Each semester, ARC curates, presents, and co-sponsors a season of events, under a unifying theme, and in coordination with our many partners on campus. These events have included artist lectures, readings, symposia, performances, conversations and salons, student productions, conferences, screenings, book launches and craft talks.
ARC supports events across campus with our mission and media co-sponorships, to uplift arts research developed by departments, faculty, and student groups, including with the core arts departments of Art Practice, English, Film & Media, History of Art, Music, and Theater, Dance & Performance Studies, as well as dozens of campus and community affiliates.
Past themes have included Reclamation, Emerge/ncy, Arts of Critique from the Global South, Amatuerism, Valuing Labor in the Arts, Time Zones, Location/Translation, Studio Time, Temporal Shifts, etc. The theme for the 2023/24 school year was Collaboration, and the 2024/25 school year focuses on Duration.
Co-sponsors and partners for the past two years included the Engaging the Senses Foundation, English Department and Lunch Poems, Maghsoodnia Poetry Fund, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Culture, the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts & Humanities, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Berkeley Center for New Media, Insitut Ramon Llull, Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study, BAMPFA, Dean's Office of the College of Letters & Sciences, Townsend Center for the Humanites, Black Studies Collaboratory, Dept of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies, Holloway Poetry Series, Othering & Belonging Institure, Dept of Music, Dept of Ethnic Studies, Dept of Film & Media, Native American Community Foundation, Dept of Art Practice, Visual AIDS NY, Dept of Canadian Studies, AlterTheater Ensemble, Arts & Humanities Community Building Grant, Codex Foundation, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Native American Studies Program, the Joseph A. Myers Center for for Research on Native Issues, Dept of Spanish & Portuguese, Cal Performances' Illuminations, Dept of Rhetoric
Event Accessibility
If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) to fully participate in any of the ARC events, please contact Lily Gee at lilygee@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least two weeks in advance of the event.
