Lectures

<< November 2017 >>

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Some Assembly Required

12-1 p.m.

Arts and Science in a Public Learning Laboratory

12-1:30 p.m.

The Politics of Secularism: Religion, Diversity, and Institutional Change in France and Turkey

12:30-2 p.m.

AEI's Arthur Brooks: How the Competition of Ideas Can Reunite the Country

1-2 p.m.

Climate Change: The Defining Health Challenge and Opportunity of the 21st Century

5-7 p.m.

The Knowledge of/about Migrants

6-9 p.m.

ARCH Lecture: Amanda Williams

6:30-8 p.m.

Zaytuna College Lecture Series with Dr. William Barylo

7-9 p.m.

Thursday, November 2, 2017

Genealogies of Syrian Ba‘thism: Michel ‘Aflaq and Modern Arab Intellectual History

12:30-2 p.m.
Bringing Atzlán and Borinquen to Chicago -- Marc Zimmerman

Bringing Atzlán and Borinquen to Chicago: Mexican and Puerto Rican Art in the City from 1968 to the Age of Trump

2-4 p.m.

The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America

4-6 p.m.

Serge Lang Undergraduate Lecture

4:10-5 p.m.

How Everything Became War And The Military Became Everything

5-6:30 p.m.

Nandini Sundar | Hostages to Democracy - India at 70

5-7 p.m.

Making as Research | Artist Talk and DIY Couture Fashion Lab with Angie Wilson

5:30-7:30 p.m.

How Christians Think: A Conversation with Marvin Olasky at the Berkeley Forum

6-7 p.m.

Astronomy Night at UC Berkeley

7-9:30 p.m.

Friday, November 3, 2017

“I am a Parrot”: Socialization into Literacy and Epistemic Ideologies through Rote Learning in India

11 a.m.-12 p.m.

Jacobs Design Conversations: Silvia Lindtner, "The Promise of Making: Desiring Alternatives, Hacking Capitalism and Prototyping Inequality"

12-1 p.m.

The Ambassador's Story: Henry Morgenthau, the Armenian Genocide, and the Problem of Humanitarian Intervention

4 p.m.

Optimal Coordination of Connected and Autonomous Cars in Smart Cities

4 p.m.

The Mongols and the Changing Patterns of Indian Ocean Connections

5-7 p.m.

Saturday, November 4, 2017

Lecture by Patricia Berger: A Crisis of Faith: Chen Hongshou’s Buddhist Paintings

1-2:30 p.m.

Sunday, November 5, 2017

no events

Monday, November 6, 2017

Dalí's Origins: Drawings and Paintings from the Cusí Collection

12-1 p.m.

New Research in Oral History: Shanna Farrell

12-1:15 p.m.
The Gatun Locks of the Panama Canal in 1936. (Photo by E.O. Goldbeck/Library of Congress.)

When Conflicting Racisms Converge: Race, Nation and Segregation

4 p.m.

The Power of Writing with Abandon: a Talk by Grant Faulkner

5-7 p.m.

LAEP Lecture: Ferdinand Ludwig

5:30-7 p.m.

We must conjure our Gods before we obey them

6:30-8 p.m.

We Must Conjure Our Gods Before We Obey Them

6:30-8 p.m.

Chasing the Shadows of the Past in Late Ottoman Argos

8-9 p.m.

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Pollution

Slow Accretion: Producing Harm in Ulaanbaatar’s Air Pollution Crisis

4 p.m.
Lucan Way

The Russian Revolution and Soviet Durability

4-5:30 p.m.

Naisargi Dave | Life is Queerer Than a Chessboard

5-7 p.m.

Launching Undocumental

5-6:30 p.m.
How to Work a Look, Madison Moore

"How to Work a Look"--a lecture by Madison Moore

5-6:30 p.m.

Waste Reduction Speaker Panel

6-8 p.m.

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children

12-1 p.m.

Community Curating and the Maker Movement

12-1:30 p.m.

Overlapping Forms

12-1 p.m.
Rich Caruana

Friends Don’t Let Friends Deploy Black-Box Models: The Importance of Intelligibility in Machine Learning for Bias Detection and Prevention

4:10-5:30 p.m.

Kashmiri Women in Resistance

4:30-6:15 p.m.

Combinatory Digital Poetics in Electronic Literature and Film

5-6:30 p.m.

Cosmic Knowledge and the Long-term Strategy of the Human Race

6-8 p.m.

Thursday, November 9, 2017

Harjant Gill | On North Indian/Punjabi Masculinities

5-7:30 p.m.

Sheryl-Ann Simpson: Planning for Citizenship

5-7 p.m.

The Future of the EU after Brexit: Implications for Transatlantic Relations from a German Perspective

5-7 p.m.

Can Nature Save Us? Stories from the Natural World

7-8:30 p.m.

Friday, November 10, 2017

no events

Saturday, November 11, 2017

no events

Sunday, November 12, 2017

Forced into Genocide

1-3 p.m.

Monday, November 13, 2017

Salim v. Mitchell and Jessen: Legal Accountability for Torture in US Courts

12:45-2 p.m.
ClÃudio Gottschalg-Duque

Towards Knowledge-Based Decision Support System using Propositional Analysis and Rhetorical Structure Theory

4:10-5 p.m.

"Antifa: The History and Theory of Anti-Fascism”

5-7 p.m.

Devin Griffiths: The Ecology of Form

5-7 p.m.

What is history?

5-6:30 p.m.

Re-Assemblage (Theory, Practice, Form)

6:30-8 p.m.

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

America's Next War and How to Prevent It

2-3:30 p.m.
Ulf Brunnbauer

The Troubled Waters of Transformation: Shipyard Labor in East Central Europe from Late to Post Socialism

4-5:30 p.m.

Causal Inference in the Age of Big Data

4:10-5 p.m.

Creative Solutions for Social Innovation: A View from Africa

5-7 p.m.

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

CANCELLED! ARCH Lecture: Mary-Ann Ray

Botanical Names Demystified

10 a.m.-12 p.m.

What is Adabiyāt?

12-1 p.m.
Coleman

Curating and Collecting Across Media

12-1:30 p.m.

Life and Labor in the Industrial Frontier

12-1 p.m.
Octavio Paz. (Image by Arturo Espinosa.)

Octavio Paz, Mexican Politics, and the Media

4 p.m.
Oleg Budnitskii

Women in the Red Army, 1941-1945

4-5:30 p.m.
George Packer

American Identity in the Age of Trump

4:10 p.m.

The Good Neighbor

6-7 p.m.

The Clean Energy Emergency

6:30-7:30 p.m.

Zaytuna College Lecture Series with Professor Alexander Key

7-9 p.m.

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Bancroft Library Roundtable: Native Claims Across Nations: Indigenous Land Ownership in Mexican and U.S. California, 1840-1860

12-1 p.m.

Benjamin Siegel | Hungry Nation

3-4:30 p.m.

Precarity and Dependence in the "Sharing" Economy

4-6 p.m.

Phoebe's Cast Collection

6-8 p.m.
Cripping the Renaissance

Cripping the Renaissance: Lamentation, Consolation, and Disability in Cervantes and Milton

6-8 p.m.

Friday, November 17, 2017

The Moral Imperative of Better School Quality Measures

10-11:30 a.m.

Postindustrial Language Socialization

3-5 p.m.

How Ride-Sharing Technology is Impacting Transportation in Africa: The case of Uber in Nairobi

4 p.m.

Saturday, November 18, 2017

Relative size of Kepler planets

Science at Cal Lecture - How to Find a Habitable Planet

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Sunday, November 19, 2017

no events

Monday, November 20, 2017

The University of Guanajuato during Mexico’s Flag Day, 2017. (Photo by Ingrid Truemper.)

Denise Dresser: Mexico's 2018 Presidential Election: Democracy in Danger?

6 p.m.

Hit Parade: Music as Public Knowledge

6:30-8 p.m.

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

no events

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

no events

Thursday, November 23, 2017

no events

Friday, November 24, 2017

no events

Saturday, November 25, 2017

no events

Sunday, November 26, 2017

no events

Monday, November 27, 2017

The Acquisition and the Consequences of Gender Stereotypes about Intellectual Ability

3-4:30 p.m.

On the History of Religions and the Study of Islam

5-7 p.m.
Julien Butler

Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (70 min screening followed by Q and A)

6:30-8 p.m.

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

‘To Pay or Not to Pay’: WWI and WWII Reparations and their Impact on European (Dis)Integration

12-1 p.m.

Statistical Methods and Software for the Study of Olfactory Stem Cell Differentiation Using Single-Cell Transcriptome Sequencing

4-5 p.m.

Solomon Darwin | Empowering the Bottom of the Pyramid with Open Innovation Business Models

5-7 p.m.

Birdmania: Author Talk and Book Signing

6-8 p.m.

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Hail Paths and Springs

12-1 p.m.

Alumni Panel of Curators Across Disciplines

12-1:30 p.m.

Grappling with goodness in infancy and childhood

3-4:30 p.m.
Steve Fish

What is Putinism?

4-5:30 p.m.

Karabo Poppy Moletsane and Ashara Ekundayo in Conversation

6 p.m.

Silence and Sanctuaries

7 p.m.

Zaytuna College Lecture Series with Dr. Khadija Harsolia

7-9 p.m.

Thursday, November 30, 2017

States of Exception and Sudden Democracies in 20th Century Germany

5-6:30 p.m.

State-Building And Political Development In US Foreign Policy

5-6:30 p.m.