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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

The Program in Critical Theory is pleased to announce that Nivedita Menon will visit UC Berkeley during the fall 2023 semester. Please join us the week of November 12 to hear Menon speak at a variety of events on Berkeley’s campus....Read more about The Program in Critical Theory Welcomes Scholar in Residence, Nivedita Menon

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

Please join us for an evening lecture presented by Eric Fassin, one of France’s leading and widely-translated intellectuals. Fassin’s work focuses on race, gender, sexuality, and immigration in a comparative...Read more about 10/17 | The Neofascist Moment of Neoliberalism: Illiberal France and Beyond

Dear CICI community,


We are delighted to announce our annual symposium, Demos Anxiety: “Great Replacement” Theory and Democracy. The event will take place on October 20, 2023, in the Maude Fife Room at UC Berkeley.

Demos Anxiety: “Great Replacement” Theory and...Read more about Announcing our annual symposium, "Demos Anxiety: 'Great Replacement' Theory and Democracy"

Friday, October 6, 2023 | 10 am – 5 pm
3335 Dwinelle Hall

The study of elements (air, water, and land) is at the center of intersecting discourses (posthuman and anticolonial) in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Climate change and the COVID pandemic have...Read more about 10/6 | Elements: A Symposium

Please join us for a talk by Laura Zander, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Collaborative Research Centre “Law and Literature” at the University of Muenster. The talk will be moderated by Dr. Devin Zuber (Associate Professor, Graduate Theological Union), with a...Read more about 4/12 | Talk by Laura Zander | "Migrancy and Narratibility: Precarious Subjects on the Move between Law and Literature"

Please join us for Forms of Psychedelic Life: An Interdisciplinary Conference Exploring the Intersections of Aesthetics, Ethics, Religion, and Altered States

April 12-15, 2023

UC Berkeley

Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary

In...Read more about April 12-15 | Forms of Psychedelic Life: An Interdisciplinary Conference Exploring the Intersections of Aesthetics, Ethics, Religion, and Altered States

Please join us for a talk by Baptiste Morizot, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Aix-Marseille.

Friday March 3, 2023, 1 pm

3335 Dwinelle Hall

Who Makes the Earth Habitable? From a Metaphysics of Production to a Metaphysics of AllianceRead more about 3/3 | Talk by Baptiste Morizot | "Who Makes the Earth Habitable? From a Metaphysics of Production to a Metaphysics of Alliance"

Refuge at Risk: Concepts, Infrastructures, Futures

In 1943, Hannah Arendt, who had arrived in New York two years earlier, published “We Refugees” in a small Jewish journal called Menorah. Merging satire, memoir, and manifesto, Arendt’s essay both railed...Read more about University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) Conference, February 16-17, 2023 | Refuge at Risk: Concepts, Infrastructures, Futures

Dear CICI community,

We are delighted to announce our inaugural symposium: Borders and Crossings: Contemporary Arts and Techniques of Migration. The event will take place March 10-11, 2023, at the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley....Read more about Announcing our inaugural symposium, "Borders and Crossings: Contemporary Arts and Techniques of Migration"

The Designated Emphasis in the Study of Religion (DESR) is pleased to announce our spring 2023 courses that count towards the core and elective requirements for the DE. These courses reflect the interdisciplinary breadth of the DESR, with core and elective options in South & Southeast Asian...Read more about DESR Spring 2023 Courses Announced

The Program in Critical Theory will support four Designated Emphasis students’ dissertation projects in 2022–2023. Kevin Stone and Saniya Taher will receive semester-long Critical Theory...Read more about Critical Theory Dissertation Awards Support Graduate Research