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Adam Gopnik

1:09:12

Ocean Vuong in Conversation with Cathy Park Hong

1:19:49

Sonali Deraniyagala - Art of Writing

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Michael Iarocci Book Chat

52:41

Angela Hume Book Chat

52:56

Shannon Steen Book Chat

With its associations of brilliance and achievement, "creativity" is a seductive concept - variously conceived as a shield against conformity, a channel for innovation across the arts, sciences, technology, and education, and a mechanism for economic revival and personal success.
But creativity has not always evoked these ideas. In The Creativity Complex (Michigan, 2023), Shannon Steen (Department of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies, UC Berkeley) traces the history of how creativity has come to mean the things it now does, and explores the ethical implications of how we use this term today for both the arts and the social world more broadly.
Steen is joined by David Henkin (History Department).

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1:22:28

Ocean Vuong: Poetry Reading

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Ocean Vuong, the 2023-24 Avenali Chair in the Humanities, reads from his poetry and engages with questions from the audience. Vuong is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, among other awards. His most recent poetry collection, Time is a Mother (2022), was written after the publication of his celebrated novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. Vuong's first b...

1:09:12

Adam Gopnik

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In his talk at the Townsend Center, Gopnik examines the ways in which the institutions of liberal democracy that superintend all political arguments are this year threatened in ways they have never been before. He asks, how unique in human history are the institutions we take for granted? Looking closely at the practices that guarantee everything from free debate (including debate that question...

Ocean Vuong in Conversation with Cathy Park Hong

1:19:49

Ocean Vuong in Conversation with Cathy Park Hong

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Poet and novelist Ocean Vuong is the 2023-24 Avenali Chair in the Humanities. Vuong is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019), which was named one of the top ten books of 2019 by the Washington Post and has been translated into 37 languages. Vuong has also published two collections of poetry: Time is a Mother (2022) and Night Sky with Exit Woun...

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Sonali Deraniyagala - Art of Writing

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While on vacation at a beach resort on the coast of Sri Lanka in 2004, Sonali Deraniyagala lost most of her close family members in the Indian Ocean tsunami. Wave is Deraniyagala's account of the nearly incomprehensible event and its emotional aftermath. An economist, Deraniyagala did not have a background in personal, creative, or literary writing. Her decision to write a memoir began at the a...

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Michael Iarocci Book Chat

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Widely acknowledged as a major turning point in the history of visual depictions of war, Francisco de Goya's renowned print series The Disasters of War remains a touchstone for serious engagement with the violence of war and the questions raised by its artistic representation. The Art of Witnessing (Toronto, 2022) provides a new account of Goya's print series by taking readers through the 47 pr...

52:56

Angela Hume Book Chat

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Deep Care (AK Press, 2023) follows generations of activists and health workers who orbited the Women’s Choice Clinic in Oakland from the early 1970s until 2010. Grounding her study in interviews with activists sharing details of their work for the first time, Angela Hume (College Writing Programs, UC Berkeley) reveals this critical, under-recognized story of the radical edge of the abortion mov...

Doreen St. Félix in Conversation with Hilton Als

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Doreen St. Félix in Conversation with Hilton Als

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Doreen St. Félix has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 2017 and was named the magazine’s television critic in 2019. Her writing has appeared in the Times Magazine, New York, Vogue, The Fader, and Pitchfork. St. Félix was named on the Forbes “30 Under 30” media list, and she is the winner of a National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary. Hilton Als (English Department, UC Berkel...

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Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby Book Chat

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Through her study of portraiture, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby (History of Art Department, UC Berkeley) addresses the unique and profound indeterminacy of the term “Creole," a label applied to white, black, and mixed-race persons born in French colonies during the 19th century. Based on extensive archival research, Creole (Penn State, 2022) is an original and important examination of colonial identit...

53:55

Martin Jay Book Chat

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Fifty years after the appearance of The Dialectical Imagination, his pioneering history of the Frankfurt School, Martin Jay (History Department, UC Berkeley) reflects on what may be living and dead in its legacy. Rather than treating the Frankfurt School with filial piety as a fortress to be defended, he takes seriously its anti-systematic impulse and sensitivity to changing historical circumst...

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Aglaya Glebova Book Chat

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Through the lens of Aleksandr Rodchenko’s photography, Aglaya Glebova (History of Art Department, UC Berkeley) charts a new and provocative understanding of the troubled relationship between technology, modernism, and state power in Stalin’s Soviet Union. Aleksandr Rodchenko: Photography in the Time of Stalin (Yale, 2023) traces the shifting meanings of photography in the early Soviet Union, as...

1:59:06

Bonnie Honig in Conversation

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Political theorist Bonnie Honig, the 2023-24 Una's Lecturer, engages in conversation with UC Berkeley faculty members Marianne Constable (Rhetoric), Mario Teló (Rhetoric, Ancient Greek & Roman Studies, and Comparative Literature), and Dora Zhang (Comparative Literature and English).

1:40:41

Una's Lecture with Bonnie Honig

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Political theorist Bonnie Honig, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science at Brown University, is the 2023-24 Una’s Lecturer. Honig has made major contributions to the fields of democratic theory and feminist political theory, and to the political analysis of art and culture. She speaks on the topic of "Fatal Forgiveness: Euripides, Austin, Arendt, Cavell" in...

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Mario Telò Book Chat

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What does it mean to read Greek tragedy in a pandemic, a global crisis? Mario Telò (Departments of Rhetoric, Ancient Greek & Roman Studies, and Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley) offers a deep understanding of Greek tragedy and its most famous icons in the context of contemporary times. In close readings of plays such as Alcestis, Antigone, Bacchae, Hecuba, Oedipus the King, Prometheus Bound,...

1:29:21

Daphne A. Brooks

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Daphne A. Brooks is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, Music, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. She is also the co-founder and co-director of Yale’s Black Sound and the Archive working group. A scholar whose work engages with questions of race, gender, performance, and popular music culture, Brooks is the author of three ...