Events Archive

[Symposium] Daily Wish: Hong Kong Artists in the World

Justin Wong Chiu-tat, Comic Artist, Former Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University and Abby Chen, Head of Contemporary Art, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco. Discussant & Host: Winnie Wong, Associate Professor, Rhetoric and Art History, University of California, Berkeley

Register here. In this online symposium, the speakers will reflect on questions of art and social media and the Hong Kong “art diaspora”, before and after 2019. The discussion…

Rhetoric Department Commencement Updates

Julia Jarcho

The Rhetoric Commencement Ceremony Tuesday, May 16 at 2pm Zellerbach Auditorium Tickets will go on sale on April 25 at 12pm. Due to logistics, each ticket is now $5.…

FAQs for Commencement Guests

Julia Jarcho

Commencement FAQ for Guests The Rhetoric department welcomes all guests to attend our graduation ceremony on Tuesday, May 16 at 2PM. How long is the ceremony? The ceremony starts…

Ancient Comedy: Reading, Theory, and the Boundaries of the Classical

Ancient Comedy: Reading, Theory, and the Boundaries of the Classical organized by Mario Telò and Sarah Nooter (University of Chicago) May 11 Dwinelle 3335 10–12:30 Panel Discussion of Page…

DEEPFAKE : A Rhetorical and Economic Alternative to Address the So-Called “Post-Truth Era”

Organized by Igor Galligo (UC Berkeley, Founder of Automedias.org)

REGISTER HERE For more information see the poster and Argument Program: Opening 9.am – 9.15am: Igor Galligo (UC Berkeley, UPL, NEST, Founder of Automedias.org) First Session: Rhetoric, Democracy and…

“Genre and Impact: Academic Writing in Trying Times” with Kenneth Wissoker

Kenneth Wissoker

UC Berkeley Rhetoric 2022-23 Colloquium Series Presents “Genre and Impact: Academic Writing in Trying Times” We often form academic projects by looking for an understudied niche where we can…

Brown Bag with Colas Zibaut

Colas Zibaut

Wednesday, April 19, 2023 12-1pm, 7415 Dwinelle Conference room Colas Zibaut Enlightenment or mental fitness? How did the digital industry shape meditation to fit the needs of capitalism Over…

Beyond Space/Time and Mind/Body dualities: from Theology to Physics and Computing toward Biology

Giuseppe Longo and Mitra Azar

Giuseppe Longo CNRS – École Normal Supérieure, Paris https://www.di.ens.fr/~longo/ Respondent Mitra Azar Visiting Ph.D. researcher, Berkeley University Aarhus Department of Information Studies https://rhetoric.berkeley.edu/people/mitra-azar/ The origin of mathematical space is…

Sean Gurd: Rhetoric is music (and contrariwise)

Sean Gurd

Sean Gurd Rhetoric is music (& contrariwise) Dionysius of Halicarnassus on the limits of sensory knowledge April 7 7415 Dwinelle, 1pm

Psychedelia and Computing: How to Bifurcate Cybernetics?

“Psychedelia and Computing: How to Bifurcate Cybernetics?” Summary: In parallel with the current collapse of the cinema industry, we are now witnessing the emergence of new recreational dream bio-industries…