Past Events

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.

Una's Lecturer and National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Eddie Palmieri is known as one of the finest Latin jazz pianists of the past 50 years and is equally renowned as a bandleader of both salsa and Latin jazz orchestras.

This evening of poetry will cut across generations, space and sensibilities to showcase the diverse works of two Vietnamese American writers, Linh Dinh and Anhvu Buchanan.

Vietnamese-American poet, fiction writer and essayist, Linh Dinh will read from his Vietnamese writings and discuss how they differ from his English works.

Vietnamese-American poet, fiction writer and essayist Linh Dinh will discuss his preoccupation with collapse, including how the 1975 fall of South Vietnam influenced his thinking and writing.

Bobby Fischer’s cold-war era victory over Soviet champion Boris Spassky in 1972 capped off his meteoric rise to greatness, but few could have foreseen that it would also be the beginning of an enigmatic second act as a relative recluse and eventual exile. Liz Garbus’ film artfully traces the rise, and fall, of a man whose name is still synonymous with the game of chess.