<< Tuesday, February 12, 2019 >>
Winter at the Hall
Special Event | December 21, 2018	– March 20, 2019 every day | Lawrence Hall of Science
This winter, visit the Hall for interactive exhibits, special hands-on activities, intriguing Planetarium shows, and more!
VC Unlocked: Deal Camp
Course | February 11	– 14, 2019 every day | 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law
Sponsors: Berkeley Law Executive Education, Startup@BerkeleyLaw, 500 Startups
Deal Camp is a four-day course focused on the nuts and bolts of deal making for investors who want to improve their ability to define, negotiate, and execute early-stage investments. Participants will work with leading UC Berkeley faculty and 500 Partners to develop strategies to structure deals in order to maximize investment returns.
This activity has been approved for 25.75 hours MCLE... More >
Venture Capital Deal Camp with Startup@BerkeleyLaw and 500 Startups
Course | February 10	– 13, 2019 every day | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law
Sponsors: Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy, 500 Startups, Startup@BerkeleyLaw, Berkeley Law Executive Education
Understanding Diversity Among Species
Seminar | February 12 | 9-9:30 a.m. | Barrows Hall, Radio Broadcast, ON-AIR ONLY, 90.7 FM
Speakers/Performers: Nicolas Alexandre, Department of Integrative Biology; Ashley Smiley, Department of Integrative Biology
Sponsor: KALX 90.7 FM
Nicolas with hummingbird feeder
February Open Berkeley Site Builder Training
Workshop | February 12 | 9:30-11:30 a.m. | 104A Banway Building
Location: 2111 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
Sponsor: Information Services and Technology (IST)
Open Berkeley Site Builder Training sessions cover the fundamentals of the Open Berkeley turnkey website solution.
Summer Abroad in Poland, Czech Republic, Germany
Information Session | February 12 | 10 a.m. | 270 Stephens Hall
Sponsor: Berkeley Study Abroad
Learn more about the Summer Abroad in Poland, Czech Republic, Germany: The History of Belonging and Coexistence in Modern Europe program at this info session. Program advisers and faculty will be on hand to answer your questions.
Who "belongs" in Europe and how do refugee communities and ethnic minorities fit into the European Union experiment?
Dive deep into the history of coexistence... More >
H-1B Workshop
Workshop | February 12 | 10 a.m.-12 p.m. | International House, Sproul Rooms
Sponsor: Berkeley International Office(BIO))
The main focus of this workshop are general H-1B eligibility requirements, eligible professional occupations, application process, and timing concerns.
H-1B eligibility criteria
Types of jobs appropriate for H-1B
Minimum salary requirements
Employer's role
Application timing challenges
Options for F/J students/scholars
Seminar 217, Risk Management: Computation of Optimal Conditional Expected Drawdown Portfolios
Seminar | February 12 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Featured Speaker: Speakers: Alex Papanicolaou, Intelligent Financial Machines
Sponsor: Consortium for Data Analytics in Risk
We introduce two approaches to computing and minimizing the risk measure Conditional Expected Drawdown (CED) of Goldberg and Mahmoud (2016). One approach is based on a continuous-time formulation yielding a partial differential equation (PDE) solution to computing and minimizing CED while another is a sampling based approach utilizing a linear program (LP) for minimizing CED.
Sustainability – Why and How? The Nordic Way
Lecture | February 12 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Speaker/Performer: Ambassador Ove Ullerup, Royal Danish Embassy in Sweden
Sponsors: Institute of European Studies, Center for Responsible Business, Nordic Studies Program
In his talk, the Danish ambassador to Sweden, Ove Ullerup, will focus on the relationship and cooperation between the public and private sector on the sustainability agenda in the Nordic countries.
The ambassador discusses challenges in changing concepts and how the Nordic countries will face these in the future. What role will the UN Sustainable Development Goals play and have they changed our... More >
Ove Ullerup
SPH Brown Bag Research Presentation: Impact of microbial biological disparity on social determinants of health
Seminar | February 12 | 12-1 p.m. | 5101 Berkeley Way West
Speaker: Lee Riley, Professor of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health
Sponsor: Public Health, School of
Understanding social determinants of health has become established as one of core disciplines of public health. On the other hand, understanding biological determinants of health has gradually become less emphasized as a public health discipline, and this trend may lead to incomplete and misdirected public health interventions and policy. We present results of our study of rheumatic heart disease... More >
Darwin Day at the Essig Museum: Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin (1809)
Tour/Open House | February 12 | 12-5 p.m. | 1170 Valley Life Sciences Building
Speaker/Performer: Peter Oboyski, Essig Museum of Entomology
Sponsor: Essig Museum of Entomology
Celebrate Charles Darwin's birthday with special behind-the-scenes tours of the Essig Museum insect collection in the Valley Life Sciences Building.Also on display will be Galapagos finches, rodents, a marine iguana, and tortoise shell, herbarium specimens, live orchids and insectivorous plants.
Plants and People Lunchtime Lectures: The Ethnobotany of a Medicinal Moss
Lecture | February 12 | 12-1 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
As a part of our "Year of Ethnobotany" celebrations, the Garden will be hosting monthly lunch time lectures featuring the research of UC Berkeley graduate students, post-docs, and faculty.
In February join, Eric Harris to learn all about mosses and their use in human life.
Registration recommended: Free with Garden Admission
Registration info: Register online or by calling 510-664-7606
Certificate Program in Marketing Online Information Session
Information Session | February 12 | 12-1 p.m. | Online
Speaker/Performer: Tom McGuire, Program Director, UC Berkeley Extension
Find out how UC Berkeley Extension equips you with a solid understanding of marketing's most up-to-date concepts and techniques. For more information, visit the Certificate Program in Marketing.
Reservation info: Make reservations online
Student Faculty Macro Lunch - "Consumption-led Growth"
Presentation | February 12 | 12-1 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall
Speaker: Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley
Sponsor: Clausen Center
Consumption-led Growth, joint with Markus Brunnermeier and Oleg Itskhoki.
RSVP info: RSVP by emailing jgmendoza@berkeley.edu by February 8.
Make-Ahead Meals (BEUHS641)
Workshop | February 12 | 12:10-1 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Section Club
Speaker: Kim Guess, RD
Sponsor: Be Well at Work - Wellness
Make it easier on yourself to enjoy homemade meals by making them ahead of time! Some meals can be prepared in a large batch and reused or frozen for future use, while others can be prepped and then cooked later. However, this doesn't work with all recipes, so attend this workshop and skip the guesswork. Demonstration, recipes, and samples provided.
IB Seminar: An Alarming Forest: The ecological causes and consequences of eavesdropping in an Amazonian bird community
Seminar | February 12 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building
Featured Speaker: Ari Martinez, University of California, Berkeley
Sponsor: Department of Integrative Biology
Summer Abroad Programs Rooted in Social Justice: Berkeley Summer Abroad and Global Internships
Information Session | February 12 | 1-3 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Multicultural Center
Learn about the Berkeley Summer Abroad and Global Internship programs that utilize social justice and anti-oppression methodologies. Advisers will also give an overview of all the programs offered through Summer Abroad and Global Internships. Presentation runs until 1:45 p.m., then advisers will be available for individual advising until 3 p.m.
Seminar 218, Psychology and Economics: Visual Salience in Game Theory
Seminar | February 12 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Featured Speaker: Colin Camerer, California Institute of Technology
Sponsor: Department of Economics
Seminar 237/281: Macro/International Seminar - "Expectations with Endogenous Information Acquisition: An Experimental Investigation"
Seminar | February 12 | 2-4 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
Speaker: Basit Zafar, Associate Professor of Economics, Arizona State University
RSVP info: RSVP by emailing Joseph G. Mendoza at jgmendoza@berkeley.edu
Librarian Office Hours at the SPH DREAM Office
Miscellaneous | February 5	– April 30, 2019 every Tuesday with exceptions | 3-5 p.m. | Berkeley Way West, 2220 (DREAM Office)
Speaker/Performer: Debbie Jan
Drop by during office hours if you need help with your literature reviews; setting up searches in PubMed, Embase, and other databases; using EndNote, RefWorks, or other citation management software; finding statistics or data; and answering any other questions you may have.
Gilman Scholarship Application Workshop
Workshop | February 12 | 3:30 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Stephens Lounge
Are you a Pell Grant recipient and U.S. citizen who is planning to study and/or intern abroad? Attend the Gilman Scholarship Application Workshop and learn about the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, a federal scholarship which funds up to $5,000 towards a study abroad experience.
The Gilman Scholarship Application Workshop will review scholarship and eligibility requirements,... More >
3-Manifold Seminar: The arithmeticity of figure-eight knot orbifolds
Seminar | February 12 | 3:40-5 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall
Speaker: Kyle Miller, UC Berkeley
A knot or link $L$ in $S^3$ is called universal if every closed orientable $3$-manifold can be represented as a cover branched over $L$, with some examples including the Borromean rings, the figure-eight knot, and 2-bridge non-torus links. Some such $L$ are the singular locus of an orbifold ${\mathbb H}^3/\Gamma \cong S^3$ for Γ an arithmetic subgroup of the linear algebraic group of isometries... More >
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The Fellowship of the Ring: Terminal singularities that are not Cohen-Macaulay
Seminar | February 12 | 3:45-4:45 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Speaker: Burt Totaro, UCLA
I will explain the notion of terminal singularities. This is the mildest class of singularities that appears in constructing minimal models of algebraic varieties. In characteristic zero, terminal singularities are automatically Cohen-Macaulay, and this is very useful for the minimal model program. I will present the first known terminal singularity of dimension 3 which is not Cohen-Macaulay; it... More >
Student Hosted Colloquium in Physical Chemistry: Computational Vibrational Spectroscopy of Aqueous Acid and Base Solutions
Seminar | February 12 | 4-5 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Featured Speaker: Steve Corcelli, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame
The structure, dynamics, and transport properties of electrolyte solutions, including acids and bases, is critically important to aqueous solution chemistry. Aqueous acid and base solutions have vibrational spectra with distinct continua that span from about 1000 cm-1 to 3000 cm-1. Despite intense study, the interpretation of the spectra in terms of the molecular structure of the hydrated proton... More >
Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing From Empires To The Global Era
Lecture | February 12 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Speaker/Performer: T.V. Paul, McGill University
Sponsors: Institute of International Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Institute for South Asia Studies
This presentation is based on the book with the same title (Yale University Press, 2018) which examines a crucial element of state behavior -- the use of international institutions, informal alignments and economic instruments such as sanctions -- to constrain the power and threatening behavior of dominant actors. Much of International Relations scholarship fails to capture the use of these... More >
Catalyst Group to End Youth Homelessness Meeting
Meeting | February 12 | 4-5 p.m. | 5400 Berkeley Way West
Sponsor: Innovations 4 Youth
The Catalyst Group to End Youth Homelessness aims to create synergy between research, policy, and practice to eliminate youth homelessness in the Bay Area and on the UC Berkeley campus. Our group brings students, faculty, staff, and community partners together to leverage individual expertise of lived experiences of homelessness, research, and advocacy. We welcome all to attend a meeting and work... More >
Open House and Info Session
Information Session | February 12 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 340 Moffitt Undergraduate Library
Sponsor: The Program in Critical Theory
Join The Program in Critical Theory's faculty and students for a panel discussion and Q&A about the Designated Emphasis (DE) in Critical Theory. All UC Berkeley Ph.D. students interested in applying to the DE are invited to attend. Refreshments and informal social to follow.
The Program in Critical Theory's DE enables graduate students already enrolled in UC Berkeley Ph.D. programs from across... More >
Rethinking Diversity, Reintroducing Disability: Conversations on Disability History, Advocacy, and Rights
Colloquium | February 12 | 5-7 p.m. | Career Center (2440 Bancroft Way)
Sponsor: OPEN (Opportunities for Postdoc Equity Networking)
Disability is too often left out of the academic and political discourse concerning equity, diversity and inclusion. Yet disability is a core aspect of these values and intersects with all other marginalized groups for which
equity, diversity, and inclusion are critical. Join us for a trailer screening of "Crip Camp" by filmmaker and disability rights activist James Lebrecht, followed by a... More >
Asian Americans and Affirmative Action
Conference/Symposium | February 12 | 5-7:15 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law
Speakers/Performers: Frank Wu, Keynote Speaker, UC Hastings; Vincent Pan, Chinese for Affirmative Action; Julie Park, University of Maryland
Sponsor: ASUC (Associated Students of the University of California)
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The Fellowship of the Ring: Symmetric powers of algebraic and tropical curves
Speaker: Madeline Brandt, UC Berkeley
In this talk I will give a description of the following recent result: the non-Archimedean skeleton of the d-th symmetric power of a smooth projective algebraic curve X is naturally isomorphic to the d-th symmetric power of the tropical curve that arises as the non-Archimedean skeleton of X. In the talk I will give all necessary background definitions for understanding the above statement and I... More >
Sincerity out, Authenticity in: Poetry on the Quest for Trust in the times of Post-Truth
Lecture | February 12 | 5:30-7 p.m. | B-4 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Stanislav Lvovsky, Auhtor
Sponsors: Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Back then in the first half of 1990s new generation of Russian poets, — or its considerable part — found itself facing the challenge of inventing a new way to speak straightforwardly: readily available poetics either weren't quite fit for the job or themselves were part of the problem to be resolved. Poetry optics, which has emerged at the time in the capacity of the solution, was the "new... More >
Vicarious Trauma Workshop
Meeting | February 12 | 6-8 p.m. | 10 Boalt Hall, School of Law
Sponsor: International Human Rights Workshop
A workshop on understanding, recognizing, and addressing trauma workshop hosted by the International Human Rights Workshop.
Event is ADA accessible. For disability accommodation requests and information, please contact Disability Access Services by phone at 510.643.6456 (voice) or 510.642.6376 (TTY) or by email at accessibility@berkeley.edu.
Sponsored by the Graduate Assembly.
Food Politics 2019: Nutrition Science Under Siege with Marion Nestle
Lecture | February 12 | 6-8 p.m. | North Gate Hall, Logan Multimedia Center (Room 142)
Sponsors: Graduate School of Journalism, Berkeley Food Institute, UC Berkeley-11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship
Please join us for a special lecture series with celebrated author and scholar Marion Nestle. "Food Politics 2019: Nutrition Science Under Siege." Nutrition science is under attack from statisticians and the food industry. Who stands to gain and what might be lost?
Photo: Bill Hayes
IBM Networking Night
Information Session | February 12 | 6-7:30 p.m. | Soda Hall, Wozniak Lounge (430)
What is like to work at IBM?
Join us as IBMers in a variety of technical roles share day-in-the-life stories about their work and provide an inside look on what makes engineering at IBM unique.
Are you submitting applications this semester?
We'll also share some insight into IMB's recruiting process.
Feel free to bring questions, as we'll close with a panel and Q&A.
Discovery and Diversity: Critical Factors in Tomorrow's Health Care: Dean of the Stanford School of Medicine Lloyd B. Minor
Lecture | February 12 | 6-7:30 p.m. | 125 Morrison Hall
Speaker/Performer: Lloyd B. Minor, Stanford University School of Medicine
How are medical schools adapting to today's greatest challenges? Join the Dean of Stanford University School of Medicine, Lloyd B. Minor M.D., for a discussion on the ways in which medical education is changing and responding to unique social demands. Dean Minor will specifically discuss the challenges in biomedical discovery and the vital importance of diversity in science, while showcasing how... More >
Surprising Evidence:: Revealing Vanished Landscapes Through Nontraditional Moving Images
Lecture | February 12 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Wurster Hall, Wurster Auditorium, RM 112
Speaker/Performer: Rick Prelinger, University of California, Santa Cruz
Sponsor: Environmental Design Archives
Join us for our second Gallery Talk!
Wurster Auditorium, Room 112
6:30 to 7pm - Light Refreshments
7 to 8pm - Lecture
Free to UC Berkeley Students, Staff, Faculty, and Friends of the EDA
Suggested $10 donation for those outside UC Berkeley
Historians, architects and planners often look to feature films as records of extinct environments. But few know... More >
Berkeley Summer Abroad in Portugal: Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Information Session | February 12 | 7 p.m. | Memorial Stadium, Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - SCET
Come hear about this unique program where you can not only study, but also travel in Portugal with over 400 students from around the world at the European Innovation Academy!
This program is open to ALL MAJORS and will be hosted in Porto and Cascais, Portugal (right next to Lisbon).
Earn 6 units of upper division IEOR course credits:
IND ENG 185: Challenge Lab (4 units)
IND ENG 192:... More >
Cal at Golden State Warriors: vs. Utah Jazz
Sport - Recreational | February 12 | 7:30-10:30 p.m. | Oracle Arena
CrafterDark: Make V-Day Pillows and Cards!
Workshop | February 12 | 8-10 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union
Sponsor: Berkeley Art Studio
Come make adorbs V-Day themed pillows and cards! Hate Valentine's day? you can make non-V-Day themed stuff too!
Exhibits and Ongoing Events
Fiat Yuks: Cal Student Humor, Then and Now
Exhibit - Artifacts | October 13, 2017	– May 30, 2019 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Bancroft Library, Rowell Cases, near Heyns Reading Room, 2nd floor corridor between The Bancroft Library and Doe
Let there be laughter! This exhibition features Cal students' cartoons, jokes, and satire from throughout the years, selected from their humor magazines and other publications.
Art for the Asking: 60 Years of the Graphic Arts Loan Collection at the Morrison Library
Exhibit - Artifacts | September 17, 2018	– February 28, 2019 every day | Doe Library, Bernice Layne Brown Gallery
Art for the Asking: 60 Years of the Graphic Arts Loan Collection at the Morrison Library will be up in Doe Library's Brown Gallery until March 1st, 2019. This exhibition celebrates 60 years of the Graphic Arts Loan Collection, and includes prints in the collection that have not been seen in 20 years, as well as prints that are now owned by the Berkeley Art Museum. There are also cases dedicated... More >
Boundless: Contemporary Tibetan Artists at Home and Abroad
Exhibit - Painting | October 3, 2018	– May 26, 2019 every day | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Featuring works by internationally renowned contemporary Tibetan artists alongside rare historical pieces, this exhibition highlights the ways these artists explore the infinite possibilities of visual forms to reflect their transcultural, multilingual, and translocal lives. Though living and working in different geographical areas—Lhasa, Dharamsala, Kathmandu, New York, and the Bay Area—the... More >
Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein
Exhibit - Painting | November 7, 2018	– March 3, 2019 every day | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In the early twentieth century, inspired by modern science such as Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, an emerging avant-garde movement sought to expand the "dimensionality" of modern art, engaging with theoretical concepts of time and space to advance bold new forms of creative expression. Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein illuminates the remarkable connections between the... More >
Art Wall: Barbara Stauffacher Solomon
Exhibit - Painting | August 15, 2018	– March 3, 2019 every day | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The 1960s architectural phenomenon Supergraphics—a mix of Swiss Modernism and West Coast Pop—was pioneered by San Francisco–based artist, graphic and landscape designer, and writer Barbara Stauffacher Solomon. Stauffacher Solomon, a UC Berkeley alumna, is creating new Supergraphics for BAMPFA's Art Wall. Land(e)scape 2018 is the fifth in a series of temporary, site-specific works commissioned for... More >
Ink, Paper, Silk: One Hundred Years of Collecting Japanese Art
Exhibit - Painting | December 12, 2018	– April 14, 2019 every day | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAMPFA's Japanese art collection began in 1919 with a remarkable donation of more than a thousand woodblock prints from the estate of UC Berkeley Professor of English William Dallam Armes. This exhibition features a selection of these exceptional prints, as well as hanging scroll paintings, screens, lacquerware, and ceramics that have entered the collection over the century since this... More >
Arthur Jafa / MATRIX 272
Exhibit - Multimedia | December 12, 2018	– March 24, 2019 every day | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Arthur Jafa is an artist, director, editor, and award-winning cinematographer whose poignant work expands the concept of black cinema while exploring African American experience and race relations in everyday life. He has stated, "I have a very simple mantra and it's this: I want to make black cinema with the power, beauty, and alienation of black music." In his renowned work Love Is The Message,... More >
Well Played! The Math and Science of Improving Your Game
Exhibit - Multimedia | November 17, 2018	– May 18, 2019 every day | Lawrence Hall of Science
You don't have to be a pro to know that math and science can help improve your game. In our exhibit, Well Played!, you can experiment with force, angles, and trajectory to get the highest scores you can with classic arcade games such as Skeeball, Pinball, and Basketball.
Want to improve your score? Try our interactive exhibits on the math and science behind force and trajectory, and then head... More >
The Book as Place: Visions of the Built Environment
Exhibit - Artifacts | January 28	– May 17, 2019 every day | Wurster Hall, Environmental Design Library, 210 Wurster Hall
This exhibition of artists' books centers on ideas about the built environment and has been curated by Berkeley-based book artist Julie Chen for UC Berkeley's Environmental Design Library. Featuring works by 25 artists including Robbin Ami Silverberg, Clifton Meador, Inge Bruggeman, Karen Kunc, Sarah Bryant and Barbara Tetenbaum, the exhibition explores the built environment through text, image,... More >
Exhibit - Artifacts | January 15	– May 17, 2019 every day | 210 Wurster Hall
Sponsor: Environmental Design, College of
This exhibition of artists books centers on ideas about the built environment, curated by Berkeley-based book artist Julie Chen for CEDs Environmental Design Library.
Illustrating México one page at a time-Print Art of José Guadalupe Posada.
Exhibit - Multimedia | February 8	– June 30, 2019 every day | Moffitt Undergraduate Library, 2nd floor
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In the pantheon of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artists who represent Mexico and Mexican art, the artwork of José Guadalupe Posada stands out as a bright constellation that continues to shine a light on important stories through woodcuts, imprints, and engravings. This exhibition was created using the books from the collections of the Doe Library. The exhibition is envisioned... More >
Aaron Marcus: Early Works
Exhibit - Multimedia | February 6	– June 30, 2019 every day | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Educated in physics, mathematics, and philosophy at Princeton University and trained in graphic design at Yale, Berkeley-based Aaron Marcus explores new possibilities for expression. He created his first "computer-assisted poem-drawings" in the spring of 1972, when he served as a research associate at Yale University's School of Art and Architecture. Using standard typographical symbols, Marcus... More >
Bearing Light: Berkeley at 150
Exhibit - Artifacts | April 16, 2018	– February 28, 2019 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 8 a.m.-5 p.m. | Bancroft Library, 2nd Floor Corridor
This exhibition celebrates the University of California's sesquicentennial anniversary with photographs, correspondence, publications, and other documentation drawn from the University Archives and The Bancroft Library collections. It features an array of golden bears, including Oski, and explores the illustrious history of UC Berkeley.
Facing West 1: Camera Portraits from the Bancroft Collection
Exhibit - Photography | November 9, 2018	– March 15, 2019 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | Bancroft Library
The first part of a double exhibition celebrating the tenth anniversary of the renewed Bancroft Library and its gallery, Facing West 1 presents a cavalcade of individuals who made, and continue to make, California and the American West. These camera portraits highlight the communities and peoples of Hubert Howe Bancroft's original collecting region, which extended from the Rockies to the Pacific... More >
Facing West: Camera Portraits from the Bancroft Collection
Exhibit - Photography | November 29, 2018	– March 15, 2019 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | Bancroft Library, Bancroft Gallery
Exhibit - Multimedia | January 29	– June 28, 2019 every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 11 a.m.-4 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Centering on coins in The Magnes Collection, this exhibition explores how... More >
Project "Holy Land": Yaakov Benor-Kalter's Photographs of British Mandate Palestine, 1923-1940
Exhibit - Photography | January 29	– June 28, 2019 every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 11 a.m.-4:05 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
For nearly two decades, Yaakov (Jacob) Benor-Kalter (1897-1969) traversed the Old City of Jerusalem, documenting renowned historical monuments, ambiguous subjects in familiar alleyways, and scores of "new Jews" building a new homeland. Benor-Kalter's photographs smoothly oscillate between two worlds, and two Holy Lands, with one lens.
After immigrating from Poland to the British Mandate of... More >
The Worlds of Arthur Szyk: The Taube Family Arthur Szyk Collection
Exhibit - Painting | January 29	– June 28, 2019 every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 11 a.m.-4 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Auditorium installation of high-resolution images of select collection items.
Acquired by The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life in 2017 thanks to an unprecedented gift from Taube Philanthropies, the most significant collection of works by Arthur Szyk (Łódź, Poland, 1894 – New Canaan, Connecticut, 1951) is now available to the world in a public institution for the first time as... More >