Townsend Events

UC Berkeley hosts the residency of Argentine director Lucrecia Martel, whose atmospheric films explore the moral, psychological, and social decay of characters willfully blind to the historical violence and continuing social cost they pay for their privilege.

With the powerful writing technology of AI in the hands of entering students, how do instructors reapproach the teaching of writing in Berkeley's Reading & Composition courses?

Why do we look away from the suffering of others, cover our faces in shame, and lower our heads in grief? Benjamin Saltzman explores these gestures in art, poetry, and philosophy as an essential language for our uncomfortable engagements with the world.