N E W S L E T T E R

The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities

February 2002 Research “Bridges”

In a unique and innovative program, the Townsend Center for the Humanities and the Academic Senate’s Committee on Research will collaborate in funding Townsend Research Bridging Grants, a category of grants specifically for tenured faculty whose proposed research projects have a clear and significant Humanities focus.

As with the regular COR Research Bridging Grants, the proposed project must reflect new research in areas that are substantially different from the applicant’s scholarship to date. The Townsend Bridging Grants differ from the regular COR Bridging grants, however, in their recognition of the particular needs of Humanities faculty, for whom intensive research time, rather than equipment or collective research assistance, may be most important. The Townsend Research Bridging Grants, offering support of up to $25,000, may be used for the typical budget items eligible for funding through COR’s Faculty Research Grants competition; but they may also be used, with the consent of the awardee’s Chair, to support one semester of relief from regular teaching duties. Applicants need not be in the Humanities, but their proposals must in all cases make the project’s humanistic import clear.

Because this release time is intended to benefit teaching as well as research, the Townsend Center and COR remind Bridging Grant recipients that all Berkeley faculty who wish to teach interdisciplinary courses with a humanistic component are eligible to apply to teach one of the Townsend Center’s Graduate or Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Seminars. These seminars, which include a $3000 budget for course-related expenses, can be taught during or following the two-year grant period.

The general conditions and deadlines of the Townsend Research Bridging Grant are the same as those of the regular COR Research Bridging Grant. The purpose of both Bridging grants is to assist tenured faculty wishing to pursue research significantly different from the work in which they have regularly been engaged. Although there is no set requirement that the projects be interdisciplinary, the Townsend Center is particularly interested in proposals that promote conversations across disciplines and divisions. The research proposed may be derived from current work. It must, however, require significantly

1 Research “Bridges,” different theoretical content, Past, Present, Future continued application, or experimental approach, taking the researcher into unfamiliar Using a title originated by the Committee intellectual terrain. A few examples might on Research, Candace Slater has already be the literary critic whose interest in described an important new “bridge”: the novels about disability raises questions grant program intended to take tenured whose answers lie within the realms of faculty from one research place to another. public health and medical anthropology; The language, bespeaking movement, the geographer or forestry expert who finds seems especially appropriate to the him or herself increasingly drawn to Newsletter that marks the beginning of a graphic or literary representations of new semester but also picks up from the deforestation; or the medieval historian term just completed. In February–-and in who has begun to develop an interest in newsletters–-time connects. “We tend to contemporary secular or religious plan in the fall and enact in the spring,” a pilgrimages. We welcome joint proposals colleague recently remarked. It’s not from faculty in different departments, entirely true, but as a busy semester gets desiring to undertake interdisciplinary truly underway, it feels true. research in a new area. Events at the Center

The Bridging grant, true to its name, offers February is a very active month for the faculty a rare opportunity to explore a new Townsend Center this year. research area or methodology, to undertake Complementing the exhibit entitled a project that may not yet be at the stage Transitions, The Photographs of Sebastião Contents where external support can be sought. The Salgado, on view at the Berkeley Art Townsend Center is highly gratified to Museum January 16-March 24, the Research "Bridges" 1 work with COR in offering this innovative Townsend Center hosts noted

Past, Present, Future research option. For details and guidelines, photographer Sebastião Salgado as this 2 I urge you to consult the Program section year’s Avenali Professor in the New & Continuing Programs 7 of the Newsletter. Humanities. Sebastião Salgado will

Working Groups Activities Candace Slater, Director deliver the Avenali Lecture, “Migrations: 11 Marian E. Koshland Distinguished Humanity in Transition,” on Monday, Professor in the Humanities Calendar 18 February 11, at 7:30 pm in Wheeler

Events Auditorium. A follow-up discussion with 22 Sebastião Salgado; T.J. Clark, History of Announcements Art; Nancy Scheper-Hughes, 30 Anthropology; and Michael Watts,

2 Novelist and writer Nicholson Baker visits as journalist, activist, lawyer, and art the Townsend Center April 15-19 as Una’s historian, he approaches environmental Lecturer in the Humanities. Baker will topics such as the fate of the giant trees in deliver two lectures under the title Tasmania. Bonyhady’s most recent book, “Shelving History.” The first, to take place Colonial Earth, won the prestigious New on Monday, April 15, at 7:30 in the South Wales Premier’s Prize for History. Sebastião Salgado, The Beaches of Vung Tao, Vietnam, 1995 Morrison Room at Doe Library (an He is also the author of The Colonial Image: Geography and Director, Institute for appropriate location for a writer who has Australian Painting 1800-1880. International Studies, will take place on castigated the loss of print sources, Wednesday, February 13, at 4 pm in the particularly newspapers, to microfilm) is As announced in September, UCLA Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall. The titled “Bombs and Bibliographies: The Professor of Urban Planning Susanna panel will be chaired by Townsend Center Secret Life of the Library of Congress.” The Hecht visits the Townsend Center on May Director Candace Slater. second, scheduled for Wednesday 1 to present the final talk in this year’s afternoon at 4 pm in the Geballe Room at Grounding the Humanities series. Professor Even as a Magnum photojournalist the Townsend Center (please note change Hecht will focus her presentation on her covering news events, Sebastião Salgado of venue) will be titled “The Lost Art of longstanding interest in the Brazilian was drawn to in-depth documentary the Newspaper.” essayist Euclides da Cunha, author of a projects with broad human scope. In Other series of luminous and perplexing essays Americas (1986), he explored peasant Continuing Programs on the Amazon. cultures and the cultural resistance of The spring semester brings two more Indians and their descendants in Mexico speakers to Grounding the Humanities, the Supported in part by the Academic and Brazil; in Sahel: Man in Distress (1986), Townsend Center’s series of talks by Geriatric Resource Program (AGRP), he drew on his work in the drought- scholars with particular interests in the Humanities Perspectives on Aging continues stricken Sahel region of Africa with the place of indigenous people within this semester with two programs focusing French aid group Doctor Without Borders; contemporary debates on the environment. on the representation of aging in the arts. in Workers (1993), his work documented Australian art historian, lawyer and On March 13, at 4 pm in the Geballe Room manual laborers facing displacement with journalist Tim Bonyhady will be in at the Center, Richard Candida Smith, the advent of modern technologies and residence at the Center in the last week of Professor of History and Director of the machines; and in Terra: Struggle of the February, presenting on Monday, February Bancroft Regional Oral History Office, Landless (1997), Salgado captured the 25, a lecture entitled “The Colonial Earth: turns his attention to conceptions of life/ efforts of Brazilian natives fighting to Art, Law, and the Long History of age stages as they may be applied to the reclaim their land. Migrations, the body of Australian Environmentalism.” On the work of artist Jay DeFeo. Professor Smith’s photographs by Sebastiao Salgado following day, Bonyhady will speak lecture will be titled “‘The Light Foot Hears currently on exhibit at the Berkeley Art informally with the Center’s newly formed You and the Brightness Begins’: Museum, is a seven-year chronicle of mass interdisciplinary discussion group on the Encountering Mortality in Jay DeFeo’s Last migrations in more than thirty-five Environment, taking up the ways in which, Paintings.” countries.

3 Past, Present, Future, On April 11 artist and filmmaker Yvonne Digital Age. The discussion is sponsored Continued Rainer visits the Townsend Center to by the Townsend Center with support from present “Skirting and Aging: An Aging the Consortium for the Arts. Scheduled for Artist’s Memoir.” Rainer will explore her February 6, at 4 pm in the Geballe Room own transition “from moving body to at the Townsend Center, it brings together moving image” and discuss clips from panelists from fields as diverse as physics, Privilege, her film on female aging that has geography and art history who will drawn special attention in art, women’s consider, from their various disciplinary studies, and fields linking the humanities perspectives, the ways in which with issues in aging. On the following day, photography itself bridges science and art. April 12 (details to be announced in April Participants, in addition to curator Newsletter), Ms. Rainer will join Berkeley Jeannene Przyblyski, include Fritjof Capra, faculty and students for a discussion of her founding director of the Center for

Yvonne Rainer work, particularly as it relates to aging. Ecoliteracy in Berkeley; landscape ecologist Robin Grossinger; and Berkeley Townsend Gallery faculty and graduate students Sharon

In Everyday Constellations: Photographs, Corwin (History of Art), Richard Walker Photograms and Sunprints, on exhibit at the (Geography) and artist Susannah Hays Townsend Center January 22-March 15, (Environmental Design). 2002, Susannah Hays uses photography to illuminate the complex structures of Occasional Papers and Video simple things, her photographic Seeing the Difference: Encountering Death and transformations “return[ing] cosmic Dying through the Arts, Humanities, and constellations to the everyday” (See Medical Practices, the proceedings of the Gallery section of this Newsletter, p. 28). Seeing the Difference institute organized by Christina Gillis and the Townsend Center

In the words of the exhibit’s curator, art in the summer of 2000, will be published historian Jeannene Przyblyski, however, as a double-sized issue in the Center’s Susannah Hays’ work also interrogates the Occasional Papers series. Publication and nature of photography itself–-its mutual dissemination of this issue are made dependence on light and darkness, optics possible by support from the Walter and and chemistry, science and art. Hence it Elise Haas Fund and the Barbro Osher Pro provides both a focus and a launch for a Suecia Foundation. With funding from the panel discussion organized by Dr. Academic Geriatric Resource Program, Pyzyblyski and entitled Reproduction and from the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, Redux: The Nature of Photography in the the Center has also completed a fifty-

4 minute capsule video version of excerpts model of arts and humanities advocacy. scheduled for March 2, 2002. The from the institute. The video will be The on-line continuation, http:// conference will address ways in which distributed under the title Seeing the ls.berkeley.edu/divisions/art-hum/ representations in mass media affect Difference: Conversations on Death and framing/, featured in its first issue profiles women of color. Among other issues, the Dying. Brief excerpts from the institute of the work of Professors Karin Sanders (on organizers (the Berkeley Graduate proceedings are accessible on the Web at bog bodies and their changing Women’s Project) are concerned with the http://seeingthedifference.berkeley.edu. significance), Susan Schweik (on Disability “ways in which we take an active role in The entire Proceedings will be available on Studies), and Joe Goode (on performance, producing images [of ourselves], and how the Web site later this spring. language and movement). The second we respond to media’s far-reaching issue, due to appear on-line in February influence." On March 13-14, graduate 2002, will focus on the Bancroft Library’s student members of the Berkeley, Tebtunis Papyri project, the work of the Tübingen, and Vienna (BTW), an new Center for Sexual Culture, and the interdisciplinary and international project research of Deniz Göktürk, a scholar of on German modernism, will hold a multiculturalism in Germany who joined conference entitled “Transgressive the Department of German this year. Spaces.” This conference continues themes explored last year when the group met in Co-Sponsored Events Vienna to discuss their research projects on As readers of this Newsletter are aware, the general topic of space. Photography by Jim Goldberg from Hospice: A Photgraphic Inquiry, 1996. the Townsend Center grants to other units support for lectures, residencies, This year’s “Berkeley Symposium: conferences, or any other activities related Interdisciplinary Approaches to Visual “Framing the Questions” Update to research and teaching in the humanities Representation” is scheduled for March 16. Sponsored by the Townsend Center and and arts. Applications for lecture grants, 2002 is the 13th year of this student- the Dean of Arts and Humanities, the first typically in the $100-250 range, are organized conference, which has expanded issue of “Framing the Questions,” an on- accepted on a rotating basis without to include presenters from UC Berkeley line “magazine” that publicizes innovative deadlines; applications for conferences, and from a number of other universities. work in the arts and humanities at symposia, or any activity where the request Berkeley, appeared in Fall 2001. The exceeds $500 must be submitted according The Interdisciplinary German Studies “Framing” site will continue to serve the to the schedule provided under the Conference organized by the Department goals of the print publication, Framing the “Deadlines” section of this newsletter (the of German Graduate Students will take Questions, New Visions from the Arts and next deadline is February 15, 2002). place April 5-6. Titled “Finite subjects: Humanities at Berkeley, which showcased Mortality and Culture in Germany,” the the work of sixteen individual faculty and In chronological order, the annual conference will examine the ways that the collaborative groups on the Berkeley Empowering Women of Color conference, this presence and representation of death has campus and won national recognition as a year titled “Women of Color in Media,” is shaped German culture and history. The

5 Past, Present, Future, keynote speaker will be Slavoj Zizek. Eric Debra Soloman (Art Race in Space Ltd., Continued Santner, chair of the Department of Amsterdam) on “Artist-Astronaut: What German at Chicago, will be a plenary the Future Told Us.” Lunch Poems speaker. continues its 2001-2002 schedule on February 7, at noon in the Morrison

The Center for Working Families presents Library, with a reading by Robert Pinsky. on May 2-3 a conference titled “Designing Pinsky served as Poet Laureate of the U.S. Modern Childhoods.” Organized by from 1997-2000. His book The Figured Wheel: Marta Gutman, a postdoctoral research New and Collected Poems 1965-1995 was fellow at the Center for Working Families, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and and Professor Ning de Coninck-Smith of received the Lenore Marshall Award and Southern Odense University (Denmark), the Ambassador Book Award of the the conference interrogates a number of English Speaking Union. Robert Pinsky issues related to comparative inquiry in the was awarded the Howard Morton Landon rapidly emerging field of childhood Prize for translation for his English version studies: What are the cultural and social of The Inferno of Dante. In 1994, the effects of buildings and other settings Townsend Center sponsored a dialogue designed for and used by children? Is there between Robert Pinsky and Michael such a thing as a child’s space or a Mazur, who illustrated that translation. children’s landscape? The dialogue was later published as a Townsend Occasional Paper entitled Image

On April 27, Richard Martin, Professor of and Text. Classics at Stanford is the featured speaker Christina M. Gillis at “Dialogues in Antiquity,” a conference Associate Director organized by graduate students in the Department of Classics. Twelve graduate students will present papers on “dialogue,” defined by the organizers as “an exchange between two or more participants in any text or genre.”

And Continuing Series Robert Pinsky On January 28, at 7:30 in 160 Kroeber Hall, the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium returns with a presentation by

6 New and Continuing to any faculty member except under very Programs; Spring unusual circumstances. 2) A statement of the connection (if any) Deadlines between the new research area and prior Competition: The Townsend Research research pursued by the applicant. (It is Townsend Research Bridging Grants Bridging Grant offers an additional $5000 incumbent on the applicant to demonstrate As described by Candace Slater in her to the regular COR Research Bridging that the proposed research represents a comment in this Newsletter (page 1-2), the Grant of up to $20,000, for a total of up to significant departure from previous work. Townsend Center for the Humanities and $25,000 (the funds can be expended by the The FRG competition is still available to the Academic Senate’s Committee on grantee in either the first or the second year fund research that can be better described Research initiate this term a program of of the grant, depending on the candidate’s as ongoing.) Research Bridging Grants (RBGs) for proposed research plans). Any proposal tenured faculty whose proposed research for more than these amounts requires 3) The budget should include: projects have a clear and significant extraordinary justification. Important note: • The typical budget items considered for Humanities focus. A Townsend RBG of up Faculty must clearly indicate in their COR the FRG competition (support for an RA; to $25,000 may be used for typical budget RBG application that they wish to be considered equipment, etc.). In addition, funds to items eligible for funding through the for the Townsend RBG. travel to meetings or other institutions; COR's Faculty Research Grants; but it may purchase of books and other scholarly also be used, with the consent of the Application procedure: Applications for materials; and/or expenses for any formal awardee’s Chair, to support one semester the Research Bridging Program must be training necessary to learn about the new of relief from regular teaching duties. submitted to the applicant’s department in research area may be included. Under the Applicants need not be in the Humanities, time for the department to meet the Townsend Bridge program, funds may be but their proposals must in all cases make submission deadline in early March (exact considered to support partial sabbatical the project’s humanistic import clear. date to be announced in February by COR expenses at an institution engaged in the and by the Townsend Center). Faculty new research area, or one semester’s relief The general conditions and deadlines of members should apply as individuals, but from regular teaching duties with the the Townsend Research Bridging Grant are must submit their applications through consent of the Department Chair; the same as those of the regular COR their departments. No late proposals will • a budget justification; Research Bridging Grant. The purpose of be considered. • a statement of what funds (if any) are both Bridging grants is to assist tenured available currently to support the new faculty wishing to pursue research According to COR’s guidelines, a research. Please comment on the reason(s) significantly different from the work in completed application must include the why the proposed work would be less which they have regularly been engaged. following: likely to receive support than the Applications should be limited to about ten researcher’s ongoing research pursuits; (10) pages (exclusive of budgetary and 1) A summary of proposed research • a list of currently funded projects; and, publication information). Grant funds are emphasizing an argument for the • a publications list. awarded for a period of no more than two intellectual basis for this broadening of the years and are non-renewable. Ordinarily applicant’s work. Evaluation: In the case of Townsend RBG only one Bridging grant shall be awarded applications, COR will pass on the

7 New and Continuing candidates’ materials to the Center, where are urged to submit their proposals by Programs; Spring a committee will evaluate their interest and March 15, 2002, for awards that offer Deadlines, continued research merit from the standpoint of the teaching relief for Spring 2003. Humanities. The annotated applications will then be returned to COR, which will Associate Professors awarded Townsend make the final judgment on the grants. Initiative Grants will be enabled to devote the Spring 2003 term to a research project Award announcements will be sent of their choosing. An interesting directly to the applicant and to their Dean/ component of the grant, however, is the Chair no later than June 2002. Funds expire requirement that each applicant propose a on June 30, 2004. counterpart researcher–in any department, discipline, or school other than the Responsibilities of Awardees: Each award applicant’s own–with whom she or he recipient is required, for multi-year would value regular conversation. The awards, to submit an annual report (5-10 counterpart may be of any rank, and the pages) on progress and accomplished applicant may or may not have worked research during the grant period. The final previously with her/him. The Townsend report is due on September 1, 2004. In Center would be happy, if necessary, to addition, the awardee’s department must assist in identifying potential counterparts. submit an expense report reasonably Both grantees and their counterparts will matching the original budget or approved be part of a larger group that meets revisions for each award. The expense approximately five times during the course report is due on September 1, 2004. COR of the semester for working lunches will require reimbursement of any funds devoted to the presentation of the grantee’s that have been used to supplement research. Within three years of the department budgets. completion of the grant, the grantee will teach an undergraduate course (an interdisciplinary seminar, a junior seminar) Townsend Initiative or propose another kind of learning Grant for Associate opportunity for undergraduates. Professors

Deadline: March 15, 2002 Eligibility Any UC Berkeley associate professor with As the Spring 2002 awardees of the a humanities-related research topic is Townsend Initiative Grant for Associate eligible to apply for the Townsend Professors embark on their projects and 2001-02 Initiative Grant Awardees: Karin Initiative Grant. To cite just a few regular meetings at the Center, we are Sanders, Robin Einhorn, Chris Berry, Eric examples, a “humanities-related” topic Naiman, and Samuel Otter pleased to announce the second may be in Anthropology; in Environmental competition. Eligible associate professors

8 Science, Policy and Management; or Law. • a 3-5 page project description successful Undergraduate Research Neither the applicant nor the topic area • a curriculum vitae Apprentice Program (URAP). The Center need be located in a department within the • a letter of reference from the applicant’s will award summer research stipends of Arts and Humanities Division. Associate Chair that will explain the value of the $500 each to five faculty mentors whose professor applicants may be at any career project to the discipline, to the professional projects offer particularly fruitful research stage but must have been tenured for at development of the potential grantee, and opportunities for students in the least one year. Only in exceptional cases to the department. humanities. Only faculty mentors who may a Townsend Initiative Grant have participated in the program for the immediately precede or follow a leave of Townsend Initiative Grants will be full 2001-2002 academic year are eligible more than one semester. awarded according to the intrinsic merit for the Townsend summer grants. of the research project proposal in Similarly, only student participants who Grant Provision combination with the recommendation of have worked with a faculty member as The Townsend Initiative Grant furnishes the Chair. Applicants must be willing to apprentices for both semesters of the 2001- replacement costs at Assistant Professor II identify a counterpart but application is 2002 academic year will be eligible to level to the grantee’s home department. not contingent upon a formal commitment receive summer grants of $1000-2000. The grantee will continue to receive the from the counterpart scholar. normal salary. Pending final approval, The Apprentice Program helps grantees will continue to accrue sabbatical Application forms for the Townsend undergraduates understand what it means credit over the term of the Initiative Grant. Initiative Grant will be available in hard to do research in the humanities, and at the Service arrangements should be worked copy at the Townsend Center, 220 same time provides valuable assistance to out between the grantee and his or her Stephens, and on the Center’s Web site at individual faculty members. Detailed Chair. http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/townsend/ information on the Undergraduate after February 1, 2002. Completed Research Apprentice Program is available Counterparts receive a research stipend of applications should be sent to Professor at http://research.berkeley.edu/urap. $2000. They will be expected to attend the Candace Slater, Director, Townsend Center Applications should be submitted directly group meetings and to converse for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall, to URAP. sufficiently with “their” grantee so that #2340. they can share with the grantee the presentation of the latter’s research project Townsend Working Groups to the larger group. The hope, of course, Faculty Mentor Program is that some pairs will continue the Deadline: March 15, 2002 April 19, 2002 interaction even beyond the official term Already established Townsend Working of the grant. As part of our aim of extending our Groups that wish to continue, as well as program efforts to undergraduates, the groups of graduate students and/or

Application Procedure Townsend Center continues this year an faculty wishing to join the program for A complete application will include: initiative aimed at supporting the academic year 2002-2003, must apply for Townsend Working Groups grants by • a brief cover letter participation of humanities and April 19, 2002. The Working Groups • the completed application form humanities-related faculty in the highly

9 New and Continuing program is intended to bring together, Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall. The letter Programs; Spring from various fields and departments, should include a description of the project Deadlines, continued faculty and graduate students with shared and its significance, a proposed budget, research interests. Details and instructions and a specific dollar request. for application will be published in the April Newsletter.

Schedule of deadlines for Townsend Conference Late-Breaking Program Grants Addition The Townsend Center welcomes proposals for conferences or other larger-budget As this Newsletter goes to press, the activities according to a schedule of three Center confirms the establishment deadlines per year. Requests for smaller of the Townsend Pre-dissertation grants for visiting lecturers ($150-300) will Fellowship program, a pilot effort be accepted on a continuing basis. intended to bring together students from a variety of disciplines at the

February 15, 2002 Final deadline for early stages of their graduate proposals for conferences or other larger careers. The program, supported by projects taking place March-June 2002. the Center and the Dean of Arts and First deadline for conferences or similar Humanities, will offer summer activities scheduled for 2002-2003. grants of $5000 for each of three years to a minimum of four entering

May 15, 2002 Second deadline for graduate students (beginning their proposals for conferences taking place at work at Berkeley in Fall 2002) who any time in the 2002-2003 academic year. have been nominated by their departments. The date for

September 15, 2002 Final deadline for nomination by the departments will conferences taking place Fall 2002 through be the same as that for the Berkeley February 2003; second deadline for Fellowship: February 11. The conferences scheduled for March-June program description and 2003. instructions for nomination of student candidates have been sent

Individuals or groups requesting grants of to the departments. Please see the over $500 for conferences or other activity March Townsend Newsletter for should address proposals to Candace further details. Slater, Director, Townsend Center for the

10 working groups out the year the group shares its work with international colleagues over the internet and meets once a year for a february Activities conference. Meetings are bi-weekly; time and place TBA.

The Townsend Center Working Groups Program brings together, Bay Area Forum for Law and Ethics (BAFFLE) from various fields and departments, faculty and graduate students Contact: Meir Dan-Cohen, (510) 642-7421, dan- with shared research interests. Group descriptions appear in the Sep- [email protected] tember and February newsletters. Also, for descriptions and updates The purpose of this Working Group is to provide a forum for on the groups’ activities, please go to: http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/ discussing the participants’ own works-in-progress in the townsend/working_groups.html areas of theory alluded to in the Center’s name. The group holds three meetings each term. Membership is closed in Activism in the Academy order to facilitate discussion and ensure a friendly and Contact: Damani Partridge, [email protected] congenial atmosphere by keeping to a relatively small The group is concerned with the place of graduate students in number of participants (approximately 12). the academy and their participation in social movements and community work outside the academy. Berkeley and Bay Area Early Modern Studies Group Contact: Victoria Kahn, [email protected], Timothy Ancient Philosophy Working Group (Previously Working Hampton, [email protected], or Albert Group in Ancient Philosophy) Ascoli, [email protected] Contact: Vanessa de Harven, [email protected], The group provides a forum for faculty and students in Pre- http://philosophy.berkeley.edu and Early Modern Studies to share ideas. Anyone inter- Graduate students and faculty interested in Ancient Philoso- ested in being on the mailing list should contact the orga- phy meet at least three times per semester for presentation nizers. and discussion of papers and dialogue on relevant conferences, current topics, and academic issues. Meetings are Berkeley New Music Project normally held Monday evenings, with specific times and Contact: Hubert Ho, [email protected], or David dates TBA; please check for Workshop updates at Bithell, [email protected] www.philosophy.edu under “Events.” The Berkeley New Music Project is a forum that produces concerts of new music written by graduate students in the De- Armenian Studies Working Group partment of Music. The group meets 1-2 times each month Contact: Stephan Astourian, (510) 642-1489, to discuss various aspects of music composition. [email protected], or Barbara Voytek, (510) 643-6736, [email protected] Berkeley Southeast Asianists This group provides a forum that is part of an ongoing inter- Contact: Nina Keefer, (510) 839-6204, disciplinary, integrated program on Armenian Studies for [email protected] students, faculty, and scholars. Berkeley Southeast Asianists Working Group is an interdisci- February 12 (Tuesday), 7:30pm, Pacific Film Archive. The plinary group of graduate students with research interests group will meet to view the film, People, Years, Life, by in Southeast Asia. The group sponsors speakers and meets Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi. monthly to discuss selected readings.

Asian Art and Visual Cultures Black Literary Discourse Contact: Shawn Salvant, (510) 665-9067, Contact: Sharon Yamamoto, [email protected], or [email protected] Mayuko Kinouchi, [email protected] The Black Literary Discourse working group meets regularly to The Asian Art and Visual Cultures working group is an inter- discuss selected essays in black literary theory and criti- disciplinary peer critique for scholars interested in various cism. The group will also conduct workshops of works in visual media from ancient through contemporary Asia. progress by its members and plan for a speaker’s event or Students and faculty explore theoretical issues spanning graduate student symposium in the Spring. gender studies, anthropology, religion, history, literature, February 27 (Wednesday), 3:00pm, location TBA. The group and political analysis through papers presented by group will meet to discuss critical essays of the Black Arts Move- members, discussions of readings, and lectures given by ment. guest speakers. British Studies Reading Group BTW - Questions of German Modernism Contact: Kaarin Michaelsen, [email protected], and Contact: June Hwang, [email protected], or Chad Chad Martin, [email protected] Wellmon, [email protected] The group discusses recent work in British history in light of Consisting of members from Berkeley, Tuebingen and Vienna developments in cultural studies, imperial and post-colo- universities, BTW explores questions of German moder- nial history, gender studies, and comparative history. nity and welcomes members from all disciplines provid- ing they have a working knowledge of German. Through-

11 California Studies Lectures Economic Development Working Group Contact: Richard Walker, (510) 642-3901, Contact: Edward Miguel, [email protected] and [email protected], or Delores Dillard, (510) Pranab Bardhan, [email protected] 642-3903, [email protected] The Economic Development Research Group consists of fac- The group brings together faculty, students and independent ulty and students from around campus who are interested scholars from around the Bay Area for a series of lectures in the process of economic development. Participants meet on California history and society. at a weekly seminar to present and discuss current re- February 20 (Wednesday), 6:30pm, O’Neill Room, Men’s Fac- search in the field. ulty Club. The guest will be William Friedland (UC Santa February 5 (Tuesday), 4:00-6:00pm, 639 Evans. Ragnar Torvik Cruz). (Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology) will speak on “Resource Abundance and Growth Clubs.” Celtic Colloquium February 26 (Tuesday), 4:00-6:00pm, 639 Evans. Paul Gertler Contact: Maria Teresa Agozzino, (510) 530-6233, (UCB). Topic TBA. [email protected] The group offers an interdisciplinary forum for faculty and stu- Eighteenth-Century Studies dents to discuss the diverse cultures, languages, literature Contact: Len von Morze, [email protected] and history of Celtic regions. The Eighteenth-Century Studies Working Group covers all aspects of eighteenth-century life, including art, history, and Central Asia/Silk Road Working Group music, but has recently been focusing on the relationship Contact: Sanjyot Mehendale, (510) 643-5265, between literature and philosophy. In addition to sponsor- [email protected], or Bruce C. Williams, ing monthly meetings of a reading group and a yearly (510) 642-2556, [email protected]; or graduate student symposium, the group invites two [email protected] speakers each semester to present and discuss work-in- The group offers an interdisciplinary forum for faculty and stu- progress. dents to discuss issues related to Central Asian and Silk Road cultures from the earliest times to the present. Folklore Roundtable Contact: The Folklore Archives, (510) 643-7934, Chicana and Latina Studies Working Group [email protected] or http://ls.berkeley.edu/ Contact: Karina Cespedes, [email protected] dept/folklore/Folk.HTM This group brings together faculty and graduate students inter- The group investigates trends in folklore research and explores ested in the study of Chicana and Latina issues. the reigning paradigms and perspectives in different disci- February 7-10, 2002 (Thursday-Sunday). The group is co-spon- plines. soring the conference “Practicing Transgressions: Women of Color in the 21st Century.” The Conference is a celebra- Francophone Studies Working Group tion of the 20th anniversary of the feminist classic This Contact: Shaden Tageldin, [email protected]; Bridge Called My Back. Christophe Wall-Romana, [email protected] Tuesdays during Spring semester, 3:00pm, Free Speech Move- The Francophone Studies Working Group is dedicated to the ment Café (Moffitt Library). The Group will meet to orga- study of postcolonial/diaspora cultures and literatures nize the conference. Please contact Karina Cespedes for having French language as one of its components. The further information. group, in coordination with the French Department, is planning the symposium, “Francophone[tm]? Interrogat- Comparative Legal Cultures ing the Status of French, French-ness, and France in Contact: Jackie Gehring, [email protected] ‘Francophone’ Literatures, Cultures, and Polities,” sched- The comparative legal cultures working group meets about uled for March 15-16, 2002. The group will continue to or- once a month to discuss readings and films that provide a ganize the event and to plan other spring activities (read- window into the legal culture of a society. The group also ings, films). Please contact the group for further informa- provides a forum for its members to present academic tion. works in progress. February 9 (Saturday), 5:15pm, Fine Arts Cinema (Shattuck at Haste, Berkeley). The group will view Simone Bitton’s Comparison and Interdisciplinary Studies documentary Ben Barka: The Moroccan Equation (2001), on Contact: Humberto Cruz, [email protected], or the founder of the Moroccan left and leader of Moroccan Armando Manalo, [email protected] independence who “disappeared” in Paris in 1965. The group focuses on ways and means of comparing texts in a February date and location TBA. The group will meet to dis- variety of media across and within disciplines. The group cuss Simone Bitton’s Ben Barka and to review drafts of pre- will continue its topic of Translation for the spring semes- sentations for the upcoming “Francophone[tm]?” confer- ter. ence. Late February, date and location TBA. The group will hold a special session in with Regents Lecturer Nicole Brossard. Graduate Film Working Group Contact: Tamao Nakahara, [email protected], or Minette Hillyer, [email protected];

12 http://cinemaspace.berkeley.edu/gradfilm/ of historical writing. Contact the above for additional in- The Graduate Film Working Group offers its members experi- formation. ences and opportunities in film outside of the academic curriculum such as technical workshops, reading groups, History and Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics film screenings, and conference organization. This year, Contact: Johannes Hafner, (510) 558-0545, the group is organizing the conference and film series, [email protected], or Chris Pincock, “Born to Be Bad: Trash Cinema from the 1960s and 70s,” [email protected]; or http:// May 17 -19, 2002. Please visit the conference website www.math.berkeley.edu/~jhafner/hplm/ (http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~tamao/Trash.htm) or con- The group provides a forum for the discussion of issues in the tact the group for more information. history and philosophy of science, mathematics, and in Tuesdays, 6:10pm, 188 Dwinelle. The group holds screenings particular of modern symbolic logic. Main areas of interest of films related to the conference. Please contact the group are logic and its role in the foundations of mathematics, re- to be added to the email list and receive screening infor- search in philosophy of logic and philosophy of math- mation. ematics, and the history and philosophy of physics. February 11 (Monday), 11:00am, 7415 Dwinelle. The group will hold its monthly meeting to discuss readings and confer- History and Social Studies of Medicine and the Body ence matters. Date subject to change. Please contact the Contact: Lara Freidenfelds, (510) 649-0591, group for further information or updates. [email protected] History and Social Studies of Medicine and the Body meets Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley once a month for a potluck dinner and discussion of a pre- Contacts: Sharon Goetz, [email protected] or Mary circulated work-in-progress, presented by a member of the Brown, [email protected] group. This is an opportunity for graduate students and The group provides a forum for graduate medievalists from faculty to get feedback on dissertation chapters, confer- various disciplines to exchange and develop linguistic and ence papers, articles, etc. from colleagues in a wide range documentary resources and to discuss the interdiscipli- of disciplines. Please contact Lara Freidenfelds for more nary nature of Medieval Studies. The group sponsors two information about meeting location and paper distribu- reading groups which meet monthly; in past years, these tion, and to be included on the Med Heads email list. groups have worked in areas such as paleography, medieval Latin, and the intersection of historical and literary Humanistic Perspectives On Processes And Patterns Of Dis- approaches to medieval texts. covery In The Sciences And Technology February 4 (Monday), 6:00pm, 330 Wheeler. The group will Contact: Ernest B. Hook, (510) 642-4490, hold a colloquium with Katharine Breen (Department of [email protected] English). This working group will consider both historical and contemporary issues bearing on such matters as preconceptions Grammar and Verbal Art and assumptions associated with the notion of “discov- Contacts: Robert Kawashima, [email protected], ery,” facilitating or inhibiting factors, “case histories” as and Benjamin Widiss, [email protected] exemplars of specific issues, etc. It will include seminars in Grammar and Verbal Art consists of monthly meetings involv- the “Patterns of Discovery in the Sciences” series, but also ing an interdisciplinary group of graduate students and hold separate meetings devoted to informal presentations, faculty, with a common interest in the light that grammati- and literature reviews. cal and linguistic analyses can shed on literary form. Meet- ings are organized around discussions of published work Indo-European Language and Culture Working Group and presentations by guest speakers from Berkeley and Contact: Deborah Anderson, (408) 255-4842, beyond. [email protected]; February 7 (Thursday), 4:00pm, 4104 Dwinelle. The group will http://www.indo-european.org/page4.html discuss Roman Jakobson’s “Closing Statement: Linguistics The group offers a forum for the interdisciplinary study of an- and Poetics” and Derek Attridge’s “Closing Statement: cient Indo-European languages, drawing on linguistics, ar- Linguistics and Poetics in Retrospect.” Advance readings chaeology, and mythology. The group will host talks by a will be available for both meetings. Details will be an- variety of speakers throughout the year. nounced by email to the group’s list, and available to those not on the list by contacting the group. Interdisciplinary Marxism Contact: Hoang Phan, (510) 845-6984, Historical Social Science [email protected], or Ruth Jennison, Contact: Jonathan Van Antwerpen, [email protected], [email protected]; or Dan Geary, (510) 841-3323, [email protected] [email protected] Interdisciplinary Marxism is a reading group that meets twice The Historical Social Science working group has a dual interest a month to discuss writings in the Marxist tradition, rang- in the history of social science and the relationship being from aesthetics to politics. The group readings for this tween contemporary social theory and different varieties semester will focus around the recent “anti-capitalist” social movements, exploring their ideological bases, histori-

13 cal significance, and position within the broader terrain February 26 (Tuesday), time and location TBA. Joerg Ruepke of the post- 9/11 American Left. The group will explore (Dept. of Religious Studies, University of Erfurt) will Marxist and post-Marxist approaches to the questions of speak on “Pluralism and Polytheism: On Religious Con- globalization and the nation-state. currence In Late Antiquity.”

Interdisciplinary Working Group in the History of Latin American Colonial Studies Political Thought Contact: Anna More, (510) 597-1674, Contacts: Caroline Humfress, [email protected] [email protected], or Shannon Stimson, The Latin American Colonial Studies Working Group is an [email protected] interdiscplinary group focused on the colonial and pre-co- The group provides a regular forum where graduates, un- lonial period of Latin America. The group sponsors pre- dergraduates and faculty who are interested in fostering sentations of work in progress. Graduate students and fac- an interdisciplinary approach to the History of Political ulty from all disciplines are encouraged to attend. Thought, can meet and exchange ideas. The group has a number of ‘research workshops’ planned for the year Law and the Humanities 2001-2002, led by outside speakers James Moore (Uni- Contact: Sara Rushing, (510) 681-6105, versity of Concordia), Magnus Ryan (Warburg Institute, [email protected] or Ayelet Ben-Yishai, London) and James Tully (University of Victoria); as [email protected] well as UC Berkeley faculty Mark Bevir (Political Sci- The Law and Humanities working group has brought together ence), Caroline Humfress (Rhetoric) and David students from departments such as comparative literature, Liebermann (JSP). Please e-mail the group contacts for philosophy, history, political science, geography, jurispru- detailed program information. dence and social policy, and rhetoric over the past four February 1 (Friday), 4:00-6:00pm, JSP Seminar Room, 2240 years to examine law in its many forms--as a social dis- Piedmont Ave. Magnus Ryan (Warburg Institute, Lon- course, a formal institution, a popular cultural mythology, don and All Soul’s, Oxford) will present the paper, “Po- or a set of “rules on the books.” The group meets about litical Ideas and the Impact of Legal Humanism.” once a month to discuss scholarly books and articles as well as the works-in-progress of group members. Interdisciplinary Working Group on Performance Contact: Patrick Anderson, (510) 451-4124, Music, Literature and Critical Theory [email protected] or Renu Cappelli, (510) 839- Contact: Mary Ann Smart, (510) 420-0377, 0855, [email protected] [email protected], Katherine Bergeron, The Interdisciplinary Working Group on Performance is de- [email protected], or Heather Wiebe, signed to provide a space for scholars and artists to [email protected] present or perform their work and to discuss current The group brings together graduate students and faculty inter- trends in Performance Studies and related fields. Occa- ested in reading and making connections between pas- sional meetings will focus on particular readings from sages of music and literature. newly published works on performance. February 7 (Thursday), 7:00pm, 101 Morrison. The group will discuss Bjork’s Vespertine and Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Italian Research and Study Group (IRAS) Dark. Copies of the CD and the video will be on reserve in Contact: Renate Holub, (510) 642-0110, the Music Library, under the heading Music 99. [email protected] IRAS (Italian Research and Study Group) is a study group Nineteenth-Century and Beyond British Cultural Studies that focuses on a variety of social, cultural, political, eco- Working Group nomic, and geopolitical issues pertaining to Italy. The group views Italy as part of a world system which his- Contact: Rachel Teukolsky, [email protected] torically ties as much to Europe as to the world at large The group provides a forum for faculty and graduate students (North / South, African and Maghrebi writers, colonial- to discuss works-in-progress on the literature and culture ism /post-colonialism). of nineteenth-century Britain and its colonies. Pre-circu- February 4 (Monday), 6:00pm, 344 Campbell. The group will lated papers investigate issues of aesthetics, politics, his- meet to discuss the funding of the Mediterranean tory, theory, and other current sites of academic focus, Project on Human Rights underway with the University with occasional forays into the late-eighteenth and early- of Rome (Sergio Benvenuto), Queens College NY (Peter twentieth centuries. Carravetta), The University of Nijmwegen (Olivier February 6 (Tuesday), 5:00pm, 330 Wheeler. Kevin Gilmartin Kramsch) and University of Amsterdam (Jan Berting). (English, CalTech), author of Print Politics: The Press and Radical Opposition in Early Nineteenth-Century England Late Antique Religion and Society (1996), will speak on “In the Theater of the Counter-Revo- Contact: Elisabeth O’Connell, [email protected] lution: Loyalist Association and Reactionary Public Opin- The group provides an interdisciplinary forum for the com- ion in the 1790s.” Please email Rachel Teukolsky for a copy parative study of religious texts in Late Antiquity. of the pre-circulated paper.

14 and will be holding regular reading group sessions this se- Oral History Working Group mester. Please contact for more information Contact: Lisa Rubens (510) 642-7395, [email protected], or Reading Group on Japanese Diaspora www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO Contact: Yuma Totani, [email protected], http:// Bay Area blues music heads the list of topics of the Oral His- ieas.berkeley.edu/cjs/aobakai_read_diaspora.html tory Working Group for the 2001-2002 academic year. Co- This group takes an interdisciplinary look at Japanese diaspora sponsored by the Regional Oral History Office [ROHO], communities across Asia and the Americas. The group will the working group will meet the third Wednesday of the meet once a month and discuss questions regarding for- month for presentations and discussions on uses of oral mation of nations, nationality, and ethnic identities in dif- history methods across the disciplines. Participation in ferent Japan-related immigrations in the past and present. the Oral History Working Group is open to anyone who is There will be special regional emphasis on the United interested. States, Brazil, Peru and Japan. The group usually meets on the fourth Friday of every month. Phenomenology Now Reading materials are available for a pick-up at the East Contacts: Joel Nickels, (510) 647-5201, Asian Library in Durant Hall one week prior to each meet- [email protected] or Mark Pedretti, ing. (510) 893-2271, [email protected] Phenomenology Now will meet every other week to discuss Reconstructing Communities in Crisis (New Group for works of phenomenology and their relation to recent de- Spring 2002) velopments in philosophy, cultural studies, aesthetics, and Contact: William A. Hayes, [email protected], and dialectics. This semester’s readings will focus primarily on Robin DeLugan, [email protected] the works of Henri Bergson, his influence in contemporary Reconstructing Communities in Crisis is an inter-disciplinary thought, and his relationship to phenomenology. Meeting working group that targets graduate students in the hu- times TBA, location TBA. Contact organizers for details. manities, social sciences, and professional schools to discuss issues such as war, ethnic cleansing, genocide, inter- Political Theory at a Crossroads communal violence, and human rights abuses. Contact: Robyn Marasco, (510) 666-9012, rmarasco @uclink.berkeley.edu Science Fiction in Literature, Film, and Culture Political Theory at the Crossroads explores readings in contem- Contact: Sylvia Chong, (415) 821-9609, or porary political theory, mapping recent debates and devel- [email protected] opments. Throughout the fall semester, the group will fo- http://www.geocities.com/sfworkinggroup/ cus its attention on the work of Judith Shklar. The group The Science Fiction working group meets once a month to dis- will hold its discussions on Friday afternoons. For more cuss readings from all genres and media of science fiction. information, please contact group. The next meeting will be held in early February and will discuss Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Other Psychoanalytic Theory and Practices meetings in Spring 2002 will discuss works by Ian Banks, Contact: Maria St. John, (510) 843-6876, Nancy Kress, Ted Chiang and Japanese anime. For the ex- [email protected] act time and location of the meeting, please join the group The group provides an arena for the study of the works of psy- mailing list by contacting the group. choanalytic theorists including Freud, Lacan, Klein, and Winnicott, as well as contemporary commentators, with Sonic Cinema discussion of the application of these writings to selected Contact: Tamao Nakahara, [email protected] topics: literature, cinema, folklore, case studies. Sonic Cinema is a working group on sound, music, and silence in cinema. The group works with speakers and Psychobiography representatives of other working groups to lead Contact: Ramsay Breslin, (510) 525-8005, [email protected] discussions on the different approaches to the problem of The Psychobiography Working Group meets monthly to music, performance, and loud and silent bodies on the present and discuss work-in-progress on issues related to screen. In the works for spring are workshops with Mark psychobiography, transference and counter-transference in Berger and Walter Murch. Please contact the group for biography and literary, artistic, and cultural criticism. more information. Members of Sonic Cinema are also currently working with the Graduate Film Working Queer Ethnic Studies Group to put together the Trash Cinema conference in Contact: Mimi Nguyen, [email protected] May, 2002. The Queer Ethnic Studies Working Group is co-sponsoring the February 7 (Thursday), 7:00pm, 101 Morrison. Members are Berkeley conference Practicing Transgression, an event cel- encouraged to attend the Music, Lit, and Theory working ebrating the 20th anniversary of the feminist classic This group meeting on Bjork’s Vespertine and Lars von Trier’s Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Dancer in the Dark. Please contact Tamao for a possible pre- February 7-10, 2002, at the Alumni House. The group discussion to that meeting. meets regularly to edit an anthology on race and sexuality,

15 South Asian Modernities [email protected] Contact: Amita Satyal, [email protected], or This group is devoted to computerization of multilingual Shobna Nijhawan, [email protected] materials, specifically with regard to the promotion of The working group explores the larger concerns and mean- Unicode (the international character encoding standard) ings of modernity in the South Asian context. The group and general text encoding issues. will work especially to relocate tradition in its debate in order to direct attention towards the constantly changing interrelationships of traditions and modernities. The group meets every last Friday of the month, 12:00 noon - Publication Activities • • • 2:00pm, 341 Dwinelle. February 22 (Friday), 12:00 noon - 2:00pm, 341 Dwinelle. The group will hold its February meeting. Bad Subjects Contact: John Brady, [email protected], and South Asian Studies Group (SASHANC) Robert Soza [email protected]; http:// Contact: Raba Gunasekara, Center for South Asia Studies, eserver.org/bs (510) 642-3608, [email protected]; or http:// Bad Subjects:Political Education for Everyday Life is excited to www.ias.berkeley.edu/southasia/ enter its tenth year of publishing. Run by a collective of The group provides a forum for students and faculty inter- graduate students, political activitists, and educators, ested in or working on South Asia to discuss the various Bad Subjects features essays, reviews, and editorials ex- ways in which modernity has been discussed and for- amining the politics of popular culture and everyday mulated in the South Asian context. Themes include, life from a left perspective. Currently the group is seek- but are not limited to, the connection between moder- ing interested members of the Cal-Berkeley community nity and historical change, literary productions, filmic to join the production team. Please contact John Brady if representations, and diasporic movements. The group is interested in participating in the publication. The open to students of any discipline and meets monthly. group’s next two issues will be Immigration and Diaspora Please contact the coordinators for upcoming meeting and The Aesthetics of Violence. Please see the group Web times and events. site for the full descriptions of each issue and submission guidelines. Spatial Theories/Spatial Practices Contacts: Hsuan Hsu, [email protected] or Mark BRIDGES: Berkeley Research Journal on South and South- Feldman, [email protected] east Asia (New Group) Spatial Theories/Spatial Practices is an interdisciplinary Contact: Sujata Mody, [email protected] group that meets regularly to discuss readings about ge- BRIDGES is a graduate-student-run and faculty-refereed an- ography and the humanities, and hold symposia where nual journal. The journal fosters dialogue between the scholars working on spatial issues can share their work. fields of South and Southeast Asia and is interdiscipli- Please contact the group for more information. nary in scope, drawing content from diverse theoretical February 7 (Thursday), 5:00pm, Milano Café (Bancroft at and disciplinary perspectives in the social sciences, hu- Telegraph). The group will hold a meeting. manities, and the arts. Volume 1, coming Spring 2002. February 21 (Thursday), 5:00pm, Milano Café (Bancroft at Call for papers: BRIDGES is currently soliciting manuscripts Telegraph). The group will hold a meeting. and book reviews for Volume 2 (2003). Send all submissions to BRIDGES, 6701 San Pablo Ave., Suite 210, Oak- Twenty-First-Century Poetics (C21P) land, CA 94608 by March 31, 2002. For submissions Contact: Jennifer Scappettone, [email protected] guidelines, please visit our Web site: http:// This group converges on contemporary poetics and aims to brjss.berkeley.edu provide a permeable membrane between the UCB and local writing communities. The group will be sponsor- Chronicle of the University of California ing a series of paired readings and colloquia during the Contact: Carroll Brentano, (510) 643-9210, spring semester; confirmed guests include Jeff Clark, [email protected] Norma Cole, Sianne Ngai, Michael Palmer, Lytle Shaw, The Chronicle of the University of California is a semi-annual and Juliana Spahr. Please email the group to be placed scholarly journal dedicated to the history of the Univer- on the mailing list. sity. The editorial board welcomes inquiries about con- February 15 (Friday), 8:00pm, Berkeley Center for Writers. tributions by faculty, graduate students, staff, and Writers Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino will discuss alumni. Please see the journal Web site for samples of the horizon of contemporary poetics and poetic practice. their contents: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/uchistory/ Please contact the group for further details. chronicle/.

Unicode and Text Encoding Working Group Contact: Richard Cook, (510) 643-9910, [email protected], or Deborah Anderson,

16 Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Critical Sense Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720-2340. Contact: Kate Drabinski, (510) 843-0472, [email protected], or Jimmy Casas repercussions: Critical and Alternative Viewpoints on Music Klausen, (510) 465-3415, [email protected] and Scholarship Critical Sense: A Journal of Political and Cultural Theory is an in- Contact: Holly Watkins, [email protected] terdisciplinary journal published by Berkeley humani- The journal publishes articles on musical hermeneutics, aes- ties and social science graduate students for a wide aca- thetics, and criticism, representing a wide variety of per- demic audience. This academic year Critical Sense will spectives and methods. Graduate students in all depart- inaugurate the publication of Volume X with a renewed ments are welcome to work on the journal. This year, format and features. Organized around “Work, Labor, the editors are especially encouraging submissions on Leisure, Class,” our spring issue will include papers on performance. Address correspondence and submissions two Gertrude Stein works, Theodore Dreiser’s Sister to: repercussions, Dept. of Music; 107 Morrison Hall Carrie, working at the Gap, and Hanif Kureishi’s My #1200; University of California; Berkeley, CA 94720- Beautiful Laundrette, as well as short essays on “intellec- 1200. tual labor” and book reviews. “Work, Labor, Leisure, Class” will be available in March. Satellite Contact: J.J. Panzer, (510) 644-8290, Cultural Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore [email protected] and Popular Culture Satellite is primarily a student magazine that publishes six is- Contact: Maria Teresa Agozzino (510) 643-7934, sues per academic year of poetry, journalism, inter- [email protected] views, fiction, and essays. The group’s goal is to create a Cultural Analysis is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed jour- community of ideas within the Berkeley community, nal dedicated to investigating expressive and everyday one that strives to include as many different groups as culture. It features analytical research articles, responses possible. Please see the group’s Web site at and reviews, and Cultural Analysis hopes to foster cross- www.readsatellite.com for more information or email disciplinary fertilization by publishing responses from [email protected]. different disciplines to research articles. The journal is based at Berkeley, but is global in scope and includes an illustrious international editorial board.

JAGNES (Journal of the Association of Graduates in Near Eastern Studies) Contact: Catherine Demos, [email protected], or Sabrina Maras, [email protected]; or http:// ishi.lib.berkeley.edu/~hsp/JAGNES JAGNES is a biannual publication of graduate student articles and book reviews relating to the ancient and modern Near and Middle East.

Lucero Contact: Andrea Jeftanovic, [email protected]; or Marcelo Pellegrini, [email protected]; or http:/ /socrates.berkeley.edu/uclucero LUCERO is the literary journal published by the graduate students of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Please visit the group’s Web site for journal issues.

Qui Parle Contact: Benjamin Lazier, (510) 548-4970, [email protected], or Jennifer Greiman, [email protected]; or http:// socrates.berkeley.edu/~quiparle/ Qui Parle publishes bi-annually articles in literature, philosophy, visual arts, and history by an international array of faculty and graduate students. The editors are currently seeking submissions from Berkeley graduate students in the humanities. Direct all correspondence to Qui Parle, The Doreen B.

17 CALENDAR Lectures and Conferences monday, january 28 wednesday, february 6 The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Townsend Center for the Humanities • Debra Solomon • “Artist-Astronaut: What the Future Told Us” Panel Discussion "Reproduction Redux: The Nature of 7:30 pm • 160 Kroeber Hall Photography in the Digital Age" 4:00 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall Center for Middle East Studies Film Screening • Frontiers of Dreams and Fears (Palestine, 2000, The Graduate Council Howison Lectures in Philosophy • 57 min.) Stanley Cavell “The Wittgensteinian Event” • 7:30 pm • 117 Dwinelle Hall 4:10 pm Great Hall, Faculty Club (Roundtable discussion with filmmaker immediately follows screening) Department of Women’s Studies Tina Campt • “Transnational Travels in Black: Afro-Germans and the Crowded Space of Diaspora” • tuesday, january 29 5:00 pm 370 Dwinelle Hall Department of French Sather Classical Lectures • Debarati Sanyal • “Bodies on Display: Poetry, Violence and the Gregory Nagy “Homer the Classic in the Age of Virgil” • Feminine in Baudelaire and Mallarmé” 8:10 pm 2050 Valley LSB 4:00 pm • Morrison Room, Doe Library thursday, february 7 wednesday, january 30 Lunch Poems Reading Series • Department of Art Practice Robert Pinsky Reads from current work • Martin Nguyen • “The Mountain Waits, The Artist Speaks” 12:10 pm Morrison Room, Doe Library 12:00 noon • 238 Kroeber Hall Berkeley Art Museum

1983 Jack von Euw • Curatorial Gallery Talk

“Ansel Adams in the University winka, thursday, january 31 of California Collections” • School of Law Lectures in Law, Philosophy, and Political 12:15 pm Theater Gallery Theory Angela Harris • title TBA Department of Ethnic Studies • 1:00 pm • JSP Seminar Rm., 2240 Piedmont Conference Practicing Transgression 1:00 pm • Alumni House Ansel, Imogen, and T Department of Women’s Studies Paola Bacchetta • “Hindu Nationalist Women Imagine Lectures in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory, Law School • Spatialities/Imagine Themselves” Thomas Nagel title TBA • 4:00 pm • 3335 Dwinelle Hall 1:00 pm JSP Seminar Rm., 2240 Piedmont

Department of Italian Studies Center for South Asia Studies • Michael R. Ebner • “Confino di polizia: Exile and Deviance in Mark Nichter “Toward a Critical Assessment of Health Care Fascist Italy, 1926-1943” Transition in India” • 5:00 pm • 160 Dwinelle 4:00 pm Gifford Room, Kroeber Hall

Center for Middle East Studies Gail Holst-Warhaft • “The Female Dervish and Other Shady La- tuesday, february 5 dies of the Rebetika” • The Graduate Council Howison Lectures in Philosophy 5:00 pm The Sultan Room, 340 Stephens Hall Stanley Cavell • “Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow: Moments in Nietzsche, Jane Austen, et cetera” 4:10 pm • Great Hall, Faculty Club

18 friday, february 8 tuesday, february 12 The Center for Southeast Asia Studies Berkeley Language Center 19th Annual Conference on Southeast Asia Studies Norman Fairclough • “Critical Discourse Analysis in Social 8:00 am • Room 150, University Hall Research” 3:00 pm • 370 Dwinelle Hall Department of Ethnic Studies Conference • Practicing Transgression The Graduate Council Hitchcock Lectures 9:30 am • Alumni House Michael Marmot • “Life and Death on the Social Gradient” 4:10 pm • International House Auditorium Center for Studies in Higher Education Susan Meisenhelder & George Diehr • “A Look at Faculty Berkeley Art Museum Hiring Patterns at CSU Over the Past Decade: Implications for Film Screening • The Spectre of Hope (Sebastião Salgado) Academic Quality, Governance, and the Future of the CSU 7:00 pm • Wheeler Auditorium System” 12:00 noon • CSHE Library, South Hall Annex wednesday, february 13 Townsend Center for the Humanities saturday, february 9 Avenali Lecture Follow-up Discussion The Center for Southeast Asia Studies 4:00 pm • Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall 19th Annual Conference on Southeast Asia Studies 8:00 am • Room 150, University Hall Department of Women’s Studies Karen Kampwirth • “Also a Women’s Rebellion: The Gendered Consortium for the Arts/Arts Research Center Origins of the Zapatista Army” Symposium • Artists/Intellectuals/Institutions 4:00 pm • 370 Dwinelle Hall 9:30 am • Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall The Graduate Council Hitchcock Lectures Department of Ethnic Studies Michael Marmot • “Health Matters: There is Such a Thing Conference • Practicing Transgression as Society” 9:30 am • Alumni House 4:10 pm • International House Auditorium

Kadish Center of Morality, Law, and Public Affairs, School of Law sunday, february 10 Martha Nussbaum • “Inscribing the Face: Shame, Stigma and Department of Ethnic Studies Punishment” Conference • Practicing Transgression 4:15 pm • Room 140, Boalt Hall 10:30 am • Alumni House Sather Classical Lectures Gregory Nagy • “Homer the Classic in the Age of Callimachus” monday, february 11 8:10 pm • 2040 Valley LSB Department of Anthropology Norman Fairclough • title TBA 4:00 pm • 160 Kroeber Hall thursday, february 14 Center for Studies in Higher Education Townsend Center for the Humanities Avenali Lecture John Douglass • “Past and Future Strategic Issues for the Sebastião Salgado • “Migrations: Humanity in Transition” University of California: A Statistical Profile and Discussion” 7:30 pm • Wheeler Auditorium 12:00 noon • CSHE Library, South Hall Annex

Berkeley Art Museum Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Curatorial Gallery Talk “MATRIX 196 / Sowon Kwon average female (Perfect)” 12:15 pm • Gallery 1

19 CALENDAR Lectures and Conferences thursday, february 14, cont. sunday, february 17, cont. Lectures in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory, Law School Berkeley Art Museum Seana Shiffrin • title TBA Presentation and Tea • “The Chinese Family Altar at New 1:00 pm • JSP Seminar Rm., 2240 Piedmont Year’s” 3:00 pm • Asian Galleries Center for Latin American Studies Charles Bergquist • “The Left and the Paradoxes of Modern Colombian History” 4:00 pm • CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street tuesday, february 19 Center for African Studies Spring Lecture Series Berkeley Architecture Lecture Series Nomfundo Walaza • “Reconciling with Partial Truths: Stephen Cassell, Architecture Research Office, New York An Assessment of the Dilemmas Posed by the Reconciliation 7:00 pm • 2050 Valley LSB Process in South Africa” 4:00 pm • 145 McCone Hall Center for Middle Eastern Studies Film Screening • The Perfumed Garden (Algeria/France, 2000, 60 min) 7:30 pm • Pacific Film Archive Theater, 2575 Bancroft wednesday, february 20 Beatrice M. Bain Research Group Anna Babka • “ ‘gender/genre in trouble’: thinking gender ‘after’ the ‘law of genre’ “ friday, february 15 4:00 pm • 370 Dwinelle Hall Center for South Asia Studies and International Area Studies 17th Annual South Asia Conference Department of Italian 8:00 am • International House, UC Berkeley Laura Wittman • “Metamorphosis as Mystical Encounter in Gabriele d’Annunzio’s Later Writings” Center for Middle East Studies 5:00 pm • 122 Wheeler Roundtable discussion with filmmaker Yamina Benguigui 1:00 pm • The Sultan Room, 340 Stephens Hall Dept. of Geography California Studies Dinner William Friedland • “The Political Economy of the California Center for South Asia Studies and International Area Studies Grape” “Religion, Ethnicity and the Strategic Balance in South Asia: 6:30 pm • O’Neill Room, Men's Faculty Club Scholars and Journalists Discuss Kashmir and Afghanistan” 6:00 pm • International House Auditorium Sather Classical Lectures Gregory Nagy • “Homer the Classic in the Age of Plato and Aristotle” saturday, february 16 8:10 pm • 2040 Valley LSB Center for South Asia Studies and International Area Studies Center for Studies in Higher Education 17th Annual South Asia Conference Forum • The Learning College: Getting from Here to There 9:00 am • International House, UC Berkeley 5:30 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall sunday, february 17 thursday, february 21 Berkeley Art Museum Center for Studies in Higher Education Guided Tour • “The Lady at the Window: Figure Painting in Leif Alsheimer • title TBA the Qing Dynasty” 12:00 noon • CSHE Library, South Hall Annex 2:00 pm • Gallery D Lunch Poems Reading Series Poetry of the Near East 12:10 pm • Morrison Room, Doe Library

20 thursday, february 21, cont. tuesday, february 26 School of Law Lectures in Law, Philosophy, and Political Center for Studies in Higher Education Theory Clark Brundin • “Reform and UK Higher Education: Can It Carol Clover • title TBA Survive?” 1:00 pm • JSP Seminar Rm., 2240 Piedmont 12:00 noon • CSHE Library, South Hall Annex

Berkeley Architecture Lecture Series Center for African Studies Spring Lecture Series Wiel Arets, Wiel Arets Architecture, Rotterdam, Netherlands Dorothy Hodgson • “Precarious Alliances: The Cultural 7:00 pm • 2050 Valley LSB Politics and Structural Predicaments of the Indigenous Rights Movement in Tanzania” 4:00 pm • 145 McCone Hall friday, february 22 Berkeley Language Center Oral Proficiency Workshop Colloquium wednesday, february 27 1:00 pm • 370 Dwinelle Hall The Pell Lectures in Holocaust Studies Benjamin Harshav • “Transformations of the Jews: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Trends” saturday, february 23 12:00 noon • 123 Wheeler Hall Berkeley Language Center Department of Cosmparative Literature Regents’ Lecture Oral Proficiency Workshop Colloquium Nicole Brossard • “She Would Be the First Sentence of My Next 8:30 am • 370 Dwinelle Hall Novel” 7:00 pm • Alumni House

Sather Classical Lectures monday, february 25 Gregory Nagy • “Homer the Classic in the Age of Pheidias” The Pell Lectures in Holocaust Studies 8:10 pm • 2040 Valley LSB Benjamin Harshav • “The Jewish Empire in Eastern Europe” 12:00 noon • 123 Wheeler Hall

Department of Spanish & Portuguese thursday, february 28 Nicole Brossard • Reading from current work School of Law Lectures in Law, Philosophy, and Political 12:00 noon • Spanish Dept. Library, 5125 Dwinelle Hall Theory Thomas Scanlon, Jr. • title TBA Townsend Center for the Humanities 1:00 pm • Jurisprudence & Social Policy Seminar Rm, 2240 Grounding the Humanities Lecture Series Piedmont Tim Bonyhady • "The Colonial Earth: Art, Law, and the Long History of Australian Environmentalism" Center for the Study of Sexual Culture 4:00 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall “A Further Conversation with Nicole Brossard” 4:00 pm • 3335 Dwinelle Hall Department of Anthropology Bruce Trigger • “Confrontation, Polemic, and Synthesis: The Department of Italian Studies Role of Comparative Studies in Anthropological Theory Daniela Bini • “Portraying Women of the Italian South” Building” 5:00 pm • 160 Dwinelle 4:00 pm • 160 Kroeber Hall Berkeley Architecture Lecture Series The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Mitchell Schwarzer, California College of Arts & Crafts Leonard Shlain • “Parallel Images in Art and Physics” 7:00 pm • 2050 Valley LSB 7:30 pm • 160 Kroeber Hall Center for Middle East Studies Film Screening • The Season of Men (Tunisia, 2000, 124 min) 7:30 pm • Pacific Film Archive Theater, 2575 Bancroft

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Avenali Lecture 2002 Reproduction Redux: The Nature of Photography in the Digital Age Sebastião Salgado Photographer

Migrations: Humanity in Transition

Lecture followed by a conversation with Orville Schell, School of Journalism Monday, February 11 7:30 pm • Wheeler Auditorium

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Follow-up Panel Discussion Wednesday, February 13 A panel discussion in connection with the exhibition Everyday • 4:00 pm Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall Constellations: Photographs, Photograms and Sunprints by Susannah Hays Tim Clark, History of Art Sebastião Salgado, Photographer Panelists: Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anthropology Fritjof Capra, Center for Ecoliteracy, Berkeley Michael Watts, Geography / Institute of International Studies Sharon Corwin, History of Art, UC Berkeley Chair: Candace Slater, Director, Townsend Center Robin Grossinger, San Francisco Estuary Institute Susannah Hays, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley Jeannene Przyblyski, San Francisco Bureau of Urban Secrets Richard Walker, Geography, UC Berkeley

February 6 4:00 pm • Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall

Co-sponsored by the Consortium for the Arts

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Sebastião Salgado, Church Gate Station, Bombay, India, 1995

Grounding the Humanities

The Colonial Earth: Art, Law, and the Long History of Australian Environmentalism

Tim Bonyhady Art historian, lawyer, journalist

February 25 4:00 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall

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Howison Lectures in Philosophy 2nd Annual Kadish Lecture The Graduate Council Kadish Center of Morality, Law, and Public Affairs, School of Law Stanley Cavell Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Martha Nussbaum Theory of Value Emeritus, Harvard University Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago Law School Points of Departure Inscribing the Face: Shame, Stigma and Punishment

Tuesday, February 5 Wednesday, February 13 “Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow: Moments in Nietzsche, 4:15 pm • Room 140, Boalt Hall School of Law Jane Austen, et cetera” 4:10 pm • Great Hall, Faculty Club For further information contact Amatullah Alaji-Sabrie at (510) 642-3627; [email protected]. Wednesday, February 6 “The Wittgensteinian Event” 4:10 pm • Great Hall, Faculty Club ❑❑❑

For further information contact Ellen Gobler, Lectures Coordinator, (510) 643-7413; Sather Classical Lectures http://www.grad.berkeley.edu/lectures/. Department of Classics Wednesdays, 8:10 pm

Gregory Nagy ❑❑❑ Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

Homer the Classic

Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures February 6 The Graduate Council “Homer the Classic in the Age of Virgil” 2050 Valley LSB Michael Marmot Head, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, February 13 Director, International Centre for Health and Society “Homer the Classic in the Age of Callimachus” University College London 2040 Valley LSB

Inequalities in Health February 20 “Homer the Classic in the Age of Plato and Aristotle” 2040 Valley LSB Tuesday, February 12 “Life and Death on the Social Gradient” February 27 • 4:10 pm International House Auditorium “Homer the Classic in the Age of Pheidias” 2040 Valley LSB Wednesday, February 13 “Health Matters: There is Such a Thing as Society” March 6 • 4:10 pm International House Auditorium “Homer in the So-called Dark Ages” 2040 Valley LSB For further information contact Ellen Gobler (510) 643-7413; http://www.grad.berkeley.edu/lectures/. March 13 “Homer the ‘Classic’ in the Bronze Age” 2040 Valley LSB

For further information contact Toby St. John at [email protected]; http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/ahma/news.htm.

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Regents’ Lecture Lunch Poems Reading Series Department of Comparative Literature Thursdays • 12:10 pm • Morrison Room, Doe Library

Nicole Brossard February 7 Writer Robert Pinsky

She Would be the First Sentence of My Next Novel February 21 Poetry of the Near East Wednesday, February 27 7:00 pm • Alumni House March 7 Marilyn Hacker For further information please contact Robby Peckerar at [email protected]. April 4 From "Poetry of the Near East" Chana Bloch

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The Pell Lectures in Holocaust Studies For more information or to be added to our off-campus mailing list, please call (510) 642-0137. The Pell Endowment for Holocaust Studies and the Jewish Studies Committee All lectures at 12:00 noon, 123 Wheeler Hall ❑❑❑ Benjamin Harshav Blaustein Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, Yale University The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium • • The Modern Jewish Renaissance: Language, Literature, and History Mondays 7:30 pm 160 Kroeber Hall

Monday, February 25 January 28 “The Jewish Empire in Eastern Europe” Debra Solomon, Art Race In Space Ltd., Amsterdam “Artist-Astronaut: What the Future Told Us” Wednesday, February 27 “Transformations of the Jews: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Trends” February 25 Leonard Shlain, San Francisco Monday, March 4 “Parallel Images in Art and Physics” “Marc Chagall and the Lost Jewish World” March 18 Wednesday, March 6 Sara Diamond, Banff New Media Institute “Marc Chagall: The Mulitcultural Modernist” “Learning from the Animals: Improvising Software”

Monday, March 11 April 1 “The Jewishness of the ‘Non-Jewish Jew’ (Kafka, Freud, etc.)” Steve Wilson, SFSU “Liberating the Lab: Art in a Techno-Scientific Era” Wednesday, March 13 “Three Puzzles of the Holocaust” April 29 Michael Naimark, San Francisco Monday, March 18 “ (Re)Presenting Place” “The Reinvention of a Hebrew Nation” Sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Office of the Chancellor, College Wednesday, March 20 of Engineering Dean’s Office, College of Engineering Interdis- “The Stubborn Individuality of Israeli Literature (Amichai)” ciplinary Studies Program, Pacific Film Archive, Townsend Center for the Humanities, and the Art Practice Department.

For further information please call the Department of For updated information, please see: Comparative Literature at (510) 642-1212. http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/lecs/.

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Center for African Studies Spring Lecture Lectures in Law, Philosophy, and Political Series Theory Tuesdays • 4:00 pm • 145 McCone Hall The Kadish Center, Boalt Hall School of Law Thursdays • 1:00 pm • JSP Seminar Rm., 2240 Piedmont February 19 Nomfundo Walaza, Trauma Centre for Survivors of Violence January 31, Angela Harris; February 7, Thomas Nagel; Febru- and Torture in Capetown, South Africa ary 14, Seana Shiffrin; February 21, Carol Clover; February 28, “Reconciling with Partial Truths: An Assessment of the Thomas Scanlon, Jr.; March 7, Owen Fiss; March 14, Lawrence Dilemmas Posed by the Reconciliation Process in South Africa” Lessig; April 4, R. Jay Wallace; April 11, Susan Okin; April 18, Michael Sandel; April 25, Don Herzog; May 2, Thomas Grey. February 26 Dorothy Hodgson, Rutgers University Lecture titles and papers will be available soon. For informa- “Precarious Alliances: The Cultural Politics and Structural tion contact Constance Curtin, 332 Boalt Hall, 642-1769; Predicaments of the Indigenous Rights Movement in Tanza- [email protected]. nia” ❑❑❑ March 5 Mia Fuller, UC Berkeley “Italian Colonial City Planning in North and East Africa: Berkeley Architecture Spring Lecture Series Typologies and Comparisons” 7:00 pm • 2050 Valley LSB (unless otherwise noted)

March 12 Thursday, February 14 Caroline Lamwaka, Journalist, Kampala, Uganda Stephen Cassell, Architecture Research Office, New York Lecture title TBA Thursday, February 21 March 19 Wiel Arets, Wiel Arets Architecture, Rotterdam, Netherlands Speaker and topic TBA Thursday, February 28 April 2 Mitchell Schwarzer, Associate Professor of Architecture, CCAC James Ferguson, UC Irvine San Francisco “Decomposing Modernity: History and Hierarchy After Development” Wednesday, March 6 Gregg Pasquarelli, ShoP/Sharples Holden Pasquarelli, New April 9 York Ali A. Mazrui, Binghamton University “Islam Between Economics, Globalization, and Political Thursday, March 7 Marginalization: The Consequences” The John K. Branner Fellowship Recipients, 2000-2001 Pacific Film Archive Theater April 16 David Eaton, UC Berkeley Thursday, March 21 “Rethinking the Politics of Youth in Equatorial Africa” William Leddy, Marsha Maytum and Richard Stacy, of Leddy, Maytum, Stacy, San Francisco April 30 Waldo Martin and Joshua Bloom, UC Berkeley Thursday, April 4 “Revolutionary Nationalism in Global Context” Raul Cardenas Osuna of Torolab, Tijuana, Mexico

Thursday, April 18 For further information please consult our web site at Adriaan Geuze, West 8 Urban Design and Landscape Architec- http://www.ias.berkeley.edu/africa/; email us at ture, Rotterdam [email protected]; or call our Events-Voice Mail Box at Pacific Film Archive Theater (510) 642-8338 (press “2” then “#”). Wednesday, April 24 Alberto Kalach, Mexico City

Thursday, April 25 Tadashi Kawamata, Tokyo, Japan

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Department of Ethnic Studies Center for South Asia Studies

Practicing Transgression: Celebrating the 20th 17th Annual South Asia Conference Anniversary of This Bridge Called My Back February 15-16 International House, UC Berkeley Februay 7-10, Alumni House This conference brings together leading scholars who work on The conference will include over 40 scholars, artists, writers, historical and contemporary aspects of South Asia in a wide and performance artists. Panels and round table discussions variety of fields. will address the following themes: Third Wave Feminism; Living the Body; War, Gender and Globalization; Colonizing and Decolonizing Practices in Academia; Telling to Live; State Special public event: and Corporate Terror; Women of Color as a Political Force; Healing and Spirituality; Women of Color and Publishing as a “Religion, Ethnicity and the Strategic Balance in South Asia: Political Force; Women of Color Activist Institute. Scholars and Journalists Discuss Kashmir and Afghanistan” Keynote speakers: Barbara Smith, Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Friday, February 15 Anzaldua, Angela Davis, and Jessica Haggedorn. 6:00 pm International House Auditorium For further information contact Martha Duffield at Conference is open to registered participants only. Go to http:/ [email protected] or Norma Alarcón at /ias.berkeley.edu/southasia for registration information. [email protected].

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Consortium for the Arts/Arts Research Center Center for Studies in Higher Education Forum Artists/Intellectuals/Institutions Saturday, February 9 The Learning College: Getting from Here to 9:30 am • Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall There How are the arts, artists, and arts scholarship valued, rational- Wednesday, February 20 ized, legitimated or marginalized within institutional struc- 5:30 pm • Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens tures? This symposium will consider the often-vexed relations Hall between artists, artisans, and critical scholars within academic institutions, and the forces that create these tensions. It will Community College Cooperative/UC Forum Speakers: also examine the challenges faced by intellectuals who focus on the arts as they try to integrate “extra-aesthetic” values into Terry O’Banion, Director of the Learning College Project their research, and how practitioners interpret and mis- Norton Grubb, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley interpret theory, using deconstruction in architecture as a case- study. For information about the CCC/UC Forum, see http://ishi.lib.berkeley.edu/cshe/events/ccuc_forum/. Participants include: For information about the symposium contact Charles Altieri, English & the Consortium for the Arts [email protected] or (510) 642-5040; Sally Banes, Dance History, University of Wisconsin, Madison http://ishi.lib.berkeley.edu/cshe. Anthony Cascardi, Comp Lit/Spanish & Portugese/Rhetoric Anne Cheng, English Whitney Davis, History of Art Harry Elam, Drama, Stanford University Harrison Fraker, College of Environmental Design Ivan Gaskell, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Shannon Jackson, Theater, Dance & Performance Studies/ Rhetoric

For further information call (510) 642-4268; http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/bca/currentevents.html

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Berkeley Language Center / International and Area Studies Local Knowledges and Global Forces, cont. 1:00-3:20 pm Panel II Activists and Global Politics Annette Clear, UC Santa Cruz “The Dynamics of Globalization in Indonesia: Focus on a Transnational Advocacy Network”

Oral Proficiency Workshop Colloquium Ann Hawkins, UC Berkeley, “When Global Politics is Fought at February 22-23 the Ground Level: Long-term Impacts on Civil Society Institu- 370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley tions, the Environment, and Everyday Lives”

An introduction to the Oral Proficiency Interview, including Meredith Weiss, Yale University, “Local/Transnational demonstrations of sample interviews in several languages, and Tradeoffs Among Malaysian Activists” a discussion of its merits and implications for the curriculum. 3:30-5:30 pm Panel III Law and the State Speakers from outside UC Berkeley include: Chantal Thomp- Chris Lundry, Arizona State University son, Brigham Young University; Ray Clifford, Defense Lan- “Indigenous Justice and the Rule of Law in East Timor” guage Institute; Rafael Salaberry, Rice University; June Phillips, Weber State University; Ben Rifkin, Middlebury Jeremy Schanck, American University, “’Covering’ Resistance: Russian School, University of Wisconsin; Leo van Lier, News Media and the Exxon Mobil Shutdown in Aceh” Monterey Institute of International Studies.

For further information contact the Berkeley Language Center, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9 (510) 642-0767 x10; [email protected]; 8:45 am Opening Remarks http://blc.berkeley.edu/. 9:00-11:20 am Panel IV Questioning Religions Juliana Essen, “Nirvana: An End to Capitalist Hegemony?” ❑❑❑ Kikue Hamayotsu, Australian National University “The ‘Global’ War against a Threat of ‘Islam’: Southeast Asian The Center for Southeast Asia Studies / International and Area Perspective” Studies Hermel Pama, University of the Philippines, “Of Churches vs. Local Knowledges and Global Forces in Malls: Fasting vs. Food: From Them Who Have Not Heard Southeast Asia About Globalization, And Are Constituted By It” 19th Annual Conference on Southeast Asia Studies 1:00-3:00pm Panel V Cultural Transformations February 8-9 Frank Chua, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania Room 150, University Hall, UC Berkeley “A History of the Pasar Malam (Night Bazaars): Mass Con- sumption in Pre-Modern Singapore” FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8 8:45 am Opening Remarks J.P. Daughton, UC Berkeley, “Between ‘Civilized’ and Sylvia Tiwon, Conference Organizer ‘Sauvage’: French Missionaries and Cultural Exchange in the Vietnamese Central Highlands, 1885-1913” 9:00-11:20 am Panel I Politicizing Arts Maria Josephine Barrios, Osaka University of Foreign Studies 3:13-5:30 pm Panel VI Natural Resources and Social Conflict “Staging Globalization: The Politics of Performance in South- Erik Kuhonta, “The Politics of Uneven Development in east Asia” Thailand: The Pak Mun Dam in Historical Perspective” Nancy I. Cooper, “Living the Local Romancing the Global: The Tran Thi Thu Trang, Institute of Social Studies Moral Economy of Rural Javanese Musicians” “Knowledge as a Driving Force: Market Fluctuations and Rural Diversification Strategies in a Vietnamese Mountainous Ethnic Carolina San Juan, University of California, Los Angeles Community” “Ballroom Dance as an Indicator of Immigrant Identity in the Filipino Community” For further information contact William Collins, Vice Chair, Nic Tiongson, UC Berkeley, “Laughter as Subversion: The The Center for Southeast Asia Studies, (510) 642-3609. Pusong Tradition in Tagalog Theater”

27 E X H I B I T S T o w n s e n d C e n t e r G a l l e r y Berkeley Art Museum Everyday Constellations: Photographs, Fast Forward Through February 24 Photograms and Sunprints by Susannah Hays January 22-March 15, 2002 Near and Far Through July 14 Susannah Hays uses photography to illuminate the complex structures of Ansel Adams in the University of California Collections simple things--a leaf, a bottle, a shadow Through March 10 on the ground She brings to light delicate networks of line, hidden Migrations: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado geometrical patterns, strange blind spots January 16 through March 24 and unexpected flashes of brilliance that can’t be seen with the naked eye, thereby XXL connecting the realms of the mundane January 23 through July 14 and the infinite. But Hays’ photographs also stage an inquiry into the nature of photography itself—its MATRIX 196: Sowon Kwon average femal (Perfect) mutual dependence on light and darkness, optics and chemis- Janurary 27 through March 24 try, science and art. In this regard, Hays’ vision is as much alchemical as perceptual: a single leaf becomes a map to a An Enduring Legacy: The Ching Yuan Chai Collection forgotten city, a city sidewalk becomes a fallen sky. March 13 through May 26 Artist Susannah Hays received her MFA in photography from Marion Brenner: The Subtle Life of Plants and People the San Francisco Art Institute. She was awarded the Eisner March 20 through May 26 Prize in Photography at UC Berkeley and is currently complet- ing her thesis, “Between Cedar & Vine,” in Visual Studies at the College of Environmental Design. She is represented by Scott Nichols Gallery

Everday Constellations was curated by Jeannene Przyblyski, who received her Ph.D. in the History of Art from UC Berkeley, teaches courses in the graduate programs at the San Francisco Art Institute and at Mills College, and is executive director of Ansel Adams, Monolith: the San Francisco Bureau of Urban Secrets, a conceptual art/ The Face of Half Dome, studio program that develops and promotes art and political Yosemite Valley from interventions in contemporary city life. Reproduction Redux, a Parmelian Prints of the panel discussion relating to issues in Susannah Hays’ work High Sierra, 1927. will take place in the Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall, on February 6 at 4:00 pm.

Department of Art Practice Annual Faculty Exhibition Worth Ryder Gallery, 116 Kroeber Hall

Mountain Waits by Martin L. Nguyen January 8 through February 1

Reception for the artist January 30, 4:00 pm

Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 1:00 to 4:00 pm

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Hertz Hall / Music Department Events Noon Concert Series 12:15 pm • Wednesdays • Hertz Hall (unless otherwise noted) Thursday, February 14 8:00 pm Trinity Chamber Concerts Collegium Musicum, Kate van Orden & Anthony Martin, January 30 directors Davitt Moroney, harpsichord and organ If Music Be the Food of Love: A Concert for Valentine’s Day Organ and Harpsichord Music by Johann Jacob Froberger 2320 Dana Street, Berkeley (1616-1667) Tickets: $8/10; Information (510) 549-3864 Friday, February 1 Friday, February 22, and Saturday, February 23 Karen Rosenak, fortepiano 8:00 pm Hertz Hall Joseph Haydn, Sonata in G Minor; Igor Stravinsky, Sonata for University Symphony Orchestra, David Milnes, director Piano (1924); Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata quasi una Fantasia Leighton Fong, cello soloist Olly Wilson, Lumina; Richard Strauss, Don Quixote February 6 Young Musicians Program Monday, February 25 Outstanding students from this year present a recital of their 8:00 pm Hertz Hall most recent accomplishments. Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players, David Milnes, director Evan Ziporyn, guest artist February 13 Works by David Pereira, Fernando Benadon, Eric Marty, and UC Men’s Chorale, UC Women’s Chorale, Perfect Fifth, Univer- Evan Ziporyn sity Chorus, University Chamber Chorus Love songs from an assortment of centuries and cultures.

For information regarding Hertz Hall events, call (510) 642-4864. February 20 Tickets $8/$6/$2; call 642-9988. Umesh Shankar, clarinet; Jody Redhage, cello; Monica Chew, piano Johannes Brahms, Clarinet Trio, Op. 114; Robert Schumann, Fantasiestüke

February 27 Collegium Musicum, Kate van Orden & Anthony Martin, directors Tasso in France: Music from the ballet La délivrance de Renaud (1617) and Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Armide (1686)

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2002 Summer Human Rights Fellowship The Emeka Kalu Ezera Fellowship in African The Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley Studies, 2002-03 International and Area Studies / Center for African Studies The Human Rights Center announces its annual Summer Human Rights Fellowship Program. The Fellowship is An endowment has been established in memory of Emeka designed to provide students from UC Berkeley and the Kalu Ezera to support black graduate students from African Graduate Theological Union with an opportunity to work with countries south of the Sahara at the University of California at human rights organizations in the U.S. and abroad. The Berkeley. The funds from the endowment are assigned to the awards will enable students to carry out clearly defined Center for African Studies to aid student scholars at the projects and/or internships with specific organizations related graduate level concentrating in African Studies. Funds may be to their area of academic interest. Ten fellowships will be requested for maintenance, travel, or research costs, as awarded; each fellow will receive a stipend of $3,000. Priority appropriate to enhance pre-dissertation and dissertation will be given to graduate students. research on Africa. Ezera funds may be used to supplement, but not substitute for, other grants. Students are encouraged to Further information and applications for the summer fellow- apply to other sources. Currently, grants from the Emeka fund ship are now available at the Human Rights Center, 460 will be in the $500 to $750 range. Stephens Hall, or on our Web site at www.hrcberkeley.org. The Ezera Fellowship gives priority to graduate students from Completed applications are due to the Human Rights Center West Africa who show exceptional promise of advancing no later than Thursday, February 28, 2002. scholarship in African Studies in the social sciences, humanities, and public policy and who demonstrate strong leadership For more information, please contact Rachel Shigekane at 642- potential. Students from other African regions are eligible and 0965; [email protected]. are encouraged to apply. Students must have been accepted for admission at the University of California at Berkeley when they apply and must be enrolled before funds may be dis- ❑❑❑ persed to them. The fellowship is not available to students who are permanent residents or citizens of the United States. Applicants are requested to provide an overall budget, Call for Papers indicating their other sources of support which they hope to supplement with an Ezera award, and describe the particular Global and Local Dimensions of Asian America: An Interna- need for Ezera funds. tional Conference on Asian Diasporas Radisson Miyako Hotel, San Francisco APPLICATION PROCEDURE: All applicants are requested to May 10-12 submit the attached application form, research plan or prospectus of your dissertation/proposal (no more than 1200 words), a Sponsored by the Department of Ethnic Studies / Asian budget which specifies the amount you need from Emeka funds American Studies to supplement your primary grant, an official transcript of record, a curriculum vitae and three letters of recommendation This conference’s primary objective is to reexamine the global from faculty who are familiar with your research. Application and local dimensions of the changing Asian communities in requirements for second year applicants are slightly different. the U.S. and in different parts of the world, their multiple connections and dynamic interactions. Toward this end, the Ezera Memorial Award Committee conference is open to both schloars and community leaders. It International and Area Studies also welcomes writers, artists, filmmakers, and community Center for African Studies activists to present their original works on issues related to the 356 Stephens Hall #2314 themes of the conference. University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-2314 Deadline: April 1

Send a one-page abstract to: The deadline for applications is Monday, April 1, 2002. Awards Prof. L. Ling-chi Wang will be announced in mid-May. Asian American Studies Only UC Berkeley students are eligible. 506 Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley Tel: (510) 642-7439; Fax: (510) 642-6456; [email protected]

For more info go to: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ethnicst/ diasporas/main.html.

30 A n n o u n c e m e n t s T o w n s e n d C e n t e r The Andrew and Mary Thompson Rocca Scholar- A n n o u n c e m e n t s ship in Advanced African Studies, 2002-03 Townsend Center List Server In memory of her parents Andrew and Mary Thompson Rocca, The Townsend Center list server enables its members to Helen Rocca Goss established by her will an endowment to announce to one another (via email) lectures, calls for papers, support students at the University of California, Berkeley. The conferences, exhibits, and other events. endowment supports student scholars at the advanced graduate To subscribe or unsubscribe to the service, either level concentrating in African Studies. Funds may be requested for maintenance, travel, or research costs, as appropriate to ¥ Visit the Townsend Center Web site at http://ls.berkeley. enhance dissertation research in Africa in the 2002-03 academic edu/dept/townsend/listserv.html and follow the simple year. Rocca funds are intended to supplement, not substitute for, directions, or other grants. Students are encouraged to apply to other sources ¥ Send an email message to townsend-request@ls. as well. Awards are typically made in the range from $2000- berkeley.edu with either "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" in the $5000. message subject or body.

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