Events: Special Events

24 Feb, 2025 Special Events

Virtual Realities and Digital Spaces

with Nicole Starosielski, Professor of Film and Media Studies at UC Berkeley; Emma Fraser, Assistant Teaching Professor in Media Studies and the Berkeley Center for New Media at UC Berkeley; Clancy Wilmott, Assistant Professor in Critical Cartography, Geovisualisation and Design in the Berkeley Center for New Media and the Department of Geography at UC Berkeley; and Alex Saum-Pascual, Associate Professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature and New Media at UC Berkeley

Presented by the UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix. Co-sponsored by Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), the Department of Geography, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the Department of Media Studies Read more

22 Jan, 2025 Special Events

Game Over: Games as Research, Art as Exploration

with Elliot Bear Yu, Multi-Mixed-Media Artist

Edmond Y. Chang, Associate Professor, Ohio University

Presented by the Performing Asian American & Diasporic Sexualities Working Group. Co-sponsored by Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), Townsend Center for the Humanities, Asian American Research Center, Institute of East Asian Studies, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Program, History of Art Department, Department of Rhetoric, Othering and Belonging Institute - LGBTQ Citizenship Cluster, and Gender Equity Resource Center (GenEq) Read more

20 Mar, 2023 Special Events

The Parables Experience at MozFest Virtual

with curators ill Weaver (a Detroit-based artist and organizer. They co-founded Emergence Media and Complex Movements)

and Valencia James (a performer, maker, and researcher from Barbados, interested in the intersection between dance, theater, technology, and activism, currently pursuing an MFA in Art Practice at the University of California Berkeley)

This event is hosted by MozFest, which is part art, tech and society convening, part maker festival, and the premiere gathering for activists in diverse global movements fighting for a more humane digital world.  Read more

07 Mar, 2022 Special Events

Asian Americans in Hollywood: Breaking Through with Lasting Impact in the Industry

with Daniel Wu, Melvin Mar, Jason Lin, and Gail De Kosnik

Co-sponsored by Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies and Eastwind Books of Berkeley. The first in a two part series on Asian Americans and AAPI in the media and entertainment industry. The event will be free of charge and open to the public, but will encourage attendees to make donations to the new Scholarship for AAPI and Media & Entertainment Creatives. Read more

15 Apr, 2019 Special Events

DH Fair: Reception and Poster Session

Please join us in kicking off the 2019 DH Fair by enjoying refreshments with colleagues while browsing posters on recent and current Digital Humanities work at Berkeley.

This event is sponsored by Digital Humanities at Berkeley, D-Lab, Arts + Design, Berkeley Center for New Media, the Center for Technology and Society at the Anti-Defamation League, Digital Humanities Working Group, the Library, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, and the Visual Resources Center. Read more

18 Nov, 2014 Special Events

Free Speech Movement – 50 Years Later @ UC Berkeley: Student Activism and Peer Advocacy

Join a lively panel discussion about contemporary, unconventional and "uncivil" campus protest, freedom of expression and the often onerous disciplinary apparatus: Occupy Cal; Privatizing UC; Protests against John Yoo; Israel & Palestine on Campus; and many more.

Panel
Carmen Comsti & Neil Satterlund, Lawyers/UCB Campus Rights Project Alumni
Dan Siegel, Civil Rights Lawyer/former UCB Student Leader
Josh Wolf, Freelance Journalist/former UCB Student Conduct "Defendant"
Terry Gross, Constitutional Lawyer/Counsel for Photographer Arrested at UCB Demonstration
Yaman Salahi, Civil Rights Lawyer/UCB Alumnus
Steve Rosenbaum, UCB Law Lecturer/Lawyer/Faculty Advisor
Brian Barsky, UCB Professor, Computer Science & Vision Science

Co-Sponsors
Graduate Assembly
ASUC Student Advocate's Office
Law & Society Graduate Ass'n
American Constitution Society
Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
Human Rights Committee
National Lawyers Guild
Restorative Justice Committee
Students for Economic & Environmental Justice
Data & Democracy Institute-Center for Info. Technology in the Interest of Society
Berkeley Center for New Media
UC Berkeley Faculty Association
Townsend Center for the Humanities Read more