Past Events

Old Things Symposium: Keynote Lecture by Hans Sluga (Philosophy)

Launch Event for the “Old Things: The Past in the Present” Course Thread
| 3335 Dwinelle Hall

In anticipation of the "Old Things" Symposium, Hans Sluga (Philosophy) will present a keynote lecture titled "What has History to do with Me?: Old Things for New Times."

"Earth: The Babylonian Map of the World and The Wind Directions"

With Avenali Resident Fellow Wayne Horowitz
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| Department of Near Eastern Studies, 254 Barrows Hall

Part of the lecture series “Return to Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography: New Studies on Heaven and Earth.”

In this series of lectures Avenali Resident Fellow Wayne Horowitz discusses specific aspects of Mesopotamian cosmology, from the heavens above to underworld below. Each of these lectures is open to the public and may be attended separately.

<em>Waste Land</em> (2010)

Directed by Lucy Walker
Depth of Field Film + Video
| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Director Lucy Walker follows artist Vik Muniz as he visits the world’s largest garbage dump in Rio de Janeiro and builds one of his famous portraits from trash. The world the film explores is indeed a land of waste, but it is also a world of vibrant optimism, endless creativity, and touching generosity on the part of the people who occupy it.

"Sky: A Mesopotamian View of the Stars at Night"

With Avenali Resident Fellow Wayne Horowitz
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| Department of Near Eastern Studies, 254 Barrows Hall

Part of the lecture series “Return to Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography: New Studies on Heaven and Earth.”

In this series of lectures Avenali Resident Fellow Wayne Horowitz discusses specific aspects of Mesopotamian cosmology, from the heavens above to underworld below. Each of these lectures is open to the public and may be attended separately.

"Heaven: New Thoughts of The Universe of Enuma Elish"

With Avenali Resident Fellow Wayne Horowitz
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| Department of Near Eastern Studies, 254 Barrows Hall

Part of the lecture series “Return to Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography: New Studies on Heaven and Earth.”

In this series of lectures Avenali Resident Fellow Wayne Horowitz discusses specific aspects of Mesopotamian cosmology, from the heavens above to underworld below. Each of these lectures is open to the public and may be attended separately.

| Department of Near Eastern Studies, 254 Barrows Hall

Professor of Assyriology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Wayne Horowitz is an authority on cuneiform texts (in Sumerian and Akkadian) that deal, directly or indirectly, with the structure of the cosmos. He is the author of Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography; Writing Science Before the Greeks: A Naturalistic Analysis of the Babylonian Astronomical Treatise MUL.APIN; and the forthcoming Astrolabes, among others. Professor Horowitz will be hosted by the Department of Near Eastern Studies while at Berkeley.

| Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall

Panel Discussants: Fredric Jameson, Whitney Davis (History of Art), Martin Jay (History) and Colleen Lye (English)
Moderator: Robert Kaufman (Comparative Literature)

Fredric Jameson, Literary Theorist & Critic

"The Aesthetics of Singularity"
Avenali Lecture
| International House, Chevron Auditorium

Literary 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.'

Composition Colloquium: “Hybrid Spectrums Identity”

With Avenali Resident Fellow Emmanuel Witzthum
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| Elkus Room, 125 Morrison Hall

Avenali Resident Fellow Emmanuel Witzthum presents acoustic, digital and inter-medial works, connecting them with his artistic agenda as an Israeli artist and the myriad connotations this identity holds within it. He references Israeli reality and how it has shaped his artistic decisions.