Events
Week of Events
Sunday, November 10, 2013
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Monday, November 11, 2013
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
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November 13, 2013 -Karla Mallette: "'A narcocracy of language': The Cosmopolitan Language Against Translation"
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November 13, 2013 -An Evening with Peter Kenez, Murray Baumgarten, and Lee Jaffe
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November 13, 2013 -Bettina Aptheker: "The Meaning of Freedom of Speech: Surveillance, Incarceration & the Politics of the First Amendment"
Karla Mallette: "'A narcocracy of language': The Cosmopolitan Language Against Translation"
Karla Mallette is currently working on a monograph, tentatively titled Lives of the Great Languages, which is a theoretical study of the cosmopolitan language system: the trans-regional and trans-historical mega-languages that were the literary media of cultural life in the pre-modern Mediterranean. Karla Mallette is Associate Professor, Italian and Near Eastern Studies at the University […]
An Evening with Peter Kenez, Murray Baumgarten, and Lee Jaffe
Please join us for a celebration of two recently published books: The Coming of the Holocaust: From Anti-Semitism to Genocide by Peter Kenez, and The Jewish Street: The City and Modern Jewish Writing by Murray Baumgarten and Lee Jaffe. The authors will discuss their books, copies of which will be available for sale and signing. […]
Bettina Aptheker: "The Meaning of Freedom of Speech: Surveillance, Incarceration & the Politics of the First Amendment"
Bettina Aptheker co-led the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley in 1964. She will give a brief retrospective and then consider the different ways in which race, gender, class, and sexuality effect the exercise of freedom of speech as a collective right established by the First (and Fourteenth) amendments. Bettina will clarify the difference between […]
Thursday, November 14, 2013
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November 14, 2013 -Rachel Chrastil: "Inventing Humanitarianism: Gender and the Civilian Male in Besieged Strasbourg"
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November 14, 2013 -Philosophy Colloquium with Seth Yalcin: "Epistemic Modality De Re"
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November 14, 2013 -Morton Marcus Poetry Reading: Naomi Shihab Nye
Rachel Chrastil: "Inventing Humanitarianism: Gender and the Civilian Male in Besieged Strasbourg"
In August 1870 the Prussians and their German allies laid siege to the French city of Strasbourg and bombed the city center, killing and wounding civilian men, women and children. The siege gave rise to the first instance of wartime international humanitarian aid to civilians. This talk examines the experience of that aid from the […]
Philosophy Colloquium with Seth Yalcin: "Epistemic Modality De Re"
I describe some new puzzles about the interaction of epistemic modality with quantification. I offer to dissolve the puzzles using a nonstandard kind of situation semantics. On the theory I develop, possibilities are partial, and quantification involves tacit modality. (Ph.D., MIT) Professor Yalcin works primarily in the philosophy of language, though his research extends to […]
Morton Marcus Poetry Reading: Naomi Shihab Nye
Thresholds and Breaking Points The writers in this series will present across multiple genres, to include poetry, fiction, criticism, and various hybrid genres. Each will explore ways that language tests thresholds of culture, race, nation, sex, gender, and desire through the creative imagination. Central to each will be how these thresholds are performed, tested, broken, […]
Friday, November 15, 2013
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November 15, 2013 -Translation and Mediterranean Culture Conference
Translation and Mediterranean Culture Conference
The Mediterranean Seminar UCMRP Fall Workshop and Conference will be held in conjunction with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California Berkeley on Friday and Saturday, November 15 and 16, 2013. The theme of the Conference (November 15) is Translation and Mediterranean Culture. We […]
Saturday, November 16, 2013
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November 16, 2013 -UC Mediterranean Studies Multi-campus Research Project Fall Workshop
UC Mediterranean Studies Multi-campus Research Project Fall Workshop
The Mediterranean Seminar UCMRP Fall Workshop and Conference will be held in conjunction with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California Berkeley on Friday and Saturday, November 15 and 16, 2013. The theme of the Conference (November 15) is Translation and Mediterranean Culture. We […]