Past Events

The Complete Stories, by Clarice Lispector

Katrina Dodson
Berkeley Book Chats
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| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Katrina Dodson’s recent translation of Clarice Lispector’s Complete Stories (New Directions, 2015) collects for the first time all 85 short stories by one of Brazil’s most important writers.

Toledo: El Secreto Oculto (2008)

Directed by Jack Matitiahu, 90 min
Depth of Field Film + Video
| The Magnes Auditorium, 2121 Allston Way

Toledo was a city in which three major cultures met, intertwined, and enriched one another. This film tells the stories of Toledo’s “Marranos,” converted Jews who continued to practice Judaism in secret, as recalled by three of their descendants.

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| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Irina Paperno gives an account of Tolstoy's lifelong attempt to find adequate ways to represent the self, to probe its limits, and to arrive at an identity not based on the bodily self and its accumulated life experience.

Conference in Honor of Thomas Laqueur

Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor of History
Saturday, Sep 5, 2015 12:00 am -
| Social Science Matrix, 8th Floor, Barrows Hall

On his 70th birthday and in his 43rd year as a faculty member at Berkeley, Tom Laqueur’s students, friends, and colleagues gather to celebrate him and his contributions to the University and his fields of study.

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| The Magnes Auditorium, 2121 Allston Way

Argentine artist Andrés Waissman will be interviewed by curator and gallerist Gachi Prieto, about the complex set of circumstances that contributed to shaping his art as well as the role of art in contemporary Argentina. Waissman will discuss his experience as a Jewish Argentine artist as well as the various series within his oeuvre that address topics related to the exoduses, migrations, and multitudes of souls in search of the Promised Land.

| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

The Course Threads Symposium is a capstone forum for students who have completed all requirements of the Course Threads Program. Students will present on the topics they studied within their thread, discussing the ways in which interdisciplinary course work informed their knowledge of the topic.

Autobiography of an Archive: A Scholar's Passage to India

Nicholas B. Dirks
Berkeley Book Chats
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| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks’ book recounts his early study of kingship in India, the rise of the caste system, the emergence of English imperial interest in controlling markets and India's political regimes, and the development of a crisis in sovereignty that led to an extraordinary nationalist struggle.

Impossible Machines

Puppets, Politics & Truth Commissions
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| Wheeler Auditorium

The culminating event in this semester's campus-wide dialogue on legacies of reconciliation, accountability, and impunity in South Africa and elsewhere in the world.

| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

This conference brings together scholars and medical professionals from areas of neurosciences, behavioral sciences, and humanities to answer questions about what it is to be a person.

Van Gogh on Demand: China and the Readymade

Winnie Wong
Berkeley Book Chats
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| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Professor of Rhetoric Winnie Wong’s book explores contemporary art in the world's largest production center for oil-on-canvas painting and shows how its painters force us to reexamine preconceptions about creativity and the role of Chinese workers in redefining global art.