Avenali Chair in the Humanities Ursula K. Le Guin has published twenty-one novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, seven volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many awards. Her best-known fantasy works, the Earthsea books, have sold millions of copies and have been translated into sixteen languages.
Avenali Lectures
The Avenali Chair in the Humanities, established in 1987, allows a distinguished figure in arts and humanities to come to Berkeley annually for a major lecture, panel discussions and meetings with students and faculty. Since 2005 the endowment has also supported two department resident fellows. The Avenali Chair in the Humanities is made possible through the generous gift of Peter and Joan Avenali.
2012-2013 Avenali Chair in the Humanities
What Can Novels Do? A Conversation with Ursula K. Le Guin
Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 | 7:00 pm
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
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United StatesPast Lectures
What Can Novels Do? A Conversation with Ursula K. Le Guin
Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 | 7:00 pm
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
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United StatesAvenali Chair in the Humanities Ursula K. Le Guin has published twenty-one novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, seven volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many awards. Her best-known fantasy works, the Earthsea books, have sold millions of copies and have been translated into sixteen languages.
Avenali Chair in the Humanities, 2012-2013
Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 | 4:00 pm
Zellerbach Hall
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United StatesAvenali Chair in the Humanities Wendell Berry in discussion with UC Berkeley faculty panelists Michael Pollan (Graduate School of Journalism), Robert Hass (English), Miguel Altieri (Environmental Science, Policy and Management), and Anne-Lise Francois (English and Comparative Literature).
"The Aesthetics of Singularity"
Tuesday, Feb 28, 2012 | 6:00 pm
International House, Chevron Auditorium
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United StatesLiterary theorist and critic Fredric Jameson is William A. Lane Professor in the Program in Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University. He has published a wide range of works analyzing literary and cultural texts, while developing his own Marxist theoretical perspectives and offering important critiques of opposing theoretical schools and positions. Professor Jameson’s best-known publications include Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism; The Political Unconscious; and Marxism and Form, and his most recent works are The Hegel Variations and Representing 'Capital.'
“The Writer’s (Secret) Life: Rejection, Woundedness, and Inspiration”
Thursday, Feb 10, 2011 | 6:00 pm
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
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United StatesAuthor Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde (a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize), and the New York Times bestsellers The Falls and The Gravedigger's Daughter. Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.