Past Events

emerge/ncy [maps]: poetry reading with Safia Elhillo, Hieu Minh Nguyen, and Craig Santos Perez

February 23, 2021
emerge/ncy: [maps] poetry reading featuring Safia Elhillo, Hieu Minh Nguyen, and Craig Santos Perez Tuesday, Feb 23, 2021 4:00-5:30pm PST

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This event was funded by Engaging the Senses Foundation, and co-sponsored by the departments of English, Ethnic Studies, Gender & Women’s Studies, the Program in Critical Theory, and the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture.

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...

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...

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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Silvia Gruner in conversation with Tarek Elhaik

February 20, 2019
Artist & Curator Silvia Gruner in conversation with Tarek Elhaik Wednesday, February 20, 2019
5:30-7:30pm
Dwinelle Annex, Room 126

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Co-sponsors: Arts Research Center and UCHRI.

Les Blank Lecture: Susana de Sousa Dias

April 24, 2019
Les Blank Lecture: Susana de Sousa Dias Wednesday, April 24, 2019
7:00pm Luz obscura (film screening)
Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive

Co-sponsored by BAMPFA, the Arts Research Center, and UCHRI.

Book Launch with Trevor Paglen

April 24, 2018
Mapping as Research Trevor Paglen in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson and book launch Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Osher Theater, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, UC Berkeley

Doors open at 5:00pm | Event starts at 5:30 pm

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Art Against Housework

April 4, 2018
Art Against Housework: The Gruppo Immagine and the Wages against Housework Campaign Jacopo Galimberti on Art against Housework. The Gruppo Immagine and the Wages against Housework Campaign with response by E. C. Feiss Wednesday, April 4 at 4:00pm
308A Doe Library, UC Berkeley