The Loft Hour

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The Loft Hour: Moderator Abigail De Kosnik in conversation with Timmia Hearn DeRoy & Cathy Park Hong

Elevate your lunch break with The Loft Hour, a series that invites arts faculty to riff on their work over lunch, in an informal conversation moderated by an ARC-affiliated faculty member.

Join us in welcoming our esteemed colleagues in Architecture, Art Practice, English/Creative Writing, Film & Media, History of Art, Music, and Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies. ARC developed The Loft Hour in 2023 to create cross-disciplinary conversations, across the arts and faculty rank levels, with the aim of creating a spotlight and fulcrum for new members of the Arts at Berkeley. Hosted by the Arts Research Center in our loft space, and supported by the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities.

Designed to reignite connections between colleagues and aligned with A&H Dean Sara Guyer's initiatives to synergize, support, and help retain new faculty members.

Now in the third year since the program's inception, ARC is delighted to have showcased 45 Berkeley faculty in The Loft Hour conversations, including 30 featured artists from seven arts departments, in conversation with 15 interlocutors affiliated with ARC.

2025/26 Loft Hour

The Loft Hour: Karina Gutiérrez + Mu-Xuan Lin

October 9, 2025

The Loft Hour: Xandra Ibarra + Matthew Evan Taylor

November 13, 2025

The Loft Hour: Chris Batterman Cháirez + Cathy Lu

February 12, 2026

The Loft Hour: Tadiwa Madenga + Juliana Ramírez Herrera

March 12, 2026

The Loft Hour: Shiben Banerji + Alexandra Lossada

April 9, 2026

2024/25 Loft Hour

The Loft Hour: Tehmina Khan + Fae Myenne Ng

October 10, 2024

The Loft Hour: Asma Kazmi + SanSan Kwan

November 14, 2024

The Loft Hour: Cecily Nicholson + Ana María Ochoa

February 13, 2025

The Loft Hour: Rizvana Bradley + Roshanak Kheshti

March 13, 2025

The Loft Hour: Andy Shanken + Stephanie Syjuco

April 10, 2025

2023/24 Loft Hour

The Loft Hour: Zamansele Nsele + Nicole Starosielski

October 19, 2023

The Loft Hour: Marié Abe + Luanne Redeye

November 16, 2023

The Loft Hour: Solmaz Sharif + Darian Longmire

February 22, 2024

The Loft Hour: Iggy Cortez + Juan David Rubio Restrepo

March 21, 2024

The Loft Hour: Cathy Park Hong + Timmia Hearn DeRoy

April 18, 2024

The Loft Hour Featured Artists:

Marié Abe (Music), Shiben Banerji (History of Art), Rizvana Bradley (Film & Media), Christopher Batterman Chaírez (Music), Iggy Cortez (Film & Media), Timmia Hearn DeRoy (Theater, Dance & Performance Studies), Karina Gutierrez (Theater, Dance & Performance Studies), Juliana Ramírez Herrera (History of Art), Cathy Park Hong (Creative Writing), Xandra Ibarra (Art Practice), Asma Kazmi (Art Practice), Tehmina Khan (Creative Writing), Roshanak Kheshti (Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies), SanSan Kwan (Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies), Mark Minch-de Leon (Film), Mu-Xuan Lin (Music), Darian Longmire (Art Practice), Tadiwa Madenga (English, Comparative Literature), Fae Myenne Ng (Creative Writing), Cecily Nicholson (Creative Writing), Zamansele Nsele (History of Art), Ana María Ochoa (Music), Luanne Redeye (Art Practice), Juan David Rubio Restrepo (Music), Andy Shanken (Architecture), Solmaz Sharif (Creative Writing), Nicole Starosielski (Film & Media), Stephanie Syjuco (Art Practice), and Matthew Taylor (Art Practice)

The Loft Hour Interlocutors:

Natalia Brizuela (Film & Media), Carolyn Chen (Ethnic Studies), Iggy Cortez (Film & Media), Abigail DeKosnik (Theater, Dance & Performance Studies), Patrice Douglass (Gender & Women's Studies), Roshanak Kheshti (Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies), Lauren Kroiz (History of Art), Anneka Lenssen (History of Art), Tom McEnaney (Comparative Literature/Berkeley Center for New Media), Salar Mameni (Ethnic Studies), Angela Marino (Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies), Zamansele Nsele (History of Art & Black Diaspora), Alex Saum-Pascual (Spanish Literature & New Media), Estelle Tarica (Spanish & Portuguese), and Anne Walsh (Art Practice)