Library http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html Upcoming Events Fiat Yuks: Cal Student Humor, Then and Now, thru May 30, 2019 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=119245&date=2018-11-13 Let there be laughter! This exhibition features Cal students’ cartoons, jokes, and satire from throughout the years, selected from their humor magazines and other publications. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=119245&date=2018-11-13 The Handmaid's Tale, thru Dec 31 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=119659&date=2018-11-13 The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is simultaneously a classic and THE novel of our current times, as well as being the inspiration for one of the most talked-about must-watch television shows of the moment. This makes the book the perfect choice for the 2018 campus common reading program, On the Same Page. The entire campus community is encouraged to read the book and participate in classes and events this Fall.<br /> <br /> The new exhibit on the 3rd floor of Moffitt Library explores the books’ themes and antecedents. On exhibit are library materials and quotes that demonstrate that not only were we wrong to say “it can’t happen here” - it has already happened, all over the world. Atwood drew on her experiences living in Berlin (while the Berlin Wall was still in place), and her knowledge of the Argentinian “children of the disappeared,” Puritan oppression, the Underground Railroad, book burnings and enforced illiteracy, Nazi racial purity programs, and “the use of religion as a front for tyranny.” Clips from the hit show based on the novel are also on display, to better populate your dystopian nightmares. And remember: Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum! http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=119659&date=2018-11-13 Art for the Asking, thru Feb 28, 2019 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=120158&date=2018-11-13 Art for the Asking: 60 Years of the Graphic Arts Loan Collection at the Morrison Library will be up in Doe Library’s Brown Gallery until March 1st, 2019. This exhibition celebrates 60 years of the Graphic Arts Loan Collection, and includes prints in the collection that have not been seen in 20 years, as well as prints that are now owned by the Berkeley Art Museum. There are also cases dedicated to the history of printmaking told through prints in the Graphic Arts Loan Collection and cases devoted to the different printmaking processes. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=120158&date=2018-11-13 Bearing Light: Berkeley at 150, thru Feb 28, 2019 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=116968&date=2018-11-13 This exhibition celebrates the University of California’s sesquicentennial anniversary with photographs, correspondence, publications, and other documentation drawn from the University Archives and The Bancroft Library collections. It features an array of golden bears, including Oski, and explores the illustrious history of UC Berkeley. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=116968&date=2018-11-13 Facing West 1: Camera Portraits from the Bancroft Collection, thru Mar 15, 2019 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=119244&date=2018-11-13 The first part of a double exhibition celebrating the tenth anniversary of the renewed Bancroft Library and its gallery, Facing West 1 presents a cavalcade of individuals who made, and continue to make, California and the American West. These camera portraits highlight the communities and peoples of Hubert Howe Bancroft’s original collecting region, which extended from the Rockies to the Pacific Islands and included Mexico and Central America. They represent photographic techniques, formats, and genres from the<br /> Gold Rush era to the present, from the daguerreotype to the digital, from the panoramic to the personal, and from the studio to the street. In them we see ourselves and others through time, light, and lens. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=119244&date=2018-11-13 Integrating eco-evolutionary data from islands to infer biodiversity dynamics, Nov 13 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=120056&date=2018-11-13 A central challenge in understanding the origins of biodiversity is that, while we can observe and test local ecological phenomena, we must usually infer the longer-term outcomes of these ecological forces indirectly. My colleagues and I have been developing inferential models at the interface between macroecology and population-level processes, and applying them to data from geological chronosequences that present communities of different ages. Inferences from these “snapshots in time” provide a link between direct observational methods for local communities and models that make indirect inferences underlying community history. We use data from multiple insular systems, each comprising replicated sites that range from 5 million years. In this way we can directly link ecological theories and models of community composition within a temporal framework so as to understand the history underlying patterns of species diversity. The approach bridges ecological and evolutionary theory to provide a framework for making predictions about biodiversity dynamics.<br /> <br /> The Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science, co-hosted by the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) and the Berkeley Division of Data Sciences, features Berkeley faculty doing visionary research that illustrates the character of the ongoing data revolution. This lecture series is offered to engage our diverse campus community and enrich active connections among colleagues. All campus community members are welcome and encouraged to attend. Arrive at 3:30 PM for light refreshments and discussion prior to the formal presentation. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=120056&date=2018-11-13 JASC and KASC 2019 Information Session, Nov 15 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121277&date=2018-11-15 Interested in going to Japan or Korea this summer?<br /> <br /> Scholarships are available for UC Berkeley students attending the Japan-America or Korea-America Student Conference!<br /> Hear more about these exciting programs from past participants.<br /> <br /> Pizza will also be provided! <br /> <br /> Please RSVP via <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/309449906327244">Facebook</a>.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cjs/jasc.html">More information on the JASC Scholarship here.</a> http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121277&date=2018-11-15 Mindfulness at Moffitt, Oct 1-Dec 10 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=120458&date=2018-11-19 Help focus your mind and foster your creativity. Increase your resiliency and well being. Join Jeffrey Oxendine of the School of Public Health for mindfulness practice. <br /> <br /> All experience levels welcome; weekly practice or drop in attendance also welcome. Mondays from noon to 1pm. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=120458&date=2018-11-19 CANCELED: CANCELED: Mario Savio Memorial Lecture and Young Activist Award, Nov 19 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=120965&date=2018-11-19 This event has been postponed until the spring semester due to poor air quality.<br /> <br /> The Mario Savio Memorial Lecture and Young Activist Award are presented annually to honor the memory of Mario Savio (1942-1996), a spokesperson for Berkeley's Free Speech Movement of 1964, and the spirit of moral courage and vision which he and countless other activists of his generation exemplified; to promote the ideas and values he struggled to advance throughout his life; and to recognize and encourage young activists striving to build a more humane and just society.<br /> <br /> About the speaker:<br /> <br /> Robert B. Reich is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and senior fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He served as Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, for which Time Magazine named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the twentieth century. He has written fifteen books, including the best sellers "Aftershock," "The Work of Nations," "Beyond Outrage," and, his most recent, "The Common Good," which is available in bookstores now. He is also a founding editor of the American Prospect magazine, chairman of Common Cause, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and co-creator of the award-winning documentary, "Inequality For All." Professor Reich is the co-creator of the Netflix original documentary "Saving Capitalism," which is streaming now. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=120965&date=2018-11-19 NaNoWriMo 2018, Nov 25 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121068&date=2018-11-25 NaNoWriMo is back at UC Berkeley’s Doe Library!<br /> <br /> Have you ever thought about writing a novel but just didn’t think you had the time? You’re not alone. A small group of friends from the East Bay dared themselves to finish their novels in 30 days back in 1999, creating the foundation of what has become National Novel Writing Month. Since then, this small nonprofit, NaNoWriMo, has inspired a global event of epic proportions! Fifty thousand words in 30 days! Quantity over quality is the name of the game. Turn off your inner editor, and win.<br /> <br /> Are you working on a thesis, dissertation, or any other writing project (creative or otherwise) but could use a bit of support from the collective energy of fellow students or colleagues to help you stay focused and provide some inspiration? NaNoWriMo isn’t just for novels anymore — be a NaNoWriMo “Rebel,” and work on your academic projects, an article, a chapter, final research paper, memoir, screenplay, etc., and possibly find some new writing buddies along the way!<br /> <br /> The amazing team over at NaNoWriMo created this worldwide community of writers and a support system of libraries, bookstores, and other neighborhood spaces all over the globe called Come Write In, where “Wrimos” gather and forge ahead toward their word count goals during their quest to win this book-in-a-month contest. With all the positive energy of over 300,000 participants, all writing together, winning is possible. Novelist or academic, all are welcome. I have been a participant since 2007, and the undeniable spirit of creativity that NaNoWriMo cultivates continues to motivate me to keep pushing forward, and I hope it will inspire you as well!<br /> <br /> Come Write In, Doe Library:<br /> November 4, 1-4 p.m., Room 180 Doe<br /> November 10, 1-4 p.m., Room 180 Doe<br /> November 25, 1-4 p.m., Room 180 Doe<br /> November 30, 6.30-9 p.m. (Thank Goodness We Did It Party!), Room 180 Doe<br /> <br /> Sign up at NaNoWriMo.org, and join the East Bay Home Region to see the calendar of events in our area and beyond. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121068&date=2018-11-25 Korean Language Resources, Nov 26 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121684&date=2018-11-26 Introduction to research resources in Korean language in the area of humanities and social sciences. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121684&date=2018-11-26 Japanese Language Resources, Nov 27 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121683&date=2018-11-27 Introduction to research resources in Japanese language in the area of humanities and social sciences. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121683&date=2018-11-27 Maps and More: Maps of Mars with Betsy Mason, Nov 27 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121444&date=2018-11-27 This Maps and More pop up event will be curated by Betsy Mason, author of All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121444&date=2018-11-27 Creating the future of nuclear energy, Nov 27 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=120057&date=2018-11-27 The nuclear energy industry is at a crossroads: existing nuclear reactors are struggling to operate economically in some tough markets, and construction of new designs in the U.S. is slow and over budget. At the same time, interest in and development of the next generation of nuclear reactors is growing at an unprecedented rate, and some other nations are building new reactors efficiently. Can the current fleet reduce costs? Will the next generation of designs be “walkaway safe” and cost-competitive? What about safeguards and recycling of nuclear fuel? Many new technologies, including Data Analytics and Machine Learning, can be impactful in answering these questions. This talk will frame some of the big challenges in nuclear energy and how new technologies are starting to be used. We’ll also look to the future in terms of where the biggest impacts are likely to be and what we can do to move quickly.<br /> <br /> The Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science, co-hosted by the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) and the Berkeley Division of Data Sciences, features Berkeley faculty doing visionary research that illustrates the character of the ongoing data revolution. This lecture series is offered to engage our diverse campus community and enrich active connections among colleagues. All campus community members are welcome and encouraged to attend. Arrive at 3:30 PM for light refreshments and discussion prior to the formal presentation. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=120057&date=2018-11-27 Chinese Language Resources in Humanities and Classics, Nov 28 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121681&date=2018-11-28 Introduction to selected Chinese research resources on Sinology in both print and electronic formats. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121681&date=2018-11-28 Electronic Resources for Chinese Studies in Social Sciences, Nov 29 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121682&date=2018-11-29 Learn to locate books, articles, data and government documents in electronic format for Chinese Studies in the social sciences. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121682&date=2018-11-29 NaNoWriMo 2018, Nov 30 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121069&date=2018-11-30 NaNoWriMo is back at UC Berkeley’s Doe Library!<br /> <br /> Have you ever thought about writing a novel but just didn’t think you had the time? You’re not alone. A small group of friends from the East Bay dared themselves to finish their novels in 30 days back in 1999, creating the foundation of what has become National Novel Writing Month. Since then, this small nonprofit, NaNoWriMo, has inspired a global event of epic proportions! Fifty thousand words in 30 days! Quantity over quality is the name of the game. Turn off your inner editor, and win.<br /> <br /> Are you working on a thesis, dissertation, or any other writing project (creative or otherwise) but could use a bit of support from the collective energy of fellow students or colleagues to help you stay focused and provide some inspiration? NaNoWriMo isn’t just for novels anymore — be a NaNoWriMo “Rebel,” and work on your academic projects, an article, a chapter, final research paper, memoir, screenplay, etc., and possibly find some new writing buddies along the way!<br /> <br /> The amazing team over at NaNoWriMo created this worldwide community of writers and a support system of libraries, bookstores, and other neighborhood spaces all over the globe called Come Write In, where “Wrimos” gather and forge ahead toward their word count goals during their quest to win this book-in-a-month contest. With all the positive energy of over 300,000 participants, all writing together, winning is possible. Novelist or academic, all are welcome. I have been a participant since 2007, and the undeniable spirit of creativity that NaNoWriMo cultivates continues to motivate me to keep pushing forward, and I hope it will inspire you as well!<br /> <br /> Come Write In, Doe Library:<br /> November 4, 1-4 p.m., Room 180 Doe<br /> November 10, 1-4 p.m., Room 180 Doe<br /> November 25, 1-4 p.m., Room 180 Doe<br /> November 30, 6.30-9 p.m. (Thank Goodness We Did It Party!), Room 180 Doe<br /> <br /> Sign up at NaNoWriMo.org, and join the East Bay Home Region to see the calendar of events in our area and beyond. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121069&date=2018-11-30 Western Language Resources for East Asian Studies, Dec 3 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121685&date=2018-12-03 Introduction to locating materials and information in Western languages in the area of East Asian Studies by using library databases, catalogs and other bibliographic tools. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121685&date=2018-12-03 Student to Student Peer Counseling, Dec 3-9 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121763&date=2018-12-03 Student to Student Peer Counseling will be available in Moffitt Library room 350C from 6-10pm during RRR week for drop in counseling sessions. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121763&date=2018-12-03 And Then They Came For Us, Dec 4 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121608&date=2018-12-04 Followed by Q&A with local award-winning filmmaker Abby Ginzberg. About the film: Seventy-five years ago, Executive Order 9066 paved the way to the profound violation of constitutional rights that resulted in the forced incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121608&date=2018-12-04 Maps of a rising water table: The hidden component of sea level rise, Dec 4 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=120058&date=2018-12-04 Map-based data viewers have been available for several years that reveal where coastal flooding is likely to occur as oceans warm and ice sheets melt. Recently, geologists have begun to study the influence of sea level rise on groundwater, and have concluded that in some coastal areas, as much or more land could flood as a result of rising groundwater than will flood directly from saltwater. Yet almost no coastal areas have maps available of depth to the water table, below which soils are saturated with water. My students and I have recently made a map of depth to the water table around San Francisco Bay, and this map reveals previously unrecognized vulnerabilities to sea level rise. By taking groundwater into account, we have revealed some potential problems with adaptation that relies on seawalls and levees alone, and developed an alternative strategy for urban areas that might allow us to live with higher water. This talk will present both the new maps of coastal groundwater depth and some strategies for urban adaptation.<br /> <br /> The Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science, co-hosted by the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) and the Berkeley Division of Data Sciences, features Berkeley faculty doing visionary research that illustrates the character of the ongoing data revolution. This lecture series is offered to engage our diverse campus community and enrich active connections among colleagues. All campus community members are welcome and encouraged to attend. Arrive at 3:30 PM for light refreshments and discussion prior to the formal presentation. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=120058&date=2018-12-04 Tang Center Tabling in Moffitt Library, Dec 5-7 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121761&date=2018-12-05 Health educators from the Tang Center will be in Moffitt Library to pass out snacks, drinks, tips for staying healthy during RRR week and finals, and to provide you comfort during this stressful time. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121761&date=2018-12-05 On the Beach at Night Alone, Dec 5 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121297&date=2018-12-05 Art imitates life in this quietly devastating masterpiece from Hong Sangsoo. Kim Minhee (The Handmaiden, Claire's Camera)—in the role that won her the Silver Bear for best actress in Berlin—plays Younghee, an actress reeling in the aftermath of an affair with a married film director. Younghee visits Hamburg then returns to Korea, but as she meets with friends and has her fair share to drink, increasingly startling confessions emerge. <br /> <br /> No stranger to mining his own experience for his films, Hong, whose real-life affair with Kim stirred up a media frenzy in Korea, here confronts his personal life with a newfound emotional directness. With an incredibly raw and vulnerable performance from Kim at its center, On the Beach at Night Alone is one of the most dynamic collaborations between director and performer in contemporary cinema. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121297&date=2018-12-05 Story Hour in Moffitt, Dec 6 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121762&date=2018-12-06 The office of the ASUC AAVP invites you to enjoy story hour on the 4th floor of Moffitt Library. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121762&date=2018-12-06 Dynasties and Democracy in Japan, Feb 1 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=122074&date=2019-02-01 Political dynasties exist in all democracies, but have been conspicuously prevalent in Japan, where over a third of legislators and two-thirds of cabinet ministers come from families with a history in parliament. In his new book, <i>Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan</i>, Daniel M. Smith introduces a comparative theory to explain the persistence of dynastic politics in democracies like Japan, and explores the implications of this theory for candidate selection, election, and cabinet promotion, as well as the impact of dynasties on the quality of representation.<br /> <br /> <b>Daniel M. Smith</b> is Associate Professor in the Department of Government. His research focuses primarily on political parties, candidate selection, elections and electoral systems, and coalition government, particularly in Japan. He earned his Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from the University of California, San Diego, and his B.A. in political science and Italian from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has conducted research in Japan as a Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology research scholar at Chuo University, and as a Fulbright research fellow at the University of Tokyo. Prior to joining the Department of Government, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=122074&date=2019-02-01 Lunch Poems, Feb 7 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=118610&date=2019-02-07 Ari Banias is the author of Anybody (W.W. Norton, 2016), which was named a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Center USA Literary Award. His poems have appeared in various journals, in Troubling The Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, and as part of the MOTHA exhibitionTransgender Hirstory in 99 Objects. He is the recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and Stanford University's Wallace Stegner program. Ari lives in Berkeley, teaches poetry, and works with small press books. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=118610&date=2019-02-07 Surprising Evidence:, Feb 12 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=120701&date=2019-02-12 Join us for our second Gallery Talk!<br /> <br /> Tuesday, February 12, 2019<br /> Wurster Auditorium, Room 112<br /> <br /> 6:30 to 7pm - Light Refreshments<br /> 7 to 8pm - Lecture<br /> <br /> Free to UC Berkeley Students, Staff, Faculty, and Friends of the EDA<br /> <br /> Suggested $10 donation for those outside UC Berkeley<br /> <br /> <br /> Historians, architects and planners often look to feature films as records of extinct environments. But few know of the existence of alternative archival records: home movies, process plates and “useful films.” Vividly depicting simultaneous and elusive geographies, these materials enable new frameworks for presentation and visualization, including community- and commons-based events focusing on urban futures and the right to the city. This talk will present examples of these materials and excerpts from Prelinger’s urban history events focusing on San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles and New York.<br /> <br /> Rick Prelinger, Professor of Film & Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz, is an archivist, writer, filmmaker and educator. His archival feature Panorama Ephemera (2004) played in venues around the world, and his feature project No More Road Trips? received a Creative Capital grant in 2012. His 24 Lost Landscapes participatory urban history projects have played to many thousands of viewers in San Francisco, Detroit, Oakland, Los Angeles and elsewhere. He co-founded an experimental research library in San Francisco in 2004, which serves over a thousand artists, researchers and activists each year. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=120701&date=2019-02-12 Bancroft Library Roundtable, Feb 21 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121395&date=2019-02-21 Farm work is considered the most hazardous industry for young workers and yet estimates show that the U.S. currently employs between 200,000-500,000 agricultural child laborers a year. A vast majority of these youth live in extreme poverty, are of Mexican and Central American descent, and belong to families of mixed immigration statuses. Although the U.S. implemented a national child labor ban in 1938 as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Latinx children continue to toil in fields nationwide. Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez identifies the reason for this disjuncture by examining the consequences of the child labor ban's agricultural exemption in its first two and a half decades of existence. The legal exemption made it possible for growers and their allies to circumvent child labor protections and compulsory school attendance laws to continue to employ children in the fields. As a result, migrant Mexican and Mexican-American children from the Southwest who worked on local farms and followed western migratory streams lost rights crucial to childhood and the exercise of citizenship: education, health, and social welfare/public assistance. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121395&date=2019-02-21 Points of Transition: Ovoo and the Ritual Remaking of Religious, Ecological, and Historical Politics in Inner Asia, Feb 22 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121636&date=2019-02-22 Ovoo, the structures of stones, trees, scarves, skulls, steering wheel covers, and a staggering array of other objects that are ubiquitous across the landscape of contemporary Mongolia, Buryatia, Inner Mongolia, and Qinghai, have long marked sites where ritual, though often highly spontaneous, practices invoke the presence of immanent relations. Built and maintained by various publics, gatherings at ovoo have over past centuries been major sites of political action, where the identities of and relationships between more and less local shamans, lamas, imperial officials, businesspeople, bureaucrats, politicians, and nonhumans are narrated, contested, and re-defined. At the same time, ovoo are often engaged individually, by travelers engaging roadside ovoo or at places generally unspoken of to others and not visible on the wider landscape, that are especially significant to an individual or intimate group. Scholars from the US, Europe, and Asia will be discussing such issues as how these sites are useful in juxtaposing historical and political narratives, ecological and environmentalist movements, religious practice, and the productive logics of households, businesses, and states. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121636&date=2019-02-22 Remaking Urban Landscape in China’s Large Cities: State-Society Nexus and the Reproduction of Space amidst Accelerate Urbanization, Mar 4 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=120112&date=2019-03-04 Phenomenal transformation of the landscape in Chinese cities has been conventionally understood as the spatial outcome of the reformation of state-market relations. The current urban landscape observable today is described as a juxtaposition of two elements, namely the legacy of the socialist city and the newly emerged space of marketization. This research identifies a new wave of urbanization in which a reformulated state-society relationship has given rise to a new landscape of urban redevelopment. The remaking of China’s urban landscape is effectively shaped not so much by forces of agglomeration economies or bid-rent dynamism but instead by a negotiation and reconciliation of the interests between the state and society. The bottleneck over urban renewals is overcome by local initiatives to redefine who gets what rather than who owns what. Existing land users are motivated by a decentralized power of decision-making and a share of the land conveyance income previously monopolized by the state. Contrary to normal expectation, no significant correlation is found between the extent of urban redevelopment and population density, level of development and degree of marketization and openness. Urban redevelopment tends to prevail in those modes of land disposition that are either monopolized by the state or subject to close-door negotiation. Chinese land users are found to be more concerned over exclusivity than transferability of property rights. Redevelopment is less contentious in a “village-in the city” where decisions are made by the collective organization internally than the other involving developers externally. Land use intensity and efficiency have been improved along with intensified social exclusion and marginalization. Findings of this research call for special attention to be paid to China’s reformulated state-society relations as a new driving force reshaping its restless urban landscape. Current planning and policy making need to be critically re-evaluated so as to take a better consideration and protection of the interests of the displaced workers, landless villagers, resettled residents, and removed migrant population. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=120112&date=2019-03-04 Lunch Poems, Mar 7 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=118611&date=2019-03-07 Tarfia Faizullah is the author of REGISTERS OF ILLUMINATED VILLAGES (Graywolf Press, 2018), and SEAM (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), winner of a VIDA Award, a GLCA New Writers’ Award, a Milton Kessler First Book Award, Drake University Emerging Writer Award, and other honors. Her poems are published widely in periodicals and anthologies both in the United States and abroad, including Poetry Magazine, Guernica, Tin House, and The Nation, are translated into Persian, Chinese, Bengali, Tamil, and Spanish, and have been featured at the Smithsonian, the Rubin Museum of Art, and elsewhere. In 2016 she was recognized by Harvard Law School as one of 50 Women Inspiring Change. In Fall 2018, she will join the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a Visiting Writer in Residence. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=118611&date=2019-03-07 Life and Career of Aaron Green, Mar 12 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=120711&date=2019-03-12 Join us for our third Gallery Talk this academic year with Allan Wright Green and Jan Novie!<br /> <br /> Tuesday, March 12, 2019<br /> Wurster Gallery, Room 121<br /> <br /> 6:30 to 7pm- Light Refreshments<br /> 7 to 8pm - Lecture<br /> <br /> Free to UC Berkeley Students, Staff, Faculty, and Friends of the EDA<br /> <br /> Suggested $10 donation for those outside UC Berkeley<br /> <br /> Aaron G. Green FAIA was an internationally known organic architect of “striking originality and grace.” His diversified architectural works include residential, commercial, industrial, municipal, judicial, religious, interment, mass housing, and educational projects. The lecture will discuss the life and career of Aaron Green.<br /> <br /> Allan Wright Green is Aaron Green's son. He has degrees in fine arts and design from UCLA and has worked as a graphic designer and art director for clients all over the world, including several projects for his father. Allan retired after 43 years in the wine business in Mendocino County when he sold his winery, Greenwood Ridge Vineyards, in 2016.<br /> <br /> Jan Novie Joined Aaron Green's firm in 1965. This was a critical and extraordinary turning point in his life, leading to a lifetime career in organic architecture with Aaron Green as his mentor. Jan serves as an advisor to the Taliesin Fellows Board of Directors and in the past served on the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Board of Advisors. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=120711&date=2019-03-12 Bancroft Library Roundtable, Mar 21 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121396&date=2019-03-21 How did the white Protestant tradition of Sunday-keeping take root in a religiously and racially diverse frontier society—if at all? This presentation explores the contestations between majority first day-keepers and minority voices during the Gold Rush and early decades of statehood, giving special attention to Jews, Seventh-day Adventists, and the religiously unaffiliated. It draws from sources in the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, diaries, and institutional records held at the Bancroft Library to offer a glimpse into how sacred time has been negotiated in a moment in American history. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121396&date=2019-03-21 Lunch Poems, Apr 4 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=118620&date=2019-04-04 Ben Lerner was born in Topeka, Kansas. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundations, among other honors. He is the author of three books of poetry (The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path), two novels (Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04), and a work of criticism (The Hatred of Poetry). His most recent books are collaborations: Blossom (with Thomas Demand), The Polish Rider (with Anna Ostoya), and The Snows of Venice (with Alexander Kluge). He is a Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=118620&date=2019-04-04 Edith Heath: Design is a System of Values, Apr 9 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=120712&date=2019-04-09 In the Brian and Edith Heath Collection of the Environmental Design Archives, there is a small notepad on which Edith Heath wrote, “Design is a system of values.” Heath Ceramics’ designs are recognized for California mid-century aesthetics, but Edith Heath’s ceramic practice both technically and conceptually has the potential to be considered a precursor to the fields of land art and ecological design. This talk will elaborate on the lesser-known work of Edith Heath, situate her practice within a historical context, and critique traditional narratives of mid-century ceramic history.<br /> <br /> Rosa Novak is an Oakland artist and researcher working with local clay and sustainable practices in ceramics. She is interested in the intersection of land use histories, soil science, and place-based making as an artist, curator, and writer. Novak earned her BFA from the ceramics program at California College of the Arts (CCA) and was a 2017 Windgate Fellow. She has spoken at the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, Mills College and CCA on the life and work of Edith Heath. Novak is a co-founder of Mutual Stores, a new collective studio, residency program, and project space in Oakland. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=120712&date=2019-04-09 Bancroft Library Roundtable, Apr 18 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121397&date=2019-04-18 The California Gold Rush is often remembered for the thousands of immigrants who traversed continents and oceans for a chance to gain quick wealth. Often lost in these narratives are the rich histories of the numerous Native American and indigenous emigrants that made the same journey to California’s Gold Country beginning in 1849. In many ways these indigenous emigrants—including Cherokees, Choctaws, and Wyandots, to name a few—straddled the spheres of the “settler” and “indigenous” societies, often maintaining close relations with both. After their arrival in the gold fields, some of these groups formed kinship ties within California’s tribal communities. This presentation considers the legacies of these intertribal societies, with particular emphasis on the cases of a Cherokee emigrant party adopted into a Southern Sierra Miwok tribe, and a Choctaw man that lived among the Yokuts of the Sierra foothills and San Joaquin Valley. As members of eastern tribes that white settlers considered to be more “civilized” than most other Native peoples, these Cherokee and Choctaw emigrants could effectively act as intermediaries between the tribal and settler communities of Gold Rush California. Perhaps most importantly, the adoption of these indigenous emigrants represents an important strategy for Miwok and Yokuts tribes to contend with an increasingly violent white settler population. These rich and complex indigenous histories serve to complicate most standard narratives of both Indian-white relations and intertribal relations in nineteenth century California. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121397&date=2019-04-18 Maritime Hubs and Mobilities: Rethinking Metropolitan Hong Kong-South China, Apr 26 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121450&date=2019-04-26 The Pearl River Delta Region and its metropolitan hubs have long engaged with the circulation of goods, people and ideas along what is now popularized as the Maritime Silk Road. Over the centuries these movements bridged continental divides. The talk focuses on the historical layers of economic and cultural resources, multi-ethnic identities, and strategic footprints across the oceans from Canton to Zanzibar. It also highlights potential paths of development and contestations. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121450&date=2019-04-26 Lunch Poems, May 2 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=118613&date=2019-05-02 One of the year’s liveliest events, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets, Cook, Rosenberg, and Yang, as well as students nominated by Berkeley’s creative writing faculty, Lunch Poems volunteers, and representatives from student publications. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=118613&date=2019-05-02 Bancroft Library Roundtable, May 16 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121398&date=2019-05-16 Both lauded as “the great bank of the West” and reviled as a “huge financial octopus,” the Bank of America introduced several modern banking practices during the Great Depression, the worst financial crisis in the history of the United States. These services played an integral role in California’s development. Sarah Quincy will discuss her research on the impacts of this unusual bank on the state’s economy during the 1920s and 1930s. Quantitative and qualitative evidence gathered from archives, including the Bancroft Library, indicates that the Bank of America’s unusual emphasis on lending to underserved populations helped the communities in which it operated thrive during the 1930s. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/library.html?event_ID=121398&date=2019-05-16
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