In this talk, Professor Roopika Risam will discuss trends in approaches to digital humanities that foreground social justice. She will consider the practices that are critical to using digital humanities to intervene in the gaps and omissions of the digital cultural archive born from the history of colonialism. Additionally, she will discuss the project Torn Apart/Separados as an example of what...

Learn what's new in DH at UC Berkeley in this series of lightning talks.

A panel discussion with Professors Timothy R. Tangherlini and Lisa Wymore centering on computation in dance choreography.

Commemorating 150 years of women at Berkeley, faculty members from the humanities discuss how issues of gender and feminism have shaped scholarship and teaching.

Rob Day explores the concept of the âliving documentâ as joining knowledge and experience, science and literature.

Climate change and other human impacts on the environment are threatening wildflowers and the life that depends on them. In this special and timely work, conservation photographers Rob Badger and Nita Winter give us a spectacular view of California’s extraordinary wildflowers as both a cause for celebration and protection. Beauty and the Beast pairs the couple’s striking field photography with...

This talk considers the archives of slavery, their afterlives, and the future archives of black death, to track the technologies that colonial and state authorities deploy to obliterate their culpability in black deaths.

Please register at https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zTUmEow3TbWSnIhAqq1dZw.

In this dynamic artist talk, Gabrielle Civil discusses her own trajectory as a black feminist performance artist, highlighting key collaborations and inspirations, and promoting black feminist joy as a creative practice. 

In this dynamic artist talk, Gabrielle Civil discusses her own trajectory as a black feminist performance artist, highlighting key collaborations and inspirations, and promoting black feminist joy as a creative practice. Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer, originally from Detroit MI. She has premiered fifty performance works around the world, most recently...

Stephen Greenblatt is an American Shakespearean, literary historian and author. He has served as the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University since 2000, and is the general editor of The Norton Shakespeare (2015). Greenblatt will discuss Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale (1610) as a template for understanding what it takes to have a second chance in life.