Events Archive

Van Gogh on Demand, Winnie Wong: Berkeley Book Chat

Winnie Wong

Assistant Professor of Rhetoric Winnie Wong specializes in the history and present of artistic authorship, with a focus on interactions between China and the West. Her book, Van Gogh…

Biographies of Concepts in the Human and Social Sciences

Please register by sending an email to wimmer@berkeley.edu and to get access to pre-circulated papers! Link to shared folder with papers: https://www.dropbox.com/l/nC5cg5QkuJFGrkZ4sWiyer (password required) This two-day symposion brings together a…

Unlikely Life: Interrogating the Limits of the Biological

Sophia Roosth, Harvard University

Final Stories, Foundational Theories: Trials of a Scientific Epic

Nasser Zakariya, Chemical Heritage Foundation

Abuses of Language, Wordplay, and the First Intercontinental Mathematical Theory

Michael Barany, Princeton University

Rhetoric of Rhetoric Mini-Conference

The Rhetoric of Rhetoric workshop is hosting a mini-conference regarding Ancient Rhetorical Theory. Presenters include: Michael Dalebout: "Model over Method: Originality in Isocratean Rhetoric" Kathleen Powers: "Antigone’s Offspring (From…

Religious and Civil Inequality in Egyptian and European Courts

Saba Mahmood, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

Law and Contemporary Theory Working Group Fall Talks and Workshops In this workshop we will discuss a chapter from Professor Mahmood’s forthcoming book The Minority Condition: Religious Difference in…

Inter/Nationalism from the Holy Land to the New World: Encountering Palestine in American Indian Studies

Dr. Steven Salaita

 Dr. Steven Salaita is the author of six books, most recently Israel’s Dead Soul (Temple University Press, 2011). Sponsors include: Native American Studies Program, Asian American and Asian Diaspora…

The Right to Maim

Jasbir Puar

Associate Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies Rutgers University This talk looks at the productivity of disablement as a war tactic of the Israeli state in Gaza and the West…

In the Site of the Strange: A Pearl River Delta Roundtable

Speakers: Marco Cenzatti (Urban Planning), Tim Choy (Anthropology), Margaret Crawford (Architecture), Aihwa Ong (Anthropology), Lanchih Po (International Studies), Winnie Wong (Rhetoric) Sponsor: Center for Chinese Studies (CCS) The Pearl River…