| Course | HUM 20 (#32659) |
| Instructor | Susan Moffat & Elizabeth Wymore |
| Unit | 1 |
| Time | F 11:30 am – 1 pm |
| Location | Osher Theater, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) |
In this course, you’ll hear artists, activists and scholars explore themes of exclusion, belonging, and resistance across geographies and genres including film, dance, theater, literature, visual arts, and music. The speaker series is part of the multi-genre project “A Year on Angel Island,” and we’ll use the former immigration station at this meaningful spot in San Francisco Bay as a jumping-off point for wide-ranging conversations.
Speaker Series: Landscapes of Migration, Incarceration and Resistance
HUM 20: Explorations in Art + Design at UC Berkeley (1-unit course)
Part of A Year on Angel Island
Free, in-person, and open to the public. Most talks will be livestreamed and captioned. To register for live streaming, open the individual event page. Please see updates on COVID policies here.
Organized by:
Susan Moffat, Creative Director, Future Histories Lab
Executive Director, Global Urban Humanities Initiative
Lisa Wymore, Professor of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
Faculty Advisor, Arts + Design Initiative
A+D @ BAMPFA is a weekly public lecture series organized by the Arts + Design Initiative and Future Histories Lab. Through lectures by leading scholars, artists, and public figures, students are introduced to vocabularies, forms, and histories from the many arts, design, humanities, and media disciplines represented at UC Berkeley. Students engage with the lecture series through weekly response papers and a final reflection paper. The public is invited to attend in person.
In Fall 2022, the series will explore how the arts transform understanding about the past into possibilities for the future, with a focus on immigration, othering and belonging. The course is part of the multi-genre project “A Year on Angel Island,” and we’ll use the former immigration and incarceration station at this meaningful spot in San Francisco Bay as a jumping-off point for exploring themes of exclusion, identity and resistance across geographies and genres including film, dance, literature, visual arts, and music.
| Sept. 2 | Indigenous Memory and Nature Interact: Native Californian Stories Greg Sarris, Tribal Chairman, Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria (Coast Miwok) and Author In conversation with Beth Piatote, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English, UC Berkeley; Director, Arts Research Center |
| Sept. 9 | Angel Island and Alcatraz: Site-inspired Dance, Theater, and Landscapes of Incarceration Lenora Lee, Artistic Director, Lenora Lee Dance Ava Roy, Artistic Director, We Players Co-sponsored by UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies |
| Sept. 16 | Preventing Erasure: Saving the Angel Island Immigration Station’s Buildings and Stories Ed Tepporn, Executive Director, Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation |
| Sept. 23 | See Us: Portraits of Community in the Exclusion Era by Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo. ShiPu Wang, Professor and Coats Endowed Chair in the Arts, UC Merced, and Commissioner of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery |
| Sept. 30 | Border-thinking Through Wartime Incarceration Environments Lynne Horiuchi, Architectural Historian Anoma Pieris, Professor of Architecture, Melbourne School of Design |
| Oct. 7 | Rooted in Place: Radical South Asian Storytelling Blooms in Berkeley Barnali Ghosh, Artist, Community Activist, and Designer |
| Oct. 14 | Rethinking Place in Asian American Histories of the United States Catherine Ceniza Choy, Professor, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley |
| Oct. 21 | Illegal: the Theater of the Angel Island Immigration Station’s Paper Sons Skyler Chin and Sita Sunil, Playwrights of Illegal Jeffrey Lo, Director of The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin; Playwright Co-sponsored by UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies |
| Oct. 28 | Plague at the Golden Gate: Pandemics Then and Now in Film and in Life Li-Shin Yu, Director, Plague at the Golden Gate James Q. Chan, Producer, Plague at the Golden Gate |
| Nov. 4 | Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration Julio Morales, Artist and Curator |
| Nov. 18 | Poetry in Place: Interpreting the Angel Island Immigration Station Elizabeth Fair, PhD Student, UC Berkeley Department of the History of Art |
| Dec. 2 | Angel Island Oratorio: Chinese Exclusion, Music, and Storytelling Charlton Lee and Kathryn Bates, Del Sol Quartet Huang Ruo, Composer |
See course listing on Berkeley Academic Guide.