N E W S L E T T E R

The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities

April/May 2002 Learning by Doing

As announced in the February Newsletter, the Townsend Center will provide again in 2002, under the Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP), small grants to faculty who will mentor an undergraduate research apprentice over the summer. The Townsend Center asked three faculty members who held the grant last summer to recount their experiences with their apprentice researchers. Their comments appear below.

Darcy Grigsby (History of Art), who has served as a Faculty Mentor regularly since 1996, describes how her undergraduate researchers work both individually and as a team, contributing substantively to her research project:

Between 1996 and 1998, I sponsored four different undergraduate students who researched topics of their choice relevant to my first book, Extremities: PaintingEmpire in Post-Revolutionary France (Yale University Press, 2002). After discussion with me, each student selected, according to her or his interests, a particular research area, which was pivotal to my book. For example, some students researched slavery in Saint-Domingue; others, the reputation of Abbé Raynal; still another, the harem as a space of fantasy in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century France.

After familiarizing themselves with my research, the students compiled a bibliography of primary and secondary texts and an archive of visual images. Each student had a key to my office, a proxy library card, access to my xerox card, a filing cabinet drawer and a shelf in my office. I consider these young people to have been my collaborators in the preliminary stages of research for my book. We met periodically during the semester to discuss progress; we also communicated by notes left on their shelves. Since I have had undergraduate and graduate students working with me on a variety of problems, my office has been a busy and communal space.

I have also attempted to expose undergraduate students to scholarship and art beyond the confines of the campus. I took one Undergraduate Research Apprentice (who was in my Art and Colonialism class) to a Middle East Studies Association Conference in San Francisco where I gave a presentation. Twice my apprentices have received URAP summer stipends enabling them to continue research during the summer. One recipient of the summer stipend traveled with me to Paris and conducted further research there after I introduced her to libraries and museums. Another helped me during the concluding stages of my book production by communicating with French museum administrators and private collectors with the aim of locating artworks and acquiring photographs. This student also

1 helped me compile a bibliography and list Renate Holub, who directs the program in of sources for the seminar “Monuments Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies and Ruins,” which I taught in Fall 2001. (where she also teaches), explains how apprentice researchers played an important role Since 1999, four other research apprentices in her research on Multicultural Europe: have conducted research on problems

pertinent to my second book, Colossal Last summer, Wendy Vogt, a History Monument, Colossal Engineering, Colossal major, was my apprentice, but Defne Ezgi, Empire (a project that includes the Suez and Marina McNee, and Jeff Jordan also Panama Canals, the Statue of Liberty, and worked with me (all four were readers for the Eiffel Tower). Last semester, for my class on Multicultural Europe, which example, a comparative literature major enrolled 160 students and was cross-listed researched the role of the machine and with Geography, History, International industrial references in late nineteenth- and Area Studies, and Interdisciplinary century French poetry; an art history Studies). My research also pertains to student researched the representation of Multicultural Europe, examining the sculpture studios and manufacture in late transformations taking place in Europe nineteenth-century France; another student due to the formation of the European compiled a bibliography on the Union on the one hand, and migration photography of labor during the same flows into Europe on the other. Since period. (The latter student is now enrolled migrants into Europe originate both in the Contents in an independent study course with me East and the South, migration from the and is writing a paper on a related topic.) Learning by Doing South in fact means migration from 1 Muslim-majority countries. Constants and Wholes 4

Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Last summer, when I was studying Fellow, 2002-2004 6 primarily cultural aspects of the fact of Working Group Application migration in Europe, I was interested in Guidelines 7 cultural productions of immigrants, their Working Groups Activities descendents, and immigrant communities. 8 Ms. Vogt collected materials on immigrant Calendar 13 literature in Europe, systematically Events researching novels by immigrants and 20 immigrant descendents in France, Britain, Announcements 35 Germany, Italy, Spain, and other European countries. Thanks to her outstanding

2 performance as a research apprentice, I exercise her abilities in archival research. Wilhelm’s correpsondence with Savigny, was able to read most of the novels during he never mentioned how he and his the summer and then to select some of The project on which I am currently brother worked together, then that was a them for use in my course on Multicultural working involves collaborative authorship great help for me. When she found in the Europe. Currently, as I seek to complete a of literary works during the formative correspondence actual mention of project on the multicultural debates in both period of modern German culture, the collaborative method, her notes allowed Europe and North America, I am early nineteenth century. Prominent my own research to be more focused. incorporating in the European section an among the collaborative pairs I am Similarly, in regard to the critical material, analysis of the literature by immigrants in researching are the Grimm brothers. Since there are thousands of books and articles Europe, and Ms. Vogt’s good work proves the apprentice had taken a course (not from on the Grimm brothers, but very few of valuable once again. me) on the German fairy tale, and since I them approach the tales as collaborative had ample evidence in my classes of her products; the research assistant was able This summer, I will continue with the ability to read and interpret literary texts, to shorten the list considerably for me and cultural aspect of migration into Europe I was confident that she could do the to direct me to the critics who were most and hope to collect movies and research I needed. appropriate for my own specific interests. information on immigrant art. I would be very interested in working again with a Essentially, my research apprentice did two The Grimms are only one of a half-dozen URAP apprentice. things: she read through the Grimms’ collaborative pairs I am using in voluminous correspondence (both this study of the German national literary between themselves and with other canon, but they are unusual because of the In this statement, Kenneth Weisinger, a faculty correspondents), looking for explicit enormous amount of material written member in Comparative Literature and in statements about their collaborative about them. Tieck and Wackenroder, German, describes how his research apprentice method of work; and she read through the Brentano and von Arnim, even Goethe and explored archival resources in search of material many literary interpretations of the Schiller (as collaborators) have nothing like related to the fairy tales of the Grimm brothers. Grimms’ work, again paying particular the mountain of criticism and attention to those instances where interpretation written on them that the The URAP program allowed me to employ collaborative production was singled out Grimms have elicited. Having a helper for the summer of 2001 an undergraduate for discussion. who was familiar with my project and who had taken two courses from me and whose skills (linguistic and literary) were whose interests were closely related to my The apprentice’s work was very valuable a match for the task, was a great help. And own. The award was especially to me, both for what she found and for I think the experience played a role in appreciated in this case because the what her research allowed me to eliminate directing the apprentice’s interest in the student had been accepted for graduate from my own archival research. What I discipline as a professional vocation. study in my department for the following am looking for is in short supply, but when year, and the experience as research it appears, it is significant. If the apprentice assistant gave her the opportunity to could tell me, for example, that in

3 Constants beginning of the process that, in a sense, and Wholes ends with communication and “It is now commonplace to observe just dissemination. But if fellowship selection how fractured the world of scholarship has committees may be thought of as the become.” Thus begins “Op. Cit,” a recent midwives of research, the “birth,” article in the newsletter, Policy Perspectives development, and ultimate movement of (produced by the Knight Higher Education that research into the world are, after all, Collaborative at the University of seamless processes, all part of a whole. The Pennsylvania and available on line at question of how the work gets done is at www.irhe.upenn.edu/pubs). But if the some level inseparable from that of how it center does not always hold—the authors will be disseminated and to whom. And of “Op. Cit.” are particularly concerned neither is separate from the researcher’s with the debates over the formats, whether own question: “Why am I doing this print or digital, through which humanities project?” We are always dealing with a scholars communicate their findings— writer (or writers) and an audience (or some things remain relatively constant. audiences). Not incidentally, a good deal The NEH Fellowships deadline is one of of discussion time at the meetings of the those. Once again this year, the deadline Townsend Fellows group this year has is May 1, 2002, for grants that may be taken focused on that very question. as early as January 2003. The connections among all the parts in the Application forms for NEH Fellowships scholarly communication process seem are available on the Web at http:// overlooked or at least de-emphasized in www.neh.fed.us/grants/guidelines.html. “Op. Cit.” The authors are keen to promote Last year saw a drop in the number of what they call “expanding the audience,” Berkeley faculty awarded NEH and urge that “dissemination strategies Fellowships (and, I assume, the number and investments in the humanities and who applied). The NEH Fellowship is still social sciences ought to pursue broader one of the most important vehicles of purposes and a more public style.” They external support for research in the identify the obstacles to such breadth of humanities. Anyone with a Ph.D. or its purpose as the “deeper cultural equivalent, and a project in progress that reluctance” [of humanities scholars] to will benefit from external funding, should acknowledge the “full potential of the plan to apply by the May 1, 2002, deadline digital medium as a major channel of publication” and the reluctance of To think about fellowships is to look to the humanities faculty to develop proposals

4 that would involve individuals working digital and print formats. While Baker’s together in pursuit of a “larger shared argument focuses on print and microfilm, vision” (departments are “fiefdoms” that especially in regard to the preservation of promote “isolation” and “defensiveness,” newspapers as artifacts for research, he they say). leads us to consider what forces and attitudes motivate decision-making on At the same time, the “Op Cit” authors are both the material objects and the strategies aware that “it is not just that humanists of humanities research. As the NEH celebrate books as objects of art important Fellowship deadline approaches again, it in their own right, though that has proven is time to consider that format makes a to be an important element in the story, but difference: both to the new NEH that scholarly work in the social sciences Fellowship holder who is in the research and humanities is of a different kind and stages of a project and to the scholar who hence requires a different kind of com- is now publishing (in whatever form) the munication—one that traditional print fruits of a fellowship awarded several publication has served well.” Similarly, it years ago. is hard to deny the assertion that the Christina M. Gillis traditionally “proven” system of scholarly Associate Director communication is now undergoing enormous strain, both culturally and economically, and that the stress comes at a time when we recognize as well the need—one sees it also in the NEH web site—to “increase the number of those who understand and affirm that their lives are positively affected by the work of the humanities.”

But the fact remains that these issues inform the entire life of the research project: from its inception to its dissemination as a product. Nicholson Baker’s residency here this month as Una’s Lecturer, and his addressing in his lectures what he calls “Shelving History,” may catalyze once again discussion of the tension between

5 Woodrow Wilson that derive from “intimate engagements postdoctoral Fellow, with the minutiae of biological processes,” 2002-2004 and that these aesthetic-based models are used in turn to grapple with fundamental

The Townsend Center is pleased to existential problems. announced that Eduardo Kohn, currently a Weatherhead Resident Scholar at the The Townsend Center is one of some School of American Research in Santa Fe, thirteen sites chosen by the Woodrow New Mexico, will hold a Woodrow Wilson Wilson Foundation to receive funding Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Townsend intended to expand interdisciplinary Center for the period 2002-2004. Kohn, the teaching opportunities for new Ph.Ds. in third Woodrow Wilson postdoctoral fellow the humanities and related fields. At to join the Center, is completing the Ph.D. Berkeley, it is expected that Eduardo Kohn in Anthropology at the University of will teach in areas that include Arts and Wisconsin, Madison. He was selected to Humanities, Anthropology, and the participate in “Environmental Images, College of Natural Resources. Environmental Impacts,” a project initiated in 2001 by Townsend Center Director Candace Slater in collaboration with the Dean of Arts and Humanities, the College of Natural Resources, and the Berkeley Workshop in Environmental Politics.

In his dissertation entitled “Natural Engagements and Ecological Aesthetics Among the Avila Runa of Amazonian Ecuador,” Eduardo Kohn seeks to make sense of how the Quichua-speaking Runa of Avila Viejo (a village in eastern Ecuador) make sense of the complex Amazonian environment they inhabit, and to trace the implications of this process for anthropological attempts to understand human-nature relationships. Kohn argues that Runa ecological models grow out of culturally specific aesthetic orientations

6 Guidelines for and the funds available in the program. to the Townsend Center; applications will Applications for the The 2001-2002 the average grant was $750. not be accepted via fax or email. Working Groups Completed applications must be received Program, 2002-2003 A proposal to the Working Groups by the end of the day on May 1, 2002. For program consists of a description of the further information on the application The deadline for receipt of grant project, the interests of the organizers, and process, please contact Tamao Nakahara, applications for the Townsend Center the activities planned; the amount of the Working Groups Coordinator Working Groups Program is Wednesday, funding sought; and the categories of ([email protected]). May 1, 2002. Grants awarded under this expense. The proposal should be 1-2 Notification of awards will be made by the deadline are to be used for Working Group single-spaced pages in length and should end of May, 2002. Please indicate in the activities planned for the 2002-2003 year. be written for a general scholarly audience. proposal the address to which notification Already established Working Groups, as A budget form must be submitted with all should be sent. well as graduate students and/or faculty applications; forms are available in the wishing to establish new groups or Townsend Center (220 Stephens Hall) or collaboratives, should apply in this on the Web at http://ls.berkeley.edu/ GRANTS FOR LECTURES, competition. dept/townsend/wg_comp.html. A CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA successful budget proposal will be both Please see information provided in the The Working Groups program is intended specific and realistic; a sample budget is February 2002 Newsletter. A summary of to bring together, from various fields and attached to the form. that information and the schedule of departments, faculty and graduate deadlines for conference grants also students with shared research interests. Existing groups applying to continue in appears in the Townsend Announcements Funds may be used for photocopying and 2002-2003 must also include a final report of section of this issue, on page 37. distribution (as well as translation or activities and events sponsored in 2001-2002. transcription) of materials, costs connected The year-end summary and the proposal with meetings, electronic search fees, and for next year may be written as one where appropriate, visiting speakers. document; however, within that Other budget categories may be proposed document, activities completed during according to the nature of the project. 2001-2002 should be listed separately from Please note that the grant is not intended planned activities for the coming year. for funding symposia or conferences. Working Groups planning a conference should apply separately to the Townsend Please direct all Working Group proposals Center’s conference grant program (note to Candace Slater, Director, Townsend new deadlines for conference grants). The Center, 220 Stephens Hall, MC 2340. specific amount of a working group grant Proposals and supporting documents must will depend upon the activity proposed be hand-delivered or sent via campus mail

7 working groups Black Literary Discourse Contact: Shawn Salvant, (510) 665-9067, April/May Activities [email protected] April meeting, time and location TBA via the Townsend The Townsend Center Working Groups Program brings together, listserv (or contact the group). The group will read and from various fields and departments, faculty and graduate students discuss “Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, and the with shared research interests. African American Critic,” a collection of essays from Angelyn Mitchell’s Within the Circle.

Activism in the Academy British Studies Reading Group Contact: Damani Partridge, [email protected] Contact: Kaarin Michaelsen, [email protected], and Chad Martin, [email protected] Ancient Philosophy Working Group (formerly Working Group in Ancient Philosophy) California Studies Lectures Contact: Vanessa de Harven, [email protected] Contact: Richard Walker, (510) 642-3901, Please consult http://philosophy.berkeley.edu for updates. [email protected], or Delores Dillard, (510) April 15 (Monday), 5:30pm, 234 Moses Hall. Andrea Nightin- 642-3903, [email protected] gale (Stanford) will participate in the group’s meeting. For April 23 (Tuesday). The April speaker for the California Studies more information, please contact jessicagelber@hotmail. Dinner will be Richard Walker (Geography, UCB). com. Dinner will be served at 7:00pm. The cost is $17.50 ($10 students). Checks should be issued to: “UC Regents.” Armenian Studies Working Group Reservations should be made in advance but the group Contact: Stephan Astourian, (510) 642-1489, will accept responses up to the day of the talk. To make a [email protected] or Barbara Voytek, (510) reservation, call Delores Dillard at (510) 642-3903 or email 643-6736, [email protected] her for the response form at [email protected]. Asian Art and Visual Cultures Contact: Sharon Yamamoto, [email protected] Celtic Colloquium April 18 (Thursday), 5:15pm, 308B Doe Library. Sung Lim Kim Contact: Maria Teresa Agozzino, (510) 530-6233, (History of Art, UCB) will discuss her qualifying paper on [email protected] Chinese art. May 16 (Thursday), 4:30pm, location TBA. The Asian Arts and Central Asia/Silk Road Working Group Visual Cultures Working Group, in association with the Contact: Sanjyot Mehendale, (510) 643-5265, Center for Korean Studies, will present a lecture by [email protected], or Bruce C. Williams, Burglind Jungmann (Korean Art History, UCLA). Please (510) 642-2556, [email protected]; or contact the group coordinator for more information. [email protected]

BTW - Questions of German Modernism Chicana and Latina Studies Working Group Contact: June Hwang, [email protected], or Chad Contact: Karina Cespedes, [email protected] Wellmon, [email protected] The group will continue editing the videotape of the confer- BTW international conference on German modernism is on ence “Practicing Transgression: Radical Women of Color April 3-4, 2002. This year’s research topic and conference for the 21st Century,” which celebrated the 20th anniver- title is “Transgressive Spaces.” For more information sary of the feminist classic This Bridge Called My Back. please contact the group. The group meets on Tuesdays; please contact Karina Cespedes ([email protected]) for time and location Bay Area Forum for Law and Ethics (BAFFLE) information. Contact: Meir Dan-Cohen, [email protected] Comparative Legal Cultures Berkeley and Bay Area Early Modern Studies Group Contact: Jackie Gehring, [email protected] Contact: Victoria Kahn, [email protected], Timothy Hampton, [email protected], or Albert Comparison and Interdisciplinary Studies Ascoli, [email protected] Contact: Humberto Cruz, [email protected], or Armando Manalo, [email protected] Berkeley New Music Project Contact: Hubert Ho, [email protected], or David Economic Development Working Group Bithell, [email protected] Contact: Edward Miguel, [email protected] and Pranab Bardhan, [email protected] Berkeley Southeast Asianists April 9 (Tuesday), 4:00-6:00pm, 639 Evans. Garrick Blaylock Contact: Nina Keefer, (510) 839-6204, (UCB) will speak on “Technology from Foreign Direct [email protected] Investment: Strategic Transfer through Supply Chains.”

8 April 16 (Tuesday), 4:00-6:00pm, 639 Evans. Sendhil Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley Mullainathan (MIT) will speak. Topic TBA. Contacts: Sharon Goetz, [email protected] or Mary April 23 (Tuesday), 4:00-6:00pm, 639 Evans. Andrew Foster Brown, [email protected] (Brown University) will speak. Topic TBA. April 4 (Thursday), 1:00pm, 204 Dwinelle. Karen Silen will give April 30 (Tuesday), 4:00-6:00pm, 639 Evans. Steve Boucher a talk entitled “Dance at the University in Thirteenth- (UC Davis) will speak on “Risk Rationing and Activity Century Paris.” Choice in Moral Hazard Constrained Credit Markets.” April 24 (Wednesday), 2:00pm, 189 Dwinelle. Sarah J. Portnoy May 7 (Tuesday), 4:00-6:00pm, 639 Evans. Caridad Araujo will give a talk entitled “‘Delgadina’ : The Case of Father- (UC Berkeley) will speak. Topic TBA. Daughter Incest in a Cuban Children’s Song.” May 14 (Tuesday), 4:00-6:00pm, 639 Evans. Jose Ernesto Lopez-Cordova (Inter-American Development Bank) will Grammar and Verbal Art speak on “Mexico’s Manufacturing Productivity: An Contacts: Robert Kawashima, [email protected], Empirical Investigation Using Micro-Level Data.” and Benjamin Widiss, [email protected] April 10 (Wednesday), 4:00pm, 4104 Dwinelle. Further Eighteenth-Century Studies information on this meeting will be circulated via the Contact: Len von Morze, [email protected] group’s email list, and available from the coordinators. May 9 (Thursday), 4:00pm, 4104 Dwinelle. Ann Banfield Folklore Roundtable (English, UCB) will give a talk entitled, “Linguistics, Then Contact: The Folklore Archives, (510) 643-7934, and Now.” [email protected] or http://ls.berkeley.edu/ dept/folklore/Folk.HTM Historical Social Science April 29 (Monday), 5:00pm, Folklore Archives, 110 Kroeber Contact: Jonathan Van Antwerpen, [email protected], Hall. Stephanie Sylvester (Italian, UCB) will present or Dan Geary, (510) 841-3323, “Revolutionary Revelry: The Festival of Saint Agatha and [email protected] Civic Identity in Eastern Sicily.” History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science Francophone Studies Working Group Contact: Johannes Hafner, (510) 558-0545, Contact: Shaden Tageldin, [email protected]; [email protected], or Chris Pincock, Christophe Wall-Romana, [email protected]. [email protected]; or http:// April (date and time TBA), 4229 Dwinelle. The group will www.math.berkeley.edu/~jhafner/hplm/ hold a meeting to assess its March conference, April 3 (Wednesday), 6:00pm, 234 Moses. Gerd Grasshoff “Francophone™?”; decide whether it will host any other (University of Bern) will talk on “Copernican revolution, events this year; and begin planning next year’s Kepler’s new astronomy and inferences to the best emphases and activities. For further information, please explanation.” contact the group. April 17 (Wednesday), 6:00pm, 234 Moses. Ron Anderson (Boston College) will speak on “Mathematics, Logic, and Graduate Film Working Group Language: Tracing the Influence of Interpreting Symbolic Contact: Tamao Nakahara, [email protected], or Structures in 19th-century British Electromagnetism.” Minette Hillyer, [email protected]; http:// May 1 (Wednesday), 6:00pm, 234 Moses. John MacFarlane cinemaspace.berkeley.edu/grad/ (Berkeley) will speak on “Logical Knowledge and Its Conference Site: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~tamao/ Application.” Trash.htm Cult/Trash film screenings: The group will sporadically have History and Social Studies of Medicine and the Body screenings at the PFA and in Dwinelle. These are in Contact: Lara Freidenfelds, (510) 649-0591, preparation for the May conference. Please contact the [email protected] group to be added to the email list. April 12 (Friday), 11:00am, 7415 Dwinelle. The group will hold Humanistic Perspectives On Processes And Patterns Of its final conference-organizing meeting of the semester. Discovery In The Sciences And Technology May 17-19 (Friday - Sunday): The “Born to Be Bad: Trash Contact: Ernest B. Hook, (510) 642-4490, Cinema of the 1960s and 70s” Conference and Film [email protected]. Festival: 220 Stephens and the Pacific Film Archive Theater (Bancroft Ave. at Bowditch St.). Please consult the Indo-European Language and Culture Working Group “Conferences” section of this newsletter for the detailed Contact: Deborah Anderson, (408) 255-4842, schedule. [email protected]; May 20 (Monday), 7415 Dwinelle. Workshops with Eric http://www.indo-european.org/page4.html Schaefer (Emerson College, Boston) and Xavier Mendik April 26 (Friday), 12:00 noon, 3335 Dwinelle. Joshua Katz (Cult Film Archive, University College Northampton, (Classics, Princeton) will give a talk, “A Badger in Winter: UK). Any interested students are welcome. These will be Remarks on the Structure of Works and Days 504-35.” Co- informal workshops on archival research and cult films. sponsored by the Department of Classics. Please contact the group for exact times.

9 May 2 (Thursday), 5:00pm, 3401 Dwinelle. Sergei Starostin Law and the Humanities (Director of the Center of Comparative Linguistics and Contact: Sara Rushing, (510) 681-6105, Chair of Comp. Linguistics and Ancient Languages, [email protected] Russian State University and currently Visiting Professor, The Law and Humanities Working Group will continue this Santa Fe Institute) will discuss his “Evolution of Human semester to host guest faculty members from the Berkeley Languages” project, the online Leiden Indo-European community who are working in some way on law and Database, and Internet cooperation. humanities-type scholarship.

Interdisciplinary Marxism Music, Literature and Critical Theory Contact: Hoang Phan, (510) 845-6984, Contact: Mary Ann Smart, (510) 420-0377, [email protected], or Ruth Jennison, [email protected], Katherine Bergeron, [email protected] [email protected], or Heather Wiebe, April 3 (Wednesday), 6:00pm, 220 Stephens. The group will [email protected] hold its reading group. April 24 (Wednesday), 7:00pm, 104 Morrison Hall. The group April 17 (Wednesday), 6:00pm, 306 Wheeler. The group will will discuss the early nineteenth-century genre of musical hold its reading group. melodrama (spoken text layered with orchestral music), May 1 (Wednesday), 6:00pm, 306 Wheeler. The group will hold focusing on Beethoven’s incidental music for Goethe’s its reading group. play Egmont and on Schubert’s essays in the genre. Connections to contemporary theatrical melodrama and to Interdisciplinary Working Group in the History of Political opera will be considered. Materials for reading and Thought listening will be on reserve in the Music Library (2nd floor Contacts: Caroline Humfress, of Morrison Hall) under the course number Music 99. [email protected], or Shannon Stimson, [email protected] Nineteenth-Century and Beyond British Cultural Studies Working Group Interdisciplinary Working Group on Performance Contact: Rachel Teukolsky, [email protected] Contact: Patrick Anderson, (510) 451-4124, April 17 (Wednesday), 4:30pm, BAM/PFA Conference Room, [email protected], or Renu Cappelli, (510) 839- (lower level of the Berkeley Art Museum). The group will 0855, [email protected] informally view the museum’s holdings in nineteenth- century British art. Italian Research and Study Group (IRAS) April 17 (Wednesday), 5:00pm, BAM/PFA Conference Room, Contact: Renate Holub, (510) 642-0110, (lower level of the Berkeley Art Museum). Whitney Davis [email protected] (Art History, UC Berkeley) will speak on current trends in April 1 (Monday), 6:00-8:00pm, 344 Campbell Hall. The group scholarship in the field. Then the group will discuss his will discuss the relations between Italy and Southern paper, “Homoeroticism, Sexual Selection, and the Sense of Mediterranean countries, both in the area of culture, Beauty in the 1890s.” All interested scholars welcome. To politics, foreign policy, trade, and human rights issues. A request a copy of the pre-circulated paper, please contact collaborative project on the Mediterranean is underway the group. and the group is looking for students and scholars interested in such topics. Of particular interest are Oral History Working Group students who have substantive knowledge of Tunisia, Contact: Lisa Rubens (510) 642-7395, Algeria, and Morocco, as well as Italy. [email protected], or May 6 (Monday), 6:00-8:00pm, 344 Campbell Hall. The group www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO will meet to discuss the above topics. Phenomenology Now Late Antique Religion and Society Contacts: Joel Nickels, (510) 647-5201, Contact: Elisabeth O’Connell, [email protected] [email protected], or Mark Pedretti, (510) 893-2271, [email protected] Latin American Colonial Studies Meetings are held every other Wednesday from 6:00-8:00pm, Contact: Anna More, (510) 528-3791, location TBA. [email protected], and Ivonne Del Valle (510) 527-0944, [email protected] Political Theory at a Crossroads April 5 (Friday), 2:00-4:00pm, 5303 Dwinelle. William Taylor Contact: Robyn Marasco, (510) 666-9012, (History) will present the paper “Shrines without Pil- rmarasco @uclink.berkeley.edu grims?: Miraculous Images and Sacred Places in Colonial Fridays, 2:00pm, Barrows Room (2nd floor Barrows Hall). This Mexico.” semester, the group will be reading Hanna Pitkin’s April 12 (Friday), 2:00-4:00pm, 5303 Dwinelle. Margaret celebrated study, Wittgenstein and Justice. Contact the Chowning (History) will present the paper “Catholic group for copies of the reading but participants are Reform and the Convent in 18th-Century Mexico: The encouraged to purchase the book. Snacks and drinks will Case of the Rebellious Nuns of San Miguel el Grande.” be provided.

10 Psychoanalytic Theory and Practices South Asian Modernities Contact: Maria St. John, 843-6876, Contact: Amita Satyal, [email protected], or [email protected] Shobna Nijhawan, [email protected] The group meets every last Friday of the month, 12:00 noon - Psychobiography 2:00pm, 341 Dwinelle. Contact: Ramsay Breslin, (510) 525-8005, [email protected] April 11 (Thursday), 7:30pm, location TBA. Chansonette Buck Spatial Theories/Spatial Practices (English, UCB) will present on the psychobiographical Contacts: Hsuan Hsu, [email protected] or Mark roots of William Carlos Williams’poetics. Feldman, [email protected] May 9 (Thursday), 7:30pm, location TBA. Elise Miller (St. April 4 (Thursday), 5:00pm, Cafe Strada. The group will hold a Mary’s College and UCB) will present on James Baldwin, meeting. drawing on theories of race and psychoanalysis to examine April 25 (Thursday), 5:00pm, Cafe Strada. The group will hold his identities as son, author, and American. a meeting. May 18 (Saturday), 2:00pm, 142 Dwinelle. Co-sponsored by Please email the group for details regarding readings. Film Studies, the group will hold a presentation and panel discussion with Madelon Sprengnether (English, Univ. of Twenty-First-Century Poetics (C21P) Minnesota). She will present on The Piano from her recently Contact: Jennifer Scappettone, [email protected] released memoir Crying at the Movies. April 4 (Thursday), 6:30 pm potluck, 8:00pm reading, Berkeley June 13 (Thursday), 7:30pm, location TBA. Candace Falk Center for Writers. Sianne Ngai (Stanford), and Jeff Clark, (Editor/Director, The Emma Goldman Papers, UCB) will author of The Little Door Slides Back, will read from their present a paper on the reevaluation of violence post- work and discuss the state of contemporary poetics. September 11th. May 9 (Thursday), 6:30 pm potluck, 8:00pm reading, Berkeley Center for Writers. Michael Palmer, author of The Promises Queer Ethnic Studies of Glass, and Norma Cole, author of Spinoza in her Youth, Contact: Mimi Nguyen, [email protected] will read from their work and discuss directions in verse The group meets on the third Friday of each month to discuss experimentalism. the publication of their anthology. While the editorial group is closed, feel free to contact the group for further Unicode and Text Encoding Working Group details. Contact: Richard Cook, (510) 643-9910, [email protected], or Deborah Anderson, Reading Group on Japanese Diaspora [email protected] Contact: Yuma Totani, [email protected] April 18 (Thursday), 4:00pm, 3119 Dwinelle. Mark Davis (Unicode Consortium President and Chief Globalization Reconstructing Communities in Crisis Architect, IBM Centre for Java Technology) will give a Contact: William A. Hayes, [email protected], and lecture on “Unicode Myths.” Robin DeLugan, [email protected] April 18 (Thursday), 4:00-6:00pm, location TBA. Kathleen Dill (Anthropology, UC Davis) “Guatemalan Mayan Women: Publication Activities Reconstructing and Negotiating the Past.” May 16 (Thursday), 4:00-6:00pm, location TBA. Susana Kaiser Bad Subjects (Media Studies and Latin American Studies, Univ. of San Contact: John Brady, [email protected], and Francisco) will speak on “Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’: Memory Robert Soza [email protected]; http:// Tactics and Political Strategies.” eserver.org/bs Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life is excited to Science Fiction in Literature, Film, and Culture enter its tenth year of publishing. Run by a collective of Contact: Sylvia Chong, (415) 821-9609, or graduate students, political activitists, and educators, Bad [email protected] Subjects features essays, reviews, and editorials examining http://www.geocities.com/sfworkinggroup/ the politics of popular culture and everyday life from a left The group will be reading fiction by Iain Banks, Nancy Kress, perspective. The group’s last issue for this publishing and Ted Chiang for the remainder of the spring semester. season will be Privacy and Voyeurism (deadline: April 15). Please visit the working group Web site for a complete list The group especially encourages members of the Cal of readings and the exact time and location of our meet- community to submit articles and essays. Please see the ings. To be added to our e-mail list, please contact the group Web site for the full group. descriptions of each issue and submission guidelines.

Sonic Cinema BRIDGES: Berkeley Research Journal on South and Contact: Tamao Nakahara, [email protected] Southeast Asia Members of Sonic Cinema are currently working with the Contact: Sujata Mody, [email protected]; http:// Graduate Film Working Group to put together the Trash brjss.berkeley.edu Cinema conference in May, 2002. Please see the Graduate BRIDGES is a graduate-student-run and faculty-refereed Film listing for more information.

11 annual journal. The journal fosters dialogue between the fields dedicated to investigating expressive and everyday of South and Southeast Asia and is interdisciplinary in culture. It features analytical research articles, responses, scope, drawing from theoretical and disciplinary perspec- and reviews. Cultural Analysis hopes to foster cross- tives in the social sciences, humanities, and the arts. disciplinary fertilization by publishing responses from different disciplines to research articles. The journal is Chronicle of the University of California global in scope and includes an illustrious international Contact: Carroll Brentano, (510) 643-9210, editorial board. [email protected] The Chronicle of the University of California is a semi-annual JAGNES (Journal of the Association of Graduates in Near scholarly journal dedicated to the history of the Univer- Eastern Studies) sity. The group’s fifth issue, to appear this spring, is Contact: Catherine Demos, [email protected], or entitled “Against the Grain: Conflict and Controversy.” It Sabrina Maras, [email protected]; or http:// considers struggles to introduce new curricula, to save ishi.lib.berkeley.edu/~hsp/JAGNES historic buildings, and to defeat the loyalty oath; it looks JAGNES is a biannual publication of graduate student at the history of student dissent and administration articles and book reviews relating to the ancient and rejoinder, and the protests of the 1960s and 1980s. The modern Near and Middle East. editorial board welcomes contributions to future issues from members of the UC Berkeley community. Please see Lucero the journal Web site for samples of their contents: http:// LUCERO is the literary journal published by the graduate sunsite.berkeley.edu/uchistory/chronicle/. students of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Please visit the group’s Web site for journal issues. Critical Sense Contact: Jimmy Casas Klausen, (510) 465-3415, Qui Parle [email protected], or Kate Drabinski, 843- Contact: Benjamin Lazier, (510) 548-4970, 0472, [email protected] [email protected], or Jennifer Greiman, Critical Sense is an interdisciplinary journal published by and [email protected]; or http:// for Berkeley humanities and social science graduate socrates.berkeley.edu/~quiparle/ students. Qui Parle publishes bi-annually articles in literature, philoso- The Spring 2002 issue of Critical Sense, inaugurating a new phy, visual arts, and history by an international array of look for the journal in celebration of its tenth year, is now faculty and graduate students. The editors are currently available. Focusing on the theme of “Work, Labor, seeking submissions from Berkeley graduate students in Leisure, Class,” the latest issue features articles on the humanities. Coming soon: Issue 13.1, a special issue Gertrude Stein, the Gap, Theodore Dreiser, and Hanif entitled "Facism, Gender, and Culture." Direct all Kureishi as well as a forum in which both academics and correspondence to Qui Parle, The Doreen B. Townsend non-academics reflect on the meaning and “class- Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall, Univer- ification” of intellectual labor. sity of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720-2340. For the Fall 2002 issue, the editors invite submissions from graduate students on the turn, return, or turn-off of repercussions: Critical and Alternative Viewpoints on Music theology, religion, spirituality, or spirit in contemporary and Scholarship cultural and political theory and practice. We are espe- Contact: Holly Watkins, [email protected] cially interested in papers that consider the nexus of The journal publishes articles on musical hermeneutics, religion/spirituality and gender, sexuality, or sexual aesthetics, and criticism, representing a wide variety of culture; the role of “religious” discourse in local, regional, perspectives and methods. Graduate students in all or global geopolitics, pre- or post-September 11; and departments are welcome to work on the journal. This recuperations of religious thought in the recent theory, year, the editors are especially encouraging submissions philosophy, literature, art, and political praxis of the on performance. Address correspondence and submis- Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia, the Arab world, the sions to: repercussions, Dept. of Music; 107 Morrison Hall Pacific world, and their diasporas. Papers should be no #1200; University of California; Berkeley, CA 94720- more than 30 pages long and should be delivered or 1200. postmarked by Friday, June 28, 2002, to the following address: Satellite Critical Sense, c/o Department of Political Science, 210 Barrows Contact: J.J. Panzer, (510) 644-8290, Hall, #1950, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, [email protected] CA 94720-1950. Satellite is primarily a student magazine that publishes six issues per academic year of poetry, journalism, inter- Cultural Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore views, fiction, and essays. The group’s goal is to create a and Popular Culture diverse community of ideas within the Berkeley Contact: Maria Teresa Agozzino (510) 643-7934, community. See www.readsatellite.com for more [email protected] information or email [email protected]. Cultural Analysis is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal

12 CALENDAR Lectures and Conferences monday, april 1 wednesday, april 3 Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Department of Spanish and Portuguese Spring Poetry Series E. A. Hammel and Mirjana Stevanovic • “The Migration of Roundtable on translation Serbs and Albanians Within and Between Inner Serbia and 12:10 pm • Spanish Department Library, 5125 Dwinelle Hall Kosovo” 12 noon • 270 Stephens Hall Department of Anthropology Centennial Lecture Series Margaret Lock • “Savouring Complexity: Anthropology and History Department Spring Lecture Series the Life Industry” Gary Cross • “Why Consumerism is the ‘Ism’ that Won 20th- 4:00 pm • 160 Kroeber Hall Century America” 4:00 pm • 3335 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley China Colloquium Xin Gu • “The Institutionalization of Unemployment in History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science Urban China” Working Group 4:00 pm • IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Fl. Gerd Grasshoff • “Copernican Revolution, Kepler’s New Astronomy, and Inferences to the Best Explanation” Center for Race and Gender 6:00 pm • Dennes Room, 234 Moses Hall Panel discussion • Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Linda Burnham, Hatem Bazian Caucasus and Central Asia Program Lecture Series “Race, Gender, and ‘The War Adrienne Edgar • “Multiple and Layered Identities in on Terrorism’” Central Eurasia” 7:00 pm • 370 Dwinelle Hall 7:00 pm • 3 Le Conte Hall

The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium thursday, april 4 Steve Wilson • "Liberating the Lab: Art in a Techno- Townsend Center for the Humanities Scientific Era" Donigan Cumming • “The 'Pretty Ribbon' Series: Controver- 7:30 pm • 160 Kroeber Hall sial Issues in Representing Aging in Photography” 12:00 noon • The Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall tuesday, april 2 Lunch Poems Reading Series Chana Block • Reads from recent work Center for Studies in Higher Education Lecture Series 12:10 pm • Morrison Library, Doe Library Anne MacLachlan • “Gender and Ethnicity in Research on Scientific Careers” Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory, Boalt 12 noon • CSHE Library, South Hall Annex Hall, School of Law R. Jay Wallace • title TBA Berkeley Language Center 1:00 pm • JSP Seminar Room, 2240 Piedmont Peter C. Patrikis • “From One Consortium to Another” 3:00 • 370 Dwinelle Hall Center for Middle Eastern Studies Sibel Bozdogan • “National Landscapes: Turkish Modernity Center for African Studies Spring Lecture Series and the Taming of Nature” James Ferguson • “Decomposing Modernity: History and 5:00 pm • Sultan Room, 340 Stephens Hall Hierarchy After Development” 4:00 pm • 145 McCone Hall Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies and the School of Journalism Department of English Beckman Lectures United Nations Association Film Festival Franco Moretti • “'Maps'. Abstract models for the study of 5:00 pm • 145 Dwinelle Hall literature” 8:00 pm • Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall Berkeley Architecture Spring Lecture Series Raul Cardenas Osuna of Torolab, Tijuana, Mexico 7:00 pm • 2050 Valley Life Sciences Bldg.

13 CALENDAR Lectures and Conferences, cont. friday, april 5 monday, april 8, cont. Department of German Graduate Students Department of Anthropology • Conference • Finite Subjects: Mortality and Culture in Germany Caroline Humphrey “Stalin and the Blue Elephant: Paranoia 9:30 am • location TBA and Complicity in Post-Communist Metahistories” • Conference continues on Saturday, April 6 4:00 pm 160 Kroeber

Berkeley-Stanford Conference in French/Francophone Studies Office for History of Science and Technology • Conference • Thinking Through Memory Bruce Sinclair “Engineering a Coup: Hetch-Hetchy Revis- The Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall ited” • Conference continues on Saturday, April 6 5:00 pm 203 Wheeler Hall

The Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics Colloquium Richard Schroeder • “Wildlife Wars: Beyond Distributive Justice in Tanzania” tuesday, april 9 3:00 pm • 223 Moses Hall Townsend Center for the Humanities Workshop • “Writing the NEH Fellowship Proposal” • The Archaeological Research Facility 4:00 pm The Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Jean Clottes • “Recent Research at the Paleolithic Cave Art Site, Grotte Chauvet (Ardèche, France)” Center for African Studies Spring Lecture Series • 4:00 pm • 160 Kroeber Hall Ali A. Mazrui “Islam Between Economics, Globalization, and Political Marginalization: The Consequences” • Consortium for the Arts/ 6:00 pm 159 Mulford Hall Arts Research Center Panel discussion “Henry Threadgill: In Conversation” Henry Threadgill, David Wessel, wednesday, april 10 and Anthony Brown Caucasus and Central Asia Program / Center for South Asia 5:00 pm • Hertz Hall Studies Tom Metcalf • “Pakistan, India, and the Kashmir Conflict” Henry Threadgill 7:00 pm • 3 Le Conte Hall saturday, april 6 Center for the Study of Sexual Culture • Consortium for the Arts/Arts Research Center Carolyn Dinshaw “GLQ in Malaysia: LGBT Studies, Censor- Symposium • Preparing the Unforeseen: Approaches to Musical ship, and Other Transnational Problems” • Improvisation 7:30 pm 370 Dwinelle Hall 12 noon • 125 Morrison Hall and Hertz Hall Department of English Beckman Lectures Franco Moretti • “’Graphs.’ Abstract models for the study of literature” sunday, april 7 8:00 pm • Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall Berkeley Art Museum Sanford Biggers - Artist’s Talk & Performance • “MATRIX 197 / Sanford Biggers Psychic Windows” 3:00 pm • Gallery 1 thursday, april 11 Center for the Study of Sexual Culture Karma Lochrie • “Before Sex Was Normal: Heterosexuality and Deviance in Medieval Culture” monday, april 8 11:00 am • 370 Dwinelle Hall Department of Spanish and Portuguese Spring Poetry Series Marcelo Pellegrini & Nelson Ramírez • Reading from recent Center for Studies in Higher Education • work David Pearson “Pressure to Engage the Dilemmas of K-12 12:10 pm • Spanish Department Library, 5125 Dwinelle Hall Education: How Are Education Schools Meeting Expectations” 12 noon • CSHE Library, South Hall Annex

14 thursday, april 11, cont. sunday, april 14 Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory, Boalt Hall, Berkeley Art Museum • School of Law Matthew Jackson - Gallery Talk “Asian Elephant Art and Susan Okin • Title TBA Conservation Project” • 1:00 pm • JSP Seminar Room, 2240 Piedmont 3:00 pm Gallery 3

France Berkeley Fund Symposium • The Culture of Books: Birth and Transformations of the Reader from the Late Middle Ages to the Dawn of the Modern monday, april 15 Period Department of Spanish and Portuguese Spring Poetry Series • 1:45 pm • Location TBA Ron Loewinsohn Reading from his poetry and prose and Symposium continues on Friday and Saturday, 9:00 am translating Neruda 12:10 pm • Spanish Department Library, 5125 Dwinelle Hall Townsend Center for the Humanities Yvonne Rainer • “Skirting and Aging: An Aging Artist's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures • Memoir” Andrew Kahn “Karamzin’s Enlightenment Monuments: 4:00 pm • The Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Memory, History, National Identity” 4:00 pm • 219 Dwinelle Hall Philosophy Department Colloquium Series Tamar Schapiro • “The Corruptibility of the Moral Law as the Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning • Basis of Nonideal Theory” Anne Michaels “The Immediacy of Landscape: Anne 4:00 pm • Howison Philosophy Library, 305 Moses Hall Michaels’ Literary Response” 5:30 pm • Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall Center for Middle Eastern Studies Mandana Limbert • “Memories of Zanzibar: Genealogy, Race Caucasus and Central Asia Program • and the Politics of Becoming Arab in Oman” Panel discussion Claire Mouradian, Stephen F. Jones, Alec 5:00 pm • Sultan Room, 340 Stephens Hall Rasizade, Stephan Astourian “From 1991 to 9-11: Ten Years of Independence in the Departments of the History of Art and Classics Caucasus” • John Elsner • “Late Antique Art: The Problem of the Concept 5:30 pm 370 Dwinelle Hall and the Cumulative Aesthetic” 5:00 pm • 308J Doe Library Townsend Center for the Humanities Una Lecture Nicholson Baker • "Bombs & Bibliographies: The Secret Life Consortium for the Arts/ Berkeley Art Museum of the Library of Congress" • Vitaly Komar & Alexander Melamid • “Asian Elephant Art and 7:30 pm Morrison Room, Doe Library Conservation Project” Lecture and Film Screening • The People’s Painting 5:30 pm • Berkeley Art Museum Theater tuesday, april 16 American Studies Program David Bradley • “Contemporary Native American Indian Art” friday, april 12 3:00 pm • The Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Townsend Center for the Humanities Panel Discussion • "Representing Aging in Art" 3:00 pm • The Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Department of Anthropology Centennial Conference Alfred Kroeber and his Legacy 4:00 pm • Morrison Room, Doe Library Conference continues on Saturday, April 13, at 8:30 am

Sleeping Indian. David Bradley, 1990.

15 CALENDAR Lectures and Conferences, cont. tuesday, april 16, cont. thursday, april 18, cont. Center for African Studies Spring Lecture Series Berkeley Art Museum David Eaton • “Rethinking the Politics of Youth in Equatorial Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson - Curatorial Gallery Talk Africa” “MATRIX 197 / Sanford Biggers Psychic Windows” 4:00 pm • 145 McCone Hall 12:15 pm • Gallery 1

Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory, Boalt Hall, School of Law wednesday, april 17 Michael Sandel • title TBA Center for Chinese Studies Brown-Bag Lunch Lectures 1:00 pm • JSP Seminar Room, 2240 Piedmont Kuiyi Shen • Title TBA 12 noon • 3401 Dwinelle Hall Center for Japanese Studies Distinguished Speaker Lecture Gavan McCormack • “From the Age of Growth to the Age of Townsend Center for the Humanities Una Lecture Sustainability: Paradigm Shift Turmoil in Japan” Nicholson Baker • "The Lost Art of the Newspaper" 4:00 pm • IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Flr. 4:00 pm • The Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall The Beatrice M. Bain Research Group History Department Spring Lecture Series Tracy Robinson • “White Mothers of Nonwhite Children” Frank Mort • “Majesty, Morality, Murder: Metropolitan 4:00 pm • 370 Dwinelle Hall Culture and Moral Change in 1950s London” 4:00 pm • 3335 Dwinelle Hall East Asian Languages & Cultures Panel discussion • “Circulations of the Song: Borders, Media History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science and Social Action” Working Group Bei Dao, Gary Snyder, Michael Palmer, Eliot Weinberger Ron Anderson • “Mathematics, Logic, and Language: Tracing 4:00 pm • Location TBA the Influence of Interpreting Symbolic Structures in 19th- Century British Electromagnetism” Center for South Asia Studies Ahluwalia Memorial Lecture 6:00 pm • Dennes Room , 234 Moses Hall Panel discussion • Avtar Brah, Inderpal Grewal, Doris Jakobsh Center for South Asia Studies Ahluwalia Memorial Lecture "Gender in the Sikh Diaspora" Avtar Brah • "Gender in the Sikh Diaspora" 5:00 pm • Location TBA 7:00 pm • Location TBA Berkeley Art Museum Caucasus and Central Asia Program Lecture Series Guided Tour M. Hassan Kakar • “Afghanistan: Political Developments from “Ching Yüan Chai Collection” 1978 to the Present” 5:30 pm • Gallery 6 Landscape with Buildings. 7:00 pm • 3 Le Conte Hall UC Berkeley Extension Department of English Beckman Lectures Public Programs Franco Moretti • “'Trees.' Abstract models for the study of Panel Discussion literature” The George W. Bush Presidency 8:00 pm • Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall 7:00 pm • Dwinelle Hall

Sun Chun-tse (Sun Junze), Early 14th century. Hanging scroll: ink and color on silk. Early 14th century. Berkeley Architecture Lecture Series Adriaan Geuze, West 8 Urban Design & Landscape Architec- thursday, april 18 ture, Rotterdam Center for Studies in Higher Education 7:00 pm • Pacific Film Archive Theater Clifford Adelman • “Report on a New Data Set that Will Change the Way We Think About College-Going in the US” East Asian Languages & Cultures 12 noon • CSHE Library, South Hall Annex Poetry Reading Bei Dao, Gary Snyder, Michael Palmer, Eliot Weinberger 8:00 pm • Wheeler Auditorium

16 friday, april 19 tuesday, april 23 Center for Japanese Studies Department of Geography California Studies Dinner Seminar • “The Japanese Constitution after 55 Years: The Richard Walker • “The Country in the City: The Greening of Revision Debate” the Bay Area” 12 noon • The Faculty Club, O’Neill Room 7:00 pm • O’Neill Room, Men’s Faculty Club

The Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics Colloquia Amanda Hammar • “Land and Resource Rights and Entitle- ments in Zimbabwe’s Communal Areas” wednesday, april 24 3:00 pm • 223 Moses Hall Caucasus and Central Asia Program Lecture Series Dru Gladney • “China, Xinjiang, and the Role of Islam in the Berkeley Language Center Uighur Nationalist Movement” Carl Blyth • “Representing Language Use for Foreign Lan- 7:00 pm • 3 Le Conte Hall guage Learners: Contributions of the Native, the Near-native and the Non-native” Berkeley Architecture Spring Lecture Series 3:00 pm • 370 Dwinelle Hall Alberto Kalach, Mexico City 7:00 pm • 2050 Valley Life Sciences Bldg. Berkeley China Colloquium Hy Van Luong • “The Local Dynamics of Social Transforma- tion in Rural Vietnam in the 1990s” 4:00 pm • IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Fl. thursday, april 25 Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory, Boalt Hall, School of Law Don Herzog • Title TBA sunday, april 21 1:00 pm • JSP Seminar Room, 2240 Piedmont Berkeley Art Museum Catherine Becker - Gallery Talk • “Face of the Buddha” Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies / 2:00 pm • Asian Galleries Consortium for the Arts Ervin Hafter, Michael O’Hare, Maya Roth • “Making Theater: Berkeley Art Museum The Making of “Persistent Vision” Pat Berger • “The Other Collection: Aesthetic Sensibility and 4:00 pm • Zellerbach Playhouse Chinese Buddhist Art” 3:00 pm • Museum Theater Department of Philosophy Arthur Fine • “Structural Realism, Then and Now” 4:00pm • Howison Library, 305 Moses Hall monday, april 22 Berkeley Architecture Spring Lecture Series Department of Spanish and Portuguese Spring Poetry Series Tadashi Kawamata, Tokyo, Japan Student readings 7:00 pm • 2050 Valley Life Sciences Bldg. 12:10 pm • Spanish Department Library, 5125 Dwinelle Hall

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Michail Bezrodnyj • “Racial Fantasies in Russian Modernism: friday, april 26 Vladimir Soloviev and His School” (in Russian) Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, UC 4:00 pm • 219 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley, & the Center for Russian and East European Studies, Stanford University The Caucasus and Central Asia Program Annual Berkeley-Stanford Conference Conference • Sound Travels: A Musical Journey Along the Silk Political Violence in Russia and Eastern Europe Roads 9:00 am • Hartley Conference Center, Stanford, University Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley Conference continues on Tuesday, April 23 Institute of Governmental Studies 6th Annual Travers Ethics Conference • States and Migrants: New Challenges, Changing Responsibilities 10:00 am• Alumni House, UC Berkeley

17 CALENDAR Lectures and Conferences, cont. saturday, april 27 wednesday, may 1, cont. Department of Philosophy History & Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science Heller Conference • Dialogues in Antiquity Working Group 9:00 am • 370 Dwinelle Hall John MacFarlane • “Logical Knowledge and Its Application” 6:00 pm • Dennes Room, 234 Moses Hall

Townsend Center for the Humanities sunday, april 28 Grounding the Humanities Lecture Series Berkeley Art Museum Susanna Hecht • “Euclides da Cunha and the Amazon” Richard Vinograd • “Visibility and Visuality: Picturing Women 4:00 pm • The Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall in Late 19th-Century Shanghai” 3:00 pm • Museum Theater Department of English Gayley Lecture Ann Banfield • “Beckett’s Tattered Syntax” 8:00 pm• Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall monday, april 29 Townsend Center for the Humanities Linda Koolish • “African American Writers: Portraits & thursday, may 2 Visions” Center for Working Families 4:00 • The Geballe Room, 220 Sephens Hall Conference • Designing Modern Childhoods 8:00 am • International House Department of Anthropology Conference continues on Friday, May 3 at 8:00 am Paul Billings • “Evaluating the New Life Science” 4:00 pm • 160 Kroeber Hall Lunch Poems Reading Series Student Reading Office for History of Science and Technology 12:10 pm • Morrison Library, Doe Library Ken Alder • “A Social History of Untruth: Trust and Lie Detectors in Twentieth-Century America” Workshop in Law, Philosophy, & Political Theory, Law School 5:00 pm • 203 Wheeler Hall Thomas Grey • Title TBA 1:00 pm • JSP Seminar Room, 2240 Piedmont Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Michael Naimark • “Representing Place” Center for South Asia Studies 7:30 pm • 160 Kroeber Hall Françoise ‘Nalini’ Delvoye • “Music in Indo-Persian Culture: The Mughal Court and the Bijabur Sultanate” 5:00 pm • 370 Dwinelle Hall tuesday, april 30 Center for African Studies Spring Lecture Series Waldo Martin and Joshua Bloom • “Revolutionary Nationalism friday, may 3 in Global Context” The Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics Colloquia 4:00 pm • 145 McCone Hall Deborah Gordon • “The Fire Ant Invasion in California” 3:00 pm • 223 Moses Hall

Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies wednesday, may 1 / Cal Performances Center for Chinese Studies Brown-Bag Lunch Lectures Yorgo Loukas • “Making Theater: The Lyon Opera Ballet” Siyuan Cao • “The Reform of China’s Political System and the 4:00 pm • Durham Studio Theater CCP’s Self-imposed System” (in Chinese) 12 noon • 3401 Dwinelle Hall Department of German Barbara Wolbert • “Museum Wars: Art and Memory in the History Department Spring Lecture Series New Germany” Philip Nord • “Impressionists & the Dreyfus Affair” 4:00 pm • 370 Dwinelle Hall 4:00 pm • 3335 Dwinelle Hall

18 monday, may 6 friday, may 10, cont. Department of Spanish and Portuguese Spring Poetry Series Asian American Studies of the Department of Ethnic Studies Andrea Jeftanovich and Anna Deeny • Reading from works in Conference • Global and Local Dimensions of Asian America: An progress International Conference on Asian Diasporas 12:10 pm • Spanish Department Library, 5125 Dwinelle Hall Radisson Miyako Hotel, San Francisco Conference continues on Saturday, May 11 Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Susanna Witt • “Translation as Mimicry: Pasternak’s Shakespeare” 4:00 pm • 219 Dwinelle Hall saturday, may 11 Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley Conference • Medieval Performativity wednesday, may 8 9:00 am • 370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley History Department Spring Lecture Series Reginald Zelnik • “On the Side of Angels: The Berkeley Faculty & the Free Speech Movement of 1964 (with special if tuesday, may 14 not excessive attention to the Department of History)” Department of Geography California Studies Dinner 4:00 pm • 3335 Dwinelle Hall William Friedland • “The Political Economy of the California Grape” 7:00 pm • O’Neill Room, Men’s Faculty Club thursday, may 9 Department of the History of Art Panel Discussion with Benjamin Buchloh and Charles friday, may 17 Harrison • “Aesthetics and Materialism” The Graduate Film Working Group 4:00 pm • Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall Conference • Born to Be Bad: Trash Cinema from the 1960s and 70s Center for the Study of Sexual Culture 7:00 pm • Pacific Film Archive Jennifer Terry • “Homoerotic Flows: Sexuality Studies in Conference continues on May 18-19 in Transnational Perspective” the Geballe Room, 5:00 pm • 370 Dwinelle Hall 220 Stephens Hall friday, may 10 Center for Studies in Higher Education CSHE Grant Recipient Colloquium wednesday, may 22 9:00 am • CSHE Library, South Hall Annex Center for Studies in Higher Education CCC/UC Forum • Topic TBA Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley 6:00 pm • The Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Conference • Medieval Performativity 1:00 • 370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley

The Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics Colloquia wednesday, may 29 Esther Mwangi • “Land Rights Transformation Among the Townsend Center for the Humanities Pastoralist Maasai in Kenya” Screening and discussion • Seeing the Difference: Conversations 3:00 pm • 223 Moses Hall on Death and Dying 3:00 pm • The Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Berkeley China Colloquium Ryosei Kokubun • “China’s Entry into the WTO and its Implications for Japan” 4:00 pm • IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Fl.

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African American Writers: Portraits and Visions UNA'S ECTURES A lecture and discussion celebrating the life and work of L Professor Barbara Christian

Lynda Koolish 2002 Una Lecture Photographer; Department of English and Comparative Literature, San Diego State University Nicholson Baker Novelist and Essayist Discussant: Hertha Sweet Wong, Department of English Shelving History Chair: • • • • Wendy Martin, Department of English, Claremont Graduate “Bombs and Bibliographies: University; Co-president, Pen West (American Center) The Secret Life of the Library of Congress” Monday, April 29 Monday, April 15, 2002 4:00 pm • The Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall 7:30 pm • Morrison Room, Doe Library, UC Berkeley Sponsored by the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humani- • • • • ties, in collaboration with Pen West (American Center) and the Department of African American Studies, UC Berkeley. “The Lost Art of the Newspaper”

Discussants: David Henkin, Department of History Carla Hesse, Department of History ❑❑❑ Wednesday, April 17, 2002 4:00 pm • 220 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley Humanities Perspectives on Aging

❑❑❑ Donigan Cumming, photographer

“The 'Pretty Ribbons' Series: Controversial Issues in Representing Aging in Photography”

Writing the NEH Fellowship Proposal Thursday, April 4 Workshop and Discussion 12:00 noon The Geballe Room Christina Gillis 220 Stephens Hall Associate Director, Townsend Center for the Humanities

Tuesday, April 9 In collaboration with the Pacific Film Archive 4:00 pm • The Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

photo by Donigan Cumming

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Humanities Perspectives on Aging, cont. Mrs. William H. Beckman Lectures Department of English

Yvonne Rainer Professor Franco Moretti Dancer, Çhoreographer, Film Maker Department of English and Director, Center for the Study of the Novel, Stanford University “'Skirting and Aging': An Aging Artist’s Memoir”

Discussant: Ruby Rich, Film Studies Maps Graphs Trees. Abstract models for the study of literature

Thursday, April 11 April 2 4:00 pm • The Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall “Maps” 8:00 pm • Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall Co-sponsored by the Academic Geriatric Resource Center April 10 “Graphs” Follow-up Discussion 8:00 pm • Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall

“Representing Aging in Art” April 17 • Yvonne Rainer “Trees” • Sharon Kaufman, Institute for Health and Aging, UCSF 8:00 pm • Maude Fife Colloquium Room, 315 Wheeler Hall • Anne Wagner, History of Art For further information, contact the English Department at Friday, April 12 (510) 642-3467; http://www.english.berkeley.edu 3:00 pm • The Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Co-sponsored by the Center for Medicine, the Humanities, & Law ❑❑❑ ❑❑❑

The Academic Senate Grounding the Humanities Faculty Research Lectures Susanna Hecht Urban Planning, UCLA Robert T. Tjian Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor “Euclides da Cunha and the Amazon” of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Wednesday, May 1 “Regulating Genes and Diseases” 4:00 pm • The Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Wednesday, April 3 ❑❑❑ 5:00 pm • Wheeler Auditorium

• • • • Seeing the Difference: Conversations on Death and Dying Screening and discussion Timothy J. Clark George C. and Helen N. Pardee Chair and Professor of Art Discussants: History • Patricia Benner, UC San Francisco “The Painting of Postmodern Life” • Elizabeth Dungan, History of Art • Christina Gillis, Associate Director, Townsend Center Wednesday, April 10 • Jodi Halpern, M.D., Joint Medical Program 5:00 pm • Wheeler Auditorium Wednesday, May 29 3:00 pm The Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

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History Department Spring Colloquia Series The Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Wednesdays • 4:00 pm • 3335 Dwinelle Hall Politics Colloquium Series Fridays • 3:00 pm• 223 Moses Hall April 3 Gary Cross “Why Consumerism Is the ‘Ism’ that Won 20th-Century April 5 America” Richard Schroeder “Wildlife Wars: Beyond Distributive Justice in Tanzania” April 17 Frank Mort April 19 “Majesty, Morality, Murder: Metropolitan Culture and Moral Amanda Hammar, 2001-02 Environmental Politics Residential Change in 1950s London” Fellow, Zimbabwe “Land and Resource Rights and Entitlements in Zimbabwe’s May 1 Communal Areas” Philip Nord “Impressionists & the Dreyfus Affair” May 3 Deborah Gordon May 8 “The Fire Ant Invasion in California” Reginald Zelnik “On the Side of Angels: The Berkeley Faculty & the Free May 10 Speech Movement of 1964 (with special if not excessive Esther Mwangi, 2001-02 Environmental Politics Residential attention to the Department of History)” Fellow, Kenya “Land Rights Transformation Among the Pastoralist Maasai in For further information, contact Jennifer Spear at 642-1971. Kenya”

Please contact Dena Shupe Woolwine for more information at [email protected] ❑❑❑

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Department of Spanish and Portuguese Spring Poetry Series Berkeley Architecture Spring Writing through the Americas Mondays • 12:10 pm • 5125 Dwinelle Lecture Series 7:00 pm • 2050 Valley LSB (unless otherwise April 1 noted) Roundtable on translation Gwen Kirkpatrick (Spanish, UCB), Moderator Thursday, April 4 Raul Cardenas Osuna of Torolab, Tijuana, Mexico April 8 Marcelo Pellegrini and Nelson Ramírez, Spanish, UC Berkeley Thursday, April 18 Reading from recent work Adriaan Geuze, West 8 Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, Rotterdam April 15 Pacific Film Archive Theater Ron Loewinsohn, English, UC Berkeley Reading from his poetry and prose and translating Neruda Wednesday, April 24 Alberto Kalach, Mexico City April 22 Student readings Thursday, April 25 Tadashi Kawamata, Tokyo, Japan May 6 Andrea Jeftanovich and Anna Deeny, Spanish, UC Berkeley Reading from works in progress

For more information, please call 642-0471.

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Tenth Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference SATURDAY, APRIL 6

Finite Subjects: Mortality and Culture in Germany 9:20-10:40 am Death and the Nation April 5-6 Chad Wellmon, UC Berkeley This year’s conference will examine the role of mortality and “Thinking a (Given) Nation” the consciousness of finitude in German culture and history. Death generates an array of responses, both creative and Wendy D. Nielsen, UC Santa Barbara destructive, and plays a crucial role in the history of German “Romantic Death: Nationalism and Gender Trouble in Kleist thought and artistic practice. and Günderrode”

Babak Rahimi, European University Institute Florence, Italy FRIDAY, APRIL 5 “The Calling of Sacrifice: Death, Politics and Redemption in Weber’s Sociology of Nationalism” 9:30 am Opening Remarks: Joel Freeman, UC Berkeley

9:50-11:10 am Aesthetics of Finitude 10:50 am-12:20 pm Transcending Transcendence Michele Ricci, Stanford University “The Sacramentalization of Maximin: Literary Modernism and Ingo Zechner, Holocaust Victims Information and Support Stefan George’s Poetics of Mortality” Center: Vienna, Austria “Der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland—Heideggers Bruce Barnhart, UC Irvine Todesfuge” “Jazz and the Pathos of Distance: Adorno’s Use of Nietzsche” Robyn Marasco, UC Berkeley Sam Ishii-Gonzales, New York University “Violence, Fear and Death in Hegel’s ‘Lordship and Bondage’” “Death in Fassbinder, or What Remains to be Thought” Brendan Quigley, UC Irvine “Das Sein zum Tode: Dasein’s Tragic Heroism and the Aporetic 11:20 am-12:40 pm The Sublime Made Finite Structure of Death in Being and Time” Timothy Frawley, Georgetown University “The Death of the Sublime: Kafka and Kant” 1:40-3:00 pm Plenary Speaker Eric Baker, University of Minnesota Eric Santner, University of Chicago “The Epicurean Sublime of Equipoise: ‘The Hedonist Under- current of 18th-Century Aesthetic Discourse’” 3:00-4:40 pm Apparitions Arthur Strum, Stanford University “Finitude through Transcendence: The Ambivalent Legacy of Sabine Kriebel, UC Berkeley Kant’s Critical ‘Tribunal’” “Memory and Mourning: The Legacy of Mass Death in John Heartfield’s Photomontages”

Keynote Speaker 1:40-2:40 pm Noga Wizansky, UC Berkeley Karl S. Guthke, Harvard University “Re-enchanting Finitude—Rationalizing Infinity in Weimar Germany: Lotte Reiniger’s Silhouette Film, ‘The Adventures of Prince Achmed’ (1923-1926)” 2:45-4:05 pm Homicide Jessica Wood, UC Irvine Maren Witte, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin “Life Worth Living: Power over Life, Death, and Reproduction “Und nenn es nicht Stillstand”—Gedanken zur Bedeutung von in Wolfgang Liebeneiner’s ‘Ich klage an!’” Ruhe und Tod im Tanz des 20. Jahrhunderts.

Sace Elder, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Maya Maxym, Emory University “Death in the City: Murder and Modernity in Weimar Ger- “’Beim Tode! Lebendig!’: Catastrophe at the Origin of Paul many” Celan’s Poetry”

Michael S. Bryant, Ohio State University “Finding Oneself in Death: On the Uses of Mass Murder in Identity Formation”

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Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in French and France Berkeley Fund Francophone Studies The Culture of Books: Birth and Transformations of Thinking Through Memory the Reader from the Late Middle Ages to the Dawn of April 5-6 the Modern Period The Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall April 11-13

From Saint Augustine to Jean-Luc Godard, Western thinkers THURSDAY, APRIL 11 have been preoccupied with “thinking through memory.” This interdisciplinary, trans-historical conference in French and 1:45 pm Welcome Francophone Studies seeks to explore memory as one of the cornerstones of Western cultural production and to theorize its 2:00-3:30 pm Books and Society relationship to literature, film, and the visual arts. Timothy Hampton, UC Berkeley “Books and Ambassadors in the Early Modern Period”

Keynote Speaker: Cynthia Brown, UC Santa Barbara David Carroll, UC Irvine “Ambivalent Images: The Reconstruction of Women in Late Medieval Europe” Sponsored by the Department of French, UC Berkeley and the Department of French and Italian, Stanford University. Co- Michel Pastoureau, Paris, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 4e Sponsored by the French Studies Program, UC Berkeley, the section Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages, Stanford “Une société imaginaire: La 'devise' des chevaliers de la Table University, and the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs, Ronde” Stanford University.

For more information, contact David Pettersen at 4:00-5:30 pm Commentary & Translation: The Transmission of [email protected] and Trina Marmarelli at Science and Literature [email protected]; http://www.stanford.edu/group/ memory. Steven Botterill, UC Berkeley “Inventing the lectura Dantis: Speech, Writing and Print in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Commentaries on Dante’s ❑❑❑ Commedia” Travis Williams, UC Berkeley “Rhetorics of Translation in Early Sixteenth-Century French and English Arithmetics” Consortium for the Arts/Arts Research Center Jo_lle Ducos, Bordeaux, Université Michel de Montaigne Preparing the Unforeseen: Approaches to Musical “Glose et abrégé: la vulgarisation dans les traductions Improvisation scientifiques” Saturday, April 6, 12 noon 125 Morrison Hall and Hertz Hall FRIDAY, APRIL 12 Organized in conjunction with the Henry Threadgill residency, this one-day conference will explore the planning and prepara- 9:00-10:30 am Poetry and the Book tion that is an integral part of improvisation, an activity more traditionally associated with spontaneity and freedom. The Friedrich Wolfzettel, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, conference will feature a lecture-demonstration by the ROVA Frankfurt am Main Saxophone Quartet, a roundtable discussion with leading “La poésie en contexte: Réflexions sur le statut de la poésie musicians and music scholars, and a free evening concert. lyrique au Moyen Age tardif”

Contact for further information:( 510) 642-7784; http:// Toby Levers, UC Berkeley www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/bca/currentevents.html “Medieval Bologna and the Memoriali bolognesi: Political and Artistic Culture in the 'Republic of Notaries'” Co-sponsored by the Humanities Research Institute, UC Irvine and the Department of Music, UC Berkeley.

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The Culture of Books, continued The Culture of Books, continued

David Petterson, UC Berkeley Marcy North, Florida State University “Intersections of Verse and Prose: Lyric Epistles in Marguerite “Exercising Taste: The Intersections of Labor and Choice in de Navarre’s Heptameron” Poetic Commonplace Books of Early Modern England”

Anne-Marie Legaré, Université de Rennes 11:00 am -12:30 pm Materiality of Manuscripts “Livres et lectures de la reine Charlotte de Savoie: Sur la notion de 'goût individuel'” Mary Brown UC Berkeley “The Troubadour Anthology in the Midi: Situating the For more information, contact David Hult at Chansonnier d’Urfé in a Lost Tradition” [email protected]

Michelle Hamilton, UC Berkeley This conference has been made possible by the generous “A Fifteenth-Century Aljamiado Manuscript and its Readers” support of the France-Berkeley Fund, as well as that of the Departments of Comparative Literature, English, French, Katharine Breen, UC Berkeley German, Italian Studies, and Spanish & Portuguese, and the “Prophecy or Prosthesis? A Text of Advice and Pseudo-Science Program in Medieval Studies. Presented to Richard II”

2:30-4:30 pm The Reader in the Text Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Université de la Sorbonne-Paris ❑❑❑ “Guillaume de Machaut et la lecture”

Albert Ascoli, UC Berkeley “My Brother, My Self: Petrarch Writes His Reader” Department of Anthropology Centennial Conference

Sylvie Lefèvre, Ecole Normale Supérieure/C.N.R.S. Alfred Kroeber and his Legacy “’Le Cachet de la poste faisant foi’: La Belle dame sans mercy et April 12-13 sa datation au miroir des lettres de réception et de leur lecture” This conference will celebrate Berkeley Anthropology’s past David Wacks (UCB, Spanish), “Convivencia Within the Frame: but will focus as much on the present and future engagement The Libro de Buen Amor and the Maqama Tradition” of anthropology with the world at large.

SATURDAY, APRIL 13 FRIDAY, APRIL 12 Morrison Room, Doe Library 9:00-10:30 am Reading and Spirituality 4:00 pm Niklaus Largier, UC Berkeley “Historical Highlights of the Depart- “Books of Contemplation. Reading, Meditation, and the ment” Stimulation of Affects in Early Modernity”

Mary Kay Duggan, UC Berkeley SATURDAY, APRIL 13 “Books of Hours: Devotional and Didactic” 8:30 am Elizabeth Schirmer, New Mexico State University “Decades of Excellence: Distinguished “‘Quike bokis’ and ‘feynid synges’: LollardTheologies of Alumni” Reading” 1:30 pm “Anthropology and the World” 11:00 am-12:30 pm The Diffusion of Books in the Era of Print

Frédéric Hartweg, Strasburg, Université Marc Bloch For more information, call (510) 642-2120 or contact Rachel “La Nef des fous: Un livre multidirectionnel aux dimensions de Goddard at [email protected]. See http:// l'Europe” ls.berkeley.edu/dept/anth/.

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Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures Sound Travels, continued

Circulations of the Song: Borders, Media and Social Lecture / Demonstration Action Yo-Yo Ma, Artistic Director, Silk Road Project Theodore Levin, Professor, Department of Music, Dartmouth A Colloquium College Thursday, April 18 Silk Road Ensemble musicians Bei Dao, poet and Agassiz Visiting Professor Gary Snyder, poet, UC Davis “The Virtual Silk Road Atlas: Exploring Culture in Time and Michael Palmer, poet, San Francisco Space” Eliot Weinberger, essayist and literary translator A presentation by the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative UC Berkeley 4:00 pm Location TBA

PRESENTATIONS Poetry Reading by the four participants 8:00 pm Wheeler Auditorium “Overture: The Silk Roads Past and Present” Sanjyot Mehendale, UC Berkeley For further information, contact East Asian Languages & Cultures at (510) 642-3480. “Music to Medicine: Central Asian Influences on Chinese Daily Life” Susan Whitfield, The British Library, London ❑❑❑ “The Earliest Documentation of Musical Contacts Between the Ancient Near East and the More Distant East” Anne Draffkorn Kilmer, UC Berkeley Cal Performances, the Caucasus and Central Asia Program , “Islam’s Journey East” the Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, the Dru C. Gladney, University of Hawaii, Manoa Central Asia/Silk Road Working Group, the Consortium for the Arts, the Department of Near Eastern Studies, the Depart- “Early Tang Caves and Empress Wu” ment of Music, and the Art History Department. Roderick Whitfield, University of London Sound Travels: A Musical Journey along the Silk “Lutes Along the Silk Roads: A First Millennium Migration” Roads Bo Lawergren, Hunter College, City University of New York April 22-23 Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley “The Nomadic Civilization As an Art of Interpretation” Alma Kununbaeva, University of Wisconsin, Madison The Silk Road Project explores cross-cultural exchange between the lands of the Silk Road and the West through an “Some Interethnic Musical Phenomena of the Silkroad: Toward ambitious program that includes concerts, festivals, educa- a History of the ‘Drawn-Out’ Singing in Eurasia” tional outreach, commissioning, recordings and publications. Izaly Zemtsovtsky, University of Wisconsin, Madison Led by Artistic Director Yo-Yo Ma and a distinguished interna- tional team of musicians, artists, and scholars, the Project is ”The Buddhist Journey on the Silk Roads” designed to illuminate the historical contributions of the Silk Lewis Lancaster, UC Berkeley Road, support innovative collaborations among artists from Asia, Europe and North America, and explore classical music “Engaging the Senses: Music, Art and Imaginative Practice at within a broader global context. Dunhuang” Patricia Berger, UC Berkeley In conjunction with the Silk Road Project’s concerts at Cal Performances, a conference has been organized on music along the Silk Roads. The conference will consider the historical The conference schedule will be available in April and will be significance of the Silk Roads, economically, politically and posted on the CCAsP Web site: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/ culturally, emphasizing the range of cultural transmission that ~bsp/caucasus/index.html. occurred along these paths, and the cross-cultural nexuses they created. In particular, the conference will focus on the trans- For more information contact CCAsP at (510) 643-5845 or mission of music along this Eurasian trading network. [email protected].

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The UC History Digital Archive Project, the Center for Studies States and Migrants, continued in Higher Education, the Bancroft Library, and the Regional Oral History Office. Peter Andreas, Brown University Jacqueline Hagan, University of Houston All-UC Conference on University History Rey Koslowski, Rutgers University April 25-26 The Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall 2:00-3:30 pm Panel 2: Immigration and Integration Policies The conference will explore issues related to the history of the Chair: Harvey Weinstein, UC Berkeley University of California’s nine-campus system. Speakers and panelists will discuss new research and scholarly activities in Thomas Bruneau, Naval Postgraduate School the field of university history. A goal is to build a sense of Kitty Calavita, UC Irvine community among those engaged in research, writing, Manuel Garcia y Griego, University of Texas teaching, and archival management related to higher education and the UC system. 3:45- 5:00 pm Panel 3: Complex Citizenship Speakers: Clark Kerr, David Gardner, Karl Pister, I. Michael Chair: Amy Gurowitz, UC Berkeley Heyman, Neil Smelser, Charlotte Brown, John Douglass, Roger Geiger, Sheldon Rothblatt, Reginald Zelnik, Samuel John Brady, UC Berkeley McCulloch, and Ann F. Scheuring. Lucas Guttentag, ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project Paul Johnston, UC Santa Cruz

For further information and to RSVP, go to http:// For more information: Amy Gurowitz (510)-642-4691, sunsite.berkeley.edu/uchistory/all_uc or contact Sally Thomas [email protected] at [email protected] http://www.igs.berkeley.edu:8880/events/travers/2002/ index.html

Sponsored by The Charles T. and Louise H. Travers Program ❑❑❑ in Ethics and Accountability in Government, the UC Berkeley Political Science Department, Institute of Governmental Studies, The Commonwealth Club of California, and the World Affairs Council of Northern California. 6th Annual Travers Ethics Conference

States and Migrants: New Challenges, Changing Responsibilities Friday, April 26 Alumni House, UC Berkeley

This one-day conference will examine how we can practically and ethically address current questions surrounding immigration policy by focusing on three areas: border control, Moses Hall, home of UC Berkeley's Department of Philosophy integration policy, and citizenship. It is free and open to the Department of Philosophy public. No advance registration required. Heller Conference: Dialogues in Antiquity 10:00-10:10 am Saturday, April 27 Welcoming remarks: Col. Charles T. Travers (’32) 370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley Bruce E. Cain and Judith Gruber, UC Berkeley

10:15 -11:00 am 9:00-9:45 am Keynote Address: Joseph Carens, University of Toronto Keynote address: Richard Martin, Stanford University “Who Belongs?: The Ethics of Integrating Immigrants”

10:00-11:30 am: Panel 1 Why Dialogue? 11:30 am -1:00 pm Panel 1: Immigration and Border Control Suzanne Obdrzalek, UC Berkeley Chair: Joseph Nevins (UC Berkeley) “Plato and the Dialogue Form”

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Heller Conference: Dialogues in Antiquity, continued Designing Modern Childhoods: Landscapes, Jon Pratt, UC Berkeley Buildings, and Material Culture “Writing the Mirror of Dialogue: Self-Knowledge in May 2-3, 2002 Augustine’s Cassiciacum Dialogues” International House

Larissa Parson, Cornell University “Humor and the Imaginary Interlocutor in Plato’s Hippias Major” This international conference highlights interdisciplinary and comparative research about the 11:45 am-12:30 pm: Panel 2 Talking to Yourself architecture and material culture of children. Framing modern child- Brett Rogers, Stanford University hood as a material matter, as well as “Sometimes the best conversations I have are with myself: a social relationship, gives insight Monologue, Dialogue, and Poetic Competition in Theocritus’ into the everyday, lived experiences Idylls 11 and 6" and spaces of children as well as into the political beliefs, ideologies, rituals, and myths that Stiliana Milkova, UC Berkeley frame them. Historians, sociologists, geographers, anthropolo- “Dialogic Sappho: The Rhetoric of Self-Apostrophe” gists, architects, landscape architects, planners, educators, activists, and other parties who take (or see the benefit in developing) a tangible perspective on the history of childhood 2:00-3:00 pm: Panel 3 Authority and the lives of children in the past, present, and future will Francesca Zardini, University College, London present papers at the meeting. The work incorporates com- “The Rules of Dialogue in Ancient Greek Iconography” parative, cross-cultural research, uses new analytical tools to scrutinize the place that schools, parks, playgrounds, and other Claudia Zatta, The Johns Hopkins University settings take in children’s daily life, historically and in the “Meeting the Old Man of the Sea: Schemes of Oracular present day, and brings to light children’s points of view about Dialogue in the Odyssey” the spaces, buildings, and objects they use and create in countries across the globe.

3:15-4:00 pm Panel 4 Readers THURSDAY, MAY 2 Yelena Baraz, UC Berkeley “Publication and Amicitia in Cicero’s Treatises” 9:00 am Welcome

Patricia Larash, UC Berkeley Marta Gutman, Center for Working Families, UC Berkeley “Talking Back and the Emergence of the General Reader in Ning de Coninck-Smith, Department of Contemporary Martial” Cultural Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Odense

9:30 am-12:00 noon Concurrent Sessions 1-4 4:15-5:30 pm Panel 5 Polyphony James Collins, Stanford University “Children and Modernities, Settings and Identities” (1) “The Many Voices of Aristotle’s Protrepticus” “Design for Children: Views from the Field” (2) “The Choreography of Education” (3) Cashman Prince, Stanford University/Wesleyan College “Landscapes of Play” (4) “Hesiodic Dialogue, Dialogic Hesiod”

Patrick Lee Miller, University of North Carolina 1:30-2:30 pm Keynote Address “The Purpose of Platonic Polyphony” Gary Cross, History Department, Pennsylvania State Univ. “The Wondrous Child: American Ad Images and the Origins of Commercialized Childhood”

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Designing Modern Childhoods, continued Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley

3:00-5:30 pm Concurrent Sessions 5-8 Medieval Performativity May 10-11 “Private Matters: The Health and Hygiene of Children” (5) 370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley “Sentiments of Childhood” (6) “Taking Account of Children’s Voices” (7) In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Berkeley Beowulf “Landmarks of Children’s Material Culture” (8) Marathon, this interdisciplinary conference explores the ways in which audiences construct texts and texts construct audi- ences, ideas or images of performance within texts, and the FRIDAY, MAY 3 modes and effects of medieval textual articulation.

9:00-10:00 am Keynote Address FRIDAY, MAY 10 Anne-Marie Châtelet, Ecole d’architecture de Versailles “The Architecture of Schools in France” 1:00 pm Evelyn Birge Vitz, New York University, and Linda Zaerr, Boise State University 10:30 am-1:00 pm Concurrent Sessions 9-12 “ReVIEWing Medieval Literature: Experiments in Perfor- mance” “The Stuff of Childhood” (9) “Discipline and Youth” (10) “Domesticity by Design” (11) 2:15 pm “Children in Public: Their Geographies and Cultural Land- Scott Wood, UC Riverside scapes” (12) “`Prike not yowr felicites in thingys transitorye’: Anti-theatri- cality and the Play Mankind”

2:30-3:30 pm Keynote Address Kasey Evans, UC Berkeley Title TBA Gill Valentine, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield Gila Aloni, Hunter College “Cyberkids: Children’s On-line/Off-line Cultures and Sense “Performance and Orality in Chaucer’s Legend of Lucrece” of Place in the World in the Digital Age”

4:15 pm 4:00-6:30 pm Panel Discussion and Closing Remarks Cara Cardinale, UC Riverside “The Enduring Mundgripe of Modthrytho” “Towards a Tangible History of Childhood” Janet Thormann, College of Marin “Misfiring Performances” Conference organizers: Marta Gutman, Center for Working Families, UC Berkeley Ning de Coninck-Smith, Department of Contemporary 6:30 pm Cultural Studies, Southern Denmark University The Fiftieth Annual Beowulf Marathon

Conference sponsors: Designing Modern Childhoods is made possible through gener- SATURDAY, MAY 11 ous grants from the Center for Working Families (sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation), the Center for Child and 9:00 am Youth Policy, the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humani- Adrienne Williams, UC Berkeley ties, the History Department (all at UC Berkeley), the Institute “Miracles of the Virgin: Compilation and Reception” of Literature, Media, and Cultural Studies at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, and the Kompan Corporation. Nova Myhill, New College of Florida “`Here the host must blede’: Performing Bread and Imagining The conference is free and open to the public, but registration Audiences in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament” is required. For information and the registration form, please the conference Web site: http://www.hum.sdu.dk/projekter/ ipfu/designing-childhoods/.

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Medieval Performativity, continued The Graduate Film Working Group Brian Cronin, Tufts University “Performance Pieces: Reliquaries and Body Parts” Born to Be Bad: Trash Cinema from the 1960s and 70s Conference and Film Festival May 17-19 11:00 am Conference at The Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Merrill Kaplan, UC Berkeley Films at the Pacific Film Archive (Bancroft Ave. at Bowditch) “Voicing the Past in the Tale of Nornagest” Whether they are low-budget films that have found a life as John Lindow, UC Berkeley auctioned and traded bootlegs, high-profile successes that have Title TBA fallen into second-run obscurity, or something in between, Trash films have left their mark on a different type of film history and writing. This three-day international conference 1:00 pm and film festival honors Trash films and the activities that Amelia Brown, UC Berkeley surround them. “Tragic Fate: The Oresteia and the Performance of Tragedy in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages” FRIDAY, MAY 17 Michael Manous, UC Riverside The Pacific Film Archive “Mysterious Cycles: The Use and Function of Women’s Bodies in Dramatic Medieval Texts” 7:00 pm Color Me Shameless (1967) and Corruption of the Damned (1965) George Kuchar Lisa Manter, St. Mary’s College “The Medieval Mae West?: Chaucer’s Wife of Bath as Female 9:00 pm Color Me Blood Red (1965) Herschell Gordon Lewis Camp”

SATURDAY, MAY 18 3:00 pm The Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Bill Conte, CUNY “Theatricality and Performativity in Dante’s Commedia” 9:00 am Opening Remarks Tamao Nakahara, UC Berkeley David Wacks, UC Berkeley “Recreating Performance in the Iberian Maqama” 9:30-11:00 am Panel I Ny Trash Kia Choong Joan Hawkins, Indiana University at Bloomington “Performing Masculinities and Difference: The Troubadour- “Trash and Transgression: Gross-Out Aesthetics and the Late Jongleur and His Muse in François Villon’s Poetry” 70s Avant-garde”

Ara Osterweil, UC Berkeley 5:00 pm “Hootchie Kootchie Kuchar: George and Mike’s Trash Homage Arthur Bahr, UC Berkeley to Hollywood” “Giving Acronymic Vice its Due: Reading and Performance in the Roman de Fauvel” Dan Leopard, University of Southern California “Blood Red Empire: Herschell Gordon Lewis, Andy Warhol, Performance by Raizes Quartet and ‘Slash and Stasis’ Cinema”

The conference is co-sponsored by the Old and Middle English Colloquium and the Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley. For 11:00 am-12:30 pm Panel II Sexploitation + Beyond more information and to register, please visit http:// Melissa MacDonald, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~omec/. “Twilight Tales of the Third Sex: The Familiar Spirit of Lesbian Pulp Films”

Verena Mund, Feminale e.V., International Women’s Film Festival, Koeln, Germany “Stephanie Rothman: Feminist Filmmaker of Sexploitation Comedies”

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Born to Be Bad, continued Born to Be Bad, continued

Joe A. Thomas, Clarion University of Pennsylvania Jon Kraszewski, Indiana University at Bloomington “When Trash Was Hip: Situating Deep Throat and Porno-Chic” “Recontextualizing the Historical Reception of Blaxploitation: Articulations of Class, Black Nationalism, and Anxiety in the Genre’s Advertisements” 2:00-3:30 pm Panel III Monstrous Sex Xavier Mendik, Cult Film Archive, University College Amy Abugo Ongiri, UC Riverside Northampton, UK “Bruce Lee in the Ghetto Connection: Blaxploitation, Kung Fu “Monstrous Sex: Horror, Eroticism and Cult Constructions of Theater and Black Spectatorship on the Margins” the ‘Other’ in the Black Emanuelle Films” Kevin J. Heffernan, Southern Methodist University Tamao Nakahara, UC Berkeley “Musclemen, Moon Maidens, and Masterpieces: Trash Films “Barred Nuns: Italian Nunsploitation Films” and Feature Film Syndication in Sixties Television”

Steven Schneider, New York University “Mixed Blood Couples: Interracial Union in the Blaxploitation 2:00-3:00 pm Collector’s Panel Horror Film” Xavier Mendik will speak on the Cult Film Archive, University College Northampton, with Elliot Lavine, Programmer of the Roxie Cinema, San Francisco, and other guests. 3:30-5:00 pm Keynote Address Eric Schaefer, Emerson College “Sexploitation, Storefronts, and Sixteen: The Practice of Trash 3:00 -4:30 pm Response Session Historiography” Participants: Eric Schaefer, Emerson College Xavier Mendik, Cult Film Archive, Films at the Pacific Film Archive University College Northampton, UK 7:30 pm Agony of Love (1966) William Rotsler Linda Williams, UC Berkeley Introduced by Eric Schaefer Steven Schneider, New York University 9:30 pm The Student Nurses (1970) Stephanie Rothman Tamao Nakahara, UC Berkeley Director In-Person

4:30 pm Closing Remarks SUNDAY, MAY 19 The Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Film at the Pacific Film Archive 5:30 pm Welcome Home, Brother Charles aka Soul Vengeance (1975) Jamaa Fanaka 9:30 -11:00 am Panel IV Guns, Wheels, & The Law Harry M. Benshoff, University of North Texas For more information, please visit http:// “Sexual and Textual Ambiguity in The Gay Deceivers” socrates.berkeley.edu/~tamao/Trash.htm For special access needs, please call (510) 527-6915 in advance. Bill Osgerby, University of North London and University of Leicester “Born to Be Bad” is organized by the Graduate Film Working “Sleazy Riders: Exploitation, ‘Otherness’ and Transgression in Group (a Townsend Center Working Group and an ASUC- the 1960s Biker Movie” sponsored Student Group). The event was made possible with generous contributions by the Film Studies Program, ASUC, Timothy Campbell, Cornell University Consortium for the Arts, and the Italian Studies Department, “Metropolitan Traumas: The Poliziesco and the Experience of and with the cooperation of Steve Seid and the Pacific Film Modernity” Archive.

11:00 am-1:00 pm Panel V Distribution, Exhibition, & Reception Ernest Mathijs, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK “Born/Raised to be Bad: The Reception of (Belgian) Trash Cinema”

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African American Writers: Portraits & Visions Berkeley Art Museum An exhibit by Lynda Koolish, photographer April 1-May 20 Face of the Buddha: Sculpture from India, China, Japan, and Co-sponsored with Pen West (American Center) and the Southeast Asia Department of African American Studies Ongoing rotation through 2003

Photographer and literature scholar Lynda Koolish celebrates Hans Hofmann: Real/Life in her work the “passion, the ethical and creative genius” of Through May 26 the writers whose work she deeply admires. In describing her photographs Koolish explains: Near and Far “Despite the intensely personal quality of my work, it is, Through July 14 in its deepest sense, a collaboration. I try to listen with my eyes, pay profound attention to the self that someone else is revealing to me. As an artist, a photographer paints with Ansel Adams in the University of California Collections light. How the subject looks psychologically and visually Through March 10 is determined by how the light falls, the way shadows form, creating and reflecting a sense of inner lumines- cence. I try to photograph at the moment of spontaneous Migrations: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado convergence of what is visually exciting and what moves Through March 24 me emotionally. Sometimes, the photograph, like a poem, becomes a window filled with light.” XXL Lynda Koolish’s work has been most recently exhibited at The Through July 14 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Harlem branch of The New York Public Library) and at the Jewett Gallery of the San Francisco Public Library. MATRIX 196: Sowon Kwon - average female (Perfect) Through March 24

Masterworks of Chinese Painting: In Pursuit of Mists and Clouds March 13 - May 26

Marion Brenner: The Subtle Life of Plants and People March 20 - May 26

MATRIX 197: Sanford Biggers - Psychic Windows April 7 - June 2 June Jordan Clarence Major

Related Discussion Komar & Melamid’s Asian Elephant Art and Conservation Project Monday, April 29 April 10 - July 14 4:00 pm • The Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

• Lynda Koolish, photographer New Knowledge: The 32nd Annual UC Berkeley Master of Fine Arts • Hertha Sweet Wong, Department of English Graduate Exhibition May 15 - July 28 Chaired by Wendy Martin, Professor of English at Claremont Graduate University and co-president Pen West (American Center)

A panel discussion celebrating the life and work fo Professor Barbara Christian.

32 C o n s o r t i u m f o r t h e a r t s P E R F O R M A N C E S E V E N T S Department of Music Hertz Hall Events Spring 2002 Artists-in-Residence Program Consortium for the Arts/Arts Research Center Friday, April 12 & Saturday April 13, 8:00 pm University Chamber Orchestra, David Milnes, director Komar & Melamid Residency Activities John Adams, Chamber Symphony Komar and Melamid: Asian Elephant Art and Conservation Project Monday, April 15, 8:00 pm Komar and Melamid’s most recent project has been teaching Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players, David Milnes, painting to elephants formerly employed in the Thai logging director industry. The results of their efforts will be exhibited at the A concert celebrating the career of faculty member Olly Wilson Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, April 10 through July 14. Saturday, April 20, 8:00 pm University Chamber Chorus, Marika Kuzma, director Thursday, April 11 Byzantine Khoral Music, Traditional Greek Chant Lecture and Film Screening Russian Chant from the 16th to 19th centuries “The People’s Painting” Igor Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms (two piano version); 5:30 pm • Museum Theater, selections by Dmitri Bortniansky & Aleksandr Gretchaninov Berkeley Art Museum Friday, April 26, 8:00 pm For further information, "Untitled," 1998, acrylic on paper. Collegium Musicum, Kate van Orden & Anthony Martin, Painted by Bird, Ayutthaya, Thailand. call (510) 642-0808, or go to directors http://www.bampfa.berkeley. Davitt Moroney, harpsichord edu/exhibits/elephant_art/index.html In the Wake of the Armada, Spanish & English Music from Around 1600 Music by William Byrd, Antonio de Cabezón, Sebastian de ❑❑❑ Vivanco, Cristóbal de Morales Trinity Chamber Concerts, 2320 Dana Street, Berkeley Tickets: $8/10, Information: 510-549-3864 Henry Threadgill Residency Activities Saturday, April 27, 8:00 pm Friday, April 5 University African Music & Dance Ensemble, CK Ladzekpo Henry Threadgill: In Conversation director with Fua Dia Congo, Malonga, director 5:00 pm • Hertz Hall Echos of Africa: Traditional music and dance from west and south Africa Pioneering musician and composer Henry Threadgill will discuss his work, his creative philosophy, and the art of Saturday, May 4, 8:00 pm improvisation with David Wessel, Director of the Center for University Chorus, University Chamber Chorus & Orchestra, New Music and Audio Technologies, and Anthony Brown, Marika Kuzma, director visiting faculty in the Department of Music. Paul Hindemith, Requiem for those we Love and When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom’d Saturday, April 6 Conference Friday, May 10 & Saturday, May 11, 8:00 pm Preparing the Unforeseen: Approaches to Musical Improvisation University Symphony Orchestra, David Milnes, director (see page 26 of this Newsletter) Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony No. 8

Friday, April 12 Sunday, May 12, 3:00 pm 12:00 noon • 125 Morrison Hall University Wind Ensemble, Robert Calonico, director Free Concert by the Henry Threadgill Workshop Ensemble Aaron Copland, El Salon Mexico; Jan Van der Roost, Puszta; John Philip Sousa, Stars and Stripes Contact for further information: (510) 642-7784; http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/bca/currentevents.html

Co-sponsored by the Department of Music, and the American Cultures Program.

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Wednesday Noon Concert Series Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

April 3 University Dance Theater Spring 2002 Season Catherine Olson, flute; Miles Graber, piano; Winni Hung, piano Directed by Marni Thomas Wood Aaron Copland, Duo for Flute and Piano; Alberto Ginastera, Danzas Argentinas for piano April 19-28 (Fridays-Sundays): April 10 Benjamin Park, bass; Roger Moseley, piano April 19, 20, 26, 27 at 8:00 pm; Ludwig van Beethoven, An die ferne Geliebte; lieder byHugo April 21 at 7:00 pm; Wolf April 20, 27, 28 at 2:00 pm April 17 Zellerbach Playhouse Lisa Spivak, soprano; Melinda Latour, piano Christina Schiffner and Marka Knight, mezzo sopranos, Martin Deasy, piano Arias by Mozart; Robert Schumann, Frauenliebe und Leben

Friday, April 19 University Gospel Choir, Silvester Henderson, director Gospel Music Lab Run Directed by Ph.D. students in the Department of Theater, April 24 Dance, and Performance Studies Miriam Pak, violin; Ken Hsu, violin; Stephanie Ng, viola; Hans Brightbill, cello Beethoven, String Quartet in C Major, Op. 59, No. 2 May 2-4, Thursday-Saturday: Friday, April 26 May 2, 3, 4 at 8:00 pm & May 4 at 2:00 pm Anthony Martin, violin; Karen Rosenak, fortepiano Zellerbach Room Seven Sonatas for Violin by Muzio Clementi and Ludwig van Beethoven For further information, call (510) 642-9925 or email May 1 [email protected]. Gamelan Sari Raras Music from Indonesia

May 8 ❑❑❑ The graduate composers of the spring term present a concert of their recent works

Call (510) 642-4864 for more information Cal Performances / Consortium for the Arts

❑❑❑ Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble April 23-24 • Department of English 8:00 pm Zellerbach Hall

William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night Silk Road Ensemble Performed by members of English 117T April 28 3:00 pm • Hertz Hall. May 2-5, 4:00 pm

Performaces are free and open to the public. They will be Call the Cal Performances ticket office at (510) 642-9988 for conducted outdoors, in front of the South Hall main entrance tickets and information. (near the Campanile).

For further information, contact Reena Naik, (510) 665-1524; [email protected]

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