Past Events

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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.

Jane Taylor, Playwright & Cultural Critic

Balancing Acts: Truths, Boasts, and Videotape
Una's Lecture
| Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall

Jane Taylor holds the Wole Soyinka Chair of Drama and Theatre Studies at Leeds University and has worked extensively in creative arts and literary and cultural scholarship. Drawing on texts ranging from the early modern period to the present, her Una’s Lecture will consider the arts of memory and the will to reconciliation in recent history.

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| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

A conversation about overcoming legal, technical, and institutional obstacles to the preservation of scholarly intellectual legacies.

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| 3335 Dwinelle Hall

The second of two discussions presented in conjunction with the premiere of the opera Death with Interruptions.

Thursday, Mar 19, 2015 12:00 am -
| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

This two-day symposium brings together international scholars to explore the history of concepts in the humanities and social sciences.