Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

“We are not worried in the least” with Jasmina Metwaly

January 31, 2019
“We are not worried in the least" Jasmina Metwaly, filmmaker, artist, and founder of the Mosireen Collective
In conversation with Anneka Lenssen Thursday, January 31, 2019
5:00-7:00pm
Dwinelle Hall, Room 142/Nestrick Room

Watch the recording here!

Co-sponsors: Arts Research Center, UCHRI, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, BAMPFA, Berkeley Film & Media Seminar.

Jose Carlos Martinat and Kiko Mayorga: “Reality Environments: Persons as Things, Things as Persons”

April 6, 2015
Reality Environments: Persons as Things, Things as Persons Jose Carlos Martinat and Kiko Mayorga Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
April 6, 2015, 7:30-9:00pm
The David Brower Center, Berkeley CA

Lectures are free and open to the public.

Reserve your ticket here.

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Mark Franko

Professor of Dance at Temple University

Mark Franko received his BA in French literature from the City College of New York and his MA and PhD in French and romance philology from Columbia University. He is currently Laura H. Carnell Professor of Dance at the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University, where he heads the Institute of Dance Scholarship. He was previously Professor of Dance and Director of the interdisciplinary Center for Visual and Performance Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Visiting appointments include: Valeska Gert Visiting Professor of Dance and Performance (...

Jeffrey Gibson 1st Indigenous Artist to Represent US at Venice Biennale

January 1, 2024
Laurie Macfee

Artist Jeffrey Gibson will represent the U.S. at the Venice Biennale in 2024, the first Indigenous artist to have a solo exhibition in the U.S Pavilion at the international art event, with an exhibit titled "the space in which to place me."

"The U.S. State Department has selected an Indigenous artist to represent the country at the 2024 Venice Biennale. Jeffrey Gibson, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, will be the first such artist to have a solo exhibition in the U.S. Pavilion at the prestigious international arts event....

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/29/1190952604/jeffrey-gibson-indigenous-artist-venic…

Aruna D’Souza in Conversation with Al-An deSouza

September 21, 2018
Aruna D’Souza in Conversation with Al-An deSouza Friday, September 21, 2018
5:00-7:00pm
Maude Fife Room, Room 315, Wheeler Hall

Watch the recording here or listen here!

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

Poetry Reading featuring Terrance Hayes and Simone White

March 17, 2021
A poetry reading featuring: Terrance Hayes and Simone White in conversation with Chiyuma Elliott Wednesday, March 17, 2021 4:00-5:30pm PDT

Watch the recording here!

Latinx Poetry Now: A Reading and Conversation with J. Michael Martinez + aracelis girmay

September 28, 2023
Latinx Poetry Now: A Reading and Conversation with J. Michael Martinez + aracelis girmay Thursday Sept 28, 2023 11am - 12:30pm Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall

Join the Arts Research Center for our first Poetry & the Senses reading of fall 2023, featuring the incredible poets and multimedia artists J. Michael Martin and aracelis girmay. Following their readings, they will be in conversation with Prof John Alba Cutler (English).

J. Michael Martinez is a multimedia artist and the author of three collections of poetry, including Heredities, which received the Walt...

Writing Workshop Maōri Poet Robert Sullivan

September 20, 2023
Writing Workshop Maōri Poet Robert Sullivan September 20, 2023 1 p.m. Online

Robert Sullivan (Ngāpuhi and Kāi Tahu) has won awards for his poetry, editing, and writing for children, including the 2022 Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for a distinguished contribution to New Zealand poetry, Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Hawai’i, the Montana New Zealand Book Award for co-editing Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English, the Māori Literature Award for co-editing Puna Wai Kōrero: An Anthology of Māori Poetry...

Echoes from the Borderlands

November 30, 2023
Echoes from the Borderlands with Valeria Luiselli, Leo Heiblum,and Ricardo Giraldo
Artists November 30, 2023 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall)

This event was hosted by BCNM. You can find the original event page on their website here.

Claudia Rankine & Pamela Sneed

November 8, 2023
Claudia Rankine & Pamela Sneed November 8, 2023 6 p.m. Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall)

In Citizen. An American Lyric, poet, playwright and MacArthur fellow Claudia Rankine writes: “This would be your fatal flaw–your memory, vessel of feelings …” The accumulation of everyday violence and racism forms heavy memories that make it difficult to imagine a present and future different from the past.

In Funeral Diva, poet and visual artist Pamela Sneed laments surviving the AIDS crisis in NYC as a Black lesbian. While grieving the friends she lost, Sneed also...