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Layli Long Soldier: Poetry Reading + Conversation with Solmaz Sharif

April 1, 2026
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Beth Piatote

ARC Director, 2020 ARC Fellow – Poetry and the Senses

Beth Piatote is a creative writer, playwright, and scholar. She is the author of two books, including the mixed-genre collection, The Beadworkers: Stories (Counterpoint 2019), which was long-listed for the Aspen Words Literary Prize and the PEN/Bingham Prize, and short-listed for the California Independent Booksellers Association “Golden Poppy” Prize for Fiction. The Beadworkers was named the winner of the 2020 Electa Quinney Award for Published Stories. Her full-length play...

Jocelyne Guilbault

Ethnomusicologist and Professor of Popular Music Studies at UC Berkeley
If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Jocelyne Guilbault is an ethnomusicologist and popular music studies scholar teaching at Berkeley since 1999. From 1984 to 1998 Guilbault taught at the University of Ottawa. Her educational background includes bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Université de Montréal in her native Quebec, Canada, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Stressing a multidisciplinary approach, her research and teaching engages critical theoretical and methodological issues in ethnomusicology...

Slavoj Žižek

Philosopher & Cultural Critic
Slavoj Žižek was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Creative Time Conference at the Arts Research Center in October 2012. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times...

Rocío Zambrana

Professor of Philosophy at University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras
Rocío Zamabrana gave a Visiting Scholar Lecture at the Arts Research Center on May 6, 2019. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website. Rocío Zamabrana teaches and writes about the epistemic and historical-material bases of capitalist modernity and its racial/gender order, specifically from decolonial thought and praxis, particularly in the context of financial capitalism in the Caribbean. She is currently writing a book entitled Metamorphosis of Value: Epistemic Protocols in the Longue Durée, which traces...

Wen-hsin Yeh

Richard H. & Laurie C. Morrison Chair Professor, Distinguished Professor in the Department of History at UC Berkeley
Wen-hsin Yeh was a Visiting Moderator at the Dream of the Red Chamber Symposium at the Arts Research Center on September 12, 2016. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Wen-hsin Yeh is the Richard H. & Laurie C. Morrison Chair Professor and a Distinguished Professor in the Department of History. She is a social and political historian of culture and knowledge in late imperial and modern China, Taiwan, and maritime East Asia. Her research examines Sino-Western engagement in 19th- and 20th-century China and the...

Lisa Wymore

Professor of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley
Lisa Wymore gave a Visiting Scholar Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 20, 2017. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Lisa Wymore completed her graduate study at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where she was awarded a Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship, an Outstanding Achievement Award, and a Moe Family Award for her creativity. After graduating with an M.F.A. in Dance in 1998, she moved to Chicago and continued her career as a dancer, choreographer, and teacher. She was a faculty member...

Cynthia Wu

Professor of Gender Studies & Asian American Studies at Indiana University Bloomington
Cynthia Wu was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Conjoined Histories Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2011. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Cynthia Wu is an interdisciplinary scholar with intellectual origins in literary and cultural criticism. Their work focuses on how racialized masculinities are produced through investments in physical or psychosocial difference, queerness, and non-normative affiliations. Their first two monographs, Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese Twins in...

Caroline Woolard

W.W. Corcoran Visiting Professor in Community Engagement & Founding Co-Organizer of Art.coop
Caroline Woolard gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on January 26, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Caroline Woolard is the W.W. Corcoran Visiting Professor in Community Engagement and a founding co-organizer of Art.coop. She is the co-author of two major reports: Solidarity Not Charity (Grantmakers in the Arts, 2021) and ...

Winnie Wong

Professor in the Department of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley
Winnie Wong was a Visiting Scholar Participant at the Minding Time Talk and Exhibition at the Arts Research Center on December 4, 2016. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Winnie Wong is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an art historian with a special interest in fakes, forgeries, and counterfeits. Her work explores authorship, property, and likeness through interdisciplinary inquiry, while...