The Department of Gender & Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley presents:
Force-Feeding and the Suspended Animation of Torture
Wednesday, March 8 | 12:10-2 p.m. | 602 Social Sciences Building
Speaker: Michelle C. Velasquez-Potts, Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
Rhetoric graduate student, Kuan Hwa, co-edited the new publication, Embodying Peripheries.
Rhetoric graduate student, Kuan Hwa, co-edited the new publication, Embodying Peripheries.
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Save the Date!
The Rhetoric Commencement Ceremony will take place on Tuesday, May 16 at 2pm.
The ceremony will be in Zellerbach Auditorium. More details to come!
The Rhetoric Commencement Ceremony
Tuesday, May 16 at 2pm
Zellerbach Auditorium
Tickets will go on sale on April 25 at 12pm.
Due to logistics, each ticket is now $5. (Graduates do not need to purchase tickets for themselves. Children and babies require tickets. Limit of 10 tickets per student.)
In order to preserve the history and accomplishments of its distinguished faculty, the University of California Berkeley Emeriti Association (UCBEA) has begun making video recordings of interviews with individual emeriti.
Linda Kinstler went back to Ukraine in late September to report on the architects and urban planners who are hard at work re-envisioning the physical contours of Ukraine’s liberated future, even as continued military attacks and rolling blackouts threaten their ability to work.
240G 004 | CCN: 33130
Teaching Writing: History, Theory and Practice
Nathan S Atkinson
Dwinelle 7415
Wednesdays, 3-6pm
Rhetoric PhD student, Linda Kinstler, published Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends in 2022.
‘A tremendous feat of storytelling, propelled by numerous twists and revelations, yet anchored by a deep moral seriousness . . . Enthralling’ Guardian
The requirements for the Rhetoric minor have recently been revised. The Rhetoric minor now consists of 5 courses in total:
Rhetoric graduate student Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon has been selected as a 2022-2023 Emerging Critic Fellow through the National Book Critics Circle.
The Emerging Critics Fellowship, launched by Elizabeth Taylor in 2017, seeks to identify, nurture, and support the development of the next generation of book critics.
As we take stock of the year just completed, let’s please take a moment to celebrate these recent career achievements by graduate students in Rhetoric:
Megan Alvarado Saggese and Ryan Rhadigan each have an appointment as Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies at Ft Lewis College in Durango, Colorado.
Filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha on the beauty of receiving the world
By Anne Brice, Berkeley News
May 31, 2022
For Trinh T. Minh-ha, learning isn’t about accumulating knowledge.
“This has been something that my students very much appreciate,” said Trinh, a longtime UC Berkeley professor of gender and women’s studies and of rhetoric who retired in 2020. “But also, I have had students who agonized with me over the whole semester because of this.
Rhetoric Lecturer, Richard Grijalva PhD., was proudly named as one of the 40 new Emerging Voices Fellows for 2022 by The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
Rhetoric Department graduate students Katie Brown and Kyra Sutton have been awarded the Outstanding GSI Award this year. The Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (OGSI) Award honors UC Berkeley GSIs each year for their outstanding work in the teaching of undergraduates. Our faculty and undergraduates alike are proud to recognize Katie and Kyra for their exceptional dedication to their students.
Congratulations, Katie and Kyra!
Rhetoric PhD candidate Linda Kinstler was named one of the 22 fellows selected as The Institute for Citizens & Scholars’ 2022 class of Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows.
The Newcombe Fellowship, funded by the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, is the largest and most prestigious award for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences addressing questions of ethical and religious values in interesting, original, or significant ways.
UC Berkeley professor and experimental filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha fascinates with her new film reflecting on China’s complex history and offering a journey into the wealth of Chinese traditional architecture while exploring the hinterlands of self and other in their encounter.
