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The Politics & Poetics of Imagination in the Black Mediterranean with SA Smythe

September 13, 2018
The Politics & Poetics of Imagination in the Black Mediterranean with SA Smythe Thursday September 13, 2018
5:30-7:30pm
Dwinelle Annex, Room 126

Watch the recording here or listen here!

Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and the University of California Humanities Research Institute

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

Read the news post here!

The Loft Hour: Cathy Park Hong + Timmia Hearn DeRoy

April 18, 2024
The Loft Hour: Cathy Park Hong + Timmia Hearn DeRoy in conversation with Abigail De Kosnik Thursday, Apr 18, 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 April program features ...

The Loft Hour: Iggy Cortez + Juan David Rubio Restrepo

March 21, 2024
The Loft Hour: Iggy Cortez + Juan David Rubio Restrepo in conversation with Salar Mameni Thursday, Mar 21, 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 March...

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...

Claudia Iron Hawk

2023/24 ARC Fellow - Indigenous Poetics Lab
Claudia Iron Hawk was the 2023-2024 ARC Indigenous Poetics Lab Fellow.

Claudia Iron Hawk / Thaopi Waste Win (she/her) is a D/Lakota linguist from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe (CRST) in South Dakota. She has a bachelor’s in Anthropology & Native American and Indigenous studies from UMN and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Linguistics at UC Berkeley. She is an Indigenous language revitalization advocate who speaks and works with her heritage language D/Lakotiya.

Sa Whitley

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses
Sa Whitley was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative, in collaboration with Arizona State University – they were chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Sa Whitley (they/them/theirs) is a black queer poet and a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Transformation at Arizona State University. They received their Ph.D. in Gender Studies and an M.A. in African American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. Whitley has received poetry fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference (‘22), Cave Canem, and the...

Dr. Ines Hernandez-Avila

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses
Professor Hernandez-Avila was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative, in collaboration with luk’upsíimey – she was chosen in the Community Fellow category.

Professor Hernandez-Avila is Niimiipuu/Nez Perce, of Chief Joseph’s band, enrolled on the Colville Reservation, Washington, on her mother’s side, and Tejana (and Mexican Indigenous) on her father’s side. A scholar, poet, and visual artist, her research and teaching focus on contemporary Indigenous literature of the Americas, and Indigenous religious traditions. She is a Ford...

Michael Pollan

Journalist and Professor of Non-Fiction at Harvard University
Michael Pollan gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 24, 2009.

For more than thirty years, Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in our minds. Pollan is the author of eight books, six of which have been New York Times bestsellers; three of them (including his latest, How to Change Your Mind) were immediate #1 New York Times bestsellers. Previous books include Cooked (2013), Food Rules (2009), In Defense of Food: An Eater’s...