Past Events

Chamber opera Both Eyes Open, with libretto by Philip Kan Gotanda, recasts the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

In this deeply poetic book, Fumi Okiji gathers a chorus of thinkers and artists to examine sites of intemperance and equivocation in black thought and music.

This online public seminar led by Anthony Cascardi offers information and advice to scholars seeking to publish their book manuscript with an academic press.

UC Berkeley is justifiably identified as the top public university in the US, but its structure is often unclear even to its core constituents. This online public seminar led by Anthony Cascardi presents a broad overview of the political/public context in which UC Berkeley operates.

In residence at BAMPFA, filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa is considered one of the most insightful commentators on a range of political and socioeconomic issues related to Ukraine, Russia, and the former Soviet bloc countries.

Agnes Callard and Judith Butler discuss Callard's new book, Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life, which explores how the work of Socrates can be used to ask and answer life’s most important questions.

Intended for graduate students at all levels, this online public seminar led by Anthony Cascardi provides information and advice about career-building skills for those considering opportunities outside the walls of academe.

Artists Anuj Vaidya and Praba Pilar discuss Larval Rock Stars, their multi-modal conceptual project encompassing digital, textual, performance, sound, and video experimentation.

Through bold new analyses of legendary works of German silent cinema, Nicholas Baer reassesses Weimar cinema in light of the "crisis of historicism" widely diagnosed by German philosophers in the early twentieth century.

In residence at BAMPFA, renowned filmmaker Jia Zhangke engages in a week of post-screening conversations with Berkeley faculty members and other scholars of Chinese cinema.