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.
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July 29, 2022
July 26, 2022
KQED Forum for NPR
Podcast: Featuring Roxane Gay, Judith Butler, Susan Davis, Hosted by Mina Kim
July 21, 2022
We’re thrilled to share that SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) will be offering free museum admission to our employees and students during the run of the upcoming exhibition, Diego Rivera’s America. UC Berkeley’s classic Rivera fresco painting ‘Still Life and Blossoming Almond Trees’ is included as part of this showcase.
July 18, 2022
Current Occupation: Social Media Manager at UC Office of the President
"Majoring in art history prepared me in a multitude of ways but I think the biggest way was that I learned to be a better communicator—both as a writer and just as a person."
Current Occupation: Consultant at Accenture
"What you learn is more than just the facts and details, it's really understanding a way of thinking and empathy... my experience in an Arts & Humanities major has helped me with my analytical skills and critical thinking in the work I do."
July 11, 2022
The New Yorker
None Like Us, By Stephen Best
July 1, 2022
Current Profession: School Counselor at Dixon Unified School District
"Being an English major taught me to listen (read) with intense focus, to look out for unreliable narrators, to notice symbolism, to point out patterns. All of this is crucial when providing a student or their family with counseling."
Current Occupation: Marketing Coordinator at Kaiser Permanente
"I am using my skills in writing and critical analysis to manage national recruitment campaigns to support hospitals taking care of patients across Northern California. Majoring in Rhetoric gave me the skills needed to think about the influence my work will have on a global level and apply the skills I gained knowing that I'm making a difference in the world."
Current Occupation: Prospect Researcher at UC Berkeley
Looking back on my time in the history of art department, being constantly pushed to examine works with a critical eye and write in a critical voice provided me with one of the strongest foundations in becoming a researcher."
June 30, 2022
Berkeley News
"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 from my hometown and the patterns of oppression that persist in other rural areas in California.
June 21, 2022
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 a courtesy appointment in the department of Film and Media, and is a member of the Critical Theory designated emphasis.
June 16, 2022
Irish Times
Associate Professor Catherine Flynn writes for the Irish Times about her newly-published Cambridge Centenary Ulysses, a facsimile edition of the historic 1922 Shakespeare and Company text featuring James Joyce's own errata as well as references to later amendments, along with maps, photographs, and footnotes, and an essay by leading Joyce scholars.
June 6, 2022
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 Threads program under the Environment and Humanities.
May 25, 2022
Light the Way Campaign
William Rogers (Rhetoric '91), CEO of Goodwill San Francisco Bay, was honored with the 2022 Peter E. Haas Public Service Award for his extraordinary seventeen-year career serving the public good. His work for the City of Berkeley’s departments of public health and parks and recreation has deepened and enhanced resources for Berkeley’s elders, for at-risk youth, for those struggling with HIV and economic hardship, and for those who simply want to enjoy the city’s public spaces. Learn more about Rogers’s story by watching the video below, prepared by Berkeley’s Light the Way.
May 20, 2022
Berkeley Language Center
It has been a busy year for the Berkeley Language Center (BLC) community as we returned to campus and were finally able to join together again in person. We welcomed new faces and said goodbye to dear friends and colleagues, and resumed events previously on hold due to COVID while expanding our programming in exciting ways. Here we highlight some of these amazing events and people and we celebrate this community.
Go to the BLC website to read the full year in review.
Berkeley News
This Sunday, May 22, marks the in-person return of Breath of Life to the Berkeley campus. Now in its 27th year, it was last held at Berkeley in 2018. It moved online in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Berkeley News
In Berkeley Talks episode 141(link is external), a panel of scholars discuss the work of Roman Vishniac, a renowned Russian American photographer who took thousands of photos over seven decades and across three continents.
May 19, 2022
Hilton Als, celebrated writer, theater critic, and Teaching Professor in the UC Berkeley Department of English, has been announced as a recipient of the 2022 Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing.
Department of Rhetoric Ph.D. Candidate Linda Kinstler has been awarded the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.
May 11, 2022
Berkeley Language Center
The Berkeley Language Center announces the winners of its undergraduate contest, "Exploring the Boundaries of Translation."
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