https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/events/religion-and-art-novel
Religion and the Art of the Novel | Townsend Center for the Humanities
Author Marilynne Robinson is joined in discussion by UC Berkeley faculty panelists Dorothy Hale (English), Jonathan Sheehan (History), and Robert Hass...
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https://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/programs/working-group/ladinojudeo-spanish-working-group
Ladino/Judeo-Spanish Working Group | Townsend Center for the Humanities
The Ladino/Judeo-Spanish working group is a space for having conversation in and sharing ongoing work about Ladino, the endangered language of the Sephardic...
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https://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/publications/what-makes-culture-black
What Makes Culture Black? | Townsend Center for the Humanities
Professor Bryan Wagner considers how the concept of blackness creates problems for anyone who wants to talk about it as founding a tradition and outlines how...
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https://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/funding/graduate-professional-development
Graduate Professional Development | Townsend Center for the Humanities
The Townsend Center sponsors several types of graduate student workshops throughout the year on topics such as public speaking, publishing advice, and...
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https://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/blog-author/zoe-forest
Zoe Forest | Townsend Center for the Humanities
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https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/publications/sounding-lines-art-translating-poetry
Sounding Lines: The Art of Translating Poetry | Townsend Center for the Humanities
Sounding Lines captures a vibrant exchange between Nobel poet Seamus Heaney, author of a new translation of Beowulf, and Robert Hass, Poet Laureate and...
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https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/events/spiral-trapped-forever-war
Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War | Townsend Center for the Humanities
George W. Bush's War on Terror has led to seventeen years of armed conflict, making it the longest war in US history. Professor Mark Danner examines this state...
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https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/publications/occasional-papers/archives
Occasional Papers Archive | Townsend Center for the Humanities
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https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/content/publicizing-your-event
Publicizing Your Event | Townsend Center for the Humanities
UC Berkeley Events Calendar The Townsend Center calendar of campus events is a part of the UC Berkeley Calendar Network.
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https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/events/japanese-literature-very-short-introduction
Japanese Literature: A Very Short Introduction | Townsend Center for the Humanities
Alan Tansman traces the rich history of Japanese literature, which encompasses a vast range of forms and genres stretching back nearly 1500 years.
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https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/programs/working-group/thinking-andean-studies-landscape-language-culture
Thinking Andean Studies: Landscape, Language, Culture | Townsend Center for the Humanities
The Thinking Andean Studies: Landscape, Language, Culture working group aims to provide a space for students, faculty, and community members interested in the...
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https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/events/trouble-literature
The Trouble with Literature | Townsend Center for the Humanities
Victoria Kahn argues that the literature of the English Reformation (written during the fraught years of the late 16th and 17th centuries) marks a turning...
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https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/fellows/polina-barskova-0
Polina Barskova | Townsend Center for the Humanities
Polina Barskova is at work on a book project examining a corpus of literary texts by members of the Second Wave of Russian emigration, who left the Soviet...
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https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/fellows/eric-stanley
Eric Stanley | Townsend Center for the Humanities
Eric Stanley studies racialized anti-trans/queer violence, aesthetics, and forms of captivity in the United States. Stanley's current book assembles a theory...
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https://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/books/seeing-theater
Seeing Theater | Townsend Center for the Humanities
This is the first book to approach the visuality of ancient Greek drama through the lens of theater phenomenology. Gathering evidence from tragedy, comedy,...
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https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/publications/critical-views-essays-humanities-and-arts
Critical Views: Essays on the Humanities and the Arts | Townsend Center for the Humanities
This volume commemorates the twenty-fifth year of the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities and captures the breadth and depth of lectures and events...
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https://givingday.berkeley.edu/giving-day/90821/department/90974
Big Give 2025 | Townsend Center for the Humanities
Giving Day Powered by ScaleFunder
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https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/events/james-joyce-and-matter-paris
James Joyce and the Matter of Paris | Townsend Center for the Humanities
Catherine Flynn explores the ways in which James Joyce's imaginative consciousness was shaped by the paradigmatic city of European urban modernity.
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https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/events/penultimates-now-and-not-yet
Penultimates: The Now and the Not-Yet | Townsend Center for the Humanities
In his wry meditation on aging, Thomas Farber memorializes lost friends and takes the measure of our current moment.
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https://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/programs/working-group/contemporary-feminism
Contemporary Feminism | Townsend Center for the Humanities
The Contemporary Feminism working group provides a forum for discussing recent feminist books, articles, films, and exhibitions from a variety of disciplinary...
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https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/media/thinking-about-composition
Thinking about Composition | Townsend Center for the Humanities
In the second of a series of conversations, we focus on the "how" of composition by bringing together a group of master practitioners working across a wide...
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https://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/programs/working-group/francophone-studies
Francophone Studies | Townsend Center for the Humanities
The Francophone Studies Working Group fosters interdisciplinary conversation on the French colonial empire and its aftermath.
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https://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/events/artificial-intelligence-and-translation
Artificial Intelligence and Translation | Townsend Center for the Humanities
Behrooz Ghorbani, Cathy Park Hong, and Hoyt Long discuss how artificial intelligence has impacted literary translation. How might AI increase the creative...
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https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/fellows/chenxi-tang-0
Chenxi Tang | Townsend Center for the Humanities
Chenxi Tang is working on a project entitled "Two Worlds: The Idea of China vs. the Idea of Europe Across Time." The first volume deals with three main periods...
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https://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/events/forms-mediation
Forms of Mediation | Townsend Center for the Humanities
Amanda Hughen, MFA candidate in the Department of Art Practice, explores the boundaries between the natural and the synthetic through patterns formed from...
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https://grad.berkeley.edu/organizer/townsend-center-for-the-humanities/?eventDisplay=past
Townsend Center for the Humanities - Berkeley Graduate Division
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Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley - The Humanities Institute
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https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/media/avenali-lecture-eelco-runia
Avenali Lecture with Eelco Runia | Townsend Center for the Humanities
Avenali Chair Eelco Runia's lecture "The Theory of the Accomplished Fact" or, as he calls it, "Red Queen History" (after the evolutionary hypothesis named for...
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https://cstms.berkeley.edu/topics/townsend-center-humanities
Townsend Center for the Humanities | Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society
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https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/media/sharad-chari
Sharad Chari | Townsend Center for the Humanities
In Apartheid Remains (Duke, 2024), Sharad Chari (Geography) explores how people handle the remains of segregation and apartheid in South Africa as witnessed...
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https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/media/seamus-heaney-poet-playwright
Seamus Heaney, Poet & Playwright | Townsend Center for the Humanities
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https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/events/maggie-nelson-writer
Maggie Nelson, Writer | Townsend Center for the Humanities
Maggie Nelson, a 2016 MacArthur Fellow, is the author of numerous works of nonfiction and poetry, including The Argonauts, an autobiographical account that...
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https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/media/writers
Bear's-Eye View Writers | Townsend Center for the Humanities
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https://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/books/modernisms-inhumane-worlds
Modernism's Inhumane Worlds | Townsend Center for the Humanities
Modernism's Inhuman Worlds explores the centrality of ecological precarity, species indeterminacy, planetary change, and the specter of extinction to modernist...
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https://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/fellows/mary-ann-doane
Mary Ann Doane | Townsend Center for the Humanities
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https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/events/behaviorism-consciousness-and-literary-mind
Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind | Townsend Center for the Humanities
What might behaviorism, that debunked school of psychology, tell us about literature? Joshua Gang argues for its enormous critical value for thinking about why...
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Townsend Center for the Humanities
Supporting the Humanities at UC Berkeley
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https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/art-writing
Art of Writing | Townsend Center for the Humanities
The Art of Writing helps prepare undergraduates to write lucidly, directly, and eloquently in a variety of styles. At the heart of the program, seminars create...
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https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/programs/working-group/armchair-ethnography
Armchair Ethnography | Townsend Center for the Humanities
The Armchair Ethnography working group attends to the filmic mediation of social worlds.
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https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/events/amanda-anderson-0
Amanda Anderson | Townsend Center for the Humanities
Amanda Anderson is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English and director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University.
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https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/directions
Directions | Townsend Center for the Humanities
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https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/fellows/jessy-nyiri
Jessy Nyiri | Townsend Center for the Humanities
Jessy Nyiri explores the moral problems and panics by which transsexuality has become widely legible in global politics. Her dissertation, "Transsexual...
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https://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/programs/redress
Redress | Townsend Center for the Humanities
The Strategic Working Group on Redress opened up a critical dialogue on questions of injury, justice, and closure that have yet to be posed within the...
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https://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/events/ocean-vuong
Ocean Vuong | Townsend Center for the Humanities
Ocean Vuong, the 2023-24 Avenali Chair in the Humanities, reads from his latest poetry collection, Time is a Mother, written in the aftershocks of his mother's...
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