TOWNSENDCENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES UC BERKELEY April/May 2012 HighlightS
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19 Rita Raley
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Lisbet Rausing, Una's Lecturer, see p. 3
Depth of Field Film + Video Series, see p. 14 Townsend Newsletter
The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities April/May 2012 at the University of California, Berkeley
STAFF ACTING DIRECTOR Celeste Langan, Associate Professor of English TABLE OF CONTENTS ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Teresa Stojkov 3 the Total Library: Lisbet Rausing and a PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR New Alexandria Julie Van Scoy Teresa Stojkov WEB AND COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST Angela Veomett 5 the Townsend Papers in the Humanities BUSINESS AND OFFICE MANAGER Melissa Wong FELLOWSHIPS ADMINISTRATOR Scott Roberts 6 Calendar of Campus Events
FACULTY ADVISORY COMMITTEE John Efron, History Victoria Kahn, English Ken Goldberg, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Robert Hass, English Martin Jay, History Niklaus Largier, German and Comparative Literature Francine Masiello, Spanish and Comparative Literature Carolyn Merchant, College of Natural Resources Geoffrey Nunberg, School of Information Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anthropology TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES University of California Hans Sluga, Philosophy 220 Stephens Hall, MC 2340 Bonnie Wade, Music Berkeley, CA 94720-2340
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TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES | April/May 2012 The Total Library: Lisbet Rausing and a New Alexandria by Teresa Stojkov
The Library is unlimited and cyclical. If an eternal new Alexandria is rising around us through a technology traveler were to cross it in any direction, after just as astonishing and prodigious in its electronic centuries he would see that the same volumes were repeated in the same disorder (which, thus repeated, capacity to acquire, “catalogue” and store . . . well, would be an order: the Order). My solitude is everything. Rausing, a historian of science at Imperial gladdened by this elegant hope. College, has written forcefully on the subject and on the Jorge Luis Borges need for scholars —humanists and social scientists in On August 24, 2011 Google commemorated the 112th particular —to confront twenty-first-century questions of birthday of Jorge Luis Borges with one of its now famous near-infinitude and open-access knowledge. doodles portraying the Argentine writer overlooking a Writing in The New Republic in 2010, she argues that futuristic cityscape made up of galleries, staircases and compiling the “total library” is no longer a question of if, bookshelves. The doodle is in part inspired by one of or even when, but by whom and for whom. At the core of Borges’ most famous tropes, the infinite library as depicted her inquiry—beyond the usual landmarks of law, finance, in his 1941 short story “The Library of Babel”—a library organization—lies Rausing’s elegant hope: that scholars that contains every book ever written and every book that might embrace open, public access to scholarship with might ever be written. “[It] is composed of an indefinite a sense of urgency. Can we be our own best guardians and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries, with and the guardians of a profoundly democratic vision of vast air shafts between, surrounded by very low railings." universal learning and education? The librarians wander about, trying to find the catalogue of catalogues. Their one persistent though futile hope is the The stakes of non-participation in the new world of discovery of a book that is the key to all other books—the open-access knowledge are undeniably high. Google vice perfect compendium, housed in a crimson hexagon. president Marissa Mayer’s early shot across the bow is now infamous: “Google has become known for providing The dream of an all-encompassing archive of the entire access to all of the world’s knowledge, and if we provide world’s knowledge is no less alluring today, seven decades access to books we are going to get much higher-quality after Borges published “The Library of Babel.” For Lisbet and much more reliable information. We are moving Rausing, the 2012 Una’s Lecturer, and many others, this
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up the food chain.” Much has happened since Google Una's Lecturer 2011-2012 Events made its first overtures to university libraries in 2002. "Who Guards the Guardians? Professors, Publishing, Yet, in face of such ambition or hubris, one cannot help and the Public" but return to Borges: “When it was proclaimed that the Monday, April 9, 2012 6 p.m. | Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall Library comprised all books, the first impression was extravagant joy. [. . . ] Thousands of the greedy abandoned Follow-up Panel Discussion with Lisbet Rausing their sweet native hexagons and rushed up the stairways, Tuesday, April 10, 2012 4-6 p.m. | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall urged on by the vain intention of finding their Vindication. Rausing in discussion with Anthony Cascardi (Dean, Arts & These pilgrims disputed in the narrow corridors, proffered Humanities), Carla Hesse (Dean, Social Sciences), AnnaLee dark curses, strangled each other on the divine stairways, Saxenian (Dean, School of Information), and Thomas Leonard flung the deceptive books into the air shafts, and met their (University Librarian). death cast down in a similar fashion by the inhabitants of remote regions. Others went mad …”
Teresa Stojkov is Associate Director of the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities.
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reen B. Tow o ns D en e d Next year the Townsend Center will host several notable lectures in celebration of its 25th year. Below are a sample of featured speakers. Check back on our website soon for more updates.
C e s n ie te it r f an or the Hum Wendell Berry Shirin Neshat Vikram Seth Writer and Cultural Critic Visual Artist Poet and Writer
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reen B. Tow o ns D en e d Launched in 2009, The Townsend Papers in the Humanities feature short works on topics of broad interest in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. The most recent volume in the series commemorates the 25th year of the Townsend Center, presenting a collection of revised versions of endowed lectures and other presentations
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No. 4 Critical Views: Essays on the Humanities and the Arts Kwame Anthony Appiah, J.M. Coetzee, Arthur Danto, Mike Davis, Anthony Grafton, Seamus Heaney, Michael Ignatieff, Ivan Klíma, Maya Lin, Kenzaburō Ōe, Michael Pollan, Sebastião Salgado, Peter Sellars, Maurice Sendak Edited by Teresa Stojkov $24.95, £16.95 Paperback
No. 1 Nietzsche’s Negative Ecologies Malcolm Bull, Anthony J. Cascardi, T.J. Clark $16.95, £11.95 Paperback
No. 2 Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Saba Mahmood $16.95, £11.95 Paperback
No. 3 Art and Aesthetics After Adorno Jay M. Bernstein, Claudia Brodsky, Anthony J. Cascardi, Thierry de Duve, Aleš Erjavec, Robert Kaufman, Fred Rush $18.95, £12.95 Paperback
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L Curtain up in the Roman Courtroom Late Antique Religions et Societies Working Group 1–2:30 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall Speaker: Roland Färber, Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, München HIGHLIGHTS Event Contact: [email protected] P Wanitani: Songs for the Indonesian Women's Movement Center for Southeast Asia Studies 5-7 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, 2223 Fulton A special presentation of original music by Orkes Manohara, featuring dancer Wilis Ekowati. Event Contact: 510-642-3609
On Display until May 4 Luminous Watercolor Paintings by Darril Tighe
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L The Comatose, The Cadaver and The Wednesday, April 4 L Why Pakistan Matters in U.S. Foreign Policy Chimera: Alternate Anatomical Architectures Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium P Composer Cindy Cox Noon Concert Series Department of Music 12:15–1 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall Faculty recital featuring new pieces by Berkeley composer and pianist Cindy Cox, with violinist Institute of International Studies Hrabba Atladottir, 4–5:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall Berkeley Center for New Media pianist Karen Speaker: Neil Joeck, Senior Fellow, Center 7:30–9 p.m. | Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Rosenak, and the for Global Security Research Alexander String Dai Hall Event Contact: 510-642-2472 Speaker: Stelarc, performance artist, Quartet. Melbourne Event Contact: 510-642-4864 L Dan Pitera Event Contact: 510-495-3505 CED Lecture Series L The Cold War and its Impact on U.S.- College of Environmental Design Indonesian Relations 6:30–7:30 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall Center for Southeast Asia Studies Tuesday, April 3 Speaker: Dan Pitera, Executive Director of 12:30–2 p.m. | Institute of East Asian the Detroit Collaborative Design Center, L Politics of Culture and Nature in Studies, 2223 Fulton University of Detroit Mercy School of China’s Northwest Speaker: Baskara Wardaya, Director, Center Architecture Institute of East Asian Studies for History and Political Ethics, Sanata Event Contact: 510-664-4442 12–1 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, Dharma University, Indonesia 2223 Fulton Event Contact: 510-642-3609 Speaker: You-tien Hsing, Geography, Thursday, April 5 UC Berkeley L Managing Groundwater as if the Environment Mattered Event Contact: 510-642-2809 L Lunch Poems Presents Richard Berengarten College of Environmental Design The Library F 1–2 p.m. | 315A Wurster Hall Our Summer In Tehran 12:10–12:50 p.m. | Morrison Room, (Justine Shapiro, 2009) Speaker: Matthew Heberger, Pacific 101 Doe Library Institute, Oakland, California I-House Film Series The author Event Contact: [email protected] of more than twenty books, L Wutai Shan, the Mongols, and Qing Berengarten has Cosmopolitanism been a maverick Institute of East Asian Studies in contemporary 4 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, British poetry.
International House 2223 Fulton Two of his books are regarded as 7–9 p.m. | Chevron Auditorium, Speaker: Johan Elverskog, Religious Studies, contemporary International House Southern Methodist University, and Visiting Fellow, Stanford University classics: The Manager and The Blue Jewish American filmmaker Justine Shapiro Butterfly, an elegy for victims of a Nazi Event Contact: 510-642-2809 and her 6 year-old son Mateo spend the massacre in former Yugoslavia. summer with three middle-class families in Event Contact: [email protected] Tehran, Iran, transcending overt politics in favor of subtle, human, and often humorous moments. Event Contact: 510-642-9460
TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES | April/May 2012 7 Thursday, April 5 (Cont'd) L Risking Identification: Reading For and P "Boy" and "Dia: Diagnosis to Dialogue, Against Type in Early Modern Narrative Clinic to Theater" L Political Encounters and Engagements: A Department of English Department of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies Spotlight on Undergraduate Student Research 5 p.m. | 4337 Dwinelle Hall Center for Race and Gender 8 p.m. | 7 Zellerbach Hall Speaker: Amelia Zurcher, English, 4–5:30 p.m. | 691 Barrows Hall Marquette University In Boy, Langston Brand examines a 15-year-old adolescent’s experience of Forum on emerging research by UC Event Contact: [email protected] Berkeley undergraduate student grant identity construction, and in Dia: Diagnosis recipients. L Riffat Masood to Dialogue, Clinic to Theater, Cole Ferraiuolo looks at the creation of doctor/ Event Contact: 510-643-8488 Center for South Asia Studies patient relationships in a clinic in San 5-7 p.m. | 10 Stephens Hall Francisco’s Tenderloin district. L The Enduring Crisis of Humanitarianism Speaker: The Honorable Riffat Masood, Institute of International Studies Tickets required. Consul General of Pakistan in Los Angeles 4–5:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall Event Contact: 510-642-8827 Event Contact: 510-642-3608 Speaker: Tom Farer, International Studies, University of Denver L The Lettrist Mystic Abd al-Rahman Friday, April 6 Event Contact: 510-642-2472 al-Bistami (d. 1454), the New Brethren of Purity, and the Sources of Ottoman Historical L Graduate School of Education Research Consciousness L Planning against Planning: The Day 2012 Center for Middle Eastern Studies Mont Pelerin Society and the Origins of Graduate School of Education Neoliberalism 5 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall 9 a.m–5 p.m. | Tolman Hall Center for the Comparative Study of Right-Wing Speaker: Cornell Fleischer, History, Movements Conference produced by students and University of Chicago faculty at the Graduate School of Education 4–5:30 p.m. | Wildavsky Conference Room, Event Contact: [email protected] to celebrate scholarship and community. Anna Head Building, 2538 Channing Way Event Contact: [email protected] Speaker: Angus Burgin, History, Johns L Hollywood Costume: The Good, the Bad, Hopkins University and the Beautiful L Quinto Sol Remembered Event Contact: 510-642-0813 Department of Ethnic Studies 9 a.m.–5 p.m. | Maude Fife Room, L Dan Chatman 315 Wheeler Hall CED Lecture Series College of Environmental Design A two-day symposium commemorating the 45th anniversary of Quinto Sol, the 4–5 p.m. | 106 Wurster Hall first Chican@ publishing house and its Speaker: Dan Chatman, City and Regional Berkeley Art Museum interdisciplinary magazine El Grito, which Planning, UC Berkeley 7 p.m. | Pacific Film Archive Theater was founded in 1967 with the efforts of UC Event Contact: 510-664-4442 In this illustrated talk, Deborah Nadoolman Berkeley students and faculty. Landis discusses costume and storytelling. Event Contact: [email protected] L Control in the Operating Room She will be joined by her husband, director Science, Technology, and Society Center John Landis, to introduce their comedy, L 4th Annual UC Berkeley Sociological 4–6 p.m. | 470 Stephens Hall ¡Three Amigos!, which screens immediately Research Symposium after the talk and discussion, at 8:30. Department of Sociology Speaker: Rachel Prentice, Cornell University Tickets required. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. | Pauley Ballroom East, Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union Event Contact: [email protected] Event Contact: 510-642-1412 This year, the symposium will center on Event Key the theme, “Identity, Ideology, and Society: F Film (Re-)(Dis-) Connecting Patterns E exhibitions of Discourse.” P performances Event Contact: L Conferences, lectures, and readings [email protected]
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L Incidence and Refraction: The Prismatic L Teaching as a Subversive Activity – L Nature and Encyclopedism in Sixth- Structure of Die Wahlverwandtschaften Revisited Century Legal and Political Discourse Department of German Berkeley Language Center Late Antique Religions et Societies Working Group 12-1 p.m. | 282 Dwinelle Hall 3–5 p.m. | B4 Dwinelle Hall 5:30–7 p.m. | 3401 Dwinelle Hall Speaker: Monica Felix Speaker: H. Douglas Brown, English, Speaker: Shane Bjornlie, History, Event Contact: 510-643-2004 San Francisco State University Claremont McKenna College Event Contact: 510-877-4002 Event Contact: [email protected] L In Search of the Origins of Domestic Water Buffalo in China L Photography and Time: A Conversation L American Graffiti, (George Lucas, 1973): Center for Chinese Studies Townsend Center "Still Pictures" Course Thread Behind the Scenes: The Art and Craft of Cinema 12:05-1 p.m. 3:30–6:30 p.m. | Geballe Room, Berkeley Art Museum 3401 Dwinelle Hall 220 Stephens Hall 7 p.m. | Pacific Film Archive Theater Speaker: Li Liu, East A conversation with Marta Braun, Mary Costume Asian Languages and Ann Doane, and Suzanne Guerlac that will designers Cultures, Stanford address the various temporal horizons of Aggie Guerard University photography and photographic processes, Rodgers and Event Contact: 510-643-6321 including issues such as movement (chrono- Deborah photography, the floue), the time of the Nadoolman L Healing Texts, Healing Practices, index and of the (latent ) image, memory Landis in conversation. Healing Bodies: A Workshop on Medicine and the time of development, as well as the Tickets required. relation of photography to what Bergson and Buddhism Event Contact: 510-642-1412 called the “cinematographic illusion.”
Event Contact: [email protected] P "Boy" and "Dia: Diagnosis to Dialogue, Clinic to Theater" L The Singular Development of a Tourist Department of Theater, Dance Town: Politics, Medicine, Society, and Tourism & Performance Studies in Vichy 8 p.m. | 7 Zellerbach Hall Tourism Studies Working Group See Thursday, April 5 listing for details. 4–6 p.m. | 101 Archaeological Research Facility, 2251 College Speaker: Bert Gordon, Professor of Saturday, April 7 Center for Japanese Studies European History and Chair of the Social 2:30–5 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall Sciences Division, Mills College L Healing Texts, Healing Practices, This workshop brings together experts on Event Contact: [email protected] Healing Bodies: A Workshop on Medicine Japanese, Chinese, and Tibetan religions and Buddhism and medicine to discuss the intersections of L "Ritual" and Performance–Rhetoric, Center for Japanese Studies ritual and medical practices of each region Embodiment, and Agency across Contexts 10 a.m.–5 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall by taking a multicultural approach to the and Vantage Points See Friday, April 6 listing for details. issues of health, disease, and body. Dance Studies Working Group
Event Contact: 510-642-3156 5–7 p.m. | 126 Dwinelle Annex F Chekhov for Children (Sasha Waters Speaker: Chia-Yi Seetoo, Theater, Dance, & Freyer, 2010) L Vijay Iyer Performance Studies, UC Berkeley Afterimage: Filmmakers and Critics in Conversation Composition Colloquia Series Event Contact: 510-642-1677 Berkeley Art Museum Department of Music 4 p.m. | Pacific Film Archive Theater 3–4:30 p.m. | Elkus Room, Introduction by Phillip Lopate. 125 Morrison Hall Tickets required. Event Contact: 510-642-2678 Event Contact: 510-642-1412
TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES | April/May 2012 9 Saturday, April 7 (cont'd) Monday, April 9 L The Desire To Be You: Competition, Reflexivity and Desire in the Panegyrici Latini F A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries L Una's Lecturer, Lisbet Rausing: Late Antique Religions et Societies Working Group (James Ivory, 1998) Who Guards the Guardians? Professors, 12:30–2 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley Art Museum Publishing, and the Public Speaker: Dr. Marco Formisano, 7 p.m. | Pacific Film Archive Theater Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Humboldt- James Ivory and Phillip Lopate in Universität zu Berlin conversation. Event Contact: [email protected] Tickets required. L Nuclear Proliferation: Event Contact: 510-642-1412 What's to Worry About? Institute of International Studies P "Boy" and "Dia: Diagnosis to Dialogue, Clinic to Theater" 4–5:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall Department of Theater, Dance Speaker: & Performance Studies Ambassador 8 p.m. | 7 Zellerbach Hall Robert Gallucci, Townsend Center for the Humanities President, The See Thursday, April 5 listing for details. 6 p.m. | Maude Fife Room, John D. and 315 Wheeler Hall P African Music and Dance: African Energy Catherine T. for the Spirit Dr. Lisbet Rausing is a Senior Research MacArthur Fellow at Imperial College’s Centre for Foundation the History of Science, Technology and Event Contact: 510-642-2472 Medicine. She is also the founder of the Arcadia Fund, which since 2001 has made L The Untimely Dialectic: grant commitments of over $181 million Nietzsche, Plotinus, Hegel to preserve endangered treasures of culture Department of English and nature. Dr. Rausing is the author of 5–7 p.m. | Maude Fife Room, Linnaeus: Nature and Nation as well as 315 Wheeler Hall numerous scholarly articles, including Speaker: Andrew Cole, English, “Toward a New Alexandria,” (New Republic, Department of Music Princeton University March 2010), which addresses the future 8–10 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall of libraries and public access to scholarly Event Contact: [email protected] African Music and Dance Ensemble, CK resources. Ladzekpo, director; Fua Dia Congo, Muisi- L Chinese Miners, the "Coolie" Question, Panel Discussion Kongo Malonga, director; and UCB African and the Propaganda of History Music Ensemble, CK Ladzekpo, director Tuesday, April 10, 2012 Center for Race and Gender 4-6 p.m. | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Tickets required. 5:30–8 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall Rausing in discussion with Anthony Event Contact: 510-642-4864 Speaker: Mae M. Ngai, Professor of History Cascardi (Dean, Arts & Humanities), and Lung Family Professor of Asian Carla Hesse (Dean, Social Sciences), American Studies, Columbia University AnnaLee Saxenian (Dean, School of Event Contact: 510-643-8488 Information), and Thomas Leonard (University Librarian). Event Contact: 510-643-9670
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L Preston Scott Cohen L The New Industrial Revolution L Tolerance Without Liberalism: Islamic CED Lecture Series Institutions and Political Violence in 20th College of Environmental Design Century Indonesia Center for Southeast Asia Studies 6:30–7:30 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall Speaker Preston Scott Cohen is the 12:30-2 p.m. | Institute of East Asian founding Principal of Preston Scott Cohen, Studies, 2223 Fulton Inc., and Chair of the Department of Speaker: Jeremy Menchik, Shorenstein Architecture and the Gerald M. McCue International House Postdoctoral Fellow in Contemporary Asia, Stanford University Professor of Architecture at Harvard 7:30–9 p.m. | International House University Graduate School of Design. Event Contact: 510-642-3609 Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired Event Contact: 510-664-4442 Magazine, will discuss a new form of L The Bathtub and the Hair Dryer: Exploring entrepreneurship. People are applying the Water-Energy Nexus online social and innovation models to DIY College of Environmental Design Tuesday, April 10 “small batch” manufacturing, leading to what Mr. Anderson calls “the continuing 1–2 p.m. | 315A Wurster Hall L Religious Revivalism in Current North industrialization of the Maker Movement.” Speaker: Andrew Fahlund, China Tickets required. Executive Director, Water in the West, Institute of East Asian Studies Stanford University Event Contact: 510-642-9460 12–1 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, Event Contact: [email protected] 2223 Fulton Speaker: Shin-yi Chao, Philosophy and Wednesday, April 11 L Arcade Hoange (d. 1716) and the Religion, Rutgers University Invention of Chinese Belles Lettres in Europe Center for Chinese Studies Event Contact: 510-642-2809 P Eco Ensemble, Berkeley New Music Project Noon Concert Series 4–6 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, L Ron Silliman 2223 Fulton Holloway Series in Poetry Speaker: Patricia Sieber, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Ohio State University Event Contact: 510-643-6321
L Gender, Crime and Feminist Theory: Masculinities' Effects on Violence Against Women and Men Photo by Peg Skorpinsky Peg by Photo Institute for the Study of Societal Issues
Department of English Department of Music 4–5:30 p.m. | Wildavsky Conference Room, 6:30–8 p.m. | Maude Fife Room, 12:15–1 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall Anna Head Building, 2538 Channing Way 315 Wheeler Hall Lily Chen: Soundscape for violin, Speaker: Lynn Chancer, Professor of Ron Silliman attended UC Berkeley in 1970- percussion, and piano Sociology, Hunter College of the City 71, receiving the Joan Lee Yang Award. Since Andrés Cremisini: (control) for violin, cello, University of New York wandering off in the middle of his senior and snare drum Event Contact: 510-642-0813 year to perform "alternative service" as a Event Contact: 510-642-4864 conscientious objector, he has written and L Building Government IT 2.0: A Personal edited over 30 books, most recently Wharf Account of My Experiences as Chief IT Hypothesis from Lines Presss. Strategist for a U.S. Federal Agency Event Contact: [email protected] School of Information 4:10–5:30 p.m. | 210 South Hall Speaker: Marti Hearst Event Contact: 510-642-1464
TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES | April/May 2012 11 Wednesday, April 11 Thursday, April 12 P Cine/Spin: Totally Surreal, Totally (Cont'd) L Prospects: A New Century: Biennial L Digital Occupation: Israel's Military Meeting of C19/The Society of Nineteenth- Occupation and the Digital Turn Century Americanists Department of Geography Department of English 4:10–5 p.m. | 575 McCone Hall 9 a.m.–6:30 p.m. | Berkeley City Club Speaker: Rebecca Stein, Anthropology The conference seeks to develop innovative Department, Duke University methodologies for the intra- and inter- Berkeley Art Museum disciplinary study of the long American Event Contact: 510-642-3903 7:30 p.m. | Pacific Film Archive Theater nineteenth century (1789–1914). Cal DJs take on films from the PFA L Death and the Ancient Philosophers Event Contact: [email protected] collection, spinning solo or team-tampering Howison Lectures in Philosophy with an ever-changing array of silent and L Vexed Histories: Rethinking Trajectories of Graduate Division silenced works. Black Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Women's 4:10 p.m. | Toll Room, Alumni House Tickets required. Studies Speaker: Jonathan Center for Race and Gender Event Contact: 510-642-1412 Barnes, Ancient 4–5:30 p.m. | 691 Barrows Hall Philosophy, Paris Sorbonne Speakers: Ziza Delgado, Ethnic Studies, UC Friday, April 13 University Berkeley; Nick Mitchell, African American Studies, UC Berkeley L Event Contact: Prospects: A New Century: Biennial 510-643-7413 Event Contact: 510-643-8488 Meeting of C19/The Society of Nineteenth- Century Americanists L L Repatriation and Rediscovery of Local Story Hour in the Library featuring Department of English Isabel Allende Narratives through Music: Recordings and 9 a.m.–6:30 p.m. | Berkeley City Club Films of Bali, 1928–1930s See Thursday, April 12 listing for details. Colloquia in the Musicologies Series Department of Music L Legal Regimes and Legal Change in 5–7 p.m. | Elkus Room, 125 Morrison Antiquity Speaker: Edward Herbst, Anthropology, Department of Classics Hunter College-CUNY 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall The Library Event Contact: 510-642-2678 A two-day conference. 6–7 p.m. | Morrison Room, 101 Doe Library Event Contact: [email protected] L Big History – A Bridge between Isabel Allende is the acclaimed author of Humanities and Sciences 19 books, which have been translated into L The Little Book of Terror R. Lowry Dobson Memorial Lecture 35 languages. In addition to her career Center for South Asia Studies College of Letters & Science as writer, journalist, and teacher, she has 12–2 p.m. 5:30–6:30 p.m. | Sibley Auditorium, created the Isabel Allende Foundation to 10 Stephens Hall empower women and girls worldwide. Bechtel Engineering Center Speaker: Daisy Speaker: Walter Alvarez, Geology, Event Contact: 510-643-0397 Rockwell, artist UC Berkeley and writer Event Contact: 510-642-3353 Event Contact: 510-642-3608
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P Chamber Music L Poetry Reading Saturday, April 14 Noon Concert Series Department of Spanish & Portuguese Department of Music 7–9 p.m. | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall L Schismatics: Annual Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference 12:15–1 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall Poetry reading in English, Spanish, Department of English Event Contact: 510-642-4864 and Portuguese, featuring poet María Negroni, as well as readings by Suzanne 10 a.m.–7 p.m. | Third Floor, Wheeler Hall L Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Jill Levine and graduate students from the An annual conference showcasing the Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities Departments of Spanish & Portuguese and best work from graduate students in the English. humanities departments of Berkeley and Event Contact: [email protected] Stanford. Event Contact: P Amy X Neuburg [email protected] L@TE: Friday Nights at BAM/PFA L Prospects: A New Century: Biennial Meeting of C19/The Society of Nineteenth- Century Americanists Department of English 9 a.m.–6:30 p.m. | Berkeley City Club
Center for Chinese Studies See Thursday, April 12 listing for details. 2-5:30 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, L Legal Regimes and Legal Change 2223 Fulton in Antiquity This annual conference brings together Berkeley Art Museum Department of Classics graduate students to present innovative 7:30–10 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall research on many aspects of modern Neuburg, who has “scoped out her own Chinese cultural production in humanistic See Friday, April 13 listing for details. territory in the gulf between pop and disciplines. classical” (Village Voice), is joined by wild P University Gospel Chorus Event Contact: 510-643-6321 percussionist Moe! Staiano and a large chorus for an evening of wordless and L Alan Shockley nearly wordless songs. Composition Colloquia Series Event Contact: 510-642-0808 Department of Music
3–4:30 p.m. | 128 Morrison Hall P UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus, La Chanson Event Contact: 510-642-2678 Department of Music
8–10 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall Department of Music L On the Legacy of Socialist Visual Matthew Oltman, guest director Experience 8–10 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall Center for Chinese Studies Tickets required. Experience the spirit of gospel and jazz 4–5:30 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, Event Contact: 510-642-4864 improvisations, as gospel meets jazz and big 2223 Fulton band in this performance of Duke Ellington’s P Quatuor Mosaiques “Sacred Concert” (excerpts), with guest Speaker: Cal Performances artists from UC & the community. Xiaobing Tang, Comparative 8 p.m. | First Congregational Curch Tickets required. Literature, Pre-performance talk at 7 p.m. by Event Contact: 510-642-4864 University of musicologist Victor Gavenda. Michigan Tickets required. Event Contact: Event Contact: 510-642-9988 510-643-6321
TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES | April/May 2012 13 Sunday, April 15 P University Wind Ensemble L Innovation and Transmission within the Department of Music Eco-System of Balinese Wayang Performance L Faces of Poverty: Exploring Stigmas, 3–5 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall Center for Southeast Asia Studies Exploring the Marginalized Higdon: Road Stories 12:30–2 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Suitcase Clinic Holsinger: Scootin’ on Hardrock Studies, 2223 Fulton 9 a.m.–4 p.m. | Maude Fife Room, Ticheli: Loch Lomond Speaker: Lisa Gold, Music, UC Berkeley 315 Wheeler Hall Karrick: Bayou Breakdown Event Contact: 510-642-3609 Fourth Annual Berkeley Poverty and Tickets required. Homelessness Symposium L Event Contact: 510-642-4864 Linguistics Colloquium Event Contact: 510-642-7811 Department of Linguistics 4:10–5:30 p.m. | 182 Dwinelle Hall L Prospects: A New Century: Biennial Monday, April 16 Speaker: Judith Kroll, Pennsylvania State Meeting of C19/The Society of Nineteenth- University Century Americanists F Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy, 2010) Department of English Event Contact: 510-643-7621 Depth of Field Film + Video Series 9 a.m.–6:30 p.m. | Berkeley City Club L Media Bichos and other Displays See Thursday, April 12 listing for details. for Engaging People to Watch Videos in the Museum P E@RLY: The Sun (Part Two) Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Berkeley Art Museum Berkeley Center for New Media 12–2 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum 7:30–9 p.m. | Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Artist Chris Duncan leads a prism- Dai Hall making workshop, Bay Area sound artist Speaker: Sabine Breitwieser, Chief Curator McKelvey performs a sonic response to of Media and Performance Art, Museum of Paul Kos's piece Sound of Ice Melting and Modern Art, New York the International Orange Chorale sings in Townsend Center for the Humanities Event Contact: 510-495-3505 celebration of the fiery orb. 7 p.m. | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Event Contact: 510-642-0808 Exit Through the Gift Shop focuses on Thierry Guetta, a French immigrant and Tuesday, April 17 L State of Mind: New California Art circa aspiring filmmaker in Los Angeles who 1970 Gallery Conversation L infiltrates the underground street art What Is China? Berkeley Art Museum community and befriends the talented Institute of East Asian Studies 3 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and elusive Banksy. As Guetta documents 12–1 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, Museum of Modern Art Chief Curator Banksy’s exploits, he slowly establishes 2223 Fulton for Media and an artistic profile of his own as “Mr. Speaker: Xin Liu, Anthropology, UC Performance Art Brainwash,” leaving the audience to wonder Berkeley Sabine Breitwieser who is subject and who is filmmaker. Event Contact: 510-642-2809 offers her response Event Contact: 510-643-9670 to State of Mind: New L Islamophobia in France California Art circa L The Role of Sport in Promoting Institute of International Studies 1970 in a gallery Development and Peace: A Critical 12–2 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall conversation with exhibition co-curator Sociological Analysis Constance M. Lewallen. Center for African Studies Speaker: Houria Bouteldja, Dialeg Global Institute, Paris Event Contact: 510-642-0808 12–2 p.m. | Location TBA Event Contact: [email protected] Event Key Speaker: Richard Giulianotti, Professor of
F Film Sociology, School of Sport, Exercise and E exhibitions Health Sciences, Loughborough University P performances Event Contact: 510-642-8338 L Conferences, lectures, and readings
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L Fundamentalism: Prophecy and Protest in Wednesday, April 18 L Islamophobia in The Netherlands and an Age of Globalization Anti-Black Racism Religion, Politics, and Globalization Program L Tables of Content: Ray Johnson and Institute of International Studies 12–2 p.m. | 202 Barrows Hall Robert Warner Bob Box Archive/MATRIX 241 4–6 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall Berkeley Art Museum Speaker: Torkel Brekke, Oslo Speaker: Sandew Hiro, International 12 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum Event Contact: [email protected] Institute of Scientific Studies, Amsterdam Cultural historian Dickran Tashjian (Art Event Contact: [email protected] L Gendering Food Justice History, UC Irvine) shares his insights into Beatrice Bain Research Group the work of Ray Johnson with reference to L “Masters of the Country”: Grass-Roots in the culture of correspondence art, the social 4–5:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall the First General Election life of the American avant-garde, and the Institute of East Asian Studies Speakers: Patricia Allen, Director, Center work of Joseph Cornell. for Agroecology and Sustainable Food 4 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, Event Contact: 510-642-0808 Systems, UC Santa Cruz; Wendy Sarvasy, 2223 Fulton Political Science, Cal State East Bay Speaker: Jishun Zhang, Si-mian Institute P Songs of Persephone Event Contact: [email protected] for Advanced Studies in Humanities, East Noon Concert Series China Normal University Department of Music L Happiness and Ultimate Good The lecture will be in Chinese. 12:15–1 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall Foerster Lectures on the Immortality of the Soul Event Contact: 510-642-2809 Graduate Division Soprano Alana Mailes performs 17th-
century Italian L 4:10 p.m. | Toll Room, Net Smart: How to Thrive Online and French opera Alumni House School of Information arias and cantatas Speaker: Peter Singer, 4:10–5:30 p.m. | 210 South Hall by Caccini, Peri, Bioethics, Princeton Monteverdi, Speaker: Howard Rheingold, author University Rossi, Lully, Event Contact: 510-642-1464
Event Contact: Wilkinson Andrew by Photo Charpentier. 510-643-7413 L Event Contact: A 2nd-Century BC Shipwreck in the Indian 510-642-4864 Ocean and the Role of the Bodhisattva L Vasudha Dalmia Avalokiteśvara as the Protector of Mariners Center for South Asia Studies L Case studies from the Colorado River and Department of History of Art 5–7 p.m. | 10 Stephens Hall French Prealps 5:15–6:30 p.m. | 308J Doe Library Speaker: Vasudha Dalmia, Hindi and College of Environmental Design Speaker: Osmund Bopearachchi, History of Modern South Asian Studies, UC Berkeley 1–2 p.m. | 315A Wurster Hall Art, UC Berkeley Event Contact: 510-642-3608 Speaker: Zan Rubin, Landscape Event Contact: [email protected] Architecture and Environmental Planning, L Blake Stimson UC Berkeley Contemporary Art Working Group Event Contact: [email protected] Thursday, April 19 7–9 p.m. | 340 Moffitt Undergraduate Library L Hell and the Future: Stereotyping by L Making Time Speaker: Blake Stimson, Art History, Destiny in Western Europe around 1000 Arts Research Center UC Davis Late Antique Religions et Societies Working Group 9 a.m.–5 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum Event Contact: [email protected] 3–5 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall Scholars, artists, presenters, and curators Alan Bernstein (History, University of will come together in this arts symposium Arizona) will lead a workshop discussion to think about what it means to make, on a portion of his project "On the History curate, and evaluate hybrid art practices. of Belief in Hell." Event Contact: 510-642-7784 Event Contact: [email protected]
TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES | April/May 2012 15 Thursday, April 19 Friday, April 20 F A Sea Change (Barbara Ettinger, 2009) (cont'd) L Annual International Conference L Manuel Lozada's Indigenous Rebellion: A on Islamophobia 19th Century Tale of Capital, Race, and the Center for Race and Gender Struggle over Territory in Mexico 9 a.m.–5 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law Bancroft Library Organized by the CRG Islamophobia 12–1 p.m. | Lewis-Latimer Room, Faculty Research & Documentation Project. Club Event Contact: 510-643-8488 Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning Speaker: Diana Negrin da Silva, Geography, UC Berkeley, Bancroft Study Award L Towards Long-term Sustainability: In 4–6 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall Recipient Response to the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Learn about how the changing sea water Event Contact: 510-642-3782 Center for Japanese Studies chemistry is affecting our planet. 9 a.m.–5 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Event Contact: 626-716-8919 L I’m Neither Here nor There: Mexicans’ Studies, 2223 Fulton Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty Event Contact: 510-642-3156 L Interrelationships that Musicians Nurture Institute for the Study of Societal Issues in Four Musical Communities 4–5:30 p.m. | Shorb House, 2547 Channing L Making Time Colloquia of the Musicologies Way Arts Research Center Department of Music Speaker: Patricia Zavella, Latin American 9 a.m.–5 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum 4:40–6 p.m. | 128 Morrison Hall and Latino Studies, UC Santa Cruz See Thursday, April 19 listing for details. Speaker: Eric Charry, Music, Wesleyan Event Contact: 510-642-6903 University L Larry May Event Contact: 510-642-2678 L Retrieved Atlantis: Photographic Memories Kadish Center for Morality, Law, and Public of a Disappeared Algerian Village Affairs P Berkeley Dance Project 2012: Center for Middle Eastern Studies 11:20 a.m.–1 p.m. | 132 Boalt Hall South Beneath the Flesh 5 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall Larry May is a political philosopher Department of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies Speaker: Slimane Zeghidour, author & who has written on conceptual issues in journalist, TV5 Monde, France collective and shared responsibility, as 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse Event Contact: [email protected] well as normative issues in international With works criminal law. by Amara F Cave of Forgotten Dreams RSVP required. Tabor-Smith, (Werner Herzog, 2010) Event Contact: 510-642-3627 Lisa Wymore, Department of German and Stephanie
L Sherman. 6:30–8:30 p.m. | B4 Dwinelle Hall Eric Chasalow Directed by Lisa Composition Colloquia Series Screening by the German Film Club. Wymore. Department of Music Event Contact: 510-643-2004 Tickets required.
3–4:30 p.m. | Elkus Room, Panlilio Marie Anna by Photo 125 Morrison Hall Event Contact: 510-642-8827 Event Contact: 510-642-2678
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Saturday, April 21 P Berkeley Dance Project 2012: L Double Feature: Performing Digital Beneath the Flesh Choreography L Annual International Conference Department of Theater, Dance Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium on Islamophobia & Performance Studies Center for Race and Gender 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse 9 a.m.–5 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law See Friday, April 20 listing for details. See Friday, April 20 listing for details.
L Towards Long-term Sustainability: In Sunday, April 22 Response to the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster P Center for Japanese Studies Berkeley Dance Project 2012: Beneath the Flesh 9 a.m.-5 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Berkeley Center for New Media Department of Theater, Dance Studies, 2223 Fulton 7:30–9 p.m. | Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja & Performance Studies See Friday, April 20 listing for details. Dai Hall 2 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse Speaker: Jonah Bokaer, choreographer L See Friday, April 20 listing for details. Making Time Event Contact: 510-495-3505 Arts Research Center P Marcel Khalife and Al Mayadine Ensemble 9 a.m.–5 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum L John Zurier in Concert: “Fall of the Moon”: An Homage Visiting Artist Lecture Series See Thursday, April 19 listing for details. to the Poet Mahmoud Darwish and a Salute Department of Art Practice to the Arab Spring P Cal Day Music Performances 7:30 p.m. | 160 Kroeber Hall Department of Music Speaker: John Zurier, painter 11 a.m.–4 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall Event Contact: 510-643-7064 Milhaud: Cinéma-Fantaisie, Joe Neeman, violin Chausson: Poème, Casey Nosiglia, violin Tuesday, April 24 Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3, Wooho Park, violin L Course Threads Symposium Liszt: Totentanz, Lisa Wu, piano Tickets required. Center for Middle Eastern Studies Event Contact: 510-642-4864 7 p.m. | Zellberach Auditorium, Zellerbach Hall P University Chorus Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish and music of Department of Music Marcel Khalife. 8–10 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall Tickets required. Janequin: La guerre Event Contact: 510-394-2417 Townsend Center for the Humanities Jerusalem: Polychoral Mass in F (modern premiere) 4 p.m. | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Handel: Utrecht Jubilate and Zadok the Monday, April 23 The Course Threads symposium is a Priest (with orchestra) capstone forum for students who have Tickets required. L Martha Welborne completed all requirements of the Course Threads Program. Students will present Event Contact: 510-642-4864 CED Lecture Series College of Environmental Design on the topics they studied within their 6:30–7:30 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall thread, discussing the ways in which interdisciplinary course work informed Speaker: Martha Welborne, Executive their knowledge of the topic. Director of Countywide Planning, Los Angeles County Metropolitan http://coursethreads.berkeley.edu Transportation Authority Event Contact: 510-643-9670 Event Contact: 510-664-4442
TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES | April/May 2012 17 Tuesday, April 24 (Cont'd) Wednesday, April 25 L On Being an Academic Parent Program on Academic Lives L Social Policy and Healthy Aging among L Urban Water and Sanitation: Paradigms Older Chinese Immigrants in the United for the 21st Century South Asian City States, Sweden, and Japan Center for South Asia Studies Institute of East Asian Studies 8:30 a.m.–3 p.m. | B-100 Blum Hall 12–1 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, A Graduate Student Pre-conference to the 2223 Fulton 21st Century Indian City. Speaker: Kazumi Hoshino, Visiting Scholar, Event Contact: 510-642-3608 Center for Japanese Studies, UC Berkeley Event Contact: 510-642-2809 P Gamelan Music of Java and Bali Women's Faculty Club Elizabeth Elkus Memorial Noon Concert 4 p.m. | Women's Faculty Club L Shamans, Buddhists and Muslim Saints: Professors Emeriti Paula Fass and Mary The Layered History of the Desert Mazar Ann Mason discuss their recent book, Center for Buddhist Studies Childhood in America. 3–7 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, Event Contact: 510-642-4175 2223 Fulton A symposium on L Chinese Archives Seminar the historical and contemporary Department of Music religious landscape 12:15–1 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall of Xinjiang and the Uighur Autonomous Gamelan Music of Java and Bali is Region. performed by classes directed by Midiyanto and I Dewa Putu Berata with Ben Brinner Event Contact: and Lisa Gold. 510-643-5104 Event Contact: 510-642-4864 Institute of East Asian Studies F The Other Half (Ying Liang, 2006) L "I Sold My Blood A Billion Times": 4 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, I-House Film Series Constructing Urban Poverty in Contemporary 2223 Fulton International House Vietnam Speaker: Jishun Zhang, Si-mian Institute 7–9 p.m. | Chevron Auditorium, Center for Southeast Asia Studies for Advanced Studies in Humanities, East International House 12:30–2 p.m. | Institute of East Asian China Normal University Working as a secretary for a legal office, Studies, 2223 Fulton The lecture will be in Chinese. Xiaofen records the sordid aspects of Speaker: Martha Lincoln, Anthropology, Event Contact: 510-642-2809 clients' lives. She begins to question her City University of New York relationship with her boyfriend fresh out of L Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration prison and looking to get into trouble again. Event Contact: 510-642-3609 and the American Welfare State from the Tickets required. Progressive Era to the New Deal L Water Conservation and Reuse Strategies Institute for the Study of Societal Issues Event Contact: 510-642-9460 College of Environmental Design 1–2 p.m. | 315A Wurster Hall 4–5:30 p.m. | Wildavsky Conference Room, Anna Head Building, 2538 Channing Way Speaker: Elizabeth Dougherty, Principal, Wholly H2O Speaker: Cybelle Fox, Sociology, UC Berkeley Event Contact: [email protected] Event Contact: 510-642-0813 Event Key
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L New Archaic Sculptures from the Sacred L New Discoveries in the Oracular Sanctuary L The Mugging of Main Street in America: Gate of the Athenian Kerameikos of Apollo at Abai (Kalapodi) in Phokis Implications for the World Department of History of Art The Graduate Group in Ancient History & International House Mediterranean Archaeology 5–6:30 p.m. | 308J Doe Library 7:30–9 p.m. 2–4 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall Speaker: Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier, Director, International House German Archaeological Institute in Athens Speaker: Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier, Director, Speaker: Robert German Archaeological Institute in Athens Event Contact: [email protected] Scheer, Editor-in- Event Contact: [email protected] Chief of Truthdig.com Event Contact: 510-642-9460 Thursday, April 26 L The Myth of Religious Violence Religion, Politics, and Globalization Program L Swinging and Flowing: Inclusion and 3:30–5:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall Friday, April 27 Diversity in the Age of Data Speaker: Bill Cavanaugh, DePaul University CITRIS L Cultural Geographies of 1960s Japan: Event Contact: [email protected] 9:30 a.m.–7 p.m. | Banatao Auditorium, Cinema, Music + Arts Center for Japanese Studies Sutardja Dai Hall L Memory and Community in Early A conference for media professionals, Southern Song 9 a.m.–5 p.m. | Location TBA app developers, academics and students Center for Chinese Studies See Thursday, April 26 listing for details. exploring the confluence of diversity and 4–6 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, L new media technologies. With presentations 2223 Fulton Digital Inquiry: Forms of Knowledge in the by Helen Milner and DJ Spooky. Age of New Media Speaker: Stephen West, Languages and Berkeley Center for New Media Tickets required. Literatures, Arizona State University 9 a.m.–5 p.m. | Banatao Auditorium, Event Contact: 510-643-2217 Event Contact: 510-643-6321 Sutardja Dai Hall
L Cultural Geographies of 1960s Japan: L The Arab Uprisings: Youth, Technology, A symposium bringing together Cinema, Music + Arts and Human Rights interdisciplinary scholars, artists, and Center for Middle Eastern Studies media industry representatives to reflect on the nature of knowledge in the digital age. 5 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall Event Contact: 510-495-3505 Speaker: Mahmood Monshipouri, International Relations, San Francisco L Occupy Gdansk! Revolutionary Practices State University in the Contemporary World Event Contact: [email protected] Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies L History and Theory of New Media: 12–1:30 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall Tactical Media Center for Japanese Studies Berkeley Center for New Media Speaker: Padraic Kenney, History, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. | Location TBA Indiana University 5–6 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall A symposium taking concerns of cultural Event Contact: 510-642-9107 geography as a model (or metaphor) Speaker: Rita Raley, UC Santa Barbara for a way of thinking the "landscape" of Event Contact: 510-495-3505 L The Edges of Exposure: A Graduate art- and film-making in the 1960s Tokyo Student Conference counterculture. Department of French Event Contact: 510-642-3156 1–6:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall A conference bringing together scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore exposure as articulated in French and Francophone intellectual and cultural production. Event Contact: [email protected]
TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES | April/May 2012 19 Friday, April 27 (Cont'd) L American Musicological Society Joint L Women, Work, Role-Playing Chapter Meeting Contemporary Practices L Spring 2012 BLC Fellows Instructional Department of Music Berkeley Art Museum Development Research Projects 9 a.m. | 125 Morrison Hall 2 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum Berkeley Language Center The joint meeting of the Northern Two panel discussions in conjunction with 3–5 p.m. | B4 Dwinelle Hall California and Pacific Southwest Chapters State of Mind: New California Art circa Speakers: Daniel A. Brooks (Slavic of the American Musicological Society will 1970. Chaired by Associate Professor Julia Languages & Literatures), Jonathan Haddad feature 30-minute papers on varied subjects Bryan-Wilson (UC Berkeley), artists Lynn (French), and Jennifer Johnson (Graduate of musicological interest as well as an Hershman, Suzanne Lacy, Bonnie Sherk, School of Education) education roundtable. and art historian Moira Roth. Event Contact: 510-877-4002 Event Contact: 510-691-2446 Event Contact: 510-642-0808
L Nathan Davis P Gamelan Sari Raras: Javanese Shadow Play Composition Colloquia Series Department of Music P Berkeley Dance Project 2012: Department of Music 8–10 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall Beneath the Flesh 3–4:30 p.m. | Elkus Room, Javanese wayang (shadow play) featuring Department of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies 125 Morrison Hall puppet master Midiyanto. 2 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse Event Contact: 510-642-2678 Tickets required. See Friday, April 20 listing for details Event Contact: 510-642-4864 P University Baroque Ensemble Department of Music P Berkeley Dance Project 2012: 8–10 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall Beneath the Flesh Monday, April 30 Department of Theater, Dance Music of Bach, Corelli, Legrenzi, L & Performance Studies Changing Perspectives on the Indus and Purcell. Civilization: New Insights from Excavations in 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse Tickets required. Pakistan and India See Friday, April 20 listing for details. Event Contact: 510-642-4864 Department of Anthropology 12:10–1:30 p.m. | 101 Archaeological P Berkeley Dance Project 2012: Research Facility, 2251 College Beneath the Flesh Sunday, April 29 Speaker: J. Mark Kenoyer, Anthropology, Department of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies L American Musicological Society Joint University of Wisconsin Chapter Meeting 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse Event Contact: 510-642-2212 Department of Music See Friday, April 20 listing for details. L 9 a.m. | 125 Morrison Hall “Strange Tales of the Electric Art”: Hypnotism and the Literary Imagination in See Saturday, April 28 listing for details. Early Twentieth-Century China Saturday, April 28 L Philosophy Talk L Aboriginal Self-Governance in North Stanford University America: Dreams and Realities since 1970 12 p.m. | Marsh Theater, 2120 Allston Way, Canadian Studies Program Berkeley 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. | Gifford Room, Identities Lost & Found in a Global Age 221 Kroeber Hall Bharati Mukherjee, English, UC Berkeley Event Contact: 510-642-0531 Hypocrisy Center for Chinese Studies Lawrence Quill, Political Science, San Jose 4–6 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, Event Key State University 2223 Fulton F Film Tickets required. Speaker: Tie Xiao, CCS Postdoctoral Fellow E exhibitions Event Contact: 650-724-7193 P performances Event Contact: 510-643-6321 L Conferences, lectures, and readings
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L Five Centuries of Etruscan Tomb Painting F Checkpoint (Yoav Shamir, 2003) L Localized Sanctity and Sanctified Locations (700 - 200 BC): New Discoveries, Research, Late Antique Religions et Societies Working Group and Approaches 5–7 p.m. | Stephens Hall Speaker: Kathryn Jasper, History, UC Berkeley Event Contact: [email protected]
Thursday, May 3 Center for Middle Eastern Studies
7 p.m. | Chevron Auditorium, P Directors' Showcase International House Department of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies Department of History of Art A film documenting the power dynamics at play at the Israeli checkpoints that 8 p.m. | Durham Studio Theater, 5–7 p.m. | Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Palestinians must pass through in the Dwinelle Hall Dai Hall course of their daily lives, as well as the A showing of scenes by students in the Speaker: Stephan Steingräber, Etruscology destructive impact of the occupation on TDPS Stage Directing class. and Italic Antiquities, Roma Tre both societies. University, Rome Event Contact: 510-642-8827 Event Contact: [email protected] Event Contact: [email protected] L Lunch Poems Presents Student Reading L Constance Lewallen The Library Contemporary Art Working Group Tuesday, May 1 12:10–12:50 p.m. | Morrison Room, 7–9 p.m. | 340 Moffitt Library 101 Doe Library L Displacements: The Politics of Liberation Speaker: Constance Lewallen, Curator, One of the year’s most lively events, the and the Displacement of Time Berkeley Art Museum student reading includes winners of the Institute of International Studies Event Contact: [email protected] following prizes: Academy of American 4–6 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall Poets, Cook, Rosenberg, and Yang, as well as students nominated by Berkeley’s Speaker: Alejandro Vallegas, Wednesday, May 2 creative writing faculty, Lunch Poems University of Oregon volunteers, and representatives from Event Contact: [email protected] L Petitioning Beijing: The High Tide of 2003-06 student publications. Institute of East Asian Studies Event Contact: [email protected] P 2012 BAM/PFA Gala: 12–1 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, Honoring Cissie Swig 2223 Fulton L Regulating Informality: Worker Centers Berkeley Art Museum and Day Labor Speaker: Kevin O'Brien, Political Science, 6 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum UC Berkeley Institute for the Study of Societal Issues Gala honoring Roselyne “Cissie” Swig for Event Contact: 510-642-2809 4–5:30 p.m. | Shorb House, her unlimited enthusiasm and commitment 2547 Channing Way to the museum, as well as to so many L Renaissance Music, A Cappella Speaker: Abel Valenzuela, Professor and outstanding local and national arts and Chair, Chicano and Chicana Stuides, UCLA cultural institutions. Noon Concert Series Department of Music Event Contact: 510-642-6903 Tickets required. 12:15–1 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall Event Contact: 510-642-7496 Mark Sumner, director Event Contact: 510-642-4864
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L Islamic Publishing Houses in the Course of L South Asia by the Bay: Transformation: The Role of Translation Graduate Student Conference Center for Middle Eastern Studies Center for South Asia Studies 5 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall 9 a.m.–5 p.m. | Stanford University Speaker: Elif Daldeniz, Translation Studies, A conference aiming to establish an annual Okan University, Istanbul, Turkey forum where graduate students from Event Contact: [email protected] across disciplines and institutions in North Department of Music America, who work on South Asia, can P Awards Celebration and Gala Honoring 8–10 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall meet to discuss their work with each other. Joan Baez Mahler: Symphony No. 9 Event Contact: 510-642-3608 International House Tickets required. L Beyond Ideological Conflict: Political 6–8:30 p.m. | Chevron Auditorium, Event Contact: 510-642-4864 International House Incorporation of Buddhist Youth in the Early PRC Institute of East Asian Studies Tickets required. 12–1 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, Event Contact: 510-642-4128 Saturday, May 5 2223 Fulton
P UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra Speaker: Brooks Jessup, History, University Friday, May 4 Department of Music of Minnesota, Morris 8–10 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall Event Contact: 510-642-2809 P Directors' Showcase See Friday, May 4 listing for details. L Department of Theater, Dance w(Ed)nesday: Artists’ Gallery Talks & Performance Studies Berkeley Art Museum 8 p.m. | Durham Studio Theater, Monday, May 7 6:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum Dwinelle Hall State of Mind artists Lynn Hershman, Paul See Thursday, May 3 listing for details. P Berkeley New Music Project: Kos, and Chip Lord talk about their own work ECO Ensemble and related topics in the exhibition galleries. L Robin Estrada Department of Music Event Contact: 510-642-0808 Composition Colloquia Series 8–10 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall Department of Music New works from UC Berkeley 3–4:30 p.m. | 128 Morrison Hall graduate composers. Thursday, May 10 Event Contact: 510-642-2678 Tickets required. L South Asia by the Bay: Event Contact: 510-642-4864 L China: The Age of Ambition Graduate Student Conference Center for Chinese Studies Center for South Asia Studies 5:30–7 p.m. | 105 North Gate Hall Tuesday, May 8 9 a.m.–5 p.m. | Stanford University Speaker: Evan Osnos, China See Wednesday, May 9 listing for details. Correspondent, The New Yorker P Peter Serkins, piano Event Contact: 510-643-6321 Cal Performances Friday, May 11 8 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
Pre-performance L South Asia by the Bay: talk at 7 p.m. Graduate Student Conference by UC Berkeley Center for South Asia Studies Event Key musicologist 9 a.m.–5 p.m. | Stanford University F Film Rachana Vajjhala. E exhibitions See Wednesday, May 9 listing for details. Tickets required. Chapman Kathy by Photo P performances L Conferences, lectures, and readings Event Contact: 510-642-9988
22 TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES | April/May 2012 L Cold Mountain: Saturday, MAy 12 Friday, May 18 The Life of Creative Translation Judith Lee Stronach Memorial Lectures on the P Pre-Commencement Concert: L Politics of Culture and Nature in Teaching of Poetry Graduating Music Students Northwest China Department of Architecture Department of Music Center for Chinese Studies 6:30–9:30 p.m. 8–10 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall 3–5 p.m. | 105 North Gate Hall Morrison Room, Graduating music students perform on the Panel Discussion. Moderator: You-tien 101 Doe Library Hertz Hall stage for friends, family, and Hsing, Geography, UC Berkeley Speaker: Gary each other. Event Contact: 510-643-6321 Snyder, poet Event Contact: 510-642-4864 Event Contact: 510-848-7679 Thursday, May 17 P Eleanor Antin, Conversations with Stalin L@TE: Friday Nights at BAM/PFA L The Political Economy of Gold, Money, and Berkeley Art Museum Loyalty: Californians and the Greenbacks in Photo Credits 7:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum the Civil War Era Bancroft Library Eleanor Antin reads from Conversations Front Page: Sweep at Hoxton by Banksy 12–1 p.m. | Lewis-Latimer Room, with Stalin, her coming-of-age memoir, Page 3: doodle by Google August 24, 2011 performed in the spirit of the irrepressible Faculty Club Dorothy on the road to Oz. Speaker: Michael T. Caires, Gunther Barth Page 6 & 23: Purple and Black by Darril Tighe Fellowship Recipient Event Contact: 510-642-0808 Page 23: From Blue #6 by Eva Bovenzi Event Contact: 510-642-3782
On Exhibit at the Townsend Center
Letters from Emptiness: Paintings by Eva Bovenzi On Exhibit: January 17 – May 4, 2012 With their iridescent shapes emerging from blue or red backgrounds, Eva Bovenzi’s paintings at one moment suggest outer space, at another the sea. The forms described are similarly ambiguous: they could be tiny or enormous. Like apparitions from a world that is both familiar and unfamiliar, these forms seem caught in the ephemeral moment between appearing and disappearing. They are mysterious messages: letters from emptiness.
Luminous: Watercolor Paintings by Darril Tighe On Exhibit: August 22, 2011 – May 4, 2012 Darril Tighe’s watercolors explore abstraction as a means for expressing a range of emotions through color, layering of washes and choices about composition. Using a series of washes, Tighe creates complex color combinations that suggest a quality of translucence and evoke a state of reverie and reflection through which the viewer is momentarily transported, and then returns, enriched.
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