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

October 2004

Infrastructure

Humanists are often identified by their concern for the euphony of linguistic choices. They are also frequently thought of as proud Luddites raging against the technological machine. In this respect, the Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies may seem doomed to be met with a special disdain reserved for the double offense of linguistic awkwardness and technological investment.

It’s true that infrastructure is not a term likely to raise temperatures or passions, and cyberinfrastructure in particular does not trip lightly off the tongue. But the commission is a welcome acknowledgment of the increasing importance of digital tools and technologies in humanistic scholarship, criticism, and creative activity, and an important forum for assessing that impact and providing broad recommendations for future directions.

The term cyberinfrastructure was coined, according to the commission, by the National Science Foundation to describe new research environments in which capabilities of the highest level of computing tools are available to researchers in an interoperable network. The commission notes that these environments will be built, and it is important that the Contents humanities and social sciences participate in their design and construction: Infrastructure ...... 1 “Effective cyberinfrastructure for the humanities and social sciences will allow scholars to focus their intellectual and scholarly energies on the Fall Semester Deadlines .... 3 issues that engage them, and to be effective users of new media and new Working Group technologies, rather than having to invent them.” Activities ...... 4

Calendar ...... 10 The commission is operating throughout 2004 and is charged with describing and analyzing the current state of humanities and social New Faculty ...... 16 science infrastructure; articulating the requirements and the potential contributions of the humanities and the social sciences in developing Events ...... 16 a cyberinfrastructure for information, teaching, and research; and recommending areas of emphasis and coordination for the various agencies and institutions, public and facing museums trying to establish a digital add universities themselves, and also private, that contribute to the development presence (see, e.g., www.bampfa.berkeley. research centers. These institutions not only of this cyberinfrastructure. To further this edu/moac/classic/moacfinalreport. make research possible; they shape its very html); and Gregory Niemeyer, Assistant contours. The Townsend Center’s palette goal, it is holding public forums designed Professor for Art, Technology, and Culture, of programs sponsoring interdisciplinary to encourage reflection among stakeholder Departments of Art Practice and Film research in the humanities provides a communities and to gather information; Studies, who presented some of his work in complex and exciting framework for it expects to publish its findings and digital media (see http://art.berkeley.edu/ developing and undertaking innovative recommendations early in 2005. niemeyer/). Other presenters included scholarship. Our programs also seek to Geoffrey Nunberg of the Center for the interrogate research and teaching structures One such public forum took place at Study of Language and Information and already in place: proposing new curricula, Berkeley, August 21 in the Morrison Room Marc Levoy, in Computer Science and in the case of the Townsend/Mellon in Doe Library. The commission heard Engineering, both at Stanford; and Daniel Strategic Working Groups; or creating new presentations from Bay Area individuals Greenstein, University Librarian and research environments for undergraduate and groups responsible for developing Director, California Digital Library, in students, in the case of GROUP. and maintaining digital tools for use in the the UC Office of the President (http:// humanities and social sciences. The result www.cdlib.org/). The presentations and It is precisely because of my interest in these was a fascinating look at the wide variety demonstrations allowed for more than “infrastructural” questions–in creating and of possibilities for digital technology– just an appreciation of the panoply of implementing environments promoting from scholarly work benefiting from technologies already in use in humanities interdisciplinary research–that I am so the manipulation of exponentially more and social science contexts. They also raised delighted to be at the Townsend Center. complex data sets to video animation a number of vital issues for the future, I would like to thank Candace Slater for driven by economic statistics. Berkeley from the importance of standards ensuring her generous welcome, Tina Gillis for the presenters included Suzanne Calpestri, John interoperability to the complexities of time she took to show me the ropes, and H. Rowe Librarian and Director, George privacy law and its effect on data access the Center’s staff for their help with the and Mary Foster Anthropology Library, for researchers. These will no doubt be logistics of running the Center. who presented her work developing addressed in the commission’s report, AnthroSource, a scholar’s portal for which promises to be a key statement for I look forward to meeting the members anthropologists (www.anthrosource.net); the future of scholarly and creative work in of the Berkeley humanities community Henry Brady, director of the Survey Research the humanities and social sciences. and to working together to develop and Center and UC Data, which is Berkeley’s benefit from research infrastructures, cyber- principal archive of computerized social While we await the commission’s or otherwise. science and health statistics information report, however, I would like to draw (http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/); Michael attention to an observation made in the Matthew Tiews Associate Director Buckland, co-Director, Electronic Cultural second paragraph of the definition of Atlas Initiative, which combines temporal cyberinfrastructure: “‘Cyberinfrastructure’ and geographical information for greater becomes less mysterious once we reflect that The Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the cultural understanding (http://ecai. scholarship already has an infrastructure.” Humanities and Social Sciences web site is: www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/cyber.htm berkeley.edu); Richard Rinehart, Director The commission lists as examples libraries, of Digital Media, Berkeley Art Museum, museums, and presses and their systems who discussed some of the standards issues and administrators. To this list we should

2 FALL SEMESTER APPLICATION DEADLINES

Application deadlines for several of the Townsend/Mellon Berkeley through other residency programs Center’s 2005–2006 programs will fall Strategic Working Groups are particularly encouraged. on December 6, 2004. For details on Stage I: Project Proposals. Award: A stipend of $10,000 and modest application procedures and a complete list Provides a framework for interdisciplinary travel expenses are awarded to the of our programs, please visit our website: thinking about curricular innovations in department hosting the resident. The http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/ new research areas. Groups meet every department serves as the official host of the research_support.shtml. week for a semester to devise a written plan resident and arranges all logistical aspects for programmatic innovations intended to of the resident’s visit. Townsend Fellowships strengthen undergraduate and graduate Deadline: December 6, 2004 Support research to individual recipients, teaching and research. who will form a fellowship group together Eligibility: Proposals for groups are invited with several tenured faculty. from any two ladder-faculty members, Eligibility: Ph.D. students advanced normally from separate departments. to candidacy by June 2005; Assistant Award: Partial replacement costs of $6,500 Reminder: Professors. for up to seven participants per funded Other Deadlines Award: Graduate student fellows: full-year group. Groups also receive up to $5,000 Once again, we urge faculty and fellowship of $18,000 (excluding tuition, for visitors or other activity related to their graduate students to remember fees, or any additional costs). Assistant work, as well as up to $3,000 for graduate the fall deadlines for fellowship funding for the academic year Professors: 50% course relief. research assistance. 2005–2006, many of which fall Deadline: December 6, 2004 Deadline: December 6, 2004 as early as October 15, 2004. NB: A Stage II competition (deadline early The Townsend Center provides a list of fellowship programs on our GROUP Courses March) will appoint individual participants web site and in print: Grants for the development of inter- to join the group’s organizers. http://townsendcenter.berkeley. edu. disciplinary undergraduate courses on Townsend Departmental one of four themes: humanities and the Graduate students seeking environment; humanities and human rights; Residencies dissertation funding are urged to consult the Graduate Division: humanities and new media; humanities and By Departmental Nomination. www.grad.berkeley.edu. biotechnology, health, and medicine. Intended to target persons who can enrich Eligibility: Ladder faculty. Preference given academic programs but who may not Faculty are reminded especially of the Presidentʼs Research to joint proposals from faculty in different necessarily be academics. Provides a Fellowships in the Humanities. stipend and travel expenses for a one- departments. For a description of the Award: $12,000 total replacement costs to month stay. fellowship and application materials, visit: the department(s) of the organizer(s). $5,000 Eligibility: Humanities and related www.ucop.edu/research/prfh/. in course enhancement costs for visiting departments can nominate writers or lecturers, field trips, etc. artists in the earlier stages of their careers, Deadline: December 6, 2004 promising journalists, or persons with careers in public service. Non-U.S. scholars and others who would be less likely to visit

3 working groups German. Throughout the year the group shares its work with international colleagues over the internet and meets October Activities once a year for a conference. October 1 (Friday), 3:00 pm, 5337 Dwinelle. The group will have The Townsend Center Working Groups Program brings together, from a planning meeting for this year’s conference in Vienna. various fields and departments, faculty and graduate students with shared research interests. For updates on the groups’ activities, please Berkeley and Bay Area Early Modern Studies Group go to http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/working_groups_list.shtml. Contact: Penelope Anderson, [email protected], or John Hill, [email protected] American Studies and Postcolonial Studies The group sponsors colloquia with visiting scholars and Contact: Kelvin C. Black, [email protected], or Stephanie smaller reading groups for faculty and graduate students Hays, [email protected] to share ideas relating to the early modern period. Please The group examines the historical expansion of the United contact the group to be added to the mailing list. States in relation to theories of imperialism, as well as the relationships between critical theories of colonialism The Berkeley Film Seminar (New Group) and American cultural production across territorial Contact: [email protected] or Kristen Whissel, boundaries. [email protected] The group focuses on new research in moving image culture. Ancient Philosophy Working Group This year’s focus is on new media and nonfiction film. Contact: Joel Yurdin, [email protected] Graduate students and faculty of this group meet approx. Berkeley New Music Project three times per semester to present and discuss papers, Contact: Philipp Blume, [email protected], or Loretta relevant conferences, current topics, and academic issues. Notareschi, [email protected] October 29 (Friday), 5:00 pm, 234 Moses. Keimpe Algra The group is an initiative of Graduate Students in Music (Philosophy, Yale) will present. Composition, whose mission is twofold: to present performances of music written by its members and to Armenian Studies Working Group educate audiences with respect to contemporary music Contact: Stephan Astourian, 642-1489, astour@socrates and its trends. .berkeley.edu This group provides a forum that is part of an ongoing Berkeley-Stanford British Studies Group interdisciplinary, integrated program on Armenian Contact: Mike Buckley, [email protected] Studies for students, faculty, and scholars. This group consists of faculty members and graduate students from both universities and from a variety of disciplines Asian Art and Visual Cultures (e.g. history, English, political science, art history, music). Contact: Namiko Kunimoto, 841-2818, namiko_ The group meets once a month to discuss recent works [email protected] of scholarship relating to the field of British studies, from This group is an interdisciplinary peer critique for scholars the early modern period to the present. interested in various visual media from ancient through October, time and location TBA. The group will hold its contemporary Asia. Students and faculty explore monthly meeting. theoretical issues spanning gender studies, anthropology, religion, history, literature, and political analysis through California Studies Lectures papers presented by group members, discussions of Contact: Richard Walker, 642-3901, [email protected] readings, and lectures given by guest speakers. .edu, or Delores Dillard, 642-3903, [email protected] The group meets once a month at the Faculty Club. Anyone Asian Pacific American Politics and Aesthetics (New Group) interested in topics about the state of California is invited Contact: Marguerite Nguyen, 295-8113, mbnguyen@berkeley to attend these informal dinner gatherings. A guest .edu, or Janice Tanemura, 610-0086, [email protected] speaker is featured, typically followed by discussion. The aim of this working group is to interrogate the differential relationship between political and aesthetic endeavors Comparative and Interdisciplinarity within Asian Pacific American cultural production. Contact: Sarah Wells, [email protected], or Sylvia Sellers- Garcia, [email protected] BTWH: The Emergence of German Modernism The group considers strategies of “comparison” across national Contact: Sabrina Rahman, [email protected], or Chad literatures and disciplinary lines by addressing specific Denton, [email protected] questions and problems that arise in disciplines that are Consisting of members from Berkeley, Tuebingen, Vienna, comparative by nature. This year the group is focusing and Harvard universities, BTWH explores questions of on the intersections of fiction and history, with an German modernity and welcomes members from all emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches. Meetings will disciplines providing they have a working knowledge of

4 be structured around issues such as temporality, memory, Filipina/o Studies. and narrative. Third week of October, time and location TBA. Professor October 6 (Wednesday), 10:00 am – Noon, Comparative Nerissa S. Balce (Comparative Literature, University of Literature Conference Room, Dwinelle 4104. The group Massachusetts-Amherst) will give a lecture titled “The will hold an introductory session; contact coordinators Erotics of Empire: Images of the Filipina after 1898,” with for copies of readings. discussion afterwards.

Consortium on the Novel Deleuze Working Group (New Group) Contact: Karen Leibowitz, [email protected], or Orna Contact: Carrie Gaiser, [email protected], or Gavin Witte, Shaughnessy, [email protected] [email protected] The group seeks to foster interdisciplinary discussion of The group meets every three weeks to read and discuss works the novel among students and faculty from disparate by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. departments to encourage cross-pollination of ideas on topics pertaining to the novel that transcend particular Disability Studies national traditions. Contact: Gretchen Case, [email protected], or Corbett October 21 (Thursday), 5:10 pm, location TBA. The group will O’Toole, [email protected] host a panel discussion on the origins of the novel in the The group is an interdisciplinary meeting of creative minds English, French, Italian, and Japanese traditions featuring who are exploring and challenging dominant paradigms Catherine Gallagher (English, UCB), Margaret Cohen of disability and nondisability and health and illness (Stanford Center for the Study of the Novel), and H. and their supporting social structures. Weekly speakers Mack Horton (East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCB), present graduate work in the humanities and sciences with particular attention to the heterogeneity of pre-novel to an audience of students, professors and community narratives, from spoken language to poetry to travel members. narratives to diplomatic official language. October 6 (Wednesday), Noon, 316 Wurster Hall (3rd floor). Lakshmi Fjord (Ed Roberts Postdoc, UCB) will lead Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (New Group) a discussion on “Non/disabled Representations in Contact: Elizabeth Marie Young, [email protected], or Theater: Thinking about HIV for People with Pre-existing Jessica Fisher, jmfi[email protected] Disabilities.” Wheelchair accessible. Please mae requests This group focuses on issues of poetic interdisciplinarity for sign language interpretation with one week’s notice to ranging from poets’ theater to text-based film to [email protected]. “poetically” adventurous criticism. October 20 (Wednesday), 5:00 pm, 330 Wheeler Hall. Alice Sheppard (Ed Roberts Postdoc, UCB) will Contemporary Poetry in French speak on “Medieval Literature and Disability.” Contact: Vesna Rodic, [email protected], or Michael Allan, Wheelchair accessible. Please make requests for sign [email protected] language interpretation with one week’s notice to The group seeks to explore the relationship between [email protected]. photography, film, and poetry and the ways in which October 28 (Thursday), 5:00 pm, Wheeler 330. Elizabeth contemporary poetry helps us to think through Dungan (Postdoctoral Fellow, UCB) will present a talk: representation and the object in French poetry. The group “Blind at the Museum: What Does It Mean to ‘See’?” meets for discussions and screenings and to sponsor Please make requests for ASL or other interpretation to lectures by poets working in French. Ellen Samuels at [email protected] by October 21.

Contesting Culture and the Nation State (New Group) Eighteenth-Century Studies Contact: Christian Buss, cbuss@butterflystorm.com, or David Contact: Len von Morze, [email protected], or Kevis Gramling, [email protected] Goodman, [email protected] The group will meet weekly to discuss readings focused on The group covers all aspects of eighteenth-century life, multicultural, multinational, and multiethnic questions. including art, history, and music, but has recently The group will also organize a lecture series. been focusing on the relationship between literature and philosophy. In addition to sponsoring monthly Critical Filipina/o Studies (New Group) meetings of a reading group and a yearly graduate Contact: Gladys Nubla, [email protected], or Joanne student symposium, the group invites two speakers each Rondilla, [email protected] semester to present and discuss works in progress. The group provides a multidisciplinary forum for students Last week of October, time and location TBA. The group will and faculty interested in the history, society, culture, and host a symposium for graduate students’ current works literature of Filipinos in the diaspora, especially taking in progress. into account colonial histories, immigration flows and problems, and current events. The group meets once a month to discuss recent scholarship and events relating to

5 working groups planning a series of speakers and screenings. October 8 (Friday), Noon, 226 Dwinelle. The group will meet October Activities to discuss selected readings about Anand Patwardhan. Please contact the group for more information. October 22 (Friday), 1:30 – 3:30 pm, Pacific Film Archives Folklore Roundtable Theater. The group and PFA will cohost a workshop Contact: The Folklore Archives, 643-7934, folklore@socrates with documentary filmmaker Anand Patwardhan. The .berkeley.edu or http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/folklore/ presentation will be complemented by a selection of clips. Folk.HTM The group investigates trends in folklore research and explores Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley the reigning paradigms and perspectives in different Contacts: Amelia Borrego, [email protected], or Jamie disciplines. DeAngelis , [email protected] The mission of the GMB is to foster interdisciplinary exchange Foucault Working Group (New Group) among graduate students working in any facet of the Contact: Catherine Karnitis, [email protected] Middle Ages. The group organizes colloquia for the This group explores selected writings by Michel Foucault presentation of student research, working groups in through an interdisciplinary dialogue with graduate medieval Latin and other language/literary issues, students and faculty. The group meets monthly to discuss professional workshops, a newsletter, an annual a particular work or collection of lectures. conference, and social events. October 22 (Friday), 4:00 pm, Dwinelle 2227. The group will October 8 (Friday), 4:00 pm, location TBA. Faculty roundtable meet to discuss selected readings. discussion with R. I. Moore, Visiting Professor. October 28 (Thursday), 4:00 pm, location TBA. Roundtable Francophone Studies Working Group discussion with Alice Sheppard. Contact: Araceli Hernandez, [email protected], or Jean- Pierre Karegeye, [email protected] Grammar and Verbal Art (Please see Linguistics and the This group is dedicated to the study of postcolonial/diaspora Language Arts) cultures and literatures in which French language plays a role. History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science Contact: Branden Fitelson, branden@fitelson.org, or Johannes “French Feminisms” and Cultural Intersections (New Group) Hafner, 558-0545; [email protected]; or http:// Contact: Lowry Martin, [email protected], or Christine math.berkeley.edu/~jhafner/hplm/ Quinan, [email protected] The group provides a forum to discuss issues in the history The group is an interdisciplinary group designed to explore of modern symbolic logic, focusing in particular on the the discourse, ideology, and ramifications of French role of modern symbolic logic in the foundations of feminist criticism and theory on the feminist movements mathematics and in the research of philosophy of logic in France, the West, and in developing nations. The group and mathematics. is organizing a series of visiting speakers. October, time and location TBA. The group will meet to discuss History and Social Studies of Medicine and the Body selected readings. Contact: Lara Freidenfelds, 649-0591, [email protected] HSSMB, aka Med Heads, discusses a pre-circulated work in progress by a member of the group once a month over Gender in German Studies (GIGS) a potluck dinner, allowing an interdisciplinary group of Contact: Katra Byram, [email protected], or Julie Koser, participating graduate students, faculty and independent [email protected] scholars to get feedback on their work and exchange This interdisciplinary group is for students to participate in an ideas. Contact the group to be included on the e-mail list. ongoing scholarly dialogue in topics of women, gender, October, date and location TBA. The group will discuss a pre- and sexuality in German-speaking contexts. The group circulated dissertation chapter on the history of public meets twice a month to discuss themes selected by the health in Russia by Kim Friedlander. members in order to foster cross-departmental interaction among graduate students and instructors with common Identity in Central Asia (New Group) research interests. Contact: Cindy Huang, (415) 412-5331, [email protected], or Ned Walker, 642-6168, [email protected] Graduate Film Working Group The group brings together faculty and students from the Contact: Minette Hillyer, [email protected], or Irina humanities and social sciences to discuss contemporary Leimbacher, [email protected] configurations of identity, including the question The purpose of the GFWG is to expand the learning experience of Central Asia as a geographic space and unit of of its members, especially by offering workshops and analysis. Meetings are held once a month and will opportunities not available through home departments. alternate between guest speakers and graduate student This year the group will focus on the ways in which presentations of a critical work within the field. visual media are used to explore social life and is

6 Weekday evening TBA, 260 Stephens. The group will meet to Thursdays, 5:00 - 7:00 pm, 330 Wheeler Hall. Weekly group discuss a selected reading. meeting. Please contact the group to confirm.

Indo-European Language and Culture Working Group Late Antique Religion and Society (LARES) Contact: Deborah Anderson, (408) 255-4842, Contact: Amelia Brown, [email protected] [email protected]; www.indo-european The group provides an interdisciplinary forum for the .org/page4.html comparative study of religious texts in Late Antiquity. The Indo-European Language and Culture Working Group The first meeting will be held in November. offers a forum for the interdisciplinary study of ancient Indo-European languages, drawing on linguistics, Latin American Colonial Studies archaeology, and mythology. The group hosts talks by a Contact: Brianna Leavitt, [email protected], or variety of speakers throughout the year. Kinga Novak, [email protected] This group brings together an interdisciplinary group to Interdisciplianry Genocide Working Group (New Group) discuss contemporary scholarly research and critically Contact: Jean-Pierre Karegeye, [email protected], or review participants’ works in progress. Masumi Matsumoto, [email protected] The group will focus on understanding and analyzing the Linguistics and the Language Arts (formerly Grammar and phenomena of genocide through various disciplines and Verbal Art) approaches. Contacts: Jeremy Ecke, [email protected], or Zachary Last week of October or first week of November, time and Gordon, [email protected] location TBA. Playwright Erik Ehn will give a talk, This group is dedicated to exploring issues at the intersection “Theater and Genocide: Finding a Language for the of linguistics, literature, and the philosophy of language. Unspeakable: Artistic Responses to Rwanda 94.” The group will be continuing its work on poetic meter and its translations of the French linguist Jean-Claude Interdisciplinary Marxism Milner. Contact: Annie McClanahan, [email protected], or Satyel Second week of October, time and location TBA. Larson, [email protected] This reading group meets twice a month to discuss writings in Material Cultures Working Group (New Group) the marxist tradition, ranging from aesthetics to politics. Contacts: Sophie Volpp, [email protected], or Michael Email Annie McClanahan to be added to the email list. Wintroub, [email protected] The group meets monthly to discuss works in progress based on material culture topics such as consumption, Interdisciplinary Studies in Landscape (New Group) commoditization, notions of the gift and the fetish, Contact: Jo Guldi, [email protected], or Adriana Valencia, collecting, and exchange. [email protected] First week in October, time and location TBA. Working group The group will be organized around meetings, film screenings, organizational meeting. and lectures that deal with issues of space and architecture. Musical Analysis Reading Group (New Group) International Tebtunis Workshop (New Group) Contacts: Aaron Einbond, 594-0264, [email protected], or Contact: Todd Hickey, [email protected] Alexander Kahn, 486-1992, [email protected] ITW is a forum for the dissemination and discussion of This group discusses issues of analysis and theory in music current research on pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt. of the past and present. Meetings take the format of a Special emphasis is given to Tebtunis, one of the best journal club; students from all disciplines are welcome. documented sites in the premodern mediterranean, and Fridays, 1:00 pm, 242 Morrison. The group will meet to discuss the source of some 30,000 papyri and 2,000 artifacts in topics TBA each meeting. Berkeley collections. October 10 (Sunday), 3:00 pm, Stone Seminar Room, The The Muslim Identities and Cultures Working Group Bancroft Library. Members will meet to discuss their Contact: Huma Dar, [email protected], or Fouzieyha Towghi, research and to workshop editions of papyri. [email protected]; www.ias.berkeley.edu/ southasia/muslimidentities.html James Joyce Working Group (formerly Reading the Wake) This group is interested in exploring Muslim identities and Contact: Chris Eagle, [email protected] agencies from the standpoint of race, gender, nationalism, The group meets weekly for a lively group discussion of geopolitics, and culture. By examining the intersections Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake. Scholars from all disciplines are of cultures and religions, gender and nationalisms, the welcome. No prior knowledge of the book is needed. group creates a space where multiple discourses can be Only your curiosity and a copy of the Wake is required. analyzed and discussed in a scholarly fashion. The group will also host colloquia on Joyce during the October 7 (Thursday), 6:00 pm, location TBA. The group will academic year. hold its monthly meeting.

7 working groups Silk Road Working Group Contact: Sanjyot Mehendale, 643-5265, sanjyotm@berkeley October Activities .edu, or Bruce C. Williams, 642-2556, bwilliam@library .berkeley.edu The group offers an interdisciplinary forum for faculty and New Directions in Oral History students to discuss issues related to Central Asian and Contact: Jess Rigelhaupt, [email protected], 642- Silk Road cultures from the earliest times to the present. 7395; http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/ohwg.html The purpose of the working group is to promote inquiry South Asian Modernities: From Theorem to Terrain: and discussion in an interdisciplinary format. Faculty, Problems in Field and Archival Research in Modernity students, staff, and community members attend. Contact: Ruprekha Chowdhury, [email protected], or Michelle Morton, [email protected] New Media Arts Working Group The group explores issues of modernity in South Asia while Contact: Zabet Patterson, [email protected], or fostering interdepartmental and interdisciplinary Meredith Hoy, [email protected]; http://newmedia. discussion among graduate students specializing in berkeley.edu South Asia. This year the group will serve as a forum NMA seeks an interdisciplinary approach to the conceptual, for graduate students and faculty concerned with issues aesthetic, and practical issues within contemporary art in methodology while exploring the foundation of making use of film, video, and digital technologies. The South Asian archives in the work of scholars and group group seeks to bring academic scholars together with members. artists and arts administrators to consider institutional Third week of October, time and location TBA. The group will questions surrounding the presentation, distribution, and welcome new and incoming members and discuss the archiving of new media in museums and on the internet. assigned reading. Partha Chatterjee, a speaker in the City October, time and location TBA. The group will hold its first Lectures series, will speak. organizational meeting. Tourism Studies Working Group Nineteenth-Century and Beyond British Cultural Studies Contact: [email protected]; Stephanie Hom Cary Contact: Mark Allison, [email protected] or Naomi Leite-Goldberg The group provides a forum for faculty and graduate students The group is a forum for cross-disciplinary discussion of to discuss works in progress on the literature and culture readings and work in progress on all aspects of tourism of nineteenth-century Britain and its colonies. Pre- and travel, both in practice and in representation. circulated papers investigate issues of aesthetics, politics, The group sponsors a roundtable colloquium series, history, theory, and other current sites of academic focus, organized around key themes in tourism studies (e.g., with occasional forays into the late eighteenth and early modernity, gender, development, material culture, twentieth centuries. heritage, identity) and hosted by group members and October 19 (Tuesday), 5:00 pm, 330 Wheeler. Christopher invited scholars. Rovee (English, Stanford) will present “Imagining the October 1 (Friday), 4:00 - 6:00 pm, location TBA. Gallery: The Social Body of British Romanticism.” Organizational Meeting. The group will discuss colloquia and other activities for the upcoming year. Queer Visual Studies (New Group) October 29 (Friday), 4:00 - 6:00 pm, location TBA. Marina Contact: Jeremy Melius, [email protected], or Justin Crouse (Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, Underhill, [email protected] UCB) will speak on, “Souvenirs of Hatred: [Re]Creation The group seeks to establish a forum in which graduate and Identity in the Midst of Post-Colonial Tourism.” students from a variety of disciplines may discuss recent Please contact the group to receive selected readings trends in the queer theorization and historical study of beforehand. visual experience and artifactual culture. Readings will be drawn not only from contemporary scholarly and Unicode, I18N, and Text Encoding Working Group theoretical texts but also from historical materials of Contact: Richard Cook, 643-9910, [email protected] interest to the group. .edu, or Deborah Anderson, [email protected] Last week of October, time and location TBA. The group will .edu meet to discuss scheduled readings. This group is devoted to computerization of multilingual materials, specifically with regard to the promotion of Secularities and Religiosities (New Group) Unicode (the international character encoding standard) Contact: Peter Skafish, skafi[email protected], or Katherine and general text encoding issues. Lemons, [email protected] The group meets as a reading group and lecture series to Visual Anthropology Group (New Group) examine the origins and meaning of the category of Contact: Jenny Chio, [email protected], or Adelaide ‘religion,’ or its relationship to the secular. Papazoglou, [email protected] The group facilitates discussion and development of visual

8 media as an alternative form of discourse and provides positions on its editorial board from graduate students in a forum in which graduate and undergraduate students, the humanities who are interested in current research in visiting scholars, and professors can engage the ways in literary, cultural, and political theory. Applicants should which nonfiction film, video, multimedia installation, submit a CV and cover letter via e-mail. and artistic enterprises can function not only as means of exposition, but also as analytic tools in academic research. Harvest Moon October 19 (Tuesday), 6:30 pm, location TBA. The group will Contact: David Cohn, [email protected] meet to discuss participants’ current projects. Please Harvest Moon is a Philosophy journal that publishes only contact the group for more details and selected readings. undergraduate work and is completely run and edited by undergrads. The purpose of the journal is to expose Visual Cultures Writing Group to the greater community the best philosophical work Contact: Tamao Nakahara, [email protected], or that Berkeley undergrads have to offer. The journal prints Anne Nesbet, [email protected] once a year in the spring. The group organizes graduate students and professors working on any aspect of visual culture (such as art, film, Journal of the Association of Graduates in Near Eastern popular culture) to meet and share feedback on a range of Studies (JAGNES) writing projects: chapters, articles, job applications, and Contact: Abbas Kadhim, [email protected], or Cyrus grant proposals. Zargar, [email protected]; http://neareastern .berkeley.edu/jagnes/index.html Working Group in Religious Studies (New Group) JAGNES is a graduate student run organization based in the Contact: Nancy Lin, [email protected], or Amanda Goodman, Near Eastern Studies department. JAGNES publishes [email protected] a semi-regular journal that includes graduate student The group meets as a reading group and lecture series to articles covering a variety of topics related to the facilitate discussion between graduate students of Near East. JAGNES strives to create a dialog between different disciplines working on various aspects of graduate students from many different departments and religion. universities studying a wide range of topics that all relate Last week of October, time and location TBA. The group will to the Near East. meet to discuss selected readings. Please contact the group for further details and copies of readings. Lucero Contact: Adam Shellhorse, [email protected], or Aurelie Publication Activities • • • Vialette, [email protected], or visit http://socrates .berkeley.edu/uclucero Lucero is the literary journal published by the graduate Chronicle of the University of California students of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Contact: Carroll Brentano, 643-9210, cbrentan@socrates Please visit the group’s web site for journal issues. .berkeley.edu The Chronicle is an annual scholarly journal dedicated to the Qui Parle history of the University. Contact: Todd Cronan, [email protected], or Benjamin Yost, bensy@ berkeley.edu; or http://socrates.berkeley. Clio’s Scroll (New Group) edu/~quiparle/ Contact: Alejandra Dubcovsky, [email protected], or Leslie Qui Parle publishes biannually articles in literature, philosophy, Fales, [email protected] visual arts, and history by an international array of Clio’s Scroll is the UC Berkeley History undergraduate journal. faculty and graduate students. The editors are currently The objective of the publication is to publish and seeking submissions from Berkeley graduate students in encourage undergraduate research and involvement in the humanities. history. Direct all correspondence to Qui Parle, The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall, Critical Sense University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-2340. Contact: [email protected]; past issues and additional information may be found at http:// criticalsense.berkeley.edu Critical Sense is a semiannual interdisciplinary journal that publishes work in political and cultural theory by graduate students in the United States and internationally. Submissions may be e-mailed or sent in hard copy to Critical Sense, Department of Political Science, 210 Barrows Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1950. Call for Editors: The journal is accepting applications for

9 CALENDAR Lectures, Conferences and Other Events sunday october 3 thursday october 7 Berkeley Art Museum Lunch Poems “Korean and American Potters: A Mutual Harryette Mullen Exchange” 12:10 pm • Morrison Room, Doe Library Gary Holt, Sheila Keppel 3:00 pm • Gallery D Center for Race and Gender Rhoda Reddock 4:00 pm • CRG Conference Room, 691 Barrows Hall monday october 4 Kadish Center for Morality, Law, and Public Affairs Center for Latin American Studies “The Constitutionalization of Democratic Politics” “Agricultural Trade Disputes and US Farm Subsidies: Implications Richard H. Pildes for Latin America” 4:00 pm • Faculty Lounge, 336 Boalt Hall North Daniel A. Sumner Noon • CLAS, 2334 Bowditch St. Center for Middle Eastern Studies “Al-Ma’mun and Their Hieroglyphs” Center for Social Justice Michael Cooperson Ann Marie Tallman 5:00 pm • Sultan Room, 340 Stephens Hall 12:45 pm • 115 Boalt Hall Department of English/Department of History “Words and Deeds: Slavery, Free Speech, and the American Renaissance” tuesday october 5 Michael T. Gilmore Art Practice 5:00 pm • Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall Gallery Reception: First Year Graduate Exhibition 4:00 pm • Worth Ryder gallery Department of Italian Studies “Beyond Futurism: Marinetti’s Last and Lost Writings” Department of German Paolo Valesio Transit electronic journal launch 6:00 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall 4:00 pm • 5337 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley Art Museum The Baum 2004: Katy Grannan Katy Grannan and Ryan Harty wednesday october 6 6:15 pm • Museum Theater Music Department Noon Concert Series Center for Southeast Asia Studies Goyescas, Granados and works by Chausson, Satie, and Hahn Film: Untold Triumph Hannah Son, Ziad Subhiyah, Linda Wang Noel Izon in person Noon • Hertz Hall • Free 7:00 pm • Location TBA

Center for Latin American Studies International House Film: Abril Despedaçado / Behind the Sun Film: Stories from a Small Planet 7:00 pm • CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street 7:30 pm • International House Great Hall, 2299 Piedmont Ave.

Department of Classics Pacific Film Archive “Divine Craft: Plato” Documentary Voices: Anand Patwardhan David Sedley Film: A Time to Rise 8:10 pm • 145 Dwinelle Hall 7:30 pm • Pacific Film Archive

Image from the Korean Potter exhibition

10 CALENDAR . . . continued friday october 8 tuesday october 12 Pacific Film Archive Spanish & Portuguese Films: Tales from the Gimli Hospital and West of Zanzibar “Poesía Argentina Hoy: Las Polémicas Después de los ‘90” Guy Maddin in person Barbara Belloc 7:00 and 9:20 pm • Pacific Film Archive Theater Noon • 5125 Dwinelle Hall

Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies The Graduate Council Performance: Disaster Series - The Continuation “Being No One: Consciousness, the Phenomenal Self, and the 8:00 pm • Zellerbach Playhouse First-Person Perspective” Thomas Metzinger saturday october 9 4:10 pm • Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, 8th floor Pacific Film Archive Films: Cowards Bend the Knee and The Face Behind the Mask wednesday october 13 Guy Maddin in person 7:00 and 8:45 pm • Pacific Film Archive Theater Music Department Noon Concert Series Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Rondo in C major, op. 73, for two pianos, Chopin, and peratic duets Performance: Disaster Series - The Continuation by Purcell, Mozart, and Delibes 8:00 pm • Zellerbach Playhouse Lynette Chen, Yvonne Hung, Hestia Lucchese, Sonia Stepanyan Noon • Hertz Hall • Free sunday october 10 Center for Southeast Asia Studies “The Challenge of Monastic Reform in 18th Century Burma” Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Dr. Jacques Leider Performance: Disaster Series - The Continuation 4:15 pm • IEAS Conference Room, 6th floor, 2223 Fulton St. 7:00 pm • Zellerbach Playhouse Pacific Film Archive Pacific Film Archive Film: Leave Her to Heaven Films: The Saddest Music in the World and La Ronde 7:30 pm • Pacific Film Archive Theater Guy Maddin in person 5:30 and 7:50 pm • Pacific Film Archive Theater Department of Classics “The Atomist Opposition” David Sedley monday october 11 8:10 pm • 145 Dwinelle Hall Anthropology 290 Lecture Series “Great New Makeup, Same Old Stories: The Prehistoric Docudrama as Didactic Device” thursday october 14 Diane Gifford Gonzalez Department of Spanish and Portuguese 4:00 pm • 160 Kroeber Hall “Juventud y Ciudadanía en América Latina: Una Ecuación Pendiente” Office for History of Science and Technology Martín Hopenhayn Michael Gordin Noon • CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch St. 5:00 pm • 140 Barrows Hall Philosophy Department Department of Geography Graham Priest “Bay Area Bridges: Photographing and Documenting 4:00 pm • Howison Philosophy Library, 305 Moses Hall Their (Re)construction” Joe Blum 7:00 pm • Men’s Faculty Club

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Center for Middle Eastern Studies “The Memory of Place in Modern Turkey and Greece” sunday october 17 Eleni Bastea Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies 5:00 pm • Sultan Room, 340 Stephens Hall Performance: Disaster Series - The Continuation 2:00 pm • Zellerbach Playhouse Institute of East Asian Studies “Han Ong, The Disinherited” Berkeley Art Museum Han Ong “The Work of Byron Kim: 5:00 pm • IEAS Conference Room, 6th floor, 2223 Fulton St. Color and Content” Eugenie Tsai, Miwon Kwon, English Department Anoka Faruqee Jen Hofer and Mexican poets 3:00 pm • Museum Theater 5:30 pm • Colloquia • 330 Wheeler Hall 7:00 pm • Reading • Maud Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall Pacific Film Archive International House Film: Seventh Heaven “To Save Succeeding Generations from the Scourge of War” 5:30 pm • Pacific Film Archive Theater Doug Mattern 7:30 pm • Home Room, International House monday october 18 Pacific Film Archive Documentary Voices: Anand Patwardhan Center for Latin American Studies Film: A Narmada Diary / Fishing: In the Sea of Greed “Illiberal Democracy in Latin America” 7:30 pm • Pacific Film Archive Peter H. Smith Noon • CLAS, 2334 Bowditch Street friday october 15 Center for Social Justice “Love and Exile: On the Divestment of Citizenship Berkeley Language Center Through Marriage” “Heteroglossia in Foreign Language Classrooms: Research, Leti Volpp Debates, and Issues” 12:45 pm • 115 Boalt Hall Patricia Duff 3:00 pm • 370 Dwinelle Hall International House “Beyond the Mask of Stereotypes: Using Action Methods to Reach Pacific Film Archive People’s Humanity” Films: Archangel and The Road to Glory Liliane Koziol, Armand Volkas 7:30 and 9:20 pm • Pacific Film Archive Theater 6:00 pm • Home Room, International House

Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Performance: Disaster Series - The Continuation “Star Personas and Fan Fictions: Bruce Lee, JJ Chinois, and 8:00 pm • Zellerbach Playhouse the Queer Technologies of Celebrity” Mimi Nguyen 7:30 pm • 160 Kroeber Hall saturday october 16 Pacific Film Archive tuesday october 19 Film: Twilight of the Ice Nymphs and Cowards Bend the Knee 7:00 and 8:50 pm • Pacific Film Archive Theater Art Practice Exhibition reception: Somewhere Else: An exhibition of contemporary Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Middle Eastern artists Performance: Disaster Series - The Continuation 4:00 pm • Worth Ryder gallery 8:00 pm • Zellerbach Playhouse Image from the Byron Kim exhibition

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Center for African Studies Fall 2004 Lecture Series Department of Classics “Slavery in Early Modern West Africa” “Aristotle’s Via Media” Ugo Nwokeji David Sedley 4:00 pm • 652 Barrows 8:10 pm • 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building

The Graduate Council “The Humvee and the Apple Tree: Globalization thursday october 21 or Americanization?“ Ken Jowitt Center for Social Justice 4:10 pm • Lipman Room, 8th Floor, Barrows Hall Conference: After the War on Crime: Race, Democracy and a New Reconstruction International House 4:00 pm • Booth Auditorium, Boalt Hall “Beyond the Mask of Stereotypes: Using Action Methods to Reach People’s Humanity” The Bancroft Library Liliane Koziol, Armand Volkas “William Saroyan, Heroin and Ethics: The Sad Tale of an 6:00 pm • Home Room, International House Archive Broken” Peter Howard Noon • Lewis-Latimer Room, Men’s Faculty Club Institute of East Asian Studies Film Screenings: “JPEX: Japanese Experimental Film and Video, Hearst Museum of Anthropology 1955?Now” “Mexico at the Hearst Museum: A Century of Collecting 7:30 pm • Pacific Film Archive Theater and Research” Ira Jacknis wednesday october 20 Noon • Hearst Museum Berkeley Art Museum Music Department Artist’s Lecture: Valerie Maynard Noon Concert Series 4:00 pm • Berkeley Art Museum Baroque chamber music Davitt Moroney, director Center for Middle Eastern Studies Noon • Hertz Hall • Free Exhibit and Reception: l’Art de Vivre Khalil Bendib Center for Latin American Studies 5:00 pm • Sultan Room, 340 Stephens Hall Video: Matías Claudine LoMonaco, Mary Spicuzza History of Art Department 4:00 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall “Marc Antony, the Tower of the Winds in Athens, and Nostalgia for Alexandria” Center for Southeast Asia Studies Olga Palagia “Masculinity, Merit, and Memory in Thai Provincial Politics” 5:00 pm • 308J Doe Library Thamora Fishe 4:15 pm • Location TBA Department of Italian Studies “The Spectacle of Torture” Institute of East Asian Studies Adriana Cavarero “The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to 6:00 pm • 370 Dwinelle Hall China’s Future” Elizabeth Economy Pacific Film Archive 5:00 • IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor Documentary Voices: Anand Patwardhan Film: In the Name of God Pacific Film Archive Anand Patwardhan in person Film: Nightmare Alley 7:00 pm • Pacific Film Archive 7:30 pm • Pacific Film Archive Theater

Image: poster for the film Father, Son and Holy War

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International House Center for Social Justice “Holy Books and Sacred Maps: Democracies, Religions and the Maya Harris Construction of Territory” 12:45 pm • 115 Boalt Hall Leone Massimo 7:30 pm • Home Room, International House Office for History of Science and Technology Berkeley-UCSF Colloquium Alison Winter friday october 22 5:00 • 140 Barrows Hall Center for Social Justice Conference: After the War on Crime: Race, Democracy and a tuesday october 26 New Reconstruction 8:30 am • Booth Auditorium, Boalt Hall Institute of East Asian Studies “JPEX: Japanese Experimental Film and Video, 1955? Now” Pacific Film Archive Film Screenings 1:30 pm • Workshop with Anand Patwardhan 7:30 pm • Pacific Film Archive Theater 7:30 pm • Father, Son and Holy War Center for African Studies “Adolescent Sexual Values and Their Disruption of Traditional Masculinity and Negotiation of Modern Femininity saturday october 23 Datius Rweyemamu Bancroft Library 4:00 pm • 652 Barrows Hall 50th Anniversary Symposium: Oral History Projects at Cal 1:00 pm • Morrison Library wednesday october 27 Pacific Film Archive Documentary Voices: Anand Patwardhan Music Department Film: War and Peace Noon Concert Series 7:00 pm • Pacific Film Archive Jazz piano Myra Melford Noon • Hertz Hall • Free sunday october 24 Townsend Center for the Humanities Berkeley Art Museum “Images of Iran and the Afghan Diaspora: A Photographic Exhibit “Worlds in a Chinese Garden” from 2001-2004” Sarah Handler Diane Tober, Nancy Scheper-Hughes 3:00 pm • Museum Theater 4:00 pm • Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Pacific Film Archive Center for Latin American Studies Documentary Voices: Anand Patwardhan Film: Central do Brasil / Central Station Film: Bombay: Our City 7:00 pm • CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch St. 5:30 pm • Pacific Film Archive Pacific Film Archive Film: The Sign of the Cross monday october 25 7:30 pm • Pacific Film Archive Theater Center for Latin American Studies Department of Classics “Brazil, 2004: Environmental Challenges and Local Action” “Teleological Arguments: Socrates to Galen” with reception Estela Neves David Sedley Noon • CLAS, 2334 Bowditch St. 8:10 pm • 145 Dwinelle Hall

14 CALENDAR . . . continued thursday october 28 friday october 29 Center for Race and Gender Center for Race and Gender Conference: Beyond Race and Citizenship: Indigenous Identity in Conference: Beyond Race and Citizenship: Indigenous Identity in the 21st Century the 21st Century Lipman Room, 8th floor, Barrows Hall Lipman Room, 8th floor, Barrows Hall

Department of German Department of German Conference: Goodbye Germany? Migration, Culture, and the Conference: Goodbye Germany? Migration, Culture, and the Nation State Nation State 5:30 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall 9:00 am - 5:00 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall

Berkeley Art Museum Geographic Information Science Center MATRIX 213: Some Forgotten Place “Remote Sensing and Archaeology Workshop” Curator’s Talk: Heidi Zuckerman 2:00 pm • Location to be announced Jacobson 12:15 pm • Gallery 1 Berkeley Art Museum Philosophy Department “Walter Murch and Charles Koppelman in Conversation” Alison Simmons Walter Murch 4:00 pm • Howison Philosophy Library, 8:00 pm • Berkeley Art Museum 305 Moses Hall

Center for Southeast Asia Studies saturday october 30 “Indonesia-China after 1998: A Story of Unrequited Love?” Dr. I. Wibowo Wibisono Center for Race and Gender 4:15 pm • IEAS Conference Room, 6th floor, 2223 Fulton St. Conference: Beyond Race and Citizenship: Indigenous Identity in the 21st Century Center for Middle Eastern Studies Lipman Room, 8th floor, Barrows Hall “Post Colonialism in Tenth-Century Islam” Patricia Crone Department of German 5:00 pm • Sultan Room, 340 Stephens Hall Conference: Goodbye Germany? Migration, Culture, and the Nation State Center for South Asia Studies 9:00 am - 5:00 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall The City, Interdisciplinary Lecture Series “Cities in the Information Age” Pacific Film Archive Manuel Castells Films: Careful and The Naked Jungle 5:00 pm • 112 Wurster Hall 7:00 and 9:00 pm • Pacific Film Archive Theater

History of Art Department “Cult and Visual Culture in Renaissance Florence” sunday october 31 Megan Holmes 5:00 pm • 308J Doe Library Pacific Film Archive Film:Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary Department of Italian Studies 7:00 pm • Pacific Film Archive Theater Chair of Italian Culture Lecture Series “Violent Bodies” Adriana Cavarero 6:00 pm • 370 Dwinelle Hall

Image from the Some Forgotten Place exhibition: Makiko Kudo, Going Out for Ramen

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The campus’ new faculty in the Arts & Humanities and Social Images of Iran and the Afghan Diaspora: A Sciences for 2005-2006 are: Photographic Exhibit from 2001-2004 October 27 through December Anthropology Sabrina Agarwal, Assistant Professor This exhibit explores the lives of people in modern-day Iran, particularly focusing Classics on Afghan refugees in urban and rural Todd Hicke, Assistant Professor settings in Isfahan province. Of particular importance is the dynamics between the East Asian Languages & Cultures state, local communities, and communities Paula Varsano, Associate Professor in exile. The human consequences of war and conflict is a theme that runs throughout Economics this exhibit. These photographs were taken David Ahn, Acting Assistant Professor while the photographer/anthropologist Alexandre Mas, Assistant Professor was in Iran conducting fieldwork on Enrico Moretti, Associate Professor perceptions and practices surrounding family planning in Iranian John Morgan, Professor and Afghan communities. Yuliy Sannikov, Acting Assistant Professor Adam Szeidl, Acting Assistant Professor Dr. Diane Tober is a medical anthropologist who received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2000. Since, she has been conducting English research on family planning in Iran, exploring how different Joanna Picciotto, Assistant Professor interpretations of Islam influence policies and practices Guatam Premnat, Assistant Professor surrounding the family in Iranian and Afghan communities. This research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, French the American Institute for Iranian Studies, and a UCSF Academic Soraya Tlatl, Associate Professor Senate grant. Dr. Tober is a researcher at University of California, San Francisco and a visiting scholar in the Department of Geography Anthropology at UC Berkeley. She is currently writing a book on Nathan Sayre, Assistant Professor the experiences of living in Iran and conducting fieldwork as a single mother with her two sons. She is also currently coediting History two volumes: one on Islam, health and the body, and the other Mark Brilliant, Assistant Professor on transplants in the Middle East. Rochona Majumdar, Assistant Professor RELATED EVENT Linguistics Keith Johnson, Professor Wednesday, October 27 Line Mikkelsen, Assistant Professor Panel Discussion with Diane Tober and Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anthropology Philosophy 4:00 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall John Campbell, Professor Cosponsored by: Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Political Science Paul Pierson, Professor q q q

Psychology At the Gallery until mid-October: Darlene Francis, Assistant Professor Allison Harvey, Acting Associate Professor Don’t Look Back: Photographs of Eastern Europe Lance Kriegsfeld, Assistant Professor Mimi Chakarova, Keli Dailey, and Gosia Wozniacka Sociology Dylan Riley, Assistant Professor

Theater, Dance & Performance Studies Lisa Wymor, Assistant Professor

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Department of Classics Department of Italian Studies Sather Classical Lecture Series Marie G. Ringrose Annual Lecture

Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity Paolo Valesio David Sedley Columbia University Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Cambridge Thursday, October 7 “Beyond Futurism: Marinetti’s Last and Lost Writings” The origins of the modern debate 6:00 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall between evolutionists and creationists lie in the classical world, and this crucial q q q topic is the focus of “Creationism and its Critics in Antiquity.” The Graduate Council

Professor Sedley’s scholarly work Foerster Lectures on the Immortality of has extended over a wide range of the Soul topics in ancient philosophy. He is an acknowledged leader of international Thomas Metzinger distinction in Hellenistic philosophy. Chair and Professor, Department of Philosophy, With Tony Long (professor at Berkeley since 1982), he coauthored Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz the indispensable two-volume work The Hellenistic Philosophers (Cambridge 1987). Tuesday, October 12 “Being No One: Consciousness, the Phenomenal Self, and the First-Person Perspective” Wednesday, October 6 4:10 pm • Lipman Room, 8th Floor, “Divine Craft: Plato” Barrows Hall 8:10 - 9:10 pm • 145 Dwinelle Hall Admission is free. No tickets required. For further information Wednesday, October 13 contact Ellen Gobler at [email protected] or at 643-7413. “The Atomist Opposition” 8:10 - 9:10 pm • 145 Dwinelle Hall Event’s web address: www.grad.berkeley.edu/lectures. Wednesday, October 20 “Aristotle’s Via Media” q q q 8:10 - 9:10 pm • 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building The Graduate Council Wednesday, October 27 Bernard Moses Memorial Lecture “Teleological Arguments: Socrates to Galen” 8:10 - 9:10 pm • 145 Dwinelle Hall Ken Jowitt Reception to follow in the Morrison Library President and Maurine Hotchkis Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; For more information contact: 642-4218 or casmaoff@socrates. and Robson Professor of Political Science, berkeley.edu. Emeritus, UC Berkeley

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Tuesday, October 19 “The Humvee and the Apple Tree: Globalization or Americanization?” 4:10 pm • Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, 8th floor

Admission is free. No tickets required. For further information contact Ellen Gobler at [email protected] or at 643-7413.

Event’s web address: www.grad.berkeley.edu/lectures.

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Lunch Poems October 18 Thursdays • 12:10 pm • Morrison Room, Doe Library Leti Volpp, American University/UCLA Law School

October 7 October 25 Harryette Mullen Maya Harris, Racial Justice Project, ACLU

Harryette Mullen admits to being “licked all Contact for further information: Dianne Fuller, 642-6969. over by the English tongue.” Her fifth poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary, was a Event’s web address: www.law.berkeley.edu/socialjustice. finalist for the National Book Award and for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry q q q for its “gleeful pursuit of the ludic pleasure of word games.” Mullen is associate professor Center for Latin American Studies of English and African American Studies at UCLA. Bay Area Latin American Forum Mondays • 12:00 - 1:15 pm • CLAS, 2334 Bowditch St. November 4 Frank Paino October 4 “Agricultural Trade Disputes and US Farm Subsidies: December 2 Implications for Latin America” Billy Collins Daniel A. Sumner, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis February 3, 2005 Barbara Guest October 18 “Illiberal Democracy in Latin America” March 3, 2005 Peter H. Smith, Political Science/Latin American Studies, Eugene Ostashevsky UC San Diego

April 7, 2005 October 25 Suji Kwock Kim “Brazil, 2004: Environmental Challenges and Local Action” Estela Neves, CLAS visiting scholar May 5, 2005 Student Reading November 1 “Suing Chevron/Texaco: Citizenship, Contamination, and For more information or to be added to our off-campus mailing Capitalism in the Ecuadorian Amazon” list, please call 642-0137. To hear recordings of past readings, visit Suzana Sawyer, Anthropology, UC Davis www.berkeley.edu/calendar/events/poems/. q q q Support for this series is provided by Mrs. William Main, the Library, the Morrison Library Fund, the dean’s office of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies College of Letters and Sciences, and the Doreen B. Townsend CMES Fall 2004 Lecture Series Center for the Humanities. These events are also partially Thursdays • 5:00 pm • Sultan Room, 340 Stephens Hall supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant from the James Irvine Foundation. October 7 “Al-Ma’mun and Their Hieroglyphs” q q q Michael Cooperson, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA Center for Social Justice Ruth Chance Lecture Series October 14 Mondays • 12:45 pm • 115 Boalt Hall “The Memory of Place in Modern Turkey and Greece” Eleni Bastea, School of Architecture and Planning, University of October 4 New Mexico Ann Marie Tallman, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund

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October 28 Department of Anthropology “Post Colonialism in Tenth-Century Islam” Anthropology 290 Lecture Series Patricia Crone, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Mondays • 4:00 - 6:00 pm • 160 Kroeber Hall Advanced Study, Princeton University October 11 Contact for further information: 642-8208 or visit www.ias Title to be announced .berkeley.edu/cmes. Diane Gonzalez, UC Santa Cruz

q q q November 8 “Medical Nation: Health and Biotechnology in Kadish Center for Morality, Law, and Public Affairs 21st-century China” General Aspects of Law (GALA) Nancy Chen, UC Santa Cruz 4:00 - 6:00 pm • Faculty Lounge, 336 Boalt Hall North November 22 Thursday, October 7 “The Chosen Body: Politics of the Body in Israeli Society” “The Constitutionalization of Democratic Politics” Meira Weiss, Hebrew University, Israel Richard H. Pildes, New York University Law School Contact for further information: Holly Halligan, hollyh@uclink Friday, November 5 .berkeley.edu. “Beyond The Harm Principle” Arthur Ripstein, Law and Philosophy, University of Toronto Event’s web address: http://anthropology.berkeley.edu/news .html. Thursday, November 18 “Laws of Cultural Cognition and the Cultural Cognition of Law“ q q q Dan M. Kahan, Law, Yale Law School Office for History of Science and Technology Thursday, December 9 Berkeley-UCSF Colloquium in History of “Controlling Offensive Activity” Pamela Hieronymi, Philosophy, UCLA Science, Technology, and Medicine Mondays • 5:00 - 6:30 pm • 140 Barrows Hall Contact for further information: Professor Chris Kutz, [email protected], 642-6053, or Ms. Amatullah Alaji-Sabrie, October 11 [email protected], 642-3627. Event’s web address: www. Michael Gordin, History, Princeton University law.berkeley.edu/cenpro/kadish/gala.html. October 25 Workshop discussion of paper presented by guest and distributed Alison Winter, History, University of Chicago to GALA mailing list in advance of date of session. Electronic versions are made available on the Kadish Center web site Cosponsored by: the Department of Anthropology, History and approximately 10 days in advance of the event. Social Medicine, UC San Francisco.

For further information contact: Kate Spohr, 642-4581. q q q Abstracts of the talks will be posted at: Department of Philosophy http://ohst.berkeley.edu/ohst_events.html. Philosophy Colloquium Thursdays • 4:00 pm • Howison Library, 305 Moses Hall q q q

October 14 Graham Priest, Melbourne & St. Andrews The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Mondays • 7:30 - 9:00 pm • 160 Kroeber Hall • Free October 28 Alison Simmons, Harvard University October 18 “Star Personas and Fan Fictions: Bruce Lee, JJ Chinois, and the For further informatio contact: [email protected]. Queer Technologies of Celebrity” Mimi Nguyen, Women’s Studies, University of Michigan q q q

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November 1 Department of Italian Studies “The Land” Chair of Italian Culture Lecture Series Rirkrit Tiravanija, New York and Thailand Thursdays • 6:00 pm • 370 Dwinell Hall

November 29 October 21 “From Homunculus to Golem: Tracking an Alter-Avatar” “The Spectacle of Torture” Sonya Rapoport, Leonardo/ISAST Adriana Cavarero, University of Verona

January 24, 2005 October 28 “Making and Breaking Rules: Game Design as Critical Practice” “Violent Bodies” Katie Salen, Parsons School of Design and Adriana Cavarero, University of Verona Eric Zimmerman, gameLab, NYC Contact for further information: Barbara Spackman, February 28, 2005 [email protected]. “The History of Net Art from 1995 to the Google IPO” Rachel Greene, Rhizome q q q March 7, 2005 “I [heart] PowerPoint” Center for South Asia Studies David Byrne, Artist, Musician, NYC The City, Interdisciplinary Lecture Series 5:00 pm • 112 Wurster Hall April 18, 2005 “From Utopian Determinism to Network-Centric Paradigms” Marko Peljhan, Projekt Atol-Pact Systems and UCSB This lecture series promotes conversations across urban studies and international & area studies. On the one hand, it seeks to Sponsored by: Office of the Chancellor, Center for New Media, unsettle the Euro-American locus of urban theory by locating the College of Engineering Interdisciplinary Studies Program, Center production of critical concepts and frameworks in “other” cities. for Information Technology in the Interest of Society, Consortium On the other hand, it highlights how contemporary theories and for the Arts, BAM/PFA, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the philosophies are engaged with the material geographies of the Humanities, and the Intel Corporation. city. Thursday, October 28 For updated information visit: www.ieor.berkeley.edu/ ~goldberg/lecs/ or contact: [email protected] or “Cities in the Information Age” 643-9565. Manuel Castells, City Planning and Sociology

q q q Monday, November 8 “Democratizing the Neoliberal City” Teresa Caldeira, Anthropology, UC Irvine Center for African Studies Fall 2004 Lecture Series Monday, December 6 Tuesdays • 4:00 pm • 652 Barrows Hall “Lights, Karma, Action: Report from Bombay” Amitaa Kumar, English, Penn State University October 19 “Slavery in Early Modern West Africa” Lecture Series Organizer: Professor Ananya Roy, City and Ugo Nwokeji, African American Studies Regional Planning.

October 26 Cosponsored by: College of Environmental Design, Center “Adolescent Sexual Values and Their Disruption of Traditional for Middle Eastern Studies, Institute of International Studies, Masculinity and Negotiation of Modern Femininity: Evidence Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania” Center for African Studies. Datius Rweyemamu, University of Dar es Salaam Event’s web address: http://ias.berkeley.edu/southasia. Contact for further information: 642-8338, [email protected]. Event’s web address: www.ias.berkeley.edu/africa/. q q q

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Center for Social Justice The Multicultural Germany Project, Department of German After the War on Crime: Race, Democracy and Goodbye Germany? Migration, Culture, and a New Reconstruction the Nation State

Thursday - Friday, October 21 - 22 Thursday - Saturday, October 28 - 30 Booth Auditorium, Boalt Hall Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28 4:00 pm • Keynote Speaker 5:30 pm • Reception Kamala Harris, District Attorney of San Francisco 7:00 pm • Film Screening: Kleine Freiheit with director Yüksel Yavuz • Pacific 5:00 pm • Reception • Goldberg Room Film Archive

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22 8:30 am - 4:30 pm FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Panel 1: The War on Crime and Race Troy Duster, Sociology Opening Remarks Gerald Lopez, Clinical Law, NYU School of Law Deniz Göktürk Katheryn Russell-Brown, Law, University of Florida Moderator: Ian Haney Lopez, School of Law Session I: Comparative Perspectives on Migration and Nation

Panel 2: The War on Crime and Community Regina Römhild, Johann Wolfgang Universität Frankfurt Elijah Anderson, Sociology, University of Pennsylvania am Main Todd Clear, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Pheng Cheah Craig Haney, Psychology, UC Santa Cruz Respondent: Minoo Moallem, San Francisco State University Moderator: Jonathan Simon, School of Law Chair: Tony Kaes

Lunchtime Breakouts Richard Herzinger, Die Zeit “Juvenile Justice” – Father Boyle, Homeboy Industries/Jobs for Werner Sollors, Harvard University a Future Respondent: David Hollinger “Family” – Jessica Delgado, Santa Clara Public Defenders Chair: Paola Bacchetta Office “Education” – William Lyons, Jr., Political Science, University Session II: Migration and Memory of Akron Hito Steyerl, Goldsmiths College, London Panel 3: War on Crime and Politics Claire Kramsch Jessie Allen,School of Law, NYU Chair: Kaja Silverman Katherine Beckett, University of Washington Tom Hayden, Author Moderator: Frank Zimring, School of Law Workshop I: “Migration and Cinema” Panel 4: Post War Reconstruction Strategies Chairs: Deniz Göktürk and Tony Kaes Van Jones, Ella Baker Center Susan Tucker, Soros Foundation Workshop 2: Moderator: Jonathan Simon, School of Law “Multilingualism, Memory, and Autobiography” Contact for further information: Dianne Fuller, 642-6969. Chairs: Claire Kramsch and Chantelle Warner

Event’s web address: www.law.berkeley.edu. 5:45 pm • Dinner Reception

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30 Center for Race and Gender 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Beyond Race and Citizenship: Indigenous Session I: Axial Aesthetics Identity in the 21st Century

Isabel Hoving, University of Leiden Thursday - Saturday, October 28 - 30 Hinrich Seeba Lipman Room 8th floor, Barrows Hall Chair: Ernst van Alphen The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum for Leslie A. Adelson, Cornell University Indigenous scholars from a broad range of displines both from UC Panel Discussion and from outside of California and the US to address and reflect upon the most recent forms of “Indigeneity” and its politicsof re/ Session II: Archiving Multiculturalism/Multilingualism/Interracial membering Indigenous identity in a global and local context. The Passages conference will be organized around panels addressing specific sites in which the politics of Indigenous identity are being played David Gramling out. The panels are tied together by several interwoven themes: Hito Steyerl alternative meanings of sovereignty; the politics of inclusion and Encarnacion Guiterrez exclusion; critical traditions of Indigenous local knowledges; and Werner Sollors the essentialism-antiessentialist dialectic. Isabel Hoving Fatima El-Tayeb Event’s web address: http://crg.berkeley.edu.

Lecture “Provisional Multiculturalism” David Theo Goldberg, UC Irvine

Concluding Discussion with Michael Watts

Cosponsored by: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, Goethe Institut San Francsico, Institute of European Studies, TRANSIT Journal.

Contact for further information: Christian Buss, 384-3135 or cbuss@butterflystorm.com.

Event’s web address: http://german.berkeley.edu/mg.

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Berkeley Art Museum Exhibitions Berkeley Art Museum Programs

Carl Heidenreich and Hans Hofmann in Post-war New York Sunday, October 3 through October 3, 2004 The Korean Potter Gallery Program: Gary Holt and Sheila Keppel – “Korean and The Korean Potter American Potters: A Mutual Exchange” through October 24 3:00 pm • Gallery D

Within Small See Large: Rocks in Chinese Painting and Woodblock Thursday, October 7 Printing The Baum 2004: Katy Grannan through October 24 Conversation: Artist Katy Grannan and author Ryan Harty 6:15 pm • Museum Theater The Baum: An American Emerging Photographers Award October 7 - December 5 Sunday, October 17 Threshold: Byron Kim Threshold: Byron Kim Panel: Eugenie Tsai, Miwon Kwon, Anoka Faruqee – “The Work through December 12 of Byron Kim: Color and Content” 3:00 pm • Museum Theater MATRIX 213: Some Forgotten Place through December 19 Thursday, October 21 Artist’s Lecture: Valerie Maynard Collage 4:00 pm • Berkeley Art Museum through December 19 Sunday, October 24 Figurations Within Small See Large: Rocks in Chinese Painting and through January 22, 2006 Woodblock Printing Lecture: Sarah Handler – “Worlds in a Chinese Garden” Turning Corners 3:00 pm • Museum Theater through January 22, 2006 Thursday, October 28 q q q MATRIX 213 – Some Forgotten Place Curator’s Talk: Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson 12:15 pm • Gallery 1

Tickets: $8, free to UC staff, faculty, and students. For further information contact: 643-6494.

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Image from the Collage exhibition: Unknown artist Image from The Baum exhibition: Katy Grannan, Jada, Sexton, PA

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Bancroft Library Art Practice

Memory Lines: Fifty Years of Oral History at the University of First Year Graduate Exhibition California, Berkeley October 5 - 16 through November 13 Reception The year 2004 marks the fiftieth Tuesday, October 5 • 4:00 pm anniversary of the Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) in the Bancroft Somewhere Else: An exhibition of Contemporary Middle Eastern Library. The collection of more Artists than 2,000 interviews documents October 19 - November 5 the relationship of personal and social transformation in the state of California during the past century Reception in a wide variety of fields: politics, Tuesday October 19 • 4:00 pm business, university history, arts and culture, agriculture, food and wine, community history, and more. The exhibition draws Worth Ryder gallery hours: on resources from ROHO’s collection and other materials in the Tuesday - Friday, Noon - 5:00 pm Bancroft Library and charts a course for new approaches to oral Saturday, October 23 and 30, Noon - 4:00 pm history in the 21st century. Sunday, October 24 and 31, Noon - 4:00 pm

q q q q q q Center for Middle Eastern Studies Hearst Museum of Anthropology l’Art de Vivre Tesoros Escondidos: Hidden Treasures from the Mexican Collections Khalil Bendib through June 26, 2005 Perhaps the most visible Arab fine artist working in America today, The Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology unveils its Khalil Bendib is the creator of the “Alex Odeh Memorial Statue” in holdings from the country of Mexico. The 250 items selected for Santa Ana, and “Deir Yassin Remembered,” a memorial sculpture the exhibition are prized examples culled from the permanent that commemorates the massacre of the Palestinian village of collection and were chosen especially for their craftsmanship, that name in 1948, at the Hobart and William Smith colleges in rarity, age, and sheer beauty. With few exceptions, these artifacts Geneva, New York. He was also recently commissioned by the have never before been publicly exhibited. The exhibit opens to Arab Cultural Center and the city of San Francisco to design a the public on Mexican Independence Day, September 16. New public mural in downtown San Francisco, in collaboration with selections will be added to the presentation during the year. two other artists.

q q q The opening exhibit will include music by the The Dunes, a Bay Area-based band that plays a variety of North African Rai, Chaabi, and Berber music combined with Western styles.

RELATED EVENT

Thursday, October 21 Introductory Remarks by Khalil Bendib 5:00 pm • Sultan Room, 340 Stephens Hall

Contact for further information: 642-8208 or visit: www.ias.berkeley.edu/cmes.

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Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Music Department Disaster Series - The Continuation Noon Concert Series Wednesdays • Noon • Hertz Hall • Free October 8 - 17 Zellerbach Playhouse October 6 French songs by Chausson, Satie, and Hahn UC Berkeley’s department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Hannah Son, soprano, with Ziad Subhiyah, piano Studies opens its 2004-05 season with the world premiere of Goyescas, Granados Disaster Series - The Continuation, choreographed, written, and Linda Wang, piano directed by Bay Area choreographer Joe Goode. An original piece of dance/theater with text, monologues, choreography, and song, October 13 Disaster Series - The Continuation recalls Goode’s 1989 Disaster Rondo in C major, op. 73, for two pianos, Chopin Series, framing a series of new episodes that set the intimate Lynette Chen & Yvonne Hung, piano drama of human life against the epic sweep of natural disasters Operatic duets by Purcell, Mozart, and Delibes and the disasters we have perpetrated on nature. Hestia Lucchese & Sonia Stepanyan, voice

Friday, October 8 • 8:00 pm October 20 Saturday, October 9 • 8:00 pm Baroque chamber music Sunday, October 10 • 7:00 pm Davitt Moroney, director Friday, October 15 • 8:00 pm Saturday, October 16 • 8:00 pm October 27 Sunday, October 17 • 2:00 pm Jazz piano Faculty Recital: Myra Melford Tickets: $14.00 general admission; $10.00 UC faculty/staff; $8.00 for students/seniors. November 3 Chamber music Tickets may be purchased by phone at TicketWeb by calling toll- free (866) 468-3399; online at www.ticketweb.com (search for UC November 10 Berkeley); or in person at the Zellerbach Playhouse box office on Works by C. P. E. Bach, Beethoven, Peter Lieberson, Cindy Cox, Fridays 1:00-4:00 pm. The box office also opens one hour prior to Frederic Rzewski each performance for ticket sales. Faculty Recital: Karen Rosenak

Contact for further information: 642-9925. November 17 Graduate Composers Seminar Event’s web address: http://theater.berkeley.edu. New works from the seminar of Professor Jorge Liderman.

q q q December 1 Javanese Gamelan Ensemble, Midiyanto, director Music department’s student gamelan ensemble

December 8 “Glory to God in the Highest” settings by various composers University Chorus and Chamber Chorus

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Center for Latin American Studies Thursday October 21 Wednesdays • 7:00 pm • CLAS Conf Rm, 2334 Bowditch St. Film Screening and Lecture with Anand Patwardhan. 7:00 pm • In the Name of God (1992) October 6 Abril Despedaçado / Behind the Sun (2001) Friday October 22 Ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother, 1:30 pm • Workshop with Anand Patwardhan • Free a young man questions the tradition of violence between two Cosponsored by the Graduate Film Working Group rival families living in the desert landscape of the Brazilian Northeast. 7:30 pm • Father, Son and Holy War (1994) October 27 Saturday October 23 Central do Brasil / Central Station (1998) 7:00 pm • War and Peace (2002) A former school teacher and a young boy whose mother has just died in a car accident take an emo- Sunday October 24 tional journey to Brazil’s remote 5:30 pm • Bombay: Our City (1985) Northeast in search of the father he never knew. q q q November 10 O Primeiro Dia / Midnight (1999) Pacific Film Archive Fate brings together a fugitive Fiercely Primitive: The Films of Guy Maddin prisoner and a depressed middle plus Director’s Choice class teacher at midnight, December 31, 1999, as fireworks fall October 8 - 31 over Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach and the new millennium PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way approaches. “Uncompromisingly idiosyncratic” q q q is how the LA Weekly described Guy Maddin, the Canadian director best Pacific Film Archive known here for Careful and the more Documentary Voices: Anand Patwardhan, recent The Saddest Music in the World. We are pleased to present the Bay Area Artist-in-Residence premiere of his latest, Cowards Bend October 7 - 24 the Knee, where he once again uses PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way humor and silent-era tactics to evoke a troubled nostalgia. Can a documentary change the world? We’ll see in November. Anand Patwardhan, India’s Michael Moore, has called himself “a non-serious human being forced by circumstance to make Friday, October 8 serious films.” With a keen eye, a wry voice, and passionate 7:00 pm • Tales from the Gimli Hospital political commitment, he has examined Indian and global 9:20 pm • West of Zanzibar realities, economic inequality, environmental devastation, and the Guy Maddin in person challenges of this era of fundamentalism and nationalism. Saturday, October 9 Thursday October 7 7:00 pm • Cowards Bend the Knee and The Heart of the World 7:30 pm • A Time to Rise (1981) 8:45 pm • The Face Behind the Mask Guy Maddin in person Thursday October 14 7:30 pm • A Narmada Diary (1995) and Fishing: In the Sea of Greed Sunday, October 10 (1998) 5:30 pm • The Saddest Music in the World 7:50 pm • La Ronde Guy Maddin in person

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Wednesday, October 27 Panel Discussion Established in 1987 through the vision and generous bequest Diane Tober with Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anthropology of Doreen B. Townsend, the Townsend Center gathers the 4:00 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall creative and diverse energies of the humanities at Berkeley. Cosponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies