Past Events

Mother Language Day

February 21, 2024
Mother Language Day Celebration Wed Feb 21, 2024
10 – 11am
Hearst Field Annex D23

Amanda Strong and Bracken Hanuse Corlett at BAMPFA

February 10, 2025
Aimee Chang
Arts Research Center Artist-in-Residence Amanda Strong and Visiting Artist Bracken Hanuse Corlett: Screening and Discussion at BAMPFA

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The Loft Hour: Solmaz Sharif + Darian Longmire

February 22, 2024
The Loft Hour: Solmaz Sharif + Darian Longmire in conversation with Anneka Lenssen Thursday, Feb 22, 2024
12 – 1pm
Hearst Field Annex D23

Hosted by the Arts Research Center and supported by the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities

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

Reading by Deborah Miranda

January 29, 2024
Reading by Deborah Miranda in conversation with Estelle Tarica Monday, January 29, 2024 2:00 – 3:15pm Maude Fife Room 315, Wheeler Hall

The Arts Research Center welcomes writer Deborah Miranda to Berkeley for a reading and conversation, free and open to the public. Her reading will be followed by a short conversation with Estelle Tarica, Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture and Chair of the Dept of Spanish & Portuguese.

Deborah A. Miranda...

Art as Critique Conference

March 1, 2019
Art as Critique Conference Friday, March 1, 2019
9:00am-6:30pm
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities

Watch the recordings of Panel 1, Panel 2, Panel 3, and Panel 4!

Reading by Joy Harjo, U.S. Poet Laureate

April 22, 2020
Reading by Joy Harjo, U.S. Poet Laureate in conversation with Beth Piatote Wednesday, April 22, 2020 5:30 – 7:00pm PDT

Watch the recording here!

Please inquire for an educational copy of the full recording.

Theater as a Site of Public History: Dillon Chitto in conversation with Laurie Arnold

February 6, 2023
Theater as a Site of Public History: Dillon Chitto in conversation with Laurie Arnold February 6th, 2023

ARC SPRING 2023 ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

in conversation with Laurie Arnold

with Beth Piatote as interlocutor

Watch the conversation here(link is external)!

Reflection of the event by our very own...

Jake Skeets Poetry Reading & Craft Talk

October 6, 2022
Jake Skeets Craft Talk: The Memory Field in conversation with ARC Director Beth Piatote Thursday, October 6, 2022 4pm Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23

Co-presented by the Arts Research Center & the Berkeley English Dept with generous support from Engaging the Senses Foundation, Dr. and Mrs. Tom Colby, the UC Berkeley Library, the Morrison Library Fund, the Dean’s Office of the College of Letters and Science, and Poets & Writers, Inc. ​

The Old World in the New: Performing Diaspora

August 28, 2006
The Old World in the New: Performing Diaspora August 28, 2006

The Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley presents a panel of scholars and artists exploring the impact of the African diaspora on various forms of historical and contemporary music and dance.

Consortium for the Arts & Arts Research Center, with Depts of African American Studies and Theater, Dance & Performance Studies.

Featuring: Brandi Wilkins Catanese, Linda Tillery, and...

Art/Politics/Aesthetics with Stephanie Syjuco

April 5, 2017
Art/Politics/Aesthetics Thinking Through the Arts and Design at Berkeley: California Countercultures Stephanie Syjuco, Professor of Art Practice Wed., April 5, 2017 Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Thinking Through the Arts and Design at Berkeley: California Countercultures is co-taught by Natasha Boas, independent curator, art historian and critic, and Michael Cohen, Associate Teaching Professor in the African American Studies Department. The Wednesday public lecture series is organized by Natasha Boas....