Events Archive

The Pure Immanence of the Interruptive: Stiegler, Koselleck, and the Historical Experience of Disruption

Erich Hörl

Erich Hoerl is Professor of Media Culture and Philosophy and College Vice-President at Leuphana University, Germany. He is the author of Sacred Channels: The Archaic Illusion of Communication (with…

2022-23 Rhetoric Colloquia kicks off with Anna Tsing

Anna Tsing, Professor of Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz

On becoming a commodity, or the making of “modern history” in maritime Southeast Asia In the Spice Islands, today’s Maluku (Indonesia), European trade stimulated a great boom in slave…

Brown-bag discussion with Professor Anita Traninger, Sept 13, 12-1pm

Professor Anita Traninger

Anita Traninger, a professor at the Freie Universität in Berlin, is visiting the German Department and will hold an informal brown-bag discussion and Q/A on Sept 13 from noon…

2022 Commencement Ceremony

Alvy Ray Smith, Pixar

The Rhetoric Department Commencement Ceremony will take place on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 2PM in Zellerbach Hall.    Graduates must register in order to receive tickets. First 3 tickets…

Fanon, Foucault, and the Politics of Truth with Daniele Lorenzini

Daniele Lorenzini

DANIELE LORENZINI MONDAY, APRIL 4 5-7PM 3335 DWINELLE HALL Cosponsored by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs In What Is Critique?, Foucault famously claims that critique is the…

Simon(e) van Saarloos and Kim TallBear present keynote on January 20

Simon(e) van Saarloos

Rhetoric graduate student, Simon(e) van Saarloos, alongside Kim TallBear, will present a keynote address for the Practicing the Social: Entanglements of Art and Justice on Thursday, January 20. A…

Rhetoric Alumni Larry S. McGrath

Larry S. McGrath

Register Here Former UC Berkeley student and Rhetoric department alumni Larry S. McGrath will be giving a Zoom talk about his professional experience after graduation as well as any…

Susan Buck-Morss: Year 1

Susan Buck-Morss

The book YEAR 1 (MIT Press, forthcoming 2021) is a project in the reconfiguration of knowledge. The focus is on the first century that starts the numerical count down…

Hearst Museum Presents Weaving Language: New Reflections on Corn Husk Bags

  Readings of new work in Ni:mi:pu: (Nez Perce) and English, inspired by the tradition of corn husk bag weaving amongst Plateau peoples.   About this Event This event…

YEAR 1 (POSTPONED)

Susan Buck-Morss

The book YEAR 1 (MIT Press, forthcoming 2021) is a project in the reconfiguration of knowledge.  The focus is on the first century that starts the numerical count down to…