Giving toDepartmental Resident Fellows
Funded by the Avenali Endowment, the Departmental Residencies are intended to support month-long visits by distinguished scholars, writers, artists, and others with whom Berkeley faculty and students might not otherwise have direct or sustained contact.
2011-2012 Fellows
Professor of Assyriology at the Hebrew University, 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 in the spring 2012 semester. During his residency, he will deliver a public lecture as well as a series of seminars, both for specialists in cuneiform and for the general public. Professor Horowitz’s visit to Berkeley offers students and faculty valuable opportunities to address questions concerning the early history of astronomy and geography, and its entanglements with divination and religion.
Israeli musician Emmanuel Witzthum is a composer, violist, installation artist, and director of The Lab (Hama'abada) in Jerusalem, a venue for experimental theater, dance, and music. He has also served as musical advisor to the Israel Festival, the premier festival for the arts in Israel. In Dissolving Localities, a recent work, Witzthum invited audio/visual artists to come to Jerusalem and "perform" the city as a “musical/visual” instrument. Mr. Witzthum will be hosted by the Department of Music while at Berkeley in early spring 2012. In addition to delivering a public lecture, he will be involved in activities with the Magnes Museum and the Department of Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies. Mr. Witzthum’s residency is made possible in collaboration with the Schusterman Family Foundation's Visiting Artist program.
Resident Fellows
Patricia Barber
Ellen Bromberg
Charles Burnett
Sheba Chhachhi
Andrija Dimitrijevic
Didik Hadiprayitno
Wayne Horowitz
Wang Hui
Dai Jinhua
Gareth Stedman Jones
Sunil Kumar
Tony Lawson
Daniel Mason
Ray Müller
Suman Mukherjee
Michel Pascal
Vijayalakshmy Rangarajan
Pedro Antonio Valdez
Emmanuel Witzthum