TOWNSENDCENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES UC BERKELEY September/October 2012 HIGHLIGHTS
21 Fiat Lux Redux
22 Depth of Field Film + Video Series
26 Litquake: Language and Politics
Vikram Seth, see p. 6
Wendell Berry, see p. 4 TOWNSEND NEWSLETTER
The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2012 at the University of California, Berkeley
STAFF DIRECTOR Alan Tansman, Professor of Japanese TABLE OF CONTENTS ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Teresa Stojkov 3 A Note from the New Director WEB AND COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST Alan Tansman Julie Van Scoy BUSINESS AND OFFICE MANAGER 4 Labor of the Hands Melissa Wong Juliana Chow FELLOWSHIPS ADMINISTRATOR Scott Roberts 6 Vikram Seth, Una's Lecturer Kristin Hanson FACULTY ADVISORY COMMITTEE David Bates, Rhetoric 8 Visions from the Peripheries Lawrence Cohen, Anthropology Jacob P. Dalton Catherine Cole, eater, Dance & Performance Studies 11 Program News Victoria Kahn, English Ken Goldberg, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Suzanne Guerlac, French 17 Calendar of Campus Events Niklaus Largier, German and Comparative Literature Francine Masiello, Spanish and Comparative Literature Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anthropology Hans Sluga, Philosophy Mary Ann Smart, Music TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES University of California 220 Stephens Hall, MC 2340 Berkeley, CA 94720-2340
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TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2012 A Note from the New Director by Alan Tansman
groups will be formed in particular to foster conversations between humanists and their non-humanist colleagues. You will be hearing more about these groups in the coming months, and we, in turn, look forward to learning of your ideas about creating others. WELCOME e Center remains committed to bringing to campus great thinkers and makers of culture. is coming year, thanks to the eorts of last year’s Acting Director, Celeste It is a momentous—dare I say fun?—time to be working Langan, we’ll be hosting Wendell Berry, Vikram Seth, in the Humanities. What some have bemoaned as its time and Shirin Neshat, among others. In the coming years of crisis, as its wandering-in-the-wilderness, is (at least we hope to host gures who, together, re ect a broad to the more optimistic spirit in us) in fact a moment of range of interests, even as, individually, they will be keyed wonderful potential. In the coming years the Townsend to the various groups working at the Center. We’ll also Center hopes to further stimulate the critical energy of be looking for visitors whose cultural work is ethically this, our richly inchoate moment. charged—people working in and against dire political, e terri c work of its past directors has developed social, and economic conditions. the Townsend Center into a powerful ground of cross- e Townsend Center hopes to re ect the interests of the disciplinary humanistic thinking. It’s been a haven for Berkeley community and help channel them productively faculty of all ranks, and students as well, to rally their and concretely. It should be a conduit for the inexhaustible intellectual resources alongside their colleagues from creativity and vast array of ideas that make Berkeley an close and from far- ung departments. e Center will interesting and complex place to work. To succeed in continue to provide opportunities for such intellectual the task we need you to let your ideas be known to us— gestation. Building on its legacy, it will also work in however unrealizable they may at rst seem. the coming years to seed research and teaching groups with the potential to continue growing in the Berkeley Alan Tansman is Louis B. Agassiz Professor of Japanese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. He has community, even a er their time at Townsend. Some previously served as Chair of East Asian Languages and Cultures of these groups are already in their earliest stages of and as Director of the Center for Japanese Studies. He has played an planning. ey include: e Humanities and Cognitive instrumental role in establishing the Human Rights minor and is co-editor of the journal Representations. Science; Design and the Humanities; Music and Sound; Humanities and the Law. If the Humanities speak to how we think, feel, sense, and create, these groups speak directly to the Humanities, and to its place in the larger intellectual project of the University community. e
TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2012 3 Labor of the Hands reen B. Tow o ns D en e d Celebrating 25 years of Avenali Lectures, the Townsend Center is pleased to present Wendell Berry as Avenali Chair in the Humanities, 2012-2013.
C e s n ie te it by Juliana Chow r f an or the Hum the eld “if only for the sake of tropes and expression, to serve a parable-maker one day” (Walden). Yet unlike oreau, Berry assumes the role of the parable-maker whose morals and lessons are clearly instructed. His poetry has a straightforward message and a reverential simplicity in service to what he names variously as “home,” “earth,” “soil,” “darkness,” or “ground.” Whether writing poetry, ction, or essay, a single and deep-running theme is his commitment to the local and to the small farmer’s agrarianism as the most healthy and economic lifestyle, consistent with Jeersonian ideals of independent citizenry and democratic liberty.
Berry’s focus on farming and agricultural and ecological thinking is a lifetime dedication. He earned a B.A. and M.A. in English at the University of Kentucky, and in 1958 attended Stanford University’s creative writing program as a Wallace Stegner Fellow, studying under Stegner in a seminar that included Edward Abbey, Larry McMurtry, Robert Stone, Ernest Gaines, Tillie Olsen,
When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk and Ken Kesey. However, in 1965 he moved back to his of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any native Henry County, Kentucky where he has lived and neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the farmed ever since. shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. ough Berry’s farmer is one “whose hands reach into the Henry David oreau, Walden ground and sprout, / to him the soil is a divine drug,” he In Farming: A Handbook, Wendell Berry writes of “the interrogates our own knowledge and experience of such man born to farming,” whose “thought passes along work. Of the modern eschewal of work and espousal of the row ends like a mole” and whose words ow out of leisure and recreation, Berry writes: his mouth “like water / descending in the dark.” Later, Out of this contempt for work arose the idea of a nigger: at rst some person, and later some thing, to be in e Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture, he used to relieve us of the burden of work. If we began summarizes what he sees as a series of commercial and by making niggers of people, we have ended by making agricultural exploitations: “ is is not merely history. It a nigger of the world. We have taken the irreplaceable energies and materials of the world and turned them is a parable.” Like oreau in his bean eld, Berry works into jimcrack 'labor-saving devices.' We have made
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of the rivers and oceans and winds niggers to carry away our refuse, which we think we are too good to dispose of decently ourselves. And in doing this to the world that is our common heritage and bond, we have returned to making niggers of people: we have become each other’s niggers. Unsettling of America
Using a term so heavily laden as it is, Berry’s comparison of work to the nigger cannot but be meant to shock and to remind us, as Lawrence Buell has written, of a dirty past—America’s slavery, its very own original and chronic sin. is is a formulation of labor as something we shun but must embrace, labor that we cannot make others do but must do ourselves. How circumscribed is labor of the hands? Besides farming, what other kinds of handiwork do we do? It is out of this circumscription that Berry would like to free labor, yet he does so by recalling a term e grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, that remains heavy and dicult to “handle.” whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a divine drug. He enters into death As dicult as it is to turn our old words and old yearly, and comes back rejoicing. He has seen the light lie down in the dung heap, and rise again in the corn. forms into the new, to remake divisions and furrows, His thought passes along the row ends like a mole. to restore and mend the ground, Berry takes up that What miraculous seed has he swallowed work. His “labor of the hands” attends to the labors of that the unending sentence of his love ows out of his mouth like a vine clinging in the sunlight, and like water tilling a eld and writing a poem; it puts farming into descending in the dark? a book and allows us to read poetry by hand. It shows Wendell Berry, “ e Man Born to Farming” that a small farmer today and a Negro farmer of the post-Reconstruction era have much in common; that 2012-2013 Avenali Lecture to remake their farm-work is to also deal with and “An Agro-Ethical Aesthetic” “manage” the sticky history of colonialism, slavery, Wednesday, October 31, 2012 and environmental degradation, as well as that of 4:00 pm | Wheeler Auditorium Jeersonian pastoralism, piety, patriotism, and pure Wendell Berry in discussion with Miguel Altieri sweat and blood; that on the other side of revolutionary (Environmental Science, Policy, and Management), Anne-Lise François (English and Comparative or emancipatory transformation is a people digging Literature), Robert Hass (English), and Michael Pollan in and doing the work. It places things into hand, at (Graduate School of Journalism). hand, and even out of hand. It requires that we scale Reading and Discussion and measure ourselves in real physical relation to the ursday, November 1, 2012 vicissitudes of the world according to our own bodies 6:00 pm | Berkeley Art Museum eater, 2621 Durant Ave. and our own sense of space. Both events are free and open to the public but tickets are required. Juliana Chow is a graduate student in the Department of English Free tickets will be available at each venue one hour before the event. UC Berkeley. Her current research explores regionalism in late nineteenth-century American literature.
TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2012 5 Vikram Seth, Una’s Lecturer e Townsend Center is pleased to present Vikram Seth as Una’s Lecturer in the Humanitites, 2012-2013. by Kristin Hanson
Seth was born in 1952 in Calcutta. Shortly therea er his father was transferred to London for ve years; Seth spent some time with his parents there, but stayed mostly in India with his maternal grandmother, who, as he recounts in his memoir Two Lives (2005), insisted he speak only Hindi: “She herself was perfectly bilingual, but had decided I would get more than enough English in England.” He attended boarding school in India, but in 1969 returned to England to live with his Indian great- uncle and his German great-aunt who are the subjects of Two Lives. He enrolled in Corpus Christi College, Oxford to read English, though he abandoned that degree for one in Philosophy, Politics and Economics—which by his own account he also occasionally neglected for new interests in Chinese poetry, the Welsh language, and the ute. Many Bay Area readers know Vikram Seth’s portrait of this place from his verse novel e Golden Gate (1986), but In 1975 Seth came to Stanford to begin a Ph.D. in Economics. inspiration from his encounters here appears even before He spent 1977-78 as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative that, in his rst book of poems, Mappings (1981): Writing, composing many of the poems that appeared in A web hung from the avocado tree Mappings. From 1980-82 he sojourned at Nanjing University e spider rested in the dew and sun doing research along the Yangtze River for his Economics And looked around the grove contentedly Awaiting visitors; and I was one: degree, but bureaucratic delays le him time to travel and Neither a Californian nor a y, write about the experience in From Heaven Lake: Travels And humming to myself in Bhairavi. rough Sinkiang and Tibet (1983). Finally, back at Stanford, “A Morning Walk,” 1-6 an encounter with Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin enticed him again In retrospect like a to-do list for his working life, but more to neglect his Ph.D., this time fatally, in favor of composing lovely to read, Mappings contains the rst green shoots e Golden Gate, a novel about a group of young friends of many of the literary interests Seth has since cultivated building their lives in the Bay Area in the 1980s. Charming and made ower: stories of life in India and England and funny, painful and moving, capturing and taking seriously as well as California; depictions of romantic and family subtle aspects of local morality, the novel recounts personal love, of displacement and home, and of airports and cats; ads, Scrabble games, the dispatching of a jealous cat to Psycho- translations from Hindi, Urdu, Chinese and German; Kitty, love, despair and even a protest march to “Lungless meditations on the fascination and consolation of poetry, Labs” all in fourteen-line stanzas of elaborately rhymed iambic music and nature. tetrameter adapted from Pushkin:
6 TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2012 ey go to work, attend a meeting, portrayals of dierent characters and their dierent worlds Write an equation, have a beer, fascinating; but what makes all these works transcendent Hail colleagues with a cheerful greeting, Are conscientious, sane, sincere, is Seth’s distinctive combination of lucidity and soul, his Rational, able, and fastidious. completely clear language that takes one beyond language, rough hardened casings no invidious Tapeworm of doubt, no guilt, no qualm, simultaneously into and beyond the self. Music gures Pierces to sabotage their calm. increasingly across them, so it comes as no surprise that When something’s technically attractive, Seth’s most recent publication, not yet out in the United You follow the conception through, at's all. What if you leave a slew States, e Rivered Earth (2011), is a set of four libretti Of living dead, of radioactive for music again by Alec Roth. e pieces are inspired 'Collateral damage’ in its wake? It's just a job, for heaven’s sake. by Chinese, English and Indian poetry; and, true to the loving portrayals of distinctive places that also gure in Finally committed to his literary vocation, Seth returned to Seth’s works, by churches in which they were intended India and spent years researching and writing what became to be performed . One, “Shared Ground,” was inspired one of the longest and nest prose novels in English, the particularly by the poetry of George Herbert and by the international best-seller A Suitable Boy (1993). Set in 1950s Old Rectory in Bemerton, Salisbury, which nearly four India, A Suitable Boy recounts a story of the choice of a hundred years ago was Herbert’s home and is now Seth’s husband for its heroine Lata, in language ranging from home, along with its garden full of English birds. family quarrels and political arguments to ghazals and acrostic poems. During those years Seth also published two Asked in an interview by Jake Kerridge of e Telegraph more books of lyric poems, e Humble Administrator’s (December 2, 2011) about his admiration for Herbert, Seth Garden (1985) and All You Who Sleep Tonight (1990); a quotes Herbert’s “ e Flower:” “Who would have thought book of translations of Tang dynasty poetry, ree Chinese my shrivelled heart / could have recovered greenness? .... Poets (1992); a delightful collection of animal fables I once more smell the dew and rain, / and relish versing.” in rhymed couplets, Beastly Tales from Here and ere It is a lot to ask a writer to leave such a home, so it is with (1992); and a beautiful libretto, Arion and the Dolphin, for special gratitude that we welcome him to Berkeley this fall. an opera with music by Alec Roth commissioned by the Kristin Hanson is Associate Professor in the Department of English. English National Opera and produced at the Royal Navy She is writing a book on English meter and its relationship to Dockyards. Seth then moved back to England, and amidst universal properties of linguistic rhythm. the interviews with his great-uncle, which formed the basis for Two Lives, wrote his third novel, An Equal Music. 2012-2013 Una’s Lecture As intense and interior as A Suitable Boy is expansive and An Evening in Conversation with Vikram Seth wordly, An Equal Music recounts the loves, losses and Monday, October 15, 2012 restorations of a second violinist in a classical string quartet 6:00 pm | Morrison Reading Room, 101 Doe Library in London, in language which from the outset conceals Una’s Lecture Panel Discussion verse amidst its prose: “ e branches are bare tonight, the Tuesday, October 16, 2012 sky a milky violet. It is not quiet here, but it is peaceful.” 4:00 pm | Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall Vikram Seth in discussion with UC Berkeley faculty. Certainly these successive tours de force of a verse narrative, verse lyrics, a prose narrative, and a long (mostly) prose lyric are formally intriguing, and their rich
TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2012 7 Visions from the Peripheries by Jacob P. Dalton to simulate the processes of sleeping and dying. ey also see it as an opportunity to explore the peripheries of consciousness and thus, they say, to reveal a point of origin where the natural freedom of the imagination is expressed.
e typical Tibetan dark retreat lasts for seven weeks. It does not take long for its practitioners to begin perceiving incessantly changing cloud-like displays, vague forms that come and go in the darkness. As one thirteenth-century Outer of two windows for passing supplies into a dark retreat. Terdrom, Tibet. author recounts, “ e visions tumble like water falling down a cli face, or By breaking with the objectivity which fascinates waking consciousness and by reinstating the human like mercury scattering and beading subject in its radical freedom, the dream discloses together. ey are unstable, arising and ceasing, scattering paradoxically the movement of freedom toward the world, the point of origin from which freedom makes and regathering, shaking and quivering. Inwardly, one’s itself world. experience of concentration is weak and eeting, and as Michel Foucault, Dream and Existence the visions wax and wane, doubts arise.” ese shi ing Across the humanities, much attention has been directed visions and the practitioners’ own unstable mental state to the marginal. From the margins of philosophy, to develop, in other words, as symbiotic re ections of one marginal voices and border regions, many have sought another. As the shapes dri and shake, the eyes chase to open our eyes, our ears, and our language to what lies a er them, struggling in vain to focus on anything at hidden at the periphery, just outside our eld of view, all and becoming ever more agitated. As they grow just beyond our hearing, in a language we cannot quite strained and even ache unbearably, the practitioner’s make out. Each day is bracketed by sleep, our waking lives drive to x objective appearances is revealed as a habit by the liminal realm of the dream. A study of dreaming deeply inscribed within not just her psyche, but the very therefore leads us into a fundamentally peripheral world, musculature of her eyes. Buddhist scriptures frequently one de ned by solitude, contemplation, and ulterior condemn the dualistic polarizations of subject and object visions. In Tibet, practitioners of the Great Perfection, that characterize our ordinary patterns of ego-logical or Dzogchen, explore all these themes by undertaking a thinking. With her eyes now deprived of their desired “dark retreat.” Early European visitors to Tibet imagined objects, the dark retreatant begins to experience these that monks were being buried alive, and indeed habitual rei cations not just as some abstract doctrinal Tibetans themselves view the dark retreat as a means notion, but as a strong physical compulsion. A er some
8 TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2012 days, however, the “oceans” of one’s eyes are said to relax. As they give in to the darkness, they grow more concentrated, and the disturbing images begin to subside. Once this happens, far more distinct, luminous visions are said to emerge. Unlike the earlier scattered shapes, these vivid new apparitions appear and disappear all at once. Peacock feather-like displays, faces, and even landscapes—all brightly colored—appear vividly real and emerge spontaneously, without any willful eort on the practitioner’s part. Tibetan texts insist that these dramatic displays are self-organizing and that they will continue to form as long as the practitioner maintains an open and non-appropriating gaze. One will see, in other words, as long as one does not look.
Similar visions may also be elicited, Great Perfection texts explain, by gazing openly into the sky or at light-rays for extended periods. Doing so, the practitioner soon notices what are termed “linked chains of lambs,” series of small translucent circles attached by short strings: “ uttering and undulating vajra chains… endowed with countless little circles like pearls on a string.” One might recognize in these Abstract visions of the Great Perfection meditator. chains the far more mundane occurrences known by the Lukhang murals, Lhasa. modern medical establishment as “ oaters”—tiny clumps Whether they emerge out of the darkness of the of gel within the eye vitreous. Many readers will have seen dark retreat or the light-rays of the sun, such vivid these translucent “objects” (that are part of the eye and apparitions are radically dierent from ordinary visual thus, quite literally, also subject) and the way they slide images that appear to be independent of the observer: out of one’s vision as one tries to look at them. In fact, this ey transcend the dualisms of subject and object. frustrating elusiveness is precisely what makes them such e practitioner sees them before her, yet only as long eective objects of meditation. In the words of one text, as she does not objectify them and remains aware of “the linked chains of awareness must be divested of their them as projections of her own mind. For this reason, constant movements of entering and receding from [the one eighteenth-century master of the Great Perfection eld of vision], whereby they come to be embraced within advises: “ ey are merely re ections of the radiance of the sky.” e initial aim of sky gazing, then, is to bring these awareness arising externally. erefore do not xate on uctuating chains, or oaters, to rest—again, to see them them as absolutely real.” In such statements the tradition without looking. As in the dark retreat, as the practitioner’s recognizes them to be projections of the practitioner’s gaze opens, an assortment of further visual experiences are own mind. (Whether they are wrought by unconscious said to emerge: lattice patterns, small spheres surrounded neurophysical memory or by karmic imprints depends by concentric circular rainbows, patches of dark blue light. on one’s perspective.) And in this they share much in
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common with dreams. Every night when we dream, the will wake up into the world of ordinary objectivity. But darkness opens us to the same kind of non-dual visions by balancing between these two extremes, she frees the that are at once object and subject. dream to unfold, suspended between subject and object, between objective vision and no vision at all. is lucid state of suspension also belongs to the practitioners of the dark retreat and to the Great Perfection sky gazers, who see without looking, who loosen engrained habits of seeing and learn to dream while awake.
e poetic imaginings of the dream may seem nothing more than that—poetry. e philosopher Owen Flanagan has even suggested dreams may be evolutionary side eects, useless “free-riders,” the spandrels of consciousness. Despite the dream’s marginal place in our lives, however, it is through its very insigni cance, its transcendence of subject and object, that it has the potential to be radically revealing. As the Great Perfection practitioner breaks from the objecti cations of waking consciousness, she is said to discover the very root Practitioner of dream yoga. Lukhang murals, Tibet of consciousness, where liberation expresses itself as Modern methods of dream interpretation developed imagination. in Austria and Switzerland a hundred years ago. Jacob Dalton is Assistant Professor of Tibetan Buddhist Studies Psychoanalysts are drawn to the dream for its poetic in the departments of South and Southeast Asian Studies and paradoxes and multivalent truths, and they treat East Asian Languages and Cultures. His current book project the dream as a window onto an unconscious world is on manuscript culture and the role of ritual manuals in the development of early tantric Buddhism. untrammeled by concerns of the superego. By interpreting the dream, the analyst thus looks through its visions to a world of truth and repressed memories. e development of such techniques involved a remarkable turn toward the peripheral world of the dream.
A dierent approach to dreaming developed in India and Tibet a thousand years ago. rough the practice of dream yoga, Buddhists learn to dream lucidly, to be aware of the dream as dream while remaining within it, without waking up. e lucid dreamer cultivates a delicate relation to appearances: If too much attention is given to the objects of the dream, their non-dual nature will be forgotten, and the dreamer will no longer be lucid. If too much weight is placed on the subject, the practitioner
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due in part to the tendency to divorce texts and ideas from material culture.
How does a theory of photography oer a useful framework for analyzing the disruptive eects of mass culture
Townsend Fellows 2012-2013 upon the aesthetic framework of literary texts? In his dissertation, e Townsend Fellows program supports the research Mechanical Reproduction in of assistant professors and graduate students at the the Age of Immediacy, Daniel dissertation stage. roughout the year, the fellows meet Clinton (English) argues that for regular discussion and peer review of their research the fascination with optical in progress. is year, the group is made up of two devices in the writing of antebellum American authors assistant professors and seven graduate students. provides a model for their reconceptualization of literary arti ce. By examining the duel in uence of Romantic In Keyboard Instruments aesthetic theory and technical media on the works of Edgar and Musical Knowledge in Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville, Northern Italy, c.1550-1650, Mr. Clinton claims that literary allusions to visual media Leon Chisholm (Music) oer not only a re ection of emerging cultural dynamics, examines the way in which but also a deliberate theorization of literary eect as both a keyboard instruments—and type of mechanism and a type of consciousness.
more precisely, the embodied Is there such a thing as a purely music knowledge shaped and fully ideological landscape? by them—underpinned While recent art historical key developments in music scholarship has argued that theory and composition in the Renaissance. Reversing the landscape genre serves to a longstanding bias in the study of early modern music naturalize political and social that views instrumental music as the ospring of vocal values, Aglaya K. Glebova music, his dissertation argues that new styles of vocal (History of Art) investigates composition in the sixteenth century were contingent the instances in which it fails upon keyboard playing. is argument relies on Mr. or de es ideology. In her Chisholm’s key insight that historical musicology’s neglect dissertation, e Last Class Enemy: Early Representations of of instruments—music’s most essential technologies—is the GULag, Ms. Glebova focuses on photographs of forced
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labor camps and their settings during the First Five-Year Tamara Roberts (Music) examines how Afro Asian “fusion” Plan (1928-1933). Ms. Glebova argues that the process music re ects larger dynamics of interracial and intercultural of picturing landscape is deeply in uenced by nature’s encounter in the U.S. and is enmeshed in the cultural resistance to physical and pictorial transformation, which, economy. As she investigates the connections between musical in turn, supplies artists with potent visual metaphors for production, contemporary racial policy, and neoliberalism, political disagreement. She also examines related visual Professor Roberts ultimately exposes the shortcomings of phenomena, such as the artwork that was displayed around multiculturalism to provide a restructuring of the racial the camps and the way the prisoners saw and represented system and to support the interracial and intercultural realities their experiences. of the lives of people of color.
In his current project, entitled Michelle Wang’s dissertation Holy Attention: John Donne’s in History of Art, entitled Holy Sonnets and Early Modern Characters of Design: Writing Prayer, Assistant Professor David and Materiality in Early China, Marno (English) argues that examines the interplay of design attention played a central role in and material technology in the early modern devotion because construction of characters found it was seen as the paradigm on bronzes, textiles, and eaves of human action capable of tiles dating from the Warring soliciting and responding to States period (472-221 BCE) divine grace. Reading Donne’s devotional poems as prayers, to the Eastern Han Dynasty (9-189 CE) in China. ese Professor Marno argues that the unprecedented popularity characters are o en described as “artistic” or “decorative,” but of the genre of devotional poetry in the period was due to such descriptors do not explicate why these characters are poetry’s distinct attributes that could be used for creating more decorative than other types of writing. Close studies of this devotional attention. While a Townsend Fellow, he will characters on multiple surfaces, their makers, and viewing develop this thesis on Donne’s Holy Sonnets into a larger conditions suggest that this bifurcation only skims the argument about the ways in which early modern literary surface of a multi-layered problem. Ms. Wang suggests that works can oer insight into religious practice. the categorical boundaries de ning the “decorative” must be rendered porous because all writing was designed, and these While media representations design processes may explain why variations proliferated o en paint black/Asian relations even during a time of presumed standardization. By asking as an ongoing site of con ict, Afro “How does separating language from writing aect artisanal Asian music provides a space for and scribal design practices?” she considers the shi ing the negotiation of inter-minority de nition of legibility and the functions of the technology of dierence, building of political writing as it applies to words, pictures, people, and places. solidarities, and performance of new U.S. American identities based on unity-through- dierence. In Resounding Afro Asia: Music and the Politics of Unity, Assistant Professor
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In his dissertation e Science arguing that, rather than simply attaching words to the of the Future: Epistemic Virtues world, this counter-tradition strives to release or dissolve in the Literary and Scienti c human language into the matrix of its natural and social “Milieux” of Post-Enlightenment environments. Mr. Wol shows how Romantic writers France (1780-1840), Travis steeped in etymology forge, through revised gures of Wilds (French) examines the “nature,” exible linguistic relationships not reducible intrinsic links between the to intended meanings or recognized linguistic units. In questions “What is literature?” reassessing the crucial role of this trope in Romanticism, and “What is science?” at his project investigates etymology’s neglected history, the inception of literary and versatility and rhetorical grounds. scienti c modernity in France in an eort to re-write a Existing studies by lm and historiography largely based on a transhistorical distinction cultural historians demonstrate between the two. rough an investigation into the texts how sex experienced a major of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Rétif de la Bretonne, and transformation in the U.S. and Balzac, Mr. Wilds shows how post-Enlightenment literary West Europe in recent decades. gures not only commonly intervened in debates about Previously con ned to the the methods and scope of the sciences, but also viewed private sphere, sex found new literary production as a valid site for generating epistemic forms of articulation in public and aesthetic values. In examining the volatile processes visual culture in the 1960s and of mutual de nition that rst made it possible to refer to 70s, primarily in cinema. But literature and science as distinct entities in France, “ e while these accounts oer useful institutional, legislative, Science of the Future” describes the competition among and cultural accounts of the new sexualization of the epistemological criteria associated with their dierentiation public sphere, there has been insucient attention paid as a case of emergent “ elds.” to the theoretical signi cance of this development. In his Etymology—a notoriously dissertation entitled In the Realm of the Sexes: e Political speculative annex of eory of Sex on Screen, Damon Young (Film & Media) linguistics—is generally explores how sexual dierence, sexual relationality, and read either as grounded by the look itself emerge as properly political gures that legitimating philological also shape new cinematic languages. Focusing primarily principles or as naïve, playful, on the U.S. and France—two self-appointed avatars of “folk.” In his dissertation modern liberal democracy—he argues that the shi of the Romantic Etymology and location of sex from private to public reveals a number of Language Ecology, Tristram impasses or paradoxes constitutive of liberalism, and thus Wol (Comparative Literature) of Western political “modernity.” traces an alternate history of theories of etymology and Mr. Young is also the recipient of the Norman Jacobson the discourse of language origin through literatures Memorial Teaching award. of Romanticism. e project reexamines the broadly ecological poetics supporting Romantic etymology,
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e Townsend Fellows will be joined in weekly Discovery Fellows 2012-2015 discussions by Senior Fellows Andrew Jones (East e Mellon Discovery Fellowships are three-year awards Asian Languages and Cultures), Mary Ann Doane for incoming graduate students. Discovery Fellows form (Film & Media), Michael Nylan (History); by Museum an on-going interdisciplinary discussion group and Fellow Aimee Chang (Berkeley Art Museum and participate in summer research projects. is year we Paci c Film Archive); by ACLS New Faculty Fellow and welcome: Visiting Assistant Professor Todd Carmody (English); and by Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows Vanessa Davies Olivia Benowitz, History (Near Eastern Studies), Gretchen Head (Comparative Ian David, Slavic Languages & Literatures Literature), Jonah Katz (Linguistics), and Alexander Jacob Friedman, Rhetoric Madva (Philosophy). Gabrielle Garneau, Romance Languages & Literatures Antonia Rosen-Peacocke, Philosophy
We also welcome Karl Britto (Associate Professor of Associate Professor Fellows 2012-2013 French & Comparative Literature) as faculty director of e Associate Professor Fellowships, supported by the the Discovery Fellows Program. Townsend Center and the Dean of Arts and Humanities, enable associate professors to devote the spring term to a research project of their choosing. Departmental Resident Fellows
Debarati Sanyal, French Funded by the Avenali Endowment, the Departmental Project: "Dangerous Intersections: Complicity, Allegory Residencies support month-long visits by scholars, and Holocaust Memory in Postwar France" writers, artists, and others with whom Berkeley faculty and students might not otherwise have direct or Ken Ueno, Music sustained contact. Project: "Daedalus Barricades/Nadar Baloons" British and American intellectual and Michael Wintroub, Rhetoric religious historian Professor Daniel Project: "Voyages of ought: A History of Translation, Cohen is an internationally recognized Commerce and Discovery in Early Modern France and its leader in the eld of digital humanities. New Worlds" With the funding of several major foundation grants, Professor Cohen has developed the principle open- source bibliographic management system Zotero, led eorts to develop data mining techniques in the humanities, and founded e Humanities and Technology (THAT) Camp. He has written books on digital history and on the academic use of blogs, and is currently the director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Professor Cohen will be hosted by the Department of History while at Berkeley.
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Vietnamese-American poet, ction concepts were central to religious discourse, but likewise writer, and essayist Linh Dinh is both des and credere were at the heart of legal discourses the author of two collections of of oath-taking and witnessing, social discourses of honor, short stories, ve books of poems, a scienti c and philosophical discourses of epistemology, novel, and numerous translations of economic discourses of credit, and others as well. Literate Vietnamese poetry and ction. He is Europeans in the “Age of Faith” worried excessively about the recipient of the Pew Fellowship what faith was, what it meant to believe, on what grounds in the Arts, the David T. Wong certain propositions or persons were creditable, how faith Fellowship, a Lannan Residency and the Asian American could be mediated by language, what sorts of credit could Literary award. He will be hosted by the Department of be given to works of profane literature, how belief could South and Southeast Asian Studies in spring 2013. be demonstrated in a fallen world, how belief could be understood in colonial and inter-religious encounters, Praised by the BBC as “probably the and many other issues. best Chinese-language playwright and director in the world,” Stan Lai is sense of faith as a problem has unfortunately not is the author of thirty plays and a been well represented in the scholarly literature. e best-selling book on creativity. He Problems of Faith: Belief and Promise in Medieval and has received Taiwan’s National Arts Early Modern Europe Collaborative Research Seminar Award twice (an unprecedented will bring together a wide array of scholars in dierent honor) and has been inducted into the Chinese eater departments at UC Berkeley who have come to realize Hall of Fame. Lai earned his Ph.D. in Dramatic Art at UC from dierent disciplinary perspectives that faith was Berkeley in 1983. He will be hosted by the Arts Research a problem for pre-modern Europe rather than simply Center (ARC). the background against which other problems can be analyzed. eir purpose is thus to give institutional life to this idea and to constitute a community around it. Collaborative Research Seminar Conveners: Ethan Shagan (History) and Albert Russell Ascoli (Italian Studies).
Participants: Joanna Picciotto (English), Jonathan Sheehan (History), Diego Pirillo (Italian Studies), and Niklaus Largier (German).
e half–millennium before the Enlightenment in Europe is o en referred to as the “Age of Faith,” and indeed the Latin terms des (faith) and credere (to believe), along with their various cognates and vernacular translations, shaped how medieval and early modern Europeans made sense of themselves, their society, and the cosmos. ese
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Strategic Working Group sexual violence to dreadfully inadequate medical care. On the outside, over seven million ex-imprisoned people, their family members, friends, or employers, are directly aected by a web of carceral institutions that impact access to housing, education, employment, and democratic participation.
e Strategic Working Group on Critical Prison While the forms, functions, and eects of carceral Studies in an Age of Mass Incarceration will gather a institutions have long and complex genealogies within diverse group of scholars to ask a variety of foundational Euro-American modernity, their exponential growth, questions, from “How do we understand the historical intensi cation, and reach in the United States in the and juridical relationship between carcerality and last thirty years is palpable and profound. With just conceptions of human being?” to “What are the formal, over ve percent of the world’s population, the United aective, and aesthetic contours of representations of and States is currently responsible for nearly a quarter of the knowledge about carceral life?” world’s prisoners. Over two million people are currently Conveners: Keith P. Feldman (Ethnic Studies) and incarcerated—an increase of some 700% since the Marcial Gonzalez (English). 1970s. One in 100 adults is currently in prison, and over two-thirds of the prison population are people of color. Participants: William Drummond (Graduate School of On the inside, prisons are routinely accused of gross Journalism), Nancy Scheper-Hughes (Anthropology), human rights violations—from massive overcrowding to Jonathan Simon (Berkeley School of Law), Jill Stoner inde nite periods of solitary con nement, from pervasive (Architecture), and Brian Wagner (English).
ON EXHIBIT AT THE CENTER
Kenneth P. Green Sr. Photography: DeFremery Park On Exhibit: September 2012 –February 2013 Opening Reception: September 14, 2012 | 5-7 p.m.
As sta photographer for the Oakland Tribune between 1968-1982, Kenneth P. Green Sr. captured in the still image some of the most dramatic and dynamic social changes occurring not only in Oakland, but in our time. His work re ects the best of both photojournalism and photography—a chronicle of the here and now, and a collection of personal portraits that illustrate the timeless, human side of the people involved. is exhibition highlights early photographs taken at DeFremery Park in Oakland, a center for community organizing and an important base for the Black Panther Party and for the nascent Black student movement that was taking place at Laney and Merritt Colleges.
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P Violin Sonatas 60th Annual Noon Concert Series DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC 12:15–1 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall Dan Flanagan, violin Miles Graber, piano Poulenc: Violin Sonata Franck: Violin Sonata Event Contact: 510-642-4864
L Flexible Repression: Governing Underground Civil Society in Authoritarian China
September 20 Fiat Lux Redux On Exhibit at the Bancroft Library
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INSTITUTE OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES 4–6 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, 2223 Fulton, 6th oor Speaker: Diana Fu, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT. Panlist: Rachel Stern, School of Law. HIGHLIGHTS Event Contact: 510-643-6321
L Twenty-first Century Omniscience: Authorship and Narrative Authority in the New Millennium CONSORTIUM ON THE NOVEL 5 p.m. | 300Wheeler Hall Speaker Paul Dawson discusses his forthcoming book, Twenty- rst Century Omniscience: Authorship and Narrative Authority in the New Millennium. e book argues that the ostensibly outmoded omniscient narrator has become a salient feature of contemporary British and American ction. Co-sponsored by the September 24 & October 22 Department of English. Still Lives Event Contact: [email protected] Depth of Field Film + Video Series
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TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2012 L The Vulnerability of the Common: L Center for Race and Gender Open House L New Perspectives on Celtic Syntax: An Spinoza versus Arendt on the Individual and Reception International Workshop the Social CENTER FOR RACE AND GENDER DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS CRITICAL THEORY 4–5:30 p.m. | 691 Barrows Hall Time TBA | Faculty Club 5–7 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall Come reconnect with students and faculty Two-day workshop on Celtic Syntax. Co- Speaker: Kim Sang Ong-Van-Cung, working on critical race and gender sponsored by the Celtic Studies Program. Professor of Modern and Contemporary research and learn more about CRG Event Contact: [email protected] philosophy at the University Michel-de- opportunities. Montaigne of Bordeaux-III (France). Event Contact: 510-643-8488 Event Contact: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 [email protected] L Speculative Fiction and Political Imagination Working Group: First Meeting L New Perspectives on Celtic Syntax: An SPECULATIVE FICTION AND POLITICAL IMAGINATION International Workshop WORKING GROUP TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS 6–9 p.m. | 4114 Dwinelle Hall Time TBA | Faculty Club L Histories of Nuclear Crisis in Korea, At this meeting the group will develop See ursday, September 7 listing for details. Opportunities for Northeast Asia's Peace? the reading/screening list and schedule Continental Korea Series of sessions for the semester and will INSTITUTE OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES begin to discuss Ursula K Le Guin's e SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 Time TBA | Institute of East Asian Studies, Dispossessed. 2223 Fulton, 6th oor Event Contact: [email protected] L I-House Lodestar Supper Welcoming Hans Speaker: Jae-Jung Suh, School of Advanced Giesecke L Affect and Vulnerability: Spinoza and International Studies (SAIS), Johns INTERNATIONAL HOUSE Deleuze on Negativity Hopkins University. Co-sponsored by the 5–8 p.m. | Chevron Auditorium, CRITICAL THEORY Center for Korean Studies. International House 5–7 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall Event Contact: 510-642-2809 A celebration of I-House’s 82nd Speaker: Kim Sang Ong-Van-Cung, Anniversary and the appointment of L Lunch Poems: Kickoff Reading Professor of Modern and Contemporary Executive Director Dr. Hans Giesecke. THE LIBRARY philosophy at the University Michel-de- A traditional reception in the Great Hall 12:10–12:50 p.m. | Morrison Library, Montaigne of Bordeaux-III (France). precedes a buet dinner, short lm of 101 Doe Library Event Contact: I-House history, and remarks from Dr. Distinguished faculty and sta introduce [email protected] Giesecke. and read a favorite poem. Featuring Tickets required. Professors David Sklansky (Law), Donna Event Contact: 510-642-4128 V. Jones (English), Justin Brasheres FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 (Environmental Science), Debarati Sanyal L (French), and Andrew Stewart (Classics); Transnational Public Sphere? Historical MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 Lawrence Rinder, BAM/PFA Director; Contentions and Dialogues in Northeast Asia Continental Korea Series Vice Provost Cathy Koshland; Associate L Linguistics Colloquium INSTITUTE OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES Chancellor Beata Fitzpatrick; and Berkeley DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS sta including Colleen Rovetti, Sanchita Time TBA | Institute of East Asian Studies, 3:10–5:00 p.m. | 182 Dwinelle Hall Saxena, and Alix Schwartz. 2223 Fulton, 6th oor Speaker: David Adger, Queen Mary, Event Contact: [email protected] Speaker: Jae-Jung Suh, School of Advanced University of London International Studies (SAIS), Johns Event Contact: 510-643-7623 Hopkins University. Co-sponsored by the EVENT KEY Center for Korean Studies. F FILM Event Contact: 510-642-2809 E EXHIBITIONS P PERFORMANCES L CONFERENCES, LECTURES, AND READINGS
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L Bourgeois Decadence or Proletarian L Making White Bread by the Bomb's Early FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 Pleasure? Women, Men, and Smoking in Light: Anxiety, Abundance, and US Food China across the 1949 Divide Power at Home During the Early Cold War E Kenneth P. Green Sr. Photography CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES Geography Department Colloquium 4-6 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY 2223 Fulton, 6th oor 3:40–5 p.m. | 575 McCone Hall Speaker: Carol Speaker: Aaron Barbrow-Strain, Whitman Benedict, Professor, College Edmund Walsh Event Contact: 510-642-3903 School of Foreign
Service and the THE TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES Department of THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 5–7 p.m. | Townsend Center, 220 Stephens History, Georgetown Hall University L Nicholas de Monchaux on the Museum An opening recpetion for the Kennth P. Panelist: Wen-hsin Yeh (History) and the City: Online Conversation Green Sr. Photography exhibition (on Event Contact: 510-643-6321 BERKELEY ART MUSEUM display Sept. 2012-Feb. 2013). 3 p.m. | Online only As sta photographer for the Oakland Log on to help us reconsider the role of the Tribune between 1968-1982, Kenneth P. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 museum in the digital world with architect Green Sr. captured in the still image some and UC Berkeley Professor Nicholas de of the most dramatic and dynamic social L Hiroshima Maidens, Bikini Islanders, and Monchaux. Presented in partnership with changes occurring not only in Oakland, Lucky Dragons: Contesting War Memories the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial. http://bampfa. but in our time. is exhibition highlights and Promoting Peace in Cold War Japan and berkeley.edu/zero1 early photographs taken at DeFremery the US Event Contact: 510-642-0808 Park in Oakland, a center for community INSTITUTE OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES organizing and an important base for the 4 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, L Appetites and Aspirations in 19th Century Black Panther Party and for the nascent 2223 Fulton, 6th oor Vietnam Black student movement that was taking Speaker: Elyssa Faison, History, University INSTITUTE OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES place at Laney and Merritt Colleges. of Oklahoma 4–5:30 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, Event Contact: 510-643-9670 Moderator: Junko Habu (Anthropology) 2223 Fulton, 6th oor L Berkeley Old Time Music Convention: Event Contact: 510-642-2809 Speaker: Erica Peters, Director, Culinary Panel Discussion Historians of Northern California DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC Peters explores how French colonial rule 12:10–1 p.m. | Morrison Hall, Elkus Room, 125 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 aected Vietnamese culture and cuisine, including how it came to in uence iconic Musicians and P Cello and Piano, Voice and Piano products like Vietnamese sh sauce and rice. dancers featured at 60th Annual Noon Concert Series the Berkeley Old Time Event Contact: 510-642-3609 DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC Music Convention 12:15–1 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall (September 12-16) L Story Hour in the Library Presents demonstrate their art. Mosa Tsay, cello Rebecca Solnit Event Contact: Miles Graber, piano THE LIBRARY 510-642-4864 Brahms: Cello Sonata 5–6 p.m. | Morrison Library, 101 Doe No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99 Library L Territories of Poverty Emily Frey, voice Rebecca Solnit is author of thirteen books BLUM CENTER FOR DEVELOPING ECONOMIES about art, landscape, public and collective Tony Lin, piano 9:30 am–6:30 p.m. | Blum Hall Plaza life, ecology, politics, hope, meandering, Grieg: Haugtussa, Op. 67 reverie, and memory. Her most recent Territories of Poverty is a two-day Event Contact: 510-642-4864 book is the bestselling In nite City: A San conference that seeks to de ne a new Francisco Atlas. agenda of poverty scholarship. Event Contact: 510-643-0397
TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2012 19 L Evangelical Conversion in Ghana SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 ANTHROPOLOGICAL INQUIRY WORKING GROUP 3-5 p.m. | Kroeber Hall, Faculty Lounge L Territories of Poverty P Cello and Piano BLUM CENTER FOR DEVELOPING ECONOMIES 60th Annual Noon Concert Series Speaker: Bruno Reinhardt, Graduate DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC Student, Anthropology 9:30 am–12:30 p.m. | Blum Hall Plaza 12:15–1 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall Event Contact: 510-642-3392 See Friday, September 14 listing for details. Mary Artmann, cello L Sounding Traditions of Inuit Michael Seth Orland. piano Cosmopolitanism in "Flying Wild Alaska" MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 Janáček: Pohadka (Fairy Tale) Music Studies Colloquium Xenakis: Paille in the Wind DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC L Capturing Visual Consciousness: A Tale of Feldman: Durations 4:40–6 p.m. | 128 Morrison Hall Two Eyes, One Brain, One Hand, and One Ornstein: Selections from Preludes Speaker: Jessica Bissett Perea, American Pen Indian Studies, San Francisco State ATC Lecture Series Debussy: Sonata University BERKELEY CENTER FOR NEW MEDIA Event Contact: 510-642-4864 Perea explores circuits of Inuit 7:30–9 p.m. | Banatao Auditorium, L cosmopolitanism as represented through Sutardja Dai Hall Location/Translation: Art and Engagement from the Local to the Global the soundscapes and imagery of the Speakers: Ryan and Trevor Oakes, artists Discovery Channel’s documentary-style Time Zones Series Event Contact: [email protected] ARTS RESEARCH CENTER reality television series “Flying Wild Alaska,” which is notable for portraying the 5:30–7:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum eater, 2621 Bancro diversity and mobility of Alaska Native and TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 Inuit cultures. A panel of curators, artists, and scholars
Event Contact: 510-642-2678 L Publicity-driven Government will discuss how regional circumstances get Accountability in China articulated within international art contexts— P and how "global" conversations can rede ne John Cage Celebration: PICO CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES what we think of as "local" production. L@TE: Friday Nights at BAM/PFA 4–6 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, 2223 Fulton, 6th oor Event Contact: 510-642-7784 Speaker: Greg L Obama, the Tea Party, and the Future of Distelhorst, Ph.D. American Politics candidate, Political Science, MIT Je erson Memorial Lecture GRADUATE DIVISION Distelhorst discusses 4:10 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room BERKELEY ART MUSEUM how negative publicity (or the threat Speaker: eda 7:30–9 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum thereof) makes China’s unelected ocials more responsive to citizens. Skocpol, Government Come celebrate John Cage’s 100th birthday and Sociology, Harvard with video artist John Sanborn’s PICO Event Contact: 510-643-6321 Event Contact: 510- (Performance Indeterminate Cage Opera). 643-7413 Event Contact: 510-642-0808 Stewart Martha by Photo L Scarred Heritage: Achieving Peace and Reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula CENTER FOR KOREAN STUDIES 2–6 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, 2223 Fulton, 6th oor EVENT KEY Speakers: T.J. Pempel, Jeong Gwan Lee, F FILM Bruce Cumings, Philip Yun, David Kang, E EXHIBITIONS David Straub, Victor Cha. P PERFORMANCES L CONFERENCES, LECTURES, AND READINGS Event Contact: 510-642-5674
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 L How Language Affects the Way We Think P TDPS New Play Reading Series UC BERKELEY EXTENSION DEPARTMENT OF THEATER, DANCE & PERFORMANCE STUDIES L France, USA: The Right in the 2012 6–9 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall Presidential Elections 5 p.m. | Durham Studio eater Speakers: Ilze Duarte, Ph.D.; Carol Lethaby, CENTER FOR THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RIGHT-WING M.A. in TESOL; Sedique Popal, Ed.D.; Hear new work by up-and-coming MOVEMENTS Steven L. West playwrights in an intimate setting, read by 3:30–5 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall student actors in the Department of eater, Educators, counselors and administrators Dance, and Performance Studies. Presented Panelists Lawrence Rosenthal (UC Berkeley) are invited to this free seminar presented in partnership with the Townsend Center and Eric Darras (IEP Toulouse) address the by a panel of distinguished linguists and Contemporary Drama Working Group. role of right-wing movements in the French educators. Panel members discuss how Event Contact: tdps.berkeley.eduv and U.S. 2012 presidential elections. language and culture shape thoughts Event Contact: 510-642-0813 and literacies inside and outside of the L All of Us or None: Social Justice Posters of classroom. L the San Francisco Bay Area Uplift and Breakdown: Troubling Event Contact: 510-642-4111 Narratives of Race, Disability, and Freedom California Studies Center Seminar INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH ON LABOR & EMPLOYMENTS CENTER FOR RACE AND GENDER E Fiat Lux Redux: Ansel Adams and the 7–9:30 p.m. | Institute for Research on Labor 4-5:30 p.m. | 691 Barrows Hall University Of California and Employment, 2521 Channing Way Todd Carmody (English): "From ‘Racial THE LIBRARY | ON THE SAME PAGE PROGRAM Handicap’ to ‘Racial Gi ’: Analogies of Speaker: Lincoln Cushing, Archivist, Kaiser Time and Location TBA Progress and Upli at the Turn of the Permanente, Oakland Museum Century" In 1963, the University Event Contact: 510-643-3012 of California Regents Susan Schweik (English): "Stuart's Sister: hired Ansel Adams and Race, Disability, Debility, and the History of writer Nancy Newhall Cultural Studies" FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 to depict the university’s Event Contact: 510-643-8488 future—a collaboration L In Conversation: Jeffrey Deitch and which resulted in the Lawrence Rinder on Barry Mcgee L Qatar's Hidden History: Power, Image and 1967 publication Fiat L@TE: Friday Nights at BAM/PFA Lineage in the Gulf Lux. e Fiat Lux Redux exhibit will be on BERKELEY ART MUSEUM CENTER FOR MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES display at the Bancro Library September 5 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall 19, 2012 – January 31, 2013. As part of 6 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum Speaker: Allen Fromherz, History, Georgia the "On the Same Page" program, it will Join Director Lawrence Rinder and MOCA State University create a prism through which we can see Director Jerey both the historic legacy of the University of Deitch, who presented Event Contact: 510-642-8208 California and refractions of its prospective groundbreaking futures. Speakers at this launch event installations by Barry L The 2nd Maharaj Kaul Memorial Lecture include lmmaker Tiany Shlain, Catherine McGee at his Deitch by Aruna Roy Cole (TDPS), Nelson Lichtenstein (History, Projects gallery in New CENTER FOR SOUTH ASIA STUDIES UCSB), and Leigh Raiford (African York, as they talk about 5–7 p.m. | e Bancro Hotel, 2680 American Studies). For more information McGee’s work in the Bancro Way on other events related to the exhibit, visit context of international grati and street Aruna Roy is an Indian political and http://onthesamepage.berkeley.edu/ art. Followed by L@TE: Devendra Banhart, social activist who founded and heads Event Contact: Justin Hoover and Chris Treggiari. the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathana [email protected] Event Contact: 510-642-0808 ("Workers and Peasants Strength Union.") Event Contact: 510-642-3608
TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2012 21 P UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 Stravinsky, Berg, Tchaikovsky F Bill Cunningham New York P Nice Guy Trio (Richard Press, 2011) 60th Annual Noon Concert Series DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC Depth of Field Film + Video Series 12:15–1 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC Darren Johnston on trumpet, Rob Reich on 8–10 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall accordion, and Daniel Fabricant on bass. David Milnes, conductor D. Johnston: I Can See In nity From Here; Stravinsky, Song of the Nightingale Ducci Calypso; Tiny Gods; Simple Life; Apples Berg, Chamber Concerto for Piano and Violin with 13 Wind Instruments TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES Duke Ellington/Rex Stuart: Boy Meets Horn Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 7 p.m. | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Rob Reich: See Ya Tickets required. Tables are delicately turned when Bill Trad. Romanian/Rob Reich: Gelem Gelem/ Cunningham, a pillar of New York Fashion Unicycle Cocek Event Contact: 510-642-4864 photography for the last three decades, Event Contact: 510-642-4864 becomes himself the subject of the camera’s P Devendra Banhart, Justin Hoover and gaze in Richard Press’s documentary. e L Chris Treggiari Fiat Lux through the Lens of Science and lm captures both Cunningham’s clear Technology L@TE: Friday Nights at BAM/PFA familiarity with an elite level of celebrity as On the Same Page BERKELEY ART MUSEUM well as the unassuming humility he brings COLLEGE OF LETTERS & SCIENCE 7:30–9 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum to his own work and personal life. 3:30–4:30 p.m. | Maude Fife Room, Street-based chefs Justin Hoover and Chris Event Contact: 510-643-9670 315 Wheeler Hall Treggiari share thoughts about food as Discussants: Fiona Doyle, Executive the marker of global cultural movements. Associate Dean and Professor, Materials Moving-image works by Brian Bress, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 Science and Engineering; Jasper Rine, Martha Colburn, and Ari Marcopolous. Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology; and Event Contact: 510-642-0808 L Invisible Woman: Growing up Black in Philip Stark, Professor and Chair, Statistics. Germany: A Reading by Ika Hügel-Marshall Each panelist will choose an Ansel Adams CENTER FOR RACE AND GENDER SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 image from the Fiat Lux collection. 12:30–2 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall e audience will rst have a chance Ika Hügel-Marshall was the child of an to discuss their own observations and P UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra: African-American serviceman and a white inferences about the photos in groups, a er Stravinsky, Berg, Tchaikovsky German woman. Born and raised in post- which the panelists will share their own DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC Hitler Germany, she tells about her experience interpretations. 8–10 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall of anti-Black racism and how she came to Event Contact: [email protected] See Friday, September 21 listing for details. terms with her identity as an Afro-German. L War By Other Means: Military Event Contact: 510-643-8488 Humanitarianism in the Caribbean
F Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years - 1984- Geography Department Colloquium 1992: a film by Dagmar Schultz DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY CENTER FOR SOUTH ASIA STUDIES 3:40–5 p.m. | 575 McCone Hall 6–8 p.m. | 145 Dwinelle Hall Speaker: Professor Joe Bryan, University of is lm focuses on Audre Lorde’s relation Colorado, Boulder EVENT KEY to the German Black Diaspora and Event Contact: 510-642-3903 documents her in uence on the German F FILM political and cultural scene during a decade E EXHIBITIONS P PERFORMANCES of profound social change. L CONFERENCES, LECTURES, AND READINGS Event Contact: 510-643-8488
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 L Sign Language in Nepal L Modernism and Nonstate Space: ANTHROPOLOGICAL INQUIRY WORKING GROUP Claude McKay's Dissident Internationalism THE TRANSNATIONAL ETHNIC AMERICAN STUDIES L Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the 3–5 p.m. | Kroeber Hall, Faculty Lounge WORKING GROUP Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands Speaker: Mara Green, Graduate Student, CENTER FOR SOUTH ASIA STUDIES 5 p.m. | Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Anthropology Hall 5–7 p.m. | CSAS Conference Room, Event Contact: 510-642-3392 Stephens Hall, 10 Speaker: Joel Nickels, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Miami Speaker: Shahzad Bashir, Islamic Studies, P The Dodos Department of Religious Studies, Stanford Nickels will explore the concept of nonstate L@TE: Friday Nights at BAM/PFA University; Robert D. Crews, History, space: the real or imaginary location from Stanford University which it becomes possible to perceive a social metabolism as self-organizing, even in the Event Contact: 510-642-3608 absence of state and inter-state institutions. Event Contact: [email protected] FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 MONDAY, OCTOBER 1 L Cuba and California: Prospects for Change and Opportunity BERKELEY ART MUSEUM L Out of Frame: Past and Present Visions of INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIETAL ISSUES 7:30–9 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum the UC's City of Intellect 9 a.m.–5:30 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Help us kick o KALX's 50th-anniversary On the Same Page Banatao Auditorium celebration with a special performance by COLLEGE OF LETTERS & SCIENCE Keynote speakers and three panels of acclaimed San Francisco indie duo e 5–7 p.m. | Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall experts on prospects for Cuban reforms Dodos. rough the Fiat Lux project, Ansel Adams and their implications for California and Event Contact: 510-642-0808 pictured one of the most turbulent periods the U.S. e rst panel will explore recent in UC history, the 1960s. Yet his photos give Cuban economic and market reforms; the little evidence of tumult. Chris New eld second will address political and social SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 (English, UC Santa Barbara) and Journalist developments; and the third will explore Seth Rosenfeld will re ect on Adams’ opportunities and exchanges that might P Music Department Events at framing of the “City of Intellect,” exploring bene t California, U.S, and Canada. Cal Performances' Fall Free for All what these images reveal, disguise, and Event Contact: 510-642-0813 DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC foretell about the UC’s past and present. 12–3:45 p.m. | UC Berkeley Campus Event Contact: [email protected] P Jazz in the Breezeway 60th Annual Noon Concert Series L Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC 12–12:45 p.m., Morrison Hall Lo ATC Lecture Series 12:15–1 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall breezeway Javanese Gamelan under the direction BERKELEY CENTER FOR NEW MEDIA of Midiyanto previews music for the e Berkeley Nu Jazz Collective performs November 17 shadow play 7:30–9 p.m. | Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall original compositions written by each 1–1:45 p.m., Hertz Hall member of the ensemble. Buoyant grooves, Davitt Moroney, harpsichord Speakers: Fernanda Viegas and Martin lyrical melodies, and a dose of humor make Wattenberg, designers 2–2:45 p.m., Campanile Esplanade this perfect music for a sunny a ernoon. Je Davis, American Music on the 61-bell Event Contact: 510-495-3505 Bring your lunch! (In the event of rain, Carillon in Sather Tower concert moves to Hertz Hall) L Lecture by Abed Azzam 3–3:45 p.m., Hertz Hall Event Contact: 510-642-4864 CRITICAL THEORY University Chorus & Chamber Chorus, Marika Kuzma, director 5 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall Event Contact: 510-642-9988 Speaker: Abed Azzam Event Contact: [email protected]
TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2012 23 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2 L Rural Roots of Reforms near Shanghai, L A Crisis in Paris: Xenophobia, Stigma, and c. 1971-1989 (Compared to Medial Empire in France L Intelligence and the Brain: Recent Entrepreneurship in Taiwan, Thailand, and CENTER FOR RACE AND GENDER Advances in Understanding How the Brain Luzon) 4–5:30 p.m. | 691 Barrows Hall Works Elvera Kwang Siam Lim Memorial Lecture Cameron McKee (History and History of Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures Art): "Mon petit chien de guerre: Con ating GRADUATE DIVISION Jewishness and Homosexuality during the 4:10 p.m. | International House, Chevron Dreyfus Aair" Auditorium Tyler Stovall (History): "Paris and the Speaker: Je Spirit of 1919: Consumer Struggles, Hawkins, CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES Transnationalism and Revolution" Co-founder, 4–6 p.m. | Faculty Club, Heyns Room Event Contact: 510-643-8488 Numenta, Inc. Speaker: Lynn T. White, III, Woodrow Event Contact: L Jennifer DeVere Brody: “Precarious Wilson School, Princeton University 510-643-7413 Performance” Event Contact: 510-643-6321 DEPARTMENT OF THEATER, DANCE & PERFORMANCE STUDIES WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3 4 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall L Intelligence and Machines: Creating In what ways can we think about Intelligent Machines by Modeling the Brain P Viola Sonatas: Noon Concert Series performance as a precarious venture? Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC GRADUATE DIVISION How does performance address the 12:15–1 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall socio-political movements of precarity? Is 4:10 p.m. | International House, Chevron there a relationship between the vicarious Ruth Kahn Siderman, viola Auditorium and the precarious? Professor Jennifer Jerry Kuderma, piano Speaker: Je Hawkins, Co-founder, DeVere Brody (Stanford) explores these Brahms: Viola Sonata Numenta, Inc. See Tuesday, October 2 questions with reference to recent world- Hindemith: Viola Sonata listing. historical events such as the so-called Event Contact: 510-642-4864 Event Contact: 510-643-7413 Occupy Movement among other artistic performances. L David Huffman Artist Talk Event Contact: 510-642-1677 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 On the Same Page BERKELEY ART MUSEUM L Lunch Poems Presents Kathleen Fraser 3 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 Students are invited to explore Oakland- L based artist David Human’s fascinating, Fresh Insights into the Ancient Korean Past fantastical landscape Hunter Gatherer Continental Korea Series at a special in-person artist’s talk. is INSTITUTE OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES large-scale painting with captivating 4 p.m. | Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant details features a “traumanaut,” a character Avenue invented by Human to combine the Speakers: Mark Byington, Harvard THE LIBRARY futuristic and exploratory dimension of University; Jonathan Best, Wesleyan the astronaut with the traumatic history of 12:10–12:50 p.m. | Morrison Library, University; Martin Bale, Harvard African American people. 101 Doe Library University; Jack Davey, UCLA Event Contact: 510-642-0808 Kathleen Fraser’s poetic, critical, and Moderator: Junko Habu, UC Berkeley editorial work has been central to the Co-sponsored by the Center for Korean project of feminist experimental poetry EVENT KEY Studies. in North America. She has published F FILM seventeen books and received numerous Event Contact: 510-642-2809 E EXHIBITIONS awards. P PERFORMANCES L CONFERENCES, LECTURES, AND READINGS Event Contact: [email protected]
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L Hot Commodities and Embodied Forms: P Weekend SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7 Ron Radano, Music Studies Colloquium, L@TE: Friday Nights at BAM/PFA Ethnomusicology L Re-drawing the Boundaries: Multi- DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC disciplinary Interrogations of State and 4:40–6 p.m. | Morrison Hall, Elkus Room, 125 Society in China INSTITUTE OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES Speaker: Ronald Radano, University of Wisconsin, Madison Time TBA | Institute of East Asian Studies, 2223 Fulton, 6th oor Radano examines the modern emergence of black music as a commodity whose very BERKELEY ART MUSEUM See Saturday, October 8 listing for details. qualities of animation—or what would be 7:30-9 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum Event Contact: called “hotness”—developed from its historical [email protected] Performance by post-punk rockers attachments to antebellum, racial thought. Weekend, whose re ective, personal Event Contact: 510-642-2678 P Chamber Chorus at Grace Cathedral: musings on loss and tribulation are Vaughan Williams Mass in G rendered in hauntingly beautiful layers of L The Trial of Li Zhuang: Professionalism DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC distortion. and Populism in China’s Legal Reform 11 a.m.–12 p.m. | Grace Cathedral, Event Contact: 510-642-0808 CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES 1100 California Street, San Francisco e chorus sings as part of the morning SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6 Eucharist service. Event Contact: 415-749-6300 L Re-drawing the Boundaries: L Multi-disciplinary Interrogations of State Reading Events at Litquake: and Society in China Constance Hale UC BERKELEY EXTENSION INSTITUTE OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES 4–6 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, 1–3 p.m. | UC Berkeley Extension Art and 2223 Fulton, 6th oor Time TBA | Institute of East Asian Studies, 2223 Fulton, 6th oor Design Center (San Francisco), Room 202 Speaker: Sida Liu, Sociology, University of Constance Hale will read from her latest Wisconsin-Madison is conference will bring together early-career China scholars from diverse book, Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch. Panelist: Alex Wang, Boalt School of Law disciplinary backgrounds to explore Registration is required for this free event. Event Contact: 510-643-6321 recent transformations of state power and Event Contact: 510-642-4111 authority; varying de nitional frameworks L David Littlejohn on Burning Man: In for discussing the disaggregated Chinese L Lecture by J. Hoberman, Screening of Person/Galleries state; and new interdisciplinary lenses to "Fort Apache" L@TE: Friday Nights at BAM/PFA analyze China’s multi-vocal society and PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE state-encumbered market. BERKELEY ART MUSEUM 6 p.m. | PFA eater Event Contact: 6 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum Lecture by critic and guest curator J. Join journalist David Littlejohn, an avid and [email protected] Hoberman, followed long-standing Burning Man attendee, for an by John Ford's illustrated exploration of the many artistic Fort Apache and facets of the festival, which Littlejohn calls a book signing of “one of the most imaginative and creative Hoberman's An artistic resources in the country.” Army of Phantoms: Event Contact: 510-642-0808 An Army of Phantoms: American Cinema and the Cold war. Tickets required. Event Contact: 510-642-0808
TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2012 25 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10 L Story Hour in the Library Presents Pam Houston L Litquake: Language & Politics: F Short Films by Rose Lowder THE LIBRARY The Discourse of Power Alternative Visions 5–6 p.m. | Morrison Library, PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE 101 Doe Library 7 p.m. | PFA eater Pam Houston's latest novel is Contents Speakers: Rose Lowder, French lmmaker; May Have Shi ed. Her stories—collected Greta Snider, SF State University in volumes such as Cowboys Are My Weakness—have been selected for e O. Tickets required. TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES Henry Awards, e Pushcart Prize, and 6 p.m. | Book Club of California, 312 Sutter Event Contact: 510-642-0808 Best American Short Stories of the Century. Street, Suite 500, San Francisco Event Contact: 510-643-0397 P Queering the Gospel Sound Faculty from Stanford and UC Berkeley examine how language aects politics 60th Annual Noon Concert Series L Communities of Literacy and Collecting DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC and vice versa. What are the conditions Selves in Early Modern Isfahan that make political language possible, 12:15–1 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall CENTER FOR MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES and what are the conditions that render University Gospel Chorus, D. Mark Wilson, 5 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall language political? From a racially- director Speaker: Kathryn Babayan, Department of in ected "rhetoric of contempt" to shades In recognition of History, University of Michigan of totalitarian references in contemporary National Coming political discourse, the participating faculty Professor Babayan will chart a "civilizing Out Month, the process" in early-modern Isfahan reliant members of both universities will engage in University Gospel a wide-ranging and spirited discussion. on the production and dissemination of Chorus honors pedagogical manuals on proper etiquette, Panelists: Brandi Wilkins Catanese, the in uence and conduct and manners to regulate social eater, Dance, and Performance Studies contribution of the behavior and emotional expression. and African American Studies, UC LGBTQ Community on Gospel Music. Event Contact: 510-642-8208 Berkeley; Paula Moya, English, Stanford; Event Contact: 510-642-4864 Vaughn Raspberry, English, Stanford. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12 Event Contact: 510-643-9670 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11
L Kizil to Koguryo: the Multicultural World P Chamber Concerto of Han Architecture F Fiat Mashup!: Appropriations and 60th Annual Noon Concert Series Continental Korea Series Interpretations Using Fiat Lux Photographs DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC INSTITUTE OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES COLLEGE OF LETTERS & SCIENCE 12:15–1 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall 4 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, 5 p.m. | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall David Milnes, conductor 2223 Fulton, 6th oor Fiat Lux images by Ansel Adams served Hrabba Atladottir, violin Speaker: Nancy S. Steinhardt, East Asian as the creative inspiration for these videos Karen Rosenak, piano Languages and Civilizations, University of made by UC graduate students that explore Pennsylvania relationships between the past and the Wind players of the UC Berkeley Event Contact: 510-642-2809 present in the transforming life and politics Symphony Orchestra of UC Berkeley. Video screening and Berg: Chamber Concerto for Piano and discussion with the lmmakers facilitated Violin with 13 Wind Instruments by Jerey Skoller (Film & Media) and Event Contact: 510-642-4864 Natalia Brizuela (Spanish and Portuguese). Event Contact: [email protected] EVENT KEY
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L The Blue Notes: Diaspora, L The Afterlife of a Material Object: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14 Cosmopolitanism, and/or Freedom in South The Mysterious Gold Seal of 57 C.E. African Jazz INSTITUTE OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES L Crass and Other Stencils with David King Music Studies Colloquium 4 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, BERKELEY ART MUSEUM DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC 2223 Fulton, 6th Floor 2:30–5 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum 4:40–6 p.m. | Morrison Hall, Elkus Room, 125 Speaker: Joshua A Fogel, History, York Explore the exciting medium of stencils Featured Speaker: Carol Muller, University with artist David King, best known for Ethnomusicology, University of Event Contact: 510-642-3156 designing the symbol for the British punk Pennsylvania bank Crass. Drop in to learn various stencil Muller discusses South African jazz P Terry Riley with Tracy Silverman techniques, including layering multiple ensemble, e Blue Notes, who le South L@TE: Friday Nights at BAM/PFA colors to form complex designs. Africa for Europe in 1964, and re ects Free with price of museum admission. on how we might think about diaspora, Event Contact: 510-642-0808 cosmopolitanism, and musical freedom in South Africa jazz. P From the Field to the Table: An Urban Event Contact: 510-642-2678 Bush Women Leadership Institute Project DEPARTMENT OF THEATER, DANCE P From the Field to the Table: An Urban BERKELEY ART MUSEUM & PERFORMANCE STUDIES Bush Women Leadership Institute Project 7:30–9 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum 2 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse DEPARTMENT OF THEATER, DANCE See Friday, October 12 listing for details. & PERFORMANCE STUDIES Composer-pianist Terry Riley performs his open-ended solo piano compositions and Event Contact: 510-642-8827 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse improvisations with occasional raga vocals, e Leadership Institute of New York’s with special guest Tracy Silverman, electric acclaimed Urban six-string violinist. Bush Women Event Contact: 510-642-0808 will guide TDPS students and community members in the creation SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13 of a collective L Reading Events at Litquake: piece centered Cody Gates and Laurie Ann Doyle
around issues of Design Design: InkTank UC BERKELEY EXTENSION industrialized food production, rising food costs, and 4–6 p.m. | Bec's Bar and Bistro, diminishing natural resources. e end 2271 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley result will be a performance event sure to Poet Cody Gates and author Laurie Ann move you. Tickets required. Doyle host a stellar lineup of fellow UC Follow the creation of the piece at: Berkeley Extension instructors and students http://fromthe eldtothetable.blogspot.com reading their works of poetry and prose. Event Contact: 510-642-8827 Registration is required for this free event. Event Contact: 510-642-4111 L The Culture of Listening in Argentinian Psychoanalysis P From the Field to the Table: An Urban ANTHROPOLOGICAL INQUIRY WORKING GROUP Bush Women Leadership Institute Project 3–5 p.m. | Kroeber Hall, Faculty Lounge DEPARTMENT OF THEATER, DANCE Speaker: Xochitl Vargas, Graduate Student, & PERFORMANCE STUDIES Anthropology 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse Event Contact: 510-642-3392 See Friday, October 12 listing for details. Event Contact: 510-642-8827
TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2012 27 MONDAY, OCTOBER 15 L Reading Texts on Their Own Terms: F Screening of "Consuming Spirits," with Two Talks on Early Medieval China Filmmaker Chris Sullivan L Una's Lecture: An Evening in Conversation CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES Alternative Visions with Vikram Seth 3–6 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE 2223 Fulton, 6th Floor 7 p.m. | PFA eater Antje Richter, Asian Languages and Speakers: Chris Sullivan, lmmaker; Jerey Civilizations, University of Colorado Skoller, Film and Media at Boulder: "Writing in Genres in Early Tickets required. Medieval China, or: What Makes a Letter a Event Contact: 510-642-0808 Letter?" Matthias L. Richter, Asian Languages and TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES Civilizations, University of Colorado at THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18 6 p.m. | Morrison Reading Room, 101 Doe Boulder: "Before Laozi became a Daoist" Library Event Contact: 510-643-6321 L Mapping Colonial Amnesia: Filipino/ Vikram Seth is a poet, novelist, travel American Cultural Landscapes writer, librettist, children’s writer, and CENTER FOR RACE AND GENDER memoirist. His acclaimed rst novel, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17 4–5:30 p.m. | 691 Barrows Hall e Golden Gate, is written entirely in Speakers: ea Quiray Tagle, UC San Onegin stanzas a er the style of Alexander P Chamber Duets Diego; Sarita See, UC Davis Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin. His 1474-page 60th Annual Noon Concert Series Event Contact: 510-643-8488 novel A Suitable Boy, an epic of Indian life DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC set in the 1950s, won both the WH Smith 12:15–1 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall P TDPS New Play Reading Series Literary Award and the Commonwealth Leighton Fong, cello DEPARTMENT OF THEATER, DANCE Writers' Prize. & PERFORMANCE STUDIES Anna Presler, violin 5 p.m. | Durham Studio eater Panel Discussion Karen Rosenak, piano Hear new work by up-and-coming Tuesday, October 16, 2012 Elliott Carter: Sonata for Cello and Piano; Tre Duetti for Violin and Cello playwrights in an intimate setting, read by 4:00-6:00 p.m. | Maude Fife Room, 315 student actors in the Department of eater, Event Contact: 510-642-4864 Wheeler Hall. Dance, and Performance Studies. Presented Vikram Seth in discussion with UC in partnership with the Townsend Center L Family Reverence (xiao 孝) For the 21st Berkeley faculty. Contemporary Drama Working Group. Century? Event contact: 510-643-9670 CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES Event Contact: tdps.berkeley.edu 4–6 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, 2223 Fulton, 6th Floor FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19 Speaker: Henry Rosemont, Jr., Religious Studies, Brown University P Ensemble Basiani: Lecture-Demonstration Event Contact: 510-643-6321 DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC 12:15–1 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall Secularizing San Francisco: Lecture-demonstration by Georgian Prostitution and Public Policy, 1848-1917 Choir Basiani, which will perform California Studies Seminar a Cal Performances concert at First INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH ON LABOR & EMPLOYMENTS Congregational Church in Berkeley on 7–9:30 p.m. | Institute for Research on Labor Saturday, October 20. EVENT KEY and Employment, 2521 Channing Way Event Contact: 510-642-4864
F FILM Speaker: Drew Bourn, Director, Stanford E EXHIBITIONS Medical History Center P PERFORMANCES Event Contact: 510-643-3012 L CONFERENCES, LECTURES, AND READINGS
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L Graffiti: A History in Photographs with SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24 Jim Prigoff BERKELEY ART MUSEUM L United Nations Day 2012 Celebration P Sonata and Passacaglia 6–7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum INTERNATIONAL HOUSE 60th Annual Noon Concert Series DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC Join photographer Jim 5 p.m. | International House, Chevron Prigo, who has been Auditorium 12:15–1 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall documenting street art Speaker: Susan Bissell, Director of Child Carla Moore, violin Protection, UNICEF for the past forty years, Davitt Moroney, harpsichord to learn about the Event Contact: 510-642-9460 J.S. Bach: Two Sonatas for violin and work of grati artists harpsichord from the Bay Area and beyond, including MONDAY, OCTOBER 22 Georg Muat: Passacaglia in G minor Barry McGee. Followed by L@TE: T.I.T.S. Event Contact: 510-642-4864 and Erick Lyle. F Marwencol (Jeff Malmberg, 2010) Event Contact: 510-642-0808 Depth of Field Film + Video Series L A Passion for Waiting: Messianism, TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES History, and the Jews P T.I.T.S and Erick Lyle (A.K.A Iggy Scam) 7 p.m. | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Foerster Lectures on the Immortality of the Soul GRADUATE DIVISION L@TE: Friday Nights at BAM/PFA BERKELEY ART MUSEUM 7:30–9 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum Music from T.I.T.S., an All-Grrrl quartet. Iggy Scam a.k.a. Erick Lyle, zinester of the in uential nineties Scam, opens. Films and Photo by Jill Krementz Jill by Photo videos by Ben Coonley, Ari Marcopolous, A er being brutally beaten and and Shana Moulton. hospitalized, Mark Hogencamp turned to 4:10 p.m. | International House, Chevron Event Contact: 510-642-0808 art as a therapeutic tool, eventually creating Auditorium “Marwencol,” a ctional Belgian town stuck Speaker: Leon Wieseltier, Literary Editor, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 in World War II populated by a variety e New Republic of military gurines and Barbie dolls. Je Event Contact: 510-643-7413 L Celebrating Architect Julia Morgan: Malmberg delicately brings us inside this Insights Into Her Genius and Legacy world and oers an engaging look at the L Camille Paglia: Glittering Images UC BERKELEY EXTENSION curious and creative mind behind it. BERKELEY ART MUSEUM 10-11:30 a.m. | UC Berkeley Extension Art Event Contact: 510-643-9670 7:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Design Center (San Francisco), Room 204 Camille Paglia, Professor of Humanities L Countering the Counter-Power: Speaker: Karen McNeill, Ph.D. and Media Studies at the The Political Effects of Internet Rumors and Registration is required for this free event. University of the Arts Rumor Rebuttals in China in Philadelphia, speaks Event Contact: 510-642-4111 CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES about her latest book, 4–6 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, Glittering Images: A P Ernest Beane Home Movies and other 2223 Fulton, 6th Floor Journey rough Art African American Amateur Films Speaker: Haifeng Huang, Political Science, from Egypt to Star Wars. Lionstar Michael by Photo Home Movie Day UC Merced PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE Tickets required. Panelist: Anne Meng, Political Science, UC 6:30 p.m. | Paci c Film Archive eater Event Contact: 510-642-0808 Berkeley Introduction by Rick Moss, curator of the African American Museum and Library at Event Contact: 510-643-6321 Oakland, and Pamela Jean Vadakan, lm archivist. Live music by Marcus Shelby. Tickets required. Event Contact: 510-642-0808
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P The Maids F Crude Films: A Cinematic Exploration of L Re-staging/Re-construction/Re-enactment: DEPARTMENT OF THEATER, DANCE Middle Eastern Oil A Symposium in Conjunction with Einstein on & PERFORMANCE STUDIES CENTER FOR MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES the Beach: An Opera in Four Acts 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Room 7 10 a.m.–6 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall Claire and Solange have a game they like Screenings of Ageless Iraq, First Oil, e to play when Madame is out of the house. Oil Factor, and Syriana. Hannah Appel ey like to pretend they are Madame and (Geography) will deliver brief remarks on order one another around. It’s a harmless the context of the contemporary politics of little game. No one could get hurt… right? oil and will lead an audience discussion. Jean Genet’s absurdist masterpiece – with a
Event Contact: [email protected] Jensch Lucie by Photo twist. Directed by Paige Johnson.
Tickets required. L Sources of Shang History: New Discoveries CAL PERFORMANCES Event Contact: 510-642-8827 and Advances in Chinese Archaeology and 11 a.m.–2 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse Paleography F Crude Films: A Cinematic Exploration of INSTITUTE OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES In conjunction with a historic re-staging of Einstein on the Beach at Cal Performances, Middle Eastern Oil 1 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, 2223 this symposium will examine what it takes CENTER FOR MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES Fulton, 6th Floor and what it means to re-create and perform 4–6 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall is symsposium honors the 80th birthday a seminal and rarely-seen work almost forty Screening of Blood and Oil: e Middle of one of the greatest scholars in the eld of years a er its premier. East in World War I. Mona Damluji Chinese oracle bones, Professor Emeritus Panelists: Linda Brumbach, Producer, (Architecture, UC Berkeley) will open David N. Keightley. Scholars will come Pomegranate Arts; Lisa Bielewa, soprano, with brief remarks about the history of oil together to present a selection of new work Philip Glass Ensemble; Robert Fink, companies operating in the modern Middle in the eld of oracle bones, and assess the Department of Music, UCLA; Frédéric East. legendary work of Professor Keightley. Maurin, Department of eatre Studies, Event Contact: [email protected] Event Contact: 510-642-2809 Université de Paris 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle; Charles Otte, Department of eatre and L P Studio Time: Process/Production The Maids Dance, University of Texas, Austin; Alisa Time Zones Series DEPARTMENT OF THEATER, DANCE Regas, Associate Producer, Pomegranate & PERFORMANCE STUDIES ARTS RESEARCH CENTER Arts 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Room 7 6-8 p.m. | Maude Fife Room, Event Contact: 510-642-7784 315 Wheeler Hall See ursday, October 25 listing for details Glenn Adamson, curator at the Victoria UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra: Adams, and Albert Museum, will give a talk L Between Purpose and Entropy: Debussy, Berg titled “Goodbye to Cra .” Responses will On the History of Biology from a DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC follow from local artist Stephanie Syjuco Philosophical Perspective 8–10 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall and Professor Ron Rael (Architecture). ANTHROPOLOGICAL INQUIRY WORKING GROUP Professor Julia Bryan-Wilson (History of David Milnes, conductor 3–5 p.m. | Kroeber Hall, Faculty Lounge Art), Acting Director of the Arts Research Tower: Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman Speaker: Spyridon Koutrofounis, Professor, Center, will moderate. for Orchestra Technische Universität Berlin Event Contact: 510-642-7784 Cox: TBA Event Contact: 510-642-3392 Ahn: TBA Varese: Arcana
EVENT KEY Debussy: La Mer
F FILM Williams: Symphonic Suite from Star Wars E EXHIBITIONS Tickets required. P PERFORMANCES L CONFERENCES, LECTURES, AND READINGS Event Contact: 510-642-2678
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P The Maids WENESDAY, OCTOBER 31 P UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra: DEPARTMENT OF THEATER, DANCE Debussy, La Mer & PERFORMANCE STUDIES L Avenali Lecture: Wendell Berry 60th Annual Noon Concert Series 2 & 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Room 7 "An Agro-Ethical Aesthetic" See ursday, October 25 listing for details.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28 P University Chorus: Harvests and Recollections DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC 4–6 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall 12:15-1 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall Marika Kuzma, director David Milnes, conductor David Conte, September Sun TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES Claude Debussy: La Mer ( e Sea) Franz Joseph Haydn, “Fall” from e 4 p.m. |Wheeler Auditorium Seasons, with orchestra and soloists Event Contact: 510-642-4864 A conversation between Avenali Lecturer Autumnal songs by various composers Wendell Berry, Michael Pollan (Graduate Tickets required. School of Journalism), Robert Hass Event Contact: 510-642-4864 (English), Miguel Altieri (Environmental Science, Policy, and Management), and Anne-Lise François (English and MONDAY, OCTOBER 29 Comparative Literature).
L To Catch the Eye: Harriet Powers and Her Reading & Discussion with Wendell Berry Patrons ursday, November 1, 2012 Stoddard Lecture in the History of Art DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART 6 pm | Berkeley Art Museum eater, 2621 Durant Ave. 5:30–6:30 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium Wendell Berry is a conservationist, farmer, essayist, novelist and poet. He is Speaker: Laurel atcher Ulrich, Harvard the author of over forty books including University e Unsettling of America: Culture & Event Contact: 510-643-7290 Agriculture, and the well-known “Port William" series. e master of many genres, Berry’s focus on farming, community, and TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30 agricultural and ecological thinking has remained a constant throughout his work. L "The Mystery of the Century”: Buddhist Both Avenali events are free and open to the Lay Monk Villages (Jaegaseung burak) Near public but tickets are required. Free tickets Korea's Northernmost Border, 1600s-1960s will be available at the venues one hour Continental Korea Series before each event. INSTITUTE OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES Event Contact: 510-643-9670 4 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, 2223 PHOTO CREDITS Fulton, 6th Floor Speaker: Hwansoo Kim, Department of Pages 16, 19 & 32: photographs by Religion and the Asian and Middle Eastern Kenneth P. Green Sr. Studies Department Page 20: "Pre-Football Game Parade – Event Contact: 510-642-2809 Detail," 1966, UC Berkeley. Photograph by Ansel Adams, Fiat Lux Collection.
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