rise-2024-women-leader-nominations-due-march-31

Recognize women\ *leaders! RISE! 2024 Leader Awards Nominations are due March 31, 2024 at 11:59pm, and are open to UCB and non-UCB women* leaders. Awardees will be honored at the RISE: Celebrating Women, Community Love and Leadership event to be held in Fall 2024.

The RISE Leader Awards are about highlighting the exceptional endeavors and efforts of women\ *leaders as they continue to support and empower our community of Berkeley women through their participation and representation. Please take the time to nominate a woman* leader (community member, staff/faculty/visiting scholar/postdoctoral appointee and/or student) who has demonstrated strong leadership, care and love for the community, as well as, inspired and empowered other women.

Nomination link at https://tinyurl.com/RISE24 (Please use one form per submission, self nominations are welcome.)

*We welcome all who experience life through the lens of woman in body, spirit, identity - past, present, future, and fluid.

https://events.berkeley.edu/gws/event/240713-rise-2024-women-leader-nominations-due-march-31
RISE! 2024 Women Leader Nominations DUE March 31, 2024, March 31https://events.berkeley.edu/Diversity/event/241264-rise-2024-women-leader-nominations-due-march-31

Recognize women\ *leaders! RISE! 2024 Leader Awards Nominations are due March 31, 2024 at 11:59pm, and are open to UCB and non-UCB women* leaders. Awardees will be honored at the RISE: Celebrating Women, Community Love and Leadership event to be held in Fall 2024.

The RISE Leader Awards are about highlighting the exceptional endeavors and efforts of women\ *leaders as they continue to support and empower our community of Berkeley women through their participation and representation. Please take the time to nominate a woman* leader (community member, staff/faculty/visiting scholar/postdoctoral appointee and/or student) who has demonstrated strong leadership, care and love for the community, as well as, inspired and empowered other women.

Nomination link at https://tinyurl.com/RISE24 (Please use one form per submission, self nominations are welcome.)

*We welcome all who experience life through the lens of woman in body, spirit, identity - past, present, future, and fluid.

https://events.berkeley.edu/Diversity/event/241264-rise-2024-women-leader-nominations-due-march-31
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222936-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222936-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229218-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229218-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236460-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236460-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241432-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241432-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
Exhibition | Lau Grants for Just Climate Futures, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/ced/event/243548-exhibition-lau-grants-for-just-climate-futures

This exhibition showcases new compelling research by College of Environmental Design faculty funded by the inaugural round of Lau Grants for Just Climate Futures. In keeping with the college’s mission, this grant program supports cross-disciplinary projects that generate actionable solutions and engage communities affected by climate change.

The Lau Grants for Just Climate Futures projects displayed in this exhibition investigate low-carbon housing construction systems and materials; innovative strategies for rapid rebuilding after wildfires; the impact of climate change on residents of manufactured home parks; flood resilience and environmental equity in the Salinas Valley; and mapping real-time air quality in the Bay Area.

A key component of the program is the sharing of research findings through exhibitions like this one and related public events as means to amplify the impact of the research and create actual change.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ced/event/243548-exhibition-lau-grants-for-just-climate-futures
Free Coffee and Tea for Students, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242732-free-coffee-and-tea-for-studentsHappy Monday, BAIRS*! (*Berkeley Alumni In Residence). Berkeley Law students are welcome to have a free cup of coffee or tea, courtesy of the Alumni Engagement team and the Berkeley Law Alumni Association, in front of Room 224 (opposite the Main Reading Room) on Mondays between 7:45am and 10:00am.https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242732-free-coffee-and-tea-for-studentsBCORE Initial Meeting with Supervisors, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/deib/event/230634-bcore-initial-meeting-with-supervisors

The Berkeley Career Opportunities and Resources for Equity program (BCORE) is an experience for staff employees committed to their upward career advancement and a leadership workshop for supervisors who are in a position to exercise their sphere of influence to diversify the leadership ranks at the university. This opportunity has been developed specifically for Berkeley staff by expert, Dr. Regina Stanback Stroud

https://events.berkeley.edu/deib/event/230634-bcore-initial-meeting-with-supervisors
STEM OPT Document Check Workshop, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/bio/event/237713-stem-opt-document-check-workshop

Join Berkeley International Office as you prepare your STEM OPT application! We will cover the required documents, how to fill out the forms, and common mistakes. There will also be a Q&A portion. Please have all of the required documents on hand for the webinar.

RSVP Here.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bio/event/237713-stem-opt-document-check-workshop
UC Berkeley Staff - Family Free Days, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/243553-uc-berkeley-staff-family-free-days

In partnership with Berkeley Staff Assembly, the UC Botanical Garden is offering UC Berkeley staff Family Free Days! Show your CAL1 Staff card* and receive free entry for yourself and one adult guest, plus all your dependents under 18 years old at the UC Botanical Garden, April 1-April 14 during regular Garden hours.

 

April is the prime time to visit the UC Botanical Garden to admire blooms, unique flora, and discover more than 10,000 plants from all over the world, right in the heart of Berkeley. Feel free to bring a picnic and enjoy lunch at one of the many picnic tables or grassy lawn. Check out the Garden Shop and take a piece of the garden home with you. You can find out more about the UC Botanical Garden here: https://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/

 

Information about parking and transportation can be found here, which includes overflow parking at the Lawrence Hall of Science: https://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/parkinganddirections.

 

Already a big fan of the Botanical Garden? Explore special UC Affiliate member rates here: https://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/join.

 

The UC Botanical Garden is also a fantastic spot for work retreats or meetings, with discounted rates for internal UC Berkeley events. Visit the Rentals page here: https://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/rentals

 

*Please note that the UC Berkeley Staff member must be present with the guest and dependents under 18 years old, to receive free entry.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/243553-uc-berkeley-staff-family-free-days
RNA Editing: Innate Immunity and Autoinflammatory Disease, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/243473-rna-editing-innate-immunity-and-autoinflammatoryAdenosine-to-Inosine (A-to-I) RNA editing, catalyzed by ADAR enzymes, is prevalent in metazoans. Previous research, including our own, has revealed that the primary function of RNA editing by ADAR1 is to ensure sufficient editing of cellular double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), thereby preventing erroneous cytosolic MDA5-mediated dsRNA sensing. Mice lacking RNA editing by ADAR1 experience embryonic lethality but can live their full lifespan upon removal of MDA5. In humans, loss-of-function mutations in ADAR1 and gain-of-function mutations in MDA5 result in rare autoimmune diseases. Our recent work, through human genetics studies, reveals that RNA editing underlies genetic risk of common autoimmune and immune-related diseases. This well-established ADAR1-dsRNA-MDA5 axis serves as the foundation for therapeutic development in the treatment of cancer and autoinflammatory diseases.
This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH
Division(s): Division of Immunology and Molecular Medicine
https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/243473-rna-editing-innate-immunity-and-autoinflammatory
Israel before International Law Mechanisms, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/hdi/event/243585-israel-before-international-law-mechanisms

International Law Perspectives Part I

The Israel-Hamas War raises serious questions about the rule of law in international life and the effectiveness of international law. These questions are accentuated by the direct involvement of a relatively large number of international law bodies in the conflict — the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, and various other UN human rights mechanisms. Yuval Shany (Hebrew University) and Elena Chachko (Berkeley Law) will discuss the scope and characteristics of these different legal proceedings, including the many problems and limitations they encounter. The discussion will focus on whether and under what conditions legal interventions can make a real difference in the ways in which wars are conducted, so as to advance compliance with international law norms.

Yuval Shany, Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law, Former Dean, Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Former Member, UN Human Rights Committee

Elena Chachko (Moderator), Assistant Professor of Law, Berkeley Law

Register: https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__P8v5-ZlT4GAqP6LQGi_0g

https://events.berkeley.edu/hdi/event/243585-israel-before-international-law-mechanisms
Oxyopia Seminar: Title to be Announced, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/HWNI/event/236722-oxyopia-seminar-title-to-be-announced

Abstract to be Announced

https://events.berkeley.edu/HWNI/event/236722-oxyopia-seminar-title-to-be-announced
CSLS Speaker Series - “The Un-Revolution: The Politics of Access to Legal Information in Contemporary France”, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242731-csls-speaker-series-the-un-revolution-theFeaturing Rachel Stern, Professor of Law and Political Science, Berkeley Law
Reception: Lunch 12:15-12:45p.m. in the Kadish Library 
Program: 12:45-2:00p.m. in the Philip Selznick Seminar Room
 Register here for the livestream via Zoom.    
 Add this event to your Google Calendar. 
If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) to fully participate in this event, please contact csls@law.berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242731-csls-speaker-series-the-un-revolution-the
Mindful Monday, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242730-mindful-mondayJoin us in the Morrison Foerster Room (298 Simon) for a conversation on mindfulness. Mindful Monday is a space for anyone in the law school community who is interested and open-minded about the benefits mindfulness can bring. These can include an improved ability to cope with stress, faster and more complete recovery from stressful events, reduced emotional reactivity, and increased self-acceptance. Feel free to drop in!https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242730-mindful-mondayPE Seminar - Laurent Bouton (Georgetown), April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/229882-pe-seminar-laurent-bouton-georgetownPaper Topic: “Pack-Crack-Pack: Gerrymandering with Differential Turnout”https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/229882-pe-seminar-laurent-bouton-georgetownInternal Finance Seminars: Anastassia Fedyk, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/237048-internal-finance-seminarshttps://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/237048-internal-finance-seminarsClinical Program Fall 2024 Information Fair, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243073-clinical-program-fall-2024-information-fairWant to gain hands-on lawyering experience working with clients to advance racial, economic, and social justice?
The application to participate in a Berkeley Law clinic in Fall 2024 opens Monday, April 1 at noon and applications are due Monday, April 8 at noon.
We’ll kick off the application week with an informational fair. Stop by to learn more about opportunities in Berkeley Law’s world-class Clinical Program and its 13 clinics* — five at the law school, eight at the East Bay Community Law Center. There will be clinic representatives from each clinic — drop by with your questions, or just to say hi. 
Berkeley Law’s Clinical Program’s 13 clinics:
Death Penalty Clinic
East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC):
Clean Slate Clinic
Community Economic Justice Clinic
Consumer Clinic
Education Justice Clinic
Youth Defender Clinic
Health & Welfare Clinic
Housing Clinic
Immigration Clinic
Environmental Law Clinic* 
Human Rights Clinic 
Policy Advocacy Clinic 
Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic
*ELC will not be accepting new students for fall ’24 or spring ’25
Check out the clinic application, an introductory video about the clinics, & general FAQs here.
Details:
When? Monday, April 1, 12:50 – 2 p.m.
Where? West Courtyard (or Warren Room if it rains)
Lunch provided 
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243073-clinical-program-fall-2024-information-fair
Demystifying PSLF: What’s New with Student Loans?, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242729-demystifying-pslf-whats-new-with-student-loansHear from a panel of experts about what’s new in the world of student loans, how loan servicers are managing the changes, and what legal challenges may stand in the way.
 
For current students, alumni, staff, and faculty.
 
Register here for Zoom webinar.
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242729-demystifying-pslf-whats-new-with-student-loans
BCLB Fireside Chat with David Leonhardt of the NY Times, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243173-bclb-fireside-chat-with-david-leonhardt-of-the-nyBCLB Faculty Professor Prasad Krishnamurthy will interview David Leonhardt of the New York Times on his recently published book, Ours Was the Shining Future. David has been at the New York Times since 1999 and has served as the Washington bureau chief as well as the founding editor of the Upshot section. His book is a sweeping political and economic account of the United States from the Great Depression to the present. Registration is highly recommended. Lunch is provided on a first-come, first-serve basis to registrants.https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243173-bclb-fireside-chat-with-david-leonhardt-of-the-nyPre-OCI Success Panel w Akin Gump, Baker McKenzie, Gibson Dunn, McGuireWoods & Sidley Austin – APALSA, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243174-pre-oci-panel-apalsaCome enjoy free lunch and learn about the private sector recruiting process from practicing attorneys of several BigLaw firms! RSVP here. 
Monday, April 1st. 12:50pm – 2pm. Room 132.
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243174-pre-oci-panel-apalsa
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, April 1https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877062Learn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877062
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235507-makerspace-drop-in-hoursLearn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235507-makerspace-drop-in-hours
Creative Careers Week | Arts & Humanities, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/ah/event/241151-creative-careers-week-arts-humanities

Monday, April 1, 2024
Berkeley Career Engagement
2-3pm, Dwinelle Hall 370
Presented by the Career Center

Learn the best practices for networking and more.

Tuesday, April 2, 2024, Register here
Creative Careers Networking Mixer
5-7pm, Platform Art Space, Bauer Wurster Hall
Hosted by Division of Arts & Humanities

Meet recent graduates and mid-career alumni who are working in their fields with a range of professional represented. We’ll have a great spread of food, swag, and prizes!

Wednesday, April 3, 2024, Register here
Creative Career Talk with Jill Foley, VP of Peloton Apparel
in conversation with Sara Guyer, Dean of Arts & Humanities

 Noon-1pm, Maude Fife, Wheeler Hall

Join a talk with Jill Foley, VP of Peloton Apparel to hear about her career trajectory and how her degree in Film & Media serves her role as an industry leader and entrepreneur.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ah/event/241151-creative-careers-week-arts-humanities
Physics Condensed Matter Seminar with Matthew Yankowitz, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/physics/event/236771-physics-condensed-matter-seminar-with-matthew

New twists on topology in moiré quantum matter

Moiré patterns formed by stacking atomically thin van der Waals crystals can give rise to dramatic new physical properties, in select cases generating flat bands that host a variety of intertwined correlated and topological states of matter. I will discuss two distinct moiré platforms that each exhibit their own unique topological properties. The first is twisted bilayer-trilayer graphene, in which we observe the formation of generalized anomalous Hall crystals that either triple or quadruple the area of the moiré unit cell. These states exhibit a fully-developed integer quantum anomalous Hall effect, with a Chern number that can be flipped between +1 and -1 by a unique combination of in-plane and out-of-plane magnetic fields along with electric displacement field. The second system we study is twisted molybdenum ditelluride (tMoTe 2 ), which was recently found to host the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect. By probing tMoTe 2 on the microscopic scale using scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy, we are able to detect fingerprints of the layer pseudospin skyrmion lattice responsible for generating the topology of the moiré bands. Our findings showcase the diverse range of novel topological properties that can arise in moiré materials.

Speaker Bio:

Matthew Yankowitz is an Assistant Professor of Physics and Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. His research in experimental condensed matter physics focuses on the investigation and control of strong correlations, magnetism, superconductivity, and topology in two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures, probed using a combination of electrical transport and scanning tunneling microscopy. Prior to joining the University of Washington, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University and received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Arizona. He is the recipient of an ARO Young Investigator Award (2020), an NSF CAREER Award (2021), the Lee Osheroff Richardson Science Prize from Oxford Instruments (2021), and the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Low Temperature Physics (2022).

https://events.berkeley.edu/physics/event/236771-physics-condensed-matter-seminar-with-matthew
Linguistics Colloquium: Lev Michael and Christine Beier, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/ling/event/208899-linguistics-colloquium-lev-michael-and-christine

Linguistics Colloquium: Lev Michael and Christine Beier

https://events.berkeley.edu/ling/event/208899-linguistics-colloquium-lev-michael-and-christine
Nature-Made Economy: Cod, Capital and the Great Economization of the Ocean, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/ssm/event/243449-nature-made-economy-cod-capital-and-the-great

Please join us on April 1 for a lecture by Tone Huse, Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

Abstract

We are constantly presented for visions of a new and expansive ocean economy. At a time when the ocean is challenged by climate change, pollution and over-exploitation it is to be drilled, mined, surveyed, grown and harvested to an unprecedented extent and magnitude. Associate Professor Tone Huse presents an analysis of how the ocean has been harnessed to become a space of capital investment and innovation. She discusses how living nature is wrested into the economy, but also shows how nature, in turn, resists, adapts to, or changes the economy. The talk is based her recently published book Nature-Made Economy: Cod, Capital, and the Great Economization of the Ocean (MIT Press, 2023), co-authored with Kristin Asdal. The book engages with how the ocean and its beings are drawn into increasingly more and tighter economic relations – but also how nature acts in and co-modifies both state and capital. What is a good nature economy? How should we go about in studying the economic relations that are being spun around the ocean? And how are we to meet the great economization of the ocean?

Speakers

Tone Huse is an Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Her current research focuses on the geographies and materialities of urban politics, economies, and planning in Nuuk, Kalaallit Nunaat (a.k.a. Greenland). Her work spans historical as well as contemporary research, is radically interdisciplinary, and committed to experimenting with new means for interacting with broad publics. Huse is the author of three books, including Displacement, Ethnic Privileging and the Right to Stay Put (Ashgate 2014), and the most recent co-authored Nature Made Economy: Cod, Capital and the Great Economization of the Ocean.

Discussant: Sharad Chari, Associate Professor in the UC Berkeley Department of Geography.

Moderator: Berit Kristoffersen, The Arctic University of Norway

https://events.berkeley.edu/ssm/event/243449-nature-made-economy-cod-capital-and-the-great
Structural & Quantitative Biology Seminar, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/232513-structural-quantitative-biology-seminar

Structural & Quantitative Biology Seminar

https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/232513-structural-quantitative-biology-seminar
Seminar 211, Economic History: Nancy Qian (Northwestern) “The Causes of Ukrainian Famine Mortality, 1932-33” joint with Development, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237245-seminar-211-economic-history-nancy-qian-northwestern-

Please note the change in time and location.

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237245-seminar-211-economic-history-nancy-qian-northwestern-
Seminar 271: “The Causes of Ukrainian Famine Mortality, 1932-33” Nancy Qian, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237561-seminar-271-the-causes-of-ukrainian-famine-mortality-

Joint with Economic History

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237561-seminar-271-the-causes-of-ukrainian-famine-mortality-
Seminar 208, Microeconomic Theory: “Equilibrium Selection in Participation Games, with Applications to Security Issuance”, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/239527-seminar-208-microeconomic-theory-equilibrium-selectio

Abstract: In many applied settings, an activity requires a critical mass of participants to be worthwhile. This can give rise to multiple equilibria. We study seven well-known equilibrium selection theories: two heuristic arguments, two models with rational players, and three from the evolutionary literature. With one exception, each relies on strategic complementarities. We weaken this to a mild single crossing property and show that the theories’ predictions have a common form: an agent plays a best response to some fictional distribution of the participation rate of her opponents. We then use this robust framework to study security design in a setting in which issuance revenue is used to fund investments that are, in turn, used to pay distributions on the securities. We show that all monotone securities are underpriced and that debt is optimal as it is the least underpriced. Moreover, underpricing in equity offerings can be mitigated by share rationing and a minimum sales requirement.

 

Paper links:

https://www.dmfrankel.com/UAES.pdf

https://www.dmfrankel.com/GGSD.pdf

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/239527-seminar-208-microeconomic-theory-equilibrium-selectio
Diet Quality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: The Role of Food Systems and Implications for Health Outcomes, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/asc/event/242359-diet-quality-in-low-and-middle-income-countries


Dr. Isabel Madzorera is an Assistant Professor in Public Health Nutrition at the University of California, Berkeley, in the division of Community Health Sciences. Prior to joining UC Berkeley, Dr. Madzorera was a Research Associate in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health. The goals of her research program are to utilize advanced nutrition epidemiologic methods to assess diet quality as a key modifiable risk factor for poor maternal and child health outcomes in LMICs, and to identify the role of food systems and other contributing factors to the triple burden of malnutrition in these contexts. Dr. Madzorera has led global health research focusing on the evaluation of food systems and diet quality, and their influence on maternal and child health. Her previous research has included evaluating the role of maternal diet quality during pregnancy and its impacts on the risk of low birth weight, small for gestational age and preterm births and also assessing the effect of COVID-19 on food prices and diets.

Dr. Madzorera has extensive field-based experience including leading maternal and child nutrition interventions in sub-Saharan Africa. She has spent considerable time working in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique and conducted research in Tanzania and Ethiopia. Her previous work experience has included work with not-for-profit organizations such as Save the Children, United Nations agencies and the World Bank.

https://events.berkeley.edu/asc/event/242359-diet-quality-in-low-and-middle-income-countries
Excessive Punishment: How the Justice System Creates Mass Incarceration, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/pubpol/event/243293-excessive-punishment-how-the-justice-system

The United States represents less than 5 percent of the world’s population, but holds over 20 percent of its prisoners. With just under 1.8 million people behind bars, the American criminal justice system has increased our incarcerated population by 500% since 1970. Excessive Punishment: How the Justice System Creates Mass Incarceration, edited by Lauren-Brooke Eisen of the Brennan Center for Justice, examines the American justice system’s dependance on retribution. Through a collection of essays by wide range of experts, Excessive Punishment explores the myriad factors contributing to mass incarceration—poverty, racism, the legacy of slavery—and offers potential reforms.

Join the Goldman School of Public Policy, the Berkeley Criminal Law & Justice Center, and the Brennan Center for Justice during Second Chance Month for a thought-provoking discussion on the far-reaching effects of the American prison system and how we can move towards restoration rather than punishment.

https://events.berkeley.edu/pubpol/event/243293-excessive-punishment-how-the-justice-system
Excessive Punishment: How the Justice System Creates Mass Incarceration, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243366-excessive-punishment-how-the-justice-systemThe United States represents less than 5 percent of the world’s population, but holds over 20 percent of its prisoners. With just under 1.8 million people behind bars, the American criminal justice system has increased our incarcerated population by 500% since 1970. Excessive Punishment: How the Justice System Creates Mass Incarceration, edited by Lauren-Brooke Eisen of the Brennan Center for Justice, examines the American justice system’s dependance on retribution. Through a collection of essays by wide range of experts, Excessive Punishment explores the myriad factors contributing to mass incarceration—poverty, racism, the legacy of slavery—and offers potential reforms.
Join the Goldman School of Public Policy, the Berkeley Criminal Law & Justice Center, and the Brennan Center for Justice during Second Chance Month for a thought-provoking discussion on the far-reaching effects of the American prison system and how we can move towards restoration rather than punishment.
If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Bora Reed at borareed@berkeley.edu or 510-680-3013 with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.
Speakers
Chesa Boudin is the founding executive director of Berkeley’s Criminal Law & Justice Center. He served as San Francisco’s elected district attorney from 2020 until his recall in 2022. During that time, Boudin implemented bold reforms to ensure that the criminal legal system delivered safety and justice for all San Franciscans. His achievements include a significant expansion of the office’s victim services’ division; eliminating prosecutors’ use of money bail; prosecuting police for excessive force; suing the manufacturers of ghost guns; expanding diversion to address root causes of crime; and a historic reduction in incarceration. During his time in office both violent and non-violent crime fell by double digits. Prior to his election Boudin clerked for two federal judges and worked for years as a deputy public defender in San Francisco. He is a graduate of Yale college and Yale law school and attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship. His biological parents spent a combined 62 years in prison starting when he was a baby.
Boudin’s work has appeared or been profiled in The Yale Law Journal, The Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The LA Times, The Chicago Tribune, and many more.
Asia Johnson is a writer, storyteller, and filmmaker who has worked with several organizations in the criminal justice reform space, including The Bail Project, cut50, Shakespeare in Prison, Prison Creative Arts Program, Hamtramck Free School, and the Michigan Prison Doula Initiative. Asia is a 2019 Right of Return Fellow, 2019 Room Project Fellow, 2021 Brennan Center for Justice Fellow, 2022 Art for Justice grantee, and a 2022 Highland Leader. Her Chapbook, An Exorcism, was released in 2018 and her directorial debut, Out of Place, was released in 2022.
Asia studied at University of Michigan-Dearborn and is the Manager of Storytelling and Media Productions at Zealous. When Asia isn’t helping to uplift the stories of those impacted by the criminal legal system and making her dream of a world without cages come true, she is writing poetry.
Lauren-Brooke Eisen is the Senior Director of the Brennan Center’s Justice Program at NYU School of Law, a nonpartisan law and policy institute that seeks to improve systems of democracy and justice. Eisen focuses on improving the criminal justice process through legal reforms, specifically how the criminal justice system is funded.
Previously Eisen was a Senior Program Associate at the Vera Institute of Justice in the Center on Sentencing and Corrections where she worked on policies that aimed to improve public safety while reducing prison populations. Eisen also served as an assistant district attorney in New York City where she served in the Appeals Bureau, the Criminal Court Bureau, and the Sex Crimes Special Victims Bureau where she prosecuted a wide range of misdemeanor and felony cases. Before entering law school, Eisen worked as a beat reporter for a daily newspaper in Laredo, Texas where she covered criminal justice issues. Eisen has taught an undergraduate seminar on mass incarceration at Yale, served as an adjunct instructor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and supervises NYU Law students who participate in the Brennan Center Public Policy Advocacy Clinic.
Jonathan Simon joined the Berkeley Law faculty in 2003 as part of the J.D., JSP, and Legal Studies programs. He teaches in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, criminology, legal studies and the sociology of law.  
Simon’s scholarship concerns the role of crime and criminal justice in governing contemporary societies, risk and the law, and the history of the interdisciplinary study of law. His published works include over seventy articles and book chapters, and three single authored monographs, including: Poor Discipline: Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass (University of Chicago 1993, winner of the American Sociological Association’s sociology of law book prize, 1994), Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear (Oxford University Press 2007, winner of the American Society of Criminology, Hindelang Award 2010) and Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America (New Press 2014). Simon has served as the co-editor-in-chief of the journal, Punishment and Society, and the co-editor of the Sage Handbook of Punishment & Society (along with Richard Sparks). He is a member of the Law & Society Association and the American Society of Criminology. Simon’s scholarship has been recognized internationally with appointment as a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at the University of Edinburgh (2010-11), a Fellow of the Israeli Institute for Advanced Studies (2016), and a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2018). In 2016 Simon was recognized for his scholarship on the human rights of prisoners with the Docteur honoris causa de la Faculté et de l’Institut, Faculté de Droit et Criminologie, Université Catholique de Louvain.
Steven Raphael is a Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and holds the James D. Marver Chair at the Goldman School of Public Policy. His research focuses on the economics of low-wage labor markets, housing, and the economics of crime and corrections. His most recent research focuses on the social consequences of the large increases in U.S. incarceration rates and racial disparities in criminal justice outcomes. Raphael also works on immigration policy, research questions pertaining to various aspects of racial inequality, the economics of labor unions, social insurance policies, homelessness, and low-income housing. Raphael is the author (with Michael Stoll) of Why Are so Many Americans in Prison? (published by the Russell Sage Foundation Press) and The New Scarlet Letter? Negotiating the U.S. Labor Market with a Criminal Record (published by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research). Raphael is a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the California Policy Lab, the University of Michigan National Poverty Center, the University of Chicago Crime Lab, IZA, Bonn Germany, and the Public Policy Institute of California. Raphael holds a Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley.
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243366-excessive-punishment-how-the-justice-system
AI & the Humanities: AI is Weird, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/bcnm/event/242393-ai-the-humanities-ai-is-weird

with Erik Davis
Writer, Journalist, and Lecturer

The AI & the Humanities series is a collaboration between the Townsend Center and the Berkeley Center for New Media.

The contemporary humanities is largely concerned with the social and political function of texts and images, often at the expense of the meta-discipline’s long engagement with the uncanny, the visionary, the paradoxical, the otherworldly, and the abject. But it may be these latter concerns that become most salient in the humanistic encounter with contemporary AI and its exploding impact on culture and consciousness. Drawing from ideas developed in his book High Weirdness (MIT Press, 2019) and his Burning Shore Substack, Davis will explore how the concept of the weird helps illuminate the speculative and reality-bending properties of AI discourse and practice, as algorithms, machine learning, and massive data sets open up an ontologically unstable space of mythology, weird fiction, and dreamlike encounters with the simulacrum.

About Erik Davis

Erik Davis is an author, award-winning journalist, and teacher based in San Francisco. His wide-ranging work focuses on the intersection of alternative religion, media, and the popular imagination. He is the author, most recently, of High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies, co-published by MIT Press and Strange Attractor. He also wrote Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica (2010), The Visionary State: A Journey through California’s Spiritual Landscape (2006), a critical volume on Led Zeppelin (2005), and the celebrated cult classic TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information (1998). Erik’s scholarly and popular essays on music, technoculture, drugs, and spirituality have appeared in scores of books, magazines, and journals, and his writing has been translated into a dozen languages. For a decade, he explored the “cultures of consciousness” on his groundbreaking weekly podcast Expanding Mind. Davis has spoken widely at universities, conferences, retreat centers, and festivals, and has been interviewed by CNN, the BBC, NPR, and the New York Times. He graduated from Yale University in 1988, and more recently earned his PhD in religious studies at Rice University. His book on the history of LSD blotter art will be published in 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bcnm/event/242393-ai-the-humanities-ai-is-weird
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222935-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222935-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229216-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229216-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236459-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236459-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241431-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241431-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
Active Learning in Large Classes: What’s Possible?, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/237848-active-learning-in-large-classes-whats-possible

This workshop addresses the unique challenges and opportunities of implementing active learning strategies in large, introductory lecture settings, which are crucial as they often mark the beginning of a student’s journey into a specific discipline or way of thinking. Research in educational pedagogy supports the effectiveness of active learning, particularly in large classes. However, students in large classes might feel skeptical about engaging in active learning, given that large classes often rely primarily on lecture. In this workshop, we will explore strategies for incorporating active learning into large classes, as well as some techniques for engaging large groups of students in your rationale for using active learning.

By the end of this workshop you will:

  • Learn effective strategies and discover active learning techniques suited for large lecture courses

  • Tailor these strategies to your teaching contexts

  • Develop statements for use in syllabi or in class to convey to large groups of students your rationale for employing active learning

This session will run for 30 minutes, with an additional 15 minutes reserved for questions. Please register to get the Zoom link.

➡️ Register for this event here!(link is external)⬅️

***Registration for this session will close one hour before the session***

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/237848-active-learning-in-large-classes-whats-possible
Berkeley Boosts | What Do Chief Legal Officers Care About?, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243236-berkeley-boosts-what-do-chief-legal-officers-carePlease join us for a special Berkeley Boosts presentation with Veta Richardson, President and CEO of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC). Veta will be presenting the ACC’s recently released 2023 Chief Legal Officers Survey. The survey provides insights directly from CLOs on the trends, challenges, and opportunities facing corporate legal departments.
 
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243236-berkeley-boosts-what-do-chief-legal-officers-care
Introduction to Zotero, April 2https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11868253Spend an hour and learn to use this robust citation manager with Firefox and Chrome. The workshop covers importing citations, exporting bibliographies into Word and Google Docs, and sharing resources among groups.
We recommend downloading Zotero and the browser connector at www.zotero.org before the workshop.
Location: Zoom (link will be sent to registrants one day before the workshop)
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11868253
Introduction to Zotero, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/232558-introduction-to-zoteroSpend an hour and learn to use this robust citation manager with Firefox and Chrome. The workshop covers importing citations, exporting bibliographies into Word and Google Docs, and sharing resources among groups.
We recommend downloading Zotero and the browser connector at www.zotero.org before the workshop.
Location: Zoom (link will be sent to registrants one day before the workshop)
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/232558-introduction-to-zotero
Organic Chemistry Seminar, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230054-organic-chemistry-seminar

James Tour, T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor, Rice University

Flash Joule Heating

Described will be ultrafast heating and cooling routes to synthesize graphene and other 2D materials, carbon nanotubes, heteroatom substituted carbons and many inorganics, all in gram to ton scales. Using the same approaches, ultrafast routes to the selective extraction of metals in electronic waste, industrial waste and metal ores, the degradation of PFAS, soil remediation and battery anode and cathode recycling will be discussed.

https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230054-organic-chemistry-seminar
OITM Seminar: Nur Sunar, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/236270-nur-sunarhttps://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/236270-nur-sunarWallace Center Career Lunch: Dr. Sophia Yen, Founder of Pandia Health, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/243455-wallace-center-career-lunch-dr-sophia-yen-founder

Pandia Health is an online service that provides birth control and emergency contraception to clients across the country, reaching all 50 states. Customers without a prescription in 15 states can pay $25 for an online evaluation to receive a prescription from one of Pandia Health’s doctors. Learn more from Dr. Sophia Yen, founder and SPH alumni.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/243455-wallace-center-career-lunch-dr-sophia-yen-founder
Beyond WCAG 2.0: Evolving Web Accessibility Standards, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/webnet/event/243508-beyond-wcag-20-evolving-web-accessibility-standards

When WCAG 2.0 was published in 2008, the iPhone was still new and tablets hadn’t yet caught on. Web technology has always been a moving target and accessibility standards must necessarily keep up. There have been two further editions: WCAG 2.1 and 2.2 made modest, but important changes. WCAG 3.0, still in draft, promises to be a much more substantial departure, including a brand new system for measuring color contrast. Come learn about the evolution of web accessibility guidelines.

https://events.berkeley.edu/webnet/event/243508-beyond-wcag-20-evolving-web-accessibility-standards
Panel: Preparing for the First Year as Faculty, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/QB3/event/243418-panel-preparing-for-the-first-year-as-faculty

Tuesday, April 2, 2024, from 12pm-1:15pm via Zoom

 

“Preparing for the First Year as Faculty” can help you land on your feet when you get to your new job. The panel will share insights into how to build a solid foundation for success, and what rewards and challenges you might encounter while in the first year(s) of a tenure-track job. You do not need to have an offer, or be on the job market, to benefit from this panel – all trainees interested in faculty careers are encouraged to hear speaker advice! Speakers are:

  • Molly Kozminsky, PhD, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University (former Berkeley postdoc)
  • Jasmine Nirody, PhD, Assistant Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, The University of Chicago (Berkeley PhD alum)
  • Bronwyn Lucas, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, UC Berkeley

Register to attend

https://events.berkeley.edu/QB3/event/243418-panel-preparing-for-the-first-year-as-faculty
Latest in Public Health Research: The pandemic preterm paradox - A test of competing explanations, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/239127-latest-in-public-health-research-the-pandemic-preterm

Epidemiologists have long argued that side effects of the stress response include preterm birth. Research reports that fear of lethal infection stressed pregnant persons at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic and that “shutdowns” and “social distancing” impeded access to social support and prenatal care. The decline in preterm births in high-income countries, including the United States (US), during the early months of the pandemic therefore poses a paradox for science. Explanations of this “pandemic preterm paradox” remain untested. We apply time-series modeling to data describing 80 monthly conception cohorts begun in the US from July 2013 through February 2020 to determine which of 3 explanations most parsimoniously explains the paradox. We infer that “prior loss,” or the argument that an increase in spontaneous abortions and stillbirths depleted the population of fetuses at risk of preterm birth, best explains data currently available.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/239127-latest-in-public-health-research-the-pandemic-preterm
Introduction to Zotero, April 2https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11868255Spend an hour and learn to use this robust citation manager with Firefox and Chrome. The workshop covers importing citations, exporting bibliographies into Word and Google Docs, and sharing resources among groups.
We recommend downloading Zotero and the browser connector at www.zotero.org before the workshop.
Location: Zoom (link will be sent to registrants one day before the workshop)
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11868255
Introduction to Zotero, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235018-introduction-to-zoteroSpend an hour and learn to use this robust citation manager with Firefox and Chrome. The workshop covers importing citations, exporting bibliographies into Word and Google Docs, and sharing resources among groups.
We recommend downloading Zotero and the browser connector at www.zotero.org before the workshop.
Location: Zoom (link will be sent to registrants one day before the workshop)
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235018-introduction-to-zotero
Faculty Seminar Lunch - Leif Nelson, Marketing, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/242932-faculty-seminar-lunch-leif-nelson-marketinghttps://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/242932-faculty-seminar-lunch-leif-nelson-marketingT.V. Paul | The Unfinished Quest: India’s Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/237109-tv-paul-the-unfinished-quest-indias-search-for-major-

A talk by T.V. Paul, James McGill Professor of International Relations in the department of Political Science at McGill University, on his new book, The Unfinished Quest: India’s Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi, that draws on three decades of data on India’s economic and military growth to assess India’s achievements and shortcomings in comparison with others, especially China.

Event moderated by Vinod K. Aggarwal, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Director, Berkeley APEC Study Center.

About the Book: Along with the meteoric rise of China, there has been much interest in the emergence of India as a rising power. The rapidly developing US-China rivalry gives India an added importance in world politics today. Further, the strengthening of Hindu nationalism under Narendra Modi includes using international status enhancement as a tool in domestic political contestation. This talk, based on a forthcoming book, draws on three decades of data on India’s economic and military growth to assess India’s achievements and shortcomings in comparison with others, especially China. The research pays particular attention to a status perspective, which is often missing in many popular books on India’s rise. While in its 75-year existence as an independent state, India has achieved much in fulfilling the dreams of Nehru and his successors in obtaining global status, the quest is still unfinished. Why have India and its leadership believed that the country has a destiny to rise as a global power? What does the future hold for India’s status elevation?

About the Author: T.V. Paul is James McGill Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is a former President of International Studies Association (ISA) and the Founding Director of the Global Research Network on Peaceful Change (GRENPEC). Paul is the author or editor of 23 books and over 80 scholarly articles/book chapters in the fields of International Relations, International Security, and South Asia, including The Unfinished Quest: India’s Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi (Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2024).

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If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Puneeta Kala at pkala@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/237109-tv-paul-the-unfinished-quest-indias-search-for-major-
[CDO] BigLaw Practice in New York, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243621-cdo-biglaw-practice-in-new-yorkInterested in working at a law firm in New York? BigLaw attorneys from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York will share their insights and perspective on what it means to practice law there.
Lunch will be provided on a first come, first served basis. Please RSVP here.
This program is intended for JD students.
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243621-cdo-biglaw-practice-in-new-york
BCLT Law & Tech Speaker Series: Irell & Manella, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242728-bclt-law-tech-speaker-series-irell-manellaJoin BCLT for a dynamic lunch presentation with attorneys from Irell & Manella on April 2, 2024 from 1-2 PM in Room 100. 
Lunch will be provided on a first-come-first-served basis. RSVP now!
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242728-bclt-law-tech-speaker-series-irell-manella
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, April 2https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877063Learn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877063
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235506-makerspace-drop-in-hoursLearn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235506-makerspace-drop-in-hours
Breastfeeding Your Baby: Return to Work/School, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236759-breastfeeding-your-baby-return-to-workschool

This 3 hour class is taught by a certified lactation consultant and is broken up into two parts.The first portion of the class, 1-3pm, addresses breastfeeding basics and problem solving. The second portion of class, 3:15-4:15pm, covers returning-to-work planning and breast pumps. Those who have already attended a breastfeeding class are welcome to join the last portion of the class.

Please Note: The Zoom link will be sent to the participants by email, and add it to this workshop description a day before the workshop.

All participants and hosts must sign into a Zoom account before joining meetings hosted by UC Berkeley. 

Participants who are not eligible for a UC Berkeley-provided Zoom account can use a Zoom account provided by their institution, can create a free consumer Zoom account (at https://zoom.us/freesignup/), or can dial in via the phone.

https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236759-breastfeeding-your-baby-return-to-workschool
Microsoft Apps Macros and Automation, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/219585-microsoft-apps-macros-and-automation

This course demonstrates the use of macros for process automation. Emphasis is placed on macro creation and editing in multiple applications such as Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Project.

https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/219585-microsoft-apps-macros-and-automation
When Will Anti-Vax Sentiment No Longer be a Problem- When the Cows Come Home?, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/brc/event/242576-when-will-anti-vax-sentiment-no-longer-be-a

Art Reingold, Professor of Epidemiology, has dedicated his research to the, prevention and control of infectious diseases both at the national level, as well as in numerous low-income countries around the world. He will address the phenomenon of vaccine hesitancy and resistance, how public health has addressed this, and the ethical challenges of vaccine mandates.

https://events.berkeley.edu/brc/event/242576-when-will-anti-vax-sentiment-no-longer-be-a
Weekly Study Hall for 1Ls, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242727-weekly-study-hall-for-1lsAll 1Ls are invited to weekly study sessions (“labs”) with three of our amazing fellows. This semester, there are two labs and both are open to all 1Ls: Tuesdays 2:10-3:00 in Room 113 with Ben, and Wednesdays 2:10-3:00 in Room 113 with Vanessa and Celeste.
During the month of March, all labs will be study halls–a designated place to read, work on outlines or practice questions, or tackle your LRW brief. Snacks will be provided and ASP fellows will be on hand to answer questions! Come get some work done in community with other 1Ls!
Want more? Complete this Google form to join the ASP bCourses site and gain access to announcements, resources, and support:
http://tinyurl.com/SPRING24ASP.
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242727-weekly-study-hall-for-1ls
Research 101 (In-Person), April 2https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/12028050Are you writing an annotated bibliography, but not sure where to start? Do you need to find peer-reviewed articles, but there don’t seem to be any? This virtual workshop is for you! Berkeley librarians will guide you through using the UC Berkeley Library strategically and honing your research skills. You’ll leave feeling empowered and prepared to take on research assignments with new skills and perspectives
Designed for students enrolled in a Reading & Composition (R&C) course with a research component. Open to the UC Berkeley community.
Are you writing an annotated bibliography, but not sure where to start? Do you need to find peer-reviewed articles, but there don’t seem to be any? This virtual workshop is for you! Berkeley librarians will guide you through using the UC Berkeley Library strategically and honing your research skills. You’ll leave feeling empowered and prepared to take on research assignments with new skills and perspectives
Designed for students enrolled in a Reading & Composition (R&C) course with a research component. Open to the UC Berkeley community.
Led by our amazing Undergraduate Library Fellows!
Location: Doe Library, Rm. 223 (in the Heyns Reading Room, underneath the large painting)
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/12028050
Research 101 (In-Person), April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/239470-research-101-in-personAre you writing an annotated bibliography, but not sure where to start? Do you need to find peer-reviewed articles, but there don’t seem to be any? This virtual workshop is for you! Berkeley librarians will guide you through using the UC Berkeley Library strategically and honing your research skills. You’ll leave feeling empowered and prepared to take on research assignments with new skills and perspectives
Designed for students enrolled in a Reading & Composition (R&C) course with a research component. Open to the UC Berkeley community.
Are you writing an annotated bibliography, but not sure where to start? Do you need to find peer-reviewed articles, but there don’t seem to be any? This virtual workshop is for you! Berkeley librarians will guide you through using the UC Berkeley Library strategically and honing your research skills. You’ll leave feeling empowered and prepared to take on research assignments with new skills and perspectives
Designed for students enrolled in a Reading & Composition (R&C) course with a research component. Open to the UC Berkeley community.
Led by our amazing Undergraduate Library Fellows!
Location: Doe Library, Rm. 223 (in the Heyns Reading Room, underneath the large painting)
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/239470-research-101-in-person
MORS Colloquium - “Doctoral Students”, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/230583-mors-colloquium-doctoral-students
Join Zoom Meeting
https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/97671767978?pwd=RCtSd3QrZjczWnJvRWppSnZ0Nkw0dz09

Meeting ID: 976 7176 7978
Passcode: 287308

https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/230583-mors-colloquium-doctoral-students
Has US Antitrust Reached A Turning Point? A Panel Discussion, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/besi/event/239517-has-us-antitrust-reached-a-turning-point-a-panel

The Biden administration has taken some bold moves to rein in big tech and to challenge market concentration more broadly. Who is winning this battle and why? What are the possibilities for and constraints on a fundamental shift in market power in America? This panel will address these questions and more, bringing together scholars who study the history, theory, and practice of antitrust with advocates directly engaged in policy debates today.

Please join us on April 2, 2024 from 4:00pm-6:00pm for a panel featuring Gerald Berk, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Oregon; Stacy Mitchell, Co-Executive Director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance; AnnaLee Saxenian, Professor in the School of Information, UC Berkeley; Matt Stoller, Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project; and Steven Vogel, Professor of Political Science and Political Economy, UC Berkeley.

This event will be presented in-person at Social Science Matrix and will also be streamed online. Register in advance.

 

https://events.berkeley.edu/besi/event/239517-has-us-antitrust-reached-a-turning-point-a-panel
George C. Pimentel Memorial Lecture, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230066-george-c-pimentel-memorial-lecture

Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Professor, Universiteit Leiden

Chemistry between the stars: from clouds to planets

The space between the stars is not empty but filled with a very dilute gas. In spite of the extremely low temperatures and densities, these clouds contain a surprisingly rich chemistry, as evidenced by the detection of more than 300 different molecules, from simple to complex and from gas to solid-state ices. These clouds are also the birthplaces of new stars and planets. New powerful observatories such as the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) have found water and a surprisingly rich variety of organic materials near forming stars, including simple sugars, ethers and alcohols. How are these molecules formed in space? Which molecular processes play a role? How common are they and can they be delivered to new planets?

https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230066-george-c-pimentel-memorial-lecture
Seminar 221, Industrial Organization: “Topic Forthcoming” Daniel Ackerberg, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237871-seminar-221-industrial-organization-topic-forthcoming

Topic Forthcoming 

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237871-seminar-221-industrial-organization-topic-forthcoming
Driving Climate Solutions: Amazon’s Path to Net-Zero Carbon, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/RausserCollege/event/242598-driving-climate-solutions-amazons-path-to-net-zero-ca

Rausser College of Natural Resources and Haas School of Business are hosting a conversation with Kara Hurst. 

Speaker: Kara Hurst, Vice President, Worldwide Sustainability, Amazon
Kara Hurst leads Worldwide Sustainability at Amazon. Utilizing Amazon’s scale, speed and innovation, the Sustainability organization includes teams executing the work of The Climate Pledge; Sustainable Operations; Sustainability Science and Innovation; Social Responsibility and responsible supply chain management; Circular Economy; Sustainable Products, packaging and shopping; Sustainability Technology; Sustainable Transportation; and social and environmental external engagement and policy setting. Prior to joining Amazon, Kara was CEO of The Sustainability Consortium (TSC), a multi-sector group across academia, the retail industry and the public sector. TSC was named one of Scientific American’s “Top Ten World Changing Ideas” of 2012. For eleven years before that, Hurst worked as Vice President of BSR, where she built several global industry practices and lead BSR’s NY and DC offices, as well as the global partnership practice with governments, multi-laterals and foundations. Hurst also co-founded of the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC, now the Responsible Business Alliance) and worked in Silicon Valley as Executive Director of the public-private venture OpenVoice, building out early teen channel content for AOL and others. In her early career, she held roles at the Children’s Health Council, leading interdisciplinary educational and development programs, at the Urban Institute as a Research lead in the public finance and housing division, and worked in the offices of two elected officials – Mayor Willie Brown of San Francisco and in New York for the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY). Kara holds a BA from Barnard College of Columbia University and an MPP from the University of California, Berkeley.

https://events.berkeley.edu/RausserCollege/event/242598-driving-climate-solutions-amazons-path-to-net-zero-ca
Grant Farred | Diaspora-in-Place, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/pct/event/236103-grant-farred-diaspora-in-place

This project stands as the mark of a previous insufficiency. In my recent monograph, The Perversity of Gratitude: An Apartheid Education, one of the concepts on offer is diaspora-in-place. The concept was, however, not brought into its fullness – it remained as a provocation, a provocation demanding address. Thus, this writing – this still provisional – rendering of the diaspora-in-place. The recognition that the diaspora, much as it turns on departure, leaving, the dream of returning, making a place in an unfamiliar locale, also possesses a different dimension. Contains within it a mobility-in-stasis. To leave without departing. To be gone while remaining in place. That is the condition that this presentation subjects to thinking.

 

Please Note: For the pre-circulated paper, please write to Patty Dunlap at pattydunlap@berkeley.edu

 

Speaker Biography

Grant Farred is a Professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University and the author of Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football and T he Burden of Over-representation: Race, Sport, and Philosophy , and the editor of Africana Studies: Theoretical Futures (all Temple University Press), among several other books and pamphlets in theory, postcolonial studies, race, intellectuals, sport, and cultural and literary studies.

Sponsors

In generous collaboration with the Center for African Studies, the Center for Race and Gender, the Department of African American Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of English, the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, the Department of Geography, the Department of Political Science, the Department of Rhetoric, the Department of Sociology, the Institute for International Studies, the Irving Stone Chair in Literature, the Marion E. Koshland Chair in the Humanities, the Office of the Dean of the Social Science Division, the Rachel Anderson Stageberg Chair in English, the Social Science Matrix, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities.

https://events.berkeley.edu/pct/event/236103-grant-farred-diaspora-in-place
Grant Farred | Diaspora-in-Place, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/gws/event/243372-grant-farred-diaspora-in-place

This project stands as the mark of a previous insufficiency. In my recent monograph, The Perversity of Gratitude: An Apartheid Education, one of the concepts on offer is diaspora-in-place. The concept was, however, not brought into its fullness – it remained as a provocation, a provocation demanding address. Thus, this writing – this still provisional – rendering of the diaspora-in-place. The recognition that the diaspora, much as it turns on departure, leaving, the dream of returning, making a place in an unfamiliar locale, also possesses a different dimension. Contains within it a mobility-in-stasis. To leave without departing. To be gone while remaining in place. That is the condition that this presentation subjects to thinking.

 

Please Note: For the pre-circulated paper, please write to Patty Dunlap at pattydunlap@berkeley.edu

 

Speaker Biography

Grant Farred is a Professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University and the author of Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football and T he Burden of Over-representation: Race, Sport, and Philosophy , and the editor of Africana Studies: Theoretical Futures (all Temple University Press), among several other books and pamphlets in theory, postcolonial studies, race, intellectuals, sport, and cultural and literary studies.

Sponsors

In generous collaboration with the Center for African Studies, the Center for Race and Gender, the Department of African American Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of English, the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, the Department of Geography, the Department of Political Science, the Department of Rhetoric, the Department of Sociology, the Institute for International Studies, the Irving Stone Chair in Literature, the Marion E. Koshland Chair in the Humanities, the Office of the Dean of the Social Science Division, the Rachel Anderson Stageberg Chair in English, the Social Science Matrix, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities.

https://events.berkeley.edu/gws/event/243372-grant-farred-diaspora-in-place
Introduction to Zotero, April 2https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11868260Spend an hour and learn to use this robust citation manager with Firefox and Chrome. The workshop covers importing citations, exporting bibliographies into Word and Google Docs, and sharing resources among groups.
We recommend downloading Zotero and the browser connector at www.zotero.org before the workshop.
Location: Zoom (link will be sent to registrants one day before the workshop)
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11868260
Introduction to Zotero, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235017-introduction-to-zoteroSpend an hour and learn to use this robust citation manager with Firefox and Chrome. The workshop covers importing citations, exporting bibliographies into Word and Google Docs, and sharing resources among groups.
We recommend downloading Zotero and the browser connector at www.zotero.org before the workshop.
Location: Zoom (link will be sent to registrants one day before the workshop)
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235017-introduction-to-zotero
Sudipta Sen | Revisiting Ganges: The Many Pasts of an Indian River, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/229490-sudipta-sen-revisiting-gangesthe-many-pasts-of-an-ind

A talk by Sudipta Sen, Professor of History and Middle East/South Asia Studies, UC Davis, on his new book, Ganges: The Many Pasts of an Indian River, a sweeping, interdisciplinary history of the world’s third-largest river, a potent symbol across South Asia and the Hindu diaspora.

Event moderated by Munis D. Faruqui, Director, Institute for South Asia Studies; Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies; Associate Professor, South & South East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley.

About the Book: Originating in the Himalayas and flowing into the Bay of Bengal, the Ganges is India’s most important and sacred river. In this unprecedented work, historian Sudipta Sen tells the story of the Ganges, from the communities that arose on its banks to the merchants that navigated its waters, and the way it came to occupy center stage in the history and culture of the subcontinent.

Sen begins his chronicle in prehistoric India, tracing the river’s first settlers, its myths of origin in the Hindu tradition, and its significance during the ascendancy of popular Buddhism. In the following centuries, Indian empires, Central Asian regimes, European merchants, the British Empire, and the Indian nation-state all shaped the identity and ecology of the river. Weaving together geography, environmental politics, and religious history, Sen offers in this lavishly illustrated volume a remarkable portrait of one of the world’s largest and most densely populated river basins.

About the Author: Sudipta Sen is a Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. His work has focused on the early colonial history of British India. He is the author of two books: Empire of Free Trade: The English East India Company and the Making of the Colonial Marketplace (Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998) and Distant Sovereignty: National Imperialism and the Origins of British India (London: Routledge, 2002). He is currently working on two book-length manuscripts. The first, Ganga: Many Pasts of an Indian River (New Haven: Yale University Press; forthcoming), is an exploration of the idea of a cosmic, universal river at the interstices of myth, historical geography and ecology, and the other is a longer-term project entitled Empire of Law and Order: Crime, Punishment and Justice in Early British India, 1770-1830.Read more about Sudipta Sen’s research and activities.

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If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Puneeta Kala at pkala@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/229490-sudipta-sen-revisiting-gangesthe-many-pasts-of-an-ind
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204317-alvin-ailey-american-dance-theater

Continuing a 55-year relationship with Cal Performances, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to the Berkeley campus for the company’s annual residency with a selection of recent works and Ailey masterpieces. Steeped in the sounds of jazz, blues, and hip-hop, the Ailey repertory celebrates the Black American experience, offering music and movement as expressions of pure joy and as opportunities for reflection and resistance. Past favorites and new works come alive through the commitment and artistry of the company’s athletic, expressive dancers, who inhabit choreography by creators like Rennie Harris, Aszure Barton, Twyla Tharp, Jamar Roberts, and Artistic Director Robert Battle with the same conviction as they reinvent classic Ailey works like Revelations.

https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204317-alvin-ailey-american-dance-theater
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Live Audio Description and Haptic Access Tour for blind and visually impaired audience members, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/241197-alvin-ailey-american-dance-theater-live-audio

Continuing a 55-year relationship with Cal Performances, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to the Berkeley campus for the company’s annual residency with a selection of recent works and Ailey masterpieces. Steeped in the sounds of jazz, blues, and hip-hop, the Ailey repertory celebrates the Black American experience, offering music and movement as expressions of pure joy and as opportunities for reflection and resistance. Past favorites and new works come alive through the commitment and artistry of the company’s athletic, expressive dancers, who inhabit choreography by creators like Rennie Harris, Aszure Barton, Twyla Tharp, Jamar Roberts, and Artistic Director Robert Battle with the same conviction as they reinvent classic Ailey works like Revelations.

Live Audio Description and Haptic Tour
Live audio descriptions for blind and visually impaired audience members are available for the Friday, Tuesday 2 performance. The live audio description, provided by Gravity Access Services, is spoken by a professional audio describer through a wireless headset system with the intention to provide clear and engaging descriptions of the meaningful visual details of a performance. Haptic tours allow blind and visually impaired patrons to experience—through touch and their own movement— the space, performers, costumes and objects in addition to key movement elements in the performance.Headsets and space on the tour may be reserved by contacting the Cal Performances Ticket Office at (510) 642-9988 or tickets@calperformances.org. Additional information about services available for patrons with disabilities can be found at calperformances.org/accessibility.

https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/241197-alvin-ailey-american-dance-theater-live-audio
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222934-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222934-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229215-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229215-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236458-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236458-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241430-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241430-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
Literacy Leadership Series, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/crlp/event/242715-literacy-leadership-series

To support our partnership with Piedmont Unified School District, CRLP is proud to offer an optional three-part teacher leadership series for PUSD teacher leaders who choose to further their professional learning into the Science of Reading.
Topics for this series include: refining routines Tier 1 and Tier 2 instruction and intervention, creating model lessons, revisiting the instructional scope and sequence of teaching and learning foundational skills, mock teaching, and utilizing DIBELS and Benchmark Advanced resources to best support mastery of foundational reading skills for struggling readers.

https://events.berkeley.edu/crlp/event/242715-literacy-leadership-series
RAPDP Fundamental - Budget Development, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/241192-rapdp-fundamental-budget-development

This 3-hour Excel-based workshop supplements the prerequisite eCourse Budget Development Basics, and guides participants through how to create a proposal budget and narrative justification that is compliant with sponsor restrictions and consistent with University HR policies. Participants will learn to build budgets from scratch, as well as by using the BRS templates. This workshop is intended for new RAs or RAs with minimal pre-award experience, and other staff that is interested in possibly becoming an RA.

 

Learning Objective:

- Create a proposal budget from scratch, as well as by using the BRS templates

https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/241192-rapdp-fundamental-budget-development
iPhoneography with Yoni Mayeri, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/241022-iphoneography-with-yoni-mayeri

Discover how to turn your ordinary snapshots into extraordinary photographs using the power of the device that is always with you. In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to expertly capture images and edit and create photographs and artful images with your iPhone.


In this course, you will learn how to take professional-quality photographs and perform basic and advanced photo editing with your iOS device. We will use the built-in photo app to edit and enhance iPhone photos, and we will discuss tips for optimizing the features and working around the limitations of the native (built-in) camera. We will see demonstrations of several third party editing and creative applications and a variety of helpful accessories for enhancing and embellishing iPhoneography images. Time permitting we will touch on best practices for saving, organizing, sharing, and printing your images. By the end of this workshop, you will have a greater grasp on the ins and outs of iPhoneography.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/241022-iphoneography-with-yoni-mayeri
UC Berkeley Staff - Family Free Days, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/243555-uc-berkeley-staff-family-free-days

In partnership with Berkeley Staff Assembly, the UC Botanical Garden is offering UC Berkeley staff Family Free Days! Show your CAL1 Staff card* and receive free entry for yourself and one adult guest, plus all your dependents under 18 years old at the UC Botanical Garden, April 1-April 14 during regular Garden hours.

 

April is the prime time to visit the UC Botanical Garden to admire blooms, unique flora, and discover more than 10,000 plants from all over the world, right in the heart of Berkeley. Feel free to bring a picnic and enjoy lunch at one of the many picnic tables or grassy lawn. Check out the Garden Shop and take a piece of the garden home with you. You can find out more about the UC Botanical Garden here: https://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/

 

Information about parking and transportation can be found here, which includes overflow parking at the Lawrence Hall of Science: https://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/parkinganddirections.

 

Already a big fan of the Botanical Garden? Explore special UC Affiliate member rates here: https://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/join.

 

The UC Botanical Garden is also a fantastic spot for work retreats or meetings, with discounted rates for internal UC Berkeley events. Visit the Rentals page here: https://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/rentals

 

*Please note that the UC Berkeley Staff member must be present with the guest and dependents under 18 years old, to receive free entry.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/243555-uc-berkeley-staff-family-free-days
The Shocking Nature of Wildfires Science Show, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/lhs/event/236905-the-shocking-nature-of-wildfires-science-show

Help us test a new activity for your future scientists age 6 and under! Explore nature with various optical tools that can focus far beyond what our eyes typically see. Zoom in and zoom out with microscopes, periscopes, binoculars, and lenses carrying different magnifying powers. Which tools will you choose to help find what’s hidden in nature? The first hour each day (10:00–11:00 a.m.) is members only.

https://events.berkeley.edu/lhs/event/236905-the-shocking-nature-of-wildfires-science-show
Noon Concert: Balinese Gamelan - Music & Dance of Bali, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235235-noon-concert-balinese-gamelan-music-dance-of-bali

Lisa Gold, director

Admission to all Noon Concerts is free. Registration is recommended at music.berkeley.edu/register.

Safety
The UC Berkeley Department of Music is committed to the health and safety of our students, staff, and patrons. Measures to protect concertgoers and musicians will be informed by state, local, and UC Berkeley Public Health policies and are subject to change. Social distancing, masks, and proof of COVID 19 vaccination may be required. UC Berkeley does not promise or guarantee that all patrons or employees on site are vaccinated. Unvaccinated individuals may be present as a result of exemptions, exceptions, fraudulent verification, or checker error. None of these precautions eliminate the risk of exposure to COVID-19. Registration is strongly encouraged for noon concerts at music.berkeley.edu/register.

Accessibility
If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact the Hertz Hall Manager at 510.642.4864 or hertzhallmgr@berkeley.edu. with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

Connect
To receive email messages about upcoming concerts:
music.berkeley.edu/mailme.

Facebook: @ucbmusicdept
Instagram: @ucberkeleymusic / @berkeleymusicmajor
Twitter @ucbmusicdept
Youtube: Berkeley Music YouTube channel

Watch
Most concerts are available to stream live or watch later on the Berkeley Music YouTube channel. To watch visit music.berkeley.edu/watch

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235235-noon-concert-balinese-gamelan-music-dance-of-bali
Climate Change and Human Health: An Alaska Perspective, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/243356-climate-change-and-human-health-an-alaska

Temperatures are rising 2 to 3 times faster in Alaska and throughout the circumpolar regions as a result of climate change. This free webinar by Dr. Jeffrey G. Demain will explore the wide range of climate change’s impacts on the Alaskan ecosystem and address some of its impacts on the health of Alaskan people.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/243356-climate-change-and-human-health-an-alaska
Demography Brown Bag Seminar: “What is Biological Age?”, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event/240461-demography-brown-bag-seminar-what-is-biological

A recovering mathematician, David Steinsaltz was converted to research on aging by Ken Wachter, and spent 4 years in the UC Berkeley Department of Demography in the early years of the millennium. He has been in the statistics department of the University of Oxford since 2007, and continues to work on problems in the theory of aging, age-structured populations, and survival analysis.

https://events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event/240461-demography-brown-bag-seminar-what-is-biological
Understanding Your Relationship to Work, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236679-understanding-your-relationship-to-work

This workshop utilizes cultural and systemic perspectives to guide participants in better understanding their unique relationships to their work. This includes considerations such as early role modeling by caregivers, early career experiences, and larger societal experiences like economic changes, the pandemic, and institutional discrimination. Ultimately, participants will gain a stronger awareness of what increases their work satisfaction and fit, how to move through one’s career path with intention, and how to navigate work/life balance. Participants will have opportunities to engage in deep self-reflection and will leave with ideas to extend their personal growth and learning. Please note that a version of this workshop was presented at the NOW Conference 2023; participants are invited to visit this information for the first time or revisit it as desired.


Please Note: The Zoom link will be sent to the participants by email, and add it to this workshop description a day before the workshop.

All participants and hosts must sign into a Zoom account before joining meetings hosted by UC Berkeley. 

Participants who are not eligible for a UC Berkeley-provided Zoom account can use a Zoom account provided by their institution, can create a free consumer Zoom account (at https://zoom.us/freesignup/), or can dial in via the phone.

https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236679-understanding-your-relationship-to-work
History Colloquium | Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/History/event/238280-history-colloquium-stephanie-e-jones-rogers

Join the Department of History for the second presentation in this two part colloquia series! This presentation will feature work from Professor Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers. The department invites attendees to read Jones-Rogers’s paper before attending the event. A copy of the paper will be available two weeks before the event. To receive a copy of the paper please email history-admin@berkeley.edu with the subject line ‘History Colloquium: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers.’

Light refreshments will be served!

https://events.berkeley.edu/History/event/238280-history-colloquium-stephanie-e-jones-rogers
From Farming to Importing Food: Colonial Racial Capitalism, Sovereignty, and Cuisine in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico from 1919 to the present (Natasha Fernández-Preston), April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/242597-from-farming-to-importing-food-colonial-racial-capita

This talk will take place in person at the ARF and on Zoom (you must have a Zoom account to attend). Register for online attendance here.

Abstract: 

The purpose of this research is to trace food practices, landscape changes, and cuisine changes in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico for the last century (1919-2018) relating them to the processes of colonial racial capitalism and sovereignty. Since the mid-twentieth century, Puerto Rico went from being a mostly agricultural archipelago to an archipelago where there is barely any agriculture and that imports 85% of the food it consumes. This transformation was led by the development strategies that were initiated in 1947, under the political banner of bringing a better quality of life to the archipelago. However, there is a lack of specific knowledge of how agriculture was abandoned, and political narratives tend to blame individuals who did not want to continue farming. Most people are familiar with the result, which is the 85% importation of food, but not how these changesrelate to sociopolitical and economic decisions, broadscale inequities, and day-to-day cooking practices. Preliminary data from this dissertation illustrates how the abandonment of subsistence agriculture and development strategies such as industrialization by invitation could have been purposeful and necessary steps for establishing a secure market for U.S. food products in Puerto Rico. This is especially so since after World War II, U.S. agriculture experienced an increased growth in the production of surplus products due to Green Revolution technologies. While this was happening in the U.S. mainland, agriculture was being abandoned in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, and national identities and “traditional” dishes (cuisine), many of which are composed of imported ingredients, were becoming emblemized and institutionalized as part of “Puerto Rican culture.” Thus, the central questions that will guide this research are: How do food practices and cuisine relate to the processes of colonial racial capitalism? How do food practices and cuisine relate to ideas and enactments of sovereignty? I will explore the material traces left of past food practices in archival records (censuses, importation and exportation records, and cookbooks) to understand agricultural landscape uses, food trade, and cooking practices. These food practices will be visualized in GIS maps, as well as graphs and tables. With cuisine enacted through these food practices, I will then analyze what is the role of cuisine in the perpetuation or breaking of broader political-economic systems with the concepts of colonial racial capitalism and sovereignty.

 

https://events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/242597-from-farming-to-importing-food-colonial-racial-capita
Advanced Zotero Week 5: More add-ons & upcoming features, April 3https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11944542Advanced Zotero workshops are intended for Zotero users who want to go beyond the basics of collecting citations and exporting bibliographies. If you are new to Zotero, consider attending one of the Library’s Introduction to Zotero workshops being offered this term.
Advanced Zotero workshops are offered every other Wednesday, starting February 7th, from 12:10-1:00 via Zoom. Registration is required and the Zoom link will be provided to participants who register 24 hours in advance of the workshop. You must have a Calnet ID to register for a workshop.
Week 5: More add-ons & upcoming features
- Zotero 7.0 beta
- Zotero Research Assistant “AI” connector to ChatGPT
- Storage scanner for Zotero
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11944542
Advanced Zotero Week 5: More add-ons & upcoming features, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236986-advanced-zotero-week-5Advanced Zotero workshops are intended for Zotero users who want to go beyond the basics of collecting citations and exporting bibliographies. If you are new to Zotero, consider attending one of the Library’s Introduction to Zotero workshops being offered this term.
Advanced Zotero workshops are offered every other Wednesday, starting February 7th, from 12:10-1:00 via Zoom. Registration is required and the Zoom link will be provided to participants who register 24 hours in advance of the workshop. You must have a Calnet ID to register for a workshop.
Week 5: More add-ons & upcoming features
- Zotero 7.0 beta
- Zotero Research Assistant “AI” connector to ChatGPT
- Storage scanner for Zotero
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236986-advanced-zotero-week-5
RWAP: Karthick Ramakrishnan: Research Workshop in American Politics, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/igs/event/239729-rwap-karthick-ramakrishnan-research-workshop-in

RWAP is pleased to welcome guest speaker, Karthick Ramakrishnan on 4/3.

https://events.berkeley.edu/igs/event/239729-rwap-karthick-ramakrishnan-research-workshop-in
Monthly Meditation and Mindfulness for Faculty and Staff, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/212179-monthly-meditation-and-mindfulness-for-faculty-and

The regular practice of mindfulness meditation has a demonstrable impact on psychological and physical health, improving mood, decreasing stress, strengthening the immune system, and supporting sleep.

Be Well at Work Employee Assistance(link is external) and Work/Life(link is external) invite faculty and staff to join us for a monthly meditation group which will offer a moment of relaxation and rejuvenation during the work day. Each month will focus on a beneficial intention to guide us.

No registration required and no prior experience with meditation necessary.

All are welcome.

First Wednesday of the month at 12:15 - 12:45 pm

 

If you would like these sessions added to your bCal for scheduling notifications, please email kpatchell@berkeley.edu

https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/212179-monthly-meditation-and-mindfulness-for-faculty-and
Workshop: Judaism in Private and Public, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243064-workshop-judaism-in-private-and-publicOccasional Workshop in Jewish Law, Thought, and Identity
Wednesday, April 3, 12:30 – 1:45 pm, 297 Goldberg Room, Berkeley Law Building 
Both in Israel and in America, Jewishness has become a more public activity and concern in the past century than in much of Jewish history. In Israel, Judaism is the stuff of the public square; and in the past half-century, American Jews have mirrored these behaviors as well. We will study some key texts from the late 20th century on the question of whether Jews should perform religious rituals in public — a question that went to the heart of American Jewish ideas about constitutional law, as well as American Jewish anxieties about their “at-homeness” in America — with an eye towards what these choices will continue to mean to the evolving American religious public sphere.
Register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScKFhEx6XrUPobLdWfKZuU60NlQZqOWsHsnaR_3UB_uTBxHtA/viewform?usp=sf_link
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243064-workshop-judaism-in-private-and-public
Gender Journal Meeting, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242726-gender-journal-meetingWould you rather be discussing intersectional feminism during your lunch? If so, please join us for our biweekly lunch meeting (lunch provided) and article discussion. Newcomers always welcome!
Email us at bglj@berkeley.edu to be added to our weekly listserv or for remote alternatives!
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242726-gender-journal-meeting
[CDO] BigLaw Practice in Southern California, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243620-cdo-biglaw-practice-in-southern-californiaCome hear from a virtual panel of alumni working at law firms in Southern California in different practice areas.
We will project the zoom onscreen in the classroom and lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis. Please RSVP here.
This program is intended for JD students.
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243620-cdo-biglaw-practice-in-southern-california
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, April 3https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877064Learn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877064
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235505-makerspace-drop-in-hoursLearn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235505-makerspace-drop-in-hours
Weekly Study Hall for 1Ls, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242724-weekly-study-hall-for-1lsAll 1Ls are invited to weekly study sessions (“labs”) with three of our amazing fellows. This semester, there are two labs and both are open to all 1Ls: Tuesdays 2:10-3:00 in Room 113 with Ben, and Wednesdays 2:10-3:00 in Room 113 with Vanessa and Celeste.
During the month of March, all labs will be study halls–a designated place to read, work on outlines or practice questions, or tackle your LRW brief. Snacks will be provided and ASP fellows will be on hand to answer questions! Come get some work done in community with other 1Ls!
Want more? Complete this Google form to join the ASP bCourses site and gain access to announcements, resources, and support:
http://tinyurl.com/SPRING24ASP.
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242724-weekly-study-hall-for-1ls
The Shocking Nature of Wildfires Science Show, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/lhs/event/236906-the-shocking-nature-of-wildfires-science-show

Help us test a new activity for your future scientists age 6 and under! Explore nature with various optical tools that can focus far beyond what our eyes typically see. Zoom in and zoom out with microscopes, periscopes, binoculars, and lenses carrying different magnifying powers. Which tools will you choose to help find what’s hidden in nature? The first hour each day (10:00–11:00 a.m.) is members only.

https://events.berkeley.edu/lhs/event/236906-the-shocking-nature-of-wildfires-science-show
Probability seminar: Benjamin McKenna, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/probability-seminar/event/240876-probability-seminar-benjamin-mckenna

TBA

https://events.berkeley.edu/probability-seminar/event/240876-probability-seminar-benjamin-mckenna
Divisions of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, Division of Cell Biology, Development and Physiology, and Genetics, Genomics, Evolution and Development Seminar, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/208547-divisions-of-biochemistry-biophysics-andDivisions of Biochemistry, Biophysics & Structural Biology, Division of Cell Biology, Development & Physiology, and Genetics, Genomics, Evolution & Development Seminar
Division(s): Divisions of Biochemistry, Biophysics & Structural Biology, Division of Cell Biology, Development & Physiology, and Genetics, Genomics, Evolution & Development
https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/208547-divisions-of-biochemistry-biophysics-and
Subterranean Matters: Cooperative Mining and Resource Nationalism in Plurinational Bolivia, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/geog/event/232237-subterranean-matters-cooperative-mining-and-resource-
In an era of increased state involvement in natural resource governance, members of Bolivia’s “mining cooperatives” are commonly described as thieves of national wealth. Nevertheless, these small-scale miners won significant influence in Bolivia’s radically restructured Plurinational State, in which the rights of both Indigenous peoples and Pachamama (Earth Mother) have been constitutionally enshrined since 2009. In this talk, which draws on my forthcoming book, cooperative miners are unorthodox guides to the tense coexistence of resource nationalism and plurinationalism in Bolivia – a coexistence made possible, I argue, by the vertical partition of land from subsoil. Drawing on ethnographic work with tin mining cooperatives in the Bolivian highlands, I trace the history of this partition and explore its contemporary influence. Centering labor as a site of analysis, I use the concept of “material history” to theorize connections between historical materialism and new materialities, and specifically to examine how the meanings historically sedimented underground shape cooperative miners’ individual bodies and their body politic, which is internally stratified along lines of race and gender. These intimate processes have national ramifications when cooperative miners take to the streets and run for political offices. Through this work, I demonstrate not only how cooperative miners help maintain Bolivia’s extractivist economy, but also how the inseparably meaningful and material qualities of natural resources shape political subjectivities and political economic processes.
Andrea Marston is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Her research examines the political economy and cultural politics of natural resources and energy systems. She is author of Subterranean Matters: Cooperative Mining and Resource Nationalism in Plurinational Bolivia (Duke University Press, 2024).
https://events.berkeley.edu/geog/event/232237-subterranean-matters-cooperative-mining-and-resource-
Energy & Environmental Law Career Mixer, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243040-energy-environmental-law-career-mixerCLEE will be hosting a casual get-together at the International House where professionals can share a quick overview of their work and then hang out with students over some food and drinks. We’ll have a wide range of folks coming in from Public Interest and Public Service law, sharing insights on their experiences and career path.
RSVP here: https://forms.gle/rjNgdrCGzogP9Lcs9
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243040-energy-environmental-law-career-mixer
CCB Seminar: Dr. Sara Mostafavi, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/CCB/event/220082-ccb-seminar-dr-sara-mostafavi

Dr. Sara Mostafavi, Associate Professor, CS and Engineering, University of Washington

https://events.berkeley.edu/CCB/event/220082-ccb-seminar-dr-sara-mostafavi
To Eat or Not To Eat: Leveraging Chemical Proteomics for the Study of Macrophage Phagocytosis, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/NST/event/237068-to-eat-or-not-to-eat-leveraging-chemical-proteomics-f

Macrophages clear exhausted, damaged, and sick cells in our bodies, as well as exogenous pathogens, cellular debris, and atherosclerotic plaques. When macrophages recognize and engulf their targets through ligand-receptor interactions prior to destruction in the lysosome, this process is referred to as phagocytosis. Phagocytosis is a vital process in our innate immune system and is altered in diseases, including cancer and infection. In our lab we are interested in understanding how macrophage phagocytosis decisions are made and the implications of phagocytosis on macrophage function. To study these processes, we leverage chemical biology tools, in particular mass spectrometry-based proteomics. In this seminar I will present two stories: In the first story, we discover a novel ‘don’t eat me’ ligand expressed by the pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi, which signals through the established mammalian anti-phagocytic receptor SIRPa as a means by which to evade immune clearance. In the second story, we develop a novel chemical proteomics technique to understand how the macrophage cell surface protein repertoire changes during the process of cancer cell phagocytosis. This proteomic alteration negatively impacts macrophage phagocytosis and explains changes to macrophage function and metabolism in the tumor microenvironment. Taken together these projects highlight the power of chemical biology and mass spectrometry in the study of macrophage function and mechanism.

https://events.berkeley.edu/NST/event/237068-to-eat-or-not-to-eat-leveraging-chemical-proteomics-f
ERG Colloquium Series Spring 2024: Esther Shears, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/ERG/event/229999-erg-colloquium-series-spring-2024-esther-shears

Esther Shears received her PhD in Energy & Resources in December 2023 from the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Bologna in the Department of Economics as part of the SMOOTH Project research team, and is an Affiliated Scientist at the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment. During her time as a graduate student at UC Berkeley, Esther developed expertise in climate governance and decarbonization policy. Her dissertation investigates the role of institutions in science and energy policy, and explores the expansion of climate risk governance into the financial sector. Her research interests include the macroeconomics of climate change, the regulatory vacuum of sustainable and climate finance, and the political economy of the decarbonization transition. Esther received her Master of Science and Master of Public Policy degrees from UC Berkeley in May 2019. Prior to her graduate studies, she worked for the U.S. Department of Justice as a statistician in the Economic Analysis Group of the Antitrust Division.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ERG/event/229999-erg-colloquium-series-spring-2024-esther-shears
Our Golden Age: American Judaism, In Transition, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/hdi/event/243012-our-golden-age-american-judaism-in-transition

American Judaism is at an inflection point between the successes of the past and the anxieties of the future. The political, economic, and ideological conditions of postwar liberalism in the 20th century enabled many Jews to flourish in America, and produced a coherent American Judaism that intertwined American and Jewish values. Our changing world is testing this vitality and coherence and forcing essential questions: Are liberalism, American Jewish values, and Zionism compatible? How does American Judaism respond to the growing threats of polarization and hyper-partisanship? Can “the Jewish community” survive as a collective enterprise? Yehuda Kurtzer, President of the Shalom Hartman Institute, will consider the calculations that produced the American Judaism that we have inherited, and offer a new framework for how American Judaism might continue to thrive into the future.

Yehuda Kurtzer, President, Shalom Hartman Institute

This distinguished annual lecture is a partnership between the Helen Diller Institute and the Robbins Collection and Research Center at Berkeley Law.

https://events.berkeley.edu/hdi/event/243012-our-golden-age-american-judaism-in-transition
Our Golden Age: American Judaism, In Transition, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243063-our-golden-age-american-judaism-in-transitionAnnual Robbins Collection Lecture in Jewish Law, Thought, and Identity
Wednesday, April 3, 6–7:30 pm PT, Room 110, Berkeley Law Building
American Judaism is at an inflection point between the successes of the past and the anxieties of the future. The political, economic, and ideological conditions of postwar liberalism in the 20th century enabled many Jews to flourish in America, and produced a coherent American Judaism that intertwined American and Jewish values. Our changing world is testing this vitality and coherence and forcing essential questions: Are liberalism, American Jewish values, and Zionism compatible? How does American Judaism respond to the growing threats of polarization and hyper-partisanship? Can “the Jewish community” survive as a collective enterprise? Yehuda Kurtzer, President of the Shalom Hartman Institute, will consider the calculations that produced the American Judaism that we have inherited, and offer a new framework for how American Judaism might continue to thrive into the future.
Yehuda Kurtzer, President, Shalom Hartman Institute
This distinguished annual lecture is a partnership between the Helen Diller Institute and the Robbins Collection and Research Center at Berkeley Law.
Register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfECcNT8r2O-4i1oyCArMcu6wg_SP6cnfkmblzHPLbrHCEVPw/viewform?usp=sf_link
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243063-our-golden-age-american-judaism-in-transition
Hands On Books Up to Your Elbows: An Interactive Bookbinding Workshop, April 3https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/12103838Riffing off the Environmental Design Library’s artists’ book exhibits and receptions, book artists Lauri Twitchell and Peter Suchecki will demonstrate the basic bookbinding techniques used in their artists’ books. Learn a new skill in this short, two-hour workshop with these renowned book artists.https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/12103838Hands On Books Up to Your Elbows: An Interactive Bookbinding Workshop, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241835-hands-on-books-up-to-your-elbows-an-interactiveRiffing off the Environmental Design Library’s artists’ book exhibits and receptions, book artists Lauri Twitchell and Peter Suchecki will demonstrate the basic bookbinding techniques used in their artists’ books. Learn a new skill in this short, two-hour workshop with these renowned book artists.https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241835-hands-on-books-up-to-your-elbows-an-interactiveFilm Screening: R21: aka Restoring Solidarity, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240292-film-screening-r21-aka-restoring-solidarity

Drawing on a collection of twenty films safeguarded in the Tokyo home of a Japanese scholar, Palestinian filmmaker and archivist Mohanad Yaqubi tells the story of Palestine’s struggle through the lens of international solidarity. Ranging in style from reportage to agit-prop and short fiction, the films span nearly two decades. After cataloging and scanning the films—without erasing the signs of wear or the multilingual layers of subtitles and dubbing that indicate their exhibition history—Yaqubi edited together excerpts, adding another reel, R21, to the collection.

https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240292-film-screening-r21-aka-restoring-solidarity
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204316-alvin-ailey-american-dance-theater

Continuing a 55-year relationship with Cal Performances, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to the Berkeley campus for the company’s annual residency with a selection of recent works and Ailey masterpieces. Steeped in the sounds of jazz, blues, and hip-hop, the Ailey repertory celebrates the Black American experience, offering music and movement as expressions of pure joy and as opportunities for reflection and resistance. Past favorites and new works come alive through the commitment and artistry of the company’s athletic, expressive dancers, who inhabit choreography by creators like Rennie Harris, Aszure Barton, Twyla Tharp, Jamar Roberts, and Artistic Director Robert Battle with the same conviction as they reinvent classic Ailey works like Revelations.

https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204316-alvin-ailey-american-dance-theater
Game Night: Drag Bingo, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/student-events/event/240312-game-night-drag-bingo

Fun games and fun times, OH MY! We are having a special edition of Game Night-themed Drag Bingo. We will feature drag bingo, snacks, prizes, and much more!

🗓️ Wednesday, April 3, 2024
⏰ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
📍 Bear’s Lair

https://events.berkeley.edu/student-events/event/240312-game-night-drag-bingo
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222933-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222933-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229214-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229214-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236457-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236457-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241429-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241429-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
BPM 108 Recruiting & Hiring Staff, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/223635-bpm-108-recruiting-hiring-staff

Access to registration is disabled two days prior to the event.

This 6.5-hour in-person workshop is part of the BPM Part 2: Grow Your Knowledge series. In this highly interactive workshop, each participant’s experience is drawn upon for the learning. Ideally, to contribute to and enhance understanding, participants will come with current and/or previous people management experience.

The content covers how to effectively recruit and hire staff based on federal and state regulations and UC policies to conduct consistent, legal, and fair hiring processes through all stages of the full-cycle recruitment process.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
*Create proper job descriptions
*Apply principles of inclusion
*Manage Special Placement Candidates and Medical Separation applicants
*Qualify applicants based on qualifications defined for the position
*Explain what is necessary for effective record keeping
*Apply the applicant de-selection protocol
*Establish an ideal search committee
*Explain why competency-based interviewing questions and reference questions are critical to managing the recruiting process
*List the components involved in properly closing the hiring process

https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/223635-bpm-108-recruiting-hiring-staff
MTx Seminar, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/224087-mtx-seminarMTx Seminar
Division(s): MTx (Molecular Therapeutics)
https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/224087-mtx-seminar
Graduate Research Seminar, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/204471-graduate-research-seminar

Title TBA

https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/204471-graduate-research-seminar
External Finance Seminars: Leonid Kogan - MIT, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/237077-external-finance-seminars-leonid-kogan-mitGuest:
Leonid Kogan
MIT

Paper:

TBD
https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/237077-external-finance-seminars-leonid-kogan-mit
Lunch Poems: Brandon Shimoda, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/Library/event/212204-lunch-poems-brandon-shimoda

Lunch Poems, Berkeley’s storied noontime poetry series, welcomes Brandon Shimoda. 

Brandon Shimoda is the author of several books of poetry and prose, including: The Grave on the Wall, recipient of the PEN Open Book Award; Evening Oracle, recipient of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America; and his two-volume Tucson/desert book, The Desert. His latest work, Hydra Medusa,was published by Nightboat Books this year. He is an associate professor at Colorado College, and curator of the Hiroshima Library, an itinerant reading room/collection of books on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

https://events.berkeley.edu/Library/event/212204-lunch-poems-brandon-shimoda
Lunch Poems: Brandon Shimoda, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/221906-lunch-poems-brandon-shimoda

Lunch Poems, Berkeley’s storied noontime poetry series, welcomes Brandon Shimoda. 

Brandon Shimoda is the author of several books of poetry and prose, including:The Grave on the Wall, recipient of the PEN Open Book Award;Evening Oracle, recipient of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America; and his two-volume Tucson/desert book,The Desert. His latest work,Hydra Medusa,was published by Nightboat Books this year. He is an associate professor at Colorado College, and curator of the Hiroshima Library, an itinerant reading room/collection of books on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/221906-lunch-poems-brandon-shimoda
Lunch Poems: Brandon Shimoda, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/english/event/236916-lunch-poems-brandon-shimoda

Lunch Poems, Berkeley’s storied noontime poetry series, welcomes Brandon Shimoda.

Brandon Shimoda is the author of several books of poetry and prose, including: The Grave on the Wall, recipient of the PEN Open Book Award; Evening Oracle, recipient of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America; and his two-volume Tucson/desert book, The Desert. His latest work, Hydra Medusa, was published by Nightboat Books this year. He is an associate professor at Colorado College, and curator of the Hiroshima Library, an itinerant reading room/collection of books on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

https://events.berkeley.edu/english/event/236916-lunch-poems-brandon-shimoda
Šumit Ganguly & Marianne Riddervold | Comparing EU and India Perspectives on Russia’s War in Ukraine, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/237009-umit-ganguly-marianne-riddervold-comparing-eu-and-ind

As Russia’s war in Ukraine nears the two year milestone, distinctive approaches between governments in the Global North and Global South have come into focus. On the one hand, the EU has voiced strong rebuke of the Russian invasion, embargoed trade and diplomatic relations in an effort to isolate Russia while extending military aid and EU membership to Ukraine. On the other hand, India has maintained a deafening silence on the Russian invasion of Ukraine largely because of its acute dependence on Russian weaponry and to a lesser degree, Russian petroleum. Some within India’s foreign policy establishment also believe that avoiding public criticism of Russia might prevent it from aligning too closely with the People’s Republic of China, India’s long-term adversary. Join us for a discussion with Professor Marianne Riddervold and Professor Sumit Ganguly to explore the geopolitical interests at stake in EU and India’s stances on Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Šumit Ganguly is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science and holds the Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author, co-author editor or co-editor of over twenty books on contemporary South Asian politics. His most recent book with Manjeet Pardesi and William R. Thompson is, The Sino-Indian Rivalry: Implications for Global Order. (Cambridge University Press, 2023) Professor Ganguly is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Marianne Riddervold is Professor of Political Science at Innlandet University Norway, research professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, and a senior fellow at the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley. She has published extensively on European integration, European foreign and security policy, EU crises, transatlantic relations and international relations in the global commons. Recent publications include special issues in International Relations and Politics and Governance (with Akasemi Newsome), and the Palgrave Handbook on EU crises (with Akasemi Newsome and Jarle Trondal).

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Ray Savord at rsavord@berkeley.edu or (510) 642-4555 with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days before the event.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/237009-umit-ganguly-marianne-riddervold-comparing-eu-and-ind
Integrating Equity into Digital Mental Health Interventions, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/socwel/event/243541-integrating-equity-into-digital-mental-health

Integrating Equity into Digital Mental Health Interventions

Dr. Aguilera will discuss the state of digital mental health interventions and their successes and failures in improving mental health equity. He will then describe research studies that center equity from user-centered design to implementation of technology-based interventions in public sector primary care and community settings.

Dr. Adrian Aguilera Bio


https://events.berkeley.edu/socwel/event/243541-integrating-equity-into-digital-mental-health
The Gender of Capital, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237686-the-gender-of-capital

Why do women in different social classes accumulate less wealth than men? Why do marital separations impoverish women while they do not prevent men from maintaining or increasing their wealth? In this lecture, Céline Bessière will discuss her new co-authored book, The Gender of Capital, which reconsiders the effectiveness of legal reforms that legislate formal equality between men and women, while permitting inequality to persist in practice.

Registration is required. This event is in person and on Zoom. Space is limited. Register today

The Annual Stone Lecture is presented by the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality at UC Berkeley, a research hub for campus and beyond enabling UC Berkeley’s world-leading scholars to deepen our understanding of the inequality in society and formulate new approaches to address the challenge of creating a more equitable society. The Center serves as the primary convening point at UC Berkeley for research, teaching and data development concerning the causes, nature, and consequences of wealth and income inequalities with a special emphasis on the concentration of wealth at the very top. Learn more

About the book: The Gender of Capital, by Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac

Drawing on research spanning twenty years, the authors analyze what they call family wealth arrangements. They break with the common understanding of the family as an emotional haven of peace in a brutal capitalist world. Spouses and partners, brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers do not play the same part in family strategies of social reproduction, nor do they reap the same profits from them. The family is an economic institution that plays a central role in the production, circulation, control and evaluation of wealth. The meaning of this economic institution is revealed, in particular, in moments of marital breakdown and inheritance.

From the single mothers of the French “Yellow Vest” movement to the divorce of Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos, from the legacy of family businesses to the estate of the Trump family, the mechanisms of control and distribution of capital vary according to social class, yet they always result in the dispossession of women. Capital is gendered. This book describes how class society is perpetuated through the masculine appropriation of capital.


About the speaker:
Céline Bessière is a Professor of sociology at Paris Dauphine University (PSL University) and a senior member at the Institut Universitaire de France. She is currently a Visiting Professor at the Institute of French Studies at New York University. She studies the material, economic and legal dimensions of family, in particular through the analysis of inheritance and marital breakdown. Her new project is about gender and wealth accumulation in Europe. Her research is at the crossroads of several fields: economic sociology, sociology of law and justice, sociology of gender, class and family. Her most recent book, The Gender of Capital, was recently adapted into a graphic novel with Jeanne Puchol. Read more

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237686-the-gender-of-capital
Fraternity: Classical Siblings and Revolution, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/rhetoric/event/236991-fraternity-classical-siblings-and-revolution
Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité. This paper explores the role of the concept of fraternity in revolution. In The Politics of Friendship, Jacques Derrida reveals how our models of politics are deeply rooted in a classical theorization of friendship. In their respective discussions of friendship, Plato and Aristotle place consanguinity as an essential component of political community. Such an understanding of the polis has profound consequences for the emancipatory movements which take classical models as their inspiration. Beyond its evident phallocentrism, a politics of fraternity also excludes those who exist beyond the familial conception of the nation. The paper will consider a series of treatments of Aeschylus’ Oresteia which characterise the transition from matriarchy to patriarchy as the ur-revolution of antiquity. From Bachofen to Engels, from Freud to Cixous, ‘the dawn of phallocentrism’ has repeatedly been discussed as an intellectual revolution which provided the foundation of ethics, politics and community. The paper explores the bloodlines of revolution asking whether our sense of fraternity with the ancients will act as a source or hindrance to the revolutions of the future.
Miriam Leonard is Professor of Greek Literature and its Reception at University College London. Her research explores the intellectual history of classics in modern European thought from the eighteenth century to the present. Her most recent publications are Socrates and the Jews: Hellenism and Hebraism from Moses Mendelssohn to Sigmund Freud (Chicago, 2012) and Tragic Modernities (Cambridge MA, 2015). Her next book is entitled Revolution.
https://events.berkeley.edu/rhetoric/event/236991-fraternity-classical-siblings-and-revolution
OEW Seminar - Andrea Prat (Columbia), April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/229878-oew-seminar-andrea-prat-columbiaPaper Topic: TBDhttps://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/229878-oew-seminar-andrea-prat-columbiaShansby Marketing Seminar - Imke Reimers (Cornell), April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/242980-shansby-marketing-seminar-imke-reimers-cornellhttps://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/242980-shansby-marketing-seminar-imke-reimers-cornell[CDO] 1Ls: PIPS Introduction to the 2L Summer Job Search, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242723-cdo-1ls-pips-introduction-to-the-2l-summer-jobThe CDO’s attorney-counselors will overview how 2L PIPS summer hiring works for non-profits, government, public defender offices, and public interest firms. We will also discuss the interaction between 2L summer job choices and long-term public interest career goals.
Lunch will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Please RSVP at https://forms.gle/8BjhVVP176nfA6eS8.
Questions? Contact Deep Kaur Jodhka in the CDO at dkjodhka@berkeley.edu.
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242723-cdo-1ls-pips-introduction-to-the-2l-summer-job
Environmental & Energy Law Curriculum Rollout, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243072-environmental-energy-law-curriculum-rolloutLearn more about environmental and energy law program offerings for Fall 2024! Hear from E&E faculty on course and clinical offerings, research opportunities, field placements, certificates of specialization, and more.
Lunch provided. Please RSVP by Tuesday, April 2nd at 4:00 PM (not required but useful for catering). 
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243072-environmental-energy-law-curriculum-rollout
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, April 4https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877065Learn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877065
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235504-makerspace-drop-in-hoursLearn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235504-makerspace-drop-in-hours
Easy Attendance Tracking with iClicker & PollEverywhere, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/240620-easy-attendance-tracking-with-iclicker-amp

In this workshop, you will learn how to streamline attendance-taking processes in your classes using iClicker and PollEverywhere. We will explore the functionalities of each platform and provide hands-on guidance on how to effectively leverage them to automate attendance tracking, and syncing to bCourses gradebook.

By the end of this workshop you will:

  • Gain a comprehensive understanding of the features and capabilities of bCourses, iClicker, and PollEverywhere for attendance tracking
  • Develop practical skills to effectively set up and manage attendance automation
  • Learn strategies to enhance student engagement and participation through interactive attendance-taking methods
  • Build confidence in implementing attendance automation tools to streamline administrative tasks and focus more on teaching and learning

This workshop is designed for anyone who is interested in optimizing their classroom management processes through the automation of attendance-taking. No prior experience with the platforms is required, but basic familiarity with bCourses and engagement tools (iClicker, PollEverywhere) would be beneficial.

This session will run for 30 minutes, with an additional 15 minutes reserved for questions. This session will be held via Zoom. Please register to get the Zoom link.

➡️Register for this event here!(link is external)⬅️

***Registration for this session will close one hour before the session***

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/240620-easy-attendance-tracking-with-iclicker-amp
First Annual Cyber Security Lecture: Fancy Bear Goes Phishing, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242722-first-annual-cyber-security-lecture-fancy-bearJoin BCLT for the 1st Annual Cyber Security Lecture on April Thursday, April 4, 2024 starting at 3:00 P.M. (PT) at the Bancroft Hotel. This first lecture of the series will be presented by Scott J. Shapiro, Yale University, on his book titled Fancy Bear Goes Phishing.
Discussants will be Michael Rubin, Latham & Watkins and Josephine Wolff, Tufts University. 
Registration opening soon.
Abstract:
It’s a signal paradox of our times that we live in an information society but do not know how it works. And without understanding how our information is stored, used, and protected, we are vulnerable to having it exploited. In Fancy Bear Goes Phishing, Scott J. Shapiro draws on his popular Yale University class about hacking to expose the secrets of the digital age. With lucidity and wit, he establishes that cybercrime has less to do with defective programming than with the faulty wiring of our psyches and society. And because hacking is a human-interest story, he tells the fascinating tales of perpetrators, including Robert Morris Jr., the graduate student who accidentally crashed the internet in the 1980s, and the Bulgarian “Dark Avenger,” who invented the first mutating computer-virus engine. We also meet a sixteen-year-old from South Boston who took control of Paris Hilton’s cell phone, the Russian intelligence officers who sought to take control of a US election, and others.
In telling their stories, Shapiro exposes the hackers’ tool kits and gives fresh answers to vital questions: Why is the internet so vulnerable? What can we do in response? Combining the philosophical adventure of Gödel, Escher, Bach with dramatic true-crime narrative, the result is a lively and original account of the future of hacking, espionage, and war, and of how to live in an era of cybercrime.
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/242722-first-annual-cyber-security-lecture-fancy-bear
MCB Seminar: Title to be announced, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/HWNI/event/229324-mcb-seminar-title-to-be-announced

Abstract to be announced

https://events.berkeley.edu/HWNI/event/229324-mcb-seminar-title-to-be-announced
Division of Neurobiology and H. Wills Neuroscience Institute Seminar, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/209802-division-of-neurobiology-and-h-wills-neuroscienceThis seminar is partially sponsored by NIH
Division(s): Division of Neurobiology & H. Wills Neuroscience Institute
https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/209802-division-of-neurobiology-and-h-wills-neuroscience
Producing Black Participatory Geographies in Public Goods | City & Regional Planning Lecture, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/ced/event/236263-producing-black-participatory-geographies-in

Akira Drake Rodriguez, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design, joins us to discuss how the production, distribution, and quality of public goods in the United States are structured in racist, gendered, and classed ways that have disparate and harmful effects, especially on racially segregated, low-income communities. This talk focuses on public housing in Atlanta and public schools in Philadelphia, providing a history of these public good inequities and the political opportunities that emerge as a result. Over time, communities in both cities have organized to produce Black Participatory Geographies, or spaces of participation that expand political opportunities for marginalized groups, by creating legitimate access to decision-making processes, institutions, and actors around the production and distribution of public goods and services. The establishment of Black Participatory Geographies is critical to reshaping the public sphere to be more inclusive and accountable to communities historically excluded from planning and political participation.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Akira Drake Rodriguez is an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design. Her research examines the ways that disenfranchised groups reappropriate their marginalized spaces in the city to gain access to and sustain urban political power. She is the author of Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta’s Public Housing, which explores how the politics of public housing planning and race in Atlanta created a politics of resistance within its public housing developments. She is also the lead author of A Green New Deal for K–12 Schools, through her work with the climate + community project. She has received funding from the Spencer Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania’s Environmental Innovation Initiative and Projects for Progress funds to support her work around school facilities planning in Philadelphia public schools. Her next book manuscript examines the role of Black women community organizers in producing collective care in the built environment in the absence of capital and presence of harm over the 20th century.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ced/event/236263-producing-black-participatory-geographies-in
Getting to Know You: Korean Orphanhood and Christian Benevolence in One to One, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/cks/event/229867-getting-to-know-you-korean-orphanhood-and

One to Onewas a televised musical special that first aired on network television on December 15, 1975. It starred Julie Andrews, the World Vision Korean Children’s Choir, and Jim Henson’s The Muppets. The special functioned as a telethon for World Vision, and promoted its international child sponsorship and the practice of adoption. In this talk, I offer a critical reading of key scenes in One to One. I consider these scenes in relation to representations of orphanhood, Christian benevolence, and faith-based humanitarianism in the musical performances by the Korean Children’s Choir (formerly known as the World Vision Korean Orphan Choir) and by Julie Andrews. I focus on the ways in which the telethon highlighted the World Vision’s charitable aims while also creating a sense of intimacy through the children’s racialized performances. I argue that this strategy—consistently used in World Vision child sponsorship campaigns of the past—gained new traction in the medium of a televised broadcast during the mid-1970s. Whereas images of impoverished and suffering Korean children from the Korean War were frequently used by World Vision in earlier campaigns, the performances of music by smiling Korean children helped to complete an idealized model of an eminently adoptable child. By amplifying the coded musical messaging in One to One, I contribute a different perspective to an area of critical adoption studies that has previously paid more attention to the visual image of the orphan figure.

 

Dr. Katherine In-Young Lee is Founder of Rise with Clarity, a coaching and consulting business for women of color faculty in higher education. She hosts the Rise with Clarity Podcast.

Her book, Dynamic Korea and Rhythmic Form (Wesleyan University Press 2018), explores how a percussion genre from South Korea (samul nori) became a global music genre. Dynamic Korea and Rhythmic Form was recognized with the 2019 BélaBartók Award for Outstanding Ethnomusicology from the ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Awards. Past research topics have included the politicized drumming of dissent and the audible dimensions of a nation branding campaign. Her research on the role of music as scenes of protest during South Korea’s democratization movement was awarded the Charles Seeger Prize by the Society for Ethnomusicology and the Martin Hatch Award by the Society for Asian Music. Lee’s latest research project explores the World Vision Korean Orphan Choir through the lenses of critical adoption studies, Cold War history, evangelical Christianity, and sound studies. She received a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Harvard University in 2012 and served as Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at UC Davis and (2012-17) and at UCLA (2017-23), respectively.

https://events.berkeley.edu/cks/event/229867-getting-to-know-you-korean-orphanhood-and
The Future is History: Restorative Nationalism and Conflict in Post-Napoleonic Europe, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/iseees/event/240961-the-future-is-history-restorative-nationalism-and

As illustrated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the recent revival of nationalism has triggered a threatening return of revisionist conflict. While the literature on nationalism shows how nationalist narratives are socially constructed, much less is known about their real-world consequences. Taking nationalist narratives seriously, we study how past “golden ages” affect territorial claims and conflict in post-Napoleonic Europe. We expect nationalists to be more likely to mobilize and initiate conflict if they can contrast the status quo to a historical polity with supposedly greater national unity and/or independence. Using data on European state borders going back to 1100, combined with spatial data covering ethnic settlement areas during the past two centuries, we find that the availability of plausible golden ages increases the risk of both domestic and interstate conflict. These findings suggest that specific historical legacies make some modern nationalisms more consequential than others.

https://events.berkeley.edu/iseees/event/240961-the-future-is-history-restorative-nationalism-and
Dana T. Redford | Gen Z Activists and Entrepreneurs in Europe: Enabling Digital and Green Transition, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/237659-dana-t-redford-gen-z-activists-and-entrepreneurs-in-e

Europe is witnessing a significant shift, shaped by the emergence of Gen Z as a driving feature of the European labor force. The ascent of activists and entrepreneurs heralds a potential revolution in businesses operating on the old continent. Understanding and integrating the unique values and approaches of Gen Z, including as a means of addressing the twin (digital and green) transition is critical. As generations that will bear the brunt of the challenges posed by climate change, Gen Z and Millennials are also the generations that are most actively involved in addressing environmental issues (Pew, 2021). In this lecture, we will consider how Europe is changing through demographic shifts, policy developments and environmental necessity.

Prof. Dana Redford is an internationally recognized expert on entrepreneurship, innovation and public policy. He has worked as an expert for the US government, the European Commission, the OECD, the UN and various European and African governments. His research on Gen Z in Europe has been supported by the Bertelsmann Stiftung.

He coordinated the largest policy experimentation project on entrepreneurship in schools in the EU, co-edited the Entrepreneurial University Handbook and co-developed the OECD-European Commission HEInnovate initiative. In Africa and the Middle East he has developed initiatives on high impact entrepreneurship, financial inclusion and business incubation and is currently a UNDP Private Sector Development Specialist and Master Trainer.

Previously he was Faculty Coordinator and Guest Lecturer at the Haas School of Business Center for Executive Education at UC-Berkeley, where he did his post-doctoral research at the Institute of European Studies where he is currently a Senior Fellow.

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Ray Savord at rsavord@berkeley.edu or (510) 642-4555 with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days before the event.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/237659-dana-t-redford-gen-z-activists-and-entrepreneurs-in-e
Seminar 242, Econometrics: Kirill Borusyak “Design-Based Estimation of Structural Parameters, with an Application to Demand”, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/241933-seminar-242-econometrics-kirill-borusyak-design-based

“Design-Based Estimation of Structural Parameters, with an Application to Demand”

We develop a design-based methodology for using as-good-as-random shocks to estimate key parameters in a class of structural models. Our approach uses recentered instruments to avoid restrictions on how model unobservables relate to predetermined variables. In the classical setting of estimating demand for differentiated products, this approach avoids the strong assumption of exogenous product characteristics. We illustrate these ideas by leveraging exchange rate shocks to estimate the demand for automobiles.

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/241933-seminar-242-econometrics-kirill-borusyak-design-based
Cooperating for the Climate: Learning from International Partnerships in China’s Clean Energy Sector, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243461-cooperating-for-the-climate-learning-fromJoin CCCI and Joanna Lewis for a discussion on her book, “Cooperating for the Climate: Learning from International Partnerships in China’s Clean Energy Sector.” 
RSVP here.
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243461-cooperating-for-the-climate-learning-from
Colloquium: Western Categories, Knowledge Building, and the Scientific Value of Sinological Discourse, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/ieas/event/230007-colloquium-western-categories-knowledge-building

How do European-language scholars with a Western cultural background perceive, understand and describe the human phenomena they observe in East Asia? How does their mind process written or spoken information conveyed in foreign script and languages? This lecture will discuss the cognitive and epistemological relationship existing between Sinology and source-language data from several complementary perspectives, including the role of metalanguage and culturally predetermined categories in the generation of learned discourse, the formation of terminologies, the coinage of neologisms, the epistemic value of the information produced, and the conditions of its reception by neighbouring disciplines in the humanities and by the educated public.


Grégoire Espesset is associate member of the Groupe Sociétés Religions Laïcités (GSRL) in Paris, France, and a research partner of the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities (IKGF) in Erlangen, Germany. A historian and a philologist, he has conducted research at the Academia Sinica and the Centre for Chinese Studies in Taiwan; the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, Japan; German federally-sponsored international centres hosted by the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Ruhr University Bochum; the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Université de Paris in France. He has taught the history of Taoism and Chinese religions at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) in Paris (2008-2010). His current research focuses on intellectual and literary production in imperial China from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, with a special focus on remnants of the “Weft” or “Confucian Apocrypha”; the comparative epistemology of premodern China and the modern West; and contemporary scholarly discourse in European languages on history, knowledge and religion in East Asia.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ieas/event/230007-colloquium-western-categories-knowledge-building
Code Work: Hacking across the US/México Techno-Borderlands, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/cer/event/243046-code-work-hacking-across-the-usmexico

In Code Work, Héctor Beltrán examines Mexican and Latinx coders’ personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work. Beltrán shows how these hackers apply concepts from the code worlds to their lived experiences, deploying batches, loose coupling, iterative processing (looping), hacking, prototyping, and full-stack development in their daily social interactions—at home, in the workplace, on the dating scene, and in their understanding of the economy, culture, and geopolitics. Merging ethnographic analysis with systems thinking, he draws on his eight years of research in México and the United States—during which he participated in and observed hackathons, hacker schools, and tech entrepreneurship conferences—to unpack the conundrums faced by workers in a tech economy that stretches from villages in rural México to Silicon Valley.

Beltrán chronicles the tension between the transformative promise of hacking—the idea that coding will reconfigure the boundaries of race, ethnicity, class, and gender—and the reality of a neoliberal capitalist economy divided and structured by the US/México border. Young hackers, many of whom approach coding in a spirit of playfulness and exploration, are encouraged to appropriate the discourses of flexibility and self-management even as they remain outside formal employment. Beltrán explores the ways that “innovative culture” is seen as central in curing México’s social ills, showing that when innovation is linked to technological development, other kinds of development are neglected. Beltrán’s highly original, wide-ranging analysis connects technology studies, the anthropology of capitalism, and Latinx and Latin American studies.

Héctor Beltrán is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at MIT, where he teaches classes on subjects such as the cultural dimensions of computing; practices of hacking from the Global South; and Latinx and Latin American identities, politics, and social movements. He is a sociocultural anthropologist who draws upon his interdisciplinary background to study how the technical aspects of computing inform and are shaped by social structures and lived experiences of identity, race, ethnicity, class, and nation. He received his PhD in Anthropology at UC Berkeley, where he was a Graduate Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues and Graduate Student Researcher for the Latinxs and Tech Initiative of the Latinx Research Center.

https://events.berkeley.edu/cer/event/243046-code-work-hacking-across-the-usmexico
Mathematics Department Colloquium: The Bonnet problem: Is a surface characterized by its metric and curvatures?, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/239064-mathematics-department-colloquium-the-bonnetA longstanding problem in differential geometry, known as the Bonnet problem, is whether a compact surface is uniquelly determined by its metric and mean curvature function. It is known that this is the case for generic surfaces, and also for topological spheres. We explicitly construct a pair of immersed tori in three dimensional Euclidean space that are related by a mean curvature preserving isometry. These tori are the first examples of compact Bonnet pairs. Moreover, we prove these isometric tori are real analytic. This resolves a second longstanding open problem on whether real analyticity of the metric already determines a unique compact immersion. Discrete differential geometry is used to find crucial geometric properties of surfaces. This is a joint work with Tim Hoffmann and Andrew Sageman-Furnas.https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/239064-mathematics-department-colloquium-the-bonnetOcean Vuong, Writer, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243304-ocean-vuong-writer

Poet and novelist Ocean Vuong is the 2023-24 Avenali Chair in the Humanities.

Vuong is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019), which was named one of the top ten books of 2019 by the Washington Post and has been translated into 37 languages. Vuong has also published two collections of poetry: Time is a Mother (2022) and Night Sky with Exit Wounds (2016), which won the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Whiting Award, the Thom Gunn Award, and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. His other honors include a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Elizabeth George Foundation, and the Academy of American Poets. His work has appeared in the Atlantic, Granta, Harper’s, the Nation, the New Republic, the New Yorker, the New York Times, and the Paris Review.

Born in Saigon, Vuong came to the United States as a refugee with his family at the age of two and was raised in Hartford, Connecticut in a working-class family of nail salon and factory laborers. He attended Manchester Community College before transferring to Pace University to study international marketing. Without completing his first term, he dropped out and enrolled at Brooklyn College, where he graduated with a BA in English. The novelist and poet Ben Lerner, Vuong’s teacher at Brooklyn College, has said of him, “once in a while, you get a student who’s not testing to be a writer, but who is already one.” Vuong went on to earn his MFA in poetry at New York University, where he now serves on the faculty as professor of creative writing.

With its award of a 2019 fellowship, the MacArthur Foundation described Vuong as “a poet and fiction writer whose works explore the ongoing trauma of war and conditions of exile with tragic eloquence and clarity. […] Vuong is a vital new literary voice demonstrating mastery of multiple poetic registers while addressing the effects of intergenerational trauma, the refugee experience, and the complexities of identity and desire.”

For the Avenali Lecture, Vuong is in conversation with writer and Berkeley faculty member Cathy Park Hong (English), whose New York Times bestselling book of creative nonfiction, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography, and earned its author recognition on TIME’s 100 Most Influential People of 2021 list. Hong is also the author of poetry collections Engine Empire; Dance Dance Revolution, chosen by Adrienne Rich for the Barnard Women Poets Prize; and Translating Mo’um. She is the recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243304-ocean-vuong-writer
Bashabi Fraser | The Primacy of Creativity in Rabindranath Tagore, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/236729-bashabi-fraser-the-primacy-of-creativity-in-rabindran

The Institute for South Asia Studies and the Tagore Program on Literature, Culture and Philosophy at UC Berkeley and are privileged to have Bashabi Fraser, the Director of the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies at Edinburgh Napier University, deliver our third Maya Mitra Das Annual Lecture on Tagore at UC Berkeley.

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SPEAKER BIO

Bashabi Fraser CBE, HonFASL is an award winning poet, children’s writer, editor and academic. She is the recipient of a CBE (2021 The Queen’s New Year Honours) for Education (her academic work), culture (poetry) and cultural integration (her bridge building projects linking Scotland and India) and was made Honorary Fellow of the Association of Scottish Studies in 2022. She has been declared Outstanding Woman of Scotland by Saltire Society in 2015.

Bashabi is Professor Emerita of English and Creative Writing, Edinburgh Napier University and Founder Director of Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs). She is also an Honorary Fellow, Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, Honorary Fellow of the Association of Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS), Scotland and a Royal Literary Fund Fellow. She is the Chief Editor of the academic and creative peer-reviewed international e-journal, Gitanjali and Beyond and on the Editorial Board of several international peer-reviewed journals and is on the Editorial Board of Writers Mosaic, a Royal Literary Fund division..

Her work traverses continents in transnational literary projects. She has authored and edited 25 books, published several articles articles and chapters in academic and creative books/journals and has been widely anthologized as a poet. Her recent publications include Habitat (2023), Lakshmi’s Footprints and Paisely Patterns: Perspectives on Scoto-Indian Literary and Cultural Interrelations (2023), The Patient Dignity (2021) and Rabindranath Tagore (2019).

Her other recent awards include Swami Vivekananda University, India’s Vivek Jyoti Sanman, 2023, the UK Bengali Convention (UKBC) Lifetime Achievement Award, 2022, the Dr Maheswar Neog IPPL Award for Poetry, 2022; Kavi Salam from Poetry Paradigm and Voice of the Republic in India in 2019; the Word Masala Foundation Award for Excellence in Poetry in 2017, Special Felicitation as a Poet on International Women’s Day by Public Relations Society of India, March 2017, Rabindra Bharati Society Honour, 2014, Women Empowered: Arts and Culture Award in 2010 and the AIO Prize for Literary Services in Scotland in 2009.

Her other grants and funding awards include the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, International Senior Research Fellow ( 2016-17), UK-India Educational Research Initiatives (UKIERI) grant, funded jointly by the British Council and the University Grants Commission (UGC), India (2015-2017), Royal Literary Fund Fellow (2018-2020, 2012-2015), Carnegie Research Grant (2008), Edinburgh Napier University Research Grant (2008), British Council Consultancy (2008-2009), Scottish Arts Council Publication Grant (2008), Scottish Arts Council Writer’s Grant with Edinburgh Puppet Lab (2003-4), EMMA Best Book Award, Runner up for Rainbow World (2003-4), Moray Foundation Grant, University of Edinburgh (2001 and 2000), Scottish Arts Council Literature Grant, for anthology (2000), British Academy Research Grant (1999-2000), University Grants Commission of India Teacher Fellowship, , Sept 1984-Feb 1988.

Bashabi has been an Adjudicator for several national and international creative writing competitions. Recently, she has been a Judge for the Non-Fiction Book Prize and the Scottish National Book of the Year Award for Saltire Society, Scotland (2022) and the Kavya Prize, sponsored by Glasgow University (2022).

Bashabi is Honorary Vice President of the Association of Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS), an executive committee member of Scottish PEN, and Writers at Risk and Writers for Peace Committees (Scotland), a Trustee of Patrick Geddes Trust and the Kolkata Scottish Heritage Trust, Patron of the Federation of Writers (Scotland). She is the founder and President of the Advisory Board of the Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library (IPPL) in Kolkata; she is on the Advisory Board of the V&A Museum in Dundee and the Indian Association of Scottish Studies, led by Bankura University. Bashabi is on the Editorial Board of several international peer-reviewed journals. She lives in Edinburgh with her husband, Neil Fraser.

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Launched in Fall 2019, and housed in the Institute for South Asia Studies, the Tagore Program on Literature, Culture and Philosophy at UC Berkeley, is the first of its kind in the US. Designed to showcase the life and legacy of Rabindranath Tagore, the program sponsors talks and workshops on Tagore, as well as semester-long visiting professorships in Tagore Studies at UC Berkeley. Read more about the program HERE.
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Event is FREE and OPEN to the public.

https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/236729-bashabi-fraser-the-primacy-of-creativity-in-rabindran
Nasser Abourahme | The Time Beneath the Concrete: Camp, Colony, Palestine, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/pct/event/237535-nasser-abourahme-the-time-beneath-the-concrete

The International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs presents “Thinking from Palestine: Dispossession, Liberation, and Return: Conversations on Three Recent and Forthcoming Books.”

The question that this book aims to answer might seem simple: how can a violent project of dispossession and discrimination be imagined, felt, and profoundly believed in as though it were the exact opposite––an embodiment of sustainability, multicultural tolerance, and democratic idealism? Despite well-documented evidence of racism and human rights abuse, Israel has long been embraced by the most liberal sectors of European and American society as a manifestation of the progressive values of tolerance, plurality, inclusivity, and democracy, and hence a project that can be passionately defended for its lofty ideals.

The question of settler colonialism has, once again, risen to the surface of global politics. But what exactly about settler colonialism makes it so unstable a political formation? Why is it that centuries after their foundational events, even allegedly “postcolonial” settler states seem so often stricken with malaise and enmity that continuously open up “old” wounds and pose existential anxieties anew? The Time Beneath the Concrete argues that settler colonialism is always as much a conquest of time as a conquest of land; it is everywhere a particularly, even peculiarly, fraught struggle over time—perhaps nowhere more so today than in the struggle over Palestine. To read this struggle, the book enacts a shift in method: it tells the story of the Palestinian question by telling the story of the Palestinian refugee camp as a political object. From and through the camps, we can approach the heart of this story—and this is my main argument—as a struggle over historical time that has reached an impasse. From the camps, we see Israel as a settler-colonial project defined by its inability to move past the past, a project stuck at its foundational moment of conquest. And we see the Palestinian insistence on return as a refusal to abide by the closure of the past into settler futurity. Palestinian struggle does not just happen in the open time of dispossession; it happens over this time. It is thus a form of anticolonial refusal that draws its power not from any decisive finality, but precisely from irresolution and keeping time open.

Nasser Abourahme is a writer and academic, and currently assistant professor of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at Bowdoin College. He works between comparative colonial history, political geography, and political theory, and has published broadly across journals and edited collections. His book, The Time Beneath the Concrete: Camp, Colony, Palestine, is forthcoming with Duke University Press.

Sponsors

Presented by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, Berkeley. Co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Department of Rhetoric and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

Speakers

https://events.berkeley.edu/pct/event/237535-nasser-abourahme-the-time-beneath-the-concrete
Cal Performances’ 2024 Gala with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204318-cal-performances-2024-gala-with-the-alvin-ailey

5:30pm Cocktails and Light Bites
7pm Performance

9pm Reception and Dinner

Cal Performances hosts a gala evening with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, with all proceeds supporting Cal Performances’ artistic initiatives and education programs.

More information will be available at a later date. For questions, contact Cal Performances’ Development Office at 510.642.8653 or donate@calperformances.org.

https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204318-cal-performances-2024-gala-with-the-alvin-ailey
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204315-alvin-ailey-american-dance-theater

Continuing a 55-year relationship with Cal Performances, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to the Berkeley campus for the company’s annual residency with a selection of recent works and Ailey masterpieces. Steeped in the sounds of jazz, blues, and hip-hop, the Ailey repertory celebrates the Black American experience, offering music and movement as expressions of pure joy and as opportunities for reflection and resistance. Past favorites and new works come alive through the commitment and artistry of the company’s athletic, expressive dancers, who inhabit choreography by creators like Rennie Harris, Aszure Barton, Twyla Tharp, Jamar Roberts, and Artistic Director Robert Battle with the same conviction as they reinvent classic Ailey works like Revelations.

https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204315-alvin-ailey-american-dance-theater
Film Screening: From Colonial Statues to Carnival Masks: Amílcar Cabral and the Liberation of Guinea-Bissau, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240293-film-screening-from-colonial-statues-to-carnival

These four films, all concerned with Guinea-Bissau’s and Cape Verde’s struggles for independence, are from different time frames and perspectives. The liberation leader and political thinker Amílcar Cabral is a thread through them all. Cacheu, another of Portuguese filmmaker Filipa César’s single-take performance films, analyzes four statues seen in photographs and film footage in different configurations over time, revealing the dark past of the Portuguese colonial presence in Africa. Madina Boé, made in support of Guinea-Bissau’s liberation struggle by Cuban filmmaker José Massip, includes portraits of guerillas—a hunter, canoe builder, and poet, as well as an anti-fascist Portuguese doctor. The first film of independent Guinea-Bissau, The Return of Amílcar Cabral uses Guinean songs and archival footage of Cabral, who was assassinated in 1973, to honor him on the occasion of the transfer of his remains from Conakry to Guinea-Bissau in 1976. Carnival in Bissau, by French filmmaker Sarah Maldoror (of Guadaloupean descent), is a joyous meditation on the importance of creativity to the African people and its role in strengthening Guinea-Bissau’s sense of national unity. Beautiful, ephemeral masks replace the colonial statues that opened the program.

We will play a selection of music featured in Ntone Edjabe’s new book La Discothèque de Sarah Maldoror beginning at 7:00, when the doors open.

https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240293-film-screening-from-colonial-statues-to-carnival
Concert: Gaona, Rubio, Schulmeister, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/243023-concert-gaona-rubio-schulmeister

Juliana Gaona (oboe/English horn), Kathryn Schulmeister (double bass), and Juan David Rubio (drum kit ) perform a set of losely composed and improvised music at CNMAT on April 4th, 8:00pm.

Hawaiʻi-born bassist Kathryn Schulmeister enjoys a creative musical practice ranging from classical to experimental. Kathryn is a member of several contemporary music ensembles including the ELISION Ensemble (Australia), Fonema Consort (Chicago/NYC), and the Echoi Ensemble (LA). She has performed as a guest artist with various international ensembles including Klangforum Wien, Ensemble MusikFabrik, Wild Up!, Delirium Musicum, Ensemble Dal Niente, and Ensemble Vertixe Sonora. Kathryn has been featured as a soloist at venues and festivals around the world including the Los Angeles GRAMMY Museum, ECLAT Festival Neue Musik Stuttgart, Museum of Making Music Carlsbad, soundSCAPE Festival Italy, and the Vértice Festival Mexico City. In Fall 2023, she joined the faculty at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music as Assistant Professor of Practice in String Bass.

Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Juliana Gaona is an oboist, chamber and orchestra musician, and improviser. Juliana has participated in contemporary music festivals and ensembles including the Academia Cervantina in Guanajuato, Mexico, Vértice Ensemble in Mexico City, and soundSCAPE Festival in Italy. In 2020, she performed virtually with the Festival Mujeres en la Música Nueva at the <In/Out> Festival hosted by COINCIDENCIA Swiss and South America cultural exchange. In 2023, she participated in the Ensemble Evolution Summer program in New York City hosted by the International Contermporary Ensemble. As an active improviser, she explores the sonic possibilities of the oboe and English horn by expanding a performative language and experimenting with the reactionary and unexpected dynamics of improvisation. Her ongoing collaborative project with Mexican singer Mariana Flores queries the soundscapes of Latinamerican canciones populares of the mid-twentieth century. Before moving to the Bay area, Juliana was the oboe professor at the University of Texas, El Paso.

Artist/scholar Juan David Rubio has performed for over two decades, mostly on drum kit. His instrumental practice spans jazz, improvisation, punk, contemporary music, and Afro-Latin musics, among others. As a performer and composer, he has produced works for multi- and inter-media settings, electroacoustic pieces, and non-traditionally notated compositions. Juan David has also performed, composed, and produced telematic performances and workshops with collaborators in America, Europe, and Asia. His academic research focuses broadly on Latin American popular musics and global experimental practices, with a focus on alterity, sound technologies, and power. Juan David’s scholarly work has been published in English and Spanish. He is currently Assitant Professor of Ethnomusicology at UC Berkeley.

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/243023-concert-gaona-rubio-schulmeister
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, April 5https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222932-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222932-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, April 5https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229213-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229213-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, April 5https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236456-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236456-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, April 5https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241428-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241428-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
Ninth Annual Berkeley Law Sports and Entertainment Conference, April 5https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243460-ninth-annual-berkeley-law-sports-and-entertainmentOn behalf of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, we would like to cordially invite you to the 9th annual Berkeley Law Sports and Entertainment Conference.
 
The conference, which will be held in-person on Friday, April 5, 2024, is hosted by the Berkeley Journal of Entertainment and Sports Law and the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. This marquee event brings together leading executives, management professionals, attorneys, athletes, talent, and students to Berkeley Law for the opportunity to discuss the leading topics in sports, entertainment, law, business, and culture.
 
Register here.
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243460-ninth-annual-berkeley-law-sports-and-entertainment
CLIMB Evergreen talk with Pradeep Ravikumar: The Return of the Kernel Method: Augmentation-Based Self-Supervised Representation Learning & RKHS regression, April 5https://events.berkeley.edu/climb/event/239709-climb-evergreen-talk-with-pradeep-ravikumar-the-retur

The Return of the Kernel Method: Augmentation-Based Self-Supervised Representation Learning & RKHS regression

Abstract: 

Modern self-supervised representation learning approaches such as contrastive learning and masked language modeling have had considerable empirical successes. A typical approach to evaluate such representations involves learning a linear probe on top of such representations and measuring prediction performance with respect to some downstream prediction task. We add to a burgeoning understanding of such representation learning approaches as learning eigenfunctions of certain Laplacian operators, so that learning a linear probe can be naturally connected to RKHS regression with implicitly specified kernels. This allows us to extend non-parametric tools from RKHS regression analysis to analyze the performance of self-supervised representation learning methods, in a way that completely side-steps grappling with neural network based function classes used in practice for the representation encoders. This contravenes prevailing wisdom that we cannot understand these modern representation learning methods without understanding the inductive bias implicit in the intersection of deep neural networks and the optimization methods used to learn them. We specifically focus on augmentation based self-supervised learning approaches, and isolate key structural complexity characterizations of augmentations that we show can be used to quantitatively inform downstream performance of the learned representations.

Bio: 

Pradeep Ravikumar is a Professor in the Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. His thesis has received honorable mentions in the ACM SIGKDD Dissertation award and the CMU School of Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation award. He is a Sloan Fellow, a Siebel Scholar, a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, and co-editor-chief of the Journal of Machine Learning Research. His recent research interests are in neuro-symbolic AI, combining statistical machine learning, and symbolic and causal learning.
https://events.berkeley.edu/climb/event/239709-climb-evergreen-talk-with-pradeep-ravikumar-the-retur
Rehumanizing Math: Black, Latinx, Indigenous: Transition to working group, April 5https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/243552-rehumanizing-math-black-latinx-indigenousThis week we will have an organizational meeting to transition into a working group on best practices in mentoring, teaching, research, as well as community building activities. Details announced by faculty email.https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/243552-rehumanizing-math-black-latinx-indigenousColloquium on Law and Geopolitics: April 5, Professor Anu Bradford on “Waging the Global Tech War: Law, Politics, and Markets”, April 5https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243339-colloquium-on-law-and-geopolitics-april-5Professor Katerina Linos and Professor Elena Chachko warmly invite you to their Spring 2024 Colloquium on Law and Geopolitics. Please see flyer for the workshop schedule. The workshops will be held in person Fridays, 11AM-12:40PM, Room 130, Berkeley Law School. Boxed lunches will be available (first come, first served). Berkeley Law and the wider campus community are welcome to attend the workshop sessions. Please RSVP (opens in a new tab) to help with lunch orders.
The guest speaker on April 5 will be Professor Anu Bradford (Columbia), who will present a paper entitled “Waging the Global Tech War: Law, Politics, and Markets.”
 
RSVP(opens in a new tab) or contact the Miller Institute at MGCL@law.berkeley.edu for details and to get the paper. 
https://events.berkeley.edu/law/event/243339-colloquium-on-law-and-geopolitics-april-5
APHS: Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century, April 5https://events.berkeley.edu/igs/event/aphs-catastrophic-diplomacy-us-foreign-disaster-assis

The American Political History Seminar seeks to enrich the study of politics by increasing knowledge and understanding of important topics in American history. Over the last several years, IGS has invited both well-established and junior scholars, as well as a number of journalists, to speak on a recent publication relevant to the seminar series. Faculty and graduate student participants are drawn from disciplines such as history, political science, journalism, public policy, law, and business. To maximize the benefit from the visit of each author, copies of the work to be discussed are distributed in advance to participants. The APHS is open to graduate students and faculty only (but not the general public). Faculty and graduate students interested in participating should contact the seminar coordinator, Hidetaka Hirota, Associate Professor of History, hhirota@berkeley.edu

https://events.berkeley.edu/igs/event/aphs-catastrophic-diplomacy-us-foreign-disaster-assis
Cardio Kickboxing, April 5https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236761-cardio-kickboxing

Looking to get active and try something new? Join us for our new Cardio Kickboxing workshop, where you can get a great workout and learn beginner kickboxing techniques. This no-contact class will incorporate kickboxing techniques with body weight exercises to provide a full body workout!

Register at UC Learning Center

https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236761-cardio-kickboxing
Advanced Biosciences Program Online Information Session, April 5https://events.berkeley.edu/extension/event/239635-advanced-biosciences-program-online-information-sessi

Get an overview of recent research advances, whether you’re applying to grad school, trying to move ahead in your career, or updating your knowledge base. After completing the required course, you can tailor the program’s electives to meet your specific career needs.

https://events.berkeley.edu/extension/event/239635-advanced-biosciences-program-online-information-sessi
OPT Doc Check Workshop, April 5https://events.berkeley.edu/bio/event/237437-opt-doc-check-workshop

Join Berkeley International Office as you prepare your OPT application! We will cover the required documents, how to fill out the forms, and common mistakes. There will also be a Q&A portion. Please have all of the required documents on hand for the webinar.

RSVP Here.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bio/event/237437-opt-doc-check-workshop
Polar Topological Defects – Fundamentals to Applications: Nano Seminar series, April 5https://events.berkeley.edu/BNNI/event/230393-polar-topological-defects-fundamentals-to

Topological defects such as vortices and skyrmions have recently gained significant interest in solid state materials as ferroic materials (ferromagnets and ferroelectrics) have become a test-bed to realize and control these nanoscale structures. Although this phenomenon is being investigated as a pathway to energy efficient information storage, broader applications in interaction of electromagnetic waves with such features are emerging.

In the case of ferroelectrics, boundary condition engineering is used to achieve vortices, skyrmions, and merons in low dimensional epitaxial oxide heterostructures.

In this talk, I will introduce the notion that similar phenomenology but at the atomic scale can be achieved in charge density wave phases, especially nominally semiconducting chalcogenides. I will outline my group and other groups’ efforts in showing non-trivial toroidal polar topologies at the atomic level in chalcogenides with nominally empty conduction band with d-orbital character such as 1T-TiSe2, Ta2NiSe5 and BaTiS3.

Specifically, we use X-ray single crystal diffraction as a probe for high quality single crystals of a quasi-1D hexagonal chalcogenide, BaTiS3, to reveal complex polar topologies such as vortices, and head-to-head and tail-to-tail arrangement of dipoles. Recent experiments and theoretical studies on the stability and dynamics of these features, and their broad connection to low dimensional magnets, will also be discussed. Lastly, I will outline the perspective for photonic applications of polarization textures.

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Jayakanth Ravichandran did his PhD in the Ramesh lab here at UC Berkeley (Go Bears!) and postdoc with Philip Kim at Harvard. He joined the USC faculty in 2015.

https://events.berkeley.edu/BNNI/event/230393-polar-topological-defects-fundamentals-to
Accounting Seminar with Stephen Glaeser, April 5https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/229788-accounting-seminar-with-stephen-glaeserStephen Glaeser of University of North Carolinahttps://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/229788-accounting-seminar-with-stephen-glaeserHow to Type Garbage: A History of Text Standards for the “Rest of World”, April 5https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2024/how-type-garbage-history-text-standards-rest-worldSpeaker: Anushah Hossain— Anushah Hossain considers what values and scripts were privileged in today’s core standards for multilingual digital communication — Unicode, OpenType, and more.
More info: https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2024/how-type-garbage-history-text-standards-rest-world
https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2024/how-type-garbage-history-text-standards-rest-world
Spatial Dunhuang: Experiencing the Mogao Caves, April 5https://events.berkeley.edu/ieas/event/229342-spatial-dunhuang-experiencing-the-mogao-caves

This lecture retells the story of Dunhuang art through the perspective of space. This is necessary because although there are countless overviews of the art of Dunhuang, the framework is generally temporal. Guided by the ­­dynasties of China’s past, these overviews present a linear history of the Mogao Caves, supplanting the actual place with an abstract temporal sequence. This lecture presents an alternative narrative based on visitors’ experience and discusses some representative caves to demonstrate a new methodology in studying Dunhuang art Mogao.

Wu Hung is Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and the College, Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia, Adjunct Curator at the Smart Museum of Art, and Special Advisor to the Provost for the Arts in Asia at the University of Chicago. He is the author of fifteen books and anthologies, including A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture and Contemporary Chinese Art: A History, 1970s–2000s. As a scholar, he has published widely on both traditional and contemporary Chinese art and has experimented with different ways to integrate these conventionally separate phases into new kinds of art historical narratives. He is also a renowned international curator and has curated more than 50 exhibitions in the United States, China, and other countries.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ieas/event/229342-spatial-dunhuang-experiencing-the-mogao-caves
Earl L. Muetterties Lectures in Chemistry, April 5https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230507-earl-l-muetterties-lectures-in-chemistry

Karsten Meyer, Chair of Inorganic and General Chemistry, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität

“Super-Oxidized” Iron Nitrido & “Super-Reduced” Iron Nitrosyl Complexes in
tris-Carbene Coordination Spheres – and How Iron Really Feels About it

In this seminar, we will present our work on the synthesis and reactivity of metal nitrido and nitrosyl complexes. First, we report our studies on high-valent Fe(IV, V, VI, and VII) nitrido complexes, synthesized via photolytic azide and N–C bond cleavage in iron imides Fe=N–Ad, followed by oxidation with AgII and XeII-salts. In this series of complexes, the Fe/N unit is stabilized by the sterically encumbered N-anchored tris-N-heterocyclic carbene chelates tris-amine (alkyl: methyl = TIMMN; ethyl = TIMEN). Based on the iron nitrido complex [(TIMENMes)FeIV(N)]+,[1] we show how subtle changes in ligand design (TIMEN vs. TIMMN) lead to vastly different reactivity and the stabilization and isolation of air and moisture-stable stable high-valent Fe(V) and super-oxidized Fe(VI) as well as highly reactive Fe(VII) complexes.

https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230507-earl-l-muetterties-lectures-in-chemistry
2024 Wildavsky Lecture for Public Policy: Dean Karlan, April 5https://events.berkeley.edu/pubpol/event/242566-2024-wildavsky-lecture-for-public-policy-dean

The Aaron Wildavsky Forum for Public Policy was established to honor the Goldman School’s founding dean Aaron Wildavsky’s memory and his contributions to the field of public policy. Over the years, the Forum has sponsored lectures by impressive researchers and thinkers such as Mary Bassett, Larry Summers, William Julius Wilson, Laura D’Andrea Tyson, Jim Heckman, Robert Frank, and Uwe Reinhardt.

The 2024 Wildavsky Lecture will feature Dean Karlan. Dean is the Frederic Esser Nemmers Distinguished Professor of Economics and Finance at Northwestern University, co-Director with Christopher Udry of the Global Poverty Research Lab at Northwestern University, and the Founder and President of Innovations for Poverty Action, a non-profit organization dedicated to discovering and promoting solutions to global poverty problems. Dean is also on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the M.I.T. Jameel Poverty Action Lab. In 2015, he also co-founded ImpactMatters, a nonprofit dedicated to estimating and rating impact of nonprofit organizations in order to help donors choose good charities and to promote more transparency in the nonprofit sector. Dean is currently serving as the Agency Chief Economist at USAID. The discussion will last approximately an hour and a half, with a reception following.

https://events.berkeley.edu/pubpol/event/242566-2024-wildavsky-lecture-for-public-policy-dean
Music Studies Colloquium: Juan Diego Díaz, April 5https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/236388-music-studies-colloquium-juan-diego-daz

From Bumba Meu Boi to Burrinha: the Drama of Brazilian Identity in Brazil and Benin.

For nearly two centuries a folk theatre genre of Brazilian origin called burrinha has been performed in present-day Benin, Togo, and Nigeria. Emerging through the migration of victims and victimizers of slavery from Brazil to West Africa in the early nineteenth century, burrinha has become one of the most important symbols of Brazilianness in Benin. In Brazil, where burrinha has become marginal, a related folk theatre genre called bumba meu boi is also considered part of national folklore, representing a romanticized cowboy culture from the Brazilian northeast. How does burrinha enable individuals who identify today as Brazilian-descendants in Benin negotiate their multiple allegiances to Brazil, Benin, and local ethnic groups such as the Fon? In what ways does the Brazilianness expressed by burrinha practitioners in Benin contrasts or aligns with that enacted by bumba meu boi performers in Brazil today? And how can these cultural exchanges and transformations expand our understanding of transatlantic diasporas? This presentation explores these questions through a combination of historical, ethnographic, and performance practice analysis. Focusing on the Beninois case, I show how the multimedia nature of burrinha, which includes music, dance, costumes, acting, masquerades, and storytelling, and its flexible format, have facilitated the accommodation of multiple references.

A reception will follow.

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/236388-music-studies-colloquium-juan-diego-daz
Ocean Vuong, Poetry Reading, April 5https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243307-ocean-vuong-poetry-reading

Ocean Vuong, the 2023-24 Avenali Chair in the Humanities, reads from his poetry and engages with questions from the audience.

Vuong is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, among other awards. His most recent poetry collection, Time is a Mother (2022), was written after the publication of his celebrated novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. Working in the wake of his mother’s death from cancer at age 51 and during the darkest days of the pandemic, Vuong returned to poetry in order to wrestle with themes of loss, trauma, and memory, both personal and societal. “I was grieving, the world was grieving, and the only thing I really had was to go back to poems,” he notes.

At age two, Vuong and his family fled Vietnam, lived in a refugee camp in the Philippines, and ultimately settled in Hartford, Connecticut. His mother, who suffered childhood trauma during the Vietnam War, made her living working in a nail salon. The first in his immediate family to learn to read in any language and the only one fluent in English, Vuong felt a deep sense of linguistic responsibility toward his mother: “I have to speak for you,” he imagines saying to her. “I have to speak for your pain. I have to verbalize your humanity.” Time is a Mother gives voice to that imperative.

Vuong’s first book of poetry, Night Sky with Exit Wounds (2016), won numerous awards including the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Whiting Award, the Thom Gunn Award, and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. In her New York Times review of Vuong’s “remarkable” collection, Michiko Kakutani writes, “There is a powerful emotional undertow to these poems that springs from Mr. Vuong’s sincerity and candor, and from his ability to capture specific moments in time with both photographic clarity and a sense of the evanescence of all earthly things. Whether he is writing about war or family or sex, there is a presentiment of loss — wrought by violence, by misunderstanding or the simple ticking of the calendar and clock.”

https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243307-ocean-vuong-poetry-reading
Philip Lutgendorf | Ending with a Crow: Bhushundi in the Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas, April 5https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/230003-philip-lutgendorf-ending-with-a-crow-bhushundi-in-the

The Institute for South Asia Studies (ISAS) at UC Berkeley in collaboration with the Vedanta Society Berkeley (VSB) are proud to announce the 3rd ISAS-VSB Lecture on Religion in the Modern World by Prof. Philip Lutgendorf, Professor of Hindi and Modern Indian Studies at the University of Iowa.

Event moderated by Robert P. Goldman, Professor of the Graduate School and Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Sanskrit Emeritus

ABSTRACT:

The poet-saint Tulsidas’s immensely popular retelling of the Ramayana saga, Rāmcaritmānas (ca. 1574 AD), is structured as an allegorical Himalayan sacred lake symmetrically bounded by four seven-tiered ghats. Each ghat represents the “viewpoint” or darśana of a narrator who regularly appears within the text, expounding to an eager listener who sometimes interrupts to ask questions. This multivocality seems to celebrate that of the Ramayana tradition even as it anticipates the ongoing performance and reinterpretation of the Mānas itself. The narrators (in order of appearance) are the human author Tulsidas, the Vedic sage Yajnavalkya, the god Shiva, and a crow named Bhushuṇḍi. Whereas the first three are either human or (in Shiva’s case) divine-anthropomorphic, the final one (who takes center stage for more than half of the final sub-book, which includes his own lengthy autobiography) is in avian form—and he is not just any bird, but one traditionally regarded in Hindu lore as impure and inauspicious.

Why did the poet choose this unusual figure to conclude his epic narrative and to deliver, in effect, the “last word” on such key Rāmcaritmānas themes as social order, devotional egalitarianism, and the relative merits of nirguṇa (formless) and saguṇa (embodied) understandings of God? On what precursor traditions did Tulsidas draw, and to what extent did he innovate? And how has the quirky persona of Bhushuṇḍi engaged later audiences, including scholarly exegetes and visual artists?

SPEAKER BIO

Philip Lutgendorf taught Hindi and Modern Indian Studies in the Department of Asian and Slavic Languages and Literature for 33 years, retiring in 2018. His book on the performance of the Hindi Ramayana, The Life of a Text (University of California Press, 1991) won the A. K. Coomaraswamy Prize of the Association for Asian Studies. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002-03 for his research on the popular Hindu deity Hanuman, which appeared as Hanuman’s Tale, The Messages of a Divine Monkey (Oxford University Press, 2007). His interests include epic performance traditions, folklore and popular culture, and mass media. He created a website devoted to Indian popular cinema, a.k.a. “Bollywood” (http://www.uiowa.edu/indiancinema/ ). His research on the cultural history of tea drinking in India was supported by a Fulbright-Hays Senior Overseas Research Fellowship (2010-11). He is presently translating the Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas as The Epic of Ram, in seven dual-language volumes, for the Murty Classical Library of India/Harvard University Press (http://www.murtylibrary.com/volumes.php ). He served as President of the American Institute of Indian Studies from 2010-2018, and continues serving as Chair of its Board of Trustees (http://www.indiastudies.org/ ).

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About the Lecture Series
The ISAS-VSB Lecture on Religion in the Modern World is an annual lecture series that seeks to invite distinguished scholars of world religions to campus with the aim of improving and diversifying conversations about the role of religion in modern societies. Our first lecture in this series was delivered by Prof. Robert A. F. Thurman, a recognized worldwide authority on religion and spirituality, Asian history, world philosophy, Buddhist science, Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, and H.H. Dalai Lama. Click HERE to read more about the series and to listen to recordings of past lectures.

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If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Puneeta Kala at pkala@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/230003-philip-lutgendorf-ending-with-a-crow-bhushundi-in-the
Film Screening: BAMPFA Student Committee Film Festival 2024, April 5https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240295-film-screening-bampfa-student-committee-film

The BAMPFA Student Committee’s film subcommittee is pleased to present short films by Bay Area student filmmakers for the 2024 Student Committee Film Festival. This one-night festival showcases the work of local filmmakers, including short films of varying genres and themes.

The program of films will be added here after selection takes place.
Submit your work here: tinyurl.com/filmfest2024
Submissions close February 15, 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240295-film-screening-bampfa-student-committee-film
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, April 5https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204314-alvin-ailey-american-dance-theater

Continuing a 55-year relationship with Cal Performances, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to the Berkeley campus for the company’s annual residency with a selection of recent works and Ailey masterpieces. Steeped in the sounds of jazz, blues, and hip-hop, the Ailey repertory celebrates the Black American experience, offering music and movement as expressions of pure joy and as opportunities for reflection and resistance. Past favorites and new works come alive through the commitment and artistry of the company’s athletic, expressive dancers, who inhabit choreography by creators like Rennie Harris, Aszure Barton, Twyla Tharp, Jamar Roberts, and Artistic Director Robert Battle with the same conviction as they reinvent classic Ailey works like Revelations.

https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204314-alvin-ailey-american-dance-theater
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, April 6https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222931-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222931-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, April 6https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229212-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229212-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, April 6https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236455-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236455-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, April 6https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241427-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241427-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
Sick Plant Clinic, April 6https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/241305-sick-plant-clinic

The Garden’s monthly Sick Plant Clinic is here to help! Bring plant samples to the clinic to find out which diseases or pests are afflicting your plants. Entomologists and plant pathologists will diagnose and suggest effective and environmentally sensitive remedies. Please cover plants and disease samples in containers or bags before entering the Garden.

The clinic is open on the first Saturday of most months in the Conference Center. No admission required for the clinic-only.

Check in at the entrance Kiosk. Entry to the clinic is free of charge and does not include admission to the Garden. Make a reservation, or pay for admission, if you would like to stay and enjoy the Garden.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/241305-sick-plant-clinic
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, April 6https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204313-alvin-ailey-american-dance-theater

Continuing a 55-year relationship with Cal Performances, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to the Berkeley campus for the company’s annual residency with a selection of recent works and Ailey masterpieces. Steeped in the sounds of jazz, blues, and hip-hop, the Ailey repertory celebrates the Black American experience, offering music and movement as expressions of pure joy and as opportunities for reflection and resistance. Past favorites and new works come alive through the commitment and artistry of the company’s athletic, expressive dancers, who inhabit choreography by creators like Rennie Harris, Aszure Barton, Twyla Tharp, Jamar Roberts, and Artistic Director Robert Battle with the same conviction as they reinvent classic Ailey works like Revelations.

https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204313-alvin-ailey-american-dance-theater
Film Screening: Mahjong, April 6https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240296-film-screening-mahjong

Mahjong is Edward Yang’s blackly comic, almost comic-book portrait of a rapacious Taipei lowlife—merely the higher echelons stripped of pretense. An essentially centerless film centers around Red Fish, de facto leader of a gang of young toughs (with soft centers), who include a gigolo and a canny spiritualist. When Red Fish’s father goes into hiding from the underworld figures to whom he owes his soul, the boys are called into action. However, as they are continually distracted by sex, which is the neon calling card of the society they hope to enter, they are little threat to anyone but themselves. Running circles around the boys’ world is a British entrepreneur whose elitism betrays the desperate straits of the carpetbagger, and a French woman who, unaccountably, loves him: love among predators in a boomtown. Set at a frantic pitch and pace, challenging us to keep track of its moves, Mahjong is cast as a game in which players, not tiles, are discarded one by one and there is no winning hand.

https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240296-film-screening-mahjong
Film Screening: Short Films by Nicolás Pereda, April 6https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240297-film-screening-short-films-by-nicolas-pereda

One of the major voices of contemporary Mexican cinema (and currently a film professor at UC Berkeley), Nicolás Pereda has been featured in retrospectives around the world. This program offers a rare opportunity to view some of his evocative short films on the big screen, from his early Interview with the Earth, a docu-fiction hybrid look at how two children deal with tragedy, to the recent Flora, where an onlooker demands a role in Pereda’s films. The Palace opens the doors to a large house shared by multiple women, while Dear Chantal renders a moving, magical homage to Chantal Akerman.

https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240297-film-screening-short-films-by-nicolas-pereda
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, April 6https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204312-alvin-ailey-american-dance-theater

Continuing a 55-year relationship with Cal Performances, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to the Berkeley campus for the company’s annual residency with a selection of recent works and Ailey masterpieces. Steeped in the sounds of jazz, blues, and hip-hop, the Ailey repertory celebrates the Black American experience, offering music and movement as expressions of pure joy and as opportunities for reflection and resistance. Past favorites and new works come alive through the commitment and artistry of the company’s athletic, expressive dancers, who inhabit choreography by creators like Rennie Harris, Aszure Barton, Twyla Tharp, Jamar Roberts, and Artistic Director Robert Battle with the same conviction as they reinvent classic Ailey works like Revelations.

https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204312-alvin-ailey-american-dance-theater
UC Berkeley Chamber & University Chorus, April 6https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232502-uc-berkeley-chamber-university-chorus

Wei Cheng, conductor

Safety
The UC Berkeley Department of Music is committed to the health and safety of our students, staff, and patrons. Measures to protect concertgoers and musicians will be informed by state, local, and UC Berkeley Public Health policies and are subject to change. Social distancing, masks, and proof of COVID 19 vaccination may be required. UC Berkeley does not promise or guarantee that all patrons or employees on site are vaccinated. Unvaccinated individuals may be present as a result of exemptions, exceptions, fraudulent verification, or checker error. None of these precautions eliminate the risk of exposure to COVID-19. 

Accessibility
If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact the Hertz Hall Manager at 510.642.4864 or hertzhallmgr@berkeley.edu. with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

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https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232502-uc-berkeley-chamber-university-chorus
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, April 7https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222930-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222930-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, April 7https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229211-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229211-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, April 7https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236454-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236454-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, April 7https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241426-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241426-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
Film Screening: Ceddo, April 7https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240538-film-screening-ceddo

Combining high pageantry with raw politics, Ceddo gives cinematic form to the ancient verbal tradition by which African history, culture, and myth are transmitted. The film is a period piece set in a feudal village suffering the dual threats of Muslim expansion and French slave traders. The royal family has converted to Islam, while the ceddo, or common people, cling to their customs and fetishistic religion. A champion of the ceddo engineers the kidnapping of a Muslim princess, activating a militant confrontation. In the guise of a dynamic political thriller, Ceddo takes on several taboo subjects—the Islamic influence in Senegal, African support for the slave trade to the West, the traditionally low status of women—becoming a reflection on all forms of colonialism in Africa. Ironically, the film was banned in Senegal, ostensibly because Ousmane Sembène refused to spell the title in the European manner (Cedo).

-Albert Johnson
https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240538-film-screening-ceddo
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, April 7https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204311-alvin-ailey-american-dance-theater

Continuing a 55-year relationship with Cal Performances, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to the Berkeley campus for the company’s annual residency with a selection of recent works and Ailey masterpieces. Steeped in the sounds of jazz, blues, and hip-hop, the Ailey repertory celebrates the Black American experience, offering music and movement as expressions of pure joy and as opportunities for reflection and resistance. Past favorites and new works come alive through the commitment and artistry of the company’s athletic, expressive dancers, who inhabit choreography by creators like Rennie Harris, Aszure Barton, Twyla Tharp, Jamar Roberts, and Artistic Director Robert Battle with the same conviction as they reinvent classic Ailey works like Revelations.

https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204311-alvin-ailey-american-dance-theater
Film Screening: Sambizanga, April 7https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240556-film-screening-sambizanga

Sambizanga, one of the first feature films made by a woman in Africa, was cowritten by filmmaker Sarah Maldoror’s husband, Mário Pinto de Andrade, a leader in the Angolan resistance. “The film was seen to be so effective at mobilizing action that the Portuguese colonial authorities banned it from being screened in their then province of Angola. It was first seen publicly in Angola only after the country won its independence in 1974. Based on a novel by Luandino Vieira, a political prisoner of the Portuguese from 1961 to 1974, Sambizanga is a fictionalized chronicle of the arrest and fatal imprisonment of a man whose underground activities were an impenetrable secret to all around him. It was at a prison near the Luandan suburb of Sambizanga on February 4, 1961, that the first uprising of what was to become the Angolan resistance movement was staged. The film is set a few weeks before that uprising, during a time of increasingly desperate and repressive security measures by the colonial government” (Tom Mulcaire, Cabinet Magazine).

We will play a selection of music featured in Ntone Edjabe’s new book La Discothèque de Sarah Maldoror beginning at 3:30, when the doors open.

https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240556-film-screening-sambizanga
Musical Theater Prize Concert, April 7https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232504-musical-theater-prize-concert

World premiere of “The Little Prince”, an opera composed by UC Berkeley student Chengrui “Tom” Pan in fulfillment of the Musical Theater Prize. 

Safety
The UC Berkeley Department of Music is committed to the health and safety of our students, staff, and patrons. Measures to protect concertgoers and musicians will be informed by state, local, and UC Berkeley Public Health policies and are subject to change. Social distancing, masks, and proof of COVID 19 vaccination may be required. UC Berkeley does not promise or guarantee that all patrons or employees on site are vaccinated. Unvaccinated individuals may be present as a result of exemptions, exceptions, fraudulent verification, or checker error. None of these precautions eliminate the risk of exposure to COVID-19. 

Accessibility
If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact the Hertz Hall Manager at 510.642.4864 or hertzhallmgr@berkeley.edu. with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

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https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232504-musical-theater-prize-concert
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, April 8https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222929-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222929-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, April 8https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229210-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229210-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, April 8https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236453-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236453-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, April 8https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241425-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241425-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
Eclipse Viewing Party, April 8https://events.berkeley.edu/lhs/event/236907-eclipse-viewing-party

Explore solar science and witness a solar eclipse! For the second time in six months, a partial solar eclipse will be visible from Berkeley. Join us for safe solar viewing, solar activities, and expert explanations of how solar eclipses happen. From here, the Moon will cover approximately 35% of the Sun.

https://events.berkeley.edu/lhs/event/236907-eclipse-viewing-party
Our Poetic Earth: A poetry workshop series in the Garden with Becky Jaffe, April 8https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/243090-our-poetic-earth-a-poetry-workshop-series-in-the
Three Mondays: 4/8, 4/15 and 4/22
11 AM -12:30 PM

In this 3-part workshop, we will hone our capacity for wonder, using the tools of poetry to savor Spring’s irrepressible exuberance. We will read nature poems together, and write new poems inspired by a conspiracy of wind, soil, sun, the carbon cycle, and yearning.
Former Artist-in-Residence and published poet Becky Jaffe will lead you in playful and contemplative exercises that help you recalibrate your attunement to amazement, and share it with others through poems that are already unfurling their tendrils inside of you, looking for light. No prior experience necessary. Daydreamers welcome.

They say she’s poisonous,
toxic to the touch,
but what wouldn’t we do
to keep our own kids alive?
She didn’t invent chemical warfare any more than the so-called
“great apes” did —
fire ants and pine needles
having gotten there first —
And in the end,
poisons couldn’t save her;
it wasn’t a snake but love
that did her in.
This mother newt breathed her last memory of air
while laying worlds
of spherical eggs,
launching Life —
poisons and all —
into a future with
no antidote for love.
~Becky Jaffe
https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/243090-our-poetic-earth-a-poetry-workshop-series-in-the
Oxyopia Seminar: Title to be Announced, April 8https://events.berkeley.edu/HWNI/event/236723-oxyopia-seminar-title-to-be-announced

Abstract to be Announced

https://events.berkeley.edu/HWNI/event/236723-oxyopia-seminar-title-to-be-announced
Tell Your Story: The Power of Your Discovery Narrative to Guide Your Future, April 8https://events.berkeley.edu/bdiscovery/event/229111-tell-your-story-the-power-of-your-discovery-narrative

How do you translate your experience at Cal to your future career? This workshop is designed for graduating undergraduate students (or those worried about graduation) to reflect on what you discovered in and beyond the classroom to hone your story. Come learn how to frame your experiences to open doors for the next chapter of your life after graduation.

Offered in-person or online (60 mins). Lunch provided to first 30 attendees.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bdiscovery/event/229111-tell-your-story-the-power-of-your-discovery-narrative
Tell Your Story: The Power of Your Discovery Narrative to Guide Your Future, April 8https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229274-tell-your-story-the-power-of-your-discovery

How do you translate your experience at Cal to your future career? This workshop is designed for graduating undergraduate students (or those worried about graduation) to reflect on what you discovered in and beyond the classroom to hone your story. Come learn how to frame your experiences to open doors for the next chapter of your life after graduation.

Offered in-person or online (60 mins). Lunch provided to first 30 attendees.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229274-tell-your-story-the-power-of-your-discovery
Matt Beech | Polarized Peoples - Examining the culture wars and how they can be transcended, April 8https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/237660-matt-beech-polarized-peoples-examining-the-culture-wa
Dr Matt Beech, Reader in Politics at the University of Hull and IES Senior Fellow, returns to campus to discuss his project, Polarized Peoples: Examining the culture wars and how we can transcend them. Beech investigates the special problem of widening cultural distance within nations of the English-speaking world. Sharp ideological divergence, the diminution of toleration in the public sphere, and the catalysing effect of social media have perpetuated the pathology of ‘war at home’. Come and listen, question, and contribute to the conversation, and by so doing, model a way to transcend the culture war.
Dr Matt Beech is Reader in Politics and Director of the Centre for British Politics (@CBPhull) at the University of Hull (UK). He is author or editor of 11 books on the Labour Party and the Conservative Party. Dr Beech is Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Institute of European Studies and Associate Member of the Centre de Recherches en Civilisation Britannique at the Sorbonne Nouvelle. He has held visiting appointments at Oxford, Berkeley and Flinders and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

 

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Ray Savord at rsavord@berkeley.edu or (510) 642-4555 with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days before the event.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/237660-matt-beech-polarized-peoples-examining-the-culture-wa
Computing the News: Data Journalism and the Search for Objectivity, April 8https://events.berkeley.edu/bcnm/event/223323-computing-the-news-data-journalism-and-the-search

Faced with a full-blown crisis, a growing number of journalists are engaging in seemingly unjournalistic practices such as creating and maintaining databases, handling algorithms, or designing online applications. “Data journalists” claim that these approaches help the profession demonstrate greater objectivity and fulfill its democratic mission. In their view, computational methods enable journalists to better inform their readers, more closely monitor those in power, and offer deeper analysis.

In Computing the News, Sylvain Parasie examines how data journalists and news organizations have navigated the tensions between traditional journalistic values and new technologies. He traces the history of journalistic hopes for computing technology and contextualizes the surge of data journalism in the twenty-first century. By importing computational techniques and ways of knowing new to journalism, news organizations have come to depend on a broader array of human and nonhuman actors. Parasie draws on extensive fieldwork in the United States and France, including interviews with journalists and data scientists as well as a behind-the-scenes look at several acclaimed projects in both countries. Ultimately, he argues, fulfilling the promise of data journalism requires the renewal of journalistic standards and ethics. Offering an in-depth analysis of how computing has become part of the daily practices of journalists, this book proposes ways for journalism to evolve in order to serve democratic societies.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bcnm/event/223323-computing-the-news-data-journalism-and-the-search
PE Seminar - Rocío Titiunik (Princeton), April 8https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/229881-pe-seminar-rocio-titiunik-princetonPaper Topic: TBDhttps://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/229881-pe-seminar-rocio-titiunik-princetonInternal Finance Seminars: Ben Hebert, Matteo Benetton, Tim McQuade, April 8https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/237047-internal-finance-seminarshttps://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/237047-internal-finance-seminarsMakerspace Drop-in Hours, April 8https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877066Learn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877066
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, April 8https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235503-makerspace-drop-in-hoursLearn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235503-makerspace-drop-in-hours
Stat/EPS Joint Seminar, April 8https://events.berkeley.edu/stat/event/243182-stateps-joint-seminar

Join us for an informal workshop on open statistical problems in the earth and planetary sciences!

https://events.berkeley.edu/stat/event/243182-stateps-joint-seminar
Seminar 211, Economic History: Pavel Bacherikov (Berkeley), April 8https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237247-seminar-211-economic-history-pavel-bacherikov-berkele

Speaker: Pavel Bacherikov

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237247-seminar-211-economic-history-pavel-bacherikov-berkele
Physics Condensed Matter Seminar with Gerbrand Ceder, April 8https://events.berkeley.edu/physics/event/236773-physics-condensed-matter-seminar-with-gerbrand

Title, abstract, and additional details to come

https://events.berkeley.edu/physics/event/236773-physics-condensed-matter-seminar-with-gerbrand
Linguistics Colloquium: Adam Albright, April 8https://events.berkeley.edu/ling/event/206423-linguistics-colloquium-adam-albright

Linguistics Colloquium: Adam Albright

https://events.berkeley.edu/ling/event/206423-linguistics-colloquium-adam-albright
Structural & Quantitative Biology Seminar, April 8https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/232524-structural-quantitative-biology-seminar

Structural & Quantitative Biology Seminar

https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/232524-structural-quantitative-biology-seminar
Integrative Biology Seminar, April 8https://events.berkeley.edu/ib/event/243636-integrative-biology-seminarIntegrative Biology Seminarhttps://events.berkeley.edu/ib/event/243636-integrative-biology-seminarSeminar 271: “Poverty at Higher Frequency” Jonathan Morduch, April 8https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237563-seminar-271-poverty-at-higher-frequency-jonathan-mord

Speaker: Jonathan Morduch

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237563-seminar-271-poverty-at-higher-frequency-jonathan-mord
Seminar 208, Microeconomic Theory: Topic Forthcoming (copy), April 8https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/239528-seminar-208-microeconomic-theory-topic-forthcoming

Topic Forthcoming

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/239528-seminar-208-microeconomic-theory-topic-forthcoming
Physics Colloquium with Professor Hitoshi Murayama, April 8https://events.berkeley.edu/physics/event/229840-physics-colloquium-with-professor-hitoshi-murayama

Title/Abstract to come

https://events.berkeley.edu/physics/event/229840-physics-colloquium-with-professor-hitoshi-murayama
Hendrik Simon | A Century of Anarchy? War, Normativity, and the Birth of Modern International Order, April 8https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/237674-hendrik-simon-a-century-of-anarchy-war-normativity-an

The nineteenth century has been understood as an age in which states could wage war against each other if they deemed it politically necessary. According to this narrative, it was not until the establishment of the League of Nations, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, and the UN Charter that the “free right to go to war” (liberum ius ad bellum) was gradually outlawed. Better times dawned as this anarchy of waging war ended, resulting in radical transformations of international law and politics.

However, as a “free right to go to war” has never been empirically proven, this story of progress is puzzling. In his forthcoming book A Century of Anarchy?: War, Normativity, and the Birth of Modern International Order (Oxford University Press, 2024), Hendrik Simon challenges this narrative by outlining a genealogy of modern war justifications and drawing on scientific, political, and public discourses. He argues that liberum ius ad bellum is an invention created by realist legal scholars in Imperial Germany who argued against the mainstream of European liberalism and, paradoxically, that the now forgotten Sonderweg reading was universalized in international historiographies after the World Wars.

In his book presentation, Simon will not only deconstruct the myth of liberum ius ad bellum but also trace the political and theoretical roots of the modern prohibition of war to the long nineteenth century (1789-1918).

Dr. Hendrik Simon is a postdoctoral researcher at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) and Lecturer at Goethe University Frankfurt. He was Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Advanced International Theory/University of Sussex (2017), at the University of Vienna (2018, 2016), at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Frankfurt (2015-16) and at the Cluster of Excellence “Normative Orders” (2011-12). Publications include The Justification of War and International Order. From Past to Present (Oxford University Press, 2021; co-edited with Lothar Brock); and “The Myth of Liberum Ius ad Bellum. Justifying War in 19th-Century International Legal Theory and Political Practice”, 29 European Journal of International Law (2018).

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Ray Savord at rsavord@berkeley.edu or (510) 642-4555 with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days before the event.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/237674-hendrik-simon-a-century-of-anarchy-war-normativity-an
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222928-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222928-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229209-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229209-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236452-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236452-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241424-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241424-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
People & Culture Inclusive Leadership Academy: Advancing belonging, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/deib/event/230607-people-culture-inclusive-leadership-academy

The Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging within People & Culture, will partner with the Center for Equity, Gender & Leadership in the Berkeley Haas School of Business, to host the People & Culture Inclusive Leadership Academy (PCLA). The purpose of the PCLA is to provide an intentional and meaningful learning experience that will equip leaders with the content knowledge, leadership behaviors, and support to effectively lead our diverse staff community and create a culture of belonging and inclusion.

https://events.berkeley.edu/deib/event/230607-people-culture-inclusive-leadership-academy
RAPDP Intermediate - New Awards, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/241193-rapdp-intermediate-new-awards

An intermediate workshop that supplements the prerequisite eCourse New Awards Basics and details the processes for setting up a newly finalized sponsored award, including interpreting a Notice of Award, and processing a BFS budget upload. This workshop is intended for new and veteran Post-Award RAs (either dedicated or hybrid) who assist Faculty in setting up new sponsored awards in BFS.

 

Learning Objectives:

- Interpret a Phoebe Award Summary and the related Terms & Conditions

- Summarize the information a PI needs to know about a new fund- List the steps in setting up a fund for use

- Explain the purpose of a fund advance- Identify and respond to actions that require sponsor approval

https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/241193-rapdp-intermediate-new-awards
Division of Immunology and Molecular Medicine Seminar, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/209032-division-of-immunology-and-molecular-medicineThis seminar is partially sponsored by NIH
Division(s): Division of Immunology and Molecular Medicine
https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/209032-division-of-immunology-and-molecular-medicine
Organic Chemistry Seminar, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230055-organic-chemistry-seminar

TBD

https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230055-organic-chemistry-seminar
Publish Digital Books & Open Educational Resources with Pressbooks, April 9https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11964986If you’re looking to self-publish work of any length and want an easy-to-use tool that offers a high degree of customization, allows flexibility with publishing formats (EPUB, PDF), and provides web-hosting options, Pressbooks may be great for you. Pressbooks is often the tool of choice for academics creating digital books, open textbooks, and open educational resources, since you can license your materials for reuse however you desire. Learn why and how to use Pressbooks for publishing your original books or course materials. You’ll leave the workshop with a project already under way.
Location: Zoom (link will be sent to registrants before the workshop)
If you require an accommodation to fully participate in this event, please contact the event organizer with as much advance notice as possible, and at least one week before the event.
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11964986
Publish Digital Books & Open Educational Resources with Pressbooks, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/237505-publish-digital-books-open-educationalIf you’re looking to self-publish work of any length and want an easy-to-use tool that offers a high degree of customization, allows flexibility with publishing formats (EPUB, PDF), and provides web-hosting options, Pressbooks may be great for you. Pressbooks is often the tool of choice for academics creating digital books, open textbooks, and open educational resources, since you can license your materials for reuse however you desire. Learn why and how to use Pressbooks for publishing your original books or course materials. You’ll leave the workshop with a project already under way.
Location: Zoom (link will be sent to registrants before the workshop)
If you require an accommodation to fully participate in this event, please contact the event organizer with as much advance notice as possible, and at least one week before the event.
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/237505-publish-digital-books-open-educational
Oxyopia Seminar: Title to be Announced, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/HWNI/event/237249-oxyopia-seminar-title-to-be-announced

Abstract to be Announced

https://events.berkeley.edu/HWNI/event/237249-oxyopia-seminar-title-to-be-announced
Monthly BIPOC Support Group, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/212167-monthly-bipoc-support-group

This virtual space is for Black, Indigenous, and staff and faculty of Color to join together in community for discussion, support, and encouragement. Topics such as challenges and successes of working at UC Berkeley, intersection of identities, current events, and fostering one’s mental and physical health will be explored.

Every 2nd Tuesday of the Month, 12 - 12:50 pm

https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/212167-monthly-bipoc-support-group
Sarah Wolff | Secular Power Europe: insights on decentring international relations, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/223910-sarah-wolff-secular-power-europe-insights-on-decentri

Based on her award winning book (European Union Studies Association Best Book award 2023) Secular Power Europe and Islam and through an exploration of Europe’s secular identity, an identity that is seen erroneously as normative, Professor Wolff shows will explain how Islam confronts the EU’s existential anxieties about its security and its secular identity. Islam disrupts Eurocentric assumptions about democracy and revolution and human rights. She will document how EU’s diplomats are trying to address that issue and to conduct some ‘religious engagement’. She will also discuss the avenues provided by the decentring agenda, which involves provincialising Europe, engaging with the perspective of the others and reconstructing EU’s agency as a global actor.

Sarah Wolff is Professor in International Studies and Global Politics at Leiden University in the Netherlands. She holds until January 2024 a Professor position in European Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London where she also leads the Centre for European Research (2017-2023), led the NEXTEUK Jean Monnet Chair of Excellence (2020-2023) on the future of EU-UK relations. She was the Director of the QMUL MA in International Relations in Paris (2021-2023). Her research concentrates on EU-UK foreign and security cooperation, EU migration and asylum policies, EU-Middle East and North Africa, as well as EU’s policies on gender and religion abroad. She is on the Editorial Board of the journal Mediterranean Politics. Her book Michigan University Press on ‘Secular Power Europe and Islam: Identity and foreign policy’(summer 2021) was conducted thanks to a Fulbright-Schuman and a Leverhulme research grants. She is Visiting Professor at the College of Europe and on the steering committee of UACES and of ECPR SGEU.

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Ray Savord at rsavord@berkeley.edu or (510) 642-4555 with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days before the event.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/223910-sarah-wolff-secular-power-europe-insights-on-decentri
Disability Management: Navigating the Process, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236067-disability-management-navigating-the-process

This presentation provides an overview of the disability management process from the employee point of view. This course covers the resources on campus to be utilized when it becomes evident that some assistance is needed. Whether a student employee, Part-time or Full-time, Postdoc, Faculty or Staff, we will discuss how to access disability related resources and requirements of the process. This is a one-hour presentation over the lunch hour with an additional period provided for questions and answers. This is open to all and those needing accommodations are strongly encouraged to email the presenter with requests in advance of the presentation. Please Note: The zoom link will be sent to the participants by email and add it to this workshop description a day before the workshop.

Please Note: The Zoom link will be sent to the participants by email, and add it to this workshop description a day before the workshop.

All participants and hosts must sign into a Zoom account before joining meetings hosted by UC Berkeley. 

Participants who are not eligible for a UC Berkeley-provided Zoom account can use a Zoom account provided by their institution, can create a free consumer Zoom account (at https://zoom.us/freesignup/), or can dial in via the phone.

https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236067-disability-management-navigating-the-process
Bradley Gardner | Two Years After Sri Lanka’s Historic Default: Lessons Learned and What Comes Next, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/239649-bradley-gardner-two-years-after-sri-lankas-historic-d

On April 12, 2022, Sri Lanka defaulted on its debt for the first time since independence. In the months before and after the default Sri Lanka faced record inflation, and shortages of fuel, food, and other essential goods. The Aragalaya protest movement that rose in response to the crisis forced former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to step down and flee the country. In March 2023, the IMF approved a $3 billion four-year Extended Fund Facility arrangement for Sri Lanka - the country’s 17th IMF program - which has stabilized the economy. The Sri Lankan government is in the process of implementing reforms that could start a process of sustainable growth, but major economic and political risks remain.

Bradley Gardner, a U.S. diplomat working in Sri Lanka, will discuss how Sri Lanka got to this point and what could come next.

SPEAKER BIO

Bradley Gardner is a U.S. diplomat working in Sri Lanka. Previously, he served in Slovakia and Nepal, and covered Latvia from Washington D.C. Before joining the State Department he worked as a journalist and economic researcher in China and the Czech Republic. His book “China’s Great Migration: How the Poor Built a Prosperous Nation,” was endorsed by Nobel Laureate Christopher Pissardes, and won the Benjamin Franklin Award and Ippy Gold Medal

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The Latest in Public Health Research: Energy transitions, air pollution, and health equity in the US and Ghana, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/239130-the-latest-in-public-health-research-energy-transitio

Given the health implications of our energy systems and the social drivers of energy use, access, and burden, energy transitions have the potential to impact health outcomes and associated disparities in a context-dependent manner. In this talk, I will present research that has two objectives: 1) to evaluate the distribution of benefits from energy transitions in the United States and in Ghana; 2) to characterize health outcomes that are relevant to these transitions but are currently understudied. I will also introduce future research directions for my group.

Misbath Daouda is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences whose interdisciplinary research focuses on the health equity implications of climate mitigation strategies in the US and in West Africa.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/239130-the-latest-in-public-health-research-energy-transitio
The Latest in Public Health Research: Energy transitions, air pollution, and health equity in the US and Ghana, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/RausserCollege/event/243096-the-latest-in-public-health-research-energy

Given the health implications of our energy systems and the social drivers of energy use, access, and burden, energy transitions have the potential to impact health outcomes and associated disparities in a context-dependent manner. In this talk, I will present research that has two objectives: 1) to evaluate the distribution of benefits from energy transitions in the United States and in Ghana; 2) to characterize health outcomes that are relevant to these transitions but are currently understudied. I will also introduce future research directions for my group.

Misbath Daouda is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences whose interdisciplinary research focuses on the health equity implications of climate mitigation strategies in the US and in West Africa.

https://events.berkeley.edu/RausserCollege/event/243096-the-latest-in-public-health-research-energy
BIDS Seminar with Arash Ardakani, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/240909-bids-seminar-with-arash-ardakani

Arash Ardakani gives a 30-minute presentation about his most recent research and leads a 30-minute Q&A.


DiffSampler: A Differential and Inherently Parallel Sampling Method for Verification

“Diverse input samples to software and hardware designs are essential for their thorough testing and verification to ensure reliability, validity, and applicability of the results to real-world scenarios. Generating such samples is a hard computational problem due to the inherent complexity, size of the search space, and resource constraints involved in the process. Addressing these challenges has prompted the development of specialized algorithms that heavily rely on heuristics. Different from such heuristic algorithms, I recently proposed a novel differentiable sampling method, called DiffSampler, that employs gradient descent (GD) to learn diverse input samples. In this talk, I introduce DiffSampler and show how it formulates the verification problem into a supervised multi-output regression task where its loss function is minimized using GD. Such a differentiable method enables performing the learning operations in parallel, leading to GPU-accelerated sampling and accordingly significant throughput improvements over state-of-the-art heuristic samplers.” - Arash Ardakani

https://events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/240909-bids-seminar-with-arash-ardakani
Health Policy Colloquium Series: Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/237647-health-policy-colloquium-series-jay-bhattacharya-md-p

The University of California, Berkeley Health Policy PhD Program proudly presents the Spring 2024 Health Policy Colloquium Series: a program of stimulating seminars on the most important issues facing patients, providers, health care plans, purchasers, and policy makers today. Hear viewpoints from leading scholars, economists, and research scientists.

Jay Bhattacharya is a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research, a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and at the Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute. He holds courtesy appointments as Professor in Economics and in Health Research and Policy. He directs the Stanford Center on the Demography of Health and Aging. Dr. Bhattacharya’s research focuses on the economics of health care around the world with a particular emphasis on the health and well-being of vulnerable populations. Dr. Bhattacharya’s peer-reviewed research has been published in economics, statistics, legal, medical, public health, and health policy journals. He holds an MD and PhD in economics from Stanford University.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/237647-health-policy-colloquium-series-jay-bhattacharya-md-p
Faculty Seminar Lunch - Merrick Osborne, Visiting Post-Doc MORS, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/242931-faculty-seminar-lunch-merrick-osborne-visitinghttps://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/242931-faculty-seminar-lunch-merrick-osborne-visitingMakerspace Drop-in Hours, April 9https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877067Learn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877067
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235502-makerspace-drop-in-hoursLearn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235502-makerspace-drop-in-hours
Microsoft PowerPoint Advanced Visual Design, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/219586-microsoft-powerpoint-advanced-visual-design

This course describes the process of enhancing presentations using a related feature set of design tools. Emphasis is placed on advanced object animation, multimedia integration, master views, and Object Linking and Embedding (OLE).

https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/219586-microsoft-powerpoint-advanced-visual-design
MORS Colloquium - Modupe Akinola, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/230582-mors-colloquium-modupe-akinola
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https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/230582-mors-colloquium-modupe-akinola
Mohamed Abdou | From Turtle Island to Palestine: Through The Kaleidoscope of Islam & Anarchism, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/CMES/event/243510-mohamed-abdou-from-turtle-island-to-palestine

Dr. Mohamed Abdou is a North African-Egyptian Muslim anarchist interdisciplinary activist-scholar of Indigenous, Black, critical race, and Islamic studies, as well as gender, sexuality, abolition, and decolonization with extensive fieldwork experience in the Middle East-North Africa, Asia, and Turtle Island. This year, he is the Arcapita Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University. He is a former Assistant Professor of Sociology at the American University of Cairo and recently completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University. He has also taught at the University of Toronto & Queen’s University. His research stems from his involvement with the anti-globalization post-Seattle 1999 movements, organizing for Palestinian liberation, the Tyendinaga Mohawks and the sister territories of Kahnawake, Akwesasne, and Kanehsatake, during the standoff over the Culbertson tract, as well as the anti-war protests of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Indigenous Zapatista movement in Chiapas, and the 2011 Egyptian uprisings. He is author of Islam & Anarchism: Relationships & Resonances (Pluto Press, 2022). He wrote his transnational ethnographic and historical-archival PhD dissertation on Islam & Queer-Muslims: Identity & Sexuality in the Contemporary (2019).

https://events.berkeley.edu/CMES/event/243510-mohamed-abdou-from-turtle-island-to-palestine
Physical Chemistry Seminar, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230065-physical-chemistry-seminar

TBD

https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230065-physical-chemistry-seminar
Seminar 221, Industrial Organization: “Topic Forthcoming” Tomás Domínguez-Iino, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237873-seminar-221-industrial-organization-topic-forthcoming

Topic Forthcoming

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237873-seminar-221-industrial-organization-topic-forthcoming
Cripping Performance in Shakespeare’s Disability Play, a lecture by Professor Katherine Schaap Williams, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/english/event/243310-cripping-performance-in-shakespeares-disability-play-

2022 was the year of Richard III, with three major productions—at The Public Theater in New York (USA), Stratford Festival in Ontario (Canada), and the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon (UK). I take up these three prominent examples to ask: what do they reveal about disability aesthetics—and the dramaturgy of disability—in the theater? Analyzing divergent approaches to characterizing Shakespeare’s titular Richard Gloucester, this talk considers how disability drives theatrical experiment and complicates embodied signification.

-Professor Katherine Schaap Williams (University of Toronto)

Sponsored by the UC Berkeley Department of English; The Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies; The Florence Green Bixby Chair in English; The Ida May and William J. Eggers Chair in English; The James D. Hart Chair in English; and the Robert Hass Chair in English. 

https://events.berkeley.edu/english/event/243310-cripping-performance-in-shakespeares-disability-play-
Mirza Taslima Sultana | Trolling in Bangladesh, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/229668-mirza-taslima-sultana-trolling-in-bangladesh

A talk by Mirza Taslima Sultana, Professor of Anthropology at Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh.

Event moderated by Elora Shehabuddin, Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Global Studies and Director, Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, UC Berkeley

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Event live streamed on FB at: ChowdhuryCenter atUCBerkeley

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Abstract

The subject of discussion is the researcher’s most current investigation into trolling in Bangladesh. As the nation’s usage of the internet and social media has grown, so has trolling. The number of people trolling celebs and politicians as well as regular people is rising. Bullying and hate speech were prevalent in public areas, including streets, workplaces, and educational facilities. Nonetheless, the situation is quite concerning due to hate speech that is encouraged online. From 2013 to 2016, 30 bloggers and on 25 April 2016, 2 LGBTQ persons were killed. According to Parsa Sanjana Sajid (2020) LGBTQ communities and sex workers initially found the social media spaces liberating but soon found it to be a dangerous terrain because of these killings. LGBTQ peoples, Sex workers and the bloggers were trolled with receiving death and rape threats.Thus, the researcher explores the beginnings online trolling in this talk and identifies many types of trolling through social media research as well as interviewing the individuals who experienced troll, such as trolling that is sponsored by the state (Nyst and Monaco, 2018), trolling that is motivated by gender, and trolling that is based on ethnicity. The study argues that In the post-truth context (Hannan,2018) of Bangladesh the religious extremists threaten the bloggers or it involves gendertrolling (Mantilla, 2013) of celebrities or trolling by bots to the groups raising dissenting voices, all are affecting the formation of public opinion in the cyberspace of Bangladeshi netizens. While the trolls are active in shaping the cyberspace, and the public space according to their respective goals, the research findings are similar to Lacy and Mookherjee’s (2020) study, that is currently in Bangladesh the head of the government could not be trolled on social media and for this many were arrested under the Information and communication Technology act (2006) and Digital Security Act (2018); though in 2023, a new law, Cyber Security Act was employed, those who faced the charges under the previous acts have been facing the trials, sometimes without the specific police charges. The study finds that Bangladeshi individuals are unable to exercise their constitutionally guaranteed freedoms in cyberspace, and in order to silence their voices, prevalent standards are replicated there and expanded to include a wide range of infractions.

About the Speaker

Mirza Taslima is Professor of Anthropology at Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh. She is currently a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the Department of Gender and Women Studies at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on gender-based trolling, in which she aims to compare the ethnography of trolled people and their agencies between Bangladesh and US contexts. She is conducting an interdisciplinary study in this project to theorize on the formation of the public in cyberspace of Bangladesh and the US and to consider the various expressions of democracy and civil rights. She did her field research in Bangladesh and now is establishing contacts to conduct interviews in the US context.

Dr. Mirza Taslima did her Ph.D. on Childlessness and IVF in Bangladesh at the Center for Gender and Women Studies in Lancaster University, UK.

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Established in 2013 with a generous gift from the Subir & Malini Chowdhury Foundation, The Subir & Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at UC Berkeley champions the study of Bangladesh’s cultures, peoples and history. The first of its kind in the US, the Center’s mission is to create an innovative model combining research, scholarships, the promotion of art and culture, and the building of ties between institutions in Bangladesh and the University of California.

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Please note that parking is not always easily available in Berkeley. Take public transportation if possible or arrive early to secure your spot.

Event is FREE and OPEN to the public.

https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/229668-mirza-taslima-sultana-trolling-in-bangladesh
2024 Robert Kirk Underhill Lecture in Anglo-American Studies : David Reynolds (Univ. of Cambridge) - Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the leaders who shaped him, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/236997-2024-robert-kirk-underhill-lecture-in-anglo-american-

Space is limited. Please RSVP for this event.

The annual Robert Kirk Underhill Lecture is sponsored by the Anglo-American Studies Program. It features a leading figure or figures from political or scholarly circles speaking on US and UK political, legal, or cultural affairs. This year’s speaker is David Reynold (University of Cambridge), who will present on “Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders who Shaped him.”

Winston Churchill is 150 years young. Born in 1874, he continues to arouse passions in our own day – lauded for his leadership against Nazism, castigated for his colonial worldview. He’s often portrayed as a solitary genius, standing alone, but this lecture will show how his path to greatness was shaped by his encounters with other leaders. Men whom he admired, such as David Lloyd George and Franklin Roosevelt; others who got in his way: notably Adolf Hitler; and some whom he misread, especially Josef Stalin. One woman was also indispensable: his wife Clementine. Marriage to Winston proved exhausting but it made her a leader in her own right.

David Reynolds is an award-winning historian and Emeritus Professor of International History at Cambridge University (Christ’s College). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005. Author of fourteen books, ranging across British, US and European history in the twentieth century, his most recent works include Island Stories: Britain and its history in the age of Brexit (2019) and Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the leaders who shaped him (2023)

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Ray Savord at rsavord@berkeley.edu or (510) 642-4555 with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days before the event.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/236997-2024-robert-kirk-underhill-lecture-in-anglo-american-
Fotovision Lecture: An evening with photographer James Nachtwey, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/journalism/event/243314-fotovision-lecture-an-evening-with-photographer

Experience an evening with iconic photographer James Nachtwey. Hear his captivating stories and gain insight into his remarkable career.

Doors open: 6:30 pm

Lecture: 7:00pm

James Nachtwey is an American photojournalist and war photographer. He has documented armed conflicts and social issues, spending time in South Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Russia, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Western Europe and the United States. His photos recently appeared in The New York Times Sunday Magazine. Nachtwey was present during the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and produced a well-known and related body of work. In 2003, Nachtwey was injured in a grenade attack on his convoy while working in Baghdad, from which he made a full recovery. His many honors include the Overseas Press Club’s Robert Capa Gold Medal (five times), World Press Photo award (twice), the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Grant in Humanistic Photography and the Leica Award (twice). Nachtwey has worked with TIME magazine as a contract photographer since 1984.

https://events.berkeley.edu/journalism/event/243314-fotovision-lecture-an-evening-with-photographer
Jakub Józef Orliński, countertenor; Il Pomo d’Oro, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204319-jakub-jozef-orliski-countertenor-il-pomo-doro

Countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński is among today’s most sought-after singers. His 2022 Cal Performances recital sold out with audiences demanding multiple encores. That same year he made his company debut as Orpheus at San Francisco Opera, and he has sung with many of the world’s most esteemed early-music groups. Orliński returns to Berkeley this season with the ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro in a program of rarely performed works from the 16th and 17th centuriesby Monteverdi, Caccini, Frescobaldi, Cavalli, Strozzi, and others.

https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204319-jakub-jozef-orliski-countertenor-il-pomo-doro
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222927-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222927-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229208-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229208-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236451-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236451-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241423-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241423-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence on and after October 7, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/hdi/event/243590-sexual-and-gender-based-violence-on-and-after

International Law Perspectives Part II

As evidence of extensive sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas emerged in the aftermath of October 7, the need to document and report these gender-based atrocities became critically important. Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy (Hebrew University) established the Civil Commission, an independent, unaffiliated, nongovernmental body, to investigate war crimes perpetrated by Hamas against women and children, both on October 7 and afterward among Israeli hostages. Dr. Elkayam-Levy will join Masua Sagiv in conversation, to speak about her work on the Civil Commission.

Cochav Elkayam-Levy, Sophie Davis Fellow on Gender, Conflict Resolution, and Peace, Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Founder and Chair, Dvora Institute for Gender and Sustainability Studies

Masua Sagiv (Moderator), 2021–2024 Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies, UC Berkeley; Scholar-in-Residence, Shalom Hartman Institute

Register: https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_syztirahSk6h5xJ_yeEqiQ

https://events.berkeley.edu/hdi/event/243590-sexual-and-gender-based-violence-on-and-after
BCORE Workshop One: Understanding Your Purpose/Setting Your Goal, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/deib/event/230633-bcore-workshop-one-understanding-your

The Berkeley Career Opportunities and Resources for Equity program (BCORE) is an experience for staff employees committed to their upward career advancement and a leadership workshop for supervisors who are in a position to exercise their sphere of influence to diversify the leadership ranks at the university. This opportunity has been developed specifically for Berkeley staff by expert, Dr. Regina Stanback Stroud.

https://events.berkeley.edu/deib/event/230633-bcore-workshop-one-understanding-your
Computer Ergonomics 101, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236776-computer-ergonomics-101

Learn how to set up a user-friendly ergonomic workstation and incorporate wellness activities to help relieve computer-related aches and pains. This workshop is an in-person alternative to the online RSS Computer Ergonomics self-assessment and training module that can be used to qualify for Ergo Matching Funds. Register at UC Learning Center

https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236776-computer-ergonomics-101
UC Berkeley Staff - Family Free Days, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/243554-uc-berkeley-staff-family-free-days

In partnership with Berkeley Staff Assembly, the UC Botanical Garden is offering UC Berkeley staff Family Free Days! Show your CAL1 Staff card* and receive free entry for yourself and one adult guest, plus all your dependents under 18 years old at the UC Botanical Garden, April 1-April 14 during regular Garden hours.

 

April is the prime time to visit the UC Botanical Garden to admire blooms, unique flora, and discover more than 10,000 plants from all over the world, right in the heart of Berkeley. Feel free to bring a picnic and enjoy lunch at one of the many picnic tables or grassy lawn. Check out the Garden Shop and take a piece of the garden home with you. You can find out more about the UC Botanical Garden here: https://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/

 

Information about parking and transportation can be found here, which includes overflow parking at the Lawrence Hall of Science: https://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/parkinganddirections.

 

Already a big fan of the Botanical Garden? Explore special UC Affiliate member rates here: https://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/join.

 

The UC Botanical Garden is also a fantastic spot for work retreats or meetings, with discounted rates for internal UC Berkeley events. Visit the Rentals page here: https://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/rentals

 

*Please note that the UC Berkeley Staff member must be present with the guest and dependents under 18 years old, to receive free entry.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/243554-uc-berkeley-staff-family-free-days
Bioengineering Seminar: Surgical Bioengineering - Engineering Stem Cells and Extracellular Components for Tissue Regeneration, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/bioe/event/217517-bioengineering-seminar-surgical-bioengineering-engine

Abstract:

This presentation is providing an overview of the ongoing research at the UC Davis School of Medicine, Center for Surgical Bioengineering (CSB). CSB focuses on engineering stem cells and biomaterials to develop novel regenerative therapies for a variety of diseases, with the focus being on the birth defect program in collaboration with the UC Davis Fetal Treatment Center and Shriners Children’s. Birth defects represent a substantial portion of pediatric morbidity and mortality. In the United States, 1 in every 33 infants is born with a congenital anomaly, and congenital anomalies comprise the largest cause of infant death. In utero surgery and stem cell therapy have the potential to revolutionize the treatment of birth defects: instead of merely treating symptoms following birth, anomalies may be treated or cured before birth. The Wang lab has been developing fetal tissue engineering approaches using different types of stem cells, stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles, and extracellular matrix-mimicking biomaterial scaffolds to engineer the fetal environment and treat a variety of birth defects before birth. One of the major projects his lab has focused on over the past decade is on developing a stem cell technology for the fetal treatment of spina bifida. His team have successfully manufactured clinical-grade placenta-derived mesenchymal stem cells (PMSCs) in the UC Davis GMP facility, acquired IND approval from the FDA, and are currently conducting a first-in-human Phase 1/2a clinical trial for the in utero treatment of spina bifida using PMSCs. The Wang lab is also working on using lipid nanoparticles to deliver mRNAs to genetically modify developing stem cells to treat genetic diseases before birth. To harness the stem cell behavior, novel integrin-based ligands identified via One-Bead One-Compound (OBOC) combinatorial technology have been applied to target stem cells and improve stem cell attachment, migration and function.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bioe/event/217517-bioengineering-seminar-surgical-bioengineering-engine
Noon Concert: Broadway Bound!, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235236-noon-concert-broadway-bound

Musical theater’s greatest songs and scenes performed by students from the Vocal Studies program.

Nikolas Nackley, director

Jeffrey Sykes, piano

Admission to all Noon Concerts is free. Registration is recommended at music.berkeley.edu/register.

Safety
The UC Berkeley Department of Music is committed to the health and safety of our students, staff, and patrons. Measures to protect concertgoers and musicians will be informed by state, local, and UC Berkeley Public Health policies and are subject to change. Social distancing, masks, and proof of COVID 19 vaccination may be required. UC Berkeley does not promise or guarantee that all patrons or employees on site are vaccinated. Unvaccinated individuals may be present as a result of exemptions, exceptions, fraudulent verification, or checker error. None of these precautions eliminate the risk of exposure to COVID-19. Registration is strongly encouraged for noon concerts at music.berkeley.edu/register.

Accessibility
If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact the Hertz Hall Manager at 510.642.4864 or hertzhallmgr@berkeley.edu. with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

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Watch
Most concerts are available to stream live or watch later on the Berkeley Music YouTube channel. To watch visit music.berkeley.edu/watch

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235236-noon-concert-broadway-bound
Joyce De Coninck | EU Transnational Cooperative Governance and the EU’s Human Rights Responsibility Gap, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/237675-joyce-de-coninck-eu-transnational-cooperative-governa

When a private corporation cooperates with States as well as international organizations and conduct stemming from this cooperation results in international human rights violations, who can be held legally responsible?

 

During this lecture, systemic deficiencies in the traditionally state- centric human rights regime will be discussed and we will challenge its inadequacies when dealing with contemporary forms of EU transnational cooperative governance. Transnational cooperative governance refers to modes of cooperation in which States, and different Non-State Actors work together in addressing transnational concerns that cannot be adequately regulated by any one of these actors alone.

 

Using border management cooperation between HawkEye 360, the EU, and its Member States as an illustration, it will be demonstratedthat in situations of cooperative governance – involving private corporations, the EU, and States – legal responsibility for unlawful human rights conduct under the contemporary human rights regime, cannot be apportioned effectively among the implicated parties. The diffusion of unlawful conduct between the implicated parties blurs the line between primary human rights violations and secondary rules on responsibility, making it hard to establish which entity committed a wrong capable of triggering an obligation of reparations for individual victims under international human rights law. For this reason, individual victims are ultimately left without an effective judicial remedy and ensuing reparations.

 

Dr. DeConinck’s will be assisted in her presentation by Prof. Violeta Moreno-Lax (Queen Mary University, London) and Prof. Liliane Tsourdi (the University of Maastricht, Netherlands)

 

Dr. Joyce De Coninck is an FWO post-doctoral researcher affiliated with Ghent University and an adjunct professor of EU law at NYU Law School. She is currently working on developing a model of relational human rights responsibility, to effectively apportion human rights responsibility stemming from hybrid forms of cooperation involving state actors and non-state actors such as international organizations and private entities.

 

Joyce De Coninck holds a Master of Laws from Ghent University (2013, Magna Cum Laude) and an LLM in International and European Law from the Institute for European Studies – Free University of Brussels (2015, Summa Cum Laude). She obtained her doctoral degree at Ghent University (2021) titled “Catch-22 in the Law of Responsibility of International Organizations – Systemic Deficiencies in the EU Responsibility Paradigm for Unlawful Human Rights Conduct in Integrated Border Management”. Joyce was subsequently selected as an Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center of New York University (2021-2022), and a Scholar in Residence at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (2022 – 2024).

 

Prior thereto, Joyce was an academic assistant at UGent, an adjunct professor at Minnesota Law School, the University of Amsterdam, and Leiden University, and has provided ad hoc lectures at various institutions, including the College of Europe.

 

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Ray Savord at rsavord@berkeley.edu or (510) 642-4555 with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days before the event.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/237675-joyce-de-coninck-eu-transnational-cooperative-governa
Diaspora/Situations: Interstitial queer worldmaking, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/gws/event/241936-diasporasituations-interstitial-queer-worldmaking

Part of the 2023-2023 Decolonizing Gender and Sexuality Lecture Series

Lecture Description

Despite obliteration, peripheralization, and subsequent erasure from white queer movements, decolonial queer diasporic theorization has resisted and survived in France. In contrast to the conventional queer mobilisation focused on same-sex marriage and other attendant economic and social rights, queer of color and queer migrant organisation, albeit occupying disparate temporal and spatial dimensions, has underscored the critique of coloniality of race/ethnicity in their inhabitation of queerness(-es). In so doing, such mobilization has theorized multiple ways of understanding intersections of power, producing multiple terminologies such as diaspora/situations (Tarek Lakhrissi), queers racisé·e·s, queers/trans révolutionnaires and other French-specific conceptual formations.

Informed by my work with the Decolonizing Sexualities Network, this talk focuses on ‘interstitial queer worldmaking’ as theorization specifically emerging from the ‘interstices’ of queer exilic and diasporic thinking in France. It concerns the spacemaking creativity of queer and trans artists, writers and activism scholarship to understand how certain manifestations of queer in the interstices of coerced economic deprivation, racism, coloniality, occupation and exile, and language produce multiple valences of queer futures that underscore both survival and thrival. Through an engagement with the productions of artists and wrtiers such as, Tarek Lakhrissi (Morocco/France), Alexandre Erre (New Caledonia/France), Kama La Mackerel (Mauritius/Canada), Abdellah Taia (Morocco/France), and activism scholarship, it reads a decolonial queer modality of thinking and doing into contemporary France through the various theorizations being developed in the interstices by queer diasporic and exilic enunciations.

Biography

Sandeep Bakshi researches transnational queer and decolonial enunciation of knowledges. He received his PhD from the School of English, University of Leicester, UK, and is currently employed as an Associate Professor of Decolonial, Postcolonial and Queer Studies at Université Paris Cité. He coordinates two research seminars, “Peripheral Knowledges” and “Empires, Souths, Sexualities,” and headed the “Gender and Sexuality Studies” research group (2020-2023). Co-editor of Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions (Oxford: Counterpress, 2016) and Decolonial Trajectories, special issue of Interventions (2020), he has published on queer and race problematics in postcolonial literatures and cultures. He is the co-founder and serves on the board of the Decolonizing Sexualities Network (https://decolonizingsexualities.org).

About the Decolonizing Gender and Sexuality lecture series:

At present, scholars in many parts of the global south(s) - including the south(s) in the north(s) - are inventing extremely meaningful decolonial gender and sexualities approaches, concepts, methods, and other related theorizations. They generally build upon a long genealogy of such scholarship in their contexts and across the world. Unfortunately, due to a multiplicity of relations of power, most of this work remains unknown, marginalized or erased in the global north(s). This speakers’ series brings scholars of decolonial gender and sexuality together, across languages, regions, kinds of theorizations, in the hope of opening up a space for dialogue.

If you require an accommodation for effective communication in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Gillian Edgelow at gilliane@berkeley.edu or 510-643-7172 with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

https://events.berkeley.edu/gws/event/241936-diasporasituations-interstitial-queer-worldmaking
PMB Seminar with Christine Queitsch, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/pmb/event/236940-pmb-seminar-with-christine-queitsch

Seminar details TBA.

https://events.berkeley.edu/pmb/event/236940-pmb-seminar-with-christine-queitsch
Post-Baccalaureate Health Professions Program Online Information Session, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/extension/event/242913-post-baccalaureate-health-professions-program-online-

Gain academic preparation in the sciences along with one-on-one advising to enhance your application to medical, dental or veterinary school, as well as to advanced degree programs in medical- and health-related fields.

https://events.berkeley.edu/extension/event/242913-post-baccalaureate-health-professions-program-online-
Demography Brown Bag Seminar: “Managing Migration Crises: Evidence from Surge Facilities and Unaccompanied Minor Children Flows”, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event/241331-demography-brown-bag-seminar-managing-migration-crise

Climate change, political turmoil, and economic instability worldwide suggest that managing migration surges will be a permanent challenge for many economies. In response to the record arrival of unaccompanied migrant children at the southern border, the Biden administration used surge facilities to expedite the processing of children. We assess the effectiveness of this strategy and document reductions in the time children spent under government custody. A counterfactual analysis reveals that, in their absence, the average time to reunification would have risen from 37 to 50 days. Migration surges involving unaccompanied children underscore the urgency of identifying efficient and humanitarian strategies.  

https://events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event/241331-demography-brown-bag-seminar-managing-migration-crise
Susmita Basu Majumdar | Asoka and the Afterlives of Asokan Edicts, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/241805-susmita-basu-majumdar-asoka-and-the-afterlives-of-aso

A talk by Susmita Basu Majumdar, Professor in the Department of Ancient Indian History and Culture, University of Calcutta.

Event moderated by Osmund Bopearachichi, Numata Visiting Professor of Central and South Asian Art, Archaeology, and Numismatics, UC Berkeley.
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Speaker Bio

Professor in the Department of Ancient Indian History and Culture, University of Calcutta, Susmita Basu Majumdar’s specializations are Epigraphy and Numismatics. She also is deeply interested in Cultural history, Religious history and History of Medicine and Surgery. She is also well conversant with ancient languages like Sanskrit and Prakrit.

Prof. Susmita Basu Majumdar has been the recipient of numerous prestigious fellowships and recognitions in the country and abroad. She has been involved in cataloguing coins in the British Museum, Allahabad University Museum and many more collections. She has conducted and framed courses on Epigraphy, Numismatics, Prakrit Language and Grammar in many prestigious institutions.

Her publications include Local Coins of Ancient India: Coins of Malhar (Anjaneri 2000 ), Essays on History of Medicine with Nayana Sharma Mukherjee Mumbai 2013), Kalighat Hoard: The First Gupta Coin Hoard from India (Kolkata 2014), Select Early Historic Inscriptions: Epigraphic Perspectives on the Ancient Past of Chhattisgarh with Shivakant Bajpai Raipur 2015 ), Barabar and Nagarjuni Hills: A Biography of Twin Sites (Patna 2016 ), The Mauryas in Karnataka (Kolkata 2016), Money and Money Matters in Pre Modern South Asia with S.K.Bose (New Delhi 2019), From Hindu Kush to Salt Range: Mauryan, Indo-Greek and Indo-Scythian Coin Hoards (Kolkata 2020), Mahasthan Record Revisited: Querying the Empire from a Regional Perspective (New Delhi 2023). She has published more than 50 articles in reputed journals and edited volumes.
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Event made possible with the support of the Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies

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Please note that parking is not always easily available in Berkeley. Take public transportation if possible or arrive early to secure your spot.

Event is FREE and OPEN to the public.

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If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Puneeta Kala at pkala@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/241805-susmita-basu-majumdar-asoka-and-the-afterlives-of-aso
To Delegate or Not To Delegate: Gender Differences in Affective Associations and Behavioral Responses to Delegation, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/ipsr/event/243624-to-delegate-or-not-to-delegate-gender-differences

Effectively delegating work to others is considered critical to managerial success, as it frees up managers’ time and develops subordinates’ skills. We propose that female leaders are less likely than male leaders to capitalize on these benefits of delegating. Although delegation has communal (e.g., relational) and agentic (e.g., assertive) properties, we argue that female leaders, as compared to male leaders, find it more difficult to delegate tasks due to gender-role incongruence. In five studies, we draw upon social role and backlash theories to show that women imbue delegation with more agentic traits, have more negative associations with delegating, and feel greater guilt about delegating than men. These associations result in women delegating less than men and, when they do delegate, having lower-quality interactions with subordinates. We further show that reframing delegation as communal attenuates women’s negative associations with delegation. These findings reveal that even when a given behavior has both agentic and communal elements, perceptions of agency can undermine women’s engagement in them. However, emphasizing the communal nature of seemingly agentic acts may encourage women’s engagement in such critical leadership behaviors. These findings have theoretical and practical implications for research on gender differences and leadership behavior in the workplace.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ipsr/event/243624-to-delegate-or-not-to-delegate-gender-differences
RWAP: Allison Anoll: Research Workshop in American Politics, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/igs/event/239733-rwap-allison-anoll-research-workshop-in-american

RWAP is pleased to welcome guest speaker Allison Anoll on 4/10.

https://events.berkeley.edu/igs/event/239733-rwap-allison-anoll-research-workshop-in-american
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, April 10https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877068Learn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877068
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235501-makerspace-drop-in-hoursLearn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235501-makerspace-drop-in-hours
UDL Strategies for Prolonged Student Engagement, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/243359-udl-strategies-for-prolonged-student-engagement

What does it look like when students sustain effort in their learning? How can instructors cultivate learning activities that incorporate strategies to sustain effort and engagement? Through a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) lens, this 30 minute session will provide suggestions for strategies that encourage students to sustain effort over the course of complex learning or multi-step projects.

In this workshop you will:

  • Identify key strategies for sustaining effort when learning demands are complex

  • Learn to apply UDL principles to encourage students to sustain effort and persistence

  • Explore options for sustaining effort and persistence in learning

This session will run for 30 minutes, with an additional 15 minutes reserved for questions. This session will be held via Zoom. Please register to get the Zoom link.

➡️Register for this event here!(link is external)⬅️

***Registration for this session will close one hour before the session***

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/243359-udl-strategies-for-prolonged-student-engagement
Probability seminar: Hao Wu, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/probability-seminar/event/240849-probability-seminar-hao-wu

TBA

https://events.berkeley.edu/probability-seminar/event/240849-probability-seminar-hao-wu
Derived Landscapes? African diaspora in the making of a new European Urban Economy, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/geog/event/232238-derived-landscapes-african-diaspora-in-the-making-of-

Analyzing the role of the so-called ‘African markets’ in transforming the urban economy of European metropolises is the central focus of the presentation at the colloquium. Through the study of Ridley Street Market, located in Hackney (London, UK), I aim to reflect on the organization of commercial activities established by West African immigrants, considering the scope of their activities and their impacts on the metropolitan space of London. This reflection prompts a proposed update to the concept of ‘Derived Landscapes,’ coined by the French geographer Max Sorre in the mid-20th century, in light of the dynamism exhibited by African immigrants in reshaping European urban landscape.

Kauê Lopes dos Santos is a Professor at the Department of Geography at UNICAMP (Brazil) and a Visiting Fellow at the Latin America and Caribbean Centre at LSE (UK). Santos is committed to conducting comparative studies in the Global South, particularly emphasizing urbanization and topics related to the urban and regional economy. His research focuses on case studies in Latin America and West Africa. Additionally, Santos is the author of “Africano: uma introdução ao continente” (2022) and “De l’or contre des déchets” (2022).

https://events.berkeley.edu/geog/event/232238-derived-landscapes-african-diaspora-in-the-making-of-
Spaces of Artifice: Interiors and the Environment in Islamic Architecture by Patricia Blessing, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/arthistory/event/241485-spaces-of-artifice-interiors-and-the-environment

Spaces of Artifice: Interiors and the Environment in Islamic Architecture 

Abstract: Focusing on examples in the eastern Mediterranean, built between the thirteenth and the sixteenth centuries, this talk analyses how interior spaces were designed in relationship to nature, with an emphasis on water. While gardens within the Islamic world have been studied in detail, less attention has been devoted to the ways in which nature is allowed to permeate buildings, and how it becomes part of interior spaces. For instance, buildings often contain water features such as fountains and basin, both indoors and in liminal courtyard spaces, supplied by aqueducts, cisterns, and open domes that allow rain and snow to enter. As this talk shows, such water features are integral parts of the buildings’ interiors and affect multisensory perception of these spaces. These water features thus constitute eco-architecture in that they serve to preserve water and regulate temperature for human use, allowing for an exploration of the relationship between architecture and climate.

The talk is part of History of Art’s occasional “In My Backyard” series, dedicated to fostering conversations with our colleagues in art history at Bay Area institutions.

 

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact the History of Art Department at art_history@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

https://events.berkeley.edu/arthistory/event/241485-spaces-of-artifice-interiors-and-the-environment
Okaiko: Performance Silkworm, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/cjs/event/241964-okaiko-performance-silkworm
Through poetic exploration of voice, body, and costume, performer Aine Nakamura (Ph.D. student, Music) will present a new performance, Okaiko. Okaiko are silkworms, a starting point for contemplating both the delicate image of silk textiles and the dense complexities of the silk industry and global trade. Until her exploration, silk for Nakamura was simply a part of her maternal family history in the city of mulberries, Hachiouji. Raw silk exported from Asia to Europe and the U.S. were used to make influential products. So many hands, many of them women’s hands, have been involved in the global manufacture of silk products: laboring hands in factories that seemed separated from politics have produced luxuries, weapons, and status symbols. Silk was one of the main products through which Japan gained economic profits and strengthened its military prior to World War II. For Nakamura, silk-related industrial labor and domestic reproductive labor overlap through the figures of hard-working silkworms and social norms imposed upon women. Former silk workers later commented that they were just thankful to have been able to work for their parents.

What is a cocoon, nest, safe space? How can a silkworm molt out of a cocoon and become a moth without being boiled? How can a new language be reimagined without being confined? If silkworms, diligent industrial and domestic labor, or export and import are linked in the chains of complicity with violence, what kinds of small acts can become catalysts for coexistence? Through these questions of gender, trade, labor, and Okaiko, Nakamura will study her familial and personal ethnography.

A talk and Q&A will follow the performance, moderated by Professors Marié Abe (Music) and Andrew Leong (English).



Singer, performer and composer Aine Nakamura creates an art of voice and body, weaving stories.

Her recent works include her solo performance Under an Unnamed Flower at the 2022 Venice Biennale, performance project Circle hasu We plant seeds in the spring of mountains presented at the 2022 Theatertreffen at Berliner Festspiele, an outdoor audiovisual performance CICADA premiered at CNMAT at UC Berkeley (2023) in collaboration with visual artist Olivia Ting and sound technologist Luke Dzwonczyk. She has presented her other performances and mixed music and artworks at The LAB is SF, Berlin University of the Arts, HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin, Errant Sound in collaboration with Brandon LaBelle, A Concert of Electronic Music in honor of Mario Davidovsky, Dias de Música Electroacústica, the SEAMUS Conference, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival performed with cellist Madeleine Shapiro, October New Music Festival performed with Mikro Ensemblen, and Abrons Arts Center with International Contemporary Ensemble. Awardee of the Fulbright Fellowship (2021-22, Berlin), The Leo Bronstein Homage Award, and The Honorable Mention Award for the 2020 Pauline Oliveros New Genre Prize.
www.evaaine.com
https://events.berkeley.edu/cjs/event/241964-okaiko-performance-silkworm
ERG Colloquium Series Spring 2024: Eli Lazarus, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/ERG/event/232270-erg-colloquium-series-spring-2024-eli-lazarus

Giannini 141. More information TBA

https://events.berkeley.edu/ERG/event/232270-erg-colloquium-series-spring-2024-eli-lazarus
The Meaning of Brexit and the Future of the United Kingdom, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/iis/event/243412-the-meaning-of-brexit-and-the-future-of-the-united

The Brits are well known for their strange antics but many people around the world found Brexit truly surreal. Cambridge history professor David Reynolds will try to explain why the British found it so hard to live inside the European Union and why they found it equally hard to leave – making fools of five prime ministers along the way. He will offer colorful portraits of figures such as Boris Johnston and David Cameron. And he will reflect on another problematic union – the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland” – examining its roots in centuries of English empire-building and asking whether the UK can really hang together in an era of mounting nationalism.  

https://events.berkeley.edu/iis/event/243412-the-meaning-of-brexit-and-the-future-of-the-united
Shakespeare’s Willy: a Talk with Professor Jessie Hock, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/english/event/243549-shakespeares-willy-a-talk-with-professor-jessie-hock

Hock reads punning in Shakespeare’s “will” sonnets (135 and 136) as activating and ironizing sexual dynamics baked into the Petrarchan tradition. Shakespeare’s crude jokes emerge as a twofold assault on seriousness: first, on the prudishness of the lyric tradition, and second, on the tenacious pieties of literary criticism.

Jessie Hock is assistant professor of English at Vanderbilt University, with a secondary appointment in French and Italian and an affiliation in Gender and Sexuality Studies. She works on English and continental Renaissance and early modern poetry, the history of materialist thought, classical reception history, and contemporary philosophy and critical theory. Her first book, The Erotics of Materialism: Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021), shows how early modern poets read Lucretius’s De rerum natura, the most complete extant exposition of classical atomist philosophy, as a treatise on the poetic imagination, initiating an atomist genealogy at the heart of the lyric tradition. Her recent publications include essays on Lucretius, Michel de Montaigne, Margaret Cavendish, John Milton, Gilles Deleuze, and Remy Belleau, and she is also the co-translator (with Alex Dubilet) of two book by contemporary French philosopher, François Laruelle. Her current book project tracks the influence of Lucretian materialism on 20th and 21st century philosophy and theory.

https://events.berkeley.edu/english/event/243549-shakespeares-willy-a-talk-with-professor-jessie-hock
Sonali Deraniyagala, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243594-sonali-deraniyagala

While on vacation at a beach resort on the coast of Sri Lanka in 2004, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her husband, their two sons, her parents, her best friend, and her best friend’s mother in the Indian Ocean tsunami. Deraniyagala herself was carried two miles inland by the water; by clinging to a tree limb, she was the only member of the group to survive.

Wave is Deraniyagala’s account of the nearly incomprehensible event and its emotional aftermath. An economist who currently teaches at the University of London and Columbia, Deraniyagala did not have a background in personal, creative, or literary writing. Her decision to write a memoir began at the advice of her therapist, who suggested that she write down her painful memories in an effort to work through her trauma and suffering.

Described by Cheryl Strayed as “the most exceptional book about grief I’ve ever read,” Wave became a New York Times bestseller and won the PEN Ackerley Prize in 2013. Hailed for its “scrupulous honesty and unsentimentality,” it was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography/memoir.

In her visit to Berkeley, Deraniyagala engages in conversation about her writing practices, her evolution as a memoirist, and the emotional and intellectual experience of writing Wave.

The Art of Writing Lecture is supported by a generous endowment created in memory of Michael Rogin, who taught political science at UC Berkeley for more than three decades.

https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/243594-sonali-deraniyagala
CANCELED: How Long Can The Moon Be Caged? (CRG Forum Series), April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/crg/event/229076-how-long-can-the-moon-be-caged-crg-forum-series

CRG’s Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative presents:
HOW LONG CAN THE MOON BE CAGED?
with Suchitra Vijayan & Francesca Recchia (Authors of How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? Voices of Indian Political Prisoners (Pluto Press))

in conversation with
Angana P. Chatterji
Founding Co-Chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights, Center for Race and Gender and Research Anthropologist, UC Berkeley

 

*If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) to fully participate in this event, please contact Ariana Ceja at centerrg@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

https://events.berkeley.edu/crg/event/229076-how-long-can-the-moon-be-caged-crg-forum-series
Holloway Poetry Series: LaTasha Nevada Diggs, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/english/event/236178-holloway-poetry-series-latasha-nevada-diggs

The Holloway Series presents a reading by poet LaTasha Nevada Diggs.

LaTasha Nevada Diggs is a poet and sound artist from Harlem. She is the author of Village (Coffee House Books, 2023), TwERK (Belladonna*, 2013), the chapbooks Ichi-Ban: from the files of muneca morena linda (MOH Press, 1998) and Ni-Ban: Villa Miseria (MOH Press, 2001), and the album “Televisíon” (2003). Her work has been featured at the Venice Biennale, the Whitney, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art. Her honors include fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and Cave Canem, as well as a C.D. Wright Award for Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Art and a Whiting Award. She earned her MFA at California College of the Arts and is currently a faculty member at Stetson University and Brooklyn College.

https://events.berkeley.edu/english/event/236178-holloway-poetry-series-latasha-nevada-diggs
Film Screening: Ch’ul be, Sacred Path, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240557-film-screening-chul-be-sacred-path

Ch’ul be delves into the Tsotsil sacred path, exploring ancient collective commitments that sustain the cycle of life in the community. In San Andrés Larráinzar, Chiapas, everyone is responsible for the collective well-being, but few are chosen to follow the path of serving the gods. Ch’ul be is the path of Martha and Diego, and of Román and his son Tino. It is a journey from the everyday to the divine, from the individual to the collective, to ensure that knowledge is not lost and the cycle is not broken.

-Terra Nostra Films
https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240557-film-screening-chul-be-sacred-path
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222926-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222926-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229207-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229207-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236450-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236450-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241422-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241422-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
AI & History Symposium, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/rhetoric/event/229907-ai-history-symposium

AI & History Symposium

David Bates

Johan Fredrikzon

Julia Irwin

https://events.berkeley.edu/rhetoric/event/229907-ai-history-symposium
BPM 207 Leading Change, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/223652-bpm-207-leading-change

Access to registration is disabled two days prior to the event.

This 6-hour in-person workshop is part of the BPM Part 3: Grow Your Team series and is an elective option for the UC Systemwide People Management Certificate. In this highly interactive workshop, each participant’s experience is drawn upon for the learning. Ideally, to contribute to and enhance understanding, participants will come with current and/or previous people management experience.

The content provides the knowledge and skills necessary to successfully lead a team through a change initiative.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
*Identify the organizational approach to change related to their particular change initiative
*Write a case for change, a vision for the future, and create a change plan
*Create a team-specific communication plan
*Explain the leader’s role in change management and the skills required to successfully lead a change initiative
*Explore resistance to change, and learn ways to address it productively
*Identify ways to inspire commitment and help implement change
*Locate resources to guide and support change management efforts

https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/223652-bpm-207-leading-change
Graduate Research Seminar, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/207008-graduate-research-seminar

Title TBA

https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/207008-graduate-research-seminar
Graduate Research Seminar, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/209316-graduate-research-seminar

Title TBA

https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/209316-graduate-research-seminar
External Finance Seminars: Manju Puri - Duke, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/237076-external-finance-seminars-manju-puri-dukeGuest:
Manju Puri
Duke


Paper:
TBD
https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/237076-external-finance-seminars-manju-puri-duke
LinkedIn Basics, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/236313-linkedin-basics

LinkedIn is a great tool for establishing an online presence, conducting career research, and facilitating connections with other
professionals. This workshop addresses the basics to help you set up a complete and effective LinkedIn profile. We encourage you to login
in to LinkedIn and view your profile to assess and apply what you learn during this workshop.

https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/236313-linkedin-basics
Tell Your Story: The Power of Your Discovery Narrative to Guide Your Future, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/bdiscovery/event/229112-tell-your-story-the-power-of-your-discovery-narrative

How do you translate your experience at Cal to your future career? This workshop is designed for graduating undergraduate students (or those worried about graduation) to reflect on what you discovered in and beyond the classroom to hone your story. Come learn how to frame your experiences to open doors for the next chapter of your life after graduation.

Offered in-person or online (60 mins). Lunch provided to first 30 attendees.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bdiscovery/event/229112-tell-your-story-the-power-of-your-discovery-narrative
Tell Your Story: The Power of Your Discovery Narrative to Guide Your Future, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229273-tell-your-story-the-power-of-your-discovery

How do you translate your experience at Cal to your future career? This workshop is designed for graduating undergraduate students (or those worried about graduation) to reflect on what you discovered in and beyond the classroom to hone your story. Come learn how to frame your experiences to open doors for the next chapter of your life after graduation.

Offered in-person or online (60 mins). Lunch provided to first 30 attendees.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229273-tell-your-story-the-power-of-your-discovery
Ask Us Anything! IPIRA Faculty Webinar, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/ipira/event/237127-ask-us-anything-ipira-faculty-webinar

Ask IPIRA Office of Technology Licensing Officers and IPIRA Industry Alliances Contracting Officers questions about anything at this open, virtual meeting.

 

https://events.berkeley.edu/ipira/event/237127-ask-us-anything-ipira-faculty-webinar
Coming Soon! Zoom Butterfly Talk with Sarab Seth, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/243163-coming-soon-zoom-butterfly-talk-with-sarab-seth

Join us for a virtual butterfly presentation with Sarab Seth. More details to come. 

https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/243163-coming-soon-zoom-butterfly-talk-with-sarab-seth
OEW Seminar - Eoin McGuirk (Tufts), April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/229877-oew-seminar-eoin-mcguirk-tuftsPaper Topic: ”Development Mismatch: Evidence from Agricultural Projects in Pastoral Africa”https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/229877-oew-seminar-eoin-mcguirk-tuftsShansby Marketing Seminar - Malika Korganbekova (Kellogg), April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/242979-shansby-marketing-seminar-malika-korganbekovahttps://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/242979-shansby-marketing-seminar-malika-korganbekovaEcon 235, Finance Lunch Seminar: “Does Mortgage Forbearance Prevent Financial Distress in the Long Run? Household Balance Sheet Evidence and Macroeconomic Implications”, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/239232-econ-235-finance-lunch-seminar-does-mortgage-forbeara

The Finance Student Lunch Seminar meets intermittently on Thursdays in Evans 597 from 12:45pm.

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/239232-econ-235-finance-lunch-seminar-does-mortgage-forbeara
Che Abram: C.A.R.E. (Compassion, Advocacy, Resposibility, Empowerment) Awareness, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/239292-che-abram-care-compassion-advocacy-resposibility-empo

Often we find ourselves in situations or environments that may be disruptive, uncomfortable, or even harmful. During this workship the facilitator will use the RePAIR framework C.A.R.E. model, participants will learn about several methods of C.A.R.E. that are available for individuals, teams, departments, and organizations to calibrate before or after these experiences.

This workshop is open to Berkeley Public Health students, faculty, and staff.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/239292-che-abram-care-compassion-advocacy-resposibility-empo
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, April 11https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877069Learn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877069
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235500-makerspace-drop-in-hoursLearn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235500-makerspace-drop-in-hours
Diné Nishłį (I am a Sacred Being): A Boarding School Play, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/arc/event/236311-din-nish-i-am-a-sacred-being-a-boarding-school-play

World Premiere Run of Diné Nishłį (I am a Sacred Being): A Boarding School Play by Blossom Johnson. Exuberant, sunny, and delightful, this boarding school comedy celebrates the enthusiastic passions of young Native women. Directed by Daniel Leeman Smith.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

Thurs, April 11 at 2pm: Matinee + Playwright Talkback

Fri, April 12 at 7pm: Media preview/opening

Sat, April 13 at 7pm: Performance

Sun, April 14 at 2pm: Matinee

Four high school girls are thrilled when their song’n’dance group is selected to sing the Navajo National Anthem at the Winter Olympics in 2002. Bursting with excitement, hope, and confidence, the girls’ plans are upset when a teacher thinks one of them left a threatening voicemail. Jumping into action, they launch a plan to get rid of that teacher. Exuberant, sunny, and delightful, this boarding school comedy celebrates the enthusiastic passions of young Native women.

AlterTheater is Berkeley’s 2024-2026 Indigenous Performing Arts Resident company, and Blossom Johnson will be the 2024 Indigenous Performing Arts artist-in-residence.

Blossom Johnson is a Diné storyteller, playwright, teaching artist and screenwriter. She is from the Yé’ii Dine’é Táchii’nii (Giant People) clan, and her maternal grandfather is from the Deeshchíí’nii (Start of the Red Streak People) clan.

Blossom has been commissioned by AlterTheatre Ensemble and has been awarded a residency with Willowtail Springs/Durango PlayFest. She is excited to make a smooth transition from theater to film narrative with the In Progress NEXUS Program in St. Paul, MN. Additionally, she has been awarded the 2022 First Peoples Fund Cultural Capital Fellowship, La Lengua/ AlterTheater Ensemble’s Decolonization Stories Commission 2022 and is proud to be a recipient of The Playwrights’ Center 2022-23 Jerome Fellowship. She is a mentee in writing for animation with the Netflix Animation Foundations Program 2022. As a dramaturg, Blossom has worked with Native Voices at the Autry, UCSB Launch Pad, PlayPenn, Urbanite Theatre, New Native Theatre and YIPAP (Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program). She has served as a panelist and script reader for the 22′ Playwrights’ Center Many Voices Fellowship and the 22′ New Harmony Project. Blossom holds an MFA in Dramaturgy from Columbia University and a BA in Theatre from Arizona State University. A proud member of the Dramatists Guild, and the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA).

She was raised by her grandmother on the very top of Dził Yijiin (Black Mesa), AZ and she’s always been surrounded by stories. When she opens the front door of her grandma’s yellow house, she can see a coal mine. Below the mesa is an old run-down restaurant where her mother used to hustle as a waitress during the summer in her teen years, and there is an old store where her grandmother would up-sale her hand made jewelry to tourists by the entrance, but the restaurant and the store has now been closed for years because what was taken from the earth was diminished, so no one stayed, and they eventually went out of business.

The people that stayed are Diné, and their stories, her stories, are thriving. When she creates, she writes for her people and the stories she writes come from memories, experiences, and family history. In her writing, she reveals truths that are hard to face but she balances the darkness with humor, so the viewer has a chance to breathe and laugh.

https://events.berkeley.edu/arc/event/236311-din-nish-i-am-a-sacred-being-a-boarding-school-play
MCB Seminar: Title to be announced, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/HWNI/event/229325-mcb-seminar-title-to-be-announced

Abstract to be announced

https://events.berkeley.edu/HWNI/event/229325-mcb-seminar-title-to-be-announced
Division of Neurobiology and H. Wills Neuroscience Institute Seminar, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/209801-division-of-neurobiology-and-h-wills-neuroscienceThis seminar is partially sponsored by NIH
Division(s): Division of Neurobiology & H. Wills Neuroscience Institute
https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/209801-division-of-neurobiology-and-h-wills-neuroscience
Dasjon Jordan: Building Community Wealth & Power in New Orleans | City & Regional Planning Lecture, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/ced/event/241808-dasjon-jordan-building-community-wealth-power

The Broad Street neighborhoods of New Orleans are a microcosm of the city’s richness in history, culture, and self-determination. Through disasters, discrimination, and uncertainty, these communities have produced innovation in civic leadership and economic growth and solidarity that influences the region and the country. In this City & Regional Planning lecture, Dasjon Jordan, executive director of Broad Community Connections, speaks to how the place-based economic development organization works to build community power and wealth and equitably shape the Broad Street neighborhoods.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Dasjon Jordan is the executive director of Broad Community Connections, a community economic development organization dedicated to catalyzing revitalization along New Orleans’s Broad Street, centering the values of residents in decision-making, and building community power and wealth. As an urban planner, he has worked with public and private agencies in the U.S., South Africa, and Mexico focusing on cultural-economic planning strategies. Jordan was previously the strategy and development officer for Ujamaa Economic Development Corporation and a MIT CoLab fellow. He holds a master’s in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and bachelor’s in architecture from Louisiana State University.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ced/event/241808-dasjon-jordan-building-community-wealth-power
Mathematics Department Colloquium: Geometry emerging from spectra, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/239063-mathematics-department-colloquium-tbdWe give a gentle introduction to the spectral approach to geometry, where we replace spaces by commutative algebras, and capture the metric by combining it with the vibration spectrum of a suitable operator on the geometric space. We will give many examples and also show how to reconstruct geometry from this spectral data. This will allow us to generalize to noncommutative spaces, which we illustrate by some of the key examples. We will conclude by establishing some convergence results on the emerging geometric spaces when an increasing part of the spectrum is available.https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/239063-mathematics-department-colloquium-tbdThe 2024 Bedri Distinguished Writers Lecture, April 11/event/209907-the-2024-bedri-distinguished-writers-lecture

The Spring 2024 Bedri Distinguished Writer Series will feature a lecture from author and Professor Cristina Rivera Garza.

Dr. Cristina Rivera Garza is the award-winning author of six novels, three collections of short stories, five collections of poetry and three non-fiction books. Originally written in Spanish, these works have been translated into multiple languages, including English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Korean. The recipient of the Roger Caillois Award for Latin American Literature (Paris, 2013); as well as the Anna Seghers (Berlin, 2005), she is the only author who has won the International Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize twice, in 2001 for her novel Nadie me verá llorar (translated into English by Andrew Hurley as No One Will See Me Cry ) and again in 2009 for her novel La muerte me da. She has translated, from English into Spanish, Notes on Conceptualisms by Vanessa Place and Robet Fitterman; and, from Spanish into English, “Nine Mexican Poets edited by Cristina Rivera Garza,” in New American Writing 31. She was the Breeden Eminent Scholar at Auburn University in Fall 2015 and a fellow at the UCSD Center for Humanities 2015-2016. She received a Senate Grant from UCSD and the prestigious three-year Sistema Nacional de Creadores grant from Mexico.

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The 2024 Bedri Distinguished Writers Lecture, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/lacc/event/232178-the-2024-bedri-distinguished-writers-lecture

The Spring 2024 Bedri Distinguished Writer Series will feature a lecture from author and Professor Cristina Rivera Garza.

Dr. Cristina Rivera Garza is the award-winning author of six novels, three collections of short stories, five collections of poetry and three non-fiction books. Originally written in Spanish, these works have been translated into multiple languages, including English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Korean. The recipient of the Roger Caillois Award for Latin American Literature (Paris, 2013); as well as the Anna Seghers (Berlin, 2005), she is the only author who has won the International Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize twice, in 2001 for her novel Nadie me verá llorar (translated into English by Andrew Hurley as No One Will See Me Cry ) and again in 2009 for her novel La muerte me da. She has translated, from English into Spanish, Notes on Conceptualisms by Vanessa Place and Robet Fitterman; and, from Spanish into English, “Nine Mexican Poets edited by Cristina Rivera Garza,” in New American Writing 31. She was the Breeden Eminent Scholar at Auburn University in Fall 2015 and a fellow at the UCSD Center for Humanities 2015-2016. She received a Senate Grant from UCSD and the prestigious three-year Sistema Nacional de Creadores grant from Mexico.

https://events.berkeley.edu/lacc/event/232178-the-2024-bedri-distinguished-writers-lecture
Cristina Rivera Garza: Bedri Distinguished Writers Series, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/english/event/236385-cristina-rivera-garza-bedri-distinguished-writers

Professor Cristina Rivera Garza will deliver the 2024 lecture in the Bedri Distinguished Writers Series on April 11th, 2024, at 5 PM in Wheeler Hall, Room 315.

Professor Cristina Rivera Garza is an author, translator and critic. Recent publications include Liliana’s Invincible Summer (Hogarth, 2023), which was long listed for the National Book Award in nonfiction. The Taiga Syndrome, trans. by Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana, (Dorothy Project, 2018) was awarded the 2018 Shirley Jackson Award. Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country, trans. by Sarah Booker (The Feminist Press, 2020) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle for Criticism. In 2020, she was a MacArthur Fellow and is currently Artist-In-Residence at DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) in Berlin. She is M.D. Anderson Distinguished Professor and founder of the PhD Program in Creative Writing in Spanish at the University of Houston, Department of Hispanic Studies.

https://events.berkeley.edu/english/event/236385-cristina-rivera-garza-bedri-distinguished-writers
The Birth of Prince Siddhārtha: From Divergent Textual Sources to Distinct Visual Narratives, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/bs/event/238100-the-birth-of-prince-siddhrtha-from-divergent

2024 Chao Lecture

The Birth of Prince Siddhārtha: From Divergent Textual Sources to Distinct Visual Narratives


Important events related to the life of the historical Buddha are not homogeneously represented in ancient schools of art in South and Southeast Asia, and these differences are due to the confusion and irregularity of the way in which the events are narrated in sacred texts. Among the many episodes of this kind, the events relating to the birth of Siddhārtha have given rise to major (yet at times unnoticed by scholars) disparities in their depiction.Taking this crucial moment in the life of the future Buddha as its focus, this talk examines how the Lalitavistara, the Mahāvastu, and the Buddhacarita, as well as the Chinese and Tibetan translations of the original Sanskrit texts of the Abhiniṣkramaṇa sūtra and the Mūlasarvāstivāda vinaya, and Pāli literature, principally the Nidānakathā, offer divergent narratives. To begin, the iconographies of major Indian Buddhist schools associated with surviving works of art and architecture in stone at Bharhut, Sāñchī, Amarāvatī, Kanaganahalli, Nāgārjunakoṇḍa, Phanigiri, Gandhāra, and Mathurā will be examined. These findings will be compared with paintings preserved in ancient Buddhist temples in Sri Lanka,Tibet, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Kizil and Dunhuang in the northern Silk Road in China. We will see that the Sanskrit texts, despite slight variations, agree that the Bodhisattva came out of his mother’s right side and that, owing to this, he was not defiled by the impurities of the womb. This is a revival of the ṛgvedic theme of the birth of Indra, fully grown through his mother’s side (R̥gveda, 4.18.2), by Buddhist hagiographers who thus made Prince Siddhārtha a new Indra. The narrative of the Pāli Nidānakathā is in harmony, to some extent, with the Sanskrit texts until Queen Māyā, standing and holding the branch of the sāl tree in the park at Lumbini, gives birth to her son. The story then takes a drastic turn when the people draw a curtain around her and withdraw. At this moment, the future Buddha is described as leaving his mother’s womb like a preacher (dhammakathika in Pāli) descending from a pulpit (dhammāsana in Pāli) or like a man descending a ladder, erect, stretching out his hands and feet. In China and Tibet, by contrast, murals and banners clearly depict the miraculous birth of Prince Siddhārtha from his mother’s armpit. This reminds us of the narrative in the Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa (commentary on the Krishna Yajurveda) where Prajapati (Creator God Brahmā) gives birth to seasons from his armpits. Siddhārtha’s birth was as miraculous as that of the Vedic gods and heroes, who were born from the mother’s thigh, hand, head, or armpit. This teaches us that Buddhist texts and related iconographic motifs and conventions developed in a context of fusion whereby local traditions and aesthetics were actively integrated, stimulating the creation of exciting and diverse narrative forms.

Osmund Bopearachchi, Chao Visiting Professor in Buddhist Studies and Emeritus Director of Research of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS-ENS), Paris, is a numismatist, art historian, and archaeologist. He is also a former Visiting Professor and Member of the Doctoral School of the Paris-Sorbonne University, Paris. Among his numerous publications are books, articles, exhibition catalogues, and translated and edited volumes; he is also a principal collaborator on numerous audio-visual projects and museum and archaeological databases. The French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres has honored five of his books with prestigious awards, including the distinguished George Perrot Medal (2015). In 2006 the French government honored his career achievements with the “Order of Academic Palms.” Prof. Bopearachchi holds a BA from the University of Kelaniya (Sri Lanka); a BA honors, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. from the Paris I Sorbonne University; and a Higher Doctorate (Habilitation) from the Paris IV Sorbonne University.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bs/event/238100-the-birth-of-prince-siddhrtha-from-divergent
Zahra Hayat & Shozab Raza | The S. S. Pirzada Lectures on Pakistan, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/229489-zahra-hayat-shozab-raza-the-s-s-pirzada-lectures-on-p

The S. S. Pirzada Lectures on Pakistan by Dr. Zahra Hayat (UC Berkeley) and Dr. Shozab Raza (University of Toronto).

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This event will be live streamed on the Institute’s FB page: ISASatUCBerkeley
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  • ZAHRA HAYAT

    DISSERTATION TITLE: The Scandal of Access: Pharmaceuticals in Pakistan (University of California Berkeley, 2022)

    DISSERTATION ABSTRACT: Pakistan has among the world’s lowest drug prices, and Western multinationals rarely apply for drug patents there. Yet, despite the absence of these quintessential barriers to access, Pakistanis confront some of the highest global burdens of treatable yet untreated diseases, perpetual shortages of lifesaving drugs, and an epidemic of unpalliated pain at the end of life due to morphine scarcity. This paradox, devastating in its consequences, lies at the heart of this dissertation.

    The dissertation argues that to understand the paradoxes of access in Pakistan, we must radically rethink the relationships between access and its determinants. Specifically, it demonstrates the counterintuitive relationship between access and price, showing how prices that are too low can deprive people of medicines; between access and intellectual property, showing how drug patents can exert powerful effects even in places where they do not exist—what I call “spectral property”; and between access and quality, demonstrating that despite the proliferation of several competing brands of the ‘same’ drug in Pakistani markets, these versions are in fact so different from one another that consumers cannot know what they are ingesting. The dissertation develops an analytic of ‘scandal’, departing from familiar tropes of crisis and state failure to voice an ethical-political critique of how specific instruments of global capitalism articulate with national regulatory and legal systems to hinder access in counterintuitive ways.

    ZAHRA HAYAT is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Prior to earning her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, she studied law at Oxford University (as a Rhodes Scholar) and Yale Law School. She practiced law for four years in California, working on improved access to mental health care for foster youth, as well as on intellectual property. She has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and will be in residence at Harvard from 2024-26.

  • SHOZAB RAZA

    DISSERTATION TITLE: Theory from the Trenches: Revolutionary Decolonization on Pakistan’s Landed Estates (University of Toronto, 2022)

    DISSERTATION ABSTRACT: This dissertation explores how peasant revolutionaries in Pakistan’s South Punjab region creatively theorized to accelerate a revolutionary movement to remake the country and indeed the world. During the 1970s, many landless peasants enrolled in a communist party, the Mazdoor Kisan Party (MKP), that energized them to occupy the region’s landed estates (jagirs) and confront colonially-inherited inequalities. The party also inspired peasants to see “theory” as necessary to both their and the world’s liberation, and several peasants subsequently theorized across various local and transnational traditions to further a universal project of mazdur kisan raj worker-peasant rule).

    Theory from the Trenches contributes to wide-ranging conversations – across political anthropology, South Asian studies, and post/decolonial studies – concerning decolonization. Whereas some scholars argue that various anti-imperialist movements, from the Haitian Revolution to Third World socialism, were the true harbingers of universal Enlightenment ideals, while others maintain that they were inspired by non-European indigenous epistemologies, even alternative universalisms, I explore how peasant revolutionaries theorized ideational linkages across traditions to promote a universal mazdur kisan raj. Ultimately, the dissertation recasts peasants as worldly theoretical actors, destabilizing various distinctions – like rural/urban, theory/practice and universal/particular – that have conventionally framed the study of decolonization in the global South.

    SHOZAB RAZA is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University. His research broadly focuses on imperialism, agrarian capitalism, and radical politics in the global South, especially Pakistan. His research has been published in various journals, while his public writing has appeared in venues like The Guardian and Boston Review. He is also a founding editor of Jamhoor, a progressive multimedia platform on South Asia and its diasporas.

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The Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada Endowment on Pakistan, established by Rafat Pirzada and his wife, Amna Jaffer, and named after Rafat Pirzada’s father, Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada, supports i) the Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada Dissertation Prize on Pakistan (an annual dissertation prize for the best work in the humanities, social sciences, law, or public health on Pakistan, the region that is Pakistan, or things to do with Pakistan), and ii) the Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada Lecture on Pakistan (an annual lecture that spotlights the winner of the S.S. Pirzada Dissertation Prize). Rafat Pirzada is a Silicon Valley based entrepreneur and venture capitalist.

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PARKING INFORMATION
Please note that parking is not always easily available in Berkeley. Take public transportation if possible or arrive early to secure your spot.

Event is FREE and OPEN to the public.

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If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Puneeta Kala at pkala@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/229489-zahra-hayat-shozab-raza-the-s-s-pirzada-lectures-on-p
New Play Reading Series: ‘Modern Love’ by Leela Velautham, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/TDPS/event/nprs-modern-love

TDPS’ New Play Reading Series presents:

MODERN LOVE
By Leela Velautham
Directed by Evan Sakuma & Maria Silk

The New Play Reading Series (NPRS) presents in-development, un-produced, or lesser-known plays by both up-and-coming and established playwrights. Readings are performed by a student repertory company and directed by graduate students from the Ph.D. program in performance studies.


This event is free and open to the public. Register below to receive a reminder email one day before the event.

Directions to Dwinelle Hall, Room B-4: Dwinelle Hall is located on the south-central portion of the main UC Berkeley campus near Wheeler Hall. (View a campus map here.) Enter Dwinelle Hall through the main entrance on the east side of the building. After entering, proceed to your left until you arrive at a stairwell on your left. Proceed down the stairs to Level B and turn left. Room B-4 will be on the left side of the hallway. (Note: The wheelchair-accessible entrance to Level B is located on the west side of Dwinelle Hall near Durham Studio Theater.)

Accessibility: If you require an accommodation for effective communication or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please register below and provide details in the comment box. We generally require at least 7–10 days advance notice to ensure that an accommodation can be made.

https://events.berkeley.edu/TDPS/event/nprs-modern-love
Film Screening: Vagabond, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240558-film-screening-vagabond

Agnès Varda created a chilling fiction around the true story of a young woman who froze to death in the south of France, the proverbial land of sunshine. She approaches the story of Mona (Sandrine Bonnaire)—a young dropout with only a backpack and tent to her name, who wanders south for the winter—from the stance of the curious journalist. Thus, this film of elegant clarity, while moving, is finally devastating in the crucial distance it takes. We know nothing of Mona’s past; while on the road, she makes the few contacts needed to stay alive and, occasionally, to stay human—a sexual liaison, a laugh over a smoke and a bottle of wine—but no one is allowed in. It is Sandrine Bonnaire’s triumph that we, too, are shut out yet affected by this girl so indifferent to everyone around her. Mona’s soft belligerence is a badge of an uncompromising ideal that can lead only to death; the film is a profound portrait of the will to alienation.

-Judy Bloch
https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240558-film-screening-vagabond
Drum Tao; 30th Anniversary Tour, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204320-drum-tao-30th-anniversary-tour

Drum Tao’s productions combine thunderous traditional taikodrumming with elaborate staging, theatrical costumes, and dramatic lighting effects. The international troupe of 40 performers has collaborated with the Bolshoi Ballet, staged sold-out productions off-Broadway, appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbertand at the Olympics, and recorded for Universal Music. Flute, marimba, and harp are added to the drum ensemble for this performance that blends new ideas with a centuries-old Japanese art form.

https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204320-drum-tao-30th-anniversary-tour
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222925-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222925-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229206-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229206-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236449-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236449-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241421-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241421-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
26th Annual Travers Conference on Ethics & Accountability in Government- The State of Elections in 2024: Problems, Potential Reforms, and Prospects, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/Polisci/event/243273-26th-annual-travers-conference-on-ethics-accountabili

The 2024 Travers Conference will bring together experts from around the country to assess a series of questions related to the electoral system in the United States as it stands in 2024. It will include three panels: Is the Electoral System in the US Broken?; Evaluating Possibilities and Prospects for Reform; and The 2024 Elections: How did we get here? What to expect in November?

Travers Conference Flyer

https://events.berkeley.edu/Polisci/event/243273-26th-annual-travers-conference-on-ethics-accountabili
Event: workshop on “Creating an Inclusive Learning Environment” presented by Natalia Caporale, Associate Professor of Teaching at UC Davis, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/QB3/event/243423-event-workshop-on-creating-an-inclusive-learning

Natalia Caporale, Associate Professor of Teaching, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, UC Davis will present tips and insights for trainees wanting to improve their teaching skills and create learning environments more inclusive for all students. Read about Natalia’s background and research focus!


Plus: Don’t miss Natalia’s career talk and career mentoring sessions

You do not need to pre-register for this event

https://events.berkeley.edu/QB3/event/243423-event-workshop-on-creating-an-inclusive-learning
“Professional in Residence” with Dr. Natalia Caporale, Associate Professor of Teaching, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, UC Davis, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/QB3/event/243419-professional-in-residence-with-dr-natalia-caporale

Professionals in Residence - QB3-Berkeley Graduate and Postdoc Career Development with Dr. Natalia Caporale, Associate Professor of Teaching, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, UC Davis

Friday, April 12, 2024
11am - Career Conversation, “Becoming a Tenured Track (Teaching) Faculty in R1 with a Focus on Teaching and Student Success”
Mentoring Groups - location TBA after registration
1:05-1:45 - Transitioning from STEM research to Education Research
1:45-2:25 - Finding Teaching Opportunities during your PhD/Postdoc
2:35-3:10 - Job Search advice for those Actively on the Market

Register

https://events.berkeley.edu/QB3/event/243419-professional-in-residence-with-dr-natalia-caporale
Complex Data Use Agreements in the Forum for Collaborative Research, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/ipira/event/243098-complex-data-use-agreements-in-the-forum-for-collabor

The Forum for Collaborative Research in the School of Public Health is developing the Data & Analysis Center to bring together clinical trial data from multiple pharmaceutical companies and other sources. The required Data Use Agreements are particularly complex, and the Forum has relied on expertise in multiple campus offices. In this talk, IT and Operational Director in the Forum for Collaborative Research Chris Hoffman will describe how the DUA template was developed, the negotiation process with companies around GDPR and intellectual property issues, and resources like the SRDC Platform that are being used.

Hosted by the Berkeley Research Data Portal.

Speaker

Chris Hoffman is the IT and Operational Director in the Forum for Collaborative Research, Berkeley School of Public Health. Prior to this position, Chris was Associate Director for Research IT and co-founder of the UC Berkeley Research Data Management program.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ipira/event/243098-complex-data-use-agreements-in-the-forum-for-collabor
Chalk Talk, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/ib/event/243480-chalk-talkChalk Talkhttps://events.berkeley.edu/ib/event/243480-chalk-talkBETS Session Four: Asian Pacific American Culture and Identity, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/deib/event/230617-bets-session-four-asian-pacific-american-culture

The Berkeley Equity Training Series (BETS) at UC Berkeley, is an intentional sequence of three-hour topical sessions facilitated by subject matter experts and equity practitioners. This program is a cohorted professional learning experience designed to equip staff members and managers at Cal about how to be more culturally fluent and racially literate. Research consistently shows that professional learning communities, including cohort-based models are impactful because they encourage self-reflection, collaboration, and refining one’s practices (Brooks 1998).

https://events.berkeley.edu/deib/event/230617-bets-session-four-asian-pacific-american-culture
Yoga for Tension and Stress Relief, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236735-yoga-for-tension-and-stress-relief

Practicing yoga can release tension in your joints, give you greater range of motion, and offer increased comfort in all aspects of your life. Learn basic yoga poses and breathing techniques to transform your practice into a moving meditation. Comfortable clothing and bare feet recommended.

https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236735-yoga-for-tension-and-stress-relief
Start Anytime Online Science Courses Online Information Session, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/extension/event/240879-start-anytime-online-science-courses-online-informati

Start Anytime Online Science courses are continuous enrollment (CE), which means the course is open for enrollment at any time and starts at the time you register. You can work through course material at your own pace and will have ample opportunities for interaction with your instructors and other students.

https://events.berkeley.edu/extension/event/240879-start-anytime-online-science-courses-online-informati
Dissertation Talk: Object-Centric Perception for Real-World Robotics, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/eecs/event/238105-dissertation-talk-object-centric-perception-for

Recent advances in deep learning have resulted in remarkable progress in many areas. However, these methods are not sufficient for many robotics applications, due to the long-tail visual diversity of the real world, stringent requirements for autonomous, high-throughput operation, and the lack of large-scale training datasets. In this talk, I will discuss how we address these challenges via improved methods for 2D and 3D perception. First, I will introduce techniques that enable perception models to better express uncertainty in challenging or ambiguous situations. Robots equipped with these models can more explicitly reason about the inherent ambiguity of the real world in the context of their particular tasks. Next, I will discuss how we can leverage object-centric NeRFs to more easily obtain real-world supervision for such perception models. I will show how these methods can be used to generate training data targeted to specific real-world environments, for a variety of perceptual tasks.

https://events.berkeley.edu/eecs/event/238105-dissertation-talk-object-centric-perception-for
Dynamic Control Of Active Matter: Nano Seminar Series, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/BNNI/event/229975-dynamic-control-of-active-matter-nano-seminar

Through the magic of ‘active matter,’ which converts chemical energy into mechanical work to drive emergent properties, biology solves a myriad of seemingly impossible physical challenges. I will present my lab’s efforts to develop new fluid mechanics models to direct the flow of matter enabled by the use of “active” molecules found within living systems.

We design 2D composite materials with tunable inclusions of lipid domains embedded within an active elastic network. These mechanoresponsive lipid inclusions enable exquisite control over the phase separation and material properties (like failure resistance) of 2D composite materials. I will also present our recent work on model predictive control and learning of many-body colloidal interactions driven by active and hydrodynamic forces.

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Sho Takatori did his PhD at CalTech and postdoc as a Miller Fellow here at UCB (Go Bears!). He joined the UCSB faculty in 2020. Awards include a Packard Fellowship and the ACS New PI.

https://events.berkeley.edu/BNNI/event/229975-dynamic-control-of-active-matter-nano-seminar
CLIMB Evergreen Talk with Martin Wainwright, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/climb/event/243186-climb-evergreen-talk-with-martin-wainwright

CLIMB Evergreen talk with Martin Wainwright. More information coming

https://events.berkeley.edu/climb/event/243186-climb-evergreen-talk-with-martin-wainwright
Accounting Seminar with Shiva Rajgopal-Virtual, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/229786-accounting-seminar-with-tomas-pfeifferShiva Rajgopal of Columbia School of Management


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Cal Self Defense for All (CSDA): Empowerment 101, April 12https://linktr.ee/selfdefense4allhttps://linktr.ee/selfdefense4allComposition Colloquium: Marty Ehrlich, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235706-composition-colloquium-marty-ehrlich

Marty Ehrlich is celebrating thirty-five years in the nexus of creative music centered in New York City. He began his musical career in St. Louis, Missouri, while in high school, performing and recording with the Human Arts Ensemble. He graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music with honors in 1977, where his teachers included George Russell, Jaki Byard, Joseph Allard, and Gunther Schuller.

Since that time, he has made twenty-five recordings of his compositions for ensembles ranging in size from duo to jazz orchestra. These groups include his Emergency Peace Ensemble, Traveler’s Tales Group, Rites Quartet, and the Marty Ehrlich Sextet. He has recorded a CD-length work for twenty-two musicians entitled The Long View, and has two acclaimed recordings in Tzadik’s Radical Jewish Culture series. In 2013 he released “A Trumpet in the Morning”, a large-ensemble recording of 5 long form compositions.

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235706-composition-colloquium-marty-ehrlich
Marian E. Koshland Memorial Lecture, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/235027-marian-e-koshland-memorial-lectureMarian E. Koshland Memorial Lecture
Division(s): Marian E. Koshland Memorial Lecture Series
https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/235027-marian-e-koshland-memorial-lecture
Earl L. Muetterties Lectures in Chemistry, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230508-earl-l-muetterties-lectures-in-chemistry

Karsten Meyer, Chair of Inorganic and General Chemistry, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität

Seminar 2 of 2

From Uranium-Mediated Small Molecule Activation and the Electrocatalytic Production of H2 from Water to Redox-Flow-Batteries

In our efforts to activate small molecules of industrial and biological concern, we have turned our attention to reactive uranium coordination complexes. Employing the chelating triazacyclononane- and single N- as well as the arene-anchored aryloxide ligands (ArO)3tacn3–, (ArO)3N3–, and (ArO)3mes3–have provided access to reactive coordination compounds of uranium in oxidation states II, III, IV, V, and VI with tailorable steric and electronic profiles. These complexes display a pronounced selectivity and reactivity in reactions with CO2 and related small heteroallenes. As a result, they provide unique reaction pathways inaccessible to d-block metals.

Here, we briefly summarize our work on CO2 activation, including a previously unknown coordination mode, stoichiometric reductive cleavage, insertion reactions, and CO2 functionalization chemistry via multiple bond metathesis. We also report the stoichiometric and catalytic “disproportionation” of CO2 to CO and CO32– via an unusually reactive µ-oxo-bridged complex. In a similar strategy, we could isolate oxalates, thiooxalates, and mixed carbonates by reacting bridged chalcogenide complexes U‒E‒ U (E = O, S, Se) with CO2, CS2, and COS.

Employing the arene-anchored chelate allowed us to elucidate the molecular and electronic structure of a new oxidation state, namely U(II), in uranium coordination chemistry. In anionic [U(OArAd,Me)3mes)]⊝, the U(II) center is supported by δ back bonding. Further studies of [U(OArAd,Me)3mes)]0/– revealed unique electrochemical behavior, rendering these complexes candidates for electrocatalysis. Accordingly, [U(OArAd,Me)3mes)] was found to be the first molecular uranium catalyst for catalytic H2 production. Utilization of this catalyst during H2O electrolysis lowered the overpotential by 0.5 V, increased the steady-state electrolysis current by a factor of 10, and lowered the faradaic resistance by three orders of magnitude. Isolation of key intermediates allowed us to determine the reaction mechanism of H2O reduction. Notably, no radicals are involved, rendering this catalyst remarkably durable. This reactivity was also studied with a series of lanthanide complexes [Ln(OArAd,Me)3mes)] as well, which permits for fine-tuning of overpotential by choice of the lanthanide ion.

Finally, our previous electrochemical studies on redox complex pairs such as [U((OAr)4cyclen)] and other simple [U(acac)4] derivatives, with electrochemical windows of up to ca. 4 V, initiated a project to design a redox-flow battery (RFB). Accordingly, an all-uranium-based electrochemical cell was constructed with [UIV/V]0/+ and [UIII/IV]−/0 complexes as anolyte and catholyte species. These complexes have favorable properties for RFB applications, including reversible redox chemistry, relatively high stability toward electrochemical cycling, and high solubility in common organic solvents. A proto-type cell provides a promising entry point to a potential future class of uranium-based, non aqueous redox-flow battery electrolytes, not for use in personal devices but incorporated into under ground energy storage systems, e.g., foundations of wind turbines, where weight and radioactivity levels are not an issue and where this abundant waste material could find new application.

https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230508-earl-l-muetterties-lectures-in-chemistry
Music Studies Colloquium: Elizabeth Montano, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/242689-music-studies-colloquium-elizabeth-montano

One Publication, King of Soca (2022), and Two Stories: The Strategies and Challenges of a Black Male Singer (Machel Montano) and a Black Female Manager from the English-speaking Caribbean

Elizabeth Montano is a graduate from the University of the West Indies with a Bachelor degree in Education, a Master of Philosophy degree in Cultural Studies, and a Diploma in ACEM (Entertainment Management). In addition to her forty years of experience as a manager, she straddles the roles of mother, author, and director of several companies in the Montano empire.

A reception will follow.

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/242689-music-studies-colloquium-elizabeth-montano
Bertie Kibreah | Debate on the Dais: Shrine Performance and Discursive Devotion in Bangladesh, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/229485-bertie-kibreah-debate-on-the-dais-shrine-performance-

A lecture by the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Research Fellow for 2023, Bertie Kibreah, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, School of Music, University of South Florida.

Brian Bond, Lecturer (Music of India), Department of Music and Brent Eng, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology will serve as discussants at the event. 

Event moderated by Elora Shehabuddin, Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Global Studies; Director, Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, UC Berkeley

TALK ABSTRACT: What does it mean for a shrine-based debate to be a devotional performance? Echoing recent works on contemporary Sufisms that highlight the intersectionality of communities, repertoires, and narratives, Bangladesh’s bicr gn (“songs of rumination”) is an extemporized wellspring for articulating concurrent devotional subjectivities. In this performance, a network of interlocutors engage in an aggregative musicality that combines versified, saintly, and polemical elements into a staged discourse on loss, alterity, and sometimes absurdism. Drawing attention to interlocking tropes in ritual theory, migration studies, and the anthropology of media, this discursive devotionalism can be understood as a profoundly generative negotiation of space through converging pilgrimage routes, shrine committees, itinerant programming, stylized listening practices, and a popular folk music revival. Ultimately, bicr gn reifies a performance of devotion that is meandering, contingent, and suppositional, and is also informed by past and present border negotiations, inter-religious pieties, a transglobal citizenry, and Sufi media—within, between, and beyond Bengals.

SPEAKER BIO: Bertie Kibreah is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of South Florida. He joined the University of South Florida’s Music Faculty in 2022. He is an ethnomusicologist and South Asianist (PhD, University of Chicago), with interests in re-sounding the greater region of Bengal—an enduring focal point in South Asia—to be more inclusive of sonic histories and contemporary music life in Bangladesh, the Bay of Bengal, and the “Banglashere.” Bertie’s research is shaped by discourses of devotion, modernity, and migration—especially through the performative lens of pilgrimage, cultural industries, Sufi feminisms, and borderland musicking. He frequently draw on theories of difference (memory, partition, genocide studies), interconnectivity (Inter-Asian, Indian Ocean, Adivasi, and Asian American studies) as well as orality-aurality (sound studies, affect studies, the anthropology of media).

Bertie’s current book project explores and complicates trajectories of devotion through sonic geographies of the Bengal river delta, the musical placemaking of shrines, and the collectivized impressions of folk festivals within, between, and beyond Bengals (including adjacent Bengali pluralities). A second book project of his is concerned with intergenerational timbres and devotional memory in the larger realm of Bangladeshi global citizenries, as refracted by recent labor reforms in the Arab Gulf, newer migration routes into Europe via the Mediterranean, and the often overlooked “ethnoburbs” of Bangladeshi Americans.

Trained on the tabla, a prominent percussion instrument in South Asia, Bertie also sings in a variety of languages and performs on a number of additional instruments—especially from Bengal—including the dotara lute. The breath of his musical explorations—across linguistic and sonic borders—is fueled by the civic awareness of public humanities work and the artistic interactions of practitioners and communities.

Bertie is the recipient of a number of awards, most recently a research grant from USF College of the Arts, as well as the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Research Award administered through the Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at UC Berkeley. Bertie is also incoming vice president for the Southeast/Caribbean chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology.

 

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The Bangabandhu Research Award allows us to bring one or two graduate students or early career faculty members each year from accredited institutions in the United States and in Europe to share their research on Bangabandhu and/or Bangladesh with the UC Berkeley community. This award has been established with the generous support of the US Bangabandhu Parishad, California.

Established in 2013 with a generous gift from the Subir & Malini Chowdhury Foundation, The Subir & Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at UC Berkeley champions the study of Bangladesh’s cultures, peoples and history. The first of its kind in the US, the Center’s mission is to create an innovative model combining research, scholarships, the promotion of art and culture, and the building of ties between institutions in Bangladesh and the University of California.

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Event is FREE and OPEN to the public.

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https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/229485-bertie-kibreah-debate-on-the-dais-shrine-performance-
From There To Here: 50 Years of BART and UC Berkeley, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/its/event/241939-from-there-to-here-50-years-of-bart-and-uc

Join us Friday, April 12, 2024, at 5:30 pm in Bauer Wurster Auditorium to reflect on UC Berkeley’s contributions to the planning and implementation of BART, alongside a panel of distinguished practitioners and academics.

5:30-7:00 Panel
Moderator: 
Rebecca Saltzman
BART Board Director (District 3)
Panelists: 
Robert Cervero
City and Regional Planning Professor Emeritus
Joan Walker
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department Chair, Professor
John King
San Francisco Chronicle Urban Design Critic
Val Menotti
BART Chief Planning & Development Officer
7:00-8:00 Reception

In conjunction with UC Berkeley’s Environmental Design Archives Exhibit: Along the Line: Design and Planning of BART, 1965-1975

Roundtable Discussion: From There to Here: 50 years of BART and UC Berkeley

Friday April 12, 2025; 5:30 - 7 pm, Reception following

Bauer Wurster Auditorium (112 Bauer Wurster Hall)

 

Moderator:

Rebecca Saltzman, BART Board Director (District 3)

Rebecca Saltzman is the BART Director representing District 3, which includes parts of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, and she has served twice as BART Board President. Saltzman is a Director on and former Chair of the Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority and serves on the Alameda Transportation Commission. Outside of her BART service, Rebecca has spent the past two decades as a policy advocate, coalition builder, grassroots organizer, and manager with local, state, and national issue-based organizations.

Panelists:

Robert Cervero, DCRP Professor Emeritus

Robert Cervero has long focused on sustainable transportation policy and planning. He has consulted on numerous transportation and urban planning projects worldwide, most recently advising long-range planning in Dubai and Singapore. His most recent book, Beyond Mobility, won the 2019 National Urban Design Best Book Award. Dr. Cervero was a member of Berkeley’s city and regional planning faculty from 1980 to 2016, where he twice served as Department Chair, held the Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Urban Studies, and directed both the University of California Transportation Center and the Institute of Urban and Regional Development. More recently he has held visiting faculty appointments at Tongji University in Shanghai and NYU-Abu Dhabi.

John King, SF Chronicle Urban Design Critic

John King is the San Francisco Chronicle’s urban design critic, a post that has allowed him to write on such topics as transit villages and, last year, the impact of BART on the Bay Area’s development patterns since the 1960s. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and honorary member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, his book “Portal: San Francisco’s Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities,” was published in 2023 by W.W. Norton. He grew up a short bicycle ride from the Pleasant Hill BART station and lives within walking distance of the North Berkeley BART station.

Val Menotti, BART Chief Planning & Development Officer

Val Joseph Menotti is Chief Planning & Development Officer at BART, and oversees station area planning, strategic planning, transit-oriented development, real estate and sustainability. He has been with BART for over 20 years. Val has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford, and a Masters of City & Regional Planning from UC Berkeley. As a graduate student at Berkeley, he worked on several UCTC studies related to transit and land use.

Joan Walker, CEE Department chair/professor

Joan Walker is Department Chair and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. Walker’s research focuses on behavioral modeling, with expertise in discrete choice analysis and travel behavior. She works to improve the models that are used for transportation planning, policy, and operations. Walker has served as the Chair of the Committee on Transportation Demand Forecasting (ADB40) for the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Vice Chair of DEIB for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Co-Director of the Center for Global Metropolitan Studies, and as Acting Director of UC Berkeley’s Institute of Transportation Studies. She co-founded the nonprofit Zephyr Foundation working to advance travel analysis to improve society.

https://events.berkeley.edu/its/event/241939-from-there-to-here-50-years-of-bart-and-uc
Diné Nishłį (I am a Sacred Being): A Boarding School Play, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/arc/event/236321-din-nish-i-am-a-sacred-being-a-boarding-school-play

World Premiere Run of Diné Nishłį (I am a Sacred Being): A Boarding School Play by Blossom Johnson. Exuberant, sunny, and delightful, this boarding school comedy celebrates the enthusiastic passions of young Native women. Directed by Daniel Leeman Smith.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

Thurs, April 11 at 2pm: Matinee + Playwright Talkback

Fri, April 12 at 7pm: Media preview/opening

Sat, April 13 at 7pm: Performance

Sun, April 14 at 2pm: Matinee

Four high school girls are thrilled when their song’n’dance group is selected to sing the Navajo National Anthem at the Winter Olympics in 2002. Bursting with excitement, hope, and confidence, the girls’ plans are upset when a teacher thinks one of them left a threatening voicemail. Jumping into action, they launch a plan to get rid of that teacher. Exuberant, sunny, and delightful, this boarding school comedy celebrates the enthusiastic passions of young Native women.

AlterTheater is Berkeley’s 2024-2026 Indigenous Performing Arts Resident company, and Blossom Johnson will be the 2024 Indigenous Performing Arts artist-in-residence.

Blossom Johnson is a Diné storyteller, playwright, teaching artist and screenwriter. She is from the Yé’ii Dine’é Táchii’nii (Giant People) clan, and her maternal grandfather is from the Deeshchíí’nii (Start of the Red Streak People) clan.

Blossom has been commissioned by AlterTheatre Ensemble and has been awarded a residency with Willowtail Springs/Durango PlayFest. She is excited to make a smooth transition from theater to film narrative with the In Progress NEXUS Program in St. Paul, MN. Additionally, she has been awarded the 2022 First Peoples Fund Cultural Capital Fellowship, La Lengua/ AlterTheater Ensemble’s Decolonization Stories Commission 2022 and is proud to be a recipient of The Playwrights’ Center 2022-23 Jerome Fellowship. She is a mentee in writing for animation with the Netflix Animation Foundations Program 2022. As a dramaturg, Blossom has worked with Native Voices at the Autry, UCSB Launch Pad, PlayPenn, Urbanite Theatre, New Native Theatre and YIPAP (Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program). She has served as a panelist and script reader for the 22′ Playwrights’ Center Many Voices Fellowship and the 22′ New Harmony Project. Blossom holds an MFA in Dramaturgy from Columbia University and a BA in Theatre from Arizona State University. A proud member of the Dramatists Guild, and the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA).

She was raised by her grandmother on the very top of Dził Yijiin (Black Mesa), AZ and she’s always been surrounded by stories. When she opens the front door of her grandma’s yellow house, she can see a coal mine. Below the mesa is an old run-down restaurant where her mother used to hustle as a waitress during the summer in her teen years, and there is an old store where her grandmother would up-sale her hand made jewelry to tourists by the entrance, but the restaurant and the store has now been closed for years because what was taken from the earth was diminished, so no one stayed, and they eventually went out of business.

The people that stayed are Diné, and their stories, her stories, are thriving. When she creates, she writes for her people and the stories she writes come from memories, experiences, and family history. In her writing, she reveals truths that are hard to face but she balances the darkness with humor, so the viewer has a chance to breathe and laugh.

https://events.berkeley.edu/arc/event/236321-din-nish-i-am-a-sacred-being-a-boarding-school-play
Film Screening: Everything Else, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240559-film-screening-everything-else

Academy Award–nominated actress Adriana Barraza (Amores perros, Babel, Blue Beetle) stars as a lifelong bureaucrat in Mexico City whose daily routines of order, specificity, and denial are tracked with Jeanne Dielman–like focus in this narrative feature by longtime documentarian Natalia Almada. As a woman who has exiled herself within the world, scarred by a tragedy years ago, Barraza gives a hypnotic, haunting performance. Even within this heroine’s withdrawn life, violence is never far from the soundtrack. “Almada has a documentarian’s eye for how truth reveals itself in seemingly nondescript details” (48 Hills).

-Jason Sanders
https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240559-film-screening-everything-else
Drum Tao; 30th Anniversary Tour, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204321-drum-tao-30th-anniversary-tour

Drum Tao’s productions combine thunderous traditional taikodrumming with elaborate staging, theatrical costumes, and dramatic lighting effects. The international troupe of 40 performers has collaborated with the Bolshoi Ballet, staged sold-out productions off-Broadway, appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbertand at the Olympics, and recorded for Universal Music. Flute, marimba, and harp are added to the drum ensemble for this performance that blends new ideas with a centuries-old Japanese art form.

https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204321-drum-tao-30th-anniversary-tour
Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI; Le Nuove Musiche: The Baroque Revolution in Europe (1560–1660), April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204322-jordi-savall-and-hesperion-xxi-le-nuove-musiche

Jordi Savall is joined by his early-music ensemble Hespèrion XXI for a performance that explores 100 years of history through music. The ensemble will travel between the courts and courtyards of Naples, Venice, Rome, Milan, and London, performing works by Emilio de’ Cavalieri, Vincenzo Ruffo, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Andrea Falconiero, and others.

https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204322-jordi-savall-and-hesperion-xxi-le-nuove-musiche
Berkeley Nu Jazz Collective & Goldberg-Melford Quintet with special guest Marty Ehrlich, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232505-berkeley-nu-jazz-collective-goldberg-melford-quintet-

An evening of creative jazz by students in the Berkeley Nu Jazz Collective (Myra Melford, director), the Marty Ehrlich/Myra Melford Duo and the Goldberg-Melford Quintet.

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The UC Berkeley Department of Music is committed to the health and safety of our students, staff, and patrons. Measures to protect concertgoers and musicians will be informed by state, local, and UC Berkeley Public Health policies and are subject to change. Social distancing, masks, and proof of COVID 19 vaccination may be required. UC Berkeley does not promise or guarantee that all patrons or employees on site are vaccinated. Unvaccinated individuals may be present as a result of exemptions, exceptions, fraudulent verification, or checker error. None of these precautions eliminate the risk of exposure to COVID-19. 

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https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232505-berkeley-nu-jazz-collective-goldberg-melford-quintet-
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, April 13https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222924-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222924-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, April 13https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229205-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229205-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, April 13https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236448-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236448-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, April 13https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241420-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241420-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
Cal Day Concert, April 13https://events.berkeley.edu/ASUC/event/242946-cal-day-concert

ASUC SUPERB brings a musical artist to perform for Cal and its prospective students on the best day of the Academic Calendar. Performer to be announced, so stay tuned.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ASUC/event/242946-cal-day-concert
Diné Nishłį (I am a Sacred Being): A Boarding School Play, April 13https://events.berkeley.edu/arc/event/236322-din-nish-i-am-a-sacred-being-a-boarding-school-play

World Premiere Run of Diné Nishłį (I am a Sacred Being): A Boarding School Play by Blossom Johnson. Exuberant, sunny, and delightful, this boarding school comedy celebrates the enthusiastic passions of young Native women. Directed by Daniel Leeman Smith.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

Thurs, April 11 at 2pm: Matinee + Playwright Talkback

Fri, April 12 at 7pm: Media preview/opening

Sat, April 13 at 7pm: Performance

Sun, April 14 at 2pm: Matinee

Four high school girls are thrilled when their song’n’dance group is selected to sing the Navajo National Anthem at the Winter Olympics in 2002. Bursting with excitement, hope, and confidence, the girls’ plans are upset when a teacher thinks one of them left a threatening voicemail. Jumping into action, they launch a plan to get rid of that teacher. Exuberant, sunny, and delightful, this boarding school comedy celebrates the enthusiastic passions of young Native women.

AlterTheater is Berkeley’s 2024-2026 Indigenous Performing Arts Resident company, and Blossom Johnson will be the 2024 Indigenous Performing Arts artist-in-residence.

Blossom Johnson is a Diné storyteller, playwright, teaching artist and screenwriter. She is from the Yé’ii Dine’é Táchii’nii (Giant People) clan, and her maternal grandfather is from the Deeshchíí’nii (Start of the Red Streak People) clan.

Blossom has been commissioned by AlterTheatre Ensemble and has been awarded a residency with Willowtail Springs/Durango PlayFest. She is excited to make a smooth transition from theater to film narrative with the In Progress NEXUS Program in St. Paul, MN. Additionally, she has been awarded the 2022 First Peoples Fund Cultural Capital Fellowship, La Lengua/ AlterTheater Ensemble’s Decolonization Stories Commission 2022 and is proud to be a recipient of The Playwrights’ Center 2022-23 Jerome Fellowship. She is a mentee in writing for animation with the Netflix Animation Foundations Program 2022. As a dramaturg, Blossom has worked with Native Voices at the Autry, UCSB Launch Pad, PlayPenn, Urbanite Theatre, New Native Theatre and YIPAP (Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program). She has served as a panelist and script reader for the 22′ Playwrights’ Center Many Voices Fellowship and the 22′ New Harmony Project. Blossom holds an MFA in Dramaturgy from Columbia University and a BA in Theatre from Arizona State University. A proud member of the Dramatists Guild, and the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA).

She was raised by her grandmother on the very top of Dził Yijiin (Black Mesa), AZ and she’s always been surrounded by stories. When she opens the front door of her grandma’s yellow house, she can see a coal mine. Below the mesa is an old run-down restaurant where her mother used to hustle as a waitress during the summer in her teen years, and there is an old store where her grandmother would up-sale her hand made jewelry to tourists by the entrance, but the restaurant and the store has now been closed for years because what was taken from the earth was diminished, so no one stayed, and they eventually went out of business.

The people that stayed are Diné, and their stories, her stories, are thriving. When she creates, she writes for her people and the stories she writes come from memories, experiences, and family history. In her writing, she reveals truths that are hard to face but she balances the darkness with humor, so the viewer has a chance to breathe and laugh.

https://events.berkeley.edu/arc/event/236322-din-nish-i-am-a-sacred-being-a-boarding-school-play
Film Screening: Guelwaar, April 13https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240561-film-screening-guelwaar

“A work of wry sophistication” (Janet Maslin, New York Times), Guelwaar has the makings of a political farce in the spirit of Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s Death of a Bureaucrat. The body of a murdered political activist suddenly goes missing from the morgue. The police discover that his corpse has accidentally been carried to a neighboring village and given a Muslim burial (the dead man was Catholic). The attempts of his family to retrieve the body nearly escalate into a holy war. But farce Guelwaar most decidedly is not. Ousmane Sembène transforms his simple narrative into a complex, stirring examination of the legacy of colonialism in Africa. “Exceptional, tremendously moving… . Sembène is a little like Noam Chomsky in that he consciously sets out to compile a kind of counter-history, a corrective to the official record” (Georgia Brown, Village Voice).

-Susan Oxtoby
https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240561-film-screening-guelwaar
Danish String Quartet; Johannes Rostamo, cello, April 13https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204376-danish-string-quartet-johannes-rostamo-cello

The Danish String Quartet returns to complete its multiyear Doppelgänger Project, which has paired new commissions from leading composers with major works from Schubert’s chamber music repertoire. In this concert, the quartet is joined by Johannes Rostamo, principal cellist in the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, for Schubert’s String Quintet in C major. The work’s newly commissioned musical “twin” is a quintet by British composer Thomas Adès. The Danish Quartet has a long relationship with Adès’ music, having recorded his Arcadianaquartet for their 2016 debut album.

https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204376-danish-string-quartet-johannes-rostamo-cello
African Music Ensemble, April 13https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232510-african-music-ensemble

Spirit of Africa
C.K. Ladzekpo, director

Safety
The UC Berkeley Department of Music is committed to the health and safety of our students, staff, and patrons. Measures to protect concertgoers and musicians will be informed by state, local, and UC Berkeley Public Health policies and are subject to change. Social distancing, masks, and proof of COVID 19 vaccination may be required. UC Berkeley does not promise or guarantee that all patrons or employees on site are vaccinated. Unvaccinated individuals may be present as a result of exemptions, exceptions, fraudulent verification, or checker error. None of these precautions eliminate the risk of exposure to COVID-19. 

Accessibility
If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact the Hertz Hall Manager at 510.642.4864 or hertzhallmgr@berkeley.edu. with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

Connect
To receive email messages about upcoming concerts:
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Watch
Most concerts are available to stream live or watch later on the Berkeley Music YouTube channel. To watch visit music.berkeley.edu/watch

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232510-african-music-ensemble
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, April 14https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222923-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222923-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, April 14https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229204-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229204-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, April 14https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236447-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236447-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, April 14https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241419-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241419-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
UC Berkeley Wind Ensemble II, April 14https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232490-uc-berkeley-wind-ensemble-ii

Matthew Sadowski, conductor

Safety
The UC Berkeley Department of Music is committed to the health and safety of our students, staff, and patrons. Measures to protect concertgoers and musicians will be informed by state, local, and UC Berkeley Public Health policies and are subject to change. Social distancing, masks, and proof of COVID 19 vaccination may be required. UC Berkeley does not promise or guarantee that all patrons or employees on site are vaccinated. Unvaccinated individuals may be present as a result of exemptions, exceptions, fraudulent verification, or checker error. None of these precautions eliminate the risk of exposure to COVID-19. 

Accessibility
If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact the Hertz Hall Manager at 510.642.4864 or hertzhallmgr@berkeley.edu. with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

Connect
To receive email messages about upcoming concerts:
music.berkeley.edu/mailme.

Facebook: @ucbmusicdept
Instagram: @ucberkeleymusic / @berkeleymusicmajor
Twitter @ucbmusicdept
Youtube: Berkeley Music YouTube channel

Watch
Most concerts are available to stream live or watch later on the Berkeley Music YouTube channel. To watch visit music.berkeley.edu/watch

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232490-uc-berkeley-wind-ensemble-ii
Diné Nishłį (I am a Sacred Being): A Boarding School Play, April 14https://events.berkeley.edu/arc/event/236325-din-nish-i-am-a-sacred-being-a-boarding-school-play

World Premiere Run of Diné Nishłį (I am a Sacred Being): A Boarding School Play by Blossom Johnson. Exuberant, sunny, and delightful, this boarding school comedy celebrates the enthusiastic passions of young Native women. Directed by Daniel Leeman Smith.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

Thurs, April 11 at 2pm: Matinee + Playwright Talkback

Fri, April 12 at 7pm: Media preview/opening

Sat, April 13 at 7pm: Performance

Sun, April 14 at 2pm: Matinee

Four high school girls are thrilled when their song’n’dance group is selected to sing the Navajo National Anthem at the Winter Olympics in 2002. Bursting with excitement, hope, and confidence, the girls’ plans are upset when a teacher thinks one of them left a threatening voicemail. Jumping into action, they launch a plan to get rid of that teacher. Exuberant, sunny, and delightful, this boarding school comedy celebrates the enthusiastic passions of young Native women.

AlterTheater is Berkeley’s 2024-2026 Indigenous Performing Arts Resident company, and Blossom Johnson will be the 2024 Indigenous Performing Arts artist-in-residence.

Blossom Johnson is a Diné storyteller, playwright, teaching artist and screenwriter. She is from the Yé’ii Dine’é Táchii’nii (Giant People) clan, and her maternal grandfather is from the Deeshchíí’nii (Start of the Red Streak People) clan.

Blossom has been commissioned by AlterTheatre Ensemble and has been awarded a residency with Willowtail Springs/Durango PlayFest. She is excited to make a smooth transition from theater to film narrative with the In Progress NEXUS Program in St. Paul, MN. Additionally, she has been awarded the 2022 First Peoples Fund Cultural Capital Fellowship, La Lengua/ AlterTheater Ensemble’s Decolonization Stories Commission 2022 and is proud to be a recipient of The Playwrights’ Center 2022-23 Jerome Fellowship. She is a mentee in writing for animation with the Netflix Animation Foundations Program 2022. As a dramaturg, Blossom has worked with Native Voices at the Autry, UCSB Launch Pad, PlayPenn, Urbanite Theatre, New Native Theatre and YIPAP (Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program). She has served as a panelist and script reader for the 22′ Playwrights’ Center Many Voices Fellowship and the 22′ New Harmony Project. Blossom holds an MFA in Dramaturgy from Columbia University and a BA in Theatre from Arizona State University. A proud member of the Dramatists Guild, and the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA).

She was raised by her grandmother on the very top of Dził Yijiin (Black Mesa), AZ and she’s always been surrounded by stories. When she opens the front door of her grandma’s yellow house, she can see a coal mine. Below the mesa is an old run-down restaurant where her mother used to hustle as a waitress during the summer in her teen years, and there is an old store where her grandmother would up-sale her hand made jewelry to tourists by the entrance, but the restaurant and the store has now been closed for years because what was taken from the earth was diminished, so no one stayed, and they eventually went out of business.

The people that stayed are Diné, and their stories, her stories, are thriving. When she creates, she writes for her people and the stories she writes come from memories, experiences, and family history. In her writing, she reveals truths that are hard to face but she balances the darkness with humor, so the viewer has a chance to breathe and laugh.

https://events.berkeley.edu/arc/event/236325-din-nish-i-am-a-sacred-being-a-boarding-school-play
Film Screening: The Gleaners and I, April 14https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240564-film-screening-the-gleaners-and-i

Gleaning has meanings both literal, to gather grain left behind by reapers (the subject of nineteenth-century French paintings like Millet’s famed Les glaneuses), and metaphorical, to collect bit by bit. Varda’s rumination on this art of “living off the leftovers of others” finds inspiration in both past and present, rural and urban, the political and the highly personal. Camera in hand, Varda moves from the highways and back roads of France to its urban alleyways, interviewing those for whom gleaning is a way of life, or an encompassing philosophy. For some, gleaning is a means to an end, like finding still-edible food in fields or restaurant trash cans; for others, using only what others throw away is a rebellion against consumer culture. “A wandering-road documentary” is how Varda termed the project; Jonathan Rosenbaum in the Chicago Reader was more effusive, calling it “beautiful, absorbing, and touching … a mind-bending experience not to be missed.”

-Jason Sanders
https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240564-film-screening-the-gleaners-and-i
Film Screening: Vitalina Varela, April 14https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240565-film-screening-vitalina-varela

Vitalina Varela travels to Lisbon from Cape Verde, only to find out that her husband, from whom she has been separated for decades, was buried three days prior. Based on her own story, Varela’s emotionally potent performance delves into the grief that both drives her and haunts her. In what might be Pedro Costa’s most visually stunning work, the “society of Black Cape Verdean immigrants whom Costa films is presented as a world apart . . . enshrouded in an endless night at the margins of Portuguese society. Pushed into homelessness, forced into a cycle of crime and incarceration, relegated to substandard housing, the residents of Cova de Moura inhabit a perpetual realm of furtive darkness that offers them the cover in which to survive outside the gaze of hostile authority and the menacing chill of official indifference. . . . These immigrants [which include longtime collaborator Ventura] endure an apathy of inner colonialism, in which the hostility that they face and the exclusion in which they live has seeped into their bones and turned their energies self-consuming and self-exhausting” (Richard Brody, New Yorker). Winner of the Golden Leopard at Locarno, along with the Best Actress prize for Varela.

https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240565-film-screening-vitalina-varela
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, April 15https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222922-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222922-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, April 15https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229203-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229203-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, April 15https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236446-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236446-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, April 15https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241418-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241418-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
CRLP Results Administrator Overview, April 15https://events.berkeley.edu/crlp/event/242716-crlp-results-administrator-overview

In an effort to strengthen CRLP’s partnership with the Piedmont Unified School District, we are hosting a Professional Learning Community for our Results: Word Recognition & Fluency professional development to PUSD’s K-5 Administrators. The focus of the session is to preview the key content and assessments from our signature program.

https://events.berkeley.edu/crlp/event/242716-crlp-results-administrator-overview
Fundamentals of Traffic Engineering, April 15https://events.berkeley.edu/ttp/event/236795-fundamentals-of-traffic-engineering

Description

This course has provided California’s traffic engineers and transportation planners with core training for more than three decades. This unique overview of the many basic transportation concepts are meant to provide young professionals with a comprehensive picture of the dynamics affecting their specialty areas. Contents are regularly updated to reflect current practices and new issues, including the latest Federal and State major standards documents: Highway Design Manual, Highway Capacity Manual, California Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices, and the latest update to the rules and regulations governing traffic and transportation in the State. The course spans the full range of key areas from characteristics of the transportation system, analysis of flow and capacity, traffic operations, traffic control devices, pedestrian/bicycle facilities, to traffic safety and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). The course is taught by a team of expert practicing professional engineers, whose practice focus on California but also represents best practices throughout the country. Practical applications of the numerous regulatory and guidance documents are brought to the class by the practicing engineers in a friendly and facilitated lectures with plenty of interactive exercises.

 

Topics Include

  • principles of traffic engineering
  • traffic stream characteristics
  • speed, volume, travel time, delay studies
  • roadway design
  • traffic control devices
  • signing, markings, roadside delineation
  • traffic and freeway operations
  • congestion management
  • capacity analysis
  • lighting
  • pedestrian and bicycle facilities
  • neighborhood traffic management
  • traffic safety analysis and practices
  • intersection and speed control
  • parking studies
  • traffic impact studies
  • introduction to advanced traffic management systems

What You Will Learn

Training participants gain a solid, comprehensive understanding of the basic vocabulary, theoretical principles, and working concepts of all major areas of traffic engineering as they are practiced today. Students are also introduced to the essential traffic engineering toolkit used to analyze roadway and traffic operations and to develop projects. Training participants will learn about recent developments in the professional practice of Traffic Engineering in California, including capacity analysis methodologies, legal and societal implications of the practice, safety, professionalism, and how the future currents are affecting the fields. While the course content is vast and topics will be introduced, the instructor team is focused on providing the nuances and the bottom line on how it all fits together to broaden the perspectives of training participants.

Who Should Attend

This course benefits engineers, planners, and technicians in private and public sectors who are either in the beginning or the middle of their careers. The principles and practices are designed to educate and leave participants with a big picture of the interactions of many specialties in traffic and transportation fields. It should be viewed as the introductory course for other advanced classes on Focused topics in traffic engineering. This course may also benefit entry-level traffic engineers who may be planning on taking the California Professional Engineering (PE) License Exam in Traffic Engineering, although this course is not a review course for this PE exam. For more assistance in preparing for the Traffic Engineering PE exam for California, please refer to TE-29 California Traffic Engineering License Exam Review.

The materials in this course are based on the following references:

  • Fundamentals of Traffic Engineering Textbook
  • Highway Capacity Manual 6th Ed.
  • Highway Design Manual 6th Ed.
  • Caltrans Standard Plans, 2015 Ed.
  • California Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices 2014, Revision 3
  • SB-743 VMT and related publications
  • ITE Trip Generation Manual, 10th Ed.
  • AASHTO A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets, 6th Edition
https://events.berkeley.edu/ttp/event/236795-fundamentals-of-traffic-engineering
Our Poetic Earth: A poetry workshop series (Second Session), April 15https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/243091-our-poetic-earth-a-poetry-workshop-series-second
Three Mondays: 4/8, 4/15 and 4/22
11 AM -12:30 PM

In this 3-part workshop, we will hone our capacity for wonder, using the tools of poetry to savor Spring’s irrepressible exuberance. We will read nature poems together, and write new poems inspired by a conspiracy of wind, soil, sun, the carbon cycle, and yearning.
https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/243091-our-poetic-earth-a-poetry-workshop-series-second
Oxyopia Seminar: Title to be Announced, April 15https://events.berkeley.edu/HWNI/event/237250-oxyopia-seminar-title-to-be-announced

Abstract to be Announced

https://events.berkeley.edu/HWNI/event/237250-oxyopia-seminar-title-to-be-announced
Part II: The Impact of the Israel-Hamas War on the Arab-Palestinian Community in Israel and Implications for Shared Society, April 15https://events.berkeley.edu/hdi/event/243061-part-ii-the-impact-of-the-israel-hamas-war-on-the

Arab-Palestinians make up 21% of Israel’s population. The events of October 7 and the Israel-Hamas War have had a unique impact on Arab-Palestinian communities across Israel, and have posed challenges for envisioning shared society. Even as Arab citizens have suffered alongside their Jewish counterparts, they have experienced distinct forms of discrimination from Israeli authorities and segments of the Israeli population, questioning their loyalties and denying their basic rights under the law. This two-part series examines Arab-Palestinian experiences in wartime Israel from legal, social, political, and educational perspectives.

Part II: A Civic-Educational Perspective

Education scholar Ayman Agbaria (University of Haifa) joins Masua Sagiv to speak about the impact of the war on Arab communities in Israel, exploring issues of citizenship, education, religion, and belonging and implications for the future of shared society.

Ayman Agbaria, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Department of Leadership and Policy in Education, University of Haifa

Masua Sagiv, 2021–2024 Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies, UC Berkeley; Scholar-in-Residence, Shalom Hartman InstituteRegister: https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xifpr7DuSCe81Si4b3g1ow

https://events.berkeley.edu/hdi/event/243061-part-ii-the-impact-of-the-israel-hamas-war-on-the
PE Seminar - Chris Warshaw (GWU), April 15https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/237257-pe-seminar-chris-warshaw-gwuPaper Topic: TBDhttps://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/237257-pe-seminar-chris-warshaw-gwuMakerspace Drop-in Hours, April 15https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877070Learn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877070
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, April 15https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235499-makerspace-drop-in-hoursLearn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235499-makerspace-drop-in-hours
April Butterfly Walk in the Garden, April 15https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/241826-april-butterfly-walk-in-the-garden

Join our butterfly docent specialist Sally Levinson for a guided walk through the Garden in search of butterflies, as you learn about their plant relationships and amazing life cycle. Bring binoculars if you have them.

Registered children welcome. Pre-registration is required, space is limited. Groups larger than 6 people, please contact us to make separate arrangements for a private tour.

This walk follows uneven terrain, with areas of paved and unpaved trail. For accessibility inquiries, please email gardenprograms@berkeley.edu, or call 510-664-7606.

All program fees include same-day admission to the Garden, rain or shine.

The 34-acre UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley is a wonderful destination on any day of the year, but the guided butterfly walks held each month are pure magic.” -Featured in the Mercury News

https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/241826-april-butterfly-walk-in-the-garden
Seminar 211, Economic History: TBD, April 15https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237246-seminar-211-economic-history-tbd

Speaker: 

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237246-seminar-211-economic-history-tbd
Physics Condensed Matter Seminar with Augusto Ghiotto, April 15https://events.berkeley.edu/physics/event/236775-physics-condensed-matter-seminar-with-augusto

Novel correlated quantum phases in twisted transition metal dichalcogenides

Abstract: Some of the most interesting phases discovered in condensed matter systems emerge from strong correlations. Mott insulators, high temperature superconductivity, strange metal and nematicity, to name a few. Decades of experiments have painted rich phase diagrams, but understanding the underlying microscopic mechanisms behind each correlated phase and how they relate to each other still remain as some of the biggest puzzles in condensed matter. In this talk, I will introduce twisted homobilayer WSe2 as an ideal platform to explore electronic correlations in a triangular lattice. Living in a regime of moderate correlations, this unique platform exhibits phenomena observed in both weakly and strongly correlated systems, all within reach in a single highly tunable sample. First, I will show how weak interactions can lead to Stoner instabilities near the van Hove singularity, as observed in the Hall effect. Second, I will explore a correlated insulator emerging at half-filling. Surprisingly, the metal-insulator transition is continuous, leading to quantum critical behavior in the neighboring metallic phase. Such “strange metal” phase has been associated with the strong correlation regime. Finally, I will take advantage of the large Landé g-factor of WSe2 to induce correlated states at high magnetic fields of potential excitonic origin.

Speaker Bio:

Augusto Ghiotto received his B.A. in physics and mathematics from Columbia University in 2016 and earned his PhD in physics also from Columbia in 2023 under Abhay N. Pasupathy. Working in collaboration with the groups of James C. Hone, Cory R. Dean and Lei Wang, his contributions are in transport measurements of twisted transition metal dichalcogenides. His PhD thesis received the 2024 Richard L. Greene Dissertation Award from APS. Ghiotto is currently a Miller Fellow at University of California, Berkeley, working with James G. Analytis.

https://events.berkeley.edu/physics/event/236775-physics-condensed-matter-seminar-with-augusto
COVID-19: Do We Still Need To Be Concerned?, April 15https://events.berkeley.edu/brc/event/243282-covid-19-do-we-still-need-to-be-concerned

Ken Polse, Professor Emeritus, Optometry, and John Swartzberg, Clinical Professor Emeritus, Infectious Diseases & Vaccinology, will discuss the current state of Covid in the U.S. and our community, the new isolation and quarantine guidelines in California, the value of the updated Covid vaccine, the role of medications like Paxlovid in treating Covid, our current understanding about long Covid and strategies for prevention. Considerable time will be reserved for questions from the listeners.

https://events.berkeley.edu/brc/event/243282-covid-19-do-we-still-need-to-be-concerned
Structural & Quantitative Biology Seminar, April 15https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/206994-structural-quantitative-biology-seminar

Structural & Quantitative Biology Seminar

https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/206994-structural-quantitative-biology-seminar
Seminar 208, Microeconomic Theory: Topic Forthcoming (copy), April 15https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/239529-seminar-208-microeconomic-theory-topic-forthcoming

Topic Forthcoming

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/239529-seminar-208-microeconomic-theory-topic-forthcoming
In the Shadow of Exile: Nana Kobina Nkestia, UNESCO, and Afro-Latin American Studies, April 15https://events.berkeley.edu/asc/event/242376-in-the-shadow-of-exile-nana-kobina-nkestia-unesco

Dr. Gyamfi is an assistant professor of history at the University of California San Diego and a former Presidential Fellow at Northwestern University. His research sits at the intersection of West African and African Diaspora intellectual history, nationalism, gender, Pan-Africanism, Black internationalism, and economic development. He write on African intellectuals who worked to transform and radicalize the study of Africa in academic and intellectual centers around the Atlantic.

As a Black, African, and first-generation scholar, Bright is committed to producing groundbreaking scholarship. In his research and teaching, he highlights the connections within Africa and between the African Diaspora. This allows students to see the ways they each can contribute to broad liberatory projects. In recognition of his scholarship, he was inducted into the Edward A. Bouchet Society, which recognizes “outstanding scholarly achievement and promotes diversity and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate.”

https://events.berkeley.edu/asc/event/242376-in-the-shadow-of-exile-nana-kobina-nkestia-unesco
The 2024 Oppenheimer Lecture featuring Professor Andrea Liu, April 15https://events.berkeley.edu/physics/event/237586-the-2024-oppenheimer-lecture-featuring-professor

Physical systems that can learn by themselves

in 1972 Phil Andersen articulated the motto of condensed matter physics as “More is different.” However, for most condensed matter systems many more is quite similar to more—this is why computer simulations of relatively small systems give insight into far larger systems. There are, however, systems in which many more is different. For example, the capabilities of artificial neural networks grow with their size. Unfortunately, so does the time and energy required to train them. By contrast, brains learn and perform an enormous variety of tasks on their own, using relatively little energy. Brains are able to accomplish this without an external computer because their analog constituent parts (neurons) update their connections without knowing what all the other neurons are doing using local rules. We have developed an approach to learning that shares the property that analog constituent parts update their properties via a local rule, but does not otherwise emulate the brain. Instead, we exploit physics to learn in a far simpler way. Our collaborators have implemented this approach in the lab, developing physical systems that learn and perform machine learning tasks on their own with little energy cost. These systems should open up the opportunity to study how many more is different within a new paradigm for scalable learning.

https://events.berkeley.edu/physics/event/237586-the-2024-oppenheimer-lecture-featuring-professor
Nemea 100: from Blegen to Berkeley and Beyond, April 15https://events.berkeley.edu/classics/event/229484-nemea-100-from-blegen-to-berkeley-and-beyond

The Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology is pleased to present an international conference in honor of the 100th anniversary of the first excavation at Nemea AND the 50th anniversary of UC Berkeley’s involvement at the site: Nemea 100: From Blegen to Berkeley and Beyond! The event brings together speakers from the United States and Greece who have a history of interest and expertise in the archaeology of Nemea and its surrounding region. Presentations will highlight past, present, and future research.

On April 15, 1924, the young American archaeologist Carl Blegen initiated excavations at the Sanctuary of Zeus at Nemea, Greece. The work he began 100 years ago was renewed fifty years later, in 1974, by Stephen G. Miller and the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2005, restoration and excavation work at the site continues under the leadership of Dr. Kim Shelton (DAGRS).

On April 15, 2024, our international conference will celebrate much more of Nemea’s unique and multifaceted history in the company of archaeologists, students, colleagues, supporters, friends, and donors. We cannot wait to share all we have in store with you! We will gather in person on the UC Berkeley campus to mark the occasion (370 Dwinelle Hall) together for two days (continuing on Tuesday, April 16, beginning at 9:00am). For those of you far and wide who cannot join us in person, however, we invite you to join us virtually! To register: https://nemeacenter.berkeley.edu/nemea-100/

https://events.berkeley.edu/classics/event/229484-nemea-100-from-blegen-to-berkeley-and-beyond
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, April 16https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222921-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222921-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, April 16https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229202-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229202-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, April 16https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236445-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236445-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, April 16https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241417-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241417-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
CRLP Results Administrator Overview, April 16https://events.berkeley.edu/crlp/event/242717-crlp-results-administrator-overview

In an effort to strengthen CRLP’s partnership with the Jefferson School District, we are hosting a Professional Learning Community for our Results: Word Recognition & Fluency professional development to JSD’s K-5 Administrators. The focus of the session is to preview the key content and assessments from our signature program.

https://events.berkeley.edu/crlp/event/242717-crlp-results-administrator-overview
Traffic Control for Safer Work Zones, April 16https://events.berkeley.edu/ttp/event/228836-traffic-control-for-safer-work-zones

Description

Our one-day Traffic Control for Safer Work Zones course is designed to keep the workers and public safe during road construction and maintenance, utility work, landscaping and railway maintenance work along roadways in California. This training course is compliant with the California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (CAMUTCD), Cal-OSHA Sections 1598 & 1599, and California Vehicle Code Section 21400. It also incorporates the latest State and Federal guidelines.

Collectively, our team of instructors has over 150 years of work zone related experience. They are all Licensed Professional Engineers who work for public agencies or as engineering and liability consultants. Many of the instructors also are active members of the National Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, the Work Area Traffic Control Handbook (WATCH), and the Caltrans 2014 CAMUTCD working team.

 

Topics Include

  • Traffic control plans for various types of roadway situations encountered in cities and counties in California
  • Some instruction on proper flagging procedures
  • Legal section on work zone tort liability

What You Will Learn

By the end of the training, students will:

  • Understand the requirements to protect the driving public and work zone crew at and around construction and maintenance areas (or work zones)
  • Be able to develop traffic control plans for work zones in accordance with state and national guidelines
  • Understand safety equipment and markings and their uses/limitations under various conditions
  • Be able to install traffic control devices for work zones to assure safety of the driving public and the work zone crew
  • Be able to safely install and remove a variety of safety equipment and markings used to control/guide traffic safely through work zones
  • Gain knowledge concerning actions to reduce risk of personal and agency liability arising from negligence in the work zone design and operation
  • Be able to use techniques, devices and equipment to safely direct vehicle movements around work zones in accordance with state and national guidelines

Who Should Attend

This training is designed for road construction and maintenance crews and their supervisors who are expected to work in and around the public street right-of-way and are responsible for the implementation of traffic safety control plans in the field. This course will also benefit traffic/civil engineers and public works inspectors who design, direct, and inspect construction and maintenance work done on public streets. Utility company workers and contractors, who frequently do maintenance work within the public street right-of-way, will also benefit from this training.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ttp/event/228836-traffic-control-for-safer-work-zones
BPM 208 Management Tools to Reduce Stress & Burnout, April 16https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/223653-bpm-208-management-tools-to-reduce-stress-burnout

Access to registration is disabled two days prior to the event.

This 4-hour in-person workshop is part of the BPM Part 3: Grow Your Team series and is an elective option for the UC Systemwide People Management Certificate. In this highly interactive workshop, each participant’s experience is drawn upon for the learning. Ideally, to contribute to and enhance understanding, participants will come with current and/or previous people management experience.

The content is designed to help participants develop and practice the management skills that are crucial for leading people successfully in today’s information overload and diverse work environment. This workshop is ideal for managers, supervisors, and team leads who are overseeing the work of others and who want to enable their teams to achieve great results together.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
*Create accountability and keep everyone focused on the desired results
*Coach your team in managing competing priorities and setting expectations
*Define projects as well as roles and responsibilities clearly to create accountability and keep everyone focused on the desired results
*Build best practices to enhance team communication and productivity
*Manage strategically and help your team succeed despite the overload

https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/223653-bpm-208-management-tools-to-reduce-stress-burnout
Division of Immunology and Molecular Medicine Seminar, April 16https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/209031-division-of-immunology-and-molecular-medicineThis seminar is partially sponsored by NIH
Division(s): Division of Immunology and Molecular Medicine
https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/209031-division-of-immunology-and-molecular-medicine
Organic Chemistry Seminar, April 16https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230056-organic-chemistry-seminar

TBD

https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230056-organic-chemistry-seminar
Kate van Orden | Mapping Music and Migration: Questions of Scale, April 16https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/237678-kate-van-orden-mapping-music-and-migration-questions-

Musicology’s embrace of what is being called global music history is proving extremely useful as a place from which to contest Eurocentric histories of music and develop new working methods equipped to address the meaningfulness of music in places where cultures, languages, and people were in constant contact. In this talk, 1.) I begin by outlining the analytic categories employed in migration studies and underscoring their usefulness to music historians. 2.) I go on to ask some larger questions designed to incite discussions concerning matters of scale. What is the relationship between micro and macro history in musicological research? How can musicology best operate at the scale of seas and oceans? 3.) I wrap up by setting musicological research in perspective by comparing it to hard forms of world history designed to discover global unities created by economic, colonial, and—eventually—industrial processes. Case studies drawn from recent scholarship are threaded throughout.

Kate van Orden is Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Music at Harvard University. She specializes in the cultural history of early modern France, Italy, and the Mediterranean, popular music (mostly 16th-c, but also in the 1960s), and cultural mobility. Her latest project is Seachanges: Music in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds, 1550-1800 (I Tatti Research Series 2), an edited volume. Her prize-winning publications include Materialities: Books, Readers, and the Chanson in 16th-c. Europe (Oxford, 2015), Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France (Chicago, 2005), and articles in Seachanges, Renaissance Quarterly, and Early Music History. In 2016, she received a French Medaille d’Honneur. van Orden currently serves as President of the International Musicological Society (2022-2027), editor-in-chief of Oxford Bibliographies of Music, and co-edits the series Musics in Motion (Michigan). She also performs on baroque and classical bassoon, with over 60 recordings on Sony, Virgin Classics, and Harmonia Mundi.

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Ray Savord at rsavord@berkeley.edu or (510) 642-4555 with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days before the event.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/237678-kate-van-orden-mapping-music-and-migration-questions-
Isabelle Aubert | Messages in a Bottle: Recent Studies on the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, April 16https://events.berkeley.edu/pct/event/240412-isabelle-aubert-messages-in-a-bottle-recent

“Messages in a Bottle: Recent Studies on the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory” is a three-part virtual book talk series. The third book talk is presented by Isabelle Aubert, University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne, on her book The Archives of Critical Theory (2023).

More information about this topic is forthcoming.

About the Series

“Messages in a Bottle: Recent Studies on the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory” is a three-part lecture series. Each lecture requires advance registration.

- February 27, 2024; 12 -1 pm PST; Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy (Brill/Haymarket) with Dirk Braunstein, Institue for Social Research Frankfurt am Main. Register in advance at this link.

- March 19, 2024; 12 - 1 pm PST; Studies in the Prehistory and Early History of Critical Theory (Matthes & Seitz) with Christian Voller, Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Register in advance at this link.

- April 16, 2024; 12 - 1 pm PST; The Archives of Critical Theory (2023) with Isabelle Aubert, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Register in advance at this link.

Sponsors

Cosponsored by the Program in Critical Theory at UC Berkeley, the Department of History, and the Department of German.

Speakers

https://events.berkeley.edu/pct/event/240412-isabelle-aubert-messages-in-a-bottle-recent
Latest in Public Health Research: Adaptive experiments toward learning treatment effect heterogeneity, April 16https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/239131-latest-in-public-health-research-adaptive-experiments

Understanding treatment effect heterogeneity has become an increasingly popular task in various fields. For example, in e-commerce, understanding treatment effect heterogeneity helps decision-makers to design personalized advertising strategies to maximize profits. In biomedical studies, learning the impact of treatment on diverse patient subpopulations provides insights for personalized care. While much of the existing work in this research area has focused on either analyzing observational data based on untestable causal assumptions or conducting post hoc analyses of existing randomized controlled trial data, little work has gone into designing randomized experiments specifically for uncovering treatment effect heterogeneity. In this work, we develop a unified adaptive experimental design framework towards better learning treatment effect heterogeneity by efficiently identifying subpopulations with enhanced treatment effects from a frequentist viewpoint. The adaptive nature of our framework allows practitioners to sequentially allocate experimental efforts adapting to the accrued evidence during the experiment. The resulting design framework can not only complement A/B tests in e-commerce but also unify enrichment designs and response adaptive randomization designs in clinical settings. Our theoretical investigations illustrate the trade-offs between complete randomization and our adaptive experimental algorithms. We also investigate our design in simulation studies and a synthetic e-commerce data analysis. This is joint work with Waverly Wei.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/239131-latest-in-public-health-research-adaptive-experiments
Colloquium: Dr. Jarett Henderson, April 16https://events.berkeley.edu/can/event/224424-colloquium-dr-jarett-henderson

Dr. Jarett Henderson (UC Santa Barbara) will present his research on the historical criminalization of male homosexuality in Canada.

https://events.berkeley.edu/can/event/224424-colloquium-dr-jarett-henderson
Faculty Seminar Lunch - Don Moore, MORS, April 16https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/242930-faculty-seminar-lunch-don-moore-morshttps://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/242930-faculty-seminar-lunch-don-moore-morsMakerspace Drop-in Hours, April 16https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877071Learn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877071
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, April 16https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235498-makerspace-drop-in-hoursLearn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235498-makerspace-drop-in-hours
Dear Human at Future’s Edge: Science, Creativity and Climate Futures Conference, April 16https://events.berkeley.edu/cici/event/236105-dear-human-at-futures-edge-science-creativity-and-cli

“Dear Human at Future’s Edge: Science, Creativity and Climate Futures” is a conference focused on the intersection of climate science, ecopoetry, and the arts. The program will celebrate two recent companion publications: the Fifth National Climate Assessment report, the U.S. Government’s preeminent report on climate change impacts, risks, and responses, and Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States (Paloma Press 2023).

Participants include Bruce Riordan, Debarati Sanyal, Linda Rugg, Aileen Cassinetto, Alice Plane, Alyza Lustig, Anand Varma, Brian Sonia-Wallace, Claire Wahmanholm, Cecil Giscombe, Craig Santos Perez, David Hassler, John Shoptaw, Karen Llagas, Kim Shuck, Luisa A. Igloria, Marisa Lin, Maw Shein Win, Sarah Vaughn, Shreya Chaudhuri, and Tiff Dressen.

Find a full program page at this link and biography page at this link.

https://events.berkeley.edu/cici/event/236105-dear-human-at-futures-edge-science-creativity-and-cli
MORS Colloquium - Russell Funk, April 16https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/230581-mors-colloquium-russell-funk
Join Zoom Meeting
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https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/230581-mors-colloquium-russell-funk
Let’s Talk about Palestine: Palestinian Literature and the Writing of Trauma, April 16https://events.berkeley.edu/melc/event/238315-lets-talk-about-palestine-palestinian-literature

The final event of the Let’s Talk about Palestine teach-in series, with Dr. Ahmad Diab (MELC) and Dr. Stefania Pandolfo (Anthropoloy) in discussion moderated by Dr. Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed (Comp Lit).

https://events.berkeley.edu/melc/event/238315-lets-talk-about-palestine-palestinian-literature
Let’s talk about Palestine | Ahmad Diab & Stefania Pandolfo | Palestinian Literature and the Writing of Trauma, April 16https://events.berkeley.edu/CMES/event/diab-pandolfo

In “Palestinian Literature and the Writing of Trauma,” Dr. Ahmad Diab and Dr. Stefania Pandolfo will each present lectures on Palestinian literature and the relationship between narrative, memory, and trauma. The lectures will be followed by a conversation between the scholars, moderated by Dr. Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed.

 

Dr. Ahmad Diab is Assistant Professor of Modern Arabic Literature in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. Diab specializes in modern Arabic literature and Middle Eastern cinema, with a special focus on the politics of culture and representation in the eastern Mediterranean. His manuscript Intimate Others: Arabs through the Palestinian Gaze (currently under review by Stanford University Press) is the first study of its kind to explore how Palestinians represent non-Palestinian Arabs in literature and visual culture.

 

Dr. Stefania Pandolfo is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Pandolfo studies theories and forms of subjectivity, and their contemporary predicaments in the Middle Eastern and Muslim world. She is the author of numerous articles and books, including Impasse of the Angels: Scenes from a Moroccan Space of Memory (1997) and Knot of the Soul: Madness, Psychoanalysis, Islam (2018). Her current project is a study of emergent forms of subjectivity in Moroccan modernity at the interface of “traditional therapies” and psychiatry/psychoanalysis, exploring theoretical ways to think existence, possibility and creation in a context of referential and institutional instability and in the aftermath of trauma, based on ethnographic research on spirit possession and the “cures of the jinn”, and on the experience of madness in a psychiatric hospital setting.

https://events.berkeley.edu/CMES/event/diab-pandolfo
Physical Chemistry Seminar, April 16https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230064-physical-chemistry-seminar

Bingqing Chen, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley

Predicting materials properties with the help of machine learning

I will demonstrate how to enable ab initio predictions of materials properties by combining advanced statistical mechanics with machine learning interatomic potentials. I will show example applications on computing phase diagrams, chemical potentials of liquid mixtures, adsorption isotherms of gas in porous materials, and reactions on surfaces.
https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230064-physical-chemistry-seminar
Digitizing Portugal’s Largest Private Library, April 16https://events.berkeley.edu/Library/event/243320-digitizing-portugals-largest-private-library

Political commentator, historian, politician, and bibliophile José Pacheco Pereira will present on EPHEMERA, the digital platform for his personal library and archive. It is the largest private collection in Portugal and is comprised of books, periodicals, manuscripts, pamphlets, photos, posters, and other objects. Begun as a clandestine collection of political activity prior to the collapse of the dictatorship on the 25th of April, 1974, its aim is to safeguard a memory at risk of being lost, and to be instrumental in the political activity of progressive organizations and movements. Today, the scope has evolved and it is considered a generalist and international collection with a strong specialized component in contemporary political history.

https://events.berkeley.edu/Library/event/243320-digitizing-portugals-largest-private-library
Digitizing Portugal’s Largest Private Library, April 16https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/243368-digitizing-portugals-largest-private-library

Political commentator, historian, politician, and bibliophile José Pacheco Pereira will present on EPHEMERA, the digital platform for his personal library and archive. It is the largest private collection in Portugal and is comprised of books, periodicals, manuscripts, pamphlets, photos, posters, and other objects. Begun as a clandestine collection of political activity prior to the collapse of the dictatorship on the 25th of April, 1974, its aim is to safeguard a memory at risk of being lost, and to be instrumental in the political activity of progressive organizations and movements. Today, the scope has evolved and it is considered a generalist and international collection with a strong specialized component in contemporary political history.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/243368-digitizing-portugals-largest-private-library
Quatuor Ébène, April 16https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204377-quatuor-ebene

Having performed together for more than 20 years, the French ensemble Quatuor Ébène makes its Cal Performances debut playing Mozart’s ebullient Quartet No. 21 from his Prussianset; Grieg’s lone completed quartet, a work of striking originality and energy; and Schnittke’s kinetic and intense String Quartet No. 3 from 1983.

https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204377-quatuor-ebene
CRLP Results: Foundational Skills, April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/crlp/event/217465-crlp-results-foundational-skills

CRLP at UC Berkeley is launching a new collaboration with Piedmont Unified School District to offer the CRLP Results: Word Recognition & Fluency signature program to all TK-5th Grade Teachers, Special Educators, and Administrators. Part 1 focuses on Foundational Skills Assessments and Part 2 focuses on data analysis, instruction, and intervention. The focus of the professional learning session is Assessment, Instruction, and Intervention: Supporting Implementation of the Common Core Reading Foundational Skills.  

https://events.berkeley.edu/crlp/event/217465-crlp-results-foundational-skills
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222920-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222920-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229201-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229201-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236444-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236444-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241416-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241416-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
[On Zoom] Lectures by Saarthak Singh and Janhavi Khemka, the recipients of the UC Berkeley South Asia Art Initiative Awards for 2024, April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/212432-on-zoom-lectures-by-saarthak-singh-and-janhavi-khemka

Talks by Saarthak Singh and Janhavi Khemka, the recipients of the UC Berkeley South Asia Artist Award and the UC Berkeley South Asia Art and Architecture Dissertation Award for 2024

The South Asia Art Initiative at the University of California, Berkeley promotes research-based conversations and collaborations around the arts of South Asia + its diasporas from the ancient period to the now. To read more about the Initiative and help support its various fundraising goals, please click HERE
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The event is FREE and OPEN to the public.

https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/212432-on-zoom-lectures-by-saarthak-singh-and-janhavi-khemka
RAPDP Fundamental - Customer Service for the RA, April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/241194-rapdp-fundamental-customer-service-for-the-ra

Research administrators strive to provide excellent customer service by helping their PI navigate the bureaucratic and administrative landscape to smooth the fiscal and administrative aspects of their research. This 3-hour soft skills workshop covers essential customer service and workplace communication techniques, with a special emphasis on understanding different types of Business Chemistry (personality/behavior style within the business context) and utilizing the 4 step consultative dialogue strategy when working with PIs. This workshop is intended for new RAs, experienced RAs, and other staff that are interested in possibly becoming an RA.

 

Learning Objectives:

- Identify the primary and secondary customers of a Research Administrator

- Recognize what it means to provide stellar customer service

- Understand the 4 types of Business Chemistry

- Utilize Consultative Dialogue Strategies when working with our customers

https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/241194-rapdp-fundamental-customer-service-for-the-ra
Disability Management: Understanding the Process, April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236088-disability-management-understanding-the-process

This virtual workshop provides an Interactive, as well as informative look into the process of Disability Management. During our workshop we will use Scenario-based instruction to teach and reinforce subjects such as the Interactive Process; Essential Job Functions; Reading and analyzing Work Status notes; Transition back to work and Effectiveness of Accommodation(s) and documentation. We will refer to foundational concepts framed by University policy related to disability; State and Federal laws and leverage the ‘Stay at Work’ and ‘Return to Work’ program models, in order to practice developing plans which, support the accommodation needs of our employees with disabilities. This is part one of a two-part workshop, and the successful completion of a follow-up assignment is required. Please bring your Burning Questions and a willingness to engage with your peer learners during the workshop. We look forward to meeting you! Please Note: The zoom link will be sent to the participants by email and added to this workshop description a day before the workshop

Please Note: The Zoom link will be sent to the participants by email, and add it to this workshop description a day before the workshop.

All participants and hosts must sign into a Zoom account before joining meetings hosted by UC Berkeley. 

Participants who are not eligible for a UC Berkeley-provided Zoom account can use a Zoom account provided by their institution, can create a free consumer Zoom account (at https://zoom.us/freesignup/), or can dial in via the phone.

https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236088-disability-management-understanding-the-process
Dissertation Talk: Scalable Lifelong Imitation Learning for Robot Fleets, April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/eecs/event/237987-dissertation-talk-scalable-lifelong-imitation

Recent breakthroughs in deep learning have revolutionized natural language processing, computer vision, and robotics. Nevertheless, reliable robot autonomy in unstructured environments remains elusive. Without the Internet-scale data available for language and vision, robotics faces a unique chicken-and-egg problem: robot learning requires large datasets from deployment at scale, but robot learning is not yet reliable enough for deployment at scale. We propose a scalable human-in-the-loop learning paradigm called “interactive fleet learning” (IFL) as a potential solution to this paradox, and we argue that it is the key ingredient behind the recent growth of large-scale robot deployments in applications such as autonomous driving and e-commerce order fulfillment. We develop novel formalisms, algorithms, benchmarks, systems, and applications for IFL and evaluate its performance in extensive simulation and real world experiments. We conclude with a discussion of limitations and opportunities for future work.

https://events.berkeley.edu/eecs/event/237987-dissertation-talk-scalable-lifelong-imitation
Ergo Mobility, April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236778-ergo-mobility

Learn ways to maintain and improve your mobility throughout the workday. Covers good ergonomic body mechanics practices, posture, and learn about useful stretching and strengthening exercises. Wear comfortable clothing.

Please Note: The Zoom link will be sent to the participants by email, and add it to this workshop description a day before the workshop.

All participants and hosts must sign into a Zoom account before joining meetings hosted by UC Berkeley. 

Participants who are not eligible for a UC Berkeley-provided Zoom account can use a Zoom account provided by their institution, can create a free consumer Zoom account (at https://zoom.us/freesignup/), or can dial in via the phone.

https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236778-ergo-mobility
Bioengineering Seminar: Engineering Extracellular Matrix Viscoelasticity to Probe Cellular Responses, April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/bioe/event/229420-bioengineering-seminar-engineering-extracellular-matr

Abstract:

In the body, cells are surrounded by a scaffolding of biopolymers that provide physical support and biochemical cues, known as the extracellular matrix (ECM). Hydrogel cell culture models have been used to reveal that properties of the ECM, notably matrix stiffness, can regulate a host of cellular behaviors, such as migration, division, differentiation, and even cancer progression. ECM is often viscoelastic, displaying stress relaxation in response to strain, and recapitulating complex aspects of native ECM, such as dynamic remodeling and viscoelasticity, remains challenging. Further, key aspects of mechanotransduction, such as the effect of mechanics on the epigenome, are not well understood. In this talk, I will discuss how matrix stiffness can induce epigenomic remodeling leading to a tumorigenic phenotype in a breast cancer model. I will also describe our work to develop 3D hydrogel platforms that allow for dynamic tuning of matrix viscoelasticity to better understand the biological impact and pathways involved in mechanotransduction.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bioe/event/229420-bioengineering-seminar-engineering-extracellular-matr
Noon Concert: Chamber Music for Piano and Winds, April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235237-noon-concert-chamber-music-for-piano-and-winds

Students from the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra perform small ensemble works under the direction of Leighton Fong.

Wind Quintet, Op. 43, Nielsen

Sextet for Wind Quintet and Piano, Poulenc

Admission to all Noon Concerts is free. Registration is recommended at music.berkeley.edu/register.

Safety
The UC Berkeley Department of Music is committed to the health and safety of our students, staff, and patrons. Measures to protect concertgoers and musicians will be informed by state, local, and UC Berkeley Public Health policies and are subject to change. Social distancing, masks, and proof of COVID 19 vaccination may be required. UC Berkeley does not promise or guarantee that all patrons or employees on site are vaccinated. Unvaccinated individuals may be present as a result of exemptions, exceptions, fraudulent verification, or checker error. None of these precautions eliminate the risk of exposure to COVID-19. Registration is strongly encouraged for noon concerts at music.berkeley.edu/register.

Accessibility
If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact the Hertz Hall Manager at 510.642.4864 or hertzhallmgr@berkeley.edu. with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

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Most concerts are available to stream live or watch later on the Berkeley Music YouTube channel. To watch visit music.berkeley.edu/watch

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235237-noon-concert-chamber-music-for-piano-and-winds
Occupational Ergonomic Research in Pacific Northwest, April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/243355-occupational-ergonomic-research-in-pacific

Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) account for 30 - 45% of all occupational injuries in the United States. Workforce demographics are rapidly changing, creating substantial challenges in occupational safety and health and requiring innovative strategies to reduce WMSDs. This free webinar by Jay Kim, PhD, will explore the significance of occupational and ergonomics biomechanics research, important challenges we are facing, and the current research programs at Oregon State University’s Occupational Ergonomics and Biomechanics Lab designed to fill these gaps.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/243355-occupational-ergonomic-research-in-pacific
Berkeley Book Chats: Shannon Steen, April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/229983-berkeley-book-chats-shannon-steen

The Creativity Complex: Art, Tech, and the Seduction of an Idea

With its associations of brilliance and achievement, “creativity” is a seductive concept — variously conceived as a shield against conformity, a channel for innovation across the arts, sciences, technology, and education, and a mechanism for economic revival and personal success.

But creativity has not always evoked these ideas. In The Creativity Complex (Michigan, 2023), Shannon Steen (Theater, Dance & Performance Studies) traces the history of how creativity has come to mean the things it now does, and explores the ethical implications of how we use this term today for both the arts and the social world more broadly. Richly researched, the book explores how creativity has been invoked in arenas as varied as Enlightenment debates over the nature of cognition, Victorian-era intelligence research, the Cold War technology race, contemporary K-12 education, and modern electoral politics.

Ultimately, The Creativity Complex asks how our ideas about creativity are bound up with those of self-fulfillment, responsibility, and the individual, and how these might seduce us into joining a worldview and even a set of social imperatives that we might otherwise find troubling.

https://events.berkeley.edu/townsend/event/229983-berkeley-book-chats-shannon-steen
Seminar 291, Departmental Seminar (Joint with Development): Monica Martinez-Bravo, April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/236172-seminar-291-departmental-seminar-joint-with-developme

12 pm - 1 pm in Evans 648 (We start right at noon, not at Berkeley time!)

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/236172-seminar-291-departmental-seminar-joint-with-developme
Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature’s Toxins–from Spices to Vices, April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/pmb/event/236941-most-delicious-poison-the-story-of-natures

I will discuss what motivated me to write a new book on the origin story of toxins made by plants and other organisms that humans use (and sometimes abuse) and I will give an overview of this general audience book.

A deadly secret lurks within our spice racks, medicine cabinets, backyard gardens, and private stashes.

Scratch beneath the surface of a coffee bean, a red pepper flake, a poppy seed, a mold spore, a foxglove leaf, a magic-mushroom cap, a marijuana bud, or an apple seed, and we find a bevy of strange chemicals. We use these to greet our days (caffeine), titillate our tongues (capsaicin), recover from surgery (opioids), cure infections (penicillin), mend our hearts (digoxin), bend our minds (psilocybin), calm our nerves (CBD), and even kill our enemies (cyanide). But why do plants and fungi produce such chemicals? And how did we come to use and abuse some of them?

Based on cutting-edge science in the fields of evolution, chemistry, and neuroscience, Most Delicious Poison reveals:

The origins of toxins produced by plants, mushrooms, microbes, and even some animals
The mechanisms that animals evolved to overcome them
How a co-evolutionary arms race made its way into the human experience
And much more

This perpetual chemical war not only drove the diversification of life on Earth, but also is intimately tied to our own successes and failures. You will never look at a houseplant, mushroom, fruit, vegetable, or even the past five hundred years of human history the same way again.

https://events.berkeley.edu/pmb/event/236941-most-delicious-poison-the-story-of-natures
Advanced Zotero Week 6: JURIS-M for multilingual scholarship, April 17https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11944562Advanced Zotero workshops are intended for Zotero users who want to go beyond the basics of collecting citations and exporting bibliographies. If you are new to Zotero, consider attending one of the Library’s Introduction to Zotero workshops being offered this term.
Advanced Zotero workshops are offered every other Wednesday, starting February 7th, from 12:10-1:00 via Zoom. Registration is required and the Zoom link will be provided to participants who register 24 hours in advance of the workshop. You must have a Calnet ID to register for a workshop.
Week 6: JURIS-M for multilingual scholarship
- Installing JURIS-M
- Configure JURIS-M to link to your Zotero account
- Setting up JURIS-M to store multilingual information.
- Integrating JURIS-M into your writing process
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11944562
Advanced Zotero Week 6: JURIS-M for multilingual scholarship, April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236985-advanced-zotero-week-6Advanced Zotero workshops are intended for Zotero users who want to go beyond the basics of collecting citations and exporting bibliographies. If you are new to Zotero, consider attending one of the Library’s Introduction to Zotero workshops being offered this term.
Advanced Zotero workshops are offered every other Wednesday, starting February 7th, from 12:10-1:00 via Zoom. Registration is required and the Zoom link will be provided to participants who register 24 hours in advance of the workshop. You must have a Calnet ID to register for a workshop.
Week 6: JURIS-M for multilingual scholarship
- Installing JURIS-M
- Configure JURIS-M to link to your Zotero account
- Setting up JURIS-M to store multilingual information.
- Integrating JURIS-M into your writing process
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236985-advanced-zotero-week-6
RWAP: Yphtach Lelkes: Research Workshop in American Politics, April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/igs/event/239734-rwap-yphtach-lelkes-research-workshop-in-american

RWAP is pleased to welcome guest speaker, Yphtach Lelkes on 4/17.

https://events.berkeley.edu/igs/event/239734-rwap-yphtach-lelkes-research-workshop-in-american
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, April 17https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877072Learn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877072
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235497-makerspace-drop-in-hoursLearn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235497-makerspace-drop-in-hours
Abolition and the everyday life of Sacramento’s carceral housing crisis, April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/geog/event/243637-abolition-and-the-everyday-life-of-sacramentos

The movement for abolition has articulated a rejection of policing and prisons as a central part of a broader project to dismantle racial capitalism. In this presentation, I propose that a fight for universal housing can play a critical role in this movement. Through ethnographic work with those most impacted by policing, incarceration, and housing precarity in Sacramento, I demonstrate that the city is in the grips of what I name as a carceral housing crisis in which the punishing functions of the state participate centrally. Informed by those organizing against the crisis, I make a case for an abolitionist approach to housing that prioritizes collective ownership and autonomy over capitalist property relationships and state management.

Mia Karisa Dawson is an human geographer studying racial dynamics of policing, property, and protest in U.S. cities. Mia is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History and the Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA and is an alumnus of the Geography Graduate Group at UC Davis.

https://events.berkeley.edu/geog/event/243637-abolition-and-the-everyday-life-of-sacramentos
2024 Barbara Boxer Lecture, April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/igs/event/-2024-boxer-lecture

The Barbara Boxer Lecture is an annual event, sponsored jointly by the Institute of Governmental Studies and The Bancroft Library, that focuses on women in leadership.

IGS and the Bancroft Library are pleased to announce that former Congresswoman Rep. Jackie Speier will be in conversation with former U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, as the 2024 Barbara Boxer Lecturer.

About the Speaker
Jackie Speier is a former U.S. Congresswoman for California’s 14th district, where she served from 2008 to 2023. Before that, she served on the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, the California State Assembly and the California Senate, bringing her total time in public service to over 40 years.

Jackie is a fierce advocate for women’s rights, gun violence prevention, health care, LGBTQ+ rights, and the care of service members and veterans. Her decade-long fight in Congress against sexual assault in the military earned her the recognition by Newsweek Magazine as among the top “150 Fearless Women of the World.” She was named one of Politico’s 50 most influential people for bringing the “Me Too” reckoning to Congress.

In the California State Legislature Jackie had a record 300 bills become law. She and authored the nation’s strongest consumer financial privacy law and the Gender Tax Repeal Act, and worked to pass the state’s assault weapon ban.

While working as a legislative counsel to Congressman Leo Ryan in 1978, and investigating the People’s Temple cult, she was shot five times and the Congressman was assassinated in the Jonestown massacre in Guyana.

Jackie is the author of two bestselling books, Undaunted: Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage and Fighting Back and This Is Not the Life I Ordered. She is a graduate of the University of California, Davis and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly Hastings). She is married to Barry Dennis and has two children and an adorable Golden-doodle dog named Emma.

This is an accessible event. If you are a disabled person and need reasonable accommodations to participate they will be provided. For more information, and to make a request, please contact Ezra Bristow at ezrabristow@berkeley.edu

https://events.berkeley.edu/igs/event/-2024-boxer-lecture
Masha Salazkina | Building the High Dam: the genre of socialist industrial documentary and the ill-fated history of Youssef Chahine’s Soviet-Egyptian coproduction “People on the Nile” (1968-1972), April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/CMES/event/243520-masha-salazkina-building-the-high-dam-the-genre

The talk will center on the problem of industrial modernization and development as an integral part of a shared post-colonial and socialist ethos, as expressed in the variety of cinematic genres of the 1950s-1970s globally. It will take as its case study a failed Soviet-Egyptian coproduction about the building of the Aswan High dam directed by Youssef Chahine (The People on the Nile [al-Nass wa’l-Nil], 1968 and 1972).

 

Masha Salazkina is Professor of Film Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. She is author of Romancing Yesenia: How a Mexican Melodrama Shaped Global Popular Culture (University of California Press, forthcoming 2024), World Socialist Cinema: Alliances, Affinities, and Solidarities in the Global Cold War (University of California Press, 2023) and InExcess: Sergei Eisenstein’s Mexico (University of Chicago, 2009). She is currently co-editing a special issue of Feminist Media Histories journal on developmentalism, gender and media, and a volume on cinemas of global solidarity with Oxford University Press.

https://events.berkeley.edu/CMES/event/243520-masha-salazkina-building-the-high-dam-the-genre
Masha Salazkina | Building the High Dam: the genre of socialist industrial documentary and the ill-fated history of Youssef Chahine’s Soviet-Egyptian coproduction “People on the Nile” (1968-1972), April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/iseees/event/243639-masha-salazkina-building-the-high-dam-the-genre

The talk will center on the problem of industrial modernization and development as an integral part of a shared post-colonial and socialist ethos, as expressed in the variety of cinematic genres of the 1950s-1970s globally. It will take as its case study a failed Soviet-Egyptian coproduction about the building of the Aswan High dam directed by Youssef Chahine (The People on the Nile [al-Nass wa’l-Nil], 1968 and 1972).

 

Masha Salazkina is Professor of Film Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. She is author of Romancing Yesenia: How a Mexican Melodrama Shaped Global Popular Culture (University of California Press, forthcoming 2024), World Socialist Cinema: Alliances, Affinities, and Solidarities in the Global Cold War (University of California Press, 2023) and InExcess: Sergei Eisenstein’s Mexico (University of Chicago, 2009). She is currently co-editing a special issue of Feminist Media Histories journal on developmentalism, gender and media, and a volume on cinemas of global solidarity with Oxford University Press.

https://events.berkeley.edu/iseees/event/243639-masha-salazkina-building-the-high-dam-the-genre
The guardians of mitochondrial metabolism: SoLute Carrier SLC25 family transporters, April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/NST/event/237070-the-guardians-of-mitochondrial-metabolism-solute

The Shen laboratory studies cellular metabolism through the characterization of human metabolic enzymes and transporters of unknown functions. The current focus of the lab lies in the study of mitochondrial metabolite transporter SLC25 family with the application of techniques ranging from biochemistry, cell biology, CRISPR, molecular evolution, and metabolomics. The Shen lab recently discovered the critical role of a previously “orphaned” transporter SLC25A39 in mitochondrial glutathione transport, and the dual regulatory mechanism for the SLC25A39 protein, by mitochondrial protein quality control and iron sensing, that coordinates mitochondrial glutathione and iron metabolism. The discovery sheds new light on the molecular mechanism of glutathione compartmentalization and its regulation, and offers new insights into human diseases related to glutathione and metabolic compartmentalization. At Yale, Hoy was awarded CZI Collaborative Pairs Pilot Project Awards (’20, co-PI), Lois E and Franklin H. Top Jr. Yale Scholar Award (’21), Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neurosciences (’21-’24), 1907 Foundation Trailblazer Award in mental health (’22-’23) and Rita Allen Foundation Scholar (’23-’28).

https://events.berkeley.edu/NST/event/237070-the-guardians-of-mitochondrial-metabolism-solute
On-campus Schwarzman Scholars Program Info Session, April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/OURS/event/243054-on-campus-schwarzman-scholars-program-info-session

Join the Associate Director of Global Admissions for the Schwarzman Scholars Program, to learn about this opportunity to pursue a fully funded one-year M.A. in Global Affairs at Beijing’s Tsinghua University. The program supports up to 200 Scholars annually from the U.S., China, and around the world. The curriculum bridges the academic and professional worlds to educate students about leadership and about China’s expanding role in the world. The residential program also provides Scholars with learning opportunities with leaders from China and the world through high-level interactions at lectures, an internship program, a mentor network, and intensive deep-dive travel seminars. 

Pre-register at this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfFQmdU2bz9G8b_ye5V4YJAuSlbkEfdxcS5q8qSgPPRQfbduw/viewform

https://events.berkeley.edu/OURS/event/243054-on-campus-schwarzman-scholars-program-info-session
Cybersecurity Spring 2024 Capstone Project Showcase, April 17https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2024/cybersecurity-spring-2024-capstone-project-showcaseGraduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Lily L. Chang MICS Capstone Award.
More info: https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2024/cybersecurity-spring-2024-capstone-project-showcase
https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2024/cybersecurity-spring-2024-capstone-project-showcase
Chapbook Launch & Poetry Reading, featuring Marisa Lin and Cianga, April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/arc/event/243502-chapbook-launch-poetry-reading-featuring

Join the Arts Research Center in celebrating the first chapbook publications of Poetry & the Senses Fellows Marisa Lin and Cianga. Each poet will read for 20 minutes, followed by a book signing. Free & open to the public.

Marisa Lin’s chapbook Dream Elevator is just published by Kerpunkt Press NY. Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow Aileen Cassinetto writes “In this stunning debut chapbook, Marisa Lin delivers a vision that transcends distance and memory to examine race, gender, daughterhood, and the body politic.” You can read a review of Dream Elevator in Heavy Feather Review. Marisa Lin (she/they) is a daughter of immigrants and Minnesota native. She was a 2023 Poetry Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Arts Research Center and her work is published or forthcoming in Poetry South, Porter House Review, Cimarron Review, and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day. Her debut chapbook, DREAM ELEVATOR, is published by Kernpunkt Press (2024). Marisa graduates in 2024 with a Master’s Degree of Public Policy from UC Berkeley.

Cianga‘s chapbook, Congo, seen from the heavens, is the third winner of Start A Riot! Chapbook Prize. In response to rapid gentrification and displacement of QTBIPOC+ literary artists in the San Francisco Bay Area, and in celebration of these communities’ revolutionary history, Foglifter Press, RADAR Productions, and Still Here San Francisco joined forces to create a chapbook prize for local emerging queer and trans Black writers, indigenous writers, and writers of color. Cianga (she/they) is a Congolese artist based in California, by way of South Africa. A recipient of the Cave Canem + EcoTheo’s Starshine & Clay Fellowship, Cianga creates interdisciplinary work that seeks to decolonize and disrupt language. They are currently an MFA candidate and have received residency and fellowship support from UC Berkeley’s Arts & Research Center, Brooklyn Poets, and Atlantic Center for the Arts. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Foglifter Journal, Rappahannock Review, EcoTheo Review and elsewhere. They write, draw, compose, perform with the belief of black art as radical joy and critical protest.

 

book cover with little girl

Dream Elevator, by Marisa Lin, Kerpunkt Press NY

https://events.berkeley.edu/arc/event/243502-chapbook-launch-poetry-reading-featuring
Holloway Poetry Series: Tim Wood, April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/english/event/237723-holloway-poetry-series-tim-wood

The Holloway Series presents a reading by poet Tim Wood.

Tim Wood is the author of Otherwise Known as Home (BlazeVOX, 2010) and Notched Sunsets (Atelos, 2016). He is co-editor of The Hip Hop Reader (Longman, 2008), and his critical work has been published in Jacket2, Convolution, the Colorado Review, The Iowa Review, and the Boston Review. He earned his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley, an M.F.A. from The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is currently an associate professor of English at SUNY Nassau Community College in Garden City, New York. In Spring 2024, he is Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry at UC Berkeley. 

https://events.berkeley.edu/english/event/237723-holloway-poetry-series-tim-wood
Film Screening: Mueda, Memory and Massacre, April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240567-film-screening-mueda-memory-and-massacre

After independence was declared, Ruy Guerra returned to Mozambique from Brazil—where he had been a key figure in the Cinema Novo movement—and helped establish the National Film Institute. His depiction of a reenactment of the 1960 Mueda massacre, which triggered the war of independence, was the first feature-length film of Mozambican cinema. Hundreds of people were killed when Portuguese troops fired on peaceful demonstrators protesting the arrest of two exiles. Locals, including survivors who also offer testimony, participate in this regularly staged political theater, playing both the victims and the oppressors.

https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240567-film-screening-mueda-memory-and-massacre
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222919-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222919-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229200-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229200-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Results for Reading Comprehension Open Institute, April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/crlp/event/229783-results-for-reading-comprehension-open-institute

This is Day 3 of CRLP’s Results for Reading Comprehension Open Institute series. This learning series is designed to provide teachers with the tools and skills necessary to analyze the academic language and literacy demands of complex literary and informational texts, with a renewed emphasis on effective reading comprehension instruction through the lens of an assets-based pedagogy. CRLP Results for Reading Comprehension will link holistic reading comprehension instruction to grade-level text and diverse literature, in our attempt to amplify the critical role of complex text across disciplinary learning.

https://events.berkeley.edu/crlp/event/229783-results-for-reading-comprehension-open-institute
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236443-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236443-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241415-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241415-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
Traffic Control for Safer Work Zones, April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/ttp/event/228849-traffic-control-for-safer-work-zones

Description

Our one-day Traffic Control for Safer Work Zones course is designed to keep the workers and public safe during road construction and maintenance, utility work, landscaping and railway maintenance work along roadways in California. This training course is compliant with the California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (CAMUTCD), Cal-OSHA Sections 1598 & 1599, and California Vehicle Code Section 21400. It also incorporates the latest State and Federal guidelines.

Collectively, our team of instructors has over 150 years of work zone related experience. They are all Licensed Professional Engineers who work for public agencies or as engineering and liability consultants. Many of the instructors also are active members of the National Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, the Work Area Traffic Control Handbook (WATCH), and the Caltrans 2014 CAMUTCD working team.

 

Topics Include

  • Traffic control plans for various types of roadway situations encountered in cities and counties in California
  • Some instruction on proper flagging procedures
  • Legal section on work zone tort liability

What You Will Learn

By the end of the training, students will:

  • Understand the requirements to protect the driving public and work zone crew at and around construction and maintenance areas (or work zones)
  • Be able to develop traffic control plans for work zones in accordance with state and national guidelines
  • Understand safety equipment and markings and their uses/limitations under various conditions
  • Be able to install traffic control devices for work zones to assure safety of the driving public and the work zone crew
  • Be able to safely install and remove a variety of safety equipment and markings used to control/guide traffic safely through work zones
  • Gain knowledge concerning actions to reduce risk of personal and agency liability arising from negligence in the work zone design and operation
  • Be able to use techniques, devices and equipment to safely direct vehicle movements around work zones in accordance with state and national guidelines

Who Should Attend

This training is designed for road construction and maintenance crews and their supervisors who are expected to work in and around the public street right-of-way and are responsible for the implementation of traffic safety control plans in the field. This course will also benefit traffic/civil engineers and public works inspectors who design, direct, and inspect construction and maintenance work done on public streets. Utility company workers and contractors, who frequently do maintenance work within the public street right-of-way, will also benefit from this training.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ttp/event/228849-traffic-control-for-safer-work-zones
BPM 110 Foundational Finance, April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/223637-bpm-110-foundational-finance

Access to registration is disabled two days prior to the event.

This 5-hour in-person workshop for staff is part of the BPM Part 2: Grow Your Knowledge series. In this highly interactive workshop, each participant’s experience is drawn upon for the learning. Ideally, to contribute to and enhance understanding, participants will come with current and/or previous people management experience.

The content covers budgeting and using your unit’s resources.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
*Explain how money comes to campus and is distributed to units
*Explain the nature of university budgeting – permanent vs. temporary, incremental vs. formulaic, etc.
*Describe the rudiments of fund accounting and how it impacts budgeting and resource allocation
*Locate the tools available to managers for budgets
*Apply best practices for developing a unit budget
*Recognize considerations in times of budget reductions
*Check progress mid-year

https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/223637-bpm-110-foundational-finance
Sitting on a throne or working with vases: from deities to ordinary women in Phoenicia (Dr. Tatiana Pedrazzi), April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/219464-sitting-on-a-throne-or-working-with-vases-from

This lecture is part of the series Women and Gender in the Phoenician Homeland and Diaspora. This program of public lectures takes place monthly on Thursdays at 9:30 AM Pacific, from October 2023 through May 2024. See the list of lectures and dates below.

Watch on the ARF YouTube channel here: https://bit.ly/arf-channel or watch later on the ARF & Badè YouTube channels.

 

November 2, 2023 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Bärbel Morstadt - “Ashtart and Co. as female role models in Phoenician society”

 

December 7, 2023 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Wissam Khalil and Karim Fadlallah - “The cult of Astarte within the coastal grottos of Adloun and Kharayeb in southern Lebanon”

 

January 25, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Becky Martin - “Gender representation on anthropoid coffins”

 

February 22, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Jessica Nitschke - “Dress and representation of women in Phoenician visual culture”

 

March 7, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Agnès Garcia Ventura and Dr. Mireia Lopez Bertran - “On Phoenician/Punic music and musicians: a gender approach”

 

March 21, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Mireia Lopez Bertran - “Punic women as ritual agents: evidence from material and visual culture”

 

March 28, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Maroun Khreich - “Phoenician women in textual documentation (epigraphical and literary)”

 

April 18, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Tatiana Pedrazzi - “Sitting on a throne or working with vases: from deities to ordinary women in Phoenicia”

 

May 2, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Adriano Orsingher - “Gender and masks. A look through the Phoenician/Punic lens”

 

May 16, 2024 @ 9:30am California time

Dr. Ida Oggiano - “Ritual actions of Phoenician women in the Levant in the 1st millennium BC: purposes and modalities”

https://events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/219464-sitting-on-a-throne-or-working-with-vases-from
External Finance Seminars: Terry S. Moon - UBC, April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/237075-external-finance-seminars-terry-s-moon-ubcGuest:
Terry S. Moon
UBC

Paper:

TBD
https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/237075-external-finance-seminars-terry-s-moon-ubc
The Loft Hour: Cathy Park Hong + Timmia Hearn DeRoy, April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/arc/event/218703-the-loft-hour-cathy-park-hong-timmia-hearn-deroy

The Loft Hour:
Cathy Park Hong
+ Timmia Hearn DeRoy

in conversation with Abigail De Kosnik


Thursday, April 18, 2024
12 – 1pm
ARC, Hearst Field Annex D23

Elevate your lunch break with The Loft Hour, a new year-long series that invites new arts faculty to riff on their work over lunch, in an informal conversation moderated by an ARC-affiliated faculty member. The April program features Cathy Park Hong (English) and Timmia DeRoy (Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies) in conversation with Abigail De Kosnik.

Cathy Park Hong is a writer and poet who has published three volumes of poetry, with her creative nonfiction book Minor Feelings (2020) being both a Pulitzer Prize finalist and received the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. She was also named on Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2021 list, as well as a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

A child of Korean parents, Park Hong grew up in Los Angeles before earning her B.A. from Oberlin College and MFA from Iowa Writers’ Workshop. http://cathyparkhong.com/index.html

Timmia Hearn DeRoy is a practitioner and scholar of social justice-based theatre and film. She was a founding member of the Trinidad and Tobago PRIDE Arts Festival, former Director of the School for the Arts at the Trinidad Theatre Workshop, the Caribbean’s oldest theatre company, and former Marketing Manager at the CaribbeanTales International Film Festival. She works in areas of post-colonial theater practice, transnational feminist praxis, and Disability Justice, and engages in community-oriented and social change focused theater across the Diasporas to which she belongs. Timmia’s directing credits include 10,000: A One-Woman New Play Development by Victoria Taurean (2020) at the Lawrence Arts Center, In the Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks (2019) at the KU University Theatre, an original I Am One musical comedy called Buss de Mark (2016) which premiered at the PRIDE Arts Festival in Trinidad, and more. Timmia holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Kansas, and a B.A. in Theatre Studies from Yale University. You can see her work at TimmiaHearn.com.

Abigail De Kosnik is an Associate Professor in the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) and the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS), and an affiliated faculty member of Gender & Women’s Studies, Film & Media, and Folklore. She is the 2020-2025 craigslist Distinguished Chair in New Media. She researches histories and theories of new media, film and television, social media, fan studies, piracy studies, cultural memory, and archive studies. She is particularly interested in how issues of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and transnationalism intersect with new media studies and performance studies. De Kosnik is currently writing a book on media piracy in the U.S. by queer and BIPOC users tentatively titled Minority Piracy. She is faculty co-organizer of The Color of New Media, a working group that focuses on the overlap of critical race theory, gender and women’s studies, and transnational studies with new media studies (sponsored by the Center for Race and Gender with additional support from BCNM). De Kosnik is Filipina American.

https://events.berkeley.edu/arc/event/218703-the-loft-hour-cathy-park-hong-timmia-hearn-deroy
The Loft Hour: Cathy Park Hong + Timmia Hearn DeRoy, April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/lacc/event/223174-the-loft-hour-cathy-park-hong-timmia-hearn-deroy

The Loft Hour:
Cathy Park Hong
+ Timmia Hearn DeRoy

in conversation with Abigail De Kosnik


Thursday, April 18, 2024
12 – 1pm
ARC, Hearst Field Annex D23

Elevate your lunch break with The Loft Hour, a new year-long series that invites new arts faculty to riff on their work over lunch, in an informal conversation moderated by an ARC-affiliated faculty member. The April program features Cathy Park Hong (English) and Timmia DeRoy (Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies) in conversation with Abigail De Kosnik.

Cathy Park Hong is a writer and poet who has published three volumes of poetry, with her creative nonfiction book Minor Feelings (2020) being both a Pulitzer Prize finalist and received the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. She was also named on Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2021 list, as well as a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

A child of Korean parents, Park Hong grew up in Los Angeles before earning her B.A. from Oberlin College and MFA from Iowa Writers’ Workshop. http://cathyparkhong.com/index.html

 

Timmia Hearn DeRoy is a practitioner and scholar of social justice-based theatre and film. She was a founding member of the Trinidad and Tobago PRIDE Arts Festival, former Director of the School for the Arts at the Trinidad Theatre Workshop, the Caribbean’s oldest theatre company, and former Marketing Manager at the CaribbeanTales International Film Festival. She works in areas of post-colonial theater practice, transnational feminist praxis, and Disability Justice, and engages in community-oriented and social change focused theater across the Diasporas to which she belongs. Timmia’s directing credits include 10,000: A One-Woman New Play Development by Victoria Taurean (2020) at the Lawrence Arts Center, In the Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks (2019) at the KU University Theatre, an original I Am One musical comedy called Buss de Mark (2016) which premiered at the PRIDE Arts Festival in Trinidad, and more. Timmia holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Kansas, and a B.A. in Theatre Studies from Yale University. You can see her work at TimmiaHearn.com.

https://events.berkeley.edu/lacc/event/223174-the-loft-hour-cathy-park-hong-timmia-hearn-deroy
Talking SBIR/STTR Grant Funding: Small Business Research Subcontracts for Faculty, April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/ipira/event/229315-talking-sbirsttr-grant-funding-small-business-researc

Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Tech Transfer (STTR) contracts and grants at UC Berkeley involve working with a small business on a research project where UC Berkeley is the subcontractor to the small business. In this workshop, we will explore the SBIR/STTR program, how UC Berkeley researchers have participated in projects, the process for working with a small business on an SBIR or STTR project, and intellectual property developed with this funding. We will also explore campus resources in the event that you or a researcher in your lab is interested in starting up a new company and applying for SBIR or STTR funding. Bring your questions! Hosted by the UC Berkeley Office of Intellectual Property and Industry Research Alliances.

Speaker:

Kate Lewis, Associate Director, IPIRA Industry Alliances Office (IAO) 

Kate Lewis is the IPIRA Industry Alliances Office Associate Director, where she facilitates collaborations and research between industry and UC Berkeley, and negotiates a variety of industry-sponsored contracts for research across campus.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ipira/event/229315-talking-sbirsttr-grant-funding-small-business-researc
Aging Out: Understanding the Social Service Needs of Unaccompanied Latinx Immigrant Transitional Age Youth (TAY) during the Precarious Transition to Adulthood, April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/socwel/event/243542-aging-out-understanding-the-social-service-needs

Aging Out: Understanding the Social Service Needs of Unaccompanied Latinx Immigrant Transitional Age Youth (TAY) during the Precarious Transition to Adulthood


Utilizing in-depth interviews & focus groups with undocumented transitional-age youth (18-21), and social service providers in California, this qualitative study examines the mental health and social service needs of unaccompanied immigrant transitional-age youth who were forcibly separated from their families. Preliminary findings show that in the context of structural and community violence and poverty, youth:1) navigate a dual liminal state: simultaneously in legal limbo and in limbo between childhood and adulthood; 2) experience economic barriers, work primacy, and academic dreams deferred; 3) social service providers fill important gaps in supporting youth’s basic needs, legal services, and in offering critical mental health support among youth who have experienced significant trauma. This research offers important insights into the changing nature of transnational families, unaccompanied minors coming of age, and the needs of transitional-age youth seeking permanency and well-being.

Dr. Kristina Lovato Bio

https://events.berkeley.edu/socwel/event/243542-aging-out-understanding-the-social-service-needs
Integrative Biology Seminar, April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/ib/event/208865-integrative-biology-seminarIntegrative Biology Seminarhttps://events.berkeley.edu/ib/event/208865-integrative-biology-seminarOEW Seminar - Anne Brockmeyer (World Bank), April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/229876-oew-seminar-anne-brockmeyer-world-bankPaper Topic: TBDhttps://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/229876-oew-seminar-anne-brockmeyer-world-bankShansby Marketing Seminar - Arianne Eason (UC Berkeley), April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/242978-shansby-marketing-seminar-arianne-eason-uchttps://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/242978-shansby-marketing-seminar-arianne-eason-ucEcon 235, Finance Lunch Seminar: “Experience Effect on Portfolio / Housing Choices”, April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/239233-econ-235-finance-lunch-seminar-experience-effect-on-p

The Finance Student Lunch Seminar meets intermittently on Thursdays in Evans 597 from 12:45pm.

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/239233-econ-235-finance-lunch-seminar-experience-effect-on-p
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, April 18https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877073Learn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877073
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235496-makerspace-drop-in-hoursLearn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235496-makerspace-drop-in-hours
Microsoft Excel Database and Lookup Functions, April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/219587-microsoft-excel-database-and-lookup-functions

This course describes the process of leveraging database functions and lookup functions to analyze and extract data values. Emphasis is placed on function theory and syntax, and the advantages of integrating the two types of functions in spreadsheet environments.

https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/219587-microsoft-excel-database-and-lookup-functions
Monthly Meditation and Mindfulness for Faculty and Staff, April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/212180-monthly-meditation-and-mindfulness-for-faculty-and

The regular practice of mindfulness meditation has a demonstrable impact on psychological and physical health, improving mood, decreasing stress, strengthening the immune system, and supporting sleep.

Be Well at Work Employee Assistance(link is external) and Work/Life(link is external) invite faculty and staff to join us for a monthly meditation group which will offer a moment of relaxation and rejuvenation during the work day. Each month will focus on a beneficial intention to guide us.

No registration required and no prior experience with meditation necessary.

All are welcome.

Third Thursday of the month at 2 pm - 2:20 pm via Zoom

 

If you would like these sessions added to your bCal for scheduling notifications, please email kpatchell@berkeley.edu

https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/212180-monthly-meditation-and-mindfulness-for-faculty-and
Clark Kerr Lecture 2024 (Hybrid): Access and Equity in Higher Education–What Now?, April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/cshe/event/223591-clark-kerr-lecture-2024-hybrid-access-and-equity-in-h

Flyer for Clark Kerr Lecture 2024: Access and Equity in Higher Education-What Now? Flyer for Clark Kerr Lecture 2024: Access and Equity in Higher Education–What Now?

 

Ruth J. Simmons is a Distinguished Presidential Fellow at Rice University and Adviser to the President of Harvard University on HBCU Initiatives. She served as President of Prairie View A&M University until March 2023. Prior to joining Prairie View, she was President of Brown University from 2001-2012 and President of Smith College from 1995-2001. Under her leadership, Prairie View was reclassified as an R-2 Research University and Brown made significant strides in improving its standing as one of the world’s finest research universities. A French professor before entering university administration, President Simmons held an
appointment as a Professor of Comparative Literature and Africana Studies at Brown. After completing her Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard, she served in various faculty and administrative roles at the University of Southern California, Princeton University, and Spelman College before becoming president of Smith College, the largest women’s college in the United States. At Smith, she launched a number of important academic initiatives, including an engineering program, the first at an American women’s college. 

https://events.berkeley.edu/cshe/event/223591-clark-kerr-lecture-2024-hybrid-access-and-equity-in-h
Seminar 242, Econometrics: Jeffrey Woolridge, April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/241934-seminar-242-econometrics-jeffrey-woolridge

Topic forthcoming

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/241934-seminar-242-econometrics-jeffrey-woolridge
CANCELED: Kashmir: Dissent, Arbitrary Detention, and the Law (CRG Forum Series), April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/crg/event/229077-kashmir-dissent-arbitrary-detention-and-the-law-crg-f

CRG’s Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative presents:
KASHMIR: DISSENT, ARBITRARY DETENTION, AND THE LAW 
with Haley Duschinski (Ohio University) and Ather Zia (University of Northern Colorado)

in conversation with
Angana P. Chatterji
Founding Co-Chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights, Center for Race and Gender and Research Anthropologist, UC Berkeley

and
Leti Volpp
Director, Center for Race and Gender; and Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law


*If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) to fully participate in this event, please contact Ariana Ceja at centerrg@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

https://events.berkeley.edu/crg/event/229077-kashmir-dissent-arbitrary-detention-and-the-law-crg-f
Mathematics Department Colloquium: TBD, April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/239665-mathematics-department-colloquium-tbdhttps://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/239665-mathematics-department-colloquium-tbdConceptualising the Silk Roads: Some Suggestions, April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/tcsrs/event/222900-conceptualising-the-silk-roads-some-suggestions

2024 ANNUAL TANG LECTURE

 

In this talk, Peter Frankopan will talk about the past, present and future of the Silk Roads, and set out some ideas of the benefits and challenges of focusing of joining up geographies, cultures, disciplines and periods that link Asia, Africa and Europe.

Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History, Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College. He specializes in the history of the Byzantine Empire in the 11th Century, and in the history of Asia Minor, Russia and the Balkans. He works on medieval Greek literature and rhetoric, and on diplomatic and cultural exchange between Constantinople and the Islamic world, western Europe and the principalities of southern Russia.

https://events.berkeley.edu/tcsrs/event/222900-conceptualising-the-silk-roads-some-suggestions
Nahum Chandler, April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/rhetoric/event/229908-nahum-chandler

Nahum Dimitri Chandler, Ph.D., 1997, University of Chicago (Anthropology, Division of Social Sciences), serves on the faculty of the School of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine, at the rank of full professor, appointed as a faculty member in the Department of English (home and core) and in the Department of African American Studies (core).

His work is in literature, philosophy, and intellectual history (notably the thought of W. E. B. Du Bois).

At UC Irvine he is a participating faculty member in the Departments of Comparative Literature, Asian American Studies, and European Languages and Studies, respectively, and as a faculty member for the campus-wide Critical Theory Emphasis.

He held regular appointments at Duke University (1993-1997) and Johns Hopkins University (1999- 2005), served as the lead founding full professor for a new School of Global Studies, associated with Tama University, in Tokyo, Japan (2007-2011); and as a visiting professor at Columbia University (2006) and Stanford University (2008), respectively; and, as an invited visiting assistant professor at the University of California – both Irvine (1997) and Davis (2002). From 2008-2012 he was a visiting scholar within the Office for History of Science and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Among other awards, during the 1998-1999 academic year he was a resident member with fellowship in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where he also held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (USA) and the Ford Foundation (USA). For 2005-2006 he held a Fulbright lecturing/research fellowship (at top-ranked) Tohoku University (Japan). As a faculty director and visiting professor, in 2016, 2018, and 2019, for discrete appointments, he served in Japan for the University of California Education Abroad Program (UCEAP). In April of 2020 he was awarded a UC President’s Faculty Research Fellowship by the University of California Humanities Research Institute for his project on W. E. B. Du Bois and Japan. For that same project he was also appointed as a distinguished research fellow at the Pacific Basin Research Center at the Soka University of America, 2020-2022, and as a research fellow in the Graduate School/Faculty of Arts and Letters at Tohoku University (Japan), 2019-2022.

He is the author of Toward an African Future – Of the Limit of World (Living Commons, 2013; enlarged edition SUNY Press, JULY 2021), X: The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought (Fordham Press, 2014) https://hdl.handle.net/2027/fulcrum.mc87pq840. His book project The Problem of Pure Being, was released by Duke Press as two distinct volumes in 2022-2023: “Beyond this Narrow Now” Or, Delimitations, of W. E. B. Du Bois (FEBRUARY 2022), and Annotations: On the Early Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois (MAY 2023). (3b) He has edited W. E. B. Du Bois, The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays (Fordham, 2015), https://hdl.handle.net/2027/fulcrum.0v8381244, and three special issues for CR: The New Centennial Review: 15.2 in 2015 “W. E. B. Du Bois and the Question of Another World, II (Or, Another Poetics and Another Writing – Of History and the Future)”; 12.1 in 2012, “Toward a New Parallax: Or, Japan in Another Traversal of the Transpacific”; and 6.3 in 2006, “W. E. B. Du Bois and the Question of Another World.” (3c) CR: The New Centennial Review is a journal for which he has served as Associate Editor since 2014, https://msupress.org/journals/cr-the-new centennial-review/. Also, since its founding, he has been a member of the editorial team of A-Line: A Journal of Progressive Thought, https://alinejournal.com/.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rhetoric/event/229908-nahum-chandler
2024 Charles Mills Gayley Lecture: Professor Stephen Best, April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/english/event/240460-2024-charles-mills-gayley-lecture-professor

Stephen Best, Professor & Rachael Anderson Stageberg Chair in English, will deliver the annual Charles Mills Gayley Lecture on April 18th at 5 PM.

Stephen Best’s scholarship encompasses a variety of fields and materials: American and African-American literature and culture, cinema and technology, rhetoric and the law, and critical theory. His research pursuits in the fields of American and African American criticism have been rather closely aligned with a broader interrogation of recent literary critical practice. To be specific, his interest in the critical nexus between slavery and historiography, in the varying scholarly and political preoccupations with establishing the authority of the slave past in black life, quadrates with an exploration of where the limits of historicism as a mode of literary study may lay, especially where that search manifests as an interest in alternatives to suspicious reading in the text-based disciplines. To this end, Professor Best has edited a number of special issues of the journal Representations (on whose board he sits) – “Redress” (with Saidiya Hartman), on theoretical and political projects to undo the slave past, “The Way We Read Now” (with Sharon Marcus), on the limits of symptomatic reading, and “Description Across Disciplines” (with Sharon Marcus and Heather Love), on disciplinary valuations of description as critical practice.

Best is the author of two books: The Fugitive’s Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession(link is external)(link is external)(link is external) (University of Chicago, 2004), a study of property, poetics, and legal hermeneutics in nineteenth-century American literary and legal culture; and, most recently, None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life(link is external)(link is external)(link is external) (Duke University Press, 2018).

His work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Hellman Foundation, the Humanities Research Institute (University of California), and the Ford Foundation. In 2015-2016, he was the Mary Bundy Scott Professor at Williams College, and in spring 2020 he was the Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University. He is currently director of the Townsend Center for the Humanities. 

https://events.berkeley.edu/english/event/240460-2024-charles-mills-gayley-lecture-professor
Devika Singh | A transnational history of art in India, April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/229482-devika-singh-a-transnational-history-of-art-in-india

A talk by Devika Singh, Senior Lecturer in Curating at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London based on her new book, International Departures: Art in India after Independence, a captivating and richly illustrated history of art in India since 1947.

Event moderated by Al-An deSouza, Professor of Photography in the Department of Practice at UC Berkeley. 

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This event will be live streamed on SAAI’s FB page - SAAIatUCBerkeley.

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ABOUT THE BOOK: In this captivating and richly illustrated account, Devika Singh presents together for the first time the work of Indian and foreign artists active in India after independence in 1947. The book engages with the many creators, critics and patrons of the post-war Indian art world, from K.G. Subramanyan, Zarina and Mulk Raj Anand to Isamu Noguchi, Le Corbusier and Clement Greenberg.

Singh opens up new ways of thinking about Indian art, closely examining artworks and analysing how they were received in India and abroad. Featuring a wealth of rare and previously unpublished images, this provocative new book explores how artists in India participated in global modernism during a crucial period of decolonization and nation building.

SPEAKER BIO: Devika Singh is Senior Lecturer in Curating at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. She was previously Curator, International Art at Tate Modern where she was in charge of South Asian art and part of the Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational. She co-curated ‘Gedney in India’ (CSMVS, Mumbai, 2017; Duke University, 2018) and has curated exhibitions ranging from ‘Planetary Planning’ (Dhaka Art Summit, 2018) to ‘Homelands: Art from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan’ (Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, 2019-20), as well as a number of displays at Tate Modern including Lee Mingwei’s Our Labyrinth (Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, 2022). Her writing has appeared widely in exhibition catalogues, art reviews such as frieze, Art Press and MARG and in the journals Art History, Modern Asian Studies, the Journal of Art Historiography and Third Text. Her book International Departures: Art in India after Independence (Reaktion Books) will be released in early 2024 in the United States.

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The South Asia Art Initiative at the University of California, Berkeley promotes research-based conversations and collaborations around the arts of South Asia + its diasporas from the ancient period to the now. To read more about the Initiative and help support its various fundraising goals, please click HERE.
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Event made possible with the support of the Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies

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Event is FREE and OPEN to the public.

https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/229482-devika-singh-a-transnational-history-of-art-in-india
ERG Annual Lecture - Peter Gleick, April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/ERG/event/243459-erg-annual-lecture-peter-gleick

105 Stanley Hall. The Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley has, from its inception a half century ago, educated many of today’s experts and policymakers about the truly interdisciplinary nature of global challenges and solutions. Dr. Peter Gleick, a member of one of ERG’s early cohorts, especially took to heart the idea that the resource and environmental challenges we face are multifaceted.

In this year’s ERG Annual Lecture, Gleick will reflect on ERG and the part it has played in his thinking and life’s work, and he will describe the human history of water as laid out in his new book, The Three Ages of Water. He will discuss the ties between water, energy, food, climate, and security, tell stories of water, and present his vision of a sustainable future for water.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ERG/event/243459-erg-annual-lecture-peter-gleick
ERG Annual Lecture - Peter Gleick, April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/RausserCollege/event/243471-erg-annual-lecture-peter-gleick

105 Stanley Hall. The Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley has, from its inception a half century ago, educated many of today’s experts and policymakers about the truly interdisciplinary nature of global challenges and solutions. Dr. Peter Gleick, a member of one of ERG’s early cohorts, especially took to heart the idea that the resource and environmental challenges we face are multifaceted.

In this year’s ERG Annual Lecture, Gleick will reflect on ERG and the part it has played in his thinking and life’s work, and he will describe the human history of water as laid out in his new book, The Three Ages of Water. He will discuss the ties between water, energy, food, climate, and security, tell stories of water, and present his vision of a sustainable future for water.

https://events.berkeley.edu/RausserCollege/event/243471-erg-annual-lecture-peter-gleick
Film Screening: Dos Estaciones, April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240568-film-screening-dos-estaciones

Director Juan Pablo González’s films bear witness to the people of his home region, the highlands of Jalisco; his first narrative feature, Dos Estaciones, stars a mesmerizing Teresa Sánchez as a suitably strong-willed, unbroken owner of a tequila factory struggling to survive against foreign competition. Agave harvesting, business deals, village celebrations, children’s parties: she’s needed everywhere, with González’s camera following her every slow, steady move, the weight on her shoulders always apparent. “Spellbinding and urgent … a vivid portrait of a place and its people” (Hollywood Reporter), Dos Estaciones earned Sánchez a Sundance Special Jury Prize for Acting.

https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240568-film-screening-dos-estaciones
Crafter Dark: Earth Day, Make Paper Flowers, April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/ASUC/event/240311-crafter-dark-earth-day-make-paper-flowers

Get crafty with us for this special Crafter Dark 🌙 in honor of Earth Day🌎! Students, staff, and faculty are all welcome to join us on April 18 to make paper flowers. 🌺

https://events.berkeley.edu/ASUC/event/240311-crafter-dark-earth-day-make-paper-flowers
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, April 19https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222918-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222918-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, April 19https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229199-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229199-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, April 19https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236442-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236442-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, April 19https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241414-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241414-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
Integral Taiji and Qigong, April 19https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/241304-integral-taiji-and-qigong

Join us for a Friday late morning Integral Taiji & Qigong class. This class focuses on embodied, psycho-spiritual, ecological, and cosmological dimensions of qigong and taiji (tai chi). We will practice standing meditation, walking meditation, the Microcosmic Orbit, Taiji Ruler, the Eight Treasures, cleansing the internal organs, embodying the elements, and more. Everyone is invited to participate, regardless of prior experience. Children are welcome if accompanied by an adult (with Garden admission). Please wear comfortable clothes and shoes, and bring layers for warmth and sun-protection. Space is limited; registration required.

Class will be on the Oak Knoll at the Garden. Please let us know if you have accessibility questions. While we plan to hold this event outdoors, weather may require us to move indoors. Per UC policy, masks are optional indoors.

ATTENTION MEMBERS: Get FREE Registration fee when you Sign In above. Your discount will be automatically applied at check out if properly signed-in with email address displayed. Need help? Email gardenprograms@berkeley.edu

Cancellation Policy: Notification two weeks prior to program receives full refund. If you find you cannot attend less than two weeks prior to event, you may transfer your registration to someone else by having them use your name at check-in or transfer to the next class. In the event that the Garden has to cancel a program you will be offered a full refund.

Access Coordinator: Christine Manoux, gardenprograms@berkeley.edu, 510-643-4832.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/241304-integral-taiji-and-qigong
Natalie Foster: The Guarantee, April 19https://events.berkeley.edu/featured/event/239335-natalie-foster-the-guarantee

The Goldman School of Public Policy is proud to host featured speaker, Natalie Foster. GSPP instructor, Kiran Jain, will be in conversation with Ms. Foster.

Haas Professor, Molly Turner, has generously purchased 50 copies of The Guarantee. The first 50 attendees will receive a signed copy of Natalie’s new book!

AI, inflation and wars have plunged us into economic anxiety. In 2024, that anxiety will fuel the most consequential election in a generation, in which the future of democracy itself hangs in the balance. What this era needs is a new economic framework that ensures every American’s basic needs are met. In her new book, The Guarantee, Natalie Foster, co-founder of The Economic Security Project, tells the story of this contest for the future, and tracks seven guarantees over the past decade (housing, health care, a college education, dignified work, universal care, an inheritance, and an income floor) – showing how they went from emphatically impossible to attainable. In the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw monthly checks to families, a moratorium on evictions and student debt, and the development and distribution of a free vaccine. Not since The New Deal have we seen such a nimble and far-reaching response from the US Government, showing us that the answer we need for tomorrow is happening today.

The Guarantee is the rare book that will shift the terms of debate, moving us from the expired and defunct assumptions of no-guardrails capitalism to a nation that works for all of its people.

https://events.berkeley.edu/featured/event/239335-natalie-foster-the-guarantee
Division of Neurobiology and H. Wills Neuroscience Institute Seminar, April 19https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/222297-division-of-neurobiology-and-h-wills-neuroscienceThis seminar is partially sponsored by NIH
Division(s): Division of Neurobiology & H. Wills Neuroscience Institute
https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/222297-division-of-neurobiology-and-h-wills-neuroscience
Clinical Laboratory Scientist Preparatory Program Online Information Session, April 19https://events.berkeley.edu/extension/event/241284-clinical-laboratory-scientist-preparatory-program-onl

Find out how this specialized program—with online and classroom courses available—can enhance your background in the biological or chemical sciences and help prepare you academically for application to certified CLS training programs.

https://events.berkeley.edu/extension/event/241284-clinical-laboratory-scientist-preparatory-program-onl
Dissertation Talk: The management of data context in the machine learning lifecycle, April 19https://events.berkeley.edu/eecs/event/239965-dissertation-talk-the-management-of-data-context-in-t

In this dissertation talk, I present groundbreaking research on managing data context—–Application, Behavior, and Change over time—within the machine learning (ML) lifecycle. Drawing from a vision laid out in a 2018 KDD workshop, my work introduces Flor (VLDB ’21) and its evolutions, FlorDB (VLDB ’24) and FlorFlow (ArXiv pre-print), designed for comprehensive metadata capture, version control, and provenance analysis in ML model management. A cornerstone of our approach is the use of an interview study to understand “How engineers operationalize machine learning” (CSCW ’24), focusing on MLOps and the iterative model development process.

Through the implementation of these systems and their use in real-world applications for law and journalism, my research demonstrates the tangible benefits of rich data context in agile model development. This talk will demonstrate how the integration of Application, Behavior, and Change contexts enhances the management of the ML lifecycle.

https://events.berkeley.edu/eecs/event/239965-dissertation-talk-the-management-of-data-context-in-t
Quantum Science With Rare-Earth Ions In Crystals - Nano Seminar series, April 19https://events.berkeley.edu/BNNI/event/208842-quantum-science-with-rare-earth-ions-in-crystals-nano
Rare-earth ions in crystals, when strongly coupled with optical and superconducting resonators, form a novel platform that facilitates the exploration of quantum many-body physics and the development of light-matter interfaces for the future quantum internet. Through the utilization of a large ensemble of Ytterbium-171 ions doped into a high-cooperativity nanophotonic cavity made of yttrium orthovanadate, we have recently investigated fundamental phenomena in many-body cavity electrodynamics, unveiling a rich interplay between driven inhomogeneous emitters and cavity photons.
Moreover, we have also demonstrated the utility of local nuclear spins within the lattice as deterministic quantum resources, serving as long-lived quantum memory.
These advancements not only expand the capabilities of rare-earth ion-based platforms but also open avenues for novel applications in quantum technologies.
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Joonhee Choi did his PhD at Harvard and postdoc at Caltech at the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM). He joined the Stanford EE faculty last year.
https://events.berkeley.edu/BNNI/event/208842-quantum-science-with-rare-earth-ions-in-crystals-nano
Accounting Seminar with Eddie Watts, April 19https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/229787-accounting-seminar-with-eddie-wattsEddie Watts of Yale School of Managementhttps://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/229787-accounting-seminar-with-eddie-wattsPlanning for Equitable Micromobility, April 19https://events.berkeley.edu/its/event/229871-planning-for-equitable-micromobility

Anne Brown, Assistant Professor, Planning, Public Policy, and Management, University of Oregon, will present Planning for Equitable Micromobility at the ITS Berkeley Transportation Seminar on Friday April 19, 2024 at 3 pm in 212 O’Brien Hall. Join us for cookies and beverages in the ITS Library (412) McLaughlin Hall at 2:30 pm.

Abstract: Shared micromobility programs, including shared e-scooters and bikeshare, have spread rapidly across the US. Cities are grappling with how these modes may fill gaps in the existing transportation system and how to better reach marginalized and underserved communities. This presentation considers the different dimensions required to plan and implement equitable micromobility, from goal-setting to program design and evaluation, and presents data on how successful equity programs have been to date at extending access to historically underserved groups. It concludes with lessons for how planners and policymakers can manage and design micromobility programs to offer more equitable access and outcomes.

Bio: Anne Brown is an Assistant Professor of Planning, Public Policy, and Management at the University of Oregon. She researches issues around transportation equity, shared mobility, and travel behavior. Dr. Brown holds a Master of Urban and Regional Planning and PhD in Urban Planning from UCLA.

https://events.berkeley.edu/its/event/229871-planning-for-equitable-micromobility
Composition Colloquium: Martin Keary, April 19https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235710-composition-colloquium-martin-keary

Based in London, Martin Keary is a composer, designer, and communicator. He completed his master’s degree in composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland under Gordon McPherson in June 2016.

Apart from his purely musical pursuits, Martin is interested in merging his visual and musical backgrounds to create works in the ‘visual music’ genre. This involves live ensembles synchronizing with visuals on screen.

Currently, Martin holds the position of Vice President of Product at Muse, overseeing the product direction for various music applications, including MuseScore, Audacity, and Ultimate Guitar. His notation typeface, ‘Leland,’ is now integrated into popular notation software like MuseScore, Sibelius, and Dorico.

Martin is also known for his YouTube channel, ‘Tantacrul,’where he delves into discussions about music philosophy, theory and history. Additionally, he shares insights into his own contributions to music and software design.

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235710-composition-colloquium-martin-keary
MCB Seminar: Title to be announced, April 19https://events.berkeley.edu/HWNI/event/229326-mcb-seminar-title-to-be-announced

Abstract to be announced

https://events.berkeley.edu/HWNI/event/229326-mcb-seminar-title-to-be-announced
Inorganic Chemistry Seminar, April 19https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230509-inorganic-chemistry-seminar

TBD

https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230509-inorganic-chemistry-seminar
Music Studies Colloquium: Benjamin Ory, April 19https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235944-music-studies-colloquium-benjamin-ory

Bukofzer vs. Lowinsky: Heinrich Besseler’s Students at UC Berkeley

Benjamin Ory is a musicologist interested in the intersection of early music and historiography. 

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235944-music-studies-colloquium-benjamin-ory
A Guftugu with distinguished scholar and historian at Oxford University, Faisal Devji, April 19https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/229929-a-guftugu-with-distinguished-scholar-and-historian-at

A conversation with Professor of South Asian History and Fellow of St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford, Faisal Devji.

Prof. Devji will be in conversation with Associate Professor of History, Janaki Bakhle and Associate Professor of English and co-Director of the Program in Critical Theory, Poulomi Saha. The event will be moderated by Munis D. Faruqui, Director, Institute for South Asia Studies; Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies; Associate Professor, South & South East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley. 
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About the Speaker
Dr. Faisal Devji is Reader in Modern Indian History and Fellow of St. Antony’s College at the University of Oxford. He has held faculty positions at Harvard, Yale, the University of Chicago and the New School for Social Research, as well as the Yves Oltramane Chair at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. Devji has been a fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and the Institute of Public Knowledge at New York University. He is the author of four books, Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity (2005), The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics (2008), The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence (2012) and Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea (2013).

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PARKING INFORMATION
Please note that parking is not always easily available in Berkeley. Take public transportation if possible or arrive early to secure your spot.

Event is FREE and OPEN to the public.

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If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Puneeta Kala at pkala@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/229929-a-guftugu-with-distinguished-scholar-and-historian-at
ORIAS East Bay World History Reading Group, April 19https://events.berkeley.edu/orias/event/224557-orias-east-bay-world-history-reading-group

To register and to learn about monthly books, visit the WHRG program webpage.

https://events.berkeley.edu/orias/event/224557-orias-east-bay-world-history-reading-group
Film Screening: Faat Kiné, April 19https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240569-film-screening-faat-kine

Warm and often funny, Faat Kiné is a vibrant tribute to what Ousmane Sembène calls the “everyday heroism of African women.” Faat Kiné is a single mother who holds a job as the manager of a gas station, where she has worked her way up the ladder against considerable odds. Born in 1960, the year of Senegal’s independence, Faat Kiné personifies aspects of Senegal’s struggle for liberation. Her world revolves around her two college-age children, her own mother, her two ex-husbands, and her female friends. Sembène offers a realistic depiction of life in Senegal’s capital city, where shantytowns stand beside modern apartment towers and social problems are prevalent, but it’s still possible to make a good life for oneself. Sembène demonstrates that much of what holds contemporary African society together is the strength of its women. “Sembène’s most hopeful comedy” (Michael Atkinson, Village Voice).

-Susan Oxtoby
https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240569-film-screening-faat-kine
Mark Morris Dance Group, April 19https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204380-mark-morris-dance-group

Returning to its West Coast home away from home, the Mark Morris Dance Group visits with the world premiere of Morris’ Via Dolorosapaired with Socrates, a 2010 repertory work that Cal Performances presented in its West Coast premiere that same year. Socrateswill be danced to the 1918 composition by Erik Satie performed live by members of the Mark Morris Dance Group Music Ensemble in choreography that dramatizes the philosopher’s death through a series of tableaux. Via Dolorosa, set to Nico Muhly’s meditative composition The Street, inspired by the evocative, mysterious, and poetic texts of Alice Goodman and will feature harpist Parker Ramsay performing the score live. 

https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204380-mark-morris-dance-group
University Gospel Chorus, April 19https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232511-university-gospel-chorus

Gospel Music and the Crossover
Experience the soulful and uplifting sounds of classic Black Gospel intertwined with contemporary crossover genres at this inspiring concert.

Candace Johnson, director

Safety
The UC Berkeley Department of Music is committed to the health and safety of our students, staff, and patrons. Measures to protect concertgoers and musicians will be informed by state, local, and UC Berkeley Public Health policies and are subject to change. Social distancing, masks, and proof of COVID 19 vaccination may be required.

Purchasing tickets in advance is highly recommended

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Accessibility
If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact the Hertz Hall Manager at 510.642.4864 or hertzhallmgr@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

PERFORMANCES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232511-university-gospel-chorus
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, April 20https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222917-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222917-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, April 20https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229198-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229198-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, April 20https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236441-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236441-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, April 20https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241413-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241413-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
The “Armenian Question” Since the Treaty of San Stefano in 1878, April 20https://events.berkeley.edu/armenian/event/240958-the-armenian-question-since-the-treaty-of-san

Historically, Armenians have internationalized their plight by seeking aid and salvation from European/Western powers. The lecture will explore the origins of that dominant pattern that was initially labeled the “Armenian Question,” the character and mechanics of that relationship, and conclude with a tentative assessment of the strategy of internationalization. 

Speaker’s Bio:

Gerard J. Libaridian
is a retired historian and diplomat. He has taught and written extensively on modern Armenian history and contemporary politics. From 1991 to1997, Dr. Libaridian served in a number of positions of high responsibility in Armenia in the administration of the First President Levon Ter-Petrossian. From 2001 through 2012 he held the Alex Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His most recent work is Precarious Armenia. The Third Republic, the Karabakh Conflict, and Genocide Politics.

https://events.berkeley.edu/armenian/event/240958-the-armenian-question-since-the-treaty-of-san
Faisal Devji | A Prophet Disarmed (The Mahomedali Habib Distinguished Lecture on Pakistan), April 20https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/229927-faisal-devji-a-prophet-disarmed-the-mahomedali-habib-

The Institute and Pakistan@Berkeley, a campaign to broaden and deepen Pakistan related research, teaching and programming at UC Berkeley, are proud to announce the eleventh “Mahomedali Habib Distinguished Lecture on Pakistan” by Professor of South Asian History and Fellow of St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford, Faisal Devji.

TALK ABSTRACT: Controversies about insults to the Prophet began in India during the middle of the nineteenth century to become global at the end of the Cold War. Such controversies emerge from the stripping away of (Prophet) Muhammad’s religious as much as political character such that he becomes vulnerable to insult as an ordinary person. The passions aroused among Muslims by insults to a Prophet so much like themselves take the place of his vanishing religio-political role. They represent the impossible effort to recover a theological language and experience for modern Islam. 

SPEAKER BIO:  Dr. Faisal Devji is Reader in Modern Indian History and Fellow of St. Antony’s College at the University of Oxford. He has held faculty positions at Harvard, Yale, the University of Chicago and the New School for Social Research, as well as the Yves Oltramane Chair at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. Devji has been a fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and the Institute of Public Knowledge at New York University. He is the author of four books, Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity (2005), The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics (2008), The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence (2012) and Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea (2013).

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The Mahomedali Habib Distinguished Lecture on Pakistan is named in honor of one of the leading figures in the history of the Habib family. Through this lecture series the Habib family aims to improve and diversify conversations about Pakistan in the United States as well as create opportunities for US and Pakistan-based scholars to dialogue. More about the Habib Distinguished Lecture series HERE

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Event is FREE and OPEN to the public.

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If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Puneeta Kala at pkala@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/229927-faisal-devji-a-prophet-disarmed-the-mahomedali-habib-
Film Screening: Agnès Varda Shorts, Program 2, April 20https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240570-film-screening-agnes-varda-shorts-program-2

Agnès Varda’s daughter, Rosalie Varda, helped with the posthumous completion of a very precious film her mother made with the Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini at the time of the 1966 New York Film Festival. A snapshot of Bay Area hippiedom in full flower, Uncle Yanco is a portrait of Varda’s relative, Sausalito artist Jean Varda (to whom the filmmaker was introduced by former PFA curator and film producer Tom Luddy). The film’s images are as vibrant as Yanco’s paintings and the man himself. An important document of a different facet of Bay Area culture, Black Panthers depicts rallies in Oakland demanding Huey Newton’s release from prison and features activists, including Stokely Carmichael, Kathleen Cleaver, and Newton. La réponse de femmes is a feminist “ciné-tract,” a series of frontal tableaux in response to the question, What does it mean to be a woman? In Plaisir d’amour en Iran, filmed in Isfahan, Iran, Varda considers the relationship between eros and architecture, sacred and profane. For Ulysse she interviews the subjects of a photograph she took nearly three decades earlier. And with Les dites cariatides, Varda contemplates the sculpted women who support doorways and lintels along the streets of Paris, invoking Charles Baudelaire’s “dream of stone.” Tribute to Zgougou is a lovely example of the highly personal and intimate films Varda made through the years.

https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240570-film-screening-agnes-varda-shorts-program-2
Film Screening: Yi Yi, April 20https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240571-film-screening-yi-yi

Winner of the Best Picture award from the National Society of Film Critics, Edward Yang’s Yi Yi is “the work of a master in full command of the resources of his art” (A. O. Scott, New York Times). The film is bookended by a wedding and a wake and fittingly seems to hold all of life’s laughter, joys, and heartbreaks in its frames as it follows a year in the life of one multigenerational middle-class family in Taipei. Told as a series of snapshots of everyday events, Yi Yi offers an embarrassment of cinematic and emotional riches. Of special note, though, is the soulful Wu Nien-jen (himself a director and writer, and one of the founders, with Yang, of the New Taiwan Cinema) as the father who juggles business problems, family breakdowns, and the appearance of an old flame, and Jonathan Chang as his precocious eight-year-old son, whose attempts to make sense of it all through art are as original as they are unforgettable. 

-Jason Sanders
https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240571-film-screening-yi-yi
Mark Morris Dance Group, April 20https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204379-mark-morris-dance-group

Returning to its West Coast home away from home, the Mark Morris Dance Group visits with the world premiere of Morris’ Via Dolorosapaired with Socrates, a 2010 repertory work that Cal Performances presented in its West Coast premiere that same year. Socrateswill be danced to the 1918 composition by Erik Satie performed live by members of the Mark Morris Dance Group Music Ensemble in choreography that dramatizes the philosopher’s death through a series of tableaux. Via Dolorosa, set to Nico Muhly’s meditative composition The Street, inspired by the evocative, mysterious, and poetic texts of Alice Goodman and will feature harpist Parker Ramsay performing the score live.

https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204379-mark-morris-dance-group
Gamelan Sari Raras CANCELED, April 20https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232512-gamelan-sari-raras-canceled

 

This event has been canceled.

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232512-gamelan-sari-raras-canceled
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, April 21https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222916-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222916-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, April 21https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229197-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229197-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, April 21https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236440-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236440-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Earth Day Celebration, April 21https://events.berkeley.edu/lhs/event/236908-earth-day-celebration

Come celebrate Earth Day in style at the Outdoor Nature Lab! Explore the outdoors using hands-on tools, discover the fun of watercoloring in nature or making Sunprints®, learn about native bees and insects from UC Berkeley students, hear from Ohlone leaders about their nature traditions, and follow your curiosity to become an environmental detective and solve a mystery alongside staff!

https://events.berkeley.edu/lhs/event/236908-earth-day-celebration
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, April 21https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241412-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241412-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
Film Screening: Moolaadé, April 21https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240573-film-screening-moolaade

Winner of the Grand Prize in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival and chosen by many critics as one of their top ten films of 2004, Moolaadé takes a defiant stand against the practice of female circumcision. Outraged over the brutality of this tradition, Collé (Fatoumata Coulibaly), the second wife of a village tribesman, offers moolaadé (protection or sanctuary) to four young girls escaping the traditional salinde, or circumcision ceremony. Collé and the villagers she inspires take matters into their own hands to turn the practice of salinde on its head. This tale of heroism, told with compassion and humor, speaks powerfully to changing cultural mores in contemporary Africa. Moolaadé is also a visual delight, set in Djerisso, Burkina Faso, whose unique temple architecture and rural village life are depicted in vibrant cinematography. “A work of unpretentious simplicity and formal eloquence … richly entertaining” (J. Hoberman, Village Voice).

-Susan Oxtoby
https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240573-film-screening-moolaade
Mark Morris Dance Group, April 21https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204378-mark-morris-dance-group

Returning to its West Coast home away from home, the Mark Morris Dance Group visits with the world premiere of Morris’ Via Dolorosapaired with Socrates, a 2010 repertory work that Cal Performances presented in its West Coast premiere that same year. Socrateswill be danced to the 1918 composition by Erik Satie performed live by members of the Mark Morris Dance Group Music Ensemble in choreography that dramatizes the philosopher’s death through a series of tableaux. Via Dolorosa, set to Nico Muhly’s meditative composition The Street, inspired by the evocative, mysterious, and poetic texts of Alice Goodman and will feature harpist Parker Ramsay performing the score live.

https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204378-mark-morris-dance-group
Film Screening: Resonance Spiral, April 21https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240574-film-screening-resonance-spiral

Centrifugal movement was an expression once used to describe the tactical and situated beginnings of an anticolonial armed struggle. In a flow of gestures and recurrences, a building is collectively imagined and constructed in the traditional community of the militant filmmaker Sana na N’Hada. Intertwining the local dreams and cine-kins’ visions, Resonance Spiral traverses moments at the newly manufactured community space in Malafo. Old plans for a videoteque are revisited and materialize a mediateca. The women from the Satna Fai association listen to forgotten voices and rest from millennia of abuse. An informal sewing workshop, an experimental garden, a bibliotera, and a preschool take up space. Adolescents voice a circle and sound self-built instruments. At the well a discussion is staged about mud medicine. Cine-kins undermine their agencies and distrust neo-liberal slogans. Hope-hearted, seeking to flip verticalities into horizon lines, the collective slides through what lies ahead. Onshore. Abotcha. Na tchon. Humus, humans, humbled, humiliated by humanity.

-Filipa César
https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240574-film-screening-resonance-spiral
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, April 22https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222915-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222915-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, April 22https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229196-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229196-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, April 22https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236439-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236439-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, April 22https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241411-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241411-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
CARA 10th Anniversary Symposium, April 22https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/242554-cara-10th-anniversary-symposium

Celebrate a decade of groundbreaking research in real-world technology applications.

Hear from:

  • Renowned keynote speakers

  • Leading researchers from CARA and BASF in collaborative presentations

  • Inspiring student presentations

  • Engaging panel discussion

Network with fellow researchers and industry leaders.

Register now to learn more about CARA and BASF!

(The registration page will close on 04/05/24)

 

Co-hosted by the University of California, Berkeley, and BASF.

Event Information Page

https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/242554-cara-10th-anniversary-symposium
Our Poetic Earth: A poetry workshop series (Third Session), April 22https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/243092-our-poetic-earth-a-poetry-workshop-series-third
hree Mondays: 4/8, 4/15 and 4/22
11 AM -12:30 PM

In this 3-part workshop, we will hone our capacity for wonder, using the tools of poetry to savor Spring’s irrepressible exuberance. We will read nature poems together, and write new poems inspired by a conspiracy of wind, soil, sun, the carbon cycle, and yearning.
https://events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/243092-our-poetic-earth-a-poetry-workshop-series-third
Oxyopia Seminar: Title to be Announced, April 22https://events.berkeley.edu/HWNI/event/237252-oxyopia-seminar-title-to-be-announced

Abstract to be Announced

https://events.berkeley.edu/HWNI/event/237252-oxyopia-seminar-title-to-be-announced
PE Seminar - Joachim Voth (Zurich) - Joint w/ Econ History, April 22https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/229880-pe-seminar-joachim-voth-zurich-joint-w-econPaper Topic: TBDhttps://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/229880-pe-seminar-joachim-voth-zurich-joint-w-econSeminar 211, Economic History: Joachim Voth (Zurich) joint with Political Economy, April 22https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237095-seminar-211-economic-history-joachim-voth-zurich-join

Please note the change in time and location

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237095-seminar-211-economic-history-joachim-voth-zurich-join
Internal Finance Seminars: Antoine Hubert de Fraisse, April 22https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/237045-internal-finance-seminars-antoine-hubert-dehttps://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/237045-internal-finance-seminars-antoine-hubert-deMakerspace Drop-in Hours, April 22https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877074Learn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877074
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, April 22https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235495-makerspace-drop-in-hoursLearn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235495-makerspace-drop-in-hours
Stat/EPS Joint Seminar, April 22https://events.berkeley.edu/stat/event/243278-stateps-joint-seminar

Join us for an informal workshop on open statistical problems in the earth and planetary sciences!

https://events.berkeley.edu/stat/event/243278-stateps-joint-seminar
Asphalt Concrete Materials & Mix Design, April 22https://events.berkeley.edu/ttp/event/229055-asphalt-concrete-materials-mix-design

Description

This course presents information regarding asphalt mix components and their relation to performance, and takes participants through the asphalt mix design methodologies used by the State and local agencies in California. The course covers both Hveem and Superpave mix designs, as well as open-graded mix design. This is the primary overview course on Asphalt Concrete Materials & Mix Design in the training certificate program offered by the City and County Pavement Improvement Center (CCPIC) in partnership with TechTransfer.

 

Topics Include

  • Functionality of Asphalt Pavement
  • Distress mechanism of pavements
  • Material Components of asphalt mixes
  • Mix Properties for different applications
  • Mix Design - Superpave
  • Mix Design - Asphalt Rubber Mix Design and Open Graded

What You Will Learn

  • Describe the key components of an asphalt mix
  • Identify the design philosophy for Superpave mixes
  • Identify the primary distresses of asphalt pavements used in design and how they are affected by mix components and their proportioning in design
  • Identify the different types of mixes used in California

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for engineers, state local agencies, consultants, contractors, maintenance supervisors, and quality control/assurance supervisors responsible for designing asphalt mixtures, material specifications, and quality control/quality assurance management of asphalt mixtures.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ttp/event/229055-asphalt-concrete-materials-mix-design
Physics Condensed Matter Seminar with Collin Broholm, April 22https://events.berkeley.edu/physics/event/239737-physics-condensed-matter-seminar-with-collin

Title, abstract and other details to come.

https://events.berkeley.edu/physics/event/239737-physics-condensed-matter-seminar-with-collin
Cynthia A. Chan Memorial Lecture, April 22https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/224072-cynthia-a-chan-memorial-lecture

Cynthia A. Chan Memorial Lecture

https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/224072-cynthia-a-chan-memorial-lecture
IB Finishing Talk, April 22https://events.berkeley.edu/ib/event/224100-ib-finishing-talkIB Finishing Talkhttps://events.berkeley.edu/ib/event/224100-ib-finishing-talkSeminar 271: “Topic Forthcoming” Simone Schaner, April 22https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237565-seminar-271-topic-forthcoming-simone-schaner

Speaker: Simone Schaner

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237565-seminar-271-topic-forthcoming-simone-schaner
Seminar 208, Microeconomic Theory: Topic Forthcoming (copy), April 22https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/239530-seminar-208-microeconomic-theory-topic-forthcoming

Topic Forthcoming

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/239530-seminar-208-microeconomic-theory-topic-forthcoming
Physics Colloquium with Professor Cristina Marchetti, April 22https://events.berkeley.edu/physics/event/229843-physics-colloquium-with-professor-cristina-marchetti

Title/Abstract to come

https://events.berkeley.edu/physics/event/229843-physics-colloquium-with-professor-cristina-marchetti
Historical Data, Present-Day Harms: On the Uses and Limits of Data Science for the Study of Social Movements, April 22https://events.berkeley.edu/bcnm/event/223324-historical-data-present-day-harms-on-the-uses-and

How can data-scientific methods be used to surface the otherwise invisible forms of labor, agency, and action that are embedded in the historical record? How might these methods be adapted to the study of present-day social change? Placing a computational analysis of the nineteenth-century abolitionist movement in dialogue with new work on the language and structure of online social movements, this talk will consider the uses and limits of data-scientific methods when applied to living data and in light of real-world harms.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bcnm/event/223324-historical-data-present-day-harms-on-the-uses-and
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, April 23https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222914-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222914-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, April 23https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229195-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229195-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, April 23https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236438-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236438-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, April 23https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241410-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241410-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
Synchro and SimTraffic V11, April 23https://events.berkeley.edu/ttp/event/229056-synchro-and-simtraffic-v12

Description

This two-day online course provides beginning-to-intermediate training in Synchro and SimTraffic V11 software and the recently published Highway Capacity Manual 6th Edition: A Guide for Multimodal Mobility Analysis (TRB 2016 and HCS7) for vehicles, pedestrians, and bicyclists. Using a combination of interactive lecture, question and answer, and computer lab, you will become proficient in the network coding and use of Synchro and SimTraffic. Working on a real-world multi-modal project, students will use Synchro to incorporate a Bing aerial background, add/modify roadways, input intersection geometrics, enter multi-modal traffic volumes (cars, trucks, pedestrians, and bicycles), and signal timings to perform capacity analysis for signalized, unsignalized and roundabout intersections. Students will also use Synchro 11 to evaluate and develop optimal signal timing plans that reduce delays, congestion, fuel consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions. The seamless integration of Synchro with SimTraffic, a microsimulation software, will be used to evaluate intersection operations and compare the differences between “isolated - macro-level” Synchro and “network-wide - micro-level” SimTraffic analysis that is recommended for multi-modal, closely spaced intersections and congested corridors. Lastly, this course will teach you how to review and understand the potential differences in delay, level of service, and queuing analysis when using the empirical (Synchro) analysis or the micro-simulation

 

Topics Include

  • Detailed review of Synchro 11 input requirements
  • Developing a Synchro 11 network for a real-world multi-modal project
  • Analysis of signalized, unsignalized and roundabout intersections using Synchro 11
  • Multi-modal vehicle, pedestrian and bicycle LOS using HCM 2016
  • Optimizing signal timings for a group of intersections
  • Seemless Integration of SYNCHRO with SimTraffic
  • SimTraffic Model Calibration and Application

What You Will Learn

Using a real-world project in a virtual computer lab class setting, students will be able to interact with the instructor as they learn how to develop a network and use the Synchro and SimTraffic V11 software. This includes incorporating a Bing aerial background, add/modify straight and curved roadways, inputting intersection geometrics and pocket lengths, entering multi-modal volumes (cars, trucks, peds, and bicyclists), and signal timings to perform capacity analysis for signalized, unsignalized and roundabout intersections. You will also learn to review and understand the analysis results and the potential differences when using the empirical (Synchro) analysis or the micro-simulation (SimTraffic) analysis.

Who Should Attend

No prior experience using Synchro and SimTraffic is necessary. This course is designed for traffic engineers, planners, and technicians in both public agencies and private firms who are involved in the planning, design, operation and management of signal systems.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ttp/event/229056-synchro-and-simtraffic-v12
RAPDP Intermediate - Fund Management, April 23https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/241195-rapdp-intermediate-fund-management

An intermediate workshop that supplements the prerequisite eCourse (Fund Management Basics), and covers the monthly reporting and reconciliation process (using PI Portfolio), including updating projections, fulfilling the SAS-115 requirements, and processing corrective transactions such as expense transfers. This workshop is intended for new and veteran Post-Award RAs (either dedicated or hybrid), as well as any other staff that assist Faculty in administering sponsored awards. Experience using PI Portfolio is recommended.

 

Learning Objectives:

- Understand the importance of implementing key financial controls throughout the life of an award

- Perform the day-to-day monitoring and monthly reconciliation of all transactions for general propriety and accuracy

- Provide PIs with consistent and accurate monthly reports on their fund expenses, balances, projections, and any issues that require action

- Recognize the importance of processing corrective transactions in a manner that is accurate, timely, compliant, and well-documented

https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/241195-rapdp-intermediate-fund-management
Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar: An Application of Free Probability in the Study of Noncommutative Constraint Satisfaction Problems, April 23https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/243051-probabilistic-operator-algebra-seminar-anIn this talk I explore an application of free probability in our recent work on operator – or noncommutative – variants of constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs). These higher-dimensional variants are a core topic of investigation in quantum information, where they arise as nonlocal games and entangled multiprover interactive proof systems (MIP*) . The idea of higher-dimensional relaxations of CSPs is also important in the classical computer science literature. For example, since the celebrated work of Goemans and Williamson on the Max-Cut CSPs, higher dimensional vector relaxations have been central in the design of approximation algorithms for classical CSPs. We introduce a framework for designing approximation algorithms for noncommutative CSPs. In the study of classical CSPs, $k$-ary decision variables are often represented by $k$-th roots of unity, which generalize to the noncommutative setting as order-$k$ unitary operators. In our framework, using representation theory, we develop a way of constructing unitary solutions from SDP relaxations, extending the pioneering work of Tsirelson on XOR games. Then we introduce a novel rounding scheme to transform these unitary solutions to order-$k$ unitaries. Our main technical innovation here is a theorem guaranteeing that, for any set of unitary operators, there exists a set of order-$k$ unitaries that closely mimics it. As an integral part of the rounding scheme, we prove a random matrix theory result that characterizes the distribution of the relative angles between eigenvalues of random unitaries using tools from free probability. Based on joint work with Eric Culf and Taro Sprig arXiv:2312.16765.https://events.berkeley.edu/math/event/243051-probabilistic-operator-algebra-seminar-anOrganic Chemistry Seminar, April 23https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230057-organic-chemistry-seminar

TBD

https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230057-organic-chemistry-seminar
New Directions In Latin American Structuralism: A Three-Gap Model Of Sustainable Development, April 23https://events.berkeley.edu/besi/event/242261-new-directions-in-latin-american-structuralism-a

Please register to join us on April 23, 2024 at 12:00pm for an online lecture by Camila Gramkow, Director A.I. Of The Economic Commission For Latin America And The Caribbean (ECLAC), Brazil Office.

 

REGISTER

 

Abstract: Sustainable development implies reducing the gap in GDP per capita between center and periphery, increasing equality and protecting the environment. I present a simple model within the Structuralist tradition that combines these three dimensions of sustainable development. I define three rates of growth: the minimum required to reduce inequality and eradicate poverty; the maximum compatible with external equilibrium; and the maximum compatible with a global carbon budget. I argue that a combination of industrial and technological policies, along with a major effort at income redistribution, is necessary for a sustainable development path. I link this perspective to broader efforts in Brazil and Latin America to pursue a “Big Push” for sustainability.

Core reading: Gabriel Porcile,* José Eduardo Alatorre, Martín Cherkasky and Camila Gramkow. 2023. “New directions in Latin American Structuralism: a three-gap model of sustainable development.” European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention, Vol. 20 No. 2, pp. 266–281. DOI: 10.4337/ejeep.2023.0105

Recommended reading: Camila Gramkow. 2020. “The Big Push for Sustainability.” NACLA Report on the Americas. Vol 52, No. 2, pp. 186-91. DOI: 10.1080/10714839.2020.1768742.

About The Speaker

Camila Gramkow Director a.i. of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Brazil Office, where she leads debates on climate and economic development policy in Brazil and across Latin America. She has experience with project management; having designed, implemented and evaluated international cooperation projects mainly on climate change mitigation under the International Climate Fund and the Prosperity Fund. She has a doctorate in the economics of climate change from the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom and has worked in the area of sustainable development for over a decade.

About The BESI Climate Seminar

The Climate Seminar at the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative (BESI) brings leading scholars of the political economy of climate change to UC Berkeley for hybrid talks and conversations. The Seminar is co-sponsored by the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2, and organized by Daniel Aldana Cohen. In Spring 2024, we will have three events, all from 12:00-1:30pm PT. Each event will be moderated by Daniel Aldana Cohen, Assistant Professor of Sociology and the Director of (SC)2, UC Berkeley.

Learn more about the Seminar Series.

https://events.berkeley.edu/besi/event/242261-new-directions-in-latin-american-structuralism-a
New Directions In Latin American Structuralism: A Three-Gap Model Of Sustainable Development, April 23https://events.berkeley.edu/RausserCollege/event/242679-new-directions-in-latin-american-structuralism-a

Please register to join us on April 23, 2024 at 12:00pm for an online lecture by Camila Gramkow, Director A.I. Of The Economic Commission For Latin America And The Caribbean (ECLAC), Brazil Office.

 

REGISTER

 

Abstract: Sustainable development implies reducing the gap in GDP per capita between center and periphery, increasing equality and protecting the environment. I present a simple model within the Structuralist tradition that combines these three dimensions of sustainable development. I define three rates of growth: the minimum required to reduce inequality and eradicate poverty; the maximum compatible with external equilibrium; and the maximum compatible with a global carbon budget. I argue that a combination of industrial and technological policies, along with a major effort at income redistribution, is necessary for a sustainable development path. I link this perspective to broader efforts in Brazil and Latin America to pursue a “Big Push” for sustainability.

Core reading: Gabriel Porcile,* José Eduardo Alatorre, Martín Cherkasky and Camila Gramkow. 2023. “New directions in Latin American Structuralism: a three-gap model of sustainable development.” European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention, Vol. 20 No. 2, pp. 266–281. DOI: 10.4337/ejeep.2023.0105

Recommended reading: Camila Gramkow. 2020. “The Big Push for Sustainability.” NACLA Report on the Americas. Vol 52, No. 2, pp. 186-91. DOI: 10.1080/10714839.2020.1768742.

About The Speaker

Camila Gramkow Director a.i. of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Brazil Office, where she leads debates on climate and economic development policy in Brazil and across Latin America. She has experience with project management; having designed, implemented and evaluated international cooperation projects mainly on climate change mitigation under the International Climate Fund and the Prosperity Fund. She has a doctorate in the economics of climate change from the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom and has worked in the area of sustainable development for over a decade.

About The BESI Climate Seminar

The Climate Seminar at the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative (BESI) brings leading scholars of the political economy of climate change to UC Berkeley for hybrid talks and conversations. The Seminar is co-sponsored by the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2, and organized by Daniel Aldana Cohen. In Spring 2024, we will have three events, all from 12:00-1:30pm PT. Each event will be moderated by Daniel Aldana Cohen, Assistant Professor of Sociology and the Director of (SC)2, UC Berkeley.

Learn more about the Seminar Series.

https://events.berkeley.edu/RausserCollege/event/242679-new-directions-in-latin-american-structuralism-a
Post-Baccalaureate Health Professions Program Online Information Session, April 23https://events.berkeley.edu/extension/event/243517-post-baccalaureate-health-professions-program-online-

Gain academic preparation in the sciences along with one-on-one advising to enhance your application to medical, dental or veterinary school, as well as to advanced degree programs in medical- and health-related fields.

https://events.berkeley.edu/extension/event/243517-post-baccalaureate-health-professions-program-online-
Estimating the contribution of involuntary job loss to the burden of depressive symptoms: a g-computation application, April 23https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/242514-estimating-the-contribution-of-involuntary-job

Researcher, Sally Picciotto, will be presenting her recent research findings about estimating the contribution of involuntary job loss to the burden of depressive symptoms in Americans over age 50: a g-computation application.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/242514-estimating-the-contribution-of-involuntary-job
Estimating the contribution of involuntary job loss to the burden of depressive symptoms: a g-computation application, April 23https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/242375-estimating-the-contribution-of-involuntary-job

Sally Picciotto will discuss recent findings estimating the contribution of involuntary job loss to the burden of depressive symptoms in Americans over age 50 using a g-computation application.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/242375-estimating-the-contribution-of-involuntary-job
BIDS Seminar with Cody Markelz, PhD, April 23https://events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/208851-bids-seminar-with-cody-markelz-phd

Cody Markelz PhD gives a 30-minute presentation about his most recent research and leads a 30-minute Q&A.

Join us in person: BIDS provides lunch!


Data Landscapes: Visual Storytelling of California’s Fiery and Frosty Extremes

Cody’s talk will blend research findings, illustrations, data visualizations, and field-based journalism to explore the impact of fire and avalanches on California’s ecosystems.

https://events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/208851-bids-seminar-with-cody-markelz-phd
Health Policy Colloquium Series, April 23https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/237649-health-policy-colloquium-series

The University of California, Berkeley Health Policy PhD Program proudly presents the Spring 2024 Health Policy Colloquium Series: a program of stimulating seminars on the most important issues facing patients, providers, health care plans, purchasers, and policy makers today. Hear viewpoints from leading scholars, economists, and research scientists.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/237649-health-policy-colloquium-series
Faculty Seminar Lunch - Steve Tadelis, EAP | BPP, April 23https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/242929-faculty-seminar-lunch-steve-tadelis-eap-bpphttps://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/242929-faculty-seminar-lunch-steve-tadelis-eap-bppMakerspace Drop-in Hours, April 23https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877075Learn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877075
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, April 23https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235494-makerspace-drop-in-hoursLearn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235494-makerspace-drop-in-hours
Google Sheets Charts, April 23https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/219588-google-sheets-charts

This course demonstrates how to create charts using Google Sheets. Participants will learn how to illustrate data using different chart types, customize chart elements, and link visualizations to Google Docs and Google Slides.

https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/219588-google-sheets-charts
Supporting an Open Source Software Journal: Strategies for Effective Editing and Engagement, April 23https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/12224121Zoom information registration
This month the Bay Area Open Science Group will be joined by Kelly L. Rowland. Kelly will discuss her experiences as editor for JOSS, a journal dedicated to publishing articles about open source research software across domains. JOSS’ scope includes software that solves complex modeling problems in a scientific context, supports the functioning of research instruments or the execution of research experiments, or extracts knowledge from large data sets. Kelly is a Computer Systems Engineer in the User Engagement Group at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). Before joining NERSC, she obtained her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in Nuclear Engineering with a Designated Emphasis on Computational Science and Engineering. Kelly has been an editor for the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) since 2021.
Bay Area Open Science Group
The Bay Area Open Science Group is a growing community for Bay Area academics and researchers interested in incorporating open science into their research, teaching, and learning. Targeting students, faculty, and staff at UCSF, Berkeley, and Stanford, the goal of the community is to increase awareness of and engagement with all things open science, including open access articles, open research data, open source software, and open educational resources. Through this work the group hopes to connect researchers with tools they can use to make the products and process of science more equitable and reproducible.
Meetings:
We meet on the 4th Tuesday of the month, 2 - 3 PM Pacific on Zoom.
All are welcome to attend and join the conversation!
Looking for info from past meetups?
Check out our collaborative notes
Find presentations from past meetups on Zenodo
Contact:
Interested in joining the group or learning about future events?
Join the discussion on our Slack Channel or email Sam Teplitzky (samteplitzky@berkeley.edu).
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/12224121
Supporting an Open Source Software Journal: Strategies for Effective Editing and Engagement, April 23https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/243490-supporting-an-open-source-software-journalZoom information registration
This month the Bay Area Open Science Group will be joined by Kelly L. Rowland. Kelly will discuss her experiences as editor for JOSS, a journal dedicated to publishing articles about open source research software across domains. JOSS’ scope includes software that solves complex modeling problems in a scientific context, supports the functioning of research instruments or the execution of research experiments, or extracts knowledge from large data sets. Kelly is a Computer Systems Engineer in the User Engagement Group at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). Before joining NERSC, she obtained her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in Nuclear Engineering with a Designated Emphasis on Computational Science and Engineering. Kelly has been an editor for the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) since 2021.
Bay Area Open Science Group
The Bay Area Open Science Group is a growing community for Bay Area academics and researchers interested in incorporating open science into their research, teaching, and learning. Targeting students, faculty, and staff at UCSF, Berkeley, and Stanford, the goal of the community is to increase awareness of and engagement with all things open science, including open access articles, open research data, open source software, and open educational resources. Through this work the group hopes to connect researchers with tools they can use to make the products and process of science more equitable and reproducible.
Meetings:
We meet on the 4th Tuesday of the month, 2 - 3 PM Pacific on Zoom.
All are welcome to attend and join the conversation!
Looking for info from past meetups?
Check out our collaborative notes
Find presentations from past meetups on Zenodo
Contact:
Interested in joining the group or learning about future events?
Join the discussion on our Slack Channel or email Sam Teplitzky (samteplitzky@berkeley.edu).
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/243490-supporting-an-open-source-software-journal
MORS Colloquium - “Doctoral Students”, April 23https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/230580-mors-colloquium-doctoral-students
Join Zoom Meeting
https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/93456945140?pwd=NjhIMnN6cit6Q3pxNGk5UkFaeUwxQT09

Meeting ID: 934 5694 5140
Passcode: 656807

https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/230580-mors-colloquium-doctoral-students
Chandler Lecture in Physical Chemistry, April 23https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230063-chandler-lecture-in-physical-chemistry

Eugene Shakhnovich, Roy G. Gordon Professor, Harvard University

Biophysical journeys on fitness landscapes: from atoms to populations and back

I will present recent theoretical and experimental developments aimed at understanding the two-way link between protein stability and protein evolution. At the heart of these developments are models of evolutionary dynamics that merge molecular mechanisms of protein stability and folding with population genetics. Traditional population genetics models are agnostic to the physical-chemical nature of mutational effects. Rather they operate with an a’priori assumed distributions of fitness effects (DFE) of mutations from which evolutionary dynamics are derived. Alternatively some population genetics models aim to derive DFE from evolutionary observations. In departure with this tradition the novel multiscale models integrate the molecular effects of mutations on physical properties of proteins, most notably their stability, into physically intuitive yet detailed genotype-phenotype relationship (GPR) assumptions. I will present a range of models from simple analytical diffusion-based model on biophysical fitness landscapes to more sophisticated computational models of populations of model cells where genetic changes are mapped into molecular effects using biophysical modeling of proteins and ensuing fitness changes determine the fate of mutations in realistic population dynamics. Examples of insights derived from biophysics-based multiscale models include parameter-free prediction of distribution of protein stabilities in natural proteomes that explains the observation of “marginal stability” of proteins without resorting to unproven stability-activity tradeoffs, the fundamental limit on mutation rates in living organisms, physics of thermal adaptation, co-evolution of protein interactions and abundances in cytoplasm and related results, some of which I will present and discuss.

Next, I will describe “bottom-up experimental efforts to establish the relationship between biophysical properties of proteins (stability, activity, interactions with other proteins) and fitness. The approach is based on introducing rational introducing genetic variation on the chromosome of E.coli using genome editing approaches with subsequent concurrent evaluation of biophysical effects of mutations in vitro and fitness effect of strains that have these genetic variants in their chromosome. Carrying out this program for two genes encoding essential metabolic enzymes in E. coli – folA and adk – we obtained deep insights into the relationship between protein stability and fitness. In particular we quantitatively determined how the changes in stability affect the protein turnover in cellular environment resulting in changes in the abundance of functional protein and through that affecting the phenotype (growth rates and lag times). We established fundamental role of protein quality control – chaperone GroEL and certain proteases that modulate the fitness effects of stability-changing mutations in a predictable way. We developed a dynamic steady state theory that describes stability-dependent protein turnover and established the relationship between protein abundance and stability that is different from simple equilibrium Boltzmann distribution. These advances allowed us to get a comprehensive biophysical fitness landscapes for metabolic enzymes. Further we applied these advances to the analysis of antibiotic resistance in DHFR encoded by folA. The theory allowed predicting fitness effect of escape mutations in DHFR and IC50 against antibiotic trimethoprim with very high accuracy based only on biophysical molecular properties of numerous DHFR mutants. Altogether these results provide a clear picture of interplay between biophysical traits and evolutionary dynamics on various time scales – from evolution of modern proteomes to evolution of antibiotic resistance and provides practical tools to address the problem of pathogen escape from stressors from a fundamental physical-chemical perspective.

https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230063-chandler-lecture-in-physical-chemistry
Seminar 221, Industrial Organization: “Topic Forthcoming” Mert Demirer, April 23https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237877-seminar-221-industrial-organization-topic-forthcoming

Topic Forthcoming

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237877-seminar-221-industrial-organization-topic-forthcoming
Distinguished Teaching Award Ceremony and Reception, April 23https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/239283-distinguished-teaching-award-ceremony-and

The DTA recognizes individual faculty for sustained excellence in teaching. Beyond an individual exemplary class, such sustained excellence in teaching incites intellectual curiosity in students, inspires colleagues, and makes students aware of significant relationships between the academy and the world at large. Recipients will be announced in March, and then honored at a public ceremony and reception.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/239283-distinguished-teaching-award-ceremony-and
Radha Kumar | The Republic Relearned, April 23https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/229922-radha-kumar-the-republic-relearned

A book talk by Radha Kumar, former director-general of the Delhi Policy Group and a specialist on peace and security in South Asia, on her forthcoming publication titled, The Republic Relearned (forthcoming, Penguin Random House India, March 2024), that briefly analyses Modi’s India, asking whether it can be called a second republic that reflects totalitarian conditions as defined by Hannah Arendt. It focuses on India’s past experiences of democracy renewal and asks what lessons can be learned to anchor Indian democracy more firmly when the opportunity arises.

The event will be moderated by Janaki Bakhle, Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley

About the Book: 

This book is written in a time of increasing debate on the rise of autocracy, including in India, as a spate of books on the Modi administration detail. While this book briefly analyses Modi’s India, asking whether it can be called a second republic that reflects totalitarian conditions as defined by Hannah Arendt, it focuses on India’s past experiences of democracy renewal and asks what lessons can be learned to anchor Indian democracy more firmly when the opportunity arises.

It is generally assumed that Indian democracy has had an unbroken run since independence, with the brief disruption of the 1975 to 1977 emergency. This book argues that, on the contrary, India has suffered longer periods of deterioration in its democratic markers than in their development. The country underwent three relatively short-lived waves of democracy renewal after the founding years of the republic (between 1967 and 2014), as compared to almost four decades of democracy decay.

That fact, Kumar argues, should make an examination of the three waves of democracy renewal even more significant. The flaws in Indian democracy that made the past nine years of autocracy possible suggest that the clock cannot be turned back. Rather, a new wave of democracy renewal – which Kumar calls a third republic – will have to focus on anchoring democratic institutions in such a way that they cannot easily be suborned. What are the lessons from past experience?

Examining the three waves of democracy renewal, Kumar finds that the most valuable lessons lie in policy actions as well as proposals that were left unimplemented. These, which ranged from electoral reform to human development, social justice and institutional as well as federal autonomy, could form the bedrock for a third republic, albeit partly.

A greater problem is one presaged at independence itself, of instilling a democratic culture in a deeply unequal society. India has long been an outlier for democracy theorists for this reason, leading theorists such as Kaviraj to explore particular democracy formation in a post-colonial primarily agrarian society. Does the current period resemble the Emergency period, when civil and political society (to use Chatterjee’s term) intersected with political parties to bring in a democratic administration? Is the current period one of reckoning, in which economic growth has unleashed demands for equality of opportunity rather than low level doles (which are nevertheless necessary given the levels of poverty)? How will a fourth wave of democracy renewal tackle the formidable challenges of entrenched institutional bias in the administration and police? Here again, the past three waves of democracy renewal offer pointers.

India’s democratic future, Kumar concludes, depends on the extent to which a revived political opposition and civil and political society can draw on the lessons of the three waves of democracy renewal. She is hopeful.

Speaker BioRadha Kumar is former director-general of the Delhi Policy Group and a specialist on peace and security in South Asia. Earlier director of the Mandela Centre for Peace at Jamia Millia Islamia University (2005-2010), Dr. Kumar was senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York (1999-2003), associate fellow at the Institute for War and Peace Studies at Columbia University (1996-8) and executive director of the Helsinki Citizen’s Assembly in Prague (1992-4). She chaired the United Nations University Council and is vice-chair of the SIPRI Board. She was one of the group of interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir appointed by the Government of India (2010-11).

Dr. Kumar’s forthcoming book, The Republic Relearned: A Brief History of Democracy in India, will be published by Penguin Random House in 2024. Her previous books include Paradise at War: A Political History of Kashmir (Aleph: 2018), A Gender Atlas of India (with Karthika Sudhir and Marcel Korff, Sage: 2018), (ed.) Negotiating Peace in Deeply Divided Societies: A Set of Simulations (Sage: 2009), Making Peace with Partition (Penguin: 2005), Divide and Fall? Bosnia in the Annals of Partition (Verso: 1997), and A History of Doing: Movements for Women’s Rights and Feminism in India, 1900-1990 (Kali for Women and Verso: 1993). Her articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, the EU Institute for Security Studies, the Centre for European Policy Studies, the World PolicyJournal, theBrown Journal of World Affairs,the Indian Economic and Social History Review and the Economic and Political Weekly. She is a frequent OpEd contributor to the Indian Express and The Hindu.

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Amina Edris, soprano; Pene Pati, tenor; Robert Mollicone, piano, April 23https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204382-amina-edris-soprano-pene-pati-tenor-robert

Works by Duparc, Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Quilter, Vaughan Williams, and traditional songs from Egypt and Samoa

The wife and husband duo of soprano Amina Edris and tenor Pene Pati returns to the Bay Area where they were Adler Fellows in San Francisco Opera’s prestigious training program, and where both have enjoyed career-launching star turns in major productions in recent years. Edris, who was born in Egypt and raised in New Zealand, portrayed Cleopatra in the world premiere of John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatrain the fall of 2022. Pati, who was born in Samoa and also grew up in New Zealand, transitioned from understudy to headliner in the San Francisco Opera’s production of Gounod’s Romeo and Julietthree seasons before. In their recital together, audiences can expect a varied program of songs traversing eras and continents.

https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204382-amina-edris-soprano-pene-pati-tenor-robert
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, April 24https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222913-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/222913-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, April 24https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229194-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229194-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, April 24https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236437-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236437-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, April 24https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241409-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241409-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
BCORE Workshop Two: Building Your Personal Advisory Board, April 24https://events.berkeley.edu/deib/event/230635-bcore-workshop-two-building-your-personal-advisory

The Berkeley Career Opportunities and Resources for Equity program (BCORE) is an experience for staff employees committed to their upward career advancement and a leadership workshop for supervisors who are in a position to exercise their sphere of influence to diversify the leadership ranks at the university. This opportunity has been developed specifically for Berkeley staff by expert, Dr. Regina Stanback Stroud.

https://events.berkeley.edu/deib/event/230635-bcore-workshop-two-building-your-personal-advisory
Disability Management II: A Deeper Dive, April 24https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236091-disability-management-ii-a-deeper-dive

This virtual workshop is a hands-on continuation and application of concepts learned in the Disability Management: Understanding the Process workshop. Participants will have the opportunity to work through ‘real’ case scenarios, suggested by participants, we will… - Do detailed analysis of work restrictions - Identify need for accommodation including leave as an accommodation - Follow the life of an employee’s disability accommodation through return to work - Explore the features of Worker’s Compensation claims and impact on return to/stay at work; accepted/denied claim designations and permanent restrictions - Learn, identify, define, and prepare for next steps when all attempts at accommodation are exhausted, including reassignment. This presentation meets the requirement for the ADA Title II Self-Evaluation Section: Hiring and Employment Please Note: The zoom link will be sent to the participants by email and add it to this workshop description a day before the workshop.

Please Note: The Zoom link will be sent to the participants by email, and add it to this workshop description a day before the workshop.

All participants and hosts must sign into a Zoom account before joining meetings hosted by UC Berkeley. 

Participants who are not eligible for a UC Berkeley-provided Zoom account can use a Zoom account provided by their institution, can create a free consumer Zoom account (at https://zoom.us/freesignup/), or can dial in via the phone.

https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236091-disability-management-ii-a-deeper-dive
Noon Concert: Baroque Ensemble, April 24https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235238-noon-concert-baroque-ensemble

Finding Bach’s Roots - Tracing Bach’s lineage through Tunder, Buxtehude, JC Bach and concluding with works by Johann Sebastian.

Christine Brandes, conductor

Admission to all Noon Concerts is free. Registration is recommended at music.berkeley.edu/register.

Safety
The UC Berkeley Department of Music is committed to the health and safety of our students, staff, and patrons. Measures to protect concertgoers and musicians will be informed by state, local, and UC Berkeley Public Health policies and are subject to change. Social distancing, masks, and proof of COVID 19 vaccination may be required. UC Berkeley does not promise or guarantee that all patrons or employees on site are vaccinated. Unvaccinated individuals may be present as a result of exemptions, exceptions, fraudulent verification, or checker error. None of these precautions eliminate the risk of exposure to COVID-19. Registration is strongly encouraged for noon concerts at music.berkeley.edu/register.

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Most concerts are available to stream live or watch later on the Berkeley Music YouTube channel. To watch visit music.berkeley.edu/watch

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235238-noon-concert-baroque-ensemble
Transcriptional Governance: Mechanisms of Activation Control for the Auxin Response Factors, April 24https://events.berkeley.edu/pmb/event/236945-transcriptional-governance-mechanisms-of

The Strader lab has been studying transcriptional output of the Auxin Response Factors, key regulators of plant growth and development, finding that protein condensation, nucleo-cytoplasmic partitioning, and activation domain activity can be modulated to integrate environmental and developmental cues into their transcriptional activity.

https://events.berkeley.edu/pmb/event/236945-transcriptional-governance-mechanisms-of
Forests and Foods of Ancient Arenal, Costa Rica (Venicia Slotten), April 24https://events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/242599-forests-and-foods-of-ancient-arenal-costa-rica-venici

This talk will take place in person at the ARF and on Zoom (you must have a Zoom account to attend). Register for online attendance here.

Abstract: 

Paleoethnobotanical investigations at multiple domestic structures in Arenal, Costa Rica, reveal the plant resources utilized by past peoples living in this volcanically active setting from 1500 BCE to 600 CE. Roughly 200 different genera of plants have been recovered and identified between the two sites (G-995 La Chiripa and G-164 Sitio Bolivar) from the preserved seeds, fruits, and wood charcoal including cacao, maize, beans, manioc, achiote, avocado, cashew, cherry, fig, guava, guanabana, jocote, mamey, nance, palms, ramon, sapodilla, and tobacco. These preserved plant remains represent the diverse assemblage of edible fruits, leaves, or vegetative material that the ancient inhabitants would have incorporated into their daily cuisine. The people of ancient Arenal were knowledgeable arboriculturalists who did not rely heavily on agriculture, but rather would have collected from a variety of trees and root crops for their subsistence needs. The macrobotanical results suggest that the ancient inhabitants employed mixed strategies for subsistence and may have preferred food resources that would have remained accessible during times of ecological stress.

https://events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/242599-forests-and-foods-of-ancient-arenal-costa-rica-venici
Cook Well Berkeley: Plant-Based & Planet-Friendly, April 24https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236745-cook-well-berkeley-plant-based-planet-friendly

Eating lower on the food chain uses less natural resources and provides your body with loads of valuable nutrients. Whether it’s a meatless meal once a day or week, or eating mostly plants at every meal, there are benefits to your health and your planet. Demonstration, recipes, and samples provided.

 

Please Note: The Zoom link will be sent to the participants by email, and add it to this workshop description a day before the workshop.

All participants and hosts must sign into a Zoom account before joining meetings hosted by UC Berkeley. 

Participants who are not eligible for a UC Berkeley-provided Zoom account can use a Zoom account provided by their institution, can create a free consumer Zoom account (at https://zoom.us/freesignup/), or can dial in via the phone.

https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236745-cook-well-berkeley-plant-based-planet-friendly
RWAP: Stephanie Ternullo: Research Workshop in American Politics, April 24https://events.berkeley.edu/igs/event/239735-rwap-stephanie-ternullo-research-workshop-in

RWAP is pleased to welcome guest speaker, Stephanie Ternullo on 4/24. 

https://events.berkeley.edu/igs/event/239735-rwap-stephanie-ternullo-research-workshop-in
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, April 24https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877076Learn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877076
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, April 24https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235493-makerspace-drop-in-hoursLearn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235493-makerspace-drop-in-hours
E&I Seminar (Paige Ouimet), April 24https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/235058-eampi-seminar-paige-ouimethttps://berkeley.zoom.us/j/98376355156?pwd=MHJJMGdBeEpyUnV5U2JvazliNjFnZz09

Meeting ID: 983 7635 5156
Passcode: 936509
https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/235058-eampi-seminar-paige-ouimet
Dissertation Talk: Solving Matrix Sensing to Optimality under Realistic Settings, April 24https://events.berkeley.edu/eecs/event/243595-dissertation-talk-solving-matrix-sensing-to

Matrix sensing represents a critical, non-convex challenge within the domain of mathematical optimization, distinguished by its wide-ranging practical applications—such as medical imaging, recommender systems, and phase retrieval—as well as its significant theoretical contributions, particularly its equivalence to training a two-layer quadratic neural network. The ability to efficiently solve this problem to optimality promises substantial benefits not only for its direct applications but also provides a crucial benchmark that aids in navigating the increasingly intricate non-convex landscapes characteristic of contemporary machine learning systems. While prior research predominantly focuses on scenarios abundant in observations and characterized by a low Restricted Isometry Property (RIP) constant, thereby facilitating optimal solutions through either convex relaxation methods, including nuclear-norm minimization, or local search strategies applied to the Burer-Monteiro factorized formulation—thereby accelerating computational processes without compromising performance guarantees—the research to date remains incomplete. This is particularly true in real-world settings where acquiring a large volume of observations is often impractical, thus rendering these guarantees inapplicable.

In this dissertation, we propose innovative strategies, models, and conceptual frameworks aimed at addressing the matrix sensing problem under conditions of limited observations and noise corruptions, with the objective of provably reconstructing the ground truth matrix. Our discussion begins by exploring various methodologies of over-parametrization as a means to solve this problem, followed by an examination of alternative solutions in scenarios where over-parametrization is not used. Additionally, we delve into the impact of noise on the extraction of a global solution, offering insights into how it affects the overall process. This work serves not only as an elaborate guide to resolving matrix sensing and, by extension, low-rank optimization problems in less than ideal conditions but also endeavors to enhance our understanding of the complexities involved in non-convex optimization, thereby contributing to the broader field of mathematical optimization and machine learning.

https://events.berkeley.edu/eecs/event/243595-dissertation-talk-solving-matrix-sensing-to
Probability seminar: Wai Tong (Louis) Fan, April 24https://events.berkeley.edu/probability-seminar/event/240850-probability-seminar-wai-tong-louis-fan

TBA

https://events.berkeley.edu/probability-seminar/event/240850-probability-seminar-wai-tong-louis-fan
Towards a pan-sarbeovirus vaccine to protect against SARS-CoV-2 variants and animal sarbecoviruses without updating, April 24https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/209030-alber-memorial-lecture-seminarDespite successful COVID-19 vaccines, there is an urgent need to combat future SARS-CoV-2 variants and spillovers of SARS-like betacoronaviruses (sarbecoviruses) threatening global health. We designed mosaic-8 protein nanoparticles that present randomly arranged sarbecovirus spike receptor-binding domains (RBDs) to elicit antibodies against epitopes that are conserved and relatively occluded rather than variable, immunodominant, and exposed. Epitope mapping by deep mutational scanning demonstrated increased targeting of conserved epitopes after mosaic-8 immunization. Our results suggest that vaccination with mosaic-8 RBD nanoparticles could protect against SARS-CoV-2 variants and future sarbecovirus spillovers.
Division(s): Alber Memorial Lecture
https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/209030-alber-memorial-lecture-seminar
Worlding and weirding with beaver: A more-than-human political ecology of ecosystem engineering, April 24https://events.berkeley.edu/geog/event/232239-worlding-and-weirding-with-beaver-a-more-than-human-p

Scientists and policy makers promote nature-based solutions to the interconnected challenges associated with the Anthropocene. Often these involve the strategic use of ecosystem engineers: animals, plants, and microbes with disproportionate ecological agency capable of regional or even planetary scale niche construction. This environmental mode of biopolitics is promoted as biomimicry: restoring, rewilding, or rewetting diverse ecological systems. This paper examines the multispecies relations promised by this model through a focus on beaver in Britain over the last 12000 years. It begins with beaver making Britain hospitable for early settlers and agriculturalists as they returned after the last ice age. It traces the subsequent demise of beaver due to hunting and land use change, and then follows the recent return of beaver as tools for natural flood management and nature recovery. It attends to situations in which these multispecies world making projects go awry in the weird ecologies of the Anthropocene. This story of beavers helps situate enthusiasms for proactive ecosystem engineering in deeper time. It highlights the beguiling potential of nature-based solutions while cautioning against tendencies towards anthropocentrism, an apolitical mononaturalism, and an ecomodernist hubris. The paper combines concepts from archaeology, ecology, anthropology, and geography into a framework for theorising multispecies acts of worlding and weirding.

Jamie is an environmental geographer whose research examines the production of environmental knowledge, and how this knowledge comes to shape the world around us. He focuses on powerful understandings of Nature and their consequences for human and nonhuman life across different spatial scales. Past projects have examined human relations with a range of organisms - from elephants to hookworms - and policy domains - including conservation, health, and agriculture. He combines concepts and approaches from more-than-human geography with those from science studies, using ethnographic, participatory, and historical methods. His research has been funded by the ESRC, The British Academy and the Wellcome and Leverhulme Trusts, amongst other sources.

https://events.berkeley.edu/geog/event/232239-worlding-and-weirding-with-beaver-a-more-than-human-p
Basit Kareem Iqbal | The Crucible of Tribulation: Reckoning the Victory of God after the Syrian Revolution, April 24https://events.berkeley.edu/CMES/event/243511-basit-kareem-iqbal-the-crucible-of-tribulation

The 2011 Arab uprisings inaugurated a distinct literature, “the jurisprudence of the revolution” (fiqh al-thawra), in which religious scholars addressed the panoply of questions arising in times of political struggle. In doing so they related new circumstances to the broader corpus of Islamic law, drawing on juristic precepts and analogous cases to work through tangled issues. This paper begins ethnographically among Syrian exiles in Jordan, some of whom have given such fatwas and others who have sought to live by them. It briefly surveys how such legal cases articulate the fleeting time of the revolution with the recursive time of Islamic jurisprudence. But as the horrors of the Syrian war outpaced that juristic genre, some of my interlocutors refocused attention on the latter’s underlying theodical reason. When is the victory of God?, they asked, echoing the Quranic verse (2:214). In redescribing the war as a divine ordeal (ibtila, fitna), they read it not, as did other friends and interlocutors, as an occasion for divine disclosure, the distribution of good and evil, or a necessary sacrifice. Rather they declared it a scourge whose brute violence convenes a different temporality of revolutionary struggle which is not translatable into the time of either law or politics. Instead such struggle is ceaseless, with no termination point, where tribulation is both the spur to change and its measure. It distinctively refracts history, spatially relating the war to earlier episodes of the same struggle (analepsis) while projecting a necessary victory into the distant future (prolepsis). In doing so it also unsettles social-scientific means of critiquing the present. The paper concludes by offering some methodological suggestions on how to apprehend the theologico-political question of the victory of god (nasr-allah), which retains an intimate and ultimately undecidable relation to the violence of history.

 

Basit Kareem Iqbal is assistant professor of anthropology at McMaster University. Based on fieldwork in Jordan and Canada with refugees, relief workers, and religious scholars, his current book manuscript is titled “The Dread Heights: Refuge and Tribulation after the Syrian Revolution.” Other ongoing projects explore contemporary Muslim prison narratives, the eschatological ground of worldly witnessing, and the aesthetics of exile. His publications have appeared in Critical Times, diacritics, Political Theology, Muslim World, Anthropologie et sociétés,the Journal of Religion, Anthropological Theory, and Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, among others.

https://events.berkeley.edu/CMES/event/243511-basit-kareem-iqbal-the-crucible-of-tribulation
The nutrient-sensing role of circadian clock in fat and muscle, April 24https://events.berkeley.edu/NST/event/237069-the-nutrient-sensing-role-of-circadian-clock-in-fat-a

The circadian clock is entrained by metabolic cues and exerts pervasive temporal control in metabolic processes. The intricate interplay between circadian clock with nutrient signals orchestrates homeostasis. Our research focuses on deciphering the molecular and signaling pathways underlying tissue-intrinsic clocks circuits in driving metabolic tissue functional capacity. Recent studies uncovered the nutrient-sensing role of clock that governs metabolic substrate metabolism. Mechanistic interrogations of clock modulation of nutrient metabolism in adipose tissue and skeletal muscle will be discussed, together with our recent foray into targeting these mechanisms for disease applications.

https://events.berkeley.edu/NST/event/237069-the-nutrient-sensing-role-of-circadian-clock-in-fat-a
The Authority of Craft - Tanner Lectures on Human Values with Rachel Barney, April 24https://events.berkeley.edu/gradiv/event/243301-the-authority-of-craft-tanner-lectures-on-human

About the Lectures


The aim of these lectures is to recover Plato’s idea of craft or art, Greek technê, in the expansive sense which includes not only the handicrafts but skilled practices from housebuilding to navigation. Plato and other Greek thinkers are fascinated by the craft model: the idea that both the moral virtue of the good person and the political widom of the expert ruler are — or could be made into — skilled practices as reliable as shoemaking or carpentry. Similar ideas appear in classical Chinese philosophy, developed in very different ways by Daoist and Confucian thinkers. In our time, craft is in a bad way: marginalized in theory and everywhere endangered in practice. Ancient thinkers can help us to see what remains valuable and urgent about craft today, and what a reinvigorated understanding of it might contribute to our ethical and political thought. Crafts to be considered include carpentry, medicine, drawing, film editing, the ‘multicraft’ of the restaurant, tennis, and traditional Polynesian navigation. Philosophical points of reference, in addition to Plato, Aristotle, Zhuangzi, and Xunzi, include Murdoch, MacIntyre, Korsgaard, and the Hart-Fuller debate, as well as literary reflections from Kazuo Ishiguro and Cormac McCarthy.

Lecture 1 - The End of Craft

What is a craft? For Plato, paradigmatic craft-practitioners include the doctor, carpenter and navigator; an updated, more generous conception should include the dancer, coder, waitress, painter, chef, professional athlete, and firefighter. Each of these skilled practices is oriented to the achievement of a distinctive end, the goodness of which is independent of the self-interest or inclinations of the practitioner. This Platonic conception of craft as involving disinterested teleological rationality can explain how craft sets objective norms for correct action, and for the excellence of the practitioner. And it shows that to master a craft is not merely to acquire knowledge or skills but to take on the ‘internal standpoint’ definitive of the craft, internalizing its values and treating its reasons for action as authoritative.

Lecture 2 - Craft, Métier, Utopia

Especially when practised as a line of work — as a job or métier — craft sets norms for its practitioners. On the whole, a shoemaker should try to be a good shoemaker, and the good person who is a shoemaker routinely does just that. But what kind of ‘should’ is this, and what could connect these two kinds of goodness? Prominent philosophical conceptions of craft, ancient and modern, offer wildly various explanations of its normative authority. The picture is complicated by the way in which craft-as-work is paradigmatic both for successful practical reason and for social roles or practical identities in general. But the most fundamental source of craft’s normativity is the one which Plato and Aristotle bring out: the fact that, when practised as a job or métier, practicing your craft can be a way to realize the human good. And so thinking about craft turns out to be a way of thinking about Utopia: a society in which a just distribution of work could secure both the flourishing of the worker and the common good.

Lecture 3 - Seminar and Discussion

About Rachel Barney


Rachel Barney is Professor of both Classics and Philosophy. She was an undergraduate at University of Toronto, and returned after earning a PhD at Princeton and teaching at the University of Ottawa, Harvard, and the University of Chicago. Her research has ranged from the early sophists to the late Neoplatonic commentator Simplicius, but focuses on Plato. Her particular interest is in areas in which questions of ethics, psychology, epistemology, and philosophical method meet, as in Plato’s theory of the good.

https://events.berkeley.edu/gradiv/event/243301-the-authority-of-craft-tanner-lectures-on-human
A talk by Prof. Shailaja Paik, author of Dalit Women’s Education in Modern India: Double Discrimination., April 24https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/114926-a-talk-by-prof-shailaja-paik-author-of-dalit-womens-e

A talk by Shailaja Paik, Charles P. Taft Distinguished Professor of History and Affiliate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Asian Studies, University of Cincinnati and the author of Dalit Women’s Education in Modern India: Double Discrimination.
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DATE: Wed, April 24, 2024
TIME: 5 - 6:30 pm Berkeley | Calculate Your Local Time
VENUE: 10 Stephens Hall
LIVESTREAM: On FB at ISASatUCBerkeley
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Speaker Bio
Shailaja Paik is Charles P. Taft Distinguished Professor of History and Affiliate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Asian Studies, University of Cincinnati  and the author of Dalit Women’s Education in Modern India: Double Discrimination (London and New York: Routledge, 2014). Paik’s current research is funded by the American Council of Learned Societies Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities-American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Fellowship. She will be a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center next year.

Her first book, Dalit Women’s Education in Modern India: Double Discrimination (Routledge, 2014 ), examines the nexus between caste, class, gender, and state pedagogical practices among Dalit (“Untouchable”) women in urban India. Paik’s current research is funded by the American Council of Learned Societies Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship and the National Endowment for the Humanities-American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Fellowship.

Her second book, The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanityin Modern India (Stanford University Press, 2022), analyzes the politics of caste, class, gender, sexuality, and popular culture in modern Maharashtra. The book won the American Historical Association’s John F. Richards award for “the most distinguished work of scholarship on South Asia”.

Paik is working on several new book projects: Becoming “Vulgar”: Caste Domination and Normative Sexuality in Modern India, Caste and Race in South Asia, and the Cambridge Companion to Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. She has published several articles on a variety of themes, including the politics of naming, Dalit and African American women, Dalit women’s education, and new Dalit womanhood in colonial India, in prestigious international journals. Her research has been funded by Yale University, Emory University, the Ford Foundation, Warwick University, Charles Wallace India Trust, and the Indian Council of Social Sciences and Research, among others. Her scholarship and research interests are concerned with contributing to and furthering the dialogue in human rights, anti-colonial struggles, transnational women’s history, women-of-color feminisms, and particularly on gendering caste, and subaltern history. Paik recently co-organized the “Fifth International Conference on the Unfinished Legacy of Dr. Ambedkar” at the New School, October 2019.
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Film Screening: Walking Archives: Thoughts on Mangroves, Schools, Round Houses, and Weaving, April 24https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240575-film-screening-walking-archives-thoughts-on

Many of Filipa César’s films begin as research projects done in collaboration with others; they often include people’s memories, which collaborator Sónia Vaz Borges has called “walking archives.” Mangrove School draws on Borges’s research into the Guinea-Bissau militants’ effort to decolonize minds by creating schools during the liberation war. The poetic film is concerned with both the mangrove’s unique alluvial ecosystem and the re-creation of a school amidst the watery trees, where teachers expose the current generation to their time in the schools. In Round, Square, a conversation over tea ponders the value of traditional versus contemporary house designs. According to César, Quantum Creole, which grew out of the Looming Creole program, is “an experimental documentary film collectively researching creolization and addressing its historical, ontological and cultural forces.” It opens with a Guinea-Bissau song about what children want to know and proposes, “youth, don’t believe in the white’s lies” and “in the weaves lies our value.” The film itself is a tapestry of imaging techniques, songs, fables, and performances, including subversive takes on the origins of Guinea-Bissau’s traditional pano di pinti fabric, links between computer programming and weaving, and contemporary globalization projects as a form of recolonization.

https://events.berkeley.edu/BAMPFA/event/240575-film-screening-walking-archives-thoughts-on
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, April 25https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/223100-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/223100-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, April 25https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229193-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229193-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, April 25https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236436-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236436-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, April 25https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241408-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241408-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
The Wednesday Club: a new musical written and directed by Joe Goode, April 25https://events.berkeley.edu/TDPS/event/wednesday-club

TDPS presents:

The Wednesday Club

Book, Lyrics, and Direction by Joe Goode
Music by Ben Juodvalkis

April 25–28, 2024
Zellerbach Playhouse

What do a gay cowboy, a slam poetry genius, a revolutionary poet, a naturalist, a couple of starry-eyed lovers, and a doomsayer have in common? They all want to experiment with the theatrical form as members of the Wednesday Club, a group of drama nerds who get together to test out their theatrical innovations on each other every Wednesday evening in a church basement.

Based on songs from the repertoire of the Joe Goode Performance Group, this piece looks at the sometimes painful process of collaboration and the wisdom that can be gleaned from listening and slogging through the rough stuff to arrive at a place of equanimity and trust.


https://events.berkeley.edu/TDPS/event/wednesday-club
BPM 107 ADA and FMLA, April 25https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/223316-bpm-107-ada-and-fmla

Access to registration is disabled two days prior to the event.

This 3-hour in-person workshop is part of the BPM Part 2: Grow Your Knowledge series. In this highly interactive workshop, each participant’s experience is drawn upon for the learning. Ideally, to contribute to and enhance understanding, participants will come with current and/or previous people management experience.

The content explains the laws, eligibility requirements, and rights and responsibilities related to ADA/FMLA. An overview is provided of the: Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), California Family Rights Act (CFRA), Pregnancy Disability Leave, and the Interactive Process of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Information is provided about how each of these interacts with the others.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
*Follow UC’s ADA/FMLA processes
*Provide examples of reasonable accommodation in the workplace
*Identify resources available to address questions and concerns

https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/223316-bpm-107-ada-and-fmla
External Finance Seminars: Jose Ignacio Cuesta - Stanford, April 25https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/237074-external-finance-seminars-jose-ignacio-cuesta-Guest:
Jose Ignacio Cuesta
Stanford


Paper:
TBD
https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/237074-external-finance-seminars-jose-ignacio-cuesta-
OITM Seminar: Ryan Buell, April 25https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/236269-ryan-buellhttps://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/236269-ryan-buellLinkedIn II: Maximize Your Online Professional Presence, April 25https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/236314-linkedin-ii-maximize-your-online-professional-presenc

Make sure your LinkedIn profile is serving you by understanding how to best communicate to your target audience. This workshop is a
chance to incorporate tips from a UC Berkeley Talent Acquisition Advisor. We encourage you to login in to LinkedIn and view your profile
to assess and apply what you learn during this workshop.

https://events.berkeley.edu/hr/event/236314-linkedin-ii-maximize-your-online-professional-presenc
Jan Willem Duyvendak | The Return of the Native: Navigating between nostalgic nativism and hopeful liberalism, April 25https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/236387-jan-willem-duyvendak-the-return-of-the-native-navigat

Duyvendak will present his co-authored new book The Return of the Native (Oxford University Press, 2023) that explores the extraordinary rise of nativism in liberal settings, paying particular attention to nativist narratives that intertwine islamophobia, racism, populism and nostalgia. He will discuss the rise of nativism in France, the US and the Netherlands, focusing on striking similarities and small differences.

About the authors

Jan Willem Duyvendak is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Since 2018, he is also director of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (NIAS-KNAW). In 2021, he was elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and in 2022 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Co-authored with Josip Kesic, who is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies (ARTES), University of Amsterdam, where he currently finishes his doctoral research European Peripheries: continuities, commonalities and conflicts in cultural stereotyping of Spain and the South-Slavic region. He also works as a researcher and lecturer at the Inholland University of Applied Sciences. Besides political nativism, his interests include culturalnationalism and imagology.

In collaboration with Timothy Stacey, who is Researcher and Lecturer at the Urban Future Studio, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria, Canada.

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Ray Savord at rsavord@berkeley.edu or (510) 642-4555 with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days before the event.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/236387-jan-willem-duyvendak-the-return-of-the-native-navigat
Research and Data Security, April 25https://events.berkeley.edu/ipira/event/243097-research-and-data-security

Foreign influence and research security have become hot topics in recent years, and data is no exception. Come learn about best practices for research and data security in your lab. Bring your questions. Hosted by Hosted by the Berkeley Research Data Portal.

Speakers

Kairi Williams, Assistant Vice Chancellor for UC Berkeley Research Administration and Compliance

Brian Warshawsky, Director, Berkeley Research Ethics and Compliance

https://events.berkeley.edu/ipira/event/243097-research-and-data-security
Financial Planning for Long Term Care, April 25https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236674-financial-planning-for-long-term-care

With rising costs of medical expenses, planning for Long Term Care for yourself or a loved one can be complex and challenging. Solutions require all or a combination of: the coordination of the family’s personal and financial resources, insurance benefits, and public benefits planning. Come learn more about the various Financial Planning options for Long Term Care, including the new Medi-cal eligibility qualifications.

Presenter:  Kenneth Leung is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) and Investment Consultant at Millar Financial Group in Fremont, California. Kenneth Leung earned his Bachelor’s degree in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, with a focus in Mathematics and Statistics. With a passion for educating others, he became a peer instructor, teaching statistics when he was at UC Berkeley..Prior to joining Millar Financial in 2007, he worked at two other companies where he earned his security and insurance licenses. Kenneth started Millar Financial Group to continue serving clients after Timothy Millar’s passing in 2016. Besides spending time at Millar Financial Group, Kenneth volunteers at Alameda County Search and Rescue. He also enjoys traveling. As a die-hard California alumni, you will find him at different sporting events cheering on his fellow Bears.

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Participants who are not eligible for a UC Berkeley-provided Zoom account can use a Zoom account provided by their institution, can create a free consumer Zoom account (at https://zoom.us/freesignup/), or can dial in via the phone.

https://events.berkeley.edu/uhs/event/236674-financial-planning-for-long-term-care
OEW Seminar - Student Presentations, April 25https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/236275-oew-seminar-student-presentationsPresenters:
Eva Davoine
Nathaniel Ver Steeg
https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/236275-oew-seminar-student-presentations
Shansby Marketing Seminar - Alicea Lieberman (UCLA), April 25https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/242977-shansby-marketing-seminar-alicea-lieberman-uclahttps://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/242977-shansby-marketing-seminar-alicea-lieberman-uclaMakerspace Drop-in Hours, April 25https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877077Learn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877077
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, April 25https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235492-makerspace-drop-in-hoursLearn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235492-makerspace-drop-in-hours
BIDS Seminar with Stéfan van der Walt, PhD, April 25https://events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/240871-bids-seminar-with-stfan-van-der-walt-phd

Stéfan van der Walt gives a 30-minute presentation about his most recent research and leads a 30-minute Q&A.


 

https://events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/240871-bids-seminar-with-stfan-van-der-walt-phd
MCB Seminar: Title to be Announced, April 25https://events.berkeley.edu/HWNI/event/239279-mcb-seminar-title-to-be-announced

Abstract TBA

https://events.berkeley.edu/HWNI/event/239279-mcb-seminar-title-to-be-announced
Neuroscience Student Seminar Series Seminar, April 25https://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/209800-neuroscience-student-seminar-series-seminarDivision(s): Neuroscience Student Seminar Serieshttps://events.berkeley.edu/mcb/event/209800-neuroscience-student-seminar-series-seminar2024 Distinguished Finishing Talk by a Graduate Student - Leke Hutchins, April 25https://events.berkeley.edu/ESPM/event/238313-2024-distinguished-finishing-talk-by-a-graduate-stude

Speaker: Leke Hutchins, ESPM.

This event will be held in 132 Mulford Hall and via Zoom. There will be a social hour afterwards from 4:30pm - 5:30pm in the Mulford Courtyard.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ESPM/event/238313-2024-distinguished-finishing-talk-by-a-graduate-stude
2024 Distinguished Finishing Talk by a Graduate Student - Leke Hutchins, April 25https://events.berkeley.edu/RausserCollege/event/239571-2024-distinguished-finishing-talk-by-a-graduate

Speaker: Leke Hutchins, ESPM.

This event will be held in 132 Mulford Hall and via Zoom. There will be a social hour afterwards from 4:30pm - 5:30pm in the Mulford Courtyard.

https://events.berkeley.edu/RausserCollege/event/239571-2024-distinguished-finishing-talk-by-a-graduate
Seminar 242, Econometrics: Adam Rosen, April 25https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/241935-seminar-242-econometrics-adam-rosen

Topic forthcoming

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/241935-seminar-242-econometrics-adam-rosen
Pradip Krishen, the Indo-American Community Lecturer at UC Berkeley for 2024, April 25https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/229923-pradip-krishen-the-indo-american-community-lecturer-a

We are privileged to have the acclaimed ecological gardener and environmentalist,Pradip Krishen, in residence as the Indo-American Community Lecturer in India Studies at the Institute for South Asia Studies in April 2024.

Mr. Krishen writes about trees and plants, and works as an ecological gardener (mostly) in Western India and the desert where he has rewilded spoiled landscapes with native vegetation. He is the author-photographer of Trees of Delhi: A Field Guide, which received popular and critical acclaim, and became a bestseller in India, and Jungle Trees of Central India. He has also directed some well-known films like Massey Sahib and In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones.

As Indo-American Community Lecturer Mr. Krishen will stay on campus as a scholar-in-residence during the last week of April 2024 and deliver one public lecture on Thu, April 25 (title TBD) and engage with our campus community.
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About the Speaker

Born in New Delhi in 1949, Pradip Krishen was educated at Mayo College and St. Stephen’s College, and at Balliol College, Oxford. His first job was teaching history at Ramjas College at Delhi University. He joined a small, private firm making science documentaries for TV in 1975 and went on to direct three feature films: Massey Sahib in 1985, In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones in 1989 and Electric Moon in 1991. His films have won significant Indian and international awards. He gave up filmmaking in 1993 and started to teach himself field botany. Krishen began by spending time in the subtropical jungles of Pachmarhi in the Satpura Hills of Madhya Pradesh. He started to identify and photograph Delhi’s trees in 1998, extensively exploring the city and its semi-wild fringes. In the course of his work, Krishen led numerous public tree-walks on Sunday mornings and became a keen ecological gardener. Krishen has created “native-plant” gardens in Delhi and western Rajasthan and has completed a significant rewilding scheme in a habitat of volcanic rock at Rao Jodha Desert Rock Park, next to Mehrangarh fort in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. In 2014, Krishen began work on a new gardening initiative at Abha Mahal in Nagaur Fort, Rajasthan. The following year, he took over as Project Director of the gardens of the Calico Museum in Ahmedabad, and most recently, led a team of horticulturists and landscape architects to restore an extensive set of sand dunes in Jaipur city, Rajasthan. This opened in 2021 as a public park called “Kishan Bagh” (nothing to do with his surname!). A few other projects that he is working on at this moment are creating a wildflower meadow for Scindia School in Gwalior and restoring the natural ecology of a clayey riverbank on the Chambal river in Rajasthan.

Krishen’s book Trees of Delhi: A Field Guide, published by Dorling Kindersley/Penguin Group in 2006, met with popular and critical acclaim and became a best-seller in India. His second book Jungle Trees of Central India, published by Penguin India was released in 2014. His most recent publication is Abha Mahal Bagh: A Garden of Wild Plants from the Thar Desert came out in 2019). 

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About the Lecture Series
The Indo-American Community Lectureship in India Studies is a part of UC Berkeley’s Indo-American Community Chair in India Studies, a chair endowed in 1990-91 with the support of the CG of India in San Francisco, the Hon. Satinder K. Lambah and hundreds of members of the Indo-American community. This lectureship enables ISAS, with the support of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), to bring prominent individuals from India to Berkeley to deliver a lecture and interact with campus and community members during a two-week stay. Past Lectureship holders include Upendra Baxi, Andre Beteille, Madhav Gadgil, Ramachandra Guha, Meenakshi Mukherjee, Narendra Panjwani, Anuradha Kapur, Ashis Nandy, Amita Baviskar, Romila Thapar, Nivedita Menon, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Nandini Sundar, and Tanika Sarkar. Read more about the series or listen to past lectures HERE

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https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/229923-pradip-krishen-the-indo-american-community-lecturer-a
Data Science Spring 2024 Capstone Project Showcase, April 25https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2024/data-science-spring-2024-capstone-project-showcaseGraduating MIDS students present their data science projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.
More info: https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2024/data-science-spring-2024-capstone-project-showcase
https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2024/data-science-spring-2024-capstone-project-showcase
Film Screening and Panel Discussion: Of Color & Ink: Chang Dai-chien After 1949, April 25https://events.berkeley.edu/ieas/event/239128-film-screening-and-panel-discussion-of-color-amp

Widely acclaimed as China’s foremost 20 th century painter, Chang Dai-chien (1899-1983) spent his last three decades living in self-imposed exile from his beloved homeland. This film unravels the mystery and controversy of his creative and spiritual quest abroad and his journey East to West to become an artist of global significance.

“Of Color and Ink” is a feature-length documentary that follows the journey of the Chinese artist Chang Dai-chien as he embarks on a quest from the East to the West in search of the Peach Blossom Spring, a utopian place of life and the ultimate truth of art. The film delves into Chang’s extraordinary exile journey and sheds light on his mission in the global art world.

From CINEQUEST:

Winner Best International Feature Documentary Film Award at The 47th Sao Paulo International Film Festival

Winner Best Feature Documentary Film Award at The China (Guangzhou) International Documentary Film Festival

The wonderful Of Color and Ink uncovers the creative, political, and spiritual journeys of China’s foremost 20th-century painter Chang Dai-chien (1899-1983). The film follows his unusual life journey from pre-Communist China to Argentina, the jungles of Brazil; his much acclaimed exhibits in Paris and Germany in the 1960s; as well as his final years in California and Taiwan, in a thirty-year exile in the West that has been shrouded in mystery.

Director Zhang Weimin’s captivating film explores Chang Dai-chien’s pursuit of a vision of Peach Blossom Spring, a utopian ideal of harmony and tolerance, in a world far removed from the traditional China he left behind, as he moved from East to West to become the first Chinese artist to achieve international renown, whose works today command the highest auction prices of any of any post World War II painter.

Through innovative techniques and visual styles, “Of Color and Ink” spectacularly offers an illuminating, refreshing, artistic, and entertaining exploration of an emblematic influential figure in 20th century art.

Panelists:

Weimin Zhang is an award-winning filmmaker, cinematographer, and professor at San Francisco State University. As one of China’s Sixth Generation filmmakers, she worked on numerous award-winning films, documentaries, and TV drama series in both China and the U.S. as a director, cinematographer, and editor. Her film, The House of Spirit (2000) won the Women in Film Award; She also produced, wrote, and directed the feature documentary Missing Home: The Last Days of Beijing Hutongs (2013) which was presented at more than a dozen international film festivals. In 2007, the Library of Congress acquired her interactive multimedia DVD-ROM, Nushu: The Women’s Secret Writing for its permanent collection.

Mark Dean Johnson is a professor of art. He was educated at Yale University, where he was a personal assistant to Josef Albers, and received his M.F.A. from UC Berkeley. He previously was a professor at Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA, and associate dean of Academic Affairs at the San Francisco Art Institute. His publications include Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 (2008: Stanford University Press), and AT WORK: The Art of California Labor (2003: California Historical Society Press).

Carl Nagin has worked as an editor, teacher, and independent journalist in print and documentaries for four decades. His features have appeared in The New Yorker, Art and Antiques, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, BBC World, and New York magazine. He wrote and reported documentaries for the PBS series FRONTLINE, the BBC, and ABC News. At Harvard University, he taught writing, rhetoric, and journalism, and served as a speechwriter, editor, and researcher for Joseph Nye, dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government. A three-time recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities for his work on Chang Dai-ch’ien, he is completing the artist’s first English-language biography and produced the 1993 documentary Abode of Illusion: The Art and Life of Chang Dai-ch’ien. For the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, he served as chief editor for the award-winning catalogue, Tales from the Land of Dragons: 1000 Years of Chinese Painting and for Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: Tang, Sung, and Yuan Dynasties published by Otsuka Kogeisha. He currently serves as a Professor of Humanities and Sciences at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Jun Hu is an assistant professor; Mr. & Mrs. Pai Ruchu Presidential Professor in Arts & Humanities at UC Berkeley. He specializes in Chinese art and architecture, with an emphasis on how the material process of art-making intersects with other modes of knowledge production. His research and teaching engage with the history of Chinese architecture and its connections to other scholarly traditions, print culture and painting theory in the early modern period, and interregional interactions between China, Japan, and Korea.

Winnie Wong is an associate professor in the Department of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. Her research is concerned with the history and present of artistic authorship, with a focus on interactions between China and the West. Her theoretical interests revolve around the critical distinctions of high and low, true and fake, art and commodity, originality and imitation, and, conceptual and manual labor, and thus her work focuses on objects and practices at the boundary of these categories. 

https://events.berkeley.edu/ieas/event/239128-film-screening-and-panel-discussion-of-color-amp
International Careers Panel: Professionals Across Sectors Share Their Stories, April 25https://events.berkeley.edu/iis/event/243362-international-careers-panel-professionals-across


Unsure what career you want to pursue in the international field after graduation? Join us for an illuminating panel discussion featuring professionals in international work and service and across sectors and roles. Panelists will share their personal career stories, offer invaluable insights into their respective fields and the diverse array of opportunities available in the international arena. From tech giants like Meta to leading development organizations like USAID, our panelists represent a rich tapestry of experiences and expertise.

Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a dynamic Q&A session followed by an opportunity to individually and informally connect with our guests afterwards.

https://events.berkeley.edu/iis/event/243362-international-careers-panel-professionals-across
Game Night, April 25https://events.berkeley.edu/ASUC/event/240317-game-night

Grab a friend for a round cards and to play board games for Game Night! 🃏. There will be free snacks and drinks. See you all there!

� Thursday, March 31, 2024
⏰ 7:30pm – 9:30 pm
📍 MLK Game Zone Area

https://events.berkeley.edu/ASUC/event/240317-game-night
Formal Classes End, April 26https://events.berkeley.edu/calparents/event/221145-formal-classes-end

Formal Classes End

https://events.berkeley.edu/calparents/event/221145-formal-classes-end
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, April 26https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/223123-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/223123-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, April 26https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229192-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229192-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, April 26https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236435-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236435-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, April 26https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241407-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241407-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
OPT Doc Check Workshop, April 26https://events.berkeley.edu/bio/event/237708-opt-doc-check-workshop

Join Berkeley International Office as you prepare your OPT application! We will cover the required documents, how to fill out the forms, and common mistakes. There will also be a Q&A portion. Please have all of the required documents on hand for the webinar.

RSVP Here.

https://events.berkeley.edu/bio/event/237708-opt-doc-check-workshop
[On Zoom] Ranjan Ghosh | Tagore in the Age of Anthropocene: Plastic Nature (The Tagore Visiting Scholar Lecture for 2024), April 26https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/237376-on-zoom-ranjan-ghosh-tagore-in-the-age-of-anthropocen

The Tagore Program on Literature, Culture and Philosophy at UC Berkeley invites you for the 3rd Tagore Visiting Scholar Lecture by literary and cultural theorist and the Tagore Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley for Spring 2024, Ranjan Ghosh.

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DATE: Friday, April 26, 2024
TIME: 9 am Berkeley | 9:30 pm Kolkata (+1 day) | Calculate Your Local Time

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This event will also be live streamed on the Institute’s FB page: ISASatUCBerkeley
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SPEAKER BIO

Dr. Ghosh is an Indian academic and thinker who teaches at the Department of English, University of North Bengal, India. His wide-ranging scholarly work spans across the fields of comparative literature, comparative philosophy, philosophy of education, environmental humanities, critical and cultural theory, and Intellectual history.  His many books include Thinking Literature across Continents (Duke University Press, 2016, with J Hillis Miller), Philosophy and Poetry: Continental Perspectives ed. (Columbia University Press, 2019), Plastic Tagore (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) and the trilogy that he is completing to establish the discipline of plastic humanities: The Plastic Turn (Cornell University Press, 2022), Plastic Figures (Cornell University Press, 2024, forthcoming) and Plastic Literature (forthcoming).

He has been an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow.

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Launched in Fall 2019, and housed in the Institute for South Asia Studies, the Tagore Program on Literature, Culture and Philosophy at UC Berkeley, is the first of its kind in the US. Designed to showcase the life and legacy of Rabindranath Tagore, the program sponsors talks and workshops on Tagore, as well as semester-long visiting professorships in Tagore Studies at UC Berkeley. Read more about the program HERE.
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The event is FREE and OPEN to the public.

https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/237376-on-zoom-ranjan-ghosh-tagore-in-the-age-of-anthropocen
STEM OPT Document Check Workshop, April 26https://events.berkeley.edu/bio/event/237824-stem-opt-document-check-workshop

Join Berkeley International Office as you prepare your STEM OPT application! We will cover the required documents, how to fill out the forms, and common mistakes. There will also be a Q&A portion. Please have all of the required documents on hand for the webinar.

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https://events.berkeley.edu/bio/event/237824-stem-opt-document-check-workshop
Nicole Eaton | German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad, April 26https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/237683-nicole-eaton-german-blood-slavic-soil-how-nazi-knigsb

In the wake of the Second World War, the German city Königsberg, once the easternmost territory of the Third Reich, became the Russian city Kaliningrad, the westernmost region of the Soviet Union. Königsberg/Kaliningrad is the only city to have been ruled by both Hitler and Stalin as their own—in both wartime occupation and as integral territory of the two regimes. During the war, this single city became an epicenter in the apocalyptic battle between Nazism and Stalinism.

Eaton’s book German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, twentieth-century Europe’s two most violent revolutionary regimes, transformed a single city and the people who lived there. Drawing on archival documents, diaries, letters, and memoirs from both sides, this talk presents an intimate look into the Nazi-Soviet encounter during World War II and shows how this outpost city, far from the centers of power in Moscow and Berlin, became a closed-off space where Nazis and Stalinists each staged radical experiments in societal transformation and were forced to reimagine their utopias in dialogue with the encounter between the victims and proponents of the two regimes.

Nicole Eaton received her PhD at UC Berkeley is now Associate Professor of History at Boston College. She teaches courses on the Soviet Union, Imperial Russia, modern Europe, authoritarianism, and mass violence. Her research interests include nationalism, communism, fascism, ethnic cleansing, borderlands, urban history, the Second World War, environmental history and the history of medicine in East-Central Europe and Eurasia. German Blood, Slavic Soil is her first book.

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Ray Savord at rsavord@berkeley.edu or (510) 642-4555 with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days before the event.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/237683-nicole-eaton-german-blood-slavic-soil-how-nazi-knigsb
OEW Seminar - Student Presentations, April 26https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/236274-oew-seminar-student-presentationsPresenters:
Amol Singh Raswan
Chiara Motta
https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/236274-oew-seminar-student-presentations
Professional Program in Regulatory Affairs Online Information Session, April 26https://events.berkeley.edu/extension/event/229127-professional-program-in-regulatory-affairs-online-inf

Learn about the regulatory affairs profession, examples of career paths and how our program can help you build the knowledge base to reach your professional goals.

https://events.berkeley.edu/extension/event/229127-professional-program-in-regulatory-affairs-online-inf
Printing Functional Polymers for Sustainable Earth and Habitable Mars: Nano Seminar series, April 26https://events.berkeley.edu/BNNI/event/229388-printing-functional-polymers-for-sustainable-earth

Printing technologies have the potential to revolutionize manufacturing of electronic and energy materials by drastically reducing the energy cost and environmental footprint while increasing throughput and agility. For instance, printing organic solar cells can potentially reduce energy payback time from 2-3 years to as short as 1 day! At the same time, additive manufacturing of such functional materials brings a new set of challenges demanding exquisite control over hierarchical structures down to the molecular-scale.

We address this challenge by understanding the evaporative assembly pathway and flow-driven assembly central to all printing processes. We discover a surprising chiral liquid crystal mediated assembly of achiral semiconducting polymers in an evaporating meniscus. We uncover the molecular assembly mechanism and further show that the chiral helical structures can be largely modulated by controlling printing regimes.

Such new topological states of semiconducting polymers can empower unprecedented control over charge, spin, and exciton transport, reminiscent of how Nature efficiently transfers electrons and transduces energy using chiral helical structures. The ability to control non-equilibrium assembly during printing sets the stage for dynamically modulating assembled structures on the fly.

We demonstrate this concept by programming nanoscale morphology and structure color of bottlebrush block copolymers during 3D printing. This approach holds the potential to reduce the use of environmentally toxic pigments by printing structure color. Complementing the above hypothesis-driven approach, we are pursuing data-science driven approach to drastically accelerate discovery and manufacturing of functional polymers. By linking automated synthesis, testing, and machine learning in a close-loop, we are able to optimize function highly efficiently while discovering new physical insights for transferring closed-loop optimization into hypothesis driven discovery.

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Ying Diao did her PhD at MIT and postdoc at Stanford. She won many early-career awards from NSF, Sloan, NASA, ACS, etc., and is an Advanced Materials “Rising Star”. She joined UIUC in 2015.

https://events.berkeley.edu/BNNI/event/229388-printing-functional-polymers-for-sustainable-earth
Accounting Seminar with Tomas Pfeiffer, April 26https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/229791-accounting-seminar-with-shiva-rajgopalTomas Pfeiffer of Universität Wienhttps://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/229791-accounting-seminar-with-shiva-rajgopalTransportation Seminar: PhD Student Talks, April 26https://events.berkeley.edu/its/event/229910-transportation-seminar-phd-student-talks

Graduating and recently graduated doctoral candidates will present their research at the ITS Berkeley Transportation Seminar on Friday April 26, 2024 at 3 pm in 212 O’Brien Hall. Join us for cookies and beverages in the ITS Library (412) McLaughlin Hall at 2:30 pm.

Alex Pan, CEE

https://events.berkeley.edu/its/event/229910-transportation-seminar-phd-student-talks
Composition Colloquium: OpenLab, April 26https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235709-composition-colloquium-openlab

Multiple speakers, Music research at CNMAT

Talk only

The colloquium will consist of talks and concerts by visiting lecturers and CNMAT OpenLabs led by faculty, graduate and undergraduate students. In rotation, members of the class will be appointed as respondents for the presentations. The responsibility of the respondent is to facilitate the discussion during and after the talk; their names will be communicated later on. All the events will be hosted at CNMAT.

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235709-composition-colloquium-openlab
Spring 2024 BLC Fellows Forum, April 26https://events.berkeley.edu/blc/event/236869-spring-2024-blc-fellows-forum

Spring 2024 BLC Fellows Forum
Instructional Development Research Projects

Bringing Translation to the Intermediate Italian Language Classroom

Cristina Farronato, Lecturer, Italian Studies

TBD

Awareness of Contemporary Occitan among Learners of French

Oliver Whitmore, Graduate Student, French

TBD

(Creative) Second Language Writing: Approaches to Metalinguistic Reflection

Caroline Godard, Graduate Student, French

TBD

https://events.berkeley.edu/blc/event/236869-spring-2024-blc-fellows-forum
Inorganic Chemistry Seminar, April 26https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230510-inorganic-chemistry-seminar

TBD

https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/230510-inorganic-chemistry-seminar
Angélique Kidjo, April 26https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204383-angelique-kidjo

The five-time Grammy winner Angélique Kidjo is known for making connections across genres, generations, and geopolitical boundaries, enlisting her clarion voice and dynamic, eclectic musical vision to address complex subject matter. Kidjo’s recent projects range from her theatrical work Yemandjato a reboot of the Talking Heads’ classic 1980 album Remain in Light(both part oLf the Cal Performances 202122 season); a tribute to salsa queen Celia Cruz; and most recently, Mother Nature, a cri de coeuragainst climate change and political corruption featuring African millennial superstars.

https://events.berkeley.edu/calperfs/event/204383-angelique-kidjo
Angélique Kidjo, April 26https://events.berkeley.edu/asc/event/209686-angelique-kidjo

The five-time Grammy winner Angélique Kidjo is known for making connections across genres, generations, and geopolitical boundaries, enlisting her clarion voice and dynamic, eclectic musical vision to address complex subject matter. Kidjo’s recent projects range from her theatrical work Yemandja to a reboot of the Talking Heads’ classic 1980 album Remain in Light (both part of the Cal Performances 202122 season); a tribute to salsa queen Celia Cruz; and most recently, Mother Nature, a cri de coeur against climate change and political corruption featuring African millennial superstars.

https://events.berkeley.edu/asc/event/209686-angelique-kidjo
UC Berkeley Chamber & University Chorus, April 26https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232518-uc-berkeley-chamber-university-chorus

Wei Cheng, conductor

Safety
The UC Berkeley Department of Music is committed to the health and safety of our students, staff, and patrons. Measures to protect concertgoers and musicians will be informed by state, local, and UC Berkeley Public Health policies and are subject to change. Social distancing, masks, and proof of COVID 19 vaccination may be required. UC Berkeley does not promise or guarantee that all patrons or employees on site are vaccinated. Unvaccinated individuals may be present as a result of exemptions, exceptions, fraudulent verification, or checker error. None of these precautions eliminate the risk of exposure to COVID-19. 

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Most concerts are available to stream live or watch later on the Berkeley Music YouTube channel. To watch visit music.berkeley.edu/watch

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232518-uc-berkeley-chamber-university-chorus
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, April 27https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/223188-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/223188-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, April 27https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229191-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229191-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, April 27https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236434-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236434-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, April 27https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241406-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241406-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
UC Berkeley Philharmonia Orchestra, April 27https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232519-uc-berkeley-philharmonia-orchestra

Pictures at an Exhibition, Mussorgsky, arr. Maurice Ravel
Thomas Green and Noam Elisha, conductors

 

Safety
The UC Berkeley Department of Music is committed to the health and safety of our students, staff, and patrons. Measures to protect concertgoers and musicians will be informed by state, local, and UC Berkeley Public Health policies and are subject to change.

Accessibility
If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact the Hertz Hall Manager at 510-642-4864 or HertzHallMgr@berkeley.edu. with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

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Most concerts are available to stream live or watch later on the Berkeley Music YouTube channel. To watch visit music.berkeley.edu/watch.

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232519-uc-berkeley-philharmonia-orchestra
UC Berkeley Chamber & University Chorus, April 27https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232517-uc-berkeley-chamber-university-chorus

Wei Cheng, conductor

Safety
The UC Berkeley Department of Music is committed to the health and safety of our students, staff, and patrons. Measures to protect concertgoers and musicians will be informed by state, local, and UC Berkeley Public Health policies and are subject to change. Social distancing, masks, and proof of COVID 19 vaccination may be required. UC Berkeley does not promise or guarantee that all patrons or employees on site are vaccinated. Unvaccinated individuals may be present as a result of exemptions, exceptions, fraudulent verification, or checker error. None of these precautions eliminate the risk of exposure to COVID-19. 

Accessibility
If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact the Hertz Hall Manager at 510.642.4864 or hertzhallmgr@berkeley.edu. with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

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Watch
Most concerts are available to stream live or watch later on the Berkeley Music YouTube channel. To watch visit music.berkeley.edu/watch

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232517-uc-berkeley-chamber-university-chorus
Del Sol Quartet, April 27https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/243319-del-sol-quartet

San Francisco’s Del Sol Quartet believes that music can, and should, happen anywhere - screaming out Aeryn Santillan’s Makeshift Memorials from a Mission District sidewalk or a rural high school, bouncing Ben Johnston’s microtonal Americana off the canyon walls of the Yampa River or the hallowed walls of Library of Congress, bringing Huang Ruo’s Angel Island Oratorio home to the island detention barracks or across the Pacific to the Singapore International Arts Festival. Del Sol’s performances provide the possibility for unexpected discovery, sparking dialogue and bringing people together.

Del Sol has commissioned or premiered hundreds of works by composers including Terry Riley, Gabriela Lena Frank, Tania León, Huang Ruo, Frederic Rzewski, Vijay Iyer, Mason Bates, Pamela Z, Chinary Ung, Chen Yi, Andy Akiho, Erberk Eryilmaz, Theresa Wong, and Reza Vali. Many of these works are included on Del Sol’s critically-acclaimed albums. New recordings released in 2023 include The Resonance Between, a collaboration with North Indian musicians Alam Khan, sarode & Arjun Verma, sitar and SPELLLING and The Mystery School with Oakland magical-futurist pop phenomenon SPELLLING. Huang Ruo - A Dust in Time, Del Sol’s eleventh album, was released in 2021 by Bright Shiny Things, and was described in the New York Times as “excavations of beauty from the elemental.”

Huang Ruo’s ANGEL ISLAND - Oratorio was commissioned by the Del Sol Quartet to shine a light on local history with global implications. Performances of ANGEL ISLAND in the current season include a New York City premiere directed by Matthew Ozawa and presented by Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival and Beth Morrison’s Prototype Festival in January 2024. Supported by a Hewlett Foundation 50 Commission, the work came to life in 2021 through numerous community programs, culminating in performances on Angel Island inside the immigration station detention barracks. This project has grown into new musical collaborations that allow Del Sol to amplify the voices of the Asian-American community including neighborhood pop-ups with Angel Island descendents “The Last Hoisan Poets,” an ongoing concert series at the Angel Island Immigration Station, and an upcoming podcast series.

The Quartet has performed at prestigious venues and festivals worldwide, including the Kennedy Center, Library of Congress, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Esplanade Singapore, National Museum of Asian Art, National Gallery of Art, Symphony Space, Miller Theater, Other Minds Festival, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, Clefworks Festival, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Santa Fe Opera, and Chautauqua Institution. Every spring, Del Sol and Holiday Expeditions lead five-day musical whitewater adventures along the Yampa River. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Del Sol initiated The Joy Project, an ongoing series of outdoor pop-up concerts featuring short commissioned works inspired by the theme of joy. These pieces reached thousands in public spaces around the Bay Area— parks, sidewalks, open-spaces — where people could enjoy the music in the open air.

Deeply committed to education, Del Sol enjoys working with young composers. Over the years, talented students they first met through workshops, coaching and residencies have often grown into valued colleagues. Recent residencies include Universities of California at Berkeley, Dartmouth, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, UC San Diego, and UC Santa Cruz. They especially value their ongoing relationship with the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music in Boonville, California.

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Benjamin Kreith & Hyeyung Sol Yoon, violins
Charlton Lee, viola
Kathryn Bates, cello


In addition to musical composition, Reynolds’s recent projects include an innovative collection of texts and images, PASSAGE and a collaborative book exploring the evolution of a house design for him and his partner Karen: Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music: The Reynolds Desert House (Routledge, 2022). Reynolds is also an influential member of the international consortium, ACTOR, based in Montréal, and the originator of the “Bridging Chasms” initiative [bridginigchasms.org] that seeks to improve cross-disciplinary communications. In 2023, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Reynolds’s music has been published exclusively by Edition Peters New York for over 5 decades. He has been commissioned by the Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, BBC, San Diego, and National symphonies and the Japan Philharmonic; by the British Arts Council, the French Ministry of Culture, Ircam, and the Fromm, Rockefeller, Suntory, and Koussevitzky foundations. A partial listing of Reynolds’s students suggests the scope of his influence. They occupy influential positions at Harvard (Czernowin), SUNY - Buffalo (Felder), University of Michigan (Daugherty), UC Santa Cruz (Carson and Jones), North Texas (May), University of Utah (Curbelo), USC (Rikakis), Arizona State University (Navarro), University of Western Australia (Tonkin), École Nationale de Musique et de Danse d’Évry [Essonne] (Vérin), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Cuñha), Mozarteum Salzburg (Hiendl), and Beijing Normal University (Zhou). Notable free-lancers include Takasugi (Cambridge), Wallin (Oslo), Greene (San Diego, USA) Kortekangas (Helsinki), and Lin (Taipei), Hembree (Appleton, USA).

Reynolds’s work is the subject of a Library of Congress Special Collection and is also represented in the Sacher Stiftung in Basel, and UC San Diego’s Geisel Library. Long friendships with Cage, Nancarrow, Takemitsu and Xenakis inform his outlook in procedural and personal ways. He envisions his own path as entailing the principled weaving together of threads from tradition(s), with novel provocations originating (often) outside music. He conceives of composition as “a process of illumination,” a path toward (occasional) clarity in turbulent times. He seeks the satisfaction of proposing and experiencing unexpected connections, of bringing the elevating capacities of music into public spaces, of engaging with other arts and artists to discover new amalgamations of sensation and insight that can “improve the human experience.”

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/243319-del-sol-quartet
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, April 28https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/223222-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/223222-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, April 28https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229190-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229190-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, April 28https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236433-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236433-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, April 28https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241405-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241405-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
Five Dollar Day, April 28https://events.berkeley.edu/lhs/event/236909-five-dollar-day

Visit The Lawrence and enjoy all the hands-on science we offer for just $5 per person. Learn cutting-edge science in Hands-on Biotech and Virtually Human, meet live animals in our recently renovated Animal Discovery Zone, and more! $5 Days are part of our efforts to increase access to our programs for all.

https://events.berkeley.edu/lhs/event/236909-five-dollar-day
UC Berkeley Wind Ensemble I, April 28https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232489-uc-berkeley-wind-ensemble-i

Matthew Sadowski, conductor

Safety
The UC Berkeley Department of Music is committed to the health and safety of our students, staff, and patrons. Measures to protect concertgoers and musicians will be informed by state, local, and UC Berkeley Public Health policies and are subject to change. Social distancing, masks, and proof of COVID 19 vaccination may be required. UC Berkeley does not promise or guarantee that all patrons or employees on site are vaccinated. Unvaccinated individuals may be present as a result of exemptions, exceptions, fraudulent verification, or checker error. None of these precautions eliminate the risk of exposure to COVID-19. 

Accessibility
If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact the Hertz Hall Manager at 510.642.4864 or hertzhallmgr@berkeley.edu. with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

Connect
To receive email messages about upcoming concerts:
music.berkeley.edu/mailme.

Facebook: @ucbmusicdept
Instagram: @ucberkeleymusic / @berkeleymusicmajor
Twitter @ucbmusicdept
Youtube: Berkeley Music YouTube channel

Watch
Most concerts are available to stream live or watch later on the Berkeley Music YouTube channel. To watch visit music.berkeley.edu/watch

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232489-uc-berkeley-wind-ensemble-i
EXHIBIT: A Storied Campus: Cal in Fiction, April 29https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/223224-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction

Mention of the name University of California, Berkeley, evokes a range of images: a celebrated institution, a seat of innovation, protests and activism, iconic architecture, colorful traditions, and … literary muse? The campus has long sparked the creativity of fiction writers, inspiring them to use it as a backdrop, a key player, or a barely disguised character within their tales. This exhibition highlights examples of these portrayals through book covers, excerpts, illustrations, photographs, and other materials largely selected from the University Archives and general collections of The Bancroft Library.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/223224-exhibit-a-storied-campus-cal-in-fiction
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, April 29https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229189-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability

Did a camp for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York play a vital role in launching the disability rights movement? This is the premise of the delightful and thought-provoking documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which is this year’s featured work from UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened and makes its way to UC Berkeley, where a growing number of students with disabilities created the Disabled Students’ Program for the on-campus community, and then the Center for Independent Living to support community members off campus. Alumni of Camp Jened and UC Berkeley joined with hundreds of supporters to stage the 504 Sit-in, the longest takeover of a federal building in history, demanding the signing of regulations that outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities within any federally funded program. Almost 150 activists with disabilities and their supporters occupied the building for 25 days, ultimately resulting in the achievement of their goal.

This exhibit showcases The Bancroft Library’s renowned Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project, which comprises over 100 oral histories from leaders, participants, and observers of the disability rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, supplemented by a rich collection of personal and organizational papers. On display are a brochure and newsletters from Camp Jened, the camp for teenagers with disabilities that fostered community and a sense of agency for many individuals who went on to be activists in the movement. The exhibit also traces the long history of disability activism at UC Berkeley. Blind students and deaf students came to the university in the 19th century, and would go on to become teachers and organizers. Photographs and quotes from interviews with Ed Roberts, the first severely physically disabled student to attend the university (1962) and a seminal figure in the history of the disability rights movement, among other early activists, are also featured; along with the application form submitted by the “Rolling Quads” (as some of the first students with disabilities on campus called themselves) to become an official student group, as well as photographs from the Disabled Students’ Program records.

The 504 Sit-in is represented by memoirs, oral histories, and publications from participants and supporters such as the Black Panthers, the International Association of Machinists, and feminist groups. The exhibit also highlights the many campus units and organizations that comprise and serve the disability community today.

An online version of the exhibit will be available in Spring 2024.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/229189-exhibit-a-camp-a-campus-and-a-disability
Added Dimensions: Designing Pop-Up Books for Art, Architecture and Amusement, April 29https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236432-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art

Tucked away among the Environmental Design Library’s 100,000 volume on-site collection are several “how-to” books focused on modeling space using paper. This exhibit highlights some of those books and salient examples related to the construction of pop-up books and origami design. Also included are finished works using pop-up folding and cutting techniques.

This small, fun, exhibit – appropriate for children and creative-aspiring adults – will hopefully leave you thinking, “I can do that!”

The Environmental Design Library’s pop-up book collection was started to entertain the children of our students who needed a quiet moment in the library, and has since grown to more than 60 volumes. In addition to the pop-up books on display, another 40 volumes are available for interactive exploration.

For additional inspiration, check out the exhibit’s Reading List.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/236432-added-dimensions-designing-pop-up-books-for-art
Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories: Selections from The Bancroft Library, April 29https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241404-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american

The Bancroft Library collections of materials relating to the Philippines span nearly 500 years. Highlights in this exhibit include a transcript of an inquisitorial trial from 1646, a prayer book written in the Cebuano language, and UC Berkeley Filipino student publications from 1905 to present. The exhibit also features selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author Jessica Hagedorn, including typewritten drafts of her novels, poetry, song lyrics, and a screenplay as well as childhood drawings and writings.

Bancroft’s renowned Latin American collections offer up intriguing examples of documents produced by the Spanish Empire as it exploited the islands’ natural, cultural and human resources. Examples include the transcript of the Inquisitorial trial of two women accused of being spiritual mediums, a manuscript written in the Jawi script, which is based on Arabic script promising religious freedom to the Muslim residents of the Island of Mindanao, and materials regarding the trade between Manila and Mexico.

The personal papers and published works of UC Berkeley professors Bernard Moses (1846-1931) and David Barrows (1873-1954) document their early involvement with American colonialism in the Philippines, especially their work in redesigning the Filipino education system. In the aftermath of a brutal war, Americans viewed education as a tool for pacifying a conquered population. Documentation of these professors’ white supremacist views is contrasted with the work of Filipinx and Asian American scholars who use their words to critique colonialism and its racist underpinnings.

Educational opportunities have brought students from the Philippines, and later Filipinx American students, to Berkeley since the early 20th century. The exhibit includes examples of four student publications—two published in the first two decades of the 1900’s and two more contemporary examples—that provide evidence of these students’ political engagement and their determination to make their voices heard.

Selections from the personal papers of acclaimed author and performance artist Jessica Hagedorn are also on display, including examples of her novels, plays, poetry, song lyrics, a screenplay, childhood drawings, and writings. Hagedorn employs a kaleidoscope of pop culture references, songs, images, quotes from historical figures, and a galaxy of characters representing different cultures, classes, genders, races, and nationalities in her depictions of the Philippines and Filipinx America.

https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/241404-centering-philippine-and-filipinx-american
Reading/Review/Recitation Week, April 29https://events.berkeley.edu/calparents/event/221146-readingreviewrecitation-week

Reading/Review/Recitation Week

https://events.berkeley.edu/calparents/event/221146-readingreviewrecitation-week
Oxyopia Seminar: Title to be Announced, April 29https://events.berkeley.edu/HWNI/event/237253-oxyopia-seminar-title-to-be-announced

Abstract to be Announced

https://events.berkeley.edu/HWNI/event/237253-oxyopia-seminar-title-to-be-announced
PE Seminar - Greg Martin (Stanford), April 29https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/229883-pe-seminar-greg-martin-stanfordPaper Topic: TBDhttps://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/229883-pe-seminar-greg-martin-stanfordInternal Finance Seminars: Ulrike Malmendier, April 29https://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/237044-internal-finance-seminarshttps://events.berkeley.edu/haas/event/237044-internal-finance-seminarsMakerspace Drop-in Hours, April 29https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877078Learn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://berkeley.libcal.com/event/11877078
Makerspace Drop-in Hours, April 29https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235491-makerspace-drop-in-hoursLearn about the tools of the Makerspace or use this time to complete a project of your choice. The 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, button makers, and heat press will be available to you, including materials to practice or start a project. Beginners & experienced makers are welcome! To use the 3D printers or vinyl cutters, please bring a USB flash drive to print a project, and/or a personal computer to save your designs. Peer instruction and DIY guides available.
Location: Doe 190
Drop-in anytime: 1:00-2:30 (space closes at 3 PM)
Pre-registration is not required.
https://events.berkeley.edu/rtl/event/235491-makerspace-drop-in-hours
Seminar 211, Economic History: Lars Jonung (Lund University), April 29https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/242410-seminar-211-economic-history-lars-jonung-lund-univers

Speaker: Lars Jonung

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/242410-seminar-211-economic-history-lars-jonung-lund-univers
Structural & Quantitative Biology Seminar, April 29https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/209985-structural-quantitative-biology-seminar

Structural & Quantitative Biology Seminar

https://events.berkeley.edu/chem/event/209985-structural-quantitative-biology-seminar
Seminar 271: “Topic Forthcoming” David Atkin, April 29https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237566-seminar-271-topic-forthcoming-david-atkin

Joint with International Trade

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/237566-seminar-271-topic-forthcoming-david-atkin
Seminar 208, Microeconomic Theory: Topic Forthcoming (copy), April 29https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/239531-seminar-208-microeconomic-theory-topic-forthcoming

Topic Forthcoming

https://events.berkeley.edu/econ/event/239531-seminar-208-microeconomic-theory-topic-forthcoming