Lectures
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Book Talk: Design-Based School Improvement
Lecture | February 1 | 12-1:15 p.m. | 2515 Tolman Hall
Sorbian/Wendish Cultural Revival in the Age of Globalization
Lecture | February 1 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Accountability for Syria
Lecture | February 1 | 12:45-2 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, Room 110
The Future Of Cybersecurity And Trends In Technological Risk: Implications For US Foreign Policy And Politics
Lecture | February 1 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Maya Tudor | India's Changing Nationalism: Does It Matter?
Lecture | February 1 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conference Room) | Note change in date
Where Wild Beauty and Science Meet
Lecture | February 1 | 5:30-8:30 p.m. | David Brower Center
The Science of Cannabis: The Environmental Impact of Large Scale Cannabis Cultivation
Lecture | February 1 | 6-7:30 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Friday, February 2, 2018
A Conversation with Author, Amish Tripathi: On turning centuries-old mythological tales into bestselling works of fiction
Lecture | February 2 | 12-2 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Car-sharing Network Optimization Driven by High-resolution Data, Simulation and Discrete Optimization
Lecture | February 2 | 4 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Sumgayit: 30 Years After: History and Future of the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) Conflict
Lecture | February 2 | 7:30-9:30 p.m. | St. John Armenian Church
Monday, February 5, 2018
What's in a grape? Science, politics, and the race for authenticity in the West Bank wineries
Lecture | February 5 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
John E. Cort | No One Gives like the Guru
Lecture | February 5 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Connectivity as Human Right
Lecture | February 5 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Cognitive Adaptations to Harsh Environments
Lecture | February 6 | 10-11:30 a.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall
An Epidemiologic Characterization of the TMPRSS2: ERG Subtype of Prostate Cancer
Lecture | February 6 | 2:30-3:30 p.m. | 150 University Hall
GFI Talk: The Future of Protein: How Your Business Will Save the World
Lecture | February 6 | 8-9 p.m. | 20 Wheeler Hall
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Townsend Center Berkeley Book Chat: David Marno: Death Be Not Proud: The Art of Holy Attention
Lecture | February 7 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens
A Talk with Ken Ueno
Lecture | February 7 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
From Saliva to Saints: (m)oral Hygiene in the Middle Ages and the Case of Late Medieval Villamagna
Lecture | February 7 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Bowen Lectures: Lecture 1: Mathematics and Computation (through the lens of one problem and one algorithm). The problem, the algorithm and the connections.
Lecture | February 7 | 4:10-5 p.m. | Calvin Laboratory (Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing), Auditorium
Book Lecture | David Biale on Hasidism: A New History
Lecture | February 7 | 5:30-7 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
ARCH Lecture: 2017 Branner & Stump Fellows
Lecture | February 7 | 6:30-8:30 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall
Thursday, February 8, 2018
Improving prediction of intervention effects across populations
Lecture | February 8 | 2:30-3:30 p.m. | 150 University Hall
The Berkeley Seminar on Global History: Karl Jacoby on The Strange Career of William Ellis
Lecture | February 8 | 4-6 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Working Together: How the Supreme Court Divided the Labor and Civil Rights Movements
Lecture | February 8 | 4 p.m. | 2521 Channing Way (Inst. for Res. on Labor & Employment)
After the Airlifts: Battling over Vietnamese Children and the Place of Vietnamese Refugees
Lecture | February 8 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
The EU’s ad hoc Policy Towards the Middle East after the Refugee Crisis. A View From Central Europe
Lecture | February 8 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 (Townsend)
Bowen Lectures: Lecture 2: Mathematics and Computation (through the lens of one problem and one algorithm). Proving Algebraic Identities.
Lecture | February 8 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall
Buddhism and Divination in Tibet
Lecture | February 8 | 5-7 p.m. | Faculty Club, Heyns Room
A Long Civil War or a Long Reconstruction?: A Case for 1865
Lecture | February 8 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | 300 Wheeler Hall
We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
Lecture | February 8 | 5:30-7 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
SOLD OUT - The Science of Cannabis: The Genetics of Cannabis Breeds
Lecture | February 8 | 6-7:30 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Celebrate Michael Krasny’s 25 Years as host of KQED’s Forum
Lecture | February 8 | 6:30-7:30 p.m. | North Gate Hall, North Gate Hall Library
Hilton Als in Conservation with Stephen Best
Lecture | February 8 | 7:30 p.m. | Nourse Theater
Memory and the Ear: Sather Lecture #1
Lecture | February 8 | 8 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, Maud Fife Room | Note change in time and location
Friday, February 9, 2018
Austria in a Changing Europe. Diplomatic Perspectives
Lecture | February 9 | 12-1 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Leveraging Big Data to Improve Operational Performance, Reliability, and Efficiency
Lecture | February 9 | 4 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Bowen Lectures: Lecture 3: Mathematics and Computation (through the lens of one problem and one algorithm). Proving Analytic Inequalities.
Lecture | February 9 | 4:10-5 p.m. | Calvin Laboratory (Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing), Auditorium
Hesiod, the Presocratics and Hellenistic Poetry
Lecture | February 9 | 5 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, Nestrick Room (142)
Saturday, February 10, 2018
Career Clinic: Making A Successful Career Transition: Roadmap for Change
Lecture | February 10 | 9 a.m.-3 p.m. | UC Berkeley Extension (Golden Bear Center), Room 204
Sunday, February 11, 2018
AIA Joukowsky Lecture - The Late Bronze Age Eruption of Thera (Santorini)
Lecture | February 11 | 2 p.m. | 142 Dwinelle Hall
Monday, February 12, 2018
EU Climate Leadership Post Paris
Lecture | February 12 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
In Search of Modern Iran: A Lecture by Abbas Amanat
Lecture | February 12 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Matthew Hull | Satisfied Callers: Police and Corporate Customer Service in India
Lecture | February 12 | 2-4 p.m. | Kroeber Hall, 221 (Gifford Room)
New directions in obesity epidemiology: Sleep, dietary patterns, and body composition
Lecture | February 12 | 3-4 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
History Graduate Association Distinguished Alumni Lecture: Priya Satia on Empire of Guns
Lecture | February 12 | 4-6 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale And The American Tragedy In Vietnam
Lecture | February 12 | 5-6:30 p.m. | Faculty Club, Heyns Room | Note change in location
The Clock Tower at Jaffa Gate, Sheikh Suleiman Jacir, the Jerusalem Hebron Road, and other disappearances
Lecture | February 12 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
After Kathy Acker: A Conversation with Chris Kraus
Lecture | February 13 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 330 Wheeler Hall
Initial Coin Offerings: The Opportunities and Pitfalls of Funding Start-Ups With Cryptocurrencies
Lecture | February 13 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Ancient Icons/Modern Russia
Lecture | February 13 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall
Latin American Hyperfetishism and the Materialist Turn
Lecture | February 13 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Center for Latin American Studies, CLAS Conference Room
The Politics of Faith and Fear: Robert Baer at the Berkeley Forum
Lecture | February 13 | 6-7:30 p.m. | 125 Morrison Hall
Translation as Research: with Ahmad Diab, Anneka Lenssen, and Kathy Zarur
Lecture | February 13 | 6-7:30 p.m. | Dwinelle Annex, Room 126
Environmental Design Archives Gallery Talks: Margie O’Driscoll
Lecture | February 13 | 7-8 p.m. | 121 Wurster Hall
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Food and Power: Regime Type, Agricultural Policy and Political Stability
Lecture | February 14 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
A Talk with Chip Lord
Lecture | February 14 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Connecting Cultures at the Phoebe Hearst Museum: Building a 21st-Century Anthropology Museum
Lecture | February 14 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Townsend Center Berkeley Book Chat: James Turner: Eros Visible: Art, Sexuality and Antiquity in Renaissance Italy
Lecture | February 14 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens
Beyond Crisis Liberalism: How We Can Tackle Extreme Inequality
Lecture | February 14 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse
Dealing with Secrecy, Trust and Access in Nuclear Weapons Verification
Lecture | February 14 | 1-2 p.m. | Nuclear Science and Security Consortium
A Conversation About US Foreign Policy
Lecture | February 14 | 5-6:30 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room
Artist's Talk: Jay Heikes
Lecture | February 14 | 6 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Bancroft Library Roundtable: Solving Mysteries at The Bancroft Library: The Fifth (Floor) Dimension
Lecture | February 15 | 12-1 p.m. | Faculty Club, Lewis-Latimer Room
A Medieval Gospel Book from Genocide to Restitution: Toros Roslin’s Zeytun Gospels, 1915-2015
Lecture | February 15 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall
Is There A Future for International Criminal Justice?
Lecture | February 15 | 12:45-2 p.m. | 140 Boalt Hall, School of Law
Barbarians at the Gate: Socialist University, Upward Mobility, and New Intelligentsia in Postwar Poland
Lecture | February 15 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall
Measuring Subgenres: Quantitative Approaches to Paratextual Labeling and Readers’ Expectations
Lecture | February 15 | 4-6 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, 4125A (level D)
The Merit of Words and Letters: Sutra Recitation in Japanese Zen
Lecture | February 15 | 5-7 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Fatum: Destiny in Greece and Rome: Sather Lecture #2
Lecture | February 15 | 5:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall | Note change in time and location
SOLD OUT - The Science of Cannabis: The Neuroscience of Cannabis
Lecture | February 15 | 6-7:30 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Friday, February 16, 2018
Sara Ahmed Talk and Conversation
Lecture | February 16 | Location TBA
Sara Ahmed: Queer Use
Lecture | February 16 | 4-5 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall
"Race Play: Racialized Gender and Sexuality in Settler Colonial North America”
Lecture | February 16 | 4-6 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Saturday, February 17, 2018
Science at Cal Lecture: Cosmic Gold: Neutron Star Mergers, Gravitational Waves, and the Origin of the Heavy Elements
Lecture | February 17 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 131 Campbell Hall
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Climate Change, Climate Change Refugees, and Public Art
Lecture | February 20 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
From Turks to Mongols: David Ayalon’s Vision of the Eurasian Steppe in Islamic History
Lecture | February 20 | 4 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
ARCH Lecture: Kersten Geers
Lecture | February 20 | 6:30-8 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Evidences (both Archaeological and Textual) for Long-Distance Trade Networks and Weighted Cross-Cultural Interaction in the Near Eastern Bronze Age (1950-1750 BCE)
Lecture | February 21 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Decolonial and Deimperial Crossings: An Inter-Asian Feminist Genealogy
Lecture | February 21 | 12-2 p.m. | 602 Barrows Hall
Small States and Secondary Actors in the Cold War: Entanglements Between Europe and Latin America
Lecture | February 21 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
A Talk with Jacob Gaboury
Lecture | February 21 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Townsend Center Berkeley Book Chat: Peter Sahlins: 1668: The Year of the Animal in France
Lecture | February 21 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens
Why Is the Information Revolution So Scary?
Lecture | February 21 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse
Imperfect immunity: estimation and epidemiological implications
Lecture | February 21 | 3-4 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
The North Korean Quagmire and the Moon Jae-in Government: Nukes, Humanitarian Assistance, and Prospects for Inter-Korean Relations
Lecture | February 21 | 3 p.m. | Barrows Hall, 8th Floor Social Science Matrix
Looking Around, Rather Than Ahead: Design at the Periphery of Contemporary High Tech Development
Lecture | February 21 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 202 South Hall
Reconfiguration of Ceramic Production and Trade in China at the Threshold of Global Trade: An Archaeological Perspective
Lecture | February 21 | 5-7 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
The Gallery and the Archive: Contemporary Artists Work with The Magnes Collection
Lecture | February 21 | 5:30-7 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Philippe Pirotte and Niklaus Largier in Conversation
Lecture | February 21 | 6 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The City Will Never Be the Same: Lost Radical Cultures in San Francisco's Montgomery Block: A talk with journalist Hiya Swanhuyser
Lecture | February 21 | 7-9 p.m. | 2521 Channing Way (Inst. for Res. on Labor & Employment), IRLE Director's Room
Thursday, February 22, 2018
A talk by Jasmin Miller: Teaching Teaching Discretio in Advice for the Contemplative Life
Lecture | February 22 | 4-5 p.m. | 330 Wheeler Hall
A Book is Born: Greil Marcus and Steve Wasserman
Lecture | February 22 | 4 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens
Defending Liberty in the Age of Trump: Lessons from the Front: Jefferson Memorial Lecture featuring David Cole
Lecture | February 22 | 4:10 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium
The U.S. - Israel Relationship Under President Donald Trump
Lecture | February 22 | 5-7 p.m. | 105 Boalt Hall, School of Law
“Doing” Political Theology Today: Promises and Pitfalls
Lecture | February 22 | 5-7 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
"Doing" Political Theology Today: Promises and Pitfalls
Lecture | February 22 | 5-7 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
From chan to Chan: Meditation and the semiotics of visionary experience in medieval Chinese Buddhism
Lecture | February 22 | 5-7 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Geeta Anand | Reporting from India: Reflections on a Decade with the WSJ and NYT
Lecture | February 22 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
The Column Monument in Bīsāpūr - a Roman Design for Sāpūr I?
Lecture | February 22 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 254 Barrows Hall
Fas: A Law with No Gods: Sather Lecture #3
Lecture | February 22 | 5:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall | Note change in time and location
SOLD OUT - The Science of Cannabis: The Ethnobotany of Cannabis
Lecture | February 22 | 6-7:30 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
