Past Events

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship Information Session on funding opportunities and research proposal preparation for faculty and advanced graduate students in the humanities. Led by Nicole Stahlmann (Director, Fellowship Programs, ACLS).

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.

This afternoon of events will offer an interdisciplinary perspective on the potential of digital humanities research, as well as hands-on experience with widely applicable tools.

The Berkeley Human Rights Seminar invites distinguished scholars across disciplines to present their recent research on human rights. This seminar features Beth Simmons (Harvard) discussing the global diffusion of law relating to transnational crime and the case of human trafficking.

In his bestselling book The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, engineer and theorist Ray Kurzweil predicts that the next few decades will produce human/machine syntheses capable of solving problems from poverty and climate change to illness, aging and even death. Transcendent Man offers a compelling portrait of Kurzweil’s theory and the promises and pitfalls for the future.

Chinese musician and artist, Zuoziao Zuzhou, in conversation with Cowboy Junkies songwriter and guitarist, Michael Timmins.

A brown bag lunch conversation with Ray Siemens (English and Computer Science, University of Victoria) exploring key elements of disciplinary and interdisciplinary change relating to technology in the Humanities and the response of Digital Humanities curriculum.

Regents’ Lecturer Shirin Neshat in conversation with UC Berkeley scholars Stefania Pandolfo, (Anthropology), Larry Rinder (Director of the Berkeley Museum of Art and Pacific Film Archive) and Jeffrey Skoller (Film and Media).

Iranian born artist/filmmaker Shirin Neshat’s early photographic works explored the question of gender in relation to Islamic fundamentalism and militancy. Her subsequent video installations have departed from overtly political content in favor of more poetic imagery and narratives. In her Regents’ Lecture, Neshat will discuss the development of her artwork from photography to video installation to cinema and screen selections of her video based work.

A brown bag lunch conversation with Professors Marti Hearst (School of Information) and Bryan Wagner (English) to discuss their National Endowment for the Humanities funded WordSeer project, a text analysis environment for literary studies developed in collaboration with Ph.D. candidate Aditi Muralidharan.