EAHI Entanglement Series

Planting Disabled Futures

January 14 - 16, 2026
Bauer Wurster Hall, Room 108

Step into Planting Disabled Futures, a queercrip intimacy installation facilitated by Petra Kuppers, a disability culture activist, writer, educator, and community performance artist. This multisensory experience centers healing plants grown through disabled peoples’ embodied ways of knowing. Featuring live performance, soft critters, projections, and a participatory dream journey with some VR headset use, the installation explores how disabled bodymindspirits cultivate non-extractive intimacy, even amid pain, climate crisis, and ongoing COVID world. Gather with us for an accessible, collective ritual of crip joy, care, and connection with plant elders.

For more information on Petra and the Planting Disabled Futures project: www.petrakuppers.com/planting-disabled-futures 

Presented by the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Department.

Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power

January 28, 2026 
5 - 7 PM
44B Dwinelle Hall

In this book talk, climate change media researcher and educator Hanna Morris discusses her new book, Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power. Drawing on critical cultural analysis and diverse U.S. news media sources, Morris explores how post‑2016 national anxieties have shaped climate coverage in ways that foster a reactionary political paradigm she labels “apocalyptic authoritarianism”. Her book calls for more robust forms of climate journalism and politics capable of facilitating radically democratic responses to climate change. 

For more information on Hanna: www.hannamorris.com   

Co-presented by the Environmental Science, Policy, and Management Department and the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s grant for the initiative ‘A Counter-Imaginary in Authoritarian Times’.

Native Seas: Students and Relatives of Papa Mau Visit the Bay Area

March 9 - 13, 2026

A week-long educational program curated by Sophia Perez, Indigenous Technologies coordinator and UC Berkeley PhD, and coordinated in collaboration with the Critical Pacific Islands Studies Collective (CPISC) and the Pacific Islander (PI) Initiative, that will bring several traditional navigators, including students and relatives of Papa Mau Piailug, from the Northern Mariana islands to the Bay Area. These distinguished navigation teachers will be traveling from across the Pacific, representing the only two remaining schools of traditional Pacific navigation and carrying forward ancient knowledge systems that have guided oceanic travel for centuries without modern instruments. As teachers, their work is foundational to keeping the ancient art of traditional navigation alive, and they will be visiting UC Berkeley to foster intellectual exchange and create visibility for Pacific Islander and Indigenous communities. (Learn More)

Presented by the Berkeley Center for New Media

History of Art Stoddard Lecture
Murmurations: Lines of Flight between Omnicide, Groundwork and Communism
Nicholas D. Mirzoeff

March 12, 2026
5 PM
Doe Library, 308A

Settler colonialism has always envisaged, erased and extracted land from a single viewpoint in the air, whether that of perspective or the drone. In this presentation, I anticipate that I will think about how to activate and salvage the visible in the time of omnicide from the air. Such activation first enables the common recognition that sustains solidarity. That then allows us to map time-space by means of what I have called “groundwork,” the (re)formation of common ground from what has been made into terra nullius (nothing land). From such ground, a line of flight can be drawn into the air, so as to assemble in murmurations, the spontaneous assemblage of birds. The murmuration’s way of seeing, an other-than-human model for human freedom, is a four-dimensional non-hierarchical convivial democracy.

Presented by the History of Art Department, the Mary C. Stoddard Lecture Fund

Workshop:
Monet's Ecology: A Dialogue with Nicholas D. Mirzoeff

March 13, 2026
5 PM
Location TBD

Space is limited. For more information please contact info.eahi@berkeley.edu.

Presented by the Environmental Arts and Humanities Initiative.

POSTPONED
The History of Art 2025-2026 Lecture Series ‘The Idea of Landscape’.
Edging Closer: The Pacific Tidal Art of Disappearance and Sensual Resurgence

April 16, 2026 
5 - 7 PM
Doe Library, 308A

In the afterlives of the colonial Anthropocene, what histories of loss, disappearance, and extinction are remembered through the cuir femme ecological arts of resurgence? Join Macarena Gómez-Barris as she discusses how we might theorize decolonial representation as working towards a politics of and critical solidarity with Indigenous cultural memory, anti-extractive media, and the domain of the sensual to imagine the not yet end of a planetary future. Professor Shannon Jackson will serve as respondent.

Co-sponsored by Mary C. Stoddard Lecture Fund, History of Art Department.

Eco-Performance Lab: Earth Day Festival

April 22, 2026 
Noon - 1:30 PM and 5 - 7 PM
Memorial Glade

Celebrate Earth Day 2026 with an afternoon of performance activations on Memorial Glade. At noon, join a Planetary Dance led by members of choreographer Anna Halprin’s circle; everyone is invited to participate in this communal movement ritual devoted to peace among peoples and peace with the Earth. The festival continues with an evening program starting at 5 pm featuring theater, dance, spoken word, and music presented by the Eco-Performance Lab, a new ensemble dedicated to contributing symbolic, expressive, and emotional communication to societal conversations and campus dialogues about the ecological emergency.

Co-presented by the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Department.

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