Past Events

Getting started on your publishing journey can be both daunting and mystifying. Editor Ryan Kendall of Duke University Press provides tools to approach the process with confidence and clarity.

Because so little of her work survives intact, Sappho has long been particularly available for reinterpretation. Engaging with this rich field of possibility, panelists reflect on the ways in which the Sapphic tradition has contributed to counterintuitive modes of thinking — and thus to the radical work of critical theory.

Lynne Huffer and Mario Telò discuss the collaboration on their forthcoming book, The Pleasure of Texting: Sapphic Writing and Reading at the Edge of the World, which documents their extraordinary yearlong texting exchange.

Drawing upon recent narratives and media representations of the refugee “crisis” at Europe’s edges, Debarati Sanyal tells a new story about those on the move, the technologies unleashed on them, and the artistry with which migrants and allies bear witness to displacement.

Alice Diop is one of the most significant filmmakers working in France today. Her intimate, observational films explore the lives of people on the margins of contemporary French society.

This conference showcases the rich array of original research projects undertaken by students in the 2025-26 Townsend Honors Thesis Workshop.

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.

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?

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.

In Whiskerology, named a New Yorker Best Book of the Year, Sarah Gold McBride offers a surprising history of human hair in nineteenth-century America — where length, texture, color, and coiffure became powerful indicators of race, gender, and national belonging.