Past Events

| 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.

Call Me Kuchu (2012)

Directed by Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali-Worrall
Depth of Field Film + Video
| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

A new bill threatens to further criminalize homosexuality in Uganda, making it punishable by death. David Kato, Uganda’s first openly gay man, is one of the few who dare to publicly protest this state-sanctioned homophobia.

A General Theory of Visual Culture

Whitney Davis
Berkeley Book Chats
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| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Professor of History of Art Whitney Davis’ book presents a new and original framework for understanding visual culture.

Megacities (1998)

Directed by Michael Glawogger
Depth of Field Film + Video
| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Intermingling large street scenes with individual portraits of citizens from Mexico City, Mumbai, New York, and Moscow, this film exposes divergent forms of urban living and weaves a moving portrait of the effects of globalization.

Artist Claudia Hart in Conversation with Edmund Campion

Music at the Crossroads: Actions at the Intersection of Sound, Music, Art and Media
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| The Center for New Music & Audio Technologies, 1750 Arch St.

Hart and Campion will discuss their sculptural opera, The Alice’s Walking, which premiers in March 2014 at the Eyebeam Center in NYC.

Installation by Kurt Hentschläger

Music at the Crossroads: Actions at the Intersection of Sound, Music, Art and Media
Thursday, Feb 6, 2014 12:00 am -
| The Center for New Music & Audio Technologies, 1750 Arch St.

CLUSTER is a multi-channel sound/video installation investigating human perception and the impact of new technologies on both individual and collective consciousness.

| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Jonathan Fineberg is professor emeritus of art history at the University of Illinois. His lecture will set out an argument for the evolutionary necessity of art and discuss the effects of art on the brain.