Bear's-Eye View

Bear's-Eye View is a chronicle of students' engagement with the vibrant humanities culture at the Townsend Center and across the Berkeley campus. Each semester our undergraduate humanities writers soak up the wealth of humanities programs and events, and write about what they've learned.

A visit to BAMPFA's retrospective on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha becomes a meditation on displacement, memory, and the unexpected connections formed when strangers interpret art together.

Layli Long Soldier's reading at UC Berkeley showed how her work goes beyond protest or survival, rooting Indigenous resistance in love and belonging to reclaim Native culture as something living — not just a monument to suffering.

Poet Aracelis Girmay explores the liminal space between tragic loss and new life in her newest book of poetry, drawing upon her personal exploration of the natural entanglement between an aging parent and her newly born child.

"The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson" featured a panel on art and advocacy with Tourmaline, Eric Stanley, and Angela Davis.

At UC Berkeley’s Native Community Center Brandi Bushman considers the apology as a rhetorical form, with a particular focus on Layli Long Soldier’s poetry collection Whereas.

Author and activist Isabel Allende talks with Dean Sara Guyer of the Division of Arts & Humanities about feminism, philosophy, love, and survival.