RSS FeedUpcoming EventsCreative Careers Week | Arts & Humanities, April 1https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/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.

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Grant Farred | Diaspora-in-Place, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/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.

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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.
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Nasser Abourahme | The Time Beneath the Concrete: Camp, Colony, Palestine, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/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

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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
The 8th Annual Berkeley/Stanford Symposium, April 13https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/243864-the-8th-annual-berkeleystanford-symposium

“The fog comes… and then moves on”: On Transience and Translucence. The 8th Annual Berkeley/Stanford Symposium.

Keynote from Professor André Dombrowski, University of Pennsylvania.

For the eighth annual Berkeley/Stanford Symposium, graduate students working across disciplines and time periods will take fog, San Francisco’s friendly ghost, as a common point of departure. Between water and air, earth and sky, fog presents an opportunity, or demand, for pause. Things transform when cloaked in mist, sometimes forcing a reversal of common sense; in foggy conditions, high-beam light creates even more haze.

In such states of low visibility, what other senses displace sight in experiencing the world? What forms could art history take if, rather than stretching towards clarity, the field savored obscurity and hiddenness as spaces for discovery? What are works of art that embody the ephemeral ethos of fog in their making, material, or possibility? And what are works of art that push against fog, clearing historical forces of obscurity to allow what has been hidden to come into vision — into being?

The symposium will interpret fog widely, whether as guiding visual motif, conceptual or methodological underpinning, meteorological intervention, or poetic engagement.

Please RSVP at https://www.sfmoma.org/event/eighth-annual-berkeley-stanford-symposium/

 

Accessibility Information: Accessible seating is available at this event. Accessibility accommodations such as American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation and assisted listening devices are available upon request 10 business days in advance. Please email publicengagement@sfmoma.org, and we will do our best to fulfill your request.

 



Event Sponsors: Stanford: Global Studies, Stanford: Department of Classics, UC Berkeley: English, Stanford: Department of Theater & Performance Studies, Stanford: Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education, Stanford: Arts Institute, UC Berkeley: Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Culture, Stanford: Modern Thought & Literature, UC Berkeley: History of Art Department, Stanford: Department of Art and Art History, Stanford: School of Humanities & Sciences, UC Berkeley: Theater Dance & Performance Studies, UC Berkeley: Department of Film and Media Studies, Stanford: Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, SFMOMA, Stanford: Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford: The Europe Center (Freeman Spogli Institute and Stanford Global Studies), Arts Research Center: UC Berkeley.

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Let’s talk about Palestine | Ahmad Diab & Stefania Pandolfo | Palestinian Literature and the Writing of Trauma, April 16https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/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.

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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/.

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Sappho, Homer, and Tragedy: Reading with Sedgwick, Bespaloff, and Butler, May 3https://events.berkeley.edu/rhetoric/event/229909-sappho-homer-and-tragedy-reading-with-sedgwick-bespal

Sappho, Homer, and Tragedy: Reading with Butler, Sedgwick, and Bespaloff, A Rhetoric Colloquium with:

Melissa Mueller

Ramsey McGlazer

Ramona Naddaff

James I. Porter

Mario Telò

https://events.berkeley.edu/rhetoric/event/229909-sappho-homer-and-tragedy-reading-with-sedgwick-bespal
2024 Rhetoric Commencement Ceremony, May 15https://events.berkeley.edu/rhetoric/event/229912-2024-rhetoric-commencement-ceremony

2024 Rhetoric Commencement Ceremony*
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
2PM | Zellerbach Auditorium
Reception to follow ceremony in Lower Sproul

More details to come. 

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