Professor Marianne Constable has been awarded a 2024 Law & Society Association Stan Wheeler Mentorship Prize.
The Stan Wheeler Mentorship prize is given each year to a member of the Law and Society community who is regarded by their peers and students as an outstanding mentor for graduate, professional, or undergraduate students working on issues of law and society. To learn more about the Stan Wheeler prize see the award announcement on the Law & Society association website.
Professor James Porter will deliver the keynote lecture, ""Auerbach's Theory of the Sublime", at the conference, Erich Auerbach: eine synoptische Perspektive zur „verborgenen“ Theorie/Erich Auerbach: una prospettiva sinottica sulla teoria “nascosta”, in Villa Vigoni, Italy, July 7-11, 2024.
On May 14, 2024 Winnie Wong gave a talk at the University of Washington as part of The Katz Distinguished Lectures in the Humanities Series, "The Many Names of Anonymity: Rethinking Export Art." The lecture introduced the Chinese painters of the global maritime trade, based in the port of Guangzhou (Canton), circa 1700-1850.
We are thrilled to honor the recent achievements of our exceptional graduate students, who have secured prestigious fellowships, grants, awards, and placements. Congratulations to all on your well-deserved successes!
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
Aliosha Pittaka Bielenberg
US Department of Education, Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Award, Turkish Language Study in Istanbul (Summer 2024)
Nasser Zakariya, Associate Professor and Head Undergraduate Advisor, was awarded Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association’s 2024 Teaching Excellence Award. Congratulations, Nasser!
On April 25–28, Mario Telò participated in the seminar entitled "Comment vivre maintenant?" organized by the Center Pompidou as the last event of Judith Butler's residency. This was an opportunity to think about Butler's work in relation to the times of devastation we are facing now.
In the 2024 Princeton Seminar in Poetry and Poetics, April 15-17, James Porter took audiences through the philosophies set forth in the fragments of Heraclitus(link is external) (6/5th centuries BCE) and
Niobes: Antiquity, Modernity, Critical Theory (Ohio State University Press) edited by Mario Telò and Andrew Benjamin was published in February 2024.
From the publisher:
A new book by David Bates, An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence: Thinking with Machines from Descartes to the Digital Age (University of Chicago Press), will be available on April 5, 2024.
From the publisher:
A new history of human intelligence that argues that humans know themselves by knowing their machines.
Nietzsche and Literary Studies (Cambridge University Press), editerd by Jim Porter, will be available in April 2024.
From the publisher:
Radical Formalisms: Reading, Theory, and the Boundaries of the Classical (Bloomsbury 2024) edited by Sarah Nooter and Mario Telò was published on January 11, 2024.
From the abstract:
The Department of Rhetoric is a leading center for interdisciplinary research and teaching in the humanities and social sciences, committed to the study of rhetorical traditions from the classical to the contemporary eras.
Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon has been awarded first place for the 2023-24 Roselyn Schneider Eisner Prize in Prose. Congratulations, Maisie!
The Eisner Prizes in Poetry and Prose contests are open to all UC Berkeley graduates and undergraduates in any department.
Basic Department Commencement FAQs for students*
How long is the ceremony?
The ceremony starts promptly at 2pm and lasts approximately 2 hours.
Is regalia required?
No, regalia is not required. We do suggest wearing business casual attire for the event. Regalia will be available for purchase or rent at the Cal Student Store.
Is there a reception?
Yes!
David Bates appeared on a podcast episode of Entitled Opinions with Robert Harrison.
In this philosophy-heavy episode, Professor Robert Harrison and David Bates, Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley, discuss the “unnatural” origins of human technology and the difficulty of drawing sharp distinctions between artificial and natural intelligence.
Trinh Minh-ha, Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School, has two new books released this year (Traveling in the Dark, Milan, Italy: Mousse Publishing, 2023 and The Twofold Commitment, New York: Primary Inform
PhD candidate Yael Hacohen has been awarded first place in the Adult Category of the 2023 Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Awards, an annual celebration of poetic excellence, for "Amos 3:5".
See the 2023 Poetry Contest Winners announcement on the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation website for more information about the award and to read the winning poems.
Congratulations, Yael!
