Lectures
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Boris, Brexit and Europe: An Interpretation
Lecture | September 3 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
What López Obrador’s ‘Fourth Transformation’ Means for Mexico
Lecture | September 3 | 5-6:45 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, 315, Maude Fife room
Dr. Stephanie Rotem lecture on Souvenirs from Utopia: Souvenirs from Utopia: The Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem (1906-1932)
Lecture | September 3 | 5-7 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
ARF Organizational Meeting: Kick-off meeting for 2019-2020 brown bag series
Lecture | September 4 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Zero Sum Politics? Austrian Government and Challenges to the Kelsenian Vision of Democracy
Lecture | September 4 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Fung Institute presents: Engineering Leadership Speaking Series
Lecture | September 4 – November 20, 2019 every Wednesday with exceptions | 4-5:30 p.m. | 310 Sutardja Dai Hall
Poetic Thinking, or Why Germany's Best Writers Today are Poets
Lecture | September 4 | 5-7 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Purity and Pollution: Cannabis as Matter Out of Place
Lecture | September 4 | 6-7:30 p.m. | Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Thursday, September 5, 2019
Sara Dean: Environmental Exploits
Lecture | September 5 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Artist Talk - Rina Banerjee
Lecture | September 5 | 4-6 p.m. | 10 Stephens Hall
Astronomy Night at UC Berkeley
Lecture | September 5 | 7-10 p.m. | 131 Campbell Hall
Saturday, September 7, 2019
Career Clinic: Finding a New Career Direction: Steps to Finding Work You Love
Lecture | September 7 | 9 a.m.-3 p.m. | UC Berkeley Extension (Golden Bear Center), Room 204
Monday, September 9, 2019
Bing Concert Hall (at Stanford): SEMM Seminar
Lecture | September 9 | 12-1 p.m. | 502 Davis Hall
The Sincere Voice, or How Sincerity is Written and Read in Russian (and not only Russian) Poetry
Lecture | September 9 | 4-6 p.m. | B-4 Dwinelle Hall
Complicating the Countryside: Reflections on Land, Labor and the Law
Lecture | September 9 | 4:30-6 p.m. | International House, Sproul Rooms
Robots Are Creatures, Not Things with Madeline Gannon
Lecture | September 9 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
From Bonfire to Firewire: Innovative Online Modules on Philippine Folklore
Lecture | September 10 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Omar Khan | Paper Jewels: Postcards from the Raj
Lecture | September 10 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room) | Note change in date
Reports from the Field - Summer 2019
Lecture | September 10 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Public Lecture by Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt: "Scaling up: is there a national vision for groundwater recharge?”
Lecture | September 10 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | Bancroft Hotel, Great Hall
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Visualizing the Complexity of Past and Future Shoreline and Near-Shore Environments over Time: Examples from Australia, Vietnam, and California
Lecture | September 11 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Fung Institute presents: Engineering Leadership Speaking Series
Lecture | September 4 – November 20, 2019 every Wednesday with exceptions | 4-5:30 p.m. | 310 Sutardja Dai Hall
Why Cannabis? Why CBD? Why Now?
Lecture | September 11 | 6-7:30 p.m. | Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Faculty Conversations on Design for Democracy
Lecture | September 12 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
US, UK, EU: Brexit, Trump, Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Relations
Lecture | September 12 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Alinka Gearon: Voices of trafficked youth: critique of child trafficking policy and practice
Lecture | September 12 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. | Haviland Hall, Haviland Commons
Politics and Poetry: a Reading and Conversation with Robert Hass
Lecture | September 12 | 4:30-6 p.m. | Faculty Club
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd | Caste in the Age of Modi
Lecture | September 12 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Playing the Part: Masks and the Performance of Identity in Iron Age Cyprus
Lecture | September 12 | 5-7 p.m. | Graduate Theological Union, Center for the Arts & Religion, Doug Adams Gallery
Dark Humanisms | Surplus Visuality with Rizvana Bradley Lecture
Lecture | September 12 | 5-7 p.m. | Doe Library, Room 308A/Art History Slide Library
Friday, September 13, 2019
The State of Europe: A Conversation with Former European Commission President José Manuel Barroso
Lecture | September 13 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium, Room 310
Saturday, September 14, 2019
Princes of Plants, Trees of Life: How People Use Palms
Lecture | September 14 | 10-11:30 a.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Monday, September 16, 2019
Bank: with California State Treasurer Fiona Ma
Lecture | September 16 | 5:30-7 p.m. | Alumni House
Astrobiologist and Astronomer Jill Tarter at the Berkeley Forum: Technosignatures: What Are They, And How Might We Find them?
Lecture | September 16 | 6-7 p.m. | 125 Morrison Hall
Excavations of Recent History
Lecture | September 16 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The Power of Emotions. Germany 19 | 19: Exhibition and Talk with Ute Frevert
Lecture | September 16 | 6:30-7:30 p.m. | Goethe-Institut San Francisco, Auditorium
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
The River Grew Tired of Us: New Flows along the Mekong River
Lecture | September 17 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Jisha Menon | Aesthetics of Waste: Consumer Desire and its Detritus in India
Lecture | September 17 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Minner Distinguished Lecture: Can We Recover From an Attack on our Election?
Lecture | September 18 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium, 3rd floor
Art/archaeology: a space beyond explanation - the Ineligible Project
Lecture | September 18 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Music: The Universal Language?
Lecture | September 18 | 3-5 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, B-4 (Classroom side)
Fung Institute presents: Engineering Leadership Speaking Series
Lecture | September 4 – November 20, 2019 every Wednesday with exceptions | 4-5:30 p.m. | 310 Sutardja Dai Hall
Cannabis Neurobiology: More Complex than Black-Hole Astrophysics
Lecture | September 18 | 6-7:30 p.m. | Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Christine Gaspar: Designing with People: The Work of the Center for Urban Pedagogy
Lecture | September 19 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
View from the Top: Tom Siebel: Digital Transformation: Survive and Thrive in an Era of Mass Extinction
Lecture | September 19 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium, 3rd floor
Bancroft Library Roundtable: The Makings of a Mutiny: Ghadri Poetry and Interrogations of Subjugated Knowledges in History
Lecture | September 19 | 12-1 p.m. | Faculty Club, Lewis-Latimer Room
Jonathan Biss
Lecture | September 19 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 125 Morrison Hall
An Archeology of Hate. Writing the “Wars of Subjectivity” in Latin America.
Lecture | September 19 | 5-6 p.m. | 126 Dwinelle Annex
A Conversation with California's First Surgeon General Nadine Burke Harris
Lecture | September 19 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | Berkeley Way West, First Floor Colloquia
Cartoonist and Author of American Born Chinese Gene Luen Yang at the Berkeley Forum
Lecture | September 19 | 6-7 p.m. | C230 Cheit Hall
Gyges’ Choice: Rationality and Visibility
Lecture | September 19 | 7 p.m. | 315 Wheeler Hall
Saturday, September 21, 2019
Science Lecture - Our changing atmosphere: Evidence that demand a Verdict?
Lecture | September 21 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building
Mozart Listening Party: In Conjunction with Mark Morris Dance Group's "Mozart Dances"
Lecture | September 21 | 5-6:15 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
Sunday, September 22, 2019
Jonathan Biss: Pre-performance talk
Lecture | September 22 | 2-2:30 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
Monday, September 23, 2019
Toward a Simulation-Based Qualification Paradigm for Metal Additive Manufacturing: Support Design for Residual Stress and Process-Grain Structure Modeling: SEMM Seminar
Lecture | September 23 | 12-1 p.m. | 502 Davis Hall
BIDS Forum: Statistics and Machine Learning Forum
Lecture | September 23 | 1:30-2:30 p.m. | 190 Doe Library
Experiencing Community: Residential Life Under the lnka Empire in Huarochirí (Lima, Peru): Anthropology 290 Series
Lecture | September 23 | 2-4 p.m. | Kroeber Hall, 221 (Gifford Room)
Towards an Artificial Intuition: Conversational Markers of (Anti)Social Dynamics
Lecture | September 23 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 202 South Hall
Designing a Future with ML + UX
Lecture | September 23 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 210 South Hall
Mongolia's Monastery Massacres: "The Green-Eyed Lama"
Lecture | September 23 | 5 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
The Copper in My Cooch and Other Technologies
Lecture | September 23 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Rebecca Whittington | Tug-of-Ear: The Play of Dialect in Modern Bengali and Tamil Literature
Lecture | September 24 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Engineering a Refreshing Solution: Hydro Flask Co-Founder Travis Rosbach at the Berkeley Forum
Lecture | September 24 | 6-7 p.m. | N270 Chou Hall
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Floods, droughts, and salmon-supporting vs cyanobacterial food webs in California North Coast rivers
Lecture | September 25 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
The Kiutu incantation-prayers: Or a literary genre inspired by a single composition
Lecture | September 25 | 12-1 p.m. | 254 Barrows Hall
Townsend Book Chat with Michael Lucey: Someone: The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities, from Colette to Hervé Guibert
Lecture | September 25 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens
Heather Boushey | Unbound: How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do about It: IRLE Speaker Series
Lecture | September 25 | 4-6 p.m. | 2521 Channing Way (Inst. for Res. on Labor & Employment)
Rivera and the Detroit Murals: A Personal Journey
Lecture | September 25 | 4-5 p.m. | 2334 Bowditch (Center for Latin American Studies) | Canceled
Fung Institute presents: Engineering Leadership Speaking Series
Lecture | September 4 – November 20, 2019 every Wednesday with exceptions | 4-5:30 p.m. | 310 Sutardja Dai Hall
Research Transparency and Reproducibility in Economics and Beyond: UC Berkeley Economics Departmental Seminar
Lecture | September 25 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
Evolving Economies of Cannabis
Lecture | September 25 | 6-7:30 p.m. | Hearst Museum of Anthropology
The Distinguished Lecture in Astronomy: From Spinning Black Holes to Exploding Stars: New Views on the Energetic Universe
Lecture | September 25 | 6:30-7:45 p.m. | 105 Stanley Hall
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Melodie Yashar: Human Factors within Autonomous Buildings: Design for Earth, the Moon, and Mars
Lecture | September 26 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
Lecture | September 26 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 132 Mulford Hall
The Patrick Finelli Keynote Speaker Series presents Joseph Roach | The Temptations of Goodness: Brecht’s Enlightenment
Lecture | September 26 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, Maude Fife Room, Room 315
Childhood Immunizations: Balancing Public Health and Civil Liberties
Lecture | September 26 | 5-7 p.m. | Berkeley Way West, First Floor Colloquia
Glaucon’s Dilemma: Origins of Social Order
Lecture | September 26 | 5:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Friday, September 27, 2019
View from the Top: Chandrika Tandon: Breaking Boundaries
Lecture | September 27 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium, 3rd floor
Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian, and Ottoman Worlds
Lecture | September 27 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall
Epistemology of the Crosshatch: Towards a Creative History of the Early Modern Hand: Seth Lerer
Lecture | September 27 | 12 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Jupyter Berkeley Seminar: Using Jupyter at scale within an enterprise: 10,000 users, 10,000 notebooks
Lecture | September 27 | 1-2 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Monday, September 30, 2019
Ruchira Gupta | The Last Girl and Sex Trafficking: New Vulnerabilities in the New World Order
Lecture | September 30 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
What is Strange?
Lecture | September 30 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
