Fall 2025

Sueli Maxakali | Yõg ãtak: My Father, Kaiowá

Thursday, Sept 19, 2025 | 3:30pm  
Screening & Conversation to follow |BAMPFA tickets here
*co-sponsored event

This film documents filmmaker Sueli Maxakali’s search for her father, while highlighting the struggles of the Indigenous peoples of Brazil to maintain their traditions and autonomy. 
Presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, and co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center 

Ayana V Jackson: Artist Talk

Thurs, October 2, 2025 | 6pm | Maude Fife Rm 315, Wheeler Hall
*Co-sponsored event

Ayana V Jackson uses archival impulses to assess the impact of the colonial gaze on the history of photography. By using her lens to deconstruct 19th and early 20th century portraiture, Jackson questions photography’s authenticity and role in perpetuating socially relevant and stratified identities.
Presented by the Gender and Women’s Studies, Art Practice, and African American Studies Departments, and co-sponsored by Arts Research Center, Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry, and Artist as First Responder

Oluremi C. Onabanjo | Lecture & Seminar

The Peter Schub Curator of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art

Lecture | Seeing Bahia: The City of Women
Thurs Oct 9th at 5pm | Nestrick Rm 142, Dwinelle Hall
Seminar | Little Histories of Photography: Critical Reflections on The Museum of Modern Art
Friday Oct 10, 2025 | location tba
*co-sponsored events

Presented by African American Studies, Berkeley Film & Media Seminar, CLACS, The Image Lab, and co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center, Center for African Studies, and Dept of History of Art

Christina Rivera: MY OCEANS – Book Talk & Reading

in conversation with Shannon Jackson

Thurs October 29, 2025 at 5pm| Arts Research Center

Presented by the Arts Research Center in collaboration with the Environmental Arts & Humanities Initiative with support from the Dean's Office of the Division of Arts & Humanities and co-sponsored by the Depts of English and Comparative Literature, and the Center for Race & Gender

Friendship: Writing Art Histories in Relation: ARTMargins Workshop

Fri November 7, 2025 from 9am - 6:30pm | Arts Research Center
*Co-sponsored event

This symposium organized by Professor Anneka Lenssen (History of Art) aligns with multiple engagements by ARTMargins editors with questions related to solidarity and friendship. 
Presented by the Department of History of Art and co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Open to UC Berkeley Community.

Kimberly Juanita Brown 

Lecture: In The Time of the Photograph |Thursday Nov 13, 2025 at 5pm 
Graduate Seminar: Looking Black |Friday Nov 14, 2025 from 10am–12pm
*co-sponsored events

Kimberly Juanita Brown is a scholar of visuality and black subjectivity and author most recently of Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual and Black Elegies.

Presented by the African American Studies, Berkeley Film & Media Seminar, The Image Lab, and co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and History of Art