Kim Stanley Robinson talks climate, politics, and the future with Berkeley's Katherine Snyder and Daniel Aldana Cohen. Listen to the recording on Berkeley Talks.
“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. The program will celebrate two recent companion publications: the Fifth National Climate Assessment report, the U.S. Government’s preeminent report on climate change impacts, risks, and responses, and...
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...
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...
During our discussion, we will focus on the question: What is fascism today?
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...
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.
Please join us for a day-long symposium on the elements, with Mario Telò (Organizer; Rhetoric, Comparative Literature,...
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...
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.
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...
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 response from Dr. Munir Jiwa (Associate Professor, and Director of the Center for Islamic Studies, Graduate Theological Union).
Wednesday April 12, 2023, 5 - 6:30 pm
3335 Dwinelle Hall
"Migrancy and Narratibility: Precarious Subjects on the Move between Law...
