Townsend Events

Todd Haynes

Film Retrospective
Saturday, Mar 8, 2025 2:30 pm -
| BAMPFA, 2155 Center Street

Beginning with four films chosen and presented by the director himself, this extensive retrospective at BAMPFA includes all of Todd Haynes’s feature films and a selection of early works.

The Tomb of the Divers

Francine Masiello
Berkeley Book Chats
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| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Francine Masiello's debut novel, written with pleasure and wit, weaves a multigenerational tale of small-time artists and crooks who, over the course of a century, wend their way from southern Italy to Paterson, New Jersey.

On the Colors of Vowels: Thinking Through Synesthesia

Liesl Yamaguchi
Berkeley Book Chats
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| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Exploring the ways in which visual conceptions of vowels have inflected the arts and sciences of modernity, Liesl Yamaguchi asks how discourses of the 19th and 20th centuries crafted the enigma we now readily recognize as “synesthesia.”

Orphan Bachelors: A Memoir

Fae Myenne Ng
Berkeley Book Chats
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| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Winner of the American Book Award and other major prizes, Fae Myenne Ng's memoir tells the story of the author's family in San Francisco’s Chinatown and her father’s struggles to secure citizenship.

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| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

In The Entanglement, Alva Noë explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what this entangled reality means for understanding human nature.