Townsend Events

Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler

Mario Telò in Conversation with Judith Butler
Berkeley Book Chats
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| Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall

Considering Judith Butler's “tragic trilogy” — a set of interventions on Sophocles's Antigone, Euripides's Bacchae, and Aeschylus's EumenidesMario Telò seeks to understand how Butler uses and interprets Greek tragedy and, ultimately, how tragedy shapes Butler's thinking.

Jia Zhangke

Filmmaker in Residence
Thursday, Nov 7, 2024 7:00 pm -
| BAMPFA, 2155 Center Street

In residence at BAMPFA, renowned filmmaker Jia Zhangke engages in a week of post-screening conversations with Berkeley faculty members and other scholars of Chinese cinema.

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| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Through bold new analyses of legendary works of German silent cinema, Nicholas Baer reassesses Weimar cinema in light of the "crisis of historicism" widely diagnosed by German philosophers in the early twentieth century.

Anuj Vaidya and Praba Pilar

Crawling Toward Utopia: Retreat to a Larval Future
Rethinking Futures
Monday, Nov 18, 2024 5:00 pm
| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Artists Anuj Vaidya and Praba Pilar discuss Larval Rock Stars, their multi-modal conceptual project encompassing digital, textual, performance, sound, and video experimentation.