Past Events

Alexander Nemerov, Art Historian

"Love: Art as Awakening, as Breath"
Una's Lecture
Monday, Oct 21, 2024 5:00 pm
| Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall

Art historian Alexander Nemerov is the author of many books, including Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography and named by Vogue one of the best books of the year.

Apartheid Remains

Sharad Chari
Berkeley Book Chats
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| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Sharad Chari explores how people handle the remains of segregation and apartheid in South Africa, as witnessed through portals in an industrial-residential landscape in the city of Durban.

Luciana Parisi

Negative AI and the Future of Knowledge
Rethinking Futures
Monday, Oct 14, 2024 5:00 pm
| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall and Online

Luciana Parisi (Duke University) explores technology and its role in the transformation of culture and thought, asking what becomes of philosophy in an era of algorithms.

Eva Horn

A Sense of Air: For an Aesthesis of Climate
Rethinking Futures
Monday, Oct 7, 2024 5:00 pm
| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Eva Horn (University of Vienna) is founding director of the Vienna Anthropocene Network and author of The Future as Catastrophe: Imagining Disaster in the Modern Age.

Penultimates: The Now and the Not-Yet

Thomas Farber
Berkeley Book Chats
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| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

In his wry meditation on aging, Thomas Farber memorializes lost friends and takes the measure of our current moment.

A Movement in Every Direction

Artist and Curator Roundtable
Saturday, Sep 21, 2024 1:30 pm
| BAMPFA, 2155 Center Street

The BAMPFA exhibition A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration explores the enduring impressions of the Great Migration as seen through the eyes and work of twelve contemporary artists. In this conversation, the show's co-curators reflect upon the exhibition, from its planning and development to the impact of its ongoing national tour.

Adam Gopnik

The National Emergency: On Liberal Institutions, Protecting Pluralism, and Free Debate
Wednesday, Apr 24, 2024 12:00 pm
| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Bestselling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik examines the increasing threats to the institutions of liberal democracy that guarantee free political debate.

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| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Shannon Steen explores how discourses of creativity can seduce us into joining a worldview that justifies structural inequalities, environmental degradation, and other aspects of contemporary capitalism that we might otherwise find troubling.