Past Events

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.

Zahid Chaudhary (Princeton University) discusses his recent book, which analyzes the psychosocial dynamics of conspiracy cultures, anti-democratic movements, and new media.

Andreja Novakovic offers the first philosophical study of Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman's deeply personal body of work.

Shiben Banerji explores the forgotten history of the occult foundations of the early 20th-century global city.

Examining how Western art history has misconstrued names and identities in Chinese art, Winnie Wong proposes new ways of studying anonymity, copying, and the emergence of author names in the long 18th century.

How do (and should) we read today? This two-day symposium considers how emerging technologies, habits of attention, and cross-cultural legacies shape contemporary reading practices.

Julia Fawcett looks to the Restoration theater to understand the emergence of London as a modern city after the Great Fire of 1666.

How might a 21st-century revolution against class society succeed? Jasper Bernes synthesizes from a history of failure the key criteria for success.