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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... the art oftownsend centerreligionnovelhumanities 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... working grouptownsend centerfor theladinospanish 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... townsend centerfor themakescultureblack 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... graduate professionaltownsend centerfor thedevelopmenthumanities https://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/blog-author/zoe-forest Zoe Forest | Townsend Center for the Humanities townsend centerfor thezoeforesthumanities 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... the art oftranslating poetrytownsend centersoundinglines 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... the forever wartownsend centerspiraltrappedhumanities https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/publications/occasional-papers/archives Occasional Papers Archive | Townsend Center for the Humanities occasional paperstownsend centerfor thearchivehumanities 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. your eventtownsend centerfor thehumanities 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. a very short introductionjapanese literaturetownsend centerfor the 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... townsend centerfor thethinkingandeanstudies 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... townsend centertroubleliteraturehumanities 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... polina barskovatownsend centerfor thehumanities 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... townsend centerfor theericstanleyhumanities 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,... townsend centerfor theseeingtheaterhumanities 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... humanities and artsessays ontownsend centercriticalviews https://givingday.berkeley.edu/giving-day/90821/department/90974 Big Give 2025 | Townsend Center for the Humanities Giving Day Powered by ScaleFunder big givetownsend centerfor thehumanities 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. james joyceand thematter oftownsend center 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. the nownot yettownsend centerhumanities 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... townsend centerfor thecontemporaryfeminismhumanities 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... thinking abouttownsend centerfor thecompositionhumanities 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. francophone studiestownsend centerfor thehumanities 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... artificial intelligencetownsend centerfor thetranslationhumanities 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... townsend centerfor thechenxitanghumanities 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... townsend centerfor theformsmediationhumanities https://grad.berkeley.edu/organizer/townsend-center-for-the-humanities/?eventDisplay=past Townsend Center for the Humanities - Berkeley Graduate Division center for the humanitiestownsendberkeleygraduatedivision https://thi.ucsc.edu/venue/townsend-center-uc-berkeley/ Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley - The Humanities Institute center for the humanitiesuc berkeleydoreentownsendinstitute 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... townsend centerfor thelectureeelcohumanities https://cstms.berkeley.edu/topics/townsend-center-humanities Townsend Center for the Humanities | Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society center for the humanitiesscience technologytownsendmedicinesociety 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... townsend centerfor thesharadcharihumanities https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/media/seamus-heaney-poet-playwright Seamus Heaney, Poet & Playwright | Townsend Center for the Humanities seamus heaneytownsend centerfor thepoetplaywright 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... maggie nelsontownsend centerfor thewriterhumanities https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/media/writers Bear's-Eye View Writers | Townsend Center for the Humanities eye viewtownsend centerfor thebearwriters 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... townsend centerfor themodernisminhumaneworlds https://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/fellows/mary-ann-doane Mary Ann Doane | Townsend Center for the Humanities mary anntownsend centerfor thedoanehumanities 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... and thetownsend centerbehaviorismconsciousnessliterary https://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/ Townsend Center for the Humanities Supporting the Humanities at UC Berkeley townsend centerfor thehumanities 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... art of writingtownsend centerfor thehumanities 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. townsend centerfor thearmchairethnographyhumanities 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. amanda andersontownsend centerfor thehumanities https://live-townsend-center-d8.pantheon.berkeley.edu/directions Directions | Townsend Center for the Humanities townsend centerfor thedirectionshumanities 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... townsend centerfor thejessynyirihumanities 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... townsend centerfor theredresshumanities 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... ocean vuongtownsend centerfor thehumanities