Linda Kinstler's (Rhetoric PhD Candidate) new book Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends, published by Public Affairs, has received national and international praise since it's publication in the US this August. Read select reviews below:
The Guardian: Come to This Court and Cry by Linda Kinstler review – when Holocaust memories fade
In 2022-2023, UC Berkeley’s Arts + Design Initiative and Future Histories Lab will sponsor a series of music and dance performances, exhibitions, public conversations, and courses using Angel Island’s historic immigration station as a jumping-off point for discussion about race in America, global migration, and architectures of incarceration. We’ll use the arts, design, and historical and landscape interpretation to understand current events and envision better futures.
"What if the centre of history were occupied by what women thought about?"
Selby Wynn Schwartz, author of After Sappho, talks about the influence of Virginia Woolf, writing in the first-person plural and reading ravenously. Schwartz received her Ph.D. in comparative literature at UC Berkeley in 2003.
The Division of the Arts & Humanities announces that Alva Noë will chair the department of Philosophy, as of July 1, 2022. Noë is a philosopher of mind whose research and teaching focus is perception and consciousness, and the philosophy of art.
The Division of the Arts & Humanities announces that Eric Falci will chair the English department, as of July 1, 2022. Falci is a professor in the English department and specializes in Irish and 20th and 21st century British poetry. He will serve as chair following outgoing interim chair and professor Ian Duncan.
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On July 1, 2022, the Division of the Arts & Humanities welcomed new chairs and directors for 10 departments and centers:
The Division of the Arts & Humanities announces that Estelle Tarica will be chair of the department of Spanish & Portuguese, as of July 1, 2022. Tarica is Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures in the department of Spanish and Portuguese and a former chair of the Latin American Studies program. She will serve a three-year term following outgoing chair and professor Michael Iarocci.
The Division of the Arts & Humanities announces that Ronald Rael will be chair of the department of Art Practice, as of July 1, 2022. Rael holds a split appointment as Professor in the College of Environmental Design and in the department of Art Practice. He will serve a three-year term following outgoing chair and professor Al-an deSouza.
SanSan Kwan will chair the department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies as of July 1, 2022. Kwan is Associate Professor and previously served as the department Vice Chair. She will serve a three-year term following outgoing chair and professor Joe Goode.
The Division of the Arts & Humanities announces that James I. Porter will be chair of the department of Rhetoric, as of July 1, 2022. Porter is Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric and Classics as well as the Program in Critical Theory. He will serve a three-year term following outgoing chair and professor Michael Mascuch.
The Division of the Arts & Humanities announces that Robert Ashmore will be chair of the department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, as of July 1, 2022. Ashmore is Associate Professor in the department and specializes in Chinese literature of the third through eleventh centuries. He will serve a three-year term following outgoing chair and professor Andrew Jones.
The Arts Research Center is thrilled to welcome incoming Director Beth Piatote. She will serve as ARC’s faculty director for the next three years and bring her brilliance, creativity, and political commitments to ARC as she continues to showcase how the arts act as vital research. She takes over from ARC’s incredible past Director, Julia Bryan-Wilson, who finished her tenure this summer.
The Division of Arts and Humanities at UC Berkeley is pleased to announce the appointment of Debarati Sanyal as director of the Consortium for Interdisciplinary Research (CIR) effective July 1, 2022.
Sanyal is a professor in the French department and affiliated with Critical Theory, The Center for Race and Gender, and European Studies.
When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was insulted on the Capitol steps in July 2020, it was a brief media sensation. But what does being called an “effing bitch” mean for how we think about political speech?
On the occasion of Professor Stephan Astourian's retirement, the Cal Alumni Association reflects upon the legacy of the Armenian Studies Program at UC Berkeley.