<< Wednesday, February 27, 2019 >>
Through the Learner's Lens: A Student Learning Center Photo Contest
Miscellaneous | February 25	– March 22, 2019 every day | César E. Chávez Student Center
Sponsor: Student Learning Center
The UC Berkeley Student Learning Center is excited to invite submissions for our first ever photo contest! We're calling on the creativity of our campus community to build a collection of images that showcase the diverse ways learning takes place in and through the Student Learning Center. We invite you to share moments in the learning process that excite you, challenge you, and encapsulate the... More >
Winter at the Hall
Special Event | December 21, 2018	– March 20, 2019 every day | Lawrence Hall of Science
Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)
This winter, visit the Hall for interactive exhibits, special hands-on activities, intriguing Planetarium shows, and more!
Graduation Coordinators Meeting
Meeting | February 27 | 9:30-11:30 a.m. | Berkeley Hillel
Location: 2736 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA
Sponsor: University Development and Alumni Relations
ICBS Seminar
Seminar | February 27 | 11 a.m.-1 p.m. | Berkeley Way West, 2121 Berkeley Way, room 1102
Speakers/Performers: Zach Pardos, Graduate School of Education and School of Information; Stella Yu, Berkeley Institute for Data Science, EECS
Sponsor: Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills
The Mind in Big Data, Zach Pardos
Learning with Minimal Human Supervision, Stella Yu
Unscripted: The Visuality of Monumental Scripts in Ptolemaic Egypt
Lecture | February 27 | 12-1 p.m. | 254 Barrows Hall
Featured Speaker: Emily Cole, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for the Tebtunis Papyri at The Bancroft Library
Sponsor: Near Eastern Studies
The Egyptian language is visually associated with its iconic Hieroglyphs. However, by the Ptolemaic period (332-30 BCE), the later form of Egyptian known as Demotic, which employed a different script, was commonly used in daily life. Hieroglyphs retained a prominent position and could imbue an inscription with prestige, but the multicultural shift of the Egyptian population by this period led to... More >
The Use of Ancient DNA to Understand Human History
Lecture | February 27 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Speaker: Rasmus Nielsen, Professor, Department of Integrative Biology and Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
I this talk I will discuss the use of ancient DNA in anthropological research. I will start by discussing some of our work on the discovery of interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals and the causes of the Neanderthal extinction. I will then move into a discussion of several different studies we have been involved with on analyzing human remains.
MVZ LUNCH SEMINAR - Ryan Baumbusch: Barred owls in the Pacific Northwest: trophic interactions of a novel, nocturnal predator
Seminar | February 27 | 12-1 p.m. | Valley Life Sciences Building, 3101 VLSB, Grinnell-Miller Library
Speaker: Ryan Baumbusch
Sponsor: Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
MVZ Lunch is a graduate level seminar series (IB264) based on current and recent vertebrate research. Professors, graduate students, staff, and visiting researchers present on current and past research projects. The seminar meets every Wednesday from 12- 1pm in the Grinnell-Miller Library. Enter through the MVZ's Main Office, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, and please let the receptionist... More >
De-stressing with Thriving in Science
Special Event | February 27 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 231 Barker Hall
Sponsor: Thriving in Science
Rita Lucarelli on "Cultural contexts for immersive visualization and VR"
Conference/Symposium | February 27 | 12-1 p.m. | 310 Sutardja Dai Hall
Sponsor: CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Rita Lucarelli studied at the University of Naples "L'Orientale," Italy, where she received her MA degree in Classical Languages and Egyptology. She holds her Ph.D. from Leiden University, the Netherlands (2005). Her Ph.D. thesis was published in 2006 as The Book of the Dead of Gatseshen: Ancient Egyptian Funerary Religion in the 10th Century BC. From 2005 to 2010,... More >
Compositional Constraints and Social Conventions in African Assortative Mating: A Brown Bag Talk
Colloquium | February 27 | 12-1 p.m. | 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room
Speaker: Margaret Frye, Professor, Sociology, University of Michigan
Speaker/Performer: Sara Lopus, Professor, Social Sciences, Cal Poly
Sponsors: Population Science, Department of Demography
A lunch time talk and discussion session, featuring visiting and local scholars presenting their research on a wide range of topics of interest to demography.
Curator's Talk: Lucinda Barnes on Hans Hofmann
Tour/Open House | February 27 | 12 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAMPFA Curator Emerita Lucinda Barnes, a preeminent expert on Hans Hofmann, offers a walk-through of the new, major retrospective of the artist's work. In her talk, the exhibition's curator highlights connections between Hofmann's most iconic late-career paintings and some remarkable and prescient works from the 1930s and '40s. Among the works she will discuss are Effervescence (1944), Cataclysm... More >
Graphene-based Biosensors: Real-time biological Search
Seminar | February 27 | 12-1 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Speaker/Performer: Kiana Aran, Keck Graduate Institute
Sponsor: Bioengineering (BioE)
Graphene-based biosensors have the potential to revolutionize digital biochemical measurements for applications in the field of drug discovery, biomedicine, integrated diagnostics and environmental monitoring. This talk will describe the design and development of novel graphene-based biosensors and their use in facile identification of clinically relevant biomarkers in cancer and aging. In... More >
Noon Concert: Harpsichord Duet
Performing Arts - Music | February 27 | 12 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
Kimberly Kang, harpsichord
George Wang, harpsichord
A rare opportunity to hear two harpsichordists performing works by Rameau, Scarlatti, Bach and more
Commencing its 67th season, the Noon Concert series features the Music Department's varied and diverse performance activities. Inaugurated in 1953, these concerts are very popular and well attended by those on campus and in the wider... More >
Rope-A-Dope Politics and the Erosion of Democratic Norms
Lecture | February 27 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Speaker/Performer: Markus Hinterleitner, Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley
Sponsor: Institute of European Studies
Many advanced democracies are currently characterized by a norm-eroding politics, which manifests itself in increased levels of populism and blame generation. The erosion of norms is a potentially far-reaching challenge for democracy. In his lecture, Markus Hinterleitner conceptualizes the process of political norm erosion capturing the interactions of norm violators and norm defenders with the... More >
Markus Hinterleitner
Cell Phones, Cell Towers, and Wireless Safety (BEUHS666): Keynote Presentation for Balancing Technology Programs
Presentation | February 27 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Education Center
Speaker: Joel Moskowitz, PhD, Director and Principal Investigator, Center for Family and Community Health at UC Berkeley
Sponsors: Be Well at Work, Public Health, School of
Learn about the latest research on wireless radiation safety and steps you can take to protect yourself and loved ones from potential harm.
Attendance restrictions: This event is primarily for UC Berkeley faculty and staff, but we will take students and community members as long as there is room. Please email kguess@berkeley.edu to reserve your spot if you cannot register online.
Registration required: Free
Registration info: Register online or by calling 510-6433434, or by emailing kguess@berkeley.edu by February 28.
Plant and Microbial Biology Seminar: "Can we structure the microbiome of Arabidopsis thaliana?"
Seminar | February 27 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall
Speaker: Joy Bergelson, University of Chicago
Sponsor: Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
Joy Bergelson is the Chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago. Her research is focused on interactions between the host plant, Arabidopsis thaliana, and the community of bacteria that inhabit it. Her lab is interested in understanding how the ecology of these interactions shapes evolutionary trajectories, and how evolutionary change in turn impacts ecology.... More >
Curating a Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i: The Detours Project
Lecture | February 27 | 12-2 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, Associate Professor of American Studies, Honors Program Director, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Sponsor: Department of Gender and Women's Studies
The "Detours" project takes seriously the power of form, and the reading practices and publics produced by the genre of the guidebook, which manifest the fantasy of Hawai'i as an exotic island destination for the consumption of tourists. "Detours" deliberately perverts the guidebook to produce alternative narratives, tours, itineraries, mappings and images of the islands as well as concrete... More >
Legacies of War and Civil Society in Post-Conflict Settings
Colloquium | February 27 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Speaker: Justine Davis, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley
Sponsor: Center for African Studies
How does civil war shape post-conflict democratization? More specifically, how does living under rebel control during civil war affect local non-governmental organization (NGO) leaders' attitudes and behaviors regarding the distribution of resources to citizens? I develop a theory in which the takeover of territory and the establishment of institutions by rebels during civil war evokes... More >
BJCL Elections
Meeting | February 27 | 12:45-2 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law
Sponsor: Law, Boalt School of
Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law will be electing next year's executive committee. Come hear about the candidates' platforms for improving the journal and maintaining our status as a top publisher of criminal law scholarship.
Harmonic Analysis Seminar: On the Fourier restriction inequality in $\mathbb R^3$
Seminar | February 27 | 1:10-2 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall
Speaker: Kubrat Danailov, UC Berkeley
Sponsor: Department of Mathematics
This seminar is an ongoing discussion of Guth's Fourier restriction inequality based on the method of polynomial partitioning. This week's talk continues discussion of the core part of the proof, utilizing the key concept of broad points to carry out the inductive step. Following the incidence problem model, the analysis divides into three parts. A key decomposition, including a bilinear term,... More >
Gilman Scholarship Essay Review
Special Event | February 27 | 2-4 p.m. | 160 Stephens Hall
Sponsor: Berkeley Study Abroad
Are you applying to the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship?
Come to the Gilman Scholarship Essay Review and get feedback on your application essays from recent Gilman Scholars from UC Berkeley.
The Gilman Scholarship deadline for Summer 2019, Fall 2019 and Year 2019-2020 study abroad programs and internships is 9:59 p.m. on Tuesday, March 5, 2019. For more information or to apply,... More >
Topology Seminar (Introductory Talk): Boundaries of hyperbolic and relatively hyperbolic groups
Seminar | February 27 | 2-3 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Speaker: Jason Manning, Cornell University
I'll define hyperbolic group, relatively hyperbolic group, the boundary, and give examples and basic properties.
Workshop on Getting Approval for Human Subjects Research--led by OPHS staff
Workshop | February 27 | 2-4 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Speaker: Leah Carroll, Program Manager, Haas Scholars Program
Sponsor: Office of Undergraduate Research
Staff from the Office of the Protection of Human Subjects and the Office of Undergraduate Research will present on how undergraduates should prepare a proposal (protocol) to receive approval for human subjects related research projects.
Deformation Theory Seminar: Matrix factorizations in deformation theory
Seminar | February 27 | 2:40-4 p.m. | Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Auditorium | Note change in time
Speaker: Constantin Teleman, UC Berkeley
I will review the appearance of curvings for objects in the deformation theory of categories and discuss conditions for their removal. I will review the role of nilpotence in reduction to uncurved deformations.
International Student Drop-In Career Advising
Meeting | January 23	– May 1, 2019 every Wednesday with exceptions | 3-5 p.m. | Career Center (2440 Bancroft Way), 3rd Floor
Sponsor: Career Center
Students sign up on site for a 15-minute appointment. First come, first served.
These drop-in appointments can be helpful for your quick questions on the following topics:
-Resume/Cover Letter Critique
-Job or Internship Search
-Networking
-Career Fair Preparation
-Interview Preparation
-Graduate/Professional Program Application
-Others
Social Event | January 23	– May 1, 2019 every Wednesday with exceptions | 3-4 p.m. | Cafe International House
Sponsor: Berkeley International Office(BIO))
Berkeley International Office's Coffee Break is a weekly opportunity for UC Berkeley global students to meet and engage with one another in a relaxing environment. It's a chance to enjoy free coffee, share stories about your experiences on campus, and get to know Berkeley International Office advisors. All UCB students are invited. Students are free to talk about anything, but... More >
Statistical Physics, Markov Chains, and Programmable Matter
Seminar | February 27 | 3-4 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Speaker/Performer: Sarah Cannon, UC Berkeley
Sponsor: Department of Statistics
I will discuss how tools from statistical physics used to analyze partition functions, such as Peierls arguments and the cluster expansion, can be used to solve seemingly unrelated distributed computing problems about programmable matter. Programmable matter is a material or substance that has the ability to change its features in a programmable, distributed way; examples are diverse and include... More >
Film - Feature | February 27 | 3:10 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
This here's a screwball comedy that throws some real curves: most particularly a leggy Claudette Colbert and a shirtless Clark Gable. Cheeky Colbert plays a runaway heiress on a bus north to find her fiancé; instead she finds fellow traveler Gable, an ace reporter with everything but an assignment. The repartee (written by Robert Riskin, who won an Oscar for the screenplay) is faster than a... More >
Number Theory Seminar: Hodge structures and the Mumford–Tate groups
Speaker: Roy Zhao, UC Berkeley
Learning to See the Physical World
Seminar | February 27 | 4-5 p.m. | 310 Sutardja Dai Hall
Speaker: Jiajun Wu, Ph.D. Student, MIT
Sponsor: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
In this talk, I will present our recent work on physical scene understanding---building versatile, data-efficient, and generalizable machines that learn to see, reason about, and interact with the physical world.
Topology Seminar (Main Talk): Dehn filling and the boundary of a relatively hyperbolic group
Seminar | February 27 | 4-5 p.m. | 3 Evans Hall
I'll survey what is known about the way the boundary of a relatively hyperbolic group is affected by relatively hyperbolic Dehn filling. I'll talk both about geometric and algebraic topological properties of the boundary. Parts of this talk will be based on joint works with Groves, Groves–Sisto, and Wang.
Seminar 291, Departmental Seminar: "Cream skimming and the comparison between social interventions: Evidence from entrepreneurship programs for at-risk youth in France"
Featured Speaker: Esther Duflo, MIT
Joint with Development and Planning Seminar
Berkeley Summer Abroad and Berkeley Global Internships: Earn credit and see the world this summer.
Information Session | February 27 | 4-5 p.m. | 442 Stephens Hall
Earn Berkeley credit while seeing the world this summer! Learn more about Berkeley Global Internships and Berkeley Summer Abroad at this info session.
Berkeley Global Internships offer students valuable internship experience across the globe. Scholarships are available for Boston, Dublin, Israel, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Mumbai, Prague, Paris, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo. Learn more at... More >
Epigenetic regulation of lipid metabolic pathways and fatty liver disease
Seminar | February 27 | 4-5 p.m. | 114 Morgan Hall
Speaker/Performer: Liangyou Rui, University of Michigan
Sponsor: Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology
Mean Estimation with Sub-Gaussian Rates in Polynomial Time
Speaker/Performer: Sam Hopkins, UC Berkeley
We study polynomial time algorithms for estimating the mean of a heavy-tailed multivariate random vector. We assume only that the random vector X has finite mean and covariance. In this setting, the radius of confidence intervals achieved by the empirical mean are large compared to the case that X is Gaussian or sub-Gaussian.
We offer the first polynomial time algorithm to estimate the mean with... More >
ERG Colloquium: Alex Hall: The "Double Whammy" of Climate Change for California's Sierra Nevada
Colloquium | February 27 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 126 Barrows Hall
Speaker: Alex Hall, Professor, Department of Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA
Sponsor: Energy and Resources Group
Alex Hall, faculty director of the UCLA Center for Climate Science, will be discussing how "business-as-usual" and reduced emissions scenarios are posed to affect climate and snowpack in the Sierra Nevada through the end of the century.
Graduate Student Activities Showcase
Information Session | February 27 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Tan Hall
Sponsor: Department of Chemical Engineering
Reading for Bias: Computational Semantics and the Character of Racial Discourse
Special Event | February 27 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 210 South Hall
Speaker: Hoyt Long, Associate Professor of Japanese Literature, University of Chicago
Sponsor: Information, School of
Machine learning algorithms are not neutral observers of the world, but see what they are trained to see.
Rohini Pande | Women and Work in India
Lecture | February 27 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Speaker: Rohini Pande, Rafik Hariri Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School
Sponsors: Institute for South Asia Studies, Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Blum Center for Developing Economies
Talk by Political Economist, Prof. Rohini Pande
Maggie Nelson: Songs of Care and Constraint: Townsend Center Una's Lecture 2019
Lecture | February 27 | 5 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall
Sponsor: Townsend Center for the Humanities
Maggie Nelson, a 2016 MacArthur Fellow, is the author of numerous works of nonfiction and poetry, including The Argonauts, an autobiographical account that received the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. Her Una's Lecture is titled "Songs of Care and Constraint."
Photo of Maggie Nelson
Swahili Table
Social Event | January 23	– May 8, 2019 every Wednesday | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | Jupiter Taproom
Location: 2181 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704
Speaker/Performer: Elizabeth Resor
Every Wednesdays speak Swahili with your fellow Swahili students and enthusiasts over a drink at Jupiter Taproom. This is an informal gathering to connect with other Swahili speakers on campus and in Berkeley. Each person will support their own beverage purchases, but we will provide the good company (don't worry- beverage/food purchases are NOT required). And of course, Swahili speaking... More >
Meraki Tech Talk
Information Session | February 27 | 6-8 p.m. | Soda Hall, Wozniak Lounge (430)
Meraki is a cloud managed IT company whose solutions include wireless, switching, security, communications, EMM, and security cameras, all managed through Meraki's web-based dashboard interface.
This tech talk will be focused on Meraki's firmware engineering team! Come out to hear more about current opportunities!
--- FOOD and DRINKS provided! ---
Toastmasters on Campus Club: Learn public speaking
Meeting | January 14, 2015	– December 18, 2019 every Wednesday | 6:15-7:30 p.m. | 3111 Etcheverry Hall
Sponsor: Toastmasters on Campus
Toastmasters has been the world leader in teaching public speaking since 1924. Meetings are an enjoyable self-paced course designed to get you up and running as a speaker in only a few months.
Radiotopia Showcase Podcast Preview: SPACEBRIDGE | A conversation between Julia Barton and Adam Hochschild
Panel Discussion | February 27 | 7-8:30 p.m. | North Gate Hall, Logan Multimedia Center (Room 142)
Sponsor: Graduate School of Journalism
At a low point in the Cold War, three men walk into a bureaucrat's office at Gosteleradio, the state broadcaster of the Soviet Union. Two are Americans: an astronaut, and a researcher of psychic phenomena. The third is a Russian utopian with a notebook full of phone numbers he's not supposed to know. The three want approval for something that's never been tried before: a two-way, simultaneous... More >
RSVP info: RSVP online by February 27.
Dreams Are Colder Than Death
Film - Feature | February 27 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Fifty years after Martin Luther King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, a collective of African American filmmakers, artists, and intellectuals reflect on the goals and ambitions of the civil rights movement and where things stand today. Jafa arranges the thoughts of this eloquent chorus into a profoundly moving score that also elucidates the origin of the concept of blackness and the... More >
Exhibits and Ongoing Events
Exhibit - Artifacts | October 13, 2017	– May 30, 2019 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Bancroft Library, Rowell Cases, near Heyns Reading Room, 2nd floor corridor between The Bancroft Library and Doe
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.
Art for the Asking: 60 Years of the Graphic Arts Loan Collection at the Morrison Library
Exhibit - Artifacts | September 17, 2018	– February 28, 2019 every day | Doe Library, Bernice Layne Brown Gallery
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... More >
Boundless: Contemporary Tibetan Artists at Home and Abroad
Exhibit - Painting | October 3, 2018	– May 26, 2019 every day | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Featuring works by internationally renowned contemporary Tibetan artists alongside rare historical pieces, this exhibition highlights the ways these artists explore the infinite possibilities of visual forms to reflect their transcultural, multilingual, and translocal lives. Though living and working in different geographical areas—Lhasa, Dharamsala, Kathmandu, New York, and the Bay Area—the... More >
Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein
Exhibit - Painting | November 7, 2018	– March 3, 2019 every day | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In the early twentieth century, inspired by modern science such as Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, an emerging avant-garde movement sought to expand the "dimensionality" of modern art, engaging with theoretical concepts of time and space to advance bold new forms of creative expression. Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein illuminates the remarkable connections between the... More >
Art Wall: Barbara Stauffacher Solomon
Exhibit - Painting | August 15, 2018	– March 3, 2019 every day | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The 1960s architectural phenomenon Supergraphics—a mix of Swiss Modernism and West Coast Pop—was pioneered by San Francisco–based artist, graphic and landscape designer, and writer Barbara Stauffacher Solomon. Stauffacher Solomon, a UC Berkeley alumna, is creating new Supergraphics for BAMPFA's Art Wall. Land(e)scape 2018 is the fifth in a series of temporary, site-specific works commissioned for... More >
Ink, Paper, Silk: One Hundred Years of Collecting Japanese Art
Exhibit - Painting | December 12, 2018	– April 14, 2019 every day | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAMPFA's Japanese art collection began in 1919 with a remarkable donation of more than a thousand woodblock prints from the estate of UC Berkeley Professor of English William Dallam Armes. This exhibition features a selection of these exceptional prints, as well as hanging scroll paintings, screens, lacquerware, and ceramics that have entered the collection over the century since this... More >
Arthur Jafa / MATRIX 272
Exhibit - Multimedia | December 12, 2018	– March 24, 2019 every day | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Arthur Jafa is an artist, director, editor, and award-winning cinematographer whose poignant work expands the concept of black cinema while exploring African American experience and race relations in everyday life. He has stated, "I have a very simple mantra and it's this: I want to make black cinema with the power, beauty, and alienation of black music." In his renowned work Love Is The Message,... More >
Get Dancin': Selections from the Collection
Exhibit - Photography | January 9	– March 31, 2019 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The exuberance, romance, and beauty of dance are central themes in this exhibition of historical and contemporary works from BAMPFA's collection. The selection is wide ranging, including prints, drawings, and photographs from the United States, Europe, and Asia. Among the highlights are two classic photographs of José Limón and Martha Graham by Barbara Morgan; George Bellows's raucous image Dance... More >
Masako Miki / MATRIX 273
Exhibit - Sculpture | January 9	– April 28, 2019 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Masako Miki was born in Japan but has made the Bay Area, and Berkeley in particular, her home for more than twenty years. In her work she remains close to her ancestral traditions, especially those that arise from her association with Buddhist and Shinto beliefs and practices, as well as traditional Japanese folklore. Her current work, she says, is "inspired by the idea of animism from the Shinto... More >
Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction
Exhibit - Painting | February 27	– July 21, 2019 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Bringing together nearly seventy works spanning the entirety of the artist's career, this exhibition presents a fresh and eye-opening examination of Hans Hofmann's prolific and innovative artistic practice. Featuring paintings and works on paper from 1930 through the end of Hofmann's life in 1966, the exhibition includes numerous masterworks from BAMPFA's distinguished collection as well as many... More >
Well Played! The Math and Science of Improving Your Game
Exhibit - Multimedia | November 17, 2018	– May 18, 2019 every day | Lawrence Hall of Science
You don't have to be a pro to know that math and science can help improve your game. In our exhibit, Well Played!, you can experiment with force, angles, and trajectory to get the highest scores you can with classic arcade games such as Skeeball, Pinball, and Basketball.
Want to improve your score? Try our interactive exhibits on the math and science behind force and trajectory, and then head... More >
The Book as Place: Visions of the Built Environment
Exhibit - Artifacts | January 28	– May 17, 2019 every day | Wurster Hall, Environmental Design Library, 210 Wurster Hall
This exhibition of artists' books centers on ideas about the built environment and has been curated by Berkeley-based book artist Julie Chen for UC Berkeley's Environmental Design Library. Featuring works by 25 artists including Robbin Ami Silverberg, Clifton Meador, Inge Bruggeman, Karen Kunc, Sarah Bryant and Barbara Tetenbaum, the exhibition explores the built environment through text, image,... More >
Exhibit - Artifacts | January 15	– May 17, 2019 every day | 210 Wurster Hall
Sponsor: Environmental Design, College of
This exhibition of artists books centers on ideas about the built environment, curated by Berkeley-based book artist Julie Chen for CEDs Environmental Design Library.
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In the pantheon of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artists who represent Mexico and Mexican art, the artwork of José Guadalupe Posada stands out as a bright constellation that continues to shine a light on important stories through woodcuts, imprints, and engravings. This exhibition was created using the books from the collections of the Doe Library. The exhibition is envisioned... More >
Aaron Marcus: Early Works
Exhibit - Multimedia | February 6	– June 30, 2019 every day | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Educated in physics, mathematics, and philosophy at Princeton University and trained in graphic design at Yale, Berkeley-based Aaron Marcus explores new possibilities for expression. He created his first "computer-assisted poem-drawings" in the spring of 1972, when he served as a research associate at Yale University's School of Art and Architecture. Using standard typographical symbols, Marcus... More >
Exhibit - Artifacts | April 16, 2018	– February 28, 2019 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 8 a.m.-5 p.m. | Bancroft Library, 2nd Floor Corridor
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.
Facing West 1: Camera Portraits from the Bancroft Collection
Exhibit - Photography | November 9, 2018	– March 15, 2019 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | Bancroft Library
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... More >
Facing West: Camera Portraits from the Bancroft Collection
Exhibit - Photography | November 29, 2018	– March 15, 2019 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | Bancroft Library, Bancroft Gallery
Sponsor: Human Resources
Pièces de Résistance: Echoes of Judaea Capta From Ancient Coins to Modern Art
Exhibit - Multimedia | January 29	– June 28, 2019 every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 11 a.m.-4 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Sponsor: Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
This exhibition will be continuing in Spring 2019.
Notions of resistance, alongside fears and realities of oppression, resound throughout Jewish history. As a minority, Jews express their political aspirations, ideals of heroism, and yearnings of retaliation and redemption in their rituals, art, and everyday life.
Centering on coins in The Magnes Collection, this exhibition explores how... More >
Project "Holy Land": Yaakov Benor-Kalter's Photographs of British Mandate Palestine, 1923-1940
Exhibit - Photography | January 29	– June 28, 2019 every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 11 a.m.-4:05 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
For nearly two decades, Yaakov (Jacob) Benor-Kalter (1897-1969) traversed the Old City of Jerusalem, documenting renowned historical monuments, ambiguous subjects in familiar alleyways, and scores of "new Jews" building a new homeland. Benor-Kalter's photographs smoothly oscillate between two worlds, and two Holy Lands, with one lens.
After immigrating from Poland to the British Mandate of... More >
The Worlds of Arthur Szyk: The Taube Family Arthur Szyk Collection
Exhibit - Painting | January 29	– June 28, 2019 every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 11 a.m.-4 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Auditorium installation of high-resolution images of select collection items.
Acquired by The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life in 2017 thanks to an unprecedented gift from Taube Philanthropies, the most significant collection of works by Arthur Szyk (Łódź, Poland, 1894 – New Canaan, Connecticut, 1951) is now available to the world in a public institution for the first time as... More >
Memory Objects: Judaica Collections, Global Migrations
Exhibit - Artifacts | February 26	– June 28, 2019 every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 11 a.m.-4 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
The First World War (1914-1918) uprooted millions across Europe, and beyond. Many Jews left Eastern and Southern Europe, bringing with them prized personal and communal belongings. In an attempt to rescue precious heritage from imminent destruction, these "memory objects" often ended up with museums, collectors, and art dealers in the West.
Vision+Light: Processing Perception
Exhibit - Multimedia | February 20	– March 14, 2019 every day with exceptions | 12-5 p.m. | Kroeber Hall, Worth Ryder Art Gallery
Sponsor: Science@Cal
This acclaimed program returns for its sixth, and to date most varied and provocative exhibition of the convergence of science and art.
Presenting artwork and installations across a range of media and technologies, Vision + Light: Processing Perception offers stunning visual, mind-bending virtual, and intriguing tactile experiences to spark thought and inspiration.