Upcoming events

  • Fri. November 6, Silences and Salutations: Seven One Act Plays. A festival of short plays by some of the most innovative playwrights of the 20th Century: Gertrude Stein, Eugène Ionesco, Maria Irene Fornes, Samuel Beckett, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Harold Pinter. Artistic Director: Peter Glazer. Presented in three programs of three plays each, Thursdays thru Sundays, November 6-22, 2009. Save 50% when you order the General Admission one-acts series package.
  • Wed. September 23, Fernando Botero: The Abu Ghraib Series. Internationally acclaimed artist Fernando Botero offers a powerful critique of the prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib in a series of paintings and drawings recently donated to the Berkeley Art Museum.
  • Wed. September 23, Ari Marcopoulos: Within Arm's Reach. Recording New York’s downtown art world or the emerging hip-hop scene, shooting snowboarders hurtling down a vertical mountain face or chronicling the vicissitudes of his own family life, photographer Ari Marcopoulos unerringly captures the zeitgeist. This mid-career survey shows the intimate and compelling work of a key documentarian of contemporary culture.
  • Mon. October 26, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Senior Portraits! Hosted by Blue and Gold Yearbook. Graduating? Want to be in Berkeley's 2010 yearbook? Don't forget to take your senior portrait! Sign up for your senior portrait session today @ http://yearbook.berkeley.edu! Senior portrait sessions will begin on October 26 at 9:00 am and end November 24 at 5:30 pm. Sittings start at only $5 and will be held at the Cal Student Store [First Floor, MLK Student Union – near...
  • Sat. October 3, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 99 Bottles of Beer: Global Brewing Traditions, 2500 BC - the Present. Drawing from a collection of over a thousand beer-related items, this exhibit of about 130 items focuses on the material aspects of beer production and consumption: objects for brewing, storing, transporting, serving, and drinking. This rich display reveals the striking unities and diversities of human cultures as they come together to celebrate the fruit of the grain.
  • Tue. October 13, Development of Written Language in the Ancient Near East. This exhibit explores the development of writing systems in the Ancient Near East beginning with Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and Proto-Sinaitic through Medieval Islamic empire.
  • Thu. August 13, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Darwin and the Evolution of a Theory. To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of "Origin of Species", The Bancroft Library has mounted an exhibition of rare books, manuscripts, images, scientific specimens, and other materials, drawing on the collections of the campus's libraries and museums.
  • Mon. November 9, 12 to 1:15 p.m. Europe, NATO, and Russia: Competitors? Partners? Does NATO have a Future? What is Russia’s Future?. Jeremy Kinsman was named Canada's Ambassador in Moscow in 1992. In this talk, he will discuss the NATO - Russia relationship. Jeremy Kinsman, Diplomat, former Canada's ambassador in Moscow.
  • Mon. November 9, 4 to 6 p.m. A Millennium of Human Ecodynamics in Hawai'i: Islands as Model Systems (Anthropology Colloquium). since 2001, the Hawai'i Biocomplexity Project has investigated long-term human ecodynamics in the Hawaiian Islands, using a multi-disciplinary approach. This talk summarizes some of the key findings of that research. Professor Kirch will argue that Hawai'i offers a model system for studying the long-term relationships between agricultural populations and their environments.... Professor Patrick V. Kirch, Department of Anthropology - UC, Berkeley.
  • Mon. November 9, 5 p.m. Segre Lecture: How Did The Universe Begin?. There is strong evidence that the entire Universe sprang from sub-atomic dimensions 13.7 billion years ago in a violent event known as Inflation, but we understand almost nothing of what would have caused this to happen. Scientists around the world are now racing to find important clues in the Cosmic Microwave Background, the faint relic of the primeval fireball that filled the early Universe. Andrew E. Lange, Caltech.

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