The first in a two-part workshop for faculty, graduate students, and staff who want to start a digital project that includes a web presence. This session will cover how to set up and configure a basic Drupal site using free hosting, and how to develop well-structured "content types" to store your data.
Program Officer Daniel Sack will provide an overview of NEH programs and offer strategies for application writing.
Director Jon Reiss presents graffiti art as both a local and global expression of the individual artist, of politics, and of community.
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship Information Session
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.
The Missing Master: "China" in Zuoxiao Zuzhou's Music and Art
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.