A Movement in Every Direction
The BAMPFA exhibition A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration explores the enduring impressions of the Great Migration as seen through the eyes and work of twelve contemporary artists. In this conversation, the show's co-curators reflect upon the exhibition, from its planning and development to the impact of its ongoing national tour.
In his wry meditation on aging, Thomas Farber memorializes lost friends and takes the measure of our current moment.
Eva Horn (University of Vienna) is founding director of the Vienna Anthropocene Network and author of The Future as Catastrophe: Imagining Disaster in the Modern Age.
An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence: Thinking with Machines from Descartes to the Digital Age
David Bates offers a new history of human intelligence, arguing that humans know themselves by knowing their machines.
Luciana Parisi (Duke University) explores technology and its role in the transformation of culture and thought, asking what becomes of philosophy in an era of algorithms.
Sharad Chari explores how people handle the remains of segregation and apartheid in South Africa, as witnessed through portals in an industrial-residential landscape in the city of Durban.
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.