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The Body in Aesthetic Experience
Vittorio Gallese (University of Parma)
Time: Date: Location: 470 Stephens Hall
Speaker: Vittorio Gallese (University of Parma)
Vittorio Gallese, University of Parma "The Body in Aesthetic Experience: A Neuroscientific Perspective" 4.00 pm, 470 Stephens Hall Presented by The Department of Italian Studies, the Office for History…
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On the Syrian Uprising
Bassam Haddad
Time: Date: Location: Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities
Speaker: Bassam Haddad
THE SYRIAN UPRISING AND THE LIMITS OF REGIME RESILIENCE Bassam Haddad Bassam Haddad is Director of the Middle East Studies Program and teaches in the Department of Public and…
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On Media Piracy
Adrian Johns (Chicago)
Time: Date: Location: 370 Dwinelle
Speaker: Adrian Johns (Chicago)
Presented by the Berkeley Center for New Media and the Katharine Bixby Hotchkis Chair in English On Media Piracy In 2011-12, arguments over the "Protect IP"/"Stop Online Piracy" (SOPA)…
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A History of Drag and/as Nationalism
Katie Horowitz
Time: - 12:00 AMDate: - 01/02/2020 Location: 220 Wheeler Hall
Speaker: Katie Horowitz
Center for the Study of Sexual Culture Presents… A history of drag and/as nationalism Katie Horowitz, Speaker Daniel Boyarin, Ph.D., Moderator Horowitz’s paper explores contemporary U.S. drag queens’ gestural…
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Violence in Roman Egypt: An Interpretation
Ari Bryen
Time: - 6:30 PMDate: Location: 7415 Dwinelle Hall (Level G)
Speaker: Ari Bryen
Ari Bryen, ACLS New Faculty Fellow in Rhetoric and Classics, will be "workshopping" the first chapter of his book. Discussant: Samera Esmeir The book is called: Violence in Roman…
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The Freudian Robot: A Conversation
Lydia Liu (Columbia)
Time: Date: Location: 3335 Dwinelle (Level C)
Speaker: Lydia Liu (Columbia)
Lydia Liu, in conversation with Martin Jay (History) and David Bates (Rhetoric) on her new book The Freudian Robot: Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious (University of…
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Khmer Rouge Self-Fashioning
MIchael Mascuch (Rhetoric, UC Berkeley)
Time: - 2:30 PMDate: Location: Institute for East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor) 6F Conference Room
Speaker: MIchael Mascuch (Rhetoric, UC Berkeley)
Center for Southeast Asia Studies Brown Bag Lunch Talks Series This talk will consider the use of photography in Khmer Rouge propaganda, especially during the critical years leading up…
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Transmedia
Henry Jenkins (USC)
Time: Date: Location: Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall
Speaker: Henry Jenkins (USC)
Presented by the Berkeley Center for New Media Henry Jenkins is the most influential theorist of "transmedia storytelling." According to Jenkins, "Transmedia storytelling represents a process where integral elements…
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How to Knit a Popular History of Media
Kristen Haring (Auburn)
Time: Date: Location: 470 Stephens Hall
Speaker: Kristen Haring (Auburn)
Presented by the Berkeley Center for New Media and the Office for the HIstory of Science and Technology As part of a study of the cultural history of binary…
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Enlightenment 2.1.3 Conference
Time: - 5:00 PMDate: Location: Heyns Room, Faculty Club
Enlightenment 2.1.3 Conference Panel speakers: Thomas Ahnert, University of Edinburgh Keith Baker, Stanford University Daniel Edelstein, Stanford University Antoine Lilti, École normale supérieure (ENS) Theodore Porter, UCLA Daniel Rosenberg,…
