Art historian Alexander Nemerov is the author of many books, including Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography and named by Vogue one of the best books of the year.
Alexander Nemerov, the 2024-25 Una's Lecturer, is joined in conversation by UC Berkeley professor of English Elisa Tamarkin.
Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler
Considering Judith Butler's “tragic trilogy” — a set of interventions on Sophocles's Antigone, Euripides's Bacchae, and Aeschylus's Eumenides — Mario Telò seeks to understand how Butler uses and interprets Greek tragedy and, ultimately, how tragedy shapes Butler's thinking.
Jia Zhangke
In residence at BAMPFA, renowned filmmaker Jia Zhangke engages in a week of post-screening conversations with Berkeley faculty members and other scholars of Chinese cinema.
Through bold new analyses of legendary works of German silent cinema, Nicholas Baer reassesses Weimar cinema in light of the "crisis of historicism" widely diagnosed by German philosophers in the early twentieth century.
Artists Anuj Vaidya and Praba Pilar discuss Larval Rock Stars, their multi-modal conceptual project encompassing digital, textual, performance, sound, and video experimentation.