Commencement May 21, 2010 2pm at Zellerbach Hall

Commencement Speaker: TBA
The Rhetoric/Film Studies joint spring 2010 commencement will take place on Friday, May 21, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. in Zellerbach Auditorium. Please mark your calendars. The commencement is later this year because the schedule is now part of the academic calendar and this spring commencements may not begin until May 15th. Our first two choices were May 17th and 18th but we were given our third choice. A formal invitation will be sent by the department chairs at a later date.

Commencement 2008 photos are available at http://www.brightroom.com/view_event.asp?EVENTID=37016&PWD

BARBARA CLAIRE FREEMAN & ENDI BOGUE HARTIGAN

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2009, 7:30
Poetry Flash at Moe's Books

MOE'S BOOKS, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, (510) 849-2087, moesbooks.com.
Parking at the Durant/Channing Garage, close to Telegraph. Channing is one block north.
Poetry Flash: (510) 525-5476, poetryflash.org.

Barbara Claire Freeman's first book of poems is Incivilities, which Judith Butler calls, "Insistent scraps of language pushed beyond the possibility of narrative sequence by forms of destruction." Her book links poetic subjectivity with the exploration of key moments in U.S. history, linking, then, the personal and the political. Barbara Claire Freeman is a literary critic and teacher of literature who has recently turned her full attention to the writing of poetry. She is the author of The Feminine Sublime: Gender and Excess in Women's Fiction. Widely published in literary journals, her honors include a Boston Review/Discovery Prize and the Language Exchange Poetry Prize from Sarah Lawrence College.

Endi Bogue Hartigan's first books of poems, One Sun Storm, was the winner of the 2008 Colorado Prize for Poetry, selected by Martha Ronk, who says of it, ". . .not a mere collection, but a total project in which each poem is part of the whole. The passing by of the pieces of this created world engenders gratitude and awe." A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Hartigan cofounded and, for several years, edited Spectaculum, a magazine devoted to long poems and poetry sequences.

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Rhetoric, Comparative Literature, and French Studies present: Dan Edelstein (French/Italian, Stanford University) discussing his recent book:

The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution (Chicago, 2009)

Response by Carla Hesse (History and Dean of Social Science, UCB)
Moderated by David Bates (Rhetoric, UCB)

Tuesday, November 10, 5.30 - 7.30 pm, Rhetoric Department Seminar Room, 7415 Dwinelle Hall

Light refreshments

Precirculated readings from the book are attached:
Prologue: "Hostis Humani Generis" and Ch. 3: "Off with their Heads: Death and the Terror"

For further information contact: David Bates (dwbates@berkeley.edu)

Marianne Constable has been awarded the 2009 Sarlo Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award:

http://grad.berkeley.edu/sarlo/previous.shtml

Marianne Constable has enabled young scholars, at Berkeley and beyond, to achieve innovative multi-disciplinary examinations of law, philosophy, and society through her extraordinary intellectual generosity, lucid criticism, and what one student aptly termed “a staggering degree of dedication.” Her advocacy for difficult students and those confronting difficulties combined with the example of her own lively passion for knowledge has made Constable a “beacon of inspiration.” Dozens of moving letters expressed gratitude for Professor Constable’s pragmatic guidance, deep loyalty, and, especially, the “handwritten roadmaps” that clarified the way forward for students struggling to find their own voice as scholars.

Judith Butler wins Mellon Award

JJudith Butler, a UC Berkeley professor of comparative literature and rhetoric, is a winner of the 2008 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award for her exemplary contributions to scholarship in the humanities. View full artilce