Visiting Lecturer

Jeff Davis

University Carillonist
Jeff Davis was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the made@berkeley Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 15, 2016.

Jeff Davis, renowned as the University Carillonist at UC Berkeley, retired in 2024 after a distinguished career spanning over three decades. Throughout his tenure, Davis presided over Berkeley's iconic Campanile, home to one of the world's foremost carillons comprising 61 bells. He joined UC Berkeley in 1983, initially supporting the music department with his diverse skills before formally studying under Ronald Barnes, the university's...

Jen de los Reyes

Artist, Educator Community Arts Organizer
Jen de los Reyes was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Questioning Aesthetics Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 13, 2015.

Jen de los Reyes was born in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and educated first in its local music scene of the mid-90’s infused with the energy of Riot grrrl and DIY, and then in its university. [1] How she works today is rooted in what she learned in her formative years as a show organizer, listener, creator of zines, and band member. Graduate work at the University of Regina made the space possible for her to see her...

Nicholas de Monchaux

Professor and Head of Architecture at MIT
Nicholas de Monchaux gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 17, 2016.

Nicholas de Monchaux is Professor and Head of Architecture at MIT. Until 2020 he was Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, and Craigslist Distinguished Chair in New Media at UC Berkeley, where he also served as Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media(link is external). De Monchaux is the author of ...

T.J. Demos

Art Historian, Cultural Critic, and Chair in Art History in the Department of the History of Art at UC Santa Cruz
T. J. Demos was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Berkeley/Stanford Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 7, 2018.

T. J. Demos is the Patricia and Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in Art History in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture, at University of California, Santa Cruz, and founding Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. Demos is the author of several books, including Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (Sternberg Press, 2017); Decolonizing Nature:...

Susana de Sousa Dias

Independent Filmmaker
Susana de Sousa Dias gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on April 24, 2019.

Susana de Sousa Dias' cinematic works explore the dialectics of history and memory, questioning established regimes of visibility with a focus on the archive. Her works have been presented both in art venues and film festivals such as the Berlinale, Documenta, and Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art, among others.

She received a FIPRESCI Award and the Grand Prix Cinéma du Réel for her film 48. She was guest artist at the Flaherty Seminar in 2012 and...

Apsara DiQuinzio

Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at Nevada Museum of Art
Apsara DiQuinzio gave a Visiting Curator Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 11, 2018.

Apsara DiQuinzio is senior curator of contemporary art at the Nevada Museum of Art, where she oversees the contemporary program. Over the course of DiQuinzio’s twenty-year career as a curator, she has organized over fifty exhibitions of art, including solo exhibitions with leading contemporary artists such as Michael Armitage, Trisha Donnelly, Vincent Fecteau, Arthur Jafa, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Otobong Nkanga, Christina Quarles, R.H. Quaytman, and Paul Sietsema, among many...

Jesse Drew

Professor of Technocultural Studies at UC Davis
Jesse Drew gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on April 13, 2015.

Jesse Drew is Professor of Technocultural Studies at UC Davis, where his research and practice centers on alternative and community media technologies and their impact on democratic societies, with a particular emphasis on the global working class. A teenage runaway at age 15, Drew lived in remote wilderness communes as well as inner-city urban communes in New England and California, participating in collective and cooperative projects involving food distribution, community media,...

Tarek Elhaik

Professor of Anthropology at UC Davis
Tarek Elhaik was a Moderator at the Artist & Curator Silvia Gruner Lecture at the Arts Research Center on February 20, 2019. Tarek Elhaik's work is based on participant observation in several domains of practice related to contemporary art and experimental media worlds, with a special interest in the different modes of curatorial practice that animate those worlds. The aim of his fieldwork-based inquiries is both to problematize the mediatory role and increasing influence of curatorial practice in contemporary life and to evaluate the ethical, political...

Anne Ellegood

Senior Curator at the Hammer Museum
Anne Ellegood was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Feminist Curatorial Practices Roundtable Conversation at the Arts Research Center on April 11, 2018.

Anne Ellegood was recently appointed the Executive Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA). She was the Senior Curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles from 2009-2019. Prior to joining the Hammer, she was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C., and from 1998-2003 she was the Associate Curator at the New Museum of...

Nadia Ellis

Professor of English at UC Berkeley
Nadia Ellis gave a Visiting Lecture Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 27, 2017.

Nadia Ellis specializes in black diasporic, Caribbean, and postcolonial literatures and cultures.

Her book, Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora(link is external), (Duke, 2015; Honorable Mention, William Sanders Scarborough Prize, MLA), explores forms of black belonging animated by queer utopian desire and diasporic...