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Meshing personal reflections, intimate interviews with strangers and relatives, and music both from Cuban and Sephardic traditions, Adio Kerida offers a bittersweet, lyrical, and often humorous Jewish-Cuban vision of what it means to come from the island of Cuba.
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The event with Jack Miles has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule the event in the future. Apologies for any inconvenience and that you for your interest!
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Roundtable discussion hosted by UCR Graduate Division and the Center for Ideas and Society. Does graduate training still align with the realities of the academic job market? Ought graduate training expand to include other career paths? Is a written dissertation still the best reflection of mastery in a discipline? Come discuss these and other questions [...]
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The conference on “Poetics of Law, Poetics of Decolonization” will focus on the investigation of legal and poetic form, each in relation to the other, and, together, in relations to histories of colonialism, of juridical institutions, of colonial settler-colonial violence, and of anti-colonial struggle and practice.
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Looking at how the "transformative learning model" is adapted for the embodies process of acting on stage and screen, Bella Merlin explores how learning and teaching at the UC is a two-way, 'actor audience' dialogue between students and instructors.
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Queer Friendship explores English literary friendship in three ways: the elegiac, the erotic, and the platonic, by considering a myriad of works, including Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Tennyson's 'In Memoriam A. H. H.', and Dickens' Great Expectations.
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A talk by Dr. Vincent Cervantes, Assistant Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Hosted by Center for Ideas and Society, Co-sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies and Holstein Endowed Chair Photo Credit: Herani Enríquez HacHe
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Growing up as a member of the Children of God, a 20th century new religious movement with antecedents in evangelist Christianity, Flor Edwards was reared to believe the world would end in 1993. Her recent memoir, Apocalypse Child, details her early childhood experiences in the international movement. She will share part of that work with [...]
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Marion Fourcade, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley Marion Fourcade received her PhD from Harvard University (2000) and taught at New York University and Princeton University before joining the Berkeley sociology department in 2003. A comparative sociologist by training and taste, she is interested in variations in economic and political knowledge and practice across [...]
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Queer Nuns In Honor of W. Wayne Wilcox, Professor Emeritus of Forestry, UC Berkeley The Center for Ideas and Society presents a book talk with Melissa M. Wilcox, Professor and Holstein Family and Community Chair in Religious Studies, Director of Graduate Studies, and Affiliated Faculty of Gender and Sexuality Studies. In Queer Nuns, Melissa M. [...]
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