Past Events

Eelco Runia, Historian & Psychologist

The Theory of the Accomplished Fact
Avenali Lecture
| Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall

Avenali Chair in the Humanities Eelco H. Runia is a historian, theorist, psychologist, and novelist. He is the author of the 2014 book Moved by the Past: Discontinuity and Historical Mutation. Runia is currently in the Department of History at the University of Groningen and chair of the Centre for Metahistory.

Our Word Is Our Bond: How Legal Speech Acts

Marianne Constable
Berkeley Book Chats
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| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Professor of Rhetoric Marianne Constable’s book proposes understanding law as language, rather than as primarily rules, policy, or force.

Religion and the Art of the Novel

Panel Discussion with Marilynne Robinson
Avenali Lecture
| Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center

Author Marilynne Robinson is joined in discussion by UC Berkeley faculty panelists Dorothy Hale (English), Jonathan Sheehan (History), and Robert Hass (English) on the topic of Religion and the Art of the Novel.

Marilynne Robinson, Novelist

Shakespeare: The Question of Audience
Avenali Lecture
| Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson is a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her Avenali lecture considers the question of audience in the work of Shakespeare.

Quirk Historicism

and the End(s) of Art History
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| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

This symposium explores the aestheticized status that marginal objects have acquired in our writing of history.

Tears in the Fabric of the Past: New Theories of Narrative and History

With Avenali Chair Eelco Runia
Avenali Lecture
| Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler

Avenali Chair in the Humanities Eelco Runia in discussion with Hayden White (UC Santa Cruz, emeritus), Martin Jay (UC Berkeley), Carol Gluck (Columbia), Harry Harootunian (Columbia), and Ethan Kleinberg (Wesleyan).

| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Claudio Lomnitz is the Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University. In his new biography, Lomnitz delves into the lives and ideology of Magón’s inner circle, examining their role in the Mexican Revolution.

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| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Professor of Ethnic Studies Raúl Coronado’s book focuses on how eighteenth-century Texas Mexicans used writing to remake the social fabric in the midst of war and how a Latino literary and intellectual life was born in the New World.