Note: due to two unfortunate cancellations, the session originally planned for Tuesday evening, June 25th, will not take place. The workshop will begin Wednesday morning. All conference events will take place in Humanities 1, Room 210. Wednesday, June 26th 10:00–11:30 David Hyder (University of Ottawa) “Time and object in Transcendental Deduction §24” Moderator: Dennis Des […]

Dr. Nicole Stahlmann, Director of Fellowship Programs at the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), will host an information session at 1:00 PM in the Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall at UC Berkeley. This presentation will provide an overview of ACLS funding opportunities for faculty and advanced graduate students, and include information on research proposal […]

Daniel Sack, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Program Officer in the Division of Research Programs, will provide an overview of NEH programs and initiatives, offer strategies for application writing, and facilitate a mock peer review panel session. NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, […]

In this talk, Professor Bueno will propose an empiricist account of visual evidence in the sciences and examine the role it plays in scientific representation (particularly, in microscopy). To motivate the view, a critical examination of Bas van Fraassen's empiricist proposal will be provided. Otávio Bueno is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy […]

Intervening in populist, Occupy Wall Street discourses about the subprime crisis and its remedies, this talk critically uncovers Manna Hata from Manhattan. Offering a long genealogical view of the militarized dispossession, genocide, and enslavement of Native peoples in order to problematize the subprime crisis as a signifier of racism, this talk focuses on territorial expansion, […]

Oct 3-5, UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis, UC Berkeley. This conference is a pendant to the recent UK conference on Militant Politics and Poetry at Birkbeck College (Saturday, 18 May […]

Joanne Barker will be lead a seminar followed by a Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) program building discussion. Please register to obtain the seminar readings. Joanne Barker (Lenape ) […]

The direct object relation is a relation of central importance in syntactic theory and so it was an important moment when the nature of that relation was re-thought in a […]

A space for grad students and recent Ph.D.'s to think through the multiple career options we can explore amidst a declining tenure track job market. We will invite professionals in administrative academic, non-profit, arts administration, tech, ed-tech, digital humanities, and secondary education careers to join our two-day unstructured conference. Planned sessions will include a C.V. […]

Archival montage, science fiction, and an homage to 70s feminist filmmaking are woven together to form this haunting and lyrical essay film excavating hidden histories of childbirth in the twentieth century. Assembling an extraordinary archive of over 100 educational, industrial, and medical training films (including newly rediscovered Soviet and French childbirth films), The Motherhood Archives […]