Dear Human at Future’s Edge: Science, Creativity and Climate Futures Conference
“Dear Human at Future’s Edge: Science, Creativity and Climate Futures” is a conference focused on the intersection of climate science, ecopoetry, and the arts...
Fascism: An Eternal Recurrence?
Thursday, February 1, 2024 | 5 - 7 PM | 370 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley, CA
The term "fascism" has returned to our political vocabulary. The practices of modern authoritarian regimes, such as Putin’s Russia, and right-wing populist movements in the Western world are often referred to as fascist (or neo-fascist). However, in many cases, the use of this term is polemical and poorly correlated with social theory...
A Conversation With Kim Stanley Robinson | Ministry for the Future and the Climate Crisis
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 | 4 - 6:30 PM | Brower Center, Berkeley, CA
Kim Stanley Robinson is the award-winning author of 22 novels and numerous short stories exploring themes of ecological sustainability, economic and social justice, global politics, and big science.
Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism: Race and Gender in Our Times
February 10, 2024 | BAMPFA
The UC Berkeley Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry, the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will host a daylong exploration of the theme "Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism: Race and Gender in our Times," funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In our times, contemporary authoritarian power is invested in promoting ideals of whiteness, patriarchy, and biological reductionism, circulating phantasms of gender and race to incite fear and hatred. The day's events explore what a powerful counter-imaginary might...
Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism: Race and Gender in Our Times | Toward a Counter-Imaginary: A Conversation with Angela Davis and Isaac Julien, moderated by Judith Butler
Tuesday, February 13, 2024 | 5 - 7 PM | Brower Center, Berkeley, CA
Speaker: Angela Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of California, Santa Cruz
Speaker: Isaac Julien, Filmmaker and Installation Artist
The Neofascist Moment of Neoliberalism: Illiberal France and Beyond
Tuesday, October 17, 2023 | 5 PM - 7 PM | Geballe Room, Townsend Center, UC Berkeley
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 and transnational perspective. He has been central to dialogues between France and the United States on these questions. A professor of Sociology at Paris 8, he is also Researcher at the Laboratory of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Fassin is a sociologue engagé or “committed sociologist” whose many books...
Demos Anxiety: 'Great Replacement' Theory and Democracy
October 20, 2023 | Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall
Demos Anxiety: “Great Replacement” Theory and Democracy is a daylong symposium that gathers scholars from a range of disciplines (literature, sociology, law) to reflect on conspiracy theories about population replacement. Despite its extremism, “The Great Replacement” theory has worked its way into mainstream political discourses about race, immigration, and religious difference. A driving force behind attacks from Charlottesville, VA to Christchurch, New Zealand, replacement theory’s demographic anxieties are...
Elements: A Symposium
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 made it urgent to address the ways in which these elements might inform our analyses of bio- and necropolitics, while helping us imagine alternative relationalities.
Migrancy and Narratibility: Precarious Subjects on the Move between Law and Literature, a talk by Laura Zander
Wednesday April 12, 2023 | 5 - 6:30 pm | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
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 response from Dr. Munir Jiwa (Associate Professor, and Director of the Center for Islamic Studies, Graduate Theological Union)
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 a recent article, the anthropologist Eduardo Kohn argues for an attunement to psychedelic – or “mind-manifesting” – shapes and forms as...
Who Makes the Earth Habitable? From a Metaphysics of Production to a Metaphysics of Alliance, a talk by Baptiste Morizot
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 Alliance
Borders and Crossings: Contemporary Arts and Techniques of Migration
CICI's inaugural symposium: Borders and Crossings: Contemporary Arts and Techniques of Migration took place March 10-11, 2023, at the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley.
Borders are marked by fences and walls, but also by technologies, laws, imperial histories of sovereignty and nation states. Borders divide and partition spaces, as visible barriers and as invisible techniques of classification and control, yet their thresholds are also routinely breached, renegotiated, or reimagined by unruly subjects, by...