◈ Homepage — http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/Skip to main content Header Links - Additional UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Header Links JOIN OUR EMAIL LIST DONATE ROOM REQUESTS SEARCH Main navigation ABOUT EVENTS WORKING GROUPS FELLOWS ART OF WRITING BOOKS MULTIMEDIA FUNDING Previous Next Exhibition Michael Foucault: History of Madness Drawings by Patrick Chambon Through mid-May 2026, 220 Stephens   MORE 0123 SUPPORTING THE HUMANITIES AT UC BERKELEY MEET NEW A&H FACULTY Juliana Ramírez Herrera, a new faculty member in History of Art, specializes in the arts and archaeology of the Indigenous Americas. She addresses the relationship between Indigenous material culture and Western art history, with a special interest in the ethical challenges of researching material that is primarily looted.   More about Juliana FEATURED WORKING GROUP The Townsend Center is pleased to support Clio’s Scroll, the Berkeley undergraduate history journal, which celebrates its 45th anniversary. Produced twice yearly by students in the Department of History, the journal provides undergraduates with the opportunity to publish outstanding historical scholarship.   All Working Groups CAMPUS HUMANITIES EVENTS Film Screening – “Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press” Michel Foucault: Histoire de Folie (History of Madness) MFA Artists’ Talk Film and Video Makers at Cal: Works from the Eisner Competition More Events FACULTY BOOKS Previous Next CONJURING THE BUDDHA JACOB P. DALTON More Books DEADLINES CONFERENCE & LECTURE GRANTS Sep 25, 2026 PUBLIC SPEAKING FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS Oct 2, 2026 CONFERENCE & LECTURE GRANTS Feb 19, 2027 CONFERENCE & LECTURE GRANTS May 7, 2027 All Upcoming Deadlines RAMONA NADDAFF HONORED Ramona Naddaff, associate professor of Rhetoric and founding director of the Art of Writing program since 2015, has been awarded the Daniel E. Koshland, Jr. Distinguished Chair in Writing in recognition of her immense contributions to the teaching of writing on the Berkeley campus.   Read the Article TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720   |   510 643-9670   |   [email protected] Accessibility   |   Nondiscrimination  |   Privacy © 2025 UC Regents ◈ Interior Pages — 55 pages crawledListen | Townsend Center for the Humanities Skip to main content Toggle navigation Header Links - Additional UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Header Links Join Our Email List Donate Room Requests Townsend Center for the Humanities Search Search Toggle navigation Main navigation About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Multimedia Main menu About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Listen The Townsend Center’s audio archive highlights past lectures, conversations, and podcasts that the Center has supported throughout the years. Ian Duncan Berkeley Book Chats Podcast May 13, 2020 Ellen Oliensis Berkeley Book Chats Podcast Apr 29, 2020 Catherine Flynn Berkeley Book Chats Podcast Mar 4, 2020 Beth Piatote Berkeley Book Chats Podcast Feb 26, 2020 Leslie Kurke Berkeley Book Chats Podcast Feb 12, 2020 Anne Walsh Berkeley Book Chats Podcast Jan 29, 2020 Grace Lavery Berkeley Book Chats Podcast Dec 4, 2019 Sugata Ray Berkeley Book Chats Podcast Nov 20, 2019 Carlo Rotella Craft: How Writers, Musicians, Athletes, and Others Cultivate Their Talent Nov 19, 2019 Thinking about Composition Podcast Oct 25, 2019 Mark Schapiro Berkeley Book Chats Podcast Oct 23, 2019 Stephen Best Berkeley Book Chats Podcast Oct 16, 2019 Alva Noë Berkeley Book Chats Podcast Oct 2, 2019 Michael Lucey Berkeley Book Chats Podcast Sep 25, 2019 Timothy Hampton Berkeley Book Chats Podcast Apr 17, 2019 Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Next page ›› Last page Last » TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720   |   510 643-9670   |   [email protected] Accessibility   |   Nondiscrimination   |   Privacy © 2025 UC Regents Berkeley Book Chats | Townsend Center for the Humanities Skip to main content Toggle navigation Header Links - Additional UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Header Links Join Our Email List Donate Room Requests Townsend Center for the Humanities Search Search Toggle navigation Main navigation About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Events Main menu About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Berkeley Book Chats The Townsend Center presents a lunchtime series celebrating the intellectual and artistic endeavors of the UC Berkeley faculty. Each Berkeley Book Chat features a faculty member engaged in conversation about a recently completed publication, performance, or recording. The series highlights the extraordinary breadth and depth of Berkeley’s academic community. Past Events Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture Benjamin Saltzman Berkeley Book Chats Wednesday, Apr 29, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Why do we look away from the suffering of others, cover our faces in shame, and lower our heads in grief? Benjamin Saltzman explores these gestures in art, poetry, and philosophy as an essential language for our uncomfortable engagements with the world. Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America Sarah Gold McBride Berkeley Book Chats Wednesday, Mar 18, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall In Whiskerology, named a New Yorker Best Book of the Year, Sarah Gold McBride offers a surprising history of human hair in nineteenth-century America — where length, texture, color, and coiffure became powerful indicators of race, gender, and national belonging. Chantal Akerman: Filmmaker and Philosopher Andreja Novakovic Berkeley Book Chats Wednesday, Mar 11, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Andreja Novakovic offers the first philosophical study of Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman's deeply personal body of work. Lineages of the Global City: Occult Modernism and the Spiritualization of Democracy Shiben Banerji Berkeley Book Chats Wednesday, Mar 4, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Shiben Banerji explores the forgotten history of the occult foundations of the early 20th-century global city. The Many Names of Anonymity: Portraitists of the Canton Trade Berkeley Book Chats Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Examining how Western art history has misconstrued names and identities in Chinese art, Winnie Wong proposes new ways of studying anonymity, copying, and the emergence of author names in the long 18th century. Movable Londons: Performance and the Modern City Berkeley Book Chats Wednesday, Feb 11, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Julia Fawcett looks to the Restoration theater to understand the emergence of London as a modern city after the Great Fire of 1666. The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising Berkeley Book Chats Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall How might a 21st-century revolution against class society succeed? Jasper Bernes synthesizes from a history of failure the key criteria for success. Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI Berkeley Book Chats Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Nina Beguš explores how literature, history, and art can deepen our understanding of artificial intelligence and guide us toward a more thoughtful future for AI. Roman Comedy against the Subject Mario Telò Berkeley Book Chats Wednesday, Nov 19, 2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall In his exploration of plays named after objects, Mario Telò offers a new approach to the politics of familial and social relations in Roman comedy. Concrete Encoded: Poetry, Design, and the Cybernetic Imaginary in Brazil Nathaniel Wolfson Berkeley Book Chats Wednesday, Nov 5, 2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Nathaniel Wolfson shows how the concrete movement in art and poetry — which burst onto Brazil’s cultural stage in the 1950s, during a dizzying period of modernization — presciently grappled with an emerging information age. Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Next page ›› Last page Last » TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720   |   510 643-9670   |   [email protected] Accessibility   |   Nondiscrimination   |   Privacy © 2025 UC Regents Occasional Papers Archive | Townsend Center for the Humanities Skip to main content Toggle navigation Header Links - Additional UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Header Links Join Our Email List Donate Room Requests Townsend Center for the Humanities Search Search Toggle navigation Main navigation About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Multimedia Main menu About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Occasional Papers Archive Occasional Papers Euthanasia Policy in the Netherlands Bert Keizer, Michael Rabow, and Patricia Benner Apr 2005 In March 2004, in collaboration with the Center for Medicine, Humanities, and Law, the Townsend Center sponsored a week-long residency with Dutch physician and writer Bert Keizer. Dr. Keizer is particularly known for his book, Dancing with Mr. D. , a personal account of his work with the terminally ill in an Amsterdam critical care facility. Cannabis, Forgetting, and the Botany of Desire Michael Pollan, Ignacio Chapela, Cathy Gallagher, and Patricia Unterman Nov 2002 Cannabis, Forgetting, and the Botany of Desire includes the proceedings of several events scheduled by the Townsend Center in celebration of Michael Pollan's residency as Avenali Lecturer for the 2002 Fall Semester. This Occasional Paper includes transcripts of the public lecture Pollan gave as well as the comments of a panel organized to explore the environmental impact of food production in general. Migrations: The Work of Sebastião Salgado Sebastião Salgado, T.J. Clark, Orville Schell, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Candace Slater, and Michael Watts Feb 2002 Migrations: The Work of Sebastião Salgado was one of several events scheduled by the Townsend Center in celebration of Sebastião Salgado's residency as Avenali Lecturer for academic year 2001–2002. Planned to complement the Berkeley Art Museum exhibit, Salgado’s lecture—reproduced here in a slightly edited form—was followed the next day by a panel of commentators whose remarks are also included in this Occasional Paper. Complex Histories, Contested Memories: Some Reflections on Remembering Difficult Pasts Eva Hoffman Sep 2000 Eva Hoffman considers the current preoccupation with memory—as opposed to its referents (history, experience)—and particularly with memory of the Holocaust. She proposes that the intense absorption with memory has largely emerged from the “second generation,” i.e., from those for whom the Holocaust (or other disturbing pasts) has been a crucially formative event, yet one that they themselves did not experience. Seeing the Difference: Conversations on Death and Dying Christina Gillis, ed. Jun 2000 Seeing the Difference brings together the texts of a two-day institute on death and dying, aimed at facilitating an interdisciplinary conversation between artists, humanists, and medical practitioners. The project proceeds from a doubled sense of “difference”: a view of death as separation or “difference,” and an acknowledgement that the various disciplines also view death “differently,” developing languages that are too often particular to their own fields. Traditions of Conversion: Descartes and His Demon Anthony Grafton Nov 1999 Traditions of Conversion historicizes and texturizes Descartes’ conversion with a vibrant inquiry into early modern European conversion narratives. In the end, Grafton effectively troubles Descartes’ self-portrait as the embodiment of disembodied reason with an examination of Descartes’ autobiographical notes, which record that the foundations of his new philosophy lay not in reason but in a dream. Carnal Knowledge Wendy Doniger Oct 1999 Wendy Doniger explores how the concepts of carnal knowledge and carnal ignorance — the result of sexual betrayal, infidelity, and lies about sexual identity — are expressed in the Hebrew Bible, ancient Sanskrit literature, Shakespeare, and contemporary Hollywood film. In particular, she investigates the tension between carnal knowledge and carnal ignorance as it is expressed in the mythology of the bedtrick (that is, sex with someone who pretends to be someone else). On Politics and Literature Kenzaburô Ôe Apr 1999 In "The Language of Masao Maruyama," he focuses on the problem of political responsibility in the modern world, taking Maruyama’s major work as his point of departure. In a second (unrelated) lecture, "From the Beginning to the Present, and Facing the End: The Case of One Japanese Writer," Ôe offers an account of his own development as a writer of both fiction and non-fiction. Sounding Lines: The Art of Translating Poetry Seamus Heaney and Robert Hass Feb 1999 Sounding Lines captures a vibrant exchange between Nobel poet Seamus Heaney, author of a new translation of Beowulf , and Robert Hass, Poet Laureate and translator of Czeslaw Milosz. In this meandering conversation, Heaney and Hass trace the modulations of meaning generated in the art of translation. Old Age as Lifestyle in an Active Society Stephen Katz Feb 1999 Stephen Katz examines contemporary, commercially produced images of aging and associated seniors-oriented marketing strategies, suggesting that, as such images circulate and acquire representational validity, they obscure our view of the material realities of living, aging, and dying. Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Next page Next › Last page Last » TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720   |   510 643-9670   |   [email protected] Accessibility   |   Nondiscrimination   |   Privacy © 2025 UC Regents Public Speaking for Graduate Students | Townsend Center for the Humanities Skip to main content Toggle navigation Header Links - Additional UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Header Links Join Our Email List Donate Room Requests Townsend Center for the Humanities Search Search Toggle navigation Main navigation About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Funding Main menu About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Public Speaking for Graduate Students Lura Dolas (Senior Continuing Lecturer Emerita and former head of the UC Berkeley Acting Program) conducts a two-session, in-person workshop to help graduate students deliver job talks and professional presentations clearly, confidently, and persuasively. The workshops offer techniques for neutralizing stage fright, identifying naturally expressive behavior, achieving personal connection in virtual presentations, and replacing flat jargon with engaging language. Exercises to expand vocal range and improve eye contact and use of gesture will enhance both live and virtual audience rapport. These workshops provide a safe, constructive environment to promote individual participation. In the first meeting, participants are given a series of exercises to enhance presentation of self and material. In the second, participants may present a short sample of a job talk or professional presentation for individual coaching. Workshop dates: Friday, October 16, 2026 | 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Friday, October 23, 2026 | 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Townsend Center for the Humanities 220 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley N.B.: Students must attend both in-person sessions and commit to the entire six and a half hours over two consecutive Fridays. Eligibility UC Berkeley PhD students who have advanced to candidacy and are entering the job market, broadly conceived. Admission is limited. Priority will be given to students in the arts and humanities and other humanistic disciplines. Deadline Oct 2, 2026 11:59 pm To apply, complete and submit the Graduate Student Public Speaking Workshop Application . Public Speaking for Graduate Students TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720   |   510 643-9670   |   [email protected] Accessibility   |   Nondiscrimination   |   Privacy © 2025 UC Regents Bear's-Eye View Writers | Townsend Center for the Humanities Skip to main content Toggle navigation Header Links - Additional UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Header Links Join Our Email List Donate Room Requests Townsend Center for the Humanities Search Search Toggle navigation Main navigation About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Multimedia Main menu About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Bear's-Eye View Writers CURRENT WRITER Tyler Tang is a sophomore from Chicago, Illinois, studying English and political economy. His academic and creative interests center on creative writing, poetry, and political theory. Outside of academics, he enjoys running, playing volleyball, reading, and spending time on the Glade.   PAST WRITERS Mikaela O’Brien is a senior from San Diego, CA, studying English and Mathematics. Her academic and creative interests center on autobiographical writing and cultural criticism, particularly as they engage with identity, trauma, philosophy, and love. In her free time, she enjoys swimming, reading, baking, and solving crossword puzzles.   Emma Murphree is a senior from Monterey, CA, studying English and rhetoric. Her research interests primarily concern new media and the way it changes our relationships to truth, pedagogy, and the environment. She likes going to the movies, cooking, and tidepooling.    Grace Nelligan is a senior in UC Berkeley’s English department. She is currently drafting her thesis on Thoreau and contemporary nature writing. A San Francisco native, Grace enjoys reading, biking, and exploring new music.      Ella Eun-He Platts , a freshman from New Jersey, plans to study Comparative Literature with concentrations in English and French. In her free time, she enjoys watching movies, reading, and hiking.     Mai Corkins , from Alameda, CA, is a senior double-majoring in English and Dance. She is interested in American folklore and folk traditions (especially in music and dance) and in the ways that these traditions cross over with literature and carry knowledge of the past. In her free time, she enjoys reading, swing dancing, and baking.   Layla Nasseri , a freshman from Los Angeles, California, is a double-major in Legal Studies and Comparative Literature with concentrations in French and Latin. Her academic and research interests are centered in engaging with art and media through the intersecting lenses of advocacy, identity, and social reform.   Though she came to UC Berkeley as an architecture student, sophomore Thea Berman decided she wanted the humanities to be at the center of her undergraduate experience, and she shifted her focus to the study of rhetoric and political science.    Zoe Forest is a junior double-majoring in comparative literature and history. The first event she ever attended at the Townsend Center focused on how humanities graduate students can present their research to a general audience, and since then she has been motivated to use her work to transmit the importance of the humanities. She covered Townsend Center events in Spring and Fall 2018 and again in Fall 2020.    Caitlyn Jordan , a senior from Granite Bay, California, is majoring in English and double-minoring in human rights and creative writing. She was first introduced to the Townsend Center's as a student in an Art of Writing seminar and continues to explore the humanities as a writing tutor with the Student Learning Center and a member of the Dean's Leadership Team in the Arts and Humanities.    Erin Haar , a sophomore from Moorpark, California, is majoring in American studies and minoring in journalism. Her interest in the humanities and social sciences first blossomed after she completed an independent research project on the relationships between mothers, daughters, cosmetics, and self-esteem. She hopes to continue exploring the humanities through the Townsend Center and her courses at UC Berkeley. 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Each semester our undergraduate humanities writers soak up the wealth of humanities programs and events, and write about what they've learned. Memory in Parts Tyler Tang May 14, 2026 A visit to BAMPFA's retrospective on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha becomes a meditation on displacement, memory, and the unexpected connections formed when strangers interpret art together. Domains Not Dominion Tyler Tang May 6, 2026 Layli Long Soldier 's reading at UC Berkeley showed how her work goes beyond protest or survival, rooting Indigenous resistance in love and belonging to reclaim Native culture as something living — not just a monument to suffering. To the Father of a Mother Tyler Tang Mar 20, 2026 Poet Aracelis Girmay explores the liminal space between tragic loss and new life in her newest book of poetry, drawing upon her personal exploration of the natural entanglement between an aging parent and her newly born child. Love and Liberation Mikaela O'Brien Dec 15, 2025 "The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson" featured a panel on art and advocacy with Tourmaline , Eric Stanley , and Angela Davis . The Poetics of Apology Mikaela O'Brien Dec 12, 2025 At UC Berkeley’s Native Community Center Brandi Bushman considers the apology as a rhetorical form, with a particular focus on Layli Long Soldier’s poetry collection Whereas. Isabel Allende on Writing Toward Salvation Mikaela O'Brien Dec 2, 2025 Author and activist Isabel Allende talks with Dean Sara Guyer of the Division of Arts & Humanities about feminism, philosophy, love, and survival. 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Townsend Center for the Humanities 220 Stephens Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-2340 The Townsend Center is located in Stephens Hall — just south of the Campanile (Sather Tower) — in UC Berkeley's central campus. Directions Accessibility If you require accommodation for effective communication or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in our public programming, please contact Townsend Center access coordinator Michaela Byrne at  [email protected]  at least 7 days in advance of the event. Contact Information (510) 643-9670 [email protected] The best way to reach us is via email. 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Townsend Dissertation Fellowships Mellon Sawyer Dissertation Research Fellowship 2026-27 Public Speaking Workshop Conference & Lecture Grants Designing a Writing-Based Course Townsend Working Groups Summer Writing Institute and Daniel E. Koshland, Jr. Fellowships Townsend Honors Thesis Workshop Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing Workshop Students TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720   |   510 643-9670   |   [email protected] Accessibility   |   Nondiscrimination   |   Privacy © 2025 UC Regents Past Avenali Lectures | Townsend Center for the Humanities Skip to main content Toggle navigation Header Links - Additional UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Header Links Join Our Email List Donate Room Requests Townsend Center for the Humanities Search Search Toggle navigation Main navigation About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Events Main menu About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Past Avenali Lectures Avgi Saketopoulou in Conversation Avenali Lecture Tuesday, Oct 7, 2025 5:00 pm | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Avgi Saketopoulou , the 2025-26 Avenali Chair in the Humanities, engages in conversation with UC Berkeley faculty members Paola Bacchetta , Eric Stanley , and Damon Young . Avgi Saketopoulou Fighting Fire with Fire: Aesthetics, Exigent Sadism, Insurgency Avenali Lecture Monday, Oct 6, 2025 5:00 pm | Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall Psychoanalyst and scholar Avgi Saketopoulou , the 2025-26 Avenali Chair in the Humanities, is the author of Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia. Jamaica Kincaid In Conversation with Stephen Best Avenali Lecture Wednesday, Mar 12, 2025 5:00 pm | Zellerbach Playhouse Jamaica Kincaid , one of the most celebrated writers of her generation, is the 2024-25 Avenali Chair in the Humanities. She talks with Townsend Center director Stephen Best . Ocean Vuong Poetry Reading Avenali Lecture Friday, Apr 5, 2024 5:00 pm | BAMPFA, 2155 Center Street 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 death. Ocean Vuong, Writer In Conversation with Cathy Park Hong Avenali Lecture Thursday, Apr 4, 2024 5:00 pm | BAMPFA, 2155 Center Street Ocean Vuong , author of the celebrated novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous , is the 2023-24 Avenali Chair in the Humanities. He talks with poet Cathy Park Hong. Sianne Ngai Inhabiting Error: From "Last Christmas" to "Senior’s Last Hour" Avenali Lecture Wednesday, Mar 1, 2023 5:00 pm | Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall Cultural theorist and literary critic Sianne Ngai is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at the University of Chicago. Joy Harjo, Writer When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through Avenali Lecture Wednesday, Feb 24, 2021 4:00 pm | Online Joy Harjo is the 23rd US Poet Laureate, and the first Native American to hold the position. She is joined in conversation by poet Craig Santos Perez to discuss her literary antecedents and pathbreaking editorial work. Jill Lepore, Historian The End of Knowledge: From Facts to Data Avenali Lecture Wednesday, Feb 19, 2020 5:00 pm | Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at the New Yorker . Todd Gitlin The Other 1968s: Counterrevolution, Communism and Desublimation Avenali Lecture Monday, Nov 5, 2018 6:30 pm | BAMPFA, 2155 Center Street In his exploration of a watershed political year, Todd Gitlin unearths a "thrust toward retrogression" that stands in stark contrast to the popular image of 1968 as a politically progressive moment. Joseph Leo Koerner, Art Historian Art in a State of Siege: Bosch in Retrospect Avenali Lecture Thursday, Mar 15, 2018 5:00 pm | Morrison Reading Room, 101 Doe Library Joseph Koerner examines Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Delights — approaching the painting as a representation of a world without history and without law. Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Next page ›› Last page Last » TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720   |   510 643-9670   |   [email protected] Accessibility   |   Nondiscrimination   |   Privacy © 2025 UC Regents Working Groups | Townsend Center for the Humanities Skip to main content Toggle navigation Header Links - Additional UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Header Links Join Our Email List Donate Room Requests Townsend Center for the Humanities Search Search Toggle navigation Main navigation About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Working Groups Main menu About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Working Groups Townsend Center Working Groups bring together faculty and graduate students from various fields and departments with shared research interests.   African History Coordinators Reem Nemmassi | Clay Lemar Afterlives of Fanon Coordinators Adam Hasan | Sibahle Ndwayana Ancient Philosophy Coordinators G.R.F. (John) Ferrari | Timothy Clarke Anthropological Inquiry Coordinators Elena Peterman | Nicole Mabry Armchair Ethnography Coordinators Ajung Ryoo | Lorena Hildebrandt Art and Ethnography Coordinators Ryan Gourley | Jonathan Wu Art Histories of South and Southeast Asia Coordinators Ellie Penner | Kevin Morales-Bernabe Art of Translation Coordinators Emma Lloyd | Lianbi Ji Berkeley Latin American & Caribbean History (BLACH) Coordinators Adrian Bermudez Perez | Carolina Wanderly Van Parys de Wit Berkeley Phonetics, Phonology, and Psycholinguistics Forum ("Phorum") Coordinators Kai Schenck | Lindsay Hatch Bilad al-Sham Histories Coordinators Samira Bechara | Joanna Korey BTWH: The Emergence of German Modernity Coordinators Linus Mao | Andrew Blough Caribbean Studies Coordinators Anna Palmer | J'Anna Lue Clio's Scroll Coordinators Malayna Chang | Aodhan Coyne Colloquium in the Studies of Music Coordinators Flannery McIntyre | Soren Nyhus Consortium on the Novel Coordinators Pamela Weidman | Coe Carvour Contemporary Cuban Studies Coordinators Laura Barber | Lydia Millhon Contemporary Feminism Coordinators Ericka Highbee | Hannah Kirwan Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Coordinators Violet Spurlock | Katherine Franco Contours of Techno-Authoritarianism Coordinators J. Lee Crandall | Alexis E. Wood Counterdisciplinary Spinoza Studies Coordinators Joseph Serrano | Kristin Primus Critical Disability Studies and Medical Humanities Coordinators Andrew David King | Tom Maude-Griffin Critical Times Coordinators Cheng-Chai Chiang | Amanda Su Culture and History of East-Central Europe Coordinators Jacob Smiley Death of the Author Coordinators Pia Sazani | Caleb Murray-Bozeman Digital Humanities Coordinators Tim Tangherlini | David Bamman Eighteenth-Century Studies Coordinators Evan Strouss | Natalie Ruby Environmental Humanities Coordinators Pia Sazani | Chloé Mauvais Filipinx and Philippine Studies Coordinators Piper Prolago | Veronica Sison Film Practice as Social Science Method Coordinators Naomi Etsehiywot | Rahel Fischer Foucault on Crime, Law, and Society Coordinators Rahel Fischer | Jonathan Simon Found in Translation Coordinators Vesna Rodic | Michael Arrigo Francophone Studies Coordinators Karl Britto | Soraya Tlatli Global Vietnam Studies Coordinators Sydney Van To | Rachael Park Graduate Film Coordinators Jonathan Mackris | Osarugue Otebele Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley Coordinators Lilly Callender | Helen Fortescue-Poole Hegel and Adorno Coordinators Thel Maude-Griffin | Andy Haas Histories of South Asia Coordinators Mohammad Azeem Khan | Joanna Korey History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science (HPLMS) Coordinators Paolo Mancosu | Snow Zhang Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Political Thought Coordinators Antonia Alksnis | Yiwei Yang Interdisciplinary Marxist Working Group Coordinators Naima Karczmar | Andy John Haas Interdisciplinary Research Group on Privacy Coordinators Naniette H. Coleman | Savannah Cragin Italian Migration Studies Coordinators Michele Segretario | Maria Grazia De Luca Labor, Philosophy and Change Coordinators Joseph Serrano | Dylan Fagan Ladino/Judeo-Spanish Working Group Coordinators Julia Peck | Julian Vargo Land and Agrifood Research Collective Coordinators Mairi Creedon | Kristida Chhour Language Revitalization Coordinators Anna Macknick | Julia Peck Language Variation and Change Coordinators Justin Davidson | Isaac Bleaman Languages and AI Coordinators Emily Hellmich | Kayla van Kooten Latin American Cities Coordinators Isabel Peñaranda | Flávia Leite Law and Contemporary Theory Coordinators Yael Plitmann | Eva Vaillancourt Legal Geography and Racial Capitalism Coordinators Andrea Lara-Garcia | Rahel Fischer Media Studies in East Asia Coordinators Josh Feng | Christine Lee Migration Studies Coordinators Emily Martin | Carlotta Wright de la Cal Museum Studies Coordinators Hanna Jasper | Piper Prolago New Media Coordinators Caleb Murray-Bozeman | Jaclyn Zhou New Yugoslav Studies Coordinators Filip Sestan | Antje Postema Nineteenth Century and Beyond British Cultural Studies Coordinators Lara Meintjes | Leif Wood Occitan Studies Coordinators Oliver Whitmore | Landon Kramer Palestine Studies Coordinators Adam Hasan | Antony Wood Pensamento Racial Brasileiro [Brazilian Racial Thought] Coordinators Luiza Baston Lages | Maria Victoria Ribeiro Ruy Post Humanist Inquiry Coordinators Joseph Rager | Paz Regeiro Pre-Modern North Africa Coordinators Jason Silvestri | Reem Nemmassi Process Philosophy Coordinators Joel Auerbach | Dylan Furcall Psychoanalysis Coordinators Tom Maude-Griffin | Tommaso Bernardini Qui Parle Coordinators Londiwe Gamedze | Kyra Sutton Russian History "Kruzhok" Coordinators Yasyn Abdullaev | Victoria Frede-Montemayor Sex, Sexuality, and Gender Coordinators Colby Fortin | Alex Torrez Slavic Literature "Kruzhok" Coordinators Charles McKenna Smith | Nicole Gonik Sound Studies Coordinators Sibahle Ndwayana | Nicholas Byers South and Southeast Asia Graduate Student Research Round Table Coordinators Alexandra Ciolac | Akshita Todi The Sound Space Coordinators Cherise Michelle | Isaiah Blake Thinking Andean Studies: Landscape, Language, Culture Coordinators Emily Fjaellen Thompson | Sydney Moss Tourism Studies Coordinators Mahlon Chute | Swetha Vijayakumar Transnational & Ethnic American Studies Coordinators Libby Kao | Miguel Samano Yiddish Forum Coordinators Isaac Bleaman | Roni Masel TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720   |   510 643-9670   |   [email protected] Accessibility   |   Nondiscrimination   |   Privacy © 2025 UC Rege Memory and Complicity | Townsend Center for the Humanities Skip to main content Toggle navigation Header Links - Additional UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Header Links Join Our Email List Donate Room Requests Townsend Center for the Humanities Search Search Toggle navigation Main navigation About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Books by Townsend Fellows Memory and Complicity Memory and Complicity Migrations of Holocaust Remembrance Debarati Sanyal 2015 | Fordham University Press Since World War II French and Francophone literature and film have repeatedly sought not to singularize the Holocaust as the paradigm of historical trauma but rather to connect its memory with other memories of violence, namely that of colonialism.  These works produced what Debarati Sanyal calls a “memory-in-complicity” attuned to the gray zones that implicate different regimes of violence across history as well as those of different subject positions such as victim, perpetrator, witness, and reader/spectator.  Examining a range of works from Albert Camus, Primo Levi, Alain Resnais, and Jean-Paul Sartre to Jonathan Littell, Assia Djebar, Giorgio Agamben, and Boualem Sansal, Memory and Complicity develops an inquiry into the political force and ethical dangers of such implications, contrasting them with contemporary models for thinking about trauma and violence and offering an extended meditation on the role of aesthetic form, especially allegory, within acts of transhistorical remembrance.   The author was a Townsend Fellow in 2012-13. TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720   |   510 643-9670   |   [email protected] Accessibility   |   Nondiscrimination   |   Privacy © 2025 UC Regents About the Artwork | Townsend Center for the Humanities Skip to main content Toggle navigation Header Links - Additional UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Header Links Join Our Email List Donate Room Requests Townsend Center for the Humanities Search Search Toggle navigation Main navigation About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Events Main menu About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities About the Artwork Each semester the Townsend Center hosts an exhibition by a UC Berkeley-affiliated or alumni artist in its public spaces in Stephens Hall. The banners on this website showcase details of past works exhibited here. Learn more about the artists and the pieces below: ABOUT Livia Stein,  Dog with Crown (detail), 2016, oil on panel, 40 x 36", More . EVENTS Kara Maria ,  Mika  (detail), 2014, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 72", Collection of Recology,  More . WORKING GROUPS Michael Hall ,  BES, Battery Bluff, FF-BD (detail), 2010, oil on canvas, 60 x 72", More . ART GALLERY Allan deSouza ,  Merikani  (detail), 2017, digital print on cotton, 24 x 24" ,  More . ART of WRITING Craig Nagasawa , Fujin and Emiko (detail), 2013, hand-ground minerals and ink on silk and Japanese paper, 22 x 27”, More . FELLOWS Jennie Smith , Little Nemo (Another Dream)  (detail), 2013, graphite and watercolor on paper, 34.5 x 27", More . MULTIMEDIA Jerry Carniglia , Paradise Imagined  (detail), 2007, oil on canvas, 77 x 57", Collection of the Townsend Center for Humanities. FUNDING Ken Light ,   River Baptism, Moon Lake, Coahoma County, Mississippi  (detail), 1989, pigment print, 40 x 40", More . 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Opportunities Townsend Fellowships for Assistant and Associate Professors Townsend Fellowships for Library and Museum Professionals Conference & Lecture Grants Townsend Working Groups Manuscript Review Workshops Associate Professor Book Manuscript Workshop Collaborative Research Seminars Faculty TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720   |   510 643-9670   |   [email protected] Accessibility   |   Nondiscrimination   |   Privacy © 2025 UC Regents Art of Writing | Townsend Center for the Humanities Skip to main content Toggle navigation Header Links - Additional UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Header Links Join Our Email List Donate Room Requests Townsend Center for the Humanities Search Search Toggle navigation Main navigation About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Art of Writing Art of Writing Founded in 2015, Art of Writing is transforming the writing landscape of the Berkeley campus. Approaching writing as a teachable art, the program prepares undergraduates to express themselves, persuade others, and pursue their academic and life goals with the confidence that arises from mastery of written and oral communication.  Art of Writing also provides graduate students and faculty with the pedagogical expertise needed to cultivate these skills in their undergraduate students. Since its inception, Art of Writing has offered writing-intensive courses in a wide range of disciplines, trained doctoral students to become expert teachers of writing, created a peer writing tutor and writing fellows program, and presented stimulating events, internships, and workshops.  In recent years, Art of Writing has developed specialized writing instruction for Berkeley’s large transfer student population. This online Summer seminar, “Writing at the University,”  helps transfer students succeed in discipline-specific research and writing at UC Berkeley. Led by founding director Ramona Naddaff , Art of Writing continues Berkeley’s tradition of free expression and field-changing interdisciplinary scholarship. Visit the Art of Writing website to learn more. Art of Writing TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720   |   510 643-9670   |   [email protected] Accessibility   |   Nondiscrimination   |   Privacy © 2025 UC Regents Occasional Papers | Townsend Center for the Humanities Skip to main content Toggle navigation Header Links - Additional UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Header Links Join Our Email List Donate Room Requests Townsend Center for the Humanities Search Search Toggle navigation Main navigation About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Multimedia Main menu About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Occasional Papers The Occasional Papers series makes available some of the many lectures and conversations of eminent scholars, writers and artists who participated in Townsend Center programs 1994-2003. The Occasional Papers are available open access via internet on the eScholarship web site of the University of California, as well as on this site. Euthanasia Policy in the Netherlands Bert Keizer, Michael Rabow, and Patricia Benner Apr 2005 In March 2004, in collaboration with the Center for Medicine, Humanities, and Law, the Townsend Center sponsored a week-long residency with Dutch physician and writer Bert Keizer. Dr. Keizer is particularly known for his book, Dancing with Mr. D. , a personal account of his work with the terminally ill in an Amsterdam critical care facility. Cannabis, Forgetting, and the Botany of Desire Michael Pollan, Ignacio Chapela, Cathy Gallagher, and Patricia Unterman Nov 2002 Cannabis, Forgetting, and the Botany of Desire includes the proceedings of several events scheduled by the Townsend Center in celebration of Michael Pollan's residency as Avenali Lecturer for the 2002 Fall Semester. This Occasional Paper includes transcripts of the public lecture Pollan gave as well as the comments of a panel organized to explore the environmental impact of food production in general. Migrations: The Work of Sebastião Salgado Sebastião Salgado, T.J. Clark, Orville Schell, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Candace Slater, and Michael Watts Feb 2002 Migrations: The Work of Sebastião Salgado was one of several events scheduled by the Townsend Center in celebration of Sebastião Salgado's residency as Avenali Lecturer for academic year 2001–2002. Planned to complement the Berkeley Art Museum exhibit, Salgado’s lecture—reproduced here in a slightly edited form—was followed the next day by a panel of commentators whose remarks are also included in this Occasional Paper. Complex Histories, Contested Memories: Some Reflections on Remembering Difficult Pasts Eva Hoffman Sep 2000 Eva Hoffman considers the current preoccupation with memory—as opposed to its referents (history, experience)—and particularly with memory of the Holocaust. She proposes that the intense absorption with memory has largely emerged from the “second generation,” i.e., from those for whom the Holocaust (or other disturbing pasts) has been a crucially formative event, yet one that they themselves did not experience. Seeing the Difference: Conversations on Death and Dying Christina Gillis, ed. Jun 2000 Seeing the Difference brings together the texts of a two-day institute on death and dying, aimed at facilitating an interdisciplinary conversation between artists, humanists, and medical practitioners. The project proceeds from a doubled sense of “difference”: a view of death as separation or “difference,” and an acknowledgement that the various disciplines also view death “differently,” developing languages that are too often particular to their own fields. Traditions of Conversion: Descartes and His Demon Anthony Grafton Nov 1999 Traditions of Conversion historicizes and texturizes Descartes’ conversion with a vibrant inquiry into early modern European conversion narratives. In the end, Grafton effectively troubles Descartes’ self-portrait as the embodiment of disembodied reason with an examination of Descartes’ autobiographical notes, which record that the foundations of his new philosophy lay not in reason but in a dream. See All TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720   |   510 643-9670   |   [email protected] Accessibility   |   Nondiscrimination   |   Privacy © 2025 UC Regents Read | Townsend Center for the Humanities Skip to main content Toggle navigation Header Links - Additional UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Header Links Join Our Email List Donate Room Requests Townsend Center for the Humanities Search Search Toggle navigation Main navigation About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Multimedia Main menu About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Read The Townsend Center supports faculty and student research and scholarship through a variety of outlets. Bear's-Eye View Bear's-Eye View is a chronicle of students' engagement with the vibrant humanities culture at the Townsend Center and across the Berkeley campus. Each semester our undergraduate humanities writers soak up the wealth of humanities programs and events, and write about what they've learned. Memory in Parts By Tyler Tang May 14, 2026 Domains Not Dominion By Tyler Tang May 6, 2026 To the Father of a Mother By Tyler Tang Mar 20, 2026 Love and Liberation By Mikaela O'Brien Dec 15, 2025 The Poetics of Apology By Mikaela O'Brien Dec 12, 2025 Isabel Allende on Writing Toward Salvation By Mikaela O'Brien Dec 2, 2025 See All Berkeley Forum in the Humanities The Berkeley Forum in the Humanities, published by Fordham University Press, features topics of broad interest in the humanities and interpretive social sciences, with a focus on the work cultivated at the Townsend Center. The series presents work that is richly contextual along historical and social lines, while critical and challenging in its views. Breaking the Bronze Ceiling: Women, Memory, and Public Space Valentina Rozas-Krause, Andrew M. Shanken May 2024 Breaking the Bronze Ceiling  uncovers a glaring omission in the global memorial landscape — the conspicuous absence of women. Exploring this neglected narrative, the book emerges as the foremost guide to women's memorialization across diverse cultures and ages. As global memorials come under intense examination, with metropolises vying for a more inclusive recognition of female contributions, this book stands at the forefront of contemporary discussion. Reaction Formations: The Subject of Ethnonationalism Joshua Branciforte, Ramsey McGlazer Jun 2023 Many new right movements have in fact intensified or laid bare long-standing tendencies, but this volume seeks to address aspects of their cultural politics that raise new and urgent questions. How should we assess the new right’s disconcerting appropriations of strategies of minoritarian resistance? How can we practice critique in the face of adversaries who claim to practice a critique of their own? How do apparently post-normative versions of nationalism give rise to heightened forms of militarism, incarceration, censorship, and inequality? Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places: Justice Beyond and Between Marianne Constable, Leti Volpp, Bryan Wagner Mar 2019 For many inside and outside the legal academy, the right place to look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions. This book looks for law in the “wrong places” — sites and spaces in which no formal law appears. These may be geographic regions beyond the reach of law, everyday practices ungoverned or ungovernable by law, or works of art that have escaped law’s constraints. Freud and Monotheism: Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion Mar 2018 Freud and Monotheism: Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion  critically examines a range of discourses surrounding Freud’s Moses and Monotheism, taking as its entry point Freud’s relations to Judaism, his conception of tradition and history, his theory of the mind, and his model of transgenerational inheritance. Plasticity and Pathology: On the Formation of the Neural Subject David Bates, Nima Bassiri Apr 2015 Plasticity and Pathology: On the Formation of the Neural Subject  brings together diverse scholars interested in the historical and conceptual problems of life and particularly the life of human beings in the neural age.  Critical Views: Essays on the Humanities and the Arts Teresa Stojkov Nov 2011 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 presented by the center. Many are revised versions of lectures and presentations organized in connection with the annual appointment of the Avenali Professor in the Humanities or the Una’s Lecturer; several are based on other events presented by the center over the years, such as the “Humanities Perspectives on Aging” program or the “Futures” lecture series organized to commemorate the center’s tenth anniversary. See All Occasional Papers The Occasional Papers series makes available some of the many lectures and conversations of eminent scholars, writers, and artists who participated in Townsend Center programs 1994-2003. Euthanasia Policy in the Netherlands Apr 2005 In March 2004, in collaboration with the Center for Medicine, Humanities, and Law, the Townsend Center sponsored a week-long residency with Dutch physician and writer Bert Keizer. Dr. Keizer is particularly known for his book, Dancing with Mr. D. , a personal account of his work with the terminally ill in an Amsterdam critical care facility. Cannabis, Forgetting, and the Botany of Desire Nov 2002 Cannabis, Forgetting, and the Botany of Desire includes the proceedings of several events scheduled by the Townsend Center in celebration of Michael Pollan's residency as Avenali Lecturer for the 2002 Fall Semester. This Occasional Paper includes transcripts of the public lecture Pollan gave as well as the comments of a panel organized to explore the environmental impact of food production in general. Migrations: The Work of Sebastião Salgado Feb 2002 Migrations: The Work of Sebastião Salgado was one of several events scheduled by the Townsend Center in celebration of Sebastião Salgado's residency as Avenali Lecturer for academic year 2001–2002. Planned to complement the Berkeley Art Museum exhibit, Salgado’s lecture—reproduced here in a slightly edited form—was followed the next day by a panel of commentators whose remarks are also included in this Occasional Paper. Complex Histories, Contested Memories: Some Reflections on Remembering Difficult Pasts Sep 2000 Eva Hoffman considers the current preoccupation with memory—as opposed to its referents (history, experience)—and particularly with memory of the Holocaust. The Voyage of Thought | Townsend Center for the Humanities Skip to main content Toggle navigation Header Links - Additional UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Header Links Join Our Email List Donate Room Requests Townsend Center for the Humanities Search Search Toggle navigation Main navigation About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Books by Townsend Fellows The Voyage of Thought The Voyage of Thought Navigating Knowledge across the Sixteenth-Century World Michael Wintroub 2017 | Cambridge University Press The Voyage of Thought is a micro-historical and cross-disciplinary analysis of the texts and contexts that informed the remarkable journey of the French ship captain, merchant, and poet, Jean Parmentier, from Dieppe to Sumatra in 1529.  In tracing the itinerary of this voyage, Michael Wintroub examines an early attempt by the French to challenge Spanish and Portuguese oceanic hegemony and to carve out an empire in the Indies. He investigates the commercial, cultural, and religious lives of provincial humanists, including their relationship to the classical authorities they revered, the literary culture they cultivated, the techniques of oceanic navigation they pioneered, and the distant peoples with whom they came into contact.    The author was a Townsend Fellow in 2012-13.   TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720   |   510 643-9670   |   [email protected] Accessibility   |   Nondiscrimination   |   Privacy © 2025 UC Regents I, the Poet | Townsend Center for the Humanities Skip to main content Toggle navigation Header Links - Additional UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Header Links Join Our Email List Donate Room Requests Townsend Center for the Humanities Search Search Toggle navigation Main navigation About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Books by Townsend Fellows I, the Poet I, the Poet First-Person Form in Horace, Catullus, and Propertius Kathleen McCarthy 2019 First-person poetry is a familiar genre in Latin literature. Propertius, Catullus, and Horace deployed the first-person speaker in a variety of ways that either bolster or undermine the link between this figure and the poet himself. In I, the Poet, Kathleen McCarthy offers a new approach to understanding the ubiquitous use of a first-person voice in Augustan-age poetry, taking on several of the central debates in the field of Latin literary studies―including the inheritance of the Greek tradition, the shift from oral performance to written collections, and the status of the poetic "I-voice." In light of her own experience as a twenty-first century reader, for whom Latin poetry is meaningful across a great gulf of linguistic, cultural, and historical distances, McCarthy positions these poets as the self-conscious readers of and heirs to a long tradition of Greek poetry, which prompted them to explore radical forms of communication through the poetic form.    TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720   |   510 643-9670   |   [email protected] Accessibility   |   Nondiscrimination   |   Privacy © 2025 UC Regents About the Townsend Center | Townsend Center for the Humanities Skip to main content Toggle navigation Header Links - Additional UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Header Links Join Our Email List Donate Room Requests Townsend Center for the Humanities Search Search Toggle navigation Main navigation About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities About Main menu About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities About the Townsend Center Since its establishment in 1987, the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities has encouraged an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship, fostered innovative research, and promoted intellectual conversation across academic fields. The Townsend Center is committed to enriching the existing wealth of intellectual resources at Berkeley through an array of fellowship and grant programs designed to support research and scholarship at all levels of the university community. The Center also funds nearly 70 interdisciplinary working groups on a wide range of topics — ranging from Tourism Studies, to the Consortium on the Novel, to Environmental Humanities — and cosponsors numerous lectures and conferences with other departments and units on campus. In addition to these established programs, the Townsend Center plays an integral role in the development of new and innovative academic initiatives. The Art of Writing , founded in 2015, enriches writing instruction on the Berkeley campus; the program offers writing-intensive undergraduate seminars, workshops, tutoring, and internships, as well as pedagogical training to help graduate students refine their skills as teachers of writing. The Center offers a variety of public programs, including the Avenali and Una ’s endowed lectures in the humanities. Distinguished visiting scholars and artists have included US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo , authors Jamaica Kincaid and Ocean Vuong , psychoanalyst  Christopher Bollas , philosopher Agnes Callard , legal scholar Jeannie Suk Gersen , and historian Jill Lepore . More on the  Doreen B. Townsend Endowment . TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720   |   510 643-9670   |   [email protected] Accessibility   |   Nondiscrimination   |   Privacy © 2025 UC Regents Exhibits | Townsend Center for the Humanities Skip to main content Toggle navigation Header Links - Additional UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Header Links Join Our Email List Donate Room Requests Townsend Center for the Humanities Search Search Toggle navigation Main navigation About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Art Gallery Main menu About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Exhibits CURRENT EXHIBIT Michel Foucault: Histoire de Folie (History of Madness) Drawings by Patrick Chambon Exhibit Tuesday, Jan 20, 2026 10:00 am - Friday, May 29, 2026 4:00 pm | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Selections from Patrick Chambon's graphic novel Michel Foucault: Histoire de Folie (History of Madness) offer a vivid, embodied exploration of the renowned French philosopher's work on madness and social control. Past Exhibits Rosie Lee Tompkins at the Townsend Center Inventive Quiltmaking Exhibit Wednesday, Aug 16, 2023 9:00 am - Saturday, May 24, 2025 4:00 pm | Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall Rosie Lee Tompkins is widely considered to be among the most accomplished and inventive American quilters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Her work is no longer viewed solely within the context of quiltmaking but celebrated as one of the great American artistic achievements of our time.  American Stories Photographs by Ken Light Exhibit Wednesday, Aug 28, 2019 9:00 am - Friday, Dec 10, 2021 4:00 pm | Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall In an exhibition of selected works from the past five decades, documentary photographer Ken Light probes social and political issues in America. Livia Stein Monsters and Others Exhibit Monday, Jan 28, 2019 12:00 am - Friday, May 17, 2019 11:59 pm | Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall Livia Stein 's paintings depict tentative and often failed efforts at communication between human beings and other beings — whether animal or monster, real or imagined. Luminous Disturbances Kara Maria Exhibit Monday, Aug 27, 2018 12:00 am - Friday, Dec 14, 2018 11:59 pm | Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall Kara Maria's "cheerfully apocalyptic" paintings engage with a host of political issues, including war and environmental destruction. See All TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720   |   510 643-9670   |   [email protected] Accessibility   |   Nondiscrimination   |   Privacy © 2025 UC Regents Room Reservations | Townsend Center for the Humanities Skip to main content Toggle navigation Header Links - Additional UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Header Links Join Our Email List Donate Room Requests Townsend Center for the Humanities Search Search Toggle navigation Main navigation About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Events Main menu About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Room Reservations The Townsend Center meeting rooms may be requested by University of California groups for events such as lectures, research workshops, and colloquia. Please note the Townsend Center is not a complete conference facility and is unable to accommodate large-scale full-day or multi-day events. The Townsend Center does not provide technical support or kitchen space for event use. To make a reservation request, please read below and complete our online   Reservation Request Form . See availability calendar Geballe Room ( blue ) Seminar Room ( red ) Close Geballe Room Size: 25’ x 36’ Seating capacity: 56 Seminar Room Size: 15’ x 15’ Seating capacity: 10 HOURS OF AVAILABILITY The Geballe and Seminar Rooms may be reserved Monday through Friday from 9:00am – 5:00pm. After 5:00pm will include a surcharge. Weekend events are approved on a case-by-case basis and will include a surcharge. ROOM USE FEES   Seating Capacity 1-4 hours   5-8 hours   After 5PM surcharge Geballe Room 56 $500 $700 $250 Geballe + Seminar Room 56 $600 $850 $250 Seminar Room 10 $200 $250 $250 Seminar Room with reception 10 $300 $400 $250 Weekend surcharge -- $250 $250 $250 Cleaning charge (if applicable) -- $50 $50     Please Note:   No food or beverage may be served in the Geballe Room. If your event has any food or beverage, you must add the Seminar Room to your rental. Reservation start and end times should include pre-event set up and post-event clean up. The Townsend Center does not provide technical assistance or event support. There is no kitchen available for event use. Rooms are not available most Tuesdays before 4 p.m. Cancellations made less than 24 hours prior to the event start time may incur a charge. Failure to return rooms to their original configuration and/or remove trash will result in a cleaning charge. EVENT SET-UP AND CLEAN-UP The Townsend Center does not provide event support. The Geballe Room set up is traditional lecture style with a podium at the front of the room and two conference tables for panel discussions (see photo above). Your event organizer is responsible for the specifics of your event set up including any modifications to this set up, equipment testing, and returning the room to its original state. It is your responsibility to clean and remove all trash from the room. EVENTS WITH REFRESHMENTS Refreshments are permitted in the Seminar Room only; no food or drink is allowed in the Geballe Room. If you are planning a reception, you must request use of the Seminar Room. You are responsible to meet your caterer and responsibly dispose of all trash. Please note that any events with outside bartenders and/or servers will need to comply with California Senate Bill 820 , which imposes restrictions on contracting out for services performed in buildings that have received capital state funding, which is the case for Stephens Hall. ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Alcoholic beverages require an Alcohol Permit from UCPD . The UCPD-approved form should be submitted before your event. EQUIPMENT One podium microphone, an LCD projector, and up to four lapel microphones are available in the Geballe Room for use at no additional charge by request on the room reservation form. If you are using the projector, you must bring your own laptop to connect to it. The Geballe Room is also equipped with a wall-mounted camera to record and livestream over Zoom. You will need to use your own laptop and Zoom setup for this functionality.  The Townsend Center does not provide a technical assistant. We will provide an instruction sheet for you to use; if you need additional help, we recommend that you hire A/V technical support for your event. All campus wireless networks (Eduroam, CalVisitor) are available in the Townsend Center. Eduroam access requires users to have an active CalNet ID. HOW TO RESERVE Submit an online Reservation Request Form . You will receive an email to confirm the status of your reservation request within seven business days. Your reservation is not finalized until you receive confirmation. DAMAGES You are responsible for any damage to equipment, building, carpet, or furnishings incurred during the event. ACCESSIBLE ACCESS Accessible access to the Townsend Center is available via the corridor that leads from the Stephens Hall archway (on South Drive) and though the CalNerds offices and across the terrace to the Center. Alternately, elevator access is available (from the Carillon Road path) at the redwood grove entrance (8 am–5 pm). Restrooms are accessible. CANCELLATION If your event is canceled, please notify us as soon as possible. Cancellations that are made less than 24 hours (weekday reservation) or 48 hours (weekend reservation) before an event may be subject to a fee. TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720   |   510 643-9670   |   [email protected] Accessibility   |   Nondiscrimination   |   Privacy © 2025 UC Regents Conjuring the Buddha | Townsend Center for the Humanities Skip to main content Toggle navigation Header Links - Additional UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Header Links Join Our Email List Donate Room Requests Townsend Center for the Humanities Search Search Toggle navigation Main navigation About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Books by Townsend Fellows Conjuring the Buddha Conjuring the Buddha Ritual Manuals in Early Tantric Buddhism Jacob P. Dalton 2023 | Columbia University Press Ritual manuals are among the most common and most personal forms of Buddhist literature. Since at least the late fifth century, individual practitioners ― including monks, nuns, teachers, disciples, and laypeople ― have kept texts describing how to perform the daily rites. These manuals represent an intimate counterpart to the canonical sutras and the tantras, speaking to the lived experience of Buddhist practice. Conjuring the Buddha offers a history of early tantric Buddhist ritual through the lens of the Tibetan manuscripts discovered near Dunhuang on the ancient Silk Road. Jacob P. Dalton argues that the spread of ritual manuals offered Buddhists an extracanonical literary form through which to engage with their tradition in new and locally specific ways. He suggests that ritual manuals were the literary precursors to the tantras, crucial to the emergence of esoteric Buddhism. Examining a series of ninth- and tenth-century tantric manuals from Dunhuang, Dalton uncovers lost moments in the development of rituals such as consecration, possession, sexual yoga, the Great Perfection, and the subtle body practices of the winds and channels. He also traces the use of poetic language in ritual manuals, showing how at pivotal moments, metaphor, simile, rhythm, and rhyme were deployed to evoke carefully sculpted affective experiences. Offering an unprecedented glimpse into the personal practice of early tantric Buddhists, Conjuring the Buddha provides new insight into the origins and development of the tantric tradition.   The author was a Townsend Fellow in 2014-15. TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720   |   510 643-9670   |   [email protected] Accessibility   |   Nondiscrimination   |   Privacy © 2025 UC Regents Other Opportunities | Townsend Center for the Humanities Skip to main content Toggle navigation Header Links - Additional UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Header Links Join Our Email List Donate Room Requests Townsend Center for the Humanities Search Search Toggle navigation Main navigation About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Funding Main menu About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Other Opportunities The following programs for faculty and graduate students are not administered by the Townsend Center. For more information about application procedures and submissions, please contact the relevant organization directly.   University of California Programs University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) Grants Extramural Programs For procedures for applying for extramural support, please consult the UC Berkeley  Policy on Requirement to Submit Proposals and to Receive Awards . American Academy of Arts & Sciences Fellowships American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowships Mellon Foundation Fellowships Getty Foundation Fellowships John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships Institute for Advanced Study Membership   National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowships National Humanities Center Fellowships Additional Resources Faculty and graduate students: for a broader list of fellowship opportunities, please visit the Corporate and Foundation Relations' list of arts and humanities funders .  Graduate students: please visit the Graduate Division's  Fellowships & Awards  page.   Other Opportunities TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720   |   510 643-9670   |   [email protected] Accessibility   |   Nondiscrimination   |   Privacy © 2025 UC Regents Conference & Lecture Grants | Townsend Center for the Humanities Skip to main content Toggle navigation Header Links - Additional UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Header Links Join Our Email List Donate Room Requests Townsend Center for the Humanities Search Search Toggle navigation Main navigation About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Funding Main menu About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Conference & Lecture Grants The Townsend Center provides small grants for partial funding of public conferences, lectures, and symposia taking place at UC Berkeley. Priority will be given to proposals that directly involve Berkeley faculty and graduate students in the arts and humanities. Proposals from all fields are welcome. The Center will also take into account the desire to achieve an equitable distribution of awards among campus units. Funding for the program is provided by the Doreen B. Townsend Endowment at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, and the Hugo Bonwit and Heinrich Heine Memorial Lecture Fund at the Arts and Humanities Dean's Office.   Guidelines: Applications must be submitted in advance of the event. Events that occur before the deadline for application will not be considered for funding. There are four application deadlines per year, and applications will not be considered off-cycle. An application received after one funding deadline will be placed in the pool for the next deadline, provided the event will not have taken place by then. Events that are closed to the public, require an admission fee, or take place outside the UC Berkeley campus will not be considered for funding. Ongoing/recurring events and named lecture series are not funded by this program. Meetings of professional organizations that take place on the Berkeley campus will be considered for funding on a one-time basis only. Please note that Townsend Center support is limited to the transfer of the awarded funds and does not include any event services — such as logistical assistance or publicity — even when the event takes place at the Townsend Center. Eligibility UC Berkeley faculty, staff, and students at all levels. Grant Provision Awards range from $200-500 for lectures and up to $2000 for large conferences. 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Dalton Creatures of the Air Music, Atlantic Spirits, Breath, 1817–1913 James Q. Davies The Spectacular Generic Pharmaceuticals and the Simipolitical in Mexico Cori Hayden Seeing Theater The Phenomenology of Classical Greek Drama Naomi Weiss The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China Michelle H. Wang Aleksandr Rodchenko Photography in the Time of Stalin Aglaya K. 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Townsend Center for the Humanities are made possible largely through the generosity of non-university funding. As part of its ongoing mission to foster interdisciplinary research and public programs in the humanities, the Center is currently seeking to expand its endowment base. Townsend Center priorities are for faculty and graduate student fellowship programs and administrative support. Give online by making   a secure credit card contribution through Give to Cal . 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TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720   |   510 643-9670   |   [email protected] Accessibility   |   Nondiscrimination   |   Privacy © 2025 UC Regents Past Berkeley Book Chats | Townsend Center for the Humanities Skip to main content Toggle navigation Header Links - Additional UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Header Links Join Our Email List Donate Room Requests Townsend Center for the Humanities Search Search Toggle navigation Main navigation About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Events Main menu About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture Benjamin Saltzman Berkeley Book Chats Wednesday, Apr 29, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Why do we look away from the suffering of others, cover our faces in shame, and lower our heads in grief? Benjamin Saltzman explores these gestures in art, poetry, and philosophy as an essential language for our uncomfortable engagements with the world. Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America Sarah Gold McBride Berkeley Book Chats Wednesday, Mar 18, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall In Whiskerology, named a New Yorker Best Book of the Year, Sarah Gold McBride offers a surprising history of human hair in nineteenth-century America — where length, texture, color, and coiffure became powerful indicators of race, gender, and national belonging. Chantal Akerman: Filmmaker and Philosopher Andreja Novakovic Berkeley Book Chats Wednesday, Mar 11, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Andreja Novakovic offers the first philosophical study of Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman's deeply personal body of work. Lineages of the Global City: Occult Modernism and the Spiritualization of Democracy Shiben Banerji Berkeley Book Chats Wednesday, Mar 4, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Shiben Banerji explores the forgotten history of the occult foundations of the early 20th-century global city. The Many Names of Anonymity: Portraitists of the Canton Trade Berkeley Book Chats Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Examining how Western art history has misconstrued names and identities in Chinese art, Winnie Wong proposes new ways of studying anonymity, copying, and the emergence of author names in the long 18th century. Movable Londons: Performance and the Modern City Berkeley Book Chats Wednesday, Feb 11, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Julia Fawcett looks to the Restoration theater to understand the emergence of London as a modern city after the Great Fire of 1666. The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising Berkeley Book Chats Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall How might a 21st-century revolution against class society succeed? Jasper Bernes synthesizes from a history of failure the key criteria for success. Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI Berkeley Book Chats Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Nina Beguš explores how literature, history, and art can deepen our understanding of artificial intelligence and guide us toward a more thoughtful future for AI. Roman Comedy against the Subject Mario Telò Berkeley Book Chats Wednesday, Nov 19, 2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall In his exploration of plays named after objects, Mario Telò offers a new approach to the politics of familial and social relations in Roman comedy. Concrete Encoded: Poetry, Design, and the Cybernetic Imaginary in Brazil Nathaniel Wolfson Berkeley Book Chats Wednesday, Nov 5, 2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Nathaniel Wolfson shows how the concrete movement in art and poetry — which burst onto Brazil’s cultural stage in the 1950s, during a dizzying period of modernization — presciently grappled with an emerging information age. Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Next page ›› Last page Last » TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720   |   510 643-9670   |   [email protected] Accessibility   |   Nondiscrimination   |   Privacy © 2025 UC Regents All Townsend Fellows | Townsend Center for the Humanities Skip to main content Toggle navigation Header Links - Additional UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Header Links Join Our Email List Donate Room Requests Townsend Center for the Humanities Search Search Toggle navigation Main navigation About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Fellows Main menu About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities All Townsend Fellows Year - 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26 Amy Kerner Bay Area Fellow 2025 - 26 Rebecca Rainof Research Fellow English 2024 - 25 Gianfrancesco Zanetti Visiting Senior Fellow Italian Studies 2020 - 21 Lisa Pieraccini Adjunct Faculty Fellow History of Art 2020 - 21 Linda Rugg Senior Faculty Fellow Scandinavian 2018 - 19 James Porter Senior Faculty Fellow Ancient Greek & Roman Studies, Rhetoric 2018 - 19 Cecil Giscombe Senior Faculty Fellow English 2018 - 19 Catherine Ceniza Choy Senior Faculty Fellow Ethnic Studies 2018 - 19 Benjamin Brinner Senior Faculty Fellow Music 2018 - 19 Adam Benkato Visiting Faculty Fellow Near Eastern Studies 2018 - 19 Isabel Richter Visiting Professor History, German 2017 - 18 Alexander Creighton Postdoctoral Fellow Townsend Center for the Humanities 2022 - 23 Federica Micucci Postdoctoral Fellow Ancient Greek & Roman Studies 2021 - 22 Saul Schwartz Postdoctoral Fellow Anthropology 2018 - 19 Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Next page Next › Last page Last » TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720   |   510 643-9670   |   [email protected] Accessibility   |   Nondiscrimination   |   Privacy © 2025 UC Regents Townsend Papers Archive | Townsend Center for the Humanities Skip to main content Toggle navigation Header Links - Additional UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Header Links Join Our Email List Donate Room Requests Townsend Center for the Humanities Search Search Toggle navigation Main navigation About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Multimedia Main menu About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Townsend Papers Archive Breaking the Bronze Ceiling: Women, Memory, and Public Space Valentina Rozas-Krause, Andrew M. Shanken May 2024 Breaking the Bronze Ceiling  uncovers a glaring omission in the global memorial landscape — the conspicuous absence of women. Exploring this neglected narrative, the book emerges as the foremost guide to women's memorialization across diverse cultures and ages. As global memorials come under intense examination, with metropolises vying for a more inclusive recognition of female contributions, this book stands at the forefront of contemporary discussion. Reaction Formations: The Subject of Ethnonationalism Joshua Branciforte, Ramsey McGlazer Jun 2023 Many new right movements have in fact intensified or laid bare long-standing tendencies, but this volume seeks to address aspects of their cultural politics that raise new and urgent questions. How should we assess the new right’s disconcerting appropriations of strategies of minoritarian resistance? How can we practice critique in the face of adversaries who claim to practice a critique of their own? How do apparently post-normative versions of nationalism give rise to heightened forms of militarism, incarceration, censorship, and inequality? Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places: Justice Beyond and Between Marianne Constable, Leti Volpp, Bryan Wagner Mar 2019 For many inside and outside the legal academy, the right place to look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions. This book looks for law in the “wrong places” — sites and spaces in which no formal law appears. These may be geographic regions beyond the reach of law, everyday practices ungoverned or ungovernable by law, or works of art that have escaped law’s constraints. Freud and Monotheism: Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion Mar 2018 Freud and Monotheism: Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion  critically examines a range of discourses surrounding Freud’s Moses and Monotheism, taking as its entry point Freud’s relations to Judaism, his conception of tradition and history, his theory of the mind, and his model of transgenerational inheritance. Plasticity and Pathology: On the Formation of the Neural Subject David Bates, Nima Bassiri Apr 2015 Plasticity and Pathology: On the Formation of the Neural Subject  brings together diverse scholars interested in the historical and conceptual problems of life and particularly the life of human beings in the neural age.  Critical Views: Essays on the Humanities and the Arts Teresa Stojkov Nov 2011 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 presented by the center. Many are revised versions of lectures and presentations organized in connection with the annual appointment of the Avenali Professor in the Humanities or the Una’s Lecturer; several are based on other events presented by the center over the years, such as the “Humanities Perspectives on Aging” program or the “Futures” lecture series organized to commemorate the center’s tenth anniversary. Art and Aesthetics after Adorno Jay M. Bernstein, Claudia Brodsky, Anthony J. Cascardi, Thierry de Duve, Ales Erjavec, Robert Kaufman and Fred Rush Oct 2010 Theodor Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory (1970) offers one of the most powerful and comprehensive critiques of art and of the discipline of aesthetics ever written. The work offers a deeply critical engagement with the history and philosophy of aesthetics and with the traditions of European art through the middle of the 20th century. It is coupled with ambitious claims about what aesthetic theory ought to be. But the cultural horizon of Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory was the world of high modernism, and much has happened since then both in theory and in practice. Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and Saba Mahmood Nov 2009 In this volume, four leading thinkers of our times confront the paradoxes and dilemmas attending the supposed stand-off between Islam and liberal democratic values. Taking the controversial Danish cartoons of Mohammad as a point of departure, Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and Saba Mahmood inquire into the evaluative frameworks at stake in understanding the conflicts between blasphemy and free speech, between religious taboos and freedoms of thought and expression, and between secular and religious world views. Nietzsche's Negative Ecologies Malcolm Bull, Anthony J. Cascardi, and T.J. Clark Sep 2009 Malcolm Bull offers a detailed analysis of nihilism in Nietzsche's works. Along with accompanying commentaries by Cascardi and Clark, he explores the significance of Nietzscheís views given the fact that a wide range of readers have come to embrace his ideas as new orthodoxy. There seem to be no anti-Nietzscheans today, but Bull demonstrates that this wide embrace of Nietzsche runs counter to the very meaning of nihilism as Nietzsche understood it. 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Her work is no longer viewed solely within the context of quiltmaking but celebrated as one of the great American artistic achievements of our time.  American Stories Photographs by Ken Light Exhibit Wednesday, Aug 28, 2019 9:00 am - Friday, Dec 10, 2021 4:00 pm | Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall In an exhibition of selected works from the past five decades, documentary photographer Ken Light probes social and political issues in America. Livia Stein Monsters and Others Exhibit Monday, Jan 28, 2019 12:00 am - Friday, May 17, 2019 11:59 pm | Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall Livia Stein 's paintings depict tentative and often failed efforts at communication between human beings and other beings — whether animal or monster, real or imagined. Luminous Disturbances Kara Maria Exhibit Monday, Aug 27, 2018 12:00 am - Friday, Dec 14, 2018 11:59 pm | Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall Kara Maria's "cheerfully apocalyptic" paintings engage with a host of political issues, including war and environmental destruction. Remnants Michael Hall Exhibit Monday, Jan 29, 2018 12:00 am - Friday, May 18, 2018 11:59 pm | Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall Michael Hall, an artist whose perspective is deeply shaped by his family’s military background, presents Remnants , a selection of paintings on display at the Townsend Center. New Drawings Jennie Smith Exhibit Monday, Sep 18, 2017 12:00 am - Wednesday, Dec 20, 2017 11:59 pm | Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall San Francisco artist Jennie Smith infuses her detailed drawings of the natural world with an imaginative sensibility. Through the Black Country Allan deSouza Exhibit Monday, Jan 23, 2017 12:00 am - Friday, May 19, 2017 11:59 pm | Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall Allan deSouza, chair of UC Berkeley’s Department of Art Practice, presents an exhibition that reenacts and upends the traditional colonial relationship, positioning modern-day England as the object of investigation by an explorer from Africa. Incite the Spirit Poster Art of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 Exhibit Tuesday, Sep 6, 2016 12:00 am - Thursday, Dec 8, 2016 11:59 pm | Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall This selection of digital prints, drawn from the collection of the Bancroft Library to mark the 80th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), showcases political posters designed by leading graphic artists of the era. Harnessing the communicative capacity of imagery and text, these pieces give striking expression to the anti-fascist Republican cause in its fight against Francisco Franco and the Nationalists. Jerry Carniglia: Paintings Exhibit Monday, Feb 1, 2016 12:00 am - Friday, Jun 3, 2016 11:59 pm | Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall Abstract expressionist Jerry Carniglia found in aerial landscapes of the American West a point of departure to create layered, spiritually evocative paintings. MULTITUDES Paintings by Andrés Waissman Exhibit Thursday, Aug 27, 2015 12:00 am - Friday, Dec 18, 2015 11:59 pm | Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall Andrés Waissman is an emblematic figure in the world of contemporary art. His work conveys not only a visual but also a deep philosophical and political statement—a whole body of thought rendered through images. Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Next page ›› Last page Last » TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720   |   510 643-9670   |   [email protected] Accessibility   |   Nondiscrimination   |   Privacy © 2025 UC Regents Townsend Center for the Humanities Skip to main content Toggle navigation Header Links - Additional UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Header Links Join Our Email List Donate Room Requests Townsend Center for the Humanities Search Search Toggle navigation Main navigation About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Pause Previous Next &#10 Exhibition Michael Foucault: History of Madness Drawings by Patrick Chambon Through mid-May 2026, 220 Stephens   Link MORE Events on Video Explore  videos of previous Townsend Center events   Link WATCH Support the Center Fostering the Humanities at Berkeley The Townsend Center enriches intellectual resources at UC Berkeley via programs to strengthen research and scholarship at all levels   Link GIVE Art of Writing Art of Writing  cultivates and supports the craft of writing at UC Berkeley Through seminars, workshops, tutoring programs, and events, Art of Writing builds a collaborative writing community across the disciplines   Link MORE 0 1 2 3 Supporting the Humanities at UC Berkeley MEET NEW A&H FACULTY Juliana Ramírez Herrera , a new faculty member in History of Art, specializes in the arts and archaeology of the Indigenous Americas. She addresses the relationship between Indigenous material culture and Western art history, with a special interest in the ethical challenges of researching material that is primarily looted.   More about Juliana FEATURED WORKING GROUP The Townsend Center is pleased to support  Clio’s Scroll , the Berkeley undergraduate history journal, which celebrates its 45th anniversary. Produced twice yearly by students in the Department of History, the journal provides undergraduates with the opportunity to publish outstanding historical scholarship.   All Working Groups Campus Humanities Events Film Screening – “Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press” Michel Foucault: Histoire de Folie (History of Madness) MFA Artists’ Talk Film and Video Makers at Cal: Works from the Eisner Competition More Events Faculty Books Pause Previous Next &#10 Conjuring the Buddha Jacob P. Dalton I, the Poet Kathleen McCarthy The Voyage of Thought Michael Wintroub Memory and Complicity Debarati Sanyal Mass Incarceration on Trial More Books DEADLINES Conference & Lecture Grants Sep 25, 2026 Public Speaking for Graduate Students Oct 2, 2026 Conference & Lecture Grants Feb 19, 2027 Conference & Lecture Grants May 7, 2027 All Upcoming Deadlines Ramona Naddaff Honored Ramona Naddaff , associate professor of Rhetoric and founding director of the Art of Writing program since 2015, has been awarded the Daniel E. Koshland, Jr. Distinguished Chair in Writing in recognition of her immense contributions to the teaching of writing on the Berkeley campus.   Read the Article TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720   |   510 643-9670   |   [email protected] Accessibility   |   Nondiscrimination   |   Privacy © 2025 UC Regents Una's Lectures | Townsend Center for the Humanities Skip to main content Toggle navigation Header Links - Additional UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Header Links Join Our Email List Donate Room Requests Townsend Center for the Humanities Search Search Toggle navigation Main navigation About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Events Main menu About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Una's Lectures The Una’s Lectures were endowed in 1969 as part of the Una’s Gift by Mr. Edward Hunter Ross in honor of his wife, Una Smith Ross. In keeping with her wishes, the Una’s Gift is an endowment  for inviting distinguished scholars in the field of the humanities to Berkeley for the purpose of delivering one or more lectures, meeting with faculty and students in their fields of study, and conducting or participating in seminars and colloquia. The gift also supports graduate student fellowships, awarded to female students working on historical projects. The Una’s Lectures have been administered by the Townsend Center since 1987.  More on Una's Lectures Past Lectures Alexander Nemerov, Art Historian "Love: Art as Awakening, as Breath" Una's Lecture Monday, Oct 21, 2024 5:00 pm | Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall Art historian Alexander Nemerov is the author of many books, including Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography and named by Vogue one of the best books of the year. Bonnie Honig, Political Theorist Fatal Forgiveness: Euripides, Austin, Arendt, Cavell Una's Lecture Monday, Nov 13, 2023 5:00 pm | Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall Political theorist Bonnie Honig is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture & Media and Political Science at Brown University. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Filmmaker In Conversation with Hilton Als Una's Lecture Tuesday, Apr 11, 2023 5:10 pm | BAMPFA, 2155 Center Street Filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul , the 2022-23 Una’s Lecturer, is joined in conversation by writer and UC Berkeley teaching professor Hilton Als. Amanda Anderson Injury, Dignity, and the Literary History of Rumination Una's Lecture Wednesday, Oct 20, 2021 4:00 pm | 315 Wheeler Hall and Online 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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TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720   |   510 643-9670   |   [email protected] Accessibility   |   Nondiscrimination   |   Privacy © 2025 UC Regents Clio's Scroll | Townsend Center for the Humanities Skip to main content Toggle navigation Header Links - Additional UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Header Links Join Our Email List Donate Room Requests Townsend Center for the Humanities Search Search Toggle navigation Main navigation About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Working Groups Main menu About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Clio's Scroll Clio's Scroll Group Coordinators Malayna Chang Aodhan Coyne Clio’s Scroll , the Berkeley undergraduate history journal, is published twice yearly by students of the Department of History at UC Berkeley. Founded in 1981, Clio’s Scroll has published over 30 issues. The journal aims to provide undergraduates with the opportunity to publish outstanding historical work. 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Bonnie Honig, Political Theorist Fatal Forgiveness: Euripides, Austin, Arendt, Cavell Una's Lecture Monday, Nov 13, 2023 5:00 pm | Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall Political theorist Bonnie Honig is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture & Media and Political Science at Brown University. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Filmmaker In Conversation with Hilton Als Una's Lecture Tuesday, Apr 11, 2023 5:10 pm | BAMPFA, 2155 Center Street Filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul , the 2022-23 Una’s Lecturer, is joined in conversation by writer and UC Berkeley teaching professor Hilton Als. Amanda Anderson Injury, Dignity, and the Literary History of Rumination Una's Lecture Wednesday, Oct 20, 2021 4:00 pm | 315 Wheeler Hall and Online Amanda Anderson is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English and director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University. Jeannie Suk Gersen Una's Lecture Wednesday, Oct 14, 2020 4:00 pm | Online Jeannie Suk Gersen is a feminist legal scholar and contributing writer at the New Yorker . She is joined in conversation by political theorist Wendy Brown . Paul Chan, Artist The Bather's Dilemma Una's Lecture Tuesday, Oct 29, 2019 5:00 pm | Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall Artist Paul Chan is the winner of the 2014 Hugo Boss Prize, awarded biennially by the Guggenheim Foundation to an artist who has made a visionary contribution to contemporary art. Maggie Nelson, Writer Songs of Care and Constraint Una's Lecture Wednesday, Feb 27, 2019 5:00 pm | Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall Maggie Nelson, a 2016 MacArthur Fellow, is the author of numerous works of nonfiction and poetry, including The Argonauts , an autobiographical account that received the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. Ben Ratliff, Music Critic Mere Virtuosity Una's Lecture Tuesday, Oct 17, 2017 4:00 pm | Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall Music critic and author Ben Ratliff was for 20 years a jazz and pop critic at the New York Times. He is the author of four books, including Coltrane: The Story of a Sound. Beatriz Sarlo, Cultural and Literary Critic Borges and Post-pop Populism Una's Lecture Thursday, Nov 12, 2015 7:00 pm | Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Beatriz Sarlo is a scholar of Latin American literature and culture and one of the most important Argentine literary and cultural critics of the last 40 years. Her Una’s Lecture examines populism in relation to Borges’ work, to the paintings of the distinguished artist Daniel Santoro, and to its most recent avatar, found in post-pop political populism. Jane Taylor, Playwright & Cultural Critic Balancing Acts: Truths, Boasts, and Videotape Una's Lecture Monday, Apr 13, 2015 6:00 pm | Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Jane Taylor holds the Wole Soyinka Chair of Drama and Theatre Studies at Leeds University and has worked extensively in creative arts and literary and cultural scholarship. Drawing on texts ranging from the early modern period to the present, her Una’s Lecture will consider the arts of memory and the will to reconciliation in recent history. 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TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720   |   510 643-9670   |   [email protected] Accessibility   |   Nondiscrimination   |   Privacy © 2025 UC Regents Michel Foucault: Histoire de Folie (History of Madness) | Townsend Center for the Humanities Skip to main content Toggle navigation Header Links - Additional UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Header Links Join Our Email List Donate Room Requests Townsend Center for the Humanities Search Search Toggle navigation Main navigation About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Events Main menu About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Michel Foucault: Histoire de Folie (History of Madness) Michel Foucault: Histoire de Folie (History of Madness) Drawings by Patrick Chambon Exhibit Tuesday, Jan 20, 2026 10:00 am - Friday, May 29, 2026 4:00 pm Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall For the renowned French philosopher  Michel Foucault , the subject of madness was fertile ground for exploring issues of power, knowledge, and institutions.  With the publication of  Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique ( History of Madness in the Classical Age ) in 1961, Foucault began a career-long exploration of the ways in which psychiatric theories and practices were intertwined with power relations. He argued that the treatment of madness was focused not on alleviating mental suffering, but on policing a wide range of individuals deemed deviant, unproductive, or threatening to the social order. The Townsend Center hosts an exhibition of selected drawings from Patrick Chambon's 2024 graphic novel  Michel Foucault: Histoire de Folie . Known for his ability to transform complex theoretical material into compelling visual narratives, Chambon creates a vivid, embodied version of Foucault's groundbreaking text, in which Foucault becomes a character in his own story and explores the cruelties, absurdities, and power dynamics embedded in society's treatment of madness. Patrick Chambon was born in Paris and studied at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Monaco and the École des Beaux-arts in Toulouse and Lorient. His art has been widely exhibited in France, including at Galerie La Nave Va in Marseille, Villa Tamaris in Toulon, and Musée de Vence. He has published graphic novels on the work of Jacques Lacan and Oscar Wilde, and on the progressive unveiling of the female body in Western painting. This is the first American exhibition of Chambon's work.   The exhibit is located in a space also used for events; you are welcome to contact (510) 643-9670  or [email protected]  in advance to confirm gallery access. Related Events Michel Foucault and the History of Madness Panel and Artist Reception Oct 30, 2025 Michel Foucault: Histoire de Folie (History of Madness) Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall View on Google Maps | View on Campus Map Website TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720   |   510 643-9670   |   [email protected] Accessibility   |   Nondiscrimination   |   Privacy © 2025 UC Regents Townsend Fellows 2025-26 | Townsend Center for the Humanities Skip to main content Toggle navigation Header Links - Additional UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Header Links Join Our Email List Donate Room Requests Townsend Center for the Humanities Search Search Toggle navigation Main navigation About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Fellows Main menu About Townsend Center Staff Advisory Committee Art Gallery Current Exhibit Past Exhibits Artwork on this Site Directions Giving to the Center Contact Us Events Townsend Events Avenali Lectures Past Avenali Lectures Una's Lectures Past Una's Lectures Berkeley Book Chats Past Berkeley Book Chats Past Events Campus Humanities Events Room Reservations Room Reservation Request Form Publicizing Your Event Email Sign-Up Working Groups Working Groups Fellows Current Fellows All Fellows Art of Writing Art of Writing Website Books Multimedia Watch Read Bear's-Eye View Writers Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Townsend Papers Archive Occasional Papers Occasional Papers Archive Faculty Articles Faculty Articles Archive Representations Journal Email Sign-Up Listen Funding Faculty Students Other Opportunities Townsend Fellows 2025-26 The Townsend Fellowships program supports the research of faculty, advanced graduate students, and other research professionals at UC Berkeley. The purpose of the Fellowship is to further the research of the individual recipients and to enable faculty and graduate students within the humanities to meet and work with colleagues in other disciplines and departments. The Fellows program receives core funding from the Townsend Endowment. Graduate student support is also provided by the Irving and Jean Stone Fellowship, the Albert Lepawsky Memorial Fund, the Norman Jacobson Memorial Fund, the Jeffrey Berg Fellowship, and the Una’s Gift Fund. Applications for assistant and associate professors  and graduate students  are due in the fall semester for the following academic year. 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