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N E W S L E T T E RThe Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities

September 2004

THANKS and WELCOME

In early May the Townsend Center held a festive farewell party for Christina

Gillis, the founding associate director, who retired on June 30. Her many friends

and colleagues thank Tina once again for her numerous contributions to the

Center during fourteen fruitful years on the job and wish her much happiness

and success in her pursuit of a series of longstanding personal interests.

The Center is equally pleased to welcome Matthew Tiews as her successor and

thanks both him and Tina for their efforts to insure a smooth transition. It also thanks the Center staff

for their cooperation and hard work over the summer months.

An accomplished young scholar with a strong track record in administration, Matthew received his

Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford in June 2004 with a dissertation, “Arcana of Modern

Communication: Telegraphy, Cryptography, and Artificial Languages,” that explores the complex

ramifications of the telegraph on the nineteenth century’s experience of language, focusing especially

on the increased interest in manipulating language’s material aspects. His own command of language

is impressive, including near-native French, excellent German and

Russian, and a reading knowledge of Italian and Latin, and his

publications include not only articles on subjects such as archaeology,

modernism, and modernity; and the relationship between telegraphic

cryptography and aestheticist writing; but also various translations from

French and German. In addition to these more formal interests,

Matthew also reads “voraciously and somewhat indiscriminately” and

enjoys attending concerts and acting in plays. (He appeared in both

Samuel Beckett’s Fin de partie and Heiner Muller’s Quartet at Stanford.)

Matthew’s talents as an administrator are equally impressive. They

include six years’ experience administering academic programs at

Stanford, including the Stanford Presidential Lectures and Symposia

Contents

Thanks and Welcome ........ 1

Townsend News &

Program Updates ................ 3

Working Group

Activities ............................. 14

Calendar ............................. 20

Events .................................. 24

Announcements ................ 34

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in the Humanities and Arts, events

programming for the Stanford Humanities

Center, and conference organization for

the Stanford Division of Literatures,

Cultures, and Languages.

He has worked for both the Stanford

Humanities Center and the Stanford

Humanities Laboratory—a recently

founded organization dedicated to

promoting collaborative humanistic

research. Most recently, he has been

Managing Editor of the journal Modernism/

modernity and co–Principal Investigator

of the Stanford Humanities Laboratory

project on Crowds, a collaborative

interdisciplinary study of collectivities in

the modern era.

Among the events in which he was

involved at Stanford, Matthew found

particular satisfaction in the visit of

German choreographer and director

Pina Bausch, which necessitated the

invention of a structure that would allow

her to present her work to a university

audience, but not in the typical lecture

format. (The solution was a public

choreography rehearsal followed by her

own critical assessment of the process in

interview form.) Another especially

satisfying experience was a conference that

he organized with Professor

Sepp Gumbrecht on the concept of

“Emergence.” Here, a series of locally

interdisciplinary conferences was

combined with a “radically inter-

disciplinary” workshop that would bring

together participants from all sectors of the

academic map to focus on a topic of interest

to all of them. The publication of an

ensuing position paper in the Frankfurter

Allgemeine Zeitung and the Folha de Sao

Paulo attests to the success of the event.

Throughout Matthew’s career at Stanford,

he was particularly drawn to challenges

that required a combination of intellectual

and logistical thinking to surmount, and

he expects to find many more such

challenges here. He says that what most

draws him to the Townsend Center is the

broad and ambitious nature of the

programs that the Center offers, coupled

with the opportunity to engage with the

wealth of intellectual resources offered by

the humanities departments at Berkeley.

Coming from Stanford, where the

humanities departments are very small,

Matthew is excited by the prospect of

working with such a large number of

excellent faculty dedicated to the

humanities. In his first few months on

the job, he has been struck by the breadth

and depth of the departments and faculty

—and of the famed UC bureaucracy! We

are once again pleased to have him with

us at the Center.

Candace Slater

Director

Thanks and

welcome

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townsend CENTER NEWs and program updates

There’s a lot going on at the Center thisyear. Along with Director Candace Slater’sreturn from leave and the arrival ofMatthew Tiews as associate director, weare seeing the launch of the GeballeResearch Opportunities for UndergraduatesProgram and the first Townsend/MellonStrategic Working Groups, as well as thefirst year of a full cohort of Townsend/Mellon Discovery Fellows. Not to mentionthe ongoing programs: the InitiativeProgram for Associate Professors, theTownsend Departmental Residencies, andof course the Townsend Fellows Group—now entering its seventeenth year.Following are updates on ourprogramming for 2004–2005.

GROUP

The 2004–2005 academic year sees the firstcourses offered under the Geballe ResearchOpportunities for UndergraduatesProgram (GROUP). This initiative,sponsored by a generous grant from Dr.and Mrs. Theodore Geballe, integratesundergraduate courses and researcharound four critical themes (humanitiesand the environment; humanities andhuman rights; humanities and new media;and humanities and biotechnology, health,and medicine). It is a major undertakingto promote innovative undergraduateeducation within a research university.

GROUP courses should provideexperiential or research-based learning;they should demonstrate the importanceof humanistic perspectives to studyof the chosen theme; and they should

train students in the concepts andmethodologies of cross-disciplinaryexchange. As we announced in March2004, four courses have been chosen tolaunch GROUP in 2004–2005. They eachmeet these challenges in a variety of ways.They will all set a standard for curricularinnovation and for engagement withstudents. They are:

Lyrical Views of a Finite Planet, taught byRobert Hass (English) and GarrisonSposito (Environmental Science, Policy,and Management);

Crimes of War: An Interdisciplinary

Perspective, taught by David Cohen(Rhetoric) and Eric Stover (Human RightsCenter);

Foundations of American Cyber-

Cultures, taught by Greg Niemeyer (ArtPractice) and Charis Thompson (Rhetoric);and

Exceptional Bodies: Disability and

Medicine in American Culture, taught bySusan Schweik (English).

Lyrical Views of a Finite Planet epitomizesthe goals of the program, offering acombination of humanistic and scientificperspectives on global environmentalissues. The aim of the course is to imaginethe ways in which the tools of scientific andliterary analysis, of scientific method andimaginative thinking, can clarify what isat stake in environmental issues andecological citizenship. The course will beoffered in the fall semester as a lecturecourse with discussion sessions.Prominent guest lecturers will be featuredduring the semester, and field trips will be

offered as part of the curriculum. GROUP,along with the Center, is pleased to be ableto include this popular and successfulcourse in its programming. It is listed asEnglish C77 / UGIS C12 / ESPM C12.

In the aftermath of World War II, violentconflict is no longer exclusively theprovince of nation-states and theinternational community has turned tomechanisms of international criminaljustice to impose peace and order. Crimes

of War: An Interdisciplinary Perspective willuse an interdisciplinary lens to focus onthese transformations and on ourunderstanding of the violence of modernconflicts and its effects on survivors andcommunities. Guest speakers will includeBerkeley faculty as well as outside experts.Cross-listed in International and AreaStudies (IAS) and Rhetoric, the course isoffered in the fall semester in a seminarformat to ensure full participation indiscussions and ample opportunity toengage the guest speakers. It is listed asIAS 150 / Rhetoric 165.

Foundations of American Cyber-Cultures willenable students to think critically aboutand engage practically with the complexinteractions between new media andperceptions of personhood. Students willexamine the ways new media reinforcepreexisting social hierarchies and also offerpossibilities for the transcendence of thosevery categories. Weekly assignments willinclude theoretical readings as well aspractical applications of the skills underdiscussion. For example, students mightbe asked to create a home page for an alterego of a race or gender different from their

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own and to analyze the network trafficthe page generates under controlledpermutations. The course will be offeredin the fall semester in a lecture format withdiscussion/workshop sessions; it is listedas Art Practice C23AC / Rhetoric 42AC /Women’s Studies C23AC.

Exceptional Bodies: Disability and Medicine

in American Culture will provide anopportunity to explore some of the waysin which categories of race, gender,and disability have been used togetherto “mark and fix” human bodies inAmerican cultures. Students will focus onseveral phenomena at specific historicalmoments, such as nineteenth-century freakshows and responses to them incontemporary Native American andAfrican American poetry; or disability andslavery, with readings from the WPA slavenarratives. Such case studies will beanalyzed with emphasis on their relationto U.S. laws past and present. The coursewill also feature guest speakers who willintroduce revisionary performance artand activism by contemporary disabledpeople of color. It will be offered in thespring semester.

These courses represent just one of threeinterrelated components of GROUP. In thesummer of 2005, the GROUP SummerApprenticeships will be launched. Theseapprenticeships will pair faculty membersand undergraduate students in summerresearch projects, allowing the students todevelop new skills under the guidance ofa faculty mentor and to experience therigor and excitement of academic researchin an area of their interest. Faculty willgain the time and opportunity to explorenew ideas, and the collaboration with

their apprentice may generate newundergraduate courses and curricula. Thegoal is to develop twelve projects (three ineach of the four target fields) each summerof the program’s operation.

Finally, in 2005–2006 the program willintroduce GROUP Teams—collaborativeprojects that will provide undergraduateswith the opportunity to conductinterdisciplinary research with moreexperienced researchers. Announcementsregarding the apprenticeships and theteams will appear in forthcoming issues ofour newsletter.

GROUP promotes both interdisciplinaryundergraduate teaching and the principleof collaborative research. We are delightedto be able to offer the campus, andespecially the undergraduate population,the opportunity to put into practice someof the principles that have proven theirsuccess at the Townsend Center. Thecourses offered this year set the standardfor the years to come: innovative in design,broad in conception, and focused inapplication. We look forward to theirresults and to the further development ofthe program.

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Framing the Questions

Issue no. 9 of Framing the Questions,

the online magazine of the arts and

humanities at Berkeley, was

published at the end of the spring

term, 2004. FTQ features the

research of individual faculty and

graduate students and collaborative

projects at Berkeley. Written in

2003–2004 by Doug Merlino, the

magazine is intended to convey

the breadth, diversity, and

significance of the humanities to a

broad audience.

The current issue features three

articles. “Ghosts of Freedom”

describes the work of Pheng Cheah

(Rhetoric), who examines the ideas

of freedom put forth by German

philosophers and traces their impact

on current movements in the Third

World. Kristin Hanson (English) is

profiled in “Natural Rhythm” for her

examination of the universal

elements in poetic meter. And three

undergraduates who received grants

for original humanities research—

Marty Schultz-Akerson, Crystal Finn,

and Amy Pradell—are the subjects

of “New Directions.”

Framing the Questions is

administered by the Townsend

Center with the support and

collaboration of the Dean of Arts and

Humanities.

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In 2003–2004 the Center funded a pilotproject on Human Rights and the Humanities.Organized by David Cohen (Rhetoric) andVictoria Kahn (Comparative Literature),the group also included Francine Masiello(Spanish and Portuguese), Susan Maslan(French), and Alan Tansman (East AsianLanguages and Cultures). The group’sprimary aim was to consider ways todevelop courses incorporating humanrights issues related to each participant’sarea of scholarly expertise and to theteaching missions of their respectivedepartments. In their assessment of theexperience, the conveners remark that thegroup turned out to be “even moresuccessful than we had envisaged.” Theparticipants ended up devoting ten weeksto the discussion of key texts, meeting withvisiting scholars in separate sessions, andbuilding a productive base for their finalfive-week focus on teaching and curricula.Their readings ranged from human rightsconventions to Grotius and Rousseau; fromfilms (such as the Japanese documentaryThe Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On) tonovels to contemporary critiques of humanrights institutions. The group focusedespecially on texts that they thought mightbe appropriate for undergraduate courses.With this grounding, they decided to focuson constructing an introductory course inHuman Rights and the Humanities thatthey could co-teach, which could be offeredthrough the College as an L&S Course toreflect its interdisciplinary nature. Thiscourse would function as a “gateway,”encouraging students to explore morespecific offerings in particulardepartments. They plan to work towardsproposing such a course this fall.

The group reports that the participantsfound the experience so rewarding thatthey plan to continue meeting, bringing aseries of visitors to campus and involvinga larger group of scholars interested in thetopic. They will work with the Dean of

Townsend/MellonStrategic Working Groups

The Townsend/Mellon Strategic WorkingGroups provide humanities andhumanities-related faculty with aframework for thinking about curricularinnovations linked to new research areas.The program seeks to create an ongoingforum within which faculty can discussresearch interests that are of increasingcentrality to their own work but are nottraditionally supported in their owndepartments. Intended to bolsterindividual research and collaborationwithin and across divisions anddisciplines, these groups are equallycommitted to translating the themes ofthis research into courses, programs, andother concrete and ongoing activitiesinvolving both professors and students. Atthe same time, the program is meant togenerate strong contenders for theBerkeley campus Strategic IdeasCompetition: a program that holds outsignificant resources to each proposalselected for support.

Supported beginning in 2004–2005 by agrant from the Andrew W. MellonFoundation, the Strategic Working Groupsbring together up to seven facultymembers per semester around onethematic cluster. The groups cut acrossdisciplines and divisions, but all havesignificant implications for the humanities.Groups are selected in a two-stagecompetition: in Stage I applications forgroups are accepted from any two ladder-faculty members, proposing a theme forexamination. A Stage II competitioninvites applications from individual faculty

interested in participating in the groupsselected. Participants in the StrategicWorking Groups receive one semester ofcourse relief, and the group as a wholereceives funding for a GSR and for visitingspeakers.

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these concerns either as pragmatic legalclaims or as matters for critical legalreflection, with many focused on thepossibility of state-sanctioned remedy, ofjustice achieved through legal means. TheStrategic Working Group on the Idea ofRedress will gather together scholars fromthe Humanities, the Social Sciences, andthe Professional Schools who workon issues of the past, justice, andreconstruction in the hope of bridging thisdisciplinary divide. Participants in thegroup will meet once a week over thecourse of the semester to discuss criticalquestions that have yet to be addressedwithin the traditional disciplines andproblems that have been either denied orrepressed within liberal historiographicand philosophical critique.

Organizers: Stephen Best works onnineteenth-century literary and legalculture, with a particular interest in race,rhetoric, and conceptions of history inAnglo-American law and jurisprudence.Saidiya Hartman writes about history,memory, and slavery, with an emphasis onnarrative and the problems of the archive.They are both associate professors in theDepartment of English.

Participating in the group will be:Marianne Constable (Rhetoric), LaurelFletcher (Boalt Hall; Human Rights Clinic),Nimachia Hernandez (Ethnic Studies),Christopher Kutz (Boalt Hall), and MichaelRubenstein (English).

Critical Theory

The purpose of the Strategic WorkingGroup on Critical Theory is to devise aDesignated Emphasis in the topic forgraduate students in disciplines such asIntellectual History, Rhetoric, PoliticalTheory, English, Comparative Literature,Philosophy, and German. The group will


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the Humanities and with private fundingsources to develop the course they’veconstructed and to continue to promoteinterdisciplinary research in the field.

2004–2005

With the pilot project so successful, theCenter is looking forward to the outcomeof the two groups selected for 2004–2005as the first Townsend/Mellon StrategicWorking Groups. The Idea of Redress,

organized by Stephen M. Best (English)and Saidiya V. Hartman (English), willconvene in the fall semester. Critical Theory,

organized by Judith Butler (Rhetoric) andMartin Jay (History), will meet in thespring semester.

The Idea of Redress

This group’s main goal is to developan interdisciplinary curriculum on thetopic of redress, specifically as it relatesto slavery and colonialism in Africa andthe Americas. The collaboration betweenthe members will be geared toward thedevelopment of new courses at thegraduate and undergraduate levels(especially those with a possibility for teamteaching or cross-listing between schools).But the ultimate goal is also to situatecurricular innovation within a largercollaborative project that has curricular,research, and even policy implications forthe issue of redress. The group takes as itsstarting point the recent emergence of arhetoric of “redress” characteristic of anumber of global campaigns for the legalrepair of past historical injustices, andremarks on its diverging trajectories withinthe academy. Humanities scholars andsocial scientists have emphasized theirreparable, those dimensions ofexperience that resist established forms ofremedy. Lawyers, legal scholars, and thosewho draft policy have tended to engage

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meet in spring 2005. Its aims will be bothspecifically programmatic and morebroadly intellectual. The programmaticaim is to devise three courses that wouldestablish a historical and normativeframework for understanding criticaltheory in its current breadth. This sequencewould (a) explore the concept of critiquein German Idealism and otherphilosophical precedents, (b) provideintensive exposure to the legacy of theFrankfurt School, and (c) engage studentsin contemporary forms of critical theory,which often inform cultural studies anddebates on social norms. The facultyconvened for the spring of 2005 will followthe trajectory of the Designated Emphasis,considering first the formulation of acritical perspective in German Idealism;reconsidering the parameters andcontributions of the Frankfurt School; andreading contemporary forms of criticaltheory, including critical race theory andcritical perspectives on gender andsexuality. In relation to contemporarycritical theory, the group will considerdebates on the status of critique in relationto the justification of norms and thepossibility of adjudicating among values(Habermas, Honneth, and their critics).The group will also consider whetherCritical Theory should be established as aresearch unit on campus. To this end, it willconsider the structure of such programsat UC schools—UCLA, Irvine, andDavis—as well as programs elsewhere(i.e., Northwestern).

Organizers: Judith Butler, Maxine ElliotProfessor in the Departments of Rhetoricand Comparative Literature, writesextensively on issues in philosophy and infeminist and queer theory. Her currentprojects include a set of essays engagedwith grievable and ungrievable lives, war,politics and the suspension of civilliberties. Martin Jay, Sidney HellmanEhrman Professor of History, has particular

interests in European intellectual historyand cultural criticism. He is the author ofwidely known studies on the FrankfurtSchool, Adorno, and visual culture; hismost recent book is Refractions of Violence.

Butler and Jay will be joined by WendyBrown (Political Science), AnthonyCascardi (Rhetoric), Pheng Cheah(Rhetoric), John Lie (Sociology), SabaMahmood (Anthropology), NelsonMaldonado-Torres (Ethnic Studies),Christopher Nealon (English), and JoséSaldivar (English).

Townsend/MellonDiscovery Fellows

Nina Billone, appointed in 2003 as one ofthe second group of Discovery Fellows,writes, “I love having the chance to meetinteresting grad students from across thehumanities. I have also loved meeting suchinteresting professors.” Her enthusiasm isechoed by another member of her cohort,Laurie Margot Ross, who adds, “I enjoy thediversity of the group, which allows forlively discussions. It has been aprovocative springboard for me in termsof thinking about my own subject.”

This fall, seven entering graduate studentsbecome the third group of participants inthe Townsend/Mellon DiscoveryProgram, joining the seven students whobegan in September 2003 and the five whobegan in September 2002. This brings theprogram, intended to assemble graduatestudents in their first three years of study,to its full cohort of fellows for the first time.Discovery Fellows meet with one anotherand with invited faculty at least three timesper semester for focused conversation

around issues raised by the guest’s work.Each fellow is also assigned a graduatestudent mentor from outside her/his department, and receives a stipendfor each of three summers at thepredissertation stage of graduate study.

Discovery students are nominated by theirdepartments on the basis of their potentialfor graduate study, but also according tothe department’s assessment of thecandidate’s openness to a range of peopleand perspectives within the humanitiesand related fields. As borne out in thecomments of the previous Discoverygroups, our aim to engage enteringstudents in interdisciplinary conversationwith one another and with invited guestshas been amply rewarded.

This year the Discovery Fellows will havethe special opportunity to work withDutch theorist and filmmaker Mieke Bal,who will be at Berkeley several timesduring the fall semester in a residencyhosted by the German department andcosponsored by the Townsend Center. Balwill offer the Fellows an intensive seminaron political art and will work with themindividually on their research and writing.

This year ’s new Discovery Fellows hailfrom Columbia, Princeton, Grove CityCollege, Reed, Swarthmore, the Universityof Virginia, and the University of Illinoisat Chicago. They have interests rangingfrom eighteenth-century English-languagesatire to marginality in Soviet literature tothe American film musical. The TownsendCenter joins the Fellows’ respectivedepartments in welcoming the thirdDiscovery class.

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The following entering graduate studentshave been named Discovery Fellows:

Jonathan Combs-Schilling enters theDepartment of Italian Studies this yearwith a B.A. in Italian, summa cum laude,

from Columbia. He spent 2002–2003 inItaly on a Fulbright studying opera librettiand is the recipient of the Marraro Prize inItalian Studies in 2001, as well as theScholastic Art and Writing Award of theNew York Times in 1997. While at Berkeley,Combs-Schilling plans to pursue hisinterests in both opera and Italianliterature, continuing his work as the WestCoast opera critic for the Italian journalL’opera while he develops a scholarlyproject rethinking the relation betweenoperas and their literary precedents. Hismentor will be Jennifer Scappettone, aPh.D. candidate in the English Departmentand a Townsend Fellow in 2003–2004.

F. Lane Harwell received his B.A. fromPrinceton in Philosophy and has alsostudied philosophy at University CollegeLondon and visual arts at Parsons Schoolof Design. Prior to his undergraduatecareer, he was a company member withAmerican Ballet Theatre, performing inboth classic and contemporary works.While at Berkeley, he will pursue a Ph.D.in the Department of Theater, Dance, andPerformance Studies, hoping to expand hisengagement with the work of MichelFoucault in the field of visual culture byexploring contemporary and internationalsites of surveillance and censoredperformance. John Muse, a TownsendFellow in 2003–2004 who is completing hisPh.D. in Rhetoric, will be Harwell’smentor.

Entering the English Department witha B.A. in English, cum laude withhighest honors, from Grove City College,Pennsylvania, Christopher Jensen bringsa love of satire to his study of eighteenth-

century literature. While an under-graduate, Jensen used his literarysensibility to subversive effect at hisconservative Christian college—writing asatirical play, for instance, in which thecharacters worshipped Christopher Robinas the only begotten son of A. A. Milne,which he managed to slip past the collegecensors. He plans to maintain this interestat Berkeley as he engages with the greateighteenth-century English-languagesatirists. Zabet Patterson, a Ph.D.candidate in Rhetoric and a 2004–2005Townsend Fellow, will be his mentor.

Anastasia Kayiatos joins the Departmentof Slavic Languages and Literatures witha B.A. from Reed College and is therecipient of the Lankford HumanitiesAward for Outstanding Thesis in 2001–2002. She hopes to expand her thesis—onEvgenii Kharitonov, the most importantgay writer of the Soviet period—into moregeneral work on representations ofmarginality in Russian literature,theorizing the distinctiveness of theRussian situation and the degree of itssusceptibility to intellectual methodologiesdeveloped for Western culture. Her mentorwill be Merrill Kaplan, a Ph.D. candidatein Scandinavian and a Townsend Fellowfor 2004–2005.

Nandini Pandey received a B.A. withhighest honors in Latin, with a minor inGreek, from Swarthmore—and a secondB.A., with a double major in Classics andEnglish, from University College, Oxford.She is entering the Department of Classicsto pursue a Ph.D. with a project analyzingthe reception of the classics, especially inAugustan Rome and Elizabethan England.This project builds on her Oxford thesis onthe ways Elizabethan love poets divertOvidian love poetry to their own ends,which she wrote while maintainingextracurricular interests in dancing,fencing, and the arts. Sven Ouzman, a


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graduate student in Anthropology and a2004–2005 Townsend Fellow, will serve asher mentor.

James Rogers enters the Ph.D. program inthe Department of Rhetoric with a B.A. inMusic from the University of Virginia. Hisbackground in musicology supplementedby training in critical theory andperformance studies, Rogers intends topursue research on American filmmusicals, branching out into culturalhistory, film studies, and queer theory. Heis also working on a theory of catatonia,exploring the relationship betweenpopular music’s perceived vapidity andthe pleasure found in similitudes andaffectlessness. Rogers’s mentor will beIrene Perciali, a Ph.D. candidate inComparative Literature and a 2004–2005Townsend Fellow.

Jennifer Solheim, who enters the Frenchdepartment with a B.A. in English, with aminor in French, from the University ofIllinois at Chicago, brings both scholarlyand practical experience to her study ofFrancophone women writers. In additionto her training in literary theory,performance studies, and feministcriticism, Solheim has translated a novel,worked as a research assistant for a poet,and performed as a bassist and singer inindie rock bands. Building on work withwriter and activist Yolaine Simha, a FrenchJew who suffered from agoraphobia afterbeginning her life in hiding during WorldWar II, Solheim has developed a networkof intellectual and musical associates inParis who explore questions ofembodiment and performance in women’swriting. At Berkeley she will situate thiswork in the broader context of twentieth-century French literature and philosophy.Her mentor will be Elizabeth Roberts, aPh.D. candidate in Anthropology.

Townsend InitiativeProgram

The Initiative Program for AssociateProfessors is entering its fourth year ofpromoting interdisciplinary work in thehumanities. The program awards fiveassociate professors teaching relief for thespring semester, connects each awardeewith a research counterpart from anotherdepartment, and brings together allgrantees and their counterparts forworking lunches devoted to presentationof the grantee’s research. The InitiativeProgram also aims to encourageinterdisciplinary teaching; awardees areurged to apply the insights they gainthrough their semester in the program tocurricular development.

With the support of the Chancellor, theExecutive Vice-Chancellor and Provost,and the Dean of Arts and Humanities, theTownsend Center is pleased to announcethe awardees for spring 2005: BesharaDoumani (History), Shannon Jackson(Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies),Louise Mozingo (Landscape Architecture),Anne Nesbet (Slavic Languages andLiteratures), and Ellen Oliensis (Classics).

Beshara Doumani’s project, The

Palestinians: A Social History, will be the firstmonograph on the modern social historyof the Palestinians. As she notes, “There isan urgent need for an innovative,overarching, and accessible history of apeople who have become a householdword, but about whom we know verylittle.” She will work on this project withJudith Butler (Rhetoric).

In Encumbrances: The Infrastructural Politics

of Performance, Shannon Jackson isexploring the possibilities and limits oftheorizing performance “as a technique,

medium, and infrastructural means bywhich art-making exposes non-autonomous subjectivity.” Drawing on awide range of theatrical experiments anddebates in American art practice, Jackson’swork will integrate formal and empiricalmethods while recasting the theoreticalterms of political aesthetics. Wendy Brown(Political Science) will serve as hercounterpart.

Louise Mozingo will be working onPastoral Capitalism: The History of Suburban

Corporate Landscapes, in which she arguesthat corporate appropriation of landscapedisplay fits in a broader picture ofcorporate self-representation in thetwentieth century, reiterating physicallythe way corporations wish to be seen:“seamless with ‘traditional’ Americanculture.” Mozingo’s research counterpartwill be Richard Walker (Geography).

Anne Nesbet’s book project, Time Machines

of the Everyday: Cinema and the Dialectical

Image in Europe (1920–1939), explores newapproaches to the image undertaken inEurope by the avant-garde. Arguing thatvariants of Benjamin’s “dialectical image,”differing from country to country andartist to artist, had in common a fascinationwith the image’s temporal effects, Nesbetconcludes that the dialectical image was“nothing less than a kind of time machine.”Nesbet will be working with Ehud Isacoff(Molecular and Cell Biology).

Ellen Oliensis will offer an ongoing andself-conscious meditation on the statusand value of a psychoanalytic approachto Latin literature in Freud’s Rome:

Psychoanalysis and Latin Poetry. Her goal isto enter into a dialogue withpsychoanalytic work both withinand beyond classics, offering new waysto read old texts as well as a differentperspective on the history and content of

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psychoanalytic theory. She will be workingwith Janet Adelman (English).

Townsend DepartmentalResidencies

The Townsend Departmental Residenciesprogram, funded by the Avenaliendowment, brought its first visitors tocampus in 2003–2004 and will sponsor twomore in 2004–2005. Under the residencyprogram, the host department is awardeda stipend and travel fees to invite adistinguished visitor for a residency of noless than a month in duration. The programoffers the host departments a specialopportunity to integrate visitors ofoutstanding interest into their ownprograms, and at the same time to make asubstantial contribution to the overallintellectual life of the campus. Each visitoris expected to engage in at least one activitythat will be broadly publicized.

The residents for 2003–2004 were DidikHadiprayitno and Charles Burnett.

Didik Hadiprayitno, one of Indonesia’smost well-known dancers andchoreographers, spent one month as afellow in the Department of South andSoutheast Asian Studies (February 21–March 22, 2004). During that time, heconducted workshops for the campuscommunity on a broad range of topics,including dance traditions of Sunda, Java,and Bali; masking traditions of Java andBali; and Southeast Asian transgendertraditions. He also presented class lectures,worked with students, and participated inpublic performances. Despite somelogistical difficulties, Hadiprayitno’s visit

was judged a “wonderfully creative andeducational experience.” The departmentdescribed him as a “truly energizingpresence on this campus” and noted thathe was able while here to discuss aspectsof his research that cannot be revealed inIndonesia at this time, particularly thepersecution and massacre of transgendershamans and performers in 1965–67 by theIndonesian military regime.

Film Studies hosted Charles Burnett

during April of 2004. Burnett, an AfricanAmerican filmmaker, was able to screensome of his hard-to-see films during aweek-long program of his work at thePacific Film Archive. He participated inclasses and a symposium on his films, andworked with students and faculty.Although some of the screenings could notbe publicized as hoped, the Film Studiesprogram called Burnett’s visit a success,and said that “our program, the PFA andAfrican American Studies were greatlyenriched by Burnett’s presence among us.”By the end of the screening series, “thehouse was full.”

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Spring semester 2005 will see two newTownsend Departmental Residents.Women’s Studies will host installationartist and documentary photographerSheba Chhachhi in February. Chhachhi’swork has appeared in numerous solo andgroup shows internationally. She has alsoconducted workshops, research, andprojects to investigate media theory anddevelop audiovisual materials relatingto women’s issues in India and South Asiaand is an active member of the women’smovement in India. As part of herresidency, Chhachhi will exhibit her workon campus. The second resident will beGareth Stedman Jones, hosted by the


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Minette Hillyer, a Ph.D. candidate in theProgram in Film Studies in the Departmentof Rhetoric, is writing a dissertation on“The Myth of Home: Ethnography, HomeMovies, and Images of the Everyday inAmerican Popular Culture.” This studylooks at representations of the home in thepopular visual culture of 1950s America,following a path from scientific treatmentsof home in ethnographic and sociologicalstudies, through commercial andeducational films, and ending with homemovies. Drawing on extensive archivalresearch, Hillyer’s work describes homemovies as a vernacular language fortalking about the home. By placing themin the context of other representations ofthe home, she theorizes a mode of“homely” spectatorship found acrossgenres and cultural objects and therefore,she argues, transmissible across time.

In her dissertation, “The Irruption of thePast in Nornagests páttr and Allied Texts,”Department of Scandinavian Ph.D.candidate Merrill Kaplan describes howfour medieval Icelandic narrativesevidence a complicated desire on the partof medieval Christian Icelanders toconfront and come to grips with the paganage. In each of these episodes, an old manappears at the court of one of the kingsOlaf, bearing stories about the deeds ofheroes and kings of the pagan age. Theking listens fascinated to his guest’s tales,even if the bishop stands at his othershoulder and urges him to retire and sayhis evening prayers. Kaplan’s studyreveals how these stories may havefunctioned for the people who wrote andconsumed them as a “technology forthinking about the past and its persistencein the present.”

“An Archaeology of Identity in Post-Apartheid Southern Africa,” Sven

Ouzman’s dissertation, seeks to addresscontemporary anthropic concerns suchas biopower, citizenship, colonialism,gender, indigenous intellectual propertyrights, and the like by using a series ofsouthern African material-culture-centriccase studies that have an archaeologicaltwist. Ouzman, a graduate student in theDepartment of Anthropology, examinesspecific cases such as the Sterkfontein earlyhominid site, South Africa’s new coat ofarms, the Voortrekker Monument, andEuropean colonial-period southern Africanrock art. In so doing, he unearths thearchaeology of modern technologies usedto understand personhood, such asgenetics, literature, and statecraft.

Ph.D. candidate in Rhetoric Zabet

Patterson’s dissertation is titled “TheRepresentational Grid of Digital Media.”In this interrogation of digital technologies,Patterson argues that one of the keymodalities through which the digital ismade visible and malleable is the figure ofthe grid. A rhetoric of the grid can be seento emerge again and again incontemporary discourses about digitalmedia. And within the rhetoric of digitalmedia, the figure of the grid emerges as away of negotiating a number ofheterogeneous and often contradictorydiscourses: concerning representation,materialism, and science, on the one hand;transcendence and spiritualism, on theother. Examining the history of the grid inWestern representation, as well ascontemporary artistic practices that makeuse of digital technology, Pattersonprovides a new perspective on the historyof digitality, enabling a rethinking of itscontemporary discursive figuration.

History Department. Stedman Jones isDirector of the Centre for History andEconomics and Professor of PoliticalScience at King’s College, Cambridge.Details on these visits will be announcedas the dates draw nearer. The TownsendCenter joins Women’s Studies and Historyin looking forward to having suchdistinguished visitors on campus.

Townsend CenterFellowship Group, 2004–2005

Of course, the longest-running of all ourprograms is the Townsend FellowshipGroup, soon to welcome the seventeenthset of fellows for lunch meetings in theGeballe Room at the Center. This year ’sgroup includes six graduate students at thedissertation stage and three assistantprofessors. These fellows will bediscussing their work with three tenuredFaculty Fellows, a Librarian Fellow, and aMuseum Fellow.

The Fellows Group program receives corefunding from the Doreen B. Townsendendowment, with significant support fromthe Dean of Arts and Humanities, thePresident’s Research Initiative in theHumanities, and Una’s Gift. The Centeralso has endowments for graduate studentsupport contributed by Jeffrey Berg and byIrving and Jean Stone.

The Townsend Graduate Student Fellowsfor 2004–2005 are: Minette Hillyer (FilmStudies); Merrill Kaplan (Scandinavian);Sven Ouzman (Anthropology); ZabetPatterson (Rhetoric); Irene Perciali(Comparative Literature); and Mary Quinn(Spanish and Portuguese).

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persists in Spanish literature long after thereconquest of 1492.

Three assistant professors join theFellowship Group in 2004–2005 withTownsend Fellowships equal to 50 percentresearch leave. They are Natalia Brizuela(Spanish and Portuguese), SudiptoChatterjee (Theater, Dance, andPerformance Studies), and MariaMavroudi (History).

Natalia Brizuela, Assistant Professor ofLatin American Literature and Culture inthe Department of Spanish andPortuguese, will be working on a bookproject titled Between Empire and Republic,

or On Photographic Melancholy in Brazilian

Modernity. This project is an attempt tounderstand why the growth of a nationalsentiment in Brazil during the latter partof the nineteenth century—the lastempire—is marked by what she describesas “a profound melancholy.” She seeks totrace the connection between nationalismand melancholy and situate it within thecontext of the romantic movement andphotographic production in nineteenth-century Brazil. The book analyzesphotography and literature in Brazilbetween 1840 and 1903, arguing thatBrazilian photography of that period iscaught at a crossroads, “looking to the pastmelancholically and being the materialincarnation of the future as one of theexemplary technologies of modern times.”

Assistant Professor Sudipto Chatterjee, aspecialist in Asian performance in theDepartment of Theater, Dance, andPerformance Studies, is planning tocomplete part of a book entitled Indian

Popular Theatres: Masses, Myths, and

Movements, contracted to Routledge in theseries “Theatres of the World,” edited byJohn Russell Brown. This book will fill a

Irene Perciali, a Comparative LiteraturePh.D. candidate, is completing adissertation titled “PersonifyingCapitalism: Economic Imagination, theNovel, and the Entrepreneur.” Thisinterdisciplinary study in narrative formdevelops a new and unexploredconnection between literature andeconomics through character and point ofview. In contrast to critical traditions thatstress capitalism’s depersonalizing effects,Perciali shows that novels written duringtransitions to capitalism unexpectedlyforeground a particular personality: thecharismatic, all-powerful, but alsoprofoundly inscrutable entrepreneur.Focusing on the novels of Balzac andFaulkner, two authors writing duringmoments of economic modernization,Perciali argues that the transition tocapitalism is not represented mimeticallyin the novel, but is conceived narrativelyby novelists and economists before itbecomes the historical reality we now takeit for.

Mary Quinn’s dissertation, “NationalGenres, Nostalgic Identities: Self and Otherin Early Modern Spain,” explores thereverberations of the formation of thenation and the empire of Spain in theliterature of the late sixteenth and earlyseventeenth centuries. Using song texts,early forms of the novel, and episodes ofDon Quixote, Quinn, a Ph.D. candidate inthe Department of Spanish andPortuguese, aims to demonstrate the waynational identity was constructed. Sheexplores the use of different genres orgeneric modes and traces the depiction ofdifferent peoples—specifically Muslimsand moriscos—and their relation to thenewly hegemonic culture of Christianity.In so doing, she tracks the emergence of anational and imperial discourse that isnostalgic and idealizing, one thatestablishes a tone of disillusionment that


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void in theater studies, where work onIndian theater has typically focused onclassical dramatic texts or urban theaters.It will provide a much-needed analysis ofpopular theatrical traditions in India,allowing for an understanding of thecultural surroundings immediatelyproducing and framing those traditionsand giving a sense of how the performanceis experienced, understood, and retainedby its audience. Singling out fourrepresentative traditions and performancesites, the study will endeavor, as Chatterjeeputs it, “to pry open the mechanics ofthe audience-performer-performedcircuitry that goes into the making of theseliving traditions.”

Maria Mavroudi, Assistant Professor ofHistory, is a specialist in the Byzantine era.Her year as a Townsend Center Fellow willfacilitate the writing of a book tentativelytitled Bilingualism in Greek and Arabic in the

Middle Ages: Evidence from the Manuscripts,

which will explore the survival of literacyin Greek throughout the Middle Eastduring the centuries after the Arabconquest. Making reference to theinstitutions and mechanisms that aidedthis survival, Mavroudi’s work willconcentrate on religious, scientific, andphilological manuscripts, incorporating anextensive discussion and edition of arare Greek-to-Arabic dictionary that shehas identified in two manuscripts, from thetwelfth and the fourteenth centuries,respectively. The book will also include aCD-ROM edition of these manuscripts,allowing users to examine the format andvisual appearance of the dictionary. Notonly will this publication discusssignificant issues in the cultural historyof Byzantium, but it will also provide aninterdisciplinary bridge between fields,such as Byzantine and Middle EasternStudies and philology and cultural history,that traditionally operate in relativeisolation from each other.

The Fellows Group also includes threetenured faculty members, a Library Fellow,and a Museum Fellow. These fellows meetas regular members of the group andreceive research stipends to support theirwork.

The tenured faculty in 2004–2005 are Leslie

Peirce (History), whose research interestsinclude Ottoman studies (fourteenth tonineteenth centuries), early modernMiddle East, law and society, gender andsexuality, and comparative empires;Robert Sharf (East Asian Languages andLiteratures), who works primarily in thearea of medieval Chinese Buddhism; andWilliam Worthen (Theater, Dance, andPerformance Studies), whose fields includedramatic literature and theory,performance theory, modern drama, andShakespeare. Barbara Spackman (ItalianStudies), a specialist in nineteenth- andtwentieth-century Italian literature andculture, will join the group for the fallsemester.

This year’s Library Fellow is Bette Anton,

Optometry/Health Sciences Librarian atthe Pamela and Kenneth Fong Library. TheMuseum Fellow is Richard Rinehart,

Director of Digital Media at the BerkeleyArt Museum/Pacific Film Archive andDigital Media Instructor in the Departmentof Art Practice.

The Center welcomes all the new fellows,residents, and groups and looks forwardto a year of intellectual stimulation andproductive collaborations.

Upcoming FundingDeadlines

Once again, we urge faculty and

graduate students to remember the

fall deadlines for fellowship funding

for the academic year 2005–2006,

some of which fall as early

as October 1, 2004. The Townsend

Center provides a list of fellowship

programs on our web site and in print:

http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu.

Graduate students seeking

dissertation funding are urged to

consult the Graduate Division:

www.grad.berkeley.edu.

Faculty are reminded especially of

the President’s Research Fellowships

in the Humanities. For a description

of the fellowship and application

materials, visit:

www.ucop.edu/research/prfh/.

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working groupsSeptember Activities

The Townsend Center Working Groups Program brings together, fromvarious fields and departments, faculty and graduate students withshared research interests. For updates on the groups’ activities, pleasego to http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/working_groups_list.html.

American Studies and Postcolonial StudiesContact: Kelvin C. Black, [email protected], or Stephanie

Hays, [email protected] American Studies and Postcolonial Studies reading group

examines the historical expansion of the United States inrelation to theories of imperialism, as well as therelationships between critical theories of colonialism andAmerican cultural production across territorialboundaries.

Ancient Philosophy Working GroupContact: Andreas Anagnostopoulos, [email protected] students and faculty of the Ancient Philosophy

Working Group meet approximately three times persemester to present and discuss papers, relevantconferences, current topics, and academic issues.

Armenian Studies Working GroupContact: Stephan Astourian, (510) 642-1489,

[email protected] group provides a forum that is part of an ongoing

interdisciplinary, integrated program on ArmenianStudies for students, faculty, and scholars.

Asian Art and Visual CulturesContact: Namiko Kunimoto, (510) 841-2818,

[email protected] group is an interdisciplinary peer critique for scholars

interested in various visual media from ancient throughcontemporary Asia. Students and faculty exploretheoretical issues spanning gender studies, anthropology,religion, history, literature, and political analysis throughpapers presented by group members, discussions ofreadings, and lectures given by guest speakers.

September 7 (Tuesday), 5:00 pm, 425 Doe. The group will holdits Fall Planning Meeting.

Asian Pacific American Politics and Aesthetics (New Group)Contact: Marguerite Nguyen, (510) 295-8113,

[email protected], or Janice Tanemura, (510) 610-0086, [email protected]

The aim of this working group is to interrogate the differentialrelationship between political and aesthetic endeavorswithin Asian Pacific American cultural production.

The group will hold a September meeting.

BTWH: The Emergence of German ModernismContact: Sabrina Rahman, [email protected], or Chad

Denton, [email protected]

Consisting of members from Berkeley, Tuebingen, Vienna, andHarvard universities, BTWH explores questions ofGerman modernity and welcomes members from alldisciplines providing they have a working knowledge ofGerman. Throughout the year the group shares its workwith international colleagues over the internet and meetsonce a year for a conference.

Berkeley and Bay Area Early Modern Studies GroupContact: Penelope Anderson, [email protected], or John

Hill, [email protected] Berkeley and Bay Area Early Modern Studies Group

sponsors colloquia with visiting scholars and smallerreading groups for faculty and graduate students to shareideas relating to the early modern period. Please contactthe group to be added to the mailing list.

September 13 (Monday) 12:30 pm, place TBA. The group willhold an organizational meeting.

The Berkeley Film Seminar (New Group)Contact: [email protected] or Kristen Whissel,

[email protected] Berkeley Film Seminar focuses on new research in moving

image culture. This year’s focus is on new media andnon-fiction film.

September 17 (Friday), 5:30 pm, 142 Dwinelle (location to beconfirmed). Margaret Morse (UCSC) will speak on theconcept of immersion and digital culture.

Berkeley New Music ProjectContact: Philipp Blume, [email protected], or Loretta

Notareschi, [email protected] Berkeley New Music Project is an initiative of Graduate

Students in Music Composition at UC Berkeley whosemission is twofold: to present performances of musicwritten by its members and to educate audiences withrespect to contemporary music and its trends.

Berkeley-Stanford British Studies GroupContact: Contact: Mike Buckley,

[email protected] group consists of faculty members and graduate students

from both universities and from a variety of disciplines(e.g. history, English, political science, art history, music).The group meets once each month to discuss recentworks of scholarship relating to the field of Britishstudies, from the early modern period to the present.

California Studies LecturesContact: Richard Walker, (510) 642-3901,

[email protected], or Delores Dillard, (510)642-3903, [email protected]

The group meets once a month at The Faculty Club on theBerkeley campus. Anyone interested in topics about thestate of California is invited to attend these informaldinner gatherings. A guest speaker is featured at eachevent, and typically the presentation is followed bydiscussion.

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Comparison and Interdisciplinary StudiesContact: Sarah Wells, [email protected]; Sylvia Sellers-

Garcia, [email protected] group considers strategies of “comparison” across national

literatures and disciplinary lines by addressing specificquestions and problems that arise in disciplines that arecomparative by nature. This year the group will focus onthe intersections of Fiction and History, with an emphasison interdisciplinary approaches. Meetings will bestructured around issues such as temporality, memory,and narrative.

Consortium on the NovelContact: Karen Leibowitz, [email protected], or Orna

Shaughnessy, [email protected] Consortium on the Novel seeks to foster interdisciplinary

discussion of the novel among students and faculty fromdisparate departments to encourage cross-pollination ofideas on topics pertaining to the novel that transcendparticular national traditions.

Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Working Group (NewGroup)

Contact: Elizabeth Marie Young, [email protected], orJessica Fisher, [email protected]

This group focuses on issues of poetic interdisciplinarityranging from poets’ theater to text-based film to“poetically” adventurous criticism.

Contemporary Poetry in FrenchContact: Vesna Rodic, [email protected], or Michael Allan,

[email protected] group seeks to explore the relationship between

photography, film, and poetry, and the ways in whichcontemporary poetry helps us to think throughrepresentation and the object in French poetry. The groupmeets for discussions, screenings, and to sponsor lecturesby poets working in French.

Contesting Culture and the Nation State (New Group)Contact: Christian Buss, [email protected], or David

Gramling, [email protected] group will meet weekly to discuss readings focused on

mulcultural, multi-national, and multi-ethnic questions.The group will also organize a Migration, Culture and theNation State Lecture series.

Critical Filipina/o Studies Working Group (New Group)Contact: Gladys Nubla, [email protected], or Joanne

Rondilla, [email protected] group provides a multidisciplinary forum for students and

faculty interested in the history, society, culture, andliterature of Filipinos in the diaspora, especially takinginto account colonial histories, immigration flows andproblems, and current events. The group will meet once amonth to discuss recent scholarship and events relating toFilipina/o Studies. Please contact the group about thefirst meeting of the semester.

Deleuze Working Group (New Group)Contact: Carrie Gaiser, [email protected], or Gavin Witte,

[email protected] group will meet every three weeks to read and discuss

works by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.

The Disability Studies Working GroupContact: Gretchen Case, [email protected], or or Corbett

O’Toole, [email protected] group is an interdisciplinary meeting of creative minds

who are exploring and challenging dominant paradigmsof disability, non-disability, health, illness, and thesupporting social structures. Weekly speakers presentgraduate work in the humanities and sciences to anaudience of students, professors and communitymembers.

Meetings will commence mid-September. Requests forinterpreters and other accommodations must be made atleast a week in advance of each meeting.

Eighteenth-Century StudiesContact: Len von Morze, [email protected], or Kevis

Goodman, [email protected] group covers all aspects of eighteenth-century life,

including art, history, and music, but has recently beenfocusing on the relationship between literature andphilosophy. In addition to sponsoring monthly meetingsof a reading group and a yearly graduate studentsymposium, the group invites two speakers eachsemester to present and discuss work-in-progress.

Folklore RoundtableContact: The Folklore Archives, (510) 643-7934,

[email protected] or http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/folklore/Folk.HTM

The group investigates trends in folklore research and exploresthe reigning paradigms and perspectives in differentdisciplines.

Foucault Working Group (New Group)Contact: Catherine Karnitis, [email protected] working group explores selected writings by Michel

Foucault through an interdisciplinary dialogue withgraduate students and faculty. The group meets monthlyto discuss a particular work or collection of lectures.

September 10 (Friday), 4:00 pm, 2227 Dwinelle. The group willhold an organizational meeting.

Francophone Studies Working GroupContact: Araceli Hernandez, [email protected], or Jean-

Pierre Karegeye, [email protected] Francophone Studies Working Group is dedicated to the

study of postcolonial/diaspora cultures and literatures inwhich French language plays a role.

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“French Feminisms” and Cultural Intersections (New Group)Contact: Lowry Martin, [email protected], or Christine

Quinan, [email protected] French Feminism working group is an interdisciplinary

group designed to explore the discourse, ideology, andramifications of French feminist criticism and theory onthe feminist movements in France, the West, and indeveloping nations. The group is organizing a series ofvisiting speakers.

Gender in German Studies (GIGS)Contact: Katra Byram, [email protected], or Julie Koser,

[email protected] is an interdisciplinary working group for students to

participate in an ongoing scholarly dialogue in topics ofwomen, gender and sexuality in German-speakingcontexts. The group meets twice a month to discussthemes selected by the members in order to foster cross-departmental interaction among graduate students andinstructors with common research interests.

Graduate Film Working GroupContact: Minette Hillyer, [email protected], or Irina

Leimbacher, [email protected] purpose of the GFWG is to expand the learning experience

of its members (all graduate students either in FilmStudies programs or with a scholarly interest in film),especially by offering workshops and opportunities notavailable through home departments. This year the groupwill focus on the ways in which visual media are used toexplore social life, and is planning a series of speakersand screenings on this subject.

September 1 (Wednesday ), 5:00 pm, 7337 Dwinelle. The groupwill hold its first meeting.

Graduate Medievalists at BerkeleyContacts: Amelia Borrego , [email protected], or Jamie

DeAngelis , [email protected] mission of the GMB is to foster interdisciplinary exchange

among graduate students working in any facet of theMiddle Ages. The group organizes colloquia for thepresentation of student research, working groups inMedieval Latin and other language/literary issues,professional workshops, a newsletter, an annualconference, and social events.

September 9 (Thursday), 6:00 pm, 4114 Dwinelle. The groupwill hold its first meeting.

Grammar and Verbal Art (Please see Linguistics and theLanguage Arts)

History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and ScienceContact: Branden Fitelson, [email protected], or Johannes

Hafner, (510) 558-0545, [email protected]; orhttp://math.berkeley.edu/~jhafner/hplm/

The group provides a forum to discuss issues in the history ofmodern symbolic logic. In particular, the talks focus onthe role of modern symbolic logic in the foundations ofmathematics and in the research of philosophy of logicand mathematics.

History and Social Studies of Medicine and the BodyContact: Lara Freidenfelds, (510) 649-0591,

[email protected], or Tom Laqueur,[email protected]

HSSMB discusses a pre-circulated work in progress by amember of the group once a month over a potluck dinner,allowing an interdisciplinary group of participatinggraduate students, faculty and independent scholars toget feedback on their work and exchange ideas. Pleasecontact Lara Freidenfelds for more information aboutmeeting location and paper distribution, and to beincluded on the Med Heads email list.

Late September, date and location TBA. The group will hold itsfirst meeting.

September, date and location TBA. Medical Anthropologygraduate student Beverly Davenport will discuss achapter from her dissertation.

Identity in Central Asia (New Group)Contact: Cindy Huang , (415) 412-5331, [email protected],

or Ned Walker, (510) 642-6168,[email protected]

The group brings together faculty and students from thehumanities and social sciences to discuss contemporaryconfigurations of identity, including the question ofCentral Asia as a geographic space and unit of analysis.Meetings are held once a month and will alternatebetween guest speakers and graduate studentpresentations of a critical work within the field.

September 8 (Wednesday), 5:00 pm, 260 Stephens. The groupwill hold its first meeting.

Indo-European Language and Culture Working GroupContact: Deborah Anderson, (408) 255-4842,

[email protected]; http://www.indo-european.org/page4.html

The Indo-European Language and Culture Working Groupoffers a forum for the interdisciplinary study of ancientIndo-European languages, drawing on linguistics,archaeology, and mythology. The group hosts talks by avariety of speakers throughout the year.

Interdisciplianry Genocide Working Group (New Group)Contact: Jean-Pierre Karegeye, [email protected], or

Masumi Matsumoto, [email protected] Interdisciplianry Genocide working group will focus on

understanding and analyzing the phenomena of genocidethrough various disciplines and approaches.

Interdisciplinary MarxismContact: Annie McClanahan, [email protected], or Satyel

Larson, [email protected]

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Interdisciplinary Marxism is a reading group that meets twicea month to discuss writings in the marxist tradition,ranging from aesthetics to politics.

Interdisciplinary Studies in Landscape (New Group)Contact: Jo Guldi, [email protected], or Adriana Valencia,

[email protected] group will be organized around meetings, film screenings,

and lectures that deal with issues of space andarchitecture.

International Tebtunis Workshop (New Group)Contact: Todd Hickey, [email protected] is a forum for the dissemination and discussion of current

research on pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt. Specialemphasis is given to Tebtunis, one of the bestdocumented sites in the premodern Mediterranean, andthe source of some 30,000 papyri and 2,000 artifacts inBerkeley collections.

September. The group will hold its first meeting.

James Joyce Working Group (formerly Reading the Wake)Contact: Chris Eagle, [email protected] group meets weekly in 330 Wheeler for a lively group

discussion of Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. Scholars from alldisciplines are welcome. No prior knowledge of the bookis needed. Only your curiosity and a copy of the Wake isrequired. The group will also host colloquia on Joyceduring the academic year.

Late Antique Religion and Society (LARES)Contact: Thalia Anagnostopoulos,

[email protected] group provides an interdisciplinary forum for the

comparative study of religious texts in Late Antiquity.

Latin American Colonial StudiesContact: Brianna Leavitt, [email protected], or

Kinga Novak, [email protected] American Colonial Studies brings together an

interdisciplinary group to discuss contemporaryscholarly research and critically review participants’works-in-progress.

Late September, time and date TBA. Kristin Huffine willpresent.

Linguistics and the Language Arts (Formerly Grammar andVerbal Art)

Contacts: Jeremy Ecke, [email protected], or ZacharyGordon, [email protected]

Linguistics and the Language Arts is dedicated to exploringissues at the intersection of linguistics, literature, and thephilosophy of language. The group will be continuing itswork on poetic meter and its translations of the Frenchlinguist Jean-Claude Milner. The first meeting will be inOctober.

Material Cultures Working Group (New Group)Contacts: Sophie Volpp, [email protected], or Michael

Wintroub, [email protected] group meets monthly to discuss works in progress based

on material culture topics such as consumption,commoditization, notions of the gift and the fetish,collecting, and exchange.

Musical Analysis Reading Group (New Group)Contacts: Aaron Einbond, (510) 594-0264,

[email protected], or Alexander Kahn, (510) 486-1992, [email protected]

The Musical Analysis Reading Group discusses issues ofanalysis and theory in music of the past and present.Meetings take the format of a journal club, and studentsfrom all disciplines are welcome. First Meeting TBA.

The Muslim Identities and Cultures Working GroupContact: Huma Dar, [email protected], or Fouzieyha Towghi,

[email protected] Muslim Identities and Cultures Working Group is

interested in exploring Muslim identities and agenciesfrom the standpoint of race, gender, nationalism,geopolitics and culture. By examining the intersections ofcultures and religions, gender and nationalisms, thegroup creates a space where multiple discourses can beanalyzed and discussed in a scholarly fashion.

September 23 (Thursday), 5:00 pm, location TBA. The groupwill hold its first meeting.

New Directions in Oral HistoryContact: Jess Rigelhaupt, [email protected], (510)

642-7395, http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/ohwg.html

The purpose of the working group is to promote inquiry anddiscussion in an interdisciplinary format. Faculty,graduate students, undergraduates and staff from the UCcommunity, as well as people from the broadercommunity attend.

September 23 (Thursday), 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm, Stone Room,Bancroft Library. Giovanni Contini (Oral Historian in theState Archives of Tuscany, Italy; consultant for the ShoahFoundation) will speak on “A divided memory:Remembering the civilians’ massacres in 1944 Tuscanyduring World War II”

New Media Arts Working GroupContact: Zabet Patterson, [email protected], or

Meredith Hoy, [email protected]; http://newmedia.berkeley.edu

NMA seeks an interdisciplinary approach to the conceptual,aesthetic and practical issues within contemporary artmaking use of film, video, and digital technologies. Thegroup seeks to bring academic scholars together withartists and arts administrators to consider institutionalquestions surrounding the presentation, distribution, andarchiving of new media in museums and on the internet.

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Nineteenth-Century and Beyond British Cultural StudiesWorking Group

Contact: Mark Allison, mallison@ berkeley.eduThe group provides a forum for faculty and graduate students

to discuss works-in-progress on the literature and cultureof nineteenth-century Britain and its colonies. Pre-circulated papers investigate issues of aesthetics, politics,history, theory, and other current sites of academic focus,with occasional forays into the late eighteenth and earlytwentieth centuries.

Queer Visual Studies (New Group)Contact: Jeremy Melius, [email protected], or Justin

Underhill, [email protected] group seeks to establish a forum in which graduate

students from a variety of disciplines may discuss recenttrends in the queer theorization and historical study ofvisual experience and artifactual culture. Readings will bedrawn not only from contemporary scholarly andtheoretical texts but also from historical materials ofinterest to the group.

Late September, time and location TBA. The group will meet todiscuss organizational matters and John Paul Ricco’s TheLogic of the Lure.

Reading the Wake (Please see James Joyce Working Group)

Secularities and Religiosities (New Group)Contact: Peter Skafish, [email protected], or Katherine

Lemons, [email protected] group meets as a reading group and lecture series to

examine the origins and meaning of the category ofreligion itself, or about its relationship to the secular.

Silk Road Working GroupContact: Sanjyot Mehendale, (510) 643-5265,

[email protected], or Bruce C. Williams, (510) 642-2556, [email protected]

The group offers an interdisciplinary forum for faculty andstudents to discuss issues related to Central Asian andSilk Road cultures from the earliest times to the present.

South Asian Modernities: From Theorem to Terrain:Problems in Field and Archival Research in Modernity

Contact: Ruprekha Chowdhury, [email protected], orMichelle Morton, [email protected]

The graduate student group engages in exploring issues ofmodernity in South Asia while fosteringinterdepartmental and interdisciplinary discussionamong graduate students specializing in South Asia. Thisyear the group will serve as a forum for graduatestudents and faculty concerned with issues inmethodology while exploring the foundation of South

Asian archives in the work of scholars and the membersof the group.

Tourism Studies Working GroupContact: [email protected]; Stephanie Hom Cary,

or Naomi Leite-GoldbergThe Tourism Studies Working Group is a forum for cross-

disciplinary discussion of readings and work-in-progresson all aspects of tourism and travel, both in practice andin representation. The group sponsors a roundtablecolloquium series, organized around key themes intourism studies (e.g., modernity, gender, development,material culture, heritage, identity) and hosted by groupmembers and invited scholars.

Unicode, I18N, and Text Encoding Working GroupContact: Richard Cook, (510) 643-9910,

[email protected], or Deborah Anderson,[email protected]

This group is devoted to computerization of multilingualmaterials, specifically with regard to the promotion ofUnicode (the international character encoding standard)and general text encoding issues.

Visual Anthropology Group (New Group)Contact: Jenny Chio, [email protected], or Adelaide

Papazoglou, [email protected] group facilitates discussion and development of visual

media as an alternative form of discourse, and provides aforum in which graduate and undergraduate students,visiting scholars, and professors can engage the ways inwhich non-fiction film, video, multimedia installationand artistic enterprises can function not only as a mean ofexposition, but as an analytic tool in academic research.

September 15 (Wednesday), 6:00 pm, Gifford Room, KroeberHall. The group will hold its first meeting.

Visual Cultures Writing GroupContact: Tamao Nakahara, [email protected], or

Anne Nesbet, [email protected] group organizes graduate students and professors

working on any aspect of visual culture (such as art, film,popular culture) to meet and share feedback on a range ofwriting projects: chapters, articles, job applications, andgrant proposals.

September, time and location TBA. The group will hold its firstorganizational meeting to schedule presentations andworkshops.

Working Group in Religious Studies (New Group)Contact: Nancy Lin, [email protected], or Amanda Goodman,

[email protected] group meets as a reading group and lecture series to

facilitate discussion between graduate students ofdifferent disciplines working on various aspects ofreligion.

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Publication Activities • • •

Chronicle of the University of CaliforniaContact: Carroll Brentano, (510) 643-9210,

[email protected] Chronicle is an annual scholarly journal dedicated to the

history of the University.

Clio’s Scroll (New Group)Contact: Alejandra Dubcovsky, [email protected], or Leslie

Fales, [email protected]’s Scroll is the UC Berkeley History Undergraduate Journal.

The objective of the publication is to publish andencourage undergraduate research and involvement inhistory.

Critical SenseContact: [email protected]; past issues and

additional information may be found at http://criticalsense.berkeley.edu

Critical Sense is a semiannual interdisciplinary journal thatpublishes work in political and cultural theory bygraduate students in the United States andinternationally. Submissions may be emailed, or sent inhard copy to Critical Sense, Department of PoliticalScience, 210 Barrows Hall, University of California,Berkeley, California, 94720-1950.

September 16 (Thursday), 5:00 - 7:00 pm, 202 Barrows. CriticalSense issue release party. Critical Sense will be celebratingthe release of our most recent issue on “States ofEmergency,” which contains contributions to the subjectfrom political, historical, legal, and ethical perspectives,among others. Food, drink, and complimentary issueswill be provided.

Harvest MoonContact: David Cohn, [email protected] Moon is a Philosophy Journal which publishes only

undergraduate work and is completely run and edited byundergrads. The purpose of the journal is to expose to thegreater community the best philosophical work thatBerkeley undergrads have to offer. The journal printsonce a year in the spring.

Journal of the Association of Graduates in Near EasternStudies (JAGNES)

Contact: Abbas Kadhim, [email protected], or CyrusZargar, [email protected]; http://neareastern.berkeley.edu/jagnes/index.html

JAGNES is a graduate student run organization based in theNear Eastern Studies department. JAGNES publishes asemi-regular journal which includes graduate studentarticles covering a variety of topics related to the NearEast. JAGNES strives to create a dialog between graduatestudents from many different departments anduniversities studying a wide range of topics which allrelate to the Near East.

LuceroContact: Adam Shellhorse, [email protected], or Aurelie

Vialette, [email protected],; or http://socrates.berkeley.edu/uclucero

LUCERO is the literary journal published by the graduatestudents of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.Please visit the group’s web site for journal issues.

Qui ParleContact: Todd Cronan, [email protected], or Benjamin

Yost, bensy@ berkeley.edu; or http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~quiparle/

Qui Parle publishes bi-annually articles in literature,philosophy, visual arts, and history by an internationalarray of faculty and graduate students. The editors arecurrently seeking submissions from Berkeley graduatestudents in the humanities.

Direct all correspondence to Qui Parle, The Doreen B.Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall,University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720-2340.

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CALENDARLectures, Conferences and Other Events

wednesday, september 1Pacific Film ArchiveFilm: Performance Anxiety7:30 pm • PFA Theater

thursday, september 2Center for Studies in Higher Education“Glass Ceiling and Leaky Pipeline: Women and Sciencein Switzerland”Dr. Maya WidmerNoon • CSHE Library, South Hall Annex

Lunch PoemsCampus luminaries read and discuss theirfavorite poems12:10 pm • Morrison Room, Doe Library

Center for Middle Eastern StudiesFilm: The Cow5:00 pm • Sultan Room, 340 Stephens Hall

Pacific Film ArchiveFilm: Performance Anxiety5:30 pm • PFA Theater • Free

Berkeley Art MuseumEija-Liisa Ahtila/MATRIX 212 Intention to FailCurator ’s Talk: Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Kaja Silverman5:45 pm • Gallery 1

tuesday, september 7Center for the Study of Sexual Culture“New Gay Meccas and Plush Condos: Queer Lives, Violenceand Neoliberal Spatial Politics in the Global City”Martin Manalansan IV5:00 pm • 370 Dwinelle Hall

Pacific Film Archive“The Films of Morgan Fisher”Morgan Fisher in person7:30 pm • PFA Theater

Goldman School of Public Policy“An Evening with Richard Clarke”Richard Clarke with Michael Nacht and Steve Weber8:00 pm • Zellerbach Auditorium

wednesday, september 8Music Department Noon Concert Series32 Variations in C minor, Wo080 (Beethoven) and Sonata No. 1in G (Brahms), Jessie Lee, Garrett McLean and Inning ChenNoon • Hertz Hall

Center for the Study of Sexual Culture“Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora”Martin Manalansan IV and Lawrence CohenNoon • 3335 Dwinelle Hall

Pacific Film ArchiveFilm: Performance Anxiety7:30 pm • PFA Theater

thursday, september 9Institute of European StudiesConference: The Development of the U.S. and European Economiesin Comparative Perspective9:30 am - 6:00 pm • 223 Moses Hall

Classics DepartmentConference: Plato’s Republic: Problems and Prospects1:00 - 7:00 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall

Center for Middle Eastern StudiesFilm: The Cyclist5:00 pm • Sultan Room, 340 Stephens Hall

Pacific Film ArchiveFilm: A Nos Amours (Maurice Pialat) with Jean-Pierre Gorin7:30 pm • PFA Theater

friday, september 10Classics DepartmentConference: Plato’s Republic: Problems and Prospects9:00 am - 7:30 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall

Institute of European StudiesConference: The Development of the U.S. and European Economiesin Comparative Perspective9:30 am - 12:30 pm • 223 Moses Hall

saturday, september 11Classics DepartmentConference: Plato’s Republic: Problems and Prospects9:00 am - 6:00 pm • 370 Dwinelle Hall

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sunday, september 12Institute of East Asian Studies/Department of Music“Sho¯so¯-in Treasures: Reconstructing Musical Instruments”Toshiro Kido1:00 - 2:00 pm • Hertz Hall

Berkeley Art Museum“East/West Canvas: Questioning Beauty”Dance Performance: Sue Li Jue3:00 pm • Gallery B

monday, september 13Center for Latin American Studies“The Long Term Agricultural Effects of Economic and LandReforms in Chile, 1965–2000”Lovell S. Jarvis12:00 - 1:15 pm • CLAS, 2334 Bowditch Street

Office for History of Science and TechnologyBerkeley-UCSF Colloquium in History of Science, Technology,and MedicineElizabeth Watkins5:00 - 6:30 pm • 140 Barrows Hall

tuesday, september 14Medieval Studies“The Topography of the York Play”Ralph Hanna5:00 pm • Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall

Center for Latin American StudiesArtist’s Talk • Markets: Juanita Pérez-Adelman5:00 pm • CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street

Berkeley Art MuseumMember’s Preview Reception • Threshold: Byron Kim7:00 pm • Museum Theater

wednesday, september 15Music Department Noon Concert SeriesGoldberg Variations, J.S. Bach, Monica ChewNoon • Hertz Hall


thursday, september 16Berkeley Art MuseumCurator ’s Talk: Eugenie Tsai • Threshold: Byron Kim12:15 pm • Gallery 2

Medieval Studies“Reading Piers Plowman”Ralph Hanna4:00 pm • 330 Wheeler Hall

Center for Middle Eastern Studies“Retooling Democracy and Feminism for Today's Burdenof Empire”Saba Mahmood5:00 pm • Sultan Room, 340 Stephens Hall

Center for the Study of Sexual Culture“Psychoanalysis and the Aesthetic Subject”Leo Bersani5:00 pm • 370 Dwinelle Hall

Berkeley Art MuseumArtist’s Lecture • Threshold: Byron Kim7:00 pm • BAM Theater

friday, september 17Music Department“Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin”Dr. John Holloway4:30 pm • 125 Morrison Hall • Free

Pacific Film Archive7:00 pm • My House/Bokunchi9:30 pm • Peep "TV" Show

saturday, september 18Pacific Film Archive“Japanese Cinema Now”Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto3:30 pm • PFA Theater

Pacific Film Archive5:00 pm • Shara7:00 pm • Ramblers8:50 pm • Akame 48 Waterfalls

Image: In Front of Grunion Run, Byron Kim

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sunday, september 19Pacific Film Archive2:00 pm • Red Persimmons4:00 pm • Women in the Mirrorwith Daisuke Miyao7:00 pm • A Woman's Work / Travail

Berkeley Art MuseumMATRIX 213, Some Forgotten PlaceArtists’ Talks and Reception4:00 pm • Gallery 1

monday, september 20Townsend Center for the HumanitiesPostdoctoral Funding WorkshopChristina GillisNoon • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall

Philosophy DepartmentConference: Body and World: Merleau-Ponty on EmbodiedPerception and ActionTaylor Carman with Hubert Dreyfus4:00 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall

Berkeley Art MuseumCarl Heidenreich & Hans Hofmann in Post-war New YorkFilm: Land and Freedom7:00 pm • PFA Theater

Geography Dept/California Studies Dinner“By Word of Mouth: 50 Years of the Regional Oral History Office”Gray Brechin7:00 pm • Lewis/Latimer Room, Men’s Faculty Club

The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium“Representing the Real: A Merleau-Pontean Account of Art andExperience from the Renaissance to New Media”Sean Kelly7:30 - 9:00 pm • 160 Kroeber Hall

tuesday, september 21Philosophy DepartmentConference: Body and World: Merleau-Ponty on EmbodiedPerception and Action“Seeing things in Merleau-Ponty”Sean Kelly with Alva Noe4:00 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall

wednesday, september 22Music Department Noon Concert SeriesSonata for Cello and Piano, op. 6 (Barber), Ting Chin andSiu-Ting MakNoon • Hertz Hall

Philosophy DepartmentConference: Body and World: Merleau-Ponty on EmbodiedPerception and ActionSean Kelly with John Campbell4:00 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall

Institute of East Asian Studies“Is Taiwan Chinese? The Politics of National Identity”Thomas Gold, Melissa Brown and Dr. Jing Huang4:30 pm • IEAS Conf Rm, 2223 Fulton St, 6th Fl

Center for British StudiesAnnual Fall Reception5:00 pm • Toll Room, Alumni House


Department of ClassicsSather Classical Lecture Series“The Power of Mind: Thales of Anaxagoras”David Sedley8:10 - 9:10 pm • 2050 Valley Life Sciences Building

thursday, september 23New Directions in Oral History Working Group“A Divided Memory: Remembering the Civilians’ Masacres in1944 Tuscany during World War II”Giovanni ContiniNoon • Stone Room, Bancroft Library

Berkeley Art MuseumCurator’s Talk: Alla Efimova • Carl Heidenreich & Hans Hofmannin Post-war New York12:15 pm • Gallery A

Berkeley Art Museum“Carl Heidenreich and German Emigré Culture from the WeimarRepublic to Postwar New York”Martin Jay, Anne Wagner and Alla Efimova3:00 pm • Museum Theater

Image: Northwest Territory, James Morrison. From the Exhibit: SomeForgotten Places. Courtesy Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney.

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friday, september 24Berkeley Language Center“Insights into SLA from Less Familiar Settings”Leslie Moore3:00 pm • 370 Dwinelle Hall

sunday, september 26Jean Gray Hargrove Music LibraryGrand Opening, Concert, Dedication, and Reception9:00 am • 125 Morrison Hall/Hargrove Library

Pacific Film Archive“The McBoing Boing Revolution: UPA Cartoons and the Sellingof Fifties Cool”Russell Merritt5:30 pm • PFA Theater

monday, september 27Center for Social Justice“Racial Injustice in the War on Drugs”Vanita Gupta12:45 pm • 115 Boalt Hall

Center for South Asia Studies“Is There a New Indian City?”Partha Chatterjee5:00 pm • 112 Wurster Hall

Office for History of Science and TechnologyBerkeley-UCSF Colloquium in History of Science, Technology,and MedicineBruce Moran5:00 - 6:30 pm • 140 Barrows Hall

tuesday, september 28Townsend Center for the HumanitiesSeminar: “War Crimes, Brain Damage, and DisconcertingAspects in the Behavior of Flocks”Lawrence Weschler5:00 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall

wednesday, september 29Music Department Noon Concert SeriesPassacaglia (Webern) and Symphonic Dances from West SideStory (Bernstein), University Symphony Orchestra, DavidMilnes, directorNoon • Hertz Hall

Townsend Center for the Humanities“Vermeer in Bosnia”Lawrence Weschler7:00 pm • Location to be announced


Department of ClassicsSather Classical Lecture Series“Divine Beneficence : Empedocles to Socrates”David Sedley8:10 - 9:10 pm • 145 Dwinelle Hall

thursday, september 30Center for the Study of Sexual Culture/French Dept.Discussion with Didier Eribon and Eve Kosofsky SedgwickNoon • 370 Dwinelle Hall

Center for the Study of Sexual Culture“The Weather in Proust”Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick5:00 pm • Maude Fife Room, Wheeler Hall

Center for Middle Eastern StudiesFilm: Close-Up5:00 pm • Sultan Room, 340 Stephens Hall

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TOWNSEND CENTER EVENTS

Lawrence Weschler

Lawrence Weschler is the director of the New York Institute forthe Humanities at NYU, longtime New Yorker staff writer, andauthor of a dozen books, including “Mr Wilson’s Cabinet ofWonder,” “Robert Irwin: Getty Garden,” and now “Vermeer inBosnia.”

Tuesday, September 28Seminar: “War Crimes, Brain Damage, and Disconcerting

Aspects in the Behavior of Flocks”Reading: Chapter Three of “Vermeer in Bosnia: Cultural

Comedies and Political Tragedies”5:00 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall

Wednesday, September 29“Vermeer in Bosnia”7:00 pm • Location to be announced

In a war-wracked world, Vermeerretreated into a single room and,while conspicuously holding theterror at bay, invented a notion ofpeace grounded in theautonomous free agency of hisfellow human beings. Much aswe would like to believe so,however, artists have not always,

like Vermeer, been on the side of the angels.

Cosponsored by: The Graduate School of Journalism.

For further information visit:http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu.

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Postdoctoral Funding Workshop for GraduateStudents about to Complete the Ph.D.

Monday, September 20Noon • 220 Stephens Hall

The Townsend Center is pleased to welcome back ChristinaGillis, former associate director of the Townsend Center, to leada brownbag seminar on grantwriting geared toward graduatestudents seeking postdoctoral fellowships.

For further information contact: 643-9670.

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Image: Detail from The Astronomer, Vermeer.

The fall semester’s first exhibit in the Townsend Center gallerywill feature the work of two photographers, Mimi Chakarovaand Keli Dailey, documenting conditions in Eastern Europe. Itwill run from early September to mid-October.

What's On Her Mind?A story of sex trafficking in MoldovaMimi Chakarova

After the collapse of communism, over 200,000 young Moldovanwomen have been trafficked and sold abroad. Poverty anddesperation are the prevailing factors in this modern day fleshtrade. Chakarova's photographs examine the living conditionsin the villages of the poorest country in Europe. Olesea, a21-year-old young woman, was trafficked to Turkey andafter putting her pimp behind bars remains at a shelter fortrafficked women.

Assignment: BelarusKeli Dailey

These are images from a Belarus that simmers in Soviet-styleisolation. Through the hard mask of fatalism, stoicism,and acceptance, there are glimpses of a country yearning forany new direction, outside of the shadow of Russia andbeyond the reach of Europe’s last dictator, PresidentAlyaksandr Lukashenka.

For more details, please call 643-9670 or visit our web site:http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu.

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Image courtesy Mimi Chakarova.

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M A J O R L E C T U R E SM A J O R L E C T U R E S

An Evening with Richard Clarke

Conversations with Michael Nacht, Dean of the Goldman Schoolof Public Policy, and Steve Weber, Director of the Institute ofInternational Studies

Tuesday, September 7 • 8:00 pm • Zellerbach Auditorium

Long known as one of the hard-liners againstterrorists, Richard Clarke served the last threepresidents as a senior White House advisor. Hewas named the counterterrorism czar for bothBill Clinton and George W. Bush, and underBush he was also the Special Advisor to thePresident for Cyber Security.

Admission: $10 (General Public) and $5 (with UCB ID). Ticketsavailable at Zellerbach Ticket Booth (642-9998) and online at:http://www.calperfs.berkeley.edu/presents/ticket_office/how_to_order.php

Sponsored by: The Goldman School of Public Policy, the Instituteof International Studies, and the Office of the Chancellor.

For more information visit http://gspp.berkeley.edu or call 642-4670 or 643-4581.

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Department of ClassicsSather Classical Lecture Series

Creationism and Its Critics in AntiquityDavid Sedley, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy,University of Cambridge

The origins of the modern debate between evolutionists andcreationists lie in the classical world, and this crucial topic isthe focus of “Creationism and its Critics in Antiquity.”

Professor Sedley’s scholarly work hasextended over a wide range of topicsin ancient philosophy. He is anacknowledged leader of internationaldistinction in Hellenistic philosophy.With Tony Long (professor at Berkeleysince 1982), he coauthored theindispensable two-volume work TheHellenistic Philosophers (Cambridge1987).

Wednesday, September 22“The Power of Mind: Thales of Anaxagoras”8:10 - 9:10 pm • 2050 Valley Life Science BuildingReception to follow in the Morrison Library

Wednesday, September 29“Divine Beneficence: Empedocles to Socrates”8:10 - 9:10 pm • 145 Dwinelle Hall

Wednesday, October 6“Divine Craft: Plato”8:10 - 9:10 pm • 145 Dwinelle Hall

Wednesday, October 13“The Atomist Opposition”8:10 - 9:10 pm • 145 Dwinelle Hall

Wednesday, October 20“Aristotle’s Via Media”8:10 - 9:10 pm • 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building

Wednesday, October 27“Teleological Arguments: Socrates to Galen”8:10 - 9:10 pm • 145 Dwinelle HallReception to follow in the Morrison Library

For more information contact: 642-4218 or [email protected].

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Lunch PoemsThursdays • 12:10 pm • Morrison Room, Doe Library

September 2A range of campus luminaries read and discuss their favoritepoems.

This year’s line-up: Barbara Ertter (JepsonHerbarium), H. Mack Horton (East AsianLanguages), Amy Kautzman (DoeLibrary), Elaine Kim (Ethnic Studies), RayLifchez (Architecture), Cam NguyetNguyen (Southeast Asian Studies), Bob

Osserman (Mathematical Science Research Center), Laura Perez(Chicano Studies), John Prausnitz (Chemical Engineering), andFrank Worrell (Education).

For further information contact: 642-0137 [email protected].

Web site: http://lunchpoems.berkeley.edu.

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Center for Latin American StudiesBay Area Latin American ForumMondays • 12:00 - 1:15 pm • CLAS, 2334 Bowditch Street

September 13“The Long Term Agricultural Effects of Economic and LandReforms in Chile, 1965–2000”Lovell S. Jarvis, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis

October 4“Agricultural Trade Disputes and US Farm Subsidies:Implications for Latin America”Daniel A. Sumner, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis

October 18“Illiberal Democracy in Latin America”Peter H. Smith, Political Science/Latin American Studies,UC San Diego

October 25“Brazil, 2004: Environmental Challenges and Local Action”Estela Neves, CLAS visiting scholar

November 1“Suing Chevron/Texaco: Citizenship, Contamination, andCapitalism in the Ecuadorian Amazon”Suzana Sawyer, Anthropology, UC Davis

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Office for History of Science and TechnologyBerkeley-UCSF Colloquium in History ofScience, Technology, and MedicineMondays • 5:00 - 6:30 pm • 140 Barrows Hall

September 13Elizabeth Watkins, Anthropology, History and Social Medicine,UC San Francisco

September 27Bruce Moran, History, University of Nevada

October 11Michael Gordin, History, Princeton University

October 25Alison Winter, History, University of Chicago

November 1George Saliba, Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures,Columbia University

November 15Stephen Jacyna, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine,University College

December 6Suman Seth, Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University

Cosponsored by: Anthropology, History and Social Medicine,UC San Francisco.

For further information contact: Kate Spohr, 642-4581.

Abstracts of the talks will be posted at:http://ohst.berkeley.edu/ohst_events.html

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Center for Middle Eastern StudiesCMES Fall 2004 Lecture SeriesThursdays • 5:00 pm • Sultan Room, 340 Stephens Hall

September 16“Retooling Democracy and Feminism for Today’s Burdenof Empire”Saba Mahmood, Anthropology

October 7“Al-Ma’mun and Their Hieroglyphs”Michael Cooperson, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures,UCLA

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October 14“The Memory of Place in Modern Turkey and Greece”Eleni Bastea, School of Architecture and Planning, Universityof New Mexico

October 28“Post Colonialism in Tenth-Century Islam”Patricia Crone, School of Historical Studies, Institute forAdvanced Study, Princeton University

November 18“The Sources and Dynamics of Islamist ‘Political Learning’:Preliminary Findings From Egypt, Jordan, and Kuwait”Carrie Rosefsky Wickham, Political Science, Emory University

December 2“Cultural Syncretism, Globalism, and Traditionalism in theArabian Gulf”Nada Mourtada-Sabbah, Political Studies and InternationalRelations, American University of Sharjah, UAE

For further information contact: 642-8208 or visitwww.ias.berkeley.edu/cmes.

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The Art, Technology, and Culture ColloquiumMondays • 7:30 - 9:00 pm • 160 Kroeber Hall • Free

September 20“Representing the Real: A Merleau-Pontean Account of Art andExperience from the Renaissance to New Media”Sean Kelly, Philosophy, Princeton University

Other Speakers in the series:

Rirkrit Tiravanija, New York and ThailandEric Zimmerman and Kate Salem, NYCRachel GreeneDavid Byrne (tentative)Oron Catts, Australia

Sponsored by: Office of the Chancellor, Center for New Media,College of Engineering Interdisciplinary Studies Program,Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society,Consortium for the Arts, BAM/PFA, Doreen B. TownsendCenter for the Humanities, and the Intel Corporation.

For updated information visit: www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/lecs/ or contact: [email protected], or 643-9565.

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Berkeley Language Center Fall 2004Lecture SeriesFridays • 3:00 - 5:00 pm • 370 Dwinelle Hall

September 24“Insights into SLA from Less Familiar Settings”Leslie Moore, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for InformalLearning and Schools, UC Santa Cruz

October 15“Heteroglossia in Foreign Language Classrooms: Research,Debates, and Issues”Patricia Duff, Language and Literacy Education, University ofBritish Columbia

November 5Panel Discussion: “Gesture in Language Learning”Irene Mittelberg, Ph.d Candidate, Linguistics, Cornell UniversityEve Sweetser, Linguistics

December 10Instructional Development Research Projects

Ellen Rosenfield, GSI, Teaching & Resource CenterLihua Zhang, East Asian Languages and CulturesMark Nelson, GSR, EducationVictoria Somoff, GSR, Slavic Languages and LiteraturesRenee Perelmutter, GSR, Slavic Languages and Literatures

Cosponsored by: The College of Letters and Science and byBerkeley’s eight National Resource Centers under a Title VI grantfrom the U.S. Department of Education.

For further information contact: 642-0767 or visit http://blc.berkeley.edu.

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Image courtesy: Office for History of Science and Technology.

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Medieval Studies“Reading Piers Plowman”

Thursday, September 164:00 pm • 330 Wheeler Hall

Ralph Hanna, Paleography, Keble College, OxfordModerated by graduate students in English

RELATED LECTURE

Tuesday, September 14“The Topography of the York Play”5:00 pm • Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall

Individual discussions with Professor Hanna may also bearranged; for this or any other questions about ProfessorHanna’s visit, please contact Professor Anne Middleton [email protected].

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Berkeley Art Museum“Carl Heidenreich and German Emigré Culturefrom the Weimar Republic to Postwar New York”

With the world’s largest public collectionof Hans Hofmann paintings, BAM/PFAtakes an ongoing interest in exploring theeffects of Hofmann’s teaching on hisstudents and colleagues. On view in theHofmann Gallery is a selection of worksby Carl Heidenreich in an exhibition thatexamines the work of these two German-born artists in America. Carl Heidenreich’sart has not been publicly shown for threedecades. The exhibition is a first step inshowing Heidenreich’s art so that it can be

meaningfully read.

Thursday, September 233:00 pm • Museum Theater

PANELISTS

Martin Jay, HistoryAnne Wagner, History of ArtAlla Efimova, Judah L. Magnes Museum

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Institute of East Asian Studies“Is Taiwan Chinese? The Politics ofNational Identity”

Wednesday, September 224:30 pm • IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Fl.

PANELISTS

Thomas Gold, SociologyMelissa Brown, Anthropology, Stanford UniversityDr. Jing Huang, Brookings Institution

For further information contact: Kaja Sehrt,[email protected].

Web site: http://ieas.berkeley.edu/events/2004.09.22.html.

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Music DepartmentJean Gray Hargrove Music LibraryGrand Opening Celebration

Sunday, September 269:00 am - 12:00 pm • 125 Morrison Hall

SPEAKERS

Daniel HeartzDavitt MoroneyRobert Orledge, Liverpool UniversityKlara Moricz, Amherst College

CONCERT

A concert of Italian music by Corelli and Tartini, frommanuscripts in the library's collection

John Holloway, violin, Elisabeth LeGuin, cello, and DavittMoroney, harpsichord

2:15 - 3:00 pm • 125 Morrison Hall

DEDICATION CEREMONY & RECEPTION

3:15 - 5:00 pm • Hargrove Library

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Image: Untitled (Frame), Heidenreich. Collection of RichardBuxbaum.

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C o n f e r e n c e sC o n f e r e n c e s

Institute of European StudiesThe Development of the U.S. and EuropeanEconomies in Comparative PerspectiveThursday - Friday, September 9 - 10

Thursday, September 99:30 am - 6:00 pm • 223 Moses Hall

Opening remarks by Barry Eichengreen and Dieter Stiefel

“Europe’s Welfare State”Peter Lindert, UC DavisDiscussant: J. Pisani-Ferry, Université Paris-Dauphine

“Migration, Labour Market and Migrants - Integration inEurope: A Comparison with the U.S.”Rainer Münz, Vienna and Hamburg Institute of InternationalEconomicsDiscussant: Giovanni Peri, UC Davis

“The Evolution of Corporate Ownership in the United States”Brad DeLongDiscussant: Klaus Gugler, University of Vienna

“Development of European Competition Policy”Andreas Resch, University of Economics and BusinessAdministration, ViennaDiscussant: Dan Rubinfeld

“A Comparative Perspective on Technology Regimes andProductivity Growth in Europe and the U.S.”Bart van Ark, University of GroningenDiscussant: Bronwyn Hall

“Technology and Regional Development”Bob Margo, VanderbiltDiscussant: Michael Landesmann, wiiw, Vienna

Friday, September 109:30 am - 12:30 pm • 223 Moses Hall

“Industrialisation and Urbanisation in the U.S.”Sukkoo Kim, Washington UniversityDiscussant: Jan Pieter Smits, University of Groningen

“Economic Policy Contrasts across the Atlantic”Jean Pisani-Ferry, Université Paris-DauphineDiscussant: Jonah Levy

“Old and New Conflicts of Interest between the U.S. and Europe,1945–2003”Michael Gehler, University of InnsbruckDiscussant: Ron Hassner

Organized by UC Berkeley’s Institute for European Studies, theAustrian Marshall Fund Foundation, and the Vienna Institutefor International Economic Studies (wiiw) in the framework ofthe Berkeley-Vienna Program. Support from the AustrianMarshall Plan Foundation is gratefully acknowledged.

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Classics DepartmentPlato’s Republic: Problems and ProspectsThursday - Saturday, September 9 - 11

Thursday, September 91:00 - 7:00 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall

Conference IntroductionJohn Ferrari, Classics

“The Place of the Republic in Plato’sPolitical Thought”Christopher Rowe, University ofDurham

“What Kind of Book is the Republic?”Harvey Yunis, Rice University

“The Setting, the Characters, the Conversational Dynamic”David O’Connor, University of Notre Dame

“The Question of Justice”Aryeh Kosman, Haverford College

Buffet reception (general) follows immediately

Friday, September 109:00 am - 7:30 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall

“Wise Guys and Smart Alecks in Books 1 and 2”Roslyn Weiss, Lehigh University

“Censorship and the Noble Lie”Malcolm Schofield, Cambridge University

“The Tripartite Soul”John Ferrari, Classics

“Eros in the Republic”Paul Ludwig, St. John’s College, Annapolis

“Is the Republic a Utopian Work?”Donald Morrison, Rice University

“Philosophy, the Forms, and the Art of Ruling”David Sedley, Cambridge University

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Saturday, September 119:00 am - 6:00 pm • 370 Dwinelle Hall

“Sun and Line: The Role of the Good”Nicholas Denyer, Cambridge University

“Education In and Through Kallipolis”Mitchell Miller, Vassar College

“Timocrat, Oligarch, Democrat, Tyrant: the City-Soul Analogy”Norbert Blossner, Freie Universitat, Berlin

“The Unhappy Tyrant and the Craft of Inner Rule”Richard Parry, Agnes Scott College

“The Myth of Er”Stephen Halliwell, University of St. Andrews

Open to the public; no registration required.

For a conference program visit: http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/classics/generaldocs/platoconf.html

For further information contact: John Ferrari [email protected].

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Philosophy DepartmentBody and World: Merleau-Ponty onEmbodied Perception and ActionMonday - Wednesday, September 20 - 22

In his famous book Phenomenology ofPerception, the great twentieth-centuryFrench philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1907-1961) criticized thetraditional conceptions of perception andaction as the mind’s way of representingthe world and then causing the body toact on the basis of those representations.Drawing on work in Gestalt therapy,painting, and pathologies of perception

and action, he argued that embodied human beings are not onlydirectly in touch with their spatio-temporal situation, but thatthey actively contribute to its constitution.

This view, which privileges our body over other objects in theworld, yet intimately connects it to the world, has been foundto be of great use in Architecture, Film Studies, History,Neuroscience, Philosophy, Psychology, and other disciplineswhere the environment, the actors, and their activities affect andare affected by one another. The advent of digitally mediatedsensing, tele-presence, and tele-action make Merleau-Ponty’s

work of great relevance to media artists, educators, journalists,filmmakers, game designers, and architects of virtual worlds.

Monday, September 20

“Husserl and Merleau-Ponty on the Body in Action”Taylor Carman, Barnard/ColumbiaIntroduction and comments by Hubert Dreyfus4:00 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall

“Merleau-Ponty on Cezanne and Film”Sean Kelly, Princeton UniversityIntroduction and comments by Ken Goldberg7:30 pm • 160 Kroeber Hall

Tuesday, September 21

“Seeing things in Merleau-Ponty”Sean Kelly, Princeton UniversityComments by Alva Noe4:00 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall

Wednesday, September 22

“The Logic of Motor Intentionality”Sean Kelly, Princeton UniversityComments by John Campbell4:00 pm • Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall

Sponsored jointly by: The Center for New Media, Philosophy,and the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities.

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E X H I B I T I O N SE X H I B I T I O N S

Berkeley Art Museum Exhibitions

Eija-Liisa Ahtila/MATRIX 212: Intention to Failthrough September 5, 2004

Carl Heidenreich and Hans Hofmann in Post-war New Yorkthrough October 3, 2004

The Korean Potterthrough October 24, 2004

Within Small See Large: Rocks in ChinesePainting and Woodblock Printingthrough October 24, 2004

Figurationsthrough January 22, 2006

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Center for Latin American Studies

MarketsJuanita Pérez-AdelmanAugust 30 - December 10, 2004

Tuesday, September 14Artist’s Talk and Opening Reception5:00 pm • CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street

For exhibit hours please call 642-2088.

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Hearst Museum of Anthropology

Tesoros Escondidos: Hidden Treasures from the Mexican CollectionsSeptember 16, 2004 - June 26, 2005

The Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology unveils itsholdings from the country of Mexico. The 250 items selectedfor the exhibition are prized examples culled from the permanentcollection and were chosen especially for their craftsmanship,rarity, age, and sheer beauty. With few exceptions, these artifactshave never before been publicly exhibited. The exhibit opens tothe public on Mexican Independence Day, September 16. Newselections will be added to the presentation during the year.

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Berkeley Art Museum Programs

Thursday, September 2Eija-Liisa Ahtila/MATRIX 212, Intention to FailCurator’s Talk: Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson and Kaja Silverman5:45 pm • Gallery 1

Sunday, September 12East/West Canvas: Questioning BeautyDance Performance: Sue Li Jue3:00 pm • Gallery B

Tuesday, September 14Byron Kim/ThresholdMember’s Preview Reception7:00 pm • Museum Theater

Thursday, September 16Byron Kim/ThresholdCurator ’s Talk: Eugenie Tsai12:15 pm • Gallery 2

Thursday, September 16Byron Kim/ThresholdArtist’s Lecture7:00 pm • Museum Theater

Sunday, September 19MATRIX 213, Some Forgotten PlaceArtists’ Talks and Reception4:00 pm • Gallery 1

Monday, September 20Carl Heidenreich & Hans Hofmann in Post-war New YorkFilm: Land and Freedom (Ken Loach)7:00 pm • PFA Theater

Thursday, September 23Carl Heidenreich & Hans Hofmann in Post-war New YorkCurator ’s Talk: Alla Efimova12:15 pm • Gallery A

Thursday, September 23Carl Heidenreich & Hans Hofmann in Post-war New YorkPanel: Martin Jay, Anne Wagner and Alla Efimova3:00 pm • Museum Theater

Tickets: $8, free to UC staff, faculty and students.For further information contact: 643-6494.

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Image from the exhibit: Within Small See Large.

P E R F O R M A N C E SP E R F O R M A N C E S

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Music DepartmentNoon Concert SeriesNoon • Hertz Hall • Free

Wednesday, September 832 Variations in C minor, Wo080, Beethoven

Jessie Lee, pianoSonata No. 1 in G, Brahms

Garrett McLean, violin, and Inning Chen, piano

Wednesday, September 15Goldberg Variations, J.S. Bach

Monica Chew, piano

Wednesday, September 22Sonata for Cello and Piano, op. 6, Barber

Ting Chin, cello, and Siu-Ting (Dickson) Mak, piano

Wednesday, September 29Passacaglia, WebernSymphonic Dances from West Side Story, Bernstein

University Symphony Orchestra, David Milnes, director

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Music DepartmentJean Gray Hargrove Music LibraryGrand Opening CelebrationSunday, September 26

Symposium“Celebrating Treasures in the Hargrove Music Library”9:00 am - 12:00 pm • 125 Morrison Hall

Daniel HeartzDavitt MoroneyRobert Orledge, Liverpool UniversityKlara Moricz, Amherst College

Concert2:15 - 3:00 pm • 125 Morrison Hall

Dedication Ceremony & Reception3:15 - 5:00 pm • Hargrove Library

Related Lecture“Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin”Regents’ Lecturer Dr. John Holloway

Friday, September 174:30 pm • 125 Morrison Hall • Free

John Holloway is one of the world’s leading violinistsspecializing in the baroque repertoire. Many of his recordingshave received international prizes. Trained in England, he nowteaches in Dresden, Germany, but his performing and teachingcareer takes him all over the world. During his visit to Berkeleyhe will be working on his book Violin Playing in Seventeenth- andEighteenth-Century Music.

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Image: Music department logo. Image courtesy: Office for History of Science and Technology.

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Center for Middle Eastern StudiesContemporary Iranian CinemaThursdays • 5:00 pm • Sultan Room, 340 Stephens Hall

September 2The Cow (Dariush Mehrjui)

September 9The Cyclist (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)

September 30Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)

December 9The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)

For further information contact: 642-8208 or visit:www.ias.berkeley.edu/cmes.

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Pacific Film ArchiveMaurice PialatFriday - Thursday, September 3 - 30

A retrospective tribute to the great Frenchdirector Maurice Pialat, who was describedin Cahiers du Cinéma as “Renoir’s true heirtoday” for his commitment to naturalismand unaffected cinema. Whether workingwith stars like Gérard Depardieu, Sandrine

Bonnaire (a Pialat discovery), and Isabelle Huppert or with little-known actors, he achieved a rare intimacy and authenticity inportraying life in France’s less glamorous quarters.

Thursday, September 9A nos amours, with introduction by Jean-Pierre Gorin, UC SanDiego7:30 pm • PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way

Other films in the series include:Naked Childhood, We Won't Grow Old Together, Turkish, Chronicles,A nos amours, The Mouth Agape, Police, Graduate First, FrenchChronicles and Early Shorts, The House in the Woods, Loulou, UnderSatan's Sun, Le Garçu, Van Gogh

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F I L M A C T I V I T I E SF I L M A C T I V I T I E S

Pacific Film ArchivePerformance AnxietyWednesdays • 7:30 pm • PFA TheaterThursday, September 2 • 5:30 pm • PFA Theater • Free

Performance Anxiety offers up major works by five pioneeringperformance/video artists of the seventies, skewing them withlatter-day exercises by the generations that followed.

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Pacific Film Archiveneo-eiga: New Japanese CinemaFriday - Sunday, September 17 - 19

The fourth neo-eiga festival will presentBay Area premieres of award-winningworks that illuminate the multiple realitiesof 21st-century Japan. This year ’s festivalbrings a new film by a major sixties New

Wave director, Kiju Yoshida, together with works by excitingyounger talents.

Friday September 177:00 • My House / Bokunchi (Junji Sakamoto)9:30 • Peep "TV" Show (Yutaka Tsuchiya)

Saturday September 18“Japanese Cinema Now”Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, East Asian Studies, NYU3:30 pm • Free

5:00 pm • Shara / Shara-souju (Naomi Kawase)7:00 pm • Ramblers / Riarizumu no yado (Nobuhiro Yamashita)8:50 pm • Akame 48 Waterfalls / Akame shijuyataki shinjumisui

(Genjiro Arato)

Sunday September 192:00 pm • Red Persimmons / Manzan benigaki (Shinsuke Ogawa,

Peng Xiaolian)4:00 pm • Women in the Mirror / Kagami no onnatachi (Kiju

Yoshida), introduced by Daisuke Miyao, PostdoctoralFellow, Film Studies

7:00 pm • A Woman's Work / Travail (Kentaro Otani)

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For more information about films at the Pacific Film Archive,visit www.bampfa.berkeley.edu or call 642-1412.

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Image from: The House in the Woods, Pialat. Image from: A Woman’s Work, Kentaro Otani.

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ANNOUNCEMENTSANNOUNCEMENTS

Call for Papers22nd Annual Conference on Southeast Asia StudiesFebruary 4 - 5, 2005UC Berkeley

“Commodities, Old, New, and Natural: Producing People and‘Resources’ in Southeast Asia”

The conference is organized around the theme of thecommodification of people, resources, and the environment inthe making of modern Southeast Asia. The question thatanimates this conference theme is: "What are the difference andsimilarities between production regimes of 'old' and 'new'commodities in the region?" Papers may address any of thevarious dimensions of the political-economy or cultural politicsof "natural" commodities including commodified bodies,agricultural or environmental resources, and land, such as theevolving spatial relations of production, changes in laborregimes/processes, issues of gender, race, ethnicity, andcitizenship as they relate to the commodification process,violence (broadly defined) and resource production, or thereemergence of land reform in regional and national politics.

Established scholars and graduate students in agrarian studies,environmental studies, geography, history, sociology,anthropology, and political science are especially encouragedto apply. The conference organizers hope to select a subset ofthe papers for inclusion in an edited volume or an appropriateguest-edited journal. Some funds may be available for travel.

Abstracts of no more than 250 words for proposed papers aredue August 31, 2004. Proposals should include institutionalaffiliation and full contact information. All applications andrequests for information should be directed to:

Center for Southeast Asia Studies2223 Fulton St., No. 617Berkeley CA 94720-2318Tel. (510) 642-3609; Fax (510) 643-7062E-mail: [email protected]://ias.berkeley.edu/cseas

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Upcoming Funding Deadlines

Once again, we urge faculty and graduate students to rememberthe fall deadlines for fellowship funding for the academic year2005–2006, some of which fall as early as October 1, 2004. TheTownsend Center provides a list of fellowship programs on ourweb site and in print:http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu.

Graduate students seeking dissertation funding are urged toconsult the Graduate Division: www.grad.berkeley.edu.

Faculty are reminded especially of the President’s ResearchFellowships in the Humanities. For a description of the fellowshipand application materials, visit www.ucop.edu/research/prfh.

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Residential Fellowships 2005-2006Virginia Foundation for the Humanities

New Application Deadline: October 15, 2004

The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities supports work onthe humanities in the public interest. Each fellowship sessionwelcomes senior and junior faculty, independent scholars, andother professionals, including librarians, curators, writers,andjournalists. The mixture of subjects and personalities at theCenter gives it a lively, challenging atmosphere. We welcomeproposals on subjects of public interest in any field of thehumanities. We particularly encourage projects on the SouthAtlantic United States, Folk Culture, African American Studies,Virginia History and Culture, and Violence and Survival.

All Fellows have University of Virginia faculty status while inresidence. As visiting faculty, fellows have access to allUniversity of Virginia research and recreational facilities, on-site library delivery, departmental and University lecture series,events, and activities, and university faculty housing.

Stipends up to $17,000 per semester are provided; summerFellows usually receive travel funds only.

Residencies may be one semester, one year, or summer.Applicants need not have advanced degrees, but the VFH doesnot support work toward a degree. Postdoctoral applicants arestrongly encouraged to apply for projects other than dissertationrevisions. Former VFH Fellows must wait three years beforeapplying for another fellowship. We welcome proposals foraffiliation with the community and office space (withoutstipend).

For more information, visit www.virginiafoundation.org or e-mail [email protected].

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announcements

Townsend Center ListservThe Townsend Center listserv enables its members to announceto one another (via e-mail) lectures, calls for papers, conferences,exhibits, and other events.

To subscribe or unsubscribe to the list,• Visit http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/listservs.html andfollow the directions, or• Send an e-mail message to [email protected] either ”subscribe” or ”unsubscribe” in the message subject.

To post an announcement, send an e-mail message [email protected] and give a specific subject heading.

Townsend Center Web Sitehttp://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu

• Information on the Center’s funding programs for UCBerkeley affiliates.

• The monthly calendar of on-campus humanities events.• The Occasional Papers in Acrobat Reader format for

downloading.• The year’s special initiatives and visitors.• information on other national and international humanities

funding sites.• Current and archive editions of the Townsend Center

Newsletter for downloading.• Instructions for subscribing to the listserv to receive and post

announcements of campus events.• The listserv archives of past campus events in a searchable

database.• Information on the Center’s Working Groups.• Fellowship and grant program applications for downloading.

Newsletter NotesThe Townsend Center Newsletter is published six times a year.Free copies are available at the Center. PDF versions can bedownloaded free at http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/newsletters.html. UC Berkeley faculty and staff may havenewsletters sent to their campus addresses. Copies are availableto graduate students through their departmental graduateassistants. The Center asks for a $15.00 donation to coverpostage and handling of newsletters sent to off-campusaddresses. Please send to the Center a check or money ordermade out to UC Regents and indicate that you wish to receivethe newsletter. Additional donations will be used for supportfor ongoing Townsend Center programs.

Copy deadline for the October 2004 newsletter will beSeptember 3, 2004. For inclusion of public events, please submitinformation to Aileen Paterson, [email protected].

TOWNSEND CENTER

Townsend Conference and Lecture Grants

The Townsend Center welcomes proposals for conferences orother larger-budget activities, according to the schedule ofdeadlines below. Please note that Conference Grants fundexpenses for events happening at UC Berkeley; we do not fundtravel to events that are held elsewhere.

Proposals should be in the form of a letter, which should include:

1. a description of the project and its significance 2. a proposed budget and 3. a specific dollar request

Send proposals to:

Conference Grants Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities 220 Stephens Hall, MC2340 University of California Berkeley, CA 94720

Requests for smaller grants for visiting lecturers ($150–300) areaccepted on a continuing basis.

Requests for grants of over $500 for conferences or other activityshould follow the schedule of deadlines below.

Schedule of Deadlines for Townsend Conference GrantsThe Townsend Center welcomes proposals for conferences orother larger-budget activities according to a schedule of threedeadlines per year. Please note that proposals should besubmitted in time for adequate planning of the event.

September 15, 2004Final deadline for conferences taking place October 2004 throughFebruary 2005; proposals for conferences scheduled Marchthrough June 2005 may also be submitted at this time.

February 16, 2005 (tentative)Final deadline for conferences taking place March throughJune 2005. First deadline for events taking place at any time in2005–2006.

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TOWNSEND CENTERABOUT THE

The Doreen B. TownsendCenter for the Humanities220 Stephens Hall # 2340University of California

Berkeley, CA 94720HG-09

Non-Profit OrganizationU.S. Postage PaidUniversity of California

DOREEN B. TOWNSENDCENTER FOR THE

HUMANITIESTel. (510) 643-9670Fax (510) 643-5284

[email protected]://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu

Director:Candace Slater

Associate Director:Matthew Tiews

Manager:Anne Uttermann

Programs and PublicationsCoordinator: Aileen Paterson

Working Groups Coordinator:Nari Rhee

Established in 1987 through the vision and generous bequestof Doreen B. Townsend, the Townsend Center gathers thecreative and diverse energies of the humanities at Berkeleyand enables them to take new form for new audiences. TheCenter’s programs and services promote research, teaching,and discussion throughout the humanities and relatedinterpretive sciences at Berkeley.

Web SITE RELAUNCH

http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu

The Townsend Center for the Humanities is pleased

to announce the relaunch of its web site for academic year 2004–2005.

At the instigation of Acting Director Tom Laqueur, the site was redesigned

in the spring of 2004 to reflect the Center’s energy and vitality

in a vibrant, dynamic web presence.

We welcome your feedback as we continue to

make enhancements during the year.

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