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Van Gogh on Demand, Winnie Wong: Berkeley Book Chat
Winnie Wong
Time: Date: Location: Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Speaker: 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…
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Biographies of Concepts in the Human and Social Sciences
Time: Date: - 03/20/2015 Location: Stephens Hall, Doreen Townsend Center for the Humanities and Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society
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…
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Unlikely Life: Interrogating the Limits of the Biological
Sophia Roosth, Harvard University
Time: - 4:00 PMDate: Location: 308A Doe Library
Speaker: Sophia Roosth, Harvard University
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Final Stories, Foundational Theories: Trials of a Scientific Epic
Nasser Zakariya, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Time: Date: Location: 308A Doe Library
Speaker: Nasser Zakariya, Chemical Heritage Foundation
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Abuses of Language, Wordplay, and the First Intercontinental Mathematical Theory
Michael Barany, Princeton University
Time: Date: Location: 308A Doe Library
Speaker: Michael Barany, Princeton University
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Rhetoric of Rhetoric Mini-Conference
Time: - 5:00 AMDate: Location: 7415 Dwinelle Hall
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…
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Religious and Civil Inequality in Egyptian and European Courts
Saba Mahmood, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Time: - 10:00 PMDate: Location: Rhetoric Seminar Room, 7415 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: 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…
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Inter/Nationalism from the Holy Land to the New World: Encountering Palestine in American Indian Studies
Dr. Steven Salaita
Time: - 3:00 AMDate: Location: 315 Wheeler Hall
Speaker: 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…
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The Right to Maim
Jasbir Puar
Time: Date: Location: Geballe Room
Speaker: 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…
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In the Site of the Strange: A Pearl River Delta Roundtable
Time: - 2:00 AMDate: Location: 1995 University Avenue
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…