Past Events

Music, the Diaspora, and the World

A Conversation with Angélique Kidjo
Thursday, Oct 28, 2021 12:00 pm
| 820 Social Sciences Building

Angélique Kidjo is the 2021-22 Cal Performances artist-in-residence. She talks with UC Berkeley scholars about the global circulation of African musical forms and musicians, their worldwide significance, and their social power.

The Value of Poetry

Eric Falci
Berkeley Book Chats
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| Online

Exploring the literary, cultural, and political value of poetry in the twenty-first century, Eric Falci shows how poems matter, and what they offer to readers in the contemporary world.

Amanda Anderson

Injury, Dignity, and the Literary History of Rumination
Una's Lecture
Wednesday, Oct 20, 2021 4:00 pm
| 315 Wheeler Hall and Online

Amanda Anderson is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English and director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University.

Ark of Martyrs: An Autobiography of V

Allan deSouza
Berkeley Book Chats
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| Online

Allan deSouza’s rewriting of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness substitutes Conrad’s words with ones that loosely rhyme, creating a linguistically and psychologically complex portrait of dystopian contemporary life.

The Secular State and Religious Tolerance

Berkeley Lecture on Religious Tolerance with Denis Lacorne
Monday, Sep 13, 2021 5:00 pm
| Online

Is secularism compatible with religious tolerance? Denis Lacorne explores the impact of secular regimes on religious tolerance, focusing on religious symbols and the space granted to them in the public square.

An Ongoing Revolution

Reflections on Gendered Struggles and Feminist Scholarship in the Humanities
Wednesday, Apr 21, 2021 4:00 pm
| Online

Commemorating 150 years of women at Berkeley, faculty members from the humanities discuss how issues of gender and feminism have shaped scholarship and teaching.

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(Re)making Sense: The Humanities and Pandemic Culture
(Re)Making Sense
Thursday, Apr 15, 2021 4:00 pm
| Online

Antonella Bonfanti, Abigail De Kosnik, and Jeffrey Skoller examine how the practices and study of visual culture are shaped by the current political and public health crises.

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| Online

Anneka Lenssen explores how artists developed new kinds of painting as a means to agitate against the imposed identities and intersubjective relations that accompanied the making of modern Syria.

Spirit

(Re)making Sense: The Humanities and Pandemic Culture
(Re)Making Sense
Wednesday, Mar 10, 2021 4:00 pm
| Online

The pandemic has underscored the need to attend to the life of the spirit. Berkeley faculty members explore the shifting role of spirituality and its relationship to art.