Lectures

<< November 2019 >>

Friday, November 1, 2019

Pakistan's Education Conundrum | Zia Akther Abbas

4-6 p.m.

The Discovery of Pulsars: A Graduate Student's Tale

5:30-6:30 p.m.

Saturday, November 2, 2019

no events

Sunday, November 3, 2019

no events

Monday, November 4, 2019

Kabir in Song

12-2 p.m.

BIDS Forum: Statistics and Machine Learning Forum

1:30-2:30 p.m.

Andreas Floer Memorial Lecture

2:30-3:30 p.m.

On Lyric Erring: The Weak Position in Arkadii Dragomoshchenko

4-6 p.m.
LaraWolfe

Transience, Replication, and the Paradox of Social Robotics

6:30-8 p.m.
Bullet cluster

Unraveling the Dark Matter Mystery

6:30-8 p.m.

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

WASH Benefits: Randomized, controlled trials to evaluate the individual and combined impacts of water, sanitation, hygiene, and nutritional interventions on diarrhea and stunting in children in low-income, rural settings.

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

Mapping the East Bay's Long Lost History

12-1 p.m.

TSH Talk Tuesday at 5 pm: Margaret Fuller, Transcendental Gossip, and the Strange Case of Electrical Psychology

5 p.m.

Cultural Legacy of the Pre-Ashkenazic Jews in Eastern Europe

5:30-7 p.m.

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Archaeometallurgy and Historical Ecology on the 5th Century Osaka Plain

12-1 p.m.

i4Y CMYE Speaker Series: "Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Family Planning Options in Armenia"

1-2 p.m.
Katharine Hayhoe

Katharine Hayhoe: Science in a Fact-Free World

4-6 p.m.

Fung Institute presents: Engineering Leadership Speaking Series

4-5:30 p.m.

Life and Death from Yemen to Euphrates: Syrian Governor Cemal Pasha

6:30-8 p.m.

Thursday, November 7, 2019

Allison Arieff: Architecture, Urban Planning, and Well-Being

12-1:30 p.m.

Bringing Health to Life: An Institutional Ethnography of the Social Determinants of Health and the Life Course Perspective

12:10-1:30 p.m.

Activism: Then and Now!

12:50-2 p.m.

Coming to Terms: Sloganization in Language Education Discourse

3-5 p.m.

American Higher Education in 2040

4-5:30 p.m.

Gerald D. and Norma Feldman Annual Lecture

4 p.m.

Francis Cody | Defamation Machine

5-7 p.m.

"As on the First Day": The Struggle of Firsts in Heidegger's "First Elaboration" of his "Origin of the Work of Art"

5-7 p.m.

Digital Semiotics: German Idealism, Cybernetics, and the Sign

5 p.m.

Author Reading: Alberto Ledesma

5:30-7 p.m.

C18/Romanticism Colloquium Talk: Leif Weatherby

5:30 p.m.

Catastrophic Fires, Colonialism, and Indigenous Landscape Practices

6:30-8 p.m.

Astronomy Night at UC Berkeley

7-9:30 p.m.

AIA Lecture - The Actions and Meanings of Visible and Hidden Spaces at Formative Chiripa, in the Lake Titicaca Basin, Boliva

8 p.m.

Friday, November 8, 2019

Soul of A Nation, courtesy de Young Museum

On “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” with Curator Mark Godfrey, Tate Modern

4-6 p.m.

Kannan M. | The Structure of Indian Studies

4-6 p.m.

Saturday, November 9, 2019

Shahidul Alam | The Challenge of being a Journalist in Bangladesh Today

5:30-7:30 p.m.

Sunday, November 10, 2019

no events

Monday, November 11, 2019

no events

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Dissertation Talk: e-mission: an open source, extensible platform for human mobility systems

10:30-11:30 a.m.

Chronic Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Cancer Risk: Are we all Susceptible?

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

Amman: City in the Middle, An Overview | Marwan Hanania

12:30-2 p.m.

Proving Student Competence in Higher Education

3-4 p.m.

Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil A Conversation with the Author

4-5 p.m.
Waldo E. Martin, Jr.

Bernard Moses Memorial Lectures featuring Waldo E. Martin, Jr.

4:10 p.m.

"Lampedusa: Migrant Tragedy" a Lecture with John Kerrigan

5-7 p.m.

Aishwary Kumar | Can the People Rule? Gandhi, Dignity, and Resentment

5-7 p.m.

Health vs Havoc: A discussion of nutrition, sanity and unapologetic deliciousness

5:30-8 p.m.

A Debate on Breaking Up Big Tech at the Berkeley Forum

6-7 p.m.

Land to the Tiller?

6:30-7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Artist's Talk: Sylvia Fein

12 p.m.

Archaeology and Heritage of Slavery at the Jesuit Vineyards of Nasca

12-1 p.m.

Hanif Qureshi | The Police and Rape Myths in India

12-1:30 p.m.
Laszlo Gyorgy

Creating Balance: The Mission of Economic Policy

4-5:30 p.m.

504 and Beyond: Disability Politics and the Black Panther Party

4-6 p.m.

Fung Institute presents: Engineering Leadership Speaking Series

4-5:30 p.m.

On the Edge of Chaos

5-6 p.m.

Thursday, November 14, 2019

Julien Beller

Julien Beller in Conversation: Atypical Architectures and Urban Belonging

12-1:30 p.m.
Konstantina Zanou

Writing the Self in Mediterranean History

12-1:30 p.m.

Aging Services Faculty Search Candidate Talk

12:10-1:30 p.m.

CRG Distinguished Guest Lecture

4-6 p.m.

Rahuldeep Singh Gill | Ante-Colonial Anti-Imperial Sikh Tradition

5-7 p.m.

DCRP Lecture Series: 12th Annual Martin Wachs Lecture by Elizabeth Deakin

5:30-7 p.m.
Deakin_Elizabeth

Wachs Lecture: Integrating Transportation, Land Use, and Environmental Planning for Social Justice and Carbon Reduction: Finding a Way that Works

5:30-7 p.m.
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Illuminating the Dark: First Stars in the Universe

6-8 p.m.

Friday, November 15, 2019

The Crisis in News Media: Why it matters and what should be done

12-1 p.m.

Italy and the Future of Europe

12-1 p.m.Canceled

Hilton Als - I Don't Remember

3 p.m.

Sanjay Srivastava | Work, youth culture and the meanings of ‘caste politics’ in Kerala

3-5 p.m.

2019 Annual Tang Lecture

5-7 p.m.

Saturday, November 16, 2019

Ravish Kumar | Gandhi, Godse, and Memory in Modern India

4-6 p.m.

Sunday, November 17, 2019

no events

Monday, November 18, 2019

Insurgent Aesthetics: Flight, Freedom, and Fantasy on the Frontiers of US Empire

12:30-2 p.m.

Expanded Internet Art

12:30-2 p.m.

‘She had…a Womb Subjected to Bondage’: The Afro-Atlantic Origins of British Colonial Descent Law

12:45-2 p.m.

BIDS Forum: Statistics and Machine Learning Forum

1:30-2:30 p.m.

Korean Conglomerates (Chaebol) in Times of Crisis

4-5:30 p.m.

Two Talks: “Generalization through Memorization: Nearest Neighbor Language Models” and “Probing Neural NLP: Ideas and Problems”

4:10-5 p.m.
KenyattaHinkle

My Place Is the Placeless: Sherin Guirguis

6:30-8 p.m.

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

SPH Brown Bag: Youth-Led Participatory Action Research (YPAR): Overview, Research Advances, and Challenges

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

Carlo Rotella: Craft: How Writers, Musicians, Athletes, and Others Cultivate Their Talent

4 p.m.

The Cuban Revolution and the Transformation of Nature during the Cold War

4-5:30 p.m.
rosenbaum

The Myanmar Shwe: Rule of Law in the New Burma

4-5:30 p.m.

The Mystery of Van Gogh's Ear

5-7 p.m.

GUH Lecture: “The World is Always Coming to An End: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood”

7-8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Berkeley Boosts Webinar: "Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber" with Mike Isaac, The New York Times

10-11 a.m.

DCRP Lecture Series: Ben Metcalf

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

Townsend Book Chat with Sugata Ray

12-1 p.m.

Fung Institute presents: Engineering Leadership Speaking Series

4-5:30 p.m.

Sol and Arthur at the Seige of Mafeking

4 p.m.

An evening with Dr. Louise Aronson, author of “Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life”

5:30-8:30 p.m.

Tri-Valley: Aging and Alzheimer's Disease: Can lifestyle practices protect the brain?

5:45-8 p.m.

Aging and Alzheimer's Disease: Can lifestyle practices protect the brain?

5:45-8:05 p.m.

Artist’s Talk: Edie Fake in Conversation with Elaine Yau

6 p.m.

Arms Trafficking: Its Past, Present, and Future

7-8:15 p.m.

Thursday, November 21, 2019

View from the Top: Craig Federighi

12-1 p.m.

Bancroft Library Roundtable

12-1 p.m.
Amy Franceschini

Amy Franceschini: Presence as Practice

12-1:30 p.m.

Aging Services Faculty Search Candidate Talk

12:10-1:30 p.m.

Spectacle of Empire: The Visual Destruction of Iraq | Dena Al-Adeeb

12:30-2 p.m.

Member's Walk: Australasia

1-2:30 p.m.

Anthony W. Fontes Mortal Doubt: Transnational Gangs and Social Order

4-5 p.m.
Jane Taylor

Foerster Lectures on the Immortality of the Soul featuring Jane Taylor

4:10 p.m.

Singing Schubert, Hearing Race

5-6:30 p.m.
Maria Lipman

35th Colin and Elsa Miller Lecture: Elections and Protests: Government Influence and Social Attitudes in Today’s Russia

5:15-6:45 p.m.

The Daily Life of Betel: from Leaf to Nut, Preparation to Ritual

6-7:30 p.m.

Friday, November 22, 2019

Design Conversations: Aza Raskin

12-1 p.m.

Serge Lang Undergraduate Lecture

4:10-5 p.m.

Temple Mount: Heritage and Conflict | Katharina Galor

4:30-6:30 p.m.

Saturday, November 23, 2019

no events

Sunday, November 24, 2019

no events

Monday, November 25, 2019

The Working Women’s Charter

12-1 p.m.

Being Communist, Being Other

5-7 p.m.

Distinguished Lecture

5-7 p.m.
Scott

Screening: Tongues Untied

6:30-8 p.m.

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

no events

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

no events

Thursday, November 28, 2019

no events

Friday, November 29, 2019

no events

Saturday, November 30, 2019

no events