Lectures
Friday, March 1, 2019
AHMA Colloquium - Colonial Encounters: Preliminary Findings from the Abydos Temple Paper Archive
Lecture | March 1 | 12-1:15 p.m. | 308A Doe Library
Jessica Kaiser, UC Berkeley
Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, Graduate Group in
This paper is part of a larger lecture series entitled "Digital Humanities and the Ancient World." The series is co-sponsored by the Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology (AHMA) Colloquium and the Townsend Center for the Humanities.
Applying Downscaled Climate Models to Inform Restoration and Climate Change Adaptation in California: Environmental Engineering Seminar
Lecture | March 1 | 12-1 p.m. | 534 Davis Hall
James Gregory, Fluvial Engineer, Environmental Science Associates; Dr. Dane Behrens, Coastal Engineer and Hydrologist, Environmental Science Associates
Sovereign Bodies: Fighting Gender and Sexual Violence Against Indigenous People
Lecture | March 1 | 12:50-2 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, Goldberg Room, 297 Simon Hall
Annita Lucchesi, Sovereign Bodies Institute
Human Rights Center, Native American Student Development
Sovereign Bodies Institute (SBI), founded in 2019, builds on indigenous traditions using research and data sharing to fight gender and sexual violence against undigenous people. Their projects include the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) database, Uniting Against Femicide and Supporting Indigenous Survivors of Campus Sexual Violence (conducted in part at UC Berkeley).
Lunch will be... More >
The Multiliteracies Framework and Interpretive Communication: Curricular and Instructional Perspectives
Lecture | March 1 | 3-5 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, B-4 (Classroom side)
Kate Paesani, Director, Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition
Berkeley Language Center
Over the past two decades, postsecondary foreign language programs have experienced a shift away from an emphasis on oral communication toward more text-based curricula and the development of students’ multiple literacies. This “literacy turn” prioritizes overlapping language modalities, interpretation and creation of multimodal texts of various genres, and linguistic, cognitive, and... More >
Saturday, March 2, 2019
Career Clinic: Making a Successful Career Transition: Roadmap for Change
Lecture | March 2 | 9 a.m.-3 p.m. | UC Berkeley Extension (SF Campus at 160 Spear St.), Room 613
Rebecca Andersen, Career Services at the UC Berkeley Information School; RuthAnn Haffke, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Making a career transition can be bewildering: how do you find jobs? How can you stand out as a candidate? And, if you finally get an interview, how do you showcase yourself as the best candidate? This workshop will walk participants through each step of making a career transition. Through interactive exercises, we will cover strategies in personal branding, networking, résumé and LinkedIn... More >
$50
Sunday, March 3, 2019
SOLD OUT - Psychedelic Plants: Introduction to the biology and ritual ethnobotany of Peyote, Tobacco, and Ayahuasca
Lecture | March 3 | 10 a.m.-1 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Psychedelic plant rituals are part of humanity’s ancient relationship to nature. Other psychoactive plant species, such as tobacco, are partner to those rituals. Each of these can carry potential wisdom, healing, yet also shadows, depending on human factors. Learn about the botany, chemistry, and indigenous ceremonial histories of these few species, which all evolved in the Americas.
$45 / $40 UCBG Members
SOLD OUT.
Monday, March 4, 2019
The Securitization of Migration and Racial Sorting in Fortress Europe
Lecture | March 4 | 12 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Maartje van der Woude, Leiden Law School (Netherlands)
Institute of European Studies, Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, GHI West - Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington DC
These past two decades the European Union has been hit by two so-called "crises": the financial or "Euro" crisis of 2008 and the 2015-2016 migration crisis. Whereas both crises have fed into euro-sceptic sentiments, it is safe to say that the response to the financial crisis at least seemed to be somewhat coordinated and uniform with EU member states coming together to reinforce the monetary... More >
Better Together? The Tale of Tolstoevsky
Lecture | March 4 | 4-6 p.m. | B-4 Dwinelle Hall
Julie Buckler, Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Slavic Graduate Colloquium Spring 2019 Series
The Rise of Illiberal Governance: Comparing Viktor Orban and Donald Trump: A Lecture by John Shattuck
Lecture | March 4 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 820 Barrows Hall
John Shattuck, Professor of Practice in Diplomacy, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Join us Monday, March 4th at 4:00pm for the Spring 2019 Social Science Matrix Distinguished Lecture, "The Rise of Illiberal Governance: Comparing Viktor Orban and Donald Trump," by John Shattuck, Professor of Practice, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.
John Shattuck
Captivated by the Mediterranean: Early Modern Spain and the Political Economy of Ransom
Lecture | March 4 | 4-6 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220
Daniel Hershenzon, Associate Professor of Literature, Cultures, and Languages, University of Connecticut
Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, Department of History
This talk explores the entangled experience of Muslim and Christian captives and by extension the connected histories of the Spanish Empire, Morocco, and Ottoman Algiers in the 17th-century. It argues that piracy, captivity, and redemption shaped the Mediterranean as an integrated region—at the social, political, and economic levels. The history that emerges of the captivities of Christians and... More >
Design Field Notes: Jacob Gaboury
Lecture | March 4 | 4-5 p.m. | 220 Jacobs Hall
Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
Jacob Gaboury is an Assistant Professor of Film & Media at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in the seventy year history of digital image technologies and their impact on society's contemporary visual culture. His forthcoming book is titled Image Objects (MIT Press), and it traces a material history of early computer graphics told through a set of five objects that structure... More >
History on the Run: Hmong Refugees and Knowledge Formation
Lecture | March 4 | 4:30-6 p.m. | 554 Barrows Hall
Ma Vang, Assistant Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, UC Merced
Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Department of Ethnic Studies
Taking a feminist refugee approach and by analyzing Hmong women’s narratives against U.S. redacted archival records that erase Hmong and Laos history during the U.S. “secret war,”, this talk explores the politics of knowledge formation which has generated a historiography about the Hmong refugee as a masculinized refugee soldier and a distinct U.S. ally.
Ma Vang
LAEP Lecture Series: Diane Jones Allen
Lecture | March 4 | 6-7 p.m. | 121 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
Mon, March 4, 6pm - Diane Jones Allen has years of practice focusing on land planning, and varied scales of open space design, including community development work.
A Conversation with Nnedi Okorafor
Lecture | March 4 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Osher Theater
Nnedi Okorafor, Author
Berkeley Center for New Media, Department of Architecture's Studio One, Department of African American Studies, Department of English
Presented by Berkeley Center for New Media and co-sponsored with the Department of Architecture's Studio One, the Department of African American Studies, and the Department of English.
"Nature is the greatest artist and scientist. If we human beings, with our rather brilliant, often flawed, sometimes evil, creativity joined forces with our creator (nature), as opposed to trying to control it... More >
chico
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
The #METOO Movement and Women's Protest in Spain
Lecture | March 5 | 12:50-2 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, Room 130
Eva Anduiza, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)
Institute of European Studies, Law, Boalt School of
In March 2018 thousands of women took the streets in Spain to protest against gender inequality, discrimination and sexual Violence following the social media campaigns #metoo, #yotambién and #cuéntalo.
The presentation explores the causes and consequence of the participation in these events using panel survey data.
What is the effect of sociodemographic characteristics, motivations and... More >
Eva Anduiza
2019 Citrin Center Award Lecture
Lecture | March 5 | 4 p.m. | Barrows Hall, 8th floor Social Science Matrix Conference Room
Peter D. Hart, Founder, Hart Research Associates
Department of Political Science, Social Science Matrix, Citrin Center for Public Opinion
The 2020 Election: The challenges and changes facing political polling
Displaying International Communism: The Exhibition of Socialist Countries (Moscow, 1958)
Lecture | March 5 | 5:15-6:45 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Matteo Bertelé, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the University of California Santa Barbara, Universität Hamburg and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Ca’ Foscari University
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES)
The Exhibition of Socialist Countries, held in the Moscow Manege in 1958, was the first large exhibition ever organized in the socialist hemisphere, with more than two thousand artworks from twelve East-European and Asian countries. Conceived as a socialist response to the Venice Biennale - branded as the main international showcase for “decadent and bourgeois art from capitalist nations” - the... More >
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
The Future of European Research via the lenses of the Horizon EU research and innovation programme 2021-2027
Lecture | March 6 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Jekaterina Novikova, EU Fellow at the IES
Institute of European Studies, European Union Center
Jekaterina Novikova, EU fellow at the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley and Innovation Policy Coordinator at the European Commission, will speak about Horizon EU, a European research and innovation programme. This talk will highlight the process of the preparation of the programme based on the lessons learned from the previous programs, its building blocks, key novelties, and... More >
Jekaterina Novikova
The Weimar Joint Sanatorium: Institutional landscapes, identification, and disease
Lecture | March 6 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Alyssa Scott, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Archaeological Research Facility
This presentation will discuss the intersection between healthcare systems and racialized and gendered landscapes in California by tracking the design and transformation of the institutional landscape of tuberculosis sanitoria using archaeological survey, ground penetrating radar (GPR), magnetometer survey, historical research, and oral histories.
#MeToo Hong Kong
Lecture | March 6 | 12-2 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Gina Marchetti, Director of the Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures, University of Hong Kong
Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Media Studies
As the Harvey Weinstein allegations opened up the depth and breadth of sexual harassment in Hollywood, Weinstein’s associates in Hong Kong and the People’s Republic of China came under scrutiny as well. Hong Kong serves as a bridge as well as a gateway between mainland Chinese and Hollywood concerns as well as the nexus for a constellation of industrial networks... More >
Townsend Center's Berkeley Book Chat with Joyce Carol Oates: Hazards of Time Travel
Lecture | March 6 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Townsend Center for the Humanities
Oates’s latest novel is the dystopian story of a young woman living in a bleak future dictatorship, who is punished for her transgressions by being sent back in time.
The Uighur Crisis in China: One Million and Counting
Lecture | March 6 | 12:50-2 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, 110 Boalt Hall
Rushan Abbas, Managing Director, Campaign for Uighurs; Darren Byler, Ph.D, University of Washington
Peter Jan Honigsberg, University of San Francisco Law
More than one million people, mostly Uighur Muslims, are in
indefinite detention in a secretive network of prisons in
Northwest China. “Xinjiang has become an open-air prison-a
place where Orwellian high-tech surveillance, political
indoctrination, forced cultural assimilation, arbitrary arrests and
disappearances have turned ethnic minorities into strangers in
their own land.” —Kumi... More >
RSVP online by March 6.
Reduce, reuse, recycle your vision: the basis of rich and stable perceptual experience
Lecture | March 6 | 3:15 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room
David Whitney, Professor, UC Berkeley, Department of Psychology
The visual world is cluttered, discontinuous, and noisy, but our perceptual experience is not—scenes appear rich, seamless, and stable. This seeming contradiction has posed a challenge for theories of perception for decades. In this talk, I will discuss two complementary processes that reconcile the contradiction: First, a mechanism that generates rich visual impressions by efficiently... More >
Chester W. Nimitz Memorial Lecture: The Voyage of Character
Lecture | March 6 | 4-5:30 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium
Admiral James Stavridis, Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe
Military Sciences Program (ROTC)
The Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Memorial Lectureship was established in 1983 to enhance the spirit of collegiality and sense of community to the University through the multi-disciplinary subject matter of national security affairs. Each year a speaker is nominated by the midshipmen and cadets of the Military Affairs Department. The lectureship provides a better and fuller understanding and... More >
Disraeli, Arendt, and the Fascist Novel
Lecture | March 6 | 4 p.m. | 306 Wheeler Hall
Rachel Teukolsky, Associate Professor, Vanderbilt English
Department of English, Townsend British Studies working group, C19 Colloquium
The Townsend British Studies working group and the C19 colloquium are happy to announce a visit from Rachel Teukolsky (Vanderbilt), who will be workshopping her paper "Disraeli, Arendt, and the Fascist Novel" (abstract below!).
If you would like to participate in the workshop--which will take place at 4pm on 3/6 in Wheeler 306--please email eceisenberg@berkeley.edu or vvm@berkeley.edu for a... More >
Harnessing AI for Global Economic Development
Lecture | March 6 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 202 South Hall
Victoria Coleman
Recent advances in deep learning and satellite imagery make it possible to remotely monitor economic and agricultural trends across the developing world, at high resolution. These advances are now being translated from research labs into the real world.
This seminar will discuss the technology and vision behind Atlas AI, a Bay Area start-up that spun out of Stanford University in 2018.... More >
AIA Lecture - The Sixth Sense: Multisensory Encounters with the Dead in Roman Egypt
Lecture | March 6 | 7 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Lissette Jimenez, Lecturer of Museum Studies, San Francisco State University
San Francisco Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
Image and representation have always played a central role in the commemoration of the dead in ancient Egypt. Ritual funerary practices were often multi-sensory experiences comprised of an intricate combination of visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, and olfactory senses. A proper ancient Egyptian funerary ensemble, coupled with the burial landscape, facilitated active tactile encounters between... More >
Thursday, March 7, 2019
Why Read Descartes's Meditations: Why Read...Series
Lecture | March 7 | 12-2 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Jonathan Sheehan, U.C. Berkeley; Kristin Primus, U.C. Berkeley; John Carriero, UCLA; Janet Broughton, U.C. Berkeley
The Language of Love in the Petitions of Armenians from the Ottoman Province of Van and in the Print Media, 1820s-1870s
Lecture | March 7 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall
Dzovinar Dederian, PhD Candidate, Department of Middle East Studies, University of Michigan
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Armenian Studies Program
This talk will focus on the language of love in petitions and print media of the nineteenth century to situate nation and patria in a grid of emotions that permeated the lives of Ottoman Armenians. The lecture seeks to answer how Van Armenians engaged in the contestation and transformation of the boundaries and socio-political dynamics of nation and patria between the 1820s and 1870s. By... More >
Curating Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction with Lucinda Barnes
Lecture | March 7 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Osher Theater
Lucinda Barnes
Lucinda Barnes serves as Curator Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, after many years as Chief Curator and Director of Programs and Collections. At BAMPFA Barnes has curated and co-curated over forty exhibitions, including Measure of Time (2006), Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet (2009), Indeterminate Stillness: Looking at... More >
European Economic Integration and Populism: Foes or Allies?
Lecture | March 7 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Dariusz Adamski, University of Wrocław
Institute of European Studies, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES)
Could it be that one of the most extraordinary experiments in international reconciliation and community-building in the history of mankind – European integration after World War II – has contributed to what European Commission President Juncker once dubbed “galloping populism”? Seeking an answer to this question, Dariusz Adamski will dissect the nature of the major economic policies of the... More >
Dariusz Adamski
The Uses and Abuses of Incarceration: Dehumanization, Slavery, and Profit: Spring 2019 Kadish Lecture
Lecture | March 7 | 4-6 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, Moot Court, room 140
Professor Tommie Shelby, Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies & Philosophy, Harvard University Department of African and African American Studies & Department of Philosophy
Professor Loic Wacquant, Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley, Sociology; Professor Osagie Obasogie, Professor of Bioethics, Diversity and Health Disparities - Haas Distinguished Chair, UC Berkeley Haas Institute For A Fair and Inclusive Society
Kadish Center for Morality, Law, & Public Affairs
Professor Tommie Shelby of Harvard will deliver the Kadish Lecture, "The Uses and Abuses of Incarceration: Dehumanization, Slavery, and Profit" with commentary from Professor Loic Wacquant, UC Berkeley Sociology, and Osagie K. Obasogie Professor of Bioethics and Diversity and Health Disparities--Haas Distinguished Chair.
Tommie Shelby is the Caldwell Titcomb Professor in the Department of... More >
Language Change and Narrative Form from Ó Cadhain to Ferrante
Lecture | March 7 | 5 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, 315 - Maude Fife Room
Barry McCrea, University of Notre Dame
Institute of European Studies, Irish Studies Program
This talk looks at the difficulties faced by minor languages in founding traditions of the realist novel, and explores what these difficulties can tell us about the nature of the genre itself.
Speaker: Barry McCrea is a novelist and scholar of modern European, Latin American, and Irish literature. He most recent book is Languages of the Night: Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in... More >
Barry McCrea (University of Notre Dame)
TDPS Speaker Series | Pina Bausch's Aggressive Tenderness
Lecture | March 7 | 5-6 p.m. | 44B Dwinelle Hall | Note change in time
Telory D. Arendell, Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance, Missouri State University
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
In this talk, Telory Arendell argues that Pina Bausch takes what other practitioners have written as praxis (theory/practice) and reverses it: she makes the theory practical. Bausch disables gender and explores the breaking point between tenderness and violence in human interactions. Arendell believes that experimental theater should include at least a nod to Bausch’s oeuvre as a... More >
Telory Arendell
Balancing Between the Institutional and Alternative: Strategies for Collectively Performing Cinema across the Geographic and Ideological Borders of the Cold War
Lecture | March 7 | 5-6 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Megan Hoetger, UC Berkeley Performance Studies
Institute of International Studies, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Institute of European Studies
At a time when non-, anti-, and counter-cinema practices faced heavy state censorship with little in the way of art institutional or film industrial support, filmmakers and artists forged new ways of circulating their work at local levels, as well as across national borders. Looking to the Viennese context as a case study, this talk examines the entangled development of two forms of artist... More >
Critical Public Theology: How to Use and Not to Use the Bible in Contemporary Public Issues
Lecture | March 7 | 5-7 p.m. | 820 Barrows Hall | Note change in location
Konrad Schmid, Professor of Old Testament Science and Early Jewish Religious History, University of Zürich
Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion
The Bible sometimes plays a major role in current, political discourses, especially in the United States. As a project, public theology supports efforts to let the Bible speak to contemporary, public concerns. But using the Bible in this way involves many potential traps. How can a 2000 year old book provide guidance for social and political challenges? Should it do so at all? This lecture argues... More >
Science and the Mortuary Landscape: Sather Lecture Series: A Bronze Age Greek State in Formation
Lecture | March 7 | 5:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Jack L. Davis, Blegen Professor of Greek Archaeology, University of Cincinnati
Internationally recognized scholar of Bronze Age Greece offers a series of lectures showing how the archaeological record sheds light on culture and communal life of early Greece.
Friday, March 8, 2019
Atif Mian, Asim Khawaja, Maroof Syed, and Saad Gulzar | On "Evidence-based Economic Policy" in Pakistan
Lecture | March 8 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Atif Mian, Professor, Economics, Public Policy and Finance (Princeton University) and Co-Founder & Board Member, Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP); Asim I. Khwaja, Professor, International Finance and Development (Harvard University) and Co-Founder & Board Member, Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP); Maroof A. Syed, President & CEO, Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP) and Director of Pakistan Strategy & Development, Evidence for Policy Design (EPOD-Harvard); Saad Gulzar, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
Munis Faruqui, Chair, Institute for South Asia Studies, Associate Professor of South and Southeast Asian Studies
Institute for South Asia Studies, The Berkeley Pakistan Initiative, The Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP), Center on the Politics of Development, Master of Development Practice, Clausen Center for International Business & Policy, Center for Effective Global Action, Department of Economics
A presentation on “evidence based economic policy” in Pakistan, a new initiative led by Princeton economist, Prof. Atif Mian, Harvard economist, Prof. Asim Khawaja, Mr. Maroof Syed, CEO of Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP), and Saad Gulzar, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University.
Jenni Monet | “The State of Indigenous Journalism”
Lecture | March 8 | 12-1 p.m. | North Gate Hall, Logan Multimedia Center (Room 142)
Jenni Monet is an award-winning journalist who writes about Indigenous rights and injustice for such publications as The LA Times, The Guardian, the Center for Investigative Reporting and others. Jenni received top honors for her coverage of the Dakota Access Pipeline battle in which she chronicled the movement for six consecutive months, resulting in her arrest and ultimately her acquittal.... More >
Carbon capture and redirection for enhanced wastewater treatment: Environmental Engineering Seminar
Lecture | March 8 | 12-1 p.m. | 534 Davis Hall
Dr. Maureen Njoki Kinyua, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Davis
Using Learner-Generated Work as Source Materials for a Language Revitalization Course
Lecture | March 8 | 12-1 p.m. | B-4 Dwinelle Hall
Julia Nee, PhD Candidate, Linguistics
Over the past two years, Julia Nee has been working on language revitalization initiatives with speakers and learners of Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec (TdVZ), an indigenous language spoken by approximately 3,500 people in Oaxaca, Mexico. One of her projects focuses on the development and implementation of several two-week intensive language camps for children ages 5-12.
Saturday, March 9, 2019
SOLD OUT: Colorful Pigments, Colorful Dyes: The Chemistry of Color with Dr. Margareta Séquin
Lecture | March 9 | 10 a.m.-12 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
This talk, which includes a walk, is a wonderful introduction to the chemistry of color and to the special structures of colorful plant substances, including those that can be used as dyes on fibers. Learn about anthocyanins, tannins, flavonoids, and more!
$20 / $15 UCBG Member
SOLD OUT - email gardenprograms@berkeley.edu to be added to the waitlist.
Monday, March 11, 2019
Design Field Notes: Caricia Catalani
Lecture | March 11 | 4-5 p.m. | 220 Jacobs Hall
Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
Dr. Caricia Catalani is a Director of Design for Health and Design Research at IDEO Palo Alto. Caricia’s passion for design and research science drives impactful ways to improve health and human rights around the world.
At IDEO, Caricia combines human-centered design and qualitative and quantitative research methods to build high-impact innovations in health. Caricia’s work at IDEO is focused... More >
Leading with Creative Confidence: Tom Kelley of IDEO in Conversation with Rich Lyons
Lecture | March 11 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Osher Theater
Tom Kelley; Rich Lyons
Arts + Design, Haas School of Business, Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
Tom Kelley is a Partner at IDEO, and Chairman of the Tokyo-based venture capital firm D4V (Design for Ventures). He is also the author of three successful books including The Art of Innovation and the New York Times bestseller Creative Confidence, which he wrote with his brother, IDEO founder David Kelley. As a leading speaker, Tom has addressed business audiences in more than thirty countries on... More >
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
New Approaches to the Prague Spring
Lecture | March 12 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Timothy Scott Brown, Northeastern University, Boston
Institute of European Studies, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES)
The Prague Spring, a movement of reform Communism instituted in Czechoslovakia under Alexander Dubcek in early 1968 and crushed by Soviet force of arms in August of the same year, has been interpreted overwhelmingly according to a liberal narrative ending in the “Velvet Revolution” of 1989. To be sure, the relevance of the experiment in “Socialism with a Human Face” for the Europe-wide uprisings... More >
Timothy Scott Brown
PLANTS + PEOPLE Lunchtime Lectures : Among the Marshes: The Tebtunis Papyri at The Bancroft Library
Lecture | March 12 | 12-1 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
The ancient Egyptian site of Tebtunis lies at the southern edge of the Fayum depression, a fertile region in the western desert fed by a branch of the Nile. Today, as in antiquity, this area was exploited for its rich agricultural production, which led to the establishment of new settlements by the Ptolemaic kings around the 4th century BCE. In her talk, Emily Cole will provide a glimpse into... More >
Free for Members or with Garden Admission; Free for UC Berkeley Students, Staff and Faculty
View from the Top: Gary Dickerson: Navigating the Perfect Storm: A New Semiconductor Playbook for the AI Era
Lecture | March 12 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium, 3rd floor
Gary Dickerson, President and CEO, Applied Materials
The pace of change is accelerating with technology promising an ever-brighter future. Artificial intelligence and big data will touch many areas of our lives, transforming industries and the global economy. To unlock the full potential of AI and Big Data, we need a new industry playbook for semiconductor design and manufacturing.
Emma Chubb | “Measured and Discrete: Artist-Architect Collaborations in Morocco"
Lecture | March 12 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Emma Chubb, Smith College
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
During the period of repression and emigration known as the Years of Lead, the Faraoui and de Mazières architecture firm in Rabat commissioned site-specific artworks for building projects across Morocco. Called “integrations” by the architects and praised by the art critic Toni Maraini as “measured and discrete,” the commissions included works by Farid Belkahia, Mohammed Chebaa, and Mohammed... More >
Chern Lectures: The (in)compatibility of 3 and 5 dimensional Heisenberg geometry with Lebesgue spaces
Lecture | March 12 | 4:10-5 p.m. | Simons Institute, Auditorium,
Assaf Naor, Princeton University
We will discuss the longstanding bi-Lipschitz embedding problem in $\mathbb R^k$, and how over the years it became intertwined with the embeddability properties of the Heisenberg groups into $L_p(\mu )$ spaces. We will explain a recent completion of this project, which exhibits unexpected twists, decisive applications to longstanding open questions in algorithms and metric geometry, and... More >
Mosse Lecture: Ulrike Ottinger
Lecture | March 12 | 6:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Filmmaker in residence Ulrike Ottinger presents an illustrated lecture discussing her approach to the visual design of her films, as well as her research methods for a nonfiction film project like Chamisso’s Shadow.
Life and Career of Aaron Green
Lecture | March 12 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Wurster Hall, Wurster Gallery, Room 121
Allan Wright Green; Jan Novie
Join us for our third Gallery Talk this academic year with Allan Wright Green and Jan Novie!
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Wurster Gallery, Room 121
6:30 to 7pm- Light Refreshments
7 to 8pm - Lecture
Free to UC Berkeley Students, Staff, Faculty, and Friends of the EDA
Suggested $10 donation for those outside UC Berkeley
Daily Life in the Abyss: Genocide Diaries, 1915-1918
Lecture | March 12 | 7-8:30 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Vahe Tachjian, Chief Editor of the Berlin-based Houshamdyan website, Houshamdyan
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Armenian Studies Program
In 1915, two Armenian families (the Bogharians and the Tavukjians) were deported from Ayntab (in the Ottoman Empire), together with many other Armenian inhabitants of the town. They were forcibly resettled, first in Hama and then in the nearby town of Salamiyya (today in Syria). Two diaries written by members of these families have come down to us: one by Father Nerses Tavukjian, the other by... More >
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
A Field of Autocratic Temptation: European Soccer and its Actors
Lecture | March 13 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Timm Beichelt, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)
While soccer officials often insist that sports and politics belong to different spheres, the opposite seems to be true. With frames like “success”, “unlimited competition”, and “team loyalty”, soccer heavily influences the pre-political sphere in European states. In the field of soccer, basic dispositions with regard to the legitimacy of an economized life and the definition of local or... More >
Timm Beichelt
Continuity and Change in Landscape Use: Examples from Iwate, Northern Japan
Lecture | March 13 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Junko Habu, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Townsend Center's Berkeley Book Chat with Anthony Long: How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life
Lecture | March 13 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Townsend Center for the Humanities
Born a slave, the ancient Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus taught that mental freedom is supreme, since it can liberate one anywhere, even in a prison. Long presents a new edition of Epictetus’s famed handbook on Stoicism.
CANCELLED: Mehnaz Afridi "The Role of Muslims in the Holocaust"
Lecture | March 13 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Dr. Mehnaz Afridi, Manhattan College
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Unfortunately, this event has been canceled due to unforeseen circumstances.
Self-fulfilling Prophecies in Schooling: Wherein Lies their Power
Lecture | March 13 | 3:15 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room
Rhona Weinstein, PH.D., Professor Emrtita, UC Berkeley, Department of Psychology
In this talk, I reflect on a career-long journey as a community psychologist, investigating the dynamics of how beliefs about ability can become self-fulfilling prophecies in educational settings. Such expectancy effects either foster growth or constrain it. From descriptive to intervention research (untracking a high school, new school design, and policy), I explore these discoveries in... More >
A Tribute to Political Activist Marielle Franco
Lecture | March 13 | 4-6 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Tiana Paschel, UC Berkeley; Cidinha da Silva
Department of History, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for the Study of Sexual Culture
A tribute to Marielle Franco, Brazilian politician and human rights activist.
Chern Lectures: Extension, discretization, and quantitative differentiation
Lecture | March 13 | 4:10-5 p.m. | Simons Institute, Auditorium,
Assaf Naor, Princeton University
We will discuss questions about the relation between discrete phenomena and their continuous counterparts. This relates to extension of partially defined functions, Bourgain’s work on discretization and almost extension for a quantitative version of Ribe’s rigidity theorem, and differentiation questions that are well understood as infinitesimal phenomena but their macroscopic counterparts... More >
What’s Theology Got to Do with It? An Eighteenth-Century Chinese Emperor Debating Religions and Christianity
Lecture | March 13 | 5-7 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Eugenio Menegon, Associate Professor of Chinese History, Boston University; Collaborative Scholar, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College
Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion
In his Lettres chinoises, indiennes et tartares, Voltaire republished “a note by the good Kangxi Emperor to the Peking Jesuits” as follows: “The emperor is surprised to see you so stubborn in your ideas. Why would you worry so much about a world where you have not been yet? Enjoy the present. Your God must be pained by your preoccupations... More >
Calculation and Cosmography: Formal Continuities in Buddhist Art along the Gansu Corridor, from Dunhuang to Labrang Monastery
Lecture | March 13 | 5-7 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Jon Soriano, UC Berkeley
Tang Center for Silk Road Studies
While the art history of the overland silk road seems distinguished by its continual flux, as disparate visual regimes flowed in and out over the centuries, the art in question is also marked by strong formal continuities specific to its regions, as well as certain adaptations to global paradigms. This talk adopts Kublerian concepts of 'shape' and 'sequence' to identify a formal series... More >
2019 Oppenheimer Lecture: Teaching for Learning: What I have learned from learning research
Lecture | March 13 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium
Helen R. Quinn, Professor Emeritus, SLAC
I will talk about the ideas and research base underlying the "Framework for k-12 Science Education" and the vision for "three-dimensional learning" as defined by that document.
Helen R. Quinn
How We Lived: the Houshamadyan Project
Lecture | March 13 | 7:30-9 p.m. | St. Vartan Church, John Marukian Hall
650 Spruce Street, Oakland, CA 94610
Vahe Tachjian, Chief Editor of the Berlin-based Houshamdyan website, Houshamdyan
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Armenian Studies Program
Houshamadyan was born from this simple and powerful idea: we should bring back to life the cities, towns, and villages in which Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire by reconstructing our inheritance – the rich memory of the lives of our ancestors. Houshamadyan is a non-profit organization founded in Berlin in 2010. The website www.houshamadyan.org appears in three languages: Armenian, English,... More >
Mario Savio Memorial Lecture and Young Activist Award: Free Speech in Angry Times
Lecture | March 13 | 8-10 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Pauley Ballroom
Robert Reich, Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy, UC Berkeley
College of Letters & Science, Goldman School of Public Policy, Library
The Mario Savio Memorial Lecture and Young Activist Award are presented annually to honor the memory of Mario Savio (1942-1996), a spokesperson for Berkeley's Free Speech Movement of 1964, and the spirit of moral courage and vision which he and countless other activists of his generation exemplified; to promote the ideas and values he struggled to advance throughout his life; and to recognize and... More >
Free admission. Open to the public; first come, first served.
Professor Robert Reich
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Making Dreamer: An Oratorio of Immigration with Nilo Cruz
Lecture | March 14 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Osher Theater
Nilo Cruz
Composer Jimmy López and playwright Nilo Cruz collaborate on a new oratorio for orchestra, chorus, and soprano, entitled Dreamer. Performed with the LA Philharmonic. The piece will explore the US immigrant experience, in particular that of Dreamers—undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children—and what it means for cities to provide sanctuary from prosecution and... More >
Yanbo Li: Surfing in Globalization: The Misplaced Urban Reaction and Community-Based Resilience in Shanghai
Lecture | March 14 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 170 Wurster Hall
Globalization is a universal context nowadays though which is not a new concept. China used to be an essential participant and even positive advocator among the earlier rounds of it. But in modern times, China became a passive follower in the globalization tides. For each time the country was trying to adapt itself to the outside world, a specific reaction could be seen. However, it is not an... More >
How to Challenge Scandinavian Colonial Amnesia
Lecture | March 14 | 12:45-2 p.m. | 308 A Doe Library
Elizabeth Hunter, African American Studies & African Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley
Leigh Raiford, African American Studies & African Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley
Jeannette Ehlers
Institute of European Studies, Nordic Studies Program, Department of African American Studies
Visual artist Jeannette Ehlers discusses artistic strategies of resistance to coloniality with Professor Leigh Raiford and Elizabeth Hunter (African Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley), focusing on counter-narratives to the Eurocentric writing of History.
Jeannette Ehlers is a Copenhagen-based artist of Danish and Trinidadian descent whose practice takes shape experimentally across photography, ... More >
Jeannette Ehlers
BIDS Data Science Lecture: The statistical mechanics of big data
Lecture | March 14 | 3:10-4 p.m. | 190 Doe Library
John Harte, Professor, Energy & Resources Group, UC Berkeley
Berkeley Institute for Data Science
Constrained maximization of information entropy yields least biased probability distributions and provides a framework for construction of complex systems theory. From physics to
Decolonizing World History
Lecture | March 14 | 3:30-5 p.m. | The Shorb House
2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94601
DR. ENRIQUE DUSSEL, National Autonomous University of Mexico
The Latinx Research Center, Chicana Studies Program
Join the Latinx Research Center and the Chicana/o Studies Program in hosting two historical events with a major Latin American and Third World intellectual. Dr. Enrique Dussel is an early critic of Eurocentric philosophy produced in the West and has become an invaluable archive to intellectuals of the global "south," and people of color throughout the United States.
Throughout his career,... More >
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World-renowned decolonialist and a founder of Liberation Philosophy,Dr. Dussel visits us from UNAM in Mexico!
Celebrating Black Girls in Libertaory Spaces
Lecture | March 14 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 691 Barrows Hall
Ree Botts, PhD Candidate in African American Studies
Kenly Brown, PhD Candidate in African American Studies
Derrika Hunt, PhD Candidate in School of Education, Graduate Student Wellness Project Director for the Graduate Assembly
Tiffani Johnson, PhD candidate of Education, Social & Cultural Studies
Shelby Mack, BA Candidate in American Studies
Exhibit Premiere: Pleasure, Poison, Prescription, Prayer: The Worlds of Mind-Altering Substances
Lecture | March 14 | 4-6 p.m. | Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Please join us for the opening reception of Pleasure, Poison, Prescription, Prayer: The Worlds of Mind-Altering Substances, a timely exhibit exploring the complex social and economic dynamics behind ten mind-altering drugs.
Performance Studies Graduate Speaker Series | Affective Publics: News Storytelling, Sentiment and Technology
Lecture | March 14 | 4-5 p.m. | 44B Dwinelle Hall
Zizi Papacharissi, Professor and Head of the Communication Department, Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois-Chicago
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Zizi Papacharissi is Professor and Head of the Communication Department, Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and University Scholar at the University of Illinois System. Her work focuses on the social and political consequences of online media. She has published nine books, over 70 journal articles and book chapters, and serves on the editorial board of fifteen... More >
Zizi Papacharissi
The Life and Times of a Gay Brazilian Revolutionary
Lecture | March 14 | 4-6 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
James N. Green, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of Latin American History, Brown University
Department of History, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for the Study of Sexual Culture
Priya Moorjani | Reconstructing South Asian Population History using Genetic Data
Lecture | March 14 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Priya Moorjani, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
Munis D. Faruqui, Director, Institute for South Asia Studies; Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies; Associate Professor, South & South East Asian Studies
Institute for South Asia Studies, Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies, Center for Computational Biology, Population Center, Population Science, Department of Demography
Talk by molecular biologist and geneticist, Professor Priya Moorjani.
Minoan Missionaries: Sather Lecture Series: A Bronze Age Greek State in Formation
Lecture | March 14 | 5:30 p.m. | 142 Dwinelle Hall
Jack L. Davis, Blegen Professor of Greek Archaeology, University of Cincinnati
Internationally recognized scholar of Bronze Age Greece offers a series of lectures showing how the archaeological record sheds light on culture and communal life of early Greece.
Between the Money-Image and the Museum: Ulrich Peltzer's Theory of the (Contemporary) Work of (Installation) Art: Professor Richard Langston (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Lecture | March 14 | 5:30-7 p.m. | Moffitt Undergraduate Library, 340 Moffitt
Abstract: If money’s status as dominant medium guiding what Jochen Hörisch once called the ontosemiological framework of modern culture has really yielded to the empire of audio-visual media, then why is so much contemporary German literature still so obsessed with money? This presentation considers how one such example—Ulrich Peltzer’s 2015 novel Das bessere Leben, a work whose very title... More >
Jonathan Tate, Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Development + Design
Lecture | March 14 | 6-7:30 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
Jonathan Tate, Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Development + Design
Friday, March 15, 2019
Design Innovation from Nature Lecture: Robert Lang
Lecture | March 15 | 12-1 p.m. | 310 Jacobs Hall
College of Environmental Design
FRI, MAR 15, 12pm in 310 Jacobs Hall. Join us for a talk with origami artist and scientist Robert J. Lang titled From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes: The Art and Science of Origami. Open to all!
Opportunities for greywater reuse at different scales: Environmental Engineering Seminar
Lecture | March 15 | 12-1 p.m. | 534 Davis Hall
Dr. Eberhard Morgenroth, Professor, Process Engineer in Urban Water Management, Swiss Federal institute of Technology Zürich (ETH) and Aquatic Science and Technology(Eawag)
3D Modeling and Development of Cultural Heritage and Environmental Assets
Lecture | March 15 | 2-3 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Rossella Franchino, Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (Italy); Nicola Pisacane, Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (Italy)
Archaeological Research Facility
Survey and 3D modeling techniques today make possible the fruition and the sustainable renewal of buildings, objects, places even if inaccessible, destroyed or only partially preserved. The theme will be developed through the presentation of case studies in Campania Region - Italy.
Dennis Discher, 2019 Distinguished Lecture in Bioengineering: Mechanosensing: from Scaling in ‘Omics and Nuclear Rupture to a Macrophage Checkpoint in Cancer
Lecture | March 15 | 3-4 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Dennis Discher, University of Pennsylvania
The Department of Bioengineering is pleased to welcome distinguished professor and alumnus, Dennis E. Discher, as the 2019 Distinguished Lecturer in Bioengineering.
Reception to follow.
Chern Lectures: Nonpositive curvature is not coarsely universal
Lecture | March 15 | 4:10-5 p.m. | Simons Institute, Auditorium,
Assaf Naor, Princeton University
We will discuss coarse embeddings into Alexandrov spaces of nonpositive or nonnegative curvature. By studying subtle invariants that initially arose within the Ribe program and discretization questions, we will answer a question of Gromov (1993) about the coarse universality of Hadamard spaces. Connections to important questions such as the existence of super-expanders will be explained.
Jennifer Scappettone: Agitation of a Copper Lyre: Geopoetics of Entanglement vs./within the Wireless Imagination
Lecture | March 15 | 7 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, 315, Maude Fife room
Jennifer Scappettone, Associate Professor, University of Chicago English
Jennifer Scappettone works at the juncture of scholarly research, translation, and the literary arts, on the page and off. She is the author of the books From Dame Quickly: Poems (Litmus Press, 2009), Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice (Columbia University Press, 2014), and The Republic of Exit 43: Outtakes & Scores from an Archaeology and Pop-Up Opera of the Corporate Dump (Atelos,... More >
Sunday, March 17, 2019
Stories of Migration: Dreamers Libretto reading with Nilo Cruz
Lecture | March 17 | 1:30 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz leads a read-through of his Dreamers libretto, with commentary and Q&A moderated by Sabrina Klein, Cal Performances' director of artistic literacy. Free and open to the public.
Monday, March 18, 2019
David Dunn
Lecture | March 18 | 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. | McEnerney Hall (1750 Arch St.)
Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT)
The CNMAT Users Group presents: David Dunn
David Dunn is a composer and sound artist. He will be presenting on his recent work in large-scale meta-soundscape recording and invertebrate intervention research.
This Event is Free and Open to the Public
Defining Roles. Representations of Lumumba and his Independence Speech in Congolese and Belgian Literature
Lecture | March 18 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Lieselot De Taeye, Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley
Institute of European Studies, Center for African Studies
On June 30th 1960, Congo declared its independence from Belgium. In his speech at the ceremony, the Belgian King Baudouin applauded the work of his countrymen during the colonial period, calling his great-granduncle Leopold II, who was responsible for the death of approximately ten million Congolese people, a ‘genius’. Patrice Lumumba, the first Congolese Prime Minister, gave a now-famous speech... More >
Lieselot De Taeye
‘Don’t Fall off the Earth’: The Armenian Communities in China from the 1880s to 1950s
Lecture | March 18 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall
Khatchig Mouradian, Lecturer in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Armenian Studies Program
Hundreds of Armenians journeyed eastward to China in the late 19th century in search of opportunity, anchoring themselves in major cities, as well as in Harbin, a town that rose to prominence with the construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway. A few thousand others arrived in the region escaping the Armenian Genocide and turmoil in the Caucasus in the years that followed. Many of these... More >
Maxwell, Rankine, Airy and Modern Structural Engineering Design
Lecture | March 18 | 12-1 p.m. | 502 Davis Hall
Bill Baker, NAE, FREng, Partner, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Behind the Curtain Translational Medicine Lecture
Lecture | March 18 | 4-5 p.m. | 410 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Mar. 18 – Rajan Patel and Kate Stephenson
iO Design
These lectures highlight real-world experiences of leaders in the health technologies space. Looking beyond the initial excitement of a concept, industry veterans discuss the heavy lifting on many fronts that gets new ideas out of the lab and into the clinic.
Design Field Notes: Ben Allen
Lecture | March 18 | 4-5 p.m. | 220 Jacobs Hall
Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
Ben Allen is a PhD candidate in Stanford University’s interdisciplinary Modern Thought and Literature program, where he studies gender and the history of software. His current work focuses on the development of COBOL and other early business programming languages.
About Design Field Notes:
Each informal talk in this pop-up series brings a design practitioner to a Jacobs Hall teaching studio... More >
Russian Nature Lyric, Short Forms: Tyutchev, Mandelstam, Glazova
Lecture | March 18 | 4-6 p.m. | B-4 Dwinelle Hall
Luba Golburt, Associate Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Slavic Graduate Colloquium Spring 2019 Series
Spring 2019 Distinguished Guest Lecture: Renisa Mawani
Lecture | March 18 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | Anthony Hall
Center for Race and Gender, Institute for South Asia Studies, Canadian Studies Program (CAN)), Townsend Center for the Humanities
The Center for Race & gender Presents its Spring 2019 Distinguished Guest Lecture:
Renisa Mawani
Across Oceans of Law
On Digital Colonialism and 'Other' Futures
Lecture | March 18 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Osher Theater
Morehshin Allahyari, Artist, Activist, Educator
Berkeley Center for New Media, Art Practice Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Stanford University
Presented by Berkeley Center for New Media and co-sponsored with the Art Practice Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series, the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and Stanford University
For her talk Morehshin Allahyari will discuss some of her previous projects focused on topics such as 3D fabrication, activism, digital colonialism, monstrosity and... More >
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On Digital Colonialism and 'Other' Futures
Lecture | March 18 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Osher Theater, BAMPFA
Morehshin Allahyari
Berkeley Center for New Media, Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Stanford University
For her talk Morehshin Allahyari will discuss some of her previous projects focused on topics such as 3D fabrication, activism, digital colonialism, monstrosity and fabulation. She will use this talk as a platform to show the possibilities of art-making beyond aesthetics or visualization. She will posit and contextualize “a position outside” that asks difficult questions and suggests alternative... More >
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Camptown Races: Blackface Minstrelsy, Stephen Foster, and Americanization in Japanese Internment Camps
Lecture | March 19 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Dr. Rhae Lynn Barnes, Assistant Professor of History, Princeton University
This talk will contextualize the recent blackface scandals in Virginia by examining the central role amateur blackface minstrel shows played in the United States government. In the century spanning the end of the Civil War to the birth of the Civil Rights Movement (an era called “Jim Crow,” after the first blackface character), the American government refocused domestic and foreign policy... More >
Dr. Rhae Lynn Barnes
Helke Sander's dffb Cinema, 1968 and West Germany's Feminist Movement
Lecture | March 19 | 2-3 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Christina Gerhardt, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Helke Sander was a key figure of the early dffb (Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin), where she studied between 1966 and 1969. Returning to her political organizing and her films of the era revises three crucial narratives:
1. it expands narratives about 1968 to include the establishment of feminism as part of it (The Tomatenwurf), which is often read as a 1970s phenomenon;
2. it... More >
Christina Gerhardt
Citrin Center for Public Opinion
Lecture | March 19 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Barrows Hall, 8th floor Social Science Matrix Conference Room
Morris Levy, Professor, University of Southern California; Cecilia Mo, Professor, UC Berkeley; Cara Wong, Professor, University of Illinois
Laura Stoker, Professor, UC Berkeley
Department of Political Science, Social Science Matrix, Citrin Center for Public Opinion, Berkeley Law, Institute of International Studies, Insitute for the study of Societal Issues
American Opinion on Immigration: Implications for Policy
Wai Wai Nu | On Rohingya Citizenship Rights: Talk followed by community updates by UC Berkeley's Rohingya Working Group
Lecture | March 19 | 4-6 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Wai Wai Nu, Visiting Scholar, Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley
Eric Stover, Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center and Adjunct Professor of Law and Public Health, UC Berkeley
Yoshika Crider, PhD Student | Energy & Resources Group
Samira Siddique, MS PhD Student | Energy & Resources Group
The Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, Institute for South Asia Studies, Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Human Rights Center
A lecture on the Rohingya Crisis
Faculty Research Lecture: Life History and Learning: When (and Why) Children Are Better Learners than Both Adults and A.I.: Faculty Research Lecture by Alison Gopnik
Lecture | March 19 | 4-5 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium
Alison Gopnik, Professor of Psychology and Affiliate Professor of Philosophy
Alison Gopnik received her B.A. from McGill University and her Ph.D. from Oxford University. She is an internationally recognized leader in the study of cognitive science and of children’s learning and development and was one of the founders of the field of “theory of mind,” an originator of the “theory theory” of children’s development, and, more recently, introduced the idea that probabilistic... More >
Islamophobia Series, Episode 2: Islamophobia and Bullying in K-12
Lecture | March 19 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 691 Barrows Hall
Amna Salameh has a background in education, she serves on both the Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports (PBIS) committee and the Office of Educational Equity (OEE) committee at the Elk Grove Unified School District. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from Louisiana State University, and finished her Master of Arts in Education, with a concentration in Curriculum... More >
The Specter Haunting Singapore: Why the People's Action Party Cannot Get Over Operation Coldstore
Lecture | March 19 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Dr. Thum Ping Tjin, Managing Director, New Naratif
Center for Southeast Asia Studies
This talk looks at the significance for Singapore's history of "Operation Coldstore" - the 1963 arrest and detention without trial of over 112 opposition politicians, trade unionists, and political activists on grounds of a communist conspiracy - including how it has shaped Singapore's governance, and why it matters to the ruling party today.
Thum Ping Tjin
Universal Coverage: Is “Medicare for All” the answer?
Lecture | March 19 | 5-7 p.m. | Berkeley Way West, Colloquia
Around Arthur Szyk: Berkeley Scholars on Art and History: Visual Judaica: Jewish Icons and Collecting Patterns in the early 20th century
Lecture | March 19 | 5:30-7 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
The highly decorative works of Arthur Szyk contain key Jewish visual elements such as the Lion of Judah, the dove, and the seven spices mentioned in the bible as typical of the Land of Israel. These themes are repeated in Szyk’s oeuvre throughout his life and can be found in his early pieces ("Book of Esther," 1925) as well as in later ones ("Pathways Through the Bible," 1946). In this talk, we... More >
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