In an age of aggressive partisanship and escalating political hostility, the concept of empathy has re-emerged as both a locus of political hope and an object of critical interrogation with regard to its political utility. This conference invites graduate students and early-career faculty to reconceptualize empathy and other potentially political affects not...
The Center for Interdisicplinary Critical Inquiry welcomed scholars from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich to the UC Berkeley campus October 3 -4, 2025. The LMU visitors joined UC Berkeley scholars as presenters during the LMU - UCB Emerging Scholars Conference titled, "Revisiting Empathy: Political Affects in Times of Cruelty." Presentations explored the concept of empathy through an interdisciplinary lens, with speakers representing programs in philosophy, ethnic studies, Art, American studies, German, French, English, and more.
Miles Drawdy is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation explores the braided histories of disability, aesthetics, and performance in seventeenth-century England as embodied by the figure of the ugly actor. Before arriving at Berkeley, he earned an M.A. in Shakespeare Studies from King's College London.
Micah Dubreuil
Micah Dubreuil is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His research...
The LMU-UCB Research in the Humanities exchange program with Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich facilitates academic exchange of faculty members, graduate students, and postdocs through visiting appointments, conferences, and workshops. The program, which is coordinated at UC Berkeley by the Center for...
The LMU-UCB Research in the Humanities exchange program with Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich facilitates academic exchange of faculty members, graduate students, and postdocs through visiting appointments, conferences, and workshops. The program, which is coordinated at UC Berkeley by the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry, was the focus of a conference on “The Future of the Humanities” last week in Munich. The program will announce its call for applications for the 2026 calendar year in February 2025.
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 Humanities. We facilitate academic exchange of faculty members, graduate students, and postdocs through visiting professorships, conferences, and workshops. In addition to departments, e.g., Faculty of Languages and Literatures, please note interdisciplinary and collaborative research centers at LMU...
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