Archive: Gabriel Gonzalez
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POSTPONED Spring Rhetoric Commencement Ceremony 2020
April 15, 2020
Due to the COVID – 19 pandemic, the Spring 2020 Rhetoric Department Commencement Ceremony that was planned to take place Thursday, May 21st in Zellerbach Auditorium has been postponed. More updates to follow.
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Enroll for “Rhetoric of Contemporary Politics”— Online, Summer Session D
April 15, 2020
150 | D | CCN: 15207 Instructor: Anooj Kansara M/W/F 1-3:30pm | 4 Units From conspiracy theories and climate change denial, to ‘fake news’ and targeted disinformation campaigns on social media, controversies about matters of fact animate politics today. Yet debunking and fact-checking alone do not seem adequate to the task. This course explores the idea that ours is a ‘post-truth politics’. Together we…
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Enroll for “Rhetoric of New Media”— Online, Summer Session D
April 15, 2020
114 | D | CCN: 15203 Instructor: Ryan Ikeda Tu/W/Th 10:00-12:30 | 4 Units This course explores the effects of digital technology on human expression. Our first approach examines our daily encounters with born-digital artifacts, such as memes, GIFs, tweets, snaps, emoji, and new media works of art. Our second approach investigates hidden, physical infrastructure that make new media possible, for example, the undersea…
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Enroll for “Fundamentals of Public Speaking”— Online, Summer Session D
April 15, 2020
2 | D | CCN: 12518 Instructor: Michael Dalebout M/W/F 1:00-3:30 | 4 Units This course is an online workshop in which students cultivate their own speaking style while developing strengths in skillful communication with diverse audiences in a variety of situations through multiple media. During the six-week term, students will engage in activities designed to foster their skills in written self-presentation, online visual…
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UCHRI Medicine & Humanities Awards Kathleen Powers: The Andrew Vincent White and Florence Wales White Graduate Student Scholarship
February 13, 2020
The dissertation project, “Cybernetic Origins of Life”, is about the influence of vitalist concepts of the organism on post-war American neurology. The project focuses on the experiments and writings of neurologist Warren S. McCulloch (1898-1969) on the vertebrate nervous system to gain an understanding of how life was considered in the philosophy of science immediately before the genetic revolution. By analyzing the experiments that informed the…
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The Films of Trinh T. Minh-Ha
December 19, 2019
Please join us for a retrospective of the work of filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha at Anthology Film Archives December 6-22. Trinh T. Minh-ha will be in person at the December 6 & 7 screenings Screenings info Anthology 2019
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Summer Session 2020
December 19, 2019
Each year the Rhetoric department offers summer courses that introduce any curious mind to the methods and approaches of humanistic inquiry. Explore how thinkers and theorists across the humanities help us to understand some of the most urgent problems of our time. For information about our Summer Session courses click here: https://rhetoric.berkeley.edu/courses/summer-sessions/
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POSTPONED Spring Rhetoric Commencement Ceremony 2020
December 5, 2019
Due to the COVID – 19 pandemic, the Spring 2020 Rhetoric Department Commencement Ceremony that was planned to take place Thursday, May 21st in Zellerbach Auditorium has been postponed. More updates to follow.
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Theories of the Global South
October 25, 2019
The Program in Critical Theory’s Fall 2019 working group, Theories of the Global South, will host its third meeting on October 25 from 12-2 pm in 7415 Dwinelle Hall. To prepare, the co-conveners, Donna Honarpisheh (Comparative Literature) and Devin Choudhury (Rhetoric) kindly request that participants read Chapter 1 and Chapter 2—entitled “The Subject of Race” and “The Well of Fantasies,” respectively—of Achille Mbembe’s Critique of Black Reason. This working group will…
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The Rhetoric Undergraduate Mixer
October 14, 2019
The Rhetoric Society at Berkeley warmly invites new and returning rhetoric students to a kick-off mixer for the 2019-2020 year. Join us for food, good conversation, and tell us what events you’d like to see for the current and upcoming semester! As dinner will be provided, please RSVP via the form so we can get an accurate headcount. All prospective and current rhetoric students welcome! WHEN: OCT. 24th, 7-8pm. WHERE:…
