On Not Taking History for Granted
The Townsend Center joins in the commemoration of 150 Years of Women at Berkeley.
Zoe Forest
Mapping Words, Collecting Voices: Joy Harjo Celebrates the Diversity of Native Nations Poetry
In her 2020-21 Avenali Lecture, US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo reflects on the collaborative work of honoring Native poetry.
“Dancing Smoke,” Living Ancestral Traditions
The collaborators of Bayal Kaymanen, a cross-Pacific Indigenous dance performance, reflect on the experience one year later.
How to Get to the Library (When You’re Stuck at Home)
Our Bear's-Eye View writer reports on the UC Berkeley Library's heroic efforts to support research in a pandemic.
Beyond the PhD: Facing and Finding Careers Outside Academia
The student-led organization Beyond Academia supports Berkeley PhDs searching for alternatives to the academic job market.
Beyond the Museum’s Closed Doors: Translating Art Online
UC Berkeley's art museums reimagine curation and programming for 2020.
Race, Religion, and the Post Office: The 2020 Election in Historical Perspective
Three Berkeley historians, Waldo Martin, Ronit Stahl, and David Henkin, discuss historical roots of November's election.
Performing in a Pandemic
Returning Bear's-Eye View writer Zoe Forest listens in on a discussion about the changed conditions of the performing arts.
Geoengineering Our Way Out of Extinction
BAMPFA hosts science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson to address “The Good Anthropocene: Terraforming the Earth.”
Ways of Reading Into the Holloway Series
British poet Tom Pickard and English graduate student Leo Dunsker read in The Holloway Series in Poetry.