Events Archive

Rhetoric Fall Colloquium:
Brooke Holmes – Tissue of the World: On Stoic Sympathy

Brooke Holmes, Princeton University

The concept of cosmic sympathy, highly developed by the Stoics, is at once deeply foreign to us in its claims regarding a mind fully immanent in the world and…

Between the Digital and the Political: New Ecologies of Mind

Erich Hörl (Leuphana University) Yuk Hui (Leuphana University) Luciana Parisi (Goldsmiths) Warren Sack (UC Santa Cruz) David Bates (UC Berkeley)   When Gregory Bateson, the anthropologist and visionary cyberneticist,…

A Celebration of Life: Jennifer Beryl Hammett

Please join us in celebrating the life of Jennifer Beryl Hammett, a former UC Berkeley Department of Rhetoric Ph.D, on Saturday, October 7th at the School of Cinema at…

Rhetoric Commencement

Film Presentation: Forgetting Vietnam, a film by Trinh Minh-ha

Center for Race & Gender Special Film Presentation FORGETTING VIETNAM a film by Prof. Trinh T. Minh-ha Gender & Women’s Studies and Rhetoric Discussion Moderator: Prof. Khatharya Um Ethnic…

Cal Day Event: Rhetoric Show & Tell: Narrative, Theory, Discourse

Haili Wang, Angela Choi, Benajmin Malings, Artin Au-Yeung, Rory Jacobson, Katie Lindsay, Sean Canzone, Wayman Barnes, Man Chong

Come see Rhetoric Honors Program undergraduate students present their honors thesis projects. These projects are the culmination of a year’s worth of work and research in a range of…

“Queer Unhistoricism” and the Reception of Ancient Greece

Dan Orrells

Dan Orrells is the author of Classical Culture and Modern Masculinity (2011) and Sex: Antiquity and Its Legacy (2011). His latest book will be on the history of visualizing…

Logic and Literary Form

organized by Charles Altieri, Jeffrey Blevins, and Daniel Williams University of California, Berkeley April 14-15, 2017   https://logicandliteraryform.wordpress.com/   Literary formalism, formal logic: were ever two areas of study…

The Political Brain: The Brain as a Political Invention

Jan De Vos (Ghent University)

The Metamorphoses of the Brain – Neurologisation and Its Discontents (Palgrave, 2016) Reading Seminar on Chapter 7:  The Political Brain: The Brain as a Political Invention Co-sponsored by the…

Digital Doomsday: A perspective from the pathology called Europe

Jan De Vos (Ghent University)

Digital Doomsday: A perspective from the pathology called Europe Jan De Vos, Ghent University Co-sponsored by the Rhetoric Department and the Berkeley Center for New Media Allegedly, no reflection,…