Past Events

Location/Translation: Art + Engagement from the Local to the Global

September 19, 2012
Location/Translation Art + Engagement from the Local to the Global September 19, 2012

Watch the recording here!

Timed to coincide with SFMOMA’s transnational exhibition, “Lines of Flight,” a panel of curators, artists, and scholars discussed how regional circumstances affect curatorial practice in international art contexts–and how “global” conversations can redefine what we think of as “local” production. The roster included curators from local...

Spiraling Time: Intermedial Conversations in Latin American Arts

March 15, 2013
Spiraling Time Intermedial Conversations in Latin American Arts March 15 and 16, 2013

Watch Leda Martins's talk here!

Watch Cecilia Vicuña's talk here!

On March 15 and 16, 2013, the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley will present Spiraling Time: Intermedial...

Re-staging / Re-construction / Re-enactment: A Symposium in conjunction with Einstein on the Beach: An Opera in Four Acts

August 13, 2012
Re-staging / Re-construction / Re-enactment A Symposium in conjunction with Einstein on the Beach An Opera in Four Acts August 13, 2012

In October 2012, and in partnership with Cal Performances, ARC hosted a conversation on the restaging of the 1976 production of Einstein on the Beach: An Opera in Four Acts, a landmark event in music, dance, theater, and opera. The production brought together the minimalism of composer Philip Glass and choreographer Lucinda Childs with director/designer Robert Wilson’s non-narrative approach to...

Studio Time: Process/Production

October 25, 2012
Studio Time: Process/Production with Glenn Adamson October 25, 2012

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Glenn Adamson, Head of Research at the Victoria and Albert Museum, visited campus in October 2012 and gave a talk titled “Goodbye to Craft.” Adamson is the author of Thinking through Craft, editor of The Craft Reader, co-editor of The Journal of Modern Craft, and one of the leading thinkers on the concept of craft in our contemporary world. The packed auditorium also listened to...

Michael Wasson & Alice Te Punga Somerville Reading

March 8, 2023
Michael Wasson & Alice Te Punga Somerville in conversation with Beth Piatote Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 2:00 – 3:15pm PST

Watch the recording here!

This event is presented by the Arts Research Center with support of Engaging the Senses Foundation, and co-sponsorship from the Center for Race & Gender and Departments of English and Ethnic Studies.

Spring 2023 Co-Sponsored Events

Spring 2023 Co-Sponsored Events

ARC was thrilled to be co-sponsoring with Arts+ Design, Berkeley Center for New Media, Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry, Center for Latin American Studies, Engaging the Senses Foundation, English Department's Lunch Poems series, Future Histories Lab, Stanford and SFMOMA, and the Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies in Spring of 2023!

Screening: The Story of Everything

April 21, 2023
BAY AREA PREMIERE The Story of Everything:
featuring the Storytelling of Kealoha
Friday, April 21, 2023 7pm | Doors open at 6:30pm Wheeler Auditorium, Wheeler Hall free & open to the public

Assisted listening technology on site

Watch the trailer here!

Engaging the...

Artist Talk with Cara Romero

April 11, 2023
Artist Talk with Cara Romero in conversation with Prof Gregory Levine & Talia Dixon Tuesday, April 11th 2023 11:00am – 12:30pm PDT free & open to the public Maude Fife Room 315 Wheeler Hall In addition to her artist talk, Cara Romero will be doing studio visits with students in the MFA Art Practice program.

Watch Cara's artist talk here!

Presented by the Arts Research Center with co-sponsorship from the Departments of Art Practice, Ethnic Studies, and the...

2023 Flash Reading Series

Spring 2023 Flash Readings Featured poets for April 2023 National Poetry Month Andrea Abi Karam, Kaylan Black, Gloria Frym, Yona Harvey, Leticia Hernández-Linares, Rina Huang, Việt Lê, Muriel Leung, Adam Mansbach, Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, Dr. Alan Pealaez Lopez, Tony Robles & Natalia M. Vigil Each poet will read one of their poems related to the theme Reclamation.

New Readings curated each Friday in April on our YouTube Channel here.

This series is...

Artist Talk with Wendy Red Star

April 1, 2022
Artist Talk with Wendy Red Star in conversation with Beth Piatote Friday, April 1st 2022 4:00 – 5:30pm PST

Watch the recording here!

This lecture is presented by the Arts Research Center with co-sponsorship from the Departments of Art Practice and Ethnic Studies, and the Program in Critical Theory

Raised on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana, Wendy Red Star’s work is informed both by her cultural heritage and her engagement with many forms of...