Nora Alter was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Making Time: Art Across Gallery, Screen and Stage Screening at the Arts Research Center on April 20, 2012.
Nora Alter is a professor at Temple University’s School of Theater, Film, and Media Arts. She served as Chair of the Department from 2009-2013. She is founding director of Temple’s Venice Study Abroad Summer Program and is former founding Director of FMA’s Los Angeles Study Away Program. Alter is culturally fluent in European and North American arts and culture. Alter completed her PhD in Comparative...
Rob Bailis was a Moderator and Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Revisions in Time Conference on November 16, 2015, and the Impact in the Arts Think Tank Conference at ARC on January 17, 2024.
Rob Bailis became the Artistic and Executive Director of BroadStage in Santa Monica in 2019. Before then, he worked as a performing classical musician for ten years prior to becoming the Interim Artistic Director and Associate Director of Cal Performance at the University of California,...
Professor of Film & Media and East Asian Languages & Cultures at UC Berkeley
Weihond Bao was a Moderator at the Temporal Shifts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on Feburary 1, 2013.
Weihong Bao is Pamela P. Fong and Family Distinguished Chair in China Studies and an Associate Professor of Film and Media & East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley. She has published widely on comparative media history and theory, media and environment, early cinema, war and modernity, affect theory, propaganda theory and practice, and Chinese language cinema of all periods and regions. Her book Fiery Cinema: The Emergence of an Affective Medium in...
Teaching Professor at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
Sara Beckam was a Moderator at the Cross Sector Conference at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2016.
Sara Beckman has spent her years as a boundary spanner at UC Berkeley, where she has held faculty appointments in both the Haas School of Business and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. She served as Chief Learning Officer for the newly formed Jacobs Institute of Design Innovation and facilitated the creation of a multi-disciplinary Certificate in Design Innovation. She teaches courses such as Collaborative Innovation which integrates Art Practice, Theater and...
Natalia Brizuela is a Professor of Spanish & Portuguese and Film & Media at UC Berkeley. Her work focuses on photography, film and contemporary art, critical theory and aesthetics of both Spanish America and Brazil. She is the author of two books on photography. The first, Fotografia e Império. Paisagens para um Brasil Moderno (Cia das Letras, 2012) is a study of 19th Century photography in Brasil in its relationship to modern state formation, nationalism, modernization and race. The second, Depois da fotografia. Uma literatura fora de si (Rocco, 2014) is a study...
Former ARC Director, Professor & Scholar of Modern and Contemporary Art
History of Art
Julia Bryan-Wilson's research interests include feminist and queer theory, theories of artistic labor, performance and dance, production/fabrication, craft histories, photography, video, visual culture of the nuclear age, and collaborative practices. She is the author of four books: Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era (University of California, 2009, named a best book of the year by the New York Times and Artforum); Art in the Making: Artists and Their Materials from the Studio to Crowdsourcing (with Glenn Adamson,...
Professor of Rhetoric, Comparative Literature, and Spanish
Anthony J. Cascardi was a Moderator at the Questioning Aesthetics Symposium at ARC on March 13, 2015, and the Dream of the Red Chamber Symposium at the Arts Research Center on September 12, 2016.
Anthony J. Cascardi is Professor of Rhetoric, Comparative Literature, and Spanish, and served for ten years as Dean of Arts and Humanities. He is also former Director of the Townsend Center for the Humanities and of the Arts Research Center. Cascardi’s research interests include the relations between literature and philosophy; aesthetic theory; the novel; and early modern Europe....
Deena Chalabi was a Moderator at the Syria’s Fraught Balance Conference at the Arts Research Center on February 19, 2020.
Deena Chalabi is a strategist, curator and writer whose work explores how individual expression and critical thought can impact and expand public imagination. She was most recently Senior Director of Growth and Partnerships at The OpEd Project, a global thought leadership initiative for elevating underrepresented voices working towards a more intelligent and inclusive world.
Deena is also Brand Advisor at Armory Square Ventures and teaches global...
Assistant Professor of Media & Communication at Muhlenberg College
Irene Chein was an Organizer/Moderator at the Reimagining the Urban Symposium at the Arts Research Center on September 30, 2013.
Irene Chien writes about the politics of race and gender in digital media, with a focus on videogames. She is writing a book manuscript based on her dissertation titled Programmed Moves: Race and Embodiment in Fighting and Dancing Videogames. Programmed Moves examines the intertwined history and transnational circulation of two major videogame genres, martial arts fighting games and rhythm dancing games. Dr. Chien...
Vice President, Office of the Vice President for the Arts at Stanford University
Deborah Cullinan was a Moderator at the Sustaining Central Market Arts Conference at the Arts Research Center on September 12, 2011.
Deborah Cullinan is one of the nation’s leading thinkers on the pivotal role artists and arts organizations can play in shaping our social and political landscape, and has spent years mobilizing communities through arts and culture. She joined Stanford University in early 2022 as the first full-time vice president for the arts. Previously, she was CEO of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), where she launched several bold new...
