Past Events

Thursday, May 8, 2014 12:00 am -
| The Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way

This career workshop will help prepare graduate students and recent graduates for the work that awaits them in 21st-century global society and includes a hands-on resume workshop and networking opportunities.

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| 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.

| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Thomas Metzinger is professor of theoretical philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. His research focuses on analytical philosophy of the mind and philosophical aspects of neuro- and cognitive sciences, as well as connections between ethics, philosophy of the mind, and anthropology.

Friday, Apr 25, 2014 12:00 am -
| Toll Room, Alumni House

This conference is dedicated to the exploration of the methodological underpinnings of the current encounter between Buddhism and cognitive science.

The Nascent Photographic Statement of Human Rights

Ariella Azoulay
Berkeley Human Rights Seminar
| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Ariella Azoulay (Brown University) considers what could be seen by citizens in the late 1940s as violations of human rights and what sovereign states did and did not present as such.

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| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

This one-day conference will explore reports of near-death experiences as well as fictions of after-death journeys from the perspectives of psychoanalysis, philosophy, anthropology, and film.

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| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Professor of Scandinavian Linda Rugg’s new book explores how non-documentary narrative art films create new forms of collaborative self-representation and selfhood.

Catherine Malabou, Philosopher

Odysseus' Changed Soul
Una's Lecture
| Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall

The work of French Philosopher Catherine Malabou has created the foundation for a wide range of current research focusing on the intersections between science and the humanities. Her public lecture will offer a contemporary reading of Plato’s myth of Er.

Stories We Tell (2012)

Directed by Sarah Polley
Depth of Field Film + Video
| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Revisiting a family secret through interviews and home movies, director Sarah Polley’s film uses personal experience to explore questions of love, family, memory, and storytelling.