Category Archives : Past Events


“We are not worried in the least” with Jasmina Metwaly: January 31

  “We are not worried in the least” Jasmina Metwaly, filmmaker, artist, and founder of the Mosireen Collective In conversation with Anneka Lenssen Thursday, January 31, 2019 5:00-7:00pm Dwinelle Hall, Room 142/Nestrick Room Co-sponsors: Arts Research Center, UCHRI, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, BAMPFA, Berkeley Film & Media Seminar. Please enjoy a video of this […]


Kinetic Contemplation: Raqs Media Collective in Medias Res with Shuddhabrata Sengupta: November 7

Kinetic Contemplation: Raqs Media Collective in Medias Res with Shuddhabrata Sengupta   “Kinetic Contemplation: Raqs Media Collective in Medias Res” Shuddhabrata Sengupta in conversation with Professors Natalia Brizuela & Poulomi Saha Wednesday, November 7, 2018 5:00-7:00pm Maude Fife Room, Wheeler Hall, Room 315 Please enjoy the event summary here, watch the video here, or listen to the podcast at […]


Escritura, Trama Y Deseo: October 11

Escritura, Trama Y Deseo with Diamela Eltit   Escritura, Trama Y Deseo (Writing, Plot And Desire) Diamela Eltit in conversation with Natalia Brizuela and Francine Masiello Thursday, October 11, 2018 5:30-7:30pm Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities Please enjoy the video here, and the podcast on our SoundCloud channel here.  Please note: this event […]


Aruna D’Souza in Conversation with Allan deSouza: September 21

Aruna D’Souza in Conversation with Allan deSouza     Aruna D’Souza in Conversation with Allan deSouza Friday, September 21, 2018 5:00-7:00pm Maude Fife Room, Room 315, Wheeler Hall Please enjoy the event summary here, the video here, or the podcast on our SoundCloud channel here. Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and the University of California Humanities Research […]


The Politics & Poetics of Imagination in the Black Mediterranean with SA Smythe: September 13

The Politics & Poetics of Imagination in the Black Mediterranean with SA Smythe     The Politics & Poetics of Imagination in the Black Mediterranean with SA Smythe Thursday September 13, 2018 5:30-7:30pm Dwinelle Annex, Room 126 Please enjoy the video of this event here, the summary here, and the podcast on our SoundCloud channel here.  […]


Mediations & Collaborations with Susan Meiselas: September 10

Mediations & Collaborations: A Conversation with Susan Meiselas     Mediations & Collaborations: A Conversation with Susan Meiselas Monday, September 10, 2018 12:00-1:30pm Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities Please enjoy the event summary here, and the podcast on our SoundCloud channel here.  Seating will be available on a first come, first served basis […]


Feminist Curatorial Practices: April 11

Feminist Curatorial Practices: A roundtable convening     Feminist Curatorial Practices: A roundtable convening Wednesday, April 11 at 5:30pm Maude Fife Room, 3rd Floor, Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley Join the Arts Research Center and Apsara DiQuinzio, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Phyllis C. Wattis Matrix Curator at BAMPFA for a roundtable conversation about […]


Berkeley/Stanford Symposium: April 7

Berkeley/Stanford Symposium: A Line in the Sand     Berkeley/Stanford Symposium | A Line in the Sand: Art, Ecology, & Precarity  Saturday, April 7 from 10am-5pm White Box Gallery, 4th Floor, SFMOMA, San Francisco  A Line in the Sand takes its title from the sense of precarity and urgency emerging from recent efforts to take unified global action […]


Art against Housework: April 4

Art against Housework. The Gruppo Immagine and the Wages against Housework Campaign   Jacopo Galimberti on Art against Housework. The Gruppo Immagine and the Wages against Housework Campaign Response by E. C. Feiss Wednesday, April 4 at 4:00pm 308A Doe Library, UC Berkeley Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the Wages for Housework Campaign. While […]