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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

The Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry offers summer research grants of up to $5,000 for interdisciplinary, interdivisional, creative and/or collaborative projects on urgent contemporary issues such as climate change, authoritarianism, race, borders and migration. Students working...Read more about Announcing the 2024 CICI Summer Research Grants

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?"....Read more about Fascism: An Eternal Recurrence Event on February 01, 2024

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 "...Read more about New Research Grants Push Psychedelic Studies Beyond Therapeutics

On Wednesday, January 24, 2024, Kim Stanley Robinson, award-winning author of 22 novels and numerous short stories, visited Berkeley to discuss his fiction with a focus on...Read more about Kim Stanley Robinson Event on January 24, 2024

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. Called “...Read more about UC Berkeley, Harvard, Jointly Launch Study of Psychedelics' Influence on Art, History and Human Existence

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.

...Read more about Highlighting the 2023 CICI Summer Research Grant Recipients

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...Read more about Rescuing dissent: Inside the year-long mission to bring prominent Putin critics to UC Berkeley

On September 10, 2023 the Environmental Arts and Humanities Initiative (EAHI) hosted a very special movie screening of Taming the Garden (2021) directed by...Read more about Film Screening in the Redwood Grove: Taming the Garden with Filmmaker Salomé Jashi