Past Events

Barry Jenkins

Screening and Discussion of 'The Underground Railroad' Miniseries
Friday, Mar 15, 2024 7:00 pm -
| BAMPFA, 2155 Center Street

Academy Award winner Barry Jenkins introduces and discusses his 2021 miniseries, The Underground Railroad, which shows at BAMPFA over three days. The series won a Peabody Award and was nominated for an Emmy.

Wednesday, Mar 13, 2024 5:00 pm
| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Behrooz Ghorbani, Cathy Park Hong, and Hoyt Long discuss how artificial intelligence has impacted literary translation. How might AI increase the creative potential of translation? How do writers feel about machine translations of their works?

| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

In The Entanglement, Alva Noë explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what this entangled reality means for understanding human nature.

Doreen St. Félix

In Conversation with Hilton Als
Art of Writing
Tuesday, Feb 27, 2024 5:00 pm
| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Doreen St. Félix is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the magazine’s TV critic. She talks with author and New Yorker critic Hilton Als.

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| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Through her study of portraiture, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby examines the indeterminacy of the term “Creole” — a label applied to white, black, and mixed-race persons born in French colonies during the nineteenth century.

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| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Honoring the Frankfurt School's practice of immanent critique, Martin Jay puts critical pressure on a number of its own ideas by probing their contradictory impulses.

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| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

In her exploration of media art and theory in Japan, Miryam Sas opens up media studies and affect theory to a deeper engagement with works and theorists outside Euro-America.

Kim Stanley Robinson

'Ministry for the Future' and the Climate Crisis
Wednesday, Jan 24, 2024 4:00 pm
| David Brower Center

Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the foremost living writers of science fiction. He discusses his 2020 novel Ministry for the Future in the context of the climate crisis.

Echoes from the Borderlands

Sonic Essay by Valeria Luiselli
The Life of Sound
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| Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall

Writer Valeria Luiselli presents "Echoes from the Borderlands," an experimental sound piece documenting the histories of violence against land and bodies in the US-Mexico borderlands.