Supporting the Humanities at UC Berkeley

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MEET NEW A&H FACULTY

Shiben Banerji, a scholar of architecture and urbanism, is a new faculty member in History of Art. He previously taught at the Art Institute of Chicago, where students voted him Faculty of the Year. His new book is Lineages of the Global City: Occult Modernism and the Spiritualization of Democracy.

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FEATURED WORKING GROUP

The Environmental Humanities working group is Berkeley’s central platform for interdisciplinary discussions of environmental entanglements within literature, culture, and visual media. This collaborative network invites scholars to interrogate the stakes and possibilities of ecologically-minded research in the humanities. 
 

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Campus Humanities Events

Avgi Saketopoulou: Avenali Lecture
Avgi Saketopoulou in Conversation
Black Liberation on the Chinese Stage: Transnational Dialogue and Inter-Racial Solidarity in the 1964 Dance Drama Fires of Fury are Burning (Nuhuo zai ranshao)
Critical Theory Commons: Dialectics of Counter-Enlightenment
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Faculty Books

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The Haydn Economy

Nicholas Mathew

In this far-reaching work of music history and criticism, Nicholas Mathew reimagines the world of Joseph Haydn and his contemporaries, with its catastrophic upheavals and thrilling sense of potential.

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Unburied Lives

Laurie Wilkie

In Unburied Lives Laurie Wilkie demonstrates how we can listen to stories found in things neglected, ignored, or disparaged — documents not consulted, architecture not studied, material traces preserved in the dirt.

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Circuit Listening

Andrew F. Jones

What did Mao’s China have to do with the music of youth revolt in the 1960s? And how did the mambo, the Beatles, and Bob Dylan sound on the front lines of the Cold War in Asia? In Circuit Listening, Andrew F.

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The Future of Nuclear Waste

Rosemary A. Joyce

How can nations ensure that buried nuclear waste goes undisturbed for thousands of years? The US government tried to solve this problem with the help of experts they identified in communication, materials science, and futurism.

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Resonances of the Raj

Nalini Ghuman

During the century of British rule of the Indian subcontinent known as the British Raj, the rulers felt the significant influence of their exotic subjects.

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Public Speaking for Graduate Students
Townsend Fellowships for Assistant and Associate Professors
Townsend Honors Thesis Workshop
Townsend Dissertation Fellowships
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Jamaica Kincaid onstage in a conversation at Zellerbach Playhouse, March 2025
Jamaica Kincaid at Berkeley

Author Jamaica Kincaid was the 2024-25 Avenali Chair in the Humanities. In conversation with Stephen Best, she discusses her development as a writer and the major themes of her work — including the legacies of colonialism, the forging of personal identity, and gardens and the natural world.

A recording of the event is available for viewing.

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