Category Archives : ARC Past Events


Social Engineer: The Artist as Bridge Builder: April 16

Social Engineer: The Artist as Bridge Builder With Cannupa Hanska LugerThursday, April 16, 2020 | 12:00-2:00pm PDT This event took place online.Find the full recording here. Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center, the Ethnic Studies Department, the Native American Studies Program, and Berkeley Arts + Design This event was part of the Arts + Design Thursdays series.  […]


Opacities: Trans Visual Cultures: March 5

Opacities: Trans Visual Cultures with Tourmaline + Chris Vargas In conversation with Eric Stanley Thursday, March 5, 2020 | 5:30-7:00pm Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley You can find the full recording of this event here. Find ARC’s blog post on this event here. Co-sponsored by Arts Research Center, the Center for the Study […]


Contingent Intimacies: Queer Criticalities + Photographic Portraiture: Feb 27

Contingent Intimacies: Queer Criticalities + Photographic Portraiture With Horace Ballard In conversation with Justin Underhill Thursday, February 27 | 5:00-7:00pm Visual Resource Center, Room 308A | Doe Library, UC Berkeley Find ARC’s blog post on this event here. Co-sponsored by Arts Research Center, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and the Berkeley Center […]


Syria’s Fraught Balance: Feb 19

Syria’s Fraught Balance: Movement, Politics, and Dabke Performance With Shayna Silverstein, followed by a conversation with Deena Chalabi Wednesday, February 19, 2020 | 5:00-7:00pm Dwinelle Annex, Room 126, UC Berkeley Find the full recording of this event here. Find ARC’s blog post on this event here. Co-sponsored by Arts Research Center, the Music Department, the […]


Poetry and the Senses Launch and Conversation: Feb 4

Poetry and the Senses Launch and ConversationWith Indira Allegra, Chiyuma Elliott, and Lyn HejinianTuesday, February 4, 2020 5:30 – 7:00pm: Readings + Conversation7:00 – 7:30pm: Reception + CelebrationMorrison Library, UC Berkeley Find the full recording of this event here. Find ARC’s blog post on this event here. Co-sponsored by Arts Research Center and Engaging the […]


Day With(out) Art: Dec 3

  STILL BEGINNING: The 30th Annual Day With(out) Art Visual AIDS Screening Tuesday, December 3, 2019 NEW TIME! Screening starts at 7:15pm Nahl Hall | California College of the Arts, Oakland campus Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and the California College of the Arts       The Arts Research Center and the California College of the […]


Launch of “Amateurism”: Nov 12

Launch of “Amateurism” | Third Text Special Issue With remarks by Abigail De Kosnik and Anneka Lenssen Tuesday, November 12, 2019 5:00-7:00pm Beta Lounge   “Amateurism”—a special issue of Third Text forthcoming in Fall 2019—is dedicated to do-it-yourself, “self-taught,” user-generated production in music, film/video, architecture, literature, visual art, and new media, especially in relation to raced, classed, and gendered […]


On “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power”: Nov 8

On “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” Curator Mark Godfrey, Tate Modern, in conversation with Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle Friday, November 8, 2019  4:00-6:00pm David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Downtown Berkeley Please note, this event is free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served (no tickets). Co-sponsored by […]


Dark Humanisms, Surplus Visuality: Sept 12

Dark Humanisms | Surplus Visuality Rizvana Bradley History of Art and African American Studies, Yale University Thursday, September 12, 2019  5:00-7:00pm Visual Resource Center, Room 308A, Doe Library, UC Berkeley   This talk explores the way visual art archives generate surplus material that work to both construct and interrogate an image of the human. The […]