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The Department of Art Practice within the Division of Arts & Humanities is celebrating its 100th anniversary. The department’s two-year MFA program, which supports on average a dozen graduate students, is also welcoming its 100th MFA class this fall...Read more about The Department of Art Practice Celebrates 100 Years at Berkeley

Marié Abe, Department of Music...Read more about 16 New Faculty Join the Division of Arts & Humanities for Fall 2023

On July 1, 2023, the Division of the Arts & Humanities welcomed new chairs and directors for 12 departments, centers, and programs:

...Read more about Arts & Humanities Welcomes 12 New Chairs and Directors for Fall 2023

The Division of Arts & Humanities at UC Berkeley is pleased to announce Professor Poulomi Saha as the new co-director of the Critical Theory program at UC Berkeley, effective July 1, 2023....Read more about Poulomi Saha will be Co-Director of the Critical Theory Program

This July, the Department of Art Practice hosted its first Summer Abroad course in the coastal city of Eleusis, Greece. For four weeks, a group of 21 Cal students lived in Eleusis while participating in a summer Art 160 course called “...Read more about Art Practice Summer Abroad visits the coastal city of Eleusis, Greece

We are very proud to publish “Fury and Justice in the Humanities” by Judith Butler in the new issue of Classical Antiquity. The boldest and most compelling thinker, the most influential and...Read more about UC Press Blog: Judith Butler Explores Fury and Justice in the Humanities

Early into his tenure as chancellor, Clark Kerr had a realization: Berkeley’s humanities were in crisis.

He’d had suspicions, as a graduate student and then a faculty member. But a few years after he became chancellor in 1952, an exchange with a visiting professor confirmed...Read more about California Magazine: Berkeley Bucks the Trend in Humanities

What can 16th-century India teach us about 21st-century California? Sugata Ray’s book Climate Change and the Art of Devotion explores the impacts of climate change on art, architecture, and religion in...Read more about Sugata Ray’s book 'Climate Change and the Art of Devotion' explores the impacts of climate change

Linda Kinstler always knew growing up that her Latvian grandfather had mysteriously disappeared after World War II. But she didn’t think much about it.

“That was a very common fate from this part of the world,” says Kinstler, a Ph.D. candidate in rhetoric at UC Berkeley. “It didn’t strike...Read more about How the Holocaust ends — an interview with Rhetoric PhD Candidate and author Linda Kinstler

Each year, nine seniors in the Department of Art Practice are selected to receive an honors studio for their final semester. Each student receives their own studio space with 24/7 access. The studio space allows students to work on longer-term projects and explore new mediums alongside their...Read more about From the Yankton Reservation to California, Ruby Jay traces their family history in final installation at Art Practice

The Institute for Citizens & Scholars has named 21 Fellows to the 2023 class of the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.

The...Read more about Italian Studies PhD candidate Sean Wyer awarded a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

Benjamin Coleman has always loved being on a team.

The UC Berkeley senior, one of more than 10,000 graduating students walking in...Read more about From athlete to advocate: English Grad gives newcomers a sporting chance

Each year, nine seniors in the Department of Art Practice are selected to receive an honors studio for their final semester. Each student receives their own studio space with 24/7 access. The studio space allows students to work on longer-term projects and explore new mediums alongside their...Read more about Armaan Mumtaz interprets spiritual duality through drawing and installation in his Honors Studio

Most members of the University of California, Berkeley’s Class of 2023 will always remember a stressful and disappointing two-year stretch, when the pandemic forced classes online at the end of their first year on campus.

But for graduating senior Catherine “Catey” Vera, those online...Read more about Top graduating senior credits French professor Debarati Sanyal for her interest in human rights advocacy

Each year, nine seniors in the Department of Art Practice are selected to receive an honors studio for their final semester. Each student receives their own studio space with 24/7 access. The studio space allows students to work on longer-term projects and explore new mediums alongside their...Read more about How Art Practice honors student Jacob Li Rosenberg is resurfacing family history to honor his Bay Area roots

It’s a Tuesday morning at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), and Samuel Wildman is covering the wall of an art gallery with night-lights. At a glance, these objects could be mistaken for mass-produced lights from...Read more about Exhibit of emerging UC Berkeley artists’ work opens May 10 at BAMPFA

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has announced its inaugural cohort of 2023 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellows, funded by the Mellon Foundation. Alan Yeh, UC Berkeley doctoral candidate in the Department of French, is one of the 45 fellowship recipients...Read more about Department of French Doctoral Candidate Alan Yeh Selected as 2023 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellow

When Alice Xie moved from China to California as a teenager, she experienced major culture shock. She understood the words people spoke, but conversations were still hard to follow. She often felt isolated and underestimated.

Through art, Xie found a way to explore and communicate about...Read more about How art history and statistics helped a graduating student understand herself

Umair Khan’s mission in life, it seems, is to help budding entrepreneurs. “At Folio3 Software, I help entrepreneurs build out their products. At Mentors Fund, I invest in entrepreneurs. At Berkeley, I teach entrepreneurs. And at...Read more about Arts & Humanities offers entrepreneurship for all: Umair Khan

The Division of Arts & Humanities at UC Berkeley is pleased to welcome professor Zamansele Nsele as of Jan. 1, 2023. Nsele is an assistant professor in the History of Art Department, where she specializes in modern and contemporary African &...Read more about Interview: Zamansele Nsele, Assistant Professor, Modern and Contemporary African & African Diasporic Art