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The LMU-UCB Research in the Humanities exchange program with Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich facilitates academic exchange of faculty members, graduate students, and postdocs through visiting appointments, conferences, and workshops. The program, which is coordinated at UC...Read more about LMU-UCB Research in the Humanities: Call for Applications for the 2026 Funding Period

Applications for The Psychedelics in Society and Culture Fellowship (PiSC) Program Due March 16, 2025

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The International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs is pleased to announce the publication of the third issue of volume seven of Critical Times, published by Duke University Press at ...Read more about Announcing Volume 7, Issue 3 of Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory

Dear CICI community,

Welcome to the Spring semester, we hope you’ve had a restorative break. In these turbulent times, I take comfort in the knowledge that we have the analytic and imaginative resources across campus and at CICI to help us navigate the flood...Read more about Welcome Back: Spring 2025

UC Berkeley’s Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry, or CICI, and the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, or ICCTP, received a $2.6 million grant to support a multiyear initiative titled “A Counter-Imaginary in Authoritarian Times.”

Led by campus scholars Judith...Read more about Daily Cal: Campus scholars to lead .6 million “A Counter-Imaginary in Authoritarian Times” initiative

The University of California (UC), Berkeley has received a $2.6 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund a new initiative to confront artistic and academic censorship, the school...Read more about Hyperallergic: UC Berkeley Gets .6M for Project to Counter Arts Censorship

Berkeley, CA — UC Berkeley’s Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry (CICI) and the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs (ICCTP) have been awarded $2.6 million to support a groundbreaking multi-year initiative titled “A Counter-Imaginary in...Read more about UC Berkeley Awarded .6 Million Grant for “A Counter-Imaginary in Authoritarian Times”

The Environmental Arts and Humanities Initiative is pleased to support a new seminar in the department of Theater Arts. Enrollment is now open for Spring 2025:

Ecology Across the Arts and Humanities
Theater Arts 266: Special Topics
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Bodies, Borders, and Infrared Surveillance Technologies

Isabella Faye Williams
Graduate Student, Department of French

Thursday,...Read more about Inaugural Meeting of the Graduate Work-in-Progress Series “New Border Imaginaries in an Age of Security," December 5, 2024

The Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry, the International...Read more about Denise Ferreira da Silva Visits UC Berkeley for Talk, "After It's All Said: Reading Art as Confrontation" on November 7, 2024

The Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry and the Department of Rhetoric welcome Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay for a talk tited, “The Cinema of Negative...Read more about UC Berkeley Welcomes Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay for "The Cinema of Negative Ecology"

The International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs is pleased to announce the publication of the second issue of volume seven of Critical Times, published by Duke University Press at...Read more about Announcing Volume 7, Issue 2 of Critical Times: Interventions in Critical Theory

To our ever-widening EAHI community:

We are excited to renew our commitment to the environmental arts and humanities on the UC Berkeley campus. We thank Linda Rugg and Gregory Levine for their past leadership and look forward to welcoming Shannon Jackson as the new...Read more about Environmental Arts and Humanities Exploratory Session

Presented by the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, Dr. Bradley Onishi joins us for a talk titled, “Project 2025, Christian Nationalism, and November Elections.”

Monday, October 1, 2024, 4 - 5:30 PM at the Social Scient Matrix (820 Social Sciences...Read more about BCSR Welcomes Bradley Onishi for the 2024 Berkeley Lecture on Religious Tolerance

The Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion invites proposals for graduate student working groups focusing on a specific topic in the study of religion—such as ethnographic approaches to religion, African religion, poetry and religion,...Read more about Invitation to Submit Proposals for BCSR Graduate Student Working Groups 2024-2025

On behalf of the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry (CICI), I extend a warm welcome back into the semester. CICI is home to the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion (BCSR), the Program in Critical Theory, the International Consortium of...Read more about Welcome Back from Director Debarati Sanyal