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On September 5th, ARC partnered with the Lunch Poems series to co-present their first event of the Fall 2024 school year. Sherwin Bitsui, a Diné (Navajo) writer, poet, and Professor of English at Northern Arizona University, presented work from his three collections of poetry, Dissolve, Flood Song, and Shapeshift, along with new work from his upcoming manuscript in a poetry reading at UC Berkeley’s Morrison Library.
Lunch Poems + the Arts Research Center bring poet Sherwin Bitsui to campus for reading & craft talk. Codex Foundation collaborated to create a broadside of one of Bitsui's poems from Flood Song.
ARC affiliate faculty member and associate professor for the Berkeley Center for New Media, Abigail De Kosnik, has been featured on several news outlets on how British pop star Charli XCX's new album "Brat" has become wrapped up with Kamala Harris' presidential campaign and meme culture, specifically "kamala IS brat."
ARC Visiting Writer and Poetry & the Senses fellow No'u Revilla chosen to curate poems for May 2024.
Hosted by the Arts Research Center and supported by the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities
Join the Arts Research Center in celebrating the first chapbook publications of Poetry & the Senses Fellows Marisa Lin and Cianga. Each poet will read for 20 minutes, followed by a book signing. Free & open to the public.
Presented by the Townsend Center for the Humanities in partnership with BAMPFA, co-sponsored by ARC.
Hosted by the Arts Research Center and supported by the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities
What makes a memory? Is it a fixed thing, or part of one’s imagination? Can history be considered a collective memory? Writer Deborah Miranda set out to explore these questions on January 29, 2024, through a reading of her work and a conversation with Professor Estelle Tarica. Tarica’s class, titled “Indigenous and Latinx Pathways of Memory in California” was in attendance, filling the room. She modeled her class after the concept of the “memory path,” a term revitalized in a contemporary anti-colonial context by the Bolivian indigenous scholar Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui.
Alutiiq artist and scholar Tanya Lukin Linklater’s 2023 residency with the Arts Research Center was a gift. Tanya traveled to Berkeley with dance artists Ceinwen Gobert and Ivanie Aubin-Malo to explore her current choreographic work in progress, Ewako ôma askiy: This then is the earth. Open rehearsals were held at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive between November 1-4, 2023. It was an honor to bear witness to Tanya’s practice, which is intricate and intentional.
Hosted by the Arts Research Center and supported by the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities
What’s in a word? On October 5, poet dg okpik visited the Arts Research Center to give a craft talk following her Lunch Poems reading earlier in the day. Interested in getting to the very core of a word, parsing it apart, and unfurling its layers, okpik described her process, background, and current life as a storyteller for her Inupiaq lineage.
A trans-Indigenous conversation, with juxtapositions that decenter European thought and begin to translate an oceanic-to-desert-to-river-to-forest poetic imaginary
What does it mean to be a Latinx poet? How is one’s identity at play in their artwork? Is a poem a static artifact, or a living thing? On September 28, poets J. Michael Martinez and Aracelis Girmay set out to explore these questions through readings of their work and a conversation facilitated by Professor John Alba Cutler. The room, busy and bright, was filled with Professor Cutler’s students who had recently read the poets’ work. Their attentiveness held Martinez and Girmay’s work tightly.
