Past Events

Movement as Research

October 18, 2017
Movement as Research: Undoing Bodies Moved by Language Artist Talk with Will Rawls
Response by Tonika Sealy-Thompson (Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies) Wednesday, October 18 at 5:30 pm
308A Doe Library (map)

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Curation as Research

September 19, 2017
Curation as Research: Contemporary Art in Central America Miguel A. López and Emiliano Valdés
in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson (History of Art) Tuesday, September 19 at 5:30 pm
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities (map)

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Art, Technology, & Culture Colloquium 2016-2017

Art, Technology, & Culture Colloquium 2016-2017: Global Circulations 2016 talks took place at 6:30pm in the Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley, CA 2017 talks took place at 6:30pm in the Osher Auditorium, BAMPFA, Berkeley CA

Berkeley’s Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium is an internationally recognized forum for presenting new ideas that challenge conventional wisdom about art, technology, and culture...

Art of Cultural Criticism Lecture Series Fall 2016

The Art of Cultural Criticism Fall 2016 Lecture Series

The Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Arts + Design Initiative, the Arts Research Center, and the Art of Writing are pleased to present The Art of Cultural Criticism. This yearlong series of conversations features some of the most innovative and incisive writers on culture in its various forms—including visual art, film, old...

Revisions in Time

Curating Performance Across the Arts Monday, November 16, 2015
4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
2121 Allston Way, Berkeley

Syria’s Fraught Balance

February 19, 2020
Syria’s Fraught Balance: Movement, Politics, and Dabke Performance With Shayna Silverstein, followed by a conversation with Deena Chalabi Wednesday, February 19, 2020 | 5:00-7:00pm
Dwinelle Annex, Room 126, UC Berkeley

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Co-sponsored by Arts Research Center, the Music Department, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Department

Within the deep pessimism of the Syrian conflict remain moments of joyful action –...

Internet Tour: Invisible Infrastructures and AI Hallucinations

October 12, 2023
Internet Tour: Invisible Infrastructures and AI Hallucinations October 12, 2023 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Hearst Muesum 102 Anthropology and Art Practice Building, Berkeley, CA 94720 An in-person journey through the physical Internet infrastructure––a tourist route of non-touristic places

with Alex Saum-Pascual, Digital Artist, Poet, and Associate Professor of Contemporary Spanish...

Julie Mehretu, in conversation

October 22, 2019
Julie Mehretu in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson Tuesday, October 22, 2019
5:00-7:00pm
Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley
Please note, seating is first come, first served.

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Co-sponsored by The Arts Research Center, the Department of Art Practice, The Center for the Study of Sexual Culture, and the Center for Race & Gender

Critique/De-coloniality/Diaspora

May 6, 2019
Critique/De-coloniality/Diaspora Nadia Yala Kisukidi | How to Philosophize in a Dominated Country
Rocío Zambrana | Pasarse políticamente: Hopeful Acts of Protest in Puerto Rico
Monday, May 6, 2019
5:00-7:00pm
470 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley

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Dark Humanisms, Surplus Visuality

September 12, 2019
Dark Humanisms | Surplus Visuality Rizvana Bradley History of Art and African American Studies, Yale University Thursday, September 12, 2019
5:00-7:00pm
Visual Resource Center, Room 308A, Doe Library, UC Berkeley