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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

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.

This...Read more about Jean-Luc Nancy: Antiquity and Beyond

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

Judith Butler is...Read more about City Arts & Lectures: Judith Butler 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...Read more about Psychedelics in Society and Culture: Announcing the Inaugural Flourish Fellows and Scholars

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...Read more about LMU and UCB Joint Program for Academic Exchange

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...Read more about Symposium recordings available now for Demos Anxiety: "Great Replacement" Theory and Democracy