Past Events

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.

| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

This lecture will explore care and the ordinary, following a thread of Wittgenstein’s philosophy that takes us beyond the “grammar” of the first person, the use of psychological verbs, and the nature of states of mind.

Ghost Rights: Haunting and the Colony

Natasha Eaton
Berkeley Human Rights Seminar
| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Please Note: This Event Has Been Canceled.

Making Human Rights a Reality

Emilie Hafner-Burton
Berkeley Human Rights Seminar
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| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Emilie Hafner-Burton (UC San Diego), along with UC Berkeley and Stanford faculty, discuss why it's been so hard for international law to have an impact in parts of the world where human rights are most at risk.

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| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Professor of French Debarati Sanyal’s forthcoming book examines the ways in which literature and film from the French-speaking world have repeatedly sought not to singularize the Holocaust as the paradigm of historical trauma, but rather to connect its memory with other memories of atrocity.