N E W S L E T T E R The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities

September 2005

THINKING STRATEGICALLY

The Townsend/Mellon Strategic Working Groups program seeks to encourage faculty in the humanities and humanities-related fields to think both creatively and concretely about intellectual and institutional structures for future teaching and research. Funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, the program provides support for one group per semester. Each group proposes a topic of investigation with potential for programmatic development both at Berkeley and within the humanities at large. Participants are chosen from across campus, with the hope of representing as many different sectors as possible; they receive course relief to allow them to devote time to investigating the chosen topic. Groups are expected to develop and refine the intellectual configuration of the topic, and, most importantly, to propose concrete agendas for creating a strong institutional presence for continued work in the field. The goal of the program is to create an environment for collaborative and pragmatic thinking about the future of our intellectual disciplines.

We are pleased to report that the two groups that met in 2004–2005, Redress and Critical Theory, successfully met this challenge. Stephen Best described the activities of the group on Redress — the question of reparation or compensation for historical injustice — in our April/May 2005 newsletter; the group is continuing its work with a symposium September 30 (see p. 27). Below we outline the results of Contents the Critical Theory group’s work and provide a look ahead to the two Thinking Strategically ...... 1 groups meeting in 2005–2006. We also introduce the postdoctoral fellows Summer at the Center ...... 4 associated with the 2005–2006 groups. Program News ...... 5 CRITICAL THEORY (SPRING 2005) Fall Semester Deadlines ...... 12

The Strategic Working Group on Critical Theory, organized by Judith Working Group Activities .....13 Butler (Rhetoric) and Martin Jay (History), met spring semester 2005. Calendar ...... 19 The participants included Wendy Brown (Political Science), Anthony Cascardi (Rhetoric), Pheng Cheah (Rhetoric), John Lie (Sociology), Saba Events ...... 24 Mahmood (Anthropology), Nelson Maldonado-Torres (Ethnic Studies), Programs Summary ...... 35 Christopher Nealon (English), and José Saldivar (English and Ethnic Studies). The topic generated such enthusiasm that another six faculty

The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities distinguishes itself by its broad definition of the humanities, its vision of the university as an interlocking community that also reaches out to a larger public, and its role as an essential hub for Berkeley’s vast store of humanities-related activities. The Center is committed above all to coordinating and disseminating the wealth of intellectual resources at Berkeley. Although of special benefit to the nineteen departments that officially comprise the humanities at Berkeley, the Center, since its inception, has actively welcomed participation from colleagues in other fields. also participated regularly, including some hopes that the Institute will be established The Strategic Working Group in New Media on sabbatical: Rakesh Bhandari (lecturer, as an Organized Research Unit supporting is organized by Yehuda Kalay (Architecture) Rhetoric), T. J. Clark (History of Art), faculty research seminars on contemporary and Alva Noë (Philosophy). Joining them Anne-Lise François (English), Shannon issues that intersect with the traditions will be Natalia Brizuela (Spanish and Jackson (Rhetoric/Performance Studies), of critical theory. The group will work Portuguese), Serguei Dolgopolskii (Mellon Niklaus Largier (German), and Hans Sluga closely with the office of John Lie, Dean of Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities/ (Philosophy). International and Area Studies, to develop Near Eastern Studies), Celeste Langan this goal. (English), Peter Lyman (SIMS), Greg The group’s first goal was to devise a Niemeyer (Art Practice), and David Wessel Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory. • The third aim of the group is to help (CNMAT). During the semester’s meetings the reanimate Berkeley’s Critical Studies participants read from texts that would Program in Paris. Working in conjunction The group intends to undertake a broad-based constitute the course of a future graduate with the Critical Theory programs already exploration of “New Media,” characterized curriculum: Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx, in place at Irvine and Davis, the group as any technology of representation with Adorno, Benjamin, Dussel, Talal Asad, Paul will develop a contemporary curriculum the potential to radically change aspects of Gilroy. Participants commented on this for undergraduates combining history, human culture and experience. Its goal is to work and led conversations; out of these politics, and theory, including consideration understand the implications of new media discussions, the group developed three of the “new Europe” and questions of for each one of the disciplines represented programmatic goals. immigration and belonging that have by the participants, and to develop that emerged in recent decades. understanding into a broad-based view of • The first is to establish a Designated new media which will provide an agenda Emphasis in Graduate Division that will The Townsend Center is delighted with the for research and teaching. Tapping into allow graduate students from a wide enthusiasm this group has generated and Berkeley’s great strengths in the humanities range of departments to specialize in the ambitious plans it is putting into place. will allow Berkeley’s Center for New Media Critical Theory. The DE will provide a We look forward to the continued success to differentiate itself from other campuses’ regular curriculum including one course of these projects. endeavors and to develop a richly textured in nineteenth-century critical theory, one understanding of the possibilities and course engaging with the Frankfurt School The two groups chosen for 2005–2006 are implications of new media. in a comparative framework, and one New Media and When Is Art Research? course in contemporary critical theory, WHEN IS ART RESEARCH? (SPRING 2006) ranging from seminars on dissent and NEW MEDIA (FALL 2005) critique to considerations of Latin American The Strategic Working Group When Is Art critical theory. The DE will give students a New Media has been recognized by the Research? seeks to continue an ongoing firm foundation in the tradition of critique campus as one of four new initiatives discussion about what it means to combine and allow them to explore its various that can address the expected growth — or to acknowledge the already-present articulations in different parts of the world, in enrollment and the development of combination — of the domain of the arts engaging with new global formations of new research areas. During the course and the domain of the humanities at this knowledge. of this Strategic Working Group, faculty university. from across the campus will get together • The group’s second goal is to develop an on a regular basis to develop a coherent Organized by Shannon Jackson (Rhetoric/ Institute for Critical Thought focusing on curriculum and research program in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies) contemporary social questions regarding New Media. The campus’s institutional and Raveevarn Choksombatchai social criticism, forms of participatory recognition of New Media as a Center (Architecture/Loom Studio), the group democracy, religion and politics, and the will permit implementation and future will include as participants David Bithell form and validity of normative judgments sustenance of the programs developed by (Townsend Postdoctoral Fellow, Music), within social theory. Eventually the group the group. Anne Cheng (English), Jeffrey Skoller

2 (Film Studies), Kate van Orden (Music), of these innovations in the classroom, as These impressive postdoctoral fellows will Anne Wagner (History of Art), and Lisa well as to allow for an expanded field add another perspective to the discussions Wymore (Theater, Dance, and Performance of participants in the Strategic Working of two Strategic Working Groups with Studies). Group itself. One year-long postdoctoral ambitious and exciting programs. We are fellowship will be associated with each excited about the multiple aspects of the The group plans to develop a response to Strategic Working Group topic in 2005– Strategic Working Groups’ activities, and broad institutional questions regarding 2006. Fellows will participate in the relevant look forward to their results. the role of the arts in the university. How Strategic Working Group during the might the arts provide a way of activating semester of its activity; they will also teach Matthew Tiews the goals of a “public humanities”? How one course each fellowship semester in Associate Director might the arts provide an infrastructure for a Berkeley department and will pursue new engagements between the university research in their designated field. and its community? The group will discuss the methods of campus initiatives involving The postdoctoral fellow associated with collaboration between art practitioners the “New Media” group will be Serguei and other members of the university Dolgopolskii. Dolgopolskii received his community. One goal is to develop a Ph.D. from Berkeley in Jewish Studies document that identifies appropriate in 2004 with a dissertation entitled “The mechanisms for evaluating the profile of Rhetoric of the Talmud in the Perspective the research/artist. Most importantly, the of Post-Structuralism.” His areas of group wants to identify how art-making specialization also include the philosophy enacts the collaborative goals of some of the of culture, ontology, and epistemology; his most innovative humanist projects being research proposal in new media is entitled developed today. “Is Media Always Technology? Or The Sense of Place and the Role of Image in As part of its investigations, the group is New Media Production/Consumption.” coordinating a year-long series of events Dolgopolskii is the recipient of a Mellon related to the topic. Kicking off the series will Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities be an event organized by the Townsend/ and will participate in the New Media Mellon Discovery Fellows, “Art Practice group in addition to his activities under and the Academy: A Roundtable with Dick that fellowship. Hebdige” (see p. 24 for details). David Bithell is the recipient of a Townsend TOWNSEND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS Postdoctoral Fellowship associated with the Strategic Working Group “When Is As part of its ongoing effort to provide Art Research?” Bithell received his Ph.D. support for members of the Berkeley in Music Composition from Berkeley humanities community at every career in December 2004 with a dissertation stage, the Townsend Center has begun entitled “Lumen,” an hour-long multimedia a pilot postdoctoral fellowship program composition for trumpet, percussionists, associated with the Strategic Working actor/assistants, and live electronics. Groups. Since the groups are expected to During the course of his year-long enhance curricular as well as intellectual fellowship, he will pursue research on a innovations in the field, the intention of project entitled “Mediating Performance: the postdoctoral fellowship is to provide an American Experimental Music Theater and important opportunity for the application Cultures of Technology” and will teach two courses in the Music Department.

3 summer at the townsend center

Like the rest of campus, the Townsend The 2005 GROUP Summer Apprenticeships “Historic Portrayal of National Park Center is much quieter over the summer are: ‘Friends’” than during the academic year. The staff Apprentice: Justin Laue of the Center spends most of the summer “Building a Nonviolence Website” Faculty sponsor: Sally Fairfax (College of in program evaluation and analysis, Apprentice: Matthew Taylor Natural Resources) long-range planning, special projects, Faculty sponsor: Michael Nagler (Classics and preparing for the upcoming year. and Comparative Literature) “The Huaves, a Contemporary Expression The summer is often time for university in Music” conferences and workshops, however, and “Data Collection in Guatemala” Apprentice: Edvis Shahbazian the Center frequently buzzes with activity Apprentice: Rebecca Lindsay Faculty sponsor: David Wessel (CNMAT even during the summer months. This Faculty sponsor: Beatrice Manz (Geography/ and Music); with Roberto Morales, Ph.D. summer, for example, several important Comparative Ethnic Studies) candidate (Music) programs furthering the humanities in higher education and public life took place “The Emma Goldman Papers” “Narrative Culture in Spain c. 1500” in the Center’s Geballe Room. The Center Apprentice: Heidi Little Apprentice: Sergio Delgado for Studies in Higher Education’s workshop Faculty sponsor: Edwin Epstein (Peace and Faculty sponsor: Ignacio Navarrete (Spanish on “Academic and Civic Engagement”; the Conflict Studies) with Candace Falk (The and Portuguese) Mellon Faculty Institute on Undergraduate Emma Goldman Papers) Education; the BEAHRS Environmental “Sexual Rights as Human Rights” Leadership Program; and the Regional “The End of Impunity? Crimes Against Apprentice: Agnes Malinowska Oral History Office’s Advanced Oral Humanity and International Justice in the Faculty sponsor: Kristin Luker (Sociology History Summer Institute all met at the 21st Century” and Jurisprudence and Social Policy Center during the summer months. We Apprentice: Sun Lee Program) are delighted to be able to provide support Faculty sponsors: David Cohen (Rhetoric) for humanities programs on campus and Eric Stover (Public Health and the “To Quell the Raging Wastes: The American throughout the summer as well as during Human Rights Center) Response to Industrial Pollution, 1840- the academic year. 1930” “Exploration and Development of Apprentice: Swetha Doraiswamy This summer also saw the first Townsend New Media Applications as part of Faculty sponsor: Christine Rosen (Haas Center summer program: the Geballe the Archaeological Research Project at School of Business) Research Opportunities for Undergraduates Catalhoyuk, Turkey” Program (GROUP) sponsored twelve Apprentice: Elizabeth Lee “Visualizing Processes of Theoretical Summer Apprenticeships. These faculty- Faculty sponsor: Ruth Tringham Biology” student mentorships allow undergraduates (Anthropology) Apprentice: Ian Cheng a chance to work closely with faculty Faculty sponsors: Greg Niemeyer members on a project involving current “Gifted and Talented Programs in Public (Art Practice) and Terry Deacon research in one of the program’s theme Schools” (Anthropology) areas. These summer apprenticeships are Apprentice: Kristin Birdsong just one aspect of GROUP’s initiative to Faculty sponsor: Sue Schweik (English) Look for reports on the outcomes of some of bring multidisciplinary research in the these projects in our October newsletter. humanities more fully into undergraduate education. For more on GROUP’s 2005-2006 activities, see the following pages.

4 2005-2006 townsend center news and program updates

The academic year gets off to a running GROUP Courses and meanings of violence and suffering. start with the Townsend Departmental The second part of the course will look Residency of theater and film director Suman The 2005–2006 academic year sees four new at responses to the question of violence, Mukherjee, hosted by the Department of multidisciplinary research courses offered especially the application of human rights Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. under the Geballe Research Opportunities discourse to medicine and psychiatry. Mukherjee is in residence August 19 to for Undergraduates Program (GROUP). This Visiting experts from academic fields and September 25, and will direct a performance major initiative, sponsored by a generous NGOs will illuminate aspects of these piece, visit classes, and give a public grant from Dr. and Mrs. Theodore Geballe, questions throughout the course, and discussion of his work. For details on his promotes innovative undergraduate students will participate in an expanded residency, see below. education at the research university, research practicum, through which they integrating undergraduate courses and will be involved in the instructors’ current Early September will also see an event research around four critical themes: projects on violence and social suffering. organized by the Townsend/Mellon the Humanities and the Environment; See p. 24 for a complete list of visiting Discovery Fellows, entitled “Art Practice the Humanities and Human Rights; the speakers. and the Academy: A Roundtable with Humanities and New Media; and the Dick Hebdige.” This public discussion Humanities and Biotechnology, Health, The course in Humanities and Human with the co-director of the University of and Medicine. Rights this year will be taught by Pheng California Institute for Research in the Cheah of the Department of Rhetoric. Arts will take place September 8 (see p. 24 GROUP sponsors one course on each theme Entitled “Using People: Human Rights for a full description). And on September per year for the duration of the program. and the Transnational Commodification 14 the Townsend Center gallery space will These courses provide experiential or of Women,” this course will build on a open its first exhibition of the year: Kazakh: research-based learning; they demonstrate philosophical understanding of human Paintings by Saule Suleimenova (see p. 31 for the importance of humanistic perspectives rights to address practical questions more information). to study of the chosen theme; and they train of human rights violations. Students students in the concepts and methodologies will examine the philosophical tradition Looking further ahead, we are pleased to of cross-disciplinary exchange. beginning with Kant that discusses the use announce that spring semester will bring of human beings merely as means to other two major visiting lecturers with very Nancy Scheper-Hughes (Medical Anthropology) ends, taking this tradition as the foundation different perspectives on literature and and Beatriz Manz (Geography) will offer this of our understanding of human rights. In criticism. Critic and theorist Hélène Cixous year’s GROUP course in the Humanities, the second portion of the course, students will will be in residence as Una’s Lecturer in the Medicine, and Biotechnology during fall bring this understanding to an examination Humanities in early February. And Stephen semester. Entitled “Violence, Genocide, of case studies of human rights abuse, Greenblatt will return to campus as the and Social Suffering: Perspectives from specifically with regard to female migrant Avenali Lecturer in the Humanities in mid- Medicine and the Humanities,” the labor and sex trafficking in globalizing Asia. March. Further details about their visits will course will explore unrecognized forms of Instrumental rationalities are pervasive be announced in future newsletters. violence in everyday life. It will consider on every level of these industries. How the structural and symbolic violence of does this complicate the philosophical Here are full updates on our 2005-2006 poverty as it impacts the sick and the understanding of human rights? How programs. socially marginalized — the homeless, can understanding the philosophical immigrants, the mentally ill. The first underpinnings of human rights provide portion of the course will introduce students possible new outcomes for these bleak to interdisciplinary approaches — from scenarios? This course, which will be taught anthropology, medicine, philosophy, as an upper-level undergraduate seminar theology, and literature — to the definitions spring semester, will invite outside speakers

5 — both academic experts and activists be offered spring semester, will examine attention from the humanities. Focusing on working with NGOs specializing in these the complex interrelationships between issues such as bioethics, disability studies, areas — to address these questions from humans, human activity, globalization and and race- and class-based health disparities, their own perspectives. Students will be the environment, presenting key ideas, the team will bring together material expected to undertake independent case debates and approaches in this arena within and conduct research projects designed studies of their own on the effectiveness of broader humanities and social science to strengthen Berkeley’s expertise in the human rights instruments in a particular frameworks. The first part of the course manifold issues surrounding stem cell area of transnational traffic in women’s will examine struggles over key ideas research. The team intends to produce a labor. present in debates over the environment website showcasing the projects undertaken and globalization. The middle portion will in the area, providing a coordinated locus “New Media and Social Memory” is the apply these ideas to global struggles over for campus work in the intersection of the title of this year’s course in the Humanities specific resources, inviting guest speakers humanities and the burgeoning science of and New Media, which will be taught who are currently working on these topics. stem cell research. spring semester by Richard Rinehart The final portion of the course will present (Director of Digital Media at the Berkeley cases in science and technology, and Townsend Departmental Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive) and examine how humanities and social science Residencies Nezar AlSayyad (Professor of Architecture perspectives inform debates over science, and Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern risk, expertise and participation. The course The Townsend Departmental Residencies Studies). The course will investigate how will involve readings from new and classic program, funded by the Avenali endowment, the canonical historical record is created and texts in the field, and also sessions on brought its first visitors to campus in 2003– maintained in the digital age by “memory how to do research (especially scholarly 2004. Under the residency program, the host institutions” such as museums, libraries, research) on the global environment. department is awarded a stipend and travel and archives, and how digital media fees to invite a distinguished visitor for a artists are influencing and critiquing this GROUP Research Team residency of at least a month in duration. construction of social memory. Students The program offers the host departments will consider questions such as “What is In addition to GROUP courses, the first a special opportunity to integrate visitors important to remember?” on a long-term GROUP research team will convene of outstanding interest into their own public scale, and will investigate how this spring semester 2006. GROUP Teams programs, and at the same time to make kind of public memory is impacted by new bring together faculty sponsors, graduate a substantial contribution to the overall media. Students will use — and co-opt students, and undergraduates to work on a intellectual life of the campus. Each visitor — the ultimate memory-organization- collaborative research project that addresses is expected to engage in at least one activity classification tool, the database, as a one of the GROUP themes. This year’s that will be broadly publicized. medium for project-making, and will team will address the general topic of the create their own art project around issues Humanities, Medicine, and Biotechnology. We are pleased to announce the Townsend of social memory, relying on original Under the title “The Stem Cell Initiative Departmental Residents for 2005-2006: research to propose creative solutions to and the Humanities,” the team is organized real-world problems. Guest speakers will by Charis Thompson (Rhetoric and Suman Mukherjee, who will be in include experts in media art and museum Women’s Studies) and Corinne Hayden residence during the month of September curation. (Anthropology), and will emphasize the in the Department of Theater, Dance, and development of curricular materials and Performance Studies, is known as one of This year’s course on the Humanities student research opportunities related to India’s best young directors working out and the Environment is entitled the humanistic issues brought to the fore by of Kolkata. His productions range from “Environmental Struggles: Humans and stem cell research. This is particularly timely, European dramas to adaptations of Bengali the Global Environment.” Taught by Kate as the passing of California’s Proposition prose masterpieces. A highlight among O’Neill (Environmental Science, Policy, 71 and the medical research efforts it is them is Teesta Paarer Brittanto (Tales of the and Management), the course, which will spawning highlights questions that demand River Teesta), which has run in Kolkata

6 theaters since 2000. Based on a novel by Townsend/Mellon Discovery The following entering graduate students Debesh Roy, this dramatic retelling of the Fellows have been named Discovery fellows: story of the dispossessed of North Bengal is marked by fractured narratives, expressive This fall, eight entering graduate students Nilgun Bayraktar enters the Department of elements from indigenous folk performance, become the fourth cohort of participants in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies music, humor, and action. Mukherjee’s the Townsend/Mellon Discovery program, this fall with a degree in Cultural Studies current work involves collaboration with which began in September 2002. The from Sabanci University in Turkey, focusing European directors on a project staging program brings together graduate students on the history and culture of Turkey, the Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream in their first three years of study. Discovery Balkans, and the Middle East with a special in forests throughout India in 2006. He is fellows meet with one another and with interest in questions of religious, gender, also finishing his first feature film, Herbert, invited faculty at least three times per and national identity. Bayraktar plans to based on a national award-winning Bengali semester for focused conversation around continue her interdisciplinary work on these novel by Nabarun Bhattacharya. While issues related to multidisciplinary work in issues, focusing on the role of performance in residence at Berkeley, Mukherjee will the humanities and related fields. First-year in political and religious activity. work with TDPS Assistant Professor fellows are also assigned a graduate student Sudipto Chatterjee on an intercultural, mentor from outside her/his department, Daniel Clinton comes to Berkeley from the interdisciplinary performance piece and each fellow receives a stipend for each University of Chicago, where he received entitled The Man of the Heart (see p. 33). of three summers at the predissertation a B.A. in English with a thesis on the He will also appear as a visiting expert stage of graduate work. relationship of literature to the sister arts in the department’s graduate seminar on in Melville’s Pierre. He plans to continue “Postcolonial Performance” and will give This year we are pleased to announce working on the relationship of literature to a public lecture/demonstration on current that Colleen Lye, Associate Professor of other media while a graduate student in the trends in Indian theater on September 15. English, will be joining the program as English Department, focusing on the onset faculty advisor, working with the fellows of literary modernity in nineteenth- and The second Departmental Resident of the and Townsend Center staff to enhance early twentieth-century American literature year will be Daniel Mason, who will be in the program offerings. Also joining the within the larger context of modernization residence in the Department of English in program is Valeria Costa e Silva, a Ph.D. in various media. the month of October. Mason, a novelist, candidate in Spanish and Portuguese, who medical doctor, and art critic, is best known will serve as graduate liaison for the fellows An incoming student in the Department of for his novel The Piano Tuner (Knopf, 2002). and their mentors. Sociology, Gokhan Irfanoglu received two This best-seller follows a British piano tuner B.A.s from the University of Bosphorus/ to Burma, where he has been commissioned Discovery students are nominated by Bogaziçi in Turkey, and an M.Sc. in to tune a rare grand piano in the jungle their departments on the basis of their Political Science from the London School hideaway of an eccentric British surgeon- potential for graduate study, but also of Economics. Irfanoglu’s master’s thesis major. An exploration of late Victorian according to the department’s assessment considers the disruptive capacity of the imperialism and aesthetics, set in a part of of the candidate’s openness to a range disability rights movement in the Turkish the world where Mason himself spent a year of people and perspectives within the Republic from a broad-based theoretical researching malaria, the novel was written humanities and related fields. This year’s perspective. At Berkeley he intends to when Mason was a twenty-six-year-old new Discovery fellows hail from around continue his work in philosophy, political medical student. Mason has also conducted the globe and have interests ranging from theory, and contemporary sociological medical research in Brazil and Ecuador, the sociology of disability in Turkey to theory to provide a richly theorized account and has published in popular and medical nineteenth-century American media history. of the sociology of the disabled condition journals. During his residency at Berkeley, The Townsend Center joins the fellows’ in Turkey. he will give a public lecture and meet with respective departments in welcoming the creative writing classes. Details will be fourth Discovery class. J. Matthew Kiser, who is entering the available in our October newsletter. Department of Slavic Languages and

7 Literatures this fall, brings a broad interest Entering the Department of Comparative teaching; awardees are urged to apply the in contemporary Russian culture to his Literature this fall, Zohar Weiman-Kelman insights they gain through their semester in study of post-perestroika literature and received a B.A. in the Department of the program to curricular development. film. Kiser received a B.A. from William Hebrew Literature from The Hebrew and Mary with a thesis using recent Russian University of Jerusalem. Weiman-Kelman’s With the support of the Chancellor, the detective fiction to examine the shifting interests lie in Jewish writing in Hebrew, Executive Vice-Chancellor and Provost, roles of the intelligentsia following the German, and Yiddish, and in gender and the Dean of Arts and Humanities, the collapse of the Soviet Union. At Berkeley, studies. At Berkeley she intends to work Townsend Center is pleased to announce Kiser plans to continue his work on on literature written by women in Hebrew the awardees for spring 2006: contemporary Russia while expanding and and Yiddish, using a comparatist approach deepening his interests in Russian literature to illuminate differences and commonalities David Bates, Associate Professor in the and culture. in the experience of different Jewish women Department of Rhetoric, is working on a as evidenced in literary works. book project dealing with the history and The Discovery program’s first fellow theory of human insight in the rationalist from the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Fabiana Woodfin, who enters the tradition entitled “Humans, Animals, and Program, Ariel Meyerstein is beginning Department of Italian Studies this fall with Robots: Intelligence and Insight in Early Ph.D. work this fall after receiving a a B.A. and M.A. from Boise State University, Modern Europe.” During his semester B.A. in English from Columbia with combines a broad-based interest in literature as an Initiative grantee, he will focus on a concentration in human rights and and cultural studies with a particular focus the beginnings of this history, examining undertaking legal studies at Boalt Hall on the politics of translation. Woodfin’s M.A. the moment in Early Modern European School of Law. Meyerstein’s interests thesis focuses on the reception of the work history when mechanical philosophies of lie in transitional justice — the study of of Antonio Gramsci in English-language nature intersected with new philosophical legal processes in societies emerging from cultural studies, showing the political approaches to cognition, new physiologies of extreme political conflict. Combining the and cultural consequences of translation, emotion and thought, and new technologies insights of narrative and critical theory with particularly with reference to social change. of mechanized automation. His goal will empirical work on truth commissions and Woodfin plans to continue her work on be to explore how the notion of “insight” political processes, Meyerstein intends to cultural politics at Berkeley, widening — cognition that could not be reduced fuse his love of literature and philosophy her approach to encompass questions of to mechanical or causal relations — was with his practical interest in international postcolonialism and of subaltern groups conceptualized in this formative period. affairs. within unified Italy. Bates will work with research counterpart Victoria Kahn (English and Comparative Paul Roquet, an incoming student in the Townsend Initiative Program Literature). Department of East Asian Languages for Associate Professors and Cultures, comes to Berkeley with an Associate Professor of Anthropology interest in Japanese film and a grounding in The Initiative Program for associate Mariane Ferme will join the group with a philosophy and cultural history. He earned professors is entering its fifth year of project entitled “(Humanitarian) Politics, a B.A. from Pomona College in Asian promoting multidisciplinary work in the Violence, and the Fabric of the Law in studies, with a minor in media studies humanities. The program awards five Sierra Leone.” In this study of the Special and a thesis on the relationship between associate professors teaching relief for the Court for Crimes against Humanity in avant-garde dance and politics in Japan in spring semester, connecting each awardee Sierra Leone, Ferme looks at the dynamics the 1950s and 1960s. At Berkeley he intends with a research counterpart from another of legality-illegality and the relationship to further develop his understanding of department, and bringing together all between established codes and legal Japanese literary and cultural history and grantees and their counterparts for working experimentation brought about by this continue the advocacy of Japanese film that lunches devoted to presentation of the new tribunal. Building on ethnographic he began as early as the eighth grade. grantee’s research. The Initiative Program fieldwork in Sierra Leone, archival work, also aims to encourage multidisciplinary and current debates at the center of critical

8 approaches to humanitarianism, Ferme us represent and realize models for the Bridging Grants argues that the spread of a rhetoric of construction of selfhood. Rugg’s analysis human rights has made Sierra Leone into a focuses on the concept of the film auteur Two faculty members in the humanities laboratory where the relationship between in relation to cinematic autobiography, were awarded Bridging Grants by the international and national laws is being foregrounding the question of how a Committee on Research for 2005–2007. For transformed, and new legal subjects are film, produced by many individuals bridging projects with a humanities focus, produced. Ferme’s research counterpart in working together, could be understood the Townsend Center offers a supplement the Initiative Program will be Alan Tansman as an autobiography in the first place. of $5,000 to the COR/Bridging Grant of (East Asian Languages and Literatures). Teasing out the complexities of cinematic $20,000. This allows humanities faculty to self-projection, Rugg argues, will imply a use the grant for course relief to gain time Colleen Lye’s book project, provisionally rethinking of how selves are constructed. to work on their project. entitled “Form and History in Asian Shannon Jackson (Theater, Dance, and American Literature,” proposes to rethink Performance Studies) will serve as Rugg’s The 2005-2007 joint COR-Townsend Center Asian American literary history from a research counterpart on this project. Bridging Grant recipients are Stephen materialist-formalist perspective. Lye, Best and Susan Maslan. Best’s project, Associate Professor in the Department Alex Saragoza, Associate Professor in the entitled “Law of the Dead: Redress in the of English, argues that “Asian American Department of Ethnic Studies, is working Frameworks of National and International Literature” as a field of ethnic literature on a book project involving the interrelation Law,” takes up issues of slavery, historical is currently straining under the tension among the private media, culture, and injury, and the problem of inheritance, with between its ideal of pan-ethnic coverage politics in Mexico from the 1920s to the the express goal of bridging the divide and the need to acknowledge the historical 1990s, entitled “The Media, Culture, and between scholars in the humanities/social specificity of particular ethnic cultures. Politics in Mexico: The Role of Televisa.“ sciences and scholars in law/public policy. Lye’s project addresses this concern by Beginning with the formation of Mexico’s Best, an Associate Professor in the English developing an account of Asian American dominant media company, Televisa, out of Department, intends to pursue coursework literary history that takes seriously the term the radio empire built by the corporation’s in legal studies to strengthen his ability to “Asian American” as a literary, rather than founder in the 1930s, Saragoza traces the speak to both fields. Maslan, an Associate a political, legal, or sociological category. By complex relationship between the broadcast Professor in the French Department, will focusing on the relation of the pan-ethnic company and Mexico’s then-dominant work on a project entitled “The Literary category to literary production, Lye brings political party, known by the acronym Invention of Human Rights in France, together historical reflexivity and formal PRI. Televisa and the PRI maintained 1640-1795.” In this study Maslan argues attentiveness to produce a new account of mutually beneficial relations, with Televisa that seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Asian American literature. Her counterpart seen as both a critical element of the PRI’s French prose fiction and theater shaped the on this program will be a colleague from political power and a dominating factor in political, legal, and economic discourses another institution: Franco Moretti (English, Mexico’s popular culture. Saragoza’s project that culminated in the Declaration of Stanford University). shows, however, the slippage between the the Rights of Man during the French two, as Televisa maintained its cultural Revolution. This work will take her into “The Auteur’s Autograph: Cinematic presence even after the political fortunes French economic and legal texts of the Self-Projection,” Linda Rugg’s book of the PRI foundered. By joining both seventeenth and eighteenth century, and project, explores how cinema performs political and cultural analysis, Saragoza into the history of economic development autobiographical narrative and how the reveals a complex picture with important and its relation to human rights, allowing act of self-narration is transformed in implications for Spanish language media in her to bridge the divide between literary cinema. Looking at connections between both Mexico and the United States. analysis and economic and legal history. cinema, philosophy, and recent work in neuroscience, Rugg, Associate Professor in the Scandinavian Department, suggests that cinematic projections of selfhood help

9 Townsend Center Fellowship A Ph.D. candidate in the Rhetoric through which these photographs move. Group, 2005–2006 Department, Michael Feola is writing In so doing, she is able to make explicit the a dissertation entitled “GWF Hegel: role of news photographs in shaping our The longest-running of all our programs Aesthetics and Politics in the Jena Essays.” image of the world at large. is the Townsend Fellows group, soon to Feola’s work examines Hegel’s use of welcome the eighteenth set of fellows aesthetic terms and figures to respond to Brian Kane’s work follows two related for lunch meetings in the Geballe Room the problem of reconciling the demands trajectories. A Ph.D. candidate in Music at the Center. This year’s group includes of freedom and community. Through a Composition, Kane is pursuing a project seven graduate students at the dissertation close study of Hegel’s early essays and that combines the practice of composition stage and four assistant professors. These drafts, Feola shows the importance of with a theoretical reflection on the nature fellows will be discussing their work with the political debates of Hegel’s time for of composing. His monographic study, an Emeritus Fellow, four tenured Faculty an understanding of the birth of German entitled “Phenomenality and Materiality Fellows, a Librarian Fellow, and a Museum Idealism. At the same time, he argues for the in New Music,” illustrates how implicit Fellow. relevance of Hegel’s aesthetic approach to assumptions about the nature of musical political questions for recent philosophical material shape compositional practice. The Fellows program receives core funding debates regarding normativity. This study is combined with a piece from the Doreen B. Townsend endowment, for orchestra, entitled “Anaphora,” that with significant support from the Dean Talissa J. Ford’s dissertation, “Making Space, musically embodies the theoretical claims. of Arts and Humanities, the President’s Making Do: Geographies of the Everyday The University Symphony will read Research Initiative in the Humanities, in British Romanticism,” provides a fresh fragments of this musical work in the and Una’s Gift. The Center also has look at categories of spatial experience in spring. endowments for graduate student support the Romantic era. Noting the solidification contributed by Jeffrey Berg and by Irving of national boundaries during the French A Ph.D. candidate in the Department and Jean Stone. Revolution, Ford, a Ph.D. candidate in the of Music, Anna Nisnevich is writing a English Department, looks at super- and dissertation on “The Silver Age and Its The Townsend Center is pleased to subnational spaces — the ocean, the city, Echo: Saint Petersburg Classicism at Home announce the graduate student fellows for the body — and figures who move between and Abroad, 1897–1922.” This study of 2005-2006: national boundaries — the prophet, the Russian aristocratic culture at the turn of pirate, the slave — as sites for imagining a the twentieth century uses musical theater Polina Barskova, a Ph.D. candidate in liberating post-revolutionary space. Moving to complicate the commonly held view of the Department of Slavic Languages and from Blake’s descriptions of urban settings the Russian Silver Age as a brief flourishing Literatures, is working on a dissertation to texts from the Atlantic slave trade, of arts and culture. Nisnevich argues for a entitled “Writing the End: In Search of Ford’s work considers the possibilities and continuity between the dominant culture of Lost Plot in Leningrad Literature of the dangers of transnational space. Imperial Russia, artistic experimentations 1920s.” This project examines the rebirth in the time between Russian revolutions of the modernist novel in Leningrad of “The Image Industry: The Work of (1905–1917), and the postrevolutionary the 1920s in light of the political and social International News Photographs in the echoes of that dominant culture at home fragmentation of the city. Drawing on a vast Age of Digital Reproduction” is the title of and in exile. range of material, from literature and film Zeynep Gursel’s dissertation. In this wide- to the popular press and urban planning ranging study, Gursel, a Ph.D. candidate in Gita V. Pai, a Ph.D. candidate in the South reports, Barskova shows how artistic texts the Anthropology Department, looks at the and Southeast Asian Studies Department, previously considered apolitical fit within production, distribution, and circulation of is working on a dissertation project entitled a framework of political and ideological international news photographs. Paying “Recasting the Syntax of Sovereignty in upheaval. In addition to her scholarly work, special attention to the way news agencies Medieval South India.” This project focuses Barskova is a published poet, with six books limit the channels from which they receive on the late medieval culture of Tamilnadu of poetry to her name. images, Gursel documents the network in south India, exploring how and why the

10 Nayaka rulers of the era constructed their power movements, Raiford, an Assistant The Fellows group also includes four images through visual culture and textual Professor in the African American Studies tenured Faculty Fellows, a Library Fellow, material. Examining portraits of rulers in Department, situates the study of race and and a Museum Fellow. These fellows temple architecture, textiles, and literary photography within the larger framework meet as regular members of the group texts, Pai investigates the multiple ways of United States cultural history. and receive research stipends to support gender relations and sexuality are used to their work. The tenured faculty in 2005– define kingship in the Nayaka period. An Assistant Professor in the Department 2006 are Charles Briggs, Alan Dundes of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Distinguished Professor in Folklore in Four assistant professors join the fellowship Jiwon Shin is working on a book project the Department of Anthropology; John group in 2005–2006 with Townsend entitled “Intimate Objects: The Circulation Campbell, Willis S. and Marion Slusser Fellowships equal to 50 percent research of Literature in Late Chosôn Korea, 1771– Professor of Philosophy; Erich Gruen, leave. 1844.” This study examines the cultural Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History power of circulation in the making of and Classics; and AnnaLee Saxenian, Joanna Picciotto, an Assistant Professor literature, focusing on the effect that Dean, School of Information Management in the English Department, is working Chinese vernacular novels had on the and Systems. This year’s Library Fellow on a book project entitled “Labors of development of literary prose in Korea is Dean Rowan, Reference Librarian, Innocence in Early Modern England.” during and immediately following the School of Law Library. The Museum This study investigates how the classical period when the Korean court imposed a Fellow is Steve Seid, Video Curator, Pacific figure of the contemplative became the ban on the official import of Chinese novels. Film Archive. Benjamin Bogin, a Mellon modern intellectual laborer. Taking into Shin’s fellowship at the Townsend Center Postdoctoral Fellow hosted by the Group in account authors like John Milton and is supported by funding from the Koret Buddhist Studies, will also join the group’s Andrew Marvell, as well as revolutionary Foundation. conversations. groups like the Diggers and establishment organizations like the Royal Society for the An Assistant Professor of Electronic Media The Center welcomes all the new fellows, Improving of Natural Knowledge, Picciotto Art in the Department of Art Practice, Anne residents, and groups, and looks forward shows how the experimental cast of the Walsh is entering into the production phase to a year of intellectual stimulation and early modern era shaped the modern image on a project entitled “Audio Alexandria.” productive collaborations. of the intellectual as one who, as she puts This video, sound, and internet–based it, “intervenes in the world by expanding project consists of a series of works built the realm of the visible.” from a very large library of recorded sound effects. In “Audio Alexandria,” Walsh Leigh Raiford’s time at the Center will investigates the media library as an object be devoted to working on a book project of deep cultural complexity, repurposed to entitled “Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: produce immense wonder. Walsh’s work History, Memory, and the Photography has been exhibited internationally and is of Twentieth-Century African American currently featured in the Bay Area Now 4 Social Movements.” This study, which Exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the examines the role of photography in Arts, San Francisco. the African American freedom struggle, reveals the premium that activists This year, for the first time, the group will placed on photography as a democratic be joined by an Emeritus Fellow: Donald medium through which to visually M. Friedman, Professor Emeritus in the engage political categories, as well as to English Department, will participate in the mobilize participants. Reinserting multiple group’s discussions throughout the year. corpuses of photographs into histories of anti-lynching, civil rights, and black

11 fall SEMESTER APPLICATION DEADLINES

Conference Grants. Townsend/Mellon resident, and arranges all logistical aspects Strategic Working Groups of the resident’s visit. September 16, 2005. Final deadline for – Stage I. conferences taking place November 2005– Information about how to apply to these March 2006. Eligibility: UC Berkeley December 5, 2005. Strategic Working Groups programs is available on the Center’s affiliates. Award: Dependent on available provide a framework for interdisciplinary website: http://townsendcenter.berkeley. funds and proposed expenses. Average thinking about curricular innovations in edu. award amount is $1,000. new research areas. Groups meet every week for a semester to come up with a Townsend Fellowships. written plan for programmatic innovations intended to strengthen undergraduate and December 5, 2005. Support research of graduate teaching and research. Eligibility: Other Funding individual recipients. Recipients form a Proposals for groups are invited from any Deadlines fellowship group together with several two ladder-faculty members, normally from tenured faculty. Eligibility: Ph.D. students separate departments. Award: Replacement advanced to candidacy by June 2006; costs for up to seven participants per Once again, we urge faculty and graduate students to remember the Assistant Professors. Award: Graduate funded group. Groups also receive up to fall deadlines for fellowship funding student fellows: full-year fellowship of $5,000 for visitors or other activity related for the academic year 2006– $18,000 (excluding tuition, fees, or any to their work, as well as up to $5,500 for 2007, some of which fall as early additional costs). Assistant Professors: 50% graduate research assistance. NB: A Stage II as September 2005. The Townsend course relief. competition (deadline March 6, 2006), will Center provides a list of fellowship appoint individual participants to join the programs on our website and in print: http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu. GROUP Courses. group’s organizers.

December 5, 2005. Grants for the development Townsend Departmental Graduate students seeking dissertation of interdisciplinary undergraduate courses Residencies. funding are urged to consult the on one of four themes: humanities and Graduate Division: www.grad.berkeley.edu. the environment; humanities and human December 5, 2005. Intended to target rights; humanities and new media; persons who can enrich academic programs humanities and biotechnology, health, but who may not necessarily be academics. Faculty are reminded especially that and medicine. Eligibility: Ladder faculty. Provide a stipend and travel expenses for the deadline for the 2006-2007 Preference given to joint proposals from a one-month stay. Eligibility: Humanities President’s Research Fellowships in faculty in different departments. Award: and related departments can nominate the Humanities is October 14, 2005. For a description of the fellowship and $12,000 total replacement costs to the writers or artists in the earlier stages of application materials, visit: department(s) of the organizer(s). $5,000 their careers, promising journalists, or www.ucop.edu/research/prfh/. in course enhancement costs for visiting persons with careers in public service. lecturers, field trips, etc. Non-U.S. scholars and others who would be less likely to visit Berkeley through other residency programs are particularly encouraged. Award: A stipend of $10,000 and modest travel expenses are awarded to the department hosting the resident. The department serves as the official host of the

12 working groups Asian Art and Visual Cultures Contact: Teresa Sun, [email protected], or Kelsey september Activities Bostwick, [email protected] The aim of this group is to interrogate the differential The Townsend Center Working Groups Program brings together, from relationship between political and aesthetic endeavors various fields and departments, faculty and graduate students with within Asian Pacific American cultural production. shared research interests. September 7 (Wednesday), 5:00 pm, 308J Doe Library. Robert Bagley (Princeton University) will present “Zeng Houi For more information on group activities, please visit: Bells.” Co-sponsored with the Center for Chinese Studies. http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/working_groups_list.shtml. September 21 (Wednesday), 5:00 pm, Location TBA. Dr. Nancy Tingley will present “Vietnamese Art.” Tentatively Agency and Literature (New Group) scheduled; please contact group for more information. Contact: Andrew Leong, [email protected], or Sara Ruth Lorenz, [email protected] Asia-Latin America Working Group (New Group) The group will discuss the role of agency in a specifically Contact: Andrew Leong, [email protected] literary context, though in intersection with other The goal of the group is to encourage inter-disciplinary disciplines, as it relates to questions of aesthetics, ethics, discussion of issues posed by migration and cultural and social utility. Under examination also is the question exchange between Asia and Latin America. Besides of whether the ambiguity and irreducibility of literature conducting monthly reading roundtables, the group will brings any unique aspects of the concept of agency under organize film screenings and an end-of-year colloquium. consideration. September 7 (Wednesday), 12:00 noon, 4104 Dwinelle Hall. The September 4 (Monday), 12:00 noon, 4114 Dwinelle Hall. The group will meet to discuss selected readings and establish group will meet to discuss selections from the work of Rei plans for future meetings. Please contact the group to Terada and William T. Vollman. Please contact the group receive copies of the readings. to receive copies. Asian Pacific American Politics and Aesthetics American and Postcolonial Studies Contact: Marguerite Nguyen, [email protected], Janice Contact: Kelvin Black, [email protected], or Stephanie Tanemura, [email protected] Hays, [email protected] This group explores how Asian American literature might The reading group examines the historical expansion of the be discussed in conjunction with broader trajectories of United States in relation to theories of imperialism, as literary criticism. well as the relationships between critical theories of colonialism and American cultural production across Berkeley and Bay Area Early Modern Studies Group territorial boundaries. Contact: John B. Hill, [email protected], Catherine Burriss, (510) 384-0769, [email protected]. Please contact the Ancient Philosophy Working Group group to be placed on the mailing list. Contact: Jessica Gelber, [email protected], or Joseph Barnes, The group provides a forum for faculty and students in pre- [email protected] and early modern studies to share ideas. Graduate students and faculty of the group meet September 8 (Thursday) 12:30 pm, location TBA. approximately three times per semester to present and Organizational and informational meeting. discuss papers, relevant conferences, current topics, and academic issues. Berkeley Film Seminar September 16 (Friday), 5:00 pm, 234 Moses Hall. George Contact: Kristen Whissel, [email protected] Rudebusch (Philosophy, NAU) will discuss his paper, The Berkeley Film Seminar focuses on new research in moving “Plato, Wittgenstein, and Meaning.” Please contact the image culture. This year’s focus is on new media and group to receive copies. non-fiction film.

Armenian Studies Working Group Berkeley New Music Project Contact: Stephan H. Astourian, [email protected] Contact: Loretta Notareschi, (510) 642-2678, notaresc@yahoo. This group provides a forum that is part of an ongoing com or Aaron Einbond, [email protected] interdisciplinary, integrated program on Armenian An initiative of Berkeley graduate students in music studies for students, faculty, and scholars. composition, the project’s mission is to present performances of music written by its members and to educate audiences with respect to contemporary music and its trends.

13 working groups Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Contact: Margeret Ronda, [email protected], or Jessica september Activities Fisher, jmfi[email protected] The group focuses on the relation of poetry to poetics and critical inquiry. We are particularly interested in Berkeley-Stanford British Studies Group examining how the poem can be a form of criticism, a Contact: Caroline Shaw, [email protected], or James theoretical apparatus, and an agent of historical change. Vernon, [email protected] We also aim to engage the question of the historical, This group consists of faculty members and graduate students political, and interdisciplinary context of the discourse of from Berkeley and Stanford and from a variety of poetics. disciplines. The group meets once each month to discuss recent works of scholarship relating to the field of British Critical Filipina/o Studies studies, from the early modern period to the present. Contact: Gladys Nubla, [email protected], or Joanne Rondilla, [email protected] BTWH: The Question of German Modernism The group seeks to critically examine and challenge histories Contact: Sabrina Rahman, [email protected], or Chad of Western (specifically Spanish and American) Denton, [email protected] imperialisms and ongoing neocolonial relations in the Consisting of members from Berkeley, Tuebingen, Vienna, Philippines, and these histories’ relationship to past and and Harvard universities, BTWH explores questions of present Filipino migrations. German modernity and welcomes members from all disciplines providing they have a working knowledge of Critical Korean Studies Group (CRIKET) (New Group) German. Throughout the year the group shares its work Contact: Ju Hui Judy Han, [email protected], or Jennifer with international colleagues over the internet and meets Chun, [email protected] once a year for a conference. The group aims to situate Korean studies in conversation with ethnic studies, transnational feminist studies, geography, California Studies Lectures and sociology. The group will gather for monthly Contact: Delores Dillard, [email protected], or Richard readings, providing an interdisciplinary forum for Walker, [email protected] students, visiting scholars, faculty, and activists interested The group meets once a month. Anyone interested in topics in discussing Korean and diasporic Korean history, about the state of California is invited to attend these culture and politics. informal dinner gatherings. A guest speaker is featured at September 7 (Wednesday), 5:00 pm, location TBA. Planning each event, and typically the presentation is followed by meeting. discussion. September 21 (Wednesday), 7:00 pm, Lewis/Latimer Room, Critical Theory: Vocabulary and Schools of Thought (New Men’s Faculty Club. Peter Richardson will speak on Group) “Carey McWilliams: the California Years.” Contact: Kfir Cohen, [email protected], or Lily Gurton- Wachter, [email protected] Childhood Studies Working Group (New Group) The purpose of the working group will be to supply its Contact: Jelani Mahiri, [email protected], or members with a comprehensive and systematic Josefina Carpena-Mendez, fi[email protected] vocabulary of critical theory discourses. The group is organized to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, graduate students in particular, to Cultural Heritage and Open Knowledge (New Group) discuss the production, consumption and circulation of Contact: Ruth Tringham, [email protected], or John studies of children cross-culturally. Ristevski, [email protected] The group’s discussions focus on three important topics of Consortium on the Novel concern to a global conservation, interpretation and Contact: Karen Leibowitz, [email protected], or Orna presentation of places that have been meaningful in Shaughnessy, [email protected] the past and continue to be significant for modern The group is devoted to encouraging cross-pollination of populations: cultural heritage, intellectual property, open ideas among faculty and graduate students across the knowledge and database narratives. The group will meet university, from English to Japanese, and from history to bi-weekly. Faculty, post-doctoral scholars and graduate comparative literature. students from many disciplines who are interested in collaboration compose the group. August 30 (Wednesday), 3:30 pm, MACTia, 2224 Piedmont Avenue, Room 13. Organizational meeting.

14 Dance Studies Working Group (New Group) Graduate Film Working Group (GFWG) Contact: F. Lane Harwell, [email protected] or Katherine Contact: Erica Levin, [email protected], or Amy Rust, Mezur, [email protected] [email protected] The working group seeks to investigate the discipline of dance GFWG offers workshops and opportunities not available in practice, history, and theory. through home departments to members (graduate students either in Film Studies or with a scholarly Disability Studies Working Group interest in film). This year the group will focus on ways Contact: Anna Mollow, [email protected], or Ellen in which visual media are used to explore social life, and Samuels, [email protected] is planning a series of speakers and screenings on this The group is an interdisciplinary meeting of creative minds subject. who explore and challenge dominant paradigms September 15 (Thursday), 5:00 pm, 226 Dwinelle Hall. The of disability, non-disability, health, illness, and the group will meet to develop the upcoming lecture and supporting social structures. Weekly speakers present screening series. The theme of the series is “Technology graduate work in the humanities. and War.”

Eighteenth-Century Studies Working Group Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley Working Group (GMB) Contact: Len von Morze, [email protected], or Brad Q. Contact: Chris Jensen, (510) 409-4543, chrisjensen@berkeley. Boyd, [email protected] edu, or Matt Sergi, [email protected] Founded in 1990, Eighteenth-Century Studies brings a global The group fosters an exchange between individuals, perspective to the period, providing an institutional departments, and disciplines to enrich the study of the space for the convergence of a wide range of disciplines. medieval period. GMB gathers for reading groups and The group sponsors a yearly symposium for graduate sponsors colloquia, visiting speakers, and conferences. students, and brings two faculty speakers to campus each semester to present and discuss work in progress. History & Philosophy of Logic, Math, & Science Contact: Fabrizio Cariani, [email protected], or John Folklore Roundtable McFarlane, [email protected], or visit www.math. Contact: Kelly Revak, (510) 643-7934, ucbfolklore@berkeley. berkeley.edu/~jhafner/hplm/ edu, or Monica Foote, [email protected] The group provides a forum to discuss issues in the history of The group investigates trends in folklore research and explores modern symbolic logic. In particular, the talks focus on the reigning paradigms and perspectives in different the role of modern symbolic logic in the foundations of disciplines. mathematics and in the research of philosophy of logic and mathematics. Francophone Studies Working Group Contact: Araceli Hernandez, (510) 847-0576, aracely@berkeley. History and Social Studies of Medicine and the Body edu, or Jean-Pierre Karegeye, [email protected] Contact Lara Freidenfelds, [email protected], to be The group is dedicated to the study of postcolonial/diaspora included on the Med Heads email list. cultures and literatures in which French language plays HSSMB, aka Med Heads, discusses a pre-circulated work in a role. progress by a member of the group once a month over a potluck dinner, allowing an interdisciplinary group of Gender in German Studies Working Group (GIGS) participating graduate students, faculty and independent Contact: Jennifer Zahrt, [email protected], or Doug Spencer scholars to get feedback on their work and exchange [email protected] ideas. GIGS is dedicated to issues of gender, sexuality, and identity September 15 (Thursday), 7:00 pm, location TBA. Professor within a German studies context. Composed primarily of Mark Roseman (Indiana University) has been invited to graduate students, the group meets bi-weekly to discuss share an article in progress, “Movement in Protest: Body theoretical and primary texts. Topics and readings for Training, ‘Life Reform,’ and Resistance in a Left-Wing discussion this year will be determined by participant Political Grouping in the Ruhr.” interests and can vary widely. September 13 (Tuesday), 6:00 pm, 5337 Dwinelle Hall. The Identity in Central Asia group will hold an initial meeting to select readings for Contact: Cindy Huang, [email protected], or Dr. Edward the semester. Light snacks will be provided. Walker, [email protected] The group brings together faculty and students from the humanities and social sciences to discuss contemporary configurations of identity, including the question of Central Asia as a geographic space and unit of analysis. Meetings are held once a month and alternate between guest speakers and graduate student presentations of a critical work within the field.

15 working groups Linguistics and the Language Arts (L&LA) Contact: Jeremy Ecke, [email protected], or Zachary september Activities Gordon, [email protected]. Contact Jeremy Ecke to be added to the mailing list. This group focuses on the use of formal linguistics for the Interdisciplinary Genocide Working Group study of literature and oral traditions. The monthly Contact: Jean-Pierre Karegeye, [email protected], or meetings take the form of potluck dinners with Sarah Staveteig, [email protected] discussion of articles and/or work-in-progress. L&LA The group focuses on understanding and analyzing the will announce its September meeting at the start of the phenomena of genocide through various disciplines and semester. approaches. Mapping Petersburg (New Group) Interdisciplinary Marxism Contact: Olga Matich, [email protected], or Contact: Satyel Larson, [email protected] or Annie Polina Barskova, [email protected] McClanahan, [email protected]. To join the group’s The group creates a virtual map of the city of Saint Petersburg email list, email Annie with “subscribe IMWG” in the as the site of modernity and modernism at the turn of subject line and your email address in the body of the the 20th century by documenting the life of the city. email. Itineraries represent the everyday lives of its inhabitants The group meets monthly to discuss classic and contemporary and visitors. Among the prospective itineraries are: Marxist works, and holds regular lectures and colloquia. “Streetcars”, “Distribution of Meat”, “Funeral Processions September 22, (Thursday), 6:00 pm, location TBA. The group and Cemeteries”, “Prostitution”, ”City Outskirts as Sites will meet to discuss the “introduction” to Marx’s of Modernity”, “Tours to the Bronze Horseman,” and Grundrisse and selected contemporary texts. more. New members are welcome. August 29 (Friday), 4:00 pm, Slavic Seminar Room, 6115 James Joyce Working Group Dwinelle Hall. Contact: Sarah Townsend, [email protected] The group meets weekly for a lively discussion of Joyce’s Material Cultures Working Group Finnegan’s Wake. Scholars from all disciplines are Contact: Michael Nylan, [email protected], or Nicholas welcome. No prior knowledge of the book is needed. Paige, [email protected] Only your curiosity and a copy of the Wake are required. The group meets monthly to discuss works in progress Please contact the group for meeting times. based on material culture topics such as consumption, commoditization, notions of the gift and the fetish, Late Antiquity, Society, & Religion (LARES) collecting, and exchange. Contact: Amelia Brown, (510) 681-1103, [email protected], or Emily Munro Haug, [email protected] Music and Media (formerly Music, Literature and Critical LARES provides an interdisciplinary forum for the Theory) comparative study of religious texts in late antiquity. Contact: Mary Ann Smart, [email protected] The group will meet three times each semester to discuss Latin American Cinema Group (New Group) texts and recorded performances that foreground the Contact: Teresa Stojkov, [email protected], or Natalia connections among music, visual media, and technology. Brizuela, [email protected] Three of the seminars will be led by invited speakers; the The group focuses on theoretical issues related to the emerging topics of the other meetings will be decided collectively significance of Latin American cinema, spanning cinema by group members. studies, history, literature, the social sciences, creative September 29 (Thursday), 7:00 pm, 101 Morrison Hall. writing and journalism. Organizational meeting,

Latin American Colonial Studies Muslim Identities and Cultures Contact: Sean McEnroe, [email protected], or Paul Contact: Huma Dar, [email protected], or Fouzieyha Ramirez, [email protected] Towghi, [email protected] This interdisciplinary group meets to discuss contemporary This group explores Muslim identities and agencies from the scholarly research and critically review participants’ standpoint of race, gender, nationalism, geopolitics and works-in-progress. culture, especially concentrating on the discourses of “racialization” of Muslims taking place since 9/11. August 24 (Wednesday), 7:00 pm, location TBA. The group will meet to discuss workshop and conference plans for the coming year.

16 New Directions in Oral History Unicode, I18N, and Text Encoding Working Group Contact: Jess Rigelhaupt, [email protected] Contact: Deborah Anderson, [email protected], or The group promotes inquiry and discussion in an Richard Cook, [email protected] interdisciplinary format for those whose research and This group is devoted to computerization of multilingual publication centers on and/or uses oral history and materials, specifically with regard to the promotion of interviews. Faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate Unicode (the international character encoding standard) students from Berkeley, and members of the broader and general text encoding issues. community, attend. Visual Anthropology Working Group Nineteenth Century and Beyond British Cultural Studies Contact: Irina Leimbacher, [email protected], or Timoteo Contact: Julie Carr, [email protected], or Mark Allison, Rodriguez, [email protected] [email protected] The group facilitates a forum for graduates, undergraduates, The group provides a forum for faculty and graduate students visiting scholars, and professors. Discussions will focus to discuss works-in-progress on the literature and culture on visual media as an alternative form of discourse in of nineteenth-century Britain and its colonies. Pre- which non-fiction film, video, multimedia installation circulated papers investigate issues of aesthetics, politics, and artistic enterprises can function not only as means of history, theory, and other current sites of academic focus, exposition, but also as analytic tools in academic research. with occasional forays into the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries. Visual Cultures Writing Group September 22 (Thursday), 5:00 pm, 330 Wheeler Hall. Parama Contact: Anne Nesbet, [email protected] Roy (UC Riverside) will present. The group organizes graduate students and professors working on any aspect of visual culture (such as art, South Asian Modernities film, popular culture) to meet and share feedback on a Contact: Nikhil Govind, [email protected], or Robert range of writing projects, including chapters, articles, job Raddock, [email protected] applications, and grant proposals. The group hopes to bring together students of ancient and modern India and other humanities/area studies Working Group in the Philosophy of Mind (New Group) departments to debate common issues. This year focuses Contact: Jame Genone, [email protected]. on the difficulties raised by the problem of historical The group promotes interdisciplinary dialogue for graduate periodization. In South Asia, the traditional pedagogical students and faculty engaged in the contemporary study overarching axis of “ancient/traditional” and “modern” of the mind. The topic for the fall will be the neural has been undermined by advances in several fields. The correlates of consciousness. The group will meet several group hopes to meet on the last Friday of every month. times each semester to discuss readings. September 8th (Thursday), 4:00 pm, 234 Moses Hall. The Tourism Studies Working Group (TSWG) reading will be D.J. Chalmers’ “What is a Neural Contact: Stephanie Hom Cary or Charles Carroll at Correlate of Consciousness?” A copy of the reading can [email protected], or visit www.tourismstudies.org be found at http://consc.net/papers/ncc2.html. TSWG creates a forum for cross-disciplinary discussion of readings and work-in-progress on all aspects of tourism Working Group on Visual Communication in Scholarly and travel. The group sponsors a monthly colloquium Production (New Group) series, organized around key themes in tourism studies Contact: Jelani Mahiri, [email protected], or (e.g., modernity, gender, development, material culture, Laura Hubbard, [email protected]. heritage, identity) and hosted by invited scholars. The group examines the use of visual representations of September 16 (Friday), 3:00 pm, Seminar Room, Townsend information in scholarly production. Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall. Professor Regina Scheyvens (Massey University, New Zealand) Yucatec Maya Language Working Group (New Group) will speak on “Beach Fale Tourism in Samoa: The Value Contact: Timoteo Rodriguez, [email protected], or Beatriz of Indigenous Ownership and Control Over Tourism.” Reyes-Cortes, [email protected]. Please contact the group for readings beforehand. The group facilitates the exchange of ideas and experiences October 7-8 (Friday - Saturday), 9:00 am - 7:00 pm, Townsend between students and scholars who consider the Yucatec Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall. The TSWG Maya language and culture important as a subject of will sponsor an international conference entitled, “On formal research. It explores how the roles of language and Voyage: New Directions in Tourism Theory.” There is no culture interplay and function as an alternative form of registration fee, and it is open to the public. discourse, and how language can operate as an analytical tool of research.

17 working groups JAGNES (Journal of the Association of Grads in Near Eastern Studies) september Activities Cyrus Zargar or Catherine Painter at [email protected] JAGNES is a graduate student-run organization based in the Near Eastern Studies Department. JAGNES publishes a Publication Activities semi-regular journal, which includes graduate student articles covering a variety of topics related to the Near Chronicle of the University of California East. JAGNES strives to create a dialogue between Contact: Carroll Brentano, (510) 643-9210, cbrentano@berkeley. graduate students from many different departments and edu universities studying a wide range of topics which all The Chronicle is an annual journal dedicated to the history relate to the Near East. of the University of California. Most back issues are available at book stores and by request to the above email Lucero: A Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies address. Contact: Sarah Moody, [email protected], or Victor “Changing Places” will be published this fall; “Agriculture, Goldgel Carballo, [email protected] Viticulture, and Gastronomy” in the coming year. The Lucero is the literary journal published by the graduate editorial board welcomes ideas for articles — on new students of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. subjects or on reversals of old ones. Qui Parle Clio’s Scroll Contact: Nima Bassiri or Sarah Wells at (510) 643-0737, Contact: Natalie Mourra, [email protected], or visit [email protected]. http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~clios Qui Parle publishes, bi-annually, articles in literature, Clio’s Scroll aims to provide undergraduates with the philosophy, visual arts, and history by an international opportunity to publish historical works and to train staff array of faculty and graduate students. members in the editorial process of an academic journal. Undergraduate history majors are encouraged to submit Transit (New Journal) original research papers for publication each semester. Contact: Jennifer Zahrt, [email protected] or Gabe Trop Clio’s Scroll will be accepting papers for the fall 2005 issue on [email protected] Monday, October 3, 2005 in the Clio’s Scroll box in the This group of graduate students from across disciplines will Department of History, 3229 Dwinelle Hall. Information meet bi-weekly to work towards publishing Transit, the on paper submissions and editorial positions is available. first interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the critical inquiry of travel, migration, and multiculturalism in the Critical Sense: A Journal of Political and Cultural Theory German-speaking world. Contact: Padma Rangarajan, [email protected], or September 15 (Thursday), time and location TBA. The group Matthew Baxter, [email protected] will meet to release the inaugural issue of Transit. Critical Sense is a semiannual interdisciplinary journal that September 19 (Monday), 5:00 pm, 5337 Dwinelle Hall. The publishes work in political and cultural theory by group will meet to introduce interested graduate students graduate students in the Unites States and internationally. to Transit and start the editorial process for the next issue. Transit invites work from a variety of disciplines. Harvest Moon Contact: Alexander McCormmach, [email protected], or Jennifer Kelly, [email protected] Harvest Moon, a philosophy journal, publishes only undergraduate work and is completely run and edited by undergraduates. The purpose of the journal is to expose to the greater community the best philosophical work that Berkeley undergraduates have to offer. The journal prints once a year in the spring.

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Center for Middle Eastern Studies Fall 2005 Lecture Series thursday, september 1 “Strange Times, My Dear: The PEN Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature” Lunch Poems 5:00 pm • 340 Stephens Hall Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau, Beth Burnside, Kevis Goodman, Janette Hernandez, Shayee Khanaka, Vice Chancellor Genaro Berkeley Art Museum Public Programs Padilla, Garrison Sposito, George Strait, and Jonathan Thomas Gallery Talk: Yosemite in Time 12:10 pm • Morrison Library in Doe Library Rebecca Solnit 5:30 pm • Theater Gallery Central Asia Film Series: Films from Along the Silk Road 5:30 pm • The Last Stop (Serik Aprimov, 1989) Central Asia Film Series: Films from Along the Silk Road with guest Davlat Khudonazarov 7:30 pm • Man Follows Birds (Ali Khamraev, 1975) 7:30 pm • The Fierce One (Tolomush Okeev, 1973) 9: 15 pm • The White Ship (Bolot Shamsiev, 1976) PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way • Tickets required PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way • Tickets required friday, september 2 friday, september 9 Central Asia Film Series: Films from Along the Silk Road Hearst Museum 7:30 pm • Without Fear (Ali Khamraev, 1972) Contemporary Traditions in Clay: The Pottery of Mata Ortiz 9:25 pm • The Daughter-in-Law (Khodjakuli Narliev, 1972) Opening reception with artist Jerardo Tena PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way • Tickets required 5:00 pm • Hearst Museum, Kroeber Hall

Central Asia Film Series: Films from Along the Silk Road wednesday, september 7 Martin Scorsese Presents: The Fall of Otrar (Ardak Amirkulov, 1990) 7:30 pm • PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way • Tickets required Music Department 53rd Annual Noon Concert Series East Asian Languages and Cultures Villa-Lobos, Jet Whistle for flute and cello, and Sonatine for flute Sheng Xiang & Band in performance and piano 8:00 pm • Hertz Hall • Tickets required Schubert, Piano Sonata No. 14, op. 143 in A Minor, D 784 Anais Lim and Jessie Lee Noon • Hertz Hall • Free saturday, september 10 Hearst Museum thursday, september 8 Contemporary Traditions in Clay: The Pottery of Mata Ortiz Pottery demonstration and sale Townsend/Mellon Discovery Fellows 10:00 am - 4:30 pm • Hearst Museum, Kroeber Hall “Art Practice and the Academy” Dick Hebdige, Elisabeth Le Guin, Shannon Jackson, Kate van Orden, and Anne Walsh East Asian Languages and Cultures 4:00 - 6:00 pm • Lipman Room, Barrows Hall Symposium: “Music, Community Politics, and Environmental Justice in Taiwan“ Center for Race and Gender Afternoon Forum Series Guo-jiun Hong, Sheng Xiang, and Aviva Imhof Juan Bahena, Roman Leal, and Dominique Diana Nisperos Noon • 145 Dwinelle Hall • Free 4:00 pm • 691 Barrrows Hall Berkeley Art Museum Public Programs Institute of East Asian Studies Lecture: Collections/Asian Film screening and discussion Li Jin Mark Leong 3:00 pm • Gallery B 4:00 pm • IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street

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Townsend Center for the Humanities sunday, september 11 Kazakh: Paintings by Saule Suleimenova Exhibition opening Music Department 4:00 pm • Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall Performance: Bach Harpsichord Davitt Moroney Center for Latin American Studies 3:00 pm • Hertz Hall • Tickets required Cine Documental El dia que me queiras (Leandro Katz, 1998) Pacific Film Archive Cuban Story (Victor Pahlen 1959) Film Premiere: Security 7:00 pm • CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street 5:30 pm • PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way • Tickets required monday, september 12 thursday, september 15 Anthropology 119/Geography 175 GROUP Course Institute of European Studies “The Holocasut” 2nd Annual Berkeley-Vienna Conference Philippe Bourgois “The US and European Economies in Comparative Perspective” 3:30 pm • 155 Kroeber Hall • Limited seating 9:00 am – 5:00 pm • 223 Moses Hall Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies/Townsend Departmental Center for British Studies Resident “The ‘Old British and Irish Histories’: Where Do We Go From Here?” Public discussion with Suman Mukherjee Dr. Jane Ohlmeyer 4:00 pm • Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall 4:00 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall Center for Middle Eastern Studies Fall 2005 Lecture Series “Challenge and Incorporation: The Transformation of Religious tuesday, september 13 Politics in Turkey” Cihan Tugal Institute of European Studies 5:00 pm • 340 Stephens Hall 2nd Annual Berkeley-Vienna Conference “The US and European Economies in Comparative Perspective” Hearst Museum of Anthropology Fall Program Series 9:00 am – 5:00 pm • 223 Moses Hall “African Material Culture between Everyday and Ritual Contexts” Mariane Ferme Center for Studies in Higher Education 5:30 pm • Hearst Museum • Coffee reception preceding Clark Kerr Lectures on the Role of Higher Education in Society “Industry, Philanthropy and Universities – The Roles and Institute of European Studies Influences of the Private Sector in Higher Education” Sir David King in conversation with Michael Pollan on Global Charles Vest Warming 3:00 pm • Lipman Room, Barrows Hall 6:00 pm • Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall

Anthropology 119/Geography 175 GROUP Course Cal Performances/Institute of East Asian Studies “Putting Human Rights Into Action” Film and roundtable: Raise the Red Lantern Charles Kernaghan Scholars and members of the National Ballet of China 3:30 pm • 155 Kroeber Hall • Limited seating 7:00 pm • Wheeler Auditorium

Central Asia Film Series: Films from Along the Silk Road wednesday, september 14 Revenge (Ermek Shinarbaev, 1987) 7:30 pm • PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way • Tickets required Music Department 53rd Annual Noon Concert Series New Traditions in American Indian Music and Dance Revision Production Company and The Sweetwater Singers Noon • Hertz Hall • Free

20 CALENDAR . . . continued friday, september 16 thursday,september 22 Department of Scandinavian Anthropology 119/Geography 175 GROUP Course “The Nobel Prize and American Literature” “The State Amok: Legacy of the Pinochet Case” Kjell Espmark Judge Carlos Castresana Fernandez 4:00 pm • Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall 3:30 pm • 155 Kroeber Hall • Limited seating

Central Asia Film Series: Films from Along the Silk Road Center for Race and Gender 7:30 pm: Takhir and Zukhra (Nabi Ganiev, 1945) Open House 9:20 pm: Tenderness (Elyer Ishmukhamedov, 1967) 4:00 pm • 691 Barrows Hall PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way • Tickets required Center for British Studies Annual Fall Reception RSVP to [email protected] or (510) 642-4508 sunday, september 18 5:00 pm • Morrison Library in Doe Library Hearst Museum Cultural Arts and Activities Series Performance: Hungarian Folk Culture through Song and Dance Center for B uddhist Studies Ferenc Tobak and family Colloquium with Jonathan Silk 2:00 pm • Hearst Museum, Kroeber Hall 5:00 pm • IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street

Berkeley Art Museum Public Programs Department of Italian Studies Gallery Talk: MATRIX/Carla Klein 8th Annual Marie G. Ringrose Lecture Carla Klein, Michael Darling, and Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson Jane Schneider 4:00 pm • Gallery 1 6:00 pm • Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Performance: The Man of the Heart monday, september 19 7:00 pm • Durham Studio Theater • Free Department of History of Art Mary C. Stoddard Lectures in the History of Art Center for Latin American Studies “Commitment and the Substance of Things” “The Mistresses of Zorro in Conversation” Alex Potts Isabel Allende and Sandy Curtis, with moderator Harley Shaiken 5:30 pm • Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall 7:30 pm • Chevron Auditorium, International House Consortium for the Arts Dutch Voices: Films of Jos de Putter wednesday, september 21 Alias Kurban Said Music Department 7:30 pm • PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way 53rd Annual Noon Concert Series The Jimmy Van Heusen Songbook Christy Dana, Mary Fettig, and Ted Moore friday, september 23 Noon • Hertz Hall • Free Center for Britsh Studies Department of History of Art Mellon Consortia Conference on British Studies Mary C. Stoddard Lectures in the History of Art 8:30 am – 6:00 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall “The New Realism” Alex Potts Hearst Museum 5:30 pm • Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall Californian Indian Day Tours and performance The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium/Center for New Media 10:00 am – 2:00 pm • Hearst Museum/UC Botanical Garden “Can Soulful Music Survive Digital Epistemology?” Jaron Lanier 7:30 pm • 160 Kroeber Hall

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Consortium for the Arts Dutch Voices: Films of Jos de Putter monday, september 26 Salon with Dutch documentary filmmaker Jos de Putter 1:30 pm • PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way • Free Consortium for the Arts The Arts & the Atomic Bomb Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies “Science and the Soul: Robert Oppenheimer and Doctor Performance: The Man of the Heart, followed by discussion with Atomic” Suman Mukherjee and Sudipto Chatterjee John Adams, Peter Sellars, Marvin Cohen, and Pamela Rosenberg 4:00 pm • Durham Studio Theater • Free 8:00 pm • Wheeler Auditorium • Free, tickets required

Central Asia Film Series: Films from Along the Silk Road 5:00 pm: The Roof of the World (Vladimir Alekseevich Erofeev, 1928) wednesday, september 28 7:00 pm: Angel on the Right (Jamshed Usmonov, 2002) 8:50 pm: Osama (Siddiq Barmak, 2003) Music Department PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way • Tickets required 53rd Annual Noon Concert Series Bach, Sonata No. 1 in G for violin solo Brahms, Piano Trio No. 1 in B Garrett McLean, Gabriel Trop and Inning Chen saturday, september 24 Noon • Hertz Hall • Free Center for Britsh Studies Mellon Consortia Conference on British Studies The Graduate Council 8:30 am – 6:00 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall Charles M. & Martha Hitchcock Lectures “Taming Molecular Wildness” Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Caucasus Dudley Herschbach and Central Asia Program 4:00 pm • Chevron Auditorium, International House Conference: Modes of Contemporary Central Asian Culture 9:00 am • 370 Dwinelle Hall Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Making Theater “Take Back the Power: Bread, Roses and Revolution” Leon Litwack sunday, september 25 4:00 pm • Zellerbach Playhouse • Free Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Caucasus and Central Asia Program Center for Latin American Studies Conference: Modes of Contemporary Central Asian Culture Cine Documental 9:00 am • 370 Dwinelle Hall Intermissions (João Moreira Salles, 2004) 7:00 pm • CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street Hearst Museum of Anthropology Fall Program Series “From Africa to America – a Voicing Exploration” Jewish Studies Jacqui Hairston “The Hidden Rescuers of the Ruhr: Saving Jewish Lives in 2:00 pm • 112 Wurster Hall Nazi Germany” Mark Roseman Armenian Studies Program 5:00 pm • Location to be determined; call (510) 643-2995 “Diamonds, Dragons and Crosses: The Story of Armenian Rug Weaving” The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium of UC Berkeley’s Lucy Der Manuelian Center for New Media 4:00 pm • Toll Room, Alumni House • Reception preceding “Ephemeral Gumboots - Dancing the Rhythm of Change“ Cobi van Tonder Berkeley Art Museum Public Programs 7:30 pm • 160 Kroeber Hall Lecture: Taisho Chic Liza Dalby Department of Classics 3:00 pm • Museum Theater Sather Classical Lectures “Informal Writing in a Public Place: the Graffiti of Smyrna” Roger Bagnall 8:10 pm • 2050 Valley Life Sciences Building

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The Graduate Council Thomas Biolsi, Professor, Ethnic Studies Charles M. & Martha Hitchcock Lectures C. Daniel Blanton, Assistant Professor, “Breaking and Making Chemical Bonds” English Dudley Herschbach Deborah Blocker, Assistant Professor, French 4:00 pm • Chevron Auditorium, International House Charles Briggs, Professor, Anthropology Vikram Chancra, SOE Lecturer, English History of Art Melinda Chen, Assistant Professor, Gender & The Arts & the Atomic Bomb Women’s Studies “On Nuclear Time” Julia Bryan-Wilson Giacomo Chiozza, Assistant Professor, Political 5:00 pm • 308J Doe Library or 160 Kroeber Hall Science Samera Esmeir, Acting Assistant Professor, Italian Studies Rhetoric Lecture on early modern Italy Munis Faruqui, Assistant Professor, South and Elizabeth Cohen Southeast Asian Studies 5:00 pm • 160 Dwinelle Hall Victoria Frede, Assistant Professor, History Sumi Furiya, Assistant Professor, Classics Consortium for the Arts Bryan Graham, Acting Assistant Professor, Dutch Voices: Films of Peter Delpeut Economics Felice…Felice… Thomas Griffiths, Assistant Professor, 7:30 pm • PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way Psychology/UGIS Keith Johnson, Professor, Linguistics Niko Kolodny, Assistant Professor, friday, september 30 Philosophy Townsend/Mellon Strategic Working Group on Redress Lance Kriegsfeld, Assistant Professor, Colloquium: “Critical Conversations on Redress” Psychology Herman Bennet, David Scott, Fred Moten, Joan Dayan, and David Landreth, Assistant Professor, English Anne Bailey Tania Lombrozo, Acting Assistant Professor, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall Psychology Emily Mackil, Assistant Professor, History Consortium for the Arts Maura Nolan, Associate Professor, English Dutch Voices: Films of Peter Delpeut Carlos Norena, Assistant Professor, History Salon with Dutch documentary filmmaker Peter Delpeut Abena Osseo-Asare, Assistant Professor, 1:30 pm • PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way History Dylan Sailor, Assistant Professor, Classics Italian Studies Jasjeet Sekhon, Associate Professor, Political Lecture on early modern Italy Science Tom Cohen Cihan Tugal, Assistant Professor, Sociology 5:00 pm • 370 Dwinelle Hall Robert Van Houweling, Assistant Professor, Political Science Central Asia Film Series: Films from Along the Silk Road Jason Wittenberg, Assistant Professor, Political 7:30 pm: The Adopted Son (Aktan Abdikalikov, 1998) Science 9:10 pm: The First Teacher (Andrei Konchalovsky, 1966) PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way • Tickets required

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Townsend / Mellon Discovery Fellows Thursday, September 22 Art Practice and the Academy: A Roundtable “The State Amok: Legacy of the Pinochet Case” Judge Carlos Castresana Fernández, Chief Prosecutor, General with Dick Hebdige Augusto Pinochet

Thursday, September 8 Thursday, September 29 4:00 - 6:00 pm • Lipman Room, Barrows Hall “Torture and Interrogation” Michael Traynor, President, American Law Institute Dick Hebdige, Director, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UC Santa Barbara Thursday, October 20 Elisabeth Le Guin, Musicology, UCLA “Asylum, Immigrants and Refugee Rights” Shannon Jackson, Performance Studies and Rhetoric Maria Echaveste, former Deputy Chief of Staff for President Kate van Orden, Musicology Clinton Anne Walsh, Art Practice Sister Maureen Duignan, Executive Director, Refugee Rights Program, East Bay Sanctuary The Discovery Fellows are graduate students from multiple disciplines including English, History of Art, Rhetoric, Tuesday, October 25 Comparative Literature, Music, Philosophy, and Performance “Prisons: Justice and Human Rights – Incarcerating Difference” Studies who gather three to four times a semester to meet Loïc Wacquant, Sociology (tentative) with faculty guests. Each year with the support of the Mellon Frank Zimring, Franklin E. William G. Simon Professor of Law Foundation, they organize a public event to benefit faculty and graduate students from across the greater UC Berkeley Thursday, October 27 community. This year’s event will be the culmination of their “Death Penalty: The State Kills” 2004-2005 discussions on the theme, “Performance, Performativity Nick McKeown, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Politics.” Stanford University Mariana Ferreira, UC San Francisco A reception follows the discussion. Tuesday, November 1 The September 8th event simultaneously kicks off a yearlong “The American Civil Rights Movement: from Mississipi Freedom series of speakers, workshops, and discussions that will be Summer to Alcatraz” devoted to the question “When Is Art Research?” This series is Don Jelinek, SNNC and SRRP, Selma, Alabama, 1965-1968 supported by the Townsend/Mellon Strategic Working Groups program. Thursday, November 3 “On Changing the World” For more information contact the Townsend Center: (510) 643- Tracy Kidder, author 9670 or [email protected]. Paul Farmer, Founder, Partners in Health (tentative)

q q q Tuesday, November 8 “The Defense of Civil Liberties” Dorothy Ehrlich, Executive Director, ACLU-Northern California Anthropology 119/Geography 175 Tuesdays and Thursdays • 3:30 - 5:00 pm • 155 Kroeber Hall Tuesday, November 22 “Human Rights in Literature” The Townsend GROUP Course, “Violence, Genocide, Social Alan Tansman, East Asian Languages and Cultures Suffering and Human Rights: Perspectives from Medicine, Social Science and the Humanities” will be open to the public on a Thursday, December 1 limited seating basis. “Reconciliation and Reconstruction” Jane Olson, Chair, Board of Directors, Human Rights Watch Tuesday, September 13 “Putting Human Rights into Action” Tuesday, December 6 Charles Kernaghan, Director, Labor Committee for Human “Getting Over–Forgiveness and Reconciliation” Rights Linda Biehl, mother of slain Fulbright student, Amy Biehl Frances Reid and Deborah Hoffmann (filmmakers) Thursday, September 15 “The Holocaust” q q q Philippe Bourgois, Medical Anthropology, UC San Francisco

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Townsend Departmental Resident/Theater, Dance, and “The Nobel Prize and American Literature” Performance Studies Kjell Espmark, the Swedish Academy Suman Mukherjee, Artist in Residence Friday, September 16 Thursday, September 15 4:00 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall Public discussion with Suman Mukherjee 4:00 pm • Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall Kjell Espmark is a poet, novelist, and literary historian. He was professor in Thursday, September 22 comparative Literature at the University Performance: The Man of the Heart of Stockholm 1978-1995, became a member 7:00 pm • Durham Studio Theater • Free of the Swedish Academy in 1981 and the chairman of its Nobel Committee in Suman Mukherjee, eminent theater director from India and 1988. His poetry can be read in a dozen Townsend Center Visiting Artist in Residence, directs Professor languages, including English: Béla Bartók Sudipto Chatterjee in a solo-performance piece on the life, times against the Third Reich (1985), Route and music of Lalon Phokir, the saint-composer of the multi- Tournante (1993), and Five Swedish Poets religious “Baul” of Bengal. (1997). The best-known of his seven books of criticism (including studies of Harry Martinsson, Tomas Friday, September 23 Tranströmer, and the tradition from Baudelaire) is The Nobel Prize Performance of The Man of the Heart, followed by a discussion in Literature, A Study of the Criteria Behind the Choices (1986; in with Suman Mukherjee and Sudipto Chatterjee English in 1991). 4:00 pm • Durham Studio Theater • Free Espmark will also participate in the ongoing lecture series on q q q the Nobel Prize at the Exploratorium, San Francisco, “The Nobel Prize: 100 Years of Creativity.” Visit www.exploratorium.edu/ nobel/publicprograms.html. Institute of European Studies Sir David King in conversation with Michael Sponsored by the Scandinavian Department, the Townsend Pollan on Global Warming Center for the Humanities, and the Consulate General of Sweden, San Francisco. Thursday, September 15 6:00 pm • Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall q q q

Sir David King is Chief Science Advisor to British Center for Latin American Studies Prime Minister Tony Blair. Michael Pollan is The Mistresses of Zorro in Conversation Knight Professor of Journalism and award- Isabel Allende and Sandy Curtis, with moderator Harley winning author of The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s Shaiken Eye View of the World. Thursday, September 22 Co-sponsored by the Center for British Studies, 7:30 pm • Chevron Auditorium, International House the British Consulate of San Francisco, International and Area Studies, Institute of International Studies, The Knight Program Isabel Allende is the author of several novels in Science and Environmental Journalism at the Graduate School and a short fiction collection as well as of Journalism, the Haas Center for Responsible Business, the plays and stories for children. Sandy Curtis UC Energy Institute, Energy and Resources Group, the Berkeley is the head of creative development for Institute for the Environment, Agricultural and Resource Zorro Productions and the author of Zorro Economics, California Climate Change Center, Consortium on Unmasked: The Official History. Green Design and Manufacturing, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the Management of Technology Program. In her latest novel, acclaimed author Isabel Allende delves into the legend of Zorro to create a new version q q q of the story steeped in both Spanish and U.S. history.

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Department of Italian Studies is meant to warn people 10,000 years in the future — without 8th Annual Marie G. Ringrose Lecture using language — about the dangers of this site.

Jane Schneider, Ph.D. Program in Anthropology, Graduate Center, Thursday, October 6 CUNY Martin Sherwin, co-author of the recent biography American Pro- metheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, in con- Thursday, September 22 versation with Jonathan Schell, author of The Fate of the Earth. 6:00 pm • Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall Time and location to be announced.

q q q Monday, October 10 “The Aesthetics of the Bomb and the Aesthetics of Doctor Atomic” Consortium for the Arts 4:00 pm • Location to be determined The Arts & the Atomic Bomb The Rhetoric Department presents a colloquium and roundtable In conjunction with the world discussion with Richard Misrach, Frederick Dolan, Mark Pedretti, premier of Doctor Atomic, a new Phillip Kuberski (Wake Forest University), and Dan Grausam opera written by John Adams and (Washington University). Peter Sellars, at the San Francisco Opera, and to commemorate the Saturday, October 15 60th anniversary of the bombing “Ghosting Atoms: A Reading of New Poetry” of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the 3:00 pm • Berkeley Art Museum Theater Consortium for the Arts at UC Berkeley is coordinating a series of events that examine the atomic The Department of English presents twenty-two poets, including age through the lens of the arts. UC Berkeley professors Robert Hass and Lyn Hejinian, Leslie Scalapino, Brenda Hillman, Bill Berkson, and many others, Monday, September 26 reading new work created for this occasion. “Science and the Soul: Robert Oppenheimer and Doctor Atomic” A colloquium and film series are also scheduled in October. The John Adams, Peter Sellars, Marvin Cohen (Physics), and Consortium for the Arts & Arts Research Center is also sponsoring Pamela Rosenberg (SF Opera) several courses in 2005-2006 on the arts and the Atomic Age. For 8:00 pm • Wheeler Auditorium more information on all programs, please visit the Consortium for the Arts’ website at www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/bca/, email The event will include a musical preview of [email protected], or call (510) 642-7784. the opera. q q q Free tickets are required. Tickets will be available beginning September 19. The Graduate Council Charles M. & Martha Hitchcock Lectures Sponsored by the College of Letters and Science and co-sponsored by Cal “Intimate Encounters with Molecules” Performances and organized in cooperation Dudley Herschbach, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science, with the SF Opera. Harvard University, and Nobel laureate

For more information about Doctor Atomic at Wednesday, September 28 the San Francisco Opera, please visit www. “Taming Molecular Wildness” sfopera.com and www.doctor-atomic.com. 4:00 pm • Chevron Auditorium, International House

Thursday, September 29 Thursday, September 29 “On Nuclear Time” “Breaking and Making Chemical Bonds” Julia Bryan-Wilson, Rhode Island School of Design 4:00 pm • Chevron Auditorium, International House 5:00 pm • 308J Doe Library or 160 Kroeber Hall For more information, visit www.grad.berkeley.edu/lectures or The History of Art Department sponsors a talk on the plans contact Ellen Gobler, (510) 643-7413, [email protected]. for a marker over a New Mexico nuclear waste dump to warn future generations about the effects of radioactivity. The marker q q q

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Department of Classics Lunch Poems Sather Classical Lectures 12:10 pm • Morrison Library in Doe Library

“Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East” Thursday, September 1 Roger Bagnall, Columbia University Kick-off: Distinguished faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines read and discuss a favorite poem. Wednesday, September 28 “Informal Writing in a Public Place: the Graffiti of Smyrna” Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau, Beth Burnside (Molecular and 8:10 pm • 2050 Valley Life Sciences Building Cell Biology), Kevis Goodman (English), Janette Hernandez (Education), Shayee Khanaka (Library, Middle Eastern Collection), Wednesday, October 5 Genaro Padilla (Vice Chancellor), Gary Sposito (ESPM), George “The Ubiquity of Documents in the Hellenistic East” Strait (Public Affairs), and Jonathan Thomas (Library). 8:10 pm • 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building Sponsored by Mrs. William Main, the Library, The Morrison Wednesday, October 12 Library Fund, the dean’s office of the College of Letters and “Documentary Silences and the Archaeological Record: the Case Science, the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, and of Slavery in Ptolemaic Egypt” Poets & Writers, Inc. 8:10 pm • 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building For more information on the series, visit http://lunchpoems. Wednesday, October 19 berkeley.edu. “Greek and Coptic in Late Antique Egypt” 8:10 pm • 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building q q q

Wednesday, October 26 Center for Race and Gender Afternoon “Greek and Syriac in the Roman Near East” 8:10 pm • 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building Forum Series 4:00 pm • 691 Barrrows Hall Wednesday, November 2 Thursday, September 8 “Writing on Ostraka: A Culture of Potsherds?” CRG Undergraduate Grant recipients: 8:10 pm 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building

q q q Juan Bahena – “Safe Spaces: Community Building Strategies Employed By Mestizo Mexican Gay Men in Mexico City” Roman Leal – “Informal Finance in a Land of Giants: Preliminary Townsend/Mellon Strategic Working Group on Redress Findings on RoSCAs in the United States” “Critical Conversations on Redress” Dominique Diana Nisperos – “Rape, Murder, and the Disappeared: Colloquium Responses to Violence Against Women in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico”

Friday - Saturday, September 30 - October 1 Wednesday, October 5 10:00 am – 5:00 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall Professor Michael Omi, Ethnic Studies

PARTICIPANTS: Thursday, November 3 Herman Bennet, Rutgers University Professor Nelson Madonado-Torres (Ethnic Studies) – “Blackness David Scott, Columbia University and Indigeneity and the Beginnings of the Modern World” Fred Moten, USC Daphne Vanessa Taylor-Garcia – “Blackness, Indigeneity and the Joan Dayan, Vanderbilt University Emergence of Chicano Indianism: a Legal Study” Anne Bailey, Spelman College Zakiyyah Jackson – “Reterritorializing the Black‚ and the Indian‚ in Maori Feminist Theory” For more information, contact Annie McClanahan, ajmcc@uclink. Robin Maria DeLugan – “Disentangling History/Unsilencing berkeley.edu. Memory: Indigeneity in Postwar El Salvador” q q q q q q

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Center for Middle Eastern Studies Fall 2005 Sunday, October 9 “The Culture of Chocolate: Tracing the Mystique and Worldwide Lecture Series Journey of Cacao” Thursdays • 5:00 pm • 340 Stephens Hall Presentations, panel discussion and tasting 1:00 pm • 112 Wurster Hall/Hearst Museum • Tickets required September 8 “Strange Times, My Dear: The PEN Anthology of Contemporary Sunday, October 16 Iranian Literature” “Divinely Inspired: Form, Function, and Faith in the Arts of the Yoruba People” Co-Sponsored by the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Henry J. Drewal, Evjue-Bascom Professor of African and African Humanities Diaspora Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2:00 pm • Hearst Museum • Coffee reception following September 15 “Challenge and Incorporation: The Transformation of Religious Thursday, November 3 Politics in Turkey” “Fleeting Memory, Enduring Legacy: The People of La Costa Cihan Tugal, Sociology Chica, Oaxaca, Mexico”

Dr. Wendy Phillips, documentary photographer October 6 5:30 pm • Hearst Museum • Coffee reception preceding “Marriage, Youth, and Social Anxieties in Egypt” Diane Singerman, Government, American University Sunday, December 11

“Hidden Faces of Mexican Textiles: Technique and Tradition” October 20 Yolanda Garfias, anthropologist and artist “The Shiite Religious Parties and Politics in Iraq” 2:00 pm • Hearst Museum, Kroeber Hall Juan Cole, History, University of Michigan

For more information visit http://hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu. October 27 “Explaining the Global Religious Revival: The Egyptian Case” q q q Talal Asad, Program in Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center Department of History of Art November 3 “European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean” Mary C. Stoddard Lectures in the History Karla Mallette, French and Italian, Miami University of Ohio of Art

November 10 “The Reconfigured Art Work c. 1945-1965: Between Commitment “Historical Monuments in Jerusalem: Signs and Symbols of the and Consumerism” Three Monotheistic Religions” Alex Potts, Max Loehr Collegiate Professor in the History of Art, Dr. Raya Shani, Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew University University of Michigan of Jerusalem Monday, September 19 December 1 “Commitment and the Substance of Things” “Jew and Anti-Semite: Reflections on the Question” 5:30 pm • Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall Gil Anidjar, Comparative Literature, Columbia University Wednesday, September 21 q q q “The New Realism” 5:30 pm • Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall Hearst Museum Fall Program Series For more information call (510) 643-7290. Thursday, September 15 q q q “African Material Culture between Everyday and Ritual Contexts” Mariane Ferme, Anthropology 5:30 pm • Hearst Museum • Coffee reception preceding

Sunday, September 25 “From Africa to America – a Voicing Exploration” Jacqui Hairston, composer and pianist 2:00 pm • 112 Wurster Hall

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The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium East Asian Languages and Cultures of UC Berkeley’s Center for New Media Music, Community Politics, and Environmental Justice in Taiwan Wednesday, September 21 “Can Soulful Music Survive Digital Epistemology?” Saturday, September 10 Jaron Lanier, artist and musician Noon • 145 Dwinelle Hall 7:30 pm • 160 Kroeber Hall Guo-jiun Hong, Assistant Professor, Duke University Wednesday, September 28 Sheng Xiang and band members “Ephemeral Gumboots - Dancing the Rhythm of Change“ Aviva Imhof, International Rivers Network Cobi van Tonder, artist and musician 7:30 pm • 160 Kroeber Hall This symposium features the documentary film East of County Monday, October 17 Road 184, followed by a panel “From Object to Things: How to Represent the Parliament discussion on Sheng Xiang’s of Nature?” role in the political movement Bruno Latour, Ecole des Mines, Paris that stopped the building of the 7:30 pm • Location to be determined Meinung dam in central Taiwan.

Primary Sponsors: UC Berkeley Center for New Media (CNM) Co-sponsored by the Institute of East Asian Studies and the and Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society Center for Chinese Studies, with support from the Townsend (CITRIS). Co-sponsored by the Office of the Executive Vice Center for the Humanities, the Consortium for the Arts, and Cal Chancellor and Provost, College of Engineering Interdisciplinary Performances. Studies Program, Consortium for the Arts, BAM/PFA, the Townsend Center for the Humanities, and the Science, Technology, q q q and Society Center. Institute of European Studies The series continues through the spring semester. For updated information, visit www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/lecs/. 2nd Annual Berkeley-Vienna Conference “The US and European Economies in Comparative Perspective” q q q September 12 - 13 Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies 9:00 am – 5:00 pm • 223 Moses Hall

Making Theater MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 Friday, September 23 Opening Remarks: The Man of the Heart, a performance followed by discussion with Barry Eichengreen, Economics and Political Science Suman Mukherjee and Sudipto Chatterjee Ferdinand Lacina, President, Austrian Marshall Fund 4:00 pm • Durham Studio Theater • Free Foundation Wednesday, September 28 “Economic Policy in the US and the EU: Convergence or “Take Back the Power: Bread, Roses and Revolution” Divergence?” Leon Litwack, Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of Jean Pisani-Ferry, Université de Paris-Dauphine American History Discussant: Barry Eichengreen 4:00 pm • Zellerbach Playhouse • Free “Fiscal Policy Coordination in Europe” Wednesday, October 12 André Sapir, Université Libre de Bruxelles “Cradling the New Deal” panel discussion Fred Glass, Peter Glazer and Kathleen Moran “Fiscal Policy in the U.S.” 5:00 pm • Zellerbach Playhouse • Free Alan Auerbach, Economics and Law Thursday, October 27 “European Union Expansion: A Constitutional Perspective” Ferruccio Soleri of Piccolo Teatro di Milano Denis Müller, University of Vienna 3:30 pm • Zellerbach Playhouse • Free

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“Europe’s Constitutional Imbroglio” Center for British Studies Gérard Roland, University of California, Berkeley Mellon Consortia Conference on British Discussant: Jeffry Frieden, Harvard University Studies “Why Was Europe Left at the Station When America’s Productivity Locomotive Departed?” Friday - Saturday, September 23 - 24 Robert Gordon, Northwestern University, Evanston 8:30 am - 6:00 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 This is the first in a series of conferences held in conjunction with the Center for British Studies, the University of Chicago “Longer-Term Competitiveness of the Wider Europe” and British historians at Yale. The theme will be “Economic Michael Landesmann, The Vienna Institute for International Modernization.” Economic Studies Karl Aiginger, Austrian Institute of Economic Research PLENARY SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Gareth Stedman Jones, Cambridge University “Is the Honeymoon Over? Partial Labour Market Reforms and Deborah Valenze, Barnard College the Growth of Low Productivity Jobs in Europe” Robert Brenner, UCLA Tito Boeri, Bocconi University, Italy Contact Julie Taddeo at [email protected] for details. “Improving Labor Market Performance without Throwing in the q q q Social Welfare Towel” Richard Freeman, Harvard University Discussant: Karl Pichelmann, DG EcFin, European Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Commission Caucasus and Central Asia Program “Modes of Contemporary Central Asian Culture” “International Migration and the Labor Market: Comparing Western Europe and the United States” Saturday - Sunday, September 24 - 25 Rainer Münz, Humboldt University, Berlin 9:00 am • 370 Dwinelle Hall

“Gains from Immigration? Lessons for Europe from the United This two-day conference will provide a forum on contemporary States” art and filmmaking in Central Asia. Through an examination Giovanni Peri, UC Davis of the region’s arts and other cultural forms, an attempt will be made to take a different view of the changing realities of Central “Europe and US: Two Distinct Models of Social Policy” Asian societies. Some of the questions we will address are: What Agnes Streissler,Austrian Chamber of Labour is the history and future of filmmaking in Central Asia? What are Discusssant: Peter Lindert, UC Davis the trends in Soviet and post-Soviet filmmaking? As the Soviet myths are discarded, what new archetypes are being created? Is Organized by the Institute for European Studies, the Austrian there a Central Asian identity and, if so, how does it manifest Marshall Fund Foundation and the Vienna Institute for itself? What are some of the reflections of Islamic, Soviet, ethnic, International Economic Studies (wiiw) in the framework of the and national identities? Berkeley-Vienna Program. Support from the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation is gratefully acknowledged. Co-sponsored by the Al-Falah Program of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Silk Road Working Group, the Department q q q of Near Eastern Studies, the History of Art Department, the Department of Art Practice, the History department, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities.

For more information on the conference and related events, visit http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~bsp/caucasus/conferences. html or contact Kalynn Yastro, (510) 643-6737 or ccasp@berkeley. edu.

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Kazakh: Paintings by Saule Suleimenova Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology September 14 – October 20 Contemporary Traditions in Clay: The Pottery of Mata Ortiz Saule’s style, says art historian and professor Friday, September 9 A. Mukhambetova, “is Opening reception to welcome artist Jerardo Tena deeply individual and 5:00 pm • Hearst Museum, Kroeber Hall instantly recognizable. A selection of pottery will be displayed for sale M a n y i n f l u e n c e s make up its pedigree, Saturday, September 10 including European Mata Ortiz pottery demonstration and sale e x p r e s s i o n i s m , 10:00 am - 4:30 pm • Pottery sale symbolism and dada, the 11:00 am • Pottery making demonstration decorative component 2:00 pm • Pottery firing of Central Asian miniatures, Kazakh ornamental style…One should add god-given talent and hard work by the soul and mind, Jerardo Tena, the featured artist at the Hearst Museum’s event, a unique psyche, both sensitive and dynamic, plus a heightened moved to Mata Ortiz with his family at the age of seven. He reaction to falsity, both in life and in creative work.” learned to work in clay from his mother, Señora Sofia de Tena. Jerardo acquired his own artistic style at a young age, which Saule uses a rare technique, wax engravings on paper and was noticed by collectors and purchased with great enthusiasm. cardboard with acrylic, gouache, and pastel; she also works His painting is delicate and precise, yet sharp, and is superbly with oil on canvas. She has exhibited her work nationally and polished. Jerardo has impeccable craftsmanship in forms that internationally since 1987 and has had solo exhibitions in the Ular, include animal sculpture, zoomorphic figures, effigies, and Minoy, ARK, and other galleries in Kazakhstan. Saule’s work is innovative pottery shapes. held in the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union at Rutgers University. Her works are q q q shown in galleries and private collections in Kazakhstan, Russia, France, the U.K., the U.S., Germany, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology Norway, Sweden, and other countries. Californian Indian Day Wednesday, September 14 Exhibition opening Friday, September 23 4:00 pm • Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall “California Indian Food and Culture” RELATED EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS Tour led by Hearst Museum Cultural Attaché Otis Parrish (Kashaya Pomo) Group Exhibition 10:00 am and 1:00 pm October 4 - 14 S. Tugsoyun, J. Munkhtsetseg, and M. Erdenebayar, Mongolian Indian Taco sale to support the Native American Studies visual artists Department Worth Ryder Gallery, Kroeber Hall 11:00 am - 1:30 pm

Wednesday, October 12 Performance by the Coastal Pomo Indian Dancers of A discussion about contemporary art in Central Asia Point Arena Worth Ryder Gallery, Kroeber Hall • Time to be determined 2:00 pm

Featuring Mongolian artists S. Tugsoyun, J. Munkhtsetseg, and “California Natives: Plants & People” Tour M. Erdenebayar; Kazakh artist Saule Suleimenova; Mongolian art 11:00, 11:15 and 11:30 am • UC Botanical Garden critic Ts. Uranchimeg; and professor Alma Kunanbaeva. Co-sponsored by the Native American Studies Department and the Botanical Garden. For more information contact Kalynn Yastro, Caucasus and Central Asia Program, (510) 643-6737, or the Townsend Center, q q q (510) 643-9670.

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Berkeley Art Museum Public Programs Berkeley Art Museum Exhibitions

Thursday, September 8 Taisho Chic: Japanese Modernity, Nostalgia, and Deco Gallery Talk: Yosemite in Time September 14 - December 23 Rebecca Solnit 5:30 pm • Theater Gallery Taisho Chic explores the elegant fusion of modernity and tradition in 1920s and 1930s Saturday, September 10 Japan in a stunning collection of paintings, Lecture: Collections/Asian textiles, and decorative arts from the Art Li Jin Deco era. Japanese women were especially 3:00 pm • Gallery B influenced by the lure of the Jazz Age and avidly consumed the new styles that were Sunday, September 18 the fashion in Europe and America. Gallery Talk: MATRIX/Carla Klein Carla Klein, Michael Darling, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson 4:00 pm • Gallery 1 Yosemite in Time through December 23 Sunday September 25 Lecture: Taisho Chic Photographers Byron Wolfe Liza Dalby and Mark Klett, along with 3:00 pm • Museum Theater the writer/historian Rebecca Solnit, spent countless weeks Sunday, October 2 in Yosemite National Park, Gallery Talk: Meiji a la Mode rephotographing historic images Lynne Kimura by Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, 2:00 pm • Asian Galleries Carleton Watkins, and Eadweard Muybridge. The exhibition of q q q their work, along with beautiful early photographs, looks at Institute of East Asian Studies time as photography freezes it, represents it, and questions its Mark Leong: China Obscura nature. September 8 - October 7 /November 1 - December 9

MATRIX 218 Carla Klein Scape Stunning black-and- September 18 - November 6 white photography that captures images of The large-scale, spare but gestural works of Rotterdam-based the subtle currents of painter Carla Klein hover around the margins of representation. everyday life, official In compositions that suggest uninhabited landscapes — open and underground, in water, airports, highways to nowhere — Klein’s work straddles contemporary China. the boundaries between painting and photography, reality and fiction.

IEAS Conference Room & Lobby, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor Hours: 9:00 am - 12:00 pm / 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm. Meiji à la Mode: A Modernizing Japan, 1868-1912 through December 23 Thursday, September 8 Mark Leong presents his photographs, followed by the screening Complementing Taisho Chic, this exhibition highlights artistic of four vignettes filmed in Shanghai. responses to the social upheaval of a modernizing Japan in the 4:00 pm • IEAS Conference Room late 19th and early 20th centuries.

For more information, please call (510) 642-2809, email [email protected], or visit http://ieas.berkeley.edu/events.

q q q Images, clockwise: Mark Leong, from the series China Obscura; Kobayakawa Kiyoshi (1899-1948), No.1 from the series Styles of Contemporary Makeup, Honolulu Academy of Arts; Eadweard Muybridge: Pi-Wi-Ack (Shower of Stars). “Vernal Fall,” 400 Feet Tall. No. 29, 1872 (detail).

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Music Department 53rd Annual Noon Concert Series Music Department Noon • Hertz Hall • Free Davitt Moroney performs Bach Harpsichord

Wednesday, September 7 Sunday, September 11 Villa-Lobos Jet Whistle for flute and cello and Martin Sonatine for 3:00 pm • Hertz Hall flute and piano, Anais Lim (flute) Schubert Piano Sonata No. 14, op. 143 in A Minor, D 784, Jessie Bach’s famous 15 two-part Inventions and 15 three-part Lee (piano) Sinfonias have, for nearly 300 years, been central to the repertoire of all keyboard players, amateurs and professionals. Wednesday, September 14 They are very rarely played in concert. Don’t miss this special New Traditions in American Indian Music and Dance opportunity to hear them performed by Bach specialist Davitt Revision Production Company and The Sweetwater Singers, Moroney. (Bring your score, if you want!) directed by John-Carlos Perea and Edwardo Madril Tickets: $10/7/3. Wednesday, September 21 Phone: (510) 642-9988. The Jimmy Van Heusen Songbook q q q Faculty Recital: Christy Dana (trumpet, flugelhorn, whistler), Mary Fettig (saxophone and flute), Ted Moore (drums) Hearst Museum Cultural Arts and Activities Series Wednesday, September 28 Hungarian Folk Culture through Song Bach Sonata No. 1 in G for violin solo and Brahms Piano Trio No. and Dance 1 in B, Garrett McLean (violin), Gabriel Trop (cello) and Inning Chen (piano) Sunday, September 18 Ferenc Tobak and family present traditional Hungarian music All department of Music events this year are dedicated to and dance. celebrating its 100th anniversary. 2:00 pm • Hearst Museum, Kroeber Hall q q q Co-sponsored by the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. East Asian Languages and Cultures Sheng Xiang & Band q q q

Friday, September 9 Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies 8:00 pm • Hertz Hall The Man of the Heart

Sheng Xiang & Band plays a blend of Taiwanese folk music Suman Mukherjee, eminent theater director from India and and western rock intertwined with social consciousness Townsend Center Visiting Artist in Residence, directs Professor and environmental concerns on modern and traditional Sudipto Chatterjee in a solo-performance piece on the life, times instruments. and music of Lalon Phokir, the saint-composer of the multi- religious Baul “faith” in Bengal. Tickets are $22. September 22 • 7:00 pm Saturday, September 10 September 23 • 4:00 pm, followed by a discussion with the “Music, Community Politics, and Environmental Justice director and performer in Taiwan” Durham Studio Theater • Free Guo-jiun Hong, Sheng Xiang, and Aviva Imhof in discussion 2:00 pm • 145 Dwinelle Hall • Free For more information call (510) 642-9925 or visit http://theater. berkeley.edu. Co-sponsored by the Institute of East Asian Studies and the Center for Chinese Studies, with support from the Townsend Co-sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities. Center for the Humanities, the Consortium for the Arts, and Cal Performances. q q q

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Central Asia Film Series: Films from Along A bold and challenging collaboration between renegade the Silk Road filmmaker Rob Nilsson and 17 Cal students. September 1 - 30 • PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way Co-sponsored by Film Studies and Art Practice.

Thursday, September 1 q q q 5:30 pm • The Last Stop (Serik Aprimov, 1989) • Free with guest Davlat Khudonazarov Center for Latin American Studies 7:30 pm • The Fierce One (Tolomush Okeev, 1973) Cine Documental Friday, September 2 Wednesdays • 7:00 pm • CLAS Conf. Room, 2334 Bowditch St. 7:30 pm • Without Fear (Ali Khamraev, 1972) 9:25 pm • The Daughter-in-Law (Khodjakuli Narliev, 1972) September 14 El dia que me queiras (Leandro Katz, 1998) Thursday, September 8 Cuban Story (Victor Pahlen, 1959) 7:30 pm • Man Follows Birds (Ali Khamraev, 1975) 9:15 pm • The White Ship (Bolot Shamsiev, 1976) September 28 Intermissions (João Moreira Salles, 2004) Friday, September 9 7:30 pm • Martin Scorsese Presents: The Fall of Otrar (Ardak October 19 Amirkulov, 1990) Fernando is Back (Silvio Caiozzi, 1998) 100 Children Waiting for a Train (Ignacio Aguero, 1988) Thursday September 15 7:30 pm • Revenge (Ermek Shinarbaev, 1987) November 9 Madrid (Patricio Guzmán, 2002) Friday September 16 Robinson Crusoe Island (Patricio Guzmán, 1999) 7:30 pm • Takhir and Zukhra (Nabi Ganiev, 1945) q q q 9:20 pm • Tenderness (Elyer Ishmukhamedov, 1967)

Friday, September 23 Consortium for the Arts 5:00 pm • The Roof of the World (Vladimir Alekseevich Erofeev, 1928) Dutch Voices: Films of Jos de Putter 7:00 pm • Angel on the Right (Jamshed Usmonov, 2002) 8:50 pm • Osama (Siddiq Barmak, Afghanistan, 2003) Thursday, September 22 Alias Kurban Said Friday, September 30 7:30 pm • PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way 7:30 pm • The Adopted Son (Aktan Abdikalikov, 1998) 9:10 pm • The First Teacher (Andrei Konchalovsky, 1966) Friday, September 23 Salon with Dutch documentary filmmaker Jos de Putter Presented with support from the Consortium for the Arts. Curated 1:30 pm • PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way • Free by Alla Verlotsky and Kent Jones and presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Seagull Films, with the generous q q q support of the Open Society Institute. Consortium for the Arts Tickets: $8 general; $5 UCB faculty/staff, seniors, non-UCB Dutch Voices: Films of Peter Delpeut students, disabled persons; and $4 UCB students, BAM/PFA members. Separate charge for each film admission. Thursday, September 29 Felice…Felice… q q q 7:30 pm • PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way

Pacific Film Archive Friday, September 30 Security (World Premiere) Salon with Dutch documentary filmmaker Peter Delpeut 1:30 pm • PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way Sunday, September 11 q q q Rob Nilsson 5:30 pm • PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way

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September 14 – October 20, 2005 Financial/Program Assistant and Working Groups Coordinator: Geballe Room Cecilia Gutierrez The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities 220 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley