News & Announcements

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 Ecology.” 

Friday, November 15, 3:00 - 5:00 PM at 370 Dwinelle Hall.

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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 https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times.

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 faculty director. With that in mind, we’d like to invite you into conversation so that we can hear more from you, learn more about your research interests, and evolve platforms and projects that will serve a wide range of faculty and graduate students. 

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 Building)

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, and so forth. The purpose of the working groups is to offer graduate students of religion a supportive interdisciplinary community with which to share work, discuss readings, and meet religion scholars.

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The Department of Rhetoric and The Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry present a two-day conference, "Jean-Luc Nancy: Antiquity and Beyond." The program will take place September 13 and 14, 2024. 

Judith Butler appeared on City Arts and Lectures on June 13 in conversation with Poulomi Saha. 

The UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics (BCSP) and the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry (CICI) have announced the first cohort of the Psychedelics in Society and Culture program—an initiative aimed at expanding psychedelic research and dialogue across the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

The Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry is thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2024 CICI Summer Research Grants. Join us in congratulating these students as they embark on their research projects.

The Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry is pleased to relaunch the exchange program between University of California, Berkeley and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. This joint program supports innovative international collaborations between UC Berkeley and LMU in the Arts and Humanities. We facilitate academic exchange of faculty members, graduate students, and postdocs through visiting professorships, conferences, and workshops.

The Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry is pleased to announce that select recordings of its annual symposium, Demos Anxiety: "Great Replacement" Theory and Democracy, are now available. To view all recordings of the symposium, find the curated playlist.

On Thursday, February 1, 2024, the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Program in Critical Theory co-presented Fascism: An Eternal Recurrence?, a panel conversation centered on the question: "What is fascism today?". Panelists included Dylan Riley (Sociology, UC Berkeley), Alexei Yurchak (Anthropology, UC Berkeley), Blanca Missé (French, SFSU), and Ilya Budraitskis (Critical Theory, UCB), with moderation by Aglaya Glebova, (European Modern Art, UC Berkeley).

Debarati Sanyal, faculty director at the UC Berkeley Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry, UC Berkeley, and Imran Khan, executive director of the Science of Psychedelics, also at UC Berkeley, speak with Forbes contributor Andrew DeAngelo about "Psychedelics in Society and Culture," a collaborative effort between the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard University to, as Khan puts it, "delve into new areas of essential psychedelic inquiry."

On November 15, the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard University announced a new, collaborative initiative that will expand psychedelic research across the arts, humanities and social sciences.

The Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry (CICI), in collaboration with the Division of Arts and Humanities, invites you to discover a sample of the innovative, cross-disciplinary graduate and undergraduate research projects supported by our first Summer Research Grant. 

Russian social science professors Ilya Matveev and Ilya Budraitskis, renowned for their expertise on authoritarianism, fled their country after Russia invaded Ukraine. A faculty and staff coalition helped give them a safe harbor at UC Berkeley.

Read more here about the tireless work and collaboration that went into welcoming Budraitskis and Matveev to the Program in Critical Theory as faculty members.

Tuesday, October 17 | 5 PM - 7 PM
Geballe Room, Townsend Center, UC Berkeley