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 Authoritarian Times.”
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 announced on December 20.
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 Authoritarian Times.” Through collaborative workshops, conferences, performances, publications, and a dynamic, open-ended digital platform, this project brings together academics, artists, activists, and other community members to develop concrete strategies, tools, and proposals to create a counter-
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
Tuesdays, 2 - 5 PM
Instructor: Shannon Jackson
Class #: 27557
Learn More and Register
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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 Berkeley by the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry, was the focus of a conference on “The Future of the Humanities” last week in Munich. The program will announce its call for applications for the 2026 calendar year in February 2025.
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.
Guest Speakers:
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.
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.
