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Set in the remote San Luis Valley of Colorado, Mud Frontier: Architecture at the Borderlands is a feature-length documentary film that follows design studio Rael San Fratello’s experimentation with 3D-printing technology and traditional adobe architecture, presented by Cooper Hewitt,...Read more about Feature-length documentary 'Mud Frontier' follows Art Practice Chair Ronald Rael's Architecture at the Borderlands

In 1971, Her Majesty Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands visited the UC Berkeley campus in honor of the founding of the first Dutch Studies program in the United States. She created the Princess Beatrix Chair of Dutch Language, Literature and Culture — later renamed the Queen...Read more about Donors honor Professor Emeritus Johan Snapper through new endowment for Dutch Studies

A tradition that began in 1944 of Dutch royalty visiting UC Berkeley continued today with a visit to campus by Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands. She was accompanied by Robbert Dijkgraaf, the Dutch minister of education, culture and science, who announced the launch of the Dutch...Read more about Dutch Studies Program hosts visit from Queen Máxima of the Netherlands for launch of Global Research Network

Selby Wynn Schwartz's debut novel... After Sappho has been longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize! The judges write: "A poetic patchwork of fragments of literary history that together...Read more about Selby Wynn Schwartz's (Comp Lit '05) book 'After Sappho' has been longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize

On a sunny afternoon in November 2020, in front of Sweet Adeline Bakery in south Berkeley, Susan Moffat came upon a string quartet.

“Their playing was spectacular,” said Moffat, creative director of Future Histories Lab...Read more about Angel Island arts project explores immigration, architectures of incarceration

Art Practice professor Stephanie Syjuco's current exhibition Stephanie Syjuco: Double Vision reconsiders mythologies of the American West and reveals how these works and their presentation within a museum can perpetuate colonial lore. Double Vision creates an expansive...Read more about Art Practice professor Stephanie Syjuco's current exhibition 'Double Vision' reconsiders mythologies of the American West

Linda Kinstler's (Rhetoric PhD Candidate) new book Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends, published by...Read more about Rhetoric Ph.D. candidate Linda's Kinstler's new book 'Come to this Court and Cry' receives international praise

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Associate Professor Poulomi Saha, English Department, dives deep into how Indian spirituality is ingrained into early American history. Professor Poulomi Saha, a scholar of...Read more about TEDxBerkeley: Poulomi Saha on Indian Spirituality at the Heart of the Early American Republic

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The Division of Arts and Humanities at UC Berkeley is pleased to announce the appointment of Debarati Sanyal as director of the Consortium for...Read more about Debarati Sanyal appointed as new director of the Consortium for Interdisciplinary Research at UC Berkeley

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For a quarter century, ...Read more about PBS: Art Practice Chair Ronald Rael on Restoring one of Colorado’s most endangered places

None Like Us, By Stephen Best

The literary critic Stephen Best begins his 2018 book, “None Like Us,” in notice of a “communitarian impulse” in Black studies. “It announces itself in the assumption that in writing about the black...Read more about The New Yorker: "None Like Us" by Stephen Best makes the "What We're Reading This Summer" List

"I plan to graduate in spring 2023, and my honors thesis is about language discourse and colonialism. This topic has been inspired by all the critical theory courses I have been able to take at Berkeley that have allowed me to make tangible connections between the lived realities I take with me...Read more about Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow des marie jackson: ‘Find purpose by staying centered in your passions’

The Division of Arts & Humanities at UC Berkeley is pleased to announce Professor Stephen Best as the new director of the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley, effective July 1, 2022.

Stephen is professor in the department of English, holds...Read more about Stephen Best Appointed as New Director of the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley

The course was part of the program New Strategies for the Humanities at Berkeley, a Mellon Foundation grant housed in the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry (CICI) under the Division of Arts & Humanities. It was also designated as a course in the Course...Read more about Students build earthen ovens using inflatable molds, learn about colonialism, food studies, sustainability