Renowned critic, journalist, academic, and cultural historian J. Hoberman visited BAMPFA to discuss his latest book and introduce four closely related, experimental films.
Jaron Lanier talks with Berkeley Art of Writing students about music, generative A.I., and writing.
Writer/director Todd Haynes discusses his 1995 film Safe, with UC Berkeley film professor Mary Ann Doane.
Jamaica Kincaid, writer and gardener, excavated her preoccupations and methods in the 2025 Avenali Lecture.
Abounaddara, an anonymous collective of artists, creates alternative images of the war in Syria. Eduardo Cadava gives us new postures and vocabularies for looking at them.
Iris Jamahl Dunkle has dedicated her career to studying writers like Sanora Babb. By decentering our male-dominated view of literary history, particularly in California, Dunkle finally gives these women the credit they deserve.