UC Berkeley Events Calendar

<< April 2019 >>

Monday, April 1, 2019

Latinx History In California

12-1 p.m.

Europe and Global Governance

12-1 p.m.

New Research from the Latinx Research Center

12-1 p.m.

Lecture by Shirley Thompson

3-5:15 p.m.

Behind the Curtain Translational Medicine Lecture

4-5 p.m.

Again for the First Time with Rhonda Holberton

6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Adventures in extracting punctuated histories at Çatalhöyük

12-1 p.m.

How Safe Are We?

12-1:30 p.m.

Inside the Black Box of Organizational Life

4-6 p.m.

Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science: C++: an invisible foundation

4:10-5 p.m.

Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science: C++: an invisible foundation

4:10-5 p.m.

Jorge Flores | Unwanted Neighbors

5-7 p.m.

Robert Morrison: Scientific Exchange at the Courts of Mehmed II and Bayezid II

5-7 p.m.

Fascism’s Global Moments: New Perspectives on Entanglements and Tensions between Fascist Regimes in the 1930s and 1940s

5-6:30 p.m.

Jewish Identities in Israel: Confrontations, Crises and Novel Conceptions

5:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

The Importance of Being Aryan:

5-6:30 p.m.

If by Literally You Mean Figuratively

5 p.m.

Haroon Mirza | The Creative Repercussions of Counterculture

5:30-7:30 p.m.

Water is Another Word for Life

6:30-7:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 4, 2019

The Village: Weaving Local Stories into Theater Epics with Stan Lai

12-1:30 p.m.

View from the Top: Judy Chou

12-1 p.m.

The Village: Weaving Local Stories into Theater Epics with Stan Lai

12 p.m.

Will China Save The Planet?

4-5 p.m.

POSTPONED - Narratives of Progress and Protection, Contradiction and Refusal: Indigeneity, Gender and Citizenship

4-5:30 p.m.

Brexit, Britain, Scotland: The Future of the UK

5-7 p.m.

The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science and the Great War

5-6:30 p.m.

Avalokitasvara / Avalokiteśvara, Amitābha / Amitāyus and pratyekabuddha / pratyayabuddha

5-7 p.m.

DCRP Lecture: Devanne Brookins

5:30-7 p.m.

Astronomy Night at UC Berkeley

7-10 p.m.

Caliban's Curse

8 p.m.

Friday, April 5, 2019

Herta Müller, the Aktionsgruppe Banat, and Literary Cartographies in Late 20th-Century Romanian Literature

12-1:30 p.m.

Household Reservoirs of Enteric Pathogens in Rural Bangladesh

12-1 p.m.

Language as Symbolic Power: What's in it for Foreign Language teachers?

3-5 p.m.

Tony Stewart | Subjunctive Explorations - Fictive Sufi Tales of Early Modern Bengal

5-7 p.m.

Saturday, April 6, 2019

Sunday, April 7, 2019

Monday, April 8, 2019

The Two-Tier Faculty System

12-1:30 p.m.

Authoritarianism Accepted: Contextualizing EU and Russian Involvement in the Balkans

12-1:30 p.m.

Discrete Models of Concrete Materials and Structures

12-1 p.m.

The Key to Shambhala: The Mystifier as a Cultural Problem

4-6 p.m.

John Ashbery, Non-Performer?

5-6:30 p.m.

Berkeley Journalism Showcase

6:30-8 p.m.

The Threat of Fascism and How to Fight It

7:15-9:15 p.m.

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Plants and People Lunchtime Lectures: Evolution and domestication of the pre-Columbian crop plant Bomarea edulis

12-1 p.m.

Europe’s "Refugee Crisis" and the Colonial Archive or Is Art Universal?

12-1 p.m.

GUH Lecture: Showing is Knowing: The Curator as Designer & Scholar

12-1 p.m.

Objects of Special Note(s): Constructions of Containment, Writers and Readers by Late Roman Ivory Writing Tablets

4-5 p.m.

Rules for Wrongdoers

4:10-6:15 p.m.

Baxter Liberty Initiative

4:15 p.m.

Dimitri Gutas | The Qur'an of the Elite: Avicenna's "Isharat" and the Development of Paraphilosophy as "Islamic" Philosophy

5-7 p.m.

NOTE NEW DATE: Sadia Saeed | Politics of Desecularization

5-7 p.m.

Heavy Metal Bamboo: Making Archaic Bamboo Instruments Modern in Bandung, Indonesia

5-6:30 p.m.

The Economic and Political Impact of Migration in Romania

5:15-6:45 p.m.

Environmental Design Archives Gallery Talk - Edit Heath: Design is a System of Values

6:30-8 p.m.

Edith Heath: Design is a System of Values

6:30-8 p.m.

2019 Taubman Lectures: The Navel of the Dream

7-9 p.m.

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Townsend Center's Berkeley Book Chat: Looking for Law in all the Wrong Places

12-1 p.m.

German and U.S. Second World War Soldiers’ Cemeteries in Italy - Cultural Perspectives

12-1 p.m.

BIDS Data Science Lecture: Do as eye do: efficient content-adaptive processing and storage of large fluorescence images

3:10-4 p.m.

Marijuana Legalization as Frontier Capitalism

3:30-5 p.m.

Just Compost: Pathways to Social Equity and Community Engagement through Soil-carbon Sequestration

4-5:30 p.m.

Rules for Wrongdoers

4:10-6:15 p.m.

ARCHITECTURE LECTURE: Caroline O’Donnell

6:30-8 p.m.

Thursday, April 11, 2019

Organic Design: A Dream like a Dream and Ago with Stan Lai and Sandra Woodall

12-1:30 p.m.

Tripodi Lecture on Research Methodologies

12:10-1:30 p.m.

Staging Justice

4-5:30 p.m.

Rules for Wrongdoers

4:10-6:15 p.m.

Buddhist Contemplation and Higher Education

5-7 p.m.

Over Sixty in the Sixties: The Older Generation and Youth Protest in West Germany

5-6 p.m.

2019 Taubman Lectures: The Navel of the Dream

7-9 p.m.

Charles Mills Gayley lecture with Dorothy Hale

8-10 p.m.

Friday, April 12, 2019

Plants, Bugs, and Molecules

10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Problems, problem-solvers, and local impacts: A view from Peruvian Amazonia

12-1 p.m.

From Enigma to Virtual Splendor - The Nazi-Era Theft and Restitution of Guillaume de Machaut’s Extraordinary Medieval Manuscript, the Ferrell-Vogüé

12-1 p.m.

Catherine B. Asher | The Qutb Complex

5-7 p.m.

Confronting Chance: Models of Medicine in the Hippocratic Corpus

5-7 p.m.

ERG 25th Annual Lecture with Thomas Lovejoy

6-7:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 13, 2019

Cal Day Keynote: Storytelling, Design, and Social Change

9:30-10:15 a.m.

How to Apply Design Thinking to Your Career and Your Life

10:45 a.m.-12 p.m.

Sunday, April 14, 2019

Monday, April 15, 2019

Who Dreams of Us? Reading, Inclusivity, and Contemporary Swedish-Language Literature

12-1 p.m.

New Research from the Latinx Research Center

12-1 p.m.

Design Field Notes: Tom di Maria

4-5 p.m.

From 'Daang Matuwid' Gone Crooked to 'Build Build Build': The Politics of Transport Infrastructure in the Philippines, 2010 to the Present

4-5:30 p.m.

Behind the Curtain Translational Medicine Lecture

4-5 p.m.

A classroom in Chile. (Photo by Ryan Greenberg.)

Chilean Education Today

4:30 p.m.

CANCELED - Neelam Khoja | Qandahar and New Sovereign Claims in Early Modern Iran and Hindustan

5-7 p.m.Canceled

Gaining More Control Of Your Time

6:30-8 p.m.

Hate Speech, Algorithms, and Digital Connectivity

6:30-8 p.m.

Hate Speech, Algorithms, and Digital Connectivity with Zeynep Tufekci

6:30-8 p.m.

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Ernest S. Kuh Distinguished Lecture

12-1 p.m.

Deceptive Stability? Germany in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Last Term

12-1 p.m.

An integrated Cuban dance troupe employs revolutionary imagery. (Photo courtesy of Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, Havana, Cuba.)

Dancing Loyalty: Revolutionary Movements in Cuba after 1959

4 p.m.

The Last Whalers: Telling the Story of One of the World's Last Whaling Tribes

4-5:30 p.m.

Knowing Me, Knowing You: Self-Knowledge, Authority, and Dialogue in Early Plato

5-7 p.m.

Lunacy Administration: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry

5-6:30 p.m.

Lunacy Administration: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry

5-6:30 p.m.

Lunacy Administration: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry

5 p.m.

2019 Taubman Lectures: The Navel of the Dream

5:30-9 p.m.

A Greek officer and an Egyptian lady

5:30-8 p.m.

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

The Power of Plurality: Encounters, Emergence, and Boundary-Making in the Nineteenth-Century Industrial Far West

12-1 p.m.

Townsend Center's Berkeley Book Chat with Timothy Hampton

12-1 p.m.

Through the Window: People, Data, Technology, and National Security

4:10-5:30 p.m.

Through the Window: People, Data, Technology, and National Security

4:10-5:30 p.m.

Visual bilingualism and the funerary space

5-7 p.m.

The Great Chernobyl Acceleration

6-7:30 p.m.

Fact, Fiction, and Film: Turning History into Narrative

6 p.m.

Thursday, April 18, 2019

Calcutta to California: Sowing an American Lineage of Kathak Dance with Rachna Nivas

12-1:30 p.m.

Bancroft Library Roundtable

12-1 p.m.

BIDS Data Science Lecture: Astrophysical Machine Learning

2:30-3:30 p.m.

Oxytocin-dependent reopening of a social reward learning critical period with MDMA

3-4 p.m.

Russia 2018: The Global Potemkin Village | A Lecture by David Goldblatt

4-6 p.m.

AHMA Colloquium - 3D Printed Replicas vs their Originals for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Egyptian Antiquities

4-5:30 p.m.

Diversity and Power in Global Christian Communities

4-5:30 p.m.

Mathematics Department Colloquium/Serge Lang Undergraduate Lecture

4:10-5 p.m.

Michael Cook: "Muslim Sectarianism: Past and Present"

5-6:30 p.m.

“ ‘Global Mission’: Nazi Foreign Cultural Policy and the Goethe Society in Weimar”

5-7 p.m.

Ayahuasca Shamanism

6-7:30 p.m.

BERC and ISAS present: How Clean Energy Can Boost Incomes in the Global South

6-7:30 p.m.

AIA Lecture - The Harbour Landscape of Ephesos

7 p.m.

Friday, April 19, 2019

Scaling the Landfill: Policy Solutions for Waste Reduction in California

12-1 p.m.

Design Conversations: Jodi Forlizzi

12-1 p.m.

Members' Walk: Water Wise Entrance Garden

1-2 p.m.

2019 Clark Kerr Lecture

2 p.m.

Saturday, April 20, 2019

Sunday, April 21, 2019

Monday, April 22, 2019

The Schwarz Alternating Method for Concurrent Multiscale in Finite Deformation Solid Mechanics

12-1 p.m.

Science, Poetry and Cultural Resistance in Early Modern Portugal

12-1 p.m.

Tarski Lecture

4-5 p.m.

Cynthia A. Chan Memorial Lecture: “Structure, assembly and reaction chemistry of DNA replisome””

4-5 p.m.

Design Field Notes: Bill Leddy

4-5 p.m.

Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science: Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Research

4:10-5 p.m.

Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science: Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Research: advancing cloud computing together

4:10-5 p.m.

GUH Lecture: “Contested City: Art, Activism, and Urban Renewal”

6:30-8:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

GUH Lecture: Environmental Design Public Scholarship & Publishing

12-1 p.m.

Beachhead or Refugium? The Rise and Dilemma of Germany’s Far-Right Intellectual Counterculture

12-1 p.m.

Fireside Chat with Associate Justice Goodwin Liu

12:15-1:30 p.m.

De-Ontologising Andean Landscapes

3-6 p.m.

State Courts and School Desegregation: New Perspectives on Judicial Federalism and the Myth of Parity

4:10 p.m.

A conversation on work in progress with Kevis Goodman

5:30 p.m.

After the Death of Nature: Carolyn Merchant and the Future of Human-Nature Relations

5:30-7 p.m.

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Race, Place, and Other Things for the Taking: The Buffalo Soldiers and Allensworth, California

12-1 p.m.

Evoking Sympathy for the Muslim Woman Post 9/11

12-2 p.m.

Political Imagery and Bonfires in Northern Ireland

12-1 p.m.

Tarski Lecture

4-5 p.m.

Democratic Deliberation in the Athenian Assembly

5-6 p.m.

Humanitarianism from the Margins: Framing Return Migration and Repatriation in Jewish Europe and Africa

5-6:30 p.m.

Les Blank Lecture: Susana de Sousa Dias

7-8:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 25, 2019

The House of the Spirits: A Conversation with Isabel Allende and Caridad Svich, moderated by Michael Moran

12-1:30 p.m.

Emerging efforts to improve complex care from The Commonwealth Fund’s perspective

12-1 p.m.

So what are we to make of Brexit?

12-1 p.m.

Candace Lukasik | Ecumenism of Blood: Islamophobia and the Geopolitics of MENA Christians

1-2 p.m.

Reforming national chemicals safety policy to protect the health of workers and the public

3:30-5:30 p.m.

The TDPS Speaker Series presents Caridad Svich | The Wilderness: Playwriting in the World

4-5:30 p.m.

Tanika Sarkar | Intimate Violence - Colonial Lawmaking and Cultural Nationalism in 19th Century India

5-7 p.m.

Ruth Marshall Talk

5-7 p.m.

Tragic Power, Comic Self

5-7 p.m.

"Doing" Political Theology Today: Promises and Pitfalls

5-7 p.m.

Cinefication in Three Scenes

5:15-6:45 p.m.

Ancient Use of Psychoactive Plants in Pre-Columbian South America

6-7:30 p.m.

Friday, April 26, 2019

Environmental Engineering Seminar

12-1 p.m.

New Perspectives on the "Incomplete Acquisition" Debate in Heritage Language Bilingualism

12-1 p.m.

Cortical Circuits During Continuous Decision-Making

12:30-1:30 p.m.

Salman Hussain | Together Without Consensus

4-6 p.m.

Tarski Lecture

4-5 p.m.

Saturday, April 27, 2019

The Conservation Movement

11:50 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 28, 2019

Monday, April 29, 2019

Building Bridges or a Bridge Too Far? The "Macedonia" Name Agreement and the Past, Present and Future of Greek Interstate Relations

12-1 p.m.

New Research from the Latinx Research Center

12-1 p.m.

Dissertation Talk: Real-World Robotic Perception and Control Using Synthetic Data

1-2 p.m.

Molly Kaushal | When Lakshman undertakes the fire ordeal to prove his chastity

4-6 p.m.

Toiling in the Agroecological Matrix: What Does Co-existence Look Like?

4-5 p.m.

Political Machines at Work: Electoral Subversion in the Russian Workplace

4-5:30 p.m.

Molly Kaushal | When Lakshman undertakes the fire ordeal to prove his chastity

4-6 p.m.

A Tantric Theology from 12th century Tibet

5-7 p.m.

Places in Space

6:30-8 p.m.

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Ikram Masmoudi: The Appeal of the Gothic and Hassan Blasim's Fiction

4-5:30 p.m.

2019 William Main Seminar Series

4-5:30 p.m.

Faculty Research Lecture: Mysteries of the Invisible World of Microbes

4-5 p.m.

The Frozen Conflict in Transnistria: Current Situation and Prospects for Settlement

5:15-6:45 p.m.