News & Events

A new student-curated exhibition in Doe Library’s Brown Gallery showcases artists from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia and their artworks that reflect the complexity of what it means to inherit language.

It was a Sunday morning in fall 2022, and...Read more about Berkeley News: When language comes under pressure

In Fall 2021, Bryce Wallace (’23, English & Linguistics) was still stunned that he had gotten into Cal as a transfer student from Irvine Valley College, when more UC-related honors started pouring in. He has since received the merit-based Sharer and Gilman Scholarships and was...Read more about Transfer Student Bryce Wallace (’23, English & Linguistics) Honored With 2023 Beinecke Scholarship

Matt Jacobson’s loyalty to UC Berkeley began at a young age.

His father, Norman, was a beloved professor who taught political theory at Berkeley for 56 years. Professors and students would drop by their house constantly. Matt recalls his father practicing his lectures...Read more about “Berkeley is my extended family:” Matt & Margaret Jacobson on the virtuous cycle of philanthropy

Rhetoric Department PhD candidate Linda Kinstler has been announced as one of 10 Whitting Award winners on March 29. The prizes are designed to recognize excellence and promise in a spectrum of emerging talent, giving most winners their first chance to devote themselves...Read more about Rhetoric PhD Candidate Linda Kinstler wins 2023 Whiting Award for Nonfiction

You don’t hurriedly approach an Apichatpong Weerasethakul film, or watch one thinking you’ll catch up on text messages and voicemails.

To truly appreciate what’s unfolding, you need to slow down and surrender to the sensory, dream-like experience that the unique, award-winning filmmaker...Read more about Mercury News: Townsend Center is hosting one of the most distinctive filmmakers you’ll ever see

Valeria Luiselli, the Spring 2023 Bedri Distinguished Writer, will deliver a public lecture, “Migration Stories,” on Thursday, April 20th at 5 pm in the Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler).

Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South...Read more about Valeria Luiselli, 2023 Bedri Distinguished Writer, to speak on April 20

On 31 March 1817 the New York legislature decided that enslavement within its borders had to come to an end. Final emancipation would occur on 4 July 1827. Coincidentally, the date of choice was almost exactly two centuries after the...Read more about Sojourner Truth: How the Enslaved Woman of a Dutch-New York Family Became an Icon of America’s Black Liberation Movement

UC Berkeley's Distinguished Teaching Award recognizes individual faculty for sustained excellence in teaching. Beyond an individual exemplary class, such sustained excellence in teaching incites intellectual curiosity in students, inspires colleagues, and makes students aware of significant...Read more about Three A&H Faculty Receive 2023 Distinguished Teaching Awards

Art history students at UC Berkeley are putting their semester-long learning on display this week with Letters | الحروف: How Artists Reimagined Language in the Age of Decolonization — a thought-provoking exhibit opening March 13 in Doe Library’s...Read more about In rare form: Student-curated exhibit at UC Berkeley Library tells story of artists who used Arabic alphabet as elements in postcolonial art

We are proud to share that a number of Art Practice faculty and alumni are included in the prestigious list of awardees for the...Read more about YBCA 100 celebrates several Art Practice faculty and alumni

In Berkeley Talks episode 163, Uwe Westphal, author of the 2019 book,...Read more about Podcast: The rise and destruction of the Jewish fashion industry (The Magnes/Center for Jewish Studies)

Polina Barskova, assistant professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, began...Read more about L&S Interview: Polina Barskova's "Living Pictures" (Slavic Languages and Literatures)

Alan Templeton wants Berkeley students today to have the same opportunities his parents did.

His parents met at Cal. His father David was invited by Glenn Seaborg —whom he had met while working on the...Read more about "The door to a larger world": Alan Templeton on supporting the arts, the humanities, and public universities

Last December, Hannah Weisman became the first executive director hired by UC Berkeley for The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, one of the preeminent Jewish collections in the world. ...Read more about How is The Magnes rethinking its engagement with museum visitors?

Playwright Christopher Chen is a homegrown talent. Hailing from the Sunset District of San Francisco, a neighborhood his family has lived in for generations, he went on to study music composition at UC Berkeley, where he got his...Read more about Sunset Noir: Christopher Chen’s Play Explores the Landscape of the Mind in a San Francisco Setting (California Magazine)

Pulitzer-winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen '92, Ph.D. '97 found at UC Berkeley the intellectual home, identity, and political passion that ultimately led to his creative success.Read more about Viet Thanh Nguyen (English B.A. '92, Ph.D. '97) on finding himself at Berkeley

Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, the two principals of Oakland, California–based design studio Rael San Fratello, aren’t traditional architects....Read more about Metropolis: Rael San Fratello 3D Prints Architecture with a Political Edge

Before she was a chef and an internationally-known cookbook author, Samin Nosrat (B.A. '01) was an English major at Berkeley. She talks about the writing process—and why a day of writing is so hard—in this Freakonomics Radio interview.Read more about Author and alum Samin Nosrat (English '01) on writing and finding a career path

The Robert B. Silvers Foundation today announced art historian T. J. Clark and critic Tausif Noor as the winners of its second annual Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writers. Clark is professor emeritus of art history at the University of California, Berkeley, and most recently the author of...Read more about T.J. Clark and Tausif Noor win 2023 Grace Dudley Prize for Art Writing