Past Events

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.

The evening began with Rivera sharing how the book’s form, layered, fragmented, and tidal, mirrors her own life. “At the last minute, my publisher put the word ...

The door was propped open, and a small ensemble could be faintly heard from the hallway: laughter, conversation, and the sound of music spilling out into the evening. Peeking in, the room was full of life: faculty, students, alumni, and guests gathered together, conversations flowing as old friends reconnected and new ones met for the first time. This was the Arts Research Center’s 25th Anniversary Celebration, a moment to honor not only a milestone year, but a quarter century of thinking through the arts.

Founded in 2000 as an Organized...

A trans-Indigenous conversation, with juxtapositions that decenter European thought and begin to translate an oceanic-to-desert-to-river-to-forest poetic imaginary

Reclamation gathered 19 fellows chosen to participate in the 2023 Poetry & the Senses program for a weekend of readings, conversations, and workshops. Three readings, hosted at...