Hosted by the Arts Research Center and supported by the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities
The Division of Arts & Humanities at UC Berkeley is pleased to announce Fumi Okiji as the new Director of the Arts Research Center (ARC), starting July 1, 2026.
The Arts Research Center is honored to announce the Eva Whitney Fund for the Arts, in commemoration of UC Berkeley alum and ARC student assistant Eva Whitney (Comparative Literature 2024).
What does it mean to continue writing when language itself can feel insufficient? What does poetry ask of us in moments of grief, violence, and historical rupture? And what responsibility does the artist hold when words fail or falter?
Hosted by the Arts Research Center with support by the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities and co-sponsored by the Dept of English
Read more about Layli Long Soldier's work at the Poetry Foundation here
Read more about Solmaz Sharif's work at the Poetry Foundation here
Hosted by the Arts Research Center with support by the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities and co-sponsored by the Dept. of English
Open to Berkeley undergraduate & graduate students
Limited enrollment, capped at 8 students
Spots given on a first-come, first-served basis
Cost to participants underwritten by the Arts Research Center
Hosted by the Arts Research Center and supported by the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities
The November installment of The Loft Hour transformed the Arts Reseach Center into a shared space of sound, movement, and collective breath as Xandra Ibarra (Art Practice) and Matthew Evan Taylor (Music) joined Anne Walsh (Art Practice) for a powerful hour of performance and conversation hosted by the Arts Research Center.
On November 5th, UC Berkeley’s Arts Research Center marked its 25th anniversary by welcoming internationally acclaimed novelist, feminist icon, and social activist Isabel Allende for an intimate conversation with Sara Guyer, the Irving and Jean Stone Dean of Arts and Humanities and Professor of English at UC Berkeley.
FEATURING WORK BY
Camilo Tapia Flores (Chile/Brazil)
Camila Flores-Fernández (Peru/Germany)
Hoàng Thái Anh (Vietnam)
Kenneth Idongesit Usoro (Nigeria)
José Luis Cortés (Puerto Rico)
Gustavo Vinagre & Vinicius Couto (Brazil/Portugal)
Hosted by the Arts Research Center and supported by the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities
At the Arts Research Center on October 29, Pushcart Prize, winning essayist Christina Rivera brought the ocean to Berkeley. Reading from her debut collection My Oceans: Essays of Water, Whales, and Women, Rivera invited the audience to submerge into her world of vulnerability, ecological kinship, and the fluid shapes of motherhood.
