Category Archives : Press


Memory Paths and Fragments from the Past: A Poetry Reading with Deborah Miranda in Conversation with Estelle Tarica

by Eva Whitney, March 6, 2024 On January 29, 2024, the Arts Research Center welcomed writer Deborah Miranda for a reading followed by a conversation with Estelle Tarica, Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture and Chair of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese (event info here). The full recording of the event is available […]


ARC Affiliated Faculty Member Honored

UC Berkeley Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Winnie Wong has just been awarded the 2015 Joseph Levenson Book Prize by the Association of Asian Studies for her book Van Gogh on Demand: China and the Readymade. The book was also named one of the Top 10 Art Books of 2014 by Hyperallergic. Congratulations, Winnie!


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ARC Affiliated Faculty Member Honored

UC Berkeley Assistant Professor of Rhetoric Winnie Wong has just been awarded the 2015 Joseph Levenson Book Prize by the Association of Asian Studies for her book Van Gogh on Demand: China and the Readymade. The book was also named one of the Top 10 Art Books of 2014 by Hyperallergic. Congratulations, Winnie!


May 2014: ARC WORKS annual wrap-up now online  

It’s that time of year again! Our annual ARC WORKS is now online. Read ARC Director Shannon Jackson’s summary of our 2013-14 academic year, highlighting our many accomplishments (Reimagining the Urban: Bay Area Connections Across the Arts and Public Space, Impact in the Arts Think Tank, Living Time: Art and Life After ‘Art-Into-Life’, Bruce Beasley: […]


May 2014: Two Guggenheim Fellowships awarded to ARC Director and Affiliate Faculty

The Arts Research Center would like to congratulate its director, Shannon Jackson (Professor of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies) and ARC Affiliate Faculty member Stephanie Syjuco (Assistant Professor of Art Practice) who were awarded prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships this year. The Guggenheim Fellowship is given to those who have “demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or […]


November 2013: New Book Release from ARC Affiliate Trinh T. Minh-ha

World-renowned filmmaker, artist, and critical theorist and ARC Affiliate Trinh T. Minh-ha (Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Rhetoric) will read from her new book D-Passage in San Francisco on November 14 and Berkeley on December 4. “D-Passage is a nuanced and original intervention in new media and digital arts. Fro Trinh T. Minh-ha, […]