Spring 2025 Season

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.

The theme for 2024/25 is Duration.


Spring 2025 Events

Promotional graphic for "The Archive and Its Forms in the Americas" event in January 2025 at UC Berkeley.

Symposium: El Archivo y sus formas en las Américas (The Archive & Its Forms in the Americas)

January 23-24, 2025 | Location: Arts Research Center

Presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies in collaboration with the Arts Research Center and co-sponsored by the Latinx Research Center and the Center for Race and Gender. Organized by Adriana Amante (University of Buenos Aires) and Daylet Dominguez (UC Berkeley)

A person with dark hair and earrings enveloped in a blue haze.

Artist Talk with Sarah Biscarra Dilley

January 30, 2025 at 4pm| Arts Research Center

Presented by the Arts Research Center with support from the Dean's Office of the Division of Arts & Humanities, the Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues, The Native American Studies Program, Native American Student Development, and the Department of Ethnic Studies. 

Vintage illustration of Lassen Volcanic with geometric patterns and text.

Workshop with Sarah Biscarra Dilley: Using Visual Art for Language Reclamation

January 31, 2025 at 10am | Arts Research Center

Presented by the Arts Research Center with support from the Dean's Office of the Division of Arts & Humanities, the Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues, The Native American Studies Program, Native American Student Development, and the Department of Ethnic Studies. Held in collaboration with ARC's Indigenous Poetics Lab.

Two portraits of women, one in purple and one in orange, with text “The Loft Hour” and “Berkeley Arts Research Center.”

The Loft Hour: Cecily Nicholson + Ana María Ochoa

in conversation with Tom McEnaney

February 13, 2025 at 12pm | Arts Research Center

Presented by the Arts Research Center with support from the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities.

women in red dress at a microphone singing

Artist Talk with Julia Keefe

February 18, 2025 at 5pm | Arts Research Center

Presented by the Arts Research Center with support from the Dean's Office of the Division of Arts & Humanities, and co-sponsored by the Department of Ethnic Studies, Department of Music Ethnomusicology Program, Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues, the Native American Studies Program, and Native American Student Development

 Person in a white lace dress and hat standing on a porch.

Fractured History: Martha Redbone Songwriting Workshop

February 27, 2025 at 4pm | Morrison Hall, Rm 250

A collaboration between Cal Performances' Illuminations, the Department of Music, and the Arts Research Center.

First-round applications closed; apply for waiting list today!

Logo of CICIS - white text on blue background

CICIS 2025 Conference: Rupture, Repair, Ruination

Feb 28 - Mar 1, 2025 | ARC, Hearst Field Annex D23
2:00pm - 6:30pm | Fri Feb 28, 2025 (info & schedule)
10:30am - 2:30pm | Sat Mar 1, 2025 (info & schedule)

California Interdisciplinary Consortium for Italian Studies Biannual Conference, Organized by: Akash Kumar, Ramsey McGlazer, &  Rhiannon Noel Welch. Presented by the Department of Italian Studies, hosted at the Arts Research Center

Two-tone vertical split portrait of two women with text "THE LOFT HOUR, Berkeley Arts Research Center" at the bottom.

The Loft Hour: Rizvana Bradley + Roshanak Kheshti

in conversation with Patrice Douglass

March 13, 2025 at 12pm | Arts Research Center

Presented by the Arts Research Center with support from the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities.

A person in a camouflage jacket stands among tall, dried grasses with red branches in the foreground.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: The Theory of Water + A Short History of the Blockade

March 13, 2025 at 5pm – Artist Talk: The Theory of Water | Maude Fife Room
March 14, 2025 at 10am – Seminar: A Short History of the Blockade | Arts Research Center

Presented by the Department of Rhetoric and co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and the Department of Ethnic Studies

Three people standing in blue landscape

Super Futures Haunt Qollective: L’eulelogy for our super(re)latives

March 18, 2025 | White Box Theater, Art & Anthropology Bldg, Rm 120

This performance & talk is co-presented by the Arts Research Center and the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, and co-sponsored by the Departments of Art Practice & Ethnic Studies, the Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues, Asian American Research Center, and the Native American Studies Program, with support from the Dean's Office of the Division of Arts & Humanities.

Three side by side portraits

Chapbook Launch & Poetry Reading featuring Maurya Kerr, Vincente G. Perez, D'mani Thomas

April 3, 2025 at 5pm | Arts Research Center

Presented by the Arts Research Center with support from the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities.

Portraits of two individuals with text at the bottom: "The Loft Hour, Berkeley Arts Research Center."

The Loft Hour: Andy Shanken + Stephanie Syjuco

in conversation with Lauren Kroiz

April 10, 2025 at 12pm | Arts Research Center

Presented by the Arts Research Center with support from the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities.

man in plaid jacket wearing glasses leaning against a wall with skyline behind him

Drew Woodson: ARC & TDPS Playwright-in-Residence, Indigenous Performing Arts Residency

April 14, 2025 - April 18, 2025

Co-presented by the Arts Research Center and the Department of Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies, with Alternative Theater Ensemble, and with support from the Dean's Office of the Division of Arts & Humanities, the Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues, the Native American Studies Program, and the Department of Ethnic Studies.