Katerina Korola (Film & Media) explores the history of photography, film, and modern art through an ecological lens. Her current book project, Picturing the Air: Photography and the Industrial Atmosphere, tells a history of air pollution as a photographic problem. Previously she taught at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
Why return to the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci? In a time of authoritarianism and environmental crisis, the Gramsci Working Group turns to a thinker who faced fascism by thinking across disciplines and genres, from the critique of political science to detective fiction.
Campus Humanities Events
English professor Oliver Arnold, a 2026 recipient of Berkeley’s Distinguished Teaching Award, explores Shakespeare’s enduring appeal. Reflecting on the question, "why are we, more than 400 years later, still so obsessed?" Oliver says, "I often think that what is moving to me about a play by Shakespeare is that I’m just in awe of what a human being can do. Great humans are deeply moving. What the species is capable of at its best is profound."